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Elton John blasts Russian cuts of gay sex scenes in ‘Rocketman’

MOSCOW - Elton John has slammed the removal of gay sex scenes from the Russian version of the musical biopic of his life “Rocketman” as “cruelly unaccepting”.

Film critics who watched a preview on Friday said the local distributor had censored some scenes for legal reasons.

In a joint statement with the filmmakers, the superstar said he only became aware of the cuts on Friday.

“We reject in the strongest possible terms the decision to censor Rocketman for the Russian market,” said the statement, published on the singer’s Twitter account.

“That the local distributor had found it necessary to edit out certain scenes, denying the audience the opportunity to see the film as it was intended is a sad reflection on the divided world we still live in and how it can still be so cruelly unaccepting of the love between

two people.”

Russia has a dire record on LGBT rights and a controversial law bans the promotion of “nontraditional sexual relationships” to minors, though it is not clear why this would apply to the 18-rated film.

Film critic Anton Dolin wrote on his Facebook page that all the sex or kissing scenes had been cut out, adding that the edits had been “very obvious”.

The film, which is set for general release in Russia next week, addresses the British pop icon’s struggles with his sexuality, drugs and alcohol.

Another journalist who attended the screening, Misha Kozyrev, wrote that scenes featuring drugs were also cut from the film.

“Yes, the film has been amended to comply with the laws of the Russian Federation,” distribution company Central Partnership told the TASS news agency, without providing details. (afp)

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US actor Robert Pattinson

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Robert Pattinson picked as the new Batman: report

LOS ANGELES - Robert Pattinson has been chosen as the new Batman, beating out several other actors, including Nicholas Hoult, to play the Caped Crusader, Variety said Friday.

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The 33-year-old “Twilight” heartthrob is set to play the vigilante superhero in a standalone movie called “The Batman,” under the direction of Matt Reeves, who was behind the last two “Planet of the Apes” sequels, the entertainment magazine said. Filming is slated to start in the coming months with a release date expected in June 2021.

A Warner Bros spokeswoman would not confirm the news to AFP,

saying only: “I can confirm that we are in negotiations.” Pattinson’s agent did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Pattinson, who shot to fame as teenage vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” saga, has avoided the spotlight in recent years, evolving from a teenage heartthrob to an indie darling.

He recently starred in acclaimed French director Claire Denis’s sci-fi

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mystery “High Life,” which earned him critical praise.

He also stars in “The Lighthouse,” a dark fantasy horror film that was also well received at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

As Batman, Pattinson will be replacing Ben Affleck who retired from the role after playing Bruce Wayne in 2016’s “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2017’s “Justice League.” (afp)

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Liverpool’s players throw German manager Jurgen Klopp (C) in the air after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on June 1, 2019.

‘It means so much’ - Liverpool beat Tottenham to win sixth European Cup

MADRID - Jurgen Klopp admitted his Liverpool team were overcome with emotion after beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 to win Saturday’s all-English Champions League final in Madrid and take the trophy for the sixth time in the club’s history.

Mohamed Salah’s second-minute penalty and a late Divock Origi goal settled what was not a classic at the Metropolitano Stadium, as Liverpool made up for their defeat in last year’s final against Real Madrid and the deflation of missing out on the Premier League title to Manchester City.

“We were all pretty much crying on the pitch, because it was so emotional, it was so big, it means so much to us,” Klopp said.

The revered German has his first trophy as Liverpool manager, three and a half years on from his arrival at the club. This result saw him end a run of six straight defeats in finals.

For Salah there was redemption after injury ruined his night against Real a year ago, and for Liverpool it is now half a dozen European Cups, as they further cement their status as one of football’s most storied clubs.

They now have more than Barcelona or Bayern Munich, and twice as many as their greatest rivals, Manchester United. The biggest party is still to come.

“Tomorrow, going to Liverpool and having something to celebrate, that is big, and I am really looking forward to that,” said Klopp.

“When we drive through the city then we will all realise what these

boys have done.”

Perhaps the occasion was just too much for Tottenham in their first ever appearance in the Champions League final. They have now lost all three meetings with these opponents this season, winning just one of their last 15 encounters.

Mauricio Pochettino’s decision to start Harry Kane after nearly two months out did not pay off, and he is still looking for his first trophy after five years in charge.

- Kane fails to make impact Nevertheless, if they can keep him, and with the impetus from the move to their new stadium, maybe

they will be back on such a stage before long.

“It is so painful but at the same time we need to be calm and feel proud. The season was fantastic,” he said. That Spurs were here at all was remarkable, Lucas Moura’s sensational hat-trick that dumped out Ajax in the semi-finals capping a memorable Champions League season all round.

