The judge who gave a six-month jail term to a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman is to stop hearing criminal cases.

Judge Aaron Persky asked to be moved to Santa Clara County court's civil division after imposing the sentence on Brock Turner, 20, an official said.
Mr Persky's decision was widely criticised as too lenient.
The case sparked outrage fuelled by the victim's powerful impact statement.
Mr Persky received death threats, faced a recall effort and several online petitions seeking his removal in the wake of the case.
"Judge Persky believes the change will aid the public and the court by reducing the distractions that threaten to interfere with his ability to effectively discharge the duties of his current criminal assignment," Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Rise Jones Pichon said in a statement.
The move will take effect on 6 September.
Prosecutors said that in January 2015, Turner had been seen by two witnesses sexually assaulting the woman, who was lying on the ground, unconscious, on the Stanford campus. She was 22 at the time.
They said Turner had tried to run away when challenged by the witnesses, but the pair had tackled him and held him until police officers arrived.
Prosecutors had asked for a six-year jail term. But in his remarks, the judge said he was concerned about the "severe impact" a longer sentence would have on Turner's life.
He also said positive character references and Turner's remorse and lack of previous criminal record were mitigating factors.
Rights activists and members of the general public accused Mr Persky of being influenced by Turner's upbringing in a wealthy, white family, and his achievements as a college swimmer.
Turner, who was a promising swimmer expected to compete for the US at Olympic level, has been banned for life by USA Swimming, the governing body for professional swimming in the US.


An air rage court case against The View singer Kyle Falconer has been adjourned again until next month.

The Dundee musician is accused of shouting and swearing at passengers and making a homophobic remark to a cabin crew member.
The incident is alleged to have happened on board a Jet2 flight between Reus Airport in Spain and Glasgow International Airport in June.
Mr Falconer, 29, was not present at the hearing at Paisley Sheriff Court.
The case was continued without plea for further investigation until 12 October.
A solicitor told the court that it had to be established which country's air space the plane was in at the exact time of the alleged offences.
Mr Falconer faces two charges of alleged threatening and abusive behaviour.
He is accused of behaving "in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm" by shouting, swearing and acting aggressively towards other passengers "whilst in possession of two bottles".
The singer is also accused of uttering a homophobic remark on the flight.


Legendary investor Warren Buffett is backing a consortium bidding for Yahoo's core internet assets, according to reports.

The head of Berkshire Hathaway is among a group that includes Dan Gilbert, the billionaire founder of Quicken Loans.
US news reports and the Financial Times said Mr Buffett co-signed a letter from the group and pledged money for a bid.
Verizon, private equity firms, and the owner of the Daily Mail have expressed an interest in Yahoo's assets.
Last month the search company, hit by falling advertising and weakening investor confidence, shortlisted about 10 potential buyers.
News of Mr Buffett's interest could improve Yahoo's sale hopes. He admitted at Berkshire's annual meeting last month that his investment firm had been slow to get involved the new tech industry.
Mr Buffett, whose firm has a stake in IBM, said in an interview on 2 May that Yahoo's business had deteriorated significantly and that "something has to change there". But he did not mention any potential bid.
Reuters, which first reported Mr Buffett's involvement, pointed out that Susan Decker, who worked at Yahoo in several senior roles between 2000 and 2009, is now a director on Berkshire's board.
The news agency quoted an interview she gave to CNBC television on 29 April: "I hope the next owner can do something to revitalise the spirit of the core things that made Yahoo very, very unique and create a distinction in consumers' minds about why they love Yahoo still.
"It will be helpful if it is private or part of a much larger corporation to achieve that," she said.
However, Verizon is thought to remain the frontrunner in the bidding for Yahoo.
The US telecoms giant would merge Yahoo with AOL, which it bought for $4.4bn (Â£3bn) last year to create a digital group capable of taking on the likes of Google and Facebook.


The news that Taiwan's parliament has effectively authorised travellers to attach "Taiwan Republic" stickers to their passports has sparked heated discussion in mainland China.

Parliament decided on 6 April to lift the punishments for Taiwan passport holders who "add, modify or delete markings" from their travel documents.
The controversial stickers, which replace "Republic of China" with "Republic of Taiwan", became a popular trend when they launched in August last year.
However, China's government sees them as a symbol of Taiwanese independence and has refused entry to passport holders who sport them.
During the parliamentary session that saw the punishments overturned, the government warned holders that they must still "bear the risks" of having such stickers on their passports.
A number of Taiwanese travellers have been denied entry into China and other countries as a result of the stickers.
The Macau Daily Times reported in February that 15 Taiwanese citizens had been refused entry into the special administrative region of China, as a result of the "politically controversial and sensitive" stickers.
The same month, two Taiwanese travellers were denied entry into Hong Kong "on the grounds that their passports had been altered without permission" according to independent news website Hong Kong Free Press.
In December, three travellers were denied entry into Singapore.
Following the Taiwanese move to authorise the stickers, Chinese state-run national newspaper Global Times warns that travellers may be denied entry further afield.
"The mainland's influence is much bigger than Taiwan's," it says in an editorial. "As long as the mainland is willing, it is not hard to stonewall those with the 'sticker passports' at immigration control points everywhere in the world."
Chinese state media have condemned the ruling that the stickers are no longer deemed to "add, modify or delete markings" from official travel documents.
The overseas edition of government mouthpiece People's Daily warns that authorisation of the stickers may lead to other forms of rebellion.
"If Taiwan allows its passport covers to be 'changed', will it allow people to change their identity cards, driving licence, marriage certificate or 'legal declarations'?" it asks.
"How will documents issued by Taiwan remain authoritative? How can we trust it if it is allowing people to change the 'country'? Is this a game of the 'Legislative Yuan' or an 'asylum for the insane'?"
English-language newspaper China Daily similarly warned that the stickers will result in "more Taiwanese compatriots bringing trouble and controversy".
It said that the ruling "only further poisons trust across the Taiwan Straits".
Social media users on the popular Sina Weibo microblog are worried about the ruling, with many saying the news is "laughable" and that holders of such stickers have a "death wish".
"The international community knows that Taiwan is a province of the mainland, those still saying that Taiwan is a country are shameless," says 'Xu Xiaose'.
"This is Tsai's masterpiece", one user says, suggesting that the stickers are part of a subtle campaign by president-elect Tsai Ing-wen to garner support for Taiwanese independence.
Another user says it is an example of Tsai using "more trickery", as she has not made clear whether or not she recognises that Taiwan is an independent country.
"Sooner or later, the Taiwanese will have to pay a price for their choice," adds 'Shaowei Guancha'.
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Castleford Tigers second row Mike McMeeken has signed a two-year-contract extension to keep him at the club until the end of the 2020 season.

The 23-year-old England international has scored seven tries in 22 appearances for the Super League leaders this campaign.
"It's a great feeling. I've loved every minute of being here," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
"Ever since I have been up here everything has gone positively for me."


In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers the power of protest in South Africa.

For 21 years democratic South Africa has been struggling to transform an education sector which had an inbuilt bias for over 300 years against the poor but mainly against those who were not white.
Protests in South Africa cannot quite lose the long shadow of those barbaric days, and the history of the nation has been so imbued with the actions of students - from the Soweto Uprising of 1976 to the beating anger of the 1980s.
Their defiance gets noticed and, depending on which side of the historical fence you currently occupy, these protests can be strangely effective.
Having felled the statue of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes back in April, emboldened students decided university fees should fall too.
This past week, they took to the streets to complain at plans to raise university fees by between 10.5% and 12% in 2016.
In the wake of the demonstrations, President Jacob Zuma's government announced a fee freeze after emergency talks with university officials.
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Thousands of students, firstly at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and then across the country, with solidarity protests outside South Africa House in London's Trafalgar Square, reminded us all of the powder keg of history and inequality on which the nation is currently perched.
No matter how it is spun, the South African story has rarely been one of equal opportunity; instead "extreme income inequality" has risen to the fore as the phrase of utmost accuracy.
South Africa's Department of Higher Education and Training says the country's universities are already under-funded, while there is also a massive increase in those seeking to learn.
Government subsidies for every university have fallen while poor black youngsters - who may in many instances be the first of their families to reach such giddy heights of education as the undergraduate degree - feel a hike in fees will simply make graduation impossible for them and their kind.
Put aside the pictures of trigger-happy police battling students as the summer air thickened with tear gas, South Africa's "born-free" generation has been born into a freedom bereft of economic opportunity.
The promises of 1994 and Nelson Mandela's presidency have not been realised.
The born-free generation:
And the very institutions to which young black men and women are flocking have themselves not transformed as quickly as the ghosts of anti-apartheid leaders such as Mandela or Walter Sisulu would have hoped, with prickly encounters over learning in Afrikaans at Stellenbosch and the obvious disparities in opportunities for white graduates.
Bursaries are given to families who earn below a certain level, but the National Student Financial Aid Scheme project is stretched in the face of overwhelming numbers.
South Africa's own economy has made it almost impossible for struggling families to share their limited resources with their university degree-chasing offspring.
Farai Sevenzo:
"No-one should be denied an education because they cannot afford the fees, yet there is a lot of ground between that principle and the implementation of such ideals"
Even the newly emergent black middle class are as squeezed as those students whose raw anger on the streets last week spoke of having to raise tens of thousands of rand when a parent's only job was that of a domestic worker.
All around the world the issue of university tuition fees can damage governments and political parties.
But its possible incendiary effect on the ANC government is too close to the bone of economic deprivation, caused by decades of apartheid policies, for it not to be taken seriously.
It must pull out all the stops to bridge the gap between those who can afford higher education and the millions who need it to get along.
Wits University is said to have turned away 3,000 students who were academically qualified but could not afford the fees this year.
No-one should be denied an education because they cannot afford the fees, yet there is a lot of ground between that principle and the implementation of such ideals.
The government's announcement does not hide the fact that it has no idea where they are going to get the 3bn rand ($219m; Â£143m) needed to fund a "0% fee increase", as Mr Zuma put it, in 2016.
As worrying for him may be the anger directed at all political parties by the protesting youths, who came from varied backgrounds.
While the protests were reminiscent of the anti-apartheid movement, they also pointed to a future where white students stood in solidarity with their black counterparts, despite their privilege, and demanded that the government level a playing field on which all races must play.
The future for the nostalgic revolutionaries may also belong to a new kind of liberal white left, natural descendants of white liberation fighters Bram Fischer and Ruth First.
There is little evidence though to suggest facing down riot police in a #FeesMustFall protest will bridge the canyons of disparity between privilege and the aspirations of the growing numbers of young black undergraduates.
If such a united front persists, President Zuma needs to find the means or the money to keep disaffected youths on side.
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US stocks edged lower on Wall Street as a 2% drop in oil prices weighed on energy firms.

