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Bumper fraud implicates Baghdad elite and poses challenge for new prime minister

Mass sackings are a blow to staff, but come amid rising concerns the country has grown too reliant on the industry

Team have risen up Fifa rankings but expectations are tempered by poor form and fitness worries

Memo with more than 150 signatories questions leadership of global chief executive Carmine Di Sibio

In the 2015 FIFA corruption case, it emerged the bidding process was corrupted by paying bribes to then-FIFA official.

Nothing makes the news like a low-ranked or unfancied team putting up its best performance to defeat a big name.