The stage was set for this match, only the second all-English final, but after all the hype and the stories of fans paying thousands for tickets for a game they simply could not miss, this was a strangely subdued affair between the two goals.

- Suffocating heat Perhaps the stakes were simply too high, or perhaps the three-week

break since the end of the Premier League season was to blame.

Most likely the suffocating Madrid heat -- Klopp’s description of “pretty warm” was an understatement -- impacted on the players and prevented this from being like a typical Premier League clash.

However, it might also have been a result of the opening goal coming so early, badly affecting Tottenham’s confidence.

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The need for reconstructing rare arts

UNFORTUNATELY, this method cannot be optimally done because the local government still has difficulty in getting a budget to finance the reconstruction of rare arts in the region. This condition has made the reconstruction of Balinese rare traditional art unable to run optimally. This was acknowledged by the Head of the Buleleng Culture Agency, Gede Komang, on Saturday (Jun. 1). Reconstruction of the rare arts can only be carried out starting in 2019. Meanwhile, several years before the reconstruction had not been programmed. This condition cannot be avoided because of budget difficulties. “It has not been reconstructed because of budget difficulties. To reconstruct an art requires funding of IDR 100 million,” he said.

According to him, since he is assigned to occupy the current position, he is not discouraged to reconstruct rare arts of Buleleng. With an approach and preparation of proposals, starting this year two old arts of Buleleng will be reconstructed. In addition to struggling to find funding sources, the artists of the Buleleng are also involved in the reconstruction. One of the artists getting involved in the reconstruction this time is the dancer Luh Menek from Teja Manik Studio.

The first reconstruction is the Cendrawasih Dance by utilizing funds from the central government (national budget).

Before starting the reconstruction phase, the dance will be performed in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). It is meant to examine the aspects that should be reconstructed. “Previously, Cendrawasih Dance had been performed at the Buleleng BAF. Before being reconstructed, it is also displayed on the provincial level BAF, so that we will know whether the dancer’s costume, dance movement or musical instruments needs to be reconstructed,” he explained.

In addition to the Cendrawasih Dance, this year’s reconstruction will also be done to Wiranjaya Dance composed by artist

from Dauh Jung (West Buleleng—Ed). The art reconstruction is carried out after the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar. “For the first time, we reconstruct two rare arts despite budgetary difficulties, we have to arrange the programs beyond the funding of the regional budget or APBD,” he explained.

On the other hand, this man who is also a Wayang Wong dancer of Tejakula said there are still some rare arts in Buleleng that should be reconstructed so they are not left behind. Two of them are Gambuh and Parwa Art. Gede Komang mentioned that in the next 10 to 15 years if it is not reconstructed, the artistic heritages will become extinct because many perpetrators of the arts are elderly and exacerbated by condition of young generation or young people that do not understand, so they do not love the arts.

“This Buleleng artist is the oldest in Bali and many arts need to be reconstructed in order to stay sustainable and be loved by younger generation. There must be exploration from reconstruction and this needs to be included in the regional budget program or through proposals to third parties,” he explained. (mud)

Bangli reconstructs Joged Gandrung Dance, While Karangasem does it to Rejang Lilit

JOGED Gandrung Dance is one of the traditional arts owned by Bangli district. The existence of this dance is almost extinct, but in the end it was successfully reconstructed in 2015. Just like joged dance in general, this Joged Gandrung Dance belongs to social dance. Its difference lies in the gandrung dancers that don’t look for pengibing or invite the audience to join the dance.

Currently Joged Gandrung dance is still preserved by the people at

Pengotan village, Bangli. This dance is usually performed as entertainment in the events held at local village.

Nengah Gunawan, as the instructor at Pengotan village in charge of the art section revealed that in the past the Joged Gandrung dance was performed as entertainment for every rice harvest. Other than in the Pengotan village area, they often went around dancing to other villages.

Along with the development of the era, Joged Gandrung experi-

enced a bleak and almost went to extinction. Pengotan village community then took the initiative to revive this art by reconstructing it in cooperation with leaders and the dancers involved during the heyday of the Joged Gandrung dance. “Until now, this dance is still performed when there is an event at the village,” he explained.

Gunawan explained that even though it is called joged dance, there are some things that distin-

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Cendrawasih Dance

Bali has a variety of rare artistic heritages. Some of the honorable legacies are now at the verge of extinction due to the development of modern art in millennial times. Overcoming these difficult conditions, there must be a reconstruction of the rare arts. One of the purposes is trying to find new regeneration so the rare arts are not going to extinction, but must be preserved.

