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| ADVISORY - Indian court frees Bollywood drug thriller from censor's clutches | |  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Please disregard the MUMBAI story headlined "Indian court frees Bollywood drug thriller from censor's clutches", which is wrong and is withdrawn. The Bombay High Court has not yet issued its final verdict and we will report the outcome of the hearing in a new story. STORY_NUMBER: L4N19517W STORY_DATE: 13/06/2016 STORY_TIME: 0945 GMT
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| Families and friends wait anxiously for news after Florida nightclub rampage | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Family and friends of victims trapped in a gay nightclub by a gunman pledging loyalty to Islamic State waited anxiously on Monday to find out whether their loved ones were among the 50 people killed and 53 wounded in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The FBI and other law enforcement authorities were poring over evidence that could explain the motives for the rampage in Orlando, Florida, a massacre that President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate. The gunman, Omar Mateen, a New York-born Florida resident and U.S. citizen who was the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armored cars after a three-hour siege.
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| South Africa's Pistorius 'a broken man', psychologist tells sentencing hearing | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius is "a broken man" who should not be jailed, a psychologist told a court sentencing the South African Paralympic gold medalist for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Professor Jonathan Scholtz, a psychologist called by Pistorius' lawyer Barry Roux, told the hearing that Pistorius was on medication for depression, anxiety and insomnia. In my opinion his current condition warrants hospitalisation," Scholtz told the hearing that was attended by Steenkamp's mother.
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| Exclusive: Obama administration not pursuing executive order to shut Guantanamo - sources | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is not pursuing the use of an executive order to shutter the Guantanamo Bay military prison after officials concluded that it would not be a viable strategy, sources familiar with the deliberations said. The conclusion, reached by administration officials, narrows the already slim chances that President Barack Obama can fulfill his pledge to close the notorious offshore prison before leaving office in January. The White House has said repeatedly that Obama has not ruled out any options on the Guantanamo center, which has been used to house terrorism suspects since it was set up in 2001 following the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
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| Russian 'hooligans' trained for 'ultra-violence' in Marseille - prosecutor | |  Russians trained to fight were involved in the worst of the fan violence that erupted in Marseille during the opening of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, the French city's chief prosecutor said on Monday. "There were 150 Russian supporters who in reality were hooligans," Brice Robin told a news conference. Most of the 35 people who were injured in the fighting were English, the prosecutor said, adding that two Russian nationals were being expelled from the country.
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| Pakistani clerics declare 'honour killing' against Islam | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A group of Pakistani clerics has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring "honour killing" over perceived damage to a family's reputation against the teaching of Islam, and anyone who carries out such an attack a heretic. Hundreds of Pakistanis, the vast majority women and girls, are murdered every year by relatives after being accused of damaging a family's honour. Most cases involve young women trying to chose partners against a family's wishes. |
| U.N. rights boss Zeid deplores Orlando shooting | | | The top U.N. human rights official on Monday condemned the deadly attack by a gunman targeting people at a homosexual bar in Orlando, Florida. A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. "I also condemn with the greatest possible force the outrageous attacks by violent extremists on innocent people, chosen at random, or because of their presumed beliefs, or opinions, or - as we saw yesterday - their sexual orientation," Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein told the start of a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. |
| Islamic State claims responsibility for Orlando nightclub shooting - Albayan radio | |  Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for the shooting that killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, in an official broadcast on the group's Albayan Radio. "One of the Caliphate's soldiers in America carried out a security invasion where he was able to enter a crusader gathering at a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida ... where he killed and injured more than a hundred of them before he was killed," the group said in its broadcast.
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| Cambodia PM shrugs off EU aid threat, opposition supporters jailed | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday shrugged off European parliament threats to review aid if his administration continues to harass political opponents on the same day as a court jailed three more opposition activists. The European Union has called on Hun Sen to halt "judicial harassment" of adversaries and the United Nations has also called for dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition as tension mounts in the Southeast Asian country ahead of a general election in 2018. The European parliament said in a resolution on Thursday that aid worth around $461 million should be dependent on improvements in human rights and called on authorities drop all charges against opposition leader Sam Rainsy who has been in exile since late last year to avoid arrest.
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| Bahrain arrests prominent campaigner Nabeel Rajab - wife | |  Bahraini police detained Nabeel Rajab, one of the most prominent rights activists in the Arab world, his wife said on Monday on her Twitter account, nearly a year after he was freed from prison by royal pardon. Sumaya Rajab said security forces searched the family house before they arrested her husband. Rajab, founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, played a leading role in Shi'ite Muslim-led demonstrations in the 2011 demonstrations demanding reforms in the Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab kingdom.
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| North Korea mounts long-running hack of South Korea computers, says Seoul | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday. South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by the North after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February that led to new U.N. sanctions. The North has always denied wrongdoing.
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| Oscar Pistorius arrives in court for sentencing after murder conviction | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius arrived in court on Monday for sentencing after he was found guilty for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, 29, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon-fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence and cannot appeal after the country's top court ruled in March that he had exhausted all his legal options. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by James Macharia)
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| Same-sex kiss removed from Les Miserables musical in Singapore | | | By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore organisers of the musical "Les Miserables" have cut a scene in which two male actors kiss after complaints from the public in the conservative city state where sex between men is illegal. The show's organiser, Mediacorp VizPro, removed the kiss after being told by the state regulator, the Media Development Authority (MDA), that it violated the show's "General" rating. "The inclusion of this particular scene meant that the performance had exceeded the 'General' rating issued," the MDA said in a statement. |
| Bangladesh arrests over 100 Islamists in crackdown after killings | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested at least 103 militants as part of a broad crackdown on Islamists after a wave of deadly attacks on members of minority groups and liberal activists, police said on Monday. In addition to the arrest of the Islamist militants, about 6,000 suspected criminals have been arrested since law enforcement agencies began a week-long drive on Friday to halt a series of targeted killings in the mainly Muslim nation. All the arrests were made on specific charges, national police chief A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque said, relating to firearms, narcotics and other offences. |
| Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of attacking its territory | | | Eritrea's government has accused Ethiopia of launching an attack on its territory, but the extent of the assault was still unclear and there was no immediate response from Ethiopia. Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia in 1991, fought a bloody border war with its larger neighbour between 1998 and 2000. "The TPLF regime has today, Sunday 12 June 2016, unleashed an attack against Eritrea on the Tsorona Central Front," the Information Ministry said in a statement around midnight. |
| China condemns protection of corrupt officials in name of human rights | | | The top anti-graft body in China, which is pushing for the extradition of corruption suspects who have fled abroad, condemned "some people" who protect corrupt officials in the name of human rights, but did not name the targets of its ire. China has sought increased international cooperation in its "Fox Hunt" campaign to track down officials and business executives suspected of corruption who have fled overseas. |
| Exiled tycoon Mallya: India wrong to sequester some assets in graft case | |  Exiled tycoon Vijay Mallya said on Sunday that Indian authorities trying to recover about $1.4 billion from his collapsed Kingfisher Airlines had no legal grounds for sequestering certain assets in a money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) tweeted on Saturday that it had "attached" properties worth 14.11 billion Indian rupees ($210.78 million) in the case involving a loan from state-owned IDBI Bank to Kingfisher to buy properties abroad. The assets were purchased several years before Kingfisher was launched, Mallya said in a statement to the media on Sunday.
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