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| U.N. rights boss Zeid deplores Orlando shooting | | | The top U.N. human rights official on Monday condemned the deadly attack by a gunman targeting people at a homosexual bar in Orlando, Florida. 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 in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. "I also condemn with the greatest possible force the outrageous attacks by violent extremists on innocent people, chosen at random, or because of their presumed beliefs, or opinions, or - as we saw yesterday - their sexual orientation," Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein told the start of a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. |
| Islamic State claims responsibility for Orlando nightclub shooting - Albayan radio | |  Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for the shooting that killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, in an official broadcast on the group's Albayan Radio. "One of the Caliphate's soldiers in America carried out a security invasion where he was able to enter a crusader gathering at a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida ... where he killed and injured more than a hundred of them before he was killed," the group said in its broadcast.
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| Cambodia PM shrugs off EU aid threat, opposition supporters jailed | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday shrugged off European parliament threats to review aid if his administration continues to harass political opponents on the same day as a court jailed three more opposition activists. The European Union has called on Hun Sen to halt "judicial harassment" of adversaries and the United Nations has also called for dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition as tension mounts in the Southeast Asian country ahead of a general election in 2018. The European parliament said in a resolution on Thursday that aid worth around $461 million should be dependent on improvements in human rights and called on authorities drop all charges against opposition leader Sam Rainsy who has been in exile since late last year to avoid arrest.
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| Families brace for worst as Florida gay club victims identified after mass shooting | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Family and friends of victims trapped in a gay nightclub by a gunman pledging loyalty to Islamic State waited anxiously on Monday to find out whether their loved ones were among the 50 people killed and 53 wounded in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The FBI and other law enforcement authorities were poring over evidence that could explain the motives for the rampage in Orlando, Florida, a massacre that President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate. The gunman, Omar Mateen, a New York-born Florida resident and U.S. citizen who was the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armored cars after a three-hour siege.
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| 'Blade Runner' Pistorius faces sentencing for murdering girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius appeared in a South African court on Monday to be sentenced for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The 29-year-old, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon-fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence and cannot appeal after the country's top court ruled in March that he had exhausted all his legal options. Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, initially received a five-year sentence for culpable homicide, South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter.
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| Bahrain arrests prominent campaigner Nabeel Rajab - wife | |  Bahraini police detained Nabeel Rajab, one of the most prominent rights activists in the Arab world, his wife said on Monday on her Twitter account, nearly a year after he was freed from prison by royal pardon. Sumaya Rajab said security forces searched the family house before they arrested her husband. Rajab, founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, played a leading role in Shi'ite Muslim-led demonstrations in the 2011 demonstrations demanding reforms in the Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab kingdom.
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| North Korea mounts long-running hack of South Korea computers, says Seoul | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday. South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by the North after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February that led to new U.N. sanctions. The North has always denied wrongdoing.
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| Oscar Pistorius arrives in court for sentencing after murder conviction | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius arrived in court on Monday for sentencing after he was found guilty for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, 29, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon-fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence and cannot appeal after the country's top court ruled in March that he had exhausted all his legal options. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by James Macharia)
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| Same-sex kiss removed from Les Miserables musical in Singapore | | | By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore organisers of the musical "Les Miserables" have cut a scene in which two male actors kiss after complaints from the public in the conservative city state where sex between men is illegal. The show's organiser, Mediacorp VizPro, removed the kiss after being told by the state regulator, the Media Development Authority (MDA), that it violated the show's "General" rating. "The inclusion of this particular scene meant that the performance had exceeded the 'General' rating issued," the MDA said in a statement. |
| Bangladesh arrests over 100 Islamists in crackdown after killings | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested at least 103 militants as part of a broad crackdown on Islamists after a wave of deadly attacks on members of minority groups and liberal activists, police said on Monday. In addition to the arrest of the Islamist militants, about 6,000 suspected criminals have been arrested since law enforcement agencies began a week-long drive on Friday to halt a series of targeted killings in the mainly Muslim nation. All the arrests were made on specific charges, national police chief A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque said, relating to firearms, narcotics and other offences. |
| Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of attacking its territory | | | Eritrea's government has accused Ethiopia of launching an attack on its territory, but the extent of the assault was still unclear and there was no immediate response from Ethiopia. Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia in 1991, fought a bloody border war with its larger neighbour between 1998 and 2000. "The TPLF regime has today, Sunday 12 June 2016, unleashed an attack against Eritrea on the Tsorona Central Front," the Information Ministry said in a statement around midnight. |
| China condemns protection of corrupt officials in name of human rights | | | The top anti-graft body in China, which is pushing for the extradition of corruption suspects who have fled abroad, condemned "some people" who protect corrupt officials in the name of human rights, but did not name the targets of its ire. China has sought increased international cooperation in its "Fox Hunt" campaign to track down officials and business executives suspected of corruption who have fled overseas. |
| Exiled tycoon Mallya: India wrong to sequester some assets in graft case | |  Exiled tycoon Vijay Mallya said on Sunday that Indian authorities trying to recover about $1.4 billion from his collapsed Kingfisher Airlines had no legal grounds for sequestering certain assets in a money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) tweeted on Saturday that it had "attached" properties worth 14.11 billion Indian rupees ($210.78 million) in the case involving a loan from state-owned IDBI Bank to Kingfisher to buy properties abroad. The assets were purchased several years before Kingfisher was launched, Mallya said in a statement to the media on Sunday.
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| Gay Americans are shaken, unbowed by nightclub attack | |  By Jonathan Allen and Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - For many Americans, gay bars and nightclubs have long served as a place of refuge, a carefree place filled with like-minded souls away from the relatives, employers or anyone else who might judge them disapprovingly, or worse. The massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida was seen as a jarring reminder of the discrimination they can still face, giving some renewed cause to march through city streets on Sunday in the Gay Pride events that fill the June calendar. What compelled Omar Mateen to kill people dancing and mingling at Orlando's Pulse nightclub in the early hours of Sunday in the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history is still being investigated.
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| Father of Orlando shooter hosted political show on Afghan-Pakistan issues | |  By Jonathan Landay and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Afghan-born father of Omar Mateen, the man police identified as the gunman who killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Florida on Sunday, is a fringe political commentator who rails against Pakistan and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Seddique Mateen, who public records indicate is the father of Omar Mateen, had an occasional television show on a U.S.-based Afghan satellite channel for about three years, and has continued to post political commentaries on his Facebook page as recently as Sunday. Omar Khatab, the owner of the California-based satellite channel Payam-e-Afghan, said in an interview that Seddique Mateen occasionally bought time on his channel to broadcast a show called "Durand Jirga," which focused in part on the disputed Durand Line, the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan demarcated by the Indian subcontinent's former British rulers.
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| Insight: Whisked to Rome from Khartoum: people-smuggling kingpin or wrong man? | |  Two weeks later, he was flown to Italy in what Italian and British officials hailed as a rare blow against human trafficking. The man whisked to Rome on a special plane, they say, is impoverished 29-year-old refugee Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, a one-time carpenter with no criminal background, who was living quietly in Khartoum seeking to join his siblings in the United States when he was snatched from the Asmara Corner Cafe. The man's Italian lawyer, Michele Calantropo, who met him for the first time in Rome on Friday, says his client is Berhe, not Mered, and he is innocent.
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