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JERUSALEM - Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor has visited holy sites in Jerusalem and drew comparisons between the Holy City and her homeland.

The actress and fashion icon is the daughter of renowned actor and producer Anil Kapoor. During her visit to Jerusalem she met local fans who recognized her, asked for her signature and took photos with her.

Kapoor arrived in Israel as a guest of the Israeli tourism ministry and visited Jerusalem’s Old City where she toured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and placed a note between the stones of the Western Wall. (rtr)

Agricultural sector in Badung disappearing fast

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MANGUPURA - The agricultural sector in the district of Badung is shrinking fast due to the unstoppable expansion of tourism, this despite agriculture having been being lauded in the last electoral campaign. The Badung Forestry and Plantation Agency noted that farmland conversions increased from 9,984 hectares in 2014 to 10,006 hectares. As of May 2016 or within the period of just five months the Tourism Office recorded the increase occurred in non-star hotel to 471 units, 716 cottages and 47 condotels, while the number of star hotel remains 155 units.

Head of the Badung Forestry and Plantation Agency, IGK Sudaratmaja, said the farmland conversion in Badung dominantly happens in North Kuta. Hundreds of hectares of farmland have been converted into tourist accommodations. “It mostly happened due to the impact of tourism development mainly in the tourist accommodation and in the area of North Kuta,” said IGK Sudaratmaja, as confirmed on Tuesday (May 31).

Indian actress Sonam Kapoor speaks during her interview with Reuters in Jerusalem May 29, 2016.

Amber Heard reports Depp domestic violence accusation to police LOS ANGELES - Actress Amber Heard has given a statement to Los Angeles police in which she accused estranged husband Johnny Depp of domestic violence, her lawyers said on Tuesday, a week after she filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order against Depp.

Heard’s attorneys said in a statement that in an attempt to “protect her privacy and Johnny’s career” the actress initially declined to report to police a May 21 incident between her and Depp that she claimed left her with a bruised eye.

“Johnny’s team has forced Amber to give a statement to the LAPD to set the record straight as to the true facts ...,” Heard’s lawyers Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig said.

“Amber has suffered through years of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Johnny,” they said.

Representatives for Depp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Officer Liliana Preciado declined to comment, citing privacy. Depp’s 17-year-old daughter Lily-Rose supported her father on Instagram, posting a photo captioning her father as “the sweetest most loving person I know.”

Heard, 30, said in court papers filed in Los Angeles last week that Depp, 52, had been abusive to her throughout their relationship, culminating in an argument during which he hurled a cell phone at her face and shattered objects in her apartment.

Depp’s lawyer argued in a court document that Heard “is attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse.”

Judge Carl H. Moor granted a temporary restraining order requiring Depp to stay at least 100 yards away from Heard and move out of the couple’s shared downtown Los Angeles condominium. A hearing was scheduled for June 17.

Heard, who will star in upcoming superhero ensemble “The Justice League Part One,” said she was seeking $50,000 a month for spousal support. Depp, one of Hollywood’s leading actors and box office draws, and Heard married in February 2015 after meeting on the set of 2011’s “The Rum Diary.” (rtr)

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Civilians, who fled their homes due to the clashes on the outskirts of Falluja, gather in the town of Garma, Iraq, May 30, 2016.

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UN warns 20,000 children are trapped in Iraq’s Fallujah

BAGHDAD — The U.N. children’s fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad.

Backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary forces mainly made up of Shiite militias, Iraqi government troops more than a week ago launched a military operation to recapture Fallujah which has been under control of the extremist group for more than two years.

As the battled unfolded — with

Iraqi forces this week pushing into the city’s southern sections after securing surrounding towns and villages — more than 50,000 people are believed to be trapped inside the Sunni majority city, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad.

The UNICEF estimated the number of the children trapped with their families inside the city at about

20,000, warning that they face a dire humanitarian situation, in addition to the risk of forced recruitment into the fighting by the IS militants.

“Children who are forcibly recruited into the fighting see their lives and futures jeopardized as they are forced to carry and use arms, fighting an adults’ war,” the organization said in a statement. It called on “all parties to protect children inside Fallujah” and “provide safe passage to those wishing to leave the city.”

On the ground, Iraqi special forces continued their push into the city from its southern edge, said

Brig. Haider al-Obeidi with the elite counterterrorism troops. Al-Obeidi described the clashes underway Wednesday as “fierce” and said the Iraqi troops were facing tough resistance from IS militants.

Fallujah was the first large city in Iraq to fall to IS and it is the last major urban area controlled by the extremist group in western Iraq. The Sunni-led militants still control the country’s second-largest city, Mosul, in the north, as well as smaller towns and patches of territory in the country’s west and north.

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Other than the influence of the rapid growth of tourist accommodations, IGK Sudaratmaja also mentioned that Badung does not have permanent legal framework regarding Sustainable Food Agricultural Land (LP2B). As a matter of fact, this concept has been included in the draft of detailed spatial plan (RDTR) currently under discussion in the Badung House of Representatives.

“Once the RDTR Badung has been passed, we will have a legal instrument to protect the agricultural lands from farmland conver-

sion,” he said.

He added that attempts to make new paddy fields covering an area of 100 hectares at Subak Pangsut Sari, Sidan hamlet, Belok Sidan, Petang, has not been realized.

Until now, the paddy fields created only reached 25 hectares. “Local farmers do not want to use heavy equipment to make the new paddy fields. The process runs slowly by using traditional ways, and remains to continue until today,” he said.

In the meantime, Chairman of the Indonesia Farmers Association (HKTI) of Bali, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta, said that the government currently more focuses on the pro-

grams that should be able to save money, but they become priority such as the budget to make the local elections successful.

“All this time the spirit of building the agricultural sector is never clear and can never be trusted if this sector will certainly be defended.

They (the governments—Ed) are always defeated by the other more popular interests such as regional elections. I do not say if the election is not important, but the budget can be saved,” he explained.

This professor from the Udayana University said that minimal budget distributed certainly causes the development of the sector stagnant. This condition will also have

an impact on food self-sufficiency, where we will increasingly depend on other regions in fulfilling people’s needs. This condition also makes the agricultural sector increasingly sluggish because this sector is no longer attractive to be worked on.

“The most important thing to do amid the lack of budget is a good coordination between the agencies, so that the programs implemented can have maximum impact on the agriculture,” he said.

The data on farmland conversion in Badung district within the past five years namely in 2011 covered an area of 10,187 hectares, 10,195 hectares (2012), 10,144

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hectares (2013), 9,984 hectares (2014) and 10,006 hectares (2015).

In the meantime, the data of Badung Tourism Office mention that the number of tourist accommodation until December 31, 2015 with the category of star hotel reached 155 units, 458 units of non-star hotel, 685 units of cottage and 44 units of condotel.

This figure has increased quite significantly. Until May 2016 or within a period of five months the Tourism Office recorded an increase happened to non-star hotel (471 units), cottages (716 units) and condotel (47 units), while the star hotel remains to amount to 155 units. (kmb27)

Executive will observe

Advised to use local guide service for domestic travelers DENPASAR -

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, responded to the general view of factions in the Bali House of Representatives regarding the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) on Tour Guides in the Plenary Session at the parliamentary building, Tuesday (May 31). In many cases, the governor expressed his agreement with the parliament. He just disagreed to one point regarding the addition to the regulation of the Tourism Ministerial Regulation No.13/2015 on the Standards of Tour Guide Services in the preamble.

“I disagree because the substances or materials regulated in this regional bylaw draft or Ranperda is specifically regulating tour guides personally, not in terms of business entity,” said Pastika.

He would look back a number of suggestions of the parliament. In this case the issuance of certificate of testing pass on the Balinese cultural knowledge and tour guide identification card (KTPP) should include the participation of the tourist guides or those extending their identification card. Then, the suggestion of domestic travelers that during their visit in Bali can use the services of local tour guides will be examined.

“Domestic travelers are Indonesians. If they are foreign travelers, it’s clear that they should be replaced with local tour guide.

In most cases, the domestic travelers come in small entourage,” said Pastika.

Nevertheless, he agreed if tour

guides from outside Bali taking a group of domestic travelers to a specific destination must be replaced with local tour guides. For example, when they visit Besakih Temple or Batur, travelers will not get wrong information if they are handled by local guides.

“For instance, when visiting Besakih Temple, the outsiders do not understand about Besakih.

So, it should involve local guide or when going anywhere like to specific destination they should be escorted by local guides because they can explain and understand exactly about Besakih Temple. So, do not allow any people explain what is permitted and not permitted as well as what is special about particular tourist object,” said Pastika.

Chairman of the Special Committee on Tour Guides at the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that there has been actually an agreement between the tour guides in Bali with tour guides

from outside Bali when handling guests coming to Bali. The deal is done to support local human resources of Bali tour guides and prevent misinterpretation in the explanation of culture and tourist destination in Bali.

“Actually there has been an agreement at the national level in the Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI—Ed), but in practice it is not implemented.

On that account, it is included in the regional bylaw draft on the tour guides,” said this politician from Gerenceng palace.

In general, Adhi Ardhana considered the response of the governor to the general view of the factions is positive. Moreover, he agreed more than disagreed with the suggestions of the parliament and it will be observed.

Among them, the governor stated to agree not to include academic classification in the requirements for prospective tour guides as long as they are competent and mastering all the information

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Youngsters enjoy a ride on a circular moving swing in an Athens amusement park at sunset July 6, 2010.

For some U.K. teens, sun doesn’t provide enough vitamin D

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ing form of vitamin D in the blood, 25OHD. For one week of each season, the participants wore UV radiation dosimeters and also kept sun exposure diaries of every 15-minute period spent outdoors, with weather conditions, clothing and sunscreen use.

They also recorded intake of vitamin D supplements, vitamin D-fortified foods, and oily fish, butter, margarine, milk, eggs, cheese and red meat.

The teens tended to get more sun exposure during the school week than on weekends, and they had low levels of vitamin D intake in their diets yearround. None reported wearing dedicated sunscreen products in any season, though a few female teens were using SPF-containing face cream.

On average, 25OHD levels were

24.1 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ mL) in September at their peak and 15.5 ng/mL in January, their lowest point. Those with less than 10 ng/ mL circulating 25OHD were considered vitamin D “deficient” and those with less than 20 ng/mL were “insufficient.”

Sixteen percent of kids were deficient in vitamin D in at least one season. Those individuals had X-ray imaging of their lumbar spines and femoral necks to estimate bone mineral density, and only one appeared to have abnormally low bone mineral density.

Adolescence is a key stage for laying down bone mass, so deficiency in teen years may result in suboptimal bone health, Rhodes said in an email. (rtr)

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Air pollution tied to high blood pressure risk

Buleleng Police anticipate distribution of marijuana and gorilla tobacco

GUANGZHOU - Short and long-term exposure to air pollution from vehicle exhaust or burning coal is associated with high blood pressure, according to a review of 17 studies.

“Since the 1990s, a hypothesis of air pollution leading to hypertension risk was proposed by many researchers,” said senior author Tao Liu of the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Guangzhou, China.

The researchers analyzed 17 studies of air pollution and hypertension, defined as blood pressure higher than 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). In total, the studies included more than 80,000 people with high blood pressure and more than 220,000 people without it.

They found that short-term exposure to sulfur dioxide from burning fossil fuels and to particulates like dust and dirt in the air were associated with high blood pressure risk, as was long-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide, which comes from power plants and vehicle exhaust.

Short-term exposure to ozone and carbon monoxide were not tied to blood pressure levels, as reported in the journal Hypertension.

Air pollution can cause inflammation and oxidative stress which may lead to changes in the arteries, the authors write.

“There is a linear relationship between air pollution and hypertension, which indicated that even a very low level of air pollution might induce hypertension risk,” Liu told Reuters Health by email. “Therefore, everyone should be concerned about the effects of air pollution on their blood pressure even if there is a very low air pollution level in their living environment.”

“However, it is impossible to remove all of the air pollutants from the environments,” Liu said.

The studies in this review tie pollution to high blood pressure but don’t prove that one causes the other, Liu said.

More studies, especially multi-center studies, are needed to investigate a causal relationship between air pollution and high blood pressure, Liu said.

“Without a clear mechanism we cannot conclude that pollution ‘causes’ hypertension,” said Dr. Gaetano Santulli of Columbia University Medical Center in New York, who was not part of the new study. “However, we should recall (going back to 1954) that epidemiological evaluations provided strong statistical support in linking cigarette smoking and cancer.” (rtr)

SINGARAJA - Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit anticipates the distribution of marijuana and gorilla tobacco in the jurisdiction of Buleleng Police. Both items are considered to have influence and hallucinogenic effects to each user.

Chief of the Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit, Made Agus Dwi Wirawan, said that marijuana or gorilla tobacco is not yet as popular as marijuana in general. He urged his personnel in the field to continuously monitor even though there has been no finding of marijuana or gorilla tobacco in North Bali. “Gorilla tobacco is super tobacco but labeled with gorilla brand,” said Dwi Wirawan when confirmed on Tuesday (May 31).

The marijuana or gorilla tobacco grown rampantly in the territory of Brazil is estimated to contain AB-FUBINACA. The distribution of gorilla tobacco with hallucinogenic effect in Buleleng has not been detected in some subdistrict areas. “Gorilla tobacco is a variant of the New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) which can bring in hallucinative and delusive effect (exaggerated fear to users—Ed),” he added.

Various drugs with some variants are increasingly concerned.

Other than gorilla tobacco, lately there are new derivatives of drugs such as the THJ-2201 and THJ-018 having been equally anticipated by the personnel of the Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit.

However, the gorilla tobacco has not been classified into narcotics.

“In the government regulation No.13/2014, this substance has not been included in narcotics. However, it has an effect like narcotic, such as the effects of sensation in the brain and the body feels stiff so that this effect is called gorilla,” he explained.

He explained that gorilla tobacco has fairly stronger impact than marijuana in general. The users feel their body unconscious as if it did not move. It is said when users want to enjoy the thrill of the gorilla tobacco, they will use the tobacco in a cigarette. The selling price of gorilla tobacco is quite expensive namely IDR 100,000 per gram and in Buleleng police have not found similar thing. “Gorilla tobacco can improve blood sugar level in addition to the effects of hallucinations and delusions,” he explained.

Hallucinative effect caused by the gorilla tobacco is being investigated by Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit as an effort to anticipate the circulation. Hallucination resembling the effect of psychotropic substances remains to get the attention of the police authority. “The way to use (gorilla tobacco—Ed) is similar to using marijuana. About two months ago our colleagues from Flores brought the tobacco sample to forensic laboratory of the Bali Police to be examined,” he explained. (kmb34)

LONDON - At one point in the year, almost 80 percent of teens in a UK study had insufficient vitamin D that should come from sun exposure, and one quarter had insufficient levels even at the peak of summer, according to a new study.

The results were surprising because the participants were white children, whose skin is the most sensitive to ultraviolet-B and who therefore need the least amount of sunlight exposure to get enough vitamin D, said senior author Lesley E. Rhodes of the University of Manchester in the U.K. Most vitamin D is synthesized in the skin after exposure to UVB rays from the sun, Rhodes and colleagues write in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Little comes from foods, they point out, and the UK doesn’t recommend a specific dietary intake of vitamin D. In January, April, June and September 2011, the researchers collected blood samples from 131 Caucasian adolescents ages 12 to 15.

They tested for the main circulat-

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People walk during a polluted day in Shenyang, Liaoning province, March 31, 2016.

The Klungkung Police intensify a meeting with tourism activists in Nusa Penida.

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To increase security of Nusa Penida, District police approach tourism stakeholders

SEMARAPURA - Rapid tourism development in Nusa Penida mainly in Nusa Lembongan Island drives the Klungkung Police to increase security. It is primarily regarding supervision against travelers visiting to hazardous attractions. Lately quite a lot of accidents caused travelers to die while making a visit to Nusa Penida. To anticipate such problems, the Klungkung Police intensify a meeting with tourism activists in Nusa Penida.

When met on Tuesday (May 31), Chief of Klungkung Police, FX Arendra Wahyudi, said that security in Nusa Penida gets a major concern of the Klungkung Police. Having been visited by many domestic and foreign travelers, Nusa Penida gets international highlights. Responding to this, his authority held a meeting with tourism stakeholders, community leaders in the area of Jungutbatu and Lembongan to jointly safeguard the security of Nusa Penida.

Chief Arendra said that according to the existing reports at Lembongan police station the crime is very minimal. However, there are quite prominent cases, namely the accidents of foreign travelers at sea.

Thus, he wanted the openness of tourism stakeholders particularly in relation to security and order in society.

Aside from taking preventive measures, the supervision must be improved, both to the local and

foreign travelers when they are making a visit. As well as it needs synergies of tourism players, community leaders and other relevant parties. “If there are accident cases to foreign travelers, they must be informed to us as early as possible,” asked Chief Arendra.

Up to May 2016, some accidents to foreign travelers at the sea of Nusa Penida already claimed casualties. They included the accident to a traveler from China, Zhu Guangyao, 58. He died when snorkeling on Dream Beach, Lembongan village on February 12.

Then, on March 27 an accident at sea struck another traveler from Quantong City, China, named Ye Xiao Hong, 48. He drowned on Batu Belek Beach, Lembongan village. In addition, chief Arendra has also been making coordination with customary villages in order to set forth a prarem or addendum to customary bylaw related to drug distribution in the village area of

Jungutbatu and Lembongan.

In the meantime, an officer of the Denpasar Immigration Office, Indra Bangsawan, said that his office continues to do surveillance against foreigners all this time, especially in the submission of visa. Currently, the government has provided visa exemption to 149 countries in the world. Sometimes the visa is abused by foreigners where a holiday visa is even misused to look for job. “Supervision and handling against foreigners does not only become the responsibility to immigration office but also a shared responsibility,” he said.

Chief of Jungutbatu customary village, I Ketut Gunaksa, said that the reality in the field indicates that few investors are less responsive in the matters of surveillance and security. Jungutbatu village has 45 members of pecalang or customary security guard. “Later on, this pecalang will also help monitor,” he said. (dwa)

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Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit anticipates the distribution of marijuana and gorilla tobacco in the jurisdiction of Buleleng Police.

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Hundreds of police guard district court

Philippines’ Duterte denounced for defending killing of some journalists

DENPASAR - Hundreds of heavily armed police and plain-clothed officers from the Denpasar Police and the West Denpasar Police backed up by the Indonesia Military (TNI) strictly guarded the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday (May 31) as the court continued to the hearing of the violent clashed that occurred in Kerobokan Prison earlier this year. The court itself as also heavily guarded allowing the testimonials by witnesses and victims on Tuesday to run smoothly.

The hearing for the violent clashed that occurred last December 17, 2015 finally took place and was presided over by judge Achmad Petensili. Sitting as the defendants were Kadek Lingga Januarta, 21, I Putu Heri Saptrawan, 33, I Wayan Sumerta Antara, 27 and I Made Atmaja Eka Putra, 19. The court session on Tuesday scheduled the examination of victim witnesses Putu Diaskara Putra alias Putu Semal from Gianyar.

Before the court session, witness Putu Semal explained that he had initially been in block D and was then taken by Robot (dead victim) along with four other colleagues to pick up a friend who had just been transferred from the prosecutor’s office to the prison. The victim along with his friends passed through prison’s meeting hall and saw that the defendants were gathered there. of the prison.

However he and his friends did not suspect that they would be attacked by the occupants of block C. The violent incident happened in front of the meeting hall near block C. “As soon as we walked by we were attacked but managed to save ourselves. I was at the rear” said the witness.

Putu Semal added that he had no reason to think that they would be attacked because there had never been any problem with this group.

“I did not know what the problem was. I did not think they would attack because we did not know each other personally and there had been no friction before the incident”, explained the witness. Putu Semal was blindly beaten and two of his friends were killed in the accident.

“Their were so many people in their group and some of them tried to stab and hit me. As I remember I was beaten,

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Swiss Federal President Johann Schneider- Ammann, right, speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, on the opening day of the Gotthard rail tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world, at the fairground Rynaecht at the northern portal in Erstfeld, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

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Hundreds of heavily armed police and plain-clothed officers from the Denpasar Police and the West Denpasar Police backed up by the Indonesia Military (TNI) strictly guarded the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday (May 31) trampled and fell down three times. I was trying to survive by holding their blows and kicks”, he said. He went on to say that he was chased into the garden and fell down and injured his foot. “I escaped from the attack and ran toward the exit gate” said the witness/victim of the Kerobokan Prison incident. At that time, he saw his friend Dore covered in blood.

The witness then helped to lift up his friend and asked the prison officer to call an ambulance. “Yes, I saw my friend Dore loosing a lot of blood. I used a shirt to stop the bleeding and asked the officers to call an ambulance”, he said.

The judge then asked if there were prison officers present during the attack. The witness said there were some officers but none of them intervened. “No one helped me when I fell down. Maybe they were scared” the witness replied. The defendant’s legal team t

asked if there was resistance at the time. The witness replied that he gave no resistance, that he was just focused on how to escape from the attack. “It was impossible for us to fight because we were suddenly attacked. We never thought we would be attacked” explained the witness. The witness said that he had suffered injuries to his head, legs and hands and that there was a medical report to prove it.

The defendant’s attorney asked whether the witness forgave the defendants. “Personally I have no problem with the defendants as long as they are aware. Until now, I am still questioning why they hit me. I will certainly forgive them if they would like to explain what the reason for the attack was”, he said. The judge Achmad Peten Sili added that the defendants should apologize to the witness. The defendants then approached the witness and shook hands to apologize to Putu Semal.

In the heavily guarded court session the judge explained that the court actually disliked examining such cases. “I am concerned and sad. Why can you commit such actions amongst Balinese people. What could you get from it? I am very sad”, said the judge.

The statement by the judge from NTT was responded to by victim witness Putu Semal: “I am sad too sir. I do not know anything but was beaten anyway. Personally I had no problems with them” he said.

Hearing the witness’s testimony, the defendants did not argue but acknowledged that his testimony was true and they admitted to having beaten the witness. The judge then advised the defendants saying: “Do not just say sorry in the court session, but then commit another riot once you are release.

You must be ready to face the consequences of what you have done” affirmed the judge. (kmb37)

Badung calls out to thousands of artists to appear in BAF

MANGUPURA - Thousands of artists from of various genres the District of Badung will enliven the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) 2016 and the Badung Cutlrue Agency will coordinate the schedule.

Head of the Badung Culture Agency, I.B. Anom Bhasma, said that preparations for their appear-

ance in the BAF is almost complete.

“Now, we just have to rehearse.

A total of 3,000 artists will be involved. 600 artists will take part in the opening parade that will be coordinated by the Sekar Karang Gumitir dance studio from Bongkasa village” said Anom Bhasma on Tuesday (May 31).

The district of Badung district, he explained will participate in all of the competitions featured in the Bali Arts Festival 2016 that is themed Karang Awak.

Aside from appearing in various competitions and parades, Anom Bhasma said that Badung will also display the reconstructed arts of

an arja operetta entitled Cupak Gerantang from Blumbang hamlet, Penarungan, Mengwi. “The Cupak arja operetta has nearly faded away so we want to revive it”, he said.

Anom explained government of Badung has allocated funds worth IDR 3 billion for participation in the BAF 2016. This fund is used for

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everything from the preparation of a number of art communities to the artists at customary village or customary hamlets. “The IDR 3 billion budget is used for the whole process from preparation to performance”, he said, adding that he hopes all of the artists involved will giver their best performance. (kmb27)

Swiss declare Alps tamed as Gotthard rail tunnel opens

AMSTEG - Switzerland opens the world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel through the heart of the Alps on Wednesday in an engineering marvel that stands as a symbol of European unity at a time of increasing fragmentation.

The 57.1-km (35.5 mile)-long Gotthard Base Tunnel, 17 years under construction and designed to last a century, is part of a 23 billion Swiss franc infrastructure project to speed passengers and cargo by rail under the mountain chain that divides Europe’s north and south.

Typically Swiss, the project that federal transport office director Peter Fueglistaler called “a masterpiece of timing, cost and policy” came in on schedule and on budget.

High-speed trains will whisk passengers in 17 minutes through a passage that took days until the first Alpine rail tunnel opened in 1882.

Around 260 freight trains and 65 passenger trains will traverse the two-tube tunnel daily once final testing ends later this year.

The Swiss, as a rule rail fanatics, are throwing a party to mark the

event that will draw the leaders of all its neighbouring countries in a show of European solidarity.

“It is just part of the Swiss identity,” Fueglistaler said of the Swiss fondness for major engineering feats. “For us, conquering the Alps is like the Dutch exploring the oceans.”

The tunnel along Europe’s main rail line that connects the ports of Rotterdam in the north to Genoa in the south snakes through the mountains as much as 2.3 km below daylight and through rock as hot as 46 degrees Celsius (114.8°F).

The rail route goes over the pass now in a series of loops and tunnels. The new flat route means even heavy trains will need only one locomotive rather than two or three.

Engineers had to dig and blast through 73 kinds of rock as hard as

granite and as soft as sugar. Nine workers died.

Swiss voters -- despite opposition at times from the government and parliament -- supported the gargantuan rail project in a series of binding referendums in the 1990s.

Fittingly, the first ones to travel the tunnel at the official opening will be 500 lucky winners plus guests from the 130,000 who entered a ticket lottery for the inaugural trip.

The overall project includes the Loetschberg rail tunnel that has already opened, the Cereti tunnel still being built and renovations to make rail tunnels at least 4 metres high at the corners to be able to handle big freight containers. Work is due to finish in 2020.

The mammoth rail venture is being financed by value-added and fuel taxes, road charges on heavy vehicles and state loans that are due to be repaid within a decade.

Major contractors included Alpiq, Balfour Beatty , Thales and Heitkamp. (rtr)

MANILA - Philippine press groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt and “you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch”.

Duterte’s comments about extrajudicial killings, calling bishops “sons of whores” and a joke about a murdered rape victim do not appear to have dented his popularity in the largely Roman Catholic country.

But his comments about killing journalists have struck a nerve.

About 175 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986, ranking it among the most dangerous places to work in the news business.

Duterte addressed reporters on Tuesday in the southern city of Davao, where his loud approval of hundreds of execution-style killings of drug users and criminals over nearly two decades helped propel him to the highest office.

“Most of your are clean, but do not ever say all journalists are clean,” he said. “Just because you are a journalist, you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch.” “... Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong.”

When a female journalist asked a question, he wolf-whistled at her.

Ryan Rosuaro, head of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, said press freedom and murder were not joking matters.

“It is appalling that President-elect Rodrigo Duterte should justify the murder of journalists in the country by playing the corruption card,” he said.

Philippine Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma said journalists had a fundamental right to protection.

“We deplore the proposition that some journalists may have been assaulted or killed in view of their alleged involvement in media corruption,” he said in a statement. “It is the duty of government to arrest, prosecute and punish those responsible for violence against members of the media.”

Romel Regalado Bagares, executive director of the Center for International Law, said Duterte’s comments showed “a cynical attitude towards what is a serious concern to the international community” and could perpetuate impunity for the killers. (rtr)

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Philippines’ President-elect Rodrigo Duterte answers questions during a news conference in Davao City, southern Philippines May 31, 2016.

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Global stocks turn mostly lower on soft China factory data

SEOUL — Global stock markets turned mostly lower on Wednesday after reports on China’s manufacturing activity indicated lingering weaknesses in the world’s second-largest economy, and U.S. consumer confidence dropped for a second month.

KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.6 percent to 6,194.49 while Germany’s DAX fell 0.7 percent to 10,193.34. France’s CAC 40 slid 0.7 percent to 4,473.61. Futures augured a weak start on Wall Street. Dow futures lost 0.3 percent while S&P futures also fell 0.3 percent.

CHINA DATA: Two surveys showed persisting weakness in China’s factory activity last month. An official index by the Chinese Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, based on a survey of factory purchasing managers came in at 50.1 in May. Numbers above 50 indicate expansion of factory activity while those below 50 indicate contraction. The private Caixin/Markit survey was more pessimistic with activity falling to 49.2 last month from 49.4 in April.

ANALYST’S TAKE: “Overall, China’s economy has not been able to sustain the recovery it had in the first quarter and is in the process of bottoming out,” said Zhengsheng Zhong, director of macroeconomic analysis at CEBM Group. “The government still needs to make full use of proactive fiscal policy measures accompanied by prudent monetary policy to prevent the economy from slowing further.”

U.S. CONSUMERS: Reports released on Tuesday showed U.S. consumer confidence fell in May for a second month and is now at the lowest level since November. The Conference Board said that its index of consumer confidence slipped to 92.6 from 94.7 in April as consumers remained cautious about the outlook for business and job market conditions.

ASIA’S DAY: Asian stock markets began uneven but closed mostly lower. Japan’s Nikkei 225 finished 1.6 percent lower at 16,955.73 while South Korea’s Kospi inched down less than 0.1 percent to 1,982.72.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was down 0.3 percent to 20,760.98 while China’s Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.1 percent to 2,913.51. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slumped 1 percent to finish at 5,323.20. Stock markets in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines were higher but stocks were lower in Singapore and New Zealand.(ap)

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An Indian worker is helped by children to make a chassis for a three-wheeled vehicle at an industrial unit in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. India says its economy grew 7.6 percent in the financial year that ended March 31 and a swift 7.9 percent in the last quarter of the year keeping its position as the world’s fastest growing major economy.

World economy risks getting caught in ‘low-growth trap’

PARIS — The world economy risks getting caught in a “lowgrowth trap” if governments don’t spend more on investments, open up to trade, and make reforms, a top economic forum warned Wednesday.

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Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a wide-ranging report that it is increasingly pessimistic about the global outlook and cut its growth forecasts.

Among the risks identified by the Paris-based economic agency, which represents the world’s most developed economies, was a potential British exit from the European Union, volatility in financial markets, and Europe’s inability to find a common response to its refugee flows.

Above all, the OECD said in its Global Economic Outlook that weak growth risks becoming chronic.

“This low growth trap involves a cycle in which diminished expectations become self-fulfilling,” said Angel Gurria, the OECD’s

secretary-general.

According to the OECD, firms are too cautious to invest, are holding back innovation and productivity. As a result, households are getting more pessimistic about jobs and the future. The ensuing weaker consumer spending then feeds back into pessimism among companies, creating a vicious cycle.

Though the U.S. economy has improved in recent years, the next biggest economy, China, is slowing.

Because it’s a major consumer of raw materials and energy, as well as being a huge exporter and increasingly important consumer, concerns have grown over the state of the world economy.

Elsewhere, the European economic recovery has failed to gain

much traction while Japan remains sluggish. And emerging markets are struggling to deal with volatile currencies, high debt and the crash in prices for goods they export — Brazil and Russia, for example, are in deep recessions.

The OECD said countries have relied too much on central banks to stimulate demand and should instead look to strengthen public investment and make their economies more competitive through structural reforms.

It is forecasting global growth of 3 percent this year and 3.3 percent next. Both are down 0.3 percentage point from its last set of forecasts in November. The OECD reiterated its view that a vote for a British exit from the EU later this month “would depress growth in Europe and elsewhere substantially.”

It estimated that in the case of an EU exit, Britain’s economy could be 5 percent smaller by 2030 than if the country remained in the bloc.(ap)

A worker collects latex at a rubber plantation near Bogor, southwest of Jakarta in West Java province, Indonesia May 28, 2016.

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Indonesia detains hundreds demanding release of prisoners

JAKARTA — Indonesian police on Tuesday detained more than 300 demonstrators who were demanding the release of political prisoners in restive Papua province, a rights group said.

Veronica Koman of the Jakartabased Indonesian Legal Aid Institute said about 40 separatists are currently jailed in the province.

A low-level insurgency for an

independent Papua has continued since the region was transferred from Dutch to Indonesian rule in the 1960s.

Koman said peaceful protests oc-

curred in the towns of Sentani and Wamena, and in Manado, the provincial capital of North Sulawesi.

A total of 336 demonstrators were detained, she said.

Local police spokesman Lt. Col. Patridge Renwarin confirmed that rallies took place in Sentani and Wamena. He said a total of 207 dem-

onstrators were interrogated before being released in the two towns.

“We just questioned them because many joined the rallies without being aware of their intention,” Renwarin said.

He added that more than 1,000 people also demonstrated in Jayapura, the provincial capital of

Papua, but said they dispersed peacefully.

It was the second mass detention of Papuans in May. Nearly 2,000 people were detained earlier in the month for taking part in pro-independence demonstrations on the anniversary of Papua’s incorporation into Indonesia in 1963.(ap)

Jokowi designates June 1, birth Australia deports of Pancasila, as national holiday Indonesian fishermen BANDUNG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has designated June 1, the birth of the state ideology of Pancasila, as a national holiday. The head of state announced the new national holiday in his speech during the commemoration of Soekarno’s June 1, 1945, Address in the Merdeka Building, here, Wednesday.

Soekarno had delivered the speech to mark the birth of Indonesia’s state ideology a couple of months prior to the country’s independence pro-

claimed on August 17, 1945.

First Lady Iriana, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani (grand daughter of President Soekarno), Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, and former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, who is the daughter of Indonesia’s first president Soekarno, were among those present during the commemorative event.(ant)

Kupang - The Australian government, on Tuesday, deported four Indonesian fishermen hailing from Rote Island in East Nusa Tenggara.

Boarding an aircraft of the national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, the four deported fishermen arrived at the El Tari International Airport here on Tuesday.

“They were among the 10 Indonesian fishermen detained by the Australian maritime authority in

January 2016 for illegal fishing,” East Nusa Tenggara Office of Marine and Fisheries Chief for Marine Resources Supervision Saleh Goro remarked here on Tuesday.

Goro revealed there were 10 fishermen, and their deportation process was being carried out in phases since May 20, adding that the four were the last to be deported on Tuesday.(ant)

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French rail strike bites amid labour law standoff

CAIRO - In June 2014, 23-year-old engineering student Mohammed Badawy was expelled from Cairo University.

BRUSSELS - Striking rail workers halted about half of all French train services on Wednesday in a dispute over working time as a standoff between the militant CGT union and the Socialist government over a proposed labour law reform dragged on.

The SNCF state railway said six out of 10 high-speed TGV trains were running, along with one-third of other inter-city services and half of regional trains. Heavy flooding also cut some lines in central France and the rail link to Luxembourg.

Eurostar train services to Britain were not affected, while 75 percent of trains to Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland were running.

Three of the four rail unions called their members out on an open-ended strike over a planned reorganisation even though the government has intervened to press SNCF management to protect train drivers’ weekends off. Managers say that concession could make the heavily indebted company uncompetitive when it has to open up to private competition in 2020 under EU rules.

SNCF said 17 percent of its staff were on strike, up slightly from a previous strike last week, and forecast similar levels of traffic for Thursday. The CGT is also on strike at oil refineries and one-fifth of petrol stations are short of fuel.

The Socialist government played down the disruption and stuck to its refusal to withdraw the planned labour reform, designed to make hiring and firing easier and encourage negotiations on flexiblity at company level.

“France loves to give this image of itself as a sort of permanent drama, but that’s not the reality. France is not at a standstill,” Jean-Marie Le Guen, secretary of state for relations with parliament, told Radio Classique.

The government has pulled out its chequebook to settle a series of sectoral disputes this week in an effort to prevent them coalescing into a nationwide protest movement ahead of next week’s start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France.

CGT leader Philippe Martinez told LCP television his union had no intention of disrupting the soccer championship and urged the government to negotiate. But he also insisted it scrap a key article of the bill that would give company-level deals precedence over sector-wide agreements on pay and conditions. (rtr)

the security forces.

Twenty students have been killed by security officials on campuses either while they were protesting or near a protest, according to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, a non-governmental organisation of lawyers and researchers which says it has correspondents in most universities. Reuters was not able to verify these findings.

As well, the association said, more than 790 students have been arrested, mainly for protesting against the government. At least 89 of those were referred to military tribunals. Some have been sentenced to death or life in prison.

Officials from Egypt’s two biggest universities say that at least 819 students out of some 700,000 have been expelled from the universities since 2013, the year Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood government. They said the students were expelled for violence and law-breaking. Reuters was unable to verify these figures independently. (rtr)

French TGV trains (high speed train) are parked at a SNCF depot station in Charenton-le-Pont near Paris, France, May 31, 2016 as railway workers from the France’s rail-operator SNCF will start a national railway strike on Tuesday evening.

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Cairo University students shout slogans against the government and flash the ‘V’ and Rabaa signs after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial, at the university’s campus in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 30, 2014.

After university crackdown, Egyptian students fear for their future The university said it ejected him for obstructing the education process, and for rioting and destruction at a protest against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government. Badawy said it was because he protested against the government and supported the Muslim Brotherhood, a political movement that the Egyptian government has banned as a terrorist organisation.

His home was raided by security forces multiple times, he said.

Fearing for his life and keen to continue studying, Badawy said he paid people-smugglers to spirit him out of the country.

His reaction was not unusual.

The murder of Italian postgraduate student Giulio Regeni has focused new attention on alleged police brutality in Egypt, but nearly a dozen local students have told Reuters they have been targeted over the past three years and regularly face violence and harassment at the hands of security forces.

Regeni, 28, vanished in Cairo on Jan. 25. His body was discov-

ered in a ditch on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital on Feb. 3.

It showed signs of extensive torture, which human rights groups say suggests Egyptian police or security forces may have been involved. Egyptian intelligence officials and police sources have told Reuters that on the day Regeni vanished, he was detained by police and then transferred to a compound run by Homeland Security. The police and Interior Ministry deny they were involved and say they never held Regeni.

Rights groups and students say that under Sisi, Egypt’s universities have hounded students as a matter of routine, stationing dozens of security forces on campuses, expelling hundreds of students suspected of Islamist leanings, and abusing or torturing many of those they arrest. Some of those arrested admit they support or even belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and have taken part in protests that sometimes turned violent. But often, they say, they were reacting against abuses by

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Sakenan Temple

DENPASAR - Sakenan Temple is a Hindu Temple located in the northwest of Serangan Village, Sub district of Denpasar and Badung regency. It is about 10 KM south part of Denpasar Bali and appointed as one of Bali places of interest. We see a coastal view with beautiful sea, hill consecution and Nusa Dua Beach which are located in south side. The structure of Sakenan Temple is divided into 2 groups those are Sakenan Temple is a temple complex which is located in east side and Dalem Sakenan Temple is a temple complex located in west side.

The Sakenan Temple Festival executed every 6 month (210 days) that is on Saturday of Kliwon Wuku Kuningan (Balinese Calendar) and the same time with the celebration of big holiday for Balinese Hindu which is called Hari Raya Kuningan. The celebration of temple ceremony is conducted during 3 days and the top ceremony procession is called Ceremony of Mapag Sakenan which is executed on second day (Sunday of Umanis Langkir). The celebration of Temple Ceremony is accompanied by the Wali Dance (sacred Dance) like Barong Ket and Barong Landung Dance. The Hindu people come to this place for worship to the god and they are coming from various areas, especially from Badung regency.

