Six In The Morning Thursday 6 June 2019

D-day 75th anniversary: ceremonies in Normandy – live news

Follow live updates as world leaders join veterans to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy

Pope: 'peace is based on respect for each person'

A message from Pope France is read out in French and English at the start of the service at Bayeux Cathedral.

The Pope’s message, read by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, said:

Normandy was decisive in in the fight against a Nazi barbarism, and it paved the way to the end of that war.

War which deeply ravaged Europe and the world. That’s why I make a grateful memorial of all the soldiers who coming from several countries, France included, were brave to join the army and give their lives for freedom and peace.

I confide in God’s merciful love these soldiers, as well as the millions of victims not forgetting those who, on the German side, fought obediently to a system of government motivated by a deadly ideology.

Aung San Suu Kyi finds common ground with Orbán over Islam

On a rare trip to Europe, Myanmar leader and Hungary PM discuss issue of ‘growing Muslim populations’

Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Thu 6 Jun 2019 06.12 BST

From her failure to speak out against ethnic cleansing to imprisoning journalists, the reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi in the west has taken a battering in recent months.

But the leader of Myanmar has found a new ally in far-right, staunchly anti-immigrant Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán.

In a rare trip to Europe, state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace prize laureate who was once the figurehead of the fight for democracy in Myanmar, met Orbán in Budapest. There, the two leaders found common ground on the subject of immigration and Islam .

Sudan: Security forces ‘hiding corpses’ of protesters dumped in the Nile and ‘raping doctors’ amid brutal crackdown

Khartoum now a ‘ghost town gripped by fear’ after 101 people killed in surge of violence

Bel TrewMiddle East Correspondent @beltrew

The bodies of dozens of slain protesters have been pulled from the Nile in Khartoum and taken to an unknown location, opposition activists have claimed, after 101 people were killed across Sudan during a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy rallies. 

Feared paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) allegedly retrieved at least 40 corpses from the river on Tuesday, according to Sudan Doctors’ Committee, who organised the main sit-in in the capital that was cleared the day before.

Protesters separately told The Independent they witnessed the paramilitaries hurling corpses into the river in the capital after opening fire on civilians.

Plastic Surgery and BotoxThe Pressure to Be Beautiful in South Korea

Lips plumped up during the lunch break, implants for a rounder head: Cosmetic surgery is extremely common in South Korea, even among men. The pressure to look good in the country is immense.

By Katharina Graça Peters and Suhwa Lee (photos), in Seoul

It's been a few years since Park Jae Hun has had a relationship, but he hopes that's all about to change. After all, he's been doing what he can to improve his prospects.

He's already had surgery on his eyelids and nose. Now the contours of his chin will be enhanced, and the corners of his mouth corrected to point upwards, so he'll look friendlier. Park says that he'd like to have a beautiful girlfriend, adding: "Maybe this will give me better chances."

Park, 29, is sitting in a café in the South Korean capital Seoul. His hair is thinning, so he sometimes wears a hairpiece, as he is today. After coffee, he'll head over to the clinic for his appointment.

Syrian Kurds repatriate 8 people from IS group families to US

Two American women and six children from families of suspected Islamic State (IS) group members were repatriated to the United States on Wednesday in the latest transfers from a crowded camp in Syria.

The move is part of an effort by the Kurdish administration in northeast Syriato reduce the population of Al-Hol, which is crammed with nearly 74,000 people from more than 40 countries.

It comes after Norway on Monday retrieved five Norwegian orphans from the same camp and Kurdish authorities started sending hundreds of Syrian women and children home as part of a wider effort to clear Al-Hol of its Syrian inhabitants.

Staggering homeless count stuns LA officials

By Maeve Reston, CNN

Updated 0435 GMT (1235 HKT) June 6, 2019

The stunning increase in homelessness announced in Los Angeles this week — up 16% over last year citywide — was an almost incomprehensible conundrum given the nation's booming economy and the hundreds of millions of dollars that city, county and state officials have directed toward the problem.

But the homelessness crisis gripping Los Angeles is one that has been many years in the making with no easy fix. It is a problem driven by an array of complex factors, including rising rents, a staggering shortage of affordable housing units, resistance to new shelters and housing developments in suburban neighborhoods, and, above all, the lack of a cohesive safety net for thousands of people struggling with mental health problems, addiction and, in some cases, recent exits from the criminal justice system that have left them with no other options beyond living on the streets.