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| Corrected - Shanghai airport blast culprit was indebted gambler, say police | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:34 AM | |
|  (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 | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:33 AM | |
|  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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| Islamic State's news agency says group behind Paris police attack | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:30 AM | |
| | A French police chief was fatally stabbed in front of his home in a Paris suburb late on Monday and a woman was found dead inside, killings the Islamic State's Amaq news agency said were carried out by the militant group. "Source to Amaq agency: Islamic State fighter kills deputy chief of the police station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife," Amaq said on its news website. If it is confirmed Islamic State was behind the murders, it would be the first militant strike on French soil since the government imposed a state of emergency after the multiple attacks on Paris in November that killed 130 people. |
| Philippines condemns execution of Canadian by al Qaeda-linked group | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:28 AM | |
|  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 | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:17 AM | |
|  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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| Philippines confirms execution of Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:37 AM | |
| | MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines confirmed on Tuesday the execution a Canadian man held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf Islamist militant group on a remote southern island since he was captured with three other people in September 2015. "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 issued by his communications secretary. (Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Paul Tait) |
| South Korea prosecutors raid more Lotte Group firms | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:34 AM | |
| | South Korea's Lotte Group said prosecutors are conducting additional raids on at least ten units including Lotte Chemical , heaping further pressure on the sprawling beer-to-petrochemicals conglomerate. Lotte Chemical, Lotte Confectionery Co Ltd and unlisted Lotte Engineering and Construction [LTCNS.UL] were among the firms raided, a spokesman for the country's fifth-largest conglomerate said. A Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co Ltd spokesman also said the firm was being raided. |
| Disney hikes security at theme parks with 'visible safeguards' | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:32 AM | |
|  Walt Disney Co has raised security at its theme parks, the company said on Monday after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Orlando, Florida, the home of Walt Disney World. "Unfortunately we've all been living in a world of uncertainty, and during this time we have increased our security measures across our properties, adding such visible safeguards as magnetometres, additional canine units, and law enforcement officers on site, as well as less visible systems that employ state-of-the-art security technologies," spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler said in an email statement. New York-born Omar Mateen, 29, killed 49 people in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub on Sunday.
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| Brazil judge dismisses $5.7 billion civil suit against Samarco - Vale | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:22 AM | |
|  Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA said on Monday that a 20 billion reais ($5.7 billion) civil lawsuit seeking environmental and property damages for last year's deadly Samarco mine disaster has been dismissed. The mine is operated by Samarco Mineração SA, a joint venture between Vale and the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton Ltd . Vale said the judge did not rule on the merits of the case.
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| Eritrea, Ethiopia trade blame for border clashes | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:21 AM | |
| | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea and Ethiopia accused each other of starting clashes on Sunday between their soldiers in a border region, highlighting persistent tension over a boundary dispute that triggered war in 1998-2000. Ethiopia said the situation was calm on Monday, after a resident on the Ethiopian side reported the sound of explosions all day on Sunday and lasting into the early morning of Monday. Eritrea, a Horn of Africa country, won independence from Ethiopia in 1991. |
| Toronto university lockdown lifted, no suspects found | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:19 AM | |
| | By Robert MacMillan TORONTO (Reuters) - Police gave the all-clear on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto on Monday after reports of a masked man dressed in black could not be substantiated and no suspects were located at the sprawling school in Canada's largest city. Campus buildings and roads were being re-opened through the university, located in the centre of the city, about six hours after police received several reports of a suspicious man in a school building. "The ETF (Emergency Task Force) has 'cleared' the building. |
| Clinton calls for U.S. 'intelligence surge' in wake of Orlando attack | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:15 AM | |
|  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Monday that if elected, she would pressure U.S. technology companies to help intelligence agencies disrupt violent plots after a gunman inspired by radical Islamist groups killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub. The professionals who keep us safe would be the first to say we need better intelligence to discover and disrupt terrorist plots before they can be carried out," Clinton said. "That's why I've proposed an 'intelligence surge' to bolster our capabilities across the board, with appropriate safeguards here at home." While Clinton did not detail what her effort would entail, she said she wants technology companies to be more cooperative to government requests for help in countering online propaganda, tracking patterns in social media and intercepting communications.
