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| French police killing a "terrorist act" - govt spokesman | | | PARIS (Reuters) - The murder of a senior French police official and his partner late on Monday outside his home near Paris was a "terrorist act", government spokesman Stephan Le Foll told RTL radio on Tuesday. A knife-wielding attacker stabbed the police chief to death in front of his home late on Monday and his partner's body was found inside in killings claimed by the Islamic State. (Reporting by Myriam Rivet; writing by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Ingrid Melander) |
| Man stabs Paris police chief to death; Islamic State claims attack | | | By Mathieu Rosemain and Simon Carraud PARIS (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker stabbed a French police chief to death in front of his home late on Monday and his partner's body was found inside, officials said, killings Islamic State's Amaq news agency said were carried out by a member of the group. The attacker repeatedly knifed the 42-year-old commander in the stomach before barricading himself inside the house in a Paris suburb, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. |
| Lebanese alt-rock band confronts post-Orlando divisions during U.S. tour | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accustomed to generating controversy in their native Middle East with lyrics tackling love, sex and political apathy, members of Lebanese alt-rock band Mashrou' Leila thought a summer U.S. tour would bring them a welcome respite. Instead, as news spread on Sunday that an American man claiming allegiance to Islamic State had killed 49 people in a packed gay nightclub in Florida, the band found itself at the crossroads of tensions between the gay and Muslim communities, spilling out on social media and in online commentary. Mashrou' Leila has broken ground in the Arab world with an openly gay lead singer and stances espousing gender equality and sexual freedom.
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| Barcelona to pay 5.5 million euros fine over Neymar transfer case | |  Barcelona have agreed to pay a fine of 5.5 million euros ($6.21 million) to the Spanish authorities to settle a tax fraud case over the transfer of Brazil international Neymar in 2013. Barcelona had been accused of concealing part of Neymar's transfer fee when he moved to Spain from Brazilian club Santos, with several investigations carried out in Spain and Brazil. "The Board ... has decided to approve the agreement presented by the club's legal services with regard to the case surrounding the signing of Neymar Jr, currently being heard in the Courts of the Province of Barcelona," the statement said.
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| #TwoMenKissing spreads love in defiance of Orlando killer | |  The Afghan-born father of Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old gunman who killed 49 people at the packed Pulse nightclub in Florida on Sunday, told NBC News that his son had become angry recently after seeing two men kissing in Miami. The interview prompted Twitter user Shadi Petosky (@shadipetosky), who identifies herself as a showrunner for Amazon, to post a collage of male couples kissing. The hashtag #TwoMenKissing began to trend on Twitter on Monday and also crossed over to Facebook, where more than 1000 people were discussing it.
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| Australia reviews visa of Islamic scholar who preached about death for homosexual acts | | | Australia is urgently reviewing the visa of a British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando earlier this year and had preached in 2013 that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts. Farrokh Sekaleshfar, a senior Shi'ite Muslim scholar, is currently giving 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. |
| Indonesia to ramp up executions of drug traffickers | | | Indonesia plans to execute 16 prisoners after the Muslim Eid al Fitr holidays next month, and more than double that number next year, a spokesman for the attorney general's office said on Tuesday. M. Rum told reporters there are 152 people on death row in the country, but that drug traffickers would be prioritised. "President Joko Widodo has said the country is facing a narcotics emergency and this is to...save our future generations," he added. |
| U.S. sees progress in latest cyber talks with China | |  The United States is pleased to see progress has been made with China on information sharing about cyber threats, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday during the latest round of cyber security talks between the two countries. Cyber security has long been an irritant in relations between China and the United States, the world's two largest economies. China and the United States signed an anti-hacking accord in September last year, brokered during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, including a pledge that neither country would knowingly carry out hacking for commercial advantages.
