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Russian bomber patrols to reach Gulf of Mexico
By Vladimir Isachenkov
Associated Press
MOSCOW — In a show of
military muscle amid tensions
with the West, Russia will send
long-range strategic bombers on
regular patrol missions across
the globe, from the Arctic Ocean
to the Gulf of Mexico, a top offi-
cial said Wednesday.
The announcement by Rus-
sian Defense Minister Sergei
Shoigu came as NATO’s chief
accused Russia of sending fresh
troops and tanks into eastern
Ukraine.
“Over the last few days, we
BRIEFLY
AROUND THE WORLD
London
Banks fined billions
for rigging market
Traders with nicknames like
the “Three Musketeers” and the
“A-Team” plotted over Internet
chat rooms to manipulate cur-
rency markets for years, profit-
ing at the expense of clients —
and then congratulating them-
selves for their brilliance — reg-
ulators said Wednesday, as they
fined five banks $3.4 billion.
Citibank, JPMorgan Chase,
Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC
Bank and UBS agreed to settle-
ments totaling almost $3.4 bil-
lion with the U.S. Commodity
Futures Trading Commission,
U.K. Financial Conduct Author-
ity and Swiss Financial Market
Supervisory Authority. The Brit-
ish regulator said Barclays re-
mains under investigation.
“Today’s record fines mark
the gravity of the failings we
found, and firms need to take re-
sponsibility for putting it right,”
said Martin Wheatley, chief ex-
ecutive of the FCA. “They must
make sure their traders do not
game the system to boost prof-
its.”
Meanwhile, a U.S. Treasury
Department agency announced
it was fining three of the biggest
U.S. banks — JPMorgan Chase
& Co., Bank of America Corp.
and Citigroup Inc. — a total
$950 million for failing to pre-
vent misconduct in their foreign
exchange trading operations.
Baghdad
Prime minister orders
military shake-up
Iraq’s prime minister on
Wednesday ordered his first ma-
jor shake-up of his military since
taking office three months ago,
relieving 26 army officers of
their commands and retiring 10
others as a monitoring group
said airstrikes by a U.S.-led co-
alition against the Islamic State
group and other extremists in
neighboring Syria have killed
more than 860 people, includ-
ing civilians, since they began in
September.
The Iraqi military shake-up,
which included the appoint-
ment of 18 new commanders,
was ordered “as part of efforts to
reinforce the work of the mili-
tary on the basis of professional-
ism and fighting graft in all its
forms,” according to a statement
posted on Prime Minister Haid-
er al-Abadi’s official website.
“The aim is not to punish
anyone, but rather to improve
our military performance,” al-
Abadi later said in comments to
senior army officers.
A government official said
the shake-up followed the find-
ings of a probe ordered last
month by al-Abadi on corrup-
tion in the military. The official
spoke on condition of anonym-
ity because he was not autho-
rized to speak to the media.
Islamabad
State TV: Protest
leaders face arrest
A Pakistani court has issued
arrest warrants for leaders of an
anti-government protest over an
attack on the headquarters of
the country’s state-run television
station, the broadcaster report-
ed Wednesday.
In its evening bulletin, Paki-
stan Television said opposition
politician Imran Khan, fiery
cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and several
leaders face arrest over the Sept.
1 attack on its offices in Islam-
abad that briefly forced the
broadcaster off the air. It did not
elaborate and court officials
could not be reached Wednes-
day night to confirm the war-
rants had been issued.
— The Associated Press
have seen multiple reports of
large convoys moving into East-
ern Ukraine,” said NATO Secre-
tary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
‘We assess that this significant
military buildup includes Rus-
sian artillery, tanks, air defense
systems and troops. His state-
ment called the situation a “se-
vere threat to the cease-fire.”
Moscow denied the allegation
as unfounded, but Shoigu also
said the dispute with the West
over Ukraine would require Rus-
sia to beef up its forces in the Cri-
mea, the Black Sea Peninsula that
Russia annexed in March.
By Frank Jordans
Associated Press
DARMSTADT, Germany -
Hundreds of millions of miles
from Earth, a European space-
craft made history Wednesday
by successfully landing on the
icy, dusty surface of a speeding
comet — an audacious first de-
signed to answer big questions
about the universe.
