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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 2011
Page
14
Vermont celebrates the reopening of Route 107 between Bethel and Stockbridge, the last highway destroyed by Irene. Crews hauled rock and logged hours for months, marking the ceremony at a Stockbridge school as residents and officials cheered the end of a long detour and shortened commutes.
The Obama administration sanctioned two men for laundering money for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels. Jorge Fadlallah Cheaitelly leads a Panama based operation with reach to Hong Kong. Mohamad El Khansa is a key partner. Nine associates and 28 entities were also named in the sanctions.
North Korea publicly named Kim Jong Un the supreme leader during a mass memorial for Kim Jong Il at the Grand People's Study House. The event, attended by top officials and Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Kyong Hui, signaled unified backing for his leadership amid questions about his experience and the nation’s stalled nuclear negotiations.
The Obama administration will send Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, to Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo January 3 to 7 to discuss North Korea after Kim Jong Il's death and Myanmar rapprochement. Campbell will be the senior U.S. official in the region since Kim's passing and Kim Jong Un's succession.
JOHANNESBURG AP. Large tusk seizures push this year to the worst on record since 1989 ivory ban with as many as 3000 elephants killed by poachers. TRAFFIC expert Tom Milliken calls 2011 a horrible year for elephants amid major shipments hidden in Kenyan handicrafts en route to Cambodia.
In Mogadishu a former MSF employee opened fire at the Doctors Without Borders office, killing one worker and wounding at least another. Ahmed Ali, an MSF security guard, said the Somali logistics staffer was dismissed Wednesday and returned Thursday to shoot.
Buenos Aires reports former dictator Reynaldo Bignone found guilty of crimes against humanity. He received 15 years in prison for overseeing the covert torture center at Posadas de Haedo hospital in Buenos Aires province, 35 years ago.
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