| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Wife of Orlando shooter knew of attack, could soon be charged - source | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:35 AM | |
|  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.
|
| Brazil's Rousseff has presidential perks cut | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:25 AM | |
|  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.
|
| Orlando shooting survivors mourn dead friends, recall traumatic night | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:22 AM | |
|  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.
|
| Trump adds new twist to immigration proposals, but legal doubts persist | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:08 AM | |
|  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.
|
| Islamic scholar in homosexuality comments row leaves Australia | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:03 AM | |
|  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.
|
| French killer's Facebook broadcast underscores live video challenges | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:53 AM | |
| | By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After Larossi Abballa killed a French police commander and the commander's partner on Tuesday, he took to Facebook Live to encourage viewers in a 12-minute video to follow his example: Kill prison staff, police officials, journalists, lawmakers. The incident underscores the immense challenges companies such as Facebook Inc , Twitter Inc and Google's YouTube face as they push live video streaming to hundreds of millions of people. Facebook in recent months has made its Live feature - which allows anyone to broadcast a video in real time - a central component of its strategy. |
| Senior House Democrat - must expect Russia to target U.S. institutions | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:29 AM | |
| | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday he would not elaborate on reports that Russia was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee database, but that Russian targeting should be expected. ... |
| Ex-IBM employee from China charged with economic espionage | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:19 AM | |
| | The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that additional charges have been filed against a former IBM Corp software engineer in China, who was arrested in December by U.S. authorities for allegedly stealing proprietary source code from his former employer. Jiaqiang Xu, 30, was charged in a six-count superseding indictment with economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, the department said in a statement. |
| Boko Haram kidnaps three women near Chibok town in north Nigeria | | | Boko Haram jihadists killed at least four villagers on Tuesday and kidnapped three women near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok where the group snatched more than 200 girls two years ago, residents and survivors said. Boko Haram fighters attacked the Kautuva village at dawn, set houses ablaze and fired on residents, according to villagers and a member of a vigilante group working with the army. "Some of us were lucky to survive and ran to Chibok," said a man who gave his name as Ali Pagu. |
| Wife of Orlando shooter knew of attack, could face charges - source | | By Letitia Stein and Peter Eisler ORLANDO, Fla. (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, who was briefed on the matter, told Reuters that a federal grand jury had been convened and could charge Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, as early as Wednesday. FoxNews.com, citing an FBI source, said prosecutors were seeking to charge Salman as an accessory to 49 counts of murder and 53 counts of attempted murder and failure to notify law enforcement about the pending attack and lying to federal agents.
|
| Orlando shooter was employee of global security firm G4S | |  Before Sunday morning, few Americans had heard of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen's British headquartered employer, G4S, the world's largest global security firm, which employs more than 610,000 people in 110 countries. In the United States alone, G4S security guards stand watch over airports, water and power plants, nuclear facilities, immigration transportation and even, as in the case of Mateen, gated communities. Since 2008, G4S Secure Solutions - the company's American subsidiary - has received nearly $830 million worth of federal, state and local government contracts, including for the Department of Homeland Security, according to the SmartProcure database. Indeed, the attack could increase growth in the private security industry, they said. "Individual major security incidents have rarely had any long-term effect on the specific companies that may be connected," said Jeff Kessler an analyst for Imperial Capital.
|
| Brazil's Rousseff open to elections if survives impeachment | | BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff said she is preparing a letter to Brazilians that will offer a new political pact that could include a referendum on calling early elections if she survives an impeachment trial in the Senate. Rousseff told foreign correspondents that she hopes to sway undecided senators, and the letter would be released before the Senate votes in mid-August on whether to convict her of breaking budget laws, a charge she says was trumped up to remove her from office. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Chris Reese)
|
| Police fatally shoot armed hostage-taker at Texas Walmart | | | An armed man was fatally shot by police after holding two people hostage in an Amarillo, Texas, Walmart store on Tuesday in an incident law enforcement described as workplace violence. The suspect was identified as Mohammad Moghaddam, 54, Amarillo police said, adding he was shot by a police SWAT unit. The three then moved to an office inside the store, said Deputy Danny Alexander, a spokesman for the Randall County Sheriff's Office. |
| U.N. approves high seas crackdown on Libya arms smuggling | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously authorised a crackdown on arms smuggling in the high seas off Libya by allowing the inspection of vessels to seize and dispose of illicit weapons. The European Union proposed the council resolution to expand its naval operation in the Mediterranean, which the 15-member Security Council authorized in October to seize and dispose of boats operated by human traffickers. The council resolution expressed concern that "arms and related materiel are being used by terrorist groups operating in Libya, including ISIL (Islamic State)." French Ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters ahead of the vote that the resolution has "the potential to be a game-changer," since a large quantity of arms is smuggled via ship off the coast of Libya. |
| Trump gains slightly on Clinton after Florida attack - poll | |  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race has narrowed since late last week, according to the results of the first Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted since the Orlando shooting rampage on Sunday. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 election, has blamed Democratic policies for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and doubled-down on his pledge to ban Muslim immigration, while Clinton has warned against demonising Muslim-Americans. The poll, conducted from Friday to Tuesday, showed Clinton with an 11.6-point lead - 44.6 percent to 33.0 percent - over Trump, down from the 13-point lead she had in the five days that ended Saturday.
