Orlando gunman's wife, Noor Salman, 'may face charges'
The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando could face charges in connection with the attack, according to reports.
Prosecutors have convened a grand jury to investigate Noor Salman, wife of gunman Omar Mateen, sources quoted by Fox News and Reuters say.
She is reported to have told police she tried to talk her husband out of attacking the Pulse nightclub.
The attack in Florida was the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
Fifty-three people were wounded and six remain in a critical condition.
Prosecutors quoted by Fox News said they were seeking to charge Noor Salman as an accessory to 49 counts of murder and 53 counts of attempted murder, as well as with failure to warn authorities about the impending attack.
It was possible that Mateen had called his wife from inside the club while the killings were taking place, Fox quoted a source as saying.
Brazil's giant dams risk destroying heart of the Amazon, says Greenpeace
Construction of 40 dams in the Tapajós river basin would severely affect indigenous people and is not justifiable economically, says new report
Construction of 40 major dams in the Brazilian Amazon would destroy the heart of the world’s largest rainforest, severely affect indigenous people and is not economically justifiable, says Greenpeace in a major new report.
The five large dams and 35 others planned for the Tapajós river and its tributaries south of Santarém have been promoted by the government and global engineering and energy companies as a solution to Brazil’s recession and severe electricity shortages.
The projects form part of Brazil’s plans to install 25GW of new hydropower capacity by 2024 and create a massive industrial waterway to allow soya and other crops to be exported more easily to Europe.
Russian hooligans: Brawling for the fatherland
UEFA has threatened to disqualify Russia and England from Euro 2016 in the wake of fan violence from both squads. Another incident in Wednesday's match against Slovakia could see Russia booted from the tournament.
The alleged witness's report posted on the Russian soccer hooligan portal Fanstyle.ru is anonymous. "We met at a park three hours before the game, about 250 to 300 people," as how he described Saturday's events in the French city of Marseille. Everyone was there, he added: "homeless", "meat", "steam engine" and "bull" - fanspeak for supporters of the St Petersburg Zenit soccer team and Moscow's three leading clubs, Spartak, Lokomotiv and Dinamo. Then, he wrote, the group moved on to "a place with a few Irish pubs and lots of Brits."
What happened next ahead of the England match sparked worldwide outrage. Wielding chairs and bottles, supporters of both teams clashed in bloody street fights. The anonymous Russian witness wrote that 100 to 150 hooligans took part in the "main battle" near the port. French police also reported that many participants.
Brazilian House Speaker Eduardo Cunha's assets frozen, future in doubt
June 15, 2016 - 2:35PMMaria Carolina Marcello
Brasilia: Brazil's congressional ethics committee has voted to strip suspended Speaker Eduardo Cunha of his seat for allegedly lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, the latest in a series of political earthquakes to rock Latin America's largest country.
Mr Cunha insisted on his innocence and vowed to appeal the decision to another congressional committee. To remove him from office, a majority of the lower house of Congress still needs to affirm the decision.
If he loses his seat, the architect of suspended President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, will also lose the partial immunity enjoyed by elected politicians. He could then be arrested and prosecuted by lower courts in several corruption cases brought against him.Bribes and brands: A day in the life of a Peshawar contraband smuggler
Petty smugglers, forced into the trade out of necessity, do not see trading illegal goods as a crime.
SALMAN YOUSAFZAI
Puffing on a joint, Khushi extends her hand to welcome and help whoever comes in: men, women, colleagues — some also with their children — wait to settle the week’s accounts. She shifts to make room for a few on her charpoy, while others settle on car-seats scattered on the floor. The room is both Khushi’s working and resting space.
Khushi’s dark, round face is poised as she makes frantic phone calls to rescue colleagues who have been detained for smuggling foreign goods. This is a group, a loose troupe, of local carriers— petty smugglers, known as gandamars. Their job is to deliver illegal goods to their allocated destinations, with one major condition: they must not get caught.
Soaring numbers of unaccompanied child migrants at special risk, says UN
Nine of out ten refugee children arriving in Italy are unaccompanied, according to UNICEF. Along the way, many are threatened with exploitation and sexual violence.
Child refugees face near constant danger in their attempts to make it to Europe, according to a UNICEF report published on Tuesday. The report states that migrant children, most of whom travel without adults, face rape, death, and other "Danger Every Step of the Way," as it is titled.
One in every three people who traveled to Europe this year was a child,according to the report. Yet that number can soar far higher, depending on which route they use: 92 percent of children coming from Northern Africa to Italy this year came on their own, more than double the number who came between January and June 2015.
"These are children who have been ripped out of the context of their childhood," Brookings Institute fellow Leon Wieseltier tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview.
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