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WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump names former drug
exec as new health secretary
WASHINGTON — Turning to an industry he’s rebuked, Presi-
dent Donald Trump today picked a former top pharmaceutical and
government executive be his health and human services secretary,
overseeing a $1 trillion department responsible for major health
insurance programs, medical research, food and drug safety, and
public health.
The nomination of Alex Azar is unusual because HHS secretar-
ies have tended to come from the ranks of elected officials such as
governors, leaders in academia, or top executive branch managers
— not industries regulated by the department.
“He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!”
Trump tweeted in announcing the nomination this morning.
Azar, 50, a lawyer by training, has spent most of the last 10
years with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, rising to president of its
key U.S. affiliate before leaving in January to start his own con-
sulting firm. He’s seen as an expert on government health care
regulation.
As HHS secretary, Azar would have to scrupulously avoid
conflicts with Lilly’s far-reaching interests, from drug approval
to Medicare reimbursement. The drugmaker has drawn criticism
from patient advocacy groups for price increases to one of its big-
gest products: insulin.
Americans consistently rank the high cost of prescription drugs
as one of their top health care priorities, putting it ahead of divisive
issues like repealing “Obamacare” in public opinion polls.
Trump embraces Duterte as Asia
trip winds down
MANILA, Philippines — His lengthy Asia trip down to its final
days, President Donald Trump once more pushed for equitable
trade deals and opted to publicly prioritize strategic interests over
human rights, declining to shine a spotlight on the violent drug war
overseen by his Philippine host.
Trump repeatedly praised Philippine President Rodrigo Dute-
rte, pointedly calling him by his first name, sharing a joke about
the media and even complimenting Manila’s weather. What he did
not do was what many predecessors have done before — highlight
human rights abuses while overseas.
Duterte has overseen a bloody drug war that has featured extra-
judicial killings and has boasted about killing people with his own
hands. But during brief remarks to reporters, Trump said he and
Duterte have “had a great relationship” but avoided questions on
whether he’d raise human rights issues.
The White House later said the two leaders discussed the
Islamic State, illegal drugs and trade during the 40-minute meet-
ing. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said human rights
came up “briefly” in the context of the Philippines’ fight against
illegal drugs. She did not say if Trump was critical of Duterte’s
program.
That appeared to conflict with the Philippines’ version of the
meeting. Harry Roque, a spokesman for Duterte, said “there was
no mention of human rights. There was no mention of extralegal
killings. There was only a rather lengthy discussion of the Phil-
ippine war on drugs with President Duterte doing most of the
explaining.”
Trump barges into tax debate,
seeks deeper cut for wealthy
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump today barged into
congressional Republicans’ carefully calibrated work on revamp-
ing the nation’s tax code, calling for a steeper tax cut for wealthy
Americans and pressing to add a contentious health care change
to the mix.
In a tweet, Trump commended GOP leaders for getting the tax
overhaul legislation closer to passage in recent weeks and said,
“Cut top rate to 35% w/all of the rest going to middle income cuts?”
That puts him at odds with the House legislation that leaves the
top rate at 39.6 percent and the Senate bill as written, with the top
rate at 38.5 percent.
Trump also said, “Now how about ending the unfair & highly
unpopular individual mandate in (Obama)care and reducing taxes
even further?”
With few votes to spare, Republicans leaders hope to finalize
a tax overhaul by Christmas and send the legislation to Trump for
his signature. House leaders have compromised with some rank-
and-file Republicans in hopes of passing their version of the bill
this week. The Senate Finance Committee starts work on its legis-
lation this afternoon.
Trump’s tweet injects a degree of uncertainty in the process as
the GOP tries to deliver on the president’s top legislative prior-
ity and hold onto their majorities in next year’s midterm elections.
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A rescue worker searches debris for survivors with his sniffing dog after an earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Za-
hab in western Iran.
Powerful earthquake on Iran-Iraq border kills hundreds
TEHRAN, Iran — A powerful 7.3
magnitude earthquake near the Iraq-Iran
border killed over 400 people across
both countries, sent residents fleeing
their homes into the night and was felt
as far away as the Mediterranean coast,
authorities said today.
Iran’s western Kermanshah province
bore the brunt of the temblor Sunday
night, with authorities saying the quake
killed 407 people in the country and
injured 6,700. Kermanshah is a rural,
mountainous region where residents rely
mainly on farming.
In Iraq, the earthquake killed at
least seven people and injured 535,
all in the country’s northern Kurd-
ish region, according to Iraq’s Interior
Ministry.