Sakenan Temple in its growth now is a place of interest in Bali which you need to visit during your vacation in this tropical island. (IBP/net)

Cavs, LeBron find same title hope obstacle in Golden State

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Czech seventh seed Thomas Berdych summed up everyone’s frustration on a day when nine hours of play was lost by tweeting: “Hey @AustralianOpen can you send us one roof here to Paris?! You have 3 down there.”

The inability to play under cover, with Roland Garros being the only one of the four grand slam venues that does not have a court with a retractable roof, certainly proved costly for Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep -- fourth-round losers in the only two matches that were completed on day 10.

With the fixture list piling up, the women in top seed Serena Williams’ half of the draw would now need to play on four successive days to win the title if the final takes place on

Saturday as scheduled -- though more rain is forecast.

World number one Novak Djokovic and the men in his half of the draw, including Berdych, can also forget about enjoying the traditional rest days between each round as they would have to play on four of the next five days to contest Sunday’s final.

Radwanska, the world number two, and 2014 runner-up Halep --who both started their last-16 matches on Sunday -- were forced to play in misty rain on Tuesday as organizers made a desperate attempt to clear the huge backlog.

“No one cares about the players in my opinion,” sixth seed Halep said after she was beaten 7-6(0) 6-3

by Australian Sam Stosur in a battle

of former finalists.

“It was impossible to play. To play tennis matches during the rain is a bit too much. I was close to getting injured with my back... but no one cares.”

Radwanska had been leading Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2 3-0 when rain halted play on Sunday.

When the match resumed more than 40 hours later, the Polish second seed suffered a monumental meltdown as she lost 10 successive games in a 2-6 6-3 6-3 defeat by an opponent ranked 100 places below her.

“I’m just so surprised and angry that we have to play in the rain. I mean, it’s not a $10,000 tournament. It’s a grand slam,” said Radwanska, the highest seed to exit the tournament.

“How can you allow players to play in the rain? I cannot play in that condition. They really don’t care what we think.” (rtr)

TORONTO - LeBron James and the Cavaliers rested up and waited through a tumultuous Western Conference finals before finding themselves right back where they were last year, going against the Warriors for the NBA title.

James, on a stated mission to bring to Cleveland the city’s first major professional sports team title in 52 years, and the Cavs hit the road to open the best-of-seven against sharpshooter Stephen Curry and Golden State at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California, on Thursday.

Cleveland fell in six games in last year’s NBA Finals, but that was an undermanned Cavaliers crew.

They were without injured power forward Kevin Love and lost point guard Kyrie Irving after one game of the Finals.

This year they are at full strength and looking a different team under new coach Tyronn Lue, who has them running and gunning threepointers as an Eastern Conference version of the Warriors.

James is now surrounded by potent shooters including Irving, Love, J.R. Smith and Channing Frye, who helped Cleveland set three-point records during their 12-2 charge through the playoffs that began with a pair of four-game sweeps.

Despite all this, the Warriors are heavy favourite, according to the early betting markets.

A high octane Finals could be in the offing as they match their shooting prowess against Curry and All-Star backcourt mate Klay Thompson, Golden State’s “Splash Brothers”.

Cleveland should be the fresher of the clubs.

“Feeling good right now,” coach Lue said. “Focusing on trying to get better, using each practice, all the time we have to get better.”

It has been a much tougher return trip for the Warriors, who despite their NBA record 73-9 regular season mark, had to endure Curry’s knee injury earlier in the playoffs before a huge challenge from the Thunder.

Oklahoma City not only had a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven, but also double-digit cushions in both Game Six and Seven.

“We weren’t just down 3-1, but we’d been blown out two straight games,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after Game Seven.

“It’s a pretty remarkable comeback. It shows a lot about our guys and their will and their grit.”

James, a four-time league MVP, has of course shown his grit over the years as best all-around player, with defensive skills to match his offensive prowess. This is his sixth NBA Finals in a row and seventh overall.

Curry, a unanimous choice in repeating as NBA MVP, is gunning to join Boston Celtics great Bill Russell, Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and James as the NBA’s only back-to-back MVP, NBA title winners. (rtr)

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) goes up to dunk for a basket over Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo (8) in the second quarter in game four of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Air Canada Centre.

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Sp rt Benzema accuses Deschamps of bowing to racist pressure PARIS — Karim Benzema has accused Didier Deschamps of giving in to pressure from racists when the France coach decided not to include him in the squad for the European Championship.

In an interview with Spanish sports newspaper Marca published Wednesday, Benzema said he does not believe that Deschamps is a racist, but that he “bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France.”

Deschamps has been a long-time supporter of Benzema, who has been suspended from the national team because of his involvement in an extortion scam over a sex tape involving France teammate Mathieu Valbuena.

“I would have liked to play for my country, but unfortunately that’s impossible,” Benzema said. “Missing the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a setback, but the European Championship at home is even harder. This is one of the biggest disappointments I have had, without a doubt.”

This latest off-the-field controversy is unlikely to improve Benzema’s already tarnished image in his own country.

France’s junior minister for sports, Thierry Braillard, said on Twitter that Benzema’s statement is “unjustified and unacceptable. Total support to FFF (French football federation) and Didier Deschamps.”

Benzema’s comments echoed those of former France international Eric Cantona, who said last week that Deschamps might have left out Benzema and Nice winger Hatem Ben Arfa on racial grounds.

Ben Arfa scored 17 goals in 33 French league matches this season but was not selected in Deschamps’ group of players for the tournament starting in France on June 10.

Deschamps had many offensive options at his disposal and picked six attacking players, including Antoine Griezmann, Dimitri Payet, Anthony Martial, Kingsley Coman, Olivier Giroud and AndrePierre Gignac.

“Benzema is a great player. Ben Arfa is a great player,” Cantona told the Guardian newspaper. “But Deschamps, he has a really French name. Maybe he is the only one in France to have a truly French name. Nobody in his family mixed with anybody, you know.

Like the Mormons in America. So I’m not surprised he used the situation of Benzema not to take him. And Ben Arfa is maybe the best player

in France today. But they have some origins. I am allowed to think about that.” Deschamps’ lawyer said he will sue Cantona for his comments.

Benzema, who won the Champions League with Real Madrid last week, said the political context in France, where the far right has been gaining political support over the past five years, played against him.

France’s far right, anti-immigrant National Front is increasingly popular under leader Marine Le Pen, who has brought it toward the political mainstream — and who is expected to make it into the presidential election runoff next year. The party was the top vote-getter in regional and European elections last year, but maneuvering by traditional parties kept it from winning any governorships, and may keep Le Pen from the presidency.

In addition to its core anti-immigration message, the party rails against what it calls the “Islamization” of France and wants France out of the euro and the European Union — though one of its major pulpits is the European Parliament, where it’s part of a far right bloc.

“You have to know that in France the extremist party reached the second round in the last two elections,” Benzema said.

Earlier this year, French football federation president Noel Le Graet spoke of his shock at the amount of racist hate mail he received telling him not to select Benzema.(ap)

Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema poses with the trophy after the Champions League final soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 28, 2016. Real Madrid won 5-3 on penalties after the match ended 1-1 after extra time.

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Inexperienced but talented players squeeze into Euro 2016 LONDON — Lucas Vazquez has never played for Spain. Marcus Rashford is fresh from his England debut. Joshua Kimmich has only one Germany cap.

They are all going to the European Championship next week.

Tuesday was deadline day for the 23-man squads to be submitted to UEFA and a clutch of inexperienced but precocious players made the cut for some of the continent’s biggest teams.

One of the biggest surprises was Vazquez making the Spain squad, fresh from scoring a penalty in Real Madrid’s Champions AP Photo/Scott Heppell, file League triumph on Saturday, at the expense of more FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2016 established club teammate file photo, England’s Marcus Francisco “Isco” Alarcon. Rashford runs during the InterBoth are 24, but Vazquez national friendly soccer match only made his breakthrough between England and Australia at last season and his interna- the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, tional debut could come England. in France where Spain is chasing its third successive European title. “It is a dream come true,” Vazquez wrote on Twitter.

Veteran strikers Diego Costa and Fernando Torres had already been dropped by Vicente del Bosque. But Hector Bellerin, the 21-year-old Arsenal defender, is another Spaniard handed an unexpected late inclusion in a tournament squad for the first time after only making his international debut on Sunday. “Persistence and hard work always pays off,” Bellerin tweeted.

England has gambled with an even more precocious talent. Three months ago, the 18-year-old Rashford hadn’t even played a senior game in professional soccer. But after his premature graduation from the Manchester United academy to plug an injury gap in the first-team squad, Rashford flourished.

Eight goals and 17 appearances later, collecting an FA Cup winners’ medal on the way, Rashford’s case for inclusion in the Euro 2016 squad looked a lot less implausible. Rashford proved too good for Roy Hodgson to leave behind once he made his England debut on Friday — scoring inside three minutes against Australia.

Now he is among five attacking options including United teammate Wayne Rooney, the 30-year-old England captain.

Germany is also taking emerging talent in a bid to become world and European champions simultaneously.

Two midfielders — Kimmich of Bayern Munich and Julian Weigl of Dortmund — and Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno only made their debuts on Sunday in a loss to Slovakia. Yet, they made the final squad, along with Schalke midfielder Leroy Sane, who has only three Germany caps.

Not featuring in qualifying has also proved no barrier to defender Nico Elvedi and midfielder Denis Zakaria, both 19 and heading to France with the Switzerland squad.

There was another setback for the host nation ahead of the cutoff for squads to be submitted. Lassana Diarra is out of contention for France because of swelling in his left knee and the midfielder was replaced

by Morgan Schneiderlin.

The flashiest squad announcement on Tuesday was in Rome as Italy selected eight players with no tournament experience.

All 23 squad members arrived in blue Fiat Pandas and they were presented on stage. Southampton forward Graziano Pelle, a former champion dancer, was also forced into showing off his moves, partnered by a scantily-dressed female dancer.(ap)

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Ibrahimovic says he’s ‘too good’ for Swedish league BASTAD — Keeping everyone guessing about his next move, Zlatan Ibrahimovic brushed aside rumors linking him to Manchester United or hometown club Malmo on Wednesday.

Speculation about his next move has been rife since Ibrahimovic left Paris Saint-Germain after scoring a career-high 38 league goals this season.

“I want you to still write a lot of stories so I get excited when I see them,” the 34-year-old striker said at Sweden’s preEuropean Championship training camp. “Because I want to see who is making up the best story and when I’m tired of it I will let you know where I will go.”

Earlier this week, Swedish media reported that he would quit the national team after Euro 2016, but Ibrahimovic said

“that’s not something I think about.”

Commenting on the risk of attacks during the tournament in France, he said security had been stepped up considerably since the “tragic events” in Paris on Nov. 13 when 130 people died in shooting and bomb massacres.

“I hope please God that nothing happens,” Ibrahimovic said.

“Let people enjoy the football.

Let the players enjoy playing football.” Asked about comments he made two days ago suggesting he will be back in Malmo, he said he meant with the national team, not the Swedish league.

“I’m still not interested. I’m too good for the Swedish league,” Ibrahimovic said. If he were to return to Malmo FF, he added, he wouldn’t even be discussing it with club officials, suggesting

they would just have to accept whatever terms he decided.

“I make my own deal, I make my own budget,” Ibrahimovic said. “That’s how things stand with MFF.” Malmo would have no chance of matching the toplevel salaries Ibrahimovic earned in major clubs such as Juventus, Milan, Barcelona and PSG. Manchester United and teams from Major League Soccer are reportedly interested in signing Ibrahimovic.

Asked whether he would play soccer at all next season, he said, “I hope so,” but also insisted he wants to retire at the top of his game.

“Where ever I go I want to perform. If I feel I can’t do that, then someone else has to come in and do it,” Ibrahimovic said.

“That’s why I want to quit when I’m at the top.”(ap)

Erik Nylander / TT via AP

Zlatan Ibrahimovic during the Swedish national soccer team Euro 2016 training camp at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday May 28, 2016. The UEFA European Chapionship (Euro 2016) is scheduled to be held throughout France June 10 till July 10 2016.

Niguez and Isco left off Spain’s final squad for Euro 2016 MADRID — Real Madrid’s Francisco “Isco” Alarcon and Atletico Madrid’s Saul Niguez were left off Spain’s final squad for the European Championship on Tuesday. The two were among six players competing for the final four spots available in the squad for the tournament in France.

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque earlier Tuesday had announced a list with 19 players, leaving the final four spots open for those who played in Saturday’s Champions League final between Madrid and Atletico.

Madrid’s Sergio Ramos and uncapped Lucas Vazquez were included in the final squad, as well

as Atletico’s Juanfran Torres and Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion. Madrid defender Dani Carvajal had already been ruled out of Euro 2016 because of a muscle injury sustained in the final won by his club in Milan.

The 21-year-old Niguez had been one of the surprises in the preliminary list announced by Del Bosque, but ended up losing his spot to Vazquez, a 24-year-old who impressed with Madrid this season. The coach had already left out veteran strikers such as Diego Costa and Fernando Torres.

“We tried to balance the squad. I think that with these 23 players we are covered,” Del Bosque said. “Oth-

ers could have made it. The players who were dropped had the level to be here, but we can only take 23.”

