World AM News Briefs For Tuesday, 7 June 2016
Good Morning Australia!! - Ukraine cops stop an alleged right-wing terrorist attack on Paris - Queensland cops help stop the UK's "worst" child molester - IS leaders panic as the going gets tough - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
A French ultranationalist arrested last month was allegedly plotting racist terrorist attacks at the Euro 2016 football tournament in the French Capital. A video from Ukraine's SBU security service shows border guards (the fun starts at about 1:10) arresting 25-year old Gregoire Moutaux and an unidentified second person on 21 May after they loaded a van with grenade launchers and Kalashinov rifles and tried to head back west. Moutaux also possessed target list of Euro venues, mosques, synagogues, and bridges. A raid of his home in the tiny village of Nant-le-Petit in northeastern France yielded more explosives and detonators, balaclavas, and materials related to right-wing extremist groups.
Peru's Presidential runoff election is incredibly close. Former World Bank and IMF economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski maintaining a lead of less than a percentage point over dictator's daughter Keiko Fujimori. Votes are still trickling in from the far off rural regions that are thought to be more supportive of Fujimori. So good luck with that.
Paris evacuated some 1,800 migrants camped out in a park in the northern part of the city, and dispersed them to regional shelters where they can continue their asylum claims. The camp had become increasingly squalid in the heavy rain that has fallen on western Europe in recent weeks, and two confirmed cases of tuberculosis added to the urgency.
North Korea appears to have reactivated a nuclear weapons fuel processing plant. The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is making this assessment based on satellite imagery. But it's in-line with the US-Korea institute at Johns Hopkins University near Washington, DC, which also detected increased activity at the North's Yongbyon complex's radiochemical laboratory.
The governor of Tokyo did one of those deep-bow news conferences after being caught with his fingers in the till. An investigation found that Yoichi Masuzoe used hundreds of thousands of dollars of public funds on personal expenses such as expensive restaurants and hotel stays for the governor and his family. Masuzoe apologized, but claimed it was not illegal and he will not step down.
A judge at the Old Bailey in London sentenced "Britain's worst pedophile" to 22 life terms in prison, after Queensland police played a major role in the investigation of 32-year old Richard Huckle. Authorities posed as the administrator of a child pornography website on the so-called "dark web" to identify Huckle and provide evidence to the UK, which arrested him at Gatwick. Huckle would pose as a teacher or missionary to gain entrance to schools in Malaysia where he groomed children for his crimes. Huckle confessed to 71 serious offenses including 14 rapes and 31 sexual assaults - his youngest victim was six months old, the oldest was aged twelve years.
A Bangladeshi official is blaming a series of hacking murders on Israel, which promptly labelled the accusation "nonsense". But it's an indicator that the government of the Muslim-majority nation has no intention of investigating or stopping the killings, which have been blamed on Islamist extremists and targeted secular bloggers, university professors, women, and religious minorities.
Islamic State has reportedly been on a killing spree - of its own members. The terrorist group rooted out and killed 38 of its people in a spy scare, after a US drone located senior IS commander Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi in northern Syria, and killed his ass. Paranoia is reportedly increasing within IS as more US drones kill IS leaders, and as the Iraqi and Syrian armies move in on IS's prime real estate holdings Falluja and Raqqa.