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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016 WORLD BRIEFLY Associated Press Republican Donald Trump shaking up campaign TETERBORO, N.J. — Republican presidential nom- inee Donald Trump, who has slipped in the polls in recent weeks, has shaken up his cam- paign again. The billionaire real estate mogul is bringing in Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News as chief executive oficer and pro- moting pollster Kellyanne Con- way to campaign manager. “I’ve known both of them for a long time. They’re terriic people, they’re winners, they’re champs, and we need to win it,” Trump told The Associated Press in a phone interview early Wednesday. The move comes just 82 days before the November elec- tion and represents yet another overhaul of Trump’s tumultuous quest for the White House. In conirming the campaign overhaul, Trump called Bannon and Conway “big people” who can help him defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton in November. Iran oicial: No permanent Russia base for Syria strikes TEHRAN, Iran — The speaker of Iran’s parliament stressed on Wednesday that Russia does not have a perma- nent military base within the Islamic Republic, a day after Moscow announced launching airstrikes on Syria from Iran. The fact that Iran allowed Russian warplanes to take off from its territory to bomb targets in Syria was an unprecedented move, underscoring the deep- ening cooperation between two powerhouses heavily invested in the Syrian civil war. In Syria, seven civilians were killed and nine were wounded by rocket rounds ired by armed groups on a government-con- trolled district of the city of Aleppo, Syria’s state-run news agency said. SANA reported that the rockets struck the Sala- heddine residential district in the northern city, which has been divided into a rebel-held east- ern part and a government-con- trolled western part since 2012. Once Syria’s largest city and commercial center, Aleppo is now the focal point of the coun- try’s ruinous civil war. On Tues- day, nearly 20 civilians were reported killed in airstrikes in the eastern, rebel-held districts. Wednesday’s comments by the Iranian oficial, Ali Larijani, seem geared at easing domestic concerns over the strikes. Iran’s constitution, ratiied after its 1979 Islamic Revolution, bars foreign militaries from having bases within the country. Russia-Iran cooperation in Syria sends message to US WASHINGTON — Rus- sia’s use of an Iranian air base to bomb targets in Syria sends a message to Washington as it weighs a military partnership with Moscow: Join us or we’ll look to your enemies. Tuesday’s missions were unprecedented. Iran allowed Russian warplanes to take off from its territory to strike oppo- sition targets in Syria. The move came with little notice to the United States, which has watched helplessly the escalat- ing bloodshed near Aleppo, the country’s biggest city, and even offered an alliance with Russia against Islamic State and other extremist ighters as a way to get Syria’s government out of the ight. The negotiations have dragged on for weeks. Russia has grown impatient, with top oficials several times suggest- ing an imminent deal, only to have American oficials counter that the sides weren’t close. The bombing runs from a base near the Iranian city of Hamedan, 175 miles southwest of Tehran, may have been a reminder to the Obama administration that Moscow could be cozying up to Iran if Washington doesn’t come around. “The Russians are showing they have options in Syria while they have Washington over a barrel on Aleppo,” said Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He said the opera- tions also cement Russia’s alli- ance with Iran in the region. Russia and Iran have strongly backed Syrian Pres- ident Bashar Assad’s govern- ment throughout the ive-and- a-half year civil war with rebel groups supported by the United States and allies such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Staying ahead of the mold, residents salvage what they can GONZALES, La. — The heartbreaking task of sorting through waterlogged belong- ings and ripping out carpets and drywall is kicking into high gear Wednesday in lood-wracked southern Louisiana as the state faces a long-term challenge of how to house thousands of dis- placed people. But even as the water receded in some areas, it was rising in other places downstream, send- ing people leeing to shelters. Oficials painted a stark pic- ture of the crisis: at least 40,000 homes damaged and 11 peo- ple killed in some of the worst looding in Louisiana history. More than 30,000 people have been rescued since Friday. There were scattered reports of looting, and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said parishes with widespread damage were being placed under curfew as of Tuesday night. The smell of muddy water hung heavy in the air as peo- ple donned surgical masks and began the back-breaking job of ripping out soggy carpet, drywall and insulation. They cleared out spiders and cock- roaches that had bubbled up through the sewer grates. Monstrous Calif. wildire drives over 80,000 from homes LOS ANGELES — It tore through canyons and lew over ridges in every direction with astonishing speed, send- ing lames 80 feet skyward and forcing tens of thousands to lee their homes. The Southern California wildire that began as a small midmorning patch of lame next to Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass had by Tuesday’s end turned into a 28-square-mile monster that had burned an untold num- ber of homes. “This moved so fast,” said Darren Dalton, 51, who along with his wife and son had to get out of his house in Wrightwood, a mountain town of 4,500 popu- lar with skiers in winter. “It went from ‘have you heard there’s a ire?’ to ‘mandatory evacuation’ before you could take it all in. This is a tight little community up here. Always in rally mode. Suddenly it’s a ghost town.” Hundreds of cars packed with residents, belongings and animals left the town. The air for miles around the blaze was illed with smoke. The sound of explosions — possibly from ammunition stored in homes — could be heard in the distance. Shannon Anderson of Blue Mountain Farms horse ranch in Phelan had to load up and evacuate 40 horses as the ire approached. “It’s raining ash,” Anderson said, breathing hard. Grandfather: Man killed by police was just trying to survive MILWAUKEE — The man killed in a police shooting that sparked two nights of violence in Milwaukee suffered from cognitive and mental health issues, and he carried a gun because he had been shot more than once in the past, his grand- father said. Sylville K. Smith had a lengthy criminal past, but was just trying to survive in the inner city, William Brookins told The Associated Press. “In this city, there’s a lot of killings going on in the street,” said Brookins, who detailed Smith’s problems in a letter to a judge last year seeking mercy for his grandson. “He was afraid for his life. He was concerned about his safety and surviving.” Smith, 23, was shot and killed Saturday after a brief foot chase that followed a traf- ic stop. Police say Smith was leeing, and oficials have said the oficer’s body camera shows him being shot after he turned toward the oficer with a gun in his hand. The oficer, who has not been identiied, is black, as was Smith. A few hours after the shooting, violence erupted on the city’s largely black north side, with protesters hurling rocks at police and burning six businesses. A lighter night of protests followed Sunday. Mon- day was calm, though 10 people were arrested. AP Photo/Max Becherer Flood victims are rescued Sunday by emergency responders from near Walker, La., after heavy rains inundated the region. Consult a Professional Are there any lobster in the Paciic Northwest? a Medicare Q: What’s red, white and blue card? A: It’s the ID card the federal government Stefanie Cao sends when you’re enrolled Medicare in Medicare. It shows the date Market Manager coverage takes effect, and if you have Medicare Part A (hospital), Part B (medical) or both. 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