Supreme Court ruling expands US gun rights
By Bernd Debusmann Jr & Anthony Zurcher
BBC News
The US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun carrying rights.
The law required residents who want a licence to prove "proper cause" to carry concealed weapons and that they faced "a special or unique" danger.
The 6-3 decision stated the requirement violates the Constitutional right to bear arms.
The ruling jeopardises similar restrictions in other states and expands gun rights.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the six-justice conservative majority on the court, held that Americans have a right to carry "commonly used" firearms in public for personal defence.
Afghan earthquake survivors dig by hand as rescuers struggle to reach area
Disaster has killed more than 1,000 people and officials say toll could rise
Akhtar Mohammad Makoii and Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad, and Peter Beaumont
Organised rescue efforts are struggling to reach the site of an earthquake in Afghanistan that has killed more than 1,000 people, as survivors dig through the rubble by hand to find those still missing.
In Paktika province’s hard-hit Gayan district, villagers stood atop mud bricks that were once a home. Others carefully walked through dirt alleyways, gripping on to damaged walls with exposed timber beams to make their way.
The quake was Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades and officials said the toll could rise. An estimated 1,500 other people were reported injured, the state-run news agency said.
'We were deceived,' say Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine
In Ukraine, captured Russian soldiers say their government tricked them. How are they treated as POWs? And what do they think of the war? DW was able to get exclusive access and speak with prisoners in one facility.
The Russians are held separately from the other prisoners. We're told it is "for their own protection."
Following a request by journalists to the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, DW became the first media outlet to speak with Russian prisoners as well film in the prison.
Iran replaces Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief amid recent deaths of officers
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday replaced its intelligence chief Hossein Taeb, who had held the position for more than 12 years, the Guards said in a statement.
“The Guards’ chief Major General Hossein Salami appointed General Mohammad Kazemi as the new head of the IRGC Intelligence Organisation,” Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif said in the statement.
Salami also appointed Taeb, who is a cleric, as his own adviser, according to the statement.
Names of all who died in Okinawa 77 years ago read aloud over days
By NORIKI NISHIOKA/ Staff Writer
June 23, 2022 at 17:02 JST
Shortly after Masaharu Noguni was born, U.S. troops landed on the main island of Okinawa Prefecture on April 1, 1945.
His family lived in Chatan in the central part of the island. His mother carried him on her shoulder as they fled the fierce fighting during the Battle of Okinawa.
While he has no memory of the events, he still has a scar on his right thigh caused by U.S. shelling.
His older sister Haruko was 14 at the time. She was scheduled to graduate in the spring of 1945, but she volunteered as a nurse for the Japanese military.
How football is helping Yemenis cope with the prolonged war
Unofficial tournaments and street football are where many Yemenis are finding solace amid the continuing conflict.
Amid the brutal conflict in Yemen that has killed more than 370,000 people, Yemenis have turned to their long-running love for football to help them cope with the devastation, violence and humanitarian crisis ravaging their country.
Through unofficial football tournaments held across different villages and cities, Yemeni boys and men have been coming together to try and live a vague semblance of a normal existence.
On makeshift football fields covered with nothing but sand and rocks, amateur players display their skills to a cheering audience that come in the hundreds from near and far.
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