Following
his sudden resignation as President of FIFA Tuesday, Sepp Blatter
finds himself the subject of investigation by US prosecutors and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Blatter to quit as FIFA president, calls special congress to elect successor
Sepp Blatter has said he will resign as president of football’s governing body, FIFA, at an extraordinary congress of the organization. The sensational announcement comes just four days after Blatter was reelected as FIFA boss for a fifth term.
Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, who gave in to Blatter during the vote last Friday, will run in the new FIFA election for president
Sepp Blatter has said he will resign as president of football’s governing body, FIFA, at an extraordinary congress of the organization. The sensational announcement comes just four days after Blatter was reelected as FIFA boss for a fifth term.
Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, who gave in to Blatter during the vote last Friday, will run in the new FIFA election for president
Republican
senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has joined a group of lawmakers in the
House of Representatives who are pushing for the publication of 28
pages from the official report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 which
have remained classified for more than a decade
MH17 Was Downed by Guided Missile - Buk Manufacturer
Russia's
air defense systems manufacturer Almaz-Antey presented its report on
the 2014 flight MH17 disaster at a press conference on Tuesday.
Malaysia
Airlines flight MH17 was downed by a Buk 9М38-М1 guided
missile fired from Ukrainian military-controlled territory,
engineers from the Russian Almaz-Antey corporation said in a
press conference presenting their report on Tuesday.
Flight
MH17 crashed over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing 298
people. After the crash, the European Union enacted sanctions
against Russian companies, including Almaz-Antey, which was
blamed for manufacturing the missiles which shot down the
plane. Almaz-Antey's report showed that the missile in question
stopped being manufactured in Russia three years before the
company was founded.
"During
the first stage of our investigation, the type of system
was established. It was a Buk-M1 system [NATO reporting name SA-11],
a 9М38-М1 rocket and a 9М314 warhead," head engineer Mikhail
Malyshev said.
The
Russian military uses Buk 9M37 missiles. The missile identified
in the damage report was not produced in the Russian
Federation since 1999, which is before Almaz-Antey was
founded in 2002.
ISIS, Assad Regime Now Fighting Together In Syria, US Alleges
"The
United States has accused the Syrian military of carrying out air
strikes to help Islamic State fighters advance around the northern
city of Aleppo, messages posted on the U.S. Embassy Syria official
Twitter feed said." - Reuters
Iraqi
security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armoured vehicles to the Islamic
State in Mosul last summer, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi
revealed.
"In
the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons. We lost 2,300
Humvees in Mosul alone," Al-Abadi said, pointing out that
"several Russian and American maintenance companies and
contractors left the country because of the deteriorating security
situation in Iraq."
Last
year, the US State Department approved the sale of 1,000 Humvees with
increased armour, machine guns, grenade launchers, other gear and
support, estimated to cost $579 million.
The
US-led campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria is
a “mistake,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an
interview with Bloomberg TV.
Lithuania
is conducting its biggest military exercises since joining NATO in
2004. Meanwhile, 200 extra troops are set to arrive at the alliance’s
headquarters in Eastern Europe, located in Szczecin, Poland.
Kiev
will nationalize Russian overseas property as compensation for the
losses over Crimea’s reunification with Russia, Ukraine’s Deputy
Minister of Justice Natalia Sevostyanova said. The decision is now up
to the European Court of Human Rights.
Ukraine
will be able to use this effective instrument if the European Court
of Human Rights rules in favor of Kiev, Sevostyanova told “Channel
5,” Ukraine’s National News (UNN) reported on Tuesday.
Fifty-two
percent of Japanese people dislike South Korea, while 78 percent of
Koreans feel the same way about Japan, with 4 in 10 Koreans believing
the countries will go to war in the next few years, according to an
authoritative survey.
In
its third such annual study, Tokyo’s Genron NPO, a think tank, and
Seoul’s East Asia Institute, each interviewed about 1,000 people in
their respective countries, ahead of a landmark meeting between the
South Korean and Japanese defense ministers.
The
words you type into Google, the websites you visit, the text messages
you send, the people you call or email and your mobile phone GPS
location - all that data is being asked for by UK police forces once
every two minutes.
A
new report: 'Police Access to Communications Data. How UK Police
Forces requested access to communications data over 700,000 times in
3 years', published by privacy rights group Big Brother Watch reveals
how often personal metadata of citizens living in the UK is requested
by police.
Between
2012 and 2014 police forces in the UK asked for details in texts,
emails and phone records — known as 'Communications
Salve.TV
in Germany is being inspected by a local media watchdog after the
channel broadcast an RT Deutsch show. The check was initiated by
German lawmakers who complained the show was biased towards Russia.
The
channel is being looked into by the media watchdog in the federal
state of Thuringia (TLM), regional MDR Thüringen media service
reported. The German broadcaster showed RT Deutsch’s 'The Missing
Part' ('Der Fehlende Part') news talk-show.
Homeless
people could be fined up to £1,000 for sleeping in doorways near
popular tourist spots, under new rules launched by a London council.
It’s
not clear how destitute rough sleepers are expected to pay.
Hackney
Council’s Public Space Protection Order bans sleeping in public
places – offenders are handed a £100 fixed penalty, which can rise
to £1,000 in court.
Poverty in Christchurch, New Zealand post-2011 quake
Trina
Nesbitt and her two children are stuck living in a caravan because
they cannot find an affordable house to rent in post earthquake
Canterbury.
ProPublica
examination shows that the scarcity of water is as much a man-made
crisis as a nэtural one
Obama - Rhetoric and reality
You
can now instruct Facebook to encrypt every email it sends to you so
nobody — not even the NSA — is likely to be able to read your
messages anytime soon. All you have to do is import your public PGP
key into your Facebook settings and you’re good to go.
Russian
SU-24 flies past USS Ross in Black Sea
Russian SU-24 flies past USS Ross in Black Sea
Russian SU-24 aircraft flies past USS Ross in Black SeaCredit: Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th FleetWatch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vSNOps8OCSo
Posted by RT on Monday, 1 June 2015
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