WORLD NEWS December 12, 2018 5 Protesters Reject ‘Crumbs’ Brexit in Turmoil as EU Rejects Renegotiation SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -- A former Offered by Macron Canadian diplomat has been detained in China, “All this is cinema, it doesn’t tackle two sources said on Tuesday, and his current the problems of substance,” he told AFP employer, the International Crisis Group, said it was seeking his prompt and safe release. before taking part in blocking the Boulou Michael Kovrig’s detention comes after police turnpike on the French-Spanish border. in Canada arrested the chief financial officer of “We’re really wound up, we’re going China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Dec. back to battle,” he said. 1 at the request of U.S. authorities, a move Less than an hour after the presidential that infuriated Beijing. It was not immediately address, the A9 toll booth from Spain clear if the cases were related, but the arrest was completely paralyzed, an AFP of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver photographer said. has stoked fears of reprisals against the foreign “Maybe if Macron had made this speech business community in China. Kovrig, a Mandarin speaker, has been working as a full- three weeks ago, it would have calmed time expert for the International Crisis Group the movement, but now it’s too late,” said since February 2017. From 2003 to 2016, he Gaetan, 34, one of the “Rennes Lapins worked as a diplomat with stints in Beijing and Jaunes” (Yellow Rabbits of Rennes). “For Hong Kong, among others, according to his us, this speech is nonsense.” profile on LinkedIn. In the northwest, at a roundabout at the *** end of the A28 in Montabon, near Le ROME (Reuters) -- Police said they were Mans, “yellow vests” gathered under a A person is dressed as British Prime Minister Theresa May at a “Brexit carrying out searches Tuesday linked to 25 heated tent to watch the president on TV, Protesters wearing yellow vests watch French President Emmanuel Fudge” pop-up shop organized by pro-Europe activists Best for Britain suspected accomplices of Matteo Messina sharing a picnic. outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Dec. 10, 2018. Denaro, a Sicilian Mafia boss who has been Macron on a TV screen at the motorway toll booth in La Ciotat, near “Too bad, blew it again!” exclaimed on the run for more than two decades. The Marseille, France, December 10, 2018. Etienne. “Santa Claus has nothing in his THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) deal we have achieved is the best deal Carabinieri force said it had also detained sack,” laughed Hubert. — Top European Union officials on possible. It is the only deal possible.” another important member of the island’s Mafia group, who is under investigation LE BOULOU, France (AFP) -- At a roundabout in the southern town Over in eastern France, at the Cafe de Tuesday ruled out any renegotiation But he added that “if used intelligently, Groups of “yellow vest” protesters of Le Boulou, some 150 “yellow vests” la Paix in Commercy, about 15 “yellow for alleged organized crime association and of the divorce agreement with Britain, (there) is room enough to give further fraudulent transfer of valuables. It did not across France responded scathingly gathered around a loudspeaker listened vests” watched Macron’s speech with as Prime Minister Theresa May fought clarification and further interpretations to the “crumbs” offered by President carefully to the president’s words before give a name. The searches started in the a glass of Picon and a basket of fries, to save her Brexit deal by lobbying without opening the withdrawal early hours of Tuesday and were focused Emmanuel Macron in a speech starting to shout in chorus. interrupting the presidential address with leaders in Europe’s capitals. agreement.” on the Sicilian towns of Mazara del Vallo intended to defuse their revolt, but “He is trying to do a pirouette to land ironic sneers. May began her quest over breakfast EU leaders have often supplemented and Castelvetrano, police said. They were others acknowledged his efforts. back on his feet but we can see that “Sir feels bad,” Elisabeth, a 66-year-old with Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte, a agreements with political declarations part of an investigation to catch the fugitive, “Nonsense,” “a charade”, “a bluff” he isn’t sincere, that it’s all smoke and retiree, said mockingly as the president day after she abandoned a vote in the that clarify their interpretation of elements the Carabinieri added. Messina Denaro – and “a drop in the ocean,” were among mirrors,” said Jean-Marc, a car mechanic. acknowledged that he had “hurt some”. UK Parliament to secure support for the of an accord or provide assurances about nicknamed “Diabolik” – has been on the run since 1993 and comes from the province the immediate