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| U.S. commander in Afghanistan denies child sex abuse was tolerated | | | The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Tuesday denied there was ever a policy for forces to ignore Afghan officials' sexual abuse of minors, days after a newspaper reported troops were told to look the other way to preserve relations with allies. Gen. John F. Campbell, who commands both U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, said he had discussed the media reports with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The New York Times reported on Sunday that U.S. service members stationed in Afghanistan had been instructed by superiors not to intervene when they witnessed Afghan police officers and military commanders abusing minors, even when the abuse occurred on military bases. |
| China says investigating U.S. woman suspected of spying | | | An American woman suspected of spying is being investigated, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, as President Xi Jinping left for the United States on an official visit. Sandy Phan-Gillis, of Texas, has been held by Chinese authorities for about six months and is suspected of spying and stealing state secrets, according to a statement from her family released this week. The U.S. State Department said it was aware of her detention and monitoring her case. |
| Pistorius appeal set for Nov. 3, state wants murder conviction | |  Oscar Pistorius should have been convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend, South African state prosecutors will argue at an appeal hearing set for Nov. 3, the supreme court of appeal said on Tuesday. The Paralympic gold medallist admitted killing law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp, 29, in February 2013 by firing four shots into the locked door of a toilet cubicle. Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide, equivalent to manslaughter, last September and sentenced to five years in prison.
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| Obama, in prison documentary: U.S. legal system has been "unjust" | |  By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an unprecedented presidential visit to a prison. "They then get involved in the criminal justice system, and it just churns, and everybody thinks that's normal," the president told the nonviolent drug offenders at the medium-security El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma. Obama has made criminal justice reform a top priority of his final years in office and beyond.
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| FIFA to discuss possible new venue for December meeting | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA, grappling with a corruption scandal, said on Tuesday it would discuss a possible new venue and date for an executive committee meeting originally scheduled for Japan in December. The announcement came amid uncertainty over whether FIFA president Sepp Blatter would make the trip. Blatter has not been accused of any wrongdoing but retains an attorney.
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| Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid - ABC | |  The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday. "I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained what marriage to be," Kim Davis said in a television interview with ABC News, taped on Monday. "I have given no authority to write a marriage license.
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| Volkswagen denies report about CEO ouster | |  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen denied a media report that said Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn was to be replaced amid an emissions scandal that has rocked the company. "Nonsense," a spokesman at the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg said on Tuesday when asked whether the report by German Tagesspiegel was true. Europe's biggest automaker could face penalties of up to $18 billion in the United States, as well as class-action lawsuits from buyers and damage to its reputation, with U.S. regulators alleging it misled them for more than a year. ...
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| Uproar over encryption law forces government to retreat | |  The government on Tuesday withdrew a draft law on encryption technology that critics called draconian and unworkable, after complaints from internet freedom activists risked marring Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Silicon Valley this weekend. The government is pushing to standardise usage of encryption software and force companies to share access to encrypted data with law enforcement agencies, who complain the technology has made their jobs harder. The measure would have forced internet users to preserve copies of communications sent over encrypted services, including social media such as Twitter and Facebook, for three months.
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| 'Putin's banker' Pugachev files $12 billion claim against Russia | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Stephen Grey PARIS (Reuters) - Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed "Putin's banker" because of his influence in the Kremlin, has filed a $12 billion claim against Russia after his business empire was carved up when he fell out of favour with President Vladimir Putin. "Over the past few years, Russia has pursued a multi-pronged attack against me, my family, and my investments," Pugachev said in a written statement on Tuesday. "I refuse to be intimidated by Russia's tactics." Reuters reported on Monday that lawyers for Pugachev had issued notice of a claim of more than $10 billion against Russia that is likely to be heard in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
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