Manchester attacks: MI5 probes bomber 'warnings'
MI5 is to hold an inquiry into the way it dealt with warnings from the public that the Manchester suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was a potential threat.
The security service, which was alerted to Abedi's extremist views three times prior to last Monday's attack, will examine how it dealt with the warnings.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said it was right for MI5 to review its processes.
Early on Monday a man, 23, was arrested in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, on suspicion of terrorism offences.
Greater Manchester Police said they had also executed search warrants at addresses in the Whalley Range area of Manchester and in Chester overnight.
Portland attack: Donald Trump called on to make statement about double murder
Veteran journalist Dan Rather leads a chorus of people calling on the president to acknowledge the heroism of Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Rick Best
Pressure is mounting on the US president, Donald Trump, to make a comment on the racist attack in Portland, Oregon that left two men dead.
Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53, were fatally stabbed on Friday while intervening to stop a racist attack on a Muslim teenager on a commuter train.
The pair have been honoured as heroes by Portland’s mayor and the FBI, but the president has remained silent, despite tweeting 10 times on Sunday on topics ranging from healthcare to fake news.North Korea fires 'ballistic missile' towards Japan
South Korean president calls emergency meeting in response to launch
North Korea has fired an "unidentified projectile", believed to be a ballistic missile, towards Japan, South Korean officials have said.
The object was launched from the Wonsan region on North Korea's east coast and aimed eastwards, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to assess the launch.
The projectile is believed to be a Scud-type missile that travelled around 280 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan, South Korean military sources said.ISIS in Southeast Asia: Philippines battles growing threat
Updated 0806 GMT (1606 HKT) May 29, 2017
The black flag of ISIS has been raised in the Philippines.
At least 103 people have died in the city of Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao in less than a week as fighters affiliated with the so-called Islamic State engaged in violent clashes with government forces, and martial law was declared over the entire island.
Local resident Chico Usman said the militants had entered the predominantly Muslim city of some 200,000 suddenly, on the afternoon of May 24, wearing masks and carrying assault rifles. "Everybody was shocked and ran into their houses," he said, adding they could hear gunfire and fighting until the following morning.
VILLAGERS SAY YEMENI CHILD WAS SHOT AS HE TRIED TO FLEE NAVY SEAL RAID
FIVE CIVILIANS INCLUDING a child were killed and another five were wounded in the latest U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Yemen, according to eyewitness accounts gathered by The Intercept.
The raid by U.S. commandos in the hamlet of al Adhlan, in the Yemeni province of Mareb on May 23, also destroyed at least four homes. Navy SEALs, with air support from more than half a dozen attack helicopters and aircraft, were locked in a firefight with Yemeni tribesmen for over an hour, according to local residents.
Details from five eyewitnesses in the village conflict with statements made by the Department of Defense and U.S. Central Command, which have not acknowledged that civilians were harmed. Official military reports claimed seven militants from the Yemen-based Al Qaeda branch, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, were killed “through a combination of small arms fire and precision airstrikes.” Two commandos were also reportedly lightly wounded in the gunfight. Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis told reporters on May 23 there were “no credible indications of civilian casualties.”
4 Japanese firms invested heavily in cluster bomb makers: NGO group
(Mainichi Japan)
Four Japanese financial firms invested heavily in cluster bomb manufacturers between 2013 and 2017, said the Dutch nongovernmental organization (NGO) PAX.
According to a report released by PAX, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Orix Corp. and Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd. all invested considerable sums of money into cluster bomb makers up until March 2017 -- with the figures coming to U.S.$914 million, U.S.$606 million, U.S.$354 million and U.S.$40 million, respectively.
The findings revealed that Japan, which in 2008 signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibiting the use, development and production of cluster munitions, had the highest number of its domestic financial institutions investing in cluster bomb makers among other signatory countries.
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