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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Business ties complicate Muslim states’ response to Rohingya A stunned Puerto Rico seeks to rebuild after Hurricane Maria SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tens of thou- sands of Puerto Ricans stunned by a hurricane that crushed concrete balconies, twisted metal gates and paralyzed the island with landslides, flooding and downed trees vowed to slowly rebuild amid an economic crisis as rescue crews fanned out across the U.S. territory Thursday. The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurri- cane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years. Uprooted trees and widespread flooding blocked many highways and streets across the island, creating a maze that forced drivers to go against traffic and past police cars that used loudspeakers to warn people they must respect a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by the gover- nor to ensure everyone’s safety. “This is going to be a historic event for Puerto Rico,” said Abner Gomez, the island’s emergency management director. Previously a Category 5 with 175 mph winds, Maria hit Puerto Rico as the third-stron- gest storm to make landfall in the U.S., based on its central pressure. It was even stronger than Hurricane Irma that storm roared into the Flor- ida Keys earlier this month. Trapped girl a symbol for Mexico’s quake rescue efforts MEXICO CITY — A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the rubble of her school stretched into a daylong vigil for Mexico, much of it broadcast across the nation as rescue work- ers still struggled in rain and darkness early Thursday trying to pick away unstable debris and reach her. The sight of her wiggling fingers early Wednesday became a symbol for the hope that drove thousands of professionals and volunteers to work frantically at dozens of wrecked build- ings across the capital and nearby states looking for survivors of the magnitude 7.1 quake that killed at least 245 people in central Mexico and injured over 2,000. The death rose after Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said the number of con- firmed dead in the capital had risen from 100 to 115. An earlier federal government statement had put the overall toll at 230, including 100 deaths in Mexico City. Mancera also said two women and a man had been pulled alive from a collapsed office building in the city’s center Wednesday night, almost 36 hours after the quake. Even as President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of mourning, soldiers, police, firefighters and everyday citizens kept digging through rubble, at times with their hands gaining an inch at a time, at times with cranes and backhoes to lift heavy slabs of concrete. Mexicans displaced by deadly quake seek refuge from fear MEXICO CITY — On rubber mats spread across a Mexico City recreation center, the Montero family cuddles under donated wool blankets, their first new possessions after aban- doning their apartment following the deadly magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Across the capital thousands of Mexicans are now believed homeless after the tremor leveled entire buildings and left others teetering on the edge of collapse. 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Many are uncer- tain where they will go next, but grateful to have a safe refuge. “I am sure nothing is going to fall here,” 7-year-old Oscar Montero says. The Montero family lived on the first floor of a seven-story apartment building that on Tues- day became perilously sandwiched between neighboring towers on each side that have begun caving in. No one in the family of five was home during the quake. Oscar and his two older siblings were all at school, his parents at work. Claudia Antonio, Oscar’s mother, entered the home quickly the quake after to salvage her children’s birth certificates and vaccina- tion records. Other neighbors pulled out valu- ables like fridges and microwaves. In the first night after the tremor, some slept outside with the items they had pulled from the wobbly buildings. UN mission in Congo forces reckoning over sex abuse scandal BUNIA, Congo — She had been orphaned by a brutal conflict, but the 14-year-old girl found refuge in a camp protected by U.N. peacekeepers. The camp should have been safe that day: A delegation from the United Nations was pay- ing a visit, and her grandmother had left her in charge of her siblings. That was the day, the girl says, that a Pakistani peacekeeper slipped inside their home and raped her in front of the other children. It was an attack so brazen it still haunts the U.N.’s top human rights official more than a decade after hearing the girl’s story. “What on earth would it take for this sol- dier not to do it - to have all the heads of the U.N. together, and he still does it?” asked Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, a member of the delegation that heard the girl’s testimony in 2004. One year later, he helped write a landmark report to curb sexual abuse and exploitation within the U.N. system. Yet neither Zeid’s out- rage nor his report helped the girl. NKorea minister calls Trump’s threat ‘sound of dog barking’ SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s for- eign minister has described as “the sound of a dog barking” President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy his country. The