Exxon Mobil was down 2% and Chevron fell 2.27% as US crude dropped by more than $1 a barrel to $46.54.
Oil traders decided a sharp drop in US crude stockpiles in the past week - which had eased concerns of oversupply and sent the oil price up on Thursday - would be short-lived.
"One week's worth of data does not make a trend," said IG analyst Bernard Aw.
Bank stocks posted modest gains, although Wells Fargo was down 2% after it was fined $185m for illegally opening accounts to boost sales targets.
In late trading in New York, the Dow was down 1.6%, S&P 1.8%, and Nasdaq 2%.


Thieves have made off with a "substantial quantity" of money after blowing open a cash machine during a bank raid in southern Scotland.

An explosion was heard at the Royal Bank of Scotland branch on Langholm High Street at about 01:40 on Friday.
Police sealed off the area while carrying out their investigations.
A short time after the raid a green Land Rover was found burning on the B6318 road about three miles south of Langholm's Skippers Bridge.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Police said the amount of money taken had been "substantial" but declined to specify the exact sum.
Det Insp Scott Young said: "At this stage we are carrying out a number of enquiries into this crime and we are asking for the help of the public on a number of fronts.
"We are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen what took place at the bank at around 01:40 this morning.
"We have reports of a green coloured Landrover R445 YJC being at the scene of this crime and then driving off south shortly afterwards."
He said they were keen to track the movements of the vehicle before and after the break-in.
"We are also keen to hear from anyone in the town who may have seen any suspicious activity in or around the area of the bank over the past days or even weeks," he added.
Ch Insp Stephen Stiff, operational commander for the area, said: "This is a very rare crime for our area and totally out of character for the Langholm area.
"We have officers in the Langholm area carrying out door to door enquiries and speaking with the public to offer reassurance.
"The High Street, which forms part of the main A7 road is still closed and will remain so until we have carried out our full scenes of crime examination."
Diversions have been put in place to allow traffic to bypass Langholm.
Police said they were aware this would cause disruption but that it was necessary in order to gather evidence.


Fifa's report into World Cup corruption is now pointless and a joke, according to English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke.

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He made his comments after the man who investigated claims of wrongdoing said the report was "erroneous".
"It's a bit of a joke, the whole process," Dyke told BBC Sport, adding that it looked "pretty ugly for Fifa".
The report cleared Russia and Qatar of corruption allegations but criticised the FA for flouting bid rules.
Later on Thursday, on BBC's Newsnight, Dyke added that he could not "take the report seriously".
He said: "The whole of the way football operates at that sort of level is suspect and has been for many years. I don't think Fifa is a straight organisation and hasn't been for many years."
The 42-page document, published at 09:00 GMT on Thursday was put together by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert. He based his findings on the work of American lawyer Michael Garcia.
But less than four hours later Garcia, who spent two years investigating claims of corruption for world governing body Fifa, issued a statement questioning the report.
He said Eckert's findings contained "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations".
Garcia said he intended to appeal to Fifa.
Fifa said it had yet to be notified by Garcia of his intention to appeal.
The FA was accused of trying to "curry favour" with former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who quit in 2011 amid bribery allegations.
The report said England's bid team tried to win the support of Warner, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, by:
Dyke said the FA had "nothing to hide".
"Within that report, most of the criticism is of people who co-operated the most fully," he said.
"If you actually didn't co-operate, you don't get criticised, which seems very weird to me. The FA, I don't think on this, has got anything to hide.
"Everything that was done was cleared with the Fifa executive beforehand and was told to the Garcia report by the English FA."
Dyke also called for Garcia's report, which runs to hundreds of pages, to be published in full.
Lord Triesman, chairman of the FA at the time voting for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups took place, said he also wanted to see the complete document after being criticised for failing to co-operate with the investigation.
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"I'm never satisfied by seeing summaries by somebody else," Triesman told BBC Sport. "In this day and age, people are entitled to see the original."
British MP Damien Collins described Eckert's report as "a whitewash" before Garcia's statement was issued.
Fellow MP Clive Efford, Labour's Shadow Minister for Sport, added: "Fifa has no choice but to publish Michael Garcia's report in full if it expects anyone to believe their claims that there has been no cover-up over allegations of corruption in the World Cup bidding process."
Fifa's inquiry looked at the conduct of the nine teams bidding to win the right to stage the 2018 or 2022 World Cups.
It was initiated after a number of corruption allegations were made once voting had taken place in 2010.
Russia won the right to host the 2018 tournament, beating England and joint bids from the Netherlands/Belgium and Spain/Portugal.
England collected just two votes after expressing high hopes of winning.
To much surprise, Qatar was awarded the 2022 event, edging out Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
Qatar was subsequently accused of paying Fifa officials £3m to secure backing for its bid.
The report cleared the Gulf state of corruption, although it noted that there were "certain indications of potentially problematic conduct of specific individuals".
Hassan Al Thawadi, general secretary of the Qatar 2022 organising committee, told BBC Sport: "We've been transparent when it comes to the process of bidding for the 2022 World Cup.
"We've always been confident about the integrity of our bid. Today's report was confirmation of that."
The report noted that the Russian bid team made "only a limited amount of documents available for review".
According to the report, the Russian team hired computers that were subsequently destroyed, denying the inquiry access to email accounts.
"We were always confident that there could be nothing which would come out from this investigation," said Alexey Sorokin, the head of Russia's 2018 World Cup organising committee.


Plans for a north Wales metro system will live up to people's expectations, the economy and transport secretary has said.

The Welsh Government's proposed public transport scheme would include a mixture of trams, upgraded railway stations and better bus services.
Ken Skates said cross border links were more important than ever in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
But Conservatives in north Wales say it is a missed opportunity.
The 'metro map' has also come under fire for excluding Anglesey, Gwynedd and Conwy.
It was a major promise in Welsh Labour's 2016 manifesto ahead of the Assembly election.
Mr Skates defended the transport scheme during a launch of 'Moving North Wales Forward' plan at the new bus interchange in Rhyl.
The Clwyd South AM insisted the system was a metro and would receive a "considerable amount of investment" from the Welsh Government.
About Â£50m has been announced for the first phase of development of the scheme.
"It is a major long term scheme which will unlock the potential of the economy and meet the expectations of people who wish to use public transport, but at the moment find there are too many barrier to doing so." he said.
He added: "There is huge potential to deliver increased economic growth in north Wales. A modern, high quality integrated transport system is fundamental to achieving that potential and I am committed to working to make that a reality."
According to Welsh Government stats about 20,000 workers cross the border from England into Wales each day.
Mr Skates said leaving the European Union would mean it was more important than ever for good cross-border links to drive economic growth.
Mr Skates said the Welsh Government was investing about Â£600m in transport schemes in north Wales - including in north west Wales, such as the third Menai crossing.
He said the metro suited urban areas, such as in the north east, and more "rural solutions" needed to be found for the north west.
The economy secretary also announced a public consultation would be held into the future of bus services across Wales.
Mr Skates said bus services needed to be reformed, to make sure services were available when and where people needed them.
But the Tory's north Wales spokesperson Mark Isherwood said: "This announcement is a smokescreen for the Welsh Government's failure to deliver what the region really needs, which is meaningful progress on the North Wales Growth Deal.
"Conferring greater powers on North Wales is a crucial and necessary step to reinvigorating the North Wales economy, yet the Welsh Government appears reluctant to put more power in the hands of local people."


A "youngsters party" which police said went "a little wrong" ended when two officers were hurt breaking up a fight.

