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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Islamic State kills 41
in attack on Afghan
cultural center
Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News
Soledda Hernandez stands on the
roof of her car as she brushes off
snow Wednesday in Erie, Pa.
Higher energy costs
accompany bitter
cold snap in US
PORTLAND, Maine — Plunging tem-
peratures across half the country today
underscored a stark reality for low-in-
come Americans who rely on heating aid:
Their dollars aren’t going to go as far this
winter because of rising energy costs.
Forecasters warned people to be wary
of hypothermia and frostbite from an arc-
tic blast that’s gripping a large swath from
the Midwest to the Northeast, where the
temperature — without the wind chill fac-
tored in — dipped to minus 32 this morn-
ing in Watertown, New York, near Lake
Ontario’s eastern shore.
Even before the cold snap, the Depart-
ment of Energy projected that heating
costs were going to track upward this
winter, and many people are keeping a
wary eye on their fuel tanks to ensure they
don’t run out.
Prolonged, dangerous cold weather
this week has sent advocates for the
homeless scrambling to get people off the
streets and to bring in extra beds for them.
In western New York and Erie, Pennsyl-
vania, residents were still cleaning up
from massive snowfall. Frozen pipes and
dead car batteries added to the misery
across the region.
There was some good news for recip-
ients of federal aid from the Low-Income
Home Energy Assistance Program. Pres-
ident Donald Trump released nearly $3
billion, or 90 percent, of the funding in
October after previously trying to elimi-
nate the program altogether.
But projected energy cost increases
will effectively reduce the purchas-
ing power by $330 million, making it
imperative that the remaining fund-
ing be released, said Mark Wolfe, of the
National Energy Assistance Directors’
Association.
This winter, energy costs were pro-
jected to grow by 12 percent for natu-
ral gas, 17 percent for home heating oil,
18 percent for propane and 8 percent
for electricity, according to U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Islamic State
suicide bomber struck a Shiite cultural center in
Kabul today, killing at least 41 people and under-
scoring the extremist group’s growing reach in
Afghanistan even as its self-styled caliphate in
Iraq and Syria has been dismantled.
The attack may have targeted the pro-Iran
Afghan Voice news agency housed in the two-
story building. The Sunni extremists of IS view
Shiite Muslims as apostates and have repeatedly
attacked Afghanistan’s Shiite minority and tar-
gets linked to neighboring Iran.
The attack wounded more than 80 people,
many of whom suffered severe burns.
Local Shiite leader Abdul Hussain Ramazan-
dada said the bomber slipped into an academic
seminar at the center and blew himself up among
the participants. More bombs went off just out-
side the center as people fled.
The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said four
bombs were used in the assault, one strapped to
the suicide attacker. It said the center was funded
by Iran and used to propagate Shiite beliefs.
The center was marking the anniversary of
the 1979 Soviet invasion with a seminar about
the event’s impact on the country.
Iran, a Shiite-majority country bordering
Iraq and Afghanistan, has provided heavy mili-
tary and financial aid to the Syrian government
as well as regional Shiite militias battling IS in
recent years.
Putin says
St. Petersburg explosion
was terror attack
MOSCOW — The explosion at a supermar-
ket in Russia’s second-largest city was a terrorist
attack, President Vladimir Putin said today, add-
ing that another attack had been thwarted.
At least 13 people were injured Wednesday
evening when an improvised explosive device
went off at a storage area for customers’ bags at
the supermarket in St. Petersburg. Investigators
said the device contained 200 grams of explo-
sives and was rigged with shrapnel to cause more
damage.
No one has claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Putin made his comment at an awards cere-
mony at the Kremlin for troops who took part
in Russia’s Syria campaign but did not offer
any details. He also said another terrorist attack
had been thwarted in St. Petersburg but did not
elaborate.
Putin has portrayed Russia’s operation in
Syria as a pre-emptive strike against terrorism
at home. He said the threat of attacks at home
would have been much worse if Russia had not
intervened in Syria.
Roy Moore files
lawsuit to block Alabama
Senate result
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Failed U.S. Sen-
ate candidate Roy Moore doubled down on his
claims of voter irregularities in a last-ditch effort
to stop the certification of the Democratic oppo-
nent who pulled off a historic upset last month in
a traditionally deep-red state.
