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| Seven decapitated bodies found on home turf of Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' | | Saturday, June 18, 2016 1:34 AM | |
| | The decapitated bodies of seven men were found in Mexico's western Sinaloa state, near the heart of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's old home turf, a state law enforcement official said on Friday. Martin Robles, Sinaloa's deputy attorney general, told reporters in the state capital of Culiacan the seven men were loggers attacked near the town of Rosario, located about 60 miles (100 km) south of the Pacific resort of Mazatlan. In recent years, the state has been host to a number of confrontations between the army and drug traffickers, but it was not immediately clear if Guzman's notorious Sinaloa cartel was involved in the killing of the loggers. |
| Police charge suspect in slaying of UK MP Jo Cox | | Saturday, June 18, 2016 1:09 AM | |
|  West Yorkshire police said on its website that Thomas Mair, 52, had been charged with the murder of the 41-year-old mother of two. "We have now charged a man with murder, grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon," West Yorkshire Police Detective Superintendent Nick Wallen said in a statement.
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| Chile's government, in major defeat, will cease work on key labour reform | | Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:51 AM | |
|  By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's government admitted defeat on a major bill on Friday, saying it will not try to revive any measures of President Michelle Bachelet's landmark labour reform that were struck down by a court.
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| Seven charged in Rio de Janeiro gang-rape case | | | Six men and a boy were charged on Friday with raping a 16-year-old girl and posting videos and pictures of her on the internet, Rio de Janeiro police said in a statement. The case has sparked a debate about sexism and violence in Brazil and added to security concerns ahead of Rio's hosting of the Summer Olympics in August. The lead investigator in the case that shocked Brazilians, Cristiana Bento, sent her conclusions to Brazilian prosecutors on Friday. |
| Orlando attacks renew focus on security at smaller U.S. businesses | |  By Nick Carey CHICAGO (Reuters) - While mass shooting attacks are on the rise, smaller U.S. businesses remain reluctant to invest in more physical security measures such as metal detectors or extra guards even though events like the Orlando massacre prompt a surge in interest, industry executives said. Major attacks like the one at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 people dead, often prompt a flurry of inquiries from potential customers to security companies. Then they go, 'Gulp,'" said Bruce McIndoe, chief executive of risk advisory firm iJet International Inc. Those include upfront expenses like equipment and training as well as ongoing costs such as wages for guards.
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| Religious leaders reexamine words after Orlando gay club massacre | |  By Letitia Stein ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - From pulpits in Orlando and beyond, church leaders are reckoning with religious views often hostile to homosexuality after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub, with some wondering if they are contributing to breeding contempt. At a prayer service soon after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Reverend Joel Hunter confessed he did not know how to pray for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community targeted in the attack. "I have been searching my heart: is there anything I did that was complicit in that loss?" said Hunter, senior pastor at Northland, a nondenominational Christian church based in central Florida near Orlando, site of the Sunday morning shooting that also left 53 wounded.
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| Boko Haram militants kill 7 police in attack in Niger - military | | | Boko Haram militants killed seven soldiers and injured others in military barracks in southeastern Niger and stole weapons, the Nigeria-based radical group said in a statement on Friday, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Before the statement was issued, military sources had said that militants from Boko Haram attacked a town in Niger while a delegation of ministers were visiting, killing seven gendarmes and wounding 12 in a gun battle. Boko Haram said in the statement that "a detachment from the soldiers of the Caliphate carried out an attack on military barracks of the Nigerien apostate army in the town of Ghafam in the area of Diffa ... A quantity of weapons and various ammunition was taken as spoils." Neighbouring Chad has sent troops to help Niger in a planned counterattack against Boko Haram after the militants seized the southern Niger town of Bosso in an attack that killed 26 soldiers. |
| Leonardo DiCaprio is ordered deposed over 'Wolf of Wall Street' | |  A federal judge has ordered actor Leonardo DiCaprio to be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Stratton Oakmont executive over his alleged depiction in the 2013 Martin Scorsese film "The Wolf of Wall Street." U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke in Central Islip, New York, on Thursday said DiCaprio must be made available for questioning, which was opposed by Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures Corp, DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions and other defendants. The plaintiff, Andrew Greene, sued in 2014 for more than $50 million, claiming that he was defamed in the film through the portrayal by actor P.J. Byrne of a morally and ethically challenged character named Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff.
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| U.S. ends criminal case against FedEx over online pharmacies | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dismissed all criminal charges against c, according to a court filing, in a case where the company was accused of shipping packages from illegal online pharmacies despite repeated warnings. (Reporting by Dan Levine) |
| Obama, Saudi prince focus on Iraq and Syria in Washington meeting | |  By Timothy Gardner and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia on Friday discussed ways to support Iraqis in their fight against Islamic State militants and the importance of a political transition in war-torn Syria, the White House said. Obama met with Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval office for about an hour.
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| Six Spanish fans arrested for neo-Nazi banners, flares | |  NICE, France (Reuters) - Three Spanish "ultras" fans were arrested in the southern city of Nice for carrying neo-Nazi banners and another three for trying to bring flares into the stadium ahead of Spain's Euro 2016 match against Turkey, regional police said on Friday. French authorities have been cracking down on more radical fan groups after clashes in Marseille last week marred the start of the month-long European Championsip football tournament. ...
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| Under pressure, U.S. senators formulate gun control compromise | |  By Richard Cowan and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Republican senators tried on Friday to craft a compromise bill to impose limited gun restrictions in the face of pressure from Democrats and public rage over the Orlando mass shooting, the deadliest in modern U.S. history. A gunman killed 49 people at the Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub last Sunday, sparking a scramble over competing gun measures in the U.S. Senate. While past gun-control measures have failed to clear Congress, the massacre, coupled with public pressure and a suggestion by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that he can work with gun rights lobbyists to bring about change, may be changing the picture.
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| Police couple killer seen with aborted church attack suspect - source | | | A Frenchman who killed a police commander and his partner this week was seen in a van with a man involved in an aborted attack on churchgoers in the Paris suburb of Villejuif, a source close to the investigation said on Friday. Larossi Abballa, 25, was killed by police commandos after killing the couple with a knife at their home and taking their three-year-old son hostage on Monday. "Police authorities of the Yvelines area received in April 2015 information according to which Larossi Abballa was seen in a van with a man later suspected in the (Villejuif) affair," the source told Reuters. |
| U.S. investigators interview member of mosque attended by Orlando gunman | |  By Bernie Woodall and Ben Gruber ORLANDO, Fla./FORT PIERCE, Fla. (Reuters) - Families of some of the 49 people slain at an Orlando gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history hugged and wept at funerals on Friday, as FBI agents questioned a member of the mosque where the gunman worshipped. The gunman, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, expressed support for a conflicting list of Islamist militant groups, including Islamic State, in a series of phone calls and internet messages during his three-hour rampage, which ended when police shot him dead. FBI agents on Friday questioned a member of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, according to Omar Saleh, a lawyer with the Council of American-Islamic Relations who sat in on the 30-minute questioning session.
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| Clinton's lead over Trump slips after Florida shooting - Reuters/Ipsos poll | |  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, showed Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, with a 10.7 point lead among likely voters over Trump, her likely Republican rival in the November presidential election. Trump seized on the attack to sharpen his security proposals, saying he would block immigration to the United States from any country with a "proven history of terrorism" against America and its allies if elected.
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