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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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| Jailed anti-Putin activist says he is being tortured in jail | | | A Moscow court sentenced Ildar Dadin, 34, to three years in prison in December for holding a series of one-man protests, although his term was reduced to two and a half years on appeal. Dadin told his wife he feared he might be murdered to shut him up. |
| Venezuela opposition scraps Maduro trial but presses demands | |  By Diego Oré and Fabian Cambero CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela freed three 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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| Republicans look to seize on revived Clinton email issue in White House, Congress races | |  By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans are seizing on the FBI's revived scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's handling of government emails, hoping it will hurt not just her presidential hopes but Democrats' chances of regaining one or both chambers of Congress in next week's election. Republican lawmakers are threatening to investigate Clinton from her first day in office if the Democrat is elected president on Nov. 8, following the FBI's move to review newly discovered emails that might pertain to a previously completed investigation into Clinton's use of a private server while she was secretary of state. After FBI Director James Comey's announcement last Friday of the latest review, which indicated no wrongdoing on Clinton's part, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and other Republicans have hammered Clinton as scandal-prone, seeking to renew questions about her integrity.
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| U.N. peacekeepers failed to respond to South Sudan hotel attack - inquiry | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers failed to respond to an attack on civilians by South Sudanese government troops at the Hotel Terrain in the capital Juba in July, less than a mile from a U.N. compound, a U.N. inquiry found on Tuesday. Despite multiple requests by the U.N. mission's joint operations center for peacekeepers to respond to the attack on Hotel Terrain, each "contingent turned down the request, indicating their troops were fully committed." After nearly four hours, South Sudan's National Security Service extracted most of the civilians. One of the women managed to call the U.N. mission but the security officer "was dismissive of her appeal for assistance and did not call her back when her phone credit expired." A private security company, dispatched by an aid group, rescued the women the following morning, the inquiry said. |
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