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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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