Demonstrators rampage through Rome, clash with police (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Hundreds of hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the worst violence in the Italian capital for years Saturday, torching cars and breaking windows during a larger peaceful protest against elites blamed for economic downturn.

Police repeatedly fired tear gas and water cannon in attempts to disperse them but the clashes with a minority of violent demonstrators stretched into the evening, hours after tens of thousands of people in Rome joined a global "day of rage" against bankers and politicians.

Smoke rose over many parts of the neighborhood between the Colosseum and St John's Basilica, forcing many residents and peaceful demonstrators to run into buildings and churches for shelter as militant protesters ran wild.

After police managed to push the well-organized radicals away from the St John's area, they ravaged a major thoroughfare, the Via Merulana -- building barricades with garbage cans and setting the netting of the scaffolding of a building on fire.

Discontent is smouldering in Italy over high unemployment, political paralysis and 60 billion euros ($83 billion) of austerity measures that have raised taxes and the cost of health care.

The violence at times resembled urban guerrilla warfare as protesters hurled rocks, bottles and fireworks at police, who responded by repeatedly charging the demonstrators.

Tens of people were injured, one of them critically, among the police and demonstrators, officials said.

At one point radicals surrounded a police van near St John's Basilica, pelted it with rock and bottles, and set it on fire. The two occupants managed to escape, television footage showed.

Some peaceful demonstrators also clashed with the militants and turned some of them over to police.

BERLUSCONI DEMANDS CRACKDOWN ON RIOTERS

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said those responsible for the rash of violence must be identified and punished, calling the rioting "a very worrying sign for civil society ... They (radicals) must be condemned by everyone without reservation."

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno ordered all public museums in the capital closed for security reasons and he and politicians across Italy's political spectrum denounced the disturbances.

"Unacceptable violence and devastation is happening right now on the streets of Rome," said Pierluigi Bersani, head of the Democratic Party, the largest in the opposition.

"Those who are carrying out what is nothing less than urban guerrilla warfare are hurting the cause of people around the world who are trying to freely express their discontent with the world economic situation," he said.

Alemanno, noting that the demonstrators had called themselves "the indignant ones," said: "Those who are really indignant are the citizens of Rome."

The protest was one of many staged around the world on Saturday to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States, venting anger over years of economic and financial crisis since a global credit boom went bust in 2007.

The demonstration began peacefully but turned violent when hundreds of hooded radicals known as "black blocs," who had infiltrated the larger group, set cars and garbage bins on fire.

The radicals, some of whom Alemanno said probably came from elsewhere in Europe to help their Italian comrades, then charged through several streets around the Colosseum, trashing windows of stores and banks.

One building believed to be a Defense Ministry annex caught fire after the flames spread from a car. The protesters had earlier forced their way into the annex and trashed its offices.

"The violence ruined the day but I expected it to end this way," said Matteo Martini, 29. "People are tired and angry and can't take it anymore. You can start a march peacefully but unless you break or hurl something no one hears you."

Italy's fractious coalition government has been forced to push through austerity measures to try to stop the economy -- the euro zone's third largest and one of its heaviest debtors -- from being sucked into the bloc's debt crisis.

Hours after the demonstration began police were still firing tear gas canisters and training water cannon on rioters in Piazza San Giovanni, the terminus of the demonstration, where a final rally was due to be held.

Masked demonstrators assaulted police vans with rocks, bottles and clubs in the San Giovanni area, which filled up with tear gas as police helicopters hovered above.

Some of the peaceful demonstrators tried to take refuge on the steps of St. John's Basilica, one of Rome's largest churches and used by Pope Benedict in his capacity as bishop of Rome.

The streets of central Rome were littered with rocks, bottles and garbage bins that had been overturned, and fire brigades drove around the city trying to put out the fires.

(Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Troops kill three suicide bombers in east Afghan city (Reuters)

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) ? Afghan troops shot dead three would-be suicide bombers who attempted to enter an office in an eastern city on Sunday to launch attacks on government targets, officials said.

The heavily armed insurgents had explosives strapped to their chests and were killed in a 10-minute gunfight with Afghan troops outside the mayor's office in Gardez, Paktia province, said Rohullah Samon, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

The insurgents arrived in a car laden with explosives, which were detonated during the gunbattle, without causing injury, Samon said, adding that one state employee was killed in the crossfire.

They had planned to use the office as a stage post to launch attacks on the governor's compound and other key buildings in the city from an elevated position, he said.

Insurgents fighting Afghan and foreign forces have previously used half-built high rises or poorly guarded buildings to stage big attacks on government targets.

