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May 18, 2016 The Skanner Page 11 Bids & Classifi ed Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu RECREATION LEADER - CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER REPRESENTATIVE World News Briefs Salary: $15.02 - $21.68 Hourly Closing Date/ Time: Mon. 05/30/16 4:30 PM Pacifi c Time The Recreation Leader – Customer Service Center Rep- resentative works within Portland Parks & Recreation’s Customer Service Center. The position accepts and pro- cesses class and activity registrations, facility reserva- tions, rental applications, and processes and issues per- mits. For more detailed information for this position or to apply, please visit www.portlandoregon.gov/jobs. FBI: Sydney Siege Gunman had Raised Incitement Concerns Underage Migrants Live in Shadows Across Europe Outside the train station in Rome, teen migrants sell drugs from school backpacks and trade sex for cash or clothes. In the capital of Sweden, they steal food from supermarkets and sleep on the streets. From makeshift camps along the northern French coast, they try to hop at night onto the backs of moving trucks headed to Britain. All across Europe, there is a growing shadow population of thousands of underage migrants who are living on their own, without families. They hide silently and in plain sight, rarely no- ticed in the crowd. Nobody even knows how many of them there are — Europol estimates broadly that at least 10,000 kids have gone missing from shelters or reception centers. These unaccompanied minors are 5-18-16 SUBSIDIZED HOUSING AP PHOTO/ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Hawthorne East Apartments, located in Portland, offers subsidized housing for seniors and people with disabil- ities. We are currently accepting applications for our newly remodeled, spacious one bedroom apartment homes. Come by for a personalized tour of our community or contact the office for more information: (503) 230-0306. 1420 SE 16th Ave, Portland, OR 97214. 5-18-16 People run for safety during a minor land slide following heavy rains in Elangipitiya village in Aranayaka about 72 kilometers (45 miles) north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Soldiers and police used sticks and bare hands Wednesday to dig through enormous piles of mud covering houses in three villages hit by massive landslides in central Sri Lanka, with hundreds of families reported missing. slipping through the seams of a Euro- pean system strained to bursting, and they present one of the biggest chal- lenges of the migrant crisis. The fact that accurate numbers are so hard to come by refl ects the shortcom- ings of the bloc’s 28 member states in implementing laws and guidelines that are supposed to protect asylum seekers in general and unaccompanied minors in particular. While the problem is not new, the sheer volume of migrants ar- riving last year has made it acute. Like adult migrants, minors are fl ooding into Europe for both security and economic reasons, the AP found in interviews with more than two dozen. The question is where they end up. Imran, a 13-year-old from Afghani- AP PHOTO/ELAINE GANLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years be- fore he held 18 people hostage inside a Sydney cafe, Iranian-born Man Haron Monis attracted the attention of the FBI as someone who had “the potential to incite others to violence,” according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. A November 2009 memorandum from an FBI offi ce in Australia to the agency’s counterterrorism division said that while Monis was not believed to be a threat to national security, “his ongoing off ensive and nuisance behav- ior has the potential to incite others to violence.” A shotgun-wielding Monis took cus- tomers and workers captive in a De- cember 2014 siege at the Lindt Cafe in Sydney and demanded to be delivered an Islamic State fl ag, an incident that fueled anxiety about the extremist group’s expanding infl uence across the globe. Police stormed the cafe 16 hours later, aft er Monis fatally shot one of the hostages. Monis was shot dead by po- lice and another hostage was killed in the crossfi re. Though it’s been established that Australian authorities failed to detect that Monis was a threat, despite years of warnings, the memo shows how the FBI was itself concerned about his rhet- oric even before the Islamic State group emerged as a prominent international force and well ahead of the siege. The documents are heavily redacted, and it was not immediately clear what addi- tional action, if any, was taken in Aus- tralia or how widely that assessment was shared across Australian law en- forcement. The memo, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, was draft ed as the FBI considered whether the self-styled cleric with a long crim- inal history should be able to have a U.S.