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| Brazil prosecutors find Olympic village workers living in squalor | | | A company working on the Olympic village that will receive athletes in Rio de Janeiro next year has housed some of its own workers in conditions that public prosecutors compared to slavery. A sting by a Rio labor court and Brazil's labor ministry found 11 workers living in squalor as part of their work for Brasil Global Serviços, which is subcontracting on the Ilha Pura residential complex for the 2016 Olympic Games. Many slept outside given all the filth," said prosecutor Valeria Correa in a public statement on Friday. |
| After legal battle, Lee Harvey Oswald gravestone returns to Texas | |  By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A Dallas man won a long battle to retrieve a notorious piece of U.S. history, the gravestone of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, which came back to Texas this week from a small-town Illinois museum after a years of legal fights. David Card had to fight relatives and an Illinois museum to bring back the headstone that spent a few years on the grave of the man who shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas. "It was ours, and it is the original headstone of the most famous and infamous assassin in the history of Western civilization . maybe of all time," said Card, owner of a prominent Dallas music club, who is limited on what he can say under terms of the settlement deal.
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| Obama, Bill Clinton play golf together on Martha's Vineyard | |  U.S. President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton played a game of golf together on Saturday ahead of an evening birthday celebration for Washington power broker Vernon Jordan, a mutual friend. Obama is vacationing with his family on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard and has spent much of the past week on the golf course. Jordan, who is turning 80, and former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk rounded out the golf foursome.
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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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