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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF with laws passed by the newly installed constitutional assembly. “We are not threatening anyone,” said Aristobulo Isturiz, the constitutional assembly’s first vice president. “We are looking for ways to coexist.” Leaders of congress, which previously voted not to recognize any of the new super-body’s decrees, said lawmakers would try to meet in the gold-domed legislative palace Wednesday, but there were questions whether security officers guarding the building would let them in. Associated Press Trump, North Korea trade escalating threats of fire SEOUL, South Korea — In an exchange of threats, U.S. Pres- ident Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and the North’s military claimed Wednesday it was examining plans for attacking Guam. The high-level tit-for-tat follows reports that North Korea has mastered a crucial technology needed to strike the United States with a nuclear missile. Despite regular North Korean threats against Guam, a U.S. ter- ritory in the Pacific about 2,100 miles from the Korean Peninsula, it is extremely unlikely that Pyongyang would risk the assured annihilation of its revered leadership with a pre-emptive attack on U.S. citizens. It’s also not clear how reliable North Korea’s mid- range missiles would be in an attack against a distant target given the relatively few times they’ve been tested. Even so, the competing threats and Trump’s use of North Korea- style rhetoric — Pyongyang has long vowed to reduce Seoul to a “sea of fire” — raise already high animosity and heighten worries that a miscalculation might spark conflict between the rivals. The North Korean army said in a statement that it is studying a plan to create an “enveloping fire” in areas around Guam with medium- to long-range ballistic missiles. The statement described Andersen Air Force Base on Guam as a “beachhead” for a poten- tial U.S. invasion of North Korea it needed to neutralize. It was unlikely the North’s threat was a direct response to Trump’s com- ments to the camera at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Oregon Health Authority director resigns, last day will be Aug. 31 SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority director resigned Tuesday at the request of the Gov. Kate Brown after a communica- tion plan became public detailing how the agency intended to dam- age the reputation of a Portland health care agency. Lynne Saxton insisted that she never implemented the bare-knuckled tactics advocated in the plan and publicly apolo- gized, but it wasn’t enough, The Oregonian reported. The commu- nication plan was first reported by the Portland Tribune. Brown said in a news release Tuesday that after discussion with Saxton, they agreed her resignation was in the best interests of the agency. “Lynne has led the Oregon Health Authority through its most challenging times and helped me ensure that every Oregonian has access to the care they need,” Brown said. “She is known as a fighter for Oregon’s values and I am proud of how she brought that level of commitment to the staff of OHA.” Saxton’s removal was borne in the agency’s long bitter legal dispute with FamilyCare Health, one of Oregon’s 16 coordinated care organizations. The two camps have fought for years, with FamilyCare insisting the agency’s ratemaking process is unfair. Public records revealed a communications strategy intended to discredit FamilyCare, which came after other problems at the health authority. Earlier this spring, it acknowledged that it had awarded Medicaid benefits to tens of thousands of Oregonians who didn’t qualify for the program. The agency also has spent more than $160 million on an information technology system to auto- mate Medicaid enrollment that’s been plagued with issues. Saxton’s last day at the agency will be Aug. 31. Vehicle hits soldiers in Paris suburb, injuring 6 LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France — French police are searching for a driver who slammed his BMW into a group of soldiers in a Paris suburb Wednesday, injuring six of them in what appeared to be a carefully timed ambush before speeding away, officials said. The driver’s motive is unclear, but officials said he deliberately aimed at the soldiers, and counterterrorism authorities opened an investigation. It is the latest of several attacks targeting security forces guarding France over the past year. While others have tar- geted prominent sites like the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday’s attack hit THE DAILY ASTORIAN W EDNESDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 Kenyan opposition leader Odinga alleges fraud AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin Tens of thousands of North Koreans gathered for a rally Wednesday at Kim Il Sung Square carrying placards and propaganda slogans as a show of support for their rejec- tion of the United Nations’ latest round of sanctions. a leafy, relatively affluent suburb that is home to France’s main intelligence service, the DGSI. Three of the soldiers suffered light injuries while three were more seriously injured, but their lives are not in danger, according to the Defense Ministry. They were from the 35th infantry regiment and served in Oper- ation Sentinelle, created to guard prominent French sites after a string of deadly Islamic extremist attacks in 2015. Witnesses described seeing a BMW with one person inside waiting in a cul-de-sac near a building used for Sentinelle soldiers, according to two police officials. One official said the attacker hit just as a group of soldiers emerged from the building to board vehi- cles for a new shift. Could voting fraud panel create an easy target for hackers? CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Officials from both parties had a con- sistent answer last year when asked about the security of voting systems: U.S. elections are so decentralized that it would be impos- sible for hackers to manipulate ballot counts or voter rolls on a wide scale. But the voter fraud commission established by President Don- ald Trump could take away that one bit of security. The commission has requested information on voters from every state and recently won a federal court challenge to push ahead with the collection, keeping it in one place. By compiling a national list of registered voters, the federal government could provide one-stop shopping for hackers and hos- tile foreign governments seeking to wreak havoc with elections. “Coordinating a national voter registration system located in the White House is akin to handing a zip drive to Russia,” said Ken- tucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat who has refused to send data to the commission. Venezuela’s new assembly declares itself all-powerful CARACAS, Venezuela — The new constitutional assembly assumed even more power in Venezuela by declaring itself as the superior body to all other governmental institutions, including the opposition-controlled congress. That decree came Tuesday just hours after the assembly dele- gates took control of a legislative chamber and put up pictures of the late President Hugo Chavez, who installed Venezuela’s social- ist system. Delcy Rodriguez, the head of the ruling socialist party and leader of the body, said the unanimously approved decree prohibits lawmakers in congress from taking any action that would interfere NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga on Wednesday alleged fraud in the country’s general election, say- ing hackers infiltrated the database of the country’s election com- mission and manipulated the results in what he called an “attack on our democracy.” Odinga’s allegations followed the release of election results showing President Uhuru Kenyatta with a wide lead over the oppo- sition leader after votes from the vast majority of polling stations had been counted. “Hackers gained entry into our election database” and “created errors,” Odinga said at a news conference. “You can only cheat the people for so long,” the opposition leader said. “The 2017 general election was a fraud.” Odinga also ran against Kenyatta in the 2013 vote and unsuc- cessfully challenged the results in court with allegations of vote-tampering. The longtime opposition figure also ran in the 2007 election, which was followed by violence fueled by ethnic divisions that killed more than 1,000 people. A US back road is route to hope in Canada for many migrants CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. — They have come from all over the United States, piling out of taxis, pushing strollers and pulling lug- gage, to the end of a country road in the north woods. Where the pavement stops, they pick up small children and lead older ones wearing Mickey Mouse backpacks around a “road closed” sign, threading bushes, crossing a ditch, and filing past another sign in French and English that says “No pedestrians.” Then they are arrested. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, migrants who came to the U.S. from across the globe — Syria, Congo, Haiti, elsewhere — arrive here where Roxham Road dead-ends so they can walk into Canada, hoping its policies will give them the security they believe the political climate in the United States does not. “In Trump’s country, they want to put us back to our country,” said Lena Gunja, a 10-year-old from Congo, who until this week had been living in Portland, Maine. She was traveling with her mother, father and younger sister. “So we don’t want that to hap- pen to us, so we want a good life for us. My mother, she wants a good life for us.” The passage has become so crowded this summer that Cana- dian police set up a reception center on their side of the border in the Quebec community of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, about 30 miles south of Montreal, or almost 300 miles north of New York City. 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