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| Exclusive - FIFA's Blatter will not attend women's World Cup final in Canada | |  FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not travel to Vancouver for the final of the women's World Cup on July 5 and has told organizers that personal reasons will prevent him from going, a U.S.-based lawyer for Blatter said on Tuesday. The lawyer, Richard Cullen, said he would not comment beyond what Blatter has told the organizers. Senior executives of Zurich-based FIFA were charged with corruption in the United States on May 27 over bids for major football tournaments and Blatter came under pressure to step down.
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| Obama, Rousseff turn page on spy spat, work on trade, travel | |  By Roberta Rampton and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a White House visit on Tuesday to turn the page on a spying scandal that had damaged bilateral relations and said they want to work to bolster economic ties. During an hour-long press conference, Rousseff said "things have changed" since October 2013, when she cancelled an official state visit after revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the United States had spied on her. "The change is particularly due to the fact that President Obama and the U.S. government have stated on several occasions that they would no longer engage in intrusive acts of spying on friendly countries.
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| Goldman settles SEC charges over 2013 options trading incident | | | (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc will pay $7 million to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges stemming from a trading incident in which the Wall Street bank flooded the stock options market with erroneous orders. The SEC said Goldman sent about 16,000 mispriced options orders to various exchanges on Aug. 20, 2013, leading to about 1.5 million options contracts, representing 150 million shares, being executed within minutes after the market opened. By lacking proper safeguards, Goldman violated the "market access" rule that requires brokers and dealers to have risk and supervisory procedures designed to prevent market disruptions. |
| Kuwait says in "state of war" with militants, warns of other cells | |  By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's interior minister said on Tuesday the Gulf Arab country was at war with Islamist militants and would strike out at cells believed to be on its soil. The ultra-radical Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Friday on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait City which killed 27 worshippers, the worst attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting state. Kuwaiti authorities have detained 60 people in connection with the bombing and closed a charity for alleged militant ties in raising funds for Syrians, local newspapers said on Tuesday.
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| CONCACAF retains adviser to help clean house after FIFA scandal | | | By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - CONCACAF, the regional body that oversees soccer in North and Central America, said on Tuesday it has retained restructuring specialist Alvarez & Marsal to assess its operations and help it clean house in the wake of the FIFA bribery scandal. A number of former CONCACAF officials, including former president Jeffrey Webb and his predecessor, Jack Warner, have been ensnared and indicted in the scandal, which has grabbed headlines across the globe. CONCACAF, or the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, said Alvarez & Marsal will do a four- to five-week review of CONCACAF's operations and recommend certain improvements to financial reporting processes, spending and cash-flow management, third-party vendor relationship management, and organizational effectiveness. |
| Amid protests Nepal presents "illegal" new constitution after quakes | | | By Ross Adkin KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal presented a preliminary draft of its first republican constitution on Tuesday, but the country's top court has questioned the legality of the document that was rushed through after devastating earthquakes spurred politicians into action. The new constitution was a condition of a 2006 peace deal with Maoists rebels that ended a 10-year civil war, which killed more than 17,000 people. The draft, which seeks to divide the country into eight provinces but leaves their boundaries and names to be decided later, follows seven years in which Nepal's politicians have missed a series of deadlines. |
| Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky named as murder suspect in Russia | |  Russia wants to question former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a suspect in a murder case that has been reopened because of new evidence, federal investigators said on Tuesday. Khodorkovsky, the former owner of the now-defunct Yukos oil company, spent a decade in jail after falling out with Vladimir Putin. Announcing on its website that the case had been reopened, the federal Investigative Committee, which answers directly to Putin, said it wanted to question Khodorkovsky.
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| Tunisia sees Libya link to beach resort attacker - source | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian gunman who killed 39 people at a resort hotel, mostly British holiday-makers, probably spent time in a training camp in Libya and had been in contact with militants over the border, a security source said on Tuesday. The attack on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular resort town of Sousse came just months after militants attacked the Bardo museum in Tunis, killing 21 people and delivering a blow to the vital tourism industry. Investigators were verifying whether the gunman, student Saif Rezgui, had received militant training in a jihadist camp across in Libya. |
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