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Question: Spygate: why Donald Trump’s use of ‘gate’ is a scandal

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Trump has hit viral paydirt with an invented conspiracy theory that is masquerading as White House scandal. Is this a new, imaginary kind of ‘gate’?
When is a gate not a gate? When it’s a “spygate”. This is not a hinged partition in a fence for secret agents, but Donald Trump’s recent coinage for something that by all other accounts definitely didn’t happen: that Obama’s team planted a spy inside Trump’s campaign in order to help Hillary win, which also didn’t happen.
The suffix '-gate' is used with ironic hyperbole for trivial things. Or, in this case, purely imaginary things
The suffix “-gate” to denote scandal derives from Watergate, which was not a scandal involving water but the name of the building complex where Nixon’s goons broke into the Democratic party offices in 1972. The first recorded derivative -gate was “Volgagate” in 1973, coined for a putative Russian scandal in National Lampoon magazine, and since then we have enjoyed Monicagate, Camillagate, nipplegate, plebgate (or gategate), gamergate and all the rest.
Like “-mageddon” or “-pocalypse”, “-gate” is usually used with ironic hyperbole for relatively trivial things. Or, in this case, purely imaginary things. Trump certainly seems to have hit viral paydirt with “spygate”, but what word could be capacious enough to cover the pandemonium of his presidency? Trumpgate? Bullshitgate? One thing is for sure, we’re going to need a bigger gate.

Michael Isikoff and David Corn lay bare the evidence that Trump and Putin have been striving to collaborate for years
Whenever I finish a book like Russian Roulette, I ask myself the same question: why is anyone still debating whether there was collusion between the Russians and Donald Trump?
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Like Collusion, a comprehensive volume by the Guardian’s Luke Harding, this narrative by investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn leaves the reader nearly overwhelmed by evidence that Trump and Vladimir Putin have been striving to collaborate for years.
It was 2013 when Trump first tweeted that he wanted to be Putin’s “best friend”. Later he told Fox Putin looked “like a great leader”. Putin’s constant goals have been to destroy Nato and the EU. Trump was a big advocate of Brexit, which was a body blow to the EU, and in the 2016 campaign he called Nato “obsolete”. Trump began visiting Moscow in 1987 and his on again, off again effort to build a Trump Tower there continued for three decades – right through the presidential election.
In 2006, Trump became executive producer of a Russian version of The Apprentice. Years later he dismissed the massive evidence that Putin routinely orders the murder of journalists and other dissidents, telling MSNBC: “I haven’t seen that. I don’t know that he has. Have you been able to prove that?”
Then of course there’s the Palm Beach estate he bought for $45m in 2004. After the housing bubble burst, he sold that house for $95m – to a Russian oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev.
Nearly all the other stations of the twisted Trump-Russian cross are covered here, including the famous Trump Tower meeting between Russian emissaries and Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner. Although the Russians failed at that moment to produce promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, the authors point out that “Trump’s senior advisers now had new reason to believe that Putin’s regime wanted Trump to win and was willing to act clandestinely to boost his chances. The campaign did not report this private Russian outreach to the FBI.”
Russian government officials, Corn and Isikoff write, could well have “interpreted that as a signal that Trump would not mind or protest if Moscow took other actions to benefit the Republican candidate. The Russians had offered to help, and Trump’s campaign had demonstrated a willingness to take what Moscow had to offer.”
Almost any of these details would have been enough to torpedo any other presidential campaign, but Trump somehow managed to weather every single crisis. A big reason for that was the astonishingly poor news judgment of the mainstream media, including, in particular, the New York Times.
A Harvard study of mainstream election coverage revealed that there were “roughly four times as many Clinton-related sentences that described scandals as opposed to policies – whereas Trump-related sentences were one-and-a-half times as likely to be about policy as scandal”. There were also more than 60,000 sentences published about Clinton and her emails – and less than 10,000 about Trump’s connections to Russia.
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Barack Obama’s dithering in the face of Russian intrusions also contributed to the disastrous outcome. An Obama official told Corn and Isikoff it wasn’t until two months after the election that “all the pieces came together for us”. When they did, Vice-President Joe Biden had a “visceral reaction: ‘If this is true, it’s treason.’”
The only Democrat who acted appropriately during the campaign was the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, who directly attacked the FBI director, James Comey, for his double standard.
“As soon as you came into possession of the slightest innuendo related to Secretary Clinton, you rushed to publicize it in the most negative light possible,” he wrote, adding that “it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers, and the Russian government. The public has a right to know this information.”
Comey kept mostly silent.
Much has been written elsewhere about what may well have been the single worst story published in the final days before the election. Immediately after Slate had published a brilliant and nuanced piece by Franklin Foer about unexplained communications between a Trump business server and Alfa Bank in Moscow, the Times’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, approved an article with this headline: “Investigating Donald Trump, FBI Sees No Clear Link to Russia.”
Among its many other failings, that headline contradicted the story’s most important finding: US intelligence agencies “had been compelled by ‘apparent connections between some of Mr Trump’s aides and Moscow’ to ‘open a broad investigation into possible links between the Russian government and Republican presidential candidate’”.
As Corn and Isikoff explain, the editors decided to make the FBI’s failure to prove a connection the article’s theme, instead of the much more important fact of the investigation itself.
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What is new in Russian Roulette about the Times piece is how the ex-British spy Christopher Steele reacted to it. Steele was the author of the dossier which contained details of extensive contacts between Trump aides and the Russians in 2016, as well as the notorious story about Trump’s alleged activities at Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel.
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Before the Times piece appeared, Steele had been considering a trip to Washington to discuss his findings with members of Congress – and perhaps hold a press conference on the steps of the Capitol. Once he saw that the Times was pooh-poohing the whole subject, Steele cancelled his trip.
If Steele had gone public, could that have been enough to change the election? That is one of the many tantalizing what-ifs in this compelling account.
Harding’s book is more thorough about several important aspects of this history, including the extremely strange role of Deutsche Bank, which extended hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to Trump at the same time its Moscow branch was laundering millions of dollars for Russian oligarchs.
But Russian Roulette still makes many important contributions to this extraordinary story – a saga which I believe is destined to bring an abrupt end to the Trump presidency.


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Question: Stroke Assistive Devices Market to Expand with Significant CAGR During 2018 - 2028