Spain, the winner of the last two European Championships, defeated Bosnia 2-1 on Sunday in the first of its three warm-up matches before traveling to its training camp in France. It will still play South Korea in Austria on Wednesday and Georgia on June 7 in Getafe.

Spain’s first game at Euro 2016 is against the Czech Republic on June 13 in Toulouse. Its other Group D matches are against Turkey on June 17 in Nice and Croatia on June 21 in Bordeaux. (ap)

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Atletico’s Saul Niguez, left, is challenged by Real Madrid’s Marcelo during the Champions League final soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 28, 2016.

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Sp rt Benzema accuses Deschamps of bowing to racist pressure PARIS — Karim Benzema has accused Didier Deschamps of giving in to pressure from racists when the France coach decided not to include him in the squad for the European Championship.

In an interview with Spanish sports newspaper Marca published Wednesday, Benzema said he does not believe that Deschamps is a racist, but that he “bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France.”

Deschamps has been a long-time supporter of Benzema, who has been suspended from the national team because of his involvement in an extortion scam over a sex tape involving France teammate Mathieu Valbuena.

“I would have liked to play for my country, but unfortunately that’s impossible,” Benzema said. “Missing the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a setback, but the European Championship at home is even harder. This is one of the biggest disappointments I have had, without a doubt.”

This latest off-the-field controversy is unlikely to improve Benzema’s already tarnished image in his own country.

France’s junior minister for sports, Thierry Braillard, said on Twitter that Benzema’s statement is “unjustified and unacceptable. Total support to FFF (French football federation) and Didier Deschamps.”

Benzema’s comments echoed those of former France international Eric Cantona, who said last week that Deschamps might have left out Benzema and Nice winger Hatem Ben Arfa on racial grounds.

Ben Arfa scored 17 goals in 33 French league matches this season but was not selected in Deschamps’ group of players for the tournament starting in France on June 10.

Deschamps had many offensive options at his disposal and picked six attacking players, including Antoine Griezmann, Dimitri Payet, Anthony Martial, Kingsley Coman, Olivier Giroud and AndrePierre Gignac.

“Benzema is a great player. Ben Arfa is a great player,” Cantona told the Guardian newspaper. “But Deschamps, he has a really French name. Maybe he is the only one in France to have a truly French name. Nobody in his family mixed with anybody, you know.

Like the Mormons in America. So I’m not surprised he used the situation of Benzema not to take him. And Ben Arfa is maybe the best player

in France today. But they have some origins. I am allowed to think about that.” Deschamps’ lawyer said he will sue Cantona for his comments.

Benzema, who won the Champions League with Real Madrid last week, said the political context in France, where the far right has been gaining political support over the past five years, played against him.

France’s far right, anti-immigrant National Front is increasingly popular under leader Marine Le Pen, who has brought it toward the political mainstream — and who is expected to make it into the presidential election runoff next year. The party was the top vote-getter in regional and European elections last year, but maneuvering by traditional parties kept it from winning any governorships, and may keep Le Pen from the presidency.

In addition to its core anti-immigration message, the party rails against what it calls the “Islamization” of France and wants France out of the euro and the European Union — though one of its major pulpits is the European Parliament, where it’s part of a far right bloc.

“You have to know that in France the extremist party reached the second round in the last two elections,” Benzema said.

Earlier this year, French football federation president Noel Le Graet spoke of his shock at the amount of racist hate mail he received telling him not to select Benzema.(ap)

Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema poses with the trophy after the Champions League final soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 28, 2016. Real Madrid won 5-3 on penalties after the match ended 1-1 after extra time.

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Inexperienced but talented players squeeze into Euro 2016 LONDON — Lucas Vazquez has never played for Spain. Marcus Rashford is fresh from his England debut. Joshua Kimmich has only one Germany cap.

They are all going to the European Championship next week.

Tuesday was deadline day for the 23-man squads to be submitted to UEFA and a clutch of inexperienced but precocious players made the cut for some of the continent’s biggest teams.

One of the biggest surprises was Vazquez making the Spain squad, fresh from scoring a penalty in Real Madrid’s Champions AP Photo/Scott Heppell, file League triumph on Saturday, at the expense of more FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2016 established club teammate file photo, England’s Marcus Francisco “Isco” Alarcon. Rashford runs during the InterBoth are 24, but Vazquez national friendly soccer match only made his breakthrough between England and Australia at last season and his interna- the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, tional debut could come England. in France where Spain is chasing its third successive European title. “It is a dream come true,” Vazquez wrote on Twitter.

Veteran strikers Diego Costa and Fernando Torres had already been dropped by Vicente del Bosque. But Hector Bellerin, the 21-year-old Arsenal defender, is another Spaniard handed an unexpected late inclusion in a tournament squad for the first time after only making his international debut on Sunday. “Persistence and hard work always pays off,” Bellerin tweeted.

England has gambled with an even more precocious talent. Three months ago, the 18-year-old Rashford hadn’t even played a senior game in professional soccer. But after his premature graduation from the Manchester United academy to plug an injury gap in the first-team squad, Rashford flourished.

Eight goals and 17 appearances later, collecting an FA Cup winners’ medal on the way, Rashford’s case for inclusion in the Euro 2016 squad looked a lot less implausible. Rashford proved too good for Roy Hodgson to leave behind once he made his England debut on Friday — scoring inside three minutes against Australia.

Now he is among five attacking options including United teammate Wayne Rooney, the 30-year-old England captain.

Germany is also taking emerging talent in a bid to become world and European champions simultaneously.

Two midfielders — Kimmich of Bayern Munich and Julian Weigl of Dortmund — and Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno only made their debuts on Sunday in a loss to Slovakia. Yet, they made the final squad, along with Schalke midfielder Leroy Sane, who has only three Germany caps.

Not featuring in qualifying has also proved no barrier to defender Nico Elvedi and midfielder Denis Zakaria, both 19 and heading to France with the Switzerland squad.

There was another setback for the host nation ahead of the cutoff for squads to be submitted. Lassana Diarra is out of contention for France because of swelling in his left knee and the midfielder was replaced

by Morgan Schneiderlin.

The flashiest squad announcement on Tuesday was in Rome as Italy selected eight players with no tournament experience.

All 23 squad members arrived in blue Fiat Pandas and they were presented on stage. Southampton forward Graziano Pelle, a former champion dancer, was also forced into showing off his moves, partnered by a scantily-dressed female dancer.(ap)

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Ibrahimovic says he’s ‘too good’ for Swedish league BASTAD — Keeping everyone guessing about his next move, Zlatan Ibrahimovic brushed aside rumors linking him to Manchester United or hometown club Malmo on Wednesday.

Speculation about his next move has been rife since Ibrahimovic left Paris Saint-Germain after scoring a career-high 38 league goals this season.

“I want you to still write a lot of stories so I get excited when I see them,” the 34-year-old striker said at Sweden’s preEuropean Championship training camp. “Because I want to see who is making up the best story and when I’m tired of it I will let you know where I will go.”

Earlier this week, Swedish media reported that he would quit the national team after Euro 2016, but Ibrahimovic said

“that’s not something I think about.”

Commenting on the risk of attacks during the tournament in France, he said security had been stepped up considerably since the “tragic events” in Paris on Nov. 13 when 130 people died in shooting and bomb massacres.

“I hope please God that nothing happens,” Ibrahimovic said.

“Let people enjoy the football.

Let the players enjoy playing football.” Asked about comments he made two days ago suggesting he will be back in Malmo, he said he meant with the national team, not the Swedish league.

“I’m still not interested. I’m too good for the Swedish league,” Ibrahimovic said. If he were to return to Malmo FF, he added, he wouldn’t even be discussing it with club officials, suggesting

they would just have to accept whatever terms he decided.

“I make my own deal, I make my own budget,” Ibrahimovic said. “That’s how things stand with MFF.” Malmo would have no chance of matching the toplevel salaries Ibrahimovic earned in major clubs such as Juventus, Milan, Barcelona and PSG. Manchester United and teams from Major League Soccer are reportedly interested in signing Ibrahimovic.

Asked whether he would play soccer at all next season, he said, “I hope so,” but also insisted he wants to retire at the top of his game.

“Where ever I go I want to perform. If I feel I can’t do that, then someone else has to come in and do it,” Ibrahimovic said.

“That’s why I want to quit when I’m at the top.”(ap)

Erik Nylander / TT via AP

Zlatan Ibrahimovic during the Swedish national soccer team Euro 2016 training camp at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday May 28, 2016. The UEFA European Chapionship (Euro 2016) is scheduled to be held throughout France June 10 till July 10 2016.

Niguez and Isco left off Spain’s final squad for Euro 2016 MADRID — Real Madrid’s Francisco “Isco” Alarcon and Atletico Madrid’s Saul Niguez were left off Spain’s final squad for the European Championship on Tuesday. The two were among six players competing for the final four spots available in the squad for the tournament in France.

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque earlier Tuesday had announced a list with 19 players, leaving the final four spots open for those who played in Saturday’s Champions League final between Madrid and Atletico.

Madrid’s Sergio Ramos and uncapped Lucas Vazquez were included in the final squad, as well

as Atletico’s Juanfran Torres and Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion. Madrid defender Dani Carvajal had already been ruled out of Euro 2016 because of a muscle injury sustained in the final won by his club in Milan.

The 21-year-old Niguez had been one of the surprises in the preliminary list announced by Del Bosque, but ended up losing his spot to Vazquez, a 24-year-old who impressed with Madrid this season. The coach had already left out veteran strikers such as Diego Costa and Fernando Torres.

“We tried to balance the squad. I think that with these 23 players we are covered,” Del Bosque said. “Oth-

ers could have made it. The players who were dropped had the level to be here, but we can only take 23.”

Spain, the winner of the last two European Championships, defeated Bosnia 2-1 on Sunday in the first of its three warm-up matches before traveling to its training camp in France. It will still play South Korea in Austria on Wednesday and Georgia on June 7 in Getafe.

Spain’s first game at Euro 2016 is against the Czech Republic on June 13 in Toulouse. Its other Group D matches are against Turkey on June 17 in Nice and Croatia on June 21 in Bordeaux. (ap)

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Atletico’s Saul Niguez, left, is challenged by Real Madrid’s Marcelo during the Champions League final soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 28, 2016.

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The Sakenan Temple Festival executed every 6 month (210 days) that is on Saturday of Kliwon Wuku Kuningan (Balinese Calendar) and the same time with the celebration of big holiday for Balinese Hindu which is called Hari Raya Kuningan. The celebration of temple ceremony is conducted during 3 days and the top ceremony procession is called Ceremony of Mapag Sakenan which is executed on second day (Sunday of Umanis Langkir). The celebration of Temple Ceremony is accompanied by the Wali Dance (sacred Dance) like Barong Ket and Barong Landung Dance. The Hindu people come to this place for worship to the god and they are coming from various areas, especially from Badung regency.

Sakenan Temple in its growth now is a place of interest in Bali which you need to visit during your vacation in this tropical island. (IBP/net)

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Czech seventh seed Thomas Berdych summed up everyone’s frustration on a day when nine hours of play was lost by tweeting: “Hey @AustralianOpen can you send us one roof here to Paris?! You have 3 down there.”

The inability to play under cover, with Roland Garros being the only one of the four grand slam venues that does not have a court with a retractable roof, certainly proved costly for Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep -- fourth-round losers in the only two matches that were completed on day 10.

With the fixture list piling up, the women in top seed Serena Williams’ half of the draw would now need to play on four successive days to win the title if the final takes place on

Saturday as scheduled -- though more rain is forecast.

World number one Novak Djokovic and the men in his half of the draw, including Berdych, can also forget about enjoying the traditional rest days between each round as they would have to play on four of the next five days to contest Sunday’s final.

Radwanska, the world number two, and 2014 runner-up Halep --who both started their last-16 matches on Sunday -- were forced to play in misty rain on Tuesday as organizers made a desperate attempt to clear the huge backlog.

“No one cares about the players in my opinion,” sixth seed Halep said after she was beaten 7-6(0) 6-3

by Australian Sam Stosur in a battle

of former finalists.

“It was impossible to play. To play tennis matches during the rain is a bit too much. I was close to getting injured with my back... but no one cares.”

Radwanska had been leading Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2 3-0 when rain halted play on Sunday.

When the match resumed more than 40 hours later, the Polish second seed suffered a monumental meltdown as she lost 10 successive games in a 2-6 6-3 6-3 defeat by an opponent ranked 100 places below her.

“I’m just so surprised and angry that we have to play in the rain. I mean, it’s not a $10,000 tournament. It’s a grand slam,” said Radwanska, the highest seed to exit the tournament.

“How can you allow players to play in the rain? I cannot play in that condition. They really don’t care what we think.” (rtr)

TORONTO - LeBron James and the Cavaliers rested up and waited through a tumultuous Western Conference finals before finding themselves right back where they were last year, going against the Warriors for the NBA title.

James, on a stated mission to bring to Cleveland the city’s first major professional sports team title in 52 years, and the Cavs hit the road to open the best-of-seven against sharpshooter Stephen Curry and Golden State at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California, on Thursday.

Cleveland fell in six games in last year’s NBA Finals, but that was an undermanned Cavaliers crew.

