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- U.S. appeals court voids Ventura award in 'Sniper' case
- Bangladesh arrests over 100 Islamists in crackdown after killings
- Orlando shooter visited Saudi Arabia in 2011, 2012 - Saudi interior ministry spokesman
- Russians trained to fight involved in Euro 2016 clashes - prosecutor
- Kerry warns against pointing finger at religion after Orlando
- Orlando shooting a "very serious tragedy," says Dalai Lama
- French court jails English soccer fans for Euro 2016 violence
- Pistorius a "broken" man, psychologist tells South African court
- Trudeau believes Canadian hostage killed in Philippines
- Eritrea, Ethiopia trade blame for border clashes
- U.S. Senate Democrats discussing new gun control push
- Iraq makes arrests over reports of Sunnis executed in Falluja
- Clinton: U.S. must protect national security, not demonize Muslims
- Brexit needed to stop "Orlando-style atrocity", campaign group says
- German man shoots at refugee shelter with air rifle, wounds two migrants
- Trump, on CNN, faults Muslim community for not reporting people like Orlando shooter
- U.N. calls for investigations into Tripoli prisoner killings
- Clinton says must defend U.S. security without demonizing Muslims
- U.S. probing whether anyone helped gunman in Orlando rampage
- Bombay High Court frees Bollywood drug thriller 'Udta Punjab' from censor's clutches
- "Feed people, not wars," pope says in address to U.N. food agency
- Trump calls for increased military response after Orlando shooting
- New law allows Hungary police to return migrants beyond border fence
- Shanghai airport blast culprit was indebted gambler, say police
- Qatar to deport Dutch woman for "illicit sex" after rape report
- Eiffel Tower to be lit in rainbow colours in tribute to Orlando victims
- FBI to hold news briefing on Florida nightclub shooting - media reports
| U.S. appeals court voids Ventura award in 'Sniper' case | |  (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a $1.85 million award that former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura won in a defamation case against the estate of the author of the memoir "American Sniper." The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the estate of Chris Kyle did not receive a fair trial, citing comments by Ventura's lawyer during closing arguments and the improper cross-examination of two witnesses about Kyle's insurance coverage. By a 2-1 vote, the appeals court ordered a new trial on the defamation claim, for which Ventura had won $500,000. It also unanimously overturned a $1.35 million award for unjust enrichment, representing some of the profits from Kyle's memoir, saying it had no support under Minnesota law.
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| Bangladesh arrests over 100 Islamists in crackdown after killings | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh have arrested at least 119 militants as part of a crackdown on Islamists after a wave of deadly attacks on members of minority groups and liberal activists, an officer said on Monday. More than 8,000 criminal suspects have also been arrested since law enforcement agencies began a week-long drive on Friday to halt the targeted killings in the mainly Muslim nation. Militants have killed more than 30 people in Bangladesh since early last year, with atheist bloggers, liberal academics, gay rights campaigners, foreign aid workers, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups among the victims. |
| Orlando shooter visited Saudi Arabia in 2011, 2012 - Saudi interior ministry spokesman | |  RIYADH (Reuters) - Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in a gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012, Saudi Interior Ministry security spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said on Monday. He said Mateen performed the umrah Islamic pilgrimage for 10 days in March 2011, and eight days the following March. (Reporting by Angus McDowall; writing by Jon Boyle)
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| Russians trained to fight involved in Euro 2016 clashes - prosecutor | |  By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Russians trained to fight were involved in the worst of the fan violence that hit Marseille at the start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, the French city's chief prosecutor said on Monday, as two English fans were jailed for fighting. European soccer's governing body, UEFA, has said it is "disgusted" by the melees inside and outside the stadium in Marseille and has threatened to expel the Russian and English teams from the championship if the violence persists. "There were 150 Russian supporters who in reality were hooligans," Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin told a news conference.
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| Kerry warns against pointing finger at religion after Orlando | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday warned Americans against pointing a finger at one religion or another after a gunman who pledged alliegance to the Islamic State militant group massacred 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando. "The worst thing we can do is engage in trying to point fingers at one group or one form of sectarianism or another or one religion or another. Those are not the values of our country," Kerry told reporters as he posed for pictures before a meeting with Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides. ...