|
| Humans probably caused Fort McMurray wildfire - Canadian police | |  By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Fort McMurray wildfire in northern Alberta that forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents and shut in more than a million barrels per day of oil output was most likely caused by human activity, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Tuesday. The RCMP appealed for public assistance in determining how the fire started and whether a criminal offence was involved. "Wildfire investigators for the province of Alberta have established that the fire was most likely the result of human activity, having ruled out lightning as a probable cause," the RCMP said in a statement.
|
| Over $5.3 million raised for Orlando club shooting victims | |  (Reuters) - Corporate and individual donors have given more than $5.3 million to help victims of Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida by a gunman who killed 49 people and wounded 53, organizers of fundraising drives said on Tuesday. U.S. investigators were digging into what motivated Omar Mateen, 29, to attack the Pulse dance club in downtown Orlando, including whether he was inspired by militant Islamist ideology and reports that he may have struggled with his own sexual identity. The gay rights group Equality Florida set up a page on the fundraising website GoFundMe.com, which had collected $3.6 million from more than 80,000 donors online as of Tuesday afternoon.
|
| U.S. Senate leader McConnell says 'nobody wants terrorists to have firearms' | |  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that "nobody wants terrorists to have firearms" and that he was open to suggestions from experts on legislation that could address the problem, following the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. McConnell, a Republican, made his remarks amid blistering attacks by Democrats on the lack of action in Congress on legislation to prevent suspects on "watch lists" from purchasing guns or explosives. While there was no firm evidence of Republicans and Democrats in either the Senate or House of Representatives moving toward a compromise, there were hints they at least might be willing to talk.
|
| Saudi-led Yemen coalition demands sources for critical U.N. report | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has asked the United Nations to reveal details on the sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen and invited U.N. experts to come to Riyadh. The demand was included in a letter from Saudi Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the coalition's behalf dated June 8 and seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The United Nations initially added the coalition to its annual child rights blacklist but removed it shortly afterward pending a review by the coalition and the United Nations in the face of protests from the Saudis and other Muslim nations.
|
| Obama, Hollande discuss attacks in Paris, Florida - White House | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande discussed on Tuesday a knife attack outside Paris and the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida - attacks for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, the White House said. "Both leaders reaffirmed their shared commitment to degrading and destroying ISIL and standing against the broader scourge of terrorism," the White House said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Chris Reese)
|
| Czech government gets breather as police delay contested reforms | | | Czech police will delay a planned merger of its top anti-corruption units by a month after talks on Tuesday with government officials aimed at cooling a row in the ruling centre-left coalition over the reforms. The wait on the police shuffle, a plan announced suddenly last week, may ease tensions in the three-party government after disputes over the changes raised risks of a coalition collapse before elections not due until the end of 2017. Interior Minister Milan Chovanec, a member of the prime minister's Social Democrats, has backed the police president's planned merger and had intended to sign off on it despite objections from coalition partner ANO, led by billionaire Finance Minister Andrej Babis. |
| Bahrain court shuts down main Shi'ite Muslim opposition group | |  By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court ordered the suspension of the main Shi'ite opposition group al-Wefaq and closed down its offices on Tuesday in what appeared to be an escalating campaign against dissent in the Western-allied Gulf Arab kingdom. The U.S. State Department said it was deeply concerned over the ruling and Bahraini opposition groups condemned the move. Al-Wefaq's lawyer, Abdallah al-Shamlawi, said the Bahrain administrative court had also set an October date for a hearing into dissolving al-Wefaq.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment