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| Orlando nightclub gunman seen as self-radicalized | |  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 Islamist militant groups he voiced sympathy for, authorities said as they investigated 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 U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, an apparent example of "homegrown extremism." The streets leading up to Pulse nightclub in Orlando remained a barricaded crime scene on Tuesday morning.
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| French police killer had pledged allegiance to Islamic State- prosecutor | | | The knifeman who killed a French police commander and his partner at their home on Monday had recently pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State and had a list of other targets, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Tuesday. The attacker told police negotiators before he was killed in a raid on the house that he had answered a recent appeal by Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "to kill miscreants at home with their families", Molins told journalists. Police found at the murder site a list of other potential targets that included the names of rappers, journalists, police officers and other public figures, Molins said, without giving their names. |
| Islamic scholar in homosexuality comments row leaves Australia | |  By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - A British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando this year and had preached in 2013 that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts left Australia on Tuesday after the government launched an "urgent" review of his visa because of his comments. 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. "Out of compassion, let's get rid of him now, because he's contaminating society," Sekaleshfar said in a talk at that time, according to a recording available online.
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| Saudi king condemns "disgraceful" Orlando shooting | |  Saudi Arabia's King Salman condemned the deadly gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and urged measures to combat terrorism, state news agency SPA quoted the monarch as saying on Tuesday. "We have learned with great sorrow the news of the armed terrorist attack in Florida which caused deaths and injuries. "The people and government of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia ... stress the importance of uniting the efforts of the international community to counter all acts of violence and terrorism." Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in the gun attack, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012 to perform the umrah pilgrimage to the holy Muslim city of Mecca, Interior Ministry security spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said on Monday.[nL8N1953OZ] Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton singled out the kingdom and other U.S.-allied Gulf Arab monarchies, alleging some of their nationals aided militants.
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| FIFA president Infantino holds talks with Maradona | |  Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona, a long-time critic of FIFA, has held talks in Paris with its president Gianni Infantino, the global soccer body said on Tuesday. FIFA said that the meeting was part of Infantino's plans to involve top former players in making decisions on the future of the game, and added that the pair also discussed the crisis in the administration of Argentine football. Maradona was a frequent critic of Infantino's predecessor Sepp Blatter and claimed that there was "a mafia" inside FIFA.
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| Political differences hold up India's biggest tax reform | |  By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - For India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a nationwide goods services tax (GST) is a transformative idea that cannot wait any longer. While support has broadened among states for the sales tax, differences persist on key details, in particular pitching the tax at the right level to offset possible revenue losses. "There is no consensus on the rate," said Parminder Singh Dhindsa, finance minister of the state of Punjab.
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| Pistorius must pay for his crime, Steenkamp's father tells court | |  By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius must pay for the crime of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which has devastated her family, her father told a South African court on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Paralympian 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 forgiving the runner was very hard.
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| Soccer-France detains Russian fans as PM Valls vows expulsions | |  By Mathias Galante and Eric Gaillard NICE/PARIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday some football fans will be deported from France after violent clashes marred the start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, and a group of Russian fans was detained near Cannes on the French Riviera. There are fears the violence could spread at a time when French security forces are already stretched, as highlighted on Monday when a suspected Islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander and his partner to death at their home. "People will be deported after they have been sentenced as there are people who cannot remain because they are not wanted on our national territory due to their behaviour," Valls told reporters.
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| Russia handed suspended Euro 2016 disqualification | |  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Russia could be thrown out of Euro 2016 if their fans cause further trouble inside a stadium after UEFA imposed a suspended disqualification and a 150,000 euro ($168,300.00) fine on the Russian Football Union (RFU) on Tuesday. Masked Russia supporters charged at England fans, punching and kicking them, after the final whistle of the 1-1 Group B draw at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday. Russia's fans were also involved in violent clashes with England supporters in the port city before and after the match.
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| Thousands rally against labour law in Paris under heavy security | | | By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people rallied in Paris under heavy police presence on Tuesday for a protest against a planned change of labour laws that would make hiring and firing easier. The Eiffel Tower closed for the day as staff stopped work to join the protest, making it impossible to ensure safe running of France's biggest tourist attraction, the operating company said. After violent clashes between riot police and masked youths during previous demonstrations, 130 would-be troublemakers were banned from central Paris to limit the risk of more skirmishes, according to Paris Police Prefect Michel Cadot. |
| Two French police killed in attack claimed by Islamic State | |  By Chine Labbé and Simon Carraud PARIS/LES MUREAUX (Reuters) - A suspected Islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander to death outside his home and later killed his companion, a policewoman, in an attack claimed by Islamic State and denounced by the government as "an abject act of terrorism". The assailant, a 25-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was jailed in 2013 for helping Islamist militants go to Pakistan and had been under security service surveillance, including wiretaps, at the time of the attack, police sources said. The attacker filmed part of the assault live on the social network Facebook, according to David Thomson, a journalist specialised in radical Islamists.
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| Two people close to French police attacker held for questioning - source | | | PARIS (Reuters) - French police are holding two people for questioning believed to be close to the suspected Islamist attacker who stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and later killed his partner in an attack claimed by Islamic State, a police source said. The attacker, whom police and justice sources have named as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, had been placed under surveillance, and recently his phone was tapped but without any results, the police source added on Tuesday. (Reporting by Paris newsroom; Writing by James Regan; Editing by Ingrid Melander) |
| Hindu Sena celebrates birthday of "saviour of humanity" Trump | |  A Hindu fringe group celebrated the 70th birthday of Donald Trump in New Delhi on Tuesday, calling the U.S. presidential contender the "saviour of humanity" who could end the global threat posed by Islamist militants. About 20 members of the far-right Hindu Sena, or Hindu Army, held the festivities as Americans grieved over the deaths of 49 people in the country's worst-ever mass shooting, perpetrated by a gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State. "Trump has said Muslims should be banned from entering America.
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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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| 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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| 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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