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| Exclusive - Blatter hires U.S. lawyer for corruption probe | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter has hired a high-powered U.S. lawyer to represent him as a corruption probe rocks football's global governing body, a person familiar with the matter said. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, said the person, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Blatter, 79, announced on June 2 that he would stand down as FIFA president, only four days after he was reelected to the position, saying he had lost the mandate from the entire world of football.
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| U.S. House defeats bid to withdraw troops from Iraq | |  The U.S. House of Representatives rejected legislation on Wednesday that would have forced President Barack Obama to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq and Syria as soon as one month from now, but nearly one-third of the chamber voted for the measure. The House voted 288-139 to defeat the concurrent resolution, which would have required Obama to remove the troops within 30 days, or by the end of 2015 if the administration determined it was not safe to do so within the 30-day timeframe. The resolution was introduced by Democratic Representatives Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Barbara Lee of California and Republican Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina.
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| Former Brazilian football chief denies taking bribe to back Qatar bid | | | By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The former head of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said he got "absolutely nothing" in return for his vote to award Qatar the rights to host the 2022 World Cup and described suggestions he was involved in impropriety as "preposterous." "I got nothing, absolutely nothing," Ricardo Teixeira said in response to allegations published in a Brazilian newspaper on Tuesday that he had received a gold watch from a Qatari emir in return for his vote. "The Emir didn't give me a watch, he didn't give me an ice lolly, he didn't give me anything," Teixeira said in an interview posted on Brazilian web site Terra on Wednesday. "This Qatar business is totally preposterous." Teixeira was the all-powerful head of the CBF between 1989 and 2012 when he resigned citing ill health. |
| Arabs, Muslims can sue US officials over post-9/11 jail treatment | | | Wednesday's 2-1 decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prompted an impassioned dissent that the ruling could make it harder to protect the country against terrorism. The court revived claims against Bush administration officials including Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller and Immigration and Naturalization Services Commissioner James Ziglar by former inmates at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. "There was no legitimate governmental purpose in holding someone in the most restrictive conditions of confinement available simply because he happened to be-or, worse yet, appeared to be-Arab or Muslim," Circuit Judges Rosemary Pooler and Richard Wesley wrote in an unusual, 109-page joint decision. |
| Two ex-junta members indicted over Guinea stadium massacre | | | A court in Guinea has indicted two generals, both senior officials in the country's former military junta, for a 2009 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators, a leading human rights campaigner and judicial officials said on Wednesday. President Alpha Conde, elected in 2010 in Guinea's first democratic handover of power since independence from France in 1958, has faced criticism from rights groups for the slow pace of the investigation into the rapes and killings at the rally. "Generals Mamadouba Toto Camara and Mathurin Bangoura were indeed charged along with other soldiers and civilians," said Thierno Maadjou Sow, president of the Guinean Human Rights Organisation. |
| U.S. urges 'greater commitment' to war effort from Baghdad | |  By Phil Stewart and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States called for a "greater commitment" from Iraq's government on Wednesday in the fight against Islamic State as it lamented Baghdad's failure to deliver enough soldiers for training and underscored the need to empower Sunni tribesmen. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a congressional hearing that the U.S. military had hoped to train 24,000 Iraqi security forces by this fall but had only received enough recruits to train about 9,000 so far.
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