Five people were also arrested in the brawl in Melton Mowbray's High Street on Saturday night.
Oakham Police tweeted it had "all gone a little wrong in #Melton youngsters party", adding "cops from all over" had been called in.
A special constable and a full-time officer were both hurt but their injuries were not serious.
Leicestershire Police Chief Constable Simon Cole tweeted that the attack on the officer was "#unacceptable".
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Police said a "private under 18s" party had been held nearby.
The special constable injured her shoulder while trying to make an arrest in the fight, which broke out at about 23:10 GMT. The other officer hurt his wrist.
A 19-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer, two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old were arrested suspicion of breaching public order and a 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of assault.
All have been bailed or dealt with by way of "a community resolution", police said.


A 16-year-old girl from Manchester has been charged with terrorism-related offences.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faces two counts under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
She will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on 22 July, the North West Counter Terrorism Unit said.
The charges come after police searched a house in Longsight, Manchester, on 3 April.


The Only Way is Essex tours, stag parties and hen nights in Brentwood are "putting off a demographic of local people", a councillor has said.

The ITV reality show attracts fans to filming locations, nightspots like Sugar Hut and its stars' businesses.
Brentwood borough councillor Chris Hossack said some people did not "feel comfortable around the whole hen night, Saturday night thing in Brentwood".
Tour guide Courtney Harrison said visitors had never caused problems.
"We've never had an issue with anyone on the tour - it's more so the people in Brentwood," he said.
Conservative Mr Hossack said credit should be given to "people who were in the show early on for their entrepreneurial spirit".
But he added: "This whole thing of people coming in from all four corners of the UK, hen nights, stag dos, walking round Brentwood with selfie sticks - I think it's putting off a demographic of local people.
"Brentwood is predominantly for Brentwood people. Yes, there are people coming in from outside, and spending money, and that's good for the economy so we shouldn't decry that.
"But let's not forget people in Brentwood want to use their town. You've got to consider the local people as well as the economic vibrancy of the town."
Gareth Barratt, a Labour borough councillor, said the programme's popularity "genuinely provides a benefit to our town".
"We actually have people spending money in our town who aren't our own citizens. I think it's always easy to find extreme views," he added.
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Police investigating the murder of a man in Aberdeenshire want to trace two people who may have visited the victim the day before he was found.

Brian McKandie, 67, was found dead at Fairview Cottages in Badenscoth, Rothienorman, on Saturday 12 March.
Two men were reportedly seen speaking to Mr McKandie on the Friday beforehand between about 17:00 and 18:00.
Police Scotland said it was thought Mr McKandie suffered a "violent attack".
Det Ch Insp Iain Smith said: "We are appealing for these two men who were seen speaking to Mr McKandie to come forward and speak to us to see if they have information that could assist with our investigation.
"We don't have a detailed description of the two men but one is thought to be in his 20s and the other in his 30s or 40s.
"Additionally, anyone else who was in the area at the time or has information, no matter how insignificant you think the information could be is encouraged to come forward."


Aberdeen will face CS Fola Esch of Luxembourg in the Europa League first qualifying round, while Hearts will play Estonian outfit FC Infonet.

Scottish Cup winners Hibernian will meet Valur Reykjavik or Danish side Brondby in the second qualifying round.
If Aberdeen progress they will take on Lithuanian side FK Ventspils or Vikingur from the Faroe Islands.
Waiting for Hearts would be Birkirkara of Malta or NK Siroki Brijeg, the Bosnian team they beat in 2006.
The Dons, who finished runners-up to Scottish champions Celtic, are due to be at home in the first round first leg on 30 June.
Hearts, who finished third, were drawn to be away but that has since been switched round after fixture clashes in Estonia, with the second legs on 7 July.
"It's a good draw," said head coach Robbie Neilson.  "It's good to get an away leg first and hopefully we'll be in a good position when we return to Tynecastle for the second leg."
"Our video analyst is already working on getting some footage in so we'll be able to study them."
The second-round games are due to be played over 14 and 21 July.
The draw has Aberdeen and Hibs at home first in those games if they qualify, with Hearts away.
All three Scottish sides would then have a third qualifying round and a play-off round to negotiate to reach the group stages which begin in September.
The Dons missed out on the group stages last season, losing their third-round qualifier for a second year in a row.
They were drawn out first in Monday's draw but Irish side St Patrick's are also due to be in Esch-sur-Alzette for their away leg on 7 July, after drawing another Luxembourg side Jeunesse Esch, which might lead to rescheduling of one or other of the fixtures.
Hearts lost at the Europa League play-off phase in 2012, with Hibs exiting in the second qualifying round the following year.


US President Barack Obama has praised Ethiopia as an "outstanding partner" in the fight against militant Islamists.

Its troops had played a key role in weakening the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group in Somalia, Mr Obama said.
He was speaking after talks with Ethiopia's PM Hailemariam Desalegn, during the first ever visit by a US president to the East African state.
He also called on Mr Hailemariam to improve Ethiopia's record on human rights and good governance.
"I don't bite my tongue too much when it comes to these issues," he said at a joint press conference in the capital, Addis Ababa.
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Some rights groups have criticised Mr Obama's visit, warning that it could lend credibility to a government accused of jailing journalists and critics.
A legal case currently being fought through the US courts alleges that agents of the Ethiopian government eavesdropped on the internet activities of a man in the US state of Maryland.
The man, born in Ethiopia and now a US citizen, works for a political opposition group outlawed in his home country.
Addressing the media, Mr Obama described the Ethiopian government, which won all parliamentary seats in May's election, as "democratically elected".
Opposition group have said the poll was rigged.
Mr Hailemariam said Mr Obama's visit had taken a century-long relationship with the US to a "new height".
"Our commitment to democracy is real, not skin-deep," he added.
Answering a question about press freedom, Mr Hailemariam said Ethiopia wanted "civilised journalism", and not reporters linked with "violent terrorist groups".
On the security threat by al-Shabab, Mr Obama said there had been a "shrinkage" of the group since the deployment of regional troops to Somalia, its main base.
However, the killing of 15 people in a bomb attack on a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday was a reminder that "we have to now keep the pressure on", he said.
"We don't need to send our own marines in to do the fighting: The Ethiopians are tough fighters and the Kenyans and Ugandans have been serious about what they're doing."
Mr Obama flew to Ethiopia after a two-day visit to Kenya where he had discussed trade and security but also called for greater human rights and warned of the dangers of corruption.
Compared to the Kenyan leg of his tour, President Obama's arrival in Ethiopia has signalled a more sombre mood. After talks in the ornate setting of the presidential palace, Mr Obama sought to highlight the areas of agreement with his host and tread cautiously over the delicate issue of democratic rights.
He praised Mr Hailemariam for the country's contribution to peacekeeping efforts in the region, and said the US wanted to help "sustain momentum" on Ethiopia's impressive rates of economic growth. Addis Ababa has undergone a massive building boom, thanks in part to substantial Chinese investment
But on the thorny issue of press freedom, much still divides the pair. Mr Obama said it was a "significant topic of discussion", and insisted that a vibrant and free press would strengthen rather than inhibit Ethiopia's development. For his part, the prime minister called for "civilised journalism" and said Ethiopian journalists needed training.
Mr Obama also referred to the civil war in South Sudan ahead of talks with regional leaders on the issue.
Government and rebels leaders were "extremely stubborn", and other "tools" would have to be considered if there was no breakthrough in ending the conflict, he added.
The 19-month war in South Sudan has left thousands of people dead and displaced more than two million.
On Tuesday, Mr Obama will also be the first US leader to address the 54-member African Union in Addis Ababa.
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US officials are urging North Korea to "let our citizens go free", as reports say that an 85-year-old US veteran has been detained in the country.

Merrill Newman, a Korean War veteran, was taken off a plane by uniformed officers at the end of a guided tour in North Korea last month, his son said.
US officials have not specifically confirmed the case, but have called on North Korea to "resolve the issue".
Another US citizen, Kenneth Bae, has been detained since last November.
Mr Newman visited North Korea with a friend in October, his son, Jeffrey Newman said on Thursday.
The guided tour was arranged with a travel agent "approved by the North Korean government for travel of foreigners", he added.
Merrill Newman was taken off a plane on 26 October, the last day of his tour, as he was set to leave North Korea, Jeffrey Newman said.
The veteran appeared to have discussed his experience in the Korean War with North Korean officials the day before his detention, his son added.
Another veteran, also named Merrill Newman, was awarded a Silver Star medal for his efforts during the Korean War.  In an interview with Reuters news agency, he said that he thought it was possible there had been "a case of mistaken identity".
When asked about Mr Newman's detention, US Secretary of State John Kerry would not comment directly on the case, but said: "They have other people, too... These are all very, very disturbing choices by the North Koreans."
US Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies, said: "We are calling on North Korea, as in the Kenneth Bae case, to resolve this issue and let our citizens go free."
He added that he could not comment specifically about Mr Newman's case "because we do not have a privacy act waiver".
The US State Department revised its travel guidance for North Korea this week, saying: "US citizens crossing into North Korea, even accidentally, have been subject to arbitrary arrest and long-term detention."
However, a small number of tourists do enter North Korea every year.
Travel to North Korea is tightly controlled, with tourists only able to visit through tour companies that are accompanied by local guides.
US troops backed South Korea in the 1950-1953 Korean War, which killed at least two million people.


Teachers' pay in England and Wales could be linked to performance and set at different local levels, under proposals set out by the government.

