Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
Vladimir Putin classifies information on deaths of Russian troops in peacetime
President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday that deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations in peacetime should be classified as a state secret, a move that comes as Moscow stands accused of sending troops to fight in eastern Ukraine. Putin, who has repeatedly denied any involvement of Russian troops in a pro-Russian separatist...
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemns US over FIFA probe
Russia switched the focus of its tensions with America from Ukraine to the football pitch on Thursday with President Vladimir Putin lashing out over the US probe into FIFA. The Kremlin strongman condemned the arrest of seven top FIFA officials, accusing Washington of trying to oust football boss Sepp Blatter after he resisted pressure to stop...
World media ‘red cards’ Sepp Blatter post FIFA corruption scandal saga
World media on Thursday demanded that FIFA’s veteran president Joseph Blatter step down following the shock arrests of top officials in the organisation suspected of corruption and fraud. “He must go!” shouted the front page of the Le Matin daily in Switzerland, where FIFA is based and where its annual congress kicked off...
FIFA corruption scandal turns U-20 World Cup media conference into big farce
Flustered FIFA officials shut down a media conference in New Zealand on Thursday after being inundated with questions about the sport’s latest scandal. What was meant to be a promotion for FIFA’s under-20 World Cup, the tournament that has launched the careers of players like Lionel Messi, descended into farce when local journalists...
New Zealand ‘monitor’ FIFA scandal whereas Costa Rica open investigations
New Zealand Football executives have labelled the corruption controversy embroiling world soccer’s governing body FIFA as “serious” and said they were “monitoring the situation” ahead of the under-20 World Cup. The tournament begins in New Zealand on Saturday with 24 teams playing 52 games over three weeks. FIFA was...
Ex-US presidential candidate John McCain wants FIFA to deny Russia 2018 World Cup
Prominent US senators John McCain and Robert Menendez have written to FIFA asking it to strip Russia of the right to host the 2018 football World Cup due to its alleged aggression in Ukraine. The senators also want FIFA to reconsider its support for Sepp Blatter’s bid for a fifth term as president of football’s governing body due to...
Dnipro players pay for fans to attend Europa League final at Warsaw
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk players have helped pay for fans from the war-affected region of eastern Ukraine to attend Wednesday’s Europa League final against Sevilla at Warsaw, said captain Ruslan Rotan. Dnipropetrovsk, an industrial city with a population of fewer than one million, has avoided being drawn into the conflict with Russian-backed...
La Liga: Deportivo pull off great escape; Xavi plays final game for Barcelona
Atletico Madrid secured a berth in the Champions League group stage for next season and Deportivo La Coruna narrowly escaped relegation when they came from two goals down to draw 2-2 at champions Barcelona on the final day in La Liga on Saturday. Atleti made sure of third place thanks to a 0-0 draw at Granada, while Valencia twice had to come...
Indian-origin cabbie jailed for murdering US soldier in Iraq
A 38-year-old Indian-origin taxi driver was on Friday sentenced to life for making a roadside bomb that killed a US soldier in Baghdad in 2007, making him the first person to be convicted in a British court for taking part in the Iraqi insurgency. Anis Abid Sardar from Wembley in north-west London, was sentenced at a London court to life with a...
Asia up after Wall Street sets record high, dollar steadies after slip
Asian shares rose early on Friday after Wall Street set another record high with prospects for a Federal Reserve rate hike in June all but quashed, while the dollar steadied after losing ground to the euro for the first time this week on downbeat US data. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.2% with South Korean...
