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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Pipe bomb strapped to
man explodes in NYC
subway, injuring 4
NEW YORK — A man with a pipe bomb
strapped to his body with Velcro and zip ties set
off the crude device in the subway near Times
Square on Monday, injuring him and three other
people at the height of the morning rush hour.
All four were being treated for non-life-threat-
ening injuries in what the mayor and police
labeled an attempted terror attack.
The explosion happened in a long under-
ground passageway that runs a full city block
under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth
Avenues. The 7:20 a.m. blast caused smoke to
fill the passageway, which was crowded with
Monday morning commuters.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commis-
sioner James P. O’Neill labeled it an attempted
terror attack.
“Thank God the perpetrator did not achieve
his ultimate goals,” de Blasio said.
The suspect was identified as 27-year-old
Akayed Ullah.
Law enforcement officials said he was
inspired by the Islamic State group but
had apparently not had any direct contact
with the group. The officials said he lives in
Brooklyn and may be of Bangladeshi descent.
The officials spoke to The Associated Press
on condition of anonymity because they were
not authorized to speak publicly about the blast.
Law enforcement officials work following an explosion near New York’s Times Square on Monday in New York. Police said a man with
a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in an underground passageway.
Final push for
Moore and Jones in
Alabama Senate race
Start the clock for
Trump, GOP in last
push on taxes, budget
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama Demo-
crats see Tuesday’s special Senate election as a
chance to renounce a history littered with pol-
iticians whose race-baiting, bombast and other
baggage have long soiled the state’s reputation
beyond its borders.
Many Republicans see the vote as chance to
ratify their conservative values and protect Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s agenda ahead of the 2018
midterm elections.
At the center are Republican Roy Moore, a
former jurist twice removed as state chief jus-
tice and now accused of sexual misconduct
with teenage girls decades ago, and Democrat
Doug Jones, an erstwhile federal prosecutor
best known for prosecuting two Ku Klux Klans-
men responsible for killing four black girls in
the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street
Baptist Church.
The winner will take the seat held
previously by Trump’s attorney general, Jeff
Sessions. Republicans control the Senate with
52 seats.
In truth, the matchup mixes both Alabama’s
tortured history and the nation’s current divi-
sive, bitterly partisan politics, and it has made a
spectacle of a Deep South state well acquainted
with national scrutiny but not accustomed to
competitive general elections.
WASHINGTON — Start the countdown
clock on a momentous two weeks for President
Donald Trump and the GOP-run Congress.
Republicans are determined to deliver the
first revamp of the nation’s tax code in three
decades and prove they can govern after their
failure to dismantle Barack Obama’s health care
law this past summer. Voters who will decide
which party holds the majority in next year’s
midterms elections are watching.
Republicans are negotiating with Demo-
crats on the contentious issue of how much the
government should spend on the military and
domestic agencies to avert a holiday shutdown.
An extension of the program that provides low-
cost health care to more than 8 million children
and aid to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, Texas
and Florida need to be addressed. And further
complicating the end-of-year talks is the fate of
some 800,000 young immigrants here illegally.
Lawmakers are trying to get it all done by
Dec. 22.
21 Rohingya women
recount rape by
Myanmar armed forces
UKHIA, Bangladesh — The use of rape by
Myanmar’s armed forces has been sweeping
and methodical, The Associated Press found in
interviews with 29 Rohingya Muslim women
and girls now in Bangladesh.
They were interviewed separately, come
from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now
live spread across several refugee camps in Ban-
gladesh. Yet their stories were hauntingly sim-
ilar. The military has denied its soldiers raped
any Rohingya women.
AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
Will misconduct
scandals make men
wary of women at work?
NEW YORK — Some women, and men,
worry the same climate that’s emboldening
women to speak up about sexual misconduct
could backfire by making some men wary of
female colleagues.
Forget private meetings and get-to-know-
you dinners. Beware of banter. Think twice
before a high-ranking man mentors a young
female staffer.
“I have already heard the rumblings of
a backlash: ‘This is why you shouldn’t hire
women,’” Facebook chief operating officer
Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a recent post .
“So much good is happening to fix work-
places right now. Let’s make sure it does not
have the unintended consequence of holding
women back,” said Sandberg, author of the
working women’s manifesto “Lean In.”
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Firefighters brace
for second week of
California wildfires
LOS ANGELES — As Southern Califor-
nia enters its second week engulfed in flames,
fire officials anticipate more growth and danger
due to continued strong wind gusts, no rain and
decades-old dry vegetation.
A powerful flare-up on the western edge of
the largest and most destructive wildfire sent
residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames
ripped down hillsides toward coastal towns
northwest of Los Angeles. New evacuations
were ordered as the fire sent up an enormous
plume near Montecito and Carpinteria, seaside
areas in Santa Barbara County.
“The winds are kind of squirrely right
now,” said county fire spokesman Mike Elia-
son. “Some places the smoke is going straight
up in the air, and others it’s blowing sideways.
Depends on what canyon we’re in.”
Southern California’s gusty Santa Ana winds
have long contributed to some of the region’s
most disastrous wildfires. They blow from the
inland toward the Pacific Ocean, speeding up
as they squeeze through mountain passes and
canyons.
Gusts of up to 40 mph are expected through
Monday, according to the National Weather
Service.
Bitcoin futures rise as
virtual currency hits
major exchange
CHICAGO — The first-ever bitcoin future
jumped after it began trading Sunday as the
increasingly popular virtual currency made its
debut on a major U.S. exchange.
The futures contract that expires in Janu-
ary surged more than $3,000 to $18,580 eight
hours after trading launched on the Chicago
Board Options Exchange. The contract opened
at $15,000, according to data from the CBOE.
The CBOE futures don’t involve actual bit-
coin. They’re securities that will track the price
of bitcoin on Gemini, one of the larger bitcoin
exchanges.
The start of trading at 5 p.m. CST over-
whelmed the CBOE website. “Due to heavy
traffic on our website, visitors to www.cboe.
com may find that it is performing slower than
usual and may at times be temporarily unavail-
able,” the exchange said in a statement. But
it said the trading in the futures had not been
disrupted.
Another large futures exchange, the Chi-
cago Mercantile Exchange, will start trading its
own futures on Dec. 18 but will use a compos-
ite of several bitcoin prices across a handful of
exchanges.
Russia’s Putin stops
at Russian military
base in Syria
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir
Putin visited a Russian military air base in Syria
on Monday and announced a partial pullout of
Russian forces from the country.
Putin made a stopover at the Hemeimeem air
base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia while
en route to Egypt.
The base, in the heartland of Syrian President
Bashar Assad’s Alawite minority, has served as
the main foothold for the Russian military cam-
paign in Syria.
Speaking to the Russian troops at the base,
Putin said that he had ordered the military to
withdraw a “significant part” of the Russian
contingent in Syria. He added in remarks car-
ried by Russian news agencies that “if the ter-
rorists again raise their heads, we will deal such
blows to them they have never seen.”
Meanwhile, Syrian state TV said that Ashar
Assad met up with Putin at the air base in Syria
earlier in the morning. The Russian military
has said previously that they will maintain their
presence at the Hemeimeem air base and the
naval facility in Tartus.
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Ana Quincoces, a Miami-based attorney and
entrepreneur who owns her own food line, says
her business and its success involves working
mostly with men, and sales and other activities
are often concluded over lunch or drinks. Those
opportunities, she says, are dwindling, because
many of the men she knows through her busi-
ness “are terrified.”
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