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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. |
| 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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| Brazil plea bargain says interim President Temer sought illegal campaign funds | |  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, made public 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. ...
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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. |
| Moscow summons French ambassador over "anti-Russian" Euro 2016 | |  By Philip O'Connor and Jack Stubbs LILLE/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Soccer 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. Authorities had flooded the city with police ahead of the next matches for Russia and England in the soccer tournament.
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| Orlando gunman's wife becomes focus of investigation | |  By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub could face criminal charges as early as Wednesday after a federal grand jury was convened to study possible wrongdoing by her, a law enforcement source said. 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. Sunday's shooting in Florida also stirred fresh debate on gun purchases in the United States, after it emerged that Mateen was legally able to buy an assault rile even though the FBI had investigated him in the past for possible ties to Islamist militant groups.
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| 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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| Four Russian soccer fans to be expelled from France | |  Four Russian football fans will be deported from France after being detained in the northern France city of Lille ahead of the Euro 2016 match between Russia and Slovakia, local authorities said on Wednesday. "Two of the Russians were arrested yesterday evening during a fight in Lille and two after being found drunk in a car with weapons," a spokesperson at the Lille prefecture said. Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned the French ambassador in Moscow over the detention of Russian soccer fans.
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| Orlando shooting probe focuses on gunman's wife | |  By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub could face criminal charges as early as Wednesday after a federal grand jury was convened to study possible wrongdoing by her, a law enforcement source said. 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. U.S. Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a briefing on the investigation into Sunday's massacre, told CNN it appeared Salman had "some knowledge" of what was going on.
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| Pistorius to be sentenced on July 6, judge says | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on July 6, the South African High Court judge overseeing the case said at the end of three days of hearings. The 29-year-old Paralympic gold medallist, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon-fibre prosthetics he wore when racing, faces a minimum of 15 years in jail after his manslaughter conviction for the 2013 killing was upgraded on appeal. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Writing by James Macharia; editing by John Stonestreet)
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| Falluja abuses hard to prevent, not systematic - Iraqi minister | |  By Stephen Kalin and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's interior minister said it was difficult to prevent attacks against people fleeing the Islamic State-held city of Falluja, but denied that such actions were systematic and pledged to punish anyone proven guilty of abuses. A regional governor said this week that 49 Sunni men had been executed after surrendering to a Shi'ite militia supporting the army offensive to retake Falluja, and more than 600 had gone missing between June 3-5 after escaping the city. Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghabban, a senior member of the powerful Shi'ite Muslim political party the Badr Organisation, said paramilitary fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) had been referred to court over the alleged violations but that no police personnel appeared to be involved.
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