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| Nike seen avoiding charges in football bribery probe - lawyers | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nike Inc may be able to avoid U.S. charges over any involvement in bribery payments to win football sponsorships, but could face penalties if U.S. prosecutors decide to clamp down on the global sportswear giant, lawyers with expertise in the subject said. Although Nike has not been named or charged with any wrongdoing, the company was swept into the corruption scandal that engulfed football's governing body FIFA when a U.S. indictment released on Wednesday described apparent kickback payments linked to a landmark 1996 Nike deal in Brazil. In a statement on Thursday, Nike said that the charges did not allege that it engaged in criminal conduct or that any Nike employee was aware of or took part in a bribery scheme.
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| Agribusiness nervous as WHO cancer unit analyses popular pesticide | | | The World Health Organization is set to examine a widely used pesticide and agribusiness is bracing for bad news, less than three months after the group classified another popular herbicide as "probably" cancer-causing. Twenty-four scientists representing WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will analyse scientific findings regarding links between cancer in humans and the herbicide known as 2,4-D at a June 2-9 meeting in Lyon, France. A separate group of IARC scientists in March unanimously decided to classify glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto Co's Roundup weedkiller, as "probably carcinogenic to humans." The designation prompted outrage and calls for a retraction from Monsanto, and demands by some public officials and consumers for bans on the pesticide. |
| Blatter says he has surprises to improve FIFA image | |  Sepp Blatter says he knows how to create a better image for FIFA and promises to unveil surprising plans on the first working day of his fifth term as president. Buoyant after being re-elected at the Congress of football's ruling body on Friday, the 79-year-old Swiss told FIFA TV he would have time to work on his plans after the "tragic events" involving officials at his organisation earlier this week.
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| Blatter wins fifth FIFA term as challenger concedes | |  By Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter was re-elected president of FIFA for a fifth term on Friday after his only challenger conceded defeat in an election overshadowed by allegations of rampant corruption in world football. Blatter's victory came despite demands that he quit in the face of a major bribery scandal being investigated by U.S., Swiss and other law enforcement agencies that plunged football's governing body into the worst crisis in its 111-year history. Neither Blatter nor Jordanian opponent Prince Ali bin Al Hussein got the necessary two thirds of the ballot in the first round, with Blatter securing 133 votes against 73 for Prince Ali.
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| Women in photos won't press charges in Penn State frat case, police say | | | By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - None of the women in nude photographs posted on a Facebook page for a now-suspended Penn State fraternity is cooperating with investigators, police said on Friday, frustrating efforts to bring charges against the fraternity's members. Earlier this week, Pennsylvania State University suspended the school's Kappa Delta Rho chapter for three years after discovering a private Facebook page that included photos of female students who were undressed, and in some cases, apparently unconscious or sleeping. Prosecutors do not have a case against those responsible unless one of the victims is willing to go to court, Lieutenant Keith Robb of the State College Police Department told Reuters. |
| Suge Knight hires Michael Jackson ex-attorney in California murder trial | |  One-time rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight formally changed his attorney on Friday in the murder case against him, bringing in the lawyer who successfully represented Michael Jackson when the late pop star was acquitted on child molestation charges a decade ago. Knight, 50, appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit accompanied by his newly hired attorney Tom Mesereau during a brief hearing. The co-founder of Death Row Records has been charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run for a Jan. 29 altercation outside a burger shop in Compton, a mostly poor suburb of Los Angeles.
