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| FIFA opens formal ethics proceedings against Bedoya and Jadue | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer body FIFA said its ethics committee on Wednesday opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against former soccer executives Luis Bedoya and Sergio Jadue. "The chairman of the adjudicatory chamber has studied the reports (submitted by the investigatory chamber) carefully and decided to institute formal proceedings against the two officials," FIFA's adjudicatory chamber said in a statement without giving further details. ...
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| Egypt's Sisi, for first time, says Russian plane was brought down by terrorists | |  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that the Russian plane that crashed in Sinai last year was downed by terrorists seeking to damage Egypt's tourism industry and relations with Moscow. Whoever downed the Russian plane, what did he mean? Moscow stopped all civilian flights to Egypt, a popular destination for Russian tourists, after a Russian airplane crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31 killing all 224 people on board.
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| FIFA executive committee calls on members to approve reforms | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's executive committee has called on the federation's member associations to approve proposed reforms at Friday's Congress and was informed that the global soccer body faced a financially "challenging" situation. "The eyes of the world are on us this week after one of the most challenging times in our history," acting FIFA president Issa Hayatou told the committee, according to a statement from the organisation on Wednesday. "The approval of the reforms will send a strong message that we have listened and that we are taking the action necessary to regain trust and improve our performance." FIFA, shaken by an unprecedented graft scandal which has seen several dozen officials indicted in the United States, will choose a new president at a special Congress on Friday to replace outgoing Swiss Sepp Blatter, who has been suspended for eight years for ethics violations.
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| U.S. training African police to counter new jihadist threats | |  By Emma Farge THIES, Senegal (Reuters) - Ahead of a drill to teach West African police about forensics by blowing up a car filled with crash test dummies posing as suicide bombers, FBI agents met an unexpected question: why bother to investigate if the militants are already dead? The query from a Senegalese officer demonstrates the steep learning curve for the region's security forces if they are to keep pace with increasingly brazen and sophisticated jihadists moving in from the north-central Sahara and possibly Libya. Since Islamic State's entry into Libya last year, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has responded with a series of attacks to bolster its claim of primacy in the western Sahara.
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| Egypt says investigation into death of Italian suggests criminal act or revenge | |  Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday its investigation into the death of an Italian graduate student whose body turned up in a Cairo ditch showing signs of torture has yielded several possibilities including criminal or revenge motives. Giulio Regeni, 28, had been researching independent trade unions in Egypt and written articles critical of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government - prompting speculation that he was killed in the hands of Egyptian security forces. "The investigation leads to several possibilities including criminal activity or the desire for revenge due to personal reasons especially as the Italian had many relationships with people near where he lives and where he studied," the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency MENA.
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| Ahead of election, Iran's leader calls for unity against West | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's leader said that he was confident voters would return a parliament prepared to stand up to the United States at Friday's election and prove that the lifting of sanctions on the Islamic Republic had not changed its anti-Western stance. Iranians will vote for representatives to the 290-seat parliament and to the 88-member body that will elect Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's successor, in the first elections since last year's nuclear deal with world powers. The polls pit centrists close to President Hassan Rouhani against hardliners backed by the conservative establishment, which has drawn criticism from the president after barring many of his allies from the race.
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| Sony Pictures hackers linked to breaches in China, India, Japan - report | | | By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The perpetrators of the 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment were not activists or disgruntled employees, and likely had attacked other targets in China, India, Japan and Taiwan, according to a coalition of security companies that jointly investigated the Sony case for more than a year. The Obama administration has tied the attack on Sony Corp's film studio to its release of "The Interview," a comedy that depicted the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "This group was more active, going farther back, and had greater capabilities and reach than we thought." Novetta worked with the largest U.S. security software vendor Symantec Corp, top Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab and at least 10 other institutions on the investigation, a rare collaboration involving so many companies. |
| Bahrain opposition leader jailed for insulting ruling system - lawyer | |  A prominent Bahraini opposition figure was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday on charges of insulting the kingdom's ruling system in a speech last year, his defence lawyer said. The public prosecution, in a statement on social media that did not refer to Sahrif by name, said a suspect was convicted of "insulting the constitutional system in the country and mocking it" but cleared him of calling for regime change in violation of the constitution. Sharif was freed in June last year by royal pardon after serving more than four years in jail for his role in an uprising demanding political reforms in the Gulf Arab island nation.
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| Malaysia review panel asks anti-graft agency to continue PM Najib probe | |  Malaysia's anti-graft agency on Wednesday said an external review panel had asked it to continue investigations into a donation of $681 million received by Prime Minister Najib Razak, despite an order by the country's top lawyer to close the case. Last month, Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali closed all investigations of Najib, after reviewing investigation reports from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) into debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and the transfer of $681 million into Najib's personal bank account. Apandi said the funds transferred into Najib's account were a donation from Saudi Arabia's royal family, and added that no further action needed to be taken.
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| Solid support for Apple in iPhone encryption fight - Reuters/Ipsos | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Nearly half of Americans support Apple Inc's decision to oppose a federal court order demanding that it unlock a smartphone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook, according to a national online Reuters/Ipsos poll. Forty-six percent of respondents said they agreed with Apple's position, 35 percent said they disagreed and 20 percent said they did not know, according to poll results released on Wednesday. Other questions in the poll showed that a majority of Americans do not want the government to have access to their phone and Internet communications, even if it is done in the name of stopping terror attacks.
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| Macedonia postpones elections under EU, U.S. pressure | |  Macedonian lawmakers postponed national elections scheduled for April, responding to concerns abroad that, after months of political deadlock linked to a corruption scandal, conditions were not yet in place for a free and fair vote. In an EU-brokered deal reached last year Macedonia's Conservative VMRO-DPMNE government, under fire over allegations of illegal phone-tapping and widespread abuse of office, agreed to hold elections on April 24, two years ahead of schedule. To meet that timetable, parliament voted in January to dissolve itself on Feb. 24 after Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski tendered his resignation.
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