They were without injured power forward Kevin Love and lost point guard Kyrie Irving after one game of the Finals.

This year they are at full strength and looking a different team under new coach Tyronn Lue, who has them running and gunning threepointers as an Eastern Conference version of the Warriors.

James is now surrounded by potent shooters including Irving, Love, J.R. Smith and Channing Frye, who helped Cleveland set three-point records during their 12-2 charge through the playoffs that began with a pair of four-game sweeps.

Despite all this, the Warriors are heavy favourite, according to the early betting markets.

A high octane Finals could be in the offing as they match their shooting prowess against Curry and All-Star backcourt mate Klay Thompson, Golden State’s “Splash Brothers”.

Cleveland should be the fresher of the clubs.

“Feeling good right now,” coach Lue said. “Focusing on trying to get better, using each practice, all the time we have to get better.”

It has been a much tougher return trip for the Warriors, who despite their NBA record 73-9 regular season mark, had to endure Curry’s knee injury earlier in the playoffs before a huge challenge from the Thunder.

Oklahoma City not only had a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven, but also double-digit cushions in both Game Six and Seven.

“We weren’t just down 3-1, but we’d been blown out two straight games,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after Game Seven.

“It’s a pretty remarkable comeback. It shows a lot about our guys and their will and their grit.”

James, a four-time league MVP, has of course shown his grit over the years as best all-around player, with defensive skills to match his offensive prowess. This is his sixth NBA Finals in a row and seventh overall.

Curry, a unanimous choice in repeating as NBA MVP, is gunning to join Boston Celtics great Bill Russell, Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and James as the NBA’s only back-to-back MVP, NBA title winners. (rtr)

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) goes up to dunk for a basket over Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo (8) in the second quarter in game four of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Air Canada Centre.

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French rail strike bites amid labour law standoff

CAIRO - In June 2014, 23-year-old engineering student Mohammed Badawy was expelled from Cairo University.

BRUSSELS - Striking rail workers halted about half of all French train services on Wednesday in a dispute over working time as a standoff between the militant CGT union and the Socialist government over a proposed labour law reform dragged on.

The SNCF state railway said six out of 10 high-speed TGV trains were running, along with one-third of other inter-city services and half of regional trains. Heavy flooding also cut some lines in central France and the rail link to Luxembourg.

Eurostar train services to Britain were not affected, while 75 percent of trains to Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland were running.

Three of the four rail unions called their members out on an open-ended strike over a planned reorganisation even though the government has intervened to press SNCF management to protect train drivers’ weekends off. Managers say that concession could make the heavily indebted company uncompetitive when it has to open up to private competition in 2020 under EU rules.

SNCF said 17 percent of its staff were on strike, up slightly from a previous strike last week, and forecast similar levels of traffic for Thursday. The CGT is also on strike at oil refineries and one-fifth of petrol stations are short of fuel.

The Socialist government played down the disruption and stuck to its refusal to withdraw the planned labour reform, designed to make hiring and firing easier and encourage negotiations on flexiblity at company level.

“France loves to give this image of itself as a sort of permanent drama, but that’s not the reality. France is not at a standstill,” Jean-Marie Le Guen, secretary of state for relations with parliament, told Radio Classique.

The government has pulled out its chequebook to settle a series of sectoral disputes this week in an effort to prevent them coalescing into a nationwide protest movement ahead of next week’s start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France.

CGT leader Philippe Martinez told LCP television his union had no intention of disrupting the soccer championship and urged the government to negotiate. But he also insisted it scrap a key article of the bill that would give company-level deals precedence over sector-wide agreements on pay and conditions. (rtr)

the security forces.

Twenty students have been killed by security officials on campuses either while they were protesting or near a protest, according to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, a non-governmental organisation of lawyers and researchers which says it has correspondents in most universities. Reuters was not able to verify these findings.

As well, the association said, more than 790 students have been arrested, mainly for protesting against the government. At least 89 of those were referred to military tribunals. Some have been sentenced to death or life in prison.

Officials from Egypt’s two biggest universities say that at least 819 students out of some 700,000 have been expelled from the universities since 2013, the year Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood government. They said the students were expelled for violence and law-breaking. Reuters was unable to verify these figures independently. (rtr)

French TGV trains (high speed train) are parked at a SNCF depot station in Charenton-le-Pont near Paris, France, May 31, 2016 as railway workers from the France’s rail-operator SNCF will start a national railway strike on Tuesday evening.

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Cairo University students shout slogans against the government and flash the ‘V’ and Rabaa signs after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial, at the university’s campus in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 30, 2014.

After university crackdown, Egyptian students fear for their future The university said it ejected him for obstructing the education process, and for rioting and destruction at a protest against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government. Badawy said it was because he protested against the government and supported the Muslim Brotherhood, a political movement that the Egyptian government has banned as a terrorist organisation.

His home was raided by security forces multiple times, he said.

Fearing for his life and keen to continue studying, Badawy said he paid people-smugglers to spirit him out of the country.

His reaction was not unusual.

The murder of Italian postgraduate student Giulio Regeni has focused new attention on alleged police brutality in Egypt, but nearly a dozen local students have told Reuters they have been targeted over the past three years and regularly face violence and harassment at the hands of security forces.

Regeni, 28, vanished in Cairo on Jan. 25. His body was discov-

ered in a ditch on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital on Feb. 3.

It showed signs of extensive torture, which human rights groups say suggests Egyptian police or security forces may have been involved. Egyptian intelligence officials and police sources have told Reuters that on the day Regeni vanished, he was detained by police and then transferred to a compound run by Homeland Security. The police and Interior Ministry deny they were involved and say they never held Regeni.

Rights groups and students say that under Sisi, Egypt’s universities have hounded students as a matter of routine, stationing dozens of security forces on campuses, expelling hundreds of students suspected of Islamist leanings, and abusing or torturing many of those they arrest. Some of those arrested admit they support or even belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and have taken part in protests that sometimes turned violent. But often, they say, they were reacting against abuses by

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Global stocks turn mostly lower on soft China factory data

SEOUL — Global stock markets turned mostly lower on Wednesday after reports on China’s manufacturing activity indicated lingering weaknesses in the world’s second-largest economy, and U.S. consumer confidence dropped for a second month.

KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.6 percent to 6,194.49 while Germany’s DAX fell 0.7 percent to 10,193.34. France’s CAC 40 slid 0.7 percent to 4,473.61. Futures augured a weak start on Wall Street. Dow futures lost 0.3 percent while S&P futures also fell 0.3 percent.

CHINA DATA: Two surveys showed persisting weakness in China’s factory activity last month. An official index by the Chinese Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, based on a survey of factory purchasing managers came in at 50.1 in May. Numbers above 50 indicate expansion of factory activity while those below 50 indicate contraction. The private Caixin/Markit survey was more pessimistic with activity falling to 49.2 last month from 49.4 in April.

ANALYST’S TAKE: “Overall, China’s economy has not been able to sustain the recovery it had in the first quarter and is in the process of bottoming out,” said Zhengsheng Zhong, director of macroeconomic analysis at CEBM Group. “The government still needs to make full use of proactive fiscal policy measures accompanied by prudent monetary policy to prevent the economy from slowing further.”

U.S. CONSUMERS: Reports released on Tuesday showed U.S. consumer confidence fell in May for a second month and is now at the lowest level since November. The Conference Board said that its index of consumer confidence slipped to 92.6 from 94.7 in April as consumers remained cautious about the outlook for business and job market conditions.

ASIA’S DAY: Asian stock markets began uneven but closed mostly lower. Japan’s Nikkei 225 finished 1.6 percent lower at 16,955.73 while South Korea’s Kospi inched down less than 0.1 percent to 1,982.72.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was down 0.3 percent to 20,760.98 while China’s Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.1 percent to 2,913.51. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slumped 1 percent to finish at 5,323.20. Stock markets in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines were higher but stocks were lower in Singapore and New Zealand.(ap)

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An Indian worker is helped by children to make a chassis for a three-wheeled vehicle at an industrial unit in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. India says its economy grew 7.6 percent in the financial year that ended March 31 and a swift 7.9 percent in the last quarter of the year keeping its position as the world’s fastest growing major economy.

World economy risks getting caught in ‘low-growth trap’

PARIS — The world economy risks getting caught in a “lowgrowth trap” if governments don’t spend more on investments, open up to trade, and make reforms, a top economic forum warned Wednesday.

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Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a wide-ranging report that it is increasingly pessimistic about the global outlook and cut its growth forecasts.

Among the risks identified by the Paris-based economic agency, which represents the world’s most developed economies, was a potential British exit from the European Union, volatility in financial markets, and Europe’s inability to find a common response to its refugee flows.

Above all, the OECD said in its Global Economic Outlook that weak growth risks becoming chronic.

“This low growth trap involves a cycle in which diminished expectations become self-fulfilling,” said Angel Gurria, the OECD’s

secretary-general.

According to the OECD, firms are too cautious to invest, are holding back innovation and productivity. As a result, households are getting more pessimistic about jobs and the future. The ensuing weaker consumer spending then feeds back into pessimism among companies, creating a vicious cycle.

Though the U.S. economy has improved in recent years, the next biggest economy, China, is slowing.

Because it’s a major consumer of raw materials and energy, as well as being a huge exporter and increasingly important consumer, concerns have grown over the state of the world economy.

Elsewhere, the European economic recovery has failed to gain

much traction while Japan remains sluggish. And emerging markets are struggling to deal with volatile currencies, high debt and the crash in prices for goods they export — Brazil and Russia, for example, are in deep recessions.

The OECD said countries have relied too much on central banks to stimulate demand and should instead look to strengthen public investment and make their economies more competitive through structural reforms.

It is forecasting global growth of 3 percent this year and 3.3 percent next. Both are down 0.3 percentage point from its last set of forecasts in November. The OECD reiterated its view that a vote for a British exit from the EU later this month “would depress growth in Europe and elsewhere substantially.”

It estimated that in the case of an EU exit, Britain’s economy could be 5 percent smaller by 2030 than if the country remained in the bloc.(ap)

A worker collects latex at a rubber plantation near Bogor, southwest of Jakarta in West Java province, Indonesia May 28, 2016.

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Indonesia detains hundreds demanding release of prisoners

JAKARTA — Indonesian police on Tuesday detained more than 300 demonstrators who were demanding the release of political prisoners in restive Papua province, a rights group said.

Veronica Koman of the Jakartabased Indonesian Legal Aid Institute said about 40 separatists are currently jailed in the province.

A low-level insurgency for an

independent Papua has continued since the region was transferred from Dutch to Indonesian rule in the 1960s.

Koman said peaceful protests oc-

curred in the towns of Sentani and Wamena, and in Manado, the provincial capital of North Sulawesi.

A total of 336 demonstrators were detained, she said.

Local police spokesman Lt. Col. Patridge Renwarin confirmed that rallies took place in Sentani and Wamena. He said a total of 207 dem-

onstrators were interrogated before being released in the two towns.

“We just questioned them because many joined the rallies without being aware of their intention,” Renwarin said.

He added that more than 1,000 people also demonstrated in Jayapura, the provincial capital of

Papua, but said they dispersed peacefully.

It was the second mass detention of Papuans in May. Nearly 2,000 people were detained earlier in the month for taking part in pro-independence demonstrations on the anniversary of Papua’s incorporation into Indonesia in 1963.(ap)

Jokowi designates June 1, birth Australia deports of Pancasila, as national holiday Indonesian fishermen BANDUNG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has designated June 1, the birth of the state ideology of Pancasila, as a national holiday. The head of state announced the new national holiday in his speech during the commemoration of Soekarno’s June 1, 1945, Address in the Merdeka Building, here, Wednesday.

Soekarno had delivered the speech to mark the birth of Indonesia’s state ideology a couple of months prior to the country’s independence pro-

claimed on August 17, 1945.

First Lady Iriana, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani (grand daughter of President Soekarno), Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, and former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, who is the daughter of Indonesia’s first president Soekarno, were among those present during the commemorative event.(ant)

Kupang - The Australian government, on Tuesday, deported four Indonesian fishermen hailing from Rote Island in East Nusa Tenggara.

Boarding an aircraft of the national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, the four deported fishermen arrived at the El Tari International Airport here on Tuesday.

“They were among the 10 Indonesian fishermen detained by the Australian maritime authority in

January 2016 for illegal fishing,” East Nusa Tenggara Office of Marine and Fisheries Chief for Marine Resources Supervision Saleh Goro remarked here on Tuesday.

Goro revealed there were 10 fishermen, and their deportation process was being carried out in phases since May 20, adding that the four were the last to be deported on Tuesday.(ant)

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Philippines’ Duterte denounced for defending killing of some journalists

DENPASAR - Hundreds of heavily armed police and plain-clothed officers from the Denpasar Police and the West Denpasar Police backed up by the Indonesia Military (TNI) strictly guarded the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday (May 31) as the court continued to the hearing of the violent clashed that occurred in Kerobokan Prison earlier this year. The court itself as also heavily guarded allowing the testimonials by witnesses and victims on Tuesday to run smoothly.

