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| Sumner Redstone forced to borrow $100 million from National Amusements - lawsuit | |  (Reuters) - Media mogul Sumner Redstone on Tuesday sued two ex-girlfriends for civil claims including elder abuse, alleging he was forced to borrow $100 million from the private company that holds his shares in CBS Corp and Viacom to cover tax obligations on gifts he gave to the women. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, says Redstone cashed in stock options and restricted shares of Viacom and CBS in order to give $45 million each to Manuela Herzer and Sydney Holland.
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| Venezuela's opposition-led Congress launches trial against Maduro | | | By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly voted on Tuesday to open a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro for violating democracy, but the socialist government dismissed the move as meaningless. The South American OPEC member's political standoff has worsened since last week's suspension of an opposition push to hold a referendum to try and recall Maduro, 53. With that avenue closed, the opposition coalition has raised the stakes, using its power base in congress to begin legal action against Hugo Chavez's unpopular successor. |
| EXCLUSIVE - U.S. House to vote on Iran Sanctions Act renewal as soon as November | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday. Aides said the reauthorization of a "clean" bill, unchanged from the current legislation, was likely to pass the House, but its fate in the Senate was less certain, given Obama administration concerns. The Iran Sanctions Act, or ISA, was first adopted in 1996 to punish investments in Iran's energy industry and deter Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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| New Jersey boys survive 100-foot fall with suicidal father | | | The father, identified as John Spincken, jumped from an overpass along Interstate 187 in Wanaque, New Jersey, sometime after 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on Monday in what police have described as a suicide. Spincken, 37, was found dead at the scene, but his 1- and 3-year-old sons were alive and taken to a hospital for treatment, according to Christopher DePuyt, a police captain in Pequannock, where Spincken lived. |
| U.S. judge approves $14.7 billion deal in VW diesel scandal | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday approved Volkswagen AG's record $14.7 billion settlement with regulators and owners of 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles, and the German automaker said it would begin buying back the cars in mid-November. The action by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco marked a pivotal moment for VW as it aims to move past a scandal that has engulfed the company since it admitted in September 2015 to installing secret software in diesel cars to cheat exhaust emissions tests and make them appear cleaner than they really were. Hinrich Woebcken, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America Inc, called final approval of a settlement first announced in June "an important milestone in our journey to making things right in the United States," and pledged to carry out the terms "as seamlessly as possible." Breyer turned away objections from car owners who thought the settlement did not provide enough money, saying it "adequately and fairly compensates" them.
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| Nurse charged with murdering 8 in Canadian old-age homes | | | By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian nurse was charged on Tuesday with using drugs to murder eight elderly patients at two long-term care facilities, a highly unusual case in a country where such crimes are almost unknown. Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, is accused of killing five women and three men in the Ontario towns of Woodstock and London between 2007 and 2014. "The victims were administered a drug ... there are obviously a number of drugs that are stored and are available in long-term care facilities," Woodstock Police Chief William Renton told a televised news conference. |
| As Calais 'Jungle' closes, women migrants in smaller camps fear influx | |  By Lin Taylor and Sally Hayden NORRENT-FONTES, France (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At a small, muddy makeshift migrant camp in the quiet countryside of Norrent-Fontes, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Calais in northern France, Ethiopian and Eritrean women prepare to cook injera, a type of flatbread, for their lunch. Inside a wooden shack lined with mattresses and belongings hanging in plastic bags overhead, Ethiopian migrant Sara, 26, stirs carrots, lentils and potatoes into a stew she is cooking for the 60 women in the camp. The security Sara feels in Norrent-Fontes contrasts with her experience of the "Jungle" camp outside Calais which the French authorities began clearing on Monday, ahead of its demolition.
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| Vatican and Argentina to release 'Dirty War' archives soon | |  By Juliana Castilla BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The Vatican and Argentina will soon release archives from the country's 1976-83 "Dirty War," when a military dictatorship killed as many as 30,000 people in a crackdown on left-wing opponents, officials said on Tuesday. The archives contain about 3,000 letters between the Roman Catholic Church and family members of the dictatorship's victims. Human rights groups have accused Catholic officials of covering up abuses by the junta when it was in power.
