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| Blatter stands down as FIFA president | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter stunned the world of soccer when he resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, ending a 40-year career at the sport's governing body just four days after being re-elected to a fifth term despite a U.S. corruption investigation. The 79-year-old, who has held office since 1998, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after Swiss police, acting on a request from United States authorities, raided a hotel in the Swiss city and arrested several FIFA officials. Blatter has not been charged.
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| INSTANT VIEW - Reactions to resignation of FIFA's Blatter | |  English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke: "We welcome today's announcement and believe it is good news for world football and FIFA. Change at the very top of FIFA is the necessary first step in delivering real reform of the organisation. "We will now commit ourselves to play whatever role we can to support a positive transformation of FIFA for the benefit of all." UEFA President Michel Platini: "It was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right decision." Gary Lineker, sports commentator and former England player: "Blatter has resigned.
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| Activists outraged as Myanmar jails writer for Buddhist insults | | | A Myanmar court sentenced a writer to two years in jail and hard labour on Tuesday for insulting Buddhism, his lawyer said, a verdict derided by activists as a blow to free speech and religious tolerance. Htin Lin Oo, a former official with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, was found guilty by the court in Myanmar's northern Sagaing region for comments made in a speech he said was intended to discourage Buddhist extremism. "Htin Lin Oo criticized Buddhist monks who had given hate speeches," lawyer Thein Than Oo told Reuters. |
| Maldives opposition leader charged with inciting violence | | | Maldives' prosecutor general charged an opposition leader on Tuesday with inciting violence, a month after he was arrested during protests against the imprisonment of the islands' first democratically elected president. Sheikh Imran Abdulla, who heads the small but influential Islamic Adhaalath Party, was read his charges and told he would be held in detention until the end of his trial, a reporter permitted into the courtroom told Reuters. Imran was among close to 200 people including the leaders of the main opposition parties detained in the capital city Male on May 1 after protesters demanding the release of ex-president Mohamed Nasheed clashed with police. |
| Bill to curtail U.S. domestic spying advances but political fight looms | |  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted to move ahead on Tuesday with a bill that would end the ability of spy agencies to collect Americans' telephone records in bulk and install a more targeted system, but a political fight loomed over potential changes to the bill. The procedural vote of 83-14 limited debate on legislation known as the USA Freedom Act but arguments over how to balance Americans' concerns about privacy and fears of terrorism, which had already held up the bill, could stall it further. Three domestic surveillance programs authorized under the USA Patriot Act, passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have been shut down since midnight on Sunday, after the Senate missed a deadline to extend legal authorities for certain data collection by the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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| FIFA ethics chief says will continue work following Blatter exit | |  The chief ethics investigator of FIFA said he would keep working at world soccer's governing body to secure compliance with its ethics code, after the organization's president Sepp Blatter announced he was stepping down. "The (investigatory) chamber will continue its mandate along with the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee of consistently ensuring compliance with FIFA's Code of Ethics and will make this its highest priority, regardless of who is president," Cornel Borbely, FIFA's chief ethics investigator, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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| Swiss attorney general says not probing outgoing FIFA president Blatter | |  Switzerland's office of attorney general (OAG) said on Tuesday it was not investigating outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who announced he was stepping down in a hastily convened press conference shortly before. "Joseph S. Blatter is not under investigation by the OAG. The attorney general, which has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering alongside a far wider U.S. corruption investigation into FIFA, said it would release no further information.
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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". |
| 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) |
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