June 19, 2015 - Page 2

Under-fire FIFA leader Sepp Blatter on Friday backed greater checks on top FIFA officials and called for greater power for Africa and Asia within the world football body. Blatter, who has agreed

The 21-year-old white man suspected of gunning down nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina has confessed to the crime, US media reported Friday, citing unnamed officials. One law

Cambodia is training an elite squad of rats, imported from Africa, to sniff out landmines and other unexploded ordnance in the once war-wracked kingdom, authorities said on Friday. A team of 15

Moscow warned Friday that state-linked foreign firms in Russia could be targeted for retaliation to the freezing of Russian official assets in Western Europe over legal claims from former Yukos shareholders. Russian

Uganda police arrested on Friday an outspoken general believed to be planning to run in presidential elections, and who recently returned to the country after 18 months in self-imposed exile. David Sejusa