AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Top international prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, best known for pursuing war criminals, has been nominated as chief investigator at FIFA, soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body, with a brief to probe match-fixing and corruption.

FIFA’s executive committee is due to discuss the appointment of a chief investigator within the next few weeks as part of a proposed clean-up following a string of graft cases.

LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The world’s biggest and most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will be located in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

The decision to split the location of the $2 billion “Square Kilometre Array” followed intense lobbying by the two leading bidders, South Africa one side and a joint bid from Australia and New Zealand on the other.

LONDON/AMSTERDAM, May 25 (Reuters) – The world’s biggest and
most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of
extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will
be located in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

The decision to split the location of the $2 billion “Square
Kilometre Array” followed intense lobbying by the two leading
bidders, South Africa one side and a joint bid from Australia
and New Zealand on the other.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch food and chemicals firm DSM (DSMN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is buying the world’s biggest producer of a fish oil extract believed to boost brain power for about 420 million euros ($534 million), as it targets parts of the food sector resistant to economic swings.

DSM, which has sold off much of its cyclical bulk chemicals business in recent years to turn itself into the world’s largest vitamins maker, said on Friday it was buying Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC) in an all-cash deal.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said on Wednesday witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial that found him guilty of crimes against humanity, and described the international court system as a tool of the West.

Taylor – the first head of state to be found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg – told the war crimes court in The Hague that Washington had used the case to achieve regime change rather than justice.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor will on Wednesday tell judges he bears no responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, rejecting the prosecution’s demand for an 80-year sentence in a maximum-security British jail.

Taylor, convicted last month of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone’s conflict, is the first head of state to be found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Hague war crimes prosecutor announced new charges on Monday against a Democratic Republic of Congo general accused of conscripting child fighters and an arrest warrant for a militia leader.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court said he has asked for additional charges to be filed against Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted in The Hague for war crimes, and has requested an arrest warrant for Sylvestre Mudacumura, the leader of FDLR militia operating in the Kivu provinces in the DRC.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley (MS.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has emerged as one of the biggest shareholders in KPN (KPN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the Dutch telecoms group that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has set his sights on as a stepping stone into Europe.

A filing with Dutch financial market regulator AFM shows that Morgan Stanley has the equivalent of 10.01 percent in KPN, ranking behind The Capital Group Companies.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch telecom KPN NV hit back at a surprise move by America Movil to raise its stake in the group, saying the Mexican company’s 3.2 billion euro ($4.2 billion) offer was substantially undervalued.

America Movil, controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, wants to boost its stake to as much as 28 percent as part of a long-term investment strategy that would give it a foothold in Europe after running out of opportunities to expand in Latin America.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – America Movil, the telecoms group controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, offered to buy a stake worth up to 3.2 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in Dutch telecoms firm KPN as a base for potential expansion in Europe.

America Movil, which is seeking up to 28 percent of KPN, said it sees the move as a long-term investment that would give it a presence in Europe at a time when the Mexican group has run out of opportunities to expand at home, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday.