WORLD NEWS November 30, 2019 5 Johnson Tells Trump to North Korea Improves Keep Out of UK Election Missiles With New Test DURRES, Albania (Reuters) -- Rescue work- ers sifted through the rubble of a hotel by the would leave without agreement on the Adriatic Sea for possible survivors on Friday, terms with Brussels and potentially three days after a 6.4-magnitude destroyed the expose itself to more economic uncer- six-storey building and many others in the Alba- tainty - but that he expected to secure nian port of Durres and surrounding areas.The a trade deal with the EU by the end of death toll from the quake, Albania’s worst ever, 2020. has reached 49. There have been more than 500 “Many of those preparations will be aftershocks since Tuesday’s quake, some with extremely valuable as we come out of a magnitude of more than 5.0, rocking already EU arrangements anyway,” he told re- damaged buildings and terrifying residents.The porters. sea-front hotel, the Mira Mare, is now the only The U.S. president, who is due to ar- site where rescue work is still continuing. The rive on Monday, has cast Johnson as search teams, from neighboring Serbia, Mon- “Britain’s Trump” and during a previ- tenegro and North Macedonia, said a female ous visit criticized Johnson’s prede- dancer was believed to be buried beneath the cessor Theresa May over her Brexit rubble.Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said policy. 25 people had died in Durres, 23 in the northern Labour’s Corbyn has said Johnson town of Thumane and one in the town of Lac. will sell off parts of Britain’s widely A missile is fired during the test of a multiple rocket launcher in this undated photo The quake damaged more than 700 houses in U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on released on August 25, 2019 by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency. cherished health service to U.S. busi- Durres, destroyed 12 more and left nearly 200 the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 24, 2019. apartment buildings with cracks and fissures, he nesses after Brexit, but Johnson denied SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korean and September missiles were fired 17 leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great minutes and 19 minutes apart, respec- said.Rama extended a 30-day state of emergency LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime Min- “What we don’t do traditionally as this. Trump previously said everything already in force in Durres and Thumane to Lac. satisfaction” over the latest test of a tively, the JCS said. ister Boris Johnson said on Friday loving allies and friends, what we don’t including health should be on the table A family of six was due to be buried in Thumane it would be “best” if U.S. President do traditionally, is get involved in each in trade talks, though he later said large multiple-rocket launcher, state By the end of October crews had nar- on Friday. Donald Trump does not get involved other’s election campaigns,” Johnson, health would not be. media said on Friday, a launch that rowed that interval to three minutes, in Britain’s election when he visits 55, told LBC radio. Johnson said he would use Brexit to experts said showcased improving per- while on Thursday the gap between the *** London for a NATO summit next “The best (thing) when you have introduce new state aid rules, change formance by the system and its crews. two missiles was only about 30 seconds. KINSHASA (AFP) -- Measles has killed more week. close friends and allies like the U.S. state purchasing policies and reform North Korea fired two short-range “The volley test-fire aimed to finally than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic Trump waded into the election in and the UK is for neither side to get in- farming so that pubic bodies aim to projectiles into the sea off its east coast examine the combat application of the of Congo since January -- more than double the October by saying opposition Labour volved in each other’s election.” “buy British” goods. on Thursday in a fourth test of its new super-large multiple-launch rocket sys- toll in the country’s Ebola epidemic -- the World Party leader Jeremy Corbyn would be Johnson has said that, if he retains “The NHS is not for sale,” he said. “super-large multiple-rocket launcher”, tem proved the military and technical Health Organization said Wednesday.“The DRC “so bad” for Britain and that Johnson power, he will deliver Brexit by Jan. Taking questions from LBC listeners, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) superiority of the weapon system and its (measles) outbreak is the largest outbreak world- should agree a pact with Brexit Party 31 — after nearly four years of politi- he declined to say how many children said told a briefing. firm reliability,” KCNA said. wide. It is one of the largest that we have seen,” leader Nigel Farage. cal crisis following a 2016 referendum he had or whether he would have any The latest test of the so-called KN-25 Photos released by KCNA showed mis- Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s immuniza- But senior Conservatives are nervous in which Britons voted to leave the Eu- more. missile came as a Thanksgiving Day re- siles being fired from a transporter-erec- tion department, told reporters in Geneva.As of that Trump could upset the campaign ropean Union. Johnson, 55, is living at the prime minder to the United States of a year-end tor-launcher equipped with four launcher November 17, the country had registered 250,270 when in London, just over a week be- He said he wanted to keep in place minister’s Downing Street residence deadline Kim has set for Washington to tubes. measles cases, including 5,110 deaths, the WHO fore the Dec. 12 election which polls government preparations for a possible with his partner Carrie Symonds after show flexibility in their stalled denucle- The new short-range missiles pose a said.DRC declared its latest measles epidemic in indicate Johnson is on course to win. no-deal Brexit - under which Britain separating from his wife last year. arization