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| Florida nightclub massacre prompts Rubio to reconsider political future | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:13 AM | |
|  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who announced his retirement from the Senate after ending his Republican presidential bid in March, said on Monday he would reconsider his future after being urged to seek re-election in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub massacre. The Florida Republican told radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview that the worst mass shooting in U.S. history "most certainly has impacted my thinking in general, at least, about a lot of things." But Rubio said he has not considered the rampage from a political perspective. "When it visits your home state, when it impacts a community you know well, it really gives you pause to think a little bit about your service to your country and where you can be most useful to your country," Rubio said.
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| Muslim leaders condemn Florida massacre, brace for backlash | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:12 AM | |
|  On Sunday, June 5, hundreds crowded into a Louisville, Kentucky mosque to celebrate the life of boxer Muhammad Ali in an interfaith service. Dr. Muhammad Babar began the service with a poem: "You were the true face of faith," he read. A week later, Babar, a local physician and community leader, attended a vigil for fifty people killed in a gay nightclub in Florida by a 29-year old American of Afghan descent.
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| French police commander stabbed to death in front of his home | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:08 AM | |
| | A 42-year-old police commander was stabbed to death in front of his home on Monday night in the Paris suburb of Magnanville and his assailant, who had barricaded himself in the policeman's house, was later shot dead by members of an elite police unit, officials said. Policemen also found the body of a dead woman in the house and a surviving 3-year-old boy, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said on BFM TV minutes after the elite RAID unit stormed the house. The woman was "most probably the wife" of the commander, prosecutor Vincent Lesclous told reporters. |
| Venezuela lootings, food protests leave three dead in past week | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:58 AM | |
|  A wave of lootings and food riots in crisis-hit Venezuela has left three people dead in the last week, authorities and a rights group said. The state prosecutor's office is investigating the deaths of a 21-year-old man in eastern Sucre state on Saturday, another 21-year-old man in the Caracas slum of Petare on Thursday, and a 42-year-old woman in the western state of Tachira last Monday. All three were shot during chaotic protests and melees outside shops, which have become flashpoints for violence and looting amid scarcities of basics across the South American OPEC member country, according to local rights group Provea.
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| Orlando gunman likely 'radicalised' through internet, U.S. says | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:56 AM | |
|  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Monday they had found no direct links between Islamic State militants and the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, describing him as a homegrown extremist who was inspired by radical Islamist groups. Omar Mateen, the perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, had expressed support for multiple armed Islamist movements and people, which "adds a little bit to the confusion about his motives," FBI Director James Comey said. Mateen, 29, the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants, was fatally shot by police who stormed Orlando's Pulse club with armoured cars after a three-hour siege.
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| U.S. lawmakers disrupt Orlando 'moment of silence' over gun policy | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:52 AM | |
|  The U.S. House of Representatives erupted in shouting on Monday as lawmakers held a moment of silence to honour the victims of the Orlando mass shooting as Democrats protested the Republican-led chamber's refusal to consider tighter gun regulations. After Speaker Paul Ryan, the House's Republican leader, called for the moment of silence, Representative James Clyburn asked for recognition to ask about guns. Clyburn, the number three House Democrat, is from South Carolina, where a gunman killed nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church a year ago on Friday.
