US Senate rejects terror list gun sale restrictions
The US Senate has rejected plans to tighten gun controls, including the restriction of weapons sales to people on terrorism watch lists.
Four proposals were brought before the Senate after 49 people died in an attack on a gay nightclub in Florida.
But Democratic and Republican senators voted along party lines, blocking each other's bills.
Senators strongly disagreed about how to prevent more attacks happening in future.
Republican Senator John Cornyn said: "Our colleagues want to make this about gun control when what we should be making this about is the fight to eliminate the Islamic extremism that is the root cause for what happened in Orlando.
"My colleagues in many ways want to treat the symptoms without fighting the disease."
Marginalised Tunisian youth encouraged to choose graffiti over Isis
Artist Tarek Dhibi believes spray can can help protect kids from extremist recruiters near the Algerian border
It’s lunchtime in the Tunisian city of Kasserine. From plastic chairs at a pavement cafe on the city’s main thoroughfare, a group of young men are watching the heavily-armed guards patrol the city’s best hotel.
Here in Tunisia’s second-biggest city, security is paramount. It’s only a few hours’ drive east from the Algerian border and the chaambi mountains, a known training ground for islamic extremists. It’s also one of the poorest cities in the country, where unemployment is rife, especially among young people, making many marginalised young men vulnerable to the lure of extremist recruiters.
As a result, Tunisia is now the largest exporter of jihadi militants in the world. According to the UN, more than 5,500 nationals between the ages of 18 and 35 have joined militant organisations, including Islamic State (Isis) and al-Qaida’s affiliated Nusra Front, across Syria, Iraq and Libya.
Arabs, Muslims, and the US election
The US presidential election is being followed closely in the Arab world. Most observers there hope the next American leader will change course when it comes to the region.
Omar Mateen killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. There are indications Mateen may have had homosexual leanings himself, but at the same time, the Afghan-American pledged loyalty to the "Islamic State" terrorist organization. The Orlando massacre is also now also having an impact on the US presidential election.
For the past few weeks, the Democrats were confident their candidate Hillary Clinton could win the vote - under the condition of nothing spectacular happening that Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, could use in his favor. Now, that incident has occurred: the murder of almost 50 people. The focus is on a Muslim, and Arab political scientists are looking at how the outcome of the vote could affect the Mideast.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi won't use term 'Rohingya'
June 21, 2016 - 12:22PMAntoni Slodkowski
Yangon: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that her government will avoid using the term "Rohingya" to describe the persecuted Muslim minority.
The term is a divisive issue.
On Monday, the top UN human rights official issued a report saying the Rohingya have been deprived of nationality and undergone systematic discrimination and severe restrictions on movements.
Members of the 1.1 million group in the country's north-west, who identify themselves by the term, are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
The UN human rights investigator, Yanghee Lee, met Ms Suu Kyi in the capital Naypyitaw on her first trip to Myanmar since the Nobel Peace Prize winner took power in April.
TEPCO head apologizes for ban of term "meltdown" in Fukushima crisis
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The head of Tokyo Electric Power Co. apologized Tuesday over his predecessor's instruction not to use the term "core meltdown" in describing the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in the early days of the crisis, calling the instruction a "coverup."
"It is extremely regrettable. People are justified in thinking it a coverup," TEPCO President Naomi Hirose said at a press conference in Tokyo.
The remarks came after a report published last Thursday said then President Masataka Shimizu instructed a vice president, who was taking part in a press conference on March 14, 2011, not to use "core meltdown" in describing the state of damaged reactors.
Turkey arrests three renowned press freedom campaigners
Reporters Without Borders representative among three arrested for spreading "terror propaganda", rights groups say.
Turkish authorities have arrested three prominent press freedom campaigners, including the local representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), on charges of spreading "terrorist propaganda", according to human rights groups.
In addition to RSF representative Erol Onderoglu, author Ahmet Nesin and Sebnem Korur Fincanci, president of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, were also arrested on Monday.
A court ordered they be held in pre-trial detention after they guest-edited a newspaper on Kurdish issues and campaigned against efforts to censor it, said RSF and another group, EuroMed Rights.
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