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Iceland’s PM resigns “The prime minister told (his party’s) parliamentary group's meeting that he would step down as prime minister and I will take over,” the Progressive party’s deputy leader and agriculture minister, Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, said in a live broadcast. The junior member of the centre-right government coalition, the Independence Party, still has to approve the switch. Gunnlaugsson, 41, had been under pressure to resign after the leaked documents revealed that he and his wife Anna Sigurlaug Palsdottir owned an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands and had placed millions of dollars there. Thousands of demonstrators had protested outside parliament in Reykjavik on Monday, throwing eggs and yoghurt at the building and calling on the centre-right leader to step down. The left-wing opposition had also presented a motion of no-confidence against Gunnlaugsson. Earlier Tuesday, President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, who cut short a US visit to...

Ivorian international and Sunderland A.F.C player, Emmanuel Eboué, has been banned from taking part in any football-related activity for one year or until he pays the total outstanding amount owed to his former agent if this occurs before the end of the one-year ban. The decision to ban Eboué was announced on FIFA’s website on Thursday. According to the world football governing body, the origins of the case involve a decision passed by the single judge of the FIFA Players’ Status Committee in July 2013 regarding a contractual dispute according to which Eboué was ordered to pay the players’ agent Mr Sébastien Boisseau an amount owed to him based on the representation agreement between the two parties. The decision was taken on the basis of the FIFA Players’ Agents Regulations in force at the time (2008 edition). “On September 9, 2014, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee decided to sanction Mr Eboué with a fine of CHF 30,000 ($31,271) for failing to comply with the decision of the ...