BitGou: Friday Morning Briefing: Tally of missing in California's deadliest blaze surpasses 600

2018年11月16日星期五

Friday Morning Briefing: Tally of missing in California's deadliest blaze surpasses 600

Highlights

Rescue workers searched for 630 people reported missing in a northern California town reduced to ashes by the deadliest wildfire in state history.

Florida election officials ordered a hand recount of ballots in the closely fought Senate race between Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson and his Republican challenger, Governor Rick Scott, after a machine recount showed them divided by a razor-thin margin.

British Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting for survival after a draft divorce deal with the European Union provoked the resignations of senior ministers and mutiny in her party. Some lawmakers in prime minister’s Conservative Party have said they have submitted letters of no confidence in the British leader. A leadership challenge is triggered if 48 Conservatives write such letters to the chairman of the party’s so-called 1922 committee. Follow the latest updates.

ASIA

North Korea’s leader publicly inspected a new weapon for the first time in nearly a year, state media reported, while it also decided to release a U.S. prisoner, sending conflicting signals at a time of sensitive negotiations.

President Trump didn’t make it to this week’s summit of Asian nations in Singapore, but his influence was still keenly felt among the leaders who gathered in the city. One prime minister warned that the trade war between Washington and Beijing could trigger a “domino effect” of protectionist steps by other countries.

The South China Sea does not belong to any one nation and the United States will continue to sail and fly wherever international law allows, Vice President Mike Pence said, in a challenge to China which claims the waterway.

World

The United States said it would oppose for the first time an annual resolution at the United Nations calling on Israel to rescind its authority in the occupied Golan Heights, drawing praise from Israeli officials.

Myanmar immigration authorities detained 106 Rohingya Muslims aboard a boat off Yangon, officials said, raising fears of a fresh wave of dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, have been imprisoned in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. Follow the case.

Commentary: The Trump administration is trying to contain the furor over Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen and the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by limiting some elements of U.S. military assistance to Riyadh, writes New York University journalism professor Mohamad Bazzi. But the decision to stop refueling Saudi warplanes is not enough to end the conflict. "If Trump continues to avoid tough actions against the [Saudi] crown prince, Congress will have to take the lead instead."

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