reactions that greeted the “It’s just window dressing, for the “It was about time,” added Damien, in agreement thrashed out with the EU over how parts of any deal might work. head of state’s televised speech Monday media, some trivial measures, it almost his thirties. “Liar,” a woman shouted. “He of Trapani, a port town to the west of Sicily’s more than a year. She acknowledged that In Brussels, Danish Foreign Minister capital, Palermo. He was seen as the heir evening announcing an increase in the seems like a provocation,” said Thierry, is being held hostage so he drops some the deal would be rejected in London “by Anders Samuelsen also said that EU minimum wage and a range of other 55, a bicycle mechanic who donned the of the Sicilian Mafia’s most powerful boss, crumbs,” said Jonathan, a 35-year-old a significant margin.” countries might be willing to clarify parts Salvatore “Toto” Riina, who died in prison financial measures. yellow vest a fortnight ago. official. Rutte betrayed little of their of the deal. in November last year. But prosecutors last conversation, tweeting only that they had “It is always a political option to clarify week said Messina Denaro was not the “a useful dialogue which saw us discuss if that is needed, what is meant, what kind boss of bosses as he did not control all of the latest Brexit developments.” of underlining is needed,” Samuelsen Palermo’s powerful clans. Trump Threatens to Use Military to Build Border Wall But European Commission President told reporters. *** Military will build the remaining Jean-Claude Juncker warned that the One of the main sticking points since SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -- Kneeling in front of sections of the Wall. They know agreement— almost 600 pages long, the Brexit talks began has been how to riot police, 32 religious leaders and activists how important it is!” Trump said. highly technical and legally binding — keep goods flowing between Northern were arrested at the U.S. border fence in San Schumer and Pelosi said Monday cannot be re-opened for negotiation at a Ireland in the UK and EU member Diego on Monday during a protest to support that Republicans have the power summit of EU leaders on Thursday. He country Ireland. May is sure to seek the Central American migrant caravan. More to keep the government open since did say, however, that elements of the flexibility on this from her European than 400 demonstrators, many leaders of deal could still be clarified. partners. churches, mosques, synagogues and indigenous they control Congress and the White communities, sought a halt to detention and House. “There is no room whatsoever But Juncker said that the so-called deportation of migrants and for the United “Our country cannot afford a Trump for renegotiation,” Juncker told EU “backstop” — an insurance arrangement States to welcome the caravan that arrived Shutdown,” they said in a statement, lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, as he to ensure that no hard border appears in Tijuana, Mexico in November. Singing and adding that Trump “knows full well briefed them on the summit. after Brexit on March 29 — must remain, praying, religious leaders moved forward that his wall proposal does not have Juncker, who was set to meet May on even though it was never meant to be in lines of four to six, some wearing T-shirts the votes to pass the House and Tuesday evening, reiterated that “the used. reading, “Love Knows No Borders.” They were Senate and should not be an obstacle handcuffed and led away by federal agents to a bipartisan agreement.” upon entering a restricted area in front of the fence. “As a Quaker who believes in our shared Republican congressional leaders humanity...We’re calling on the U.S. to respect have repeatedly said it’s up to Trump China Warns U.S., Canada the rights of migrants,” said Joyce Ajlouny, to cut a deal with Democrats, an general secretary of the American Friends acknowledgment of their inability Service Committee, which has run a week of A police officer and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to produce spending bills with Against Bullying Citizens actions to back migrants. official detain people during a gathering in support of the migrant Republican votes alone. *** caravan in San Diego, U.S., close to the border wall between the That gives Democrats some LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- Two Catholic United States and Mexico, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico December momentum heading into the closed- school nuns in California have admitted 10, 2018. door talks, which also could veer to embezzling about $500,000, and using into Trump’s request for emergency the funds over the years for travel and WASHINGTON (AP) — shutdown on Dec. 21, when funding funding for deadly wildfires in gambling in Las Vegas, their order said.