The Department for Education has submitted the suggestions to the independent pay review board.
Education Secretary Michael Gove says he wants a system that can attract the highest quality teachers.
Teachers' unions have already raised the prospect of industrial action against plans for regional pay.
"Reform of the current pay system for teachers is fundamental to driving up teacher quality," said Mr Gove.
He rejected the current system as "rigid, complex and difficult to navigate".
The House of Commons education select committee recently called for a pay system that reflected the different contributions of school staff.
"We are concerned that the pay system continues to reward low-performers at the same levels as their more successful peers," MPs reported.
The Department for Education in Westminster submitted its proposals to the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB), which makes recommendations on teachers' pay for both England and Wales.
The timetable for the proposed changes would see the STRB responding in the autumn - with the secretary of state announcing a decision next year, which could apply from September 2013.
Mr Gove says that the quality of teaching is fundamentally linked to school standards - and that the pay structure should be designed to attract and reward the best staff.
But the suggestion of deregulation pay brought a wave of condemnation from teachers' unions, which say that it would be more likely to undermine than inspire teachers.
"Teachers are already suffering from pay freezes, job losses and increases in pension contributions - they now face pay cuts due to a policy based on ideology not evidence," said National Union of Teachers' leader Christine Blower.
The NASUWT teachers' union leader, Chris Keates, says the research evidence "demolishes the coalition government's case for local and regional pay".
The suggestions set out by the Department for Education are intended to create a stronger link between performance and reward.
It suggests options that could range from complete deregulation - where schools could create their own pay systems - to limited flexibility, with maximum and minimum pay bands.
The intention would be to allow schools more flexibility in using their budgets to target particular needs - whether for teachers in shortage subjects or as an incentive to keep the most effective staff.
It also raises the idea of different pay in different areas - with "local pay zones".
Mary Bousted, leader of the ATL teachers' union, questioned how an individual teachers' contribution could be fairly assessed.
She also highlighted a report earlier this week which argued that the international evidence did not show any clear link between performance-related pay for teachers and pupils' test results.


After an Indian temple chief recently said he would allow women to enter the shrine only after a machine was invented to detect if they were "pure" - meaning that they weren't menstruating - outraged women have launched a #HappyToBleed campaign on Facebook to protest against the "sexist statement", writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.

Menstruation is generally a taboo topic in India, something that is rarely talked about openly.
But at the weekend, several photographs popped up on my Facebook page of young Indian women holding placards - some made up of sanitary napkins and tampons - with the slogan "Happy To Bleed".
A little bit of research led me to this petition, started by college student Nikita Azad, who was annoyed by the sexist remarks made by the head of the famous Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
"A time will come when people will ask if all women should be disallowed from entering the temple throughout the year," Prayar Gopalakrishnan, who recently took charge of the hilltop temple dedicated to Lord Ayyappa, told reporters earlier this month.
"These days there are machines that can scan bodies and check for weapons. There will be a day when a machine is invented to scan if it is the 'right time' for a woman to enter the temple. When that machine is invented, we will talk about letting women inside," he added.
Ms Azad insists that there is no "right time" to go into a temple and that women should have to right to go "wherever they want to and whenever they want to".
The temple priest's comments, she says, reinforce misogyny and strengthen the myths that revolve around women, and that "Happy To Bleed" is a counter-campaign against menstrual taboos.
Hinduism regards menstruating women as unclean so, during her periods, a woman is not allowed to enter the temple, touch any idols, enter the kitchen or even touch the pickle jar.
Many Hindu temples in India - and also globally - have prominent notices displayed at the entrance telling menstruating women that they are not welcome, and many devout Hindu women voluntarily keep away from temples when they are menstruating.
But the Sabarimala bars all women in the reproductive age from entering the temple.
The temple website explains that as Lord Ayyappa was "Nithya Brahmachari - or celibate - women between the 10-50 age group are not allowed to enter Sabarimala".
The website adds, rather threateningly, that "such women who try to enter Sabarimala will be prevented by (the) authorities" from doing so.
Ms Azad says "we don't believe in religion that considers half the world impure" and that theirs is "not a temple-entry campaign" - it's "a protest against patriarchy and gender discriminatory practices prevalent in our society" and that they are fighting against sexism and age-old taboos.
Since its launch on Saturday, #HappyToBleed has received a lot of responses, especially from young urban Indian women.
"More than 100 women have posted their photographs on Facebook holding banners and placards, with catchy slogans, and many more have shared these photos on their timelines," Ms Azad told the BBC.
The campaign has also been picked up by many people on Twitter who have written in with messages of support.
Some, however, have also wondered how women can be "happy" to bleed since periods can often be pretty painful.
"We are using happy as a word to express sarcasm - as a satire, to taunt the authorities, the patriarchal forces which attach impurity with menstruation," Ms Azad explains.
"It may be painful, but it's perfectly normal to bleed and it does not make me impure," she adds.
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Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man found dead in a car on an industrial estate on Thursday evening.

Three men aged 53, 20 and 17, and a woman, 53, were arrested over the death of the man, believed to be in his 40s and from Oxfordshire.
The victim was found with a stab wound in a silver Ford Fiesta car off Gelders Hall Road in Shepshed.
A 22-year-old man who was arrested earlier has been released.
The victim, who has not been officially identified, died at the scene.
Police were initially called to a road crash at the industrial estate where they found the man.
Detectives continue to appeal for sightings of the victim's silver Ford Focus car in the Shepshed area on Thursday evening and for sightings of two males seen running out of the industrial estate.
They were seen to turn right out of the entrance, and then turned right again heading back into the estate.


French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has been accused of violating European Parliament rules by getting an MEP to vote on her behalf.

It is alleged to have happened when she left parliament early on Wednesday.
According to the rules, MEPs cannot vote on behalf of another MEP.
The accusations are the latest in a series of controversies involving the right-wing politician in recent months. Last week she appeared in court accused of inciting racial hatred.
She denied committing any offence when she compared Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation.
In the latest scandal on Wednesday, the vice president of her political group is alleged to have voted for himself as well as for Ms Le Pen at least eight times.
"She just got up and left in the middle of the voting session, and you can clearly see National Front Vice President Marcel de Graaff voting for her," parliament spokeswoman Marjory Van Den Broeke told the BBC.
Manfred Weber, leader of the EPP group in parliament. said that in the light of the accusations, he will send a letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz, asking him to open a formal investigation into matter.
Mr Schulz's office told the BBC that he is looking into the allegations.
He has the power to sanction MEPs by suspending them, fining them, or cutting their daily allowance.
But Ms Le Pen is quoted by French media as saying that even if there was a breach of parliamentary procedures, Mr de Graaff will have to take responsibility for it rather than her.
Her anti-immigration and anti-EU message is attracting increasing support in France and her party is hoping to win two French regions in December's local elections.


Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell has said the Catholic Church has made "enormous mistakes"  in dealing with claims of sexual abuse.

He gave evidence from Rome via video link to an Australian inquiry into child sex abuse.
Cardinal Pell, Australia's most senior Catholic, was asked whether he knew if paedophiles were active in churches under his watch.
"I'm not here to defend the indefensible," said Cardinal Pell.
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"The Church has made enormous mistakes and is working to remedy those but the Church in many places, certainly in Australia, has mucked things up, has let people down," he said.
Cardinal Pell, who is not accused of sexual abuse, denied knowing about paedophile priests who were active in the Ballarat diocese during his time there as a priest in the 1970s and 1980s.
For the best part of four hours, Cardinal George Pell was in the global spotlight, and the intense scrutiny will continue for at least two more days.
Raking through memories stretching back decades, this was a forensic examination of what Australia's most prominent Catholic official did or didn't know about paedophile priests preying on the innocent in Ballarat in the 1970s and '80s.
Cardinal Pell has strenuously denied any wrongdoing, mostly handling the inquisition in the elegant surrounds of Rome's Hotel Quirinale calmly, although his patience appeared to wane as the night wore on.
He said child abuse perpetrated by members of the clergy in Australia was a "catastrophe", and that many victims had suffered in a "terrible way."
But was the Vatican's money man being truly conciliatory or evasive? Opinion will be split, and the days ahead promise to be emotional and contentious.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is holding its second round of inquiries into child sex abuse that occurred in the city of Ballarat in Victoria state.
Cardinal Pell was a priest in Ballarat and lived in a seminary with a notorious paedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale, in the early 1970s.
Ridsdale committed more than 130 offences against young boys while working as a chaplain at Ballarat's St Alipius school between the 1960s and the 1980s.
Even though Cardinal Pell is not facing criminal charges, detractors have questioned the extent of his knowledge of child abuse, and say it could make his Vatican position untenable.
In his testimony, Cardinal Pell did admit to hearing "fleeting references" and rumours of "eccentricities" regarding Christian Brothers - priests teaching at Catholic schools.
He was also critical of the former bishop of the Ballarat diocese, Ronald Mulkearns, who allegedly moved paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale from parish to parish.
The cardinal said Bishop Mulkearns' actions were "a catastrophe for victims and the church".
"If effective action had been taken earlier an enormous amount of suffering would have been avoided," he said.
Abuse survivors have flown to Rome to face the cardinal, who was excused from returning to Sydney due to ill health.
Gerald Ridsdale's nephew David Ridsdale, a victim of abuse, told reporters in Rome that he was pleased with Cardinal Pell's "more conciliatory tone", but criticised his "careful selection of words".
The hearing is expected to run at least three days and resumes on Tuesday Australian time.


