World AM News Briefs For Friday, 10 June 2016
Good Morning Australia!! - Barack Obama moves to unify his party against Trump - Mistaken Identity might have sent an innocent man to be prosecuted on another continent - Is "El Chapo" a friend of a key prosecutor in Mexico? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
A "fired up" US President Barack Obama has formally endorsed his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's White House bid. The Clinton Campaign released a video in which Mr. Obama said, "I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office." The President has been itching to get on to the campaign trail with Clinton and defeat fascist demagogue Donald Trump, but felt he had to allow the primary voters to speak first. This video came out shortly after Mr. Obama welcomed Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party rival Senator Bernie Sanders to the White House for an hour-long meeting. Afterward, Mr. Sanders announced he would "continue" campaigning for the final primary election in Washington, DC, but signaled he would work with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in November.
Progressive Filmmaker Michael Moore nails Donald Trump.
Former Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi will have urgent heart surgery after a massive heart attack. "He risked his life, he risked dying and he knew it," said his doctor Alberto Zangrillo. The 79-year-old served as PM four times, but has since been convicted of tax fraud and bribery.
Italian prosecutors are investigating if the wrong man was extradited from Eritrea to face human trafficking charges. 35-year old Mered Medhanie is the reputed leader of an operation that has sent thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa to Europe, mostly via the dangerous and often deadly sea crossing from Libya. But the friends and family of the man who was sent to Italy this week to face trial say he is 27-year old Medhanie Tesfarmariam Berhe. who bears a slight resemblance to photos circulated by Interpol.
Peru presidential runoff: Still waiting. But Pedro Pablo Kuzcynski is probably the winner.
Mexico appointed a new prosecutor to oversee the investigation into the disappearances of 43 student teachers in Iguala Town. But the prosecutor, Alfredo Higuera Bernal, has links to drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Proceso Magazine reports that Higuera Bernal even attended El Chapo's most recent wedding in 2007. The student teachers from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared in 2014, and subsequent investigations have implicated local police and drug gangs - but critics say the truth is still being covered-up.
Al Shabaab terrorists attacked an African Union base in Somalia, claiming to have killed 60 Ethiopian troops. The AU mission says it repulsed the attack, killing 110 militants.
Two Islamic State suicide attacks in Baghdad killed at least 30 people. The first targeted the predominantly Shia district of Baghdad al-Jadidah leaving 19 dead; another 11 died at a checkpoint north of the capital.
Israel suspended the entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, following the fatal shootings of four people in an upscale Tel Aviv shopping arcade. The two attackers are reportedly Palestinian. Hamas "praised" the attack, but did not claim responsibility.