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| China says has political promise from West on graft fight | | | China has been given a political promise by Western countries that they will not become havens for corrupt fugitives, a senior official told state television, though he offered no assurances to assuage concerns about mistreatment of suspects. China has vowed to pursue an overseas search dubbed Operation "Fox Hunt" for corrupt officials and business executives, and their assets, part of President Xi Jinping's war on deep-seated corruption. It has been pushing for extradition treaties but Western countries have been reluctant to help, not wanting to send people to a country where rights groups say mistreatment of suspects is a concern. |
| Kardashian, website resolve suit over claims robbery faked | |  (Reuters) - Reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Monday dropped a defamation lawsuit against a website that claimed she staged an armed robbery in Paris after the two sides resolved the issue, her lawyer said. 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 The federal lawsuit was withdrawn without prejudice, meaning Kardashian could refile it.
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| Hong Kong jury to see British banker's "torture video" in murder trial | |  A graphic video of a former British banker killing an Indonesian woman in his apartment will be shown to a jury in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the first in a series of extreme evidence to be shown during the trial which has attracted global attention. Rurik Jutting, whose trial for murdering two Indonesian women two years ago started on Monday, pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of "diminished responsibility". The women's bodies were found in Jutting's luxury high-rise Hong Kong apartment.
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| Gunmen kill 59 in attack on police academy in Pakistani city of Quetta | |  By Gul Yusufzai and Mehreen Zahra-Malik QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 59 people were killed and 117 critically wounded when gunmen stormed a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta, government officials said on Tuesday. Most of the dead were police cadets. Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital, had confirmed early on Tuesday that five to six gunmen had attacked a dormitory inside the training facility while cadets rested and slept.
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| Peru scrutinizes pacts between police and miners after clash | | | Peru is scrutinizing paid security services that federal police provide to mining companies following a deadly protest by local residents that suspended exports from one of the world's biggest copper mines, the government told Reuters on Monday. The three-month-old centrist government of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is also talking with the Red Cross about setting up a program to teach police to manage protests better, Rolando Luque, director of the National Office of Dialogue in Kuczynski's Cabinet, said in an interview. |
| 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 gang rape at the University of Virginia that the magazine retracted after investigators found no evidence the attack occurred, 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. |
| Twenty dead, more than 100 wounded, in Pakistan police academy attack - official | | Monday, October 24, 2016 11:50 PM | |
| Gunmen stormed a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta late on Monday night, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100, officials said. Some 200 trainees are stationed at the facility, officials said, and some had been taken hostage. Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital, confirmed early on Tuesday that five to six gunmen had attacked a dormitory inside the training facility while cadets rested and slept.
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