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| U.S. probes whether gunman in nightclub massacre had help | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Monday were investigating whether a gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando and declared his allegiance to Islamic State militants had received any help in carrying out the massacre. The FBI and other agencies were looking at evidence inside and in the closed-off streets around the Pulse nightclub, where New York-born Omar Mateen perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, and the worst attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001. Mateen, 29, the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armoured cars early Sunday morning after a three-hour siege.
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| Russians ready for 'ultra-violent' action involved in Euro 2016 clashes | |  By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Russian hooligans prepared for "ultra-rapid, ultra-violent action" were involved in the worst of the fighting that hit Marseille at the start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, the French city's chief prosecutor said on Monday. European soccer's governing body, UEFA, said it was "disgusted" by the melees inside and outside the stadium in Marseille and has threatened to expel the Russian and English teams from the championship if the violence persists. "There were 150 Russian supporters who in reality were hooligans," Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin told a news conference.
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| FBI's Comey: Orlando suspect did not appear to have explosives | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no indication that the suspect in the Orlando nightclub shooting had any explosives, FBI Director James Comey told reporters on Monday. Comey added that authorities know what kind of cell phone suspect New York-born Omar Mateen used, but he declined to identify what type it was or whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation has gained access to it. Additionally, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said authorities will reexamine whether to change the policy regarding people previously under FBI investigation buying firearms. ...
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| U.S. urges United Nations to unite for gay rights | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States appealed on Monday for the United Nations to unite to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, not just express outrage over a massacre in a Florida nightclub on Sunday in which 49 people were killed. Being gay is a crime in at least 74 countries, the U.N. has said. "If we are united in our outrage by the killing of so many - and we are - let us be equally united around the basic premise of upholding the universal dignity of all persons regardless of who they love, not just around condemning the terrorists who kill them," Deputy U.S. Ambassador David Pressman said A shooter pledging allegiance to the radical group Islamic State carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history on Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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| Orlando shooter is example of homegrown extremism - Obama | |  By Timothy Gardner and Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday there was no clear evidence that the shooter in Sunday's massacre in Orlando, Florida, was directed by a larger terrorist network. "It appears that the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the internet," the president told reporters in the Oval Office after a briefing by senior officials including Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. "As far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time," Obama said.
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| Orlando shooter may have been inspired by foreign terrorists - FBI | |  FBI Director James Comey said on Monday there were "strong indications" Orlando nightclub attacker Omar Mateen had been radicalized in part through the internet but federal authorities still are working to determine his exact motives. Comey, speaking at a Justice Department news conference, also promised a thorough review of the FBI's own handling of Mateen, who had been monitored and questioned by agents who ultimately concluded they had no case against him. Mateen, 29, the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants, went on a shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, killing 49 people and wounding some 53 others before being killed by police who stormed the building.
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| Russian hooligans see themselves as Kremlin foot soldiers | |  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ultra-nationalist and schooled in their country's historical grievances, Russian soccer hooligans see themselves as fighting the Kremlin's geopolitical battles in miniature when they clash with foreign fans at the Euro 2016 tournament. "Our fans in Marseille are a copy of Russian foreign policy," Professor Sergei Medvedev from Moscow's Higher School of Economics, wrote on social media after Saturday's clashes around the England-Russia game in the French city of Marseille.
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| London police step up patrols after Orlando shootings | | | London's police force said it had stepped up patrols on Monday in response to the shooting a day earlier of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but had no intelligence to suggest an increased risk in the British capital. "We have increased our patrols in prime locations and continue to work closely and engage with the LGBT community, visiting clubs and local area offering reassurance and being visible," Metropolitan Police Commander Mak Chishty said. London hosts an annual gay pride parade on June 25. |
| Trump chides Obama over response to Orlando shooting | |  By Ginger Gibson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON/MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out at President Barack Obama on Monday over the shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, at the hands of a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State, saying it is possible Obama "doesn't want to see what's happening." Trump, in a series of television interviews, questioned Obama's motivation and said he would never solve the national security problem. "There are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn't want to get it," Trump said on NBC's "Today" program.
