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6A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF with the decision said today. The decision by Rick Gates could indicate he is planning to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The person said Gates, a longtime associ- ate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, had informed family and friends in a letter about his decision. It would mark the fifth publicly known guilty plea in the special counsel probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign. A spokes- man for Mueller did not respond to requests for comment. The Gates plea would come a day after a fed- eral grand jury in Virginia returned a 32-count indictment against him and Manafort accusing them of tax evasion and bank fraud. It was the second round of charges against the two men. The plea also comes quickly on the heels of a stunning indictment last week that laid out a broad operation of election meddling by Russia, which began in 2014, and employed fake social media accounts and on-the-ground politicking to promote the campaign of Donald Trump, dispar- age Hillary Clinton and sow division and discord widely among the U.S. electorate. Associated Press US tightens sanctions on North Korean shipping WASHINGTON — The Trump administra- tion hit more than 50 vessels, shipping compa- nies and trade businesses with sanctions today, escalating pressure on North Korea over its nuclear program. The administration billed it as the largest installment of North Korean economic restric- tions to date. President Donald Trump went fur- ther, declaring it was “the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before.” While the number of companies from North Korea and other nations was high, the eco- nomic impact is unclear. It was certain to be less than previous U.S. measures that targeted large banks and business networks in China and Rus- sia that deal with the North. However, it significantly tightens the noose on North Korean trading. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters that the U.S. has now imposed more than 450 sanctions against the North, about half of them in the last year — including “virtually all their ships that they’re using at this moment in time.” The United Nations Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions on North Korea in the past year to deprive it of revenue and resources for its nuclear and ballistic missile development. The weapons pose an emerg- ing threat to the U.S. mainland. Washington is particularly concerned about exports of North Korean coal that are prohibited by the U.N. sanctions and ship-to-ship transfers of imported oil and petroleum products. Trump calls for arming many teachers, more guards at schools WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pressed today for the arming of many teachers and school security guards, question- ing the inaction of an armed officer who failed to stop the gunman who carried out last week’s Florida massacre. “He was not a credit to law enforcement,” Trump said. During wide-ranging remarks to the Con- servative Political Action Conference, he urged activists to help Republicans in the fall midterm elections and heed his recent calls to address gun violence. Trump told reporters that “when it came time to get in there and do something,” Florida dep- uty Scot Peterson “didn’t have the courage or something happened.” “He certainly did a poor job. But that’s a case where somebody was outside, they’re trained, they didn’t react properly under pressure, or Ghouta Media Center A Syrian man runs between destroyed buildings in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus. Deaths mount in Syria bombing campaign near Damascus BEIRUT — Syrian government warplanes supported by Russia continued their relentless bombardment of the rebel-controlled eastern suburbs of Damascus for a sixth day today, kill- ing nine people, opposition activists and a war monitor reported. The death toll from the past week climbed to more than 400. The new wave of bombings came a day after the Syrian army dropped leaflets over reb- el-held eastern suburbs of the capital, Damascus, calling on residents to leave for their own safety and urging opposition fighters to hand themselves over. The leaflets were dropped by helicopters over the area known as eastern Ghouta, telling residents that they are surrounded from all sides by the Syrian army. The number of casualties has overwhelmed rescuers and doctors at hospitals, many of which have also been bombed. World leaders have called for an urgent cease-fire in Syria to allow relief agencies to deliver aid and evacuate the critically sick and wounded from besieged areas to receive medical care. they were a coward,” Trump said. Trump said that past efforts to address school safety and gun violence had faded and “nothing ever gets done. We want to see if we can get it done. Let’s get it done right, we really owe it to our country.” He added, “most of it’s just com- mon sense. It’s not ‘do you love guns, do you hate guns.’ It’s common sense.” Trump’s speech at CPAC came at the end of a week that included meetings with students and teachers and state and local officials on ways to bolster school safety and address gun violence. Trump said the “evil massacre” of 17 people at a Florida high school last week had “broken our hearts.” Ex-Trump campaign aide agrees to guilty plea in Russia probe WASHINGTON — A former top adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign is expected to plead guilty in the special counsel’s Russia probe, a person familiar Missouri governor defiant after indictment linked to affair ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens remains defiant, even amid calls for impeach- ment or resignation, after a St. Louis grand jury indicted him for felony invasion of privacy, alleging the Republican took a compromising photo of a woman during an extramarital affair the year before he was elected. Greitens has repeatedly denied blackmailing the woman, but has repeatedly refused to answer questions about whether he took a photo. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Thursday announced the indictment that fol- lowed an investigation launched in January, a day after Greitens admitted to an affair with his St. Louis hairdresser that began in March 2015. Greitens released a statement saying he made a mistake but “did not commit a crime.” He accused Gardner, a Democrat who was also elected in November 2016, of playing politics. Greitens canceled plans to go to Washington this weekend for the National Governors Asso- ciation annual meeting. In a statement today, the Republican Governors Association said Greit- ens informed the group he would stay in Mis- souri “to fight back against what his team has called a baseless charge.” The group said Greit- ens also “no longer intends to serve” on its exec- utive committee. A few lawmakers from both parties suggested that Greitens should consider resigning, just as they did after he admitted to the affair on Jan. 10. S CORE CORE BIG! 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