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Stroke Assistive Devices: Market Insights
An assistive device, commonly, is a medical equipment that assists a disabled person or patients having inability to perform their daily tasks due to acute stroke or traumatic disorders. When a person encounters acute stroke, it becomes difficult for that patient to recover immediately from after effects of acute stroke that represents reduced mobility in limbs and extreme difficulties in performing their daily tasks such as dressing, bathing, grooming, cooking, feeding, etc. Thus, after having a stroke or trauma, most of the patients require assistive devices in order to maximize their independent functioning. In general, assistive devices find major applications for the disease indications including stroke, orthopedics, cognitive and motor skills, sports and others. One of the most commonly used assistive device prescribed for stroke survivors is Mobility Assistive Devices (MAD).
These mobility assistive devices for stroke patients offer improved mobility and allows them to independently perform the mobility-related tasks. A person who encountered stroke often has to undergo a long rehabilitation. Financed by the EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon H2020, robot-based technologies have been under substantial use to speed up the rehabilitation of stroke patients under its project called “the RETRAINER”. The technology used under this project allows the stroke patients to utilize their own arms and hands, as much and as soon, after the trauma or post-stroke in order to achieve best results in the rehabilitation. In the European Union, per year healthcare expenditure on stroke is estimated at US$ 31.8 billion along with the loss of income for stroke patients facing difficulty in daily activities. Two type of assistive systems are used by the patients that includes both portable assistive devices and stand-alone assistive systems. These devices are meant to completely substitute the functionality of human body when a patient requires support. Assistive devices usually broadens a patient’s support base and improve stability and balance in their body, and restructure from the lower limbs to relieve joint pain and compensate for trauma injury or other physical weakness. A suitable assistive device is important to select carefully keeping in consideration the patient’s endurance, cognitive function, strength, and environmental needs.
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After encountering stroke, a person usually goes to the physiotherapist for treatment or post-stroke recovery. The treatment may go wrong if the physiotherapist is not trained well, however, a patient receives quality treatment if these orthopedic treatment procedures are performed using robotic assistive devices. Stroke assistive devices are highly utilized in rehabilitation process to treat a physically disabled person in order to improve their daily performance. Thus, with the emergence of high incidence for stroke and trauma cases, stroke assistive devices experience greater demand from the end customers. Thus generating large revenues in the stroke assistive devices market.
Stroke assistive devices market on the basis of device type is classified into two main types – robotic exoskeletons, stroke-rehabilitation gloves, and others. Stroke rehabilitation is a treatment process solely targeted towards restoration of intellectual, physical, mental and social capabilities of a patient affected by stroke. The growing incidence of stroke in U.S. population tends to be the leading reason to propel the growth of stroke assistive devices market across the globe. The growing adoption of stroke assistive devices by the physicians to treat post stroke effects is further anticipated to drive the demand for stroke assistive devices and thereby increasing revenue generation in stroke assistive devices market.
Stroke Assistive Devices: Market Dynamics
Growing innovation and funding in neuromuscular & stroke rehabilitation, availability of high-tech and effective stroke assistive devices such as wearable wirelessly controlled rehabilitation device in the market, and growing population of stroke patients owing to increasing incidence of neuromuscular disorders and stroke across the globe is expected to be the key factor driving growth of stroke assistive devices market. Rapid increase in physical disabilities caused due to increasing prevalence of disorders including spinal cord injury, rheumatoid arthritis, cerebral palsy and additional ageing disabilities is further expected to surge the demand for robotic rehabilitation and stroke-assistive technologies. Thus, the demand for stroke assistive devices has registered an upsurge, thereby generating more revenues in stroke assistive devices market. Also, growing mergers and acquisitions among the leading players in order to increase their geographical footprint is another factor propelling the growth of stroke assistive devices market. However, lack of awareness among the people about new robotic technologies to assist stroke affected patient, particularly in the emerging economies, coupled with high cost of assistive technologies and robotic rehabilitation are some of the factors restraining the stroke assistive devices market growth.
Stroke Assistive Devices Market: Overview
Based on device type, robotic devices including robotic exoskeletons and stroke-rehabilitation gloves register the highest demand in the stroke assistive devices market owing to the better mobility results registered with usage of this device as compared to others. Stroke assistive devices found major usage in management of acute stroke and chronic neuromuscular disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, Guillain Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP), Cerebral Palsy, and Muscular Dystrophy. Rising number of disabled people due to the above mentioned disorders is one of the major factor driving the demand for stroke assistive devices for early management of patients effected with stroke, thereby fueling the stroke assistive devices market across the globe. However, the growing footprint of stroke assistive devices manufacturers for chronic disorders management applications coupled with rising demand for these devices is further expected to drive the revenue generation in global stroke assistive devices market.
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Stroke Assistive Devices Market: Region-wise Outlook
On the basis of geography, global stroke assistive devices market is segmented into seven key regions viz. North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific excluding Japan, Japan, and Middle East & Africa. Europe is projected to hold largest shares in the global stroke assistive devices market primarily due to increasing prevalence of disabilities in the region owing to growing incidence of stroke and neuromuscular disorders, enhanced healthcare infrastructure and increased R&D expenditure for manufacturing stroke-assistive devices. In Russia, about 13 million people are registered to live with certain post-stroke disabilities, constituting around 9% of the total Russian population. North America followed by Western Europe is expected to be the second dominating region in global stroke assistive devices market worldwide.
Stroke Assistive Devices Market: Key Players
Some of the key players present in global stroke assistive devices market are AnthroTronix, Inc., ReWalk Robotics, Mazor Robotics Ltd., Intuitive Surgical Inc., Interactive Motion Technologies, Bioxtreme Robotics Rehabilitation, Accuray, Inc., Health Robotics S.R.L., Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc., and others.

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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Building Automation market - By Communication Technology, Offerings, Application, Regions - Market Size, Demand Forecasts, Industry Trends and Updates " report to their offering. The building automation system market is set to grow at a CAGR of 10.65% between 2016-2022 to reach USD 100.60 billion by 2022.
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Question: Woman lived with decomposing body for months: cops

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WARREN, Mich. — Police who found a badly decomposed body in bed in a Detroit-area home believe a 62-year-old woman may have shared the home with her dead roommate for months.
Police in Warren found the body of 68-year-old George Curtis on Monday. An autopsy will be performed.
WJBK-TV and The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens report Tuesday that relatives contacted police after hearing nothing from Curtis for months.
The woman has been hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation.
Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer tells the newspaper “it’s just bizarre (that) she stayed in the home like that and didn’t report anything.”
Police say Curtis may have been dead for months.
Dwyer says the house may have to be condemned and demolished due to the condition inside and the odor.

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President Trump wishes U.S. a happy Fourth of July
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Question: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Issues Broad 'Religious Freedom' Guidance That Should Concern All LGBT Americans

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday issued broad “religious freedom” guidance which appears intended to undermine LGBT rights. The memo comes a day after Sessions rescinded a policy protecting transgender people from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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The guidance says the government cannot unduly burden people or certain businesses from practicing their faith, noting, “The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s religious beliefs.”
The policy does not create new law, but rather interprets how the government should construe the Constitution and existing federal law. It comes on the heels of the Justice Department weighing in on a religious liberty case, in which lawyers under Sessions argued in a brief to the US Supreme Court that a Christian baker had a First Amendment right to deny a gay couple a cake for their wedding.
The guidance memo, which avoided mentioning pending cases by name but did refer to the ongoing controversy over contraception coverage in Obamacare, directs federal agencies to observe 20 “principles of religious liberty.” Among them, it says that religious employers are entitled to hire only workers whose beliefs and conduct are “consistent with the employer’s’ religious beliefs” — a directive adopted under former President George W. Bush — and that some of the legal principles extend “not just to individuals, but also to organizations, associations, and at least some for-profit corporations.”
The US Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced new rules that will allow employers with a “moral” or “religious” objection to stop covering contraception for employees.
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“Our freedom as citizens has always been inextricably linked with our religious freedom as a people,” Sessions said. “It has protected both the freedom to worship and the freedom not to believe. Every American has a right to believe, worship, and exercise their faith. The protections for this right, enshrined in our Constitution and laws, serve to declare and protect this important part of our heritage.”
A background memo accompanying the new guidance insists the move “does not authorize anyone to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity in violation of federal law or change existing federal and state protections.”
But key portions of the memos should be troubling to proponents of LGBT rights. The memo to agencies allows individuals to act or abstain from action according to their religious beliefs and prohibits the government from targeting religious individuals and organizations for acting on their beliefs.
The memo asserts 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act applies not just to people, but organizations and some for-profit companies. Further, the guidance says RFRA doesn’t permit the federal government to second-guess a religious belief and asserts the strict scrutiny standard under the law is “exceptionally demanding.”
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Good morning, here are our early stories:
-- Iran's Foreign Minister: Renegotiating Nuclear Deal Would Damage U.S. Credibility.
-- Border Patrol Agent Acquitted In 2012 Fatal Shooting Of Mexican Teen.
-- Prince's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Hospital, Pharmacy Chain.
-- Facebook Updates Community Standards, Expands Appeals Process.
And here are more early headlines:
Report: Confirmation Hearing To Be Delayed For V.A. Nominee. (Washington Post)
Suit Filed Against New Indiana Abortion Law. (Indianapolis Business Journal)
Government Seeks E-Coli Source In Contaminated Lettuce. (Washington Post)
Despite Government Action, Nicaragua Protests Continue. (Los Angeles Times)
New Afghanistan Attacks Leave 9 Dead. (RFE/RL)
Ukrainian Agency Hit By Ransomware. (Reuters)


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Question: Protests as opposition insists Kenyan election was stolen

SBS World News Radio: Kenya's opposition leader has urged his supporters not to go to work after what he claims was a "rigged" election.
Raila Odinga is refusing to accept the result that returned incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta to the presidency.
Protests have been held in Raila Odinga's strongholds within the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Defiant and furious, the opposition leader says he believes he was robbed of victory in the country's presidential election.
And in his first appearance since losing the election, Mr Odinga has accused the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta of murdering his supporters.
"What happened yesterday here in Kibera, Mathare, Kisumu and everywhere else, we had foreseen it happening three weeks ago. We produced evidence that they were coming to kill our people here. We gave out the details, and they claimed it was false. We said there was a special unit from the military which was already set aside by Jubilee because they knew they were going to be defeated and, after being defeated, they were going to steal the election. That's the reason they have come to kill our people. They are shooting them and taking them in sacks."
Mr Odinga says he vehemently rejects the elections and wants the incumbent stripped of power.
But most Kenyans have accepted the result, while international observers have declared the process broadly free and fair.
The election commission has also dismissed claims the ballot was hacked or rigged.
But opposition official James Orengo insists the opposition can prove otherwise.
"And we are going to show, we are going to show, how this election was stolen. We are going to show. So when we call you to action, peaceful action, don't stay behind, don't stay behind, don't stay behind!"
There have been violent protests since Kenyatta Uhuru was re-elected as president.
A Kenyan human-rights group says at least 24 people have been killed.
Damaglyn Marube says her eight-year-old daughter was one of the victims.
She is demanding answers from the Kenyan government.
"My child went outside to play with other children while I was washing clothes. In no time, I saw another child running towards me and tell me my child has been shot and she's dead, lying on the floor. When I got to where she was, I found her lifeless body lying on the floor. I am urging the government to investigate how my child got killed and justice to be done."

