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North Korea tensions to SOAR as Washington backs 'harshest sanctions EVER' on Kim's regime

The House of Representatives passed the Otto Warmbier Nuclear Sanctions Act to curb North Koreas access to financial markets. The bill was named after American student Otto Warmbier, who died in June after his release from custody in Pyongyang.

It was supported by 415 members of the House, with just two votes against.

As tensions escalate, Washingtons sanctions will put more economic pressure on to abandon his nuclear weapons programme. Under the act, any foreign countries working with the rogue state will be banned from doing business with US companies.

Republican Andy Barr said the new act would impose the most far-reaching sanctions ever directed at North Korea. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said: Renaming this legislation the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act wont bring him back.

  But it will remind the world that there is nothing to be gained and everything to lose by working with such an evil regime.

The bill must now be passed by the Senate and signed by US President to become law.

The Warmbier family said it was extremely grateful to lawmakers for naming the act in honour of their late son. Otto was arrested by North Korean police in 2016 after being charged with stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel.

He was later charged with hostile acts against the North and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour.  The 22-year-old fell into a coma earlier this year and died in June after being transported back to the US.

It comes as Beijing has vowed to enforce recent UN sanctions banning imports of coal and oil from Kims brutal regime.

North Koreas sole major ally, accounts for more than 90 per cent of trade with the isolated country.  But China has stopped short of agreeing to US demands for a fuel embargo and has urged Washington to negotiate with Pyongyang.

Mr Trump, who is due to visit China next month, wants his counterpart Xi Jinping to do more to reign in North Korea. Chinese officials see the US and South Korea as sharing responsibility for rising tensions in the region.

The allies have carried out several military drills near the Korean peninsula in preparation for a nuclear attack by North Korea.

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MCC Malique Washington - Duration: 2:19.

MALIQUE WASHINGTON IS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS SKILLS ON

THE BASKETBALL COURT AND FOR BEING AN HONOR STUDENT

AT MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

BUT NOT TOO MANY KNOW THAT AT HIS YOUNG AGE HE'S

ALREADY WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED HIS OWN

CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLED "BE A STAR." THE SUDDEN DEATH

OF MALIQUE'S GRANDFATHER, JAMES KELSON, AN

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AND LONGTIME

EDUCATOR, INSPIRED MALIQUE TO FULFILL HIS

GRANDFATHER'S DREAM OF WRITING A CHILDREN'S BOOK,

ALLOWING HIS LEGACY TO LIVE ON.

YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF, YOU KNOW,

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THIS, YOU KNOW, WORLD.

AND I THINK THAT A PLACE TO START OUT AT WOULD BE

IN THIS, YOU KNOW, BOOK.

THE BOOK FEATURES A YOUNG MALIQUE AS A STUDENT.

HE TALKS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING

THE RIGHT MINDSET.

THE MAIN POINTS IN THIS BOOK ARE THE LIKE CORE

SUCCESSFUL VALUES THAT MY PAPA INSTILLED IN ME.

THOSE VALUES, HE SAYS, ARE HARD WORK, FAMILY

TRADITIONS, AND VALUES AND GETTING AN EDUCATION.

THE BOOK IS AIMED AT CHILDREN 4 TO 8 YEARS OF

AGE WHO MALIQUE HOPES TO INSPIRE TO BE ANYTHING

THEY WANT TO BE.

BELIEVING IN YOURSELF CAN TAKE YOU SO FAR IN LIFE SO

THAT'S WHY I HOPE THIS BOOK CAN, YOU KNOW,

ENCOURAGE KIDS TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF THEMSELVES.

MALIQUE SAYS HIS COACHES AT MCC HAVE HELPED HIM

BECOME WHO HE IS.

THAT JUST STRONG MINDSET OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, JUST TO

CARRY ON THROUGH LIFE EVEN THROUGH TOUGH TIMES.

WE HAVE A STRONG LEADERSHIP COMPONENT

TO OUR PROGRAM.

I FEEL LIKE WE'VE GIVEN MALIQUE AND THE OTHER GUYS

A LOT OF LIFETIME SKILLS.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK MALIQUE HAS ADAPTED TO

THAT VERY WELL.

COACH BALLARD SAYS THAT THE FACT THAT MALIQUE

WROTE A BOOK WAS NOT SURPRISING TO HIM AT ALL.

SOME GUYS MIGHT SAY THAT TO HIM, AND YOU GO, WOW, I

NEVER SAW THAT COMING.

BUT MALIQUE DEFINITELY IS A GUY WHERE YOU GO, WOW,

THAT'S -- YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE YOU WERE VERY

CAPABLE OF THAT.

MALIQUE PLANS TO WRITE MORE BOOKS AND FIND A

PUBLISHING HOUSE TO WORK WITH IN THE FUTURE.

HE ALSO SAYS 20% OF HIS BOOK'S EARNINGS ARE GOING

TOWARDS CHARITY.

FOR MARICOPA NOW, I'M JACKIE BALBUENA.

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Alumni Stories - Dr. Joseph Young, Washington Semester Program '96 - Duration: 2:30.

My name is Joe Young.

I attended the Washington Semester Program in the Fall of 1996, and I am now currently

a professor at American University in the School of International Service as well as

the school of Public Affairs.

I went to a small school in Florida called Stetson University.

It's in rural Florida, so there weren't a lot of internships, and especially not a lot

of internships in the area that I'm interested in, which at the time - it's pretty similar

to what it is now - but was peace and conflict resolution.

I interned at this organization called Campaign for UN Reform.

They were trying to support Congresspeople, Senators, who were pro-UN.

And they were also trying to get legislation that was reforming the UN, making it empowered.

The good of it was, it was a fairly small office, so I was doing things that were pretty

high-level for an intern.

I wasn't getting coffee and doing mundane tasks.

But, it became really clear to me I didn't want to have a traditional office job.

I like the topic, I love being in DC, I'm interested in peace and conflict, but not

sitting in an office all day.

I ultimately knew I wanted to be a professor but working in these topics, and ideally working

in DC.

You know, you can't really study these processes in Texas - not like you can here.

And there are even some overwhelming benefits of being here to being in New York City.

Especially for our students, they want some practical experience and knowledge, so they're

less interested in the general, vague notions of how these things might work.

And the upside of experiential learning is you see how they work in practice.

You know, you make connections, and those connections may be at your internship, or

those connections might be a friend that you make who gets a job in a place and then they

say, "Oh, by the way, there's an open position here."

"You should apply for it."

It's those kinds of networks that help you develop jobs, and so anywhere you are in the

process, it's helpful to be here and start developing those networks.

If you want to be in DC working on these things in these areas, you need to have a practice

run at it.

That can't be replicated in other places.