Six In The Morning Saturday 11 June 2022

 

Mass shooting leaves family with GoFundMe for funerals and an unfulfilled baby registry

It was part of an extraordinarily violent weekend, even in America

By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN

Updated 0704 GMT (1504 HKT) June 11, 2022

Josh Tello shouldn't be raising Rosalina as a single parent.

Alongside him should be Laura Buendia, his sweetheart of nine years. They began dating as teens, after he showed up at her Saginaw, Michigan, home with flowers, making her blush. They lay on the trampoline for hours, "talking about everything and just bonding."

Tello was planning to propose next week in Chicago, atop a downtown skyscraper. He was still bandying ideas around with cousins and friends before two bullets cut Buendia's life short in yet another extraordinarily violent weekend in America.

Indigenous leaders express frustration at military in search for two men in Brazil

Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips went missing in the western Amazon, but the search has been called inefficient

Tom Phillips in Atalaia do Norte and Andrew Downie in São Paulo

Indigenous leaders in the area where a British journalist and Brazilian explorer went missing last Sunday have expressed increasing frustration at the lack of coordination in the search for the two men.

Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, a longtime contributor to the Guardian, were last seen on Sunday morning while traveling by boat on the Itaquaí River in the western Amazon.

They disappeared at the end of a reporting trip but the search was slow to get going and Indigenous leaders criticised the lack of coordination between the different groups sent to the region, including the army, navy and federal police.

Oliver Varhelyi pursues Viktor Orban's agenda in Brussels

EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Varhelyi, an ally of the Hungarian prime minister, waters down criticism and cozies up to autocrats — and makes no secret of it.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has yet again humiliated the European Union. He threatened to veto the bloc's sixth anti-Russian sanctions package unless Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, was exempted. The EU, in a bid to quickly pass the sanctions, let Orban have his way. Kirill was removed from the sanctions list despite his warmongering and the fact that some want to see Kirill prosecuted for supporting Russia's atrocious actions in Ukraine.

For years, Orban has been playing the EU to further his own agenda. His actions regularly spark Europe-wide condemnation. His latest pro-Putin antics are no exception.

Biden, western hemisphere leaders announce migration plan at Americas summit

US President Joe Biden and other leaders from the western hemisphere on Friday announced what is being billed as a roadmap for countries to host large numbers of migrants and refugees.

“The Los Angeles Declaration” is perhaps the biggest achievement of the Summit of the Americas, which was undercut by differences over Biden’s invitation list. Leaders of Mexico and several Central American countries sent top diplomats instead after the US excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

A set of principles announced on the summit's final day includes legal pathways to enter countries, aid to communities most affected by migration, humane border management and coordinated emergency responses.

Victims speak up as Japan moves to protect young people in porn

By Yuki Kawaminami

As Japan's parliament debates a new law drafted to protect young people who signed contracts to perform in pornographic productions, two women have spoken out about the abuses they suffered in the shady industry, hoping the legislation will be a "first step" toward ending exploitation.

For a woman who wishes only to be known as Maiko, economic hardship propelled her into the porn industry 10 years ago when times became hard at the education company she was running. After much agonizing, she typed "porn" into an internet search, looking for a high-paying job as she struggled to pay her rent.

What she saw next were images of beautifully curated and presented celebrity porn actresses. Maiko saw it as "a glittering world" and she decided to have an interview at a company that recruits actresses for adult videos.

Investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing progressing, but slowly

One month has passed since Israeli forces killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, but accountability remains elusive.

By Al Jazeera Staff

Published On 11 Jun 202211 Jun 2022

One month has passed since Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was reporting in the occupied West Bank, causing global outrage.

Her killing, while wearing a clearly marked press vest and helmet, was followed by widespread calls for a thorough and independent investigation by politicians and human rights organisations.

Thirty days later, the push for an international investigation into the killing is progressing, albeit slowly.