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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. It’s never going to
work all the time.”
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