The quake was centered 19 miles
outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja,
according to the most recent measure-
ments from the U.S. Geological Survey.
It struck at 9:48 p.m. Iran time, just as
people began retiring for the night.
It could be felt on the Mediterranean
coast, some 660 miles away.
The earthquake struck 14.4 miles
Neither bill includes a repeal of the so-called individual man-
date of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the requirement
that Americans get health insurance or face a penalty. Several top
Republicans have warned that including the provision would draw
opposition and make passage tougher.
Yemen rebels vow escalation as
Saudis look to relax blockade
SANAA, Yemen — Saudi Arabia announced today that the
Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen will begin
reopening airports and seaports in the Arab world’s poorest coun-
try, days after closing them over a rebel ballistic missile attack on
Riyadh.
The announcement from the Saudi mission at the United
Nations came after the coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels, known as
Houthis, faced widespread international criticism over the closure,
with the U.N. and over 20 aid groups saying it could bring millions
of people closer to “starvation and death.”
“The first step in this process will be taken within 24 hours and
involves reopening all the ports in areas controlled by” Yemen’s
internationally recognized government, which the coalition backs,
read the mission’s statement.
Those ports are in Yemeni cities of Aden, Mocha and Mukalla.
For ports in rebel-held or disputed territories, such as the city of
Hodeida, the mission said it has asked the U.N. to send a team of
experts to discuss ways to make sure weapons can’t be smuggled in.
The Saudi-led coalition hopes that will prevent “the smuggling
of weapons, ammunitions, missile parts and cash that are regularly
being supplied by Iran and Iranian accomplices to the Houthi reb-
els,” the statement said.
US-targeted IS in Somalia
could be a ‘significant threat’
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Islamic State group’s grow-
ing presence in Somalia could become a “significant threat” if it
attracts fighters fleeing collapsing strongholds in Syria and Iraq,
experts say, and already it seems to be influencing local al-Shabab
extremists to adopt tactics like beheadings.
The U.S. military this month carried out its first drone strikes
against IS fighters in Somalia, raising questions about the strength
of the group that emerged just two years ago. A second strike tar-
geted the fighters on Sunday, with the U.S. saying “some terror-
ists” were killed.
The Islamic State group burst into public view in Somalia late last
year as dozens of armed men seized the port town of Qandala in the
northern Puntland region, calling it the seat of the “Islamic Caliph-
ate in Somalia.” They beheaded a number of civilians, causing more
than 20,000 residents to flee, and held the town for weeks until they
were forced out by Somali troops, backed by U.S. military advisers.
Since then, IS fighters have stormed a hotel popular with gov-
ernment officials in Puntland’s commercial hub of Bossaso and
claimed their first suicide attack at a Bossaso security checkpoint.
This long-fractured Horn of Africa nation with its weak cen-
tral government already struggles to combat al-Shabab, an ally
of al-Qaida, which is blamed for last month’s truck bombing in
the capital, Mogadishu, that killed more than 350 in the country’s
deadliest attack.
Desperate Rohingya swim 2.5 miles
from Myanmar to Bangladesh
SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh — Nabi Hussain owes his
life to a yellow plastic oil container.
The 13-year-old Rohingya boy couldn’t swim, and had never
even seen the sea before fleeing his village in Myanmar. But he
clung to the empty container and struggled across the water with it
for about 2 1/2 miles, all the way to Bangladesh.
Rohingya Muslims escaping the violence in their homeland of
Myanmar are now so desperate that some are trying to swim to
safety in neighboring Bangladesh. In just a week, more than three
dozen boys and young men used cooking oil containers like life
rafts to swim across the mouth of the Naf River and wash up ashore
in Shah Porir Dwip, a fishing town and cattle trade spot.
“I was so scared of dying,” said Nabi, a lanky boy in a striped
polo shirt and checkered dhoti. “I thought it was going to be my
last day.”
Although Rohingya Muslims have lived in Myanmar for
decades, the country’s Buddhist majority still sees them as invaders
from Bangladesh. The government denies them basic rights, and
the United Nations has called them the most persecuted minority
in the world. Just since August, after their homes were torched by
Buddhist mobs and soldiers, more than 600,000 Rohingya have
risked the trip to Bangladesh.
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Iranian social media and news agen-
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ple fleeing their homes. More than 100
aftershocks followed.
The Iraqi city of Halabja, closest to
the epicenter, was the target of a 1988
chemical attack in which Saddam Hus-
sein’s troops killed some 5,000 peo-
ple with mustard gas — the deadliest
chemical weapons attack ever against
civilians.
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