Iran rejects NATO allegations on missile program

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• Iran has dismissed NATO’s allegations that its missile program is inconsistent with UN Resolution 2231. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Tehran has already given assurances that its program is solely defensive and that its missiles are not designed to carry nuclear warheads.
• Human Rights Watch has criticized Saudi Arabia for pounding Yemen’s civilian infrastructure in its bombing campaign. The rights body says Saudi warplanes have destroyed a number of factories, commercial warehouses and power plants. Around 130 Yemeni civilians have been killed and many more injured in attacks targeting such places.
• Dozens of football fans have been arrested in clashes during and after the Euro 2016 final match in Paris. Violence erupted after French and Portuguese supporters were refused entry into the fan zone, already packed to its 90-thouand capacity. Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowd.
• An assailant has shot dead three police officers and wounded three others in Turkey. The 17-year-old opened fire on a group of officers who were checking people's identification papers at a bus station in Sanliurfa. He then fled the scene and attacked another group of officers, before being finally gunned down.
• Mexico has strongly reacted to US presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump's remarks that if elected, he will make the country build a wall along its border. President Enrique Penya Nieto dismissed Trump's plan, adding there's no way Mexico will pay for the wall.
• Fresh rallies have been held across the US against police brutality. The recent killings of two African-Americans triggered an angry public response. New York City, Atlanta and Baton Rouge are among the cities where rallies were held. Police made more than two hundred arrests during violent protests on Saturday night.
• The United States has transferred a Saudi-born Yemeni inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to Italy. Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman was never charged and his transfer had been approved in 2010. He was held at the prison for over 14 years. The US says Guantanamo now has 78 detainees.
• The United Nations urges South Sudan’s neighbors to help end a fresh round of fighting between government forces and rebels there. The UN Security Council has called on both sides to halt the violence. The body says a peace agreement signed in August 2015 needs to be fully implemented.

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