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| Wife of Orlando shooter knew of attack, could soon be charged - source | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 3:33 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.
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| Family of slain hostage say they back Canada ransom policy | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2:40 AM | |
|  The family of a Canadian hostage who was executed by an Islamist militant group in the Philippines said on Tuesday they supported the Canadian government's policy of not paying ransom in kidnapping cases. The Philippines on Tuesday confirmed the death of Robert Hall, who had been held hostage by al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf on a remote southern island with three other people since September 2015. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday condemned the killing, but also said the Canadian government cannot and will not pay ransom in such cases because it could encourage additional kidnappings.
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| Food riots kill one more in Venezuela - legislator | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2:38 AM | |
|  A man was shot dead on Tuesday during looting and food riots proliferating round crisis-hit Venezuela, an opposition legislator said, bringing to at least four the number of fatalities from this month's wave of unrest. Milagros Paz said that as well as the fatality, another 27 people had been injured during a day of chaos and violence in the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana that she represents for the Justice First party. There were simultaneous lootings in different parts of Cumana.
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| Brazil congressional ethics committee strips Cunha of his seat | | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2:35 AM | |
|  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's congressional ethics committee voted to strip suspended Speaker Eduardo Cunha of his seat on Tuesday for allegedly lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, the latest in a series of political earthquakes to rock Latin America's largest country. Cunha insisted on his innocence and vowed to appeal the decision to another congressional committee. To remove him from office, a majority of the lower house of Congress still needs to affirm the decision.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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