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| Factbox - Eyes on U.S. terrorism watchlists after Orlando shootings | |  As facts emerge about Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, questions have arisen about how well-known he was to U.S. intelligence agencies. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Monday that Mateen was on a watchlist between May 2013 and March 2014 while he was under investigation after claiming a connection to or support for multiple Islamist extremist groups, including al Qaeda, Hezbollah, al-Nusra and Islamic State. The FBI maintains three watchlists and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence runs one database.
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| Turkish president believes EU visa liberalisation can be agreed | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he believed it was possible to achieve a positive outcome on EU visa liberalisation, which would take into account Turkey's stance on fighting terrorism. "I believe we can get a positive result on this issue which would take into consideration Turkey's sensitivity about the struggle with terrorism," Erdogan said in a speech to ambassadors in the capital Ankara. A deal to give Turks visa-free travel to Europe in return for stemming the flow of migrants to the bloc has been held up by a disagreement over Turkey's anti-terror laws, which some in Europe see as too broad.
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| Moscow summons French ambassador over 'anti-Russian' Euro 2016 | |  By Philip O'Connor and Jack Stubbs LILLE/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Football rivalry and fan violence spilled into global politics as Moscow summoned the French ambassador over detentions of Russians at Euro 2016 and warned an "anti-Russian" mood could even damage relations between Russia and France. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused other countries' football fans of "absolutely provocative actions" at the tournament, such as trampling on the Russian flag. The epicentre of football violence at Euro 2016 meanwhile moved from the south of France to the far north.
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| Sig Sauer, maker of Orlando gunman's weapon, is expanding rapidly in U.S. | |  By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Sig Sauer Inc, maker of the semi-automatic rifle believed to have been used in the Orlando shooting rampage, has been growing rapidly in the United States, with plans to sell more silencers and ammunition while vying for a contract to supply several hundred thousand handguns to the U.S. military. U.S. firearms and ammunition sales typically surge after a mass shooting because of fears there will be new laws curbing ownership of handguns and rifles. While Sig Sauer's MCX rifle could receive similar treatment, its starting retail price of about $1,900 could dampen demand.
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| Trump backs surveillance of mosques despite criticism of rhetoric | |  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday called for surveillance of mosques as part of U.S. law enforcement efforts to prevent terrorism, and stood by his remarks on banning Muslim immigrants, which others in his party have criticized. Trump repeated his call for a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States after a U.S.-born Muslim, the son of Afghan immigrants, fatally shot 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early on Sunday. The New York real estate developer said that while the Florida gunman was born in the United States, "his parents weren't and his ideas weren't born here." "We have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques and we have to check other places because this is a problem that, if we don't solve it, it's going to eat our country alive," Trump said at a rally in Atlanta.
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| Czech minister shakes government with swift approval of police reform | | | By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech interior minister on Wednesday signed a contested plan merging top anti-corruption units in the police that is at the centre of a row shaking the centre-left government. The plan to reshuffle police top structures, bringing together organised and economic crime units, is testing the three-party coalition after more than two years of relatively smooth rule. Finance Minister Andrej Babis's ANO party has rejected the plan and said it would seek changes to the coalition agreement after the reform was signed over its objections. |
| Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after latest unrest over food | |  Venezuelan security forces have arrested at least 400 people after the latest bout of looting and food riots in the crisis-hit OPEC member country, local officials said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, violence engulfed the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana as looters swarmed through dozens of shops and security forces struggled to maintain control. "I have no doubt they paid them, this was planned." Nelson Moreno, governor of Anzoategui state, which neighbours Sucre, said eight people were also arrested on Tuesday in "irregular" situations, a term that usually refers to looting.
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| Brazil plea bargain says interim President Temer sought illegal campaign funds | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's interim President Michel Temer sought campaign contributions stemming from a graft scheme at state oil company Petrobras for his party's 2012 mayoral candidate in Sao Paulo, according to a plea bargain deal by a former Petrobras executive. The plea deal by Sergio Machado, posted by the supreme court in a national legal database on Wednesday, said the campaign contribution from building firm Queiroz Galvao was made legally but was the result of a political kickback from contracts handed out by Petrobras . The allegations are the first involving Temer in the sweeping corruption probe of Petrobras, known as "Operation Car Wash," which has led to the arrest of dozens of business executives and politicians.
