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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Four nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar as Arab rift deepens DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Four Arab nations cut dip- lomatic ties to Qatar today over its relations with Iran and support of Islamist groups, isolating the tiny energy rich country by cut- ting off its land, sea and air routes to the outside world. Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing their diplomatic staff from Qatar as regional airlines quickly announced they’d suspend service to its capital, Doha. Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and is home to some 10,000 American troops at a major U.S. military base, criticized the move as a “violation of its sovereignty.” However, it immediately wreaked havoc with long-haul carrier Qatar Air- ways, sent its stock market tumbling and raised questions about how a country reliant on food imports would be affected. Saudi Arabia also said Qatari troops would be pulled from the ongoing war in Yemen. Yemen’s internationally backed govern- ment, which no longer holds its capital and large portions of the country, also cut relations with Qatar. The countries all ordered their citizens out of Qatar and gave Qataris abroad 14 days to return home to their peninsular nation. The countries also said they would eject Qatar’s diplomats from their territories. Drugs score big wins against lung, prostate, breast cancers CHICAGO — Drugs are scoring big wins against common cancers, setting new standards for treating prostate, breast and lung tumors. Most striking is that some are giving benefit well past a year, much longer than the few months many new drugs offer. Studies suggest the drug Zytiga will become a first-treatment choice for men whose prostate cancer has spread. For advanced lung cancer with a certain gene flaw, the drug Alecensa stopped cancer growth for 15 months longer than a drug used now called Xalkori. For women with a gene that raises their risk for breast cancer, a relatively new drug called Lynparza showed promise. Results are being discussed today at a cancer conference in Chicago. “I heard them say one thing: ‘This is for Allah.’” Police cars screeched past the scene, so intent upon the van the attackers had abandoned after plowing it through a crowd at Lon- don Bridge that they did not yet know about the mayhem around Borough Market. Vowls tried to distract the men with knives and warn the unwitting neighborhood filled with crowded restaurants and bars. He shouted as he ran through the streets, according to his account and that of bystanders who believe he saved many lives Saturday night. Doors slammed shut. The attackers retreated from at least one establishment when they were hit with a barrage of glass bottles. wouldn’t come inside. “I did ask him if he was coming inside with that thing in the clouds when I turned to come inside and he calmly said no,” Cecilia Wessels said Sunday. Theunis Wessels said the tornado was actually much farther away than it appears in the photo and it was moving away from them. He said he was keeping an eye on it. No one was injured. Portland police arrest 14 during rival protests, clashes LAS VEGAS — A dozen states are trying to keep children in school longer, from making kindergarten mandatory to raising the legal drop-out age. But it’s not an easy sell. Nevada is among the states this year that have or are consider- ing proposals to stretch the compulsory attendance age. A bill that would require children in Nevada to start school at age 5 was met with such resistance that it was amended to age 6. Current state law sets the age at 7. The proposal is likely to go nowhere, as the Nevada legislature is set to adjourn today. “If you’re really concerned about kids dropping out, I don’t think making kindergarten mandatory is really the heart of the issue,” said Maggie England, who opposes the Nevada bill and wants to homeschool her three children. Supporters admit that it wouldn’t have much of an impact on enrollment numbers — and therefore school budgets. State offi- cials estimate that about 95 percent of 6-year-olds are already learning in a formal capacity. What’s to be gained, then, said Nevada Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz, is the message that the state sometimes mocked as the “Mississippi of the West” is tak- ing seriously its mission to turn things around in its glaringly deficient schools. “I believe every child deserves a fair and equal shot at the American dream and that starts with school,” said Diaz, the bill sponsor who is also a Las Vegas-area teacher. “I just think it’s going to be a philosophical argument and we’re just going to have to agree to disagree. As a teacher, and as an assemblywoman who represents a very at-risk population, this is fundamental.” PORTLAND — Police arrested 14 people as thousands of demonstrators and counter-protesters converged in downtown Portland more than a week after two men were fatally stabbed trying to stop a man from shouting anti-Muslim slurs at teenag- ers on a light-rail train. A pro-President Donald Trump free speech rally drew several hundred to a plaza near City Hall on Sunday. That rally was met across the street by hundreds of count- er-protesters organized by immigrant rights, religious and labor groups. They said they wanted to make a stand against hate and racism. By late afternoon, police closed nearby Chapman Square where a separate group of protesters — many wearing masks and black clothing and identified as anti-fascists — also demon- strated. Police used flash-bang grenades and pepper balls to disperse that crowd after saying protesters were hurling bricks and other objects at officers. The people gathered at the free