" RIO DE JANEIRO Jared McCann Womens Jersey , July 1 (Xinhua) -- FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke has admitted concern at match fixing in international football.
In an interview with Brazilian television channel Sportv, Valcke said there was no way of knowing if games played during the World Cup had been manipulated.
""It exists and it's something that we are not going to eliminate 100%,"" the governing body's World Cup chief said.
""It happens at the highest level and at the lower levels. What we can do is control legal betting. We work with two companies that monitor this around the world. But it's very difficult to fight against what is done behind the scenes.""
Valcke's comments came after German magazine Spiegel claimed the Group A match between Cameroon and Croatia on June 18 was fixed.
The magazine alleged that Cameroon agreed with a betting ring before the match to lose 4-0.
Days later FIFA revealed the clash between Cameroon and Brazil on June 23 was at risk of being rigged.
Media reports said alarm bells rang due to Cameroon's prior elimination from the tournament and reports of conflict within the Indomitable Lions' team.
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BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Monday it has set up teams to look into the criminal cases of Gu Chujun and Zhang Wenzhong, former chairmen of an electrical appliances maker and a retailer Jamie McGinn Womens Jersey , respectively, after the Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced a retrial last month.
Two teams of SPP prosecutors have started their work and promised to provide objective opinions based on facts, the SPP said.
The top court of China announced earlier that the retrial of Gu, former chairman of Guangdong Kelon Electrical Holdings, a maker of refrigerators and air conditioners Radim Vrbata Womens Jersey , will be heard by the SPC first circuit court.
Gu was arrested in 2005. A final court ruling by Guangdong Higher People's Court in 2009 sentenced him to 10 years in prison for falsifying and withholding information and embezzlement. He was also fined 6.8 million yuan (about 1.07 million U.S. dollars).
In September 2012, after serving his term in prison, Gu filed a petition to the SPC.
The SPC sent his case to the Guangdong Higher People's Court for investigation in 2013. During the investigation, Gu continued to petition the top court.
The SPC said that it reviewed Gu's case and believed he was eligible for a retrial according to China's criminal procedure law.
Gu's case was granted a retrial under article 242 of China's Criminal Procedure Law, which states that retrial may be granted if the original ruling was based on insufficient James Reimer Womens Jersey , illegal or contradictory evidence, or that the application of law was inappropriate.
The investigation into the criminal case of former retailer Zhang Wenzhong was started after the SPC announced a retrial in Zhang's case in late December last year. Zhang was former chairman of Wumei Holdings, parent of Chinese retail chain Wumart Stores.
The SPP said that the investigation would be based on the facts and stick to an objective and just stance according to law to maintain Zhang's legitimate rights and judicial fairness.
Zhang was fined and sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, bribery and embezzlement in a final ruling by Hebei Higher People's Court in 2009.
Zhang first petitioned Hebei Higher People's Court but was rejected. He petitioned the SPC in 2016, which after reviewing the case decided to grant a retrial Nick Bjugstad Womens Jersey , the SPC said, adding that his case will be heard by the SPC.
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Ebola, zika, SARS: a century after the ""Spanish flu"" killed 50 million people, humanity now risks a new wave of deadly diseases Connor Brickley Womens Jersey , and in today's globalised world another such pandemic may be unavoidable, experts warned at the Davos summit this week.
""Pandemics are becoming a real threat to humanity,"" Elhadj As Sy, secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told AFP at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort.
One Davos discussion titled ""Are We Ready For the Next Pandemic?"" was joined by experts including Sylvie Briand Jonathan Huberdeau Womens Jersey , a specialist in infectious diseases at the World Health Organisation (WHO).
""We know that it is coming, but we have no way of stopping it,"" she said.
This year marks the centenary of the worst epidemic in history: the so-called Spanish flu -- an outbreak that experts say was actually imported to Europe by troops from the United States coming to fight in World War One.
Across the world, the disease killed more people in two years than the four years of fighting had.
Richard Hatchett, director of the public-private Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) Aaron Ekblad Womens Jersey , said India lost five percent of its population in 1918 -- the only time in the country's history that its population declined.
A century on, a new flu virus is the risk that most worries experts.
""The flu is a respiratory virus that is easily transmitted and people can be contagious even before they show symptoms, so it is not easy to control,"" said Briand.
Its numerous forms are also able to ""marry"" one another or bond with viruses from birds or pigs in potentially deadly new combinations.
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Despite the development of anti-viral drugs, antibiotics and the first vaccines Keith Yandle Womens Jersey , two other flu pandemics erupted after the Spanish flu, in 1957 and 1968 -- killing millions.
More recent epidemics have reminded the world that it is still vulnerable to outbreaks.
The SARS respiratory virus killed some 770 people in 2003.
""These past three years, there has been Ebola in West Africa, zika in South America and more recently a plague epidemic in Madagascar"" last year, said Sy.
Ebola haemorraghic fever killed 11 Roberto Luongo Womens Jersey ,000 in West Africa in 2014 and 2015. The disease also spread around the world after intern.