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| Murders of gays, lesbians in U.S. increased last year, group says | | | By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of murders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people jumped 20 percent in the United States last year, activists said on Monday, releasing their findings a day after a mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub left 49 people dead. The violence in 2015 was the highest since 2012, according to the report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP). It said 24 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people and people with HIV were murdered in the United States, a 20 percent increase from 2014. |
| Hispanics shaken by heavy toll at Orlando club massacre | |  By Letitia Stein and Fiona Ortiz ORLANDO, Fla./CHICAGO (Reuters) - It was a carefree "vacilón" - a pumped up party - at Orlando's Pulse nightclub on Saturday night, full of Latinos dancing to salsa, bachata and thumping reggaeton at the gay club's Latin music night. Most of the 49 people shot dead by a single gunman were Latino, more than half of them of Puerto Rican origin, four Mexican citizens and one man from the Dominican Republic, according to officials. For Puerto Rico, it was the latest and most tragic in a litany of hardships to afflict the U.S. territory, ranging from a crippling $70 billion debt to an exodus of its youth to the United States in search of jobs.
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| Trump's post-Orlando message falls flat with Republican establishment | |  By James Oliphant and Luciana Lopez WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida has allowed Donald Trump to seize upon a familiar issue he has used to great advantage - the threat of Islamist militants and his plan to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, offering him what could be a crucial moment to re-boot his sputtering presidential campaign. "It's a missed opportunity to present a different image," said Peter Feaver, a top National Security Council aide in the George W. Bush White House. "He has doubled down on policies I oppose and that aren't going to solve the problem." Trump said in a speech Monday in New Hampshire he would suspend immigration from countries "where there is a proven history of terrorism" against the United States.
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| The day before a killing spree, Omar Mateen was calm, father says | |  By Bernie Woodall and Yara Bayoumy FORT PIERCE, Fla. (Reuters) - When Omar Mateen met with his father the day before he killed 49 people in a siege of a gay nightclub, he betrayed nothing of the rage that would erupt into the worst mass shooting in modern American history. "I didn't notice anything wrong," Seddique Mateen said in an interview. "He was very slick." More details emerged on Monday about the killer, his devotion to Islam and the circumstances of his 2 a.m. Sunday rampage inside an Orlando, Florida nightclub. At the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, a mosque he attended for nearly a decade, Mateen occasionally prayed with Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, a 22-year-old Palestinian-American who in 2014 became the first American suicide bomber in Syria, although they "did not interact with each other," said Adel Nefzi, a mosque board member.
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| Corrected - Shanghai airport blast culprit was indebted gambler, say police | |  (Corrects mistranslated quote to reflect man planned to kill himself) SHANGHAI (Reuters) - 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 himself, 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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| Corruption probe into Brazil's Lula returned to crusading judge | |  The Supreme Court decided on Monday to return a corruption investigation into former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to a crusading anti-corruption judge who is presiding over cases in the sprawling Petrobras graft scandal. Lula, Brazil's most influential politician, who has not ruled out running again in 2018, is under investigation for allegedly benefiting, in the form of payments and a luxury apartment, from the corruption scheme uncovered at the state-run oil company. The Supreme Court took over the Lula investigation from lower court judge Sergio Moro in March after he released a wiretap of a conversation between Lula and then-President Dilma Rousseff as evidence she was appointing him to her Cabinet to shield him from prosecution.
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| Philippines condemns execution of Canadian by al Qaeda-linked group | |  TORONTO/MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines on Tuesday confirmed the execution of a Canadian who had been held hostage by the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Islamist militant group on a remote southern island with three other people since September 2015. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Toronto on Monday that it appeared the second execution of a Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf in recent months had taken place. "We strongly condemn the brutal and senseless murder of Mr. Robert Hall, a Canadian national, after being held captive by the Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu for the past nine months," Philippines President Benigno Aquino said in a statement.
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| Dalai Lama - must not see all Muslims as terrorists after Orlando | |  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Monday called the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people died, a "very serious tragedy," but said it was wrong to see all Muslims as potential terrorists. Asked in an interview with Reuters about U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's reiteration of a call after the shooting for a ban on Muslims entering the country, the Dalai Lama said the billionaire businessman was entitled to his opinion. More detail." The Dalai Lama said that in every religious community, including Buddhist ones, "there are some mischievous people." "But you cannot generalise," he said.
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