The hearing for the violent clashed that occurred last December 17, 2015 finally took place and was presided over by judge Achmad Petensili. Sitting as the defendants were Kadek Lingga Januarta, 21, I Putu Heri Saptrawan, 33, I Wayan Sumerta Antara, 27 and I Made Atmaja Eka Putra, 19. The court session on Tuesday scheduled the examination of victim witnesses Putu Diaskara Putra alias Putu Semal from Gianyar.

Before the court session, witness Putu Semal explained that he had initially been in block D and was then taken by Robot (dead victim) along with four other colleagues to pick up a friend who had just been transferred from the prosecutor’s office to the prison. The victim along with his friends passed through prison’s meeting hall and saw that the defendants were gathered there. of the prison.

However he and his friends did not suspect that they would be attacked by the occupants of block C. The violent incident happened in front of the meeting hall near block C. “As soon as we walked by we were attacked but managed to save ourselves. I was at the rear” said the witness.

Putu Semal added that he had no reason to think that they would be attacked because there had never been any problem with this group.

“I did not know what the problem was. I did not think they would attack because we did not know each other personally and there had been no friction before the incident”, explained the witness. Putu Semal was blindly beaten and two of his friends were killed in the accident.

“Their were so many people in their group and some of them tried to stab and hit me. As I remember I was beaten,

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Swiss Federal President Johann Schneider- Ammann, right, speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, on the opening day of the Gotthard rail tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world, at the fairground Rynaecht at the northern portal in Erstfeld, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

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Hundreds of heavily armed police and plain-clothed officers from the Denpasar Police and the West Denpasar Police backed up by the Indonesia Military (TNI) strictly guarded the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday (May 31) trampled and fell down three times. I was trying to survive by holding their blows and kicks”, he said. He went on to say that he was chased into the garden and fell down and injured his foot. “I escaped from the attack and ran toward the exit gate” said the witness/victim of the Kerobokan Prison incident. At that time, he saw his friend Dore covered in blood.

The witness then helped to lift up his friend and asked the prison officer to call an ambulance. “Yes, I saw my friend Dore loosing a lot of blood. I used a shirt to stop the bleeding and asked the officers to call an ambulance”, he said.

The judge then asked if there were prison officers present during the attack. The witness said there were some officers but none of them intervened. “No one helped me when I fell down. Maybe they were scared” the witness replied. The defendant’s legal team t

asked if there was resistance at the time. The witness replied that he gave no resistance, that he was just focused on how to escape from the attack. “It was impossible for us to fight because we were suddenly attacked. We never thought we would be attacked” explained the witness. The witness said that he had suffered injuries to his head, legs and hands and that there was a medical report to prove it.

The defendant’s attorney asked whether the witness forgave the defendants. “Personally I have no problem with the defendants as long as they are aware. Until now, I am still questioning why they hit me. I will certainly forgive them if they would like to explain what the reason for the attack was”, he said. The judge Achmad Peten Sili added that the defendants should apologize to the witness. The defendants then approached the witness and shook hands to apologize to Putu Semal.

In the heavily guarded court session the judge explained that the court actually disliked examining such cases. “I am concerned and sad. Why can you commit such actions amongst Balinese people. What could you get from it? I am very sad”, said the judge.

The statement by the judge from NTT was responded to by victim witness Putu Semal: “I am sad too sir. I do not know anything but was beaten anyway. Personally I had no problems with them” he said.

Hearing the witness’s testimony, the defendants did not argue but acknowledged that his testimony was true and they admitted to having beaten the witness. The judge then advised the defendants saying: “Do not just say sorry in the court session, but then commit another riot once you are release.

You must be ready to face the consequences of what you have done” affirmed the judge. (kmb37)

Badung calls out to thousands of artists to appear in BAF

MANGUPURA - Thousands of artists from of various genres the District of Badung will enliven the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) 2016 and the Badung Cutlrue Agency will coordinate the schedule.

Head of the Badung Culture Agency, I.B. Anom Bhasma, said that preparations for their appear-

ance in the BAF is almost complete.

“Now, we just have to rehearse.

A total of 3,000 artists will be involved. 600 artists will take part in the opening parade that will be coordinated by the Sekar Karang Gumitir dance studio from Bongkasa village” said Anom Bhasma on Tuesday (May 31).

The district of Badung district, he explained will participate in all of the competitions featured in the Bali Arts Festival 2016 that is themed Karang Awak.

Aside from appearing in various competitions and parades, Anom Bhasma said that Badung will also display the reconstructed arts of

an arja operetta entitled Cupak Gerantang from Blumbang hamlet, Penarungan, Mengwi. “The Cupak arja operetta has nearly faded away so we want to revive it”, he said.

Anom explained government of Badung has allocated funds worth IDR 3 billion for participation in the BAF 2016. This fund is used for

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everything from the preparation of a number of art communities to the artists at customary village or customary hamlets. “The IDR 3 billion budget is used for the whole process from preparation to performance”, he said, adding that he hopes all of the artists involved will giver their best performance. (kmb27)

Swiss declare Alps tamed as Gotthard rail tunnel opens

AMSTEG - Switzerland opens the world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel through the heart of the Alps on Wednesday in an engineering marvel that stands as a symbol of European unity at a time of increasing fragmentation.

The 57.1-km (35.5 mile)-long Gotthard Base Tunnel, 17 years under construction and designed to last a century, is part of a 23 billion Swiss franc infrastructure project to speed passengers and cargo by rail under the mountain chain that divides Europe’s north and south.

Typically Swiss, the project that federal transport office director Peter Fueglistaler called “a masterpiece of timing, cost and policy” came in on schedule and on budget.

High-speed trains will whisk passengers in 17 minutes through a passage that took days until the first Alpine rail tunnel opened in 1882.

Around 260 freight trains and 65 passenger trains will traverse the two-tube tunnel daily once final testing ends later this year.

The Swiss, as a rule rail fanatics, are throwing a party to mark the

event that will draw the leaders of all its neighbouring countries in a show of European solidarity.

“It is just part of the Swiss identity,” Fueglistaler said of the Swiss fondness for major engineering feats. “For us, conquering the Alps is like the Dutch exploring the oceans.”

The tunnel along Europe’s main rail line that connects the ports of Rotterdam in the north to Genoa in the south snakes through the mountains as much as 2.3 km below daylight and through rock as hot as 46 degrees Celsius (114.8°F).

The rail route goes over the pass now in a series of loops and tunnels. The new flat route means even heavy trains will need only one locomotive rather than two or three.

Engineers had to dig and blast through 73 kinds of rock as hard as

granite and as soft as sugar. Nine workers died.

Swiss voters -- despite opposition at times from the government and parliament -- supported the gargantuan rail project in a series of binding referendums in the 1990s.

Fittingly, the first ones to travel the tunnel at the official opening will be 500 lucky winners plus guests from the 130,000 who entered a ticket lottery for the inaugural trip.

The overall project includes the Loetschberg rail tunnel that has already opened, the Cereti tunnel still being built and renovations to make rail tunnels at least 4 metres high at the corners to be able to handle big freight containers. Work is due to finish in 2020.

The mammoth rail venture is being financed by value-added and fuel taxes, road charges on heavy vehicles and state loans that are due to be repaid within a decade.

Major contractors included Alpiq, Balfour Beatty , Thales and Heitkamp. (rtr)

MANILA - Philippine press groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt and “you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch”.

Duterte’s comments about extrajudicial killings, calling bishops “sons of whores” and a joke about a murdered rape victim do not appear to have dented his popularity in the largely Roman Catholic country.

But his comments about killing journalists have struck a nerve.

About 175 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986, ranking it among the most dangerous places to work in the news business.

Duterte addressed reporters on Tuesday in the southern city of Davao, where his loud approval of hundreds of execution-style killings of drug users and criminals over nearly two decades helped propel him to the highest office.

“Most of your are clean, but do not ever say all journalists are clean,” he said. “Just because you are a journalist, you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch.” “... Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong.”

When a female journalist asked a question, he wolf-whistled at her.

Ryan Rosuaro, head of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, said press freedom and murder were not joking matters.

“It is appalling that President-elect Rodrigo Duterte should justify the murder of journalists in the country by playing the corruption card,” he said.

Philippine Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma said journalists had a fundamental right to protection.

“We deplore the proposition that some journalists may have been assaulted or killed in view of their alleged involvement in media corruption,” he said in a statement. “It is the duty of government to arrest, prosecute and punish those responsible for violence against members of the media.”

Romel Regalado Bagares, executive director of the Center for International Law, said Duterte’s comments showed “a cynical attitude towards what is a serious concern to the international community” and could perpetuate impunity for the killers. (rtr)

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Philippines’ President-elect Rodrigo Duterte answers questions during a news conference in Davao City, southern Philippines May 31, 2016.

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Youngsters enjoy a ride on a circular moving swing in an Athens amusement park at sunset July 6, 2010.

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ing form of vitamin D in the blood, 25OHD. For one week of each season, the participants wore UV radiation dosimeters and also kept sun exposure diaries of every 15-minute period spent outdoors, with weather conditions, clothing and sunscreen use.

They also recorded intake of vitamin D supplements, vitamin D-fortified foods, and oily fish, butter, margarine, milk, eggs, cheese and red meat.

The teens tended to get more sun exposure during the school week than on weekends, and they had low levels of vitamin D intake in their diets yearround. None reported wearing dedicated sunscreen products in any season, though a few female teens were using SPF-containing face cream.

On average, 25OHD levels were

24.1 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ mL) in September at their peak and 15.5 ng/mL in January, their lowest point. Those with less than 10 ng/ mL circulating 25OHD were considered vitamin D “deficient” and those with less than 20 ng/mL were “insufficient.”

Sixteen percent of kids were deficient in vitamin D in at least one season. Those individuals had X-ray imaging of their lumbar spines and femoral necks to estimate bone mineral density, and only one appeared to have abnormally low bone mineral density.

Adolescence is a key stage for laying down bone mass, so deficiency in teen years may result in suboptimal bone health, Rhodes said in an email. (rtr)

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Air pollution tied to high blood pressure risk

Buleleng Police anticipate distribution of marijuana and gorilla tobacco

GUANGZHOU - Short and long-term exposure to air pollution from vehicle exhaust or burning coal is associated with high blood pressure, according to a review of 17 studies.

“Since the 1990s, a hypothesis of air pollution leading to hypertension risk was proposed by many researchers,” said senior author Tao Liu of the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Guangzhou, China.

The researchers analyzed 17 studies of air pollution and hypertension, defined as blood pressure higher than 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). In total, the studies included more than 80,000 people with high blood pressure and more than 220,000 people without it.

They found that short-term exposure to sulfur dioxide from burning fossil fuels and to particulates like dust and dirt in the air were associated with high blood pressure risk, as was long-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide, which comes from power plants and vehicle exhaust.

Short-term exposure to ozone and carbon monoxide were not tied to blood pressure levels, as reported in the journal Hypertension.

Air pollution can cause inflammation and oxidative stress which may lead to changes in the arteries, the authors write.

“There is a linear relationship between air pollution and hypertension, which indicated that even a very low level of air pollution might induce hypertension risk,” Liu told Reuters Health by email. “Therefore, everyone should be concerned about the effects of air pollution on their blood pressure even if there is a very low air pollution level in their living environment.”

“However, it is impossible to remove all of the air pollutants from the environments,” Liu said.

The studies in this review tie pollution to high blood pressure but don’t prove that one causes the other, Liu said.

More studies, especially multi-center studies, are needed to investigate a causal relationship between air pollution and high blood pressure, Liu said.

“Without a clear mechanism we cannot conclude that pollution ‘causes’ hypertension,” said Dr. Gaetano Santulli of Columbia University Medical Center in New York, who was not part of the new study. “However, we should recall (going back to 1954) that epidemiological evaluations provided strong statistical support in linking cigarette smoking and cancer.” (rtr)

SINGARAJA - Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit anticipates the distribution of marijuana and gorilla tobacco in the jurisdiction of Buleleng Police. Both items are considered to have influence and hallucinogenic effects to each user.

Chief of the Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit, Made Agus Dwi Wirawan, said that marijuana or gorilla tobacco is not yet as popular as marijuana in general. He urged his personnel in the field to continuously monitor even though there has been no finding of marijuana or gorilla tobacco in North Bali. “Gorilla tobacco is super tobacco but labeled with gorilla brand,” said Dwi Wirawan when confirmed on Tuesday (May 31).

The marijuana or gorilla tobacco grown rampantly in the territory of Brazil is estimated to contain AB-FUBINACA. The distribution of gorilla tobacco with hallucinogenic effect in Buleleng has not been detected in some subdistrict areas. “Gorilla tobacco is a variant of the New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) which can bring in hallucinative and delusive effect (exaggerated fear to users—Ed),” he added.

Various drugs with some variants are increasingly concerned.

Other than gorilla tobacco, lately there are new derivatives of drugs such as the THJ-2201 and THJ-018 having been equally anticipated by the personnel of the Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit.

However, the gorilla tobacco has not been classified into narcotics.

“In the government regulation No.13/2014, this substance has not been included in narcotics. However, it has an effect like narcotic, such as the effects of sensation in the brain and the body feels stiff so that this effect is called gorilla,” he explained.

