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| Colombia's FARC leader says all rebels on board for peace | | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:05 AM | |
|  All of Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels, from foot soldiers to commanders, are committed to peace talks, its leader said, and while the group will continue to fight government policy, the battle will go ahead without any shots being fired. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will continue to defend its ideology and seek land reform if an end to the five-decade war end is reached in Havana, rebel leader Rodrigo Londono said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday, suggesting changes would come from the ballot box. Rumors have circulated for months that many of the FARC's 8,000 fighters are not on board with the talks and the five-point agenda.
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| Blatter does not rule out staying beyond February, says confidant | | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:02 AM | |
|  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter has not ruled out trying to stay on as FIFA's president beyond February's scheduled election, despite facing a criminal investigation and a possible internal ethics probe, a close confidant told Reuters on Tuesday. The scenario where Blatter would try to stay on appears far-fetched, and an ethics investigation could lead to his suspension from the game before the election even begins. The Swiss attorney general's office (OAG) opened criminal proceedings against Blatter on Friday, saying he was suspected of making a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.04 million) to Michael Platini.
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| FIFA staff will no longer speak for Blatter's defense - sources | | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 2:45 AM | |
|  By Mark Hosenball LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter has agreed with the organization's lawyers that he will not use official FIFA platforms or personnel to issue statements in his defense in response to an investigation by Swiss prosecutors, two sources close to the matter said. Two sets of lawyers, one representing Blatter individually and another representing FIFA as an organization, agreed that such statements would be more appropriate coming from Blatter's lawyers than from FIFA personnel, the sources said. The lawyers want to avoid a potential conflict of interest while FIFA itself looks into allegations of criminal mismanagement made by Swiss investigators against Blatter, the sources said.
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| U.S. judge dismisses Sept. 11 victims' case against Saudi Arabia | | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 2:23 AM | |
| | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, who accused the country of providing material support to al Qaeda. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said Saudi Arabia had sovereign immunity from damage claims by families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks, and from insurers that covered losses suffered by building owners and businesses. |
| Former U.S. spy agency contractor Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut | | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 2:21 AM | |
|  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Snowden has come in from the cold - on Twitter. Snowden, the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs, started a Twitter account on Tuesday from exile in Russia with a simple handle - @snowden.
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| German prosecutors investigate Audi over emissions - paper | | | German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into Volkswagen subsidiary Audi related to the scandal over rigged emissions, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Wolfram Herrle, chief prosecutor in Audi's hometown of Ingolstadt in southern Germany, was quoted as telling the Funke Media group that a preliminary investigation had been launched to see whether to initiate formal proceedings against the company. |
| Amnesty Int'l declares Cuba graffiti artist a prisoner of conscience | |  By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Tuesday declared a Cuban graffiti artist as the country's only prisoner of conscience, demanding the release of a man held for "disrespect of the leaders of the revolution" over a satire of Fidel and Raul Castro. Danilo Maldonado, 32 and known as "El Sexto," has been held since December for painting "Fidel" and "Raul" on the backs of a pair of pigs in apparent reference to former leader Fidel Castro and his brother and current president, Raul Castro, Amnesty said in a statement.
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| U.S. whistleblower Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut | |  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Snowden has come in from the cold - on Twitter. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs, started a Twitter account on Tuesday from exile in Russia with a simple handle - @snowden.
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| UEFA chief Platini says FIFA could not pay him on time | | | UEFA president Michel Platini says the nine-year delay in him receiving a two million Swiss francs payment, which is at the centre of a Swiss prosecutor's investigation, was due to FIFA not being able to pay him on time. The prosecutor said Blatter was suspected of a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.05 million) to Platini in 2011 at the expense of FIFA, allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002. "I was employed by FIFA as a special advisor to President Sepp Blatter, working on various matters related to football, such as the international football calendar. |
| Tables turned as Platini pushed onto the defensive | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Favourite to win February's FIFA presidential election until the end of last week, Michel Platini is suddenly facing the same doubts and criticism which he has himself cast upon incumbent Sepp Blatter. Platini, head of European soccer's governing body UEFA, has been forced onto the back foot after his name was involved in a transaction which led to Swiss authorities opening criminal proceedings against Blatter on Friday. Although Platini was only interviewed as a witness in the case, he has been criticised over his response while other aspects of his career and personality, which had previously escaped scrutiny, have been brought into the open.
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| Burkina army enters presidential guard camp, coup leader gone | | | By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso soldiers met little resistance on Tuesday as they entered a presidential guard camp in the capital where members of the elite unit were holding out after a coup, an army officer said. Residents of the Ouaga 2000 district in the capital Ouagadougou said they heard bursts of gunfire in the late afternoon as troops, who had surrounded the base for most of the day, moved in. |
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