Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Philippines Islamists behead second Canadian hostage and other top stories.

  • Philippines Islamists behead second Canadian hostage

    Philippines Islamists behead second Canadian hostage
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  • EU court to back UK limits on migrants' access to child benefits

    EU court to back UK limits on migrants' access to child benefits
    An attempt by the European commission to challenge Britain’s right to deny some EU migrants access to child benefit and child tax credits is expected to be thrown out by European judges. The ruling from the European court of justice is expected to confirm that Britain can insist that only EU citizens with a lawful “right of residence” in the UK can claim social security benefits. The European commission claimed that the decision by Britain to impose a right of residence test to access certain f..
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  • Brexit's first 100 days promise chaos, fear, damage limitation

    Brexit's first 100 days promise chaos, fear, damage limitation
    Currency markets haven't priced in the UK's exit from the EU, so if it happens, "a crash is pretty likely", said Lothar Mentel, chief executive of Tatton Investment Management in London. Photo: Bloomberg There's no road map for European authorities facing the prospect of a British exit from their 28-nation union - by design.Officials in Brussels are under orders not to commit any scenarios to paper to avoid alarmist leaks, according to a senior official from ..
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  • Kate Middleton and Prince William will attend royal garden party today in Northern Ireland

    Kate Middleton and Prince William will attend royal garden party today in Northern Ireland
    William and Catherine are attending a garden party at the Royal residence at Hillsborough Castle, Co Down. The region's secretary of state has hosted the event annually since 1984.Around 2,500 guests have been invited by Theresa Villiers this year, with attendees drawn from a wide cross-section of Northern Ireland society, including the voluntary and community sectors, local charities and youth organisations. The occasion will be only the second time the Royal couple have visited Northern I..
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  • Suspect in France police killing had been sentenced for jihad links: sources

    Suspect in France police killing had been sentenced for jihad links: sources
    Suspect in France police killing had been sentenced for jihad links: sources Updated June 14, 2016 17:28:28 A man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group killed a French policeman and his partner, in what authorities have described as an "appalling terrorist act." Key points:French policeman and partner killed, 3-year-old son survives"Appalling terrorist act": French Interior MinisterSuspect was sentenced in 2013 for jihadist linksAttack comes as France hosts Eu..
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  • Apple WWDC: meet the nine-year-old Australian coding whiz

    Apple WWDC: meet the nine-year-old Australian coding whiz
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Apple WWDC 2016: five things to watch for With Siri now open to third-party developers, expect to hear a lot more from the virtual assistant as it expands to Mac and Apple TV. PT1M4S 620 349 Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference brings together app developers from all walks of life, and the youngest to make the trip to San Francisco this year was Anvitha Vijay, a grade four student from Mount View Primary School in Melbourne.Anvitha, now..
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  • 'This is for you, champ' - Oscar

    Pretoria – Oscar Pistorius gave a disabled Icelandic boy the gold medal he won at one of his competitions, the boy’s mother told the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.“He took the medal off himself and put it around my son’s neck and said ‘this is for you, champ’. We still have that medal. It was a very lovely gesture,” Ebba Gudny Gudmundsdottir said to questioning from Pistorius’s lawyer Barry Roux.He was presenting evidence in mitigation of Pistorius’s sentencing for murder.She said her mother..
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  • Fact-checking the Clinton and Trump speeches after Orlando

    Fact-checking the Clinton and Trump speeches after Orlando
    (AFP/Getty Images) The presumptive presidential nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump —gave dueling speeches on June 13 in the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting. We combed through the speeches to find factual assertions that were worthy of fact checking. There were many more such claims, of dubious provenance, in Trump’s speech, so his section of the fact check is longer. The quotes are in the order in which they were delivered.  As is our custom in such roundu..
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  • Turnbull orders urgent visa review of anti-gay Islamic cleric

    Turnbull orders urgent visa review of anti-gay Islamic cleric
    Malcolm Turnbull orders urgent visa review of anti-gay Islamic cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar Updated June 14, 2016 18:04:00 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced an urgent review of the visa held by an Islamic cleric who is visiting Sydney. Key points:Sheik Farrokh Sekaleshfar denies having any connection to gunman Omar MateenBill Shorten says he is not welcome in Australia if he held those viewsSheik says comments were made in academic setting and that they were ..
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