talks. direct threat to South Korea and U.S. June, and in September the country launched an The series of tests since the KN-25 was forces stationed there, experts said. emergency vaccination campaign to counter the first unveiled in August show the North The missiles traveled up to 380 km outbreak.WHO said that campaign was still on- going, but was expected to be completed by the Koreans steadily improving their abil- (236 miles) and reached an altitude of 97 China Summons U.S. Envoy Over end of the year.O’Brien said the epidemic was ity to quickly fire multiple rockets from km, according to the JCS, putting nearly still “all over the country”, pointing out that most their mobile launch vehicles. all of South Korea within range. of those affected were “children and babies”. That capability makes it more likely “North Korea is trying to selectively Measles is a highly-contagious disease caused Hong Kong Bills that in case of a war, North Korean modernize conventional forces in a low- by a virus that attacks mainly children. The most try said. rocket crews could speedily deploy, fire cost, high-efficiency way to focus on serious complications include blindness, brain and move before being targeted by South the economy and reassure the military The U.S. laws, which passed both swelling, diarrhea, and severe respiratory infec- Korean or American forces, experts said. while nuclear talks are under way, and tions. chambers of Congress almost unani- “The faster it fires, the quicker it can the rocket launcher is a product of that mously, mandate sanctions on Chinese (get) out of dodge before counter-fire effort,” said Kim Dong-yub, a former *** and Hong Kong officials over Hong arrives,” Jeffrey Lewis, a missile re- South Korean Navy officer who teaches BRASILIA (AFP) -- Brazil on Thursday re- Kong, require an annual review of searcher at the James Martin Center for at Kyungnam University in Seoul. leased revised statistics showing deforestation in Hong Kong’s favorable trade status Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), said on “The latest test indicated that the sys- the Amazon rainforest surpassed 10,000 square and prohibit the export to Hong Kong Twitter. tem was ready for mass production and kilometers (3,860 square miles) in the year to police of certain nonlethal munitions. In the first two KN-25 tests in August deployment.” July 2019, the highest in more than a decade. The National Institute for Space Research “I signed these bills out of respect for (INPE) said last week that satellite data showed President Xi, China, and the people of 9,762 square kilometers were cleared of trees in Hong Kong,” Trump said in a state- Russia Arrests Woman Suspected the 12-month period, an increase of 29.5 per- ment. “They are being enacted in the cent.This week’s revised statistics released by the hope that Leaders and Representatives INPE show the increase was even greater than of China and Hong Kong will be able of Spying for Ukraine thought: a 43 percent jump in deforestation in the world’s largest rainforest, for a total loss of to amicably settle their differences A protester holds a tear gas canister during a protest in Hong Kong, China October 20, 2019. 10,100 square kilometers in the 12 months to leading to long term peace and pros- July.That’s against a loss of 7,033 square kilo- BEIJING (Dispatches) — China not unexpected. Neither was the reac- perity for all.” meters between August 2017 and July 2018.The reacted furiously Thursday to Presi- tion from Beijing, given China’s ada- Since the Hong Kong protests began data’s announcement came after fires ravaged dent Donald Trump’s signing two mant rejections of any commentary on in June, Beijing has responded to ex- swaths of the rainforest earlier this year, ignit- pressions of support for riots from the ing a global outcry and diplomatic feud between bills aimed at supporting unrest in what it considers an internal issue. President Jair Bolsonaro and European leaders. U.S. and other countries by accusing Hong Kong, summoning the U.S. Nevertheless, the clash comes at a Far-right Bolsonaro is a proponent of develop- ambassador to protest and warning sensitive time and could upset already them of orchestrating the unrest to con- ing agricultural and mining activities in the the move would undermine coopera- thorny trade negotiations between the tain China’s development. The central Amazon, 60 percent of which lies in Brazil’s tion with Washington. two nations. government has blamed foreign “black borders. hands” bent on destroying the city. Hong Kong, a former British colony Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le *** that was granted semi-autonomy when Yucheng told U.S. Ambassador Terry C.Y. Leung, a former chief execu- tive of Hong Kong, said at a talk at the HARARE (AFP) -- Zimbabwe is facing “man- China took control in 1997, has been Branstad that the move constituted made” starvation with 60 percent of the people rocked by six months of violent dem- “serious interference in China’s inter- Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong failing to meet basic food needs, a UN special onstrations. nal affairs and a serious violation of Kong that he doubts the U.S. or sup- envoy said Thursday after touring the southern Thousands of protesters crowded a international law,” a foreign ministry porters of the bills “ever had the inter- Traffic police officers stand in front of a graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir African country.Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur public square in downtown Hong Kong statement said. est of Hong Kong in mind.” Putin on the wall of a building in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 14, 2018. on the right to food, ranked Zimbabwe among the He suggested Hong Kong was be- four top countries facing severe food shortages on Thursday night to thank the United Le called it a “nakedly hegemonic MOSCOW (Dispatches) -- Russia half of Ukraine. ing used as a “proxy” for China and outside nations in conflict zones.