Moore asked a judge late Wednesday to issue
a restraining order to stop Alabama’s canvassing
board from certifying Doug Jones’ victory today.
Secretary of State John Merrill said Moore’s
action “is not going to delay certification and
Doug Jones ... will be sworn in by Vice President
Pence on the third of January.”
Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes
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Cities in ruins after
Islamic State, little
cash to rebuild
MOSUL, Iraq — For nearly 2½ miles along
the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a
single building is intact. The warren of narrow
streets of Mosul’s Old City is a crumpled land-
scape of broken concrete and metal. Every acre
is weighed down by more than 3,000 tons of rub-
ble, much of it laced with explosives and unex-
ploded ordnance.
It will take years to haul away the wreck-
age, and this is just one corner of the destruc-
tion. The Iraqi military and U.S.-led coalition
succeeded in uprooting the Islamic State group
across the country, but the cost of victory is
nearly incalculable.
Three years of war devastated much of north-
ern and western Iraq. Baghdad estimates $100
billion is needed nationwide to rebuild. Local
leaders in Mosul, the biggest city held by IS, say
that amount is needed to rehabilitate their city
alone.
So far no one is offering to foot the bill. The
Trump administration has told the Iraqis it won’t
pay for a massive reconstruction drive. Iraq
hopes Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries will
step up, and Iran may also take a role. The U.N.
is repairing some infrastructure in nearly two
dozen towns and cities around Iraq, but funding
for it is a fraction of what will be needed. As a
result, much of the rebuilding that has happened
has come from individuals using personal sav-
ings to salvage homes and shops as best they can.
Nearly every city or town in former IS terri-
tory needs repair to one degree or another. The
longer it takes, the longer many of those who
fled IS or the fighting remain uprooted. While
2.7 million Iraqis have returned to lands seized
back from the militants, more than 3 million oth-
ers cannot and they languish in camps. Worst hit
is Mosul; the U.N. estimates 40,000 homes there
need to be rebuilt or restored, and some 600,000
residents have been unable to return to the city,
once home to around 2 million people.
Charity gets a jolt
from tax law — but
due to drop next year
WASHINGTON — In this season of giving,
charity seems to be getting an extra jolt because
next year the popular tax deduction for donations
will lose a lot of its punch.
Traditionally generous Americans may have
less incentive to give to charitable causes next
year because of the newly minted tax law. The
changes that will make it less advantageous for
many people to donate to charity in 2018 may
be sparking a year-end stream of fattened con-
tributions in anticipation, charity executives and
experts say.
Starting next year, the millions of relatively
small donations from moderate-income peo-
ple to mainstream charities could be sharply
reduced, they say. That means charity could
become less of a middle-class enterprise and a
more exclusive domain of the wealthy, who tend
to give to arts and cultural institutions, research
facilities and universities. Their use of the chari-
table tax deduction is less likely to be affected by
the new law.
The sweeping Republican tax overhaul,
delivered by the GOP-dominated Congress and
signed into law by President Donald Trump,
doesn’t eliminate or even reduce the deduction
for donations to charitable, religious and other
nonprofit organizations. Charitable giving should
be encouraged with a tax incentive, congressio-
nal Republicans crafting the plan said early on,
and the cherished deduction — though costing
some $41.5 billion a year in lost federal reve-
nue — wasn’t struck even as other longstanding
deductions fell or were scaled back.
But it might as well have been, charity experts
and advocates say.
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in the Dec. 12 special election. Moore’s cam-
paign was deeply wounded by accusations
of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls
decades ago. Moore has denied the accusations
and says he has taken and passed a polygraph test
to prove they are false.
Moore’s attorney wrote in the wide-rang-
ing complaint that he believed there were irreg-
ularities during the election, including that vot-
ers may have been brought in from other states.
He attached a statement from a poll worker that
she had noticed licenses from Georgia and North
Carolina as people signed in to vote.
The complaint also noted the higher-than-ex-
pected turnout in the race, particularly in Jeffer-
son County, and said Moore’s numbers were sus-
piciously lower than straight-ticket Republican
voting in about 20 Jefferson County precincts.
The complaint asked for a fraud investigation
and eventually a new election.
Merrill said he has so far not found any evi-
dence of voter fraud, but he has said that his
office will investigate any complaint Moore
submits.
JEFFREY M. LEINASSAR
DMD, FAGD
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