WORLD NEWS December 4, 2017 5 Trump Pulls U.S. Out of North Korea: U.S. Drill Could Trigger WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A senior U.S. general said that countries like and are actively building weapons that can target space- UN Immigration Pact based U.S. military assets like satellites. “They’ve been building weapons, testing weapons, announced. Nuclear War building weapons to operate from the earth in “Today, the U.S. Mission to the space, jamming weapons, laser weapons, and they United Nations informed the UN have not kept it secret,” Gen. John Hyten, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, told an audience at the Secretary-General that the United Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, States is ending its participation in the California. “They’re building those capabilities Global Compact on Migration,” the to challenge the of America, to Americans said in a statement. challenge our allies, and to change the balance of In September 2016, the 193 power in the world,” added Hyten, who oversees members of the UN General Assembly all U.S. military operations in space. “We cannot allow that to happen.” Russia and China saw how unanimously adopted a non-binding the U.S. military made successful use of satellites political declaration, the New during military operations like the 1991 Persian York Declaration for Refugees and Gulf War and now seek ways to deny the U.S. the Migrants, pledging to uphold the rights ability to use satellites in future conflicts, Hyten of refugees, help them resettle and said. One critical space-based asset are satellites ensure they have access to education that warn U.S. military planners about the launch of enemy missiles. “Every missile that comes off the and jobs. planet is seen first by one of our overhead missile “The New York Declaration warning capabilities,” Hyten said, adding that the President Donald Trump moves to pull the U.S. out of a United Nations contains numerous provisions that are satellites are “not easy to defend.” compact on refugees and migration as part of his “America First” inconsistent with U.S. immigration *** foreign policy. and refugee policies and the Trump Administration’s immigration PARIS (Dispatches) -- Protesters have marched WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The to improve the handling of migrant principles. This file photo taken on October 26, 2017 shows North Korean soldiers through the streets of Paris in protest against (L) looking at the South side on the border between North and South reports of slavery in Libya. administration of President Donald and refugee situations, deeming As a result, President Trump People held banners reading “stop slavery in Trump has withdrawn the United it “inconsistent” with its policies, determined that the United States Korea. Libya in the 21st century,” and marched through States from a United Nations pact the U.S. mission to the global body would end its participation in the SEOUL (Dispatches) -- North Korea after Pyongyang’s foreign ministry accused the center to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Compact process that aims to reach Sunday blasted the United States and the Trump administration of “begging for Mano, one of the protesters, said he had not wanted international consensus at the UN in as “warmongers” on the nuclear war” by staging what it called the to come to France. “It’s not like we want to come 2018,” the U.S. statement said. eve of their largest-ever joint air exercise, reckless air drills. to . It’s because Sarkozy went to destroy Libya.” The protest was triggered by the recent U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley saying it could trigger a nuclear war. McMaster said the possibility of war with Shafiq Missing After UAE The comments came as White House the North was “increasing every day”. CNN report of its undercover journalists filming said the country would continue its men being sold at auction in Libya. “generosity” in supporting migrants National Security Advisor H.R McMaster “I think it’s increasing every day, which *** and refugees around the world, but that warned of the “increasing” possibility of means that ... we are in a race to be able to war with the nuclear-armed North. solve this problem,” he said at a forum on “our decisions on immigration policies PARIS (Dispatches) -- Malian soldiers killed by a Deports Him to Egypt The five-day Vigilant Ace drill - involving Saturday. must always be made by Americans French military strike in northern Mali in October some 230 aircraft including F-22 Raptor “There are ways to address this problem were hostages of Takfiri militants, not deserters and Americans alone.” stealth jet fighters - begins Monday, short of armed conflict, but it is a race turned extremist as French authorities say, Mali’s “We will decide how best to control five days after the North test-fired an because he’s getting closer and closer, and president said in a newspaper interview published our borders and who will be allowed to intercontinental ballistic missile believed there’s not much time left,” he said. Sunday. enter our country. The global approach capable of hitting the U.S. mainland in a The North says the Hwasong-15 missile Malian and French officials have given contradicting accounts of the Oct. 23 strike on a in the New York Declaration is simply fresh challenge to President