News Headlines - 11 May 2016
▽Tokyo Olympics: €1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020 Games | The Guardian
A seven-figure payment from the Tokyo Olympic bid team to an account linked to the son of the disgraced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack was apparently made during Japan’s successful race to host the 2020 Games, the Guardian has learned.
The alleged payment of about €1.3m (￡1m), now believed to be under French police scrutiny, will increase pressure on the International Olympic Committee to investigate properly links between Diack’s regime and the contest to host its flagship event. It also raises serious questions over Tokyo’s winning bid, awarded in 2013.
Yoichi Masuzoe had a comfortable majority over his rivals when he was elected governor of Tokyo in February 2014, but he appears to be alienating some of his constituents with what some say is a jet-setting lifestyle.
▽Mitsubishi Motors Says Mileage Cheating May Be on All Models - NBC News
Mitsubishi, the Japanese automaker under investigation for lying about fuel economy data for some models, said Wednesday such tampering is suspected in all of its vehicles sold in Japan.
Experts are questioning a Canadian teenager's claim he used star maps and satellite imagery, with the help of the Canadian Space Agency, to identify the ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
▽U.S. to switch on European missile shield despite Russian alarm | Reuters
The United States' European missile defense shield goes live on Thursday almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and despite Russian warnings that the West is threatening the peace in central Europe.
Amid high Russia-West tension, U.S. and NATO officials will declare operational the shield at a remote air base in Deveselu, Romania, after years of planning, billions of dollars in investment and failed attempts to assuage Russian concerns that the shield could be used against Moscow.
