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| Obama meets massacre survivors, victims' relatives in Orlando | |  By Bernie Woodall and Roberta Rampton ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Orlando on Thursday to meet with survivors of the massacre at a gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed, as the U.S. Senate inched closer to a vote on gun control measures. Reprising the role of consoler in chief that he has played following periodic mass shootings since he took office in 2009, Obama flew to Orlando with Vice President Joe Biden, who met with first responders, survivors and victims' families at the Amway Center, the home arena of the Orlando Magic NBA team. "The president believes that there's no more tangible way to show support than by travelling to the city where this horrific incident occurred," White House spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters on Air Force One en route from Washington.
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| Family of U.S. student killed in Paris attacks sues social media companies | |  The family of a California design student killed in November's attacks in Paris sued Twitter Inc , Google and Facebook Inc , claiming the social media companies provide "material support" to the militant group Islamic State. Nohemi Gonzalez's family filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, asking the court to rule that the companies are violating the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. "For years, defendants have knowingly permitted the terrorist group ISIS to use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits," the lawsuit said.
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| Head of Russian football fan club to be deported from France, three jailed | | | The head of a Russian football supporters' association, Alexander Shprygin, is among 20 Russian fans who will be expelled from France in the coming days after violence flared at their Euro 2016 match against England, a police source said on Thursday. Also on Thursday three Russian fans were jailed for one year, 18 months and two years respectively by a Marseille court for planning acts intended to harm people and destroy property. Much of the violence was due to Russian fans, Robin said, adding that some of them belonged to "Orel Butchers" Lokomotiv Moscow supporters' group and others to Spartak Moscow's "Gladiators" group. |
| British lawmaker shot dead, EU referendum campaigns suspended | |  By Craig Brough BIRSTALL, England (Reuters) - A British member of parliament was shot dead in the street on Thursday, causing deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Jo Cox, 41, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and a vocal advocate for Britain remaining in the European Union, was attacked while preparing to meet constituents in Birstall near Leeds in northern England. "We are not in a position to discuss any motive at this time," said Temporary Chief Constable Dee Collins.
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| Reaction to the killing of British lawmaker Jo Cox | |  British lawmaker Jo Cox was shot dead in the street in northern England on Thursday, causing shock across Britain and leading to the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Following is a summary of reaction from politicians and analysts: BRENDAN COX, JO'S HUSBAND "Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people." "She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her." BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON "We have lost a great star.
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| Verdict due in German trial of 94-year-old ex-Auschwitz guard | |  A German court is expected to announce on Friday its verdict in the trial of a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people. In what could be one of Germany's last Holocaust trials, the prosecution has asked the court in the western German town of Detmold to sentence Reinhold Hanning to six years in prison for his role in facilitating the slaughter at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Judge Anke Grudda is due to read out the verdict on Friday, the 20th day of proceedings in the four-month trial, with each day limited to just two hours due to Hanning's old age.
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| Obama to meet Saudi deputy crown prince on Friday - White House | |  U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince on Friday and the two are expected to discuss conflicts in the Middle East including the campaign against Islamic State, a White House spokesman said on Thursday. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the son of King Salman, is on a visit to the United States aimed at restoring frayed relations with Washington and to promote a plan to slash the kingdom's dependence on oil revenues. Friday's meeting will take place at the White House.
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| Black box from crashed EgyptAir plane retrieved | |  By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - The cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 has been retrieved by search teams in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to crash into the sea killing all 66 people on board. Since then, search teams have worked against the clock to recover the two black box recorders crucial to explaining what went wrong, before they stop emitting signals in about a week. Egypt's investigation committee said in a statement that a specialist vessel owned by Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search was forced to salvage the device in stages because it was extensively damaged, but was able to retrieve the memory unit.
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| Probe of Disney resort after alligator death not criminal - sheriff | |  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The probe into the death of a two-year-old boy likely drowned by an alligator at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, is not criminal in nature, the local sheriff's office said on Thursday. Police divers recovered the body of Lane Graves on Wednesday from the man-made lake where he had been snatched by the alligator as he played at the water's edge the night before. A Disney spokeswoman has said the company would review the posted signs that ban swimming in Seven Seas Lagoon but do not specifically warn about alligators.
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| British PM Cameron says death of lawmaker Jo Cox is a tragedy | |  LONDON (Reuters) - The death of opposition Labour lawmaker Jo Cox is a tragedy, British Prime Minister David Cameron said. "The death of Jo Cox is a tragedy. She was a committed and caring MP (Member of Parliament). My thoughts are with her husband Brendan and her two young children," he said on Twitter. (Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Estelle Shirbon; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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| Human Rights Watch says more than 400 killed in Ethiopia protests | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian security forces killed more than 400 people in their bid to quell protests that wracked the Horn of Africa country's vast Oromiya province since November, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Plans to allocate farmland in Ethiopia's largest region surrounding the capital for development sparked fierce demonstrations in November and spread for months, in the country's worst unrest in over a decade. Ethiopia has long been one of the world's poorest nations but has taken impressive strides to industrialise its agrarian economy in recent years. |
| Two Kenyans in gay sex case lose bid to outlaw anal examinations | | | Two men being prosecuted for having gay sex in Kenya lost their legal bid on Thursday to challenge the authorities' right to force suspects to have anal examinations, in a ruling labelled "totally unacceptable" by Amnesty International. The two unnamed men who deny the gay sex charges, said in their petition they had been coerced into undergoing anal examinations by security personnel and a public hospital in Mombasa in February 2015. |
| Hong Kong bookseller says associate abducted by China authorities | |  By Stella Tsang and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in mysterious circumstances last year said on Thursday he had been detained for more than eight months by Chinese authorities and that another of the five had been abducted from Hong Kong. Lam Wing-kee told a news conference that his colleague, Lee Bo, who went missing from Hong Kong in late December, had been abducted, and said "cross-border enforcement actions" by mainland Chinese authorities in Hong Kong were "not acceptable". There, he was kept in a small room by himself, and repeatedly interrogated about the selling of banned books on the mainland.
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| Belgium agrees to extradite two Paris attack suspects to France | |  A Belgian court on Thursday cleared the extradition to France of two suspects under investigation in connection with Islamist militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people last November, the Belgian government said. A government statement said a Brussels appeals court "declared enforceable" European arrest warrants issued by France for Mohamed Amri and Ali Oulkadi.
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| Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. The U.N. report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said the Islamist militants had been systematically rounding up Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, seeking to "erase their identity" in a campaign that met the definition of the crime as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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