News of the day from across the globe, June 7
1 Air strike probe: A U.S. military investigation has found that a March air strike in Syria that rights groups had said killed dozens of civilians and partially destroyed a mosque was legal and caused only one civilian casualty.
Gen. Paul Bontrager told reporters Wednesday that the investigation found no evidence of negligence by the Special Operations Task Force that ordered the March 16 strike in al-Jinah village in Syria’s Aleppo province.
The state security spokesman’s office said three police officers and four inmates died in the shootouts, while six police and seven prisoners were wounded.
The National Human Rights Commission said it audited the prison in 2016 and found a long list of problems, including overcrowding, insufficient supervision and personnel, inadequate health services and conditions of self-government by inmates.
Canada’s defense chief said Wednesday that the country plans to sharply increase its military budget following pressure from the Trump administration to bolster spending.
President Trump has demanded that NATO’s member countries increase their spending on defense forces.
Amnesty International’s chairman in Turkey has been detained as part of a crackdown on people suspected of links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been accused by Turkey of orchestrating last year’s failed coup.