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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Trump says border troops could hit 15K, surprising Pentagon WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could reach 15,000 — roughly double the number the Pentagon said it currently plans for a mission whose dimensions are shifting daily. The Pentagon says “more than 7,000” troops were being sent to the southwest border to sup- port the Customs and Border Protection agents. Officials said that number could reach a maxi- mum of about 8,000 under present plans. The troop numbers have been changing at a dizzying pace, with Trump drawing a hard line on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections. Just last week officials were indicating that about 800 to 1,000 might be sent. On Monday, officials announced that about 5,200 were being deployed. The next day, the Air Force general running the operation said more than the ini- tially announced total were going, and he point- edly rejected a news report that it could reach 14,000, saying that was “not consistent with what’s actually being planned.” Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the com- mander of U.S. Northern Command, told report- ers the number would exceed the initial contin- gent of 5,200, but he offered no estimate of the eventual total. Rabbis gather up traces of Pittsburgh victims for burial PITTSBURGH — As the first funerals for the victims of the Pittsburgh massacre began, two rabbis and five other volunteers approached the sawhorses cordoning off the Tree of Life synagogue, and an FBI agent led them into the crime scene. Inside the desecrated temple, the men donned white forensic coveralls, face masks and gloves, and set to work. Judaism asks the living to take special care of the dead, and this group had a last, sacred duty to fulfill: gather up every drop of blood and other bodily traces of the 11 people killed in the deadliest attack against Jews in U.S. history. “The Jewish law is that everything that belonged to the body needs to be buried, so we do our best,” one of the group’s leaders, Rabbi Elisar Admon, said Tuesday. The work is meticulous and mentally tax- ing, carried out with implements as ordinary as wipes and paper towels. Judaism is very specific about death and how it should be handled, whatever the circum- stances. When a loved one dies, religious law requires that representatives of the living accom- pany the body until burial. In a ritual known as tahara, the remains are carefully washed and placed in a white shroud. Jewish law mandates that the burial take place as soon as possible. The global lost: 56,800 migrants dead and missing in 4 years JOHANNESBURG — One by one, five to a grave, the coffins are buried in the red earth of this ill-kept corner of a South African cemetery. The scrawl on the cheap wood attests to their anonymity: “Unknown B/Male.” These men were migrants from elsewhere in Africa with next to nothing who sought a living in the thriving underground economy of Gauteng province, a name that roughly translates to “land of gold.” Instead of fortune, many found death, their bodies unnamed and unclaimed — more than 4,300 in Gauteng between 2014 and 2017 alone. Some of those lives ended here at the Oli- fantsvlei cemetery, in silence, among tufts of grass growing over tiny placards that read: Pau- per Block. There are coffins so tiny that they could only belong to children. As people worldwide flee war, hunger and a lack of jobs, global migration has soared to record highs, with more than 258 million inter- national migrants in 2017. That is an increase of 49 percent from the turn of the century, accord- ing to the United Nations. Far less visible, however, has been the toll of this mass migration: The tens of thousands of people who die or simply disappear during their journeys, never to be seen again. A grow- ing number of migrants have drowned, died in deserts or fallen prey to traffickers, leaving their families to wonder what on earth happened to them. At the same time, anonymous bodies are filling cemeteries around the world, like the one in Gauteng. recorder from the seafloor, a crucial develop- ment in the investigation into what caused the 2-month-old plane to plunge into Indonesian seas earlier this week, killing 189 people. Rel- atives, meanwhile, buried the first victim to be identified and prayed at her flower-covered grave. TV showed footage of two divers after they surfaced, swimming to an inflatable vessel and placing the bright orange device into a large container that was transferred to a search-and- rescue ship. “I was desperate because the current below was strong but I am confident of the tools given to me,” said navy 1st Sgt. Hendra, who uses a single name. After narrowing the pos- sible location, “I started digging and clean- ing the debris until I finally found an orange object,” he told TV, standing on the deck of a ship next to his diving mate. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane crashed early Monday just minutes after takeoff from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. It was the worst airline disaster in Indonesia in more than two decades and renewed concerns about safety in its fast-growing aviation industry, which was recently removed from European Union and U.S. blacklists. Navy Col. Monang Sitompul told local TV an object believed to be the aircraft’s fuselage was also seen on the seafloor. Christian woman acquitted in Pakistan to leave country ISLAMABAD — A Christian woman acquitted in Pakistan after eight years on death row for blasphemy plans to leave the country, her family said as radical Islamists mounted ral- lies for a second day against the verdict, block- ing roads and burning tires in protest. The developments followed a land- mark move by Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday that overturned the 2010 conviction against Asia Bibi for insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The charge of blasphemy car- ries the death penalty in this majority Muslim nation. Bibi’s acquittal immediately raised fears of religious violence — and presented a challenge to the government of new Prime Minister Imran Khan who came to power this summer partly by pursuing the Islamist agenda. Khan warned Isla- mist protesters on Wednesday night not to “test the patience of the state.” Bibi remained at an undisclosed location where the 54-year-old mother of five was being held for security reasons, awaiting her formal release, her brother, James Masih told The Asso- ciated Press. Divers recover jet’s data recorder from Indonesia seafloor JAKARTA, Indonesia — Divers recov- ered the crashed Lion Air jet’s flight data Leadership. Experience. Accessibility. Results. OREGON CAPITAL INSIDER VOTE NOV. 6 Keep Betsy Working for US! Get the inside scoop on state government and politics! betsyjohnson.com WHOLE BONELESS BEEF EYE OF ROUND 2 $ Paid for by the Committee to Re-elect Betsy Johnson DOUBLE PUNCH WEEKEND Friday, Saturday, and Sunday October 2, 3 & 4, 2018 99 All Purchases Doubled on Your Card You Buy $30 - We Punch $60! lb. Cut and Wrapped FREE! THANKSGIVING MEAL DEAL! WHOLE BONELESS PORK LOINS 1 $ $ ONLY 26 99 99 lb. Cut and Wrapped FREE! 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