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| Orlando shooting a "very serious tragedy," says Dalai Lama | | | Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Monday called the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people died, a "very serious tragedy." Speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, the Buddhist leader called on the audience to observe a moment of silence for victims of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Fifty people, including the gunman, the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants, died at the Orlando nightclub on Sunday morning. |
| French court jails English soccer fans for Euro 2016 violence | | | A judge jailed two British soccer fans on Monday for their involvement in the street violence in Marseille at the opening of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Alexander Booth, a 20-year-old cook, was sentenced to two months in prison, while psychiatric nurse Ian Hepworth received a three-month term. |
| Pistorius a "broken" man, psychologist tells South African court | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius is a "broken" man who should not be jailed for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a psychologist told a court in South Africa on Monday, while a prosecutor said he has shown no remorse. Jonathan Scholtz, a psychologist called by Pistorius' lawyer Barry Roux, told the sentencing hearing that the athlete, who attended in a dark suit and at times sat with his head in his hands, was on medication for depression, anxiety and insomnia. In my opinion his current condition warrants hospitalisation," Scholtz said, noting that Pistorius was not in the right frame of mind to testify.
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| Trudeau believes Canadian hostage killed in Philippines | |  TORONTO/MANILA (Reuters) - The Canadian government has "reason to believe" that Canadian hostage Robert Hall has been killed by his captors in the Philippines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement on Monday. Trudeau said Canadian officials were working with authorities in the Philippines to confirm Hall's death.
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| Eritrea, Ethiopia trade blame for border clashes | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea and Ethiopia accused each other of starting clashes on Sunday between their soldiers in a border region, highlighting persistent tension over a boundary dispute that triggered war in 1998-2000. Ethiopia said the situation was calm on Monday, after a resident on the Ethiopian side reported the sound of explosions all day on Sunday and lasting into the early morning of Monday. Eritrea, a Horn of Africa country that won independence from Ethiopia in 1991, fought border wars with its larger neighbour in 1998-2000 that killed about 70,000 people. |
| U.S. Senate Democrats discussing new gun control push | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. Senate Democrats are discussing how to revive a push for legisation imposing additional gun controls in the wake of last weekend's mass shooting in Florida, according to a senior Senate Democratic aide on Monday. The aide did not provide details and senators, who have been on a weekend recess, will be back on Tuesday. (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| Iraq makes arrests over reports of Sunnis executed in Falluja | |  By Isabel Coles and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Monday it had made arrests as it investigates allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja had executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men fleeing the city held by Islamic State. Iraqi authorities "are following up on the violations and a number of arrests have been made," government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said after a regional governor said 49 Sunni men had been executed after surrendering to a Shi'ite faction. Sohaib al-Rawi, governor of Anbar province where Falluja is located, said on Sunday that 643 men had gone missing between June 3 and June 5, and "all the surviving detainees were subjected to severe and collective torture by various means." The participation of militias in the battle of Falluja, just west of Baghdad, alongside the Iraqi army had already raised fears of sectarian killings.
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| Clinton: U.S. must protect national security, not demonize Muslims | |  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking on Monday after the massacre in a Florida nightclub, said the United States must find a way to keep the country safe without demonizing Muslim Americans. Clinton called for "statesmanship, not partisanship" in the aftermath of the shooting in Orlando while Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, urged the monitoring of mosques in the United States and reiterated his calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country. Fifty people, including the gunman, the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants, died in at the gay nightclub in what was the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
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| Brexit needed to stop "Orlando-style atrocity", campaign group says | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - A group campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union urged voters on Monday to back a British exit from the EU, or "Brexit", to prevent what it called "an Orlando-style atrocity", a message condemned by rival campaigners. Posted on the @LeaveEUOfficial Twitter account run by Leave.EU, a day after 50 people were killed in the Florida shootings, the poster-style advertisement said: "Islamist extremism is a real threat to our way of life. Act now before we see an Orlando-style atrocity here before too long".
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| German man shoots at refugee shelter with air rifle, wounds two migrants | | | A 21-year-old German man shot at a refugee shelter with an air rifle from the window of his third-floor apartment in the northwestern German town of Lingen on Sunday, wounding two migrants, police said on Monday. A 5-year-old girl from Macedonia and an 18-year-old Syrian suffered wounds in their legs and received hospital treatment, police said. Police, who searched the suspect's home, said it was not clear if the shooting was politically motivated but an investigation was underway. |
| Trump, on CNN, faults Muslim community for not reporting people like Orlando shooter | |  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump faulted the Muslim community on Monday for not reporting people like the man who carried out the Orlando gay nightclub attack, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, told CNN he thought Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was known to people in the Muslim community as someone with a potential for violence. "You will find that many people that knew him felt that he was a whack job ... (that) something like this would have happened," Trump told CNN in a phone interview.