comments are the North’s first response to Trump’s debut speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, during which he vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if provoked. Trump also called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “Rocket man.” The North’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York late Wednesday that “It would be a dog’s dream if he intended to scare us with the sound of a dog barking.” South Korean TV footage also showed Ri saying he feels “sorry for his aides” when he was asked about Trump’s “Rocket man” com- ments. Ri was to give a speech at the U.N. Gen- eral Assembly on Friday, according to Yonhap news agency. Trump has unleashed many strong state- ments on North Korea including his August warning the North will be met with “fire and fury.” The North has responded by a slew of weapons tests and warlike and often-mocking rhetoric against Trump. A top North Korean general called Trump’s “fire and fury” threats “a load of nonsense” let out by “a guy bereft of reason.” Diplomats meet on Iran deal as Trump stays mum on decision NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has determined how he wants to approach the Iran nuclear deal — which he has called the worst agreement ever negotiated by the United States — but has not told even his top national security advisers what his decision is. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednes- day that Trump had not informed him or others in the administration about his decision and had refused to share it with British Prime Minister Theresa May when she asked him about it. Tillerson said he had been surprised when Trump publicly announced he had reached a decision. The secretary told reporters it would now take some time to prepare to implement the decisions. He gave no hint as to the direction Trump would take, but repeated the president’s long-standing position that the deal does not address troubling non-nuclear behavior despite the hopes of those who negotiated it. Tillerson spoke to reporters following a meeting of the parties to the nuclear deal, including Iranian Foreign Minister Moham- mad Javad Zarif. The meeting marked the high- est-level U.S.-Iranian encounter since Trump became president. European Union foreign policy chief Fed- erica Mogherini, who hosted the meeting, said all parties to the accord — including Tillerson — agreed it “is working and is delivering for its purpose.” LISTINGS A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When Rohingya Muslims fled persecution and slaugh- ter in Myanmar in past decades, tens of thou- sands found refuge in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites. This time around, Mus- lim leaders from the Persian Gulf to Pakistan have offered little more than condemnation and urgently needed humanitarian aid. The lack of a stronger response by Mus- lim-majority countries partly comes down to their lucrative business interests in Southeast Asia, experts say. Much of the Middle East is also buckling under its own refugee crisis sparked by years of upheaval in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. More than 500,000 people — roughly half the Rohingya Muslim population in Myanmar — have fled to neighboring Bangladesh over the past year, mostly in the last month. The United Nations human rights chief has described Myan- mar’s military crackdown and allied Buddhist mob attacks as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Saudi Arabia is already home to around a quarter-million Burmese people who took ref- uge in the kingdom under the late King Faisal in the 1960s. The kingdom pledged $15 million in aid to the Rohingya this week. As the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia competes with Russia to be China’s top crude supplier. Expanding its footprint there requires Myanmar’s help. Ex-prosecutors unsure if nursing home deaths involved crimes HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Nine elderly patients died after being kept inside a nursing home that turned into a sweatbox when Hurri- cane Irma knocked out its air conditioning for three days, even though just across the street was a fully functioning and cooled hospital. From the perspective of Florida Gov. Rick Scott and relatives of those at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, criminal charges are warranted. But under Florida law, a prose- cution might be difficult. Two of three ex-state prosecutors contacted by The Associated Press had doubts as to whether Dr. Jack Michel, the home’s owner, or any of his employees will be charged. All agreed that any criminal prosecutions will hinge on whether the nursing home staff made honest mistakes or were “culpably neg- ligent.” Florida defines that as “consciously doing an act or following a course of conduct that the defendant must have known, or reason- ably should have known, was likely to cause death or great bodily injury.” Hollywood police and the state attorney’s office are investigating. The home has said it used coolers, fans, ice and other methods to keep the patients com- fortable — and that might be enough to avoid prosecution. SEC reveals 2016 hack that breached its filing system NEW YORK — The Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday that a cyber breach of a filing system it uses may have provided the basis for some illegal trading in 2016. 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