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| U.S. senators, Trump open to ban on some gun sales after Orlando | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators signalled on Wednesday a new willingness to consider certain restrictions on the sale of guns after the Orlando nightclub massacre, with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others in his party ready to discuss limited gun control measures. Emotions have run high in Congress since the Orlando massacre with Democrats stalling Senate proceedings on Wednesday to filibuster for tougher gun control legislation. Earlier this week, some House Democrats interrupted a moment of silence for victims, with shouts of "where's the bill", to protest the Republican-led chamber's refusal to consider tougher gun laws.
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| FBI probes Craigslist ad in San Diego praising Orlando shooting | | | (Reuters) - The FBI and San Diego police are investigating a threatening message posted on Craigslist that praised the shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, officials said on Wednesday. Darrell Foxworth, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's San Diego division, confirmed the agency was looking into the post and attempting to identify the person responsible. Both the FBI and San Diego police said there were no known credible threats to the region. |
| Brazil's Temer denies alleged link to Petrobras scandal | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's interim President Michel Temer denied on Wednesday allegations that he sought campaign funds for his party stemming from a graft scheme at state oil company Petrobras , implicating him in the country's biggest ever corruption scandal. A plea deal by former Petrobras executive Sergio Machado, made public by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, said a campaign contribution requested by Temer was made legally by engineering group Queiroz Galvao but resulted from a kickback on contracts with Petrobras. The testimony is the first to link Temer to the Petrobras investigation, known as "Operation Car Wash." Dozens of executives and politicians have been jailed due to the probe into the scandal, which has added to Brazil's worst recession in decades.
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| U.S. senator - no links seen yet between Orlando gunman, militant groups | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence panel said on Wednesday authorities have not yet established any links between the Orlando gunman and international militant groups. "There are no links to international groups that we know of today," Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters after a briefing by Obama administration officials. (Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Eric Beech)
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| Boy's body recovered after gator attack at Florida Disney resort | |  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Police divers on Wednesday recovered the body of a 2-year-old boy who was grabbed by an alligator in front of his family during a vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said he and a Catholic priest had informed the family that the boy's body was found near where he vanished and was completely intact.
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| U.S. investigators question wife of gunman in Orlando massacre | |  By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators have questioned the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the FBI said on Wednesday, and a law enforcement source said she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing. Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, knew of his plans for what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, said the law enforcement source, who has been briefed on the matter. "With respect to the wife, I can tell you that is only one of many interviews that we have done and will continue to do in this investigation," FBI Special Agent Ron Hopper told a news conference.
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| Ukraine may get IMF funds in two parts - economic adviser Miklos | |  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukraine's fiscal and balance-of-payments pressures should ease if the country receives at least $1 billion worth of International Monetary Fund support this year as it puts its reform efforts back on track, the government's top economic adviser said. Ivan Miklos, senior economic adviser to new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, told Reuters in an interview that Ukraine will likely need more reform legislation passed to meet requirements for the IMF to fully release $1.7 billion in delayed funds. An IMF spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment on the status of Ukraine's $17.5 billion bailout program.
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| U.S. indicts two Japanese auto parts companies for bid-rigging | | | Two Japanese auto parts companies, Tokai Kogyo Co Ltd and Maruyasu Industries Co Ltd, were indicted on Wednesday on price-fixing charges along with five executives, the U.S. Justice Department said. The indictments arose from a long-running international antitrust probe of price-fixing in the auto parts industry that has ensnared more than 40 companies and 60 people. In one indictment by a federal grand jury in Ohio, Tokai Kogyo and its U.S. subsidiary Green Tokai Co Ltd were accused of rigging bids for automobile weather stripping and other sealing products sold to Honda Motor Co Ltd , the department said. |
| U.N. won't disclose sources for report critical of Saudi coalition | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations will not disclose to a Saudi Arabia-led coalition sensitive sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, in a June 8 letter on behalf of the coalition to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asked the United Nations to reveal details on the sources of information for its report on violations of child rights during armed conflicts. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the world body has yet to respond to the letter, though he made clear the U.N. will not disclose details of its sources for the report. |
| Factbox - Eyes on U.S. terrorism watchlists after Orlando shootings | |  As facts emerge about Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, questions have arisen about how well-known he was to U.S. intelligence agencies. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Monday that Mateen was on a watchlist between May 2013 and March 2014 while he was under investigation after claiming a connection to or support for multiple Islamist extremist groups, including al Qaeda, Hezbollah, al-Nusra and Islamic State. The FBI maintains three watchlists and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence runs one database.
