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| Top two FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions | |  By Karolin Schaps and David Ingram BERNE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA's embattled president, Sepp Blatter, and his second-in-command have hired high-powered lawyers to represent them as Swiss authorities identified suspicious bank transactions in a corruption probe engulfing soccer's global governing body. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, FIFA confirmed in an email to Reuters on Thursday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA secretary general, has hired prominent New York defense attorney Barry Berke to represent him, FIFA said, adding it had no further comment to make.
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| Hong Kong vetoes China-backed electoral reform proposal | |  By Donny Kwok and Yimou Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-backed electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh mass protests in the financial hub. Beijing had pressured and cajoled the city's pro-democracy lawmakers to back the blueprint that would have allowed a direct vote for the city's chief executive, but with only pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates on the ballot. "Today 28 legco members voted against the wishes of the majority of Hong Kong people, and denied them the democratic right to elect the chief executive in the next election," said the city's current pro-Beijing leader Leung Chun-ying.
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| Gunman at large after killing 9 at black South Carolina church | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white gunman was still at large after killing nine people during a prayer service at an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on Thursday, describing the attack as a hate crime. Officers with dogs searched the streets for the suspect, whom police described as a 21-year-old white man with sandy blond hair, after gunfire erupted inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, Police Chief Gregory Mullen said. "To have an awful person come in and shoot them is inexplicable, obviously the most intolerable and unbelievable act possible," Charleston Mayor Joe Riley told reporters.
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| China says decision on HK electoral proposal to stand despite veto | |  China's parliament said on Thursday that its decision on Hong Kong electoral reforms issued last year will remain in force despite Hong Kong's legislature vetoing a China-vetted electoral reform package, state news agency Xinhua said. Xinhua did not give more details. Earlier, Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday a China-vetted electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh mass protests in the financial hub.
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| Bahrain says seizes explosives intended for use in Saudi Arabia | | | Bahrain said on Thursday it had seized explosives and bomb-making materials planned for use in Bahrain and neighbouring Saudi Arabia in what it said was an attempt to use its borders as a base for attacking targets in the region. In a statement, police chief Major-General Tariq al-Hasan said the techniques used in the manufacture of the explosives bore "clear similarities" to methods used by what it called proxy groups of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). Bahrain often accuses Shi'ite Muslim theocracy Iran of seeking to subvert the Gulf Arab island monarchy. |
| Malaysian navy in contact with pirates on hijacked tanker | | | A Malaysian naval vessel has made contact with the pirates onboard hijacked tanker Orkim Harmony and is trying to persuade them to surrender, a maritime official said on Thursday. The tanker as of noon (0400 GMT) was in Vietnamese waters headed south with the Malaysian navy vessel KD Terengganu and a maritime ship in pursuit. Both the crew and the cargo onboard the tanker are safe, and the navy is negotiating with the robbers through the captain of the Orkim Harmony, said Vice Admiral Ahmad Puzi, deputy director general of the operations unit of the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), in a press briefing. |
| Bomb found under policeman's car in Northern Ireland | | | Police discovered a bomb under the car of a police officer in Northern Ireland early on Thursday that they said was powerful enough to cause death or serious injury. "This is a stark reminder that the threat against our Police Service and its employees remains at severe," Local District Commander Superintendent Mark McEwan said in a statement. Thousands were killed in Northern Ireland during three decades of conflict that pitted Republicans who wanted the province to join the Republic of Ireland against Unionists who wanted to keep it inside the United Kingdom. |
| World Muslim body lends support to Qatar over 2022 World Cup | | | The world's largest Muslim organisation has thrown its weight behind Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup, hitting back at Western criticism of the Gulf Arab state's dealings with FIFA amid a corruption probe into world soccer's governing body. Swiss and U.S. authorities are investigating both Russia and Qatar's successful campaigns to stage the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. In a statement posted on its website, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) criticised what it said was "Western media tendentious campaigns" targeting OIC member, casting doubt on its right to host the event. |
| Four hurt in knife attack at Chinese market - police | | | A knife-wielding man injured four people, including one seriously, in southern China's Guangxi region on Thursday, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks that have raised public concern. Police in Beihai city detained a 30-year-old suspect over the early morning attack at a market, a statement on the city's police microblog said. Public sensitivity to knife attacks in China has heightened following a series of incidents, including a mass stabbing at a train station in March 2014 in the southwestern city of Kunming that left 31 dead. |
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