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| Exclusive: Swiss authorities examine FIFA grants in soccer probe - source | | Thursday, June 25, 2015 3:10 AM | |
|  By Mark Hosenball LONDON - (Reuters) - Swiss authorities are examining development grants made by FIFA around the world as part of their investigation into the sport's global governing body and its award of World Cup hosting rights for Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, a source familiar with the probe said. The Swiss investigation is running alongside and in cooperation with a U.S. probe that led to the criminal indictment on May 27 of nine current and former FIFA officials and five executives in sports marketing and broadcasting on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges. Information technology specialists from Switzerland's federal police agency, as well as prosecutors and financial experts, are poring over masses of evidence collected by the office of Switzerland's Attorney General, the source said. The evidence includes voluminous internal records, most in digitized form, seized from the offices of FIFA's President Sepp Blatter, Secretary General Jerome Valcke and finance and administrative chief Markus Kattner.
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| Obama announces new hostage response, but no U.S. ransoms | | Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:59 AM | |
|  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated U.S. response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists abroad, and acknowledged his government had sometimes let the families down. After an emotional meeting with relatives of hostages, he said: "I acknowledged to them in private what I want to say publicly, that it is true that there have been times where our government, regardless of good intentions, has let them down." He added: "I promised them that we can do better." The president reasserted the main plank of U.S. policy that, unlike some allies, the government would not make concessions or pay ransom to hostage takers, saying this would enrich the militants and encourage further abductions.
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| Confederate symbols of Civil War divide U.S. 150 years on | | Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:27 AM | |
|  By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that adds new emotion and tensions to a year of soul-searching over race in America. From Alabama to Mississippi, Louisiana to Tennessee and beyond, politicians distanced themselves from flags and statues memorializing southern heroes of the 1861-65 Civil War. Alabama's governor ordered the Confederate flag and three other flags of the Confederacy removed from the grounds of the state's Capitol in Montgomery, a historically significant city in America's civil rights movement where Martin Luther King Jr. led protests in the 1950s.
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| About 40 killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria - witnesses | | Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:30 AM | |
| | About 40 people have been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants who torched houses and shot people as they fled in two villages in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, witnesses told Reuters on Wednesday. The attackers, who arrived on motorcycles and vehicles mounted with guns, shot residents and looted shops in the villages of Debiro Biu and Debiro Hawul late on Monday night and into Tuesday morning, the witnesses said. Details of the attack did not emerge for several hours due to poor telecommunications networks in the remote villages in northeast Nigeria, a region in which Boko Haram has killed thousands in a six-year bid to set up an Islamic state. |
| Internet firms should brief UN on tackling extremists - experts | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Key Internet and social media companies should brief a United Nations Security Council sanctions committee on their efforts to stop al Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist militants spreading their ideology online, U.N. experts said. Alexander Evans, coordinator of the team of experts, said such a briefing could stimulate a conversation among the 15-committee members on whether U.N. sanctions could be expanded to help stem Internet use by Islamist militants, but he added that the "the answers are not easy." "Late last year a range of actions made much of the social media domain less-permissive territory for (militants)," he said in an interview. "The companies are aware and they have responded, but the political question is have they done enough, who should do what and what's the international consensus on this." Diplomats said the committee is considering the recommendations by the experts, who monitor the U.N. sanctions and assess the strength of the groups. |
| EU states at odds on eve of summit on migration crisis | |  By Alastair Macdonald and Shadia Nasralla BRUSSELS/VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria threatened to reimpose controls on its Hungarian border and Britain considered adding security around the French port of Calais on Wednesday as divided EU leaders prepared to debate how to stem a flood of desperate migrants. On the eve of a Brussels summit looking for ways to spread the load of receiving hundreds of thousands fleeing poverty and war in Africa and the Middle East, the frontier rows across the 28-nation bloc were a reminder that the stakes are high. Austria's warning about reinstating checks on its passport-free border with Hungary follows a refusal by Budapest to take in asylum seekers sent back to it by other member states under EU rules.
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| Louisiana's Jindal joins crowded 2016 presidential race | |  By Kathy Finn KENNER, La. (Reuters) - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal joined the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Wednesday, starting dead last among a very crowded field of hopeful Republican candidates in at least one poll. "I am tanned, rested and ready for this fight," Jindal said during a campaign launch event held in a suburb of New Orleans, promising supporters he would "rock the boat." Jindal, 44, is the first person of Indian-American heritage to run for U.S. president. A two-term governor, once seen as a rising star in his party, joins 12 other Republicans, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, among the hopefuls seeking the nomination for the November 2016 election.
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| Boko Haram militants kill five in southern Niger - sources | | | Suspected Boko Haram militants riding on motorbikes and horseback attacked a village in southern Niger overnight, killing at least five people, two security sources said on Wednesday. The attack follows a night-time raid blamed on the Nigerian Islamist group that killed 38 people in the same region near Niger's southern border last week. "Boko Haram attacked overnight on 23 June the village of Yebi, near Bosso. |
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