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| FIFA chief Infantino to be paid 1.5 million Swiss francs a year | |  FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be paid a salary of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.53 million) a year, less than a quarter of that received by his predecessor Sepp Blatter, soccer's world governing body announced on Wednesday. Infantino, who was elected on Feb. 26, will also get a "car and lodging free of charge during his term and contribution to expenses in accordance with FIFA's expenses regulations," FIFA said in a statement. "Bonus payments from 2017 onwards will be awarded in accordance with objective criteria related to FIFA's mission and operations as well as the outcome of the organisational reforms, now being implemented," said the statement.
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| Brazil's Senate decides not to bar Rousseff from public office | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate decided that former President Dilma Rouseeff, who was removed from office earlier on Wednesday, should not be barred from holding public office. Senators voted 42-36 to allow Rousseff to maintain her political rights, short of the two-thirds needed to bar her. Under Brazilian law, a dismissed president is prevented from holding any government job, even teaching posts at state universities. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Daniel Flynn)
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| Virginia Republicans seek to block governor's voting rights restoration | |  Virginia Republican leaders said they will file a contempt motion on Wednesday against Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe over his efforts to restore voting rights to about 206,000 felons. The motion comes the week after McAuliffe said he had restored voting rights to almost 13,000 felons on a case-by-case basis after the state Supreme Court blocked his blanket clemency effort. McAuliffe's executive order was seen as a possible aid in tipping Virginia, a swing state in the Nov. 8 presidential election, in favor of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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| Brazil's Rousseff will appeal impeachment to Supreme Court | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff will appeal her impeachment to the Supreme Court, her lawyer and former attorney general Jose Eduardo Cardozo told journalists on Wednesday after a final Senate vote to dismiss her. (Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| White House says has no evidence Russia killed Islamic State's Adnani | |  The White House does not have evidence suggesting Russia was involved in an air strike that killed Islamic State leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The United States and its coalition partners carried out a strike on Tuesday against Adnani, one of the last living senior members of the Islamic State militant group. Moscow has claimed that Russian airstrikes in Syria on Tuesday had killed Adnani, who served as a spokesman for Islamic State.
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| Brazil's Senate dismisses Rousseff for breaking budget laws | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday for breaking budgetary laws, ending an impeachment process that has polarized the scandal-plagued country and paralyzed its politics for nine months. Senators voted 61-20 to convict Rousseff for illegally using money from state banks to boost public spending, putting an end to 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America's largest economy. Conservative Michel Temer, the former vice president who has run Brazil since Rousseff's suspension in May, will be sworn in on Wednesday to serve out the remainder of the presidential term through 2018.
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| France says 'preoccupied' by conditions of Gabon election results release | |  France said on Wednesday it was preoccupied by conditions under which results of Gabon's Aug. 27 presidential election results were released. Official results showed that incumbent Ali Bongo was reelected with 49.8 percent. France's foreign ministry said in a statement that it was necessary for results from all polling stations to be published in a transparent manner because the credibility of the results and Gabon's international reputation depended on it.
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| Gabon's President Bongo re-elected, opposition rejects result | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's Ali Bongo has been re-elected as President, according to official results released on Wednesday, setting the stage for a potentially violent post-election showdown after his rival Jean Ping had already claimed victory. Opposition members of the Central African oil producer's electoral commission rejected Saturday's first-past-the-post election result, which could extend nearly 50 years of Bongo family rule. Bongo won 49.80 percent of votes, compared to 48.23 percent for Ping, with a turnout of 59.46 percent, according to results announced by Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet Boubeya.
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| Ultra-violent gangs thrive in chaotic Venezuela despite crackdown | | | By Frank Jack Daniel CARACAS (Reuters) - The click-clack of guns being cocked echoes in the cement safe house where seven kidnappers keep watch over a western Caracas slum, their 33-year-old gang leader boasting of grenade attacks on police and growing wealth and power. Venezuela's socialist economy is suffering triple-digit inflation, severe shortages and a third year of recession, but gangs like this have found strength and profit in the chaos. ... |
| IOC sanctions six Olympians for failing dope tests at Beijing Games | |  The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it had disqualified six sportspeople, including three Russian medallists, for failing doping tests at the Beijing 2008 Games. The sanctions come amid a crackdown on Olympic athletes' use of banned performance-enhancing substances that has now spilled over to the Paralympics Games as well. In the latest move, the IOC disqualified Russian bronze-medalist weightlifter Nadezda Evstyukhina, silver-medalist weightlifter Marina Shainova, and Tatyana Firova, who finished second with teammates in the 4x400m track event.
