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Former US House of Representatives speaker Dennis Hastert faces charges of lying to the FBI over secret payments to cover up “prior misconduct”.
BBC News – US & Canada

South African officials dismiss US allegations that a $ 10m (£6.5m) bribe was organised for top Fifa officials in order to host the 2010 World Cup.
BBC News – Africa

Oklahoma City, Thursday, May 28, 2015 – The Oklahoma City Thunder has recognized the top participants in its annual Thun
Oklahoma City Thunder

In mid-December, the blinding, bright lights came on at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Oklahoma City Thunder

The trader at the centre of the Libor rate-rigging trial tried to influence other banks to manipulate the key benchmark rate, a court hears.
BBC News – Business

Saudi-led coalition warplanes have bombed a special forces camp in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killing at least 36 people, officials and witnesses say.
BBC News – Middle East

Two criminal inquiries into corruption at football’s world governing body Fifa are under way, as seven high-ranking officials are arrested in Zurich.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The European Commission urges EU states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and Greece in the next two years.
BBC News – Europe

An EU referendum, tax freezes and a boost for “working people” are among the plans unveiled in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech in nearly two decades.
BBC News – UK

A large part of the southern US continues to recover from deadly floods brought on by powerful weekend storms.
BBC News – US & Canada

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says.
BBC News – Africa

On a gloomy April afternoon in Norman, Oklahoma, more than 200 people turned to Food and Shelter for a warm meal and a dry refuge.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Amazon, the global online retailer, is changing the way it records European sales in a move that could see it paying more tax.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi government forces formally launch an operation to drive Islamic State (IS) out of the western province of Anbar, days after the fall of Ramadi.
BBC News – Middle East

At least 13 people die as a tornado strikes Mexico’s Ciudad Acuna, with flooding over the border in Texas leaving at least three dead and 12 missing.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A 14-year-old boy is convicted of terrorism offences in Austria, including a bomb plot potentially targeting a railway station in Vienna.
BBC News – Europe

Former City trader Tom Hayes is accused of being “dishonest and manipulative” in his alleged attempts to rig Libor rates, a court hears.
BBC News – UK

Three people have died and several others are missing after severe flooding in the southern US states of Texas and Oklahoma.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenyan police have been involved in a fierce battle with militant Islamists in the north-east, leaving one officer wounded, a government spokesman tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

Greece will not be able to make a debt repayment to the IMF due in early June as it does not have the money, the interior minister says.
BBC News – Business