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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019
WORLD IN BRIEF
attorney entered a not guilty plea on behalf of
his client today as the singer faces multiple
charges of sexual abuse in Chicago.
Kelly, one of the best-selling music artists
of all time, entered the courtroom wearing an
orange jail jumpsuit after spending the week-
end in Chicago’s 7,000-inmate jail. He was
arrested Friday on 10 counts of aggravated
sexual abuse involving four females, three of
whom were minors.
Kelly remains jailed after a judge on Sat-
urday set bond at $1 million. The Grammy
Award-winning singer is required to pay 10
percent, and his attorney said Kelly’s confi -
dants are trying to pay $100,000 to get him
released as he awaits trial.
Among the conditions of release is that
Kelly have no contact with females younger
than 18.
Kelly appeared at the arraignment hearing
today with defense attorney Steve Greenberg,
and the case was assigned to Cook County
Associate Judge Lawrence Flood. Kelly’s
next court date is March 22.
Associated Press
Stocks surge on US decision to
postpone China tariff hike
BEIJING — China’s stock market surged
today after President Donald Trump’s deci-
sion to postpone a tariff hike on Chinese
imports. State media expressed hopes the
fi ght with Washington over Beijing’s technol-
ogy ambitions can be resolved.
Other fi nancial markets in Europe and
Asia recorded more modest gains following
Trump’s announcement that the Washington
talks made “substantial progress” toward end-
ing the tariff fi ght.
Washington accuses Beijing of stealing or
pressuring foreign companies to hand over
technology. The Trump administration wants
China to roll back plans for government-led
creation of global leaders in robotics and
other technology that its trading partners say
violate Beijing’s free-trade obligations and
some American offi cials worry they might
erode U.S. industrial leadership.
The weekend talks made progress on
technology transfer, protection of intellec-
tual property rights and non-tariff barriers to
market access, according to the offi cial Xin-
hua News Agency. It cautioned there are “still
some differences that need more time to be
ironed out.”
Trump said he would postpone a March
1 deadline for increasing 10 percent punitive
duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports to
25 percent but he set no new date.
Trump looks for win in
N. Korea summit this week
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump will head into his second meeting with
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un having reframed
what would make a successful summit, low-
ering expectations for Pyongyang’s denucle-
arization while eager to declare a fl ashy vic-
tory to offset the political turmoil he faces at
home.
Trump was the driving force behind this
week’s Vietnam summit, aiming to recreate
the global spectacle of his fi rst meeting with
Kim, although that initial summit yielded few
concrete results and the months that followed
have produced little optimism about what will
be achieved in the sequel.
He once warned that North Korea’s arsenal
posed such a threat to humanity that he may
have no choice but to rain “fi re and fury” on
the rogue nation, yet on Sunday declared that
he was in no hurry for Pyongyang to prove it
was abandoning its weapons.
“I’m not in a rush. I don’t want to rush
anybody, I just don’t want testing. As long
as there’s no testing, we’re happy,” Trump
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
The border wall on the beach in Tijuana, Mexico.
Former US security offi cials to
oppose emergency declaration
WASHINGTON — A group of former U.S. national security offi cials is set to release
a statement arguing there is no justifi cation for President Donald Trump to use a national
emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The statement has 58 signatures from prominent former offi cials, including for-
mer Secretaries of State Madeline Albright and John Kerry, former Defense Secre-
taries Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta, and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano.
The statement is set to be released today, a day before the Democratic-controlled
House is expected to vote to block Trump from using the declaration. The measure is
sure to pass, and the GOP-run Senate may adopt it as well, though Trump has already
promised a veto.
“There is no factual basis for the declaration of a national emergency,” says the state-
ment, which argues that border crossings are near a 40-year low and that there is no ter-
rorist emergency at the border.
Trump declared an emergency to obtain wall funding beyond the $1.4 billion Con-
gress approved for border security. The move allows the president to bypass Congress
to use money from the Pentagon and other budgets.
told a gathering of governors at the White
House. Hours earlier, he ended a tweet
about the summit by posing the key question
that looms over their meeting in Vietnam:
“Denuclearization?”
Trump will arrive in Hanoi on Tuesday on
Air Force One while his counterpart, lacking
a modern aircraft fl eet, travels via armored
train. Though details of the summit remain
closely held, the two leaders are expected to
meet at some point one-on-one, joined only
by translators.
Lawyer enters not guilty plea
for Kelly in sex abuse case
CHICAGO — R&B singer R. Kelly’s
Pence in Colombia announces
new sanctions on Maduro
BOGOTA, Colombia — The Trump
administration announced new sanctions
today on allies of Venezuela’s Nicolas Mad-
uro and fi nancial assistance to his opponent
Juan Guaido as an effort to deliver humanitar-
ian aid to the economically devastated nation
faltered amid strong resistance from security
forces who remain loyal to the socialist leader.
Vice President Mike Pence arrived in the
Colombian capital for an emergency summit
of regional leaders to discuss Venezuela’s cri-
sis and immediately met with Guaido.
In a speech to the group, Pence urged
regional partners to freeze oil assets con-
trolled by Maduro, transfer the proceeds to
Guaido and restrict visas for Maduro’s inner
circle. He said the U.S. was imposing more
sanctions on four governors aligned with
Maduro, including the Venezuelan politician
who negotiated the release of a Utah man held
in jail more than two years on what were seen
as trumped-up weapons charges.
He also repeated President Donald
Trump’s threat that “all options are on the
table” — fi ery language that Guaido himself
has adopted in what many see as a dangerous
escalation of rhetoric hinting at the use of mil-
itary force.
Pence’s appearance before the Lima
Group — a 14-nation coalition of mostly con-
servative Latin American nations and Can-
ada that has joined together to pressure Mad-
uro — comes two days after a U.S.-backed
effort to deliver humanitarian across the bor-
der from Colombia ended in violence over the
weekend.
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