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| Myanmar needs to treat Rohingya as citizens - U.S. | |  By Randy Fabi JAKARTA (Reuters) - The United States said Myanmar's government should treat minority Rohingya Muslims as citizens to solve the root cause of the migrant crisis in Southeast Asia, and called on Wednesday on all Myanmar's leaders to speak up on human rights issues. U.S. President Barack Obama has sought to make Myanmar's transition to democracy a legacy of his presidency, and Washington is stepping up pressure on the country to tackle what it sees as the underlying causes of an exodus of "boat people" across the Bay of Bengal that the region has struggled to cope with. Many of the more than 4,000 migrants who have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar since the Thai government launched a crackdown on people-smuggling gangs are Rohingya who say they are escaping persecution.
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| Australia, New Zealand welcome Blatter resignation | | | By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Soccer officials from Australia and New Zealand welcomed the shock resignation of FIFA President Sepp Blatter after both publicly backed his main challenger for the office last week. The 79-year-old Swiss national, who beat Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan in last week's vote, resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a corruption investigation. Blatter, who has led soccer's world governing body since 1998, is being investigated by U.S. prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a person who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters. |
| Blatter quits FIFA; under investigation by U.S. prosecutors, FBI | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter rocked the world of soccer on Tuesday by saying he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation that now includes the 79-year-old chief himself. Blatter, who has led soccer's world governing body since 1998, is being investigated by U.S. prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a person who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters late on Tuesday. An FBI spokesman declined comment.
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| Venezuela's Maduro suggests Maradona as FIFA president | |  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday suggested that Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona become the next FIFA president, hours after a deepening soccer scandal spurred the resignation of the group's top official. Sepp Blatter stepped down as FIFA president less than a week after charges by U.S. prosecutors linked nine soccer officials and five sports media and promotions executives to more than $150 million in bribes. "The president of the international football federation should be Diego Armando Maradona or someone like him," said Maduro during his weekly televised address.
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| Obama signs bill reforming surveillance program | |  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress earlier in the day reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records. Reversing security policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill ends a system exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Passage of the USA Freedom Act, the result of an alliance between Senate Democrats and some of the chamber's most conservative Republicans, was a victory for Obama, a Democrat, and a setback for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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| The men who might be after FIFA's top job | |  By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA is facing a turning point in its history with the end of president Sepp Blatter's 17-year grip on power. Here are some of the men who might be candidates: Michel Platini, France, 59. The current UEFA president was once close to Blatter but they gradually drifted apart.
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| Logging companies plundering Congo's rainforest - report | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically violating national laws to plunder Congo's forests, undermining efforts to protect the world's second largest rainforest, a campaign group said on Wednesday. London-based Global Witness said in a report that none of Congo's 87 million euros ($97 million) of timber production appeared to comply with international timber trade laws. Over half of the Congo basin's 500 million hectares of forest are in Congo whose forests boast the fifth greatest diversity of animals and plants in the world. |
| FIFA's Blatter being investigated by U.S. authorities - source | |  (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter is being investigated by U.S. prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a source said late on Tuesday. Earlier in the day Blatter unexpectedly said he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation that has rocked world soccer. An FBI spokesman declined comment. (Writing by Noeleen Walder; Editing by Toni Reinhold)
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| FIFA takes aim at powerful committee in battle to restore credibility | | | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Deep in the bowels of FIFA's Zurich headquarters, three floors underground in a room lined with black granite walls and beyond the reach of mobile phones, lies the powerful core of international football. Here, the 24-member executive committee of soccer's governing body meets to plot the biggest decisions in a sport that has been rocked over the past week by sweeping U.S. corruption charges, arrests of top officials and now the shock announced departure of FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Blatter's announcement of his resignation on Tuesday immediately led to speculation over who will stand to replace him, but without significant reform to the executive committee it may not make much difference who steps into his shoes. |
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