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DENTON, TX • 940-427-1257
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Monday, August 29, 2016
Italy probes role negligence played in quake toll
“This risk of infiltration is al-
ways high,” he said in comments
Sunday in La Repubblica news-
paper. “Post-earthquake recon-
struction is historically a tempt-
ing morsel for criminal groups
and colludingbusiness interests.”
Italy’s national museums,
meanwhile, embarked on a
fundraising campaign, donating
their Sunday proceeds to relief
and reconstruction efforts in the
quake-stricken areas.
Besides homes and low-rise
apartment buildings, Wednes-
days quake badly damaged scores
of churches, town halls, bell tow-
ers and other centuries-old cul-
tural treasures. The idea is to use
art for art — harnessing the na-
tion’s rich artistic heritage to help
repair and restore other objects of
beauty in the hard-hit towns.
“It’s a way to rediscover our
cultural heritage, to give our
small but significant contribution
so that endangered artwork that
was gravely damaged may have a
new chance, be restored and re-
covered,” Cristiana Collu, the di-
rector of Rome’s National Gallery
of Modem and Contemporary
Art Museum, said in an interview
with The Associated Press.
were included in the overall 290
death toll given by authorities.
The Civil Protection agency,
which combines the figures it re-
ceives from different provinces
affected by the quake, said the
number is lower than the previ-
ous toll of 291 dead due to a cor-
rection in the numbers from the
province of Rieti, where most of
the victims died.
The quake that stmck before
dawn Wednesday also injured
nearly 400 people as it flattened
three medieval towns near the
mgged Apennines. Prosecutor
Giuseppe Saieva, based in the
nearby provincial capital of Rie-
ti, said the high human death
toll “cannot only be considered
the work of fate.”
“The fault lines tragically did
their work and this is called des-
tiny, but if the buildings had
been built like in Japan they
would not have collapsed,” Saie-
va said in comments carried by
Italian media.
Investigations are focusing
on a number of structures, in-
cluding an elementary school in
Amatrice that cmmbled despite
being renovated in 2012 to resist
earthquakes at a cost of
By Vanessa Gera, Frances D’Emilio
and Hakan Kaplan
Associated Press
AMATRICE, Italy — Italian
authorities are vowing to inves-
tigate whether negligence or
fraud in adhering to building
codes played a role in the high
death toll in last week’s earth-
quake in Italy.
They also called for efforts to
ensure organized crime doesn’t
infiltrate lucrative construction
contracts to eventually rebuild
much of the picturesque towns
leveled in the disaster.
Meanwhile, rescue workers
pressed on with the task of re-
covering bodies from the rubble,
with hopes of finding any more
survivors virtually vanished
more than four full days after the
powerful quake.
Over the past two days, they
found six more bodies in the rab-
ble of Hotel Roma in Amatrice,
the medieval hill town in moun-
tainous central Italy that bore the
brunt of destruction and loss of
life in the powerful quake. They
recovered three and by late Sun-
day were still working to retrieve
others that were hard to reach.
It wasn’t clear if those six
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Firefighters retrieve a bell from a church Sunday in the small town of Rio, Italy. Bulldozers with
huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges Sunday in Italy’s quake-devastated
town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes
had added to the quake’s high death toll.
lapsed, killing a family of four by L’Aquila in 2009.
sleeping in a neighboring house,
including a baby of 8 months prosecutor, Franco Roberti,
and a 7-year-old boy. That bell vowed to work to prevent orga-
tower also had been recently re- nized crime from infiltrating
stored with special funds alio- public works projects which will
cated after Italy’s last major be eventually begun to rebuild
earthquake, which struck near- the earthquake zone.
$785,000.
children’s summer vacations in
their final weeks, the school
wasn’t yet in use. Many were
shocked it didn’t withstand the
6.2 magnitude quake.
Questions also surround a
bell tower in Accumoli that col-
With
school-
Italy’s national anti-Mafia
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ray.
The commander of Colom-
bia’s biggest rebel movement
said Sunday its fighters will per-
manently cease hostilities with
the government beginning with
the first minute today, as a result
of their peace accord ending one
of the world’s longest-running
conflicts.
Rodrigo Londono, leader of
the Revolutionary Armed Forc-
es of Colombia, made the an-
nouncement in Havana, where
the two sides negotiated for four
years before announcing the
peace deal Wednesday.
“Never again will parents be
burying their sons and daugh-
ters killed in the war,” said Lon-
dono, who also known as Ti-
moshenko. “All rivalries and
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the lower of the effective or rollback tax rate, and state law requires that two pub-
lic hearings be held by the governing body before adopting the proposed tax rate.
Ismail Coskun, IHA/AP
Turkish troops return from the Syrian border Sunday in Kar-
kamis, Turkey. Turkey on Wednesday sent tanks across the
border to help Syrian rebels retake the key Islamic State-held
town of Jarablus.
The governing body of DENTON CO EMERGENCY SERVICE DIST #1 pro-
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and emergency services.
