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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press New hope for Yazidi women raped and tortured by IS fighters Mexicans weigh the daunting prospect of deportee camps MEXICO CITY — Mexicans fear deportee and refugee camps could be popping up along their northern border under the Trump administration’s plan to start deporting to Mexico all Latin Ameri- cans and others who entered the U.S. illegally through this country. Previous U.S. policy called for only Mexican citizens to be sent to Mexico. Migrants known as “OTMs” — Other Than Mexicans — got flown back to their homelands. Now, under a sweeping rewrite of enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, migrants might be dumped over the border into a violence-plagued land where they have no ties while their asylum claims or deporta- tion proceedings are heard in the United States. U.S. officials didn’t say what Mexico would be expected to do with them. The only consensus so far in Mexico about the new policies of President Donald Trump is that the country isn’t remotely prepared. “Not in any way, shape or form,” said the Rev. Patrick Murphy, a priest who runs the Casa del Migrante shelter in the border city of Tijuana, which currently houses about 55 Haitian immigrants. They were part of wave of thousands who swarmed to the border in the closing months of the Obama administration in hopes of get- ting asylum in the U.S. Police: Suspects in N. Korean death coated hands with poison AP Photo/James MacPherson Dakota Access pipeline opponents burn structures in their main protest camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, as authorities prepare to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. Burgum listed the same time and date in an emergency evacuation order last week. Large-scale arrests are possible at the camp Wednesday, said Morton County sheriff’s spokeswoman Maxine Herr, but she insists that’s not want authorities want. Though law enforcement and state officials in the past said they wouldn’t forcibly evict pro- testers, they now cite the coming threat of spring flooding as a safety issue that requires clearing the camp. Long road ahead for justice and accountability in Syria KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The two women suspected of fatally poisoning a scion of North Korea’s ruling family were trained to coat their hands with toxic chemicals, then wipe them on his face, police in Malaysia said Wednesday, announcing they were seeking a North Korean diplomat in connection with the attack. But the North Korean Embassy ridiculed the police account of Kim Jong Nam’s death, demanding the immediate release of the two “innocent women” and saying there was no way they could have poisoned him. It alleged the women daubed liquid on Kim “for a joke.” If the toxins had been on their hands “then how is it possible that these female suspects could still be alive?” demanded a state- ment from North Korea’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Police say the women — one of them Indonesian, the other Vietnamese — washed their hands soon after poisoning Kim, the long-estranged half brother of the North Korean ruler. Earlier Wednesday, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters that authorities are searching for two new North Korean suspects, the second secretary of North Korea’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur and an employee of North Korea’s state-owned airline Air Koryo. “We hope that the Korean embassy will cooperate with us, allow us to interview them and interview them quickly,” he said. “If not, we will compel them to come to us.” GENEVA — A fresh round of Syrian peace talks is set to begin in Geneva on Thursday. And while the U.N-sponsored talks may represent the best opportunity in years to make progress toward an end to the conflict, the burning question for many Syria observers is whether justice will be sacrificed in the name of peace. To the dismay of those active in the fields of human rights law, accountability is not even a prominent topic on the agenda. Syrian dissident and lawyer Anwar al-Bunni calls the dip- lomatic effort in Geneva “a waste of time” at the expense of the blood of the Syrian people. He is among those pushing for the cre- ation of a Syrian court to prevent war criminals from escaping with impunity. “Until now we have been unable to send the right message, whether to the victims or the perpetrators,” al-Bunni, who lives in Berlin, told The Associated Press. “Solving the Syrian conflict requires the efforts of the entire international community, whether we are talking about holding criminals accountable, reconstruc- tion, or the return of refugees.” But when it comes to justice in Syria, activists like al-Bunni can find themselves up against the political pragmatism and at times outright indifference of the international community. Expectations for this latest round of talks are relatively low. US shutting down Dakota Access oil pipeline protest camp Iraqi Shiite militias push to take villages west of Mosul BISMARCK, N.D. — The Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to close a Dakota Access pipeline protest camp that’s been around for more than six months isn’t likely to be the demise of on-the-ground opposition in North Dakota. Wednesday’s deadline for the protesters to leave also may not spell the end of heavy law