2019年4月8日星期一

Monday Morning Briefing: Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen resigns amid Trump anger over border

Highlights

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday, amid a surge in the number of migrants at the border with Mexico. Nielsen had been DHS secretary since December 2017. Her departure had been repeatedly rumored over the past year, particularly after a wave of anger over the administration’s 2018 family separation policy at the border with Mexico and most recently as U.S. border officials estimated that 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border in March, the highest level in a decade.

President Trump’s tax returns will never be handed over to Democratic lawmakers, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday. Democrats countered that House of Representatives tax committee Chairman Richard Neal's request for Trump’s returns is grounded in law and a needed inquiry, given Trump’s refusal to disclose his tax records and to divest himself of his business interests.

The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwest have roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country’s interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel. Ethanol shortages are one factor pushing gasoline prices in Los Angeles and Southern California to the highest in the nation and they could top $4 a gallon for the first time since 2014, according to tracking firm GasBuddy.

World

For three months in 1994 as many as 10,000 people were killed daily in Rwanda. This week will be a week of solemn ceremonies in the country in honor of those killed in the genocide 25 years ago. President Paul Kagame laid a wreath at the Gisozi genocide memorial site on Sunday, where over a quarter of a million people are buried, before an afternoon of speeches and song: popular Rwandan artists sang songs like “Turabunamira twiyubaka,” meaning “honoring them as we rebuild”.

Eastern Libyan forces are seeking to reach the center of Tripoli, as their easy advance through the desert hits a trickier urban phase. Deaths and displacements are mounting in the renewed civil war in Libya, leaving the West aghast at the threat to its peace plan. The fighting threatens to disrupt oil and gas supplies, trigger more migration to Europe, and allow Islamist militants to exploit the chaos.

Thirty-seven people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were found on a beach in northern Malaysia on Monday, police said, the latest arrivals in what authorities fear could be a new wave of people smuggling by sea.

Britain’s opposition Labour Party and Prime Minister Theresa May’s government have not yet found a way forward on reaching a Brexit divorce deal, Labour’s Brexit point man Keir Starmer has said. With Britain’s departure now set for April 12, May’s government is running out of time to get a deal through parliament, and must come up with a new plan to secure another delay from EU leaders at a summit on Wednesday. May will visit both German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday.

 

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3:29 AM - 8 Apr 2019

Business

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