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| U.N. calls for investigations into Tripoli prisoner killings | | | The U.N. envoy to Libya called on Monday for investigations inside and outside Libya into the killing of 12 men jailed on suspicion of crimes against protesters during the 2011 revolution and granted conditional release last week. Libya's judicial police say the men were released from Tripoli's Al-Baraka prison on Thursday, a day before their bodies were found dumped in different parts of the capital. "This crime should be thoroughly and independently investigated and perpetrators must face justice," said U.N. envoy Martin Kobler. |
| Clinton says must defend U.S. security without demonizing Muslims | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking on Monday, after the massacre in a Florida nightclub, said the United States must find a way to keep the country safe without demonizing Muslim Americans. Clinton told MSNBC in an interview that she would support stronger measures to prevent so-called lone wolf attacks and urged closer Internet monitoring, but said she was committed to protecting the rights of Muslim Americans at the same time. (Reporting by Washington newsroom)
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| U.S. probing whether anyone helped gunman in Orlando rampage | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement officials investigated on Monday whether anyone helped the gunman who massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but said they did not believe anyone connected to the shooting posed a current danger to the public. The FBI and other agencies were poring over evidence inside and in the closed-off streets around Orlando's Pulse nightclub, where a shooter pledging allegiance to Islamic State carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. 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 early Sunday morning with armored cars after a three-hour siege.
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| Bombay High Court frees Bollywood drug thriller 'Udta Punjab' from censor's clutches | |  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Bombay High Court has cleared the way for "Udta Punjab", a Bollywood thriller about drug trafficking, to open in cinemas this week after government censors attempted to thwart the movie's release ahead of elections in Punjab where the film is set. Monday's judgment by the court brings the curtain down on a week of bickering between the film's producers and the head of India's censor panel over suggested cuts to "Udta Punjab", which the film's makers said removed its essence. Striking down all but one of the 13 cuts suggested by the censor board, the court ordered that "Udta Punjab" be issued an A - or adult - certificate for screening immediately.
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| "Feed people, not wars," pope says in address to U.N. food agency | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday condemned the use of hunger as a "weapon of war" and lamented the fact that it was easier to move weapons across borders than the aid needed to keep civilians alive. Days after aid agencies were allowed to deliver food to the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012, Francis said preventing supplies from reaching war zones was a violation of international law. On a visit to the headquarters of the World Food Programme (WFP), the pope said the world faced a "strange paradox".
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| Trump calls for increased military response after Orlando shooting | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Monday said the United States needs to increase its military response against Islamic State in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting over the weekend, including additional bombings. The presumptive Republican nominee, in an interview on Fox News, said that he would address acts of terrorism in his speech at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) in New Hampshire, which he had earlier planned to use to target Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Reporting by Washington newsroom)
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| New law allows Hungary police to return migrants beyond border fence | |  By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary passed a law on Monday that allows police to send back illegal migrants detained within eight kilometres (five miles) of its southern frontier to the Serbian side of the border fence, drawing criticism from the U.N. refugee agency. A razor-wire fence built along Hungary's southern border with Serbia and Croatia has helped to reduce sharply the flow of migrants from the hundreds of thousands who last year moved up from the Balkans towards northern Europe, especially Germany. "The aim ... is to allow (the authorities) to escort back across the gates of the border defence facility third-country nationals who are in Hungary illegally and who were detained within eight km of the border," the reasoning of the law said.
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| Shanghai airport blast culprit was indebted gambler, say police | |  The man responsible for a weekend blast at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport that injured five people, including himself, was an indebted gambler who warned on Chinese social media that he intended to kill, police said on Monday. Zhou Xingbai, a 29-year-old migrant worker from the southwestern province of Guizhou, posted his message in the early hours of Sunday, the police said on their official Weibo microblog.
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| Qatar to deport Dutch woman for "illicit sex" after rape report | | | A Dutch woman who was arrested in March after she told police she had been drugged and raped was convicted of having sex out of wedlock by a Qatari court on Monday and given a one-year suspended sentence, state-owned Al Jazeera reported. The woman, 22, will be deported to the Netherlands in the coming days once the ruling is formalised, the Dutch ambassador to Qatar Yvette Burghgraef-van Eechoud told the network. The man she said raped her, a Syrian identified in court as Omar Abdullah Al-Hasan, pleaded guilty to charges of illicit consensual sex and being drunk in a public and was sentenced to 140 lashes, Al Jazeera quoted a court official as saying. |
| Eiffel Tower to be lit in rainbow colours in tribute to Orlando victims | |  The Eiffel Tower will be lit up in rainbow colours on Monday evening in tribute to the victims of the massacre in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the mayor of Paris said. At least 50 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. "Tonight @LaTourEiffel will wear the rainbow flag as a tribute to the victims." "We stand together with our American friends #Orlando #LoveIsLove," the French government said on its official Twitter account, featuring a new profile picture with the U.S. and rainbow flags.
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| FBI to hold news briefing on Florida nightclub shooting - media reports | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI will hold a news conference on Monday morning on the Orlando, Florida nightclub shooting rampage that killed 50 people and wounded 53, media outlets reported. CNN and MSNBC said the FBI would brief the press at 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) on the shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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