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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. |
| 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 soccer. 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 soccer'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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| 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. |
| FIFA presidential vote goes to second round | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - Voting in the election to lead soccer's world governing body FIFA will go to a second round after neither incumbent President Sepp Blatter nor Jordanian challenger Prince Ali bin Al Hussein got two thirds of the vote on Friday. Blatter secured 133 votes and Prince Ali won 73 at FIFA's annual Congress in Switzerland. (Reporting by Mike Collett and Brian Homewood; Editing by Alison Williams)
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| Blatter takes the plaudits in final FIFA election pitch | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Incumbent FIFA president Sepp Blatter used all the tricks of the old master he is after 17 years in the job to woo delegates at the FIFA Congress when he made his final election pitch before voting began for a new president on Friday. The 79-year-old Swiss, who has been president since 1998 and is seeking a fifth term, gave a far more assured delivery than his challenger, 39-year-old Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan. Prince Ali looked more nervous and his speech was a little lighter on substance than Blatter, who got a round of applause when he told the 209 delegates he "did not want to leave them".
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| Corrected - Clashes force nearly 60,000 Malians from homes over last month - U.N. | | | (Corrects 10th paragraph to show UN accused of taking sides) BAMAKO (Reuters) - Fighting in northern Mali has forced nearly 60,000 people to flee their homes over the last four weeks, a United Nations aid agency said on Friday, highlighting the lack of peace despite a partial deal being signed earlier this month. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, said the vast majority of the newly displaced were from the Timbuktu region, which has seen a string of clashes involving various groups of gunmen. Civilians said they were fleeing their homes because they feared violence as well as force recruitment by armed groups, UNHCR said. |
| Man pleads guilty to killing French street artist in Detroit | | | (Reuters) - One of three men accused of killing a 23-year-old French street artist in Detroit has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in an agreement that calls for a sentence of up to 40 years in prison, prosecutors said on Friday. Jasin Curtis, 18, of Detroit, will be sentenced on June 12 before Judge Bruce Morrow in Wayne County Circuit Court, prosecutors said. The sentence is to be served consecutive to a two-year term for a firearms count, prosecutors said. |
| Abolish penalty shoot-outs, Cameron jokes in Germany | |  FIFA should not only do away with Sepp Blatter but put an end to penalty shoot-outs as well, British Prime Minister David Cameron joked on Friday at a news conference in Berlin with Germany's Angela Merkel. After telling a news conference that the FIFA president should step aside over allegations of corruption in soccer's world governing body, Cameron offered a self-deprecating joke about England's penalty shoot-out trauma in big tournaments, where they almost always lose -- and often to Germany. "I don't think there's anything else to add on the footballing issue -- though, of course, perhaps it's an opportunity to say that we should have no more penalty shoot-outs," Cameron deadpanned.
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