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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Bomb kills 3 US soldiers in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan today, the U.S. military said, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the last 17 months. The military said that three other service members were wounded when the bomb went off near the city of Ghazni. An American contractor was also wounded. None of the casualties were immediately identified. Lt. Ubon Mendie, a military spokesman, said the wounded were evacuated and are receiv- ing medical care. The Taliban claimed the attack, saying a U.S. tank was completely destroyed. It appeared to be the dead- liest attack on American forces since June 2017, when an Afghan army soldier shot and killed three U.S. soldiers in an insider attack in the Achin dis- trict of the eastern Nangarhar province. The Taliban claimed that attack. The Taliban carry out near- daily attacks on Afghan forces, and in August the insurgents overran parts of Ghazni, lead- ing to days of intense fight- ing before they were driven out. Ghazni was the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces where parliamentary elections could not be held in October. Voting there has been post- poned for a year. The U.S. and NATO for- mally concluded their combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014, but still provide close support to Afghan forces and carry out counterterrorism opera- tions. Some 15,000 American forces are currently serving in Afghanistan. Manafort’s plea deal, disclosed in a court filing Monday, also results in special counsel Rob- ert Mueller’s team losing a cooperating witness from the top of Donald Trump’s pres- idential campaign who was present for several key epi- sodes under investigation. That includes a Trump Tower meet- ing involving Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer he was told had derogatory infor- mation on Democrat Hillary Clinton. The move signals a return to the acrimonious relationship Manafort has had with the spe- cial counsel’s office since his indictment last year. Before his plea agreement, Manafort aggressively challenged the special counsel’s legitimacy in court, went through a bitter trial and landed himself in jail after prosecutors discovered he had attempted to tamper with witnesses in his case. Manafort, who remains jailed, had been meeting with the special counsel’s office since he pleaded guilty in Sep- tember to conspiracy against the United States and conspir- acy to obstruct justice. He cut that deal to head off a second trial after being convicted last summer of eight felony counts related to millions of dollars he hid from the IRS in offshore accounts. Both cases stemmed from his Ukrainian political work and undisclosed lobbying work he admitted to carrying out in the U.S. NASA craft lands on Mars CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft designed to drill down into Mars’ interior landed on the planet Monday after a perilous, supersonic plunge through its red skies, setting off jubilation among scientists who had waited in white-knuckle sus- pense for confirmation to arrive across 100 million miles of space. Flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, leaped out of their chairs, screaming, danc- ing and hugging, upon learn- ing that InSight had arrived on Mars, the graveyard for a multi- tude of previous missions. “Touchdown confirmed!” a Help families in our community have a GREAT HOLIDAY! Santa Santa Santa Bucks 1 $ Bucks 5 GIFT $ GIFT Bucks 10 GIFT $ Donate Today! Purchase Santa Bucks to provide a holiday dinner to a local family in need. 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NASA’s Curiosity rover, which arrived in 2012, is still on the move on Mars. InSight, a $1 billion interna- tional project, includes a Ger- man mechanical mole that will burrow down 16 feet to mea- sure Mars’ internal heat. The lander also has a French seis- mometer for measuring quakes, if they exist on our smaller, geologically calmer neighbor. Santa Bucks Kremlin warns of hostilities in Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine — The Kremlin warned today that a simmering war in eastern Ukraine could boil over after Russia seized three Ukrainian ships and Kiev responded by declaring martial law in parts of the country. Russia paraded the captured seamen on television, a move that Ukraine called criminal. Ukraine considers the 24 captured men to be prisoners of war and says some have been seriously injured, while Russia says they are individuals who have violated its border. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for Sunday’s confrontation in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The clash has raised the specter of renewing a full-blown con- flict in eastern Ukraine and saw Russia strongly criticized at the United Nations by the United States and its allies. The Ukrainian parliament adopted a motion Monday by the president to impose martial law for 30 days. That is some- thing Ukraine avoided doing even when Russia annexed its nearby Crimean penin- sula in 2014 or sent in clan- destine troops and weapons to insurgents in war-torn eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have been fighting Russian-backed sepa- ratists in eastern Ukraine since 2014, a conflict that has left over 10,000 dead, but fighting has eased since a truce in 2015. flight controller called out just before 3 p.m. EST, instantly dispelling the anxiety that had gripped the control room as the spacecraft made its six-minute descent. 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