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| South Africa's Pistorius "a broken man", psychologist tells court | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius has shown no remorse for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a prosecutor told a court on Monday, while a psychologist described him as "a broken man" who should not be jailed. Professor Jonathan Scholtz, a psychologist called by Pistorius' lawyer Barry Roux, told the sentencing hearing the athlete -- who attended in a dark suit and at times sat with his head in his hands -- was on medication for depression, anxiety and insomnia. In my opinion his current condition warrants hospitalisation," Scholtz said.
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| Bombay High Court frees Bollywood drug thriller 'Udta Punjab' from censor's clutches | |  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Bombay High Court has cleared the way for "Udta Punjab", a Bollywood thriller about drug trafficking, to open in cinemas this week after government censors attempted to thwart the movie's release ahead of elections in Punjab where the film is set. Monday's judgment by the court brings the curtain down on a week of bickering between the film's producers and the head of India's censor panel over suggested cuts to "Udta Punjab", which the film's makers said removed its essence. Striking down all but one of the 13 cuts suggested by the censor board, the court ordered that "Udta Punjab" be issued an A - or adult - certificate for screening immediately.
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| Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of attacking its territory | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea's government has accused Ethiopia of launching an attack on its territory, but the extent of the assault was still unclear and there was no immediate response from Ethiopia. Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia in 1991, fought a bloody border war with its larger neighbour between 1998 and 2000. "The TPLF regime has today, Sunday 12 June 2016, unleashed an attack against Eritrea on the Tsorona Central Front," the Information Ministry said in a statement around midnight. |
| "Feed people, not wars," pope says in address to U.N. food agency | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday condemned the use of hunger as a "weapon of war" and lamented the fact that it was easier to move weapons across borders than the aid needed to keep civilians alive. Days after aid agencies were allowed to deliver food to the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012, Francis said preventing supplies from reaching war zones was a violation of international law. On a visit to the headquarters of the World Food Programme (WFP), the pope said the world faced a "strange paradox".
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| Trump calls for increased military response after Orlando shooting | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Monday said the United States needs to increase its military response against Islamic State in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting over the weekend, including additional bombings. The presumptive Republican nominee, in an interview on Fox News, said that he would address acts of terrorism in his speech at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) in New Hampshire, which he had earlier planned to use to target Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Reporting by Washington newsroom)
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| Iraq makes arrests over reports of Sunnis executed in Falluja | |  By Maher Chmaytelli and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is investigating allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja have executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men from the city held by Islamic State. The authorities "are following up on the violations and a number of arrests have been made," government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said on Monday after a regional governor said 49 Sunni men had been executed after surrendering to a Shi'ite faction. Suhaib al-Rawi, governor of Anbar province where Falluja is located, said on Sunday that 643 men had gone missing between June 3 and June 5, and "all the surviving detainees were subjected to severe and collective torture by various means." The participation of militias in the battle of Falluja, just west of Baghdad, alongside the Iraqi army had already raised fears of sectarian killings.
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| New law allows Hungary police to return migrants beyond border fence | |  By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary passed a law on Monday that allows police to send back illegal migrants detained within eight kilometres (five miles) of its southern frontier to the Serbian side of the border fence, drawing criticism from the U.N. refugee agency. A razor-wire fence built along Hungary's southern border with Serbia and Croatia has helped to reduce sharply the flow of migrants from the hundreds of thousands who last year moved up from the Balkans towards northern Europe, especially Germany. "The aim ... is to allow (the authorities) to escort back across the gates of the border defence facility third-country nationals who are in Hungary illegally and who were detained within eight km of the border," the reasoning of the law said.
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| Shanghai airport blast culprit was indebted gambler, say police | |  The man responsible for a weekend blast at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport that injured five people, including himself, was an indebted gambler who warned on Chinese social media that he intended to kill, police said on Monday. Zhou Xingbai, a 29-year-old migrant worker from the southwestern province of Guizhou, posted his message in the early hours of Sunday, the police said on their official Weibo microblog.
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| Qatar to deport Dutch woman for "illicit sex" after rape report | | | A Dutch woman who was arrested in March after she told police she had been drugged and raped was convicted of having sex out of wedlock by a Qatari court on Monday and given a one-year suspended sentence, state-owned Al Jazeera reported. The woman, 22, will be deported to the Netherlands in the coming days once the ruling is formalised, the Dutch ambassador to Qatar Yvette Burghgraef-van Eechoud told the network. The man she said raped her, a Syrian identified in court as Omar Abdullah Al-Hasan, pleaded guilty to charges of illicit consensual sex and being drunk in a public and was sentenced to 140 lashes, Al Jazeera quoted a court official as saying. |
| Eiffel Tower to be lit in rainbow colours in tribute to Orlando victims | |  The Eiffel Tower will be lit up in rainbow colours on Monday evening in tribute to the victims of the massacre in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the mayor of Paris said. At least 50 people were killed and 53 others were wounded at the Pulse nightclub on Sunday before the gunman, who had pledged loyalty to Islamic State, was shot dead by police. "Tonight @LaTourEiffel will wear the rainbow flag as a tribute to the victims." "We stand together with our American friends #Orlando #LoveIsLove," the French government said on its official Twitter account, featuring a new profile picture with the U.S. and rainbow flags.
