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| Thai military cadets drilled for role on constitution referendum day | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Preparations by Thailand's junta for a referendum in August over a new constitution that critics fear will entrench the military's influence were stepped up on Wednesday as military cadets were shown what do at polling stations on the day. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta has ordered some 100,000 cadets - high school and university student volunteers - to carry the message to people that they have a responsibility to vote. The junta has threatened to jail anyone who violates that rule for up to 10 years.
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| Former Thai PM Yingluck wows fans but remains divisive figure | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Andrew R.C. Marshall PHRAE/BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) - When former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrived in this sleepy corner of northern Thailand and flashed her familiar smile, waiting supporters gasped and spoke of a political revival. In the two years since the military overthrew her government, Yingluck has been on trial for corruption over a multi-million-dollar rice subsidy scheme. Phrae was one stop in a series of provincial trips aimed at keeping Yingluck, Thailand's first female prime minister, in the public eye and making the junta think twice about jailing her.
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| Wife of Orlando shooter knew of attack, could soon be charged - source | |  By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub knew of his plans for the attack and could soon be charged in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday. The source told Reuters that a federal grand jury had been convened and could charge Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, as early as Wednesday. "It appears she had some knowledge of what was going on," said U.S. Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a briefing on the attack on Tuesday.
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| Family of slain hostage say they back Canada ransom policy | |  The family of a Canadian hostage who was executed by an Islamist militant group in the Philippines said on Tuesday they supported the Canadian government's policy of not paying ransom in kidnapping cases. The Philippines on Tuesday confirmed the death of Robert Hall, who had been held hostage by al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf on a remote southern island with three other people since September 2015. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday condemned the killing, but also said the Canadian government cannot and will not pay ransom in such cases because it could encourage additional kidnappings.
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| Food riots kill one more in Venezuela - legislator | |  A man was shot dead on Tuesday during looting and food riots proliferating round crisis-hit Venezuela, an opposition legislator said, bringing to at least four the number of fatalities from this month's wave of unrest. Milagros Paz said that as well as the fatality, another 27 people had been injured during a day of chaos and violence in the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana that she represents for the Justice First party. There were simultaneous lootings in different parts of Cumana.
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| Brazil congressional ethics committee strips Cunha of his seat | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's congressional ethics committee voted to strip suspended Speaker Eduardo Cunha of his seat on Tuesday for allegedly lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, the latest in a series of political earthquakes to rock Latin America's largest country. Cunha insisted on his innocence and vowed to appeal the decision to another congressional committee. To remove him from office, a majority of the lower house of Congress still needs to affirm the decision.
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| Brazil's Rousseff has presidential perks cut | |  By Anthony Boadle and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that the country's interim government has suspended her use of Air Force planes and will no longer pay her hotel bills. "I have no right to use an Air Force plane to travel," she told foreign reporters, criticizing interim President Michel Temer's decision to only allow her on a government plane to fly to her hometown of Porto Alegre.
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| Orlando shooting survivors mourn dead friends, recall traumatic night | |  By Julia Harte and Bernie Woodall ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Best friends Demetrice Naulings and Eddie Justice often walked together hand in hand, as if they were a couple, although Naulings says he always thought of Justice as being more like his kid brother. The last time they clasped hands was shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday inside Pulse, the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where the worst mass shooting in U.S. history was beginning to unfold. Justice, 30, begged Naulings, 34, to take care of him as the two fled a bathroom in the nightclub amid a hail of bullets fired by a lone gunman, Omar Mateen, in what became a three-hour rampage ending with the suspect slain by police.
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| Trump adds new twist to immigration proposals, but legal doubts persist | |  By Matt Spetalnick and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal for suspending immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism could have a legal basis, but his assertion that it be part of a broader ban on Muslim immigrants makes it constitutionally untenable, legal scholars say. The new twist in Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric came in the aftermath of a weekend shooting massacre at a Florida nightclub by the American-born son of Afghan immigrants. In a fiery speech on Monday, he expanded on his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, vowing if elected to halt immigration from any area of the world where there is a "proven history of terrorism" against America or its allies.
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| 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. Farrokh Sekaleshfar, a senior Shi'ite Muslim scholar, was in Australia to give a series of lectures at an Islamic centre in Sydney on the topic of spirituality. 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.
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