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| Coach Cacic labels Croatian hooligans 'sports terrorists' | |  By Zoran Milosavljevic ST ETIENNE, France (Reuters) - Croatia fans who caused trouble during their team's Euro 2016 match against the Czech Republic on Friday were "sports terrorists" and had no place in football stadiums, the Balkan nation's coach told a news conference. The supporters threw flares on to the pitch and fought among themselves in one section of the Stade Geoffroy Guichard, forcing the Group D game to be interrupted for several minutes while officials and players appealed for calm. "We were exposed to the terror of hooligans who have no place in sports arenas and I sincerely hope they will be identified and brought to justice," said Cacic.
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| U.S. senators under pressure to devise gun control compromise | |  By Richard Cowan and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Republican senators tried on Friday to craft a compromise bill to impose limited gun restrictions in the face of pressure from Democrats and public rage over the Orlando mass shooting, the deadliest in modern U.S. history. A gunman killed 49 people at the Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub last Sunday, sparking a scramble over competing gun measures in the U.S. Senate. While gun-control measures have failed to clear Congress in the past, the massacre, coupled with public pressure and a suggestion by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that he can work with gun rights lobbyists to bring about change, may be changing the picture.
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| Ryan says U.S. Republicans should follow 'conscience' on Trump | |  Republican lawmakers should follow their conscience on whether to support Donald Trump in November's presidential election, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has said in an interview, reflecting the party's unease over its White House candidate. "The last thing I would do is tell anybody to do something that's contrary to their conscience. Of course I wouldn't do that," the Republicans' most senior elected official said in excerpts released on Friday of an NBC interview set to air on Sunday.
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| U.S. investigators interview member of mosque attended by Orlando gunman | |  By Bernie Woodall and Ben Gruber ORLANDO, Fla./FORT PIERCE, Fla. (Reuters) - Families of some of the 49 people slain at an Orlando gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history hugged and wept at funerals on Friday, as FBI agents questioned a member of the mosque where the gunman worshipped. The gunman, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, expressed support for a conflicting list of Islamist militant groups, including Islamic State, in a series of phone calls and internet messages during his three-hour rampage, which ended when police shot him dead. FBI agents on Friday questioned a member of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, according to Omar Saleh, a lawyer with the Council of American-Islamic Relations who sat in on the 30-minute questioning session.
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| Ex-Auschwitz guard, 'willing henchman' in Holocaust, convicted in Germany | |  By Elke Ahlswede DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) - A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was sentenced to jail in Germany on Friday by a judge who branded him a "willing and efficient henchman" in the Holocaust. In what is likely to be one of Germany's last trials for World War Two-era atrocities, Reinhold Hanning was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Rejecting the defence argument that the former SS officer had never killed, beaten or abused anyone himself, Judge Anke Grudda said Hanning had chosen to serve in the notorious death camp and had helped it run.
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| UK police examine right-wing extremism link to murder of lawmaker | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary and Paul Sandle BIRSTALL, England (Reuters) - British police said on Friday right-wing extremism was an important line of inquiry in the murder of lawmaker Jo Cox after a man with suspected neo-Nazi links and a history of mental illness was arrested over the killing. Cox, 41, a supporter of Britain staying in the EU, was shot and stabbed on Thursday by a man who witnesses said shouted "Britain first" in her own electoral district near Leeds in the county of West Yorkshire in northern England. Officers arrested a 52-year-old man, named by British media as Thomas Mair, near the murder scene and he remains in custody where he is being questioned by detectives.
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| Russia says kills Islamist warlord, nine other militants | | | Russia said on Friday it had killed a prominent Islamist warlord responsible for a string of deadly attacks on police officers along with nine militants in a special operation in Dagestan in the south of the country. Dagestan, where Kremlin critics say poverty and corruption help feed Islamist extremism, is often rocked by shootouts and car bombings. Russia's anti-terrorist committee said four Russian special forces soldiers had been killed and five wounded during the clashes, the result of a joint operation between the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the interior ministry. |
| Russia may appeal IAAF ban to international sports court | |  Russia may appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the decision by athletics' world governing body to uphold a doping ban on its track and field team, Russian athletics official Mikhail Butov told Reuters on Friday. If there is a basis to do so, we will go there," Butov said when asked if Russia would take the case to the CAS, a Swiss-based organisation that settles international sporting disputes.
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| Memorial service marks a year after Charleston, S.C., church massacre | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The city of Charleston came together on Friday for a memorial and other events to mark the first anniversary of the murders of nine members of a Bible study group in what prosecutors called a racially motivated hate crime. President Barack Obama had eulogized the victims of the rampage at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including its slain minister and state Senator Clementa Pinckney, in the same arena last year. Hymns were led by a 100-member choir and a minister prayed for the Charleston and Orlando victims, as well as for the soul of the accused church shooter, Dylann Roof.
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| Suspect in murder of British lawmaker described as loner who liked gardening | |  Family said he had a history of mental illness. The suspect, who lived close to the scene where Cox was shot and stabbed in her constituency near Leeds in northern England, was named by media as Thomas, or Tommy, Mair. Next-door neighbour Diana Peters, 65, told Reuters that she had known Mair since he was a boy and he never had visitors.
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| Wider Image: Boxing school in Rio slum shows sport's power before Olympics | |  By Daniel Flynn and Nacho Doce RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Beneath a street lamp in one of Rio de Janeiro's slums, 19-year-old boxer Wanderson de Oliveira does pull-ups from a metal bar outside the Fight for Peace academy while two skinny young boys watch intently. Much of the Complexo da Maré, a teeming neighborhood of 140,000 people near Rio's international airport, remains in the grip of drug gangs despite efforts to break their hold on the city's poor districts ahead of the August Olympic Games. For many young residents like Oliveira, the academy offers a glimpse of an alternative: a chance to build discipline and self-esteem through boxing and martial arts.
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| Reaction to the killing of British lawmaker Jo Cox | |  Lawmaker Jo Cox was shot dead in the street in northern England on Thursday, causing shock across Britain and leading to the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Following is a summary of reaction: BRENDAN COX, JO'S HUSBAND "Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy and a zest for life that would exhaust most people. "She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now: one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her." PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON "We have lost a great star.
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| Twente win appeal against forced relegation | | | Twente Enschede were spared relegation to the second division in the Netherlands after winning their appeal against demotion for financial irregularities, the Dutch football association (KNVB) said on Friday. The club will keep its place in the top flight and instead be fined 181,000 euros for what the association termed "four serious infringements of the licensing regulations." The decision means De Graafschap are now relegated. Twente had been sent down to the second tier of Dutch football last month after the KNVB said they missed successive deadlines for meeting targets set in a financial recovery plan. |
| Istanbul bans gay pride march after threats from hardline group | | | By Ece Toksabay and Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA (Reuters) - Authorities in Istanbul have banned transgender and gay pride marches this month, citing security concerns after ultra-nationalists said they would not allow "degenerates" to hold the events on Turkish soil. The organisers of the events, the Pride Week Commission, said the ban was illegal and that it would take legal action. A march in support of transgender people was planned for Sunday in central Istanbul, while an annual gay pride parade - described in the past as the biggest in the Muslim world - had been due to take place a week later on June 26. |
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