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| FBI to hold news briefing on Florida nightclub shooting - media reports | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI will hold a news conference on Monday morning on the Orlando, Florida nightclub shooting rampage that killed 50 people and wounded 53, media outlets reported. CNN and MSNBC said the FBI would brief the press at 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) on the shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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| Obama updated regularly on Florida shooting investigation - White House | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has been updated regularly on the investigation into a mass shooting that killed 50 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a White House official said on Monday. Obama was scheduled to be briefed in person by FBI Director James Comey and other top national security officials at the White House later on Monday morning. The rampage by a gunman in the early hours of Sunday was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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| ADVISORY - Indian court frees Bollywood drug thriller from censor's clutches | |  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Please disregard the MUMBAI story headlined "Indian court frees Bollywood drug thriller from censor's clutches", which is wrong and is withdrawn. The Bombay High Court has not yet issued its final verdict and we will report the outcome of the hearing in a new story. STORY_NUMBER: L4N19517W STORY_DATE: 13/06/2016 STORY_TIME: 0945 GMT
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| Families and friends wait anxiously for news after Florida nightclub rampage | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Family and friends of victims trapped in a gay nightclub by a gunman pledging loyalty to Islamic State waited anxiously on Monday to find out whether their loved ones were among the 50 people killed and 53 wounded in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The FBI and other law enforcement authorities were poring over evidence that could explain the motives for the rampage in Orlando, Florida, a massacre that President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate. The gunman, Omar Mateen, a New York-born Florida resident and U.S. citizen who was the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armored cars after a three-hour siege.
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| Exclusive: Obama administration not pursuing executive order to shut Guantanamo - sources | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is not pursuing the use of an executive order to shutter the Guantanamo Bay military prison after officials concluded that it would not be a viable strategy, sources familiar with the deliberations said. The conclusion, reached by administration officials, narrows the already slim chances that President Barack Obama can fulfill his pledge to close the notorious offshore prison before leaving office in January. The White House has said repeatedly that Obama has not ruled out any options on the Guantanamo center, which has been used to house terrorism suspects since it was set up in 2001 following the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
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| Russian 'hooligans' trained for 'ultra-violence' in Marseille - prosecutor | |  Russians trained to fight were involved in the worst of the fan violence that erupted in Marseille during the opening of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, the French city's chief prosecutor said on Monday. "There were 150 Russian supporters who in reality were hooligans," Brice Robin told a news conference. Most of the 35 people who were injured in the fighting were English, the prosecutor said, adding that two Russian nationals were being expelled from the country.
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| Pakistani clerics declare 'honour killing' against Islam | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A group of Pakistani clerics has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring "honour killing" over perceived damage to a family's reputation against the teaching of Islam, and anyone who carries out such an attack a heretic. Hundreds of Pakistanis, the vast majority women and girls, are murdered every year by relatives after being accused of damaging a family's honour. Most cases involve young women trying to chose partners against a family's wishes. |
| U.N. rights boss Zeid deplores Orlando shooting | | | The top U.N. human rights official on Monday condemned the deadly attack by a gunman targeting people at a homosexual bar in Orlando, Florida. A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. "I also condemn with the greatest possible force the outrageous attacks by violent extremists on innocent people, chosen at random, or because of their presumed beliefs, or opinions, or - as we saw yesterday - their sexual orientation," Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein told the start of a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. |
| Islamic State claims responsibility for Orlando nightclub shooting - Albayan radio | |  Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for the shooting that killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, in an official broadcast on the group's Albayan Radio. "One of the Caliphate's soldiers in America carried out a security invasion where he was able to enter a crusader gathering at a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida ... where he killed and injured more than a hundred of them before he was killed," the group said in its broadcast.
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| Cambodia PM shrugs off EU aid threat, opposition supporters jailed | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday shrugged off European parliament threats to review aid if his administration continues to harass political opponents on the same day as a court jailed three more opposition activists. The European Union has called on Hun Sen to halt "judicial harassment" of adversaries and the United Nations has also called for dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition as tension mounts in the Southeast Asian country ahead of a general election in 2018. The European parliament said in a resolution on Thursday that aid worth around $461 million should be dependent on improvements in human rights and called on authorities drop all charges against opposition leader Sam Rainsy who has been in exile since late last year to avoid arrest.
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| Bahrain arrests prominent campaigner Nabeel Rajab - wife | |  Bahraini police detained Nabeel Rajab, one of the most prominent rights activists in the Arab world, his wife said on Monday on her Twitter account, nearly a year after he was freed from prison by royal pardon. Sumaya Rajab said security forces searched the family house before they arrested her husband. Rajab, founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, played a leading role in Shi'ite Muslim-led demonstrations in the 2011 demonstrations demanding reforms in the Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab kingdom.
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| North Korea mounts long-running hack of South Korea computers, says Seoul | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday. South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by the North after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February that led to new U.N. sanctions. The North has always denied wrongdoing.
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| Oscar Pistorius arrives in court for sentencing after murder conviction | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius arrived in court on Monday for sentencing after he was found guilty for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, 29, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon-fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence and cannot appeal after the country's top court ruled in March that he had exhausted all his legal options. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by James Macharia)
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