Portuguese coach Paulo Duarte has returned for a second spell in charge of the Burkina Faso national team.

He replaces Gernot Rohr who returned home last week to work with the German football federation.
Duarte, 46, was in charge of the Stallions between 2008 and 2012, during which time he lead them to two Africa Cup of Nations finals tournaments.
Burkina Faso failed to get out of the group stages in both 2010 and 2012.
During his first spell with Burkina Faso Duarte spent several months coaching both the Stallions and French club Le Mans, before being sacked by them in 2009.
He then went onto coach Gabon from April 2012 until September the following year.
His most recent job was with Tunisian club CS Sfaxien from April until August this year.


The review into the response to the Manchester attack will "give voice" to the victims' families, its chair Lord Kerslake has said.

Twenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb after a pop concert on 22 May.
Lord Kerslake, the ex-head of the civil service, said those affected would have insights "that won't necessarily be available to the emergency services".
An interim report should be complete by Christmas, he added.
Speaking to Radio 5 live, he said the review - on behalf of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham - would not look into whether the attack after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena could have been prevented.
"That's a separate thing... we are focusing very much on the preparedness of Greater Manchester for such attacks and their response in the period, the week-and-a-half or so in which they had to respond.
"The issue of whether it could have been prevented is a different review process."
He said he would be "very surprised" if his recommendations were not acted upon.
"There were thousands who were affected in some way by this terrible, terrible event. I see that as a key part of role as chair to make sure that their voices are heard as part of this review.
"They will have insights and ideas that won't necessarily be available to the emergency services, good though they are."
He added that he was "very confident" he would get access to information from the security services.
"This is a very well-established process: everybody recognises that you get much better results if you're open and honest about the lessons learned."
Information will also be collected from reviews conducted by each of the emergency services, he added.
"I'm sure there will be a lot of good things that will come out, but also the things that could have been done better."


Strains of HIV are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight the virus, research has suggested.

HIV was resistant to the drug Tenofovir in 60% of selected cases in some African countries, according to the study, which covered a 17-year period.
The research, led by University College London, looked at 1,920 HIV patients worldwide who had treatment failure.
Lead author Dr Ravi Gupta said the results were "extremely concerning".
The work, which took four years to complete, started in 2012 and compared certain patients with HIV in Africa with those in Europe using data from 1998 to 2015.
Splitting the sample size roughly into two groups the study found that in Africa 60% of patients were resistant to Tenofovir, whereas in Europe the figure was only 20%.
The paper, which has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, said poor administration of the drug, in terms of regularly taking the right levels of Tenofovir could be explanation for the discrepancy.
"If the right levels of the drug are not taken, as in they are too low or not regularly maintained, the virus can overcome the drug and become resistant," Dr Gupta told the BBC News website.
"Tenofovir is a critical part of our armamentarium against HIV, so it is extremely concerning to see such a high level of resistance to this drug," he added.
The paper also suggested that Tenofovir-resistant strains of HIV could be passed on from person to person.
"We certainly cannot dismiss the possibility that resistant strains can spread between people and should not be complacent. We are now conducting further studies to get a more detailed picture of how Tenofovir-resistant viruses develop and spread," Dr Gupta said.
HIV is the world's most deadly infectious disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr Gupta said a global effort and an cash investment would be needed to provide better facilities and monitoring in poorer African countries and that it was in everyone's interests to make this happen.


Tens of thousands of people have turned out for what was billed as a unity rally in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, held to counter demonstrations against the city's governor.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as "Ahok", is accused of insulting Islam during election campaigning.
Two protests against him, the last bringing together 200,000 conservative Muslims, have been held in the city.
Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
Mr Purnama is Christian and ethnic Chinese - a double minority in Indonesia, where ethnic Chinese are about 1% of the population.
Sunday's counter-rally was pitched as a "parade of Indonesian culture".
It featured traditional dances from across the country and a giant flag proclaiming "We Are Indonesia". Police said 30,000 people attended the rally.
The Jakarta Post said the rally was organised by two parties that are part of President Joko Widodo's coalition. Mr Widodo is a political ally of Mr Purnama, but turned up for the last rally against him on Friday.
Speaking from the stage on Sunday, Surya Paloh, the chairman of the National Democratic Party, said Indonesians could not work together if they were "scattered, blaspheming, humiliating each other and no longer trust each other".
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In a campaign speech in September, Mr Purnama said Islamic groups who were using a Koranic verse to discourage support for him were deceiving voters. The verse is interpreted by some as prohibiting Muslims from living under the leadership of a non-Muslim.
Islamic groups said he had criticised the Koran and lodged complaints with the police.
Mr Purnama later apologised but denied committing blasphemy, which carries a maximum five-year jail sentence.
On Wednesday, Indonesian prosecutors confirmed his case could go to trial.
A large protest against the governor on 4 November turned violent, leaving one man dead and dozens of police and demonstrators injured. A larger rally was held on Friday.


The case against Thomas "Slab" Murphy is based on "utterly ludicrous" documentation which attempts to link him to a non-existent farming income, his defence barrister has said.

The 66-year-old republican from County Louth denies nine tax evasion charges.
The prosecution's case is that he had significant dealings in relation to cattle and land and received farming grants, but failed to make tax returns.
A court in Dublin heard a third day of closing submissions on Tuesday.
Mr Murphy's defence barrister told the Special Criminal Court that "fair analysis" of the evidence should lead to the conclusion it was the accused's brother, Patrick Murphy, who ran the farming operation and controlled the finances.
"I am suggesting that the person in charge of this farming enterprise was Patrick Murphy; that the profiteer was Patrick Murphy; that the chargeable person was Patrick Murphy," the barrister said.
"I am not suggesting that Thomas Murphy was not about the farm. But there is a big difference between growing up in a farming environment and being about the place doing bits and bobs and being the chargeable person, being the actual farmer in charge."
The three judges in the non-jury trial were told the case has been built on hearsay evidence and that key financial documents found inside Patrick Murphy's house had effectively been "buried" because they "didn't suit".
"When you scratch below the surface the reasonable doubt lurks just below the surface, and so does Patrick Murphy," the defence lawyer  said.
It was also claimed the state was seeking to "galvanise" the suggestion Thomas Murphy received a farming income.
"It simply isn't there," the lawyer said.
The inclusion of "business drawings" for items like food, presents, watch repairs, boots and tickets to Paris should also deposit doubt in the minds of the judges, the barrister said.
"That's the height of the prosecution case. It reached the stage that it was utterly ludicrous," he added.
Allegations that Mr Murphy, of Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, had access to large sources of cash were also rejected.
The trial continues.


Trying to win tournaments I've never won before is a huge motivation, but I'm not trying to compete with Stan Wawrinka in terms of the numbers.

I know Stan - who I face in the semi-final on Friday - and we have both won three Grand Slams but I don't compare myself with other players in that sense. It's not what I'm playing for.
Over the last few years Stan has played great in the Slams, he's been very consistent.
In the US Open final last year he definitely deserved to win. I also think when he played the French Open final here with Novak Djokovic, he played extremely well.
He deserves the titles that he's got but his success doesn't affect how I feel about mine.
Whether it's Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak or Stan, I don't need to think about the amount of Slams they have for any motivation.
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Four or five years ago, I don't think anyone would have thought I'd have a chance to win a French Open.
I never would have expected to reach the semis here five times and play in the final at the beginning of my career, no chance.
That doesn't mean I didn't think I could play well on this surface.
I do feel like in the middle part of my career, physically I was hampered a bit on the clay. I did struggle a lot with my back for a couple of years and that didn't help, but I got to the quarter-finals for the first time back in 2009 when I was still pretty young.
I had some chances in that match against Fernando Gonzalez too. I actually watched it back a few weeks ago and I played some good stuff.
It's always quite interesting to see how your game's changed, so I just watched some of my matches over the years at the French Open.
I was surprised, because my perception of my clay-court game when I was younger was that it was bad - that I didn't know what I was doing, didn't play well, struggled with my movement - but when I actually watched it back I was pretty good!
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It's interesting as athletes how we can view performances very differently at the time, and then with a little bit of distance.
I didn't feel like I played particularly well against Kei Nishikori on Wednesday, and that might have been the case, but there have been plenty of matches where I thought I played great, and looked back and went 'wow!' because it really wasn't great tennis.
Sometimes your perception can come from what other people are saying about you - that you're not able to play on clay, or that you're just not good enough - and it's important sometimes to get that little bit of distance and then actually watch it back.
At the beginning of the clay-court season we looked at a couple of matches from 2016, because I did feel I played well on the clay last year, and one of those matches was the semi-final against Stan in Paris.
It had nothing to do with a potential rematch, it was just to see what I was doing well and how I would like to play.
Unfortunately that didn't really transpire at any of the events up until now, but thankfully things are finally coming together.
I feel physically strong and to be in a position now where I could potentially reach a second French Open final in two years is great, I'm pumped about that.
Obviously I want to try and win the tournament now I'm in the semis but it's going to be bloody hard because of the players that are left.
As we've seen so often though, anything can happen over the next few days.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery


Spending on youth services has been cut by £6.1m in the last four years by councils in Wales, a trade union has claimed.