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Kenyan media say a boat carrying a local politician and his family capsized in the Indian Ocean and that many of the dozen occupants are missing.
Rescuers on Monday searched for the vessel, which sank off coastal Lamu County amid reports of high tides.
The Standard newspaper quotes county commissioner Joseph Kanyiri as saying one body was found.
Some Kenyan media outlets say Shekuwe Kahale, a politician affiliated with Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, was on the boat but survived.
Odinga said last week's presidential election, won by President Uhuru Kenyatta, was rigged. Kenyan election officials and international observers say the vote was free and fair.


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Question: Heigl wanted to quit Hollywood over rumours

Katherine Heigl considered quitting Hollywood after rumours of her difficult reputation began.
The actress hit headlines after starring in 2007 comedy Knocked Up, where she played successful E! News presenter Alison who has her world turned upside down when she falls pregnant after a one-night stand with Seth Rogen’s stoner character Ben.
Katherine later upset Seth and the film’s director Judd Apatow when she called the comedy film “a little sexist”, telling Vanity Fair back in 2008: “Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
Katherine also faced a backlash for declining to submit any of her work from U.S. TV medial drama Grey’s Anatomy episodes for Emmy consideration in 2008, releasing a statement criticising the material she had been given. “I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination,” she said in the statement.
Despite later apologizing for her gaffes, Katherine struggled to come to terms with the criticism and has revealed in a new interview that she even considered quitting acting.
“Maybe everybody in their career feels that way, especially when you’ve been at it for a really long time,” the 38-year-old told the Press Association. “You have these ups and downs and these ebbs and flows.
“This thing you were once so passionate about and was your heart and soul has now turned on you and it’s your mortal enemy instead of your best friend. I think that’s pretty typical of most people.”
The mother-of-three added she often overanalysed her previous interviews to see how she could have been misconstrued as being difficult. “Nobody wants to hear things like that about themselves,” she said. “One thing I think I’m relatively good at is asking myself and truly addressing; ‘Is there an issue here?’
“You have to be accountable for your behaviour. Now maybe I go a little too far in beating myself up, or self evaluation, or not trusting my own instincts.”
Katherine has since buried the hatchet with her Knocked Up co-star Seth and director Judd, and even considered working with them again on a sequel to the hit comedy.
“Wouldn’t that be fun? What do you think that looks like? (Ben and Alison) 10 years later. Do they have more children? Have they made it? Are they still together?” Katherine said.
“Maybe they’re getting separated. That would be depressing though. I wouldn’t want to see that one.”

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Question: With Sri Lankan port acquisition, China adds another 'pearl' to its 'string'

