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| Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint in Paris - CNN | |  (Reuters) - Kim Kardashian West was held up by masked men in her Paris hotel room on Sunday, CNN said, prompting her husband, rapper Kanye West, to abruptly end a performance in New York, citing a family emergency. "Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room this evening by two armed masked men dressed as police officers," Kardashian West's spokeswoman, Ina Treciokas, said in a statement reported by CNN. Kanye West left his set early at the Meadows Festival in New York.
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| Lack of data on sexual rights leaves millions of girls "invisible" - report | | | By Lin Taylor LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of girls are left "invisible" because of a lack of data, a children's charity said on Monday, and the absence of accurate statistics on issues such as sexual violence means policymakers cannot draw up effective plans to help them. There is no data that fully captures the daily realities of girls in poor communities, Plan International said in a report, including why girls drop out of school or how many become pregnant because of sexual violence. "We do count how many girls start school, but we actually don't count how many girls leave school," said Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO of Plan International. |
| Taliban advance on Afghan city exposes weak defences, deep divisions | | | By James Mackenzie TARIN KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan authorities are investigating why Taliban militants were able to push past checkpoints in the central city of Tarin Kot with such ease during a recent attack that exposed the fragile defences of many remote regions. The Sept. 8 raid on the capital of Uruzgan province briefly sparked fears of a collapse like that in the northern city of Kunduz last year, a short yet symbolic victory for an Islamist insurgency that shows few signs of weakening. The Tarin Kot advance was eventually repelled when reinforcements, backed by U.S. airstrikes, arrived, but not before local officials had fled to the airport in fear. |
| Gabon names new government after winning disputed election | | | Gabon's prime minister on Sunday named a new government in the wake of disputed elections, but it contained no representatives of opposition leader Jean Ping, who says the vote was rigged. According to a government statement, the only opposition leader named in Prime Minister Emmanuel Issozet Ngondet's cabinet of 40 people is Bruno Ben Moubamba, who came in a distant third in the Aug. 27 vote. Moubamba was chosen as deputy prime minister and minister for urbanisation and social habitats. |
| In Jamaica's 'wickedest' town, few fear Hurricane Matthew's fury | |  By Gabriel Stargardter PORT ROYAL, Jamaica (Reuters) - Since being founded in the mid-17th century, the small Jamaican fishing town of Port Royal has survived a seemingly endless cycle of typically Caribbean threats, including pirates, plagues, hurricanes, fires and earthquakes. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, the locals nursing iced rum-and-Cokes on Sunday evening in the town's square were instinctively relaxed about Hurricane Matthew - the latest potentially lethal inconvenience to breeze through Port Royal. "I definitely no leave, bro," said Edgar Barrington Aitken, a toothless 57-year-old fisherman.
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| Colombians reject deal to end 52-year FARC rebel war | |  By Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombians narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas in a referendum on Sunday, plunging the nation into uncertainty and dashing President Juan Manuel Santos' painstakingly negotiated plan to end the 52-year war. The surprise victory for the "no" camp poured cold water on international joy, from the White House to the Vatican, at what had seemed to be the end of the longest-running conflict in the Americas.
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