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| 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. |
| Venezuela frees three jailed activists in post-talks gesture | |  By Diego Oré and Fabian Cambero 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 to resolve a political standoff. The socialist leader met opposition leaders at the weekend in talks convened by the Vatican, but they had conditioned further dialogue on the release of political prisoners and a national vote on Maduro's rule. In a further sign of easing tensions, three sources at the opposition-led National Assembly said a political trial of Maduro, due to culminate on Tuesday, would be suspended to give time for the talks to continue.
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| 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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| U.N. peacekeepers failed to respond to South Sudan hotel attack - inquiry | | | 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. "During the attack, civilians were subjected to and witnessed gross human rights violations, including murder, intimidation, sexual violence and acts amounting to torture perpetrated by armed government soldiers," the inquiry found. The independent inquiry assessed the response by the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as UNMISS, to the outbreak of several days of fighting in Juba between South Sudan President Salva Kiir's troops and soldiers loyal to his rival Riek Machar. |
| 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. |
| Ryan hits Clinton "scandal baggage," targets congressional races | |  By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Hillary Clinton presidency would bog down in "scandal baggage," U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday, adding he was focused on defending Republican majorities in Congress in the Nov. 8 election. Republicans have hammered the Democratic candidate as scandal-prone since FBI Director James Comey revived questions about her handling of emails while she was secretary of state. It's always a scandal one after another, then there's an investigation," Ryan, the most senior elected Republican in the country, told Fox News in an interview.
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| Fans welcome back Kim Kardashian after social media silence | |  (Reuters) - Reality star Kim Kardashian has returned to social media, posting on Facebook for the first time since a robbery in Paris last month forced her to retreat from her busy public life. Kardashian, who grew a multimillion-dollar brand through her prolific Twitter, Instagram and other social media postings that attract tens of millions of followers, put up three Facebook entries late on Monday, but made no reference to the robbery at gunpoint in Paris. Instead she posted a link to old Kardashian Halloween family videos, linked to Halloween costume ideas from her personal assistant, and shared what appeared to be an old photo of herself sitting and looking at her cell phone.
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| Hong Kong leader raises prospect of controversial legal request to Beijing | |  Hong Kong's leader has signalled he might ask Beijing to use a rarely invoked power to interpret the city's Basic Law mini-constitution to end a political crisis over a fledgling independence movement. Any such move will spark fears for Hong Kong's autonomy and vaunted legal system, officials, judges and lawyers say privately. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's remarks on Tuesday come ahead of a Hong Kong government-requested legal hearing that could effectively bar two recently elected pro-independence lawmakers from the legislature of the global financial hub.
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| Ousted Tata chairman denies mishandling DoCoMo dispute | |  By Aditi Shah and Abhirup Roy MUMBAI (Reuters) - Cyrus Mistry, who was ousted as chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons last week, said "insinuations" that he mishandled a dispute with Japanese telecoms firm NTT DoCoMo Inc were baseless, ratcheting up a war of words with the Tata board. People close to the matter have said one of the reasons for Mistry's dismissal was his handling of a long-running dispute with DoCoMo, Tata Sons' partner in a telecoms joint venture in India. Mistry's office said in a statement that all decisions related to the dispute were taken with the unanimous approval of the Tata Sons board, and that of Tata family patriarch Ratan Tata, and Tata trustee N.A. Soonawalla.
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| Exclusive - India's tobacco industry, government face off ahead of WHO conference | | | By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's $11 billion (9 billion pound) tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a WHO conference in New Delhi next month, but officials say the government will not bow to "pressure tactics". Delegates from about 180 countries will attend the Nov. 7-12 World Health Organization (WHO) conference on the sole global anti-tobacco treaty: the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In force since 2005, the treaty aims to deter tobacco use that kills around 6 million people a year. |
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