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| Florida gunman seen as self-radicalized, not directed from outside | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida appears to have acted alone, without direction from the various Islamist militant groups he professed sympathy for, authorities said as they delved into the roots of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Federal law enforcement officials said the 29-year-old gunman, Omar Mateen, who worked as a private security guard at a gated retirement community, seemed to have been largely inspired by radical ideology he was exposed to over the internet. President Barack Obama on Monday called Mateen, a New York-born U.S. citizen and son of Afghan immigrants, an apparent example of "homegrown extremism." At the same time, a portrait of Mateen emerged of a troubled loner who harbored a fierce temper and violent streak, as well as aspirations for a career in law enforcement.
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| Russia's Putin sends condolences to Obama over Orlando shootings - Kremlin | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama over shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Asked about homophobic comments made by some Russian activists regarding the attack, Peskov told reporters: "Such thoughts are absolutely unacceptable." (Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Jack Stubbs)
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| Insight: Wolf dens, not lone wolves, the norm in U.S. Islamic State plots | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Omar Mateen acted alone in plotting the massacre of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub, he would be the exception rather than the rule in U.S. cases involving suspected Islamic State supporters. Sunday's worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history prompted renewed warnings from officials of "lone wolf" attackers, a term that commonly invokes images of isolated individuals, radicalized online by violent propaganda and plotting alone.
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| Pistorius must pay for his crime, victim's father tells court | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius must pay for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, her father told a South African court on Tuesday, adding that forgiving the Paralympian runner for his crime was very hard. The 29-year-old gold medallist faces a minimum 15-year jail term after his manslaughter conviction for the 2013 killing, for which he originally received a five-year sentence, was upgraded on appeal. Called to testify by the lead state prosecutor in Pistorius's sentencing hearing, a tearful and trembling Barry Steenkamp said his daughter's death had devastated her family.
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| Thousands converge on Paris to protest against changes to labour law | | | Hundreds of buses carried protesters from all over France into Paris on Tuesday for a demonstration against planned changes to labour laws that would make hiring and firing easier. Police have clashed repeatedly with violent youths on the fringes of rallies over the last few weeks and although public-sector strikes are waning, the CGT labour union said the Paris march would be the biggest show of strength for three months. "This is not the end," CGT leader Philippe Martinez said. |
| EU court backs Britain over child benefit residency rule | | | The European Union's top court ruled on Tuesday that Britain could deny child benefit to foreigners who are not economically active in the country, one of the hot-button issues in Britain's looming referendum on EU membership. The European Court of Justice said a rule that makes allowances conditional on the right to reside in Britain might amount to discrimination, but could be justified by a need to protect public finances. The right to reside applies to foreigners who work, are looking for work or have been in Britain for at least five years. |
| Turkey will not change anti-terror laws, even if scuppers EU visa deal - Yildirim | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will never change its anti-terrorism laws, even if it would mean a collapse in a deal with the European Union to secure visa-free travel for Turks to Europe, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday. Turkey and the EU have been discussing visa liberalisation since 2013 and agreed in March to go ahead with it as part of a broader deal to halt illegal immigration from Turkey to the EU. But progress stalled when Brussels insisted that Ankara must also reform its tough anti-terror laws. ...
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| Fourth missing Hong Kong bookseller returns home | |  A Hong Kong man linked to a bookshop that published books critical of China's leaders has returned to the financial hub after going missing more than six months ago, Hong Kong police said on Tuesday. Many people in free-wheeling Hong Kong and some foreign diplomats believe mainland agents illegally captured several of the men, sparking fears Chinese authorities were overriding a "one country, two systems" formula protecting Hong Kong's freedoms since its return to China from British rule in 1997. Chinese authorities have declined to clarify key details of the disappearances but said law enforcement officials would never do anything illegal.
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| Jaitley shoots down Congress party's demand to cap GST | |  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday shot down the opposition Congress party's demand to write a cap for the proposed goods and services tax (GST) into the constitution. After meeting state finance ministers, Jaitley said there was a consensus among Indian states against the Congress party's stand. The proposed tax reform, India's biggest revenue shake-up since independence in 1947, seeks to replace a slew of federal and state levies, transforming the nation of 1.3 billion people into a customs union.
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| French prosecutors open probe into fatal drug trial | | | Paris prosecutors said on Tuesday they have begun an involuntary manslaughter investigation into a failed drug trial that left one dead and five hospitalised in January. France's Health Ministry said last month that Portuguese drugmaker Bial and French laboratory Biotrial were at fault "on several counts" for the drug trial. Participants in the phase I trial were given the experimental drug made by Bial at a private facility in the city of Rennes run by France's Biotrial. |
| Children face beatings, rape, death trying to reach Europe - UNICEF | |  Migrant children making the perilous journey to Europe to escape war and poverty face possible beatings, rape and forced labour in addition to risk of drowning in the Mediterranean, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. Minors account for a growing percentage of migrants and refugees, particularly those trying to reach Italy by sea from Libya, it said in a report, "Danger Every Step of the Way". Of the roughly 206,200 people who arrived in Europe by sea this year to June 4, one in three was a child, it said, citing figures from the U.N. refugee agency.
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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) |
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