News Headlines - 19 June 2017
▽Otto Warmbier, American Student Released From North Korea, Dies - The New York Times
Otto F. Warmbier, the University of Virginia honors student who was released from a North Korean prison last week after spending 17 months in captivity and more than a year in a coma, died on Monday at the Cincinnati hospital where he had been receiving treatment, his family said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday apologized for time being wasted in the latest session of the Diet and pledged to fulfill the government's responsibility to fully explain its policies to a public whose support for his Cabinet has tumbled according to recent polls.
▽Is Japan’s Top Politician Behind a Shameful Rape Cover-Up?
Japan’s ruling coalition, headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been mired in scandal for several weeks amid allegations Abe personally bent the law or broke it to benefit his political cronies and friends. Even a senior member of Abe’s own Liberal Democratic Party says, “There is nothing this administration wouldn’t do to crush its enemies and reward its pals.”
But new allegations have raised the possibility that the administration may have gone so far as to quash a rape investigation on behalf of a close friend of Abe
▽Photos show Grenfell Tower devastation - BBC News
Police have released images of what remains of some of the flats inside the fire-ravaged Grenfell Tower.
▽Police confirm one person has died in Finsbury Park mosque 'terror attack' | Metro News
Police have this morning confirmed that one person died during a terror attack outside a Muslim welfare centre in Finsbury Park, North London... Scotland Yard confirmed that he would undergo a mental health assessment in due course, a standard procedure for investigations of this kind.