When Sri Lanka's government first looked to develop a port on its southern coast that faced the Indian Ocean, it went not to China, but to its neighbor, India.
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Then-Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said he urgently needed funding to transform the harbor of his home town and asked Indian officials for help with the project.
New Delhi showed little interest in funding a costly and massive port construction project in the underdeveloped fishing village of Hambantota, a district that had been crushed by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
"It was offered to India first. I was desperate for development work, but ultimately the Chinese agreed to build it," Rajapaksa said in an interview with Singapore's Straits Times in 2010.
Beijing invested $1.5 billion in 2010 to build the port.
The venture was considered economically unviable and indeed, in the years that followed, the port sat empty and neglected, and Sri Lanka's debt ballooned.
But India's economic foresight might have cost it in terms of strategic geopolitics, since the debt incurred on the port and the surrounding infrastructure undertakings now belong to its great rival.
China's official licensing of the port in December last year gives it yet another point of access over a key shipping route, and the prospect of providing it with a sizeable presence in India's immediate backyard and traditional sphere of influence, bringing China closer to India's shores than New Delhi might like.
Moreover, Sri Lanka's decision to sign a 99-year lease with a Chinese state-owned company for the Hambantota port to service some of the billions it owes to Beijing has some observers concerned other developing nations doing business with China as part of China's One Belt One Road initiative might fall into similar financial straits.
A trap, they warn, that may well have them owing more than just money to Beijing.
"China is, in many cases, the only party with the interest and the capital to deliver on these projects," said Jeff Smith, a research fellow on South Asia at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. "The relevant question for everyone is: at what cost?"
'A determined strategy by China'
China has for decades invested in Sri Lanka, particularly during moments in recent history when much of the international community held off.
As the European Union sought to punish Sri Lanka over human rights abuses during the decades-long civil war between government forces and the Tamil Tigers, China acted on its behalf diplomatically at the United Nations. It also supplied the Rajapaksa government with military aid and it promised to spend to rebuild the country's damaged infrastructure. India had also sent in military help, but nowhere near the levels Beijing dispatched.
The civil war ended in 2009. Between 2005 and 2017, China spent nearly $15 billion in Sri Lanka. By comparison, the International Finance Corporation, which is part of the World Bank group, says that between 1956 and 2016, it invested over $1 billion.
Jeff Smith points out that along with the Hambantota port investments, Beijing loaned Sri Lanka $200 million in 2010 for a second international airport and a year later a further $810 million for the "second phase of the port project."
There was more. $272 million for a railway in 2013 and more than $1 billion for the Colombo Port City project, ventures that hired mostly Chinese workers (one Sri Lankan report put the number of Chinese workers dedicated to projects in 2009 at 25,000), and all with money Sri Lanka could barely afford to repay.
By 2015, Sri Lanka owed China $8 billion, and Sri Lankan government officials predicted that accumulated foreign debt -- both owed to China and other countries -- would eat up 94% of the country's GDP.
After an equity swap, an IMF bailout and more control over the projects ceded to Beijing, the terms of the debt were restructured, giving Sri Lanka some breathing space.
In 2017, however, the Hambantota port proved too costly for Sri Lanka to sustain.
"They (the Chinese) called in the debt, and the debt has been paid by Sri Lanka giving them the (Hambantota) port. That port then gives them not only a strategic access point into India's sphere of influence through which China can deploy its naval forces, but it also gives China an advantageous position to export its goods into India's economic sphere, so it's achieved a number of strategic aims in that regard," said Malcolm Davis, senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Sydney.
"This is part of a determined strategy by China to extend its influence across the Indian Ocean at the expense of India and it's using Sri Lanka to achieve it," he said.
Details of the new agreement between China and Sri Lanka have not been made public.
The port is an "important project aimed at spurring local economic growth based on equality and mutual benefits," according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It declined to answer further when asked by reporters.
'Creating demand for Chinese goods'
China's claiming of controlling stakes in strategic ports along critical shipping lanes -- what analysts have taken to referring to as its "string of pearls" -- beginning at the Straits of Malacca and dotting the Indian Ocean, should signal Beijing's ultimate ambitions, said Davis.
"There's a bigger picture here, that the more you invest in the Belt and Road initiative, the more the Chinese are in a position to force your country to align politically in terms of policy," Davis told CNN.
"So you become dependent on their investment and their largesse, and you're less likely to be critical of them and you're more likely to accommodate their interests strategically."
China launched its ambitious One Belt One Road (OBOR) development strategy in 2013, investing in projects that include thousands of miles of highways in Pakistan, an international airport in Nepal and a rail link between China and Laos. The initiative would come to span more than 68 countries and encompass 4.4 billion people and up to 40% of global GDP. Consisting of two distinct parts, the Silk Road Economic Belt would stretch from China to Europe and include a host of trade and infrastructure projects, and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road would be a sea-based network of shipping lanes and port developments throughout Asia and the Pacific.
Beijing's other potential partners are finding difficulty with some of their own joint projects.
Last November the government in Nepal scrapped a $2.5 billion deal with a Chinese company to build the biggest hydropower plant in the Himalayan country because of "irregularities" in the award process. The current Nepalese government, which had replaced the cabinet that had approved the earlier deal, announced the contract would instead go to a state-owned Nepali company.
In Myanmar, a $3.6 billion dam project has stalled. The then-military backed government suspended work on the Myitsone dam in the north of the country in 2011, with talks regarding its future ongoing.
Pakistan withdrew from a $14 billion agreement with China for a dam last November because the conditions of the deal included China taking ownership of the project and were "not doable and against our interests," Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority chairman Muzammil Hussain was quoted as saying. Like Nepal, Pakistan has since indicated it would also look to shoulder the cost of the dam rather than go to an outside investor.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed to be unaware of this when asked about the situation by reporters in Beijing in December. The country's top economic planning agency later said that the two countries were discussing cooperating on the dam project but that there'd been no discussion of proposals to move it forward. The agency said "Pakistan media's reporting on this project has been inaccurate, or only represented the views of certain officials."
But China is still spending in Pakistan. It is building a hydroelectric power station in the Rawalpindi district, and it is developing the port of Gwadar, strategically located on the Arabian Sea.
In Malaysia, China is spending $7.2 billion on a new deep sea port in the Straits of Malacca and working on infrastructure projects on the country's eastern seaboard.
China's trade deal with the Maldives government included investments in developing the international airport and a bridge, but the Maldives in return has taken on a significant number of controversial loan obligations.
Last July, former President Mohamed Nasheed said the loan interest the traditionally Indian ally pays to service its foreign debt to China is more than 20% of the country's budget. He said that part of the deal included China's receipt of 16 "strategically located islands" in navigation sea-lanes.
Dean Cheng, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, said that the initial wave of Chinese investments in the Indian Ocean, the so-called string of pearls, was largely driven by economic considerations. The investments, he said, "would facilitate economic growth, which would benefit Chinese companies. Moreover, the construction projects would entail Chinese workers (a feature of most Chinese projects abroad, bringing their own work force), and create a demand base for Chinese goods."
At the same time, he said the Chinese are clearly intent on creating a friendly political network of states. "There's nothing inherently dangerous about political considerations in economic investments," he told CNN. "It would be foolish to think that any state is wholly driven by economic considerations."
Whither India?
The ever-encroaching Chinese presence into India's sphere of political and economic influence has been noted, but so far, says Manoj Joshi, New Delhi purports to be unruffled, as long as Hambantota remains a commercial port, and no Chinese naval vessels suddenly appear in the vicinity.
"In 2014 a Chinese submarine was spotted in Colombo harbor and that was the first time we saw that and the Indian side was a bit concerned," said Joshi, a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. At the time Indian defense officials expressed "serious concern" to their Sri Lankan counterpart, and naval chiefs from both countries met to discuss the incidents. Then-Defense Minister Arun Jaitley said the government "keeps a constant watch on all developments concerning our national security and economic interests and takes necessary measures to safeguard them."
A Chinese submarine and a Chinese warship were allowed to dock at the Colombo port in November 2014, just under two months after another Chinese submarine called into the same port. At the time both China and Sri Lanka dismissed New Delhi's concerns, saying the vessels were on refueling stops during anti-piracy missions. Colombo port regularly hosts ships from numerous navies, including the US. But as China's own navy becomes more 'blue water' [as in, able to move in open oceans around the world and not just in its own surrounding waters] these appearances will be more commonplace.
"It's geopolitical competition and India sees itself as the foremost nation in Asia and with the Chinese building a port, building and airport, building roads in Sri Lanka, they've emerged as big investors there and the Indians are obviously feeling somewhat nervous because India doesn't have those kind of resources to compete with," Joshi told CNN.
"What we worry about is, we already have a border problem with China and now that competition goes to the Indian Ocean region. That could be against our interests."
India and China share a 2,500 mile-long border, and have regularly faced off over perceived intrusions on each other's terrain as well as activity in uninhabited territory claimed by China and Bhutan, an Indian ally.
"Everybody talks about China and India being major rivals, I think China doesn't see India as a genuine long-term rival, I think it looks at India and sees a classic case of democracy gone wrong," said Yvonne Chiu, assistant professor in the politics department at the University of Hong Kong.
"India is incredibly corrupt, its infrastructure is terrible, and it is riddled with religious and demographic problems," she told CNN. "Except it is very large. It does have a big population as well and it's on the border. So it's a regional rival, but I don't think they take India seriously as a global rival."
For its part, India is now taking an active interest in Hambantota. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reported to be in talks with Sri Lanka about taking over the airport near the port, which was built using Chinese funds that Beijing itself wants to manage and is pushing for control with the Sri Lankan government. During a media briefing last November, Raveesh Kumar, an official spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, would only say that New Delhi has "a lot of developmental projects" going on in Sri Lanka and declined to elaborate further. Colombo has yet to make a decision involving the airport.
And New Delhi continues to actively participate in large-scale naval exercises in regional waters alongside allies Japan, and the US, and into the future, possibly Australia too, all to Beijing's continued consternation.
Last year's Malabar exercises in the Bay of Bengal involving the US, Japan and India were the largest the region has seen in more than two decades.
"India, of course, remains highly influential in Sri Lanka, and would not look kindly on any effort to pressure the government on matters related to defense and national security," said Jeff Smith. "Nor would the Sri Lankan military, which values its exchanges with the US."
Modi will be in Singapore in June, attending the Shangri-La dialogue, an annual meeting of defense ministers, military chiefs and defense officials from the Asia-Pacific. His keynote address will be carefully watched for words on China's maritime expansion.
A White House unable to compete with China
South Asia's problems are not on Washington's radar right now, says Hong Kong University professor Chiu. The White House has much of its focus -- along with a substantial naval presence -- directed towards the Korean Peninsula and the ongoing crisis there. And while the US is distracted, China is slowly and incrementally changing the seascape in the Asia Pacific. China claims disputed islands in the South China Sea as part of its territory and has been militarizing some of those islands, reclaiming land on others and turning sandbars into islands to assert sovereignty over the area.
"Everything that they do, like building these islands (in the South China Sea) and stuff that is illegal internationally, but nobody wants to get into a conflict over, it adds up and you have a new status quo and it's too late to do anything about it," Chiu said.
"China can't afford to go to war over anything ... it would most likely lose against a major power ... but these kind of small incremental things, people will let them get away with. As long as they're patient, it could have the same effect as going to war."
Even as China has taken the long view, Dean Cheng argues it's never too late for the US and its allies to do something to counter Beijing's ambitions.
"The US, in cooperation with India, Japan and possibly the European Union, could offer alternative financing," Cheng said. "They could help train local officials, lawyers, etc, to become better negotiators. They can push for transparency, especially in Chinese-sponsored institutions to make clear the terms of the loans, payback processes, as well as how contracts are rewarded."
Last October US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a speech on the US relationship with India. Tillerson said it was up to New Delhi and Washington to "do a better job leveraging our collective expertise to meet common challenges while seeking even more avenues of cooperation."
"We must also recognize that many Indo-Pacific nations have limited alternatives when it comes to infrastructure investment programs and financing schemes, which often fail to promote jobs or prosperity for the people they claim to help," Tillerson said. "It's time to expand transparent, high-standard regional lending mechanisms, tools that will actually help nations instead of saddle them with mounting debt."
Tillerson told reporters that during the East Asia ministerial summit in August that the US had started "a quiet conversation with others about what they were experiencing, what they need."
However, he also admitted Washington's constraints. "We will not be able to compete with the kind of terms that China offers," said Tillerson. "But countries have to decide, what are they willing to pay to secure their sovereignty and their future control of their economies? And we've had those discussions with them as well."
China's resources are nowhere near as limited as the US and its allies, says Yvonne Chiu from the University of Hong Kong.
"Right now, it can play on multiple fronts at once," Chiu notes. "And they take a very long view. If you're a power like the US, you're really far away. That distance is going to limit how much attention you can pay to the region. The US has to pick and choose and it's chosen East Asia. So, unless something really major happens, that's probably where their attention is going to stay."
As 2017 wrapped up, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua published a dispatch from Colombo, describing how the Hambantota port was "now racing along a developmental fast-track."
Chinese and Sri Lankan workers were building a highway north of the port, along with a bridge, and the Chinese Harbor Engineering Company is negotiating with the Sri Lankan government to develop a Logistics Zone that will include a natural gas power plant and refineries, the agency reported.
On the first day of the new year, the Chinese flag flew beside Sri Lanka's at the port for the first time ever.
The Chinese Harbor Engineering Company began 2018 with a $1 billion investment to build three 60-story office towers in Colombo.
Rather than resist getting into further debt, Sri Lanka's government appears to be making more deals with China that it will may yet struggle to pay back.

