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| Kazakh security forces fired on by suspected militants behind Aktobe attack | | | Kazakhstan security forces were locked in a gunbattle on Friday with suspected "religious radicals" in Aktobe, the northwestern city where at least 20 people were killed in a militant attack days earlier. The National Security Committee (KNB) said in a statement law enforcers had hunted down gunmen suspected of carrying out Sunday's attack, but they had refused to surrender. Authorities have not identified the group responsible for the Aktobe attack, but have described them as "religious radicals", a term commonly used in Kazakhstan to refer to Islamist militants. |
| Obama is 'fired up' for Clinton as Democrats seek to unify party | |  By Amanda Becker and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton's White House bid on Thursday and called for Democrats to unite behind her after a protracted battle with Bernie Sanders for the party nomination. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts also backed Clinton on Thursday, telling MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was "a genuine threat to the country." Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said it "means the world" to her that Obama had her back in a bruising campaign for the Nov. 8 election.
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| Emails in Clinton probe dealt with planned drone strikes - WSJ | |  Emails between U.S. diplomats in Islamabad and State Department officials in Washington about whether to challenge specific U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are at the centre of a criminal probe involving Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The 2011 and 2012 emails were sent via the "low side" -government slang for a computer system for unclassified matters - as part of a secret arrangement that gave the State Department more of a voice in whether a CIA drone strike went ahead, according to congressional and law enforcement officials briefed on the FBI probe, the Journal said. Some of the emails were then forwarded by Clinton's aides to her personal email account, which routed them to a server she kept at her home in suburban New York when she was secretary of state, the officials said, according to the newspaper.
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| Amnesty accuses Nigerian army of killing at least 17 unarmed Biafran separatists | | | Amnesty International said on Friday that Nigeria's army last month killed at least 17 unarmed members of a group calling for secession from Africa's most populous nation, but the military dismissed the allegations as unfounded. An army spokesman said Amnesty's accusations, the latest in a series of allegations of impropriety levelled against Nigeria's military in the last year, revealed a bias that undermined its credibility. Amnesty's report -- which it said was based on details from eyewitnesses, morgues and hospitals -- says soldiers opened fire on members of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and their supporters in the southeastern city of Onitsha during the build up to a march in late May. The human rights group said the killings took place during a security operation in the early hours of the morning shortly before the march when the military raided homes and a church where IPOB members slept. |
| Peru's Kuczynski beats Fujimori in near-final vote count | |  By Mitra Taj LIMA (Reuters) - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was on track to become Peru's next president on Thursday after a near-final vote tally gave him a narrow lead in the country's tightest election in decades, although his rival Keiko Fujimori had yet to accept defeat. Outgoing President Ollanta Humala and the leaders of Colombia, Chile and Argentina congratulated Kuczynski, a former investment banker, after the results were announced. A mere 41,964 votes separated the two business-friendly candidates, underscoring the divided legacy of Fujimori's father, imprisoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori.
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| California attorney general slams sentence in Stanford sex assault case | | Thursday, June 09, 2016 11:54 PM | |
|  California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the top vote-getter in the state's U.S. Senate primary, has joined the criticism of a six-month jail sentence given to a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Harris, speaking to reporters in the San Francisco Bay area on Wednesday, said she was concerned the "victim's voice was not heard" at the trial. "It was not respected, and she was not given dignity in the process," said Harris, a Democrat, according to video from a local television station.
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