Blatter wins fifth FIFA term as challenger concedes
ZURICH (Reuters) – Sepp Blatter was re-elected president of FIFA for a fifth term on Friday after his only challenger conceded defeat in an election overshadowed by allegations of rampant corruption in world soccer.
Venezuela blocks Latin American ex-presidents from seeing detained leaders
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela blocked two former Latin American presidents on Friday from visiting opposition leaders jailed a year ago for their roles in deadly protests against the government of socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
With no peace, Ukraine is beset by humanitarian risks: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Ukraine’s flawed ceasefire has left pensioners, infants and women mired in a humanitarian crisis that could get rapidly better or rapidly worse, the U.N.’s top representative in the country said in an interview on Friday.
France’s UMP party changes name to The Republicans, boosting Sarkozy
PARIS (Reuters) – French conservatives overwhelmingly backed renaming their UMP party “The Republicans” on Friday in a boost for former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who wants to use the re-branding as a springboard for the 2017 presidential election.
U.S. considers airport preclearance centers in nine countries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday it is considering expanding airline preclearance operations to 10 new foreign airports in nine countries, most of them in Europe.
Six people killed, eight wounded in rocket attack in Libya’s Benghazi: official
BENGHAZI, Libya/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Six people were killed and eight wounded when a rocket hit a residential district in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, officials said.
Islamic State suicide bomber in women’s garb kills three in Saudi Arabia
ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) – An Islamist militant suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up outside a Shi’ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing himself and three other people, the second attack of its kind in the world’s top oi…
Video shows Canada Parliament gunman praying before attack
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Previously unreleased footage of a gunman who fatally shot a soldier in Canada’s capital last October before storming Parliament shows him praying aloud in Arabic.
At U.N., states urged to do more to stop flow of foreign fighters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Interior ministers from members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday voiced concern that some countries were not doing enough to prevent their citizens from traveling abroad and joining militant groups like Islami…
Italian lawmakers target Renzi election candidate over corruption
ROME (Reuters) – The Italian parliament’s anti-mafia committee released the names of 17 local election candidates suspected of graft or organized crime links on Friday — an embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi before local elections on Sunday…
