Craig Taylor

The UN removes the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen from a blacklist of states and groups violating children’s rights in conflict.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazil’s new Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani says Rio is prepared for the Olympic Games and visitors do not have to worry about the Zika virus.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A car bomb attack targeting a police bus has killed seven officers and four civilians in central Istanbul, officials say.
BBC News – Europe

Two teenage girls plead guilty to kidnapping a two-year-old child from a Primark store in Newcastle.
BBC News – UK

Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party nomination for the US presidency, a delegate count by the Associated Press suggests.
BBC News – US & Canada

Burkina Faso cancels an international arrest warrant for Ivory Coast’s parliamentary speaker after Interpol refuses to help execute it, the prosecutor says.
BBC News – Africa

Monday, June 6 WHO:
Oklahoma City Thunder

The A’s decision to have Sonny Gray pitch against the Astros on Sunday, rather than put him through the motions of a Minor League rehab start, stemmed from a call made by the pitcher himself.
OAK Homepage News

Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley says he will now go before MPs to defend the company’s “good name” following criticism over working conditions at the firm.
BBC News – Business

Civilians fleeing Falluja, the Iraqi stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS), are being shot as they leave, an aid agency says.
BBC News – Middle East

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has a slight lead over opponent Keiko Fujimori in Peru’s presidential election, but the result is still too close to call.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly reject a plan to introduce a guaranteed basic income for everyone, whether in work or not.
BBC News – Europe

Anxiety disorders need more research, says a global review of scientific studies which found women were twice as likely to be affected as men.
BBC News – UK

Muhammad Ali’s doctor says friends “expected something bad was going to happen” in the year before his death.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nairobi’s police chief warns opposition supporters not to take part in Monday’s rally for electoral reform in the Kenyan capital “if you value your life”.
BBC News – Africa

In the A’s 12-inning loss Saturday in Houston, Jed Lowrie greeted his twice-former team with a game-tying home run with two outs in the ninth inning.
OAK Homepage News

OAKLAND – All of the noise, the predictions, the narratives and the analysis hovers around the periphery.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Some retired steelworkers could see their pensions “largely frozen” under possible changes to the scheme’s rules, a former pensions minister warns.
BBC News – Business

Syrian troops, backed by Russian air power, cross into Raqqa province, nearing the self-styled capital of so-called Islamic State, UK-based activists say.
BBC News – Middle East

The World Health Organization is examine the risks of holding the Olympic Games in Brazil because of the Zika virus.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean