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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Nearly 200,000 remain under
evacuation near California dam
OROVILLE, Calif. — Nearly 200,000 people remained under
evacuation orders today as California authorities try to fix erosion
of the emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam that could
unleash uncontrolled flood waters if it fails.
About 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lake Oroville —
one of California’s largest man-made lakes — had water levels so
high that an emergency spillway was used Saturday for the first
time in almost 50 years.
The evacuation was ordered Sunday afternoon after engineers
spotted a hole on the concrete lip of the secondary spillway for
the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam and told authorities that it could
fail within the hour.
“I’m just shocked,” said Greg Levias, who was evacuating
with his wife, Kaysi, two boys and a dog.
What they couldn’t fit in their trunk they piled as high as they
could in their downstairs Yuba City apartment and joined the line
of traffic attempting to leave the city where they had moved just
three weeks ago.
Banking regulations mean
Oregon flush with pot cash
MEDFORD — As legalized marijuana brings more business
to Oregon, some communities are seeing a large amount of cash
in the economy thanks to strict regulations keeping banks away
from the businesses.
The Mail Tribune reports that banking officials say that after
years of moving away from cash, financial institutions have seen
a recent influx due to the marijuana industry.
Many banks will not offer lines of credit to marijuana busi-
nesses due to high federal penalties for holding pot-tainted
money. As a result, the marijuana industry operates with cash.
Dispensaries pay their employees, landlords and lawyers with
cash that is then spent in grocery stores and other daily tasks.
People’s Bank Vice President and Operations Manager Dawn
DeVita says the Southern Oregon-based institution does not work
directly with marijuana businesses, but it has seen an increased
volume of cash circulation.
Drivers see higher premiums
after not-at-fault crashes
WASHINGTON — Most drivers don’t expect to be hit with
a rate hike on their auto insurance after a car accident that wasn’t
their fault.
But a consumer group says it happens and often. And it’s a
problem.
The Consumer Federation of America says it found premium
hikes in some cases reaching $400. The group looked at premium
quotes in 10 cities from five of the nation’s largest auto insurers
and found that Progressive aggressively used a not-at-fault pen-
alty, surcharging drivers in eight of the cities.
GEICO, Farmers and Allstate sometimes raised rates. State
Farm was the exception, with no penalties for not-at-fault
accidents.
The industry says some insurers may consider information
from not-at-fault accidents. But not all do, and that is one of sev-
eral factors that could cause premiums to rise.
Embattled national security
adviser’s fate uncertain
WASHINGTON — Embattled national security adviser
Michael Flynn’s fate as one of President Donald Trump’s senior
aides is uncertain following reports that he discussed U.S. sanc-
tions with a Russian envoy before Trump’s inauguration.
A top White House official sidestepped repeated chances Sun-
day to publicly defend him. The president, who spent the week-
end at his private club in Florida, has yet to comment on Fly-
nn’s status. Nor has Vice President Mike Pence, who previously
denied that Flynn had discussed sanctions with Sergey Kislyak,
the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Pence and Flynn spoke twice on Friday, according to an
administration official.
Trump has told associates he is troubled by the situation,
but he has not said whether he plans to ask Flynn to step down,
according to a person who spoke with him recently. Flynn was
a loyal Trump supporter during the campaign, but he is viewed
skeptically by some in the administration’s national security cir-
cles, in part because of his ties to Russia.
The administration official and both people with ties to
Trump spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private
conversations.
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Jason Newton, of the Department of Water Resources, takes a picture of water going over the emergency spillway at
Oroville Dam Saturday in Oroville, Calif. Water started flowing over the emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam
for the first time Saturday after erosion damaged the Northern California dam’s main spillway.
Trudeau visits Trump in crucial
meeting for Canada
Trump moves spark Iraqi anger,
calls against future alliance
OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump will participate in a
roundtable discussion about women in the work force today, an
early sign of cooperation as Trudeau seeks to have good relations
so Canada is not targeted in trade talks.
In his first face-to-face meeting with the new U.S president,
Trudeau will also meet with Trump to talk about trade and partic-
ipate in a working lunch.
