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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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| 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, from Texas, has been held by Chinese authorities for about six months, according to a statement from her family that was released online this week. The statement said she is suspected of spying and stealing state secrets. |
| '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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| Afghan Taliban seize Humvees for sneak attacks and propaganda | | | By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - When two U.S.-made Humvees approached a checkpoint in Afghanistan's Helmand province last month, the police assumed them to be friendly local or coalition forces. In fact, Taliban militants were behind the wheel of the sand-coloured vehicles. Caught by surprise, police stood no chance against the Humvees' mounted machine guns. |
| British man charged with Singapore GP track intrusion | | | A British national has appeared in court in Singapore charged with endangering the personal safety of drivers by walking across the track during last weekend's floodlit Formula One Grand Prix. Court documents on Tuesday identified the 27-year-old man as Yogvitam Pravin Dhokia. "He must have had a couple of beers," Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff told reporters afterwards. |
| Indonesia starts legal action against companies linked to SE Asia haze | |  By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has ordered four companies to suspend operations for allegedly causing forest fires that have sent thick smoke across a swathe of Southeast Asia, an environment ministry official said on Tuesday. Indonesia has launched investigations against more than 200 companies as it scrambles to bring the fires on Sumatra and Kalimantan islands under control by the end of November, amid complaints from neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia. "These suspensions will be in effect until the criminal proceedings undertaken by the police are finished," environment ministry secretary general Bambang Hendroyono said.
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| Pakistan jail officials unsure how to hang paralysed convict | | | By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani jail authorities postponed executing a prisoner who is in a wheelchair an hour before he was due to be hanged on Tuesday, because prison rules did not make it clear how they should proceed, his lawyers said. Abdul Basit was to have been hanged in the eastern city of Faisalabad in the morning, but authorities were stymied at the last minute because he could not walk to the gallows as required by the jail manual. "When the judicial magistrate came to the hanging, these guys tried to make him (Basit) stand at the gallows ... it wasn't possible, so the magistrate postponed the hanging," said Wassam Waheed, a spokesman for legal aid group Justice Project Pakistan. |
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