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FBI probing Russia, Qatar World Cup host bids
The FBI’s investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how soccer’s governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar, a U.S. law enforcement official said, Reuters reports.
Russia and Qatar have denied wrongdoing in the conduct of their bids for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, which were not the subject of charges announced by U.S. prosecutors a week ago against FIFA officials that stunned world soccer.
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Senate ‘badly in need of reform,’ former PM Mulroney says
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney took his turn Wednesday night to criticize the Senate, calling it dysfunctional and badly in need of reform, The Canadian Press reports.
But the former prime minister also offered two solutions to reform the Senate that would not need a constitutional amendment. Mulroney is one of many present and past politicians to call for changes to the upper house of Parliament in light of the ongoing Senate expense scandal.
Canadians reasonably well-prepared for retirement, report says
Canadians are saving enough and are reasonably well-prepared for life after work, said a report Thursday by the C.D. Howe Institute, which challenges some of the common assumptions about retirement planning, The Canadian Press reports.
The report suggests most save more than the five per cent household savings rate and most can retire comfortably on less than the traditional 70 per cent of pre-retirement income target.
Israel bombs Gaza sites after rocket attack
Israel retaliated on Thursday for rockets fired at it from Gaza with bombing raids against three militant training camps, and a radical group sympathetic with Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on Israel, Reuters reports.
Witnesses and medics said the predawn attacks on two camps belonging to Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip, and to the smaller Palestinian group Islamic Jihad caused some damage but no casualties.
Mubarak to stand trial again over 2011 killing of protesters
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising which forced him from power, Reuters reports.
The high court accepted the public prosecution’s appeal against an earlier court ruling that dropped the case against Mubarak.