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| U.S. probes motive behind rampage at Orlando gay club | |  By Letitia Stein and Peter Eisler ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. investigators on Tuesday were digging into what motivated a Florida man to slaughter 49 people at a gay nightclub, including evidence he had become absorbed in militant Islamist ideas and reports he might have struggled with his own sexual identity. Omar Mateen, who was shot dead by police after a three-hour standoff early on Sunday, left behind a tangled trail of possible motives. Federal investigators have said Mateen was likely self-radicalised and there is no evidence that he received any instruction or aid from outside groups such as Islamic State.
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| Burundi school sends home 230 students for defacing president's photo | |  A secondary school in rural Burundi sent home 230 students on Tuesday for defacing the portrait of President Pierre Nkurunziza in their textbooks, a regional head of education said. Burundi has been mired in a year-long crisis in which more than 450 people have been killed since Nkurunziza pursued and won a third term. Kwizera Guillaume, the provincial director of education in Ruyigi province, 200 km (124 miles) east of the capital Bujumbura, said they had sent home a total of four classes who were sitting an exam.
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| Police fire teargas, water cannon during Paris labour law protest | |  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Gangs of masked youths smashed windows and hurled stones at riot police as thousands of people marched through Paris on Tuesday in protest at a planned change of labour laws that would make hiring and firing easier. The police department reported 20 police and six protesters injured and 21 arrests in a street march led by labour unions. The hardline CGT labour union had called for a big turnout to prove opposition to the labour reform is still strong despite waning turnout at rallies and strikes.
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| Minor scuffles in Lille as Russia, England fans arrive for Euro games | | | By Benoit Tessier LILLE, France (Reuters) - A small group of Russian and English fans briefly scuffled in the northern city of Lille where thousands of supporters arrived in the area for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Lille is seen as the next potential Euro 2016 trouble spot as Russia play Slovakia there on Wednesday, and England fans also congregate in the northern French city ahead of their match against Wales in nearby Lens on Thursday. UEFA fined the Russian Football Federation and gave it a "suspended disqualification" for attacks inside the stadium on Saturday. |
| Bahrain court shuts down main Shi'ite Muslim opposition group | | | By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court ordered the suspension of the main 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 group's lawyer, Abdallah al-Shamlawi, said the Bahrain administrative court also set an October date for a hearing into dissolving al-Wefaq. The move came a day after authorities detained one of Bahrain's leading rights activists. |
| Obama says curbs on assault weapons could help prevent attacks like Orlando | |  President Barack Obama said on Tuesday lawmakers could help prevent attacks like the one that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida by making it harder for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on assault weapons. Speaking after a briefing from top national security officials, Obama said the United States is doing everything it can to prevent attacks against the U.S. homeland but lawmakers could help by reinstating the ban on assault weapons. "If we really want to help law enforcement protect Americans from home-grown extremists, the kind of tragedies that occurred at San Bernardino and now have occurred in Orlando, there is a meaningful way to do that," Obama said.
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| Clinton, Sanders to meet as last votes tallied in Democratic race | |  Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are set to meet on Tuesday evening after voting concludes in Washington, D.C.'s primary nominating contest, marking the end of a fierce battle for the party's mantle. Clinton has all but wrapped up the Democratic nomination for the White House already after a string of wins since February, and is hoping for Sanders' support as she prepares to take on Republican Donald Trump in November's election. The meeting between Clinton and Sanders was planned on June 7 when the former secretary of state secured enough delegates to become the presumed Democratic nominee, scoring victories in heavily populated states California and New Jersey.
