FIFA scandal: Blatter, Platini get 8yr bans, fines. “Will Fight”.

FIFA banned president Joseph “Sepp” Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini for eight years over an unauthorized 2 million-Swiss franc ($2 million) payment, ending Platini’s chances of taking over the sport’s governing body.

Vaz wins Guinea-Bissau presidential vote, loser rejects result

By Alberto Dabo BISSAU (Reuters) – Former finance minister Jose Mario Vaz won a high-stakes presidential run-off election in Guinea-Bissau meant to draw a line under a 2012 coup, the elections commission said on Tuesday, but the losing candidate rejected the result. The looming dispute over the outcome of Sunday’s vote threatens to stir further … Read more