Suspect extradited for people smuggling 'is wrong man'
Friends of a man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have the wrong man.
Prosecutors believe Mered Medhanie, known as The General, is at the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants from Africa to Europe.
An Eritrean man authorities say is Mr Mered was held in Sudan in May and flown to Rome on Tuesday.
But the man's friends told the BBC there had been a case of mistaken identity and he was innocent.
He was named by friends as Mered Tesfamariam.
A spokesman for Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), that was involved in the operation, told the Press Association they were "liaising with our partners".
It added: "This is a complex multi-partner operation and it is too soon to speculate about these claims."
The disappeared: faces of human rights activists China wants to silence
Chinese security forces have launched an unprecedented crackdown on the country’s human rights movement. More than 300 people have been interrogated or detained. Today, almost a year since that crackdown began, more than 20 lawyers and activists remain in custody facing political subversion charges.
Thursday 9 June 2016 02.46 BST
Pakistani mother arrested after daughter is burned alive for 'marrying without family consent'
Zeenat Rafiq's body showed signs of torture and she had been tied to a bed and set alight
A Pakistani mother has been arrested on suspicion of burning her daughter alive for marrying a man without the consent of her family.
The body of Zeenat Rafiq showed signs of torture and she had been tied to a bed, doused with fuel and set alight, police in the city of Lahore said.
Her mother Parveen is believed to have invited her back from her in-laws a little more than a week after the couple had acquired their marriage licence before attacking her.
One Texas town decides it’s time to desegregate the dead
When the strict Jim Crow laws segregated black and white people across the American south, not even the dead were spared. Most cemeteries in the American south were also marked by racial lines. In Greenwood Cemetery, in Waco, Texas, a fence still segregated the cemetery. Until this week, that is.
Even though Waco, Texas has been integrated for decades, Greenwood Cemetery has separate entrances to access the area where black people and white people are buried. A fence that is a quarter mile long divides the thousands of graves along racial lines.
“I suppose they wanted that so the black ghosts wouldn’t go over there and bother the white ghosts,” Annie Randle, who led the association that cared for black side of the cemetery, told the local paper, the Waco Tribune-Herald, in March 1971.
Papua New Guinea protests - PM O'Neill's response 'not encouraging'
PNG has been rocked by political unrest in recent weeks, amid calls for the prime minister to resign over graft charges. Analyst Jonathan Pryke tells DW about the reasons behind the turmoil and the government's response.
Papua New Guinea (PNG), which is located just to Australia's north, has seen a wave of demonstrations over the past several weeks, with protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill over allegations of corruption.
In addition, thousands of students across the country have boycotted classes for weeks. On Wednesday, June 8, police opened fire at students and deployed tear gas to disperse crowds during a protest at the University of PNG's Waigani campus in the capital, Port Moresby. Dozens of people were wounded, but there were no deaths, the government said.
A court granted an injunction on Thursday barring university students from protesting on campus, as well as barricading and locking classrooms. Despite the court ruling, the situation remains tense with some protesters saying they have no intention of giving up.
Japan gives Chinese ambassador a dressing-down over East China Sea intrusion
June 9, 2016 - 5:09PMPhilip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Beijing: Japan has summoned the Chinese ambassador to Tokyo after a Chinese navy vessel encroached upon what Japan considers its territorial waters in the East China Sea for the first time, amid renewed tensions over the disputed region.
Japan's foreign ministry said a Chinese navy frigate entered the "contiguous zone" just outside Japan-administered waters in the vicinity of contested islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the early hours of Thursday.
"This is a one-sided act that increases tensions," Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said in Tokyo. "I am seriously concerned."
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