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| U.S. Vice President Biden to travel to Orlando with Obama Thursday | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will join President Barack Obama in a trip to Orlando, Florida on Thursday to meet with families of people killed and wounded on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Timothy Gardner; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Hindu teacher assaulted in latest attack on Bangladesh minorities | | | A Hindu college teacher was seriously injured on Wednesday when he was assaulted by suspected Islamists, police said, the latest in a string of attacks on minority members and liberal activists in the mainly Muslim nation. The attack came amid a week-long crackdown on Islamists begun on Friday, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vowed to halt a wave of targeted killings, in which more than 11,000 people have been arrested. Ripon Chakraborty, a mathematics teacher, was attacked by three knife-wielding assailants on Wednesday when he opened the door at his home in Madaripur, 70 km of the capital, Dhaka, police said. |
| France threatens ban on union protests after 'unbearable violence' | |  By Leigh Thomas and Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - French leaders told the hardline CGT labour union on Wednesday it would be denied permission for further street rallies unless it rooted out troublemakers, a day after violent battles between masked youths and police during protest marches in Paris. Prime Minister Manual Valls accused the CGT of doing little to rein in hundreds of rioters who ransacked shopfronts, tore up street paving and smashed the windows of a children's hospital during running battles on Tuesday. President Francois Hollande told ministers street rallies that the CGT has been organising in protest against a labour law reform would not be permitted unless the union provided better security guarantees, a government spokesman said.
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| FBI questions wife of gunman in Orlando massacre | |  By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators have questioned the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub, the FBI said on Wednesday, and a law enforcement source said she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing. Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, knew of his plans for what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, said the law enforcement source, who has been briefed on the matter. "With respect to the wife, I can tell you that is only one of many interviews that we have done and will continue to do in this investigation," FBI Special Agent Ron Hopper told a news conference.
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| Trump floats terrorism 'watch list' gun curbs, pressure mounts on Republicans | |  By Emily Stephenson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will meet with the leading U.S. gun rights group about preventing people on a government terrorism "watch list" from buying guns, as some fellow Republicans considered new gun restrictions following the Orlando massacre. The long-simmering issue of gun control gained new urgency after a man who had been on one of the terrorism watch lists killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub early on Sunday. The National Rifle Association, a politically influential lobbying group that claims more than 4 million members and has worked with congressional Republicans in thwarting gun control legislation, said in a statement it was "happy to meet" with Trump, who it endorsed for president on May 20.
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| Pacing feet, rants, executions - inside the Orlando killer's rampage | |  "Move away from the walls! Move away from the walls!" And she saw Mateen's feet backing towards the stall. "Bow! Bow! Bow!" It was near dawn on Sunday, three hours after Mateen had begun his savage assault on the popular gay dancing spot.
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| Women's football "lesbianism" row reflects homophobia in Nigeria - activists | | | By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nigerian gay rights activists have condemned a senior football official after he said sponsors were reluctant to back women's football in the country because of a misconception that female footballers are "synonymous with lesbianism". Seyi Akinwunmi, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) vice-president, blamed lesbians last weekend for the recent decline of the national women's team, according to Nigerian media. Known as the Super Falcons, the Nigerian women's team are the most successful African nation in women's football, but failed to qualify for this year's Olympic Games in Brazil. |
| Iran accuses British-Iranian woman of trying to "overthrow" government | | | The Iranian Revolutionary Guard accused a British-Iranian aid worker who has been detained since early April of trying to "overthrow" the government in a statement published on Wednesday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a 37-year-old program coordinator with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a London-based charity. Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials detained Zaghari-Ratcliffe on April 3 when she arrived at an airport to fly back to Britain, according to her husband Richard Ratcliffe. "This person had membership in foreign companies and organizations and planned and carried out media and cyber projects with the intent of a soft overthrow of the holy Islamic Republic government," the statement said. |
| French police fire tear gas at English soccer fans in Lille | |  French police used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse English soccer fans on Wednesday near the train station in the northern city of Lille, one of the venues of the Euro 2016 tournament, a police source said.
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| Pistorius walks on stumps in court as seeks to avoid jail | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius shuffled through a Pretoria court without his prosthetic legs on Wednesday to show how vulnerable he is as the Paralympian seeks to avoid prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius has always said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home, killing her almost instantly. During his closing arguments, defence lawyer Barry Roux asked the gold medallist, known as the "Blade Runner" for his carbon-fibre prosthetics, to walk on his stumps to show the difficulty he faced dealing with the threat of an intruder.
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