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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Europe leaders answer anger
over Irma response in Caribbean
MARIGOT, St. Martin — Wrapping up a sweeping visit to the
destroyed island of St. Martin, France’s president responded to
anger that his government didn’t do enough to handle Hurricane
Irma’s wrath and promised to evacuate residents of his country’s
Caribbean territories and provide services and shelter for those
who choose to stay.
French President Emmanuel Macron outlined a plan to
distribute drinking water, food and medical help using the islands’
radio stations and even megaphones, if necessary. He also
said about half of the island’s mobile connectivity had been
restored and all “essential communication” would be back by next
week.
“What we have seen today are people determined to rebuild
and return to a normal life,” he said Tuesday in a press conference.
“They are impatient for answers and some are very, very angry.
The anger is legitimate because it is a result of the fear they have
faced and of being very fatigued. It is certain that some want to
leave, and we will help them in that effort.”
He said France was bringing in air-conditioned tents so children
can start classes again soon, and he said a center would be estab-
lished by Monday to begin processing requests for fi nancial help.
Macron pledged to rebuild St. Martin as a “model” for with-
standing future storms.
spent under Obama’s law directly to states and erase Obama’s pen-
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Detained university janitor,
in US 11 years, awaits his fate
BOSTON — Francisco Rodriguez-Guardado’s fi rst son was
born just days after he was taken into custody by federal immigra-
tion offi cials for deportation back to his native El Salvador. He has
yet to meet his son but is told there’s a resemblance.
“They tell me he has my eyes,” the 43-year-old said with a mix
of wistfulness and pride this month in an interview at the Suffolk
County House of Corrections.
Rodriguez-Guardado, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology
janitor whose case became a rallying cry for local opponents of
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown this summer,
awaits his fate in the Boston jail.
His supporters say his case and others like it highlight how the
Republican administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has
swept up not just hardened criminals — the “bad hombres” Trump
frequently railed against on the campaign trail — but also other-
wise law abiding, contributing members of American society.
Arrests of immigrants in the country illegally have increased
about 37 percent, from about 55,000 during the fi rst six months
of last year to 75,000 in the fi rst half of this year, according to
data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of those,
non-criminal immigrants made up nearly 20,000 of all arrests, a
145 percent increase from the fi rst half of last year.
As Rohingya fl ee violence,
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi skips UN meet History of Syria’s war at risk
BANGKOK — With Myanmar drawing condemnation for vio- as YouTube reins in content
lence that has driven at least 370,000 Rohingya to fl ee the coun-
try, the government said Wednesday its leader Aung San Suu Kyi
would skip this week’s U.N. General Assembly.
Suu Kyi was missing the assembly, which opened Tuesday and
runs through Sept. 25, in order to address domestic security issues,
according to presidential offi ce spokesman Zaw Htay. Suu Kyi is
not Myanmar’s president — her offi cial titles are state counselor
and foreign minister — but she effectively serves as leader of the
Southeast Asian nation.
Zaw Htay said that, with President Htin Kyaw hospitalized, the
second vice president would attend the U.N. meeting.
“The fi rst reason (Suu Kyi cannot attend) is because of the
Rakhine terrorist attacks,” Zaw Htay said. “The state counselor
is focusing to calm the situation in Rakhine state. There are cir-
cumstances. The second reason is, there are people inciting riots in
some areas. We are trying to take care of the security issue in many
other places. The third is that we are hearing that there will be ter-
rorist attacks and we are trying to address this issue.”
The crisis erupted on Aug. 25, when an insurgent Rohingya
group attacked on police outposts in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
That prompted Myanmar’s military to launch “clearance opera-
tions” against the rebels, setting off a wave of violence that have
left hundreds dead and thousands of homes burned — mostly
Rohingya in both cases.
Sen. Sanders, GOP push
banner health care bills
WASHINGTON — Liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders is ready to
unveil his bill for starkly reshaping the country’s current hodge-
podge health care system into one where the government provides
medical insurance for everybody.
Republican senators are preparing to roll out details of a last-
ditch effort to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health
care law.
