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| U.S. investigators question Orlando gunman's wife | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:18 AM | |
|  By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators have questioned the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the FBI said on Wednesday, and a law enforcement source said she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing. Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, knew of his plans for what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, said the law enforcement source, who has been briefed on the matter. "I cannot comment on the outcome or the outcome of that investigation." CNN, citing law enforcement officials, said a U.S. attorney plans to present evidence to a federal grand jury to determine whether charges will be brought against Salman.
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| Jimmy Page testifies in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright trial | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:15 AM | |
|  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page testified in a copyright infringement trial on Wednesday that he did not recall hearing until recently the song containing the musical riff his band is accused of stealing for its 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven." Page, 72, took the witness stand on the second day of the trial in federal court in Los Angeles, where the British band is accused of lifting the opening chords for "Stairway to Heaven" from American band Spirit's 1967 instrumental song "Taurus." The lawsuit has called into question the originality of Led Zeppelin's signature song and one of the most widely heard compositions in rock history. Page said he owned Spirit's self-titled 1968 album that includes "Taurus," which contains a descending chromatic four-chord progression that is at the centre of the lawsuit.
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| Canadian lawmakers vote to make national anthem gender neutral | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:01 AM | |
| | Canadian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to alter the country's national anthem to make the lyrics gender neutral, a move that comes as the new Liberal government focuses on being more inclusive toward women. The bill would change the English version of "O Canada" to remove the words "in all thy sons command" and replace them with "in all of us command." The changes, brought forward as a private member's bill by a Liberal Party lawmaker, passed easily in the House of Commons, which is controlled by the Liberals. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made gender inclusivity a focus since he was elected last October and named an equal number of men and women to his 30-member Cabinet. |
| Saudi prince seeks to repair ties, promote business on U.S. visit | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:00 AM | |
|  By Warren Strobel and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince held a full day of meetings with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, part of a visit aimed at restoring frayed ties with Washington and promoting his plan to wean the kingdom away from oil revenue. Mohammed bin Salman, son of Saudi Arabia's King Salman, is expected to meet U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday. Lawmakers said his discussions on Wednesday, including meetings with the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and House Speaker Paul Ryan, emphasized his push to help end Saudi dependence on oil by 2030.
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| U.S. must tighten gun laws, says brother of Mexican Orlando victim | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:58 AM | |
|  By Natalie Schachar MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States should tighten its gun control laws to prevent a repeat of mass killings like the Orlando rampage, the brother of one of four Mexicans slain in the Pulse Nightclub attack said on Wednesday. Joel Rayon Paniagua, 31, who crossed illegally into the United States last year and worked as a gardener in Florida, was among 49 people killed in the shooting spree early on Sunday. "The government of the United States should implement laws so that these sorts of things don't happen," he added.
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| Ally of drug lord 'El Chapo' back in Mexico after U.S. prison time | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:56 AM | |
|  A top drug-trafficking accomplice of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was detained in Mexico on Wednesday, shortly after he was returned from the United States after completing a prison sentence for distributing cocaine. Hector 'El Guero' Palma was a former partner of Guzman, the head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel who is now fighting extradition to the United States from a Mexican prison. Palma was rearrested by officials on his repatriation to Matamoros, a town directly across the U.S. border, although it is unclear what charges he faces.
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| IT worker at Panama Papers firm detained in Geneva, Le Temps reports | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:54 AM | |
|  A computer technician at the Geneva office of the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak was detained several days ago on suspicion of recently removing large amounts of data, Swiss newspaper Le Temps reported on Wednesday, citing a source close to the case. A spokesman for the Geneva prosecutor's office confirmed to Reuters that it had opened an investigation following a criminal complaint by the law firm, Mossack Fonseca, but declined to comment further. Panama-based Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in setting up offshore companies, has denied wrongdoing and said it was the victim of a data hack.
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| FBI probes Craigslist ad in San Diego praising Orlando shooting | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:24 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - The FBI and San Diego police are investigating a threatening message posted on Craigslist that praised the deadly shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, officials said on Wednesday. Darrell Foxworth, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's San Diego division, confirmed the agency was looking into the post and attempting to identify the person responsible. Both the FBI and San Diego police said there were no known credible threats to the region. |
| Boy's body found after alligator attack at Florida Disney resort | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:22 AM | |
|  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Police divers on Wednesday recovered the body of a 2-year-old boy who was grabbed by an alligator in front of his family during a vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said he and a Catholic priest had informed the family that the boy's body had been recovered near where he vanished and was completely intact. Wildlife officials earlier captured and killed five of the reptiles from Seven Seas Lagoon and opened them up to look for traces of the boy.
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| Riot police disperse England fans in Lille | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:21 AM | |
|  By Alastair Macdonald and Philip O'Connor LILLE, France (Reuters) - French riot police charged and used tear gas to disperse rowdy English football fans in Lille on Wednesday, though the northern city was spared feared clashes with Russian supporters. Throughout the day, police said, 36 people were arrested for various offences as Russia lost to Slovakia in Lille and England prepared to play Wales in the same Euro 2016 group in nearby Lens on Thursday.
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| U.S. senators, Trump open to ban on some gun sales after Orlando | | Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:20 AM | |
|  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators signalled on Wednesday a new willingness to consider restrictions on the sale of guns after the Orlando nightclub massacre, with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others in his party ready to discuss limited gun control measures. With Republicans and the National Rifle Association gun lobby under pressure to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Trump said he would meet with the NRA to discuss ways to block people on terrorism watch or no-fly lists from buying guns. Emotions have run high in Congress since Sunday's mass shooting with Democrats stalling Senate proceedings on Wednesday in a bid to push for tougher gun control legislation.
