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| Kim Kardashian drops lawsuit over claims she faked Paris robbery | |  (Reuters) - Reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Monday dropped a U.S. defamation lawsuit against a website for claiming she had staged an armed robbery in Paris. Kardashian withdrew the lawsuit filed this month in New York against U.S. celebrity gossip site MediaTakeOut, according to a court document. The federal lawsuit was dropped without prejudice, meaning Kardashian could refile it.
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| Gunmen attack police academy in Pakistani city of Quetta | |  By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta late on Monday night, killing at least two people and wounding dozens, officials said. Some 200 trainees are stationed at the facility, officials said, and some had been taken hostage. "Around five terrorists entered police training centre and they have taken police recruits (at) gunpoint," a senior security official in Quetta said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.
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| Four killed in anti-U.N. unrest in Central African Republic - U.N. | | | Four civilians were killed and 14 other people injured in Central African Republic on Monday when U.N. peacekeepers exchanged fire with armed men during a protest against the U.N. military presence, the United Nations said. The clashes occurred as hundreds of protesters gathered to call for troops from the U.N. mission (MINUSCA) to leave the country. A Reuters witness saw protesters, carrying anti-U.N. posters, throwing stones and shouting at the troops who responded with warning shots. |
| Venezuela, opposition announce dialogue as protests brew | |  By Diego Oré and Anggy Polanco CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist government and opposition on Monday announced surprise talks for the weekend to deal with a worsening political standoff since the suspension of a referendum drive to remove unpopular President Nicolas Maduro. "At last we are installing a dialogue between the opposition and the legitimate government," Maduro said from Rome, after a meeting with Pope Francis who urged him to alleviate Venezuelans' suffering during a brutal economic crisis. The opposition says Maduro is an inept autocrat who must leave office before the crisis worsens while the former bus driver and union leader vows not to be pushed out by what he calls a power-hungry elite seeking a coup.
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| South America's CONMEBOL seeks financial redress from ISM | | | South American football's governing body CONMEBOL has opened legal proceedings in New York against International Soccer Marketing Inc (ISM) in a bid to recover $18 million paid in commission for exclusive broadcasting rights, it said on Monday. It was the first of several legal actions CONMEBOL was planning after a U.S.-led investigation last year unearthed widespread fraudulent deals at the heart of world soccer body FIFA, the Asuncion-based CONMEBOL said in a statement. CONMEBOL said it based its action on the fact ISM's owners had admitted in a U.S. court they had paid bribes to former CONMEBOL directors over two decades for commercial rights to the Copa Libertadores, the equivalent of Europe's Champions League. |
| Serbia unmasks plot to sway election in neighbouring Montenegro - PM | |  Serbia has detained a number of people over a suspected plot to sway the outcome of Montenegro's Oct. 16 election, the Serbian prime minister said on Monday, citing "undeniable and material" evidence found by his country's security services.Aleksandar Vucic's remarks were the first detailed Serbian reaction to the arrests on election day in Montenegro of 20 Serbian citizens, including a retired police general, accused of planning attacks on government institutions and officials. The vote, in which veteran Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic's party came out ahead but without a parliamentary majority, was billed as an opportunity for voters to endorse his pro-NATO and pro-EU stance instead of pursuing closer relationships with traditional allies like Serbia and Russia.
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| Actress Shailene Woodley set for January trial in pipeline protest | |  Actress Shailene Woodley will stand trial in January on charges stemming from her arrest with more than two dozen other activists while protesting construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, court documents showed on Monday. Woodley, 24, who has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanour charges of trespassing and engaging in a riot, faces up to two months in jail and a $3,000 fine if convicted. The actress, who had been live streaming the Oct. 10 protest at a Dakota Access pipeline construction site 2 miles (3.2 km) south of St. Anthony, North Dakota, was seen on camera being taken into custody and narrated her own arrest.
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| Subject of debunked Rolling Stone rape article stands by interviews | | | By Gary Robertson CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) - The subject of a Rolling Stone article on a rape at the University of Virginia that the magazine has since retracted because the attack appeared not to have happened, testified on Monday she believed she had told the reporter the truth. The woman, identified only as "Jackie," gave a videotaped deposition for a civil lawsuit filed by a former associate dean of students at the school who has sued Rolling Stone for $7.9 million, claiming defamation. "I stand by what I told Rolling Stone. |
| Brazil's police seek corruption charges against ex-finance minister | |  By Eduardo Simões and Brad Brooks SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police on Monday sought corruption charges against former finance minister and presidential chief of staff Antonio Palocci and accuse him of running a bribery scheme that funnelled money to the former-ruling Workers Party's (PT). Police said in their investigation sent to federal prosecutors that Palocci conspired with construction firm Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL] to pay 128 million reais ($41 million) from 2006 to 2013 to the party, politicians and other officials in return for winning bloated contracts from state-run oil company Petrobras . Police are also seeking corruption charges against former Odebrecht Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Odebrecht and powerful political strategist Joao Santana, the force behind the PT's presidential campaigns.
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