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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
12 Russians accused of
hacking Democrats in
2016 US election
WASHINGTON — Twelve Russian intel-
ligence officers were indicted on charges they
hacked into Democratic email accounts during
the 2016 U.S. presidential election and released
stolen information in the months before Ameri-
cans headed to the polls, the Justice Department
said today.
The indictment — which comes days before
President Donald Trump holds a summit with
Russian President Vladimir Putin — was the
clearest allegation yet of Russian efforts to
meddle in American politics. U.S. intelligence
agencies have said the interference was aimed
at helping Trump’s presidential campaign and
harming the election bid of his Democratic
opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The indictment lays out a sweeping and
coordinated effort to break into key Democratic
email accounts, including those belonging to
the Democratic National Committee, the Clin-
ton campaign and the Democratic Congressio-
nal Campaign Committee.
The charges come as special counsel
Robert Mueller investigates potential
coordination between Russia and the
Trump campaign to influence the presidential
election. The indictment does not allege that
Trump campaign associates were involved in
the hacking efforts or that any American was
knowingly in contact with Russian intelligence
officers.
The indictment also does not allege that any
vote tallies were altered by hacking.
Before today, 20 people and three
companies had been charged in the
Mueller investigation. That includes four
former Trump campaign and White House
aides, three of whom have pleaded guilty to dif-
ferent crimes and agreed to cooperate, as well as
13 Russians accused of participating in a hidden
but powerful social media campaign to sway
American public opinion in the 2016 election.
Hours before the Justice Department
announcement, Trump complained anew that
the special counsel’s investigation is compli-
cating his efforts to forge a better working rela-
tionship with Russia. Trump and Putin are to
hold talks Monday in Finland, a meeting largely
sought by Trump.
Scores of people die in
Pakistan election violence
LAHORE, Pakistan — The deadliest attack
in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign killed at
least 74 people, including a candidate, in south-
western Baluchistan province today ahead of the
return to Pakistan of disgraced former Prime Min-
ister Nawaz Sharif.
It’s expected Sharif will be whisked away
by helicopter to the federal capital of Islamabad
when he returns later today to Pakistan from Lon-
don to face a 10-year prison sentence on corrup-
tion charges, anti-corruption officials said.
The candidate, Siraj Raisani, died when a sui-
cide bomber blew himself up amid scores of sup-
porters who had gathered at a rally. Another 120
people were wounded in Friday’s bombing.
Sharif will be accompanied by his daughter
Mariam, who was sentenced to seven years in
prison. The two were in London visiting Sharif’s
ailing wife when a Pakistani court convicted them
of corruption.
In a televised appeal to supporters from Lon-
don earlier this week, Sharif said he was not
afraid of prison and asked people to vote for his
party. He also used the opportunity to again criti-
cize Pakistan’s powerful military, which has ruled
the country directly or indirectly for most of its
71-year history, saying Pakistan now has a “state
above the state.”
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
8 endangered black
rhinos die in Kenya
after relocation
NAIROBI, Kenya — Eight critically endan-
gered black rhinos are dead in Kenya after wild-
life workers moved them from the capital to a new
national park, the government said today, calling
the toll “unprecedented” in more than a decade of
such transfers.
Preliminary investigations point to salt poi-
soning as the rhinos tried to adapt to saltier water
in their new home, the Ministry of Tourism and
Wildlife said in a statement, describing how the
animals likely became dehydrated and drank
more salty water in a fatal cycle.
The ministry suspended the ongoing move of
rhinos and said the surviving ones in the new park
were being closely monitored.
The loss is “a complete disaster,” said promi-
nent Kenyan conservationist Paula Kahumbu of
WildlifeDirect.
Conservationists in Africa have been working
hard to protect the black rhino subspecies from
poachers targeting them for their horns to supply
an illegal Asian market.
Transporting wildlife is a strategy used by con-
servationists to help build up, or even bring back,
animal populations. In May, six black rhinos were
moved from South Africa to Chad, restoring the
species to the country in north-central Africa
nearly half a century after it was wiped out there.
In another major setback for conservation, the
last remaining male northern white rhino on the
planet died in March in Kenya, leaving conserva-
tionists struggling to save that sub-species using
in vitro fertilization.
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in London.
British politicians reel after
Trump broadside against May
ELLESBOROUGH, England — In a fresh bout of diplomatic whiplash, President Don-
ald Trump denied today he had criticized Prime Minister Theresa May and declared the U.S.-
U.K. relationship “the highest level of special” — not long after lobbing thunderous broad-
sides against her.
Trump’s pomp-filled visit to the United Kingdom has been overshadowed by widespread
protests and an explosive interview in The Sun in which he blasted May, his host, blamed Lon-
don’s mayor for terror attacks against the city and argued that Europe was “losing its culture”
because of immigration.
“I didn’t criticize the prime minister. I have a lot of respect for the prime minister,” said
Trump, who allowed that he did apologize for some of his comments. But he blamed his favor-
ite scapegoat — the so-called “Fake Media” — for skipping over his praise of May in a piece
that published Thursday just as the prime minster played host at an opulent welcome dinner at
a country palace.
The president then urged reporters to listen to a full recording of the interview, which he
said would give the full picture.
Trump was greeted by massive protests across Britain, including tens of thousands of dem-
onstrators who filled the streets of London alongside a giant balloon that flew over Parliament
on Friday depicting him as a cell-phone-toting angry baby in a diaper.
In a frenetic news conference at Chequers, May’s official country house, an unrestrained
Trump blamed his predecessor for Russian aggression in Crimea, placed fair trade at the cen-
ter of Britain’s efforts to leave the European Union, defended his beliefs that immigration has
damaged Europe and repeatedly jousted with television correspondents’ whose coverage he
found critical.
Interviewed before he left Brussels for the U.K, Trump accused May of ruining what her
country stands to gain from its Brexit vote to leave the European Union. He said her former
foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, would make an “excellent” prime minister, speaking just days
after Johnson resigned his position in protest over May’s Brexit plans.
Trump added that May’s “soft” blueprint for the U.K.’s future dealings with the EU would
probably “kill” any future trade deals with the United States.
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