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| Obama to travel to Orlando on Thursday - White House | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:50 AM | |
|  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel to Orlando, Florida, on Thursday to pay respects to families of the victims of Sunday's shooting at a nightclub, the White House said on Monday. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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| Trump's post-Orlando message falls flat with Republican establishment | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:49 AM | |
|  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. "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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| Islamic State claims responsibility for Paris police murder - Amaq news agency | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:46 AM | |
| | PARIS (Reuters) - Islamic State was responsible for the stabbing death of a police commander in front of his home in a Paris suburb Monday night, the militant group's Amaq news agency said. "Source to Amaq agency: Islamic State fighter kills deputy chief of the police station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife," Amaq said on its news website (Reporting by Richard Lough) |
| English FA has 'serious concerns' over Lille security | | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:05 AM | |
|  England's FA has "serious concerns" over security plans ahead of the Euro 2016 tie against Wales in Lens on Thursday with fans of Roy Hodgson's team ready to go to nearby Lille where Russia play Slovakia on Wednesday. Chairman Greg Dyke has written to organisers UEFA expressing the FA's worries after French prosecutors said 150 Russian hooligans were behind the violence in Marseille when their side played England on Saturday.
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| Obama will deliver a statement Tuesday on Orlando attack - White House | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will deliver a statement to the press on Tuesday morning following a meeting of his National Security Council on the attack in Orlando, Florida, and efforts to defeat the Islamic State militant group, the White House said on Monday. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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| 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, at least three 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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| After Florida shooting, Trump hardens stance on Muslims | |  By Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson MANCHESTER, N.H./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump on Monday placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and "trying to take over our children." The presumptive Republican presidential nominee drew on the country's deadliest mass shooting to sharpen his vow to ban Muslim immigrants, proposing that the United States suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is "a proven history of terrorism. ...
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| More than half of Orlando shooting dead were Puerto Rican - PR govt | |  (Reuters) - More than half of the fatal victims from the shooting in Orlando were of Puerto Rican descent, Rolando Padua, deputy secretary of state for the Puerto Rican government, told Reuters on Monday. "What they have informed us so far is that 90 percent of the victims are Latinos and that more than half of the dead victims are of Puerto Rican origin," Padua said in a brief telephone interview.
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| Officer testifies van driver left detainee Freddie Gray unattended | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The Baltimore police van driver who transported black detainee Freddie Gray left him unattended after the ride in which he broke his neck, a police officer testified on Monday at the murder trial of a third officer in Gray's death. Prosecutors allege that Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 46, gave Gray a "rough ride" or drove erratically after Gray was arrested in April 2015. Gray's death triggered rioting and protests and stoked a U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities.
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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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| Victim's last Snapchat starts with dancing, ends in gunfire | |  By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amanda Alvear's last Snapchat video post begins with a shot of her on the dance floor of an Orlando nightclub surrounded by friends. Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Alvear's friend Mercedez Flores, 26, who worked for Target, also was on the list.
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| Democrats link guns to terrorism, turn to gun control after Orlando | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama lamented the ease with which extremists can get firearms in the United States as "crazy" and Hillary Clinton said "terrorists" were using assault weapons to kill Americans, as Democrats on Monday renewed an uphill push for gun control after the Orlando massacre. The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in which 49 people at a gay nightclub were killed and 53 wounded, reignited a debate in Washington over what types of guns should not be easily available and what types of buyers ought to be prohibited.
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| U.N. Security Council condemns Orlando gay nightclub massacre | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned the mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub as the United States urged dozens of United Nations member states to drop their opposition to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. The 15-member council denounced the attack "targeting persons as a result of their sexual orientation" in a U.S.-drafted statement, overcoming standard resistance at the U.N. to such language by African and Muslim states, as well as Russia.
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| Dalai Lama urges Myanmar's Suu Kyi to ease Rohingya tensions | |  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. The Tibetan spiritual leader said he had stressed the issue in meetings with Suu Kyi, who came to power in April in the newly created role of state counsellor in Myanmar's first democratically elected government in five decades. "She already has the Nobel Peace Prize, a Nobel Laureate, so morally she should ... make efforts to reduce this tension between the Buddhist community and Muslim community," he told Reuters in an interview in Washington.
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