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| Swiss FIFA inquiry investigates 53 suspicious bank transactions | |  By Karolin Schaps and Mark Hosenball BERNE (Reuters) - Swiss prosecutors looking into corruption at global soccer body FIFA have identified 53 suspicious bank transactions, the attorney general said on Wednesday, stressing that the investigation may take time. Michael Lauber told journalists he would not rule out interviewing FIFA President Sepp Blatter and General Secretary Jerome Valcke, although Switzerland had so far targetted no individuals in the scandal that has rocked international soccer. Switzerland, where FIFA is based, announced its criminal investigation and seized computers at FIFA headquarters last month on the same day that the United States shook the sport with the announcement of indictments of 14 soccer officials and businessmen as part of a separate probe into corruption.
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| Bangladesh and Myanmar patrols exchange fire along river border | | | One Bangladesh border guard was wounded and another seized by his Myanmar counterparts on Wednesday after the two sides exchanged gunfire while chasing drug smugglers on a river separating their countries. The Bangladeshis were pursuing the smugglers by boat near Teknaf on the Naff River separating the neighbouring states near Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh. The smugglers got away, but a Myanmar border patrol boat opened fire on their Bangladesh counterparts, said Colonel M M Anisur Rahman, the local Bangladesh border guard commander in Cox's Bazar. |
| Family hears from British sisters and 9 children feared Syria-bound | | | LONDON/ANKARA (Reuters) - One of three British sisters, thought to have headed with their nine children to join Islamic State militants, has made contact with her family in Britain and given an indication the group may be in Syria, British police said on Wednesday. British Muslims Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children, aged between three and 15, were reported missing six days ago. On Tuesday the husbands of two of the women appealed for their return, fearing they might have gone to Syria. |
| FIFA ethics chief says probing soccer officials over World Cup bids | |  The chief ethics investigator of FIFA said on Wednesday he is conducting several proceedings against unnamed football officials based on initial findings from an investigation into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup. "The independent Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee is carrying out several proceedings into football officials on suspicion of breach of the FIFA Code of Ethics based on the findings of the investigation into the decision for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups," Cornel Borbely, FIFA's chief ethics investigator, said in a statement.
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| Greenpeace India admits failures after staff claims of rape, sexual harassment | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Greenpeace India has admitted it failed to create a gender sensitive environment for its workers, and apologised for its handling of a sexual harassment complaint by a female staff member while acknowledging the alleged rape of another woman. The environmental group, which is already embroiled in a legal battle with the government over questions on its funding, said an internal review found lapses in how it dealt with crimes against women and gender sensitivity in the workplace. "Greenpeace India treats issues of sexual harassment and violence seriously - and these recent allegations have shown that we need to strengthen our internal processes and our sensitivity training for staff and management," the group said in a statement late on Tuesday. |
| Kashmir killings raise fears of new bloodletting | |  By Fayaz Bukhari and Abu Arqam Naqash SOPORE, India/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - After years of sharply reduced political violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the gunning down of four men with links to militants has fanned fears of a new wave of bloodletting. No group has claimed responsibility for the killings, but the police blame a breakaway faction of Hizbul Mujahideen, the largest group in the region, which has been fighting for Kashmir's merger with neighbouring Pakistan. "They have serious differences with ... other militant leadership over several issues," said Garib Dass, the chief of the police for northern Kashmir.
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| Hong Kong debates election reform plan with veto likely | |  By James Pomfret and Yimou Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers appeared to be standing firm on Wednesday in their pledge to veto Beijing-backed electoral reforms, as the Asian financial centre's legislature debated the package that will define its democratic future. The former British colony has reinforced security after mass protests crippled parts of the city late last year, presenting China's ruling Communist Party with one of its biggest political challenges in decades. More than a thousand people converged outside government buildings as debate began on a blueprint that would allow a direct vote for Hong Kong's next leader in 2017, but only from pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates.
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