The crackdown on scam compounds in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to beach resorts and office buildings in Sri Lanka, in what may be the next phase of one of the world’s fastest-growing criminal industries

#Trump storms out of tense, rain-plagued NBC interview. U.S. President Donald Trump lasted through probing questions about his Iran war strategy and repeated weather disruptions during an interview with U.S. broadcaster NBC -- but angrily stormed out when confronted over his unfounded claims of election fraud.

“You’re a one-sided, crooked network. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time,” Trump told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker before standing up and walking out of the interview that aired Sunday.

The interview, filmed Friday, was conducted on a farm in Wisconsin, where Trump was addressing farmers. A tractor and hay bales served as a backdrop.

The interview was interrupted several times by weather and audio issues as torrential rain pounded the roof, making it difficult to continue the conversation.

“Is that wind or what?” Trump asked at one point.

“Hear that sound?” he said later. “That sound of thunder, lightning, rain.”

Welker asked her technical crew if they should stop.

“No. People will understand -- we’re on a farm,” the president replied.

Several questions followed about Iran, nuclear weapons and his campaign pledges to keep the United States out of foreign wars.

“First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” he said, then accusing Welker of being “a big liberal, a big progressive.”

“No, I’m just a journalist,” she countered.

Trump went on to say: “I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war. We’ve been doing this for three months.”

The tone escalated again as the discussion turned to Trump’s proposed taxpayer-funded program to compensate people he believes were victims of partisan prosecution under his predecessor, Joe Biden.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen with the weaponization fund,” he said. “I love the idea because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden ... they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong.”

“There is no evidence for what you’re saying,” Welker said.

Trump reiterated past false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and said last week’s primary in California was, too.

Welker held her ground, asking the president to present evidence.

“You are either crooked or you’re stupid,” Trump finally shot back before leaving the camera’s view while Welker attempted to keep him engaged.

On Sunday, Welker told viewers that she had spoken with Trump on Saturday about the weather disruptions and that he had agreed to give her another interview.

#Japanese toilet maker Toto will fully resume new orders for prefabricated bathrooms, ending restrictions imposed earlier this year as the Iran war disrupted its supply of naphtha-derived materials

'Fists flying everywhere': A look back at the U20 #World Cup ruckus in Toronto in 2007. Argentina’s 3-0 win over Chile in an ill-tempered semifinal suddenly moved to the back burner.

The more pressing development was a ruckus near the stadium’s main entry area as players on the Chilean team slugged it out with security and police. A member of the Chilean delegation was subdued by a Taser during the bloody brawl.

It didn’t take long for it to become an international incident. Politicians were quick to weigh in, and then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the situation left a “black mark” on the tournament.

“International soccer matches are hotly contested and often become very emotional,” Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in Haiti at the time, said the next day.

Nearly 20 years later, six FIFA World Cup matches will be played at the same venue. Canada, the U.S., and Mexico will co-host the June 11-July 19 men’s tournament.

BMO Field was just a few months old when it co-hosted the under-20 competition that featured stars like Argentina’s Sergio Aguero, American Michael Bradley and Spain’s Gerard Pique.

On the night of the ruckus, Nathan Denette was outside the stadium with a fellow Canadian Press photographer when yelling was heard near the Chilean team bus.

Denette said that at first, there was a commotion between four or five people that escalated when eight to 10 players came out of the vehicle.

“There’s just fists flying everywhere,” he said that night. “Between the cops, the security guards, a couple of ladies were involved that were security. It looked like a big dogfight.”

Social media was in its infancy at the time. Smartphone use was a small fraction of what it is today.

So reporters’ phones -- for those who had them -- weren’t exactly blowing up as they took in player and coach availabilities around the facility. However, it soon became obvious that a new storyline was developing.

After interviewing the Argentine players, a handful of media members returned indoors when they were told to wait in place.

No other details were provided. Security guards and police officers hovered in the area.

Piercing wails were soon heard down the hall. One reporter said it sounded like a raccoon that had been quilled by a porcupine.

The volume got louder until a visual finally appeared. Handcuffed Chilean players, many with blood and dirt smeared across their chins and uniforms, were being led by police to a nearby locker room.

Tournament officials wearing dark #FIFA suit jackets soon followed. Colin Linford, then president of the Canadian Soccer Association, also approached the door.

He looked aghast as he peered inside the room.

An impromptu news conference was scheduled a short time later. A FIFA spokesperson said the entire situation was under investigation by the federation, local organizers, police and the Chilean delegation.

He said Chilean players were detained by police to de-escalate the situation in front of the stadium, adding that no arrests were made and that all players had been released.

The game was an intense battle between longtime South American soccer rivals.

Chile had two players red-carded and received seven of the nine yellow cards issued. Some 53 foul calls were made.

After the final whistle, several Chilean players tried to get at German referee Wolfgang Stark and the officiating crew before others stepped in to keep them away.

“The players were upset,” Chilean coach Jose Sulantay said via an interpreter. “They’re young players. The red cards affected them.”

