Fifa corruption scandal: Blatter and Ali vie for presidency
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The 209 members of Fifa are to vote for their new president at a congress in Zurich, as football's world governing body faces a major corruption scandal.
Sepp Blatter, the favourite, is seeking a fifth term. He is being challenged by Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.
The vote comes two days after seven top officials were held in Zurich in a US fraud inquiry that indicted 14 people.
Opening the second day of the congress, Mr Blatter told delegates Fifa faced "troubled times".
Mr Blatter has been called on to quit but has already made clear he is not responsible for the scandal and wants to combat corruption.
South-east Asia migrant crisis: numbers are now 'alarming', talks told
Thailand’s foreign affairs minister, Thanasak Patimaprakorn, tells meeting of 17 countries that Burma must reconsider its treatment of Rohingya
The surge of migrants in south-east Asia has reached an “alarming level”, said Thailand’s foreign affairs minister on Friday.
He has called for regional governments to address the root causes of the crisis – a reference to the swelling number of refugees who have fled persecution in Burma.
Speaking at the opening of a regional meeting in Bangkok aimed at tackling the issue, Thanasak Patimaprakorn said, “No country can solve this problem alone.”
Asian nations have been struggling with the growing waves of desperate migrants who are landing on the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. In the past few weeks, at least 3,000 people have washed ashore or been rescued by fishermen and several thousand more are believed to still be at sea after people smugglers abandoned boats after a regional crackdown.
Nearly 500 bodies exhumed from mass graves in Iraq
"There were several layers of bodies all piled on top of each other," he said, adding that 50 bodies were found in a second site and nine more in the two remaining graves.
"The work to exhume Speicher victims continues," Hammoud said.
Buhari to be sworn in as Nigeria’s president after historic win
Latest update : 2015-05-29
Muhammadu Buhari becomes Nigeria's new head of state on Friday, in an unprecedented ceremony after he won the first opposition victory over a sitting president in the nation's history.
The 72-year-old takes charge of Africa's most populous nation, which is facing crises on several fronts, from severe economic turmoil to Boko Haram's still-raging Islamist insurgency.
The inauguration, before visiting heads of state and dignitaries, comes 32 years after the former army general seized power in a military coup. He was ousted after 20 months in office.
Buhari has described himself as a "converted democrat" and vowed to lead an administration committed to the needs of Nigeria's 173 million people by cracking down on the scourge of corruption.
But analysts said his first task may be managing the expectations of a nation that has struggled for decades with woeful infrastructure, crippling unemployment and widespread unrest.
Don't point fingers says Myanmar at migrant summit
Delegates from 17 governments, along with international organizations, have met in Thailand to address the refugee crisis in Southeast Asia. Myanmar has taken exception to being blamed for the problem.
At an intergovernmental meeting on Friday, Thailand's foreign minister called for Southeast Asian nations to work together to combat the "alarming level" of refugees fleeing anti-Muslim persecution in Myanmar.
Representatives of 17 governments from across Asia as well as from the United States and Switzerland, along with organizations such as the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, attended the summit in Bangkok convened to address the area's migrant crisis. Over 3,500 starving Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees have come ashore in Malaysia and Indonesia in recent months, and thousands more are thought to be stranded on rickety boats at the mercy of human traffickers in the Bay of Bengal.
"No country can solve this problem alone," said Foreign Minister Thanasak Patimaprakorn.
Why do Western women join Islamic State?
May 29, 2015 - 5:48PMKarla Adam
Western women in the Islamic State are playing a crucial role in disseminating propaganda and are not simply flocking to the region to become a "jihadi bride," according to a new British research report.
The report published Thursday by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London called the view that women are joining the Islamic State primarily to marry a foreign fighter "one-dimensional."
Women are drawn to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, by a number of factors, including a sense of isolation, a feeling that the international Muslim community is under threat, and a promise of sisterhood, which was especially important for teenage girls, the report said.
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