He explained that gorilla tobacco has fairly stronger impact than marijuana in general. The users feel their body unconscious as if it did not move. It is said when users want to enjoy the thrill of the gorilla tobacco, they will use the tobacco in a cigarette. The selling price of gorilla tobacco is quite expensive namely IDR 100,000 per gram and in Buleleng police have not found similar thing. “Gorilla tobacco can improve blood sugar level in addition to the effects of hallucinations and delusions,” he explained.

Hallucinative effect caused by the gorilla tobacco is being investigated by Buleleng Police Narcotic Investigation Unit as an effort to anticipate the circulation. Hallucination resembling the effect of psychotropic substances remains to get the attention of the police authority. “The way to use (gorilla tobacco—Ed) is similar to using marijuana. About two months ago our colleagues from Flores brought the tobacco sample to forensic laboratory of the Bali Police to be examined,” he explained. (kmb34)

LONDON - At one point in the year, almost 80 percent of teens in a UK study had insufficient vitamin D that should come from sun exposure, and one quarter had insufficient levels even at the peak of summer, according to a new study.

The results were surprising because the participants were white children, whose skin is the most sensitive to ultraviolet-B and who therefore need the least amount of sunlight exposure to get enough vitamin D, said senior author Lesley E. Rhodes of the University of Manchester in the U.K. Most vitamin D is synthesized in the skin after exposure to UVB rays from the sun, Rhodes and colleagues write in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Little comes from foods, they point out, and the UK doesn’t recommend a specific dietary intake of vitamin D. In January, April, June and September 2011, the researchers collected blood samples from 131 Caucasian adolescents ages 12 to 15.

They tested for the main circulat-

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The Klungkung Police intensify a meeting with tourism activists in Nusa Penida.

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To increase security of Nusa Penida, District police approach tourism stakeholders

SEMARAPURA - Rapid tourism development in Nusa Penida mainly in Nusa Lembongan Island drives the Klungkung Police to increase security. It is primarily regarding supervision against travelers visiting to hazardous attractions. Lately quite a lot of accidents caused travelers to die while making a visit to Nusa Penida. To anticipate such problems, the Klungkung Police intensify a meeting with tourism activists in Nusa Penida.

When met on Tuesday (May 31), Chief of Klungkung Police, FX Arendra Wahyudi, said that security in Nusa Penida gets a major concern of the Klungkung Police. Having been visited by many domestic and foreign travelers, Nusa Penida gets international highlights. Responding to this, his authority held a meeting with tourism stakeholders, community leaders in the area of Jungutbatu and Lembongan to jointly safeguard the security of Nusa Penida.

Chief Arendra said that according to the existing reports at Lembongan police station the crime is very minimal. However, there are quite prominent cases, namely the accidents of foreign travelers at sea.

Thus, he wanted the openness of tourism stakeholders particularly in relation to security and order in society.

Aside from taking preventive measures, the supervision must be improved, both to the local and

foreign travelers when they are making a visit. As well as it needs synergies of tourism players, community leaders and other relevant parties. “If there are accident cases to foreign travelers, they must be informed to us as early as possible,” asked Chief Arendra.

Up to May 2016, some accidents to foreign travelers at the sea of Nusa Penida already claimed casualties. They included the accident to a traveler from China, Zhu Guangyao, 58. He died when snorkeling on Dream Beach, Lembongan village on February 12.

Then, on March 27 an accident at sea struck another traveler from Quantong City, China, named Ye Xiao Hong, 48. He drowned on Batu Belek Beach, Lembongan village. In addition, chief Arendra has also been making coordination with customary villages in order to set forth a prarem or addendum to customary bylaw related to drug distribution in the village area of

Jungutbatu and Lembongan.

In the meantime, an officer of the Denpasar Immigration Office, Indra Bangsawan, said that his office continues to do surveillance against foreigners all this time, especially in the submission of visa. Currently, the government has provided visa exemption to 149 countries in the world. Sometimes the visa is abused by foreigners where a holiday visa is even misused to look for job. “Supervision and handling against foreigners does not only become the responsibility to immigration office but also a shared responsibility,” he said.

Chief of Jungutbatu customary village, I Ketut Gunaksa, said that the reality in the field indicates that few investors are less responsive in the matters of surveillance and security. Jungutbatu village has 45 members of pecalang or customary security guard. “Later on, this pecalang will also help monitor,” he said. (dwa)

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Other than the influence of the rapid growth of tourist accommodations, IGK Sudaratmaja also mentioned that Badung does not have permanent legal framework regarding Sustainable Food Agricultural Land (LP2B). As a matter of fact, this concept has been included in the draft of detailed spatial plan (RDTR) currently under discussion in the Badung House of Representatives.

“Once the RDTR Badung has been passed, we will have a legal instrument to protect the agricultural lands from farmland conver-

sion,” he said.

He added that attempts to make new paddy fields covering an area of 100 hectares at Subak Pangsut Sari, Sidan hamlet, Belok Sidan, Petang, has not been realized.

Until now, the paddy fields created only reached 25 hectares. “Local farmers do not want to use heavy equipment to make the new paddy fields. The process runs slowly by using traditional ways, and remains to continue until today,” he said.

In the meantime, Chairman of the Indonesia Farmers Association (HKTI) of Bali, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta, said that the government currently more focuses on the pro-

grams that should be able to save money, but they become priority such as the budget to make the local elections successful.

“All this time the spirit of building the agricultural sector is never clear and can never be trusted if this sector will certainly be defended.

They (the governments—Ed) are always defeated by the other more popular interests such as regional elections. I do not say if the election is not important, but the budget can be saved,” he explained.

This professor from the Udayana University said that minimal budget distributed certainly causes the development of the sector stagnant. This condition will also have

an impact on food self-sufficiency, where we will increasingly depend on other regions in fulfilling people’s needs. This condition also makes the agricultural sector increasingly sluggish because this sector is no longer attractive to be worked on.

“The most important thing to do amid the lack of budget is a good coordination between the agencies, so that the programs implemented can have maximum impact on the agriculture,” he said.

The data on farmland conversion in Badung district within the past five years namely in 2011 covered an area of 10,187 hectares, 10,195 hectares (2012), 10,144

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hectares (2013), 9,984 hectares (2014) and 10,006 hectares (2015).

In the meantime, the data of Badung Tourism Office mention that the number of tourist accommodation until December 31, 2015 with the category of star hotel reached 155 units, 458 units of non-star hotel, 685 units of cottage and 44 units of condotel.

This figure has increased quite significantly. Until May 2016 or within a period of five months the Tourism Office recorded an increase happened to non-star hotel (471 units), cottages (716 units) and condotel (47 units), while the star hotel remains to amount to 155 units. (kmb27)

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Advised to use local guide service for domestic travelers DENPASAR -

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, responded to the general view of factions in the Bali House of Representatives regarding the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) on Tour Guides in the Plenary Session at the parliamentary building, Tuesday (May 31). In many cases, the governor expressed his agreement with the parliament. He just disagreed to one point regarding the addition to the regulation of the Tourism Ministerial Regulation No.13/2015 on the Standards of Tour Guide Services in the preamble.

“I disagree because the substances or materials regulated in this regional bylaw draft or Ranperda is specifically regulating tour guides personally, not in terms of business entity,” said Pastika.

He would look back a number of suggestions of the parliament. In this case the issuance of certificate of testing pass on the Balinese cultural knowledge and tour guide identification card (KTPP) should include the participation of the tourist guides or those extending their identification card. Then, the suggestion of domestic travelers that during their visit in Bali can use the services of local tour guides will be examined.

“Domestic travelers are Indonesians. If they are foreign travelers, it’s clear that they should be replaced with local tour guide.

In most cases, the domestic travelers come in small entourage,” said Pastika.

Nevertheless, he agreed if tour

guides from outside Bali taking a group of domestic travelers to a specific destination must be replaced with local tour guides. For example, when they visit Besakih Temple or Batur, travelers will not get wrong information if they are handled by local guides.

“For instance, when visiting Besakih Temple, the outsiders do not understand about Besakih.

So, it should involve local guide or when going anywhere like to specific destination they should be escorted by local guides because they can explain and understand exactly about Besakih Temple. So, do not allow any people explain what is permitted and not permitted as well as what is special about particular tourist object,” said Pastika.

Chairman of the Special Committee on Tour Guides at the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that there has been actually an agreement between the tour guides in Bali with tour guides

from outside Bali when handling guests coming to Bali. The deal is done to support local human resources of Bali tour guides and prevent misinterpretation in the explanation of culture and tourist destination in Bali.

“Actually there has been an agreement at the national level in the Indonesia Tour Guides Association (HPI—Ed), but in practice it is not implemented.

On that account, it is included in the regional bylaw draft on the tour guides,” said this politician from Gerenceng palace.

In general, Adhi Ardhana considered the response of the governor to the general view of the factions is positive. Moreover, he agreed more than disagreed with the suggestions of the parliament and it will be observed.

Among them, the governor stated to agree not to include academic classification in the requirements for prospective tour guides as long as they are competent and mastering all the information

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JERUSALEM - Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor has visited holy sites in Jerusalem and drew comparisons between the Holy City and her homeland.

The actress and fashion icon is the daughter of renowned actor and producer Anil Kapoor. During her visit to Jerusalem she met local fans who recognized her, asked for her signature and took photos with her.

Kapoor arrived in Israel as a guest of the Israeli tourism ministry and visited Jerusalem’s Old City where she toured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and placed a note between the stones of the Western Wall. (rtr)

Agricultural sector in Badung disappearing fast

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MANGUPURA - The agricultural sector in the district of Badung is shrinking fast due to the unstoppable expansion of tourism, this despite agriculture having been being lauded in the last electoral campaign. The Badung Forestry and Plantation Agency noted that farmland conversions increased from 9,984 hectares in 2014 to 10,006 hectares. As of May 2016 or within the period of just five months the Tourism Office recorded the increase occurred in non-star hotel to 471 units, 716 cottages and 47 condotels, while the number of star hotel remains 155 units.

Head of the Badung Forestry and Plantation Agency, IGK Sudaratmaja, said the farmland conversion in Badung dominantly happens in North Kuta. Hundreds of hectares of farmland have been converted into tourist accommodations. “It mostly happened due to the impact of tourism development mainly in the tourist accommodation and in the area of North Kuta,” said IGK Sudaratmaja, as confirmed on Tuesday (May 31).

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Amber Heard reports Depp domestic violence accusation to police LOS ANGELES - Actress Amber Heard has given a statement to Los Angeles police in which she accused estranged husband Johnny Depp of domestic violence, her lawyers said on Tuesday, a week after she filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order against Depp.

Heard’s attorneys said in a statement that in an attempt to “protect her privacy and Johnny’s career” the actress initially declined to report to police a May 21 incident between her and Depp that she claimed left her with a bruised eye.

“Johnny’s team has forced Amber to give a statement to the LAPD to set the record straight as to the true facts ...,” Heard’s lawyers Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig said.

“Amber has suffered through years of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Johnny,” they said.

Representatives for Depp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Officer Liliana Preciado declined to comment, citing privacy. Depp’s 17-year-old daughter Lily-Rose supported her father on Instagram, posting a photo captioning her father as “the sweetest most loving person I know.”

Heard, 30, said in court papers filed in Los Angeles last week that Depp, 52, had been abusive to her throughout their relationship, culminating in an argument during which he hurled a cell phone at her face and shattered objects in her apartment.

Depp’s lawyer argued in a court document that Heard “is attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse.”

Judge Carl H. Moor granted a temporary restraining order requiring Depp to stay at least 100 yards away from Heard and move out of the couple’s shared downtown Los Angeles condominium. A hearing was scheduled for June 17.

Heard, who will star in upcoming superhero ensemble “The Justice League Part One,” said she was seeking $50,000 a month for spousal support. Depp, one of Hollywood’s leading actors and box office draws, and Heard married in February 2015 after meeting on the set of 2011’s “The Rum Diary.” (rtr)

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BAGHDAD — The U.N. children’s fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad.

Backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary forces mainly made up of Shiite militias, Iraqi government troops more than a week ago launched a military operation to recapture Fallujah which has been under control of the extremist group for more than two years.

As the battled unfolded — with

Iraqi forces this week pushing into the city’s southern sections after securing surrounding towns and villages — more than 50,000 people are believed to be trapped inside the Sunni majority city, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad.

The UNICEF estimated the number of the children trapped with their families inside the city at about

20,000, warning that they face a dire humanitarian situation, in addition to the risk of forced recruitment into the fighting by the IS militants.

“Children who are forcibly recruited into the fighting see their lives and futures jeopardized as they are forced to carry and use arms, fighting an adults’ war,” the organization said in a statement. It called on “all parties to protect children inside Fallujah” and “provide safe passage to those wishing to leave the city.”

On the ground, Iraqi special forces continued their push into the city from its southern edge, said

Brig. Haider al-Obeidi with the elite counterterrorism troops. Al-Obeidi described the clashes underway Wednesday as “fierce” and said the Iraqi troops were facing tough resistance from IS militants.

Fallujah was the first large city in Iraq to fall to IS and it is the last major urban area controlled by the extremist group in western Iraq. The Sunni-led militants still control the country’s second-largest city, Mosul, in the north, as well as smaller towns and patches of territory in the country’s west and north.

The fight for Fallujah is expected

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