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guish Joged Gandrung dance from joged dance in general. In terms of costumes is one of them. Joged Gandrung dancers put on white costumes with long sleeves like that of Legong Keraton. Meanwhile, on the head they wear gelungan or head accessories where on the rear part of it is equipped with white clothes like hairs.

In addition, Joged Gandrung also has different movement from joged dance in general. Joged Gandrung

dance has its own styles. There is no excessive swaying movement in this dance. In the performance, Joged Gandrung dance is accompanied with traditional bamboo gamelan instrument.

Gunawan added that currently there are 6 Joged Gandrung dancers at Pengotan village. Three of them are old dancers. To preserve the dance, Pengotan village has been making efforts to regenerate the dancers.(kmb)

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Watching the bald eagles of Skagit and Nooksack rivers, Washington State, USA

THE white head is easy to spot in the moss-covered and leafless tree branches. Huge wings are silhouetted against the cloudy sky. Each bend of the river displays another tree dotted with these large raptors. Hundreds of bald eagles migrate south in the winter from Canada and Alaska in search of food to the cold glacier fed waters of the Skagit and Nooksack rivers of Washington State.

They feed on the winter run of chum salmon that arrives from November through January each year. The deep snows and cold temperatures farther north drive the birds to seek the milder climate of the northern reaches of the Pacific Northwest.

I experience this natural wonder while running the Skagit river in a jet boat and the Nooksack river on a pontoon boat to see the most famous of birds.

The water level of this river changes constantly in the winter and new obstacles, gravel bars, snags, and downed trees are everywhere. There are very few access points for boats and only very shallow draft pontoon boats can float the several miles of scenic river between Maple Falls and the Mosquito Lake Road Bridge.

Alone with the eagles

Pushing the boat out to take a picture

The afternoon in Mid-December is cloudy, cool, and threatens rain. The forecast is for a three-hour window of dry conditions as I board the jet boat anchored to the muddy shore of Howard Miller Steelhead Park in Rockport. Wayne of Skagit River Guide Service helps the half a dozen photographers with their long lenses to board and pushed the boat off into the strong current.

Skagit River

The water is clear as we roar up the cold snow-fed river towards Marblemount in the North Cascades National Park. Eagles can be seen in the bare tree branches along the shore. There is an odour of rotting salmon as we slow to view these raptors feeding along the shoreline. After a run of only a couple of miles the large motor shuts down and a small quieter trolling engine is engaged. We float back downstream with the small engine helping to keep us in the current and away from the many snags, root balls and rocks.

Wayne knows this river well and gently puts the boat onto a gravel bar near a common feeding spot. The river deposits the dying salmon and their bodies onto the many gravel bars and the eagles feast on the flesh. Everyone is quiet as we watch a great blue heron wade toward an eagle feasting on a salmon.

The long-legged bird and his white-headed adversary fight over the delectable tiger striped fish. The heron first walks slowly by and when the eagle fails to leave, he turns and extends his long neck and beak screams at the raptor. The eagle with its talons firmly in the flesh of the fish seems unfazed and just stares at his challenger. The heron remains and pecks a morsel or two when the eagle looked away.

We work our way back and forth up river and down to watch the birds in their daily routine. Young eagles are common with their brown feathers just tinged with white. A golden eagle had been seen in the same area just the day before. The cloudy weather keeps the birds near the river. If the sun shines the raptors fly sky-

ward to float on the thermals. I’m lucky, the rain held off till the end of my tour and the birds kept to their roosts till they spotted their next meal. I watch as they launch themselves into the air and extend their huge brown wings.

The adult eagles with their distinctive white heads and tails drop from their perches high in the branches of the nearby trees to swoop down and snag a smaller fish right from the river. The eagle uses his wings to break his descent as he nears the water.

He extends his yellow talons and strikes the fish just below the surface. The bird quickly flaps back into the air and flies away to eat his meal on a nearby snag.

We float by a large root ball of a downed tree with a mature eagle trying to lift a large chum salmon from the water onto the roots. The eight-mile section of the Skagit river between Rockport and Marblemount can be the feeding ground for dozens to hundreds of eagles depending on the strength of the salmon run and the frequency of flooding. I saw at least 50 different birds in the section of the river. I looked forward to the next day when I would float the Nooksack River further North where hundreds of bald eagles were waiting for me.

Nooksack River

The Nooksack River is a favourite of migrating bald eagles.

The spectacular North Fork is the northernmost river in Washington, running milky with snowmelt from the glaciers on Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan in North Cascades National Park. The North fork is joined by the Middle and South forks as it winds through forests and farmlands on its way to Puget Sound, near Bellingham.

I watch as our guