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MANILA Asics Running Shoes Clearance , Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter said here on Sunday that the 2022 World Cup will definitely be staged in Qatar -- no matter who tries to strip the Gulf state of the hosting rights.


"Believe me, if we see what has been said, what's told around the world, it's by those who are not involved exactly (in) what happens in football," Blatter told delegates at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) awards in Manila.


"The World Cup 2022 will be played in Qatar."


A 42-page summary made by FIFA's chief judge Hans-Joachim Eckert cleared the bids from Russia and Qatar of any wrongdoing, but Michael Garcia Asics Shoes Clearance , the former U.S. attorney who led the FIFA investigation, said the world body had misrepresented his findings.


Eckert has blocked the release of the Garcia report citing confidentiality agreements and legal restrictions.


On Sunday FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke insisted there was "no need" to publish the investigation in full, despite widespread calls to make it public.


Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday pulled within striking distance of the votes needed to form a narrow majority government in a cliffhanger election that has left the nation in limbo and his leadership in doubt.


"The government is still on track to form a majority government," Treasurer Scott Morrison told Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) radio on Wednesday.


Electoral officials are counting 1.5 million postal and absentee votes that will be crucial to the result of Saturday's poll, which saw a swing against Turnbull's conservative coalition government and the rise of populist independents.


A final reckoning may not be known for days, possibly weeks Asics Gel Nimbus Shoes Sale , leaving Australia in a political vacuum.


The latest projections by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation shifted two seats into the government's column, giving Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition 70 out of 150 lower house seats, and the center-left Labor opposition 67. Eight seats remain too close to call.


Both major parties are agonizingly short of the 76 seats needed to form a majority government in the House of Representatives, and negotiations are already underway with independents who will hold at least four seats.


"It's still either a very, very narrow coalition majority or hung parliament," ABC polling expert Antony Green told ABC's Radio National.


Turnbull's gamble in calling an early election failed to deliver a clear mandate for his agenda of corporate tax cuts and his disastrous polling has led to attacks from inside and outside his coalition