Donald Trump. fired Wednesday can be tipped with a not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.” camp of the Ansar Dine militant group, which the The North’s ruling party Rodong “super-large heavy warhead” capable of French army said took 15 militants “out of action.” Under Trump and his “America newspaper slammed the upcoming drill. striking the whole U.S. mainland. But in an interview with Jeune Afrique magazine, First” policies, the United States “It is an open, all-out provocation against The months-long nuclear standoff between Malian President Ibrahim Boubakar Keita insisted has withdrawn from several global the DPRK, which may lead to a nuclear war Kim and Trump has fuelled concerns of that was not the case: “They were the terrorists’ commitments made under the any moment,” it said in an editorial Sunday, another conflict, after the 1950-53 Korean hostages and there should be no ambiguity about administration of president Barack using the North’s official name. War left much of the peninsula in ruin. that between our French friends and us,” he said. Obama, including the Paris climate “The U.S. and South Korean puppet But even some Trump advisers say “It’s regrettable, it can unfortunately happen in warmongers would be well advised to bear U.S. military options are limited when this type of operations. We should admit it and not deal. look for reasons that don’t exist.” More recently, American pulled in mind that their DPRK-targeted military Pyongyang could launch an artillery barrage out of the Paris-based culture and drill will be as foolish as an act precipitating on the South Korean capital Seoul - only *** education body, UNESCO, accusing it their self-destruction,” it said. around 50 kilometers from the border and DUBLIN (Reuters) -- It is not yet clear if Britain of “anti-Israel bias.” The commentary was published a day home to 10 million people. and the European Union will be able to agree on written assurances to avoid a hard Northern Ireland border in time for a Monday deadline, Ireland’s foreign minister Simon Coveney said Egypt’s former prime minister Ahmed Shafik speaks during an interview Sunday. But he said he was hopeful a meeting between with Reuters at his residence in Abu Dhabi on February 6, 2013. May Under Pressure to Reveal Brexit Cost British Prime Minister Theresa May and European (Dispatches) -- Senior Council President Donald Tusk on Monday would create momentum towards a deal in time for a Dec. CAIRO (Reuters) -- The family of him in a convoy from the airport. Conservatives are demanding “We know nothing about him since he 14-15 EU summit to allow Britain to move on to former Egyptian prime minister Theresa May be clear about how Ahmed Shafiq said on Sunday it has left home yesterday,” Shafiq’s daughter talks on its future trading relations with the bloc. much the British public will be “The hope is that those meetings will result in a lost contact with him since they say May told Reuters. “If he was deported forced to pay to settle the Brexit momentum that can be carried in to the leaders’ he was deported from the United he should have been able to go home by summit the week after ... and can allow this Brexit Arab Emirates to Cairo days after now, not just disappear. We consider him “divorce bill”. MPs and peers, including former negotiation process to open up to phase two of announcing his intention to run for kidnapped.” discussions,” Coveney told RTE radio. Asked president next year. The family and lawyer said they planned cabinet ministers, say that with the if he expected an agreed text of written British Shafiq, a former air force chief and to file complaints with the prosecutor’s bill agreed this week and likely to assurances on the issue by Monday morning, government minister, has been seen by office around Shafiq’s whereabouts. be between 40 billion pounds and Coveney said: “Let’s not run before we can walk critics of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “I call on the Egyptian authorities.... to 50 billion, the time has come for the here. Obviously, we would like that to be the case.” as a potential challenger to the former allow me to meet him to check on him prime minister to be completely open *** military commander who is widely and confirm his arrival to Egypt,” lawyer on how much Brexit will cost. PARIS (Reuters) -- France won’t let the official expected to run for a second term next Dina Adly Hussein said in a statement on Labor is threatening to bring the base of the European Union’s parliament be year. her Facebook page. matter to a head by calling on Tory MPs moved from Strasbourg to Brussels, the country’s Supporters see Sisi, who is allied UAE authorities confirmed he left the to back a plan to let the UK’s spending European affairs minister Nathalie Loiseau said with UAE and , as key for Emirates without giving any details about watchdogs assess the financial Sunday. Egypt’s stability. But critics say he has why. Egypt’s foreign ministry said it was settlement and give Parliament a vote “Strasbourg must remain the seat of European jailed hundreds of dissidents and eroded not responsible for the case. on it, The Independent reported on democracy. It’s also the symbol of Franco-German freedoms gained after the 2011 uprising An official source at the interior reconciliation,” she said on France 3 television. Sunday. “It is often said that Europe comes