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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Shifting US policy to right,
Trump taps Sessions, Flynn
Obama gathers key Europe leaders
amid questions about Trump
BERLIN — President Barack Obama joined the leaders of
key European countries in Germany today to discuss an array of
security and economic challenges facing the trans-Atlantic part-
ners as the U.S. prepares for President-elect Donald Trump to
take office in January.
Obama’s meeting with the leaders of Germany, Britain,
France, Italy and Spain was likely his last in such a setting
before he leaves office. The session expands on lengthy talks
he held the day before with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Gathered around a circular table in Merkel’s Chancellery,
the leaders exchanged pleasantries but made no substantive
remarks as reporters were allowed in briefly for the start of the
meeting. A number of the leaders planned to deliver statements
or take questions from reporters following the meeting.
Since Obama’s arrival on Wednesday on his sixth and last
trip to Germany as president, he and Merkel have focused sev-
eral meetings on issues of globalization and trans-Atlantic
cooperation. The talks come largely in the context of what the
election of Donald Trump will mean to efforts to seek peace
in Ukraine and Syria, the strength of the NATO alliance, trade
agreements, efforts to fight climate change, and other pressing
matters.
At a news conference with Obama on Thursday, Merkel
diplomatically said she was approaching the incoming Trump
administration “with an open mind.”
Dying UK girl convinces judge
to let her body be frozen
LONDON — The teenage girl’s instructions were direct:
She didn’t want to be buried, but to be frozen — with the hope
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn gestures as he arrives at Trump Tower, Thursday in New York.
she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured.
“I want to live and live longer and I think that in
the future they may find a cure for my cancer and wake me
up,” the 14-year-old wrote to a British judge before her recent
death.
She said “being cryopreserved gives me a chance to be cured
and woken up — even in hundreds of years’ time.”
Her plaintive words convinced High Court Judge Peter Jack-
son to grant her final wishes in what he called the first case of its
kind in England — and possibly the world.
The judge said the girl had chosen the most basic preservation
option at a cost of about 37,000 pounds ($46,000).
Volkswagen to shed 30,000
jobs, cutting costs after scandal
FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen announced plans
today to cut 30,000 jobs in a wide-ranging restructuring of its
namesake brand as it tries to recover from a scandal over cars
rigged to cheat on diesel emissions tests.
The German company said the job cuts are part of a long-
term plan to improve profitability and shift resources and invest-
ment to electric-powered vehicles and digital services.
Company officials at a news conference at its headquarters
in Wolfsburg 23,000 of the job cuts will come in Germany and
that measures will save some 3.7 billion euros ($4 billion) a
year from 2020.
CEO Matthias Mueller said it was “the biggest reform pack-
age in the history of our core brand.” In addition to Volkswa-
gen, the company also makes cars under other brands including
Porsche, Audi, SEAT, Skoda and Lamborghini.
The layoffs cap a difficult year for Volkswagen, which has
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Trump’s election triggers flood
of immigration questions
CHICAGO — Immigration hotlines are buzzing. Legal clin-
ics are seeing an influx of clients. Public schools are fielding
frantic questions from parents and students.
Since the election, Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigra-
tion has stirred anxiety nationwide among immigrants regardless
of legal status. They are turning to lawyers, schools, advocacy
groups and congressional offices for help.
“We’re operating with a lot of unknowns, and a certain amount
of fear comes with that,” said Vanessa Esparza-López, a managing
attorney at the Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center.
In Chicago, a hotline run by the state’s largest immi-
grant-rights group received more than 330 calls in the week after
the election, compared with the usual 100 or so. Denver school
officials sent a letter to parents in response to questions about the
election’s effect on students living in the country illegally.
The New York Legal Assistance Group said it’s receiving 40
to 60 daily calls about immigration, up from 20 to 30. The Coa-
lition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles reported 19
walk-ins on a single day, all with citizenship questions.
H OLIDAY B OOK S ALE
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump signaled a
sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy today, nam-
ing Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Kansas Rep.
Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and former military intelligence
chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
All three have been fierce critics of President Barack Obama’s
handling of terrorism and international relations. In tapping Ses-
sions and Flynn, Trump is also rewarding loyalty from two of his
most ardent supporters during the presidential campaign.
Trump is a foreign policy novice and his early moves on
national security are being closely watched both in the U.S. and
overseas. Sessions and Pompeo would both require Senate con-
firmation before assuming their designated roles; Flynn would
not.
Flynn, who has called Islam a “political ideology” that “hides
behind being a religion,” will work in the West Wing and have
frequent access to Trump as he makes national security decisions.
Trump said in a statement today that Flynn would be “by my side
as we work to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, navigate geopo-
litical challenges and keep Americans safe at home and abroad.”
Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump, rallying
behind the Republican’s hardline immigration policies. On Fri-
day, Trump called Sessions “a world-class legal mind.”
But the Alabama lawmaker could face obstacles in his confir-
mation hearing, even with Republicans in control of the Senate.
He withdrew from consideration for a federal judgeship in 1986
after being accused of making racist comments while serving as a
U.S. attorney in Alabama, including calling a black assistant U.S.
attorney “boy” in conversation. Sessions denied the accusation.
Pompeo is a conservative Republican and a strong critic of
Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. A three-term congressman, he
graduated from the United States Military Academy at West
Point and from Harvard Law School.
Pompeo has said that Muslim leaders are “potentially com-
plicit” in terrorist attacks if they do not denounce violence con-
ducted in the name of Islam. “They must cite the Quran as evi-
dence that the murder of innocents is not permitted,” he said in a
2013 House floor speech.
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