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| Blatter quits as FIFA chief after corruption scandal | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a U.S.-led corruption investigation that has plunged world soccer's governing body into the worst crisis in its history. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials and just four days after he was re-elected to a fifth term as president. Blatter said an election to choose a new FIFA president would be held as soon as possible.
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| Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes may help show they conspired with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood as he investigated the Internet search company. In a request made public on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Google said Viacom Inc, Twenty-First Century Fox Inc and Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal "have produced nothing" in response to the March 12 subpoenas, and cannot claim the requested material is irrelevant or privileged.
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| Qatar Airways says still keen to sponsor FIFA World Cup | |  CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Qatar Airways plans to become a World Cup sponsor for FIFA even though it is concerned about the bribery investigation into world soccer's governing body, the airline said on Tuesday. "With the World Cup coming to Qatar, we have had advanced internal discussions regarding this, but we are not in advanced discussions with FIFA," said a company spokesperson. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by James Macharia and Robin Pomeroy)
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| Sotheby's withdraws sale of Russian painting alleged stolen | | | The international auction house Sotheby's withdrew from auction on Tuesday a painting by a famous Russian artist that Russia's Interior Ministry said last week had been stolen in 1997 from a private collection in Moscow. The auction house said "Evening in Cairo" by Ivan Aivazovsky had been withdrawn from the London sale at the request of the consignor, or seller. The Russian Interior Ministry, which had asked that British police block the auction, said in a statement on Tuesday the painting had been withdrawn "with the aim of resolving questions connected with compensation of the victim". |
| Surveillance reform bill clears U.S. Senate hurdle, amendments next | |  A bill that would end U.S. spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data and replace it with a more targeted system cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, allowing lawmakers to consider amendments to the legislation. The Senate voted 83-14 to limit debate on the measure, known as the USA Freedom Act. Senate rules provide for up to 30 hours of debate before lawmakers vote on amendments, although Senate leaders said they expect those votes later on Tuesday.
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| Workers' deaths, FIFA scandal overshadow Scotland-Qatar match | | | The Qatar national soccer team's match against Scotland this Friday has raised hackles amongst Scottish politicians, unions and fans, adding to the controversy over the desert nation's hosting of the 2022 World Cup. Some want the friendly to be cancelled in protest against the deaths of migrant workers building stadiums for the World Cup. The Scottish Football Association - the world's second oldest - says the match will go ahead and that human rights issues should remain separate from sport. |
| Machete-waving man shot by police in Boston | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - A man waving a machete was shot by police in Boston on Tuesday and died of his injuries, police officials said. "Our officers tried their best to get him to put down the knife," Boston Police Commissioner William Evans told reporters at the scene. The man, whose identity was not immediately released, had been under surveillance by the U.S. Joint Terrorism Task force, local media reported. (Reporting by Scott Malone) |
| Germans don't want World Cup boycott, DFB president says | |  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany does not want a boycott of soccer's World Cup tournament, the president of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach told Reuters on Tuesday. "We don't want to go down that route of a boycott - that won't accomplish anything," Niersbach said in an interview. "We don't want to get into a situation like with boxing where there are several parallel associations. That doesn't work. ...
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| FIFA says Valcke not involved in $10 million payment | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA denied on Tuesday that Jérôme Valcke, the top lieutenant of its President Sepp Blatter, was involved in $10 million in bank transactions at the heart of a U.S. bribery investigation against the world soccer body, despite the publication of a letter to Valcke outlining the payment. Secretary general Valcke had no role in the payments, which were authorised by the chairman of FIFA's Finance Committee, it said in a statement. "Neither the Secretary General Jerome Valcke nor any other member of FIFA's senior management were involved in the initiation, approval and implementation of the above project," FIFA said.
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| Acid producers responsible for "vile" attacks - NCW leader | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bottles of acid are too easily available in India and the makers should take responsibility for the rising number of "vile" acid attacks, the head of National Commission for Women (NCW) has said. Acid attacks - meant to maim, disfigure or blind - are most common in Cambodia, followed by Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. Women are the victims of 80 percent of the roughly 1,500 acid attacks reported globally each year, the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International says. |
| Militants kill nine Afghan aid workers in night time attack | | | By Bashir Ansari MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Unidentified militants shot and killed nine Afghan employees of a Czech-backed aid group, People in Need, in an attack early on Tuesday in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, government officials said. Aid workers have faced increasing attacks in Afghanistan as foreign troops have withdrawn and security has deteriorated, making the country one of the most dangerous for aid groups. Government officials blamed the Taliban for Tuesday's attack, about 50 miles (80 km) south of the provincial capital. |
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