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Former Navy Chief Arun Prakash said election of President Trump has signalled a radical shift in many of America’s long-standing policies which could result in heightened tension and instability in the region. (Source: Wikipedia) Former Navy Chief Arun Prakash said election of President Trump has signalled a radical shift in many of America’s long-standing policies which could result in heightened tension and instability in the region. (Source: Wikipedia)
Advocating a nuanced approach towards China, former Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash on Wednesday said a possible radical shift in US policies under the Trump administration could trigger instability in the Indo-Pacific and asked New Delhi to seek multi-lateral partnerships within the strategic region. Till recently, the Indo-US relationship seemed to be following a mutually-beneficial trajectory that could have ensured a stable balance-of-power and peace in the Indo-Pacific, he said in Hyderabad.
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However, the election of President Donald Trump has signalled a radical shift in many of America’s long-standing policies which could result in heightened tension and instability in the region, the ex-Chief of the Naval Staff.
He was delivering a talk on `Security Issues in Indo-Pacific –India’s Response’ at an international conference on `Changing Security Dynamic in the Indo-Pacific’.
“In the approaching era of uncertainty, it would be unwise for India to put all its eggs in any one basket and prudence demands it should seek multi-lateral partnerships within the region,” he said, calling for a nuanced approach towards Beijing.
India’s trade links, investment and diaspora today span an arc extending from Siberia and New Zealand to its east to Africa and Central Asia to its west, Prakash said.
“Any attempts (by China) to dominate waters of the Indo-Pacific would represent a grave threat to India’s vital interests.
“While we lack the deep pockets and dynamism that underpins Chinese overseas initiatives, the India Navy has concluded formal agreements whereby its warships, submarines and aircraft can put into about 25-30 friendly ports across the Indo-Pacific for operational or other reasons.”
“China’s footholds in Indian Ocean locations, dubbed the ‘string of pearls’, are meant to provide it a network of port facilities, which could support long-range maritime operations,” the Navy veteran said.
The ‘Maritime Silk Road’, a component of the ‘One Road One Belt’ initiative, pursues an even more ambitious agenda by creating a huge arc of maritime and economic influence across the region, according to him.
“The deployment of PLA Navy submarines in the Indian Ocean, that commenced in 2013-14, was a clear indication China seeks to not only gain strategic superiority across the Himalayas, but also to establish maritime dominance in the Indian Ocean with the Pakistani port of Gwadar as a key logistic base,” Prakash explained.
“Commencement of work on the CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) project will further tilt the balance against India.”


