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| Ivory Coast votes in favour of new constitution - elections commission | |  An overwhelming majority of voters in Ivory Coast backed a new constitution in a weekend referendum that was boycotted by the opposition, according to provisional results announced by the elections commission on Tuesday. President Alassane Ouattara had argued that the new charter would help the nation turn the page on a decade-long crisis 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 changes 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. |
| Pakistan's Imran Khan backs off from threat to shut down capital | |  By Asad Hashim and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from a threat to paralyse the capital on Wednesday, a move likely to ease tension that has spilled over into violence in the run-up to the planned protests. Khan's vow to "shut down" Islamabad to press a demand for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign or face a corruption inquiry had sparked a citywide ban on gatherings and the arrests of hundreds of opposition activists accused of defying the ban. Instead of the protest, Khan on Tuesday said he would hold a "celebratory" rally, following a decision by the Supreme Court to pursue a case linked to Sharif.
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| Pakistani opposition retracts claim two supporters killed in clashes with police | | | Pakistani opposition figure Imran Khan and his party late on Tuesday retracted earlier claims that two supporters had been killed in clashes with police in the run-up to a planned "shutdown" of the national capital. A spokeswoman for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) blamed the error on conflicting reports on the ground and an over-reliance on local media. Khan himself tweeted late on Tuesday night "Glad to learn no PTI KP worker died" in the clashes, referring to supporters from his political stronghold of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest. |
| Cosby lawyers seek to bar his testimony from sexual assault trial | |  Bill Cosby's lawyers asked a Pennsylvania state judge on Tuesday to prevent jurors at his sexual assault trial from hearing potentially damaging testimony he gave under oath in 2005. Lawyer Brian McMonagle argued at a hearing in Norristown that a former Montgomery County prosecutor had promised never to prosecute Cosby over allegations by Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at Cosby's alma mater Temple University, that he attacked her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004. Without that assurance, McMonagle said, Cosby would never have agreed to sit for a deposition in Constand's civil lawsuit in which he admitted giving drugs to various women before engaging in sexual acts.
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| Exclusive: U.S. stopped Philippines rifle sale that senator opposed - sources | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department halted the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines' national police after Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it, Senate aides told Reuters on Monday. Aides said Cardin, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reluctant for the United States to provide the weapons given concerns about human rights violations in the Philippines. Police spokesman Dionardo Carlos said the Philippines had yet to be notified about the sale being stopped.
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| Venezuela frees three jailed activists in post-talks gesture | |  By Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has freed three opposition activists jailed for more than a month in a first gesture by President Nicolas Maduro's government after talks began with his foes. The socialist leader met opposition leaders at the weekend in talks convened by the Vatican, but they conditioned further dialogue on the release of political prisoners and a national vote on Maduro's rule. Authorities freed the three activists - Carlos Melo, Andres Moreno and Marco Trejo - on Monday night, but the opposition says another 100 or so Maduro opponents remain in jail.
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