enforcement presence near where the Dallas-based developer is finishing the last big section of the pipe- line, which will carry oil from North Dakota through the Dakotas and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. The protest camp is on federal land in southern North Dakota between the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the pipeline route. It has at times housed thousands of people, though it’s dwin- dled to just a couple hundred as the pipeline battle has largely moved into the courts. The Corps has told those who remain in the Oceti Sakowin camp that they needed to leave by 2 p.m. Wednesday. Gov. Doug BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government-sanctioned paramilitary forces, made up mainly of Shiite militiamen, have launched a new push to capture villages west of the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants. The forces’ spokesman, Ahmed al-Asadi, said on Wednesday that the villages are located southwest of the town of Tal Afar, still held by the Islamic State group. He didn’t provide details but the move by the umbrella group of mostly Shiite militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces is likely coordinated with government effort to recapture western part of Mosul from IS. Iraqi government forces this week took a hilltop area overlook- ing the Mosul city airport. The Shiite militias already hold a small airport outside Tal Afar, which is s located some 93 miles (150 kilometers) east of the Syr- ian border. 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Protesters and supporters crowded a restaurant conference room in Blackstone where Brat fielded questions for about hour Tuesday. He was loudly heckled and booed when he defended President Donald Trump and his policies on health care and immi- gration, with the occasional cheer from supporters of his positions on gun rights and fewer regulations. The former economics professor said he enjoyed the feisty give and take. “People are very nervous and anxious after the Trump win. So my goal tonight is to help allay some of those anxieties,” said Brat, who defeated then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a 2014 GOP primary. Brat’s town hall was among several protests lobbed at GOP members of Congress returning home this week on break to their districts around the country. Hundreds rescued from California floodwaters in San Jose SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats full of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated Tuesday by water from an overflowing creek. Further north, farmers used tractors to shore up an endan- gered levee in California’s agricultural heartland, officials opened a spillway at the Don Pedro reservoir for the first time in 20 years, and a Sierra Nevada highway threatened to collapse after the lat- est downpours swelled waterways, leaving nearly half of the state under flood advisories. In San Jose, at least 225 residents were taken to dry land and rinsed with soap and water to prevent them from being sickened by floodwaters from the Coyote Creek that had traveled through engine fuel, garbage, debris and over sewer lines, San Jose Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow said. W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A DOHUK, Iraq — It’s been less than two weeks since Perwin Ali Baku escaped the Islamic State group, after more than two years in captivity, bought and sold from fighter to fighter and carted from Iraq to Syria and then back again. When a door slams, the 23-year-old Yazidi woman flashes back to her captors locking away her 3-year-old daughter, captured with her, to torment her. When she hears a loud voice, she cringes at the thought of them barking orders. “I don’t feel right,” she said, sitting on a mattress on the floor of her father-in-law’s small canvas-topped Quonset hut in a north- ern Iraq refugee camp. “I still can’t sleep and my body is tense all the time.” Perwin wants treatment, and is hoping to find it in a new psy- chological trauma institute being established at the university of Dohuk, the first in the entire region. It’s the next phase of an ambitious project funded by the wealthy German state of Baden Wuerttemberg that brought 1,100 women who had escaped Islamic State captivity, primarily Yazidis, to Germany for psychological treatment. The medical head of that project, German trauma specialist Jan Kizilhan, is also the driv- ing force behind the new institute, which opens at the end of the month. 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Major Crimes "Heart Failure" Major Crimes "Heart Failure" Gladiator (2000, Epic) Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Russell Crowe. Saving Private Ryan (‘98) Matt Damon, Tom Hanks. (4:00) Pearl Harbor (‘01) Ben Affleck. NCIS "The Artful Dodger" NCIS "Status Update" NCIS "Loose Cannons" NCIS "After Hours" Suits "Quid Pro Quo" (N) Modern Family Modern Family Chopped Chopped Cook vs. Con "Pancake Pandemonium" Cooks vs. Cons "A Lotta Frittata" Bakers/Fakers "Hard Candy Land" (N) Bakers vs. Fakers "Brownie Points" Property "Taking the Renovation Leap" Property Brothers Property Brothers Property Brothers (N) House Hunters House Hunters Property Brothers Thor: The Dark World (2013, Action) Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman. (4:30) The Avengers (‘12) Robert Downey Jr.. 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