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 Russia and China 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 United States 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 South Korea 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 Europe. 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 LONDON (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.