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Indie Pereira, left, and her wife Pari Bhatt, right, at their home in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, June 28, 2018. The couple attends St. Philip's Episcopal Church, butÊopted forÊa civil ceremony because their bishop will not permit clergy within theirÊdiocese to marry same-sex couples.
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NASHVILLE — Indie Pereira and her wife Pari Bhatt still want a church wedding.
The Nashville couple regularly attends St. Philip's Episcopal Church, but opted for a civil ceremony in the living room of the city's former mayor because their bishop will not permit same-sex couples to have the religious ceremonies in the church.
Pereira and Bhatt live and worship within the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, which is one of only eight dioceses in the country where such a ban exists. Their struggle is illustrative of how views on marriage continue to threaten the unity of the denomination.
The other dioceses that ban same-sex marriage ceremonies in the church are Albany, New York; Central Florida; Dallas; Florida; North Dakota; Springfield, Illinois; and the Virgin Islands, according to a report from the church's Task Force on the Study of Marriage.
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"It amazes me that I could literally go to any other dioceses that touches us and get married," said Pereira.
But that could change soon.
Same-sex marriage rules could change
Episcopalians will consider altering rules related to weddings for same-sex couples when they gather this month in Texas for the denomination's triennial meeting. The legislative session of their General Convention begins Thursday and runs through July 13 at the Austin Convention Center.
Two resolutions before this year's General Convention could make weddings like the one Pereira and Bhatt want a reality.
One resolution, authored by the denomination's Task Force on the Study of Marriage, would require that bishops make the religious marriage ceremonies available to all couples. And, it proposes changes to the Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer, including stripping out the gender specific language as it relates to marriage.
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Three bishops put forward the second resolution. This one would give couples access to the religious wedding, too. But it would require bishops who object to have another willing bishop step in and authorize it. This resolution would not try to change the prayer book.
"My hope is that what they are able to do at the General Convention is to open this up to those of us who have been left out without making anyone feel like they have to participate in something that they're not ready for," Pereira said recently as she sat next to her wife in their home.
The current patchwork of rules started in 2015 when the General Convention opened the door for same-sex weddings by approving trial-use liturgies for marriage. But they left it up to each bishop to decide whether they could be used within their geographic regions.
Tennessee bishop stands firmly behind his decision
Ninety-three bishops authorized same-sex weddings, according to the report by the Task Force on the Study of Marriage. All but 20 of those bishops did so without conditions.
Bishop John Bauerschmidt, who oversees the Middle Tennessee region of the church, stands firmly by his decision not to authorize their use, nor allow clergy within his diocese to officiate the religious ceremonies or permit the weddings on church property.
In doing so, the bishop says he is being faithful to his job of guarding the discipline, faith and unity of the church.
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"The teaching that Christian marriage is between a man and a woman is reasonable, traditional, and scriptural," Bauerschmidt said in an email. "There really is nothing remarkable about a Christian bishop who holds to this teaching."
While Bishops can place limitations on the use of the marriage liturgies, they must refer couples to a willing diocese if they do not authorize them. Bauerschmidt chose the Diocese of Kentucky.
Pereira and Bhatt became engaged June 26, 2015, the day the U.S. Supreme Court declared that same-sex couples could legally marry across the country. The landmark decision came just days before the General Convention approved the trial-use liturgies for marriage, and Bauerschmidt issued his decision that November.
The couple did not want to marry in Kentucky.
Bhatt is originally from India, and the need for the legal protections civil marriage offers forced the issue. Megan Barry, who was Nashville mayor at the time, married the couple on Jan. 3, 2016, in her living room.
"It clouded the day because it felt like we had to do it at a place that we didn’t want to do it," Pereira said. "We needed those protections while we were waiting for the church to come around."
While some members of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee disagree with Bauerschmidt's prohibition, some church members support it.
Langley Granbery, who is a member of an Episcopal Church in Nashville, agrees with Bauerschmidt because he believes the bishop's viewpoint matches what scripture says as well as the church's historic position on marriage.
"I'm very thankful that he's taken the stance on upholding traditional marriage," said Granbery.
He worries the denomination could eventually shift far astray of its past position on marriage. This year, he hopes the General Convention will not overrule bishops such as Bauerschmidt nor change what the book of prayer says about marriage.
Granbery is concerned that eventually there may no longer be space in the Episcopal Church for conservative positions like his.
The future is unknown
Bauerschmidt has tried to emphasize unity in the face of the division within the diocese, but the ban has strained relationships for those on both sides of the issue.
In January, church members voted nearly unanimously during their diocesan meeting to send an official message to the General Convention, asking the bishops and deputies to "take in account the exclusion, competing convictions, and loss of community experienced by members of this diocese" because of the 2015 policy change.
That step was driven in part by the work of All Sacraments for All People, a local grassroots group formed in response to the bishop's ban. The organization wants everyone to be able to belong to a congregation that allows them to receive all the sacraments, including marriage.
Connally Davies Penley, who is a part of the group, does not know what to expect from the General Convention, but is hopeful.
Davies Penley wants the resolution that does not require a bishop's permission passed.
They have been in touch with church members in some of the other seven dioceses where the use of the marriage liturgies is banned.
Members in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas put together a similar campaign. The national group, Integrity USA, also continues to push for LGBTQ inclusion in the church and hopes the General Convention will make it so couples can marry in the church regardless of where they live in the U.S., said Bruce Garner, president of Integrity.
The Rev. Susan Russell, of California, who served on the Task Force on the Study of Marriage, said the bishops' resolution is well intentioned, but would enshrine a separate and inherently unequal status for LGBTQ church members.
"We can do better," Russell said in an email.
Resolutions can change as they make their way through the General Convention process. So it remains to be seen what will happen in Texas.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A United Methodist Church committee has been ordered to rehear the case against a gay Cincinnati pastor accused by some members of his denomination of being unfit for the ministry due to his marriage to a man.
On Monday, the UMC’s North Central Jurisdiction Committee on Appeals remanded the case against Rev. David Meredith back to the West Ohio Committee on Investigation, which had previously dismissed the two most serious violations Meredith faced – that he lived an “immoral lifestyle” and that as a “self-avowed, practicing homosexual” he couldn’t be ordained as a minister.
The ruling comes after an appeals hearing in Indianapolis earlier this month on the West Ohio Committee on Investigation’s decision.
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At the heart of the case is the question of whether Meredith – who has been openly gay during his entire six-year tenure as pastor of the Clifton United Methodist Church – is fit to remain an ordained UMC minister following his 2016 marriage to his long-time partner, Jim Schlachter.
Shortly after their wedding, 11 UMC denomination members sent letters to the bishop of UMC’s West Ohio Conference challenging Meredith’s fitness to remain as pastor, according to RTV6’s sister station WCPO.
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The letters cited a section from the UMC’s Book of Discipline outlining qualifications for ordination which says homosexuality is “incompatible” with Christian teaching:
"While persons set apart by the Church for ordained ministry are subject to all the frailties of the human condition and the pressures of society, they are required to maintain the highest standards of holy living in the world. The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. Therefore self-avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be certified as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in The United Methodist Church."
Meredith, who was not allowed to speak on his behalf at the Indianapolis hearing, has said the charges against him are being pushed by “mean-spirited literalists.”
In a statement provided to RTV6 Monday, members of Meredith’s Clifton United Methodist Church pushed back on the appeals committee’s decision.
“This ruling is a sad illustration of the juridical lock-box that the Methodist establishment has placed itself in,” said Steve Depoe, chair of Clifton United Methodist’s church council. “The Holy Spirit was not favored during that hearing, nor in the decision. But the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, even for United Methodists. Pastor David Meredith will continue to serve as a faithful pastor for one of the strongest congregations in the West Ohio Conference. Clifton UMC will lead the way forward in the months ahead in Cincinnati, the Ohio Valley region, and beyond.”
Although the appeals committee’s decision once again puts Meredith in jeopardy of losing his ordination as a UMC minister, it also offers a temporary reprieve. As part of its ruling, the committee asked that the case against Meredith not be heard again until after a special meeting of the global United Methodist Church in early 2019 to deal with the question of gay inclusion.
That meeting, which was announced in April 2017, is scheduled to take place from Feb. 23-29, 2019, in St. Louis.
A decision by the UMC to revise its Book of Discipline – which normally happens every four years – to remove or alter the language about homosexuality in its qualifications for ordination could mean the case against Meredith becomes largely moot. If the global church does not act on the language, Meredith will again have to argue why he should not be defrocked.
For his part, Meredith has said he remains hopeful about the ultimate outcome in the case – telling RTV6 after the hearing in Indianapolis that he was going to continue following his calling as a minister for his church.
“I have been in the church for 46 years,” Meredith said. “I wouldn’t have stayed in the United Methodist Church my entire life under the threat of the things that are standing against me if I were not a person of hope. So I am hopeful.”
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Police block off a sidewalk while responding to a report of an explosion near Times Square on Monday in New York. Mark Lennihan — The Associated Press
NEW YORK >> A man with a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square on Monday, injuring the suspect and three other people at the height of the morning rush hour, law enforcement officials said.
The man and three others were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the blast.
Police say the explosion happened in an underground passageway under 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. The 7:30 a.m. blast caused smoke to fill the passageway, which was crowded with throngs of Monday morning commuters.
Law enforcement officials said it appeared the detonation was accidental, and the bomb was a crudely made low-grade explosive device. It’s not clear what the suspect had intended, they said. The officials said the 27-year-old lives in Brooklyn and may be of Bangladeshi descent.
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A photo published by the New York Post showed a bearded man crumpled on the ground with his shirt apparently blown off and black soot covering his bare midriff. A police officer is holding the man’s hands behind his back.
The explosion triggered a massive emergency response by police and firefighters both above and below ground, tangling subway and bus service at the nearby Port Authority bus terminal.
Elrana Peralta, a customer service worker for Greyhound, said she works in the Port Authority terminal complex near where the blast happened, but didn’t hear the explosion.
“All we could hear was the chaos,” she said. “We could hear people yelling, ‘Get out! Get out! Get out!’”
John Miles, 28, from Vermont, was waiting for a bus to Massachusetts. He also didn’t hear the blast, but saw police react.
“I didn’t know what was going on. Officers were running around. I was freaking out,” he said. There was an announcement that people should take their bags and leave. “They didn’t incite panic. It was fairly orderly.”
Video from above the “Crossroads of the World” showed lines of police and emergency vehicles, their lights flashing, lining the streets and no other vehicle traffic moving.
Everything around the Port Authority area was shut down — a surreal scene of still at what would ordinarily be a bustling rush hour.
New Jersey Transit buses headed to the Port Authority were diverting to other locations. NJ Transit said buses were taking passengers to Secaucus and Hoboken, where they could take trains into the city.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted that President Donald Trump had been briefed on the explosion.
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President Donald Trump on Monday pushed for immigration restrictions following an attempted terror attack in one of New York City's busiest transportation hubs.
"First and foremost, as I have been saying since I first announced my candidacy for President, America must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access our country," Trump said in a statement.
On Monday morning, 27-year-old Akayed Ullah detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his body in a walkway connecting subway lines near the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Times Square. Ullah, an immigrant from Bangladesh, suffered burns, and at least three other people had minor injuries.


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JUPITER, Fla. (AP) - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Alex Reyes needs season-ending Tommy John surgery on his right arm.
General manager John Mozeliak confirmed the diagnosis after an MRI. Reyes didn't throw his scheduled bullpen session Tuesday because of a sore elbow.
The 22-year-old Reyes made his major league debut Aug. 9 and was 4-1 with a 1.57 ERA in five starts and seven relief appearances. His fastball averaged more than 97 mph.
FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2016, file photo, St. Louis Cardinals starter Alex Reyes throws against the Chicago Cubs during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago. Reyes needs season-ending Tommy John surgery on his right arm. General manager John Mozeliak confirmed the diagnosis after an MRI. Reyes didn't throw his scheduled bullpen session Tuesday, Feb. 14. 2017, because of a sore elbow. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Reyes, a candidate for the final spot in the starting rotation, had been feeling soreness in the days leading up to camp. He was also expecting to pitch for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.