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| French knife attacker wanted to "hunt infidels" | | | By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - A knife-wielding Islamist militant suspected of killing a French police commander and his partner at their home before being killed by police commandos had vowed five years ago to "hunt infidels" and been trained to slit the throats of rabbits. Larossi Abballa, 25, a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an 12-minute video uploaded inside the victims' home on Monday evening hours before he was shot, had been under police surveillance for years. In 2011, after he was arrested for helping Islamist militants travel to Pakistan, Abballa threatened an attorney for another indicted suspect: "I'll have your head off", a source close to the matter told Reuters. |
| U.S. court backs landmark Obama internet equal-access rules | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld the Obama administration's landmark rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing down consumer access to web content on Tuesday, dealing a blow to big cable and mobile phone companies. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit backed the Federal Communications Commission's so-called net neutrality rules put in place last year to make internet service providers treat all internet traffic equally. The rules prohibited broadband providers from giving or selling access to speedy internet, essentially a "fast lane" on the web's information superhighway.
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| Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of being behind U.N. crimes report | | | By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Eritrea accused Ethiopia on Tuesday of having orchestrated evidence in a landmark U.N. report last week that accused Eritrean leaders of committing crimes against humanity including torture, murder and enslavement. The report by independent experts called for the case to be referred to the International Criminal Court. The U.N. Human Rights Council, which is holding a three-week session in Geneva, is expected to consider a resolution to recommend future action on Eritrea. |
| U.S. in touch with France over IS-inspired police killing - White House | | | U.S. officials have been in touch with French authorities about the killing of a French police commander and his partner by a man who may have had an affiliation with Islamic State militants, the White House said on Tuesday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama was aware of the reports of the killing by Larossi Abballa, 25, a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video uploaded from the victims' home. |
| Reports of shooting, hostage situation at Walmart in Amarillo, Texas - police | | | Police in Amarillo were responding to reports on Tuesday of shots being fired and an armed subject possibly holding hostages at a Walmart store in the Texas panhandle city. There have been no reports of injuries in the incident, the City of Amarillo said on its Twitter feed. Amarillo police did not offer any further details on the suspect or what caused the situation. |
| 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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| Vatican leaks trial to end in July, key defendant gives birth | | | The trial of five people charged over the leak of sensitive Vatican documents was adjourned on Tuesday until early next month, when court officials said it is expected to end. The case centres on the publication last year of two books based on leaked documents that depict a Vatican plagued by graft in which Pope Francis faces stiff resistance to his agenda. Lawyers for a key defendant, Francesca Chaouqui, 35, told the court that she had given birth to a boy on Tuesday morning. |
| EU envoy to Turkey resigns amid tensions over migration deal | |  By Tulay Karadeniz and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - The European Union's top envoy to Turkey has resigned, EU officials said on Tuesday, after displaying what a Turkish minister said was disrespect for national values and for President Tayyip Erdogan. The resignation of Hansjoerg Haber was a further sign of strained ties as Brussels tries to keep on track a landmark deal credited with curbing the flow of migrants to Europe. It comes a month after Haber was summoned by Turkey's foreign ministry over comments critical of Ankara's handling of the migration accord.
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| French police couple killed in attack claimed by Islamic State | |  By Chine Labbé and Simon Carraud PARIS/LES MUREAUX (Reuters) - A Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and killed his partner, who also worked for the police, in an attack the government denounced as "an abject act of terrorism". Larossi Abballa, 25, also took the couple's three-year-old son hostage in Monday night's attack. Born in France of Moroccan origin, Abballa 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, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
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| Orlando gunman's wife tried to dissuade him from attack -MSNBC | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with her comments to the FBI. The wife of the 29-year-old gunman, Omar Mateen, is cooperating with federal investigators, MSNBC reported. (Reporting by Washington newsroom) |
| Teenagers' escape from Indian spinning mill prompts crackdown on labour abuses | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tamil Nadu has launched a crackdown on factories violating labour laws after two teenage girls scaled a wall to escape from a spinning mill where they were forced to work 12-hour shifts and subjected to abuse, officials said. "But because of excessive bleeding they became unconscious and were found two hours later by residents from nearby villagers," the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union said in a report. A senior local official said an investigation had been ordered into the incident with the state labour department initiating a drive to check working conditions in mills across western Tamil Nadu, a hub for India's $42 billion-a-year textile and clothing export industry. |
| 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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| 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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