The most notable was the September 13 attack on Kabul's diplomatic enclave, when five suicide fighters took over an abandoned building and showered the U.S. embassy and the headquarters of NATO-led forces with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire for 20 hours. (ID:nL3E7KD27C)

Suicide and roadside bombings and high-profile, coordinated attacks are being used more frequently by the Taliban, with high numbers of casualties among Afghan security forces and civilians.

Foreign forces say such attacks are attempts to grab media attention and avoid heavy losses sustained on the battlefield.

The attack in Gardez came a day after four suicide bombers targeted a compound housing an Afghan and U.S. military/civilian reconstruction team inside Afghanistan's fiercely anti-Taliban Panjshir valley, killing two civilians.

Violence is at its worst since U.S.-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in late 2001, with attacks spreading from militants strongholds in east and south to normally peaceful areas in north.

(Reporting by Kamal Sadaat and Elyas Wahdat; Writing by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Martin Petty and Sanjeev Miglani)

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Nevada doctor indicted in alleged stem cell scam (AP)

LAS VEGAS ? A Nevada pediatrician has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he and a man falsely identifying himself as a doctor conspired to implant chronically ill patients with stem cells harvested from human placentas obtained after women gave birth.

Dr. Ralph Conti, 50, of Henderson, was due to appear Thursday before a federal magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on a 34-count indictment accusing him and Alfred Sapse of Las Vegas of mail and wire fraud and conspiracy.

A message left Thursday for Conti at his practice, Foothills Pediatrics, was not immediately returned.

Sapse, 85, of Las Vegas, was already due to stand trial March 12 on 20 mail and wire fraud charges. He was indicted in July 2010 on charges revolving around a Las Vegas company he created in May 2005 called StemCell Pharma Inc. Prosecutors alleged at the time that he had unidentified doctors in Las Vegas and Mexico perform experimental surgical implants of placential tissue on about 134 patients.

Sapse's public defender, Richard Boulware, didn't immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.

The indictment handed up Wednesday replaces the previous one against Sapse. He is accused of convincing patients in Las Vegas and Mexico to undergo abdominal implants of placental tissue for treatment of incurable diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and the degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa.

"By misrepresenting his credentials, the nature of his treatment, the source of his `stem cells,' and the adverse effects suffered by previous patients, defendant Sapse convinced chronically ill patients to undergo experimental implant procedures, many of which were performed by Conti," the indictment said.

The document chronicles payments of $2,500 for implants, and says the scheme reaped more than $1 million. Prosecutors allege that Sapse spent about $700,000 of the money on himself, including gambling sprees at Las Vegas casinos.

Prosecutors say Sapse had no medical license in Nevada or any other state, but claimed to be a retired physician who studied at the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy in Odessa, Ukraine.

The indictment alleges he hired Conti, who had no stem cell training, to perform placenta tissue implants on about 34 patients in Las Vegas from February to November 2006.

Prosecutors allege that several patients contracted infections, leading the federal Food and Drug Administration to issue a warning letter in November 2006. It said Sapse failed to properly obtain, store, test and process the placentas, or screen donors and patients.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden declined Thursday to provide details about the infections, pending trial.

Three months after the FDA letter, Sapse moved his operation to Mexico and enlisted an unnamed physician in Nuevo Progresso, Mexico, according to the indictment. Prosecutors allege that doctor performed about 100 implant procedures from February 2007 to May 2010.

Sapse and Conti face decades in federal prison and millions of dollars in fines if convicted. The government also seeks the forfeiture of almost $914,000 it alleges is tied to the scheme.

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No decision yet on future troop presence in Iraq: U.S. (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Obama administration denied a news report on Saturday it had made a final decision to pull almost all U.S. troops out of Iraq by a year-end withdrawal deadline.

The White House and Pentagon both denied an Associated Press report citing unnamed U.S. officials saying they completely dropped the idea of possibly keeping a significant contingent in Iraq as trainers for Iraqi security forces beyond 2011.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have been negotiating the prospects for up to several thousand U.S. troops staying, but the main sticking point has been an Iraqi refusal to grant the military personnel legal immunity, as Washington has demanded.

The issue could be a deal-breaker but it is a sensitive one for Iraqis, who have seen abuses by U.S. troops and contractors through the more than eight years since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

After ending combat operations last year, the last 44,000 U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Iraq by the end of the year under the terms of a bilateral security pact.

But the Obama administration insisted no decision had been reached about the training relationship with Iraq or how many, if any, U.S. troops might stay past the December 31 deadline. The AP report said only about 160 soldiers attached to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad would stay behind.

