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| Russia threatened with Euro 2016 disqualification over fan violence | |  By Julien Pretot and Mathias Galante PARIS/NICE (Reuters) - Russia will be thrown out of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament if there is any repeat of the violence by Russian fans which marred the end of the match against England, UEFA said on Tuesday. UEFA imposed a suspended disqualification on the Russian Football Union (RFU) in response to the attacks by masked Russian supporters on England fans at the end of the 1-1 Group B draw at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday. The governing body said the disqualification would take effect if the fans caused more trouble inside a stadium at any of Russia's remaining matches.
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| U.S. seeks motive for Orlando shooter's deadly rampage | |  U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating reports that the man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando may have been gay himself, but not openly so, two officials said on Tuesday, with one describing the massacre as a possible "self-hate crime." Omar Mateen, who was shot dead by police after a three-hour standoff early on Sunday, left behind a tangled trail of possible motives. Federal investigators have said Mateen was likely self-radicalized and there is no evidence that he received any instruction or aid from outside groups such as Islamic State. Mateen, 29, was a U.S. citizen, born in New York of Afghan immigrant parents.
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| Obama says curbs on assault weapons could help prevent attacks like Orlando | |  President Barack Obama said on Tuesday lawmakers could help prevent attacks like the one that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by making it more difficult for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on assault weapons. Speaking after a briefing from top national security officials, Obama said the United States is doing everything it can to prevent attacks against the U.S. homeland and is taking the fight to Islamic State, killing more than 120 of the group's leaders. Obama was briefed by his top national security officials including FBI Director James Comey, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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| Vatican leaks trial to end in July, key defendant gives birth | | | The trial of five people charged over the leak of sensitive Vatican documents was adjourned on Tuesday until early next month, when court officials said it is expected to end. The case centres on the publication last year of two books based on leaked documents that depict a Vatican plagued by graft in which Pope Francis faces stiff resistance to his agenda. Lawyers for a key defendant, Francesca Chaouqui, 35, told the court that she had given birth to a boy on Tuesday morning. |
| EU envoy to Turkey resigns amid tensions over migration deal | |  By Tulay Karadeniz and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - The European Union's top envoy to Turkey has resigned, EU officials said on Tuesday, after displaying what a Turkish minister said was disrespect for national values and for President Tayyip Erdogan. The resignation of Hansjoerg Haber was a further sign of strained ties as Brussels tries to keep on track a landmark deal credited with curbing the flow of migrants to Europe. It comes a month after Haber was summoned by Turkey's foreign ministry over comments critical of Ankara's handling of the migration accord.
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| French police couple killed in attack claimed by Islamic State | |  By Chine Labbé and Simon Carraud PARIS/LES MUREAUX (Reuters) - A Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and killed his partner, who also worked for the police, in an attack the government denounced as "an abject act of terrorism". Larossi Abballa, 25, also took the couple's three-year-old son hostage in Monday night's attack. Born in France of Moroccan origin, Abballa was jailed in 2013 for helping Islamist militants go to Pakistan and had been under security service surveillance, including wiretaps, at the time of the attack, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
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| Orlando gunman's wife tried to dissuade him from attack -MSNBC | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with her comments to the FBI. The wife of the 29-year-old gunman, Omar Mateen, is cooperating with federal investigators, MSNBC reported. (Reporting by Washington newsroom) |
| Teenagers' escape from Indian spinning mill prompts crackdown on labour abuses | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tamil Nadu has launched a crackdown on factories violating labour laws after two teenage girls scaled a wall to escape from a spinning mill where they were forced to work 12-hour shifts and subjected to abuse, officials said. "But because of excessive bleeding they became unconscious and were found two hours later by residents from nearby villagers," the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union said in a report. A senior local official said an investigation had been ordered into the incident with the state labour department initiating a drive to check working conditions in mills across western Tamil Nadu, a hub for India's $42 billion-a-year textile and clothing export industry. |
| Russia putting "comprehensive security" in place for 2018 - FIFA | |  Global soccer body FIFA said that World Cup 2018 host nation Russia was putting in place a "comprehensive security concept" to prevent a repetition of the hooliganism which has marred the European championship in France. Russia fans have been at the centre of the troubles and tournament organisers UEFA imposed a suspended disqualification and a 150,000 euro ($168,300.00) fine on the Russian Football Union (RFU) on Tuesday. The incidents have raised more questions about security at the World Cup in two years' time, adding to existing concerns about racism at Russian football matches.
