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Former vice president of FIFA Jack Warner has accused the United States of pursuing corruption charges against senior football officials because it failed to win the
right to host the 2022 World Cup. Writing in a newspaper he owns, Mr. Warner said the charges against him and 13 others showed the US was biased. Ed Thomas has more.
“Mr. Warner said the United States was acting as the world's policeman, motivated by the country's failure to win the right to stage the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The 72-
year-old denies allegations he received a 10-million-dollar bribe from South Africa after it was chosen to host the 2010 World Cup. In Mr. Warner's article, he says to
suggest the vote is corrupted compromises the integrity of the late Nelson Mandela who helped South Africa secure the tournament.”
The remains of the first victims from the German Wings air disaster have been flown back to Germany. 150 people died in March when the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed
a passenger jet into the French Alps. 16 school children were among the 44 people whose remains were repatriated first. The families will have a chance to view the
coffins inside a hangar at Dusseldorf airport. Gelene Rerlt, editor in chief of Bills Online in Berlin, says it's the first opportunity they've had to be near those
who've lost.
“Obviously, it will be very emotional because so far you know most of the families had a chance to go to the place where the plane crashed, but they had no chance to
say goodbye in any way there, no chance to moan. At the coffin, it will be first time they will be actually close to the bodies of their loved ones. It will be
definitely emotional and emotional moment for the families, but also I can say for the whole country.”
The BBC has seen evidence that the British oil company Soco made payments to a soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo as accused of using violence to intimidate
opponents of an oil exploration in the national park. The company strongly rejects any suggestion that payments were connected with the alleged abuse. Maud Julien
reports.
“Cheques and receipts obtained by the campaign group Global Witness and seen by the BBC showed the company paid an army major called Burimba Feruzi. Several people
say they were threatened by this major. One said that men following the officer's orders had tortured him, stating that it was because he had opposed oil exploration.
Soco said it had never denied funding the work of the DRC army. The British company says the payments were in no way improper and that it wasn't allowed to enter the
area where it carried the exploratory tests without a military escort.”
The United States has updated its equal opportunities policies in the military to ban discrimination based on sexual-orientation. The defense secretary announced the
change at a gay pride parade.
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Police in France say a huge cyber-attack on a French based international broadcaster two months ago may have been carried out by hackers in Russia. Jihadist propaganda
was posted on TV5Monde's website by hackers claiming to represent Islamic State. But French media say investigations are now focusing on a group of Russian hackers.
A riot police officer in the United States has resigned days after a video was posted online showing his treatment of a group of teenagers many of whom were black.
Eric Casebolt was taken off duty after he was seen in the video pinning down a 15-year-old girl and drawing his gun following a disturbance in the Dallas suburb of
McKinney. Hundreds of people marched through the area on Monday night demanding his dismissal. Greg Conley is the McKinney police chief.
“As a chief of police, I want to say to our community that the actions of Casebolt as seen on the video of the disturbance at the community pool are indefensible. He
came into the call out of control, as the video shows, was out of control during the incident.”
The Eritrean government has dismissed as politically-motivated a UN report which accuses the country of widespread human rights abuses. The UN said the extrajudicial
killings, torture and arbitrary arrests ran a scale seldom witnessed elsewhere.
The government in Chile has introduced tougher sanctions to tackle violence and racism at football matches. Those who break the law will face longer jail sentences and
bigger fines. The authorities say they want to make sure that fans can enjoy the game safely. Chile is hosting the 2015 Cup America tournament starting on Thursday.
And India's five-time world boxing champion and Olympic bronze medalist Mary Kom is to star in an animated form as the country's first female cartoon super hero. The
boxer has signed a deal with the production company that will see a fictional childhood version that will appear in Mary Kom Junior.