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WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Germany offers reward
for arrest of suspect
BERLIN — German authorities are offer-
ing a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($105,000)
for the arrest of a Tunisian man suspected of
involvement in the fatal attack on a Christmas
market in Berlin.
Federal prosecutors describe 24-year-old
Anis Amri as of average height and weight, with
black hair and brown eyes.
In a public notice issued Wednesday, prose-
cutors warn that the suspect could be “danger-
ous and armed,” and urge members of the pub-
lic to notify police if they see him.
The attack on the market next to the Kai-
ser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the center of
the capital left 12 dead and 48 injured. Shortly
afterward, a Pakistani man who had come to
Germany as an asylum-seeker was detained
based on a description from witnesses of a sus-
pect who jumped from the truck and fled.
However, the Pakistani man was freed Tues-
day after prosecutors couldn’t find evidence
tying him to the attack.
The claim of responsibility carried on IS’s
Amaq news agency on Tuesday described the
man seen fleeing from the truck as “a soldier of
the Islamic State” who “carried out the attack
in response to calls for targeting citizens of the
Crusader coalition.”
Deadly Mexico fireworks
blast hits busy market
TULTEPEC, Mexico — The San Pablito
fireworks market was especially well stocked
for the holidays and bustling with hundreds of
shoppers when a powerful chain-reaction explo-
sion ripped through its stalls, killing at least 29
people and leaving dozens more badly burned.
The third such blast to ravage the market on
the northern outskirts of Mexico’s capital since
2005 sent up a towering plume of smoke that
was lit up by a staccato of bangs and flashes
of light. Once the smoke cleared, the open-
air bazaar was reduced to a stark expanse of
ash, rubble and the charred metal of fireworks
stands, casting a pall over the country’s Christ-
mas season.
Mexico State health officials said 72 peo-
ple were being treated for injuries from Tues-
day’s explosion, including for severe burns, in
some cases over 90 percent of their bodies. Ten
children were among the hospitalized. Authori-
ties have not yet said what may have caused the
explosions which took place in Mexico State,
which rings the capital.
Survivor Crescencia Francisco Garcia said
she was in the middle of the grid of stalls when
the thunderous explosions began. She froze,
reflexively looked up at the sky and then took
off running through the smoke once she realized
everyone was doing so. As she ran she saw peo-
ple with burns and cuts, and lots of blood.
“Everything was catching fire. Everything
was exploding,” Francisco said. “The stones
were flying, pieces of brick, everything was
flying.”
Trump meets with
security adviser
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Don-
ald Trump is planning to meet with his incom-
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
Local policemen walk through the scorched ground of the open-air San Pablito fireworks
market, in Tultepec, outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, Tuesday. An explosion ripped through
Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday,
injuring scores and killing at least 29 people, according to Mexican Federal Police.
ing national security adviser in the aftermath of
a rattling day of violence around the world.
Trump appeared to jump ahead of investi-
gators in blaming Islamic terrorists for deadly
incidents Monday in Turkey and Germany and
vowing anew to eradicate their regional and
global networks. He called the brazen shooting
of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey “a violation
of all rules of civilized order.” He added that a
“radical Islamic terrorist” had assassinated the
diplomat, Andrei Karlov.
Turkish authorities identified the gunman as
Mevlut Mert Altintas, a member of Ankara’s
riot police squad, and said he was later killed
in a shootout with police. Altintas shouted in
Turkish about the Syrian city of Aleppo and
also yelled “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is
great.”
As for Berlin, where at least 12 people were
killed and nearly 50 hurt when a truck plowed
through a Christmas market, Trump said the
Islamic State group “and other Islamist terrorists
continually slaughter Christians in their com-
munities and places of worship as part of their
global jihad.” A man held by German authori-
ties after the violence was later released after a
lack of evidence to connect him to the incident.
Trump’s meeting scheduled today with
retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will come a day
after Flynn and several other members of the
incoming national security team met with Vice
President-elect Mike Pence in Washington.
Aides said the meeting was planned before the
acts of violence, though they were discussed.
Pipeline rules face hazy
future under Trump
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Barack
Obama’s administration is expected to push
through long-delayed safety measures for the
nation’s sprawling network of oil pipelines in its
final days, despite resistance from industry and
concern that incoming president Donald Trump
may scuttle them.
The measures are aimed at prevent-
ing increasingly frequent accidents such as a
176,000-gallon spill that fouled a North Dakota
creek earlier this month. Thousands more spills
over the past decade caused $2.5 billion in dam-
ages nationwide and dumped almost 38 million
gallons of fuel.
