Divided by infighting ahead of the one-day congress Saturday, with Mr. Urbaningrum's supporters nearly mutinous and other party leaders plotting to become chairman and, presumably, improve their chances to become the Democrats' presidential candidate in July 2014, party leaders opted to bypass an open vote and put forward only Mr. Yudhoyono's name.
Mr. Putin might appear at a congress Friday of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to allay concerns about the Yukos affair, Reuters news agency reported.
UEFA, European soccer's governing body, which was forced to admit Gibraltar as a provisional member last year, will decide whether to make it a full member at the organization's annual congress Friday.
In Zurich, where he formally opened the congress Tuesday, Blatter told delegates: "Tomorrow, dear friends, when I open the congress agenda, I will speak of the danger lurking and I will tell you how we can fight this threat of danger, how our sport can play its role in bringing people together in the future.
HANOI, Vietnam — The ruling Communist Party ended a major congress Wednesday with the announcement of several changes in the country's hierarchy, and what amounted to an apology by the party's chief for the performance of the nation's leaders over the past five years.
"I discovered that the boogey man is real, and that he lives on the Web," she told congress Thursday at a judiciary committee hearing called to consider toughening online sexual predator laws.
The news conference was a chance for reporters to ask Blatter questions that had built up before and during FIFA's annual congress Friday.
In his address to the Fifa Congress the day before the Brazil World Cup kicks off, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said: "We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet?
Hu Jintao, China's departing leader, in his report on the opening day of the congress last Thursday, gave no sign of any relaxation in controls.
Comey announced the findings in a letter to congress on Sunday, just two days before the election.
