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| Two blasts on outskirts of Nigerian capital Abuja, official says | | | Two bombs went off on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja late on Friday, an official said, the first such incident in over a year. There was an unknown number of casualties, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency said. Spokesman Manzo Ezekiel said that the bomb in Kuje went off near a police station while the one in Nyanya detonated in a crowded area not far from the site of two blasts in April and May last year that killed at least 90 people. |
| Coke, McDonald's join sponsor call for FIFA's Blatter to resign | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Simon Evans NEW YORK/ZURICH (Reuters) - Major football sponsors on Friday issued coordinated calls for the immediate resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter in the most significant move by companies supporting the sport since a bribery and corruption scandal erupted at world football's governing body last May. Coca-Cola Co , McDonald's , Visa , and Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch InBev , companies that have long linked their brand names to football, on Friday demanded Blatter step down immediately in a strong push for change at the organisation. Blatter earlier announced he would resign in February next year. The sponsor statements, all using similar language, came just a week after Swiss authorities said they were opening a criminal investigation into Blatter, the 79-year-old Swiss national who has lead FIFA for the past 17 years.
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| Families, friends grieve for Oregon college massacre victims | |  Larry Levine, 67, was a college English instructor with a love of fly fishing. Lucero Alcaraz, 19, was an honours student with hopes of becoming a paediatric nurse. Rebecka Carnes, 18, was a teenager fresh out of high school, excited about her future.
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| Nigeria's ex-oil minister Alison-Madueke arrested in London - sources | |  By Julia Payne and Felix Onuah LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke was arrested in London on Friday, a source from Nigeria's presidency circle and another with links to her family said. Alison-Madueke was minister from 2010 until May 2015 under former president Goodluck Jonathan, who was defeated by Muhammadu Buhari at the polls in March. Buhari took office in May promising to root out corruption in Africa's most populous country, where few benefit from the OPEC member's enormous energy resources.
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| Military vet shot seven times as he protected Oregon classmates | | | By Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - An Iraq war veteran and mixed martial arts fighter whose son turned 6 years old on Thursday was shot seven times as he blocked the gunman from entering a classroom, possibly saving lives during a mass shooting in southern Oregon. Chris Mintz, 30, was in the hospital on Friday after seven hours of surgery and significant blood loss from his injuries in the tragedy that left 10 dead including the shooter at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, said his former girlfriend Jamie Skinner. Before and after his surgery, Mintz was conscious and told Skinner of the chaotic scene. |
| Oregon sheriff who opposes gun control thrust into spotlight | |  About a month after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shootings, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin in Oregon posted a video on his Facebook page from conspiracy theorists who said the event might have been a hoax. A few days later, he wrote to Vice President Joe Biden, telling him to stay away from gun control. Hanlin was thrust into the spotlight on Thursday, when a gunman opened fire at a college classroom in Douglas County, killing nine people and wounding several others before police shot him to death.
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| FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not resign - lawyer statement | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA's Sepp Blatter will not resign as president of the world football body after two major sponsors called for him to step down, his U.S. attorney said in statement on Friday. (Reporting by Mica Rosenberg; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)
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| Oregon gunman may have killed more if not for hero student | | | By Eric M. Johnson and Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The gunman who went on a deadly rampage at an Oregon college was well armed and equipped with extra ammunition, authorities said on Friday, and he may have killed more people if not for the heroism of a military veteran in an adjoining classroom. A day after the shooter killed nine people and wounded nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, authorities sought a motive for this year's bloodiest mass shooting in the United States, where such massacres have become all too common. The gunman, who was killed by police, had 13 weapons, body armour and ammunition, said Celinez Nunez, assistant special agent of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. |
| Five shot, one man killed in Baltimore shooting - police | | | (Reuters) - Five people were shot and one of them, an adult male, killed in an incident in Baltimore on Friday, Baltimore Police said. The four other victims, who include one woman and three men, were being treated at an area hospital, a police spokesman told reporters. None of the victims have been identified in the incident that took place outside of a convenience store. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli) |
| At U.N., Sudan accuses ICC of targeting African leaders | |  By Hugh Bronstein UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour on Friday used the annual gathering of the 193 members of the United Nations to rail against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which he said has become a political tool to target African leaders. The Hague-based ICC has accused Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of genocide and crimes against humanity in his campaign to crush a revolt in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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| Oregon gunman fascinated by shootings, described as shy and skittish | |  By Courtney Sherwood and Phoenix Tso WINCHESTER, Ore/TARZANA, Calif (Reuters) - The man killed by police on Thursday after he fatally shot nine people at a southern Oregon community college was a shy, awkward 26-year-old fascinated with shootings, according to neighbours, a person who knew him, news reports and his own social media postings. Chris Harper-Mercer lived in Torrance, California, before moving to Winchester, Oregon, where he resided in an apartment with his mother Laurel Harper about a four-minute drive from Umpqua Community College, according to online directories. At least nine other people were also wounded when he sprayed bullets into a classroom at the college in Roseburg, a timber town of about 20,000 people which adjoins Winchester.
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| McDonald's calls for FIFA's Sepp Blatter to step down immediately | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - McDonald's joined calls on Friday for FIFA President Sepp Blatter to resign immediately after Swiss authorities said they had opened a criminal investigation into the head of the world football body. "The events of recent weeks have continued to diminish the reputation of FIFA and public confidence in its leadership," the company said in an emailed statement. The fast food giant's comment came after the Coca-Cola Co made the same plea for Blatter to step down, increasing pressure on the organisation to make changes at the top. ...
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| Pope Francis met with gay couple in U.S. visit | |  By Patrick Rucker and Alistair Bell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Francis met with a gay couple at the Vatican Embassy in Washington during the pontiff's visit to the United States last week in a quiet gesture to the gay and lesbian community. The meeting between Francis, an Argentine gay man and his long-term partner came to light as the Vatican tried to tamp down controversy about a separate meeting the pope held with well-known American gay marriage opponent Kim Davis. The pontiff met on Sept. 23 with Yayo Grassi, a U.S-based Argentine caterer, Grassi's male partner of 19 years, Iwan Bagus and three other people for 15 minutes, Grassi told Reuters.
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| Colombian rebels want text of peace deal made public | |  By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Seeking to quell controversy back home, Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas on Friday advocated making public the entire 18-page agreement they reached with the government last week to end their 50-year-long war within six months. The Colombian government and FARC have only published a two-page statement, which includes the breakthrough agreement reached in Cuba, to establish special courts to try former combatants including guerrillas, government soldiers and members of right-wing paramilitary groups. The agreement has caused consternation in Colombia, where critics complain rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, might escape punishment or extradition to the United States, where some are wanted on drug-trafficking charges.
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