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BBC news 2012-07-12

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Football's governing body FIFA has released documents saying its former president Joao Havelange and his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira received illegal payment. The document showed between 1992 and 2000, the two men took more than 22 millions Swiss francs. Now more than 22 million dollars in payment from FIFA's former marketing partner. Imogen Foulkes reports form Geneva.

FIFA was forced into publishing this document after months of resistance . It confirmed what was widely expected. Former FIFA officials did indeed accept millions of dollars in payment from FIFA's former marketing partner ISL. The publication comes in the midst of the campaign by FIFA to tackle corruption after widespread allegations that the football's governing body has acted improperly for a many years.

The Syrian ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares is reported to have defected. If confirmed, he will be the first senior Syrian diplomat to abandon the government of president Bashar al-Assad. Mr. Fares who was appointed ambassador to Baghdad in 2008 and was the first Syria envoy to Iraq for nearly three decades. He is a Baath Party loyalist and former governor of several provinces. Jim Muir reports from Beirut.

Assuming Mr. Fares' defection is confirmed, it will be a clear sign of the stresses generated by the continuing and intensifying violence. Opposition sources say they believe that more ambassadors were planning to follow suit . But it is clearly good news for the opposition whose hopes of persuading the Russians to take a tougher line of the Assad regime have drawn blank. After talks in Moscow, Abdulbaset Sayda, the leader of the main opposition umbrella group-the Syrian National Council, was especially critical of Russia's position, saying it was allowing the violence to continue.

Rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have threatened to march on the town of Goma if the Congolese government fails to protect the population. Rebels of the M23 said Rwandans living in Goma, the members of the Tutsi ethnic group had been harassed . Here is Mark Doyle.

The threat to possibly take Goma came during a press conference held by leaders of the rebel group which has military positions just north of the city. A Congolese bishop, Jean-Marie Runiga, presented himself at the press conference as one of the rebel leaders. He said members of particular ethnic groups including ethnic Tutsis were being beaten and killed by government's supporters in Goma because of their perceived links to the rebels. It's not clear whether the threat to attack Goma will be followed a coup.

The BBC has learned that the British army is putting an extra 3,500 soldiers on standby to provide security for the Olympic Games due to start in just over two weeks. The original contractor G4S, which has been paid almost half a billon dollars, is understood to be struggling to supply the 10,000 guards needed.

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A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside the police academy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Officials said at least 10 people were killed and some 20 injured. The attacker died later in hospital. The blast happened as hundreds of cadets mostly teenagers were leaving for the weekend. No organization has claimed this responsibility, but the bombing follows a larger explosion at a military parade in May which was carried out by the local branch of the al-Qaeda.

Sudan has opened one of Africa and Middle East's largest sugar plants built despite economic sanctions imposed by the United States. The project costing 800 million dollars was launched by the president Omar al-Barshir. James Copnall has the details.

Initial production is expected to be 25,000 tones a year with the goal of eventually doubling this. The launch comes in this difficult economic time for Sudan. It lost three quarters of its daily oil production when South Sudan seceded a year a ago. This large scale agro-industry project is one of the Sudanese government responses. President Barshir was coming under pressure with demonstrations almost everyday over the high prices and his 23 years in power.

A Brazilian senator Demostenes Torres has been expelled from the Senate over alleged links with a gambling ring. Mr. Torres, who is independent, he is only the second senator to be removed from his post in the Brazilian Senate's 188-year history. Police say Mr. Torres helped a detained gambling magnate obtain favors for his companies in exchange for large payoffs. Mr. Torres has denied any wrongdoing.

The first maritime shipment of good between the United States and Cuba in five decades has set sail from Miami. The ship, the Ana Cecilia, is carrying humanitarian items, such as medicine, to be given away to Cubans. The shipping company says it will take a shipment every Wednesday from now on.

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