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How did the world's media react to the FIFA corruption scandal?

Switzerland

FIFA scandal: Blatter keeps low profile, sponsors threaten to review ties

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been avoiding scheduled appearances in Switzerland, as world football’s governing body is gripped by another

Switzerland

Football 'corrupted': Five main points in FIFA and World Cup scandals

Bribes US justice authorities are pursuing their case on four fronts against FIFA, the powerful international governing body of association football

Trinidad and Tobago

Jack Warner turns himself in after being accused of corruption in FIFA scandal

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, who is one 14 top FIFA officials and corporate executives to be accused of corruption, has been released on

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Russia

Fifagate: 'I don't think bribery is likely,' says Russian anti-corruption official

The Fifagate scandal has cast a shadow over the validity of Russia’s successful bid to host the 2018 World Cup. However, the chief of the country’s

World News

UEFA wants FIFA vote to be called off amid corruption turmoil

European football’s governing body UEFA has called for Friday’s FIFA presidental election to be postponed. Incumbent Sepp Blatter is standing for

Sport

'A sad day for football', but can Sepp Blatter ride it out?

Nine of the defendants were FIFA officials and five were corporate executives. Those arrested included FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb, who is also

World News

FIFA 'did this over and over, year after year,' says US attorney general

The US attorney general has told reporters in New York that FIFA officials used their positions of trust to solicit bribes. Loretta Lynch said: “They

Kosovo

Kosovo corruption "omnipresent" despite EU's €111m-a-year mission

Switzerland

Football's most powerful figures await extradition to US

Several of the global football industry’s most powerful figures are in detention waiting extradition to the United States after being arrested in

Switzerland

"This is good for Fifa" world football's governing body reacts to arrest of senior executives

Fifa has responded to the arrest of six of its senior executives at the request of US authorities on corruption charges. The organisation’s head of

Switzerland

'Rampant corruption:' US orders arrest of senior FIFA executives

FIFA is reeling after Swiss police arrested seven senior executives, including two vice presidents, at the luxury Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich in a

Switzerland

Swiss police arrest several senior Fifa executives in a morning raid at a five-star hotel in Zurich

Swiss police have arrested a number of Fifa executives following a morning raid on a five-star hotel in Zurich. The arrests were made at the request

Italy

Italian police arrest 39 alleged Mafia members in Sicily

Police in Sicily have arrested 39 individuals and seized assets worth some €10m as part of crackdown on three Palermo Mafia gangs on suspicion of

Sport

More than 50 arrested in football match-fixing probe

Italian police have arrested more than 50 people as part of a widespread match-fixing inquiry led by anti-Mafia prosecutors in the southern town of

Turkey

Turkish graft prosecuters dismissed

Four Turkish prosecutors and one judge, who had been involved in the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation have themselves been dismissed

France

Setback for Sarkozy presidential bid after phonetaps ruled legal

The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has suffered a potential setback to his mission to seek election again in 2017. His team are to appeal

Austria

Austria: Court refuses to extradite Ukrainian billionaire Firtash to US

An Austrian court has refused to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the US on corruption charges. A judge in Vienna said American

USA

US drug agency chief to step down amid 'sex parties' scandal

The director of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, will step down next month, amid allegations that DEA agents attended sex

Hungary

Thousands protest government corruption across Hungary

Thousands of people have gathered in 50 cities across Hungary to protest what many say is an erosion of democratic freedoms and government