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| Toronto police search for masked man as university locked down | | | Police were searching for a masked man dressed in black on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto, police in Canada's largest city said on Monday, following reports that triggered a lockdown in several buildings in the area. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at the school that police received several reports of a suspicious man in a school building, but have not yet found anyone. |
| Suspected Orlando shooter scouted Walt Disney World - People Magazine | | | (Reuters) - The suspected shooter who killed 49 people in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub on Sunday had scouted Walt Disney World as a potential target, People Magazine said on Monday, citing an unnamed federal law enforcement source. (Reporting by Timothy Ahmann in Washington; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
| Venezuela lootings, food protests leave 3 dead in past week | |  The recent 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 suffered gunshot wounds during chaotic scenes outside supermarkets, which have become a flashpoint 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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| Bosnian children with Islamic State are "time bomb", study says | | | By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - More than 80 Bosnian children are in Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq and represent a "time bomb" that could pose a major security risk when they return, a study said on Monday. Bosnian Muslims are the largest group from the Western Balkans fighting for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, alongside fighters from countries such as Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The study by the non-profit Sarajevo-based Atlantic Initiative, which made an advance copy available to Reuters, found that the number of adult male fighters, estimated at 188 in the three-year period to end-2015, had dropped to 91, after 47 returned to Bosnia and 50 had been killed. |
| U.S. appeals court voids Ventura award in 'Sniper' case | |  (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a $1.85 million award that former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura won in a defamation case against the estate of the author of the memoir "American Sniper." The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the estate of Chris Kyle did not receive a fair trial, citing comments by Ventura's lawyer during closing arguments and the improper cross-examination of two witnesses about Kyle's insurance coverage. By a 2-1 vote, the appeals court ordered a new trial on the defamation claim, for which Ventura had won $500,000. It also unanimously overturned a $1.35 million award for unjust enrichment, representing some of the profits from Kyle's memoir, saying it had no support under Minnesota law.
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| Bangladesh arrests over 100 Islamists in crackdown after killings | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh have arrested at least 119 militants as part of a crackdown on Islamists after a wave of deadly attacks on members of minority groups and liberal activists, an officer said on Monday. More than 8,000 criminal suspects have also been arrested since law enforcement agencies began a week-long drive on Friday to halt the targeted killings in the mainly Muslim nation. Militants have killed more than 30 people in Bangladesh since early last year, with atheist bloggers, liberal academics, gay rights campaigners, foreign aid workers, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups among the victims. |
| Orlando shooter visited Saudi Arabia in 2011, 2012 - Saudi interior ministry spokesman | |  RIYADH (Reuters) - Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in a gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012, Saudi Interior Ministry security spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said on Monday. He said Mateen performed the umrah Islamic pilgrimage for 10 days in March 2011, and eight days the following March. (Reporting by Angus McDowall; writing by Jon Boyle)
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| Kerry warns against pointing finger at religion after Orlando | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday warned Americans against pointing a finger at one religion or another after a gunman who pledged alliegance to the Islamic State militant group massacred 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando. "The worst thing we can do is engage in trying to point fingers at one group or one form of sectarianism or another or one religion or another. Those are not the values of our country," Kerry told reporters as he posed for pictures before a meeting with Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides. ...
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| Orlando shooting a "very serious tragedy," says Dalai Lama | |  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." Speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, the Buddhist leader called on the audience to observe a moment of silence for victims of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Fifty people, including the gunman, the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants, died at the Orlando nightclub on Sunday morning.
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| French court jails English soccer fans for Euro 2016 violence | | | A judge jailed two British soccer fans on Monday for their involvement in the street violence in Marseille at the opening of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Alexander Booth, a 20-year-old cook, was sentenced to two months in prison, while psychiatric nurse Ian Hepworth received a three-month term. |
| Pistorius a "broken" man, psychologist tells South African court | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius is a "broken" man who should not be jailed for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a psychologist told a court in South Africa on Monday, while a prosecutor said he has shown no remorse. Jonathan Scholtz, a psychologist called by Pistorius' lawyer Barry Roux, told the sentencing hearing that the athlete, who attended in a dark suit and at times sat with his head in his hands, was on medication for depression, anxiety and insomnia. In my opinion his current condition warrants hospitalisation," Scholtz said, noting that Pistorius was not in the right frame of mind to testify.
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| Trudeau believes Canadian hostage killed in Philippines | |  TORONTO/MANILA (Reuters) - The Canadian government has "reason to believe" that Canadian hostage Robert Hall has been killed by his captors in the Philippines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement on Monday. Trudeau said Canadian officials were working with authorities in the Philippines to confirm Hall's death.
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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 that won independence from Ethiopia in 1991, fought border wars with its larger neighbour in 1998-2000 that killed about 70,000 people. |
| U.S. Senate Democrats discussing new gun control push | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. Senate Democrats are discussing how to revive a push for legisation imposing additional gun controls in the wake of last weekend's mass shooting in Florida, according to a senior Senate Democratic aide on Monday. The aide did not provide details and senators, who have been on a weekend recess, will be back on Tuesday. (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| Iraq makes arrests over reports of Sunnis executed in Falluja | |  By Isabel Coles and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Monday it had made arrests as it investigates allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja had executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men fleeing the city held by Islamic State. Iraqi authorities "are following up on the violations and a number of arrests have been made," government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said after a regional governor said 49 Sunni men had been executed after surrendering to a Shi'ite faction. Sohaib al-Rawi, governor of Anbar province where Falluja is located, said on Sunday that 643 men had gone missing between June 3 and June 5, and "all the surviving detainees were subjected to severe and collective torture by various means." The participation of militias in the battle of Falluja, just west of Baghdad, alongside the Iraqi army had already raised fears of sectarian killings.
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