Unison said that more than 100 youth centres have also closed and 360 jobs have been lost in that time.
A conference organised by Unison on Friday will be told closures "are failing a generation of young people".
The Welsh Local Government Association said councils were looking at new ways to keep services going.
Welsh academics and youth workers are set to attend the conference, where Unison said they will "map out an alternative, positive vision for the sector".
It will say that Welsh councils have been under pressure to make huge savings because of the spending cuts by the UK government.
Cutting youth work funding deprives young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, of support which helps them build confidence, learn basic life skills and access education, employment and training, states the union.
Seven youth centres have closed this year alone, it adds.
Dominic MacAskill, Unison Cymru's head of local government, said: "At a crucial stage in their lives, young people desperately need the support well-qualified youth workers can provide.
"By forcing through savage spending cuts which devastate our local public services, the UK Conservative government is guilty of writing off the livelihoods and potential of so many Welsh youngsters."
Keith Towler, chairman of the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services, and the former Children's Commissioner for Wales, stressed that youth centres "provide a safe place to meet friends, explore new experiences and allows young people to realise their full potential".
In response, a WLGA spokesman said councils are facing budgetary pressures and are "increasingly seeking to work with partners" as well as looking at "alternative models of delivery".
"Local authorities have faced significant cuts in funding during recent years and face a further £192m shortfall in the next financial year that will grow to £570m by the end of 2019-20," the spokesman said.
"Local authorities take their youth services responsibility seriously but inevitably the youth service is subject to the same budgetary pressures cuts as every other aspect of local government provision."
The UK government said the matter was a devolved one, while the Welsh government said it could not comment as Unison was criticising UK government cuts.


A former Tory Welsh secretary has told peers how his bid to have control of policing devolved in the early 1990s failed despite cabinet backing.

Lord David Hunt was giving evidence to a Lords committee on Brexit and how it might affect the power balance between Wales and Westminster.
He said the then Home Secretary Ken Clarke agreed to hand control of policing to the Welsh Office.
"I found I was up against a machine," Lord Hunt said, and it never happened.
He explained how, in the days before the Welsh Assembly, he had sought to secure more powers for the UK government's Welsh Office which he ran under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1990 to 1993.
Despite his agreement with Mr Clarke, he said: "Nothing seemed to happen for six months.
"I chased Ken and he said 'oh sorry'."
Lord Hunt said there was an "almost automatic reflex action" to say "far better to leave it where it is".
On the matter of Brexit, he said the "new situation" created an opportunity to make Wales "an even more outward looking place".


Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have set out competing visions of what they want for Britain after it has left the EU, with a week to go until polling day.

Mrs May said she wanted a "stronger, fairer and even more prosperous" country - and Mr Corbyn was "simply not up to the job" of delivering it.
The Labour leader claimed she would create a "low-wage, offshore tax haven" and a "toxic" mood in Brexit talks.
The Lib Dems said the PM's "hard Brexit" plan would harm the economy.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said her party could have a role in preventing what she called an "extreme form of Brexit" if Mrs May won power, by pressing for continued access to the EU single market.
Conservative leader Mrs May used a high-profile speech to set out her vision of European Union withdrawal as part of a "great national mission" to build a "stronger, fairer and more prosperous Britain".
The prime minister said this future could only be delivered if voters backed the Conservatives when they went to the polls on 8 June.
Speaking in Teesside,  she said: "If they do, I am confident that we can fulfil the promise of Brexit together and build a Britain that is stronger, fairer and even more prosperous than it is today."
This issue includes the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, Brexit negotiations and future relations with Europe.
She said Brexit offered huge opportunities to build a "Britain beyond Brexit that is more global and outward-looking. A Britain alive with possibilities."
She said it was time to "respect the decision of the British people" to leave the EU  - something she said she was ready to do "from day one," unlike, she said, her Labour counterpart.
"He doesn't believe in Britain. He doesn't have a plan. He doesn't have what it takes.
"It's clearer than ever that just 11 days after the election when the negotiations begin, Jeremy Corbyn's focus wouldn't be on trying to negotiate a deal for Britain in Europe, but on trying to stitch up a deal with [SNP leader] Nicola Sturgeon and the rest."
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was a more optimistic, confident tone about what life would be like post-Brexit in Britain as the prime minister sought to give people a sense of better times ahead, following a campaign dominated by talk of "hard choices" and "huge challenges".
In his own speech on the same subject later, Mr Corbyn accused the Conservatives of putting jobs at risk and backing a plan that threatened to turn the UK into an "low-wage, offshore tax haven".
He told supporters: "So far the rhetoric and threats from the Tory government has fostered a toxic climate. Labour will start negotiations by setting a new tone.
"We will confirm to the other member states that Britain is leaving the European Union. That issue is not in doubt, but instead of posturing and pumped-up animosity, a Labour government under my leadership will set out a plan for Brexit based on the mutual interests of both Britain and the European Union."
That would start with a "clear commitment" to EU citizens already in the UK that their rights would be guaranteed, he said, saying that was the "best way to secure reciprocal rights" for British expats in other EU countries.
And he criticised Mrs May's mantra that "no deal is better than a bad deal" in Brexit negotiations, saying the UK needed "tariff-free access" to European markets: "Let's be clear, no deal is in fact, a bad deal, it's the worst of all deals."
The Labour leader praised his shadow Brexit team and said: "Labour is ready, ready to deliver a deal that gives British business and British society the chance to thrive in a post-Brexit world."
Mr Corbyn and Mrs May were on the same side in last year's EU referendum - against Britain leaving the EU - although they never campaigned together.
Both have said they respect the verdict of the British people, and have ruled out a second referendum on the divorce deal Britain negotiates with the EU.
The Lib Dems are also focusing on Brexit, warning of "serious staff shortages" in the NHS caused by EU nationals leaving the UK.
Citing "survey data", the party said as many as 26,500 members of staff could leave the country as a result of Brexit, and that replacing them could cost Â£265m over five years.
The party's Europe spokesman, Nick Clegg, said: "These are skilled and hard-working people, who all work tirelessly to look after all of us. Our NHS, and the care we all rely on, will suffer without them."
He also accused Mrs May of making  "a u-turn of epic proportions" with her "upbeat" Brexit assessment - having previously campaigned to remain in the EU.
He added: "What comes next is not the sunny picture described in this delusional speech.  Negotiating Brexit will be task of monumental proportions which - even if handled expertly - will do great damage to our prosperity, the state of our public services and Britain's place in the world."


UK house prices recorded a "modest" rise in May, increasing by 0.4%, according to the latest survey from the Nationwide building society.

It said the increase provided further support for "the view that the housing market is gradually gaining momentum".
The annual rate of price growth rose to 1.1%, the fastest pace since November 2011.
The increases mean that the average house now costs ??167,912, the Nationwide said.
Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said a number of factors were likely to have contributed to the recent pick-up in activity.
"There has been an improvement in the availability and a reduction in the cost of credit, partly as a result of policy measures, such as the Funding for Lending Scheme," he said.
"With the UK returning to growth in the first quarter of 2013, the improvement in wider economic conditions may also be playing a role in boosting sentiment."
The Funding for Lending Scheme allows banks to borrow money at a discount from the Bank of England, providing they can show they have passed it on to customers in the form of loans.
Mr Gardner said that this had increased the availability of mortgages and pushed down rates.
As a result, prices in the last three months compared with the previous three months were up by 0.4%, and have been growing according to this measure since October 2012.
Mr Gardner said that property sales were also up, running at about 5% higher each month this year than the average monthly level in 2012.
The number of mortgages approved, which can be expected to feed through to sales, also picked up at the start of the year, he said.
He expected the market to continue to gain momentum, partly owing to government support for more credit.
However, the government's Help to Buy scheme has come in for criticism, with claims that this would simply create another housing market bubble.
Under the Help to Buy Scheme, borrowers are able to take out an equity loan from the government, which will enable them to put down a deposit of just 5% on a property. That scheme began on 1 April.
Under the second scheme, starting in January 2014 and due to run until 2017, the government will guarantee up to 15% of a mortgage on homes worth up to ??600,000. The scheme will be used to support ??130bn of mortgages.
Critics have included the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, who warned that the scheme must not become permanent.
Source: Land Registry. Annual change to end of April
"I'm sure that there is no place in the long run for a scheme of this kind," he told Sky News in a recent interview.
On Wednesday, the OECD said that while new housing measures were likely to encourage residential investment and supply, there could be "upward pressure on house prices" if builders did not build more homes.
The Nationwide figures are based on its own lending data. Its rival, the Halifax - which is part of the Lloyds Banking Group - recorded a 2% average annual rise in prices a month ago. The two lenders calculate their year-on-year figures slightly differently.
Karelia Scott-Daniels, managing director of buying agents, Manse & Garret Property Search, said: "Much of the momentum is coming from London and South East England, and there is a danger that this is masking the stagnation in some other regions.
"But for properties that are priced correctly, there is no shortage of buyers."
Other commentators were more sceptical about Nationwide's conclusions.
"The rise in house prices recorded by the Nationwide in May could further boost the growing sense of optimism regarding the housing market. But the fundamentals are still weak, and we think much of that optimism is misplaced," said a spokesman for Capital Economics.
Data from the Land Registry has shown that price changes have varied widely across the UK.
Figures published on Thursday, covering England and Wales, showed that house prices rose by 6.2% in the 12 months to the end of April in London, and by 1.4% in the South East of England.
However, the North East of England saw average price falls of 5.7% and there was a drop of 3.7% in the North West of England over the same period.
The annual increase across England and Wales was 0.7%, the Land Registry said.
These rises were dwarfed by the increases seen recently in the US.
US house prices in March were up 10.9% from a year earlier, the biggest rise in nearly seven years, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index which was published on Tuesday.


