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| The men who might be after FIFA's top job | | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 12:53 AM | |
|  By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA is facing a turning point in its history with the end of president Sepp Blatter's 17-year grip on power. Here are some of the men who might be candidates: Michel Platini, France, 59. The current UEFA president was once close to Blatter but they gradually drifted apart.
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| Logging companies plundering Congo's rainforest - report | | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 12:48 AM | |
| | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically violating national laws to plunder Congo's forests, undermining efforts to protect the world's second largest rainforest, a campaign group said on Wednesday. London-based Global Witness said in a report that none of Congo's 87 million euros ($97 million) of timber production appeared to comply with international timber trade laws. Over half of the Congo basin's 500 million hectares of forest are in Congo whose forests boast the fifth greatest diversity of animals and plants in the world. |
| Blatter rocks world soccer by quitting FIFA amid scandal | | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 12:45 AM | |
|  By Brian Homewood ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter rocked the world of soccer on Tuesday by unexpectedly saying he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation that reportedly may include the embattled chief himself. Citing sources familiar with the case, The New York Times and ABC News reported on Tuesday that Blatter was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. prosecutors. Blatter has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
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| FIFA's Blatter being investigated by U.S. authorities - source | | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 12:41 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter is being investigated by U.S. prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a source said late on Tuesday. Earlier in the day Blatter unexpectedly said he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation that has rocked world soccer. An FBI spokesman declined comment. (Writing by Noeleen Walder; Editing by Toni Reinhold)
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| FIFA takes aim at powerful committee in battle to restore credibility | | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 12:36 AM | |
| | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Deep in the bowels of FIFA's Zurich headquarters, three floors underground in a room lined with black granite walls and beyond the reach of mobile phones, lies the powerful core of international football. Here, the 24-member executive committee of soccer's governing body meets to plot the biggest decisions in a sport that has been rocked over the past week by sweeping U.S. corruption charges, arrests of top officials and now the shock announced departure of FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Blatter's announcement of his resignation on Tuesday immediately led to speculation over who will stand to replace him, but without significant reform to the executive committee it may not make much difference who steps into his shoes. |
| Gambia expels Lebanese businessman accused of Hezbollah ties | | | A Lebanese businessman accused by the United States of providing financial support to the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah left Gambia at the weekend in compliance with an expulsion order, government sources said. Husayn Tajideen, known locally as an importer of rice and flour to the small West African country, was accused of "unacceptable business practices that are detrimental to the Gambian economy", state television said last week. Staff at a supermarket that serves as one of his main businesses in Gambia declined to comment on his expulsion. |
| Relatives, politicians call on Iran to free detained Americans | |  At a House of Representatives committee hearing, relatives of three detained Americans, Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, said they should not be forgotten in the effort to seal a nuclear deal with Iran by a June 30 deadline. The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution calling on Iran to immediately release the three and to provide information about Robert Levinson, an American missing in Iran since 2007.
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