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Japan refiners unlikely to import Iranian oil from April: PAJ head

Idemitsu Kosan Co. Chief Executive Officer Takashi Tsukioka attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan
FILE PHOTO: Idemitsu Kosan Co. Chief Executive Officer Takashi Tsukioka attends a news conference with Showa Shell Sekiyu Chief Executive Officer Tsuyoshi Kameoka (not in picture) in Tokyo, Japan, October 13, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

March 20, 2019

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese refiners will unlikely continue to import oil from Iran from April unless Japan gets a sanctions waivers extension from the U.S. government, Takashi Tsukioka, president of the Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ), said on Wednesday.

The PAJ head said he believes the government is negotiating with the United States to get such a waiver and that PAJ would support this effort.

Japanese refiners have been asking the government to seek an extension of the U.S. sanctions waivers after the initial 180-day exemption period is over in early May. [nL3N1ZO2R2]

Japanese officials and their U.S. counterparts met last week in Washington to discuss the U.S. sanctions on Iran, according to a statement from Japan’s foreign ministry.

“Japan has told the U.S. that the sanctions should not negatively affect Japan’s stable supply of energy and Japanese companies’ operations,” an official at Japan’s industry ministry said, although declining to comment on the result of the talks.

Asked if Japan will extend sovereign ship insurance to import Iranian oil to the financial year that starts on April 1, PAJ’s Tsukioka said: “We understand the insurance is due to roll-over. We are just waiting for an announcement.”

Tsukioka had said in November, shortly after the U.S. sanctions waivers had been granted, that it was unclear whether the government would extend sovereign ship insurance into the new financial year.

(Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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NBA notebook: Texas Tech’s Culver declares for draft

FILE PHOTO: NCAA Basketball: Final Four-National Championship-Virginia vs Texas Tech
FILE PHOTO: Apr 8, 2019; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Texas Tech Red Raiders guard Jarrett Culver (23) speaks during a press conference after the championship game of the 2019 men's Final Four at US Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Caylor Arnold-USA TODAY Sports

April 19, 2019

Texas Tech standout Jarrett Culver, the Big 12 Player of the Year, announced Thursday he will forgo his last two seasons in Lubbock and declare for the 2019 NBA Draft.

The 6-foot-5, 195-pound guard made the announcement during a press conference in Lubbock, Texas.

Culver helped lead the Red Raiders to a share of the Big 12 regular-season title and was effective in this year’s NCAA Tournament, where Texas Tech fell to Virginia 85-77 in overtime in the national championship game.

On the season, Culver averaged 18.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game while the Red Raiders set a school record with 31 wins.

–Also announcing his plans to declare for the draft was 18-year-old Russian Nikita Mikhailovskii, according to a report by ESPN.

The 6-foot-8, 180-pound wing is trying to become the first Russian player drafted since 2013 when Sergey Karasev was chosen with the 19th pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Mikhailovskii spent the past season playing in the mostly Russian VTB United League and FIBA Europe Cup, averaging 7.8 points in 16.8 minutes while shooting 43.9 percent from 3-point range in 45 games.

–The Memphis Grizzlies hired two former general managers to their front office, adding Rich Cho as vice president of strategy and Glen Grunwald as senior adviser.

Cho is a former GM of the Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers, and Grunwald was GM of the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors.

The Grizzlies demoted former GM Chris Wallace to a scouting role in a flurry of moves last week, including the firing of head coach J.B. Bickerstaff and the promotion of Zach Kleiman to executive vice president of basketball operations.

–Los Angeles Clippers assistant general manager Trent Redden reportedly is close to interviewing for a senior front-office role with the New Orleans Pelicans.

The Clippers gave the Pelicans permission to discuss the position with Redden, ESPN reported, citing league sources.

David Griffin, the Pelicans’ new executive vice president of basketball operations, worked closely with Redden when they with the Cleveland Cavaliers during their 2016 NBA championship season. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski noted that Griffin is expected to be “aggressive” in pursuing Redden.

–Field Level Media

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Survey: Businesses add jobs at slowest pace in 18 months

Companies added the fewest jobs in 18 months in March, a private survey found, suggesting employers may have grown more cautious as signs of slower economic growth have emerged.

Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses added 129,000 jobs last month, down from the previous month's gain of 197,000. Still, the job gains in March are enough to lower the unemployment rate over time.

All the job gains were in service sectors, such as education and health care, which added a combined total of 56,000. Professional and business services, which include engineering, accounting, and other higher-paid work, added 41,000.

Small businesses added just 6,000 jobs, far below the hiring by large and medium-sized businesses. Smaller companies typically struggle to compete in hiring with bigger businesses when fewer workers are available.

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Mozambique confirms 138 cholera cases after cyclone strikes Beira

A motorcyclist rides through pools of water in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira
A motorcyclist rides through pools of water in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

March 29, 2019

BEIRA, Mozambique (Reuters) – There have been 138 cases of cholera confirmed in two neighborhoods of the wrecked Mozambican port city of Beira in the wake of Cyclone Idai, the government said on Friday.

“We expected this, we were prepared for this, we’ve doctors in place,” Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said.

Although there have been no confirmed cholera deaths in medical centers yet, at least two people died outside hospitals with symptoms including dehydration and diarrhea, Correia said.

(Reporting by Stephen Eisenhammer; Writing Alexander Winning; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Joe Biden’s real problem: Lefty complaints he’s not liberal enough

Joe Biden has a problem, and it goes beyond the latest accusation of being too touchy-feely.

Barack Obama's vice president is not liberal enough for the liberal precincts of the media.

And they are combing through his four-decade record and painting him as hopelessly out of step with today's progressive movement as they see it.

In other words, Biden ain't woke enough.

And this counter-campaign is gathering force even though Biden hasn't jumped into the 2020 race, as he had planned to do around the end of April.

The New York Times delivered a classic example on Friday with a lengthy piece on his stance on abortion, headlined: "When Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade."

Yes, that's true, he did, in committee — back in 1982. Biden, as a Catholic Democrat, was openly conflicted on the issue. But he voted against the same measure the next year when it reached the Senate floor.

In the first part of his Senate career, Biden also voted against the use of taxpayer funds for abortions, just as Al Gore and other more moderate Dems did.

So although Biden has been a staunch supporter of abortion rights for 30 years, the Times says his long-ago deviations "are likely to draw fresh scrutiny in a Democratic primary race where women are expected to make up a majority of voters."

In fact, Lucy Flores told CBS that what Biden did with her is "disqualifying" — along with his past "anti-abortion" stances. So the underlying motivation is that Biden isn't (or wasn't) liberal enough for her.

The Times story was downright decorous compared to the pounding that Biden is taking in liberal media outlets.

HuffPost has a takedown titled "7 Reasons Progressives May Want to Avoid a Joe Biden Candidacy."

The piece ticks off his alleged apostasies of the past in such areas as criminal justice, backing the Iraq war (like Hillary Clinton), and supporting the banking industry (the ex-senator, of course, represented the tiny state of Delaware, where the industry is huge).

And then there was this category: "He's a Little Bit Creepy."

Rebecca Traister gives him two thumbs down in New York magazine, under the headline "Joe Biden Isn't the Answer":

"He is the amiable, easygoing, handsy-but-harmless guy who's never going to give you a hard time about your own handsiness or prejudice, who's gonna make a folksy argument about enacting fundamentally restrictive policies ...

"He has provided liberal cover to anti-feminist backlash, the kind of old-fashioned paternalism of powerful men who don't take women’s claims to their reproductive, professional, or political autonomy particularly seriously, who walk through the world with a casual assurance that men's access to and authority over women's bodies is natural. In an attempt to win back That Guy, Joe Biden has himself, so very often, been That Guy."

Vox is equally dismissive, blaring the headline "Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020."

"Americans want outsiders, reformers, and fresh faces," says Vox, "not politicians with decades of baggage."

You would think that Biden was some closet conservative, rather than the man who came out for same-sex marriage before Obama did and helped him pass the Affordable Care Act. But the lefty pundits, most of them far younger, clearly pine for a Kamala or Cory or Beto or Mayor Pete — or even Bernie, his fellow septuagenarian.