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Two of the Marlins’ most prized winter acquisitions landed on the disabled list Wednesday morning ahead of Miami’s series finale against the Rays.
Right hip inflammation pushed center fielder Lewis Brinson to the DL, while a right axillary infection forced right-hander Sandy Alcantara out of action. Brinson was the top overall prospect acquired in the offseason (from Milwaukee in the Christian Yelich deal) while Alcantara is the club’s top pitching prospect (from St. Louis in the Marcell Ozuna deal).
To fill the vacant roster spots, the Marlins activated Jose Ureña from the 10-day disabled list and recalled left-hander Dillon Peters from Triple-A New Orleans.
Brinson said he’d been feeling the injury for the last week or so, but tried to play through it. Tuesday night’s 16-inning game served as a breaking point, though, and the team decided it would be best to silence the nagging injury with rest.
“I got tight hips,” Brinson said. “I call them fast guy problems. For the past couple years of my career, just on my feet, going to get balls in center field, it takes a toll on you. Just something I got to take care of.”
Brinson has struggled in his first full season in the major leagues, slashing .186/.232/.338 with nearly twice as many strikeouts (94) as hits (54). Among qualified major league hitters, Brinson’s .570 on-base-plus-slugging percentage is the third-worst in baseball.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly said the team was concerned about future leg injuries should Brinson change his running stride to account for the injured hip. For a player such as Brinson — a fast and athletic 24-year-old who has much of his value tied up in his defense — his legs will be a big part of his future.
“I kept noticing it, little gyrations in the box,” Mattingly said. “You could tell that hip was bothering him. And then the runs down the line, first couple steps are good and then you can tell he can’t really run. I think our biggest concern was change of gait, hamstrings, stuff like that. It just seemed like ‘Let’s get on top of this right now. Let’s get it knocked out so we can move forward.’”
Alcantara’s armpit infection will prevent him from throwing for four or five days, Mattingly said, and then the Marlins will build him back up to re-enter the rotation. If Alcantara follows a similar path to Ureña, he could return after a two-week absence.
He is eligible to return July 11, since the move was retroactive to July 1.
“It showed up the other day, it got worse and we knew we weren’t going to be able to pitch him,” Mattingly said.
While Brinson and Alcantara could both return just days before the All-Star break July 16-19, Mattingly said the team would “play it by ear” depending on what the games around then dictate. He pointed to Tuesday night’s 16-inning game as an example of changing circumstances that forced the recall of Peters from New Orleans. Peters will serve in long relief for Miami.
Reinforcements on the way
The Marlins won’t be short-handed for long, though.
Third baseman Martin Prado (left hamstring strain) and first baseman/outfielder Garrett Cooper (right wrist contusion) are expected to be activated this weekend when the Marlins visit Washington for a four-game series against the Nationals.
Mattingly said Prado would be making the trip to D.C. and Cooper tweeted that he would rejoin the team in Washington.
“He’s not going on it for no reason,” Mattingly said of Prado.
Prado hasn’t played in the major leagues since injuring his hamstring on May 25. In a rehabilitation assignment, Prado played six games at third base for High-A Jupiter.
Cooper began the season as the Marlins’ Opening Day right fielder, but hasn’t played with Miami since April 1. He played 11 total rehab games with Jupiter and New Orleans.
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Jamie Redknapp pictured without wedding ring for second time this week – after wife Louise breaks silence on rumours of marriage troubles JAMIE Redknapp has been pictured without his wedding ring on his finger, while at a golf event in St Andrews, Scotland.
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The footballer has been attending the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland this week.
But his golfing abilities weren’t the only thing people were watching – Jamie Redknapp was clearly not wearing his wedding ring for the second time this week, amid reports of marriage woes with wife Louise.
As he putted on the green, Jamie’s wedding ring was nowhere in sight for the second time this week – while two weeks ago, his wife was pictured with hers firmly on.
Jamie Redknapp was without his wedding ring at Alfred Dunhill Links Championship [Wenn]
Nevertheless, he remained in high spirits as he got stuck into the sporting event.
His appearance comes after wife Louise broke her silence on the rumours surrounding their 19-year marriage.
Eamonn Holmes questioned the former Strictly Come Dancing star about the reports on This Morning, asking her "what the deal was".
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Louise Redknapp and Jamie Redknapp have faced split speculation recently, despite being married for almost 20 years – click here to see thei relationship in pictures
Luke Donald of England and former footballer Jamie Redknapp in action during day two of the 2017 Alfred Dunhill Championship [Getty]
The singer didn't go into detail, but hinted at "hard times" with Jamie as she spoke out for the first time.
Louise said: "I think it's been so heavily documented and of course we all go through hard times.
"My priority and his priority are our children, and protecting them and keeping as much private as possible.
Jamie and Louise have been at the centre of marriage trouble reports for months [Getty]
"And loving them and putting them first. That's really what we're focusing on."
Eamonn asked Louise whether getting back into work, ahead of her return to the stage, helped with the "hard times" she has faced.
Louise added: "I think for me, going back to work is something that has been a real saviour for me.”

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Question: Colombia opens border shelter for Venezuelans fleeing crisis

BOGOTA — Colombia’s government has opened its first shelter for Venezuelans who are pouring across the border in ever-larger numbers to escape their nation’s economic crisis.
The bare-bones shelter opened Saturday near the border city of Cucuta will provide shelter of up to 48 hours for 120 people a day. Pregnant mothers, the elderly and minors who entered the country legally will be given priority. It will be administered by the Red Cross.
Cucuta has been overwhelmed in recent weeks by an increasingly large exodus of Venezuelans. Many are sleeping on the streets and crime in the city has spiked as gangs recruit and take advantage of the desperate migrants.
Some 35,000 Venezuelans cross into Colombia each day, many of them settling in with relatives or making short trips to buy food and medicine that has been scarce for years back home.
But the numbers have surged in recent months, with an estimated 200,000 now looking to stay, as four-digit inflation plunges the oil-rich nation deeper into the abyss.
Not all of them have been embraced amid growing hysteria that the economic refugees are stealing jobs and overwhelming already-stretched resources.
Last week, authorities deported 130 Venezuelans who entered the country illegally and were sleeping outdoors on a basketball court in Cucuta. Migration authorities are also seeking to toughen enforcement of migration laws even as it extends from 90 days to two years the amount of time Venezuelans can remain in the country.
“We are trying to be as generous as possible but we also must have order,” Foreign Minister Maria Holguin said this week after a special cabinet meeting to discuss the volatile situation.
President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to travel Thursday to Cucuta to review contingency plans for the burgeoning humanitarian crisis.

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a joint press conference with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos at the presidential guesthouse in Cartagena, Colombia, Aug. 13, 2017. (Photo: Fernando Vergara / AP)
Cartagena, Colombia — Seeking to highlight the growing plight in Venezuela, Vice President Mike Pence is meeting with people who’ve fled the country to neighboring Colombia.
Pence is paying a visit to the Calvary Chapel in Cartagena, where he’s meeting with faith leaders and Venezuelan families before departing to Buenos Aires, Argentina, later Monday. His wife, Karen Pence, helped to lead a prayer circle, where she prayed for “comfort to the Venezuelan refugees.”
Pence’s visit comes as he tries to rally the region against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate power.
Pence on Sunday evening denounced Maduro’s tactics and said the U.S. will not stand by as Venezuela “crumbles.”
Venezuelan officials have been firing back in a series of statements, with Information Minister Ernest Villegas denouncing U.S. meddling in Venezuela’s affairs as hypocritical on Twitter Monday.
“The US and its satellite in Bogota are trying to give classes in democracy to Venezuela while it provides cover for neo-Nazis in its own territory,” Villegas wrote, linking to photos of the recent deadly march in Charlottesville, Virginia, involving far-right groups.
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Question: Racist, anti-gay chants on rise in Russia ahead of World Cup

MOSCOW — Racist and anti-gay chants have become more common in Russian soccer as the country prepares to host the World Cup, even as overall incidents of discrimination declined.
Nineteen incidents of abusive chants were recorded this season, according to an annual report from the anti-discrimination Fare Network and the Moscow-based Sova Center released Wednesday. That compares to two cases the season before, and 10 the year before that.
Victims included players from the French national team, who were targeted with monkey chants during a game against Russia in March, and Liverpool youth player Bobby Adekanye, who was racially abused by Spartak Moscow supporters.
Russian national team goalkeeper Guilherme Marinato, a naturalized citizen who was born in Brazil, was twice targeted by Spartak fans calling him a monkey.
In another case, a regional governor told local media that the club his administration funds in the city of Vladivostok would not sign any black players.
Last month, Nigeria defender Bryan Idowu, who was born and raised in Russia, told The Associated Press that some fans in the country viewed racist abuse as a tactic to distract opposing players, rather than as a statement of ideology.
"I think most of them do that to put pressure on a player psychologically, maybe so he doesn't want to keep playing," he said. "It could just be because someone finds it funny."
Overall, cases of discrimination in Russian soccer fell to 80, the lowest since the 2013-14 season, according to Fare.
Fare executive director Piara Powar said there is also a growing shift by far-right fan groups to racist chants because visual displays like banners are more easily tracked by surveillance cameras in stadiums.
"Some of their clubs have got their procedures in place for dealing with things that are very obvious, for bringing down banners," Powar said. "That leaves people able or free to chant things and that's a far more difficult thing to police."