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| Video shows Canada Parliament gunman praying before attack | | | A gunman who fatally shot a soldier in Canada's capital last October, and then stormed Parliament, prayed aloud in Arabic before the attacks and asked for help, previously unreleased sections of a video he made show. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau made the short video on his cell phone before launching his attacks in Ottawa on Oct. 22. The unedited video was released by police on Friday. |
| U.S. sports executive pleads not guilty in FIFA case | | | The U.S. head of a Brazilian sports marketing company pleaded not guilty in a New York court on Friday to bribery-related charges, one of 14 people indicted on federal corruption charges that have rocked the soccer world's governing body, FIFA. Aaron Davidson, 44, head of Traffic Group's U.S. unit in Miami, is accused of arranging millions of dollars to secure lucrative media and marketing rights for soccer matches. Davidson appeared before Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak in Brooklyn federal court. |
| At U.N., states urged to do more to stop flow of foreign fighters | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Interior ministers from members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday voiced concern that some countries were not doing enough to prevent their citizens from travelling abroad and joining militant groups like Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. In a move sparked by Islamic State's military conquests, the 15-nation Security Council adopted a resolution last September at a meeting chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama demanding that all states "prevent and suppress" the recruitment and travel of militant fighters to foreign conflicts. |
| Gunmen kill 19 bus passengers in Pakistan attack | | | Gunmen killed at least 19 passengers they had forced off buses travelling from the western Pakistani city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, said the home minister for the restive province of Baluchistan, where the attack took place. The assault occurred late on Friday in the town of Mastung, around 40 km south of Quetta. "The armed men were wearing the uniforms of the security forces," Sarfaraz Bugti told Reuters. |
| Italian lawmakers target Renzi election candidate over corruption | | | By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament's anti-mafia committee released the names of 17 local election candidates suspected of graft or organised crime links on Friday -- an embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi before local elections on Sunday. The highest profile name was Vincenzo De Luca, the candidate for Renzi's Democratic Party (PD) for president of the southern Campania region, who is accused of corruption and has a conviction for abuse of office. Around 22 million voters go to the polls on Sunday in seven of Italy's 20 regions and more than 1,000 municipalities in the biggest test for Renzi since the centre-left PD triumphed in last year's European elections with 41 percent of the vote. |
| Post Blatter's re-election, Coca-Cola urges FIFA to address issues | | | (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co urged FIFA to take "concrete actions" to address the issues that have been raised, hours after Sepp Blatter was re-elected the president of the world football governing body mired in a corruption scandal. "FIFA must now seize the opportunity to begin winning back the trust it has lost," Coca-Cola, one of the major sponsors of FIFA, said in an email on Friday. Blatter was re-elected the president of FIFA for a fifth term as the only other candidate conceded defeat after a first round of voting in an election overshadowed by allegations of corruption in world football. |
| McCain seeks defence funding to help Asia against China challenges | |  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. senator has proposed that the United States provide hundreds of millions of dollars to help train and equip the armed forces of Southeast Asian countries faced with Chinese territorial challenges. Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made the proposal in an amendment to the 2016 U.S. Defense Authorization Act expected to be passed later this year, entitled the South China Sea Initiative. It allows for the provision of up to $425 million over five years to countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam for "equipment, supplies, training and small-scale military construction." The amendment was approved by the Armed Services Committee on May 14 by a vote of 22 to four - indicating strong bipartisan support.
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| Exclusive - U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed: sources | | | By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea's nuclear weapons programme five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign. The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran's nuclear programme in 2009 and 2010 by destroying a thousand or more centrifuges that were enriching uranium. Reuters and others have reported that the Iran attack was a joint effort by U.S. and Israeli forces. |
| White House says FIFA president's re-election is up to its members | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday it had no response to the re-election of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, despite a scandal involving allegations of corruption in world soccer. "This is a decision for that organization, that's now in some turmoil, for them to make. And we'll let them make it," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. Blatter was re-elected after the only other candidate conceded defeat on Friday. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Bill Trott) |
| Brazil soccer head to review suspicious deals, rules out resignation | |  The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) will review any contracts under suspicion in charges filed by United States prosecutors, the group's president said on Friday and ruled out resigning. Marco Polo Del Nero, who took over from jailed former CBF chief Jose Maria Marin last year, said he was saddened by the corruption charges against his longtime friend and former boss, but he denied any involvement in bribery schemes laid out in indictments filed in New York on Wednesday. "I won't resign because I had nothing to do with it," Del Nero told a press conference at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.
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| Bangladeshi couple spot abducted son in press photo of boat migrants | | | "I am 100 percent sure that it is him," said Selina Akhtar, mother of Mohammad Sabbir Hasan, as she held up a copy of Kalerkantha, a Bangladeshi daily which published the picture taken by the AFP news agency. Thousands of people, mostly Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladeshis, have been trying to slip into Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia for years through a people-smuggling network. Mass graves and suspected human-trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand. |
| Islamic State not significant threat in Saudi Arabia - U.S. military | | | Islamic State is not a significant threat in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. military said on Friday, as it declined to speculate on the Sunni militant group's claim of responsibility for a deadly bombing at Shi'ite Muslim mosque. "In terms of Saudi Arabia and (Islamic State), we have no indication that they pose a significant threat at this time," said Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East. Friday's blast killed four people and was the second attack claimed by the Sunni militant group in a week in the world's top oil-exporting country. |
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