The Obama administration has agreed to pay €1m to the family of an Italian aid worker who was killed in a US drone strike in 2015. Last year, the US president, Barack Obama, acknowledged that Giovanni Lo Porto and an American named Warren Weinstein, 73, had accidentally been killed in a secret counter-terrorism mission. The payment – €1,185,000 in total – was considered a “donation in the memory of Giovanni Lo Porto”. The agreement clarified that Lo Porto was killed in Pakistan. Citing US officials, the report said footage examined before the lethal drone strike showed a possible hostage in the area.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2016 09:27 UTC