Fights over pipelines have intensified in
recent years, illustrated by the dispute over
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NC lawmakers meeting
to consider HB2 repeal
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s legis-
lature is reconvening to see if enough lawmak-
ers are willing to repeal a 9-month-old law that
limited LGBT rights, including which bath-
rooms transgender people can use in public
schools and government buildings.
House and Senate members planned to
meet in the capital today for a special session
two days after the Charlotte City Council gut-
ted an ordinance that in March led the Republi-
can-controlled General Assembly to pass House
Bill 2, known by some as the “bathroom bill.”
For months, the state’s Republican leaders
had said they were willing to consider repeal-
ing the law if Charlotte acted first to undo its
expanded antidiscrimination ordinance. But the
mayor and most council members, with the sup-
port of gay rights groups, had been unwilling to
do so in the name of equality.
The Democrat-controlled council didn’t act
until Monday, two weeks after GOP Gov. Pat
McCrory conceded the gubernatorial race to
Democrat Roy Cooper.
During the race, Cooper blasted McCrory
over the law he signed and its fallout — job
losses, canceled concerts and sporting events —
contributed to McCrory’s narrow defeat. Coo-
per, the attorney general for the past 16 years,
helped broker Charlotte’s cooperation in the
deal and said during the campaign he wanted
HB2 repealed.
Delays hamper last
Aleppo evacuations
BEIRUT — Delays hampered the last evac-
uations of Syrian rebels and civilians from what
is left of the opposition’s enclave in Aleppo as its
residents waited today for the arrival of 20 U.N.
observers meant to monitor the final exodus from
the city.
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TransCanada’s Keystone XL plan and efforts
by American Indians to stop the Dakota
Access Pipeline from crossing beneath the
Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation.
The U.S. Department of Transportation pro-
posal covers roughly 200,000 miles of lines that
crisscross the country and carry crude, gasoline
and other hazardous liquids.
Some 3,000 rebel fighters and civilians stood
outside in harsh wintry conditions overnight,
waiting in vain for to board what may be the
last convoy out of the enclave. Activists circu-
lated photos on social media of families huddled
around fires amid the sleet and snow. By midday,
temperatures in the city hovered around freezing.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, which monitors the conflict
through a network of activists on the ground, said
60 buses were waiting to leave eastern Aleppo
today with the last of the evacuees — the final
step that surrenders the Syrian opposition foot-
hold in the war-torn city to the government.
Rebels and the government traded blame for
the delay.
Syrian state media said on Tuesday evening
that “differences among terrorist groups” were
holding up the evacuations from Aleppo and
from two rebel-besieged Shiite villages in the
country’s north, Foua and Kfarya. The govern-
ment calls all armed opposition fighters terrorists.
Nepalis seeking jobs
abroad come home dead
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A tiny young
woman crouches just outside the airport, crying
softly into her thin shawl. It’s cold out, but her
sleeping toddler is heavy and warm in her arms.
Travelers swarm around: Himalayan trek-
kers load up expedition backpacks. A Chinese
tour group boards a bus. A dozen flight atten-
dants in crisp blue suits and heels click by.
Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, covers her head
completely, a bundle of grief.
Hundreds of young Nepali men excitedly
wave final goodbyes to friends and family. On
this day 1,500 will fly out of the Kathmandu air-
port bound for jobs mostly in Malaysia, Qatar
or Saudi Arabia — jobs that are urgently needed
by the people of this desperately poor country.
But on this day, too, six young men will
come back in wooden caskets, rolled like suit-
cases out of baggage claim on luggage carts.
Marx says he’s no ‘hero’
after plane incident
LOS ANGELES — Richard Marx says he
wasn’t a hero for apparently intervening after an
unruly passenger disrupted a Korean Air flight
and had to be restrained.
Marx and his wife, Daisy Fuentes, docu-
mented the incident on Facebook and Instagram
on Tuesday. The “Right Here Waiting” singer
and Fuentes, a former MTV VJ, were married
last year. Fuentes wrote that her husband was
the first to help subdue the man, and Marx crit-
icized the flight crew for failing to properly
restrain the man.
A Korean Air spokesman confirmed the inci-
dent aboard the flight from Hanoi to Seoul and
that photos on Marx’s Facebook page were shot
during the flight. Cho Hyun Mook said the mat-
ter was under investigation and that it appears
that crew members responded in accordance
with airline policies.
Marx posted a later update saying he and
Fuentes were home safe and saying he wasn’t
a “big ‘hero’” but “just did what I would hope
anyone would do in the same situation.”
Citing Incheon police, the Yonhap News
Agency reported that the passenger was a drunk
34-year-old South Korean man who became
drunk after having 2 1/2 glasses of hard liquor
on the flight.
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