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| Turkish president believes EU visa liberalisation can be agreed | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he believed it was possible to achieve a positive outcome on EU visa liberalisation, which would take into account Turkey's stance on fighting terrorism. "I believe we can get a positive result on this issue which would take into consideration Turkey's sensitivity about the struggle with terrorism," Erdogan said in a speech to ambassadors in the capital Ankara. A deal to give Turks visa-free travel to Europe in return for stemming the flow of migrants to the bloc has been held up by a disagreement over Turkey's anti-terror laws, which some in Europe see as too broad.
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| Moscow summons French ambassador over 'anti-Russian' Euro 2016 | |  By Philip O'Connor and Jack Stubbs LILLE/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Football rivalry and fan violence spilled into global politics as Moscow summoned the French ambassador over detentions of Russians at Euro 2016 and warned an "anti-Russian" mood could even damage relations between Russia and France. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused other countries' football fans of "absolutely provocative actions" at the tournament, such as trampling on the Russian flag. The epicentre of football violence at Euro 2016 meanwhile moved from the south of France to the far north.
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| Sig Sauer, maker of Orlando gunman's weapon, is expanding rapidly in U.S. | |  By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Sig Sauer Inc, maker of the semi-automatic rifle believed to have been used in the Orlando shooting rampage, has been growing rapidly in the United States, with plans to sell more silencers and ammunition while vying for a contract to supply several hundred thousand handguns to the U.S. military. U.S. firearms and ammunition sales typically surge after a mass shooting because of fears there will be new laws curbing ownership of handguns and rifles. While Sig Sauer's MCX rifle could receive similar treatment, its starting retail price of about $1,900 could dampen demand.
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| Trump backs surveillance of mosques despite criticism of rhetoric | |  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday called for surveillance of mosques as part of U.S. law enforcement efforts to prevent terrorism, and stood by his remarks on banning Muslim immigrants, which others in his party have criticized. Trump repeated his call for a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States after a U.S.-born Muslim, the son of Afghan immigrants, fatally shot 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early on Sunday. The New York real estate developer said that while the Florida gunman was born in the United States, "his parents weren't and his ideas weren't born here." "We have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques and we have to check other places because this is a problem that, if we don't solve it, it's going to eat our country alive," Trump said at a rally in Atlanta.
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| Czech minister shakes government with swift approval of police reform | | | By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech interior minister on Wednesday signed a contested plan merging top anti-corruption units in the police that is at the centre of a row shaking the centre-left government. The plan to reshuffle police top structures, bringing together organised and economic crime units, is testing the three-party coalition after more than two years of relatively smooth rule. Finance Minister Andrej Babis's ANO party has rejected the plan and said it would seek changes to the coalition agreement after the reform was signed over its objections. |
| Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after latest unrest over food | |  Venezuelan security forces have arrested at least 400 people after the latest bout of looting and food riots in the crisis-hit OPEC member country, local officials said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, violence engulfed the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana as looters swarmed through dozens of shops and security forces struggled to maintain control. "I have no doubt they paid them, this was planned." Nelson Moreno, governor of Anzoategui state, which neighbours Sucre, said eight people were also arrested on Tuesday in "irregular" situations, a term that usually refers to looting.
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| U.S. Vice President Biden to travel to Orlando with Obama Thursday | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will join President Barack Obama in a trip to Orlando, Florida on Thursday to meet with families of people killed and wounded on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Timothy Gardner; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Hindu teacher assaulted in latest attack on Bangladesh minorities | | | A Hindu college teacher was seriously injured on Wednesday when he was assaulted by suspected Islamists, police said, the latest in a string of attacks on minority members and liberal activists in the mainly Muslim nation. The attack came amid a week-long crackdown on Islamists begun on Friday, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vowed to halt a wave of targeted killings, in which more than 11,000 people have been arrested. Ripon Chakraborty, a mathematics teacher, was attacked by three knife-wielding assailants on Wednesday when he opened the door at his home in Madaripur, 70 km of the capital, Dhaka, police said. |
| France threatens ban on union protests after 'unbearable violence' | |  By Leigh Thomas and Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - French leaders told the hardline CGT labour union on Wednesday it would be denied permission for further street rallies unless it rooted out troublemakers, a day after violent battles between masked youths and police during protest marches in Paris. Prime Minister Manual Valls accused the CGT of doing little to rein in hundreds of rioters who ransacked shopfronts, tore up street paving and smashed the windows of a children's hospital during running battles on Tuesday. President Francois Hollande told ministers street rallies that the CGT has been organising in protest against a labour law reform would not be permitted unless the union provided better security guarantees, a government spokesman said.
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| Pacing feet, rants, executions - inside the Orlando killer's rampage | |  "Move away from the walls! Move away from the walls!" And she saw Mateen's feet backing towards the stall. "Bow! Bow! Bow!" It was near dawn on Sunday, three hours after Mateen had begun his savage assault on the popular gay dancing spot.
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