In anticipating some of these attacks, Biden has been on something of an apology tour — saying for instance of the Anita Hill hearing that he chaired in 1991, "To this day I regret I couldn't come up with a way to give her the kind of hearing she deserved."

Against this backdrop, the accusation by Flores, a former Democratic assemblywoman in Nevada, exploded with considerable force. She has granted numerous interviews since writing a piece for New York magazine, including an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union."

Backstage at a rally, Biden put his hands on her shoulders from behind, Flores writes, "leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, 'I didn't wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual f---? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?'" He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn't process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused."

Now there's no way to defend that, given how upset Flores says she was. (Yes, she was a Bernie backer in 2016 and is trying to knock Joe out of the race, but that doesn't make it untrue.) What's more, we've all seen the photos and footage of Biden being too handsy with women of all ages.

BIDEN ACCUSED BY SECOND WOMAN OF IMPROPER PHYSICAL CONTACT

In her Jake Tapper interview, Flores said she finally felt compelled to speak out because Biden's behavior, documented over the years, was "frankly dismissed by the media and not taken seriously."

The former VP rushed out a statement Sunday morning saying he's "offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection," but "not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully."

And some women are saying hey, that was just Joe being Joe. Mika Brzezinski, who's quite outspoken about sexual harassment, said on MSNBC: "There's a lot of things I know about Joe Biden – I've known him for a long time — he is extremely affectionate, extremely flirtatious in a completely safe way."

And the inevitable follow-up, from the Harford Courant:

"A Connecticut woman says Joe Biden touched her inappropriately and rubbed noses with her during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich when he was vice president ...

"'It wasn't sexual, but he did grab me by the head,' Amy Lappos told The Courant Monday. 'He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.'"

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To be sure, Biden partisans can argue that Donald Trump has been accused of worse behavior with women. But this is not just about whether Biden crossed a line with Lucy Flores or other women. It's about how a 76-year-old man copes with such accusations in the #Me-Too era.

Maybe the pundits are trying to compensate for their previously soft treatment of the gaffe-prone Biden. But I believe the latest episode is fueled by a journalistic conviction that the former veep is ideologically suspect or a relic of the past.

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State Attorney Recuses Herself From Jussie Smollett Case

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Grassley ‘Accepts’ Trump Might Remove Lee Francis Cissna

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told CNN on Wednesday he has urged President Donald Trump to keep Lee Francis Cissna in his position as the top official at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but would "accept" his decision not to.

"I know the president's goals on immigration are the same as mine, pretty much the same as mine I would say, and that the president's gotta have people in place who will do his job, and since his goals are the same as mine, I'm gonna have to accept it," Grassley said.

Trump's ousting of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over the weekend has some Republicans concerned about the direction of the department and illegal immigration in the U.S. as the number of immigrants crossing the border continues to rise.

Grassley on Tuesday told The Washington Post he was "very, very concerned" Cissna could be the next to go.

"One, those are good public servants," Grassley said. "Secondly, besides the personal connection I have with them and the qualifications they have, they are the intellectual basis for what the president wants to accomplish in immigration.

"The president has to have some stability and particularly with the number one issue that he's made for his campaign, throughout his two and a half years of presidency. He's pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal."

Source: NewsMax America

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during the inauguration of the newly-elected parliament in Kabul
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during the inauguration of the newly-elected parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

April 26, 2019

By Rupam Jain and Hameed Farzad

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani encouraged newly-elected lawmakers to participate in the peace process with the Taliban as he opened on Friday the first session of parliament since a controversial election.

Ghani has invited thousands of politicians, religious scholars and rights activists to an assembly known as a loya jirga next week to discuss ways to end the 17-year war.

Several opposition leaders have said they will boycott the four-day assembly in Kabul, saying it was pulled together without their input and is being used by Ghani as he seeks a second term in a September presidential election.

“We have presented the peace plan on a regular basis and we are committed to it,” Ghani said in the first session since parliamentary elections marred by technical problems, militant attacks and accusations of voting fraud last year.

“Based on this plan, there will be no peace deal and negotiation that does not have the green card of the parliament,” he added.

Officials from the United States and the Taliban have held several rounds of talks to end the Afghan war.

