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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| Orlando nightclub gunman seen as self-radicalized | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida appears to have acted alone, without direction from the Islamist militant groups he voiced sympathy for, authorities said as they investigated the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Federal law enforcement officials said the 29-year-old gunman, Omar Mateen, who worked as a private security guard at a gated retirement community, seemed to have been largely inspired by radical ideology he was exposed to over the internet. President Barack Obama on Monday called Mateen, a U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, an apparent example of "homegrown extremism." The streets leading up to Pulse nightclub in Orlando remained a barricaded crime scene on Tuesday morning.
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| 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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| Pistorius must pay for his crime, Steenkamp's father tells court | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius must pay for the crime of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which has devastated her family, her father told a South African court on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Paralympian gold medallist faces a minimum 15-year jail term after his manslaughter conviction for the 2013 killing, for which he originally received a five-year sentence, was upgraded on appeal. Called to testify by the lead state prosecutor in Pistorius's sentencing hearing, a tearful and trembling Barry Steenkamp said forgiving the runner was very hard.
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| Soccer-France detains Russian fans as PM Valls vows expulsions | |  By Mathias Galante and Eric Gaillard NICE/PARIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday some football fans will be deported from France after violent clashes marred the start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, and a group of Russian fans was detained near Cannes on the French Riviera. There are fears the violence could spread at a time when French security forces are already stretched, as highlighted on Monday when a suspected Islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander and his partner to death at their home. "People will be deported after they have been sentenced as there are people who cannot remain because they are not wanted on our national territory due to their behaviour," Valls told reporters.
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| Thousands rally against labour law in Paris under heavy security | | | By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people rallied in Paris under heavy police presence on Tuesday for a protest against a planned change of labour laws that would make hiring and firing easier. The Eiffel Tower closed for the day as staff stopped work to join the protest, making it impossible to ensure safe running of France's biggest tourist attraction, the operating company said. After violent clashes between riot police and masked youths during previous demonstrations, 130 would-be troublemakers were banned from central Paris to limit the risk of more skirmishes, according to Paris Police Prefect Michel Cadot. |
| Two French police killed in attack claimed by Islamic State | |  By Chine Labbé and Simon Carraud PARIS/LES MUREAUX (Reuters) - A suspected Islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander to death outside his home and later killed his companion, a policewoman, in an attack claimed by Islamic State and denounced by the government as "an abject act of terrorism". The assailant, a 25-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, 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, police sources said. The attacker filmed part of the assault live on the social network Facebook, according to David Thomson, a journalist specialised in radical Islamists.
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| Two people close to French police attacker held for questioning - source | | | PARIS (Reuters) - French police are holding two people for questioning believed to be close to the suspected Islamist attacker who stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and later killed his partner in an attack claimed by Islamic State, a police source said. The attacker, whom police and justice sources have named as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, had been placed under surveillance, and recently his phone was tapped but without any results, the police source added on Tuesday. (Reporting by Paris newsroom; Writing by James Regan; Editing by Ingrid Melander) |
| Hindu Sena celebrates birthday of "saviour of humanity" Trump | |  A Hindu fringe group celebrated the 70th birthday of Donald Trump in New Delhi on Tuesday, calling the U.S. presidential contender the "saviour of humanity" who could end the global threat posed by Islamist militants. About 20 members of the far-right Hindu Sena, or Hindu Army, held the festivities as Americans grieved over the deaths of 49 people in the country's worst-ever mass shooting, perpetrated by a gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State. "Trump has said Muslims should be banned from entering America.
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| Russia's Putin sends condolences to Obama over Orlando shootings - Kremlin | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama over shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Asked about homophobic comments made by some Russian activists regarding the attack, Peskov told reporters: "Such thoughts are absolutely unacceptable." (Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Jack Stubbs)
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| Insight: Wolf dens, not lone wolves, the norm in U.S. Islamic State plots | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Omar Mateen acted alone in plotting the massacre of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub, he would be the exception rather than the rule in U.S. cases involving suspected Islamic State supporters. Sunday's worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history prompted renewed warnings from officials of "lone wolf" attackers, a term that commonly invokes images of isolated individuals, radicalized online by violent propaganda and plotting alone.
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