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| Ex-FIFA executive Webb agrees to U.S. extradition - report | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeffrey Webb, one of seven current and former officials of football's world governing body FIFA detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe, has agreed to be extradited to the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice had said earlier on Friday that one of the seven had agreed not to fight extradition but did not identify the official. After Webb's May 27 arrest, FIFA and the regional football federation CONCACAF provisionally banned Webb from his posts. (Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Grant McCool)
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| Bolivar boats, bills in bras as Venezuela's currency sinks | |  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Origami-like boats made from Venezuela's rapidly depreciating bolivar bills sit on the cash register of a small fruit and vegetable store in Caracas. Cashier Marisol Garcia makes the bolivar boats to illustrate roaring inflation and the currency's tumble on the black market, where even the country's biggest bill is worth just 16 U.S. cents. "We're sinking." A debilitating recession and a drop in oil prices have harmed the OPEC nation's ability to provide dollars through its complex three-tiered currency control system, pushing up the black market rate at a dizzying speed.
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| Al Shabaab attacks hotels in Somali capital, six civilians killed | | | At least six civilians and four militants were killed when al Shabaab Islamists attacked two hotels in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, police said. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack on the Wehliya Hotel and said it had also laid siege to another hotel in the city, the Siyad, where gunfire continued into the night near the presidential palace. |
| Suspected Charleston shooter could buy gun due to background check mix-up - FBI | |  By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspect in the shootings of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was erroneously able to buy a gun due to a mix-up in a background check which should have revealed an admission of drug possession, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Friday. The examiner of suspect Dylann Roof's federal background check did not see a police report in which Roof admitted to drug possession, which would have barred him from buying the weapon, Comey told reporters at a briefing. Roof, a 21-year-old white man linked to racist views, is charged in the June 17 shootings at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, where the nine were gunned down during a Bible-study session.
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| Two shot dead in southern Germany; police arrest suspect | | | A gunman shot and killed two people in northern Bavaria on Friday and was later captured, German police said. "Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped," Joachim Hermann, Bavaria's interior minister, told a news conference. |
| Miami company described in U.S. soccer case as agreeing to pay bribe-sources | | | By Mica Rosenberg and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Miami-based affiliate of Spanish media giant Imagina group is one of the unidentified sports marketing companies alleged in a U.S. indictment to have agreed to pay a bribe in a global soccer corruption scandal, sources told Reuters. The company is Media World, a subsidiary of Imagina US, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The indictment does not say that the company - identified only as "Sports Marketing Company C" - paid a bribe, but says it had agreed to do so and was looking for a way to make the payment to a high-ranking soccer official in the Americas. Media World, which buys and sells the media rights to soccer leagues and has operated TV channels aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market, has not been charged with wrongdoing. |
| FIFA official in Switzerland agrees to U.S. extradition | | | One of seven FIFA officials detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said on Friday. The seven were arrested in May in a dawn raid by Swiss police at a luxury hotel in Zurich, on corruption charges filed by U.S. prosecutors in New York. The FOJ did not name the official or give any details on when he might be sent to the United States, but said in a statement it would take place within 10 days. |
| Shun gangs, have hope, Pope tells inmates at violent Bolivian jail | |  By Sarah Marsh and Philip Pullella SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Saying he too had made mistakes and sinned, Pope Francis on Friday urged inmates at one of Latin America's most violent prisons to shun gang violence and exhorted guards to treat them with dignity. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins," the pope told hundreds of prisoners and their children on a visit to a place one long-time inmate likened to "Sodom and Gomorrah". It is Jesus Christ, the mercy of the Father," he said as two children wandered up to the stage and sat before him.
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