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| Stanford sex assault victim named a Glamour woman of the year | | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:34 AM | |
| | By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Glamour magazine on Tuesday named the woman who was sexually assaulted by a former Stanford University swimmer one of its women of the year. The woman, who remains anonymous, rose to national prominence after BuzzFeed published a letter she wrote ahead of Brock Turner's sentencing, which went viral and drew support from celebrities and politicians, including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Glamour published a new essay written by the victim, her first public comments since Turner was sentenced to six months in county jail and released in September after serving just half the time. |
| Failure to secure forest dweller rights risks carbon emissions spike, report says | | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:28 AM | |
| | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Securing the land rights of indigenous people and forest dwellers is crucial to keeping global rises in temperature below the agreed 2 degree Celsius threshold, according to a report. Community forest lands from Brazil to Indonesia contain at least 54,546 million metric tons of carbon, equivalent to four times the global carbon emissions in 2014, according to analysis by the Rights and Resources Initiative, Woods Hole Research Center and World Resources Institute. |
| U.S. charges seven over U.S.-Mexico sex trafficking ring | | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:24 AM | |
| | U.S. authorities have charged seven men with sex trafficking after a crackdown against a gang operating across the U.S.-Mexico border for at least 16 years, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Six suspected members of a sex trafficking organization known as STO were arrested last week and a seventh man remains at large, said U.S. Attorney General Lorreta Lynch and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. From at least 2000, STO members used romantic promises, physical and sexual violence, threats, lies and coercion to make women and girls work in prostitution in both Mexico and the United States, the Justice Department said in a statement. |
| Wife of Orlando mass murderer denies advance knowledge of attack | | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 12:21 AM | |
| | Noor Salman, in her first extensive public comments since the June 12 shooting rampage that ended with police killing her husband, Omar Mateen, also said he physically abused her during their five-year marriage, even while she was pregnant. U.S. investigators questioned Salman within days of the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A law enforcement source at the time told Reuters that Salman knew of Mateen's plans for the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. |
| Venezuela opposition scraps Maduro trial but presses demands | |  By Diego Oré and Fabian Cambero CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela freed four activists and the opposition postponed a symbolic trial in congress of President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday even as it warned it would quit Vatican-backed talks in a matter of days if tough conditions were not met. Maduro met with opposition leaders on Sunday for the start of talks to ease a political standoff between the ruling Socialist Party and the opposition-led parliament during a spiraling economic crisis. As well as suspending its parliamentary proceedings against Maduro, the opposition also agreed to postpone a march planned for Thursday to the presidential palace that the government had described as part of a coup plot.
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| South Korea's ruling party in turmoil ahead of election | |  By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - The scandal engulfing South Korean President Park Geun-hye has plunged her conservative Saenuri Party into turmoil and cast the country's political landscape into disarray as it heads into an election year. Over 20 Saenuri lawmakers formed a coalition this week calling for the party's leadership to step down.
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| U.S. floats idea of 'humanitarian parole' for Uzbekistan prisoner | | | The United States has suggested Uzbekistan grant "humanitarian parole" for a former opposition politician who has spent 22 years in prison and whose sentence was recently extended by another three years, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday. Samandar Kukanov, 72, a former parliamentary deputy, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1994 on embezzlement charges, and in 2014 his term was prolonged for two more years for a breach of prison rules, according to local rights group Ezgulik. Asked if the United States had called for Kukanov's release, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal told Reuters: "We have." "We have raised with them the idea of humanitarian parole as a way of providing an opportunity for these individuals who have spent an extraordinary amount of time in prison, who are towards the end of their life, to be able to be home with their families," she said in an interview. |
| Ivory Coast approves new constitution, opposition claims fraud | |  By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Voters in Ivory Coast overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a weekend referendum, according to provisional results announced by the elections commission on Tuesday, though opposition groups denounced the turnout figure as fraudulent. President Alassane Ouattara had argued that the new charter would help the nation turn the page on a decade-long crisis that was capped by a 2011 civil war and create the stability needed to cement its status as Africa's rising economic star. The results showed about 93 percent of voters backed the text on a turnout of around 42 percent, commission president Youssouf Bakayoko said on state-owned television.
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