Politics

  Bloomberg The FBI let the Orlando mass-shooting suspect slip through its grasp despite interviewing him twice since 2013 due to a lack of evidence to hold him, a troubling fact that will pressure officials struggling to detect lone terrorists without eroding basic civil liberties. The FBI is investigating Sunday’s killing spree at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as an ...

  Washington / AFP The head of a prominent US Muslim advocacy group strongly condemned the nightclub massacre in Florida, calling members of the IS group an “aberration” amid allegations the gunman was inspired by the extremists. Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also called for unity and urged politicians not to “exploit” the slaughter in ...

  Bloomberg White House hopeful Donald Trump appeared bent on exploiting massacre in Orlando to boost the argument that he can be trusted to tackle terrorism over rival Hillary Clinton. With many victims of the carnage yet to be identified, and police still probing the suspected extremist’s ties of the slain gunman, Trump wasted no time in harnessing the assault ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister David Cameron turned to his traditional rivals in the opposition Labour Party to win over undecided voters with just 10 days to stop Britain from voting to leave the European Union. Gordon Brown, who was ousted by Cameron in 2010, was to make the case to stay in the 28-nation bloc, and other media interventions have ...

  Puebla / AFP Two people were killed and at least six others seriously wounded in Mexico when armed men opened fire on players and spectators at an amateur baseball game, authorities said. The attorney general’s office in the state of Puebla said the attack occurred on Sunday in the town of Acatzingo, 170 kilometers (105 miles) from Mexico City. ...

  Brussels / AFP Britain leaving the European Union would strip the bloc of a nuclear-armed global player and prove “disastrous” for its presence on the world stage, analysts say. The timing could hardly be worse, as the EU struggles with its biggest migration crisis since World War II and the continent facing a growing threat from terrorism fuelled by conflict ...

  BEIJING / AP A small explosion at a check-in area of Shanghai’s Pudong airport injured three people on Sunday, Chinese authorities said. The blast at China’s second-busiest airport occurred around 2:20 p.m. and appeared to have been caused by some sort of homemade explosive, the airport’s management said on its verified microblog account. It said the three injured people ...

  Seoul / AFP A salvage firm on Sunday began a difficult and costly operation to raise a sunken South Korean ferry which capsized at sea more than two years ago in a disaster that shocked and enraged the country. The Sewol was carrying 476 people when it sank off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014, with the ...

  Bloomberg Donald Trump returned to the combative form that helped him win the US Republican presidential nomination, slamming Democrats, calling for his party to unite behind him, and responding to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that his election could lead to “trickle-down racism.” At a rallyin Tampa, Florida, the presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ...

  Bolivia / AFP Bolivia has arrested five people for allegedly coaching a boy to pretend he was President Evo Morales’ son, and paying his family, in a soap opera-style scandal that has riveted the country, officials said on Saturday. “The boy was told his entire education would be paid for, that he would be given a plot of land, ...