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| French police arrest 36 after clashes with England fans | | By Alastair Macdonald and Philip O'Connor LILLE, France (Reuters) - At least 36 people were arrested and 16 taken to hospital on Wednesday after French police clashed with England football fans in the northern city of Lille, the regional police force said in a statement. French riot police charged groups of rowdy, chanting English football fans and used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse them on Wednesday night on the eve of England's Euro 2016 game against Wales. While they appeared to have kept the two sets of fans apart, tension mounted in the early evening with police repeatedly using pepper spray, tear gas and acoustic grenades to suppress fans near the central train station.
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| Brazil's Temer denies alleged link to Petrobras scandal | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's interim President Michel Temer denied on Wednesday allegations that he sought campaign funds for his party stemming from a graft scheme at state oil company Petrobras , implicating him in the country's biggest ever corruption scandal. A plea deal by former Petrobras executive Sergio Machado, made public by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, said a campaign contribution requested by Temer was made legally by engineering group Queiroz Galvao but resulted from a kickback on contracts with Petrobras. The testimony is the first to link Temer to the Petrobras investigation, known as "Operation Car Wash." Dozens of executives and politicians have been jailed due to the probe into the scandal, which has added to Brazil's worst recession in decades.
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| U.S. senator - no links seen yet between Orlando gunman, militant groups | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence panel said on Wednesday authorities have not yet established any links between the Orlando gunman and international militant groups. "There are no links to international groups that we know of today," Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters after a briefing by Obama administration officials. (Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Eric Beech)
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| Boy's body recovered after gator attack at Florida Disney resort | | By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Police divers on Wednesday recovered the body of a 2-year-old boy who was grabbed by an alligator in front of his family during a vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said he and a Catholic priest had informed the family that the boy's body was found near where he vanished and was completely intact.
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| U.S. investigators question wife of gunman in Orlando massacre | | By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators have questioned the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the FBI said on Wednesday, and a law enforcement source said she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing. Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, knew of his plans for what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, said the law enforcement source, who has been briefed on the matter. "With respect to the wife, I can tell you that is only one of many interviews that we have done and will continue to do in this investigation," FBI Special Agent Ron Hopper told a news conference.
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| Ukraine may get IMF funds in two parts - economic adviser Miklos | |  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukraine's fiscal and balance-of-payments pressures should ease if the country receives at least $1 billion worth of International Monetary Fund support this year as it puts its reform efforts back on track, the government's top economic adviser said. Ivan Miklos, senior economic adviser to new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, told Reuters in an interview that Ukraine will likely need more reform legislation passed to meet requirements for the IMF to fully release $1.7 billion in delayed funds. An IMF spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment on the status of Ukraine's $17.5 billion bailout program.
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| U.S. indicts two Japanese auto parts companies for bid-rigging | | | Two Japanese auto parts companies, Tokai Kogyo Co Ltd and Maruyasu Industries Co Ltd, were indicted on Wednesday on price-fixing charges along with five executives, the U.S. Justice Department said. The indictments arose from a long-running international antitrust probe of price-fixing in the auto parts industry that has ensnared more than 40 companies and 60 people. In one indictment by a federal grand jury in Ohio, Tokai Kogyo and its U.S. subsidiary Green Tokai Co Ltd were accused of rigging bids for automobile weather stripping and other sealing products sold to Honda Motor Co Ltd , the department said. |
| U.N. won't disclose sources for report critical of Saudi coalition | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations will not disclose to a Saudi Arabia-led coalition sensitive sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, in a June 8 letter on behalf of the coalition to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asked the United Nations to reveal details on the sources of information for its report on violations of child rights during armed conflicts. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the world body has yet to respond to the letter, though he made clear the U.N. will not disclose details of its sources for the report. |
| Factbox - Eyes on U.S. terrorism watchlists after Orlando shootings | |  As facts emerge about Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, questions have arisen about how well-known he was to U.S. intelligence agencies. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Monday that Mateen was on a watchlist between May 2013 and March 2014 while he was under investigation after claiming a connection to or support for multiple Islamist extremist groups, including al Qaeda, Hezbollah, al-Nusra and Islamic State. The FBI maintains three watchlists and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence runs one database.
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| Turkish president believes EU visa liberalisation can be agreed | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he believed it was possible to achieve a positive outcome on EU visa liberalisation, which would take into account Turkey's stance on fighting terrorism. "I believe we can get a positive result on this issue which would take into consideration Turkey's sensitivity about the struggle with terrorism," Erdogan said in a speech to ambassadors in the capital Ankara. A deal to give Turks visa-free travel to Europe in return for stemming the flow of migrants to the bloc has been held up by a disagreement over Turkey's anti-terror laws, which some in Europe see as too broad.
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| Moscow summons French ambassador over 'anti-Russian' Euro 2016 | |  By Philip O'Connor and Jack Stubbs LILLE/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Football rivalry and fan violence spilled into global politics as Moscow summoned the French ambassador over detentions of Russians at Euro 2016 and warned an "anti-Russian" mood could even damage relations between Russia and France. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused other countries' football fans of "absolutely provocative actions" at the tournament, such as trampling on the Russian flag. The epicentre of football violence at Euro 2016 meanwhile moved from the south of France to the far north.
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