Capitol Police 'was aware of the potential for violence' and other takeaways from the Senate report on January 6 security failures
Updated 1513 GMT (2313 HKT) June 8, 2021
Two Senate committees on Tuesday released the most comprehensive government report on the security failures leading up to the US Capitol insurrection on January 6, revealing new details about unheeded warnings, critical miscommunications and intelligence shortcomings.
Ratko Mladić, ‘butcher of Bosnia’, loses appeal against genocide conviction
Judgment means 78-year-old former Bosnian Serb military chief will spend the rest of his life in prison
UN appeal judges have upheld the convictions of the former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladić for genocide and other offences during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war and confirmed his life sentence.
The judgment on Tuesday means that the 78-year-old former general, who terrorised Bosnia throughout the war, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
He is the last major figure from the conflict that ended more than a quarter century ago to face justice. Mladić joins his former political master, the former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić, in serving a life sentence for masterminding ethnic bloodshed in the Bosnian war that left more than 100,000 dead and millions homeless.
Peru elections: Castillo grabs slim lead as Fujimori alleges fraud
A late surge of rural votes has propelled former schoolteacher Pedro Castillo past conservative rival Keiko Fujimori in Peru's presidential race, which remains too close to call.
Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo took a small lead in Peru's polarizing presidential runoff late Monday, but his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori refused to concede, alleging fraud.
According to the official count, the 51-year-old former schoolteacher has taken 50.29% of the vote and Fujimori, 46, has 49.71%, with around 96% of ballots counted.
Castillo had been trailing in the vote count; however, a late surge of votes from rural areas propelled him past Fujimori.
Israel says Hamas jammed signals from destroyed media building
Israel alleged Tuesday that a Gaza media building it destroyed was used by Hamas to jam air defenses as it offered to help the Associated Press rebuild its bureau.
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Gilad Erdan, gave the most detailed explanation yet of the decision to strike the tower as he met the head of the news agency, Gary Pruitt, at its New York headquarters.
"The unit was developing an electronic jamming system to be used against the Iron Dome defense system," Erdan said, referring to the anti-missile shield that intercepts Hamas rockets.
Iranian Kurds in Iraq hopelessly seek asylum, UN assistance
Tens of thousands of Iranian Kurds live in dire conditions in the Kurdish region of Iraq as they await UN help or transfer to a third country.
On May 18, Behzad Mahmoudi, a Kurdish asylum seeker from Iran, set himself on fire in front of the United Nations office in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq.
Four years ago, the 26-year-old fled his home city of Boukan in western Iran, hoping to find a better future away from the persecution and discrimination many Kurds in Iran say they face.
Myanmar people’s army aims wishfully at Tatmadaw
National Unity Government will be hard-pressed to form a force that can credibly challenge the 350,000-strong Tatmadaw
If Myanmar’s security landscape was devilishly complicated before the February coup d’etat, the growing national-level armed resistance to the military-formed State Administration Council (SAC) junta has rendered it almost incomprehensible.
In recent weeks, veteran ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) such as the Karen National Union (KNU) and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) have ramped up attacks on the military, or Tatmadaw. Peasant revolts using flintlock rifles and muskets in the hills of Chin state have likewise seen locally raised defense forces inflict major casualties on army units.
In Kayah and Kayin states, EAOs have trained and worked with locally raised defense forces, while in western Sagaing Region such forces have attacked Tatmadaw and police units with lethal effect. In main cities such as Yangon, bombings and shootings targeting security forces have surged in recent weeks, as have vigilante assassinations of suspected security services’ informants.
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