The rival packages have little in common, other than the likeli-
hood that neither is going anywhere.
Seven weeks after the GOP drive to uproot Obama’s 2010
health care law crashed in the Senate, two Republican senators,
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy,
on Wednesday were releasing their plan for trying again.
They’ve struggled for weeks to round up suffi cient support for
the package. It would cut and reshape Medicaid, disperse money
BEIRUT — Syria’s civil war has been one of the modern
world’s most brutal confl icts and one of its most heavily fi lmed.
Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos uploaded to YouTube
document every heartbeat of the war over the past seven years,
from momentous events like cities under bombardment to intimate
scenes like a father cradling his dead children.
Syrian activists fear all that history could be erased as YouTube
moves to rein in violent content. In the past few months, the tech
giant has implemented new policies to remove material considered
graphic or supporting terrorism, and hundreds of thousands of vid-
eos from the confl ict suddenly disappeared without notice. Activ-
ists say crucial evidence of human rights violations risks being lost
— as well as an outlet to the world that is crucial for them.
Activists are rushing to set up alternative archives, but they also
recognize nothing can replace YouTube because of its technologi-
cal infrastructure and global reach.
“It is like we are writing our memories — not in our own book
but in a third party’s book. We don’t have control of it,” said Hadi
al-Khatib, co-founder of the Syrian Archive, a group founded in
2014 to preserve open source evidence of crimes committed by all
sides of the Syrian confl ict.
Based on his database and review of around 900 groups and
individuals, al-Khatib said some 180 channels connected to Syria
were shut since June, when YouTube began using machine learn-
ing protocols to sift through videos on the site for objectionable
content.
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BOSTON — Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest
for many years - but autonomous boats could be just around the
pier.
Spurred in part by the car industry’s race to build driverless
vehicles, marine innovators are building automated ferry boats for
Amsterdam canals, cargo ships that can steer themselves through
Norwegian fjords and remote-controlled ships to carry containers
across the Atlantic and Pacifi c. The fi rst such autonomous ships
could be in operation within three years.
One experimental workboat spent this summer dodging
tall ships and tankers in Boston Harbor, outfi tted with sensors
and self-navigating software and emblazoned with the words
“UNMANNED VESSEL” across its aluminum hull.
“We’re in full autonomy now,” said Jeff Gawrys, a marine tech-
nician for Boston startup Sea Machines Robotics, sitting at the
helm as the boat fl oated through a harbor channel.
“Roger that,” said computer scientist Mohamed Saad Ibn Sed-
dik, as he helped to guide the ship from his laptop on a nearby
dock.
ESPN distances itself from anchor
Jemele Hill’s Trump tweets
BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN distanced itself from anchor Jemele
Hill’s tweets one day after she called President Donald Trump “a
white supremacist” and “a bigot.”
“The comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the pres-
ident do not represent the position of ESPN,” the network tweeted
Tuesday from its public relations department’s account. “We have
addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were
inappropriate.”
Project Updates
Study prompts call to examine fl u
vaccine and miscarriage
NEW YORK — A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found
that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were
more likely to have had back-to-back annual fl u shots that included
protection against swine fl u.
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Vaccine experts think the results may refl ect the older age and
other miscarriage risks for the women, and not the fl u shots. Health
offi cials say there is no reason to change the government recom-
mendation that all pregnant women be vaccinated against the fl u.
They say the fl u itself is a much greater danger to women and their
fetuses.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reached
out to a doctor’s group, the American Congress of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists, to warn them the study is coming out and help
them prepare for a potential wave of worry from expectant moms,
CDC offi cials said.
“I want the CDC and researchers to continue to investigate
this,” said Dr. Laura Riley, a Boston-based obstetrician who leads
a committee on maternal immunization. “But as an advocate for
pregnant women, what I hope doesn’t happen is that people panic
and stop getting vaccinated.”
Past studies have found fl u vaccines are safe during pregnancy,
though there’s been little research on impact of fl u vaccinations
given in the fi rst three months of pregnancy.
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