"President Obama has repeatedly made it clear that we are committed to keeping our agreement with the Iraqi government to remove all of our troops by the end of this year," White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.

"At the same time we're building a comprehensive partnership with Iraq under the Strategic Framework Agreement, including a robust security relationship, and discussions with the Iraqis about the nature of that relationship are ongoing."

The Defense Department issued an almost identical statement, but spokesman George Little also said, "Suggestions that a final decision has been reached about our training relationship with the Iraqi government are wrong."

Editing by Peter Cooney

(Washington newsroom)

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Cards within win of pennant, beating Brew Crew 7-1

St. Louis Cardinals' Jason Motte (30) celebrates with catcher Yadier Molina after Game 5 of baseball's National League championship series against the Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 7-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jason Motte (30) celebrates with catcher Yadier Molina after Game 5 of baseball's National League championship series against the Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 7-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jason Motte (30) celebrates with catcher Yadier Molina after Game 5 of baseball's National League championship series against the Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 7-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

The St. Louis Cardinals celebrate after Game 5 of baseball's National League championship series against the Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 7-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jon Jay, Adron Chambers (56) and Matt Holliday (7) celebrate after Game 5 of baseball's National League championship series against the Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 7-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols (5) and Matt Holliday celebrate after Game 5 of baseball's National League championship series against the Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 7-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

(AP) ? The way the Milwaukee Brewers bumbled defensively, another short start didn't slow the St. Louis Cardinals.

Milwaukee made four errors that led to three unearned runs, and the Cardinals bullpen pitched brilliantly again to survive an early exit by Jaime Garcia in a 7-1 victory Friday night that gave St. Louis a 3-2 NL championship series lead.

The wild-card Cardinals have two tries in Milwaukee to return to the World Series for the first time since 2006.

"It's a nice win," St. Louis general manager John Mozeliak said. "But we need one more."

Yadier Molina and Matt Holliday had three hits each for St. Louis, which burst to a 3-0 lead in the second when Molina doubled in a run and third baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. allowed Garcia's grounder to go through his legs. Holliday capped the scoring with a two-run double in the eighth.

Milwaukee's infield nearly had a cycle of errors, with second baseman Rickie Weeks and shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt also committing miscues along with reliever Marco Estrada.

"We can play better than we have," said loser Zack Greinke (1-1). "And I'm sure we will."

Weeks had committed the Brewers' only two errors in the first four games of the series.

"It's definitely not focus," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "These games, we do have them once in a while. We had one a couple days ago. I'm confident we'll play a good game on Sunday."

St. Louis can wrap up the best-of-seven series and its 18th NL pennant then. Edwin Jackson goes for the Cardinals against Shaun Marcum in a rematch of pitchers from Game 2, won by St. Louis 12-3 as neither starter received a decision.

"I haven't really analyzed it. I try and stay in the moment, bro," Prince Fielder said. "I'm not really looking back or forward, just trying to stay game to game. We have to win both of them, but we've got to win first."

The NL winner hosts the World Series opener against Detroit or Texas on Wednesday.

"We're having a good series right now and, hopefully, we can do it for one more game," Molina said.

Led by Jason Motte, the Cardinals' fifth closer of the season, the St. Louis bullpen is 2-0 with a 1.66 ERA in 22 2-3 innings in the series. St. Louis starters are 1-2 with a 6.04 ERA.

Only one St. Louis starter has lasted long enough to qualify for a victory, with Chris Carpenter working five innings in Game 3. The previous team to have a starter not pitch into the sixth in the first five games of a postseason series was the 1984 San Diego Padres in the World Series, according to STATS LLC.

"We're just trying to win," Holliday said. "If the spot calls for it, our bullpen's been incredible," Holliday said. "They're really fit into roles and it's been fun to watch."

The Cardinals have won 14 straight games on getaway days, a run that began on Aug. 7 at Florida. The win gave players another opportunity to chant "Happy Flight! Happy Flight!"

Milwaukee had not made more than three errors in a game during the regular season, but the Brewers' sloppiness reached a near-record level. Milwaukee was one shy of the LCS record for errors in a game, shared by the 1974 Los Angeles Dodgers and 1976 New York Yankees, according to STATS LLC.

"You've taken so many ground balls your whole life, you know what a ground ball is going to do," Hairston said. "And then when it just shoots down and scoots and once it hits that lip, it's just shock."

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa had a quick hook once again. Garcia opened with four scoreless innings, then allowed three hits and a sacrifice in a span of four at-bats in the fifth as Corey Hart singled in a run. With two and on and two outs, Octavio Dotel relieved and struck out Braun.

