FIFA OFFICIALS INDICTED
Swiss authorities have arrested 6 FIFA officials.They are among the 9 FIFA officials and 5 corporate executives indicted in a 24 year-long investigation by the US Attorney’s Office in New York. Individuals are accused of accepting bribes and kick-backs over the last 20 years. Following the arrests, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice have announced the opening of a criminal case in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
ANBAR SUICIDE ATTACK
ISIS has unleashed three suicide attacks targeting the Iraqi forces in Fallujah. 55 people have been reportedly killed.The attacks came just hours after the Iraqi government announced the start of a wide-scale operation alongside shiite militias of the Popular Mobilisation Forces to recapture neighboring Ramadi seized by ISIS on May 17. ISIS struck near a water control station and a lock system on a canal between Lake Tharthar and the Euphrates River where the Iraqi coalition was deployed for their counteroffensive.
ROHINGYA MIGRANTS STRANDED
Thousands of Rohingya migrants are waiting to be rescued in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. In a joint press conference in Manila, the UN High Commission for Refugees and International Organization for Migration representatives appealed $26m in aid for the rescue, resettlement, or return of as many as 10,000 people affected by the migrant crisis. UNHCR representative stated: “thousands of men, women, children, elderly adrift in vessels most likely without fuel, without water, without food" . Rohingya migrants are subject to discrimination and persecution.
PRESIDENT DISMISSED
President Hery Rajaonarimampianina has been dismissed by his parliament for alleged constitutional violations and general incompetence. The motion was backed by 121 of the 125 lawmakers who voted, exceeding the two-thirds majority required. The Indian Ocean island's constitutional court will now decide whether the decision to discharge the president can be enacted. Rajaonarimampianina took office in 2014 in the first democratic elections of the country since 2006.
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