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6A » Tuesday, May31, 2016 » KITSAPSUN MONEY LIFE VERIZON STRIKERS TO RETURN DEPP ROCKS IN GERMANY Nearly 40,000 striking Verizon work- Johnny Depp’s personal prob- ersare scheduledtoreturn to work lems didn’t keep him from per- Wednesday after reaching atenta- forming over the weekend. After tive agreement on acontract that Amber Heardwas granted a provides gains forboth the telecom- restraining order against the munications giant and its employ- actor last week, Depp took the ees. The agreement ends the nearly stage Sunday in Germany with seven-week strike. ANDREASRENTZ/GETTY IMAGES his band, HollywoodVampires. Nation&World Watch From Gannett and wirereports vCincinnati: Vigil held in tribute to slaingorilla Dozens of animal rights advocates and others held aMemorialDay vigil at the Cincinnati Zoo in remembrance of ago- rillathat wasfatally shottoprotect a4- year-old boywho entered its exhibit. The male western lowland gorilla named Harambe waskilled Saturdayby aspecial zoo response team that feared the boy’slife wasindanger.Video taken by zoo visitors showed the gorilla at times appearing to be protectiveofthe boybut also dragging him through the shallowmoat. AnthonySeta, an animal rights activist in Cincinnati,said the purpose of Mon- day’svigil wasn’ttopoint fingers.Rather, he said, it wasatribute to Harambe,who turned 17 the daybefore he wasshot. vSenegal: Chaddictator convicted, sentenced to life Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre, 73,was found guilty Mondayofcrimes againsthumanity,war crimes, torture and sex crimes during his rule and was sentenced to life in prison, ending atrial PABLOMARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP more than 15 years in the making. PresidentBarack Obama lays awreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at ArlingtonNational Cemetery in Virginia. Victims,former prisoners and their relatives brokeout into whoops of joy, hugs and tears in the courtroom when the ruling wasannouncedbythe three- judgepanel in the special court in President honors fallen Senegal. Habre wasconvicted of being respon- sible for thousands of deaths and torture in prisons while in power from 1982 to from past, current wars 1990.A1992Chadian Truth Commission accused Habre’sgovernment of system- atic torture, saying 40,000 people died during his rule. It placed particular Obama urges acts WHITE HOUSE tional Football League blame on his police force. HOSTS MILITARY star-turned-ArmyRanger who of service to waskilled in Afghanistan in vPakistan: Roadside remember the dead Beforetraveling to Arlington 2004. bombingwounds3people National Cemetery,President “Every day, there are Ameri- APakistani police official saysaroad- Barack Obama held abreak- can families who prayfor the side bombing Mondaymorning in the Richard Wolf fast reception at the White sound of afamiliar voice when southern port city of Karachi wounded USA TODAY House for military leaders, thephone rings,orthe sound of three people, including aChinese na- family membersoffallen ser- alovedone’sletter or email ar- tional. WASHINGTON President Ba- vice membersand veterans riving,” Obama said. “More No one has claimed responsibility for rack Obama honored the na- groups. than 1million times in our his- the attack. Karachi is Pakistan’scommer- tion’sfallen on Memorial Day Associated Press tory,itdidn’tcome. Instead, a cial hub and has long been acenter of with aspecial tribute to three car pulled up to the house, ethnic and militant violence. Americans who died combating ceased parents. there wasaknock on the front Local and al-Qaida-linkedforeign mil- the Islamic State in Iraq during “Your moms and dads would door,and the sound of taps itants have been waging awar formore the pastyear. be so proud of you, and we are, floated through acemetery’s than adecade about the Pakistani state, During awreath-laying cere- too,” the president said. trees.” seeking to establish ahard-line Islamic monyatArlington National PABLOMARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP Noting the waysinwhich Seeking to turn remem- Cemetery’s Tomb of the Un- Sandra Titus of Dallas lis- those who have given their lives brance into action, the presi- regime. Tens of thousands of people have tens to PresidentBarack been killed in the violence. knowns,the president said Na- are remembered, Obama men- dent urged those in attendance vy SEAL Charles Keating IV,31; Obama speak Monday. tioned DorieMiller Elementary to fill the silence with acts of vRussia: EU leader to visit Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Louis School in SanAntonio,named service. in hintofdiplomatic thaw Cardin, 27;and ArmyMaster attendance.LastOctober for aNavyveteran who died in “A nation reveals itself not Sgt. Joshua Wheeler,39, were Wheeler became the firstU.S. World WarII; McPherson, Kan- only by