U.S. negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, has reported some progress toward an accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal and on how the Taliban would prevent extremists from using Afghanistan to launch attacks as al Qaeda did on Sept. 11, 2001.

The insurgents have so far rejected U.S. demands for a ceasefire and talks on the country’s political future that would include Afghan government officials.

The loya jirga, a centuries-old institution used to build consensus among competing tribes, factions and ethnic groups, is an attempt by Ghani to influence the peace talks and cement his position for a second term, Afghan politicians and Western diplomats say.

Amid growing political divisions in Kabul, opposition politicians have demanded that Ghani step down when his mandate ends next month, and give way to an interim government to oversee peace talks with the Taliban. Ghani has ruled that out.

The country’s top court said last week Ghani can stay in office until the presidential election in September.

(Reporting by Hameed Farzad, Rupam Jain, Editing by Darren Schuettler)

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Thursday defended special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation while slamming former President Barack Obama’s administration for being slow to take action on Russian interference in U.S. elections and ex-FBI Director James Comey for telling Congress the agency was investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

“Our nation is safer, elections are more secure, and citizens are better informed about covert foreign influence schemes,” Rosenstein said in a speech to the Armenian Bar Association, marking his first public remarks after the Mueller report was released, reports CBS News.

He also pointed out that the investigation revealed a pattern of computer hacking and the use of social media to undermine elections as “only the tip of the iceberg of a comprehensive Russian strategy to influence elections, promote social discord, and undermine America, just like they do in many other countries,” reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Obama administration also made “critical decisions,” including choosing not to publicize the full story about Russian hackers and social media trolling, “and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America,” said Rosenstein.

He noted that the Mueller probe began after Comey disclosed during a hearing before Congress that President Donald Trump “pressured him to close the investigation and the president denied that the conversation occurred.”

Rosenstein said two years ago, when he was confirmed, he was told by a Republican senator that he would be in charge of the probe and that he’d report the results to the American people.

However, he said he didn’t promise to do that, because it is “not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges.”

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FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is pictured outside its Huawei's factory campus in Dongguan, Guangdong province
FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is pictured outside its Huawei’s factory campus in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By Ben Blanchard

BEIJING (Reuters) – Britain must get to the bottom of the leak of confidential discussions during a top-level security meeting about the role of China’s Huawei Technologies in 5G network supply chains, British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Friday.

News that Britain’s National Security Council, attended by senior ministers and spy chiefs, had agreed on Tuesday to bar Huawei from all core parts of the country’s 5G network and restrict its access to non-core elements was leaked to a national newspaper.

The leak of secret discussions has sparked anger in parliament and amongst Britain’s intelligence community. Britain’s most senior civil servant Mark Sedwill has launched an inquiry and written to ministers who were at the meeting.

“My understanding from London (is) that an investigation has been announced into apparent leaks from the NSC meeting earlier this week,” said Hammond, speaking on the sidelines of a summit on China’s Belt and Road initiative in Beijing.

“To my knowledge there has never been a leak from a National Security Council meeting before and therefore I think it is very important that we get to the bottom of what happened here,” he told Reuters in a pooled interview.

British culture minister Jeremy Wright said on Thursday he could not rule out a criminal investigation. The majority of the ministers at the NSC meeting have said they were not involved, according to media reports.

Hammond said he was unaware of any previous leak from a meeting of the NSC.

“It’s not about the substance of what was apparently leaked. It’s not earth-shattering information. But it is important that we protect the principle that nothing that goes on in national security council meetings must ever be repeated outside the room.”

Allowing Huawei a reduced role in building its 5G network puts Britain at odds with the United States which has told allies not to use its technology at all because of fears it could be a vehicle for Chinese spying. Huawei has categorically denied this.

There have been concerns that the NSC’s conclusion, which sources confirmed to Reuters, could upset other allies in the world’s leading intelligence-sharing network – the Five Eyes alliance of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

However, British ministers and intelligence officials have said any final decision on 5G would not put critical national infrastructure at risk. Ciaran Martin, head of the cyber center of Britain’s main eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, played down any threat of a rift in the Five Eyes alliance.

(Writing by Michael Holden; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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President Trump on Friday said “no money” was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, after reports that the U.S. received a $2 million hospital bill from Pyongyang for the late American prisoner’s care.

