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| Central African Republic postpones pivotal elections | | | Crucial elections scheduled to take place in the Central African Republic on Sunday have been postponed by three days until Dec. 30, Prime Minster Mahamat Kamoun said on Thursday. Elections in the former French colony have faced repeated delays. Central African Republic is currently governed by a transitional administration, the second such interim government since President Francois Bozize was toppled in March 2013. |
| Rolling Stone magazine seeks to dismiss suit over debunked rape story | | | Rolling Stone magazine has urged a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by three former fraternity members at the University of Virginia over a debunked story about a campus gang rape. George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler sued the pop culture magazine in July, claiming they suffered emotional distress and humiliation from the November 2014 article by reporter Sabrina Erdely. The story described the gang rape of a female student at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in September 2012. |
| Little Christmas joy for Brazil's jailed high and mighty | | | By Caroline Stauffer and Anthony Boadle SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - The former chief executive officer of Latin America's largest engineering group will be allowed panettone in his jail cell this Christmas. Marcelo Odebrecht, ex-CEO of the multinational construction company bearing his billionaire family's name, and Senator Delcídio do Amaral are among a handful of prominent and powerful Brazilians facing Christmas in jail this year, awaiting judgment in a massive corruption investigation. The scandal centered around state-controlled oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA , along with impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over an unrelated issue and a deep economic recession, have combined to rock the Brazilian establishment. |
| Israeli forces kill four Palestinian assailants in West Bank | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed four Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the army said, as a 12-week surge in street violence showed no sign of abating. In the latest in a wave of almost daily assaults, a knife-wielding Palestinian hurt two guards on Thursday near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank and was shot dead, the army said. In other locations in the West Bank, another Palestinian was shot dead while trying to stab a soldier with a screwdriver, and a third after injuring a soldier in a car-ramming, the army said.
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| Minority report: Chinese official "faked family's ethnicity" | |  Chinese authorities will prosecute a former senior official in the far western region of Xinjiang for corruption, involving faking the ethnicity of his wife and child, the government said on Thursday. Ethnic minorities get special rights, sometimes including subsidies, and there have been cases of people from the majority Han community who lie and get a different ethnicity printed on their identity cards. Some minorities are so integrated after centuries of living with the Han they have lost their separate languages and customs, meaning it can be easy for Han to pass themselves off as something else.
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| Japan minister heads to Korea to try to resolve "comfort women" issue | |  TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to South Korea this month to seek a resolution on the "comfort women" issue, public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday. South Korea's ties with Japan have long been strained by what Seoul sees as Japanese leaders' reluctance to atone for the country's brutal wartime past, including a full recognition of its role in forcing Korean girls and women to work in Japanese military brothels. In the first formal talks between the two leaders since both took office, Abe and Park agreed to speed up negotiations to resolve the issue.
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| Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers | |  (Reuters) - France and Belgium are hunting suspects after the shootings and bombings on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds at a rock concert hall, sports stadium and bars and restaurants in Paris. The number involved in the attacks may have been 10 or higher and at least four people are being sought, chief among them Salah Abdeslam, who police think may be an assailant referred to in an Islamic State statement claiming responsibility for the attacks. Seven assailants died during the attacks: three at the Bataclan concert hall, three outside the Stade de France stadium and one of three gunmen involved in the cafe shootings.
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| Myanmar men sentenced to death for murder of British tourists in Thailand | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Reuters) - A Thai court sentenced two Myanmar migrant workers to death on Thursday after convicting them of the 2014 murders of two young British tourists on a holiday island in a case mired in controversy and a dispute over DNA testing. The battered bodies of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in September 2014. Police said Witheridge, 23, had been raped and bludgeoned to death and Miller, 24, suffered blows to his head.
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| Ninth person arrested in Belgium over Paris attacks | |  Brussels police have arrested a man in connection with the Nov. 13 militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, bringing the total number of arrests in Belgium to nine. "This person is suspected to have had contact several times with Hasna Ait Boulahcen, Abdelhamid Abbaoud's cousin, in the period between the terrorist attacks and the events in Saint-Denis," the prosecutor said in a statement. Boulahcen and Abaaoud were both killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis, France, days after the Paris attacks.
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