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| Brazil's Senate to hold two votes on dismissing Rousseff | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate will hold two separate votes on whether to dismiss Dilma Rousseff from the presidency for breaking budget laws and whether to bar her from public office for eight years after she is removed, the magistrate overseeing her trial ruled on Wednesday. Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski said he could not refuse the request made by left-leaning parties that support Rousseff. Under Brazil's Constitution, a dimissed president should lose political rights for eight years and be prevented from holding any government job, even teaching posts at state universities. ...
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| U.S. court voids $655 million verdict against PLO over Israel attacks | | | A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization for damages suffered by American families from terrorist attacks in Israel. By a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in concluding he had jurisdiction over the case. The appeals court ordered that the civil lawsuit, which began in January 2004, be dismissed. |
| Trump to make surprise trip to Mexico after harsh criticism | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday and meet President Enrique Pena Nieto in a surprise trip to a country which the Republican presidential candidate has vilified as the main source of illegal immigration and drug smuggling to the United States. Trump's visit to Mexico City takes place hours before he was due to deliver a highly anticipated speech in the border state of Arizona on how he would tackle illegal immigration if he wins the Nov. 8 election. Mexican opposition politicians and academics voiced disbelief that Pena Nieto would host Trump, who has accused Mexico of sending criminals and rapists across the border and cheating the United States on trade.
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| French Coca-Cola workers find huge cocaine stash in juice delivery | | | Coca-Cola workers found a huge stash of cocaine when they opened a delivery of fruit juice concentrate from Costa Rica at their factory in southern France. Local newspaper Var-Matin said the haul weighed 370 kg (815 pounds) with a potential street value of around 50 million euros ($56 million). "You can well imagine the surprise," said a spokesman for Coca-Cola, adding that the workers alerted police and were ruled out as potential suspects. |
| Courting Republicans, Clinton to tout 'American exceptionalism' | |  By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a foreign policy speech meant to reach out to Republican and independent voters, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will argue for a robust commitment to U.S. leadership in the world and tout the idea of "American exceptionalism." A Clinton aide said she would contrast her foreign policy approach with that of Republican Donald Trump, who puts the emphasis on what he calls an "America first" vision that includes a crackdown on illegal immigration and opposition to multinational trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Clinton, a former secretary of state, plans to appear at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) at a convention of the American Legion veterans' group in Cincinnati.
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| Flights cancelled, delayed after Frankfurt airport security breach | |  By Maria Sheahan and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police said a misunderstanding led to a security breach that prompted the evacuation of Frankfurt airport's Terminal 1 and caused delays and flight cancellations at Europe's fourth largest airport on Wednesday. The alert was sparked when security staff at the terminal, a major hub for international travel and home to Lufthansa, requested police officers come over to check a suspicious female passenger. Before the police could arrive, the passenger, who had two small children with her, had quickly left, a police spokesman said.
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| Swedish hospital behind Nobel prize criticised over medical scandal | |  The reputation of the Karolinska Institute, one of Sweden's top hospitals that awards the Nobel prize for medicine, has been badly damaged by allegations patients died as a result of a surgeon performing experimental operations without clearance, an official report said. Criticism of the Karolinska Institute, which had employed Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, led to the resignation of the secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Institute in February and to calls for the award to be scrapped this year and next. Bjorn Hurtig, a Swedish lawyer who represents Macchiarini, could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
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| Kenya's anti-graft chief, accused of conflict of interest, quits | | | By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - The chairman of Kenya's anti-graft body said on Wednesday he had quit after lawmakers recommended removing him from office over an alleged conflict of interest between his family business and another state-run agency. Kenyan media reported parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee wanted lawmakers to ask President Uhuru Kenyatta to set up a tribunal to force out Philip Kinisu. The committee had accused Kinisu of a conflict of interest in his family company's dealings with state-run National Youth Service, which the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) that he leads was investigating over lost money. |
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