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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Dozens injured in tornadoes across southern Louisiana NEW ORLEANS — Brittany Ross remembers she was savor- ing the smell of her aunt’s simmering white beans when the storm that injured about 40 people in southeastern Louisiana hit. “The place started shaking, kind of twisting,” she said Tues- day as she stood amid the wreckage at a small trailer park in east- ern New Orleans. The tornado, she said, lifted the trailer off the ground and slammed it down. Ross, 26, her aunt and two others crawled out of the wreckage amid flying debris — uninjured, but suddenly homeless. The tornadoes that struck Ross’ home and other parts of south- eastern Louisiana destroyed homes and businesses, flipped cars and trucks, and left thousands without power, but no deaths were reported, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. Bipartisan US lawmakers urge Trump to sanction Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela — A bipartisan group of 34 U.S. law- makers has sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to step up pressure on Venezuela’s government by immediately sanctioning officials responsible for corruption and human rights abuses, The Associated Press has learned. The letter was partly prompted by an AP investigation, which it cites, that found corruption in Venezuela’s food imports. It also calls for a thorough probe into alleged drug trafficking and support for Middle Eastern terror groups by the country’s new vice presi- dent, Tareck El Aissami. El Aissami has been the target of U.S. law enforcement since his days as interior minister almost a decade ago, and has been tied to bribes paid to officials by the nation’s top convicted drug traf- ficker. He has denied any wrongdoing. Relations between the U.S. and its staunchest critic in Latin America have been tense for years — the two countries haven’t exchanged ambassadors since 2010. And at Congress’ insistence, President Barack Obama sanctioned several top Venezuelan offi- cials for cracking down on opponents or helping smuggle cocaine to the U.S. Warren violates arcane rule, sparking Senate dustup WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for quoting Coretta Scott King on the Sen- ate floor. The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber’s arcane rules by reading a three-decade-old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions’ failed judicial nom- ination three decades ago. The chamber is debating the Alabama Republican’s nomination for attorney general, with Democrats dropping sena- torial niceties to oppose Sessions and Republicans sticking up for him. King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to “chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.” Quoting King technically put Warren in violation of Senate rules for “impugning the motives” of Sessions, though sen- ators have said far worse. And Warren was reading from a letter that was written 10 years before Sessions was even elected to the Senate. Voting starts in Somalia’s presidential election MOGADISHU, Somalia — Voting started today in Somalia’s groundbreaking presidential election amid a security lockdown that has closed the capital’s international airport and cleared major streets. Members of the upper and lower houses of the legislature dropped their ballots into clear boxes in the first round with 21 can- didates for president. Fears of attacks by Islamic extremist group al-Shabab have limited the election to the country’s legislators, who are voting at a heavily guarded former air force base in the capital, Mogadishu. The voting is being streamed online . Rounds of vot- ing are expected to narrow down the large field of candidates to a winner. One candidate dropped out today before the voting started. This Horn of Africa nation is trying to put together its first fully functioning central government in a quarter-century. Years of warlord-led conflict and al-Shabab attacks, along with fam- ine, have left this country of about 12 million people largely shattered. Pipeline construction expected to get go-ahead in North Dakota BISMARCK, N.D. — The developer of the stalled Dakota Access oil pipeline could get clearance from the Army as early as today to finish the $3.8 billion project, though the American Indian tribe that has led the battle against the project for months has vowed to con- tinue the fight. The Army said Tuesday that it will allow the four-state pipeline to cross under a Mis- souri River reservoir in North Dakota, the last big chunk of construction. The Standing Rock Sioux promised to fight the development in court. The Army intends to can- cel further environmental study and allow the Lake Oahe cross- ing, according to court doc- uments the Justice Depart- ment filed that include letters to members of Congress from Deputy Assistant Army Secre- tary Paul Cramer. The 1,200-mile pipeline would carry North Dakota oil through the Dakotas and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. Dallas-based developer Energy Transfer Partners had hoped to have the pipeline operating by the end of 2016, but construc- tion has been stalled while the Army Corps of Engineers and the company battled in court Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune Asection of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. The Army notified Congress Tuesday that it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, completing the four-state project to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. The Army intends to allow the crossing under Lake Oahe as early as today. The crossing is the final big chunk of work on the pipeline. over the crossing. The Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation is just down- stream from the crossing, fears a leak would pollute its drink- ing water. The tribe has led pro- tests that drew hundreds and, at times, thousands of people who dubbed themselves “water pro- tectors” to an encampment near the crossing. ETP said the pipe- line is safe. 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