the people it produces European Commission President among those who “didn’tspeak service member killed in the sas, named after Civil WarGen. but by those it remembers,” he Jean-ClaudeJunckerisgoingtoRussia the loudestabout their patrio- waragainstthe Islamic State, James Birdseye McPherson; 1st said. “Wedosonot justby nextmonth in what would be the most tism. They lettheir actions do also known as ISIL or ISIS. Sgt. BobbyMendez WayiN hoisting a flag but by lifting up high-profile EU visit since Russia an- that.” The annual ceremonywas at- Brooklyn,New York, whose our neighbors,not justbypaus- nexed Crimea two years ago, but both Wheeler’s wife, Ashley,seat- tended by about 6,000 people, namesakedied in Iraq in 2006; ing in silence but by practicing sides are downplaying the prospects of a ed with their 10-month-old son, manyofthem children of war and amemorial bridgeoverthe in our ownlives the ideals of more meaningfuldiplomaticthaw. received astanding ovation heroes wearing red shirts and HooverDam named in part af- opportunity and liberty and Likethe United States,the European when the president noted her holding photos of their de- ter PatTillman, the former Na- equality that they fought for.” Union has effectively frozen ties with Russia and imposed sanctions after its 2014 seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. Only ahandful of Euro- pean leaders have visited Moscowsince. Weather wreaks havocinTexas Russia’ssanctions-struck economy contractedbynearly 4percent lastyear, authorities said. floodwaters Friday, County ately clear whether it wasone while Russia’sretaliatory boycott of EU Greg Toppo NBC Newsreported that one EmergencyServices spokes- of the two. food products has spurred inflation. USA TODAY of the victims,64-year-old Lela woman LisaBlock told NBC In the latestincident, awom- vPhilippines: Lawmakers Holland, died Fridaywhen News. an died when the car in which Six people died and at least floods washed through her In hard-hit Houston, rising she wasriding wassweptfrom proclaimnextpresident two others were missing Sun- home, according to the Wash- rivers and creeks prompted the streetbythe flooded Cy- The Philippine Congress on Monday dayafter heavy rains in Texas ington County Sheriff’s Office. Harris County officials on Sat- press Creek about 1:30 a.m. proclaimed crime-busting Mayor Rodri- and Kansas caused severe Most of the other victims died urdaytoask about 750 families SundayinComfort, Texas, go Duterte as president-elect and Rep. flooding. In one case near Aus- when their vehicles were over- in the Northwood Pines subdi- north of San Antonio. Leni Robredo as vice president-elect of a tin, which received 9inches of taken by high water,according vision to voluntarily evacuate, Kendall County sheriff’s Cpl. country that has been posting high rain this week, avehicle with to police, including: the Houston Chronicle Reid Daly told NBC that the car growth rates but remains saddled with two people wassweptoffa uJimmyWayne Schaeffer, reported. had three occupants.The driver poverty,corruption and insurgencies. flooded roadway. 49,who waskilled when he SouthwestofHouston, Fort made it to safety,and afemale Duterte did notattend the ceremony Most of the deaths took place drove his truck into high water. Bend County officials warned of passenger wasrescued from a at the House of Representatives,telling in rural Washington County, uDarren Mitchell, 21, aNa- possible record-setting floods tree. But the body of 23-year- reporters earlier that he shuns such cer- Texas,between Austin and tional Guardsman, whose vehi- Tuesday, calling the event a old Florida Molima wasfound emonial proclamations. Houston, where more than cle wassweptoffthe road by “potential 100-year flood.” about 11 a.m. Sunday, about 1 Human rights groups have expressed 16 ⁄2 inches of rain fell in some floods. Near Austin in Travis Coun- 8miles downstream, Daly said. alarm about Duterte, who they suspect places late lastweek, the Asso- uPyarali Rajebhi Umatiya, ty,Texas, searchers looking for Near Fort Worth, authorities instigated extrajudicialkillings of many ciated Press reported. The bod- 59,who waskilled after his ve- two missing people whose vehi- were searching for a10-year- crime suspects by motorcycle-riding ies of two other missing hicle stalled in high water. cle wassweptoffaflooded old boywho fell into the Brazos gunmen dubbed the Davao death squads. motorists were found Saturday Twopeople in Travis County, roadway found abody,NBC re- River while fishing Sundaywith in separate parts of the county, Texas,were sweptaway in ported, but it wasn’timmedi- friends. Iraqi forces enter Fallujah, takeonmilitants qi strongholds. siegeonthe militants and ad- on Monday, killing at least24 USA TODAY “Our forces are still fighting vancing carefully,” he said. people and injuring dozens in three directions in Fallujah,” The government