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- Barcelona to pay 5.5 million euros fine over Neymar transfer case
- #TwoMenKissing spreads love in defiance of Orlando killer
- Australia reviews visa of Islamic scholar who preached about death for homosexual acts
- Indonesia to ramp up executions of drug traffickers
- U.S. sees progress in latest cyber talks with China
- Knifeman kills Paris policeman and partner, Islamic State claims responsibility
- Murders of gays, lesbians in U.S. increased last year, group says
- Hispanics shaken by heavy toll at Orlando club massacre
- Trump's post-Orlando message falls flat with Republican establishment
- The day before a killing spree, Omar Mateen was calm, father says
- Corrected - Shanghai airport blast culprit was indebted gambler, say police
- Corruption probe into Brazil's Lula returned to crusading judge
- Philippines condemns execution of Canadian by al Qaeda-linked group
- Dalai Lama - must not see all Muslims as terrorists after Orlando
- Philippines confirms execution of Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants
- South Korea prosecutors raid more Lotte Group firms
- Disney hikes security at theme parks with 'visible safeguards'
- Brazil judge dismisses $5.7 billion civil suit against Samarco - Vale
- Eritrea, Ethiopia trade blame for border clashes
- Toronto university lockdown lifted, no suspects found
- Clinton calls for U.S. 'intelligence surge' in wake of Orlando attack
- Florida nightclub massacre prompts Rubio to reconsider political future
- Muslim leaders condemn Florida massacre, brace for backlash
- French police commander stabbed to death in front of his home
- Venezuela lootings, food protests leave three dead in past week
- Orlando gunman likely 'radicalised' through internet, U.S. says
- U.S. lawmakers disrupt Orlando 'moment of silence' over gun policy
| 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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| Knifeman kills Paris policeman and partner, Islamic State claims responsibility | | | By Mathieu Rosemain and Simon Carraud PARIS (Reuters) - A knifeman stabbed a French police chief to death in front of his Paris suburb home late on Monday and his partner's body was found inside, officials said, killings the Islamic State's Amaq news agency said were carried out by a "fighter" belonging to the militant group. The unidentified attacker repeatedly knifed the 42-year-old commander in the stomach before barricading himself inside the house, an Interior Ministry spokesman 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. |
| 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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| Philippines confirms execution of Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants | | | 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 | | | 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' | |  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 | |  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 | | | 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 | | | 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 | |  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 | |  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 | |  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 | | | 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 | |  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 | |  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 | |  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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