"There's a lot of conversation about Game 1 and how quickly they put some runs on the board," La Russa said.

Garcia was understanding.

"He's been doing this for so long and he's been so successful and he's got his reasons," the pitcher said.

Dotel (1-0) struck out two in 1 1-3 hitless innings, combining with three other relievers for 4 1-3 innings of scoreless, two-hit relief. Motte got four outs for his second save of the series,

"I'm just out there doing my thing," Motte said.

With Milwaukee down 5-1 and trying to rally with two on and two outs in the eighth, lefty Marc Rzepczynski relieved and struck out Prince Fielder. Against Rzepczynski, Fielder is 0 for 4 with four strikeouts and two walks.

"With two strikes I said I'm just going to bounce at it and see if he swing," Rzepczynski said. "And today, he did."

Greinke left pitches over the plate in some key spots and allowed five runs ? just two earned ? and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings with no strikeouts and two walks.

"I made several mistakes that ended up costing us, Greinke said. "I definitely could have done better and made it a better game."

St. Louis had been hitless in 15 at-bats with runners in scoring position ? and 22 at-bats with runners on base ? before Molina's RBI double off the right-field fence. Hart just missed on a leaping attempt at the right field fence.

Hairston saved at least one run at third base with a spectacular diving catch to his left on Nick Punto's low liner for the second out. But when he botched Garcia's easy grounder, St. Louis was up 3-0.

Garcia's RBI groundout made it 4-0 in he fourth, the first RBI by a Cardinals pitcher in the postseason since Jeff Suppan homered in the 2006 NLCS against the Mets.

Albert Pujols had an RBI single in the sixth to chase Greinke.

Now it's on to Milwaukee, where the Brewers were a major league-best 57-24 at home during the regular season.

"They're really tough up there in their ballpark," Lance Berkman said. "It's certainly more feasible for us to have to win one of two than to win both."

NOTES: Braun doubled in the first and has reached base safely in the opening inning of nine straight games, going 7 for 7 with a walk and hit by pitch. He has 22 hits in the postseason, matching the franchise record by Paul Molitor and Robin Yount. ... Chuck Berry, a St. Louis musical icon, performed the national anthem with his daughter, Ingrid. Wearing his trademark sailor's cap and a No. 84 Cardinals jersey (his age), Berry mostly watched and threw in occasional harmony. ... Cardinals Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith threw a one-hop first pitch with injured St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright on the receiving end for the third straight night.

Associated Press

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Obese Mothers Increase Risk for Asthma in Children, Study Shows (ContributorNetwork)

A Swedish study shows that pregnant women who are obese or overweight have an increased risk of giving birth to a baby with asthma. With more than one-third of women obese, and with asthma the most common childhood illness, this is an alarming link. Here is a by-the-numbers look at obesity in pregnancy, asthma in children and the connections between them.

* 7 million: The number of children in the United States who have asthma. That figure represents 9.4 percent of the population of children ages 5-17. This number also shows an increase in the incidence of pediatric and adolescent asthma. In 2007, 5.6 million children had asthma.

* First: Asthma is the most common chronic childhood illness in the United States.

* Third: Asthma is the third most common reason U.S. children younger than 15 are hospitalized.

* 17 million: The number of physician visits, annually, in which childhood asthma is the primary diagnosis.

* Almost 13 million: The cumulative number of school days missed annually for asthma-related issues.

* 61 percent: The portion of children, born to obese mothers, who developed asthma in their formative years. These figures come from a study conducted by health researchers at Umea University in Sweden, the Murdock Children's Research Institute and the University of Melbourne in Australia. It was published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, a publication of AAAAI (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology).

* 35 or more: The Body Mass Index (BMI) used by Swedish researchers to define obesity.

* 30 or greater: The BMI figure at which the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) considers obese. This number is the same for men and women. Body Mass Index is a number determined using a ratio of height to weight.

* 5: The difference in BMI used by the Swedish study and U.S. obesity calculations. It should be noted that had the Swedish study used the lower U.S. obesity BMI, their findings might have showed an even higher instance of asthma from obese mothers.

* 41 percent: The portion of overweight mothers who gave birth to babies who developed asthma.

* 25-29.9: The BMI that the NHLBI considers to be overweight.

* 18 percent: The portion of slightly overweight women who gave birth to children with asthma. Normal weight is figured by a BMI less than 25.

* 8-10 years old: The age by which asthma occurred in the children studied.

* 129,000: The number of mothers studied in Sweden. From these women, 189,000 children were studied to establish the figures.

