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| 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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| Brazil's Rousseff open to elections if survives impeachment | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff said she is preparing a letter to Brazilians that will offer a new political pact that could include a referendum on calling early elections if she survives an impeachment trial in the Senate. Rousseff told foreign correspondents that she hopes to sway undecided senators, and the letter would be released before the Senate votes in mid-August on whether to convict her of breaking budget laws, a charge she says was trumped up to remove her from office. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| Police fatally shoot armed hostage-taker at Texas Walmart | | | An armed man was fatally shot by police after holding two people hostage in an Amarillo, Texas, Walmart store on Tuesday in an incident law enforcement described as workplace violence. The suspect was identified as Mohammad Moghaddam, 54, Amarillo police said, adding he was shot by a police SWAT unit. The three then moved to an office inside the store, said Deputy Danny Alexander, a spokesman for the Randall County Sheriff's Office. |
| U.N. approves high seas crackdown on Libya arms smuggling | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously authorised a crackdown on arms smuggling in the high seas off Libya by allowing the inspection of vessels to seize and dispose of illicit weapons. The European Union proposed the council resolution to expand its naval operation in the Mediterranean, which the 15-member Security Council authorized in October to seize and dispose of boats operated by human traffickers. The council resolution expressed concern that "arms and related materiel are being used by terrorist groups operating in Libya, including ISIL (Islamic State)." French Ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters ahead of the vote that the resolution has "the potential to be a game-changer," since a large quantity of arms is smuggled via ship off the coast of Libya. |
| Trump gains slightly on Clinton after Florida attack - poll | |  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race has narrowed since late last week, according to the results of the first Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted since the Orlando shooting rampage on Sunday. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 election, has blamed Democratic policies for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and doubled-down on his pledge to ban Muslim immigration, while Clinton has warned against demonising Muslim-Americans. The poll, conducted from Friday to Tuesday, showed Clinton with an 11.6-point lead - 44.6 percent to 33.0 percent - over Trump, down from the 13-point lead she had in the five days that ended Saturday.
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| Humans probably caused Fort McMurray wildfire - Canadian police | |  By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Fort McMurray wildfire in northern Alberta that forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents and shut in more than a million barrels per day of oil output was most likely caused by human activity, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Tuesday. The RCMP appealed for public assistance in determining how the fire started and whether a criminal offence was involved. "Wildfire investigators for the province of Alberta have established that the fire was most likely the result of human activity, having ruled out lightning as a probable cause," the RCMP said in a statement.
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| Over $5.3 million raised for Orlando club shooting victims | |  (Reuters) - Corporate and individual donors have given more than $5.3 million to help victims of Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida by a gunman who killed 49 people and wounded 53, organizers of fundraising drives said on Tuesday. U.S. investigators were digging into what motivated Omar Mateen, 29, to attack the Pulse dance club in downtown Orlando, including whether he was inspired by militant Islamist ideology and reports that he may have struggled with his own sexual identity. The gay rights group Equality Florida set up a page on the fundraising website GoFundMe.com, which had collected $3.6 million from more than 80,000 donors online as of Tuesday afternoon.
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| U.S. Senate leader McConnell says 'nobody wants terrorists to have firearms' | |  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that "nobody wants terrorists to have firearms" and that he was open to suggestions from experts on legislation that could address the problem, following the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. McConnell, a Republican, made his remarks amid blistering attacks by Democrats on the lack of action in Congress on legislation to prevent suspects on "watch lists" from purchasing guns or explosives. While there was no firm evidence of Republicans and Democrats in either the Senate or House of Representatives moving toward a compromise, there were hints they at least might be willing to talk.
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| Saudi-led Yemen coalition demands sources for critical U.N. report | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has asked the United Nations to reveal details on the sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen and invited U.N. experts to come to Riyadh. The demand was included in a letter from Saudi Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the coalition's behalf dated June 8 and seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The United Nations initially added the coalition to its annual child rights blacklist but removed it shortly afterward pending a review by the coalition and the United Nations in the face of protests from the Saudis and other Muslim nations.