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A fan of Poland holds up a scarf as he watches a World Cup soccer match between Poland and Colombia at The Garden at Studio Square NYC in New York on Sunday, June 24, 2018. While the immigration debate occupies politicians and new policies have thrown thousands of families into disarray, the World Cup shows how much people from other countries help make up the fabric of New York. Terrin Waack AP Photo


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Question: Jeremy McConnell accused of sleeping with a fan's girlfriend

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He enjoyed a steamy snog with a mystery blonde on New Year's Eve.
And Jeremy McConnell seemed to be up to his old Lothario tricks again, as he was accused of sleeping with a fan's girlfriend after a nightclub appearance.
Leaked Twitter messages appear to show the Celebrity Big Brother star, 26, arranging to meet up with a partygoer at his hotel - with the untimely claims coming as his pregnant ex Stephanie Davis prepares to welcome her first child.
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Controversy: Jeremy McConnell, 26, was accused of sleeping with a fan's girlfriend after a nightclub appearance- as his pregnant ex Stephanie Davis prepares to welcome her first child
Twitter user Liam Topham made the claims about his girlfriend on social media, and shared screenshots of their supposed DMs, according to the Daily Mirror.
The chat begins with the girl writing in the early hours of the morning: 'Listen, this has to be on the sneak yea as we both have our privacy at stake.'
An account that appears to be Jeremy's replies: 'I'm in hotel. Iv no privacy I'm single', before adding: 'Wont say anything'.
The girl then reveals she will get a taxi to Jeremy's hotel, and messages to say that she's outside.
A source told MailOnline: 'The messages concerned date back to May last year, we won’t be making any comment on them it’s just old stories being recycled.'
Oh my! Jeremy McConnell looked as though his thoughts were far from his anniversary with pregnant ex Stephanie Davis as he enjoyed a steamy New Year's Eve snog with a mystery blonde on Saturday night
Awkward: Leaked Twitter messages appear to show the Celebrity Big Brother star, 26, arranging to meet up with a partygoer at his hotel
Rumour has it: Twitter user Liam Topham made the claims about his girlfriend on social media, and shared screenshots of their supposed DMs
Boyfriend Liam wrote alongside the images: 'Guess you f****d me miss's after in Ramada in Wrexham' along with a laughing emoji.
After Jeremy appeared to block the user on Twitter, he shared a screenshot of the action, captioning it: 'Must of upset him'.
Liam claimed his girlfriend met him while sharing the same table in the VIP area of the club.
He wrote: 'She met him in a club appearance, they paid for VIP booths so he sat at their table, s**t aye'.
Meanwhile Jeremy McConnell set tongues wagging as he enjoyed a steamy New Year's Eve kiss with a mystery blonde on Saturday night.
The plot thickens: After Jeremy appeared to block the user on Twitter, he shared a screenshot of the action, captioning it: 'Must of upset him'
Cheat? Liam claimed his girlfriend met him while sharing the same table in the VIP area of the club
On the way: The 26-year-old Irish hunk is said to be the father of the former Hollyoaks actress' first born, who is due to arrive any day, yet he shunned parenthood preparation in favour of a steamy night on the town
The Irish hunk is said to be the father of his ex Stephanie Davis' first born, who is due to arrive any day, yet he shunned parenthood preparation in favour of a steamy night on the town.
Jeremy, who soared to fame on now-defunct MTV show Beauty School Cop Outs, burst onto TV screens in January 2016 to star on Celebrity Big Brother where he met Stephanie, who was then dating model Sam Reece.
After unceremoniously dumping her then-beau, Jeremy and Stephanie embarked on a toxic romance which culminated in a bitter split shortly before she announced she was expecting Jeremy's child - claims he vehemently denies.
Throughout her pregnancy the duo have locked horns in bitter exchanges and as the Liverpudlian beauty's due date approaches it seems harmony is nowhere to be seen.
The tattooed heartthrob appeared worlds away from impending fatherhood as he lived it up while ringing in 2017 with a mystery blonde on his arm - who he enjoyed an extremely steamy kiss with, which was later documented on Snapchat.
That was then: Their convoluted love story sprung to life in the CBB house almost a year ago to the day
Headed in: Jeremy, who soared to fame on now-defunct MTV show Beauty School Cop Outs, burst onto TV screens in January 2016 to star on Celebrity Big Brother where he met Stephanie, who was then dating model Sam Reece
While Jeremy's year since CBB has mostly been spent on the clubbing scene, Stephanie has quit her hard-partying ways to find happiness in future motherhood.
She has maintained constantly throughout her pregnancy that Jeremy is the father, yet the Dubliner has lashed out at her claims and insisted he wants a paternity test upon the arrival of the little boy.
Speaking about the saga, the actress revealed that she was going to 'privately sort' the issue out with her former flame, but insisted that he knew the truth.
She told new! magazine: 'Jeremy knows the truth. I'm keeping (the DNA test) private. I'll sort that with him. If I could have done one straight away, I would have, but it was too dangerous for the baby.'
Happier times: The couple were closer than ever following their CBB stint
Way back when: While Jeremy's year since CBB has mostly been spent on the clubbing scene, Stephanie has reined-in her hard-partying ways to find happiness in future motherhood
Second thoughts: Stephanie's stint in CBB led to her eventual pregnancy
The actress is due to welcome her first child in a matter of days, but Jeremy has expressed concerns that he may not be the father.
With just weeks to go until Stephanie gives birth, Jeremy previously told the Daily Star: 'I was in a position where we broke up for a period of time. I found out she was pregnant, but in the meantime I knew she was with other people.'
He added that once the baby is born he will ask for a paternity test, and will 'step up' if he is proven to be the father.
'I can't do anything while the baby's in there,' he explained. 'When it comes out I would step up to the plate. All I want is clarification. If I find out it's mine I'll be the best dad.'
Proud mama: The actress is due to welcome her first child in a matter of days, but Jeremy has expressed concerns that he may not be the father


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Question: Korean stock market looks steadfast on first day

Major financial figures including Yim Jong-yong (middle), chairman of the Financial Services Commission, and Jeong Chan-woo, CEO of the Korea Exchange, celebrate the opening of the Korean securities market at the Seoul office of the Korea Exchange in Yeouido, western Seoul, Monday. (KRX)
South Korea’s main equity barometer had a steadfast first trading day this year due to sell-offs by foreign and institutional investors Monday.The Kospi slightly rebounded to the 2,030 mark during the day with some rallies in large-cap shares after a brief fall in the morning.Market bellwether Samsung Electronics and large-caps like SK hynix, Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Mobis, Naver and SK Telecom showed rallies during the day’s trading.However, the index went downhill again due to falls in chemical and cosmetic shares along with growing worries about the fallout of the decision to deploy the missile defense system Terminal High Altitude Area Defense here.LG Chem slid more than 3 percent on the news of the Chinese government excluding Korean firms from its subsidies for lithium-ion batteries. Samsung SDI lost about 2 percent.At a ceremony to open the securities market, Jeong Chan-woo, CEO of the Korea Exchange, pledged to boost transactions in the Korean capital market in 2017 by developing innovative stock indexes.The performance of stock indexes on the first day of a year is highly likely to follow previous trading trends, according to statistics by Korea Exchange.The probability of stock movements on the Kospi on the first day of a year resembling those on the last day is about 82 percent, according to the stock trading board operator. Since 2006, the directions of the Kospi on the first day of a new year and the last day of the previous year turned out to be in alignment except for 2014 and 2015.“Psychologically, the first day means a lot to retail investors,” said an investment advisor. “It sometimes gives a hint as to how the market will move throughout the year.”Samsung Securities projected the Kospi would move up and down in the range between 1,860 and 2,210 this year.Market observers said January will not be a bad month for the local stock market.Starting with Samsung Electronics on Friday, announcements of corporate earnings for the fourth quarter will begin. There are positive earnings forecasts for Korean businesses due to the improved global conditions in the latter part of last year.“Market consensus for the Q4 corporate performances was raised in December, which can suggest strong rallies in early January,” noted a report by Fn Guide, a local financial information provider.Some are more optimistic about the whole year.“Historically, the three lows -- low interest rates, low oil prices and low foreign exchange rates -- had helped bouy the Kospi,” said John Kim, a strategist at IBK Investment & Securities. “The possibility of the Kospi exceeding its limited range is higher than before in 2017.”By Song Su-hyun ( song@heraldcorp.com

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CNBC's Bertha Coombs takes a look at what's moving in early morning trading, as small regions bank stocks move higher after the rollback of bank regulations.