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| After Florida shooting, Trump hardens stance on Muslims | |  By Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson MANCHESTER, N.H./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump on Monday placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and "trying to take over our children." The presumptive Republican presidential nominee drew on the country's deadliest mass shooting to sharpen his vow to ban Muslim immigrants, proposing that the United States suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is "a proven history of terrorism. ...
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| More than half of Orlando shooting dead were Puerto Rican - PR govt | |  (Reuters) - More than half of the fatal victims from the shooting in Orlando were of Puerto Rican descent, Rolando Padua, deputy secretary of state for the Puerto Rican government, told Reuters on Monday. "What they have informed us so far is that 90 percent of the victims are Latinos and that more than half of the dead victims are of Puerto Rican origin," Padua said in a brief telephone interview.
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| Officer testifies van driver left detainee Freddie Gray unattended | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The Baltimore police van driver who transported black detainee Freddie Gray left him unattended after the ride in which he broke his neck, a police officer testified on Monday at the murder trial of a third officer in Gray's death. Prosecutors allege that Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 46, gave Gray a "rough ride" or drove erratically after Gray was arrested in April 2015. Gray's death triggered rioting and protests and stoked a U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities.
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| #TwoMenKissing spreads love in defiance of Orlando killer | |  The Afghan-born father of Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old gunman who killed 49 people at the packed Pulse nightclub in Florida on Sunday, told NBC News that his son had become angry recently after seeing two men kissing in Miami. The interview prompted Twitter user Shadi Petosky (@shadipetosky), who identifies herself as a showrunner for Amazon, to post a collage of male couples kissing. The hashtag #TwoMenKissing began to trend on Twitter on Monday and also crossed over to Facebook, where more than 1000 people were discussing it.
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| Victim's last Snapchat starts with dancing, ends in gunfire | |  By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amanda Alvear's last Snapchat video post begins with a shot of her on the dance floor of an Orlando nightclub surrounded by friends. Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Alvear's friend Mercedez Flores, 26, who worked for Target, also was on the list.
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| Democrats link guns to terrorism, turn to gun control after Orlando | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama lamented the ease with which extremists can get firearms in the United States as "crazy" and Hillary Clinton said "terrorists" were using assault weapons to kill Americans, as Democrats on Monday renewed an uphill push for gun control after the Orlando massacre. The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in which 49 people at a gay nightclub were killed and 53 wounded, reignited a debate in Washington over what types of guns should not be easily available and what types of buyers ought to be prohibited.
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| Hispanics shaken by heavy toll at Orlando club massacre | |  By Letitia Stein and Fiona Ortiz ORLANDO, Fla./CHICAGO (Reuters) - It was a carefree "vacilón" - a pumped up party - at Orlando's Pulse nightclub on Saturday night, full of Latinos dancing to salsa, bachata and thumping reggaeton at the gay club's Latin music night. Most of the 49 people shot dead by a single gunman were Latino, more than half of them of Puerto Rican origin and at least three of them Mexican citizens, according to officials. For Puerto Rico, it was the latest and most tragic in a litany of hardships to afflict the U.S. territory, ranging from a crippling $70 billion debt to an exodus of its youth to the United States in search of jobs.
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| U.N. Security Council condemns Orlando gay nightclub massacre | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned the mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub as the United States urged dozens of United Nations member states to drop their opposition to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. The 15-member council denounced the attack "targeting persons as a result of their sexual orientation" in a U.S.-drafted statement, overcoming standard resistance at the U.N. to such language by African and Muslim states, as well as Russia.
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| Dalai Lama urges Myanmar's Suu Kyi to ease Rohingya tensions | |  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. The Tibetan spiritual leader said he had stressed the issue in meetings with Suu Kyi, who came to power in April in the newly created role of state counsellor in Myanmar's first democratically elected government in five decades. "She already has the Nobel Peace Prize, a Nobel Laureate, so morally she should ... make efforts to reduce this tension between the Buddhist community and Muslim community," he told Reuters in an interview in Washington.
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| Orlando gunman likely 'radicalised' through internet, U.S. says | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Monday they had found no direct links between Islamic State militants and the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, describing him as a homegrown extremist who was inspired by radical Islamist groups. The FBI and other agencies were still looking at evidence inside the club and on the closed-off streets around the Pulse nightclub, where New York-born Omar Mateen perpetrated the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Mateen, 29, the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armoured cars early on Sunday morning after a three-hour siege.
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| Trump fights release of video testimony in fraud case | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday filed court papers opposing the release of video showing him being questioned under oath about his Trump University series of real estate seminars. The video is "unnecessary, irrelevant and unjustified," lawyers for Trump wrote in court papers filed in federal court in San Diego. Trump may also have concerns about the impact the videos could have outside the courtroom.
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| FBI's Comey - Orlando shooter claimed connection to multiple groups | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The gunman responsible for killing 49 people at a Florida nightclub claimed a connection to or support for multiple Islamist extremist groups, including al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, al-Nusra and Islamic State, FBI Director James Comey told reporters on Monday. Speaking to a 911 dispatcher during the siege at the Orlando, Florida, nightclub, Mateen expressed solidarity with an al-Nusra suicide bomber as well as the Islamic State.
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| U.S. firearm makers' shares jump after Orlando shooting | |  Smith & Wesson Holding Corp's shares rose as much as 11.6 percent, while those of Sturm Ruger & Co Inc jumped 10.7 percent. A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida early on Sunday. The rampage, by New York-born Florida resident Omar Mateen, was denounced by President Barack Obama, who had previously blasted Congressional inaction on gun control.
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| Three Mexicans killed in Orlando shooting, Mexican president says | | | Three people of Mexican origin were among the 49 killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Monday. In a separate statement, Mexico's foreign ministry said the three were Mexican nationals and said it was trying to confirm with U.S. authorities if a fourth Mexican was among those killed. "This is an act truly filled with horror, terror and hatred," Pena Nieto said. |
| Thousands attend London vigil to mourn Orlando shooting victims | |  Thousands of people held a two-minute silence at a vigil in London's Soho neighbourhood on Monday to remember the victims of a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. At least 49 people were killed and 53 others were wounded at the Pulse nightclub on Sunday before the gunman, who had pledged loyalty to Islamic State, was shot dead by police. London Mayor Sadiq Khan was in attendance.
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