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| FIFA's Blatter says attacks from sponsors politically motivated | |  By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Embattled soccer boss Sepp Blatter has rejected complaints made by the sport's biggest sponsors over a bribery and corruption scandal, saying they were politically motivated and made at the behest of the United States. Blatter has been suspended from FIFA as part of the fall-out from a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into bribery, money-laundering and wire fraud at the sport's governing body. The 79-year-old had initially been set to remain in his post until next year, despite a string of arrests of top FIFA officials, until a group of major sponsors issued coordinated calls for him to go.
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| Film-maker Polanski relieved after court rejects U.S. extradition request over child sex case | |  By Wojciech Zurawski KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Oscar-winning film-maker Roman Polanski said on Friday he was grateful and relieved after a Polish court rejected a U.S. request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex conviction. The case of the Polish-born Polanski, now 82, remains an international cause celebre nearly four decades after the crime, with some demanding harsh punishment and others urging that extradition efforts be dropped. A judge in a Polish court in the southern city of Krakow ruled against the extradition, saying the U.S. judiciary had violated Polanski's rights in the past and he would be subject to infringements if handed over now.
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| FBI spy planes flew 10 times over Freddie Gray protests -documents | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI deployed at least 10 flights of surveillance planes equipped with advanced aerial surveillance technology, including infrared and night-vision cameras, to monitor the Baltimore riots earlier this year, according to government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The flights, totaling more than 36 hours and involving at least two planes, occurred over Baltimore from April 29 to May 3, showed the flight logs provided to the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act. The ACLU, a civil rights group, released the logs to Reuters and other news organizations on Friday.
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| Last British resident freed from Guantanamo Bay arrives in UK | |  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - The last British resident to be held at the U.S. prison camp in the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba arrived in Britain on Friday after his release from 13 years in detention there. Shaker Aamer, a Saudi national married to a Briton, was suspected by U.S. authorities of being an Islamist militant associated with al Qaeda but was never charged with any crime. Britain said last month that Aamer would be released, and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said earlier on Friday that the former detainee was en route to Britain, a move welcomed by supporters.
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| China mulls law to boost film industry | |  China is reviewing a draft law aimed at boosting financial incentives for Chinese movies and ensuring freedom to make films, state media said on Friday, as it hopes to expand the cultural and commercial success of its film industry. China's box office is expected to overtake the U.S. market as the world's largest by 2017, and while foreign films have traditionally dominated the industry, locally made films are posing an increasing challenge. Chinese movies have accounted for about 60 percent of total ticket sales this year.
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| Britain to investigate modelling agencies for alleged price fixing | | | Britain has opened a full investigation into the country's major modelling agencies to determine whether they fixed the prices they charge for their models, officials said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started an initial investigation in March into "anti-competitive arrangements", such as whether agencies worked together to set the prices paid by retailers and brands. The competition watchdog has not named any of the agencies under investigation. |
| Murderer of migrant boy in Berlin confesses to another killing | | | A man arrested in Berlin over the disappearance and death of a 4-year-old migrant boy has admitted killing another child who went missing in July, German prosecutors said on Friday. Police told a news conference that the 32-year-old man, named only as Silvio S., had confessed during questioning to killing both Mohamed Januzi, a Bosnian boy whose family was seeking asylum in Germany, and six-year-old Elias from Potsdam. Mohamed disappeared on Oct. 1 while waiting outside Berlin's central registration office for migrants with his mother and two siblings. |
| Preview: Turkish election to shape political landscape for a decade | |  By Nick Tattersall and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan is unambiguous about what he wants from an election on Sunday, casting it as a pivotal moment for Turkey: a return to the single-party rule he presided over for more than a decade until June. The outcome of the second parliamentary election this year will be important not only for Turkey's domestic stability and its role in resolving the conflict in Syria and Europe's migration crisis, but also for Erdogan himself. Erdogan has made no secret of his ambition to create a presidential system, a constitutional change almost impossible unless the Islamist-rooted AK Party he founded regains the majority it lost in June's election and dominates parliament.
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| U.N. staff fired over child porn, moving drugs in U.N. vehicle | |  Four United Nations staff were fired for sharing child pornography on email, while another staff member was sacked for using an official vehicle to transport marijuana, according to a management report on criminal cases in the year to June 30. There are some 41,000 U.N. secretariat staff from 188 countries. The United Nations has been hit with a stream of allegations this year of misconduct and sexual abuse by peacekeepers in Central African Republic.
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| Maldives boat blast suspect deported from Malaysia | |  A man suspected of involvement in the attempted assassination of Maldives President Abdulla Yameen last month was deported on Friday from Malaysia to the Indian Ocean archipelago, police in Kuala Lumpur said. The Maldives foreign ministry identified the suspect as Hamid Ismail, who it said worked as "investment ambassador" for the island nation south of India best known for its tourist resorts. The foreign ministry confirmed he was arrested in connection with an investigation into a Sept. 28 blast on a speedboat transporting President Abdulla Yameen after his return from the Muslim haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
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| Greek PM Tsipras says shamed by Europe's handling of migrant crisis | |  By Michele Kambas and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's prime minister said on Friday he was ashamed to be a member of a European Union that he said was sidestepping responsibilities over the migrant crisis and crying hypocritical tears for children who have drowned trying to reach its shores. In some of the hardest-hitting comments yet on a crisis resonating throughout Europe, Alexis Tsipras told parliament Greece didn't want a "single euro" for saving lives as thousands of refugees continued to arrive daily on its shores, and the EU remained at odds on how to deal with the influx. At least 35 people drowned trying to cross the sea between Turkey and Greece this week.
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| U.N. urged to investigate "strong evidence" of Rohingya genocide in Myanmar | |  By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is "strong evidence" that Myanmar has committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims, according to a Yale law school report that called for a United Nations commission of inquiry to focus world leaders' attention on abuses in western Rakhine state. The Rohingya, a stateless ethnic Muslim minority that lives in apartheid-like conditions in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, have faced worsening persecution and violence that has displaced 140,000 and spurred an exodus from the country by boat.
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| Beirut airport seizes 230 kg of drugs bound for Qatar | | | Lebanese customs officials discovered 230 kg of Captagon amphetamine pills hidden inside tables prepared for export to the Gulf state of Qatar from Beirut international airport, the finance ministry said in a statement on Friday. Lebanon's National News Agency described that capture it as the biggest smuggling operation ever discovered at the Beirut airport. |
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