Six In The Morning Friday April 21

Paris shooting: Gunman was 'focus of anti-terror' probe

The gunman who shot dead a policeman in Paris on Thursday has been identified from papers left in his car, but French officials are yet to release his name.

Local media say the 39-year-old lived in the city's suburbs, and had been seen as a potential Islamist radical.

The gunman also wounded two police officers before he was killed by security forces on the Champs-Elysees.

President François Hollande is to chair a security cabinet meeting, as France readies for Sunday's presidential poll.

Mr Hollande said he was convinced the attack was "terrorist-related", adding that the security forces had the full support of the nation and a national tribute would be paid to the fallen policeman.

Rape survivors face jail if they won't testify in Louisiana

'If I have to put a victim of a crime in jail... I'm going to do that,' says Orleans Parrish District Attorney

Emily Shugerman New York

A Louisiana district attorney has said he will jail rape survivors who choose not to testify against their assailants.

Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said he would use material witness warrants to compel victims in some rape and domestic violence cases to testify, despite criticism from advocacy groups.

"If I have to put a victim of a crime in jail, for eight days, in order to... keep the rapist off of the street, for a period of years and to prevent him from raping or harming someone else, I'm going to do that," Mr Cannizzaro told Morning Eyewitness News on 13 April.

Students and professors rebuild Mosul University, even under rocket fire

Iraqi forces gained control of the University of Mosul from the Islamic State group on January 18. However, the buildings were so seriously damaged during the fighting that they are unfit for use and hundreds of thousands of books were destroyed when the library caught fire. In the past weeks, students and teachers from the university have started rebuilding the campus themselves, determined to finish it in time for classes to start next September. 
The Iraqi army gained control of all of eastern Mosul (the area where the university is located) on January 18, 2017. The Islamic State group still controls the part of the city that lies to the west of the Tigris River, meaning that the banks of this ancient river have, in recent months, transformed into the frontline. 

The University of Mosul is one of the largest and most reputed universities in Iraq. It has 22 different departments, seven research centres, a hospital complex, several museums and a large library. Until war came to Mosul, its yearly enrollment was 30,000 students. However, IS jihadists shut down the university when they took over Mosul in June 2014. They soon started to use the campus as one of their main bases in the city. 

'My biggest regret': Being a migrant worker in Greece

'Where is this Europe?' asks one Pakistani migrant worker as they share stories of abuse and working without pay.

by

Will Horner

Argos and Athens, Greece - It's a rare day off for foreman Faisal Razza and his gang of Pakistani migrant farm workers. They normally work for 10 hours a day, seven days a week. But a heavy downfall and the end of the orange-picking season means that work is slow and today they have a chance to relax.

The seasonal nature of their work means they rarely stay in one place. For the past five months they have been working and living in the Argolis plain - a vast, flat expanse of orange fields surrounding the town of Argos, two hours' drive from Athens.

Soon they'll move on to another part of rural Greece to pick strawberries instead.

As deportees return home, Mexico City warms up its welcome

Whitney Eulich

Correspondent

On a recent Tuesday morning, scores of passengers disembarked from an unmarked plane and entered a back corner of Mexico City’s international airport through frosted glass doors.

There were no taxi drivers holding up placards with passenger names or loved ones grasping balloons or flowers to welcome them home, just two city employees. The women, whose big smiles contrast with many passengers’ tears, hawked fliers detailing financial support and job-training opportunities in the capital.

Part 1

The U.S. government has prosecuted almost 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never committed an act of violence.

OVER THE LAST 15 years, the U.S. government has quietly released more than 400 people convicted on international terrorism-related charges, according to a data analysis of federal terrorism prosecutions by The Intercept. Some were deported to other countries following their prison terms, but a large number of convicted terrorists are living in the United States. They could be your neighbors.

The release of people convicted on terrorism-related charges with little if any monitoring by law enforcement might suggest U.S. government officials believe they can be fully rehabilitated following minor prison terms. A more likely explanation is that many of these so-called terrorists weren’t particularly dangerous in the first place.