* 64.1 percent: The number of women older than 20 who are overweight or obese (with a BMI of 25 or more).

* 35.5 percent: The number of women who are obese (BMI of 30 or greater).

Findings showed that maternal obesity weakened an infant's resistance to allergies and asthma. Maternal obesity also predisposed children to juvenile obesity.

Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben writes from 23 years parenting four children and 25 years teaching K-8, special needs, homeschool and adult education.

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by Edwin - on October 14th, 2011

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Cellmate of 'Austin Powers' actor beaten to death (AP)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? The California state prison cellmate of an actor from the first "Austin Powers" movie was beaten to death, local coroner's officials said Wednesday.

An autopsy performed Wednesday showed 50-year-old inmate Michael Graham died of "multiple blunt force injuries," the Kern County Coroner's Office said. The death was a homicide, the office ruled.

Guards found his body Monday evening in the cell at Wasco State Prison he shared with 40-year-old Joseph Son, who appeared in 1997's "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery." He wore a bowler hat and played one of Dr. Evil's henchmen, named Random Task, and was a mixed martial arts fighter.

Prison officials said Son is a suspect in Graham's death.

Son arrived at the prison Sept. 16 to serve a life sentence for the 1990 gang rape of a Southern California woman.

Graham, 50, arrived at the prison June 23. Prison officials said he was a parole violator serving a new two-year sentence from San Luis Obispo County for failing to register as a sex offender.

Graham previously had not been named as the victim, until relatives were notified.

Son was convicted of torture in August after his DNA linked him to the kidnapping of a then-19-year-old victim as she walked her dog on Christmas Eve.

Son and a co-defendant, Santiago Lopez Gaitan, 40, drove the woman to Huntington Beach at gunpoint. There they raped and sodomized her in the back of the car and repeatedly threatened to kill her.

They released the badly injured woman naked and blindfolded with her own pants.

Police collected DNA evidence at the time. But they couldn't match it to her assailants until Son pleaded guilty to felony vandalism in 2008 and violated probation. He was then required to provide a DNA sample.

Son's co-defendant pleaded guilty in January to five felonies, including kidnapping and sodomy by force in concert. Gaitan was sentenced to 17 years and four months in state prison.

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FIFA begins hearing 15 Caribbean bribery cases

updated 8:04 a.m. ET Oct. 11, 2011

ZURICH - The latest wave of FIFA election bribery cases began Tuesday, as 15 Caribbean soccer officials started explaining their part in an alleged plot involving former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

FIFA said its ethics committee would hear the defendants over three days, and was expected to deliver verdicts on Friday.

The 15 officials from 11 Caribbean countries are accused of accepting $40,000 cash payments in Trinidad during Bin Hammam's later-abandoned challenge to FIFA President Sepp Blatter.

They were charged after FIFA appointed former FBI director Louis Freeh to continue leading an investigation that began in May.

FIFA's gravest scandal in 107 years has removed two of its most influential powerbrokers ? Asian football president Bin Hammam and FIFA vice president Jack Warner ? from office after a combined 43 years sitting on world soccer's ruling executive committee.

Bin Hammam, who denies bribery, is appealing his lifetime ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and FIFA dropped charges against Trinidad and Tobago government minister Warner after he resigned his soccer positions in June.

The defendants now facing bans include FIFA committee members Yves Jean-Bart of Haiti and Richard Groden of Trinidad and Tobago. Jean-Bart sits on the associations panel that monitors FIFA's 208 national members and Groden helps allocate tens of millions of dollars of development funding as a member of the Goal Bureau which Bin Hammam chaired for 12 years.

The Haitian official is among five national association presidents answering charges this week, including one of soccer's most senior women officials: Franka Pickering of the British Virgin Islands.

Former international referee Mark Bob Forde of Barbados has also been charged and faces a ban from soccer duty.

Along with Bin Hammam in July, FIFA's ethics panel suspended two Caribbean Football Union members of staff after ruling that they distributed $40,000 cash payments in brown envelopes in a Trinidad hotel.

Caribbean Football Union vice president Colin Klass, a longtime Warner ally, received a 26-month FIFA ban after a separate hearing last month. The Guyana federation president lost his seat on FIFA's futsal and beach soccer committee.

Qatari candidate bin Hammam withdrew his election bid three days before the FIFA poll in June.

Blatter was left unopposed to receive a fourth four-year presidential term, and was endorsed by 186 FIFA members, including most Caribbean islands.

Blatter is scheduled on Oct. 21 to provide details of his promised anti-corruption project to clean up world soccer and its damaged image.

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