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| U.S. court rules for music companies in MP3tunes copyright case | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that record companies and music publishers that once formed part of EMI Group Ltd could pursue additional copyright infringement claims in a long-running lawsuit over defunct online music storage firm MP3tunes. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, who was ordered to pay $12.2 million after a federal jury in 2014 found him liable for copyright infringement. The rulings marked the latest turn in protracted court battles between the music industry and online content providers. |
| UK lawmaker from PM May's party resigns after Heathrow decision | | | Conservative lawmaker Zac Goldsmith, a vocal opponent of the expansion of Heathrow Airport, on Tuesday notified the government of his decision to resign from parliament, the finance ministry said in a statement. Goldsmith, who represents a constituency near the airport, had previously pledged to quit if Heathrow was given the go ahead to expand -- something which happened earlier on Tuesday. Goldsmith, who unsuccessfully ran for London mayor earlier this year, is expected to run as an independent candidate. |
| Britain, France want U.N. sanctions over Syria toxic gas attacks | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain and France pushed on Tuesday for the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Syrian government forces blamed for three gas attacks by an international inquiry as Syrian ally Russia said it was still studying the findings. The fourth report from the year-long inquiry by the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a text of which was seen by Reuters on Friday, blamed Syrian government forces for a third chlorine gas attack. |
| Airport staff involved in Total CEO plane crash had been drinking - regulator | | | By Andrew Osborn and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Moscow airport workers involved in a plane crash in which Christophe de Margerie, the CEO of Total, was killed had been drinking alcohol, Russia's aviation regulator said on Tuesday, saying the accident could have been avoided altogether. The French energy group's chief executive was killed along with his jet's three-person crew in October 2014 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport when they tried to take off for Paris but collided with a snow plough that had strayed onto the runway. De Margerie oversaw multi-billion-dollar Total investments in Russia and was killed just as the conflict in Ukraine raised tensions with the West to levels not seen since the Cold War and brought down Western sanctions on Russia. |
| U.N. concerned about 'collective punishment' of Arabs in Kirkuk | | | By Samia Nakhoul and Michael Georgy ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The United Nations voiced concern on Tuesday that Kurdish authorities had forced 250 Sunni Arab families to leave Kirkuk after an Islamic State attack on the Kurdish-controlled city, saying the move could be seen as collective punishment. Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, also said that the United Nations expects a mass exodus from Mosul - perhaps within the next few days - as Iraqi army prepares to storm the northern Iraqi city which is still home to over a million people. In the worst case scenario, Grande said it was also possible that Islamic State fighters who have controlled Mosul for more than two years could resort to "rudimentary chemical weapons" to hold back the impending assault. |
| South Africa's Gordhan faces tough balancing act in budget speech | | | By Mfuneko Toyana JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan faces a tough balancing act on Wednesday when he announces a midterm budget meant to boost the sickly economy and show his fraud case is not distracting him. Gordhan has said he plans to reduce government spending, raise taxes and cut the budget deficit to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2016/17 fiscal year, from 3.9 percent in the previous year. "There is currently no space to loosen fiscal policy, or do much expenditure switching, ahead of 2019 national election," said Maya Senussi, senior emerging markets analyst at Roubini Global Economics. |
| Islamic State claims attack on Pakistan police academy, 59 dead | |  By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militant group Islamic State said on Tuesday that fighters loyal to its movement attacked a police training college in Quetta in southwest Pakistan in a raid that officials said killed 59 people and wounded more than 100. Pakistani authorities have blamed another militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), for the late-Monday siege, though the Islamic State claim included photographs of three alleged attackers.
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| British banker's torture video stuns jury in Hong Kong murder trial | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Filming himself torturing and killing a young Indonesian woman, British investment banker Rurik Jutting veered between boasting, remorse and describing the pleasure he derived from sexually brutalising the first of two victims. Footage taken from four hours of recordings on Jutting's mobile phone formed the core of the prosecution opening on the second day of a murder trial in Hong Kong that has grabbed global attention. The 31-year-old Cambridge University graduate has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih, in his luxury high-rise apartment two years ago.
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| Spain's Socialists will not approve new Rajoy-led government's budgets | | | Spain's Socialists will not approve any budgets proposed by an incoming centre-right government, the party's interim head said on Tuesday, highlighting how a policy deadlock could persist with a new administration. Spain's parliament will vote on acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy´s bid for a second term this week to avoid a third election being triggered by an Oct. 31 deadline. Although the Socialists agreed last Sunday to enable a new Rajoy-led minority government and end 10 months of political limbo by abstaining in a confidence vote, they have said they will not give it a free hand to pass legislation. |
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