“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else. This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or gave five terroist[sic] hostages plus, who soon went back to battle, for traitor Sgt. Bergdahl!” Trump tweeted Friday.

NORTH KOREA GAVE US $2M HOSPITAL BILL OVER CARE OF AMERICAN OTTO WARMBIER, SOURCES SAY

The Washington Post first reported that North Korean authorities insisted the U.S. envoy sent to retrieve Warmbier, 21, who was a student of the University of Virginia, sign a pledge to pay the bill before allowing Warmbier’s comatose body to return to the United States. Sources confirmed the bill and the amount to Fox News on Thursday.

Sources told the post that the envoy signed an agreement to pay the medical bill on instructions from the president, but a source told Fox News that the U.S. did not ever pay money to North Korea.

The White House declined to comment when asked on the bill, with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders saying in a statement that: “We do not comment on hostage negotiations, which is why they have been so successful during this administration.”

Meanwhile, the president added: “’President[sic] Donald J. Trump is the greatest hostage negotiator that I know of in the history of the United States. 20 hostages, many in impossible circumstances, have been released in last two years. No money was paid.’ Cheif[sic] Hostage Negotiator, USA!”

Warmbier was on tour in North Korea when he allegedly stole a propaganda sign from a hotel. He was arrested in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor in March 2016. Warmbier, for unknown reasons, fell into a coma while in custody and was held in that condition for an additional 17 months.

North Korean officials did not tell American officials until June 2017 that Warmbier had been unconscious the entire time. He died less than a week after he returned to the U.S. North Korean officials, though, have repeatedly denied accusations that Warmbier was tortured, instead claiming that he had suffered from botulism and then slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.

AMERICAN PRISONERS HELD IN NORTH KOREA ON THEIR WAY HOME AFTER POMPEO VISIT, TRUMP SAYS

Fred and Cindy Warmbier sued North Korea over their son’s death and in December were awarded $501 million in damages – money that the Hermit Kingdom will probably never pay.

While the Warmbiers blamed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump has said he believes Kim’s claims that he did not know about the student’s treatment.

Trump and Kim have met in two separate summits. The most recent, held in February, ended without an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, told Fox News: “Otto Warmbier was mistreated by North Korea in so many ways, including his wrongful conviction and harsh sentence, and the fact that for 16 months they refused to tell his family or our country about his dire condition they caused.  No, the United States owes them nothing. They owe the Warmbier family everything.”

Last year, the Trump administration was also able to save three American prisoners held by North Korea. Kim Dong Chul, Tony Kim, and Kim Hak Song were all detained in North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought the three Americans home last May, and said they were all in “good health.”

Fox News’ John Roberts, Rich Edson, Nicholas Kalman, and Mike Emanuel contributed to this report.

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Park Yoo-chun, a K-pop idol singer, arrives at the Suwon district court in Suwon
Park Yoo-chun, a K-pop idol singer, arrives at the Suwon district court in Suwon, South Korea, April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

April 26, 2019

SEOUL (Reuters) – K-pop and drama star Park Yu-chun was arrested on Friday on charges of buying and using illegal drugs, a court said, the latest in a series of scandals to hit the South Korean entertainment business.

Suwon District Court approved the arrest warrant for Park, 32, due to concerns over possible destruction of evidence and flight risk, a court spokesman told Reuters.

Park is suspected of having bought about 1.5 grams of methamphetamine with his former girlfriend earlier this year and using the drug around five times, an official at the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency said.

Park has denied wrongdoing, saying he had never taken drugs, and he again denied the charges in court, Yonhap news agency said.

Park’s contract with his management agency had been canceled and he would leave the entertainment industry, Park’s management agency, C-JeS Entertainment, said on Wednesday.

Park was a member of boyband TVXQ between 2003 and 2009 before leaving the group with two other members, forming the group JYJ.

A scandal involving sex tapes, prostitutes and secret chat about rape led at least four other K-pop stars to quit the industry earlier this year.

The cases sparked a nationwide drugs bust and investigations into tax evasion and police collusion at night clubs and other nightlife spots.

(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Additional reporting by Heekyong Yang; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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