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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Recovery of fire victims winds
down; investigation looms
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some people managed to text loved
ones goodbye and “I love you” before they died in an Oakland
warehouse fire that claimed three dozen lives, officials said, as
heart-rending reports of victims’ last moments emerged from the
most lethal building fire in the U.S. in more than a decade.
Also Monday, the painful and exhaustive search for those
killed in the fire appeared to be coming to a close. Alameda
County Sheriff Gregory Ahern told The Associated Press that he
didn’t believe there would be additional bodies found.
But he cautioned that it was “impossible to be absolutely pos-
itive” about the number killed until the entire recovery effort is
complete. Authorities had gone through about three-quarters of
the building by Monday afternoon.
Officials said they would turn next to investigating the fire,
which erupted late Friday during a dance party. It’s unclear how it
started. The district attorney warned of possible murder charges
as she determines whether there were any crimes linked to the
blaze.
“We owe it to the community and those who perished in this
fire, and those who survived the fire to be methodical, to be thor-
ough, and to take the amount of time it takes to be able to look
at every piece of potential evidence,” Alameda County District
Attorney Nancy O’Malley said.
Man armed with rifle fatally
shot by Portland police
PORTLAND — Portland police say a suspect armed with a
rifle has been fatally shot by an officer.
Sgt. Pete Simpson says the shooting happened early this
morning, after officers responded to a 911 call about a distur-
bance and shooting at a residence in outer southeast Portland.
He says preliminary information shows the suspect fired at
officers, possibly from a handgun, before emerging from the
building with a rifle. A SWAT team and crisis negotiators were
dispatched to the scene, but not yet in place when the shooting
occurred.
Police have yet to release the man’s name; Simpson says he
was in his 50s.
No one was hurt in the shooting that prompted the 911 call,
and no officers were injured.
The residence is near a light-rail stop, but trains were allowed
through during the investigation.
Police: Three pet goats shot
to death in Vancouver
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Authorities are investigating after
three pet goats were shot and killed outside a home in southwest-
ern Washington.
The Columbian reports the goats were found dead by JR Rob-
ertson on his property Monday morning in Vancouver.
Seven-year-old Minnie, 5-year-old Coco and 3-year-old Gin-
ger were Robertson’s only goats on the property where he also
keeps mules, goats, rabbits and turkeys. The goat pen backs up to
a grassy nature trail that’s popular with pedestrians, officials say.
Clark County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Chuck Christensen says
the case has been transferred to Clark County Animal Control
and that anyone with information should call either agency.
Amazon Go store is checkout free
NEW YORK — Amazon is testing a grocery store model in
Seattle that works without checkout lines.
Called Amazon Go, shoppers scan their Amazon app when
they enter the store, and then sensors register items that shoppers
pick up and automatically charge them to the Amazon app.
If a shopper puts the item back they aren’t charged.
The store offers ready-to-eat meals, staples like bread and
milk and meal-making kits.
A crowd holds
candles during a
vigil in memory
of victims of a
warehouse fire
at Lake Merritt
on Monday in
Oakland, Calif.
Family members
and friends are
being notified
as firefighters
continue a pains-
taking search for
victims of the
Oakland ware-
house fire.
AP Photo
Marcio Jose Sanchez
The store is in testing and is open to Amazon employees on a
trial run. It is expected to open to the public in early 2017.
The e-commerce powerhouse has also been dipping its toe
into the physical realm. It has opened three bookstores in Cali-
fornia, Oregon and Washington with traditional check outs. Two
more are in the works in Illinois and Massachusetts.
Cowen & Co. analyst John Blackledge says the new grocery
store is just one way that Amazon has been setting its sights on
the food and beverage category, a lucrative $795 billion market.
It also offers grocery delivery in some markets and Prime Now
for last-minute items delivered in one or two hours.
“We are encouraged by Amazon’s growing footprint in this
category, which we see as ripe for potential disruption given
younger demos increasingly purchasing food and beverage gro-
cery items via digital channels,” Blackledge said.
Amazon.com Inc. shares rose $18.69, or 2.5 percent, to
$759.03 in afternoon trading Monday. Its shares are up almost 13
percent since a year ago.
Ransomed: The freeing of 226
Christians from Islamic State
SAARLOUIS, Germany — The millions in ransom money
came in dollar by dollar, euro by euro from around the world.
The donations, raised from church offerings, a Christmas con-
cert, and the diaspora of Assyrian Christians on Facebook, landed
in a bank account in Iraq. Its ultimate destination: the Islamic
State group.
Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges
of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people —
one of the largest groups of hostages yet documented in IS’s war
in Syria and Iraq. It took more than a year, and videotaped kill-
ings of three captives, before all the rest were freed.
Paying ransoms is illegal in the United States and most of
the West, and the idea of paying the militants is morally fraught,
even for those who saw no alternative.
“You look at it from the moral side and I get it. If we give
them money we’re just feeding into it, and they’re going to kill
using that money,” said Aneki Nissan, who helped raise funds
in Canada. But, he said, there were more than 200 lives at stake,
“and to us, we’re such a small minority that we have to help each
other.”
The Assyrian Christians were seized from the Khabur River
valley in northern Syria, among the last holdouts of a dwindling
minority that had been chased across the Mideast for generations.
They trace their heritage to the earliest days of Christianity, their
Church of the East founded by the apostle known as Doubting
Thomas. To this day, they speak a dialect of Aramaic, believed
to be the native language of Jesus. But most also speak Arabic
and some Kurdish, the languages of the neighbors who have long
outnumbered them.
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PARIS — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stepped
down today to focus on running for president in next year’s
election and was replaced by Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve, a man who embodies the fight against Islamic
extremism.
Valls resigned a day after announcing his candidacy in the
wake of President Francois Hollande’s decision not to run for
a second term last week.
Valls hopes to unite Socialists and give the left a chance to
stay at the Elysee Palace despite current opinion polls suggest-
ing the second round of the election could pit Marine Le Pen,
the leader of the far-right National Front, against conservative
Francois Fillon.
The 53-year-old Cazeneuve is a close ally of Hollande and
became a popular figure in French politics as the champion of
measures tackling extremism in his interior minister role.
Cazeneuve was appointed interior minister in 2014 and
had to supervise the response to a series of attacks that have
claimed more than 200 lives since January 2015. In total, he
championed three counterterrorism laws and one intelligence
law. He has also been in charge of implementing France’s
state of emergency following the Paris attacks that killed 130
people.
Cuba starts return to normal as
mourning for Castro ends
HAVANA — Music is playing in the streets again. Tourists
are sipping mojitos at sidewalk cafes. Flags are flapping at full
staff. After nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, Cuba
is slowly returning to noisy, boisterous normality.
Cuba is a country where sidewalks serve as living rooms
and social clubs, but during the mourning period people mostly
stayed indoors, watching television and avoiding any appearance
of joviality.
With a government ban on selling alcohol and on playing live
or recorded music after Castro’s death, Cubans paid tribute to
their longtime leader in near silence. They filed by the hundreds
of thousands through special sites equipped with photos of Cas-
tro as a young guerrilla and books where people could separately
sign both their condolences and an oath of loyalty to Castro’s
socialist, single-party system.
“It was very quiet. In a bar, restaurant, you could hear the air
conditioning,” Janine Jenner, a German tourist, said Monday as
she had a glass of sangria in Old Havana. “Today it’s like some-
one turned the noise on everywhere. It’s like the pulse of the city
is back. People smile more.”
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