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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Macron’s climate summit in Paris
finds new money, tech help
Associated Press
Crews protect hillside homes as
California fire grows
LOS ANGELES — The fifth largest wildfire in California
history expanded, ripping through dry brush atop a coastal ridge
while crews struggled to keep flames from roaring down into
neighborhoods amid fears of renewed winds.
Firefighters protected foothill homes northwest of Los Ange-
les, making progress in residential areas while much of the fire’s
growth occurred to the north in unoccupied forest land, Santa
Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason said
Tuesday.
Red Flag warnings for fire danger due to Santa Ana winds and
a critical lack of moisture were extended into the week instead of
expiring Monday afternoon as was initially forecast.
Tens of thousands of people remain evacuated, including
many from the seaside enclaves of Montecito, Summerland and
Carpinteria and the inland agricultural town of Fillmore.
Poor air quality kept dozens of schools closed. As ash rained
down and smoke blew through streets, regulators urged people to
remain inside if possible and avoid strenuous activity.
Officials handed out masks to those who stayed behind in
Montecito, an exclusive community about 75 miles from Los
Angeles that’s home to stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bridges
and Drew Barrymore. Actor Rob Lowe was among residents who
evacuated over the weekend.
The blaze — known as the Thomas Fire — has destroyed
more than 680 homes, officials said. It was just partially con-
tained after burning more than 360 square miles of dry brush and
timber. The fire has been burning for more than a week.
Gerald Mayr/Senckenberg Research Institute
An illustration compares the sizes of a human
and an ancient giant penguin, Kumimanu biceae.
Ancient penguin was
as big as a human
NEW YORK — Fossils from New Zealand have
revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man. It
measured nearly 5 feet, 10 inches long when swimming and
weighed in at 223 pounds.
The newly found bird is about 7 inches longer than any
other ancient penguin that has left a substantial portion of
a skeleton, said Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research
Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Ger-
many. A potentially bigger rival is known only from a frag-
ment of leg bone, making a size estimate difficult.
The biggest penguin today, the emperor in Antarctica,
stands less than 4 feet tall.
Mayr and others describe the giant creature in a paper
released today by the journal Nature Communications.
They named it Kumimanu biceae, which refers to Maori
words for a large mythological monster and a bird, and the
mother of one of the study’s authors. The fossils are 56 mil-
lion to 60 million years old.
The new discovery shows penguins “got big very rap-
idly” after the mass extinction of 66 million years ago
that’s best known for killing off the dinosaurs, said Dan-
iel Ksepka, curator at the Bruce Museum of Greenwich,
Connecticut. That event played a big role in penguin his-
tory. Beforehand, a non-flying seabird would be threatened
by big marine reptile predators, which also would compete
with the birds for food. But once the extinction wiped out
those reptiles, the ability to fly was not so crucial, opening
the door for penguins to appear.
Prosecutors say suspect taunted
Trump before subway bombing
NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi immigrant arrested in a New
York subway bombing blamed President Donald Trump for the
botched suicide mission that he said he carried out for the Islamic
State group, authorities said as they brought federal charges
against him Tuesday.
Akayed Ullah posted a statement on his Facebook account
on his way to the Monday morning attack stating: “Trump you
failed to protect your nation,” the criminal complaint said. He
also told law enforcement officers at the hospital where he was
taken with burn injuries to the body and hands: “I did it for the
Islamic State,” according to the complaint.
His rush-hour attack fizzled in a long walkway used by com-
muters moving between trains in the city’s busiest subway station
at Times Square. Three pedestrians complained of harmed hear-
ing and headaches after the bomb went off.
Ullah, 27, was expected to appear before a magistrate judge,
though it was not immediately clear if he was well enough to go
to court.
During a search of his Brooklyn apartment, investigators
recovered a passport with the words “O America, die in rage”
scrawled in it, the complaint says.
He hoped to “terrorize as many people as possible” with a
bomb filled with metal screws that he believed would cause max-
imum damage, the complaint said.
According to the complaint, Ullah began researching how
PARIS — World leaders, investment funds and energy mag-
nates promised today to devote new money and technology to
slow global warming at a summit in Paris that President Emman-
uel Macron hopes will rev up the Paris climate accord that U.S.
President Donald Trump has rejected.
Trump wasn’t invited to the event, but his name was
everywhere.
One by one, top world diplomats, former California gov-
ernor Arnold Schwarzenegger, business leaders like Michael
Bloomberg and even former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
insisted that the world will shift to cleaner fuels and reduce emis-
sions regardless of whether the Trump administration pitches in
or not.
Central to today’s summit is finding ways to counter Trump’s
main argument: that the 2015 Paris accord on reducing global
emissions would hurt U.S. business.
Macron — a 39-year-old former investment banker who’s
using this summit to seize the global limelight — argues that the
big businesses and successful economies of the future will be
making and using renewable energy instead of pumping oil.
Bill Gates and Elon Musk are among the 164 prominent fig-
ures at the summit, where participants are announcing billions of
dollars’ worth of projects to help poor countries and industries
reduce emissions.
The summit, co-hosted by the U.N., the World Bank and
Macron, is being held on the second anniversary of the Paris cli-
mate accord, which was ratified by 170 countries. More than 50
heads of state and government are taking part.
Pentagon to allow transgender
people to enlist in military
to build bomb after he had “viewed pro-ISIS materials online,
including a video instructing, in substance, that if supporters of
ISIS were unable to travel overseas to join ISIS, they should carry
out attacks in their homelands.”
WASHINGTON — Transgender recruits will be allowed
to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, the Pentagon said,
as President Donald Trump’s ordered ban suffered more legal
setbacks.
The new policy divulged Monday reflects the difficult hur-
dles the federal government would have to cross to enforce
Trump’s demand earlier this year to bar transgender individu-
als from the military.
Three federal courts have ruled against the ban, including
one Monday in Washington state.
In October, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
barred the Trump administration from proceeding with its plan
to exclude transgender people from military service. Part of the
effect of the ruling was that the military would be required to
allow transgender people to enlist beginning Jan. 1.
The government had asked Kollar-Kotelly to put the Jan. 1
date on hold while it appealed her full ruling but she declined
Monday, reaffirming the Jan. 1 start date. The Department of
Justice is now asking a federal appeals court to intervene and
put the Jan. 1 requirement on hold.
Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a
lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions
that could make it difficult for them to join the armed services.
Maj. David Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, said the enlist-
ment of transgender recruits will begin next month and pro-
ceed amid legal battles. The Defense Department also is doing
a review, which is expected to carry into 2018.
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