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Xinhua world news summary at GMT 0030, June 14

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The United Nations Security Council on Monday condemned "in the strongest terms" the mass shooting in Orlando, which it said targeted "persons as a result of their sexual orientation."

"The members of the Security Council reiterated that any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed," said French Ambassador Francois Delattre, Security Council president for June. (UN-Orlando-Condemnation)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called the Orlando shooting in Florida that claimed 50 lives, including the shooter, "homegrown extremism" that the U.S. authorities had been worrying about.

"As far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time," said Obama at the White House. (Obama-Orlando Shooting-Extremism)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations on Monday said that an estimated 40,000 people have been displaced since the June 3 attack reportedly by Boko Haram in Niger's town of Bosso in the West African country's border with Nigeria.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the security situation in Niger's Bosso area remains volatile following the deadly attack. (UN-Niger-Refuees)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer software giant Microsoft Corporation announced on Monday that it will acquire business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn Corporation for 26.2 billion U.S. dollars, to seek new growth opportunities for its business productivity tools.

Under a definitive agreement, Microsoft, once the world's No. 1 software giant for personal computer (PC) and now a multinational technology company, will buy LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, California, for 196 dollars per share in cash and the transaction is expected to close this year. (Microsoft-LinkedIn-Purchase)

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CAIRO -- The signals from the black boxes of the crashed EgyptAir Flight MS804 are expected to stop operating on June 24, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Radar pictures sent by the Egyptian Armed Forces to the investigation committee of the crashed flight showed that the plane made a turn to the left and then a full circle to the right before it went down, the statement said. (Egypt-Flight MS804-Black Boxes) Endi