Archaeologists have been able to provide insights into the life of a man whose remains were found at an Iron Age site on Orkney.

A human jaw with two teeth was discovered centrally placed in a large, carved whalebone vertebra within the ruins of a broch earlier this year.
Analysis, including radiocarbon dates, of the find on South Ronaldsay show the man died when he was 50 or older.
His diet also appears to have been unusually rich in fish.
Archaeologists said the isotopic values of his bone chemistry showed that he had consumed "a surprisingly high quantity of marine-derived protein",  probably largely fish.
They said most isotopic studies of human remains from the Middle Iron Age, "the time of the brochs", tend to show very low levels of fish proteins in the human diet, even in coastal areas.
Brochs, also known as Atlantic roundhouses, were fortified homes built in the Scottish islands and Highlands.
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute has been leading digs and studies of a broch at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay.
The analysis of the jaw bone and teeth, including the Orkney Archaeology Society-funded new radiocarbon dates, show that:
Archaeologists suggest the remains may be of an important man given the ritualistic style of his burial among animal remains in the broch.
Martin Carruthers, site director and The Cairns and Masters Programme Leader at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, said: "It may not be pushing this line of consideration too far to suggest the possibility that it was his death that occasioned the final abandonment and decommissioning of the broch.
"There are plenty of examples from different cultures around the world, where the death of an important person, who had a significant association with a particular house, resulted in the end of that entire house as well."
Further analysis of the human remains are planned.


Arsenal have had a bid rejected for 26-year-old French striker Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon, but negotiations are still ongoing.

However, the Gunners are less likely to sign Monaco midfielder Thomas Lemar, 21, having also had a bid turned down.
Meanwhile, Arsenal have not yet received any bids for 28-year-old Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez.
Sanchez has only a year left on his contract and may be allowed to leave for the right price.
However, letting Sanchez leave would depend on various factors, such as what reinforcements Arsenal have in place and where the interest was from, as they would be reluctant to sell him to another English club.
The North London side do still hope Sanchez, their top scorer last season, will sign a new deal.


Five men have been convicted of sexually abusing and trafficking six teenage girls in Coventry.

Waqaar Khan, Kadeem Bourne, Kenan Kelly, Marcus Woolcock and Zahid Chaudhary were accused of almost 40 offences, Warwick Crown Court heard.
Ringleader Khan befriended the girls, aged 15 to 17, on social media before picking them up and forcing them to have sex, sometimes filming it.
West Midlands Police described them as "brazen, calculating and evil".
The court heard the men took the girls, some of whom were in care, to secluded areas of the city and sometimes gave them alcohol or drugs before abusing and trafficking them for sex.
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One girl, aged 17, said she was knocked out by one of the men and came round to see them watching a video of herself being raped while she was unconscious.
Det Ch Insp Ian Green said Khan came to the attention of police in March when he was a mutual "friend" on the accounts of several vulnerable young girls in the city.
When police subsequently examined his phone, officers found thousands of text messages containing "sexualised conversations and several videos of graphic sexual abuse".
The girls identified the other men and a "comprehensive investigation" was started.
"It was the brazen nature of their offending that they actually thought they were untouchable and these girls wouldn't report it through fear," Mr Green said.
"So I'd like to thank the bravery of the girls for coming forward to bring these men to justice."
The men, who all know each other, showed no remorse or empathy for their victims, he added.
The uncle of one of the girls described them as "despicable rats".
He said: "They're out there prowling through social media acting on vulnerable girls and abusing the life out of them for their own satisfaction and videoing them for their gratification - they're just treating them like pieces of meat."
The men were remanded in custody to be sentenced next month.


Work is about to start on the restoration of one of Europe's most historic cinemas.

The Picture House in Campbeltown opened in 1913 but has been shut for 18 months.
Details of a £2.5m construction contract have been announced and the cinema is expected to reopen in spring 2017.
It will feature a 192-seat main auditorium, a second small auditorium, a new entrance foyer and cafe.
The art nouveau building, which is surrounded by palm trees on the banks of Campbeltown Loch, has been described as "Cinema Paradiso in the west of Scotland".
It was one of Scotland's first purpose-built cinemas and the oldest to have always been used as a cinema.
The building narrowly avoided being seriously damaged in an air raid in 1940 but a bullet hole in the glass door was not repaired until around 1980.
The restoration and construction work is due to start shortly and finish in March 2017.
Jane Mayo,  the chairman of Campbeltown Community Business (CCB) which has owned the cinema since the 1980s, said:  "When the cinema reopens in 2017 it will be a fitting celebration of the 30 years' stewardship by this community of this precious building.
"It is an exciting moment for all those many people who have been involved in its care, that CCB is finally able to announce the appointment of a contractor to deliver the construction part of the project.
"This has been made possible by the generosity of so many people, from the donation of a few pounds gathered up from coins found on the street to many more substantial sums.
"The Picture House has always been a local concern from its initial conception by a group of over 40 shareholders with local connections more than 100 years ago.
"When the restoration is complete, this cinema will be able to stand tall amongst the great cinema buildings of the world. It is hoped this will add to the impact of other recent developments in the town to bring a new era of prosperity to Kintyre."
Jonathan Payne, managing director of CorraMore Construction which will carry out the work, added: "The project will bring the historic cinema up to the standards expected by a modern cinema-going audience, while respecting its architectural and historical significance."
The money for the restoration came from several different sources including the UK and Scottish governments, the National Lottery and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.


The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) conference in Liverpool has voted to lobby against "excessive pay" for academy chief executives.

Some academy bosses "have decided to treat education as a gravy train and are milking schools", Leicestershire delegate Simon Clarkson told the conference.
Too many multi-academy trusts have "fat cat" bosses he said.
"As well as being immoral, it is unsustainable," Mr Clarkson added.
"If it were sustainable, the older and more mature private sector market of independent schools would have fat cats in the way the academy and multi-academy trust sector have now," he said.
"They do not and they do not for good reason."
Taxpayers' money
Tim Jefferson, from Norfolk, said the level of responsibility for chief executives who run several academy schools was in no doubt.
But, he added, the issue was with their pay and a lack of transparency in pay increases - particularly in the context of the education sector where most staff are on modest salaries.
"This is after all taxpayers' money," said Mr Jefferson.
"Yes, being a chief executive is a huge responsibility,
"There are no government rules or guidance on how this pay should be set. This needs to change," he concluded.
According to Mr Clarkson, the excuses used to justify "excessive CEO pay are myriad... our response however should be simple".
"We should say no to any multi-academy trust chief executive earning an excessive amount and certainly no to any chief executive earning more than a local authority chief executive in the area where the headquarters of the multi-academy trust is based."
Proposing the motion, Bob Groome from Norfolk highlighted a number of trusts, including Ormiston Academies Trust, whose outgoing chief executive, Toby Salt, earned £205,001 to £210,000 in 2015-16, up from £200,001 to £205,000 the previous year.
The debate came after figures were published in February which showed that a number of academy bosses saw their salaries rise last year, with some earning significantly more than the prime minister.
A Times Educational Supplement (TES) analysis of the accounts of 20 academy trusts ranked Sir Dan Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, as the highest individual earner, earning £420,000 to £425,000 in 2015-16.
A Harris Federation spokeswoman said at that time that the trust had transformed some of London's most challenging schools, and that its board "recognises that leadership is among the key drivers of our success, so leaders throughout our federation are rewarded for their contribution".
The union conference passed the resolution with 98% of delegates in favour.
But, according to a Department for Education spokeswoman, official limits on executive pay are not on the agenda.
"It is for governing bodies to determine the salary that school leaders will be paid," she said.
"It is vital we have the best people to lead our schools if we are to raise standards and ensure all pupils can reach their full potential.
"That's why we have given all schools greater flexibility to set staff pay, reward exceptional leaders and attract strong leadership teams to work in the most challenging schools," the spokeswoman added.


The majority of suspects in cases involving "sexting" are under 16, a police force has said.

