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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. Men, women and children are
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People walk next to a gas station flooded and damaged by the impact of Hurricane Maria,
which hit the eastern region of the island in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
now filling up gyms and event halls at more than
two dozen designated shelters. 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.”
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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.
In a statement posted on the SEC’s website,
Chairman Jay Clayton said a review of the agen-
cy’s cybersecurity risk profile determined that
the previously detected “incident” was caused
by “a software vulnerability” in its EDGAR fil-
ing system.
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