Turkey-backed rebels
expel Kurdish forces
from Syrian towns
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coalition fighting the militants
of the Islamic State group, but
the airstrikes that began Satur-
day marked the first time it has
targeted Kurdish-led forces in
Syria.
By Sarah El Deeb
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Rebels backed
by Turkey made major gains
Sunday in northern Syria, expel-
ling Kurdish-led forces from
towns and villages as part of a
determined campaign by Anka-
ra to push the militants east of
the Euphrates River.
At least 35 civilians were
killed, according to activists. The
dramatic escalation of Turkey’s
involvement in the Syrian civil
war last week aimed to help the
Syrian rebels drive the Islamic
State group out of the border
town of Jarablus. But it also is
aimed at U.S.-allied Kurdish
forces that have gained control
in recent months of most of the
territory along the Turkey-Syria
border.
The fighting pits Turkey, a
NATO ally, against a U.S.-
backed proxy that is the most ef-
fective ground force battling IS
militants in Syria in the 5-year-
old civil war. It leaves Washing-
ton in the tough spot of having to
choose between its two of its al-
lied forces, and is likely to divert
resources from the fight against
Colombian President Juan
Manuel Santos announced on
Friday that his military would
cease attacks on the FARC be-
ginning today.
The effective tax rate is the total tax rate needed to raise the same amount of
property tax revenue for DENTON CO EMERGENCY SERVICE DIST #1
from the same properties in both the 2015 tax year and the 2016 tax year.
‘We will support all work to
clean Syria and Iraq of Daesh,”
Erdogan told the rally, using an
Arabic acronym for the IS
group. “That’s why we are in Ja-
rablus, that’s why we are in Ba-
shiqa [in Iraq]. If necessary, we
will not shy away from taking re-
sponsibility in the same way in
other areas.”
The rollback tax rate is the highest tax rate that DENTON CO EMERGENCY
SERVICE DIST #1 may adopt before voters are entitled to petition for an elec-
tion to limit the rate that may be approved to the rollback rate.
Jakarta, Indonesia
Would-be bomber’s
explosives fail in church
A would-be suicide bomber’s
explosives failed to detonate in a
packed church in western Indo-
nesia during Sunday Mass, and
he injured a priest with an ax be-
fore being restrained, police
said.
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Turkey has troops stationed
in Bashiqa in northern Iraq, and
it was not clear if his reference to
Jarablus means he intends to
base his troops there.
Erdogan then turned his fo-
cus to the main Syrian Kurdish
Democratic Union Party, known
as the PYD.
“We are as determined
about the PYD, the separatist
terror organization’s Syrian
wing,” he said. Ankara views
the PYD and the militia affiliat-
ed with it, which forms the
backbone of the U.S.-backed
Syria Democratic Forces, or
SDF, as an extension of the
Kurdish insurgency that is rag-
ing in southeastern Turkey.
We will continue until we
uproot this terror organization,”
Erdogan told the rally.
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The 18-year-old assailant left
a bench and ran toward the
priest at the altar, but a bomb in
his backpack only burned with-
out exploding, said national po-
lice spokesman Maj. Gen. Boy
Rafli Amar.
Before he was restrained by
members of the congregation,
the man managed to take an ax
from the backpack and attacked
the Rev. Albert Pandiangan,
causing a slight injury to the 60-
year-old priest’s hand, Amar
said.
Michelle French
Denton County Tax Assessor-Collector
1505 E. McKinney Street Denton, TX
940-349-3500
michelle. french @ dentoncounty. com
tax. dentoncounty. com
You are urged to attend and express your views at the following public hearings
on proposed tax rate:
First Hearing:
09/07/2016 7:00 PM at Station 511
511 S Gibbons Rd Argyle, TX 76226
09/14/2016 7:00 PM at Station 511
511 S Gibbons Rd Argyle, TX 76226
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Libreville, Gabon
Challenger predicts win
as Gabon awaits results
A Turkish soldier was killed
by a Kurdish rocket attack late
Saturday, the first such fatality in
Turkey’s ground offensive
dubbed Euphrates Shield that
began Aug. 24.
Speaking at a rally in the bor-
der town of Gaziantep, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdo-
gan said his military is commit-
ted to fighting terrorism in Syria
and Iraq.
Turkey, he said, also is deter-
mined to “uproot” the Syrian
Kurdish group, calling it a ter-
rorist organization. But he didn’t
specify a goal for the fight
against the Kurdish forces.
Turkey is part of the U.S.-led
Second Hearing:
Gabon’s most prominent op-
position candidate said Sunday
that early results show he will
win this central African coun-
try’s presidential election,
though official results have not
been announced.
“The general trends indi-
cate we are the winner of this
important presidential elec-
tion,” Jean Ping, a former chair
of the African Union Commis-
sion, told reporters Sunday af-
ternoon.
Earlier Sunday, the country’s
interior ministry said in a state-
ment that it was illegal to pro-
claim results before the electoral
commission’s official results are
made public — an announce-
ment that is expected on Tues-
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