The landing on comet 67P/
Churyumov-Gerasimenko re-
quired immense precision, as
even the slightest error could
have resulted in cosmic calamity.
Indications were that the
spacecraft touched down almost
perfectly, save for an unplanned
bounce, said Stephan Ulamec,
head of the lander operation.
But thrusters that were
meant to push the lander, called
Philae, onto the surface, and
harpoons that would have an-
chored it to the comet failed to
deploy properly. Initial data
from the spacecraft indicated
that it lifted off again, turned
and then came to rest.
“Today we didn’t just land
once; we maybe even landed
twice,” said Ulamac.
Scientists were still trying to
fully understand what hap-
pened but so far most of the in-
struments are working fine and
sending back data as hoped, he
added.
The landing team at mission
control in Darmstadt first had to
sweat through a tense seven-
hour countdown that began
when Philae dropped from the
agency’s Rosetta space probe as
both it and the comet hurtled
through space at 41,000 mph.
During the lander’s descent,
scientists were powerless to do
anything but watch, because its
vast distance from Earth — 311
million miles — made it impos-
sible to send instructions in real
time.
Shoigu said Russian long-
range bombers will conduct
flights along Russian borders
and over the Arctic Ocean. He
said, “In the current situation we
have to maintain military pres-
ence in the western Atlantic and
eastern Pacific, as well as the Ca-
ribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.”
Shoigu would not say how
frequent the patrol missions
would be or offer any other spe-
cifics, but he noted that the in-
creasing pace and duration of
flights would require stronger
maintenance efforts and that
relevant directives have been is-
Finally, at 10:03 a.m. CST,
the agency received a signal that
the washing machine-sized
lander had touched down on the
comet’s icy surface.
While further checks were
needed to ascertain the state of
the 220-pound lander, the fact
that it was resting on the surface
of the comet was already a huge
success — the highlight of Ro-
setta’s decade-long mission to
study comets and learn more
about the origins of these celes-
tial bodies.
Scientists have likened the
trillion or so comets in our solar
system to time capsules that are
virtually unchanged since the
earliest moments of the uni-
verse.
“By studying one in enor-
mous detail, we can hope to un-
lock the puzzle of all of the oth-
ers,” said Mark McCaughrean, a
senior scientific adviser to the
mission.
The mission will also give re-
searchers the opportunity to test
the theory that comets brought
organic matter and water to
Earth billions of years ago, said
Klim Churyumov, one of the two
astronomers who discovered the
comet in 1969.
Rosetta and Philae will ac-
company the comet as it races
past the sun and becomes in-
creasingly active in the rising
temperatures. Between them,
they will use 21 different instru-
ments to collect data that scien-
tists hope will help explain the
origins and evolution of celestial
bodies, and maybe even life on
Earth.
Mission manager Paolo Ferri
said there was no time to cele-
brate, because the lander had
only enough battery power to
operate for up to 64 hours. After
that it will have to recharge, us-
ing solar panels to eke out an ex-
tra hour of operations each day.
sued to industries.
He said the Russian air forc-
e’s long-range planes also will
conduct “reconnaissance missi-
ons to monitor foreign powers’
military activities and maritime
communications.”
A senior U.S. military official
said Russia has not previously
flown actual bomber patrols
over the Gulf of Mexico, includ-
ing during the Cold War.
Long-range bombers have
been in the area before, but only
to participate in various visits to
the region when the aircraft
stopped over night at locations
in South or Central America.
During the Cold War, other
types of Russian aircraft flew pa-
trols there, including surveil-
lance flights and anti-submarine
aircraft.
The official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because
he wasn’t authorized to discuss
the flights publicly, also said that
the pace of Russian flights
around North America, includ-
ing the Arctic, have largely re-
mained steady, with about five
incidents per year.
Col. Steve Warren, a Penta-
gon spokesman, declined to call
this a Russian provocation. He
said the Russians have a right,
like any other nation, to operate
in international airspace and in
international waters. The im-
portant thing, Warren said, is for
such exercises to be carried out
safely and in accordance with in-
ternational standards.
Ian Kearns, director of the
European Leadership Network,
a London-based think tank, said
the bomber patrols are part of
Kremlin’s efforts to make the
Russian military “more visible
and more assertive in its ac-
tions.”
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