More than half of those reported to South Yorkshire Police for sharing nude or explicit images of children via mobile phone or online were themselves under 16.
Of 408 cases reported in the past year, 238 involved a suspect under 16.
A senior teacher from a Sheffield school said sexting among teenagers was "an epidemic".
Chris Beckett, assistant headteacher at Westfield School in the city, said teenagers sharing naked images of themselves had become commonplace.
However, he said staff at the school were doing their best to educate young people and offer them support.
Mr Beckett said: "We need to educate, we need to let people know the dangers and the impacts of those things when these kinds of things happen. At the same time we need to support when these things do.
"They are young people, they learn by making mistakes."
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) previously said sexting has become "normal" among teenagers.
Police are now trying to tackle the problem by offering lessons in school about the issues surrounding it.
Katie Rowland-Wilson, Acting Sgt for the Schools Offices and the Anti-Social Behaviour Team, said holding education sessions in schools was helping raise awareness.
"It makes them [the pupils] aware of the social picture, the moral issues and also the legislation, but I think it also helps them stop and think before they hit send on that image," she said.
The NSPCC said nationally, more than 2,000 children were among those reported to police for indecent images offences over the past three years.
A spokesperson said: "We have long believed that in many cases, children who send a sext should not be criminalised, but rather educated about the dangers."
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, also said underage sexting between consenting children in a relationship should not be prosecuted, but cases which involved "exploitation, grooming or bullying" might lead to legal action.
Ms Saunders told the BBC: "If they are children, they are the same age, there's no suggestion or any coercion or bad motives, then we would not expect that case to be prosecuted. "


A 24-year-old man has been charged in relation to an attack in north Belfast.

He will face a number of charges including aggravated burglary with intent to commit grievous bodily harm and common assault.
A man was injured and a house on Etna Drive had its front window smashed during the incident on Saturday morning.
A car outside the property was also damaged.
The 24-year-old is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court  on Monday morning.


More attempts have been made by the European Space Agency (Esa) to contact the stricken Russian probe Phobos-Grunt - with partial success.

Communication with the craft as it passed over Australia was achieved again on Thursday, but not all of the commands prompted a response.
Phobos-Grunt was launched two weeks ago on a mission to visit one of Mars' moons, but became stuck in Earth orbit.
Engineers still hope to fix the probe and get the mission under way.
But first they need to be able to talk with it.  Europe's 15m dish in Perth was the first to successfully make contact with the spacecraft in a fortnight of trying by tracking stations around the globe.
Esa modified the big antenna to widen its beam, and also reduced the power of the transmission to match the type of X-band signal Phobos-Grunt would have expected to receive nearer the Red Planet.
On Wednesday (Western Australia), those modifications prompted the probe to switch on its transmitter and send down some basic telemetry. On Thursday, a further five efforts were made to contact the spacecraft, with the first at 0420 local time (2020 GMT, Wednesday) also initiating a stream of data from Phobos-Grunt.
But the next four passes saw nothing come back down.
"The first Perth pass worked in both directions and even this time the signal strength was better than on the previous night, most likely because we had better pointing data," explained Dr Manfred Warhaut from Esa's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
"We've had some [information] we've now passed to the Russians. So, a glimpse of hope, but all this is a very, very challenging task," he told BBC News.
Phobos-Grunt moves very fast across the sky, giving an opportunity for communication that lasts little more than five minutes to upload commands and receive telemetry.
The situation is now being assessed by engineers at the probe's Russian manufacturer, NPO Lavochkin.  Esa says it stands ready to help in any way, and will continue to work with Russian engineers and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) as they try to diagnose the mission's problems and find a solution.
Phobos-Grunt may still have a short window in which to start its journey across space before a change in the alignment of the planets makes the distance to Mars too big to cross.
The probe was built to land on the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, and scoop up rock to bring back to Earth.
Such a venture should yield fascinating new insights into the origin of the 27km-wide object and the planet it circles.
The mission is also notable because China's first Mars satellite, Yinghuo-1, has been launched piggy-back on the main Russian spacecraft.
Even if the Mars opportunity is lost, if engineers can get the probe working properly it might still be possible to re-task it to visit a new target, such as an asteroid.
"Whatever happens, it's important that we at least try to understand what happened in order to avoid such a mishap occuring again in the future," commented Dr Warhaut. "This is why we do all this work."


British theatre producer David Cecil has been released on bail in Uganda, where he was charged over a play about the condition of gay people.

He was arrested last Thursday, accused of "disobeying lawful orders", because the play The River and the Mountain was performed without authorisation.
Mr Cecil faces two years in jail if convicted.
The Ugandan parliament is considering legislation aimed at increasing penalties for homosexual acts.
The play, which tells the story of a gay businessman killed by his own employees, was performed at two theatres in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, last month.
Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reports that the Media Council had warned the play's backers not to perform it until it had been approved.
Mr Cecil was freed on bail of 500,000 shillings ($200; £124). He was ordered to surrender his passport and must report back to court on 18 October.
His lawyer John Francis Onyango told the AFP news agency that his client was in good health.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda and gay people have faced physical attacks and social rejection.
An anti-gay bill imposing life sentences on those convicted of homosexual acts was re-tabled in parliament earlier this year.
It was first introduced in 2009 but never debated - and the MP backing the legislation says a clause proposing the death penalty will be dropped.


Aid workers say fighting in Yemen has made it virtually impossible to ship humanitarian supplies to a key harbour when the country is at risk of famine.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has had to halt deliveries to the Red Sea port of Hudaydah.
It said this was partly because it had not received security guarantees.
The port has also been targeted by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition which is backing Yemen's government in its war with the rebel Houthi movement.
UN attempts to bring in five cranes to replace those damaged in the attacks have not been successful.
The ICRC's Middle East regional director Robert Mardini warned that Yemen, which depends on imports for 90% of its food supplies, was now living on its "reserves" and that the "day will come very soon" when they run out.
He said that despite the focus on the damage and casualties caused by the fighting, thousands of people were dying "silently" of complications due to malnutrition, or of minor illnesses or injuries which were not being treated at the 45% of health facilities that are still functioning.
The conflict, which escalated in March 2015, has left at least 7,500 people dead and 40,000 injured, according to the United Nations.
But almost 19 million people are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance.
Seven million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and more than three million, including 2.1 million children, are suffering from acute malnutrition.
The UN's emergency relief co-ordinator, Stephen O'Brien, called on the warring parties to guarantee more access to ports to let in food, fuel and medicine imports on Monday.
He told the BBC the situation was "very desperate", and that he had seen children so "severely malnourished" that he feared they would not survive another day.
Earlier this month, the UN appealed for $2.1bn (Â£1.7bn) to provide life-saving assistance to 12 million people in Yemen over the next year. But it has so far received only $43m.
On Tuesday, Mr O'Brien was forced to cancel a visit to the city of Taiz, which is besieged by rebel fighters, reportedly after his convoy came under fire.
In a separate development on Tuesday, UN human rights officials said they had evidence of the recruitment of child soldiers in Yemen, mostly by groups affiliated with the Houthis.
In all, the UN managed to verify the recruitment of 1,476 children, all boys, between March 2015 and the end of January 2017. However, it said the numbers were likely to be much higher.


Two teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old was fatally stabbed in south-east London.

Police were called to a disturbance at a block of flats on Turnham Road, Brockley, on Thursday and found two 17-year-old boys with stab wounds.
Shaquan Mario Fearon died after arriving in hospital, police said.
Two boys, aged 15 and 16, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.
A post-mortem examination on 4 September gave the cause of Shaquan's death as a stab wound to the leg.
The second victim, who also suffered a stab wound, was taken to hospital and has since been discharged, officers said.
Det Ch Insp Will Reynolds, of the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command, appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
He said: "Our initial enquiries have established that there were several people in the area at the time Shaquan was attacked."


The Diary of Anne Frank has been removed from book repository Wikisource after the site became aware it had fallen foul of copyright law.

The site briefly hosted a digital copy of Het Achterhuis, the first version of the diary compiled by Anne's father Otto, which was published in 1947.
It had been put online in the belief that the copyright expired in January 2016, 70 years after Anne's death.
However, under US law it is protected until 2047.
Wikisource removed the book voluntarily.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia as well as Wikisource, said its action was "an unfortunate example of the overreach of the US' current copyright law".
"In general, the US copyright for works published before 1978 is 95 years from date of publication," it said.
"Foreign works of countries that are treaty partners to the United States are covered as if they were US works."
The removal of the book has highlighted confusion over the copyright status of Anne Frank's famous diary, because so many different editions exist and legislation varies around the world.
Under European law, books typically leave copyright 70 years after the author's death and can then be reproduced freely.
Anne Frank died in 1945, which suggests that her elements of the original Dutch language version of the diary are now copyright free.
"The elements of the original, un-edited version written by Anne Frank - which were first published in 1947 - are now in the public domain in the UK, given she died in 1945 and the copyright duration in the UK for the version published then will be no longer than 70 years after her death," commented Adam Rendle from the law firm Taylor Wessing.
However, this is disputed by Anne Frank Fonds, a charitable foundation founded by Otto Frank.
It says that because Anne's father compiled and edited the initial version of the book sold to the public, he earned his own copyright, even though it acknowledges that he should not be considered its "co-author".
Since Otto Frank died in 1980, it says that means the copyright of the 1947 edition would not expire in many countries until 2050.
Furthermore, the foundation notes that Anne Frank's full, unedited manuscripts were not published until 1986, so it argues these are protected by copyright for even longer .
"Copyright duration can be tricky to determine because the rules can be different in different countries, it can depend on facts that are very difficult to determine and the law as applied to those facts can be complex," said Mr Rendle.
"It gets even trickier when different versions have been published and different authors have had different levels of input into those versions, as seems to have happened here."
Mr Rendle also pointed out that translations of the book will be under the copyright of the people who translated them.
"Publication on the internet can become a minefield when different countries have different copyright durations," he pointed out.