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Greek Football Association president Makis Gagatsis and former Germany national team director Oliver Bierhoff on Tuesday backed UEFA's push for change in FIFA's leadership, underscoring a united European front in opposition to FIFA president Gianni Infantino.’The Greek FA (EPO) has taken a clear position against a candidacy of Gianni Infantino,’ EPO President Makis Gagatsis told reporters.’We saw things happen at the World Cup that are not acceptable to football public opinion,’ Gagatsis said.’Then… came a programme to sell World Cup rights and we are clearly against it, so we withdrew our support of the FIFA president.’He was speaking after a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, with a ‘legends'’ five-a-side game held in the city centre to promote UEFA's grassroots programme.UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was also present at the event but did not talk to media.Infantino has been under mounting pressure ever since he unveiled a proposal to sell a commercial stake of the World Cup to private investors. The plan prompted fierce opposition, with UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and North America's CONCACAF among those calling for change at the top of FIFA.FIFA quickly abandoned the plan and apologised to member associations for mistakes made, but its leadership reaffirmed support for Infantino after a crisis meeting in August in Morocco.UEFA has been among the staunchest critics of Infantino and have said a change in leadership is now necessary given the loss of trust in Infantino, who is planning to run for re-election in March. 'WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF FOOTBALL'’We have to take care of football,’ Bierhoff, who was Germany's national team director for 18 years until 2022, said.’It is already commercial but it is a property for all of football.’The world views may be different but in the last weeks and months a lot happened so that we have no trust any more that it will be going in the right direction.’Infantino has weathered the opposition against him since he apologised to FIFA members in August over errors surrounding the abandoned proposal but has since declined to discuss the fallout publicly.Sources have told Reuters his critics are now having to rethink their strategy.They have until mid-November to name a rival presidential candidate but so far there is no clear frontrunner.On Saturday, Danish football chief Jesper Moller, a member of UEFA’s Executive Committee, said he would continue working with European colleagues to find a candidate who could command a majority. Source link
Visitors walk near a logo of Google at Bharat Mandapam, one of the venues for AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi. (Reuters/File Photo) Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed more than 500,000 fake Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices, a police official told Reuters yesterday. India is one of Google’s largest markets by users, where the US tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing its web development platform, Firebase, for financial scams. Police in the western state of Gujarat broke up an e-mail network this week that they described as sending “inter-state” bomb threats and arrested two individuals, uncovering 513,847 Gmail IDs and passwords being used since 2022. Reuters is the first to report that Google itself figures in the investigation. The scale of fake Gmail accounts in use is unprecedented, Vivek Bheda, a senior cybercrime official of the Gujarat police, told Reuters. “We will write to Google, ask them to make some policy changes so (safeguards) cannot be bypassed,” Bheda said, adding that police planned to formally designate Google as a subject of the investigation soon. Google, owned by Alphabet Inc, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was not immediately clear what legal charges or penalties, if any, Google could face. India’s burgeoning cybercrime causes losses running into more than $2bn a year from financial scams, and its law enforcement has increasingly tackled technology platforms seen to have been exploited to enable such crimes. The Gujarat investigation began after a bomb threat email received by the state government on September 10, days ahead of the recent New Delhi summit of the Brics grouping. It also threatened countries co-operating with India during the summit, police said in a statement. The threats proved false, Bheda said, adding that one of those arrested was in contact with a buyer in Bangladesh who purchased batches of the accounts and paid partly in cryptocurrency to send the fake e-mails.Also of concern to police, Bheda said, was the fact that each fraudulent account employed two-factor authentication, an extra security step Google offers to keep accounts safe.How the criminal network managed to do this for such a large number of accounts is another angle of investigation. Source link
Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar (centre) is seen with retired tennis player Pat Cash (left) of Australia and former West Indies batting great Brian Lara at…
Activists, lawyers and others who cooperate with the United Nations on human rights continue to face intimidation and reprisals, according to a new report issued on…
Egyptian, Palestinian Presidents discuss situation in Palestinian territories, regional developments
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, who is visiting Cairo, discussed developments in the Palestinian territories and the latest regional developments.In a statement on Wednesday, the Egyptian presidency said that the two sides agreed to intensify political coordination mechanisms at all levels during the coming period.In this context, the Egyptian president affirmed that the Palestinian cause would remain the central issue in the region until it is resolved fairly and comprehensively, pointing to Egypt’s efforts to support the Palestinian people and work toward a settlement in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions.For his part, the Palestinian president briefed his Egyptian counterpart on the latest developments related to the Palestinian cause, including the tragic situation in the West Bank as a result of Israeli occupation policies. He stressed the importance of continuing consultations between the two countries on the situation in the Palestinian territories and regional developments. Source link
The Costa Serena cruise ship docks at the Port of Nagoya ahead of the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture on September 15, 2026. (AFP)…
At a time of mounting geopolitical tensions and overlapping global crises, leaders will tackle a packed agenda that includes conflicts and international security, climate change, pandemic…
President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to sell to Israel a munitions package worth $2.8bn, which will include tens of thousands of highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs, according to a US official familiar with the sale. The planned sale, which has been informally communicated to relevant congressional committees who weigh in on large arms sales, includes 20,000 MK 84s and 20,000 BLU-117s, the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said. News of the package was first reported by the Washington Post. US public support for Israel has fallen since the Gaza war began in 2023, particularly among Democrats. A June Quinnipiac University poll found 48% of voters and 66% of Democrats believe the US is too supportive of Israel, up from 16% and 20% when the question was first asked in 2017. The 2,000-pound bombs have been regularly used by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, drawing scrutiny from rights experts. More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s campaign. Source link
Egyptian FM, Lebanese PM discuss regional developments and de-escalation efforts in phone call
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty discussed regional developments and ways to strengthen bilateral relations during a phone call with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Wednesday that during the call, Abdelatty reaffirmed Egypt’s support for Lebanon’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, stressing Egypt’s unequivocal rejection of all Israeli violations and attacks against Lebanese sovereignty.The Egyptian minister also stressed the importance of Israel’s complete withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories and the full and non-selective implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. He reaffirmed his country’s support for Lebanese state institutions, foremost among them the Lebanese Armed Forces, to enable them to fulfill their responsibilities and extend state authority throughout Lebanese territory.The call addressed the rapidly evolving regional developments and efforts to de-escalate tensions, as well as the repercussions of developments in the Red Sea on the safety and security of maritime navigation, the free flow of international trade and energy supplies. Related Story Source link
Aichi Prefecture Governor and Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organising Committee President Hideaki Omura delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the arrival of the Costa Serena cruise…
