BitGou: Monday Morning Briefing: More than 200 still missing in deadly California wildfires

2018年11月12日星期一

Monday Morning Briefing: More than 200 still missing in deadly California wildfires

Highlights

More than 200 people are missing in California's deadliest and most destructive blaze on record, one of two fires raging in the state which have killed at least 31 people and forced more than a quarter of a million evacuations.

Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott, whose lead has narrowed in the state’s Senate race, filed more lawsuits against local election officials on Sunday, asking a judge to order police to impound voting machines and ballots when they are not in use.

When Democrats take control of the House they plan to investigate the Trump administration’s attempt to block AT&T from acquiring Time Warner, and whether officials sought to punish Amazon.com by prodding the U.S. Post Office to hike shipping prices for the world’s largest e-commerce company, a senior Democrat and a congressional aide said on Sunday.

Commentary: The political divides revealed by the U.S. midterm elections – including a widening urban-rural split and polarized views on immigration – are growing in many European countries, too, writes columnist John Lloyd. “The common element in all of these issues, in all Western countries, is a revolt, greater or lesser in extent, against rapid change, against liberal elites and against a loss of identity – white, in the main, but also of settled communities of past waves of immigrants. Populists, right to signal these concerns, are wrong to claim that answers are simple.”

Remembering Armistice Day

French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the millions of soldiers killed in World War One on Sunday, using an emotional ceremony in Paris attended by scores of world leaders to warn against nationalism a century on from the conflict. Trump, Putin, Merkel and dozens of monarchs, princes, presidents and prime ministers joined Macron to mark the moment the guns fell silent across Europe 100 years earlier.

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World

A U.S. think tank said it had identified at least 13 of an estimated 20 undeclared missile operating bases inside North Korea, underscoring the challenge for American negotiators hoping to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

China will further open its economy in the face of rising protectionism, Premier Li Keqiang said as he arrived in Singapore for meetings with Asia-Pacific leaders that will focus on speeding up work on a major new trade pact.

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy came under attack from all sides, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the EU will be voted down by parliament and thrust the United Kingdom towards a potentially chaotic “no-deal” Brexit.

Myanmar officials said the country was ready to receive more than 2,000 Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh on Nov. 15, the first group from 5,000 people to be moved under a deal between the neighbors struck last month. Two Reuters journalists have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 336 days, see full coverage here.