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| Trial begins of German man accused in murder of migrant boy | | | Prosecutors opened their case on Tuesday against a 33-year-old man accused of killing two children, one of them a 4-year-old migrant boy kidnapped from Berlin's main migrant registration centre - two murders that outraged the German public last year. The handcuffed defendant, named only as Silvio S., confessed last year to killing both Mohamed Januzi, a Bosnian boy whose family was seeking asylum in Germany, and six-year-old Elias from Potsdam near Berlin, according to German prosecutors. Aldiana Januzi, the Bosnian boy's 26-year-old mother, testified that she had repeatedly warned her son to beware of adults with bad intentions, German media have reported. |
| Stolen marble head of Rome's first emperor returns to Italy | |  A marble sculpture of the head of Rome's first emperor was welcomed back to the Italian capital on Tuesday, some 40 years after it was stolen and trafficked out of the country. The portrayal of Augustus, one of the earliest known depictions of a man born more than 2,000 years ago, is the latest artefact from Italy's ancient sites to be repatriated after being illegally smuggled abroad. The phenomenon became so widespread that Italy set up a police unit dedicated to tracing the pieces.
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| Bahrain court closes down main opposition group - lawyer | | | By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court ordered the suspension of the country's main opposition group al-Wefaq on Tuesday, its lawyer said, in what appeared to be an escalating campaign against dissent in the Western-allied Gulf Arab kingdom. Lawyer Abdallah al-Shamlawi said the court also set an October date for a hearing into dissolving al-Wefaq. Sunni-ruled Bahrain was rocked by mass protests by majority Shi'ite Muslims in 2011, when uprisings shook the Arab world, demanding a bigger role in running the small Gulf island which also hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet. |
| French police killer had pledged allegiance to Islamic State- prosecutor | | | The knifeman who killed a French police commander and his partner at their home on Monday had recently pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State and had a list of other targets, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Tuesday. The attacker told police negotiators before he was killed in a raid on the house that he had answered a recent appeal by Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "to kill miscreants at home with their families", Molins told journalists. Police found at the murder site a list of other potential targets that included the names of rappers, journalists, police officers and other public figures, Molins said, without giving their names. |
| Islamic scholar in homosexuality comments row leaves Australia | |  By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - A British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando this year and had preached in 2013 that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts left Australia on Tuesday after the government launched an "urgent" review of his visa because of his comments. Sekaleshfar said in a lecture in Michigan in 2013 that in an Islamic society, the death penalty should be carried out for homosexuals who engaged in sodomy. "Out of compassion, let's get rid of him now, because he's contaminating society," Sekaleshfar said in a talk at that time, according to a recording available online.
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| Saudi king condemns "disgraceful" Orlando shooting | |  Saudi Arabia's King Salman condemned the deadly gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and urged measures to combat terrorism, state news agency SPA quoted the monarch as saying on Tuesday. "We have learned with great sorrow the news of the armed terrorist attack in Florida which caused deaths and injuries. "The people and government of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia ... stress the importance of uniting the efforts of the international community to counter all acts of violence and terrorism." Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in the gun attack, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012 to perform the umrah pilgrimage to the holy Muslim city of Mecca, Interior Ministry security spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said on Monday.[nL8N1953OZ] Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton singled out the kingdom and other U.S.-allied Gulf Arab monarchies, alleging some of their nationals aided militants.
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| FIFA president Infantino holds talks with Maradona | |  Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona, a long-time critic of FIFA, has held talks in Paris with its president Gianni Infantino, the global soccer body said on Tuesday. FIFA said that the meeting was part of Infantino's plans to involve top former players in making decisions on the future of the game, and added that the pair also discussed the crisis in the administration of Argentine football. Maradona was a frequent critic of Infantino's predecessor Sepp Blatter and claimed that there was "a mafia" inside FIFA.
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| Political differences hold up India's biggest tax reform | |  By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - For India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a nationwide goods services tax (GST) is a transformative idea that cannot wait any longer. While support has broadened among states for the sales tax, differences persist on key details, in particular pitching the tax at the right level to offset possible revenue losses. "There is no consensus on the rate," said Parminder Singh Dhindsa, finance minister of the state of Punjab.
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