“The people of States for passing the laws and vowed act.” He urged the U.S. not to imple- said Friday it has arrested a woman Details of treason and espionage Zimbabwe are slowly getting to a point of suf- to “march on” in their fight. ment the bills to prevent greater dam- the legislation was a way to hit back in Crimea for allegedly trying to cases are often classified and in many fering a man-made starvation,” she told a news Trump’s approval of the bills was age to U.S.-China relations, the minis- at Beijing. obtain Russian military secrets on cases never fully come to light. conference in Harare, adding that eight mil- behalf of the Ukrainian government. Relations between Moscow and Kiev lion people would be affected by the end of the The Federal Security Service (FSB) have deteriorated since 2014, when year.“Today, Zimbabwe counts amongst the four said the woman was arrested on sus- the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea re- highest food insecure states,” she said after an Sudan’s New Law Dismantles Bashir’s Regime picion of treason in the city of Sevas- joined Russia following a referendum, 11-day tour, adding that poor harvests were com- KHARTOUM (AFP) -- Ousted President Omar al- Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, issued the decree under the law topol. where more than 90 percent of partici- pounded by 490 percent hyperinflation.“A stag- Bashir’s party on Friday condemned Sudan’s new “ille- “Dismantling of the regime of 30th June, 1989.” “She was recruited by Ukraine’s pants voted in favor of the move. gering 5.5 million people are currently facing gal government” for ordering its closure and the disman- “The National Congress Party is dissolved and its registra- special services and purposefully col- Kiev, along with the West, brands the food insecurity” in rural areas due to a drought that has affected harvests, she said.Another 2.2 tling of his regime that ruled the country for 30 years. tion is cancelled from the list of political parties in Sudan,” lected classified military information reunification as annexation of Ukrai- million people in urban areas also faced food Sudan’s new authorities on Thursday approved a law order- the decree said, adding that a committee would be formed to under the instruction of the Main In- nian land by Russia. telligence Directorate of Ukraine’s De- Since taking office, Ukrainian Presi- shortages and lacked access to minimum public ing the leader’s National Congress Party (NCP) to be dis- confiscate all its assets. services, including health and safe water. solved, its assets confiscated and the regime dismantled as Bashir seized power on June 30, 1989, in a coup that top- fense Ministry,” said the FBS without dent Volodymyr Zelensky has started demanded by the protest movement that led to Bashir’s fall pled the then elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq naming her. exploring the possibility of talks with *** in April. al-Mahdi. The woman faces up to 20 years in his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin LONDON (Reuters) -- British Prime Minister On Friday, the NCP accused the authorities of trying to Hamdok said the law to dissolve the party and dismantle prison if found guilty. Ukraine has not to resolve the conflict. Boris Johnson said on Friday he would not say confiscate its properties and assets to tackle Sudan’s eco- the regime was “not revenge” against the former rulers. reacted to the arrest yet. He said in September that Kiev was how many children he had, saying that he would nomic crisis, which it said the new government had failed “But it aims to preserve the dignity of (the) Sudanese peo- Russian lawmaker, Dmitry Belik, preparing a roadmap, with clear dead- not “put them on the pitch” ahead of the Dec. to tackle. ple which was crushed by dishonest people,” he wrote on said the woman worked as a civilian lines to be discussed with the leaders 12 election.“I love my children very much, but “To rely on the assets of the party, if there are any, is noth- Twitter. “This law aims to recover the plundered wealth of employee at Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, of Russia, Germany and France, for they are not standing at this election, and I am ing more than a moral scandal, an act of intellectual bank- the people.” which is based in Sevastopol. implementing a peace deal in eastern not therefore going to comment,” said Johnson, ruptcy and a total failure on the part of the illegal govern- The Sudanese Professionals Association, the group that had She became the second person to be Ukraine. whose colorful love life has attracted tabloid at- ment,” the NCP said on its Facebook page. “The party is not initially led protests against Bashir, welcomed the decision. arrested this month by Russian forces Shortly afterward, the two sides ex- tention in the past.“I am not going to put them bothered by any law or decision issued against it as the NCP “It is a major step towards achieving the goal of the revolu- on suspicion of military espionage for changed some of prisoners to pave the on to the pitch in this election.”When asked if he is a strong party and its ideas will prevail.” tion and on the path of building a democratic civilian state,” Ukraine. way for serious negotiations. was going to have more children, Johnson, 55, The authorities have also slapped a ban on any “symbols” it said in a statement. On Nov. 20, the FSB said it had de- President Putin said at the time that who is living at Downing Street with his partner of the former regime from taking part in political activities On Thursday, the sovereign council and the cabinet also tained a Russian serviceman in the the prisoner swaps would be “a good Carrie Symonds after separating from his wife for 10 years. formally rescinded a controversial public-order law that had southern region of Rostov on suspicion step forward towards the normaliza- last year, said: “I’m not going to get into discus- sions (on this).” The new ruling sovereign council and cabinet led by Prime severely curtailed women’s rights under Bashir. of stealing military information on be- tion (of relations)” with Kiev.