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| Two French police killed in attack claimed by Islamic State | |  By Mathieu Rosemain and Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - A suspected Islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander to death outside his home and later killed his partner in an attack claimed by Islamic State and denounced by the government as "an abject act of terrorism". The attacker, a 25-year-old who went to jail in 2013 for helping Islamist militants go to Pakistan and had been monitored by security services, repeatedly knifed the 42-year-old commander in the stomach late on Monday. The man, whom police and justice sources named as Larossi Abballa, was shot dead by members of an elite police unit after negotiations failed.
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| French police target Russian supporters in French Riviera | | | French police have launched an anti-hooligan operation in the town of Mandelieu near Cannes after verifying the identities of 29 Russian supporters suspected of being involved in clashes ahead of a Euro 2016 game between Russia and England, an official said on Tuesday. "These verifications have been carried out on the basis of intelligence... leading us to think they were present in Marseille," said Xavier Lauch, cabinet director of the prefect of the Alpes Maritimes department. Several hundred English and Russian fans squared off in Marseille before the Russia v England game last Saturday, hurling beer bottles and chairs and drawing volleys of tear gas from riot police who struggled to contain the skirmishes in the narrow streets of the Old Port. |
| Australia reviews visa of Islamic scholar over homosexuality comments | |  By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia is urgently reviewing the visa of a British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando this year and had preached in 2013 that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts. Farrokh Sekaleshfar, a senior Shi'ite Muslim scholar, is 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.
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| Kenya police summon politicians over "hate speech" allegations | | | Kenya's police have summoned seven pro-government and opposition politicians for investigation over alleged "hate speech", flagging growing tension more than a year before elections and after weeks of deadly protests. Ethnic loyalties tend to trump policy matters in Kenyan politics. After a disputed election in December 2007, incitement by rival camps was blamed for stoking bloodletting between major ethnic groups that left 1,200 dead and hundred of thousands displaced. |
| Kazakhstan guard base attackers heard 'holy war' broadcast from Syria - minister | |  Gunmen who attacked a national guard base in Kazakhstan last week listened to a broadcast from Syria beforehand that urged them to wage holy war, the country's interior minister said on Tuesday. Five civilians and three servicemen died in the June 5 attack in the city of Aktobe, the deadliest in Kazakhstan since it became independent in 1991. Kalmukhanbet Kasymov said the suspects had some time earlier listened to an audio address from "a so-called imam", probably from Syria, who called for "jihad", or a war against unbelievers.
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| France faces "extremely high terrorist threat" - Hollande | |  PARIS (Reuters) - France is facing a very high threat from terrorism, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday after a knifeman killed a police commander and his partner at their home near Paris. Describing the murders as "undeniably a terrorist act", Hollande said: "France is confronted by an extremely high terrorist threat." (Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Leigh Thomas; Editing by James Regan)
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| Lebanese alt-rock band confronts post-Orlando divisions during U.S. tour | |  (Changes "worst mass murder" to "worst mass shooting" in paragraph 13) 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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| 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) |
| 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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| 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. |
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