-based Internet service provider host his website. The memo noted that Monis, who also went by the name of Sheikh Haron, maintained on his web- site “infl ammatory and fundamentalist material regarding the Islamic reli- gion, jihad, suicide bombings and ter- rorism.” A “veiled call to jihad against President Barack Obama” had also been observed on the site, according to the note. In this photo taken on Friday, April 15, 2016, 13-year- old Imran, his nickname, an unaccompanied minor from Laghman in Afghanistan, leaves the Jungle Book Restaurant for Kids, set up by volunteers on the main passageway through the makeshift migrant camp in Calais in northern France. Imran, who says he has been at the squalid camp for fi ve months, tries most nights to jump into a truck hauling freight across the English Channel to join his uncle in Britain. All across Europe, there is a growing shadow population of thousands of under-age migrants who are living on their own, without families. They hide silently and in plain sight, rarely noticed in the crowd. Nobody even knows how many of them there are -- Europol estimates broadly that at least 10,000 kids have gone missing from shelters or reception centers. stan, has passed through at least eight countries, mostly on foot, and is now trying to make it from a squalid mi- grant camp in Calais to the U.K. He dresses neatly in a donated sweat suit and tells his story politely. Only his gym shoes cracking at the seams and the cloud over his face hint at the hardship of his life, light years from his dreams of going to “doctor school.” Over 200 Families Feared Buried by Mudslides in Sri Lanka TRANSPORTATION PLANNING MANAGER Closing Date/Time: Mon. 05/30/16 4:30 PM Pacifi c Time Salary: $7,910.00 - $10,718.00 Monthly The Transportation Planning Division Manager is respon- sible for shaping the future use of Portland's right of way and the availability of transportation options of all modes. The Transportation Planning Division Manager directs the planning team in preparation of transportation plans, transit plans, and related infrastructure plans. To view full announcement visit: www.portlandoregon.gov/jobs. 5-18-16 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A massive land- slide triggered by torren- tial rains buried homes in three villages in the Placing an central hills of Sri Lan- T heSkan ad is easy at ka, and more than 200 ner.com families were missing Wednesday and feared buried under the mud and debris, the Sri Lank- an Red Cross said. the medicine broken and competition Sixteen bodies have already been recovered and about 180 thrown open to generic rivals. people have been rescued from the Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria’s enormous piles of mud unleashed at remarks in an interview Tuesday are around 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to the strongest yet in an increasingly military spokesman Brig. Jayanath Jay- public fi ght with the world’s biggest aweera. drugmaker that could set a precedent More than 300 soldiers were de- for middle-income countries grappling ployed to search for survivors in the to contain rising prices for complex villages of Siripura, Pallebage and Ela- drugs. gipitya in Kegalle District, about 72 ki- Memos leaked last week to a nonprof- lometers (45 miles) north of Colombo, it group, written from the Colombian Jayaweera said. Heavy fog and continu- Embassy in Washington, describe in- ing rain, along with electricity outages tense lobbying pressure on Colombia, a and the instability of the ground, were staunch U.S. ally, from the pharmaceu- complicating rescue eff orts. tical industry and its allies in the U.S. Some 220 families were reported Congress. missing on Wednesday, the Sri Lankan In one memo, the embassy warns Red Cross said in a statement. Offi cials that breaking Novartis’ patent for the said the situation was unclear. leukemia drug Gleevec could hurt U.S. State broadcaster Rupavahini showed support for Colombia’s bid to join the images of huge mounds of earth cover- proposed Trans-Pacifi c Partnership ing houses, while torrents of muddy trade zone and even jeopardize $450 water gushed from hilltops above. Vil- million in U.S. assistance for a peace lagers said 66 houses had been buried deal with left ist rebels. or damaged, according to local journal- The memos followed meetings be- ist Saman Bandara. tween Colombian diplomats and offi - cials from the Offi ce of the U.S. Trade Representative and a Republican staff - Colombia Battles er on the Senate Finance Committee World’s Biggest whose chairman, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Drugmaker Utah, has close ties to the pharmaceuti- cal industry. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Gaviria, an economist by training, government is giving pharmaceutical said the pressure shows the forceful giant Novartis a few weeks to lower steps that the pharmaceutical industry prices on a popular cancer drug or is willing to take to protect its commer- see its monopoly on production of cial interests.
