Now that Sepp Blatter’s gone, anything is possible in Fifa-land
Before he finally leaves the Fifa presidency, is it possible Sepp Blatter could preside over a radical change in the way football’s governing body is run?
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Syria is tilting closer towards “all-out” civil war, international envoy Kofi Annan says, as eight are killed in Lebanon in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Assad.
Forty people are killed in Syria as international mediator Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus following the deaths of more than 100, many of them children, in Houla.
The Kofi Annan-brokered ceasefire in Syria will fail because of irreconcilable ambitions within the country, regionally and internationally, Middle East and security experts tell Channel 4 News.
The visit of the UN envoy Kofi Annan to Damascus this week underscored international concern about the horror being visited on civilians, but no-one, it seems, has an easy way of resolving the deeper issues.
President Bashar al-Assad tells UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan that no political solution is possible in Syria while “terrorist” groups are destabilising the country.
Before he finally leaves the Fifa presidency, is it possible Sepp Blatter could preside over a radical change in the way football’s governing body is run?
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Chemical weapons inspectors make their first journey into Syria, under the terms agreed by President Assad and the west. But this is dangerous work, in the midst of a raging and complex civil war.
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President Assad is bombing his own people daily, yet the rebels are gaining ground. With another key official defecting to the west, how long can the regime hold on?