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| Central African Republic postpones key elections for three days |
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| By Crispin Dembassa-Kette BANGUI (Reuters) - Crucial elections in the Central African Republic have been postponed from Sunday until Dec. 30 because preparations are running late, Prime Minister Mahamat Kamoun said on Thursday. The polls are meant to restore democratic rule in the aftermath of bitter conflict. Ballots for the presidential and legislative elections, printed abroad, only arrived in the capital Bangui in the last few days and have yet to be distributed to polling stations across a nation with few roads. |
| California governor pardons Robert Downey Jr for 1990s drug conviction |
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 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday pardoned actor Robert Downey Jr for drug and weapon offences from the 1990s, following a request for clemency, according to a copy of the pardon on the governor's website. The pardon signed by Brown said the 50-year-old Downey has obtained a court order "evidencing that since his release from custody he has lived an honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character and conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen." (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| Rolling Stone magazine seeks to dismiss suit over debunked rape story |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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 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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