The off-field brouhaha made headlines around the world.

The next day, Blatter, Linford and other soccer officials attended a packed news conference at a downtown conference room.

Blatter said he spoke with Toronto Mayor David Miller to “express the regrets of FIFA,” and asked the CSA to deal with the relevant domestic authorities and report back to FIFA.

Chilean official Harold Mayne-Nicholls was also on the dais.

“We apologize (for) the behaviour of the players after the game,” Mayne-Nicholls said. “We are not supporting (that) kind of conduct.”

He added that he witnessed the incident near the bus.

“I personally saw that the police of Toronto did not act as our police (are) used to acting with people that are just playing a football game,” he said. “For us, as the chairman of the football federation from Chile, we cannot accept those kinds of things coming from the police. Our players are 19, 20-year-old kids.

“They were playing football, and they never deserved the treatment they were receiving.”

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said it was “clearly unjustified” how the team was treated.

An internal police investigation, released a couple of weeks later, found officers acted with an immense amount of restraint despite being “punched, kicked (and) spat on,” Toronto police chief Bill Blair said.

Blair added the situation started after an altercation between a spectator and a Chilean player. No charges were laid, and there were no serious injuries.

FIFA later handed Chilean forward Jaime Grondona a nine-month suspension and fine for assaulting match officials during the game. The Chilean Soccer Association was also fined for team misconduct.

It remains unclear whether the planned Canadian Soccer Association investigation into the off-field ruckus was completed. Messages left with the federation and the sport’s governing body were not returned.

Chile went on to beat Austria for the bronze medal. Argentina defeated the Czech Republic for #gold.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 7, 2026.

Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press

Asian #markets plunged on Monday as investors slammed the brakes on the red-hot AI rally, while Israeli strikes on Beirut sent oil prices and the dollar higher.

#Taiwan coast guard 'expels' #Chinese ships from restricted waters

A fire broke out on a luxury yacht that was berthed near an island resort in #Singapore, sending plumes of smoke billowing into the air

The small #African country with big World Cup dreams

#WASHINGTON, June 7. The US administration intends to provide its Persian Gulf allies with access to Iranian assets for compensation of damage Tehran may inflict them, Reuters news agency said, citing sources.

"The United States will make Iranian assets available to Gulf allies to support rebuilding and repairs for future damage caused by Iran," the news agency said, citing its sources.

According to Reuters, "The US will also consider using those assets to support repairs or past damages." US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directed a team to assess costs for damag already inflicted on Gulf allies by Iran, the news agency added.

#FBI fires several analysts tied to disputed ‘Catholic ideology’ memo. The fired employees included four intelligence analysts and a supervisory analyst. The FBI declined to comment.

“This action is manifestly unjust, completely unsupported by the facts, and subverts standard FBI policy and procedure,” their lawyer, David Laufman, said in a statement. “These individuals deserved far better for the exceptional and faithful public service they rendered to protect our country.”

The January 2023 intelligence product produced by analysts in the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, field office emerged as a political flashpoint after it was issued, with Republicans in Congress repeatedly citing it as part of their broader contention that the FBI during the Biden administration was targeting conservatives.

Then-director Chris Wray repeatedly denied that charge and the FBI has said the document was quickly retracted and an internal review was launched. Merrick Garland, the attorney general under U.S. President Joe Biden, has said he was “appalled” by the memo.

Earlier U.S. Justice Department investigations into the memo challenged the analytical tradecraft but did not find intentional misconduct by the analysts involved.

The firings are part of a broader personnel purge under Patel, a Trump loyalist who over the last year, has pushed out dozens of employees who either contributed to investigations of the president or who were perceived as not in alignment with the administration’s agenda. The U.S. Justice Department has engaged in similarly sweeping firings of prosecutors since Trump took office last year.

In February, for instance, the FBI fired a group of counterintelligence agents who participated in the investigation into U.S. President Donald Trump over his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

The Richmond memo, which emerged from a domestic terrorism investigation, sought to examine a potential link between what it called “Radical Traditionalist Catholic” ideology and racially and ethnically motivated extremists. It warned of the potential for violence and also highlighted what the authors described as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.” FBI leadership quickly condemned those findings once the document became public.

An internal FBI review described in a 2023 letter to Congress and based on interviews with 26 people “found that all individuals involved in the creation, review and approval of the product failed to adhere to analytic tradecraft standards and failed to recognize that the product, as drafted, equated the subjects’ interest in their self-described form of religion with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (RMVE) ideology without sufficient evidence or articulable support.”

The failure to adhere to standards, including on proper domestic terrorism terminology, “created the appearance that the FBI conducts investigative activity based on religious affiliation,” the letter said. “One of the FBI’s most fundamental principles is that investigative activity may not be based solely on the exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.”

A Justice Department inspector general report in 2024 summarized the earlier FBI review by saying that though there were departures from proper analytic tradecraft, “no evidence of a malicious intent or an improper purpose” were found.

MS NOW earlier reported the firings.

Tucker reported from Los Angeles.

Eric Tucker And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press