Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Six In The Morning Tuesday 17 June 2025

 

Trump 'may decide' to take further action against Iran's nuclear program, Vance says

Summary

US Vice-President JD Vance says President Donald Trump "may decide he needs to take further action" to end Iran's nuclear programme.

In a social media post,, external he says Iran has "enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose", and that the US president "may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment".


Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks

At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry


Witnesses have described scenes like “a horror movie” in Gaza after Israeli forces fired towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour near Khan Younis, on one of the bloodiest days for weeks in the devastated territory.

At least 51 Palestinians were reported to have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the southern city. People at the scene and doctors described seeing injured and dead with wounds typical of those caused by artillery or tank fire. Unverified video shared on social media showed about a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street.


'Goons' attack Kenya protesters demanding justice for Ojwang

The death of Albert Ojwang, who was accused of defaming Deputy Inspector General Eliud Langat, sparked days of protests in Nairobi. One person was killed in the latest demonstrations.


One person was killed in the Kenyan capital  Nairobi on Tuesday during a demonstration against the death of a blogger who died in police custody.

DW's Nairobi correspondent, Felix Maringa, witnessed and filmed a protester being shot in the head at close range by a person wearing a police uniform.

It happened as a group of whip and club-wielding motorcyclists — known in Kenya as "goons" — assaulted protesters who were calling for an end to police brutality and demanding the resignation of a senior officer they blame for the death of blogger Albert Ojwang on June 8. 

North Korea to send military construction workers, deminers to rebuild Russia's Kursk region



North Korea will send military builders and deminers to help restore Russia's Kurk region, Russian news agencies reported Moscow's security chief as saying Tuesday while he was on a trip to Pyongyang. North Korea has become one of Russia's main allies during Moscow's years-long war in Ukraine. 

North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support reconstruction work in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian state media reported, another sign of expanding military partnership between the two nations.

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu as saying that North Korea will dispatch 1,000 deminers as well as 5,000 military construction workers to the Kursk region. The agency said Shoigu spoke during a visit to Pyongyang for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In Brazil, a fight over offshore drilling tests Lula’s climate ambitions

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.

In the far north of Brazil, where the Amazon River collides with the sea, an environmental dilemma has awakened a national political debate.

There, the Brazilian government has been researching the possibility of offshore oil reserves that extend from the eastern state of Rio Grande do Norte all the way to Amapá, close to the border with French Guiana.

FTC punishes publishers for violating freelance law

By YOSUKE TAKASHIMA/ Staff Writer

June 17, 2025 at 17:40 JST



In the first recommendation issued under the new freelance law, the Fair Trade Commission on June 17 cited major Tokyo-based publishers Shogakukan Inc. and Kobunsha Co. for their mistreatment of freelancers. 

The two publishers were reprimanded for failing to pay freelance magazine writers and photographers on time and failing to specify the terms and conditions of transactions.

The FTC issued a recommendation and demanded that they prevent a recurrence of violating the freelance law, which protects freelance workers.   







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