speech rally organized by the conservative group Patriot Prayer and counter-protesters at City Hall were not involved in those clashes, police said. Portland police said Sunday evening that several dozen knives, bricks, sticks and other weapons were seized. Putin dismisses US claims about Trump, Russia and elections WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin says claims about Russian involvement in U.S. elections are untrue, and says the United States actively interferes with elections in other countries. And he is dismissing as “a load of nonsense” the idea that Russia has damaging information on President Donald Trump. “I never met with him. We have a lot of Americans who visit us,” Putin said in an interview with NBC’s “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.” He added: “Do you think we’re gathering com- promising information on all of them right now or something? Are you all — have you all lost your senses over there?” U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia med- dled in the presidential election to hurt the bid of Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump himself has been dogged by questions about any business dealings with Russia — he says he has none — as well as reports of a Russian dossier of damaging personal information. “Well, this is just another load of nonsense,” Putin said. “Where would we get this information from? Why, did we have some special relationship with him? We didn’t have any relation- ship at all.” London attack: More detentions in hunt for accomplices LONDON — British counterterrorism investigators searched two homes today and detained “a number” of people in the inves- tigation into a van and knife attack in the heart of London that left seven people dead. Dozens were injured, many of them critically, in the attack that started on the London Bridge, when three attackers swerved the vehicle into pedestrians then, armed with knives, rampaged through Borough Market, slashing and stabbing anyone they could find. The three men, who wore fake suicide vests, were shot to death by police. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility. London’s police chief has said the attackers have been identi- fied, but the names haven’t been released. At least 12 people were arrested Sunday, including five men and seven women ranging in age from 19 to 60. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she wouldn’t release further details in what she described as a fast-moving investigation, including whether authorities were familiar with the men before the attack. ‘Oi, terrorists, cowards!’ Fighting back in London’s chaos LONDON — For eight agonizing minutes, the orders came from all directions, frantic and contradictory. Crowds scattered, sometimes directly into the path of the men trying to kill them. Police cars screamed past the attackers toward the van they had abandoned. Chairs, bottles and even a basket flew through the air as terrified onlookers tried to hold off the three men and make sense out of the senseless. Gerard Vowls was across the street from a Barclays bank branch when he heard someone moan, “I’ve been stabbed.” He thought it was a joke. But as the man leaned weakly against a wall, the blood was all too real. Moments later, as one bystander helped the wounded man, Vowls saw the three attackers fall upon a nearby woman with their knives. “The three guys, yes, they were just stabbing this woman con- stantly, non-stop the three of them. Just stabbing her from every direction, the three of them around her. Lunging at her,” he said. Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school Run, Hide, Tell? London attack response likely saved lives Cecilia Wessels/The Canadian Press Theunis Wessels mows his lawn at his home in Three Hills, Alberta, as a tornado swirls in the background Fri- day. Cecilia Wessels, who took the image of her husband to show the tornado to her parents in South Africa, said that the twister wasn’t as close it appears. Canadian man mows lawn with tornado behind him THREE HILLS, Alberta — A photograph of a Canadian man mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him has caused a bit of a storm on social media. Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, on Friday as the twister passed near their home in Alberta. She said cutting the grass was on her husband’s to-do list, and as he started the task, she went for a nap. Wessels said she was woken by daughter who was upset that there was something like a tornado in the sky, but her father College student Vashu Tyagi was leaving his dorm and head- ing to a nearby bar to celebrate the end of classes Saturday night in London when he saw people running frantically down the street. As three men with large knives moved through the area, stabbing anyone in their path, police yelled at Tyagi and others to get back inside — an order he credits with saving his life. “Obviously they gave us good advice,” he said. “I’m quite lucky to be here.” As reports of stabbings in a popular London nightspot started flowing in late Saturday, police sent out a tweet warning people in the area to run, hide, then call authorities. Officers on the scene also shouted at bystanders to disperse, a response that experts say likely saved lives. Yet while the Run, Hide, Tell strategy — known in the U.S. as Run, Hide, Fight — has been credited with saving lives in certain circumstances, some say it’s not perfect, especially when a vic- tim’s first instinct might be to freeze on the spot. “The best thing you can do is to get as far away from the source of the danger as possible,” said Denis Fischbacher-Smith, a risk analyst and professor at the University of Glasgow. “But it’s never going to be a universal solution. 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