down to the that ousted former leader Hosni Mubarak. ministry said: “We do not know anything It came 24 hours before May was to Details about what happened to Shafiq about Shafiq.” Brussels bubble. Europe needs to be closer to its sit down with European Commission regions,” she added. Members of the European were unclear on Sunday. He made his “We did not arrest him and we did not President Jean-Claude Juncker to British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing calls from all sides for Parliament (MEPs) convene in Strasbourg for surprise announcement about running in receive any requests from the prosecution secure an agreement-in-principle transparency. one week every month and in Brussels for the the 2018 election from the United Arab to arrest him or bring him back.” on the withdrawal terms of Brexit – remainder. The monthly upheaval costs the Emirates (UAE), where he has been Shafiq’s abrupt departure from UAE bloc 114 million euros ($124 million) a year, has not been told by the government lot of people voted for Brexit based based with his family, on Wednesday. came weeks after Lebanese officials including the divorce bill, Irish border EU auditors say. Critics have long called for the Shafiq’s family said he was taken from accused Saudi Arabia of meddling in its and EU citizens’ rights. how big the divorce bill is likely to be, on the fantasy that was paraded for arrangement to be scrapped, but it has stayed in their home on Saturday and flown by affairs by forcing Prime Minister Saad But despite any deal being likely to or how it is being worked out. them.” place largely because France would have vetoed private plane back to Cairo. A Reuters al-Hariri to resign by holding him against gain approval at the European Council Ex-cabinet minister Michael “The idea of a great renaissance any attempt to make the required amendment to witness said Egyptian authorities escorted his will. in mid-December, the British public Heseltine said: “There is no doubt a Britain standing alone in the world the EU treaty. has a sort of romantic imagery that *** can appeal to certain people, as long (Reuters) -- Chinese police have as you don’t ask the basic facts of who detained 11 people in connection with a deadly , Morocco to Resume Ties After a Decade is going to pay for it,” he said. fire in the northern port city of Tianjin, “But I ask the question – what the municipal government said on Sunday, after an (Reuters) “Morocco is an African nation position at the meeting. backed those seeking independence would a Conservative opposition do investigation found numerous fire code violations. -- South Africa and Morocco will and we need to have relations with South Africa’s official government in the Western Sahara and has accused if a Labor party proposed to spend 30 The blaze which killed 10 and injured five early on resume diplomatic ties more than a them,” Zuma told City Press in the position - as re-affirmed by Zuma in Morocco of occupying the region. Friday morning was caused by renovation materials billion pounds, 40 billion pounds or catching fire on the 38th floor of a serviced decade after Morocco withdrew its interview. “We never had problems one of his state of the nation addresses A spokesman for South Africa’s 50 billion without telling Parliament ambassador from Pretoria, South with them anyway; they were the first - is to support “self-determination foreign ministry could not be reached apartment building, the Tianjin government said what it was doing with it?” African President Jacob Zuma said to withdraw diplomatic relations.” and decolonization for the Western for comment on Sunday. in a post on its official Weibo account. It said the British and European Union companies responsible for the renovations had in a newspaper interview published Zuma met Morocco’s King Sahara.” Morocco has controlled most of left a fire prevention water tank empty, rendering Sunday. Mohammed last week on the sidelines The decision to re-establish ties with the Western Sahara, which is rich negotiators were reported this week to have reached a provisional agreement equipment useless and allowing the Morocco recalled its ambassador of an African Union-European Union Morocco is likely to go down badly in in phosphates and has seen some fire to spread quickly. Fire safety has come under from South Africa in 2004 after former summit. South Africa’s ruling African National initial oil exploration efforts, since on the “divorce bill” that could scrutiny and attracted increased media attention in South African president Thabo Mbeki “They felt that even if we differ on Congress (ANC) party, of which 1975. A ceasefire in 1991 called for a see the UK paying some 45 billion China after a deadly blaze last month killed 19 in recognized a breakaway region in the Western Sahara issues, the two Zuma is leader. referendum on self-determination for pounds, though other estimates put the the far southern fringe of Beijing, which has led to the Western Sahara, which Morocco countries should have a relationship,” The ANC - as one of Africa’s oldest Western Sahara, but the vote has never potential sum higher at 55 billion or citywide evictions seen by some people as unfairly claims as part of its territory. Zuma said about Moroccan officials’ liberation movements - has long taken place. even up to 100 billion in the long term. targeting the vulnerable underclass.