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| Obama, Hollande discuss attacks in Paris, Florida - White House | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande discussed on Tuesday a knife attack outside Paris and the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida - attacks for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, the White House said. "Both leaders reaffirmed their shared commitment to degrading and destroying ISIL and standing against the broader scourge of terrorism," the White House said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| Czech government gets breather as police delay contested reforms | | | Czech police will delay a planned merger of its top anti-corruption units by a month after talks on Tuesday with government officials aimed at cooling a row in the ruling centre-left coalition over the reforms. The wait on the police shuffle, a plan announced suddenly last week, may ease tensions in the three-party government after disputes over the changes raised risks of a coalition collapse before elections not due until the end of 2017. Interior Minister Milan Chovanec, a member of the prime minister's Social Democrats, has backed the police president's planned merger and had intended to sign off on it despite objections from coalition partner ANO, led by billionaire Finance Minister Andrej Babis. |
| Bahrain court shuts down main Shi'ite Muslim opposition group | |  By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court ordered the suspension of the main Shi'ite 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 U.S. State Department said it was deeply concerned over the ruling and Bahraini opposition groups condemned the move. Al-Wefaq's lawyer, Abdallah al-Shamlawi, said the Bahrain administrative court had also set an October date for a hearing into dissolving al-Wefaq.
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| Moscow denies Russian involvement in U.S. DNC hacking | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday denied involvement in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee database that U.S. sources said gained access to all opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "I completely rule out a possibility that the (Russian) government or the government bodies have been involved in this," Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman told Reuters in Moscow. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow; Writing by Doina Chiacu in Washington; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Sanders previews convention demands ahead of meeting with Clinton | |  Hours before rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were to meet on Tuesday when the Democratic presidential nominating contests conclude, Sanders said he would push for "the most progressive platform" ever passed at the party's convention next month and to reform the nominating process. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, said he was looking forward to his meeting Tuesday night with Clinton, which comes as the self-styled Democratic socialist is facing pressure to formally concede in the fiercely fought Democratic primary and begin working with Clinton to unify the party to take on Republican Donald Trump in November.
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| Police fire teargas, water cannon during Paris labour law protest | |  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Gangs of masked youths hurled stones and makeshift firebombs at riot police on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people marched through Paris in protest over a planned change of labour laws that would make hiring and firing easier. The Paris police department reported 58 arrests, including many foreigners, with 24 police and 17 protesters injured. The hardline CGT labour union had called for a large turnout in Tuesday's protest march to demonstrate that opposition to the labour reform remains strong despite waning turnout at rallies and strikes.
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| 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, in a 2-1 decision, 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.
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| U.S. doctors call gun violence a 'public health crisis' | |  By Susan Kelly CHICAGO (Reuters) - The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history has prompted the American Medical Association to call gun violence a "public health crisis" and urge that Congress fund research into the problem. The AMA, which lobbies on behalf of doctors, said on Tuesday it will press Congress to overturn 20-year-old legislation that blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on gun violence. The AMA adopted the policy at its annual meeting in Chicago.
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| Any decision on charges against Orlando shooter's wife a long ways off - MSNBC | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials could decide to pursue charges against the wife of the Orlando, Florida, shooter but any decision is a long ways off, MSNBC reported on Tuesday. MSNBC, citing several unnamed sources, said the wife has told the FBI that she drove 29-year-old Omar Mateen to a couple of sights that she understood he was considering attacking, including the nightclub where the shooting took place. The cable network said she has told officials she was with him when he bought ammunition, and that she repeatedly tried to talk him out of doing anything violent. ...
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| Northern France cities ban alcohol ahead of Euro 2016 matches | | | Authorities in the French cities of Lille and Lens, where thousands of English and Russian football fans are due to arrive for the Euro 2016 football tournament, have ordered alcohol bans running from Tuesday to Friday, officials said. The regional police chief in Lille said in a statement the sale of alcohol would be banned from Tuesday evening until Friday morning and bars in the city centre would be closed from midnight Wednesday until Thursday evening. In Lens, the police chief said the sale of alcohol would be prohibited from Wednesday 0600 (0400 GMT) to Friday 0600 in shops, supermarkets close to car parks and petrol stations serving between Lille and Lens. |
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