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| U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites - media | |  The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of relocating some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to U.S. soil, media outlets reported on Saturday. Fox News and CNN said the Pentagon on Friday notified the U.S. Congress that the team was already visiting the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and would then survey the naval brig at Charleston, South Carolina, in the coming weeks. Republicans, who control Congress, swiftly condemned the idea of moving detainees into the United States and close to major military posts, according to Fox News.
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| Dominican Republic resumes deportation of migrants deemed illegal | |  By Jorge Pineda SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic has resumed the detention of people deemed to be illegal migrants after the expiration of a deadline for undocumented foreigners to apply for temporary residence. Officials in the Dominican Republic have grown concerned by an influx of people from neighboring Haiti and a 2013 Dominican court ruling stripped citizenship from children born to undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of which are Haitian. To help implement the ruling while responding to an international outcry, the Dominican Congress passed a law allowing some migrants to apply for residency before a June 17 deadline.
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| Brazilian police under investigation over Sao Paulo killing spree | | | Brazilian police are investigating whether a string of 18 murders in metropolitan Sao Paulo on Thursday night were a coordinated act of revenge by off-duty officers following the nearby deaths of two colleagues in the previous week. The killings have raised concerns of more reprisals in Brazil, where police are responsible for more than 2,000 deaths per year and off-duty officers rarely face prosecution when they are suspected of vigilante justice. The same vehicles were identified at the site of multiple shootings in a three-hour period, said Alexandre de Moraes, secretary of public safety for Sao Paulo state, after meeting on Friday with a task force investigating the crimes. |
| Migrant, refugee chaos at a train station in Macedonia | |  By Fatos Bytyci GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) - Small children are pushed through open carriage windows each time a Serbia-bound train pulls into the railway station in this Macedonian border town. A dangerous crush ensues as hundreds of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis wrestle to climb aboard their quickest means to Belgrade, the last stop en route to Hungary and Europe's borderless Schengen zone. A few police officers and Kurdish man with a large stick represent a half-hearted effort to keep order.
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| Egypt's deposed president Mursi appeals death sentence - lawyer | |  The court-appointed legal team representing deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi filed an appeal on Saturday at the country's highest court challenging sentences of life imprisonment and death handed down in June, Mursi's lawyer said. The Cairo criminal court sentenced Mursi to death over a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak as well as life imprisonment for giving state secrets to Qatar. It also issued sweeping punishments against the leadership of the Musim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest Islamic group.
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| Afghan police arrest five over public beating video | | | Afghan police arrested five people near the northern town of Sar-e-Pul on Saturday after they were filmed beating a man and his daughter accused of robbery by a village fortune teller, the interior ministry said. The assault occurred earlier this month after a resident of Thughi village near Sar-e-Pul suffered a robbery and consulted a fortune teller to identify the culprit. "The father and daughter were beaten by the village resident after a fortune teller accused them of robbery," the interior ministry statement said. |
| Somali lawmakers seek to remove president over corruption claims | |  By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali lawmakers have a filed a motion to parliament to dismiss President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, accusing him of abuse of office, one of the authors of the motion said. "We want to present a motion against the Somali president for betraying the nation, corruption and many other reasons," Mohamed Abdullahi Fadhaye told Reuters, without elaborating. Parliamentary speaker Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari confirmed late on Friday that 93 lawmakers had filed the motion last week, but he gave no reasons for their move.
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| Exclusive - Scandal-tainted U.S. Secret Service to hire 1,100 staff: sources | |  By Julia Edwards and Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the U.S. Secret Service plans to hire 1,100 more officers and agents for an agency besieged by embarrassing scandals and security lapses, two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the plans said. The addition of 700 uniformed division officers and 400 agents over five years would expand its staff of 6,647 by nearly 17 percent, the biggest hiring increase in more than a decade at the 150-year-old agency whose job it is to protect the president, his family, and senior officials, along with fighting financial crime. The Secret Service is trying to rebound from a leadership crisis and mend a culture of covering up mistakes that some trace back 12 years to when it was pulled out of the Treasury Department and absorbed into the sprawling new Department of Homeland Security, where it had to compete for turf and money.
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