A White House official and a senior Canadian government
official said the two countries plan to launch a new task force
called the United States Canada Council for the Advancement
of Women Business Leaders-Female Entrepreneurs. The officials
agreed to confirm the move only if they were not quoted by name
because they were not authorized to make the information public.
Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter who has been an
advocate for policies benefiting working women, was involved
in recruiting participants and setting the agenda for the round-
table. Female executives from the United States and Canada are
expected to participate.
Trudeau’s close cooperation with Trump and the first daugh-
ter could ease some worries among Canadians that the U.S. pres-
ident will enact protectionist measures that could hurt the Cana-
dian economy. It could also alleviate some fears that Trump will
be as combative with Trudeau as he has been with the leaders of
Mexico and Australia.
BAGHDAD — Reverberations from President Donald
Trump’s travel ban and other stances are threatening to under-
mine future U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation, rattling a key alli-
ance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the
Islamic State group.
Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has sought to
contain any backlash from public anger sparked by Trump’s
executive order banning Iraqis from traveling to the U.S.
Also breeding resentment and suspicion are Trump’s repeated
statements that the Americans should have taken Iraq’s oil
and his hard line against Iran, a close ally of al-Abadi’s
government.
Al-Abadi and Trump spoke Thursday night for the first
time since Trump’s inauguration. The U.S. leader, who
has pledged a stronger fight against IS militants, promised
increased help for Iraq against terrorism, and al-Abadi asked
him to remove Iraq from the travel ban, according to an Iraqi
official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the
telephone call.
Iraqi anger at Washington comes at a crucial juncture in
a long and often contentious relationship. U.S.-backed Iraqi
forces are about to launch an assault aimed at retaking the
western half of Mosul that is still under Islamic State con-
trol. If Mosul is completely secured, it largely would break the
extremist group’s “caliphate” in the country.
However, Iraqi and U.S. officials have said maintaining
security in a post-IS Iraq will be just as difficult — preventing
a resurgence of the militants and containing political divisions
among Iraq’s Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Both countries have
talked of keeping some U.S. troops long term to back Iraq’s
security forces in that task, a recognition that complete Ameri-
can withdrawal at the end of 2011 was a mistake.
Desperate immigrants risk
perilous winter trek to Canada
TORONTO — After he was denied asylum in the U.S., Seidu
Mohammed’s fear of being deported to his native Ghana, where
he believes he’d be killed or jailed, became so great that he set out
in brutal winter conditions to cross illegally into Canada.
Mohammed and his friend lost all their fingers to frostbite
after a 10-hour trek across fields of waist-high snow in sub-zero
temperatures. Despite their injuries, the two men say they now
feel safe. They’re part of a small but growing number of immi-
grants risking the northern border crossing.
“God blessed Canada with good people,” said Mohammed,
24. “I see the difference between Canada and the United States.”
In Manitoba, which borders Minnesota and North Dakota,
groups that specialize in helping refugees say the pace of arrivals
has quickened since Donald Trump became president and banned
travel from seven majority-Muslim countries. Refugees who spoke
with The Associated Press cited Trump’s order and anti-Muslim
campaign rhetoric as the main reasons for going north.
Rita Chahal, executive director of Manitoba Interfaith Immi-
gration Council, said her group normally sees 50 to 60 refu-
gees from the U.S. each year. But The Royal Canadian Mounted
Police said that more than 40 have been picked up at the border
near Emerson, Manitoba, in just the last two weekends.
Hamas names top militant
as new leader in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A senior Hamas official says a top
member of the group’s armed wing has been chosen as its new
leader in the Gaza Strip.
Yehiyeh Sinwar, a senior commander who was freed by Israel
in a 2011 prisoner swap, is considered one of the most hard-line
figures in the Islamic militant group.
The Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity
because he was discussing the group’s secretive election process,
confirmed the appointment.
Sinwar replaces Ismail Haniyeh, who was prime minister of
Hamas’ government in Gaza after the militant group overran the
territory in 2007.
Since his release by Israel, Sinwar has built up his power in
the secretive military wing and is believed to have ordered the
execution of a top rival last year in a power struggle.
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