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June 6 2000 UTC Brief
In the Middle East
Violence in the West Bank and Gaza kept grinding on. A surveillance camera recorded an Israeli soldier and settlers assaulting two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank, while separate reporting said a Palestinian father in Hebron buried his seven-month-old son after the baby was killed by Israeli gunfire. In Gaza City, an Israeli strike hit a tent camp and killed several Palestinians.
Elsewhere in the region, Bahrain said Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday, and that the weapons were intercepted. Bahrain said the attacks are testing a fragile ceasefire in the wider conflict.
In U.S. news
Mike Pence said Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police, damaged government property, or tried to stop the election certification should not be pardoned by Donald Trump and should never receive any money. A rare moment of moral clarity from the man who spent four years trying to stand exactly where the floor would not move.
Separately, a security expert said multiple failures were exposed after a man allegedly slipped onto a United flight at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport last month. TSA and United have not explained how he got onboard.
In Europe
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth used a D-Day commemoration in Normandy to warn that Europe faces what he called a “migrant invasion” and the spread of dangerous ideologies. He singled out Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, and urged European leaders to act.
Pope Leo also opened a seven-day visit to Spain, praising the country’s commitment to peace and solidarity on his first day there.
In other international news
Auburn University student James “Weston” Higginbotham was found dead in a mountainous area outside Kyoto after a large-scale search in Japan. He had been reported missing during a trip there.
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