Six In The Morning Sunday June 4

London attack: Seven killed in van and knife incidents

The death toll has risen to seven, with 48 others injured, after the London terror attack in which three suspects were shot dead by police.

A white van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00 BST on Saturday, then three men got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market.

Police said the three men were wearing fake bomb vests.

Summary

1. Seven people have been killed and three suspects shot dead by police after terror attack at London Bridge and Borough Market
2. Speeding van hit pedestrians, before suspects jumped out and stabbed members of public and police officer
3. Suspects wore hoax explosive vests, say police
4. London Ambulance Service says 48 patients taken to five hospitals
5. London Bridge and London Bridge railway station remain closed
6. Police have opened a casualty bureau. Telephone numbers are 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197
7. All major political parties suspend national general election campaigning, except UKIP

Timor-Leste journalist threatened with jail in defamation case found not guilty

Raimundos Oki set free, but supporters warn case brought by prime minister will have a chilling effect on press freedom

Helen Davidson

@heldavidson

Sunday 4 June 2017 04.55 BST

A journalist has avoided jail over an erroneous article about the now prime minister of Timor-Leste, after a Dili court threw out the criminal defamation charges.

Raimundos Oki, a senior reporter for the Timor Post, and his former editor Lourenco Martins Vicente, were found not guilty of “slanderous denunciation on Thursday at the district court in Dili.

“You are free, you can return to your normal activities and please be careful in reporting news,” judge Ivan Gonçalves said.

Prosecutors had pushed for one year’s jail for Oki and a two-year suspended sentence for Martins.

Muslim schoolgirls in hijabs ‘asked to leave careers show because people felt threatened’

Staff reportedly told the students their hijabs were seen as threatening in the wake of the Manchester terror attacks 

• Harriet Marsden 
• @harriet1marsden 

Muslim students in Australia were allegedly forced to leave an event because their hijabs were making people feel “uncomfortable after what happened in Manchester”.

The schoolgirls, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were attending a careers expo at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre (PDEC) on 26 May, just days after the suicide bombing in Manchester left 22 dead and at least 50 injured.

They claim that other attendants asked staff to remove them from the venue, saying they felt threatened by their "Muslim attire", or headscarves.

The PDEC confirmed to WA Today that an official complaint was made about an incident, and a spokesperson said the centre did not condone discrimination of any kind. 

Congo President Joseph Kabila'I'm Not Going to Commit Suicide'

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, whose term in office should have ended by now, doesn't appear to want to step down. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses delays in elections and does not rule out the possibility of a third term.

By Bartholomäus Grill and Susanne Koelbl

SPIEGEL: Mr. President, why do you make public appearances so rarely?

Kabila: I believe that what's much more important is not what you say, but what you do. And I am a doer.

SPIEGEL: You have now ruled for 16 years. What did you achieve so far?

Kabila: In January 2001, when I took the oath of office, the country was divided -- we had fighting in the east, we had a frontline of 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles), we had four or five separate armies deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our economy was almost non-existent. Our infrastructure was in very bad shape. We had a situation of lawlessness. What is the situation today? We have a united country. We have a single currency. We have managed to stabilize the economy, despite difficulties. We could talk all day about all those achievements.

Hackers leak emails from UAE ambassador to US

Emails taken from inbox of Yousef al-Otaiba reveal Emirati ambassador played role in campaign to tarnish Qatar's image.

Hackers have released the first series of emails taken from the inbox of the UAE's ambassador to the United States, Yousef al-Otaiba.

The Intercept reported on Saturday that the emails, released by a group called "Global Leaks", show a close relationship between al-Otaiba and a pro-Israel, neoconservative think tank - the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

The hacked emails, some of which date back to 2014, reveal a high-level of backchannel cooperation between the FDD, which is funded by pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Anderson, and the Gulf country. 

STANDING ROCK DOCUMENTS EXPOSE INNER WORKINGS OF “SURVEILLANCE-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX”

Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, Alice Speri

June 4 2017, 12:57 a.m.

ON A FREEZING NIGHT in November, as police sprayed nonviolent Dakota Access Pipeline opponents with water hoses and rubber bullets, representatives of the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, North Dakota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, and local law enforcement agencies frantically exchanged emails as they monitored the action in real time.

“Everyone watch a different live feed,” Bismarck police officer Lynn Wanner wrote less than 90 minutes after the protest began on the North Dakota Highway 1806 Backwater Bridge. By 4 a.m. on November 21, approximately 300 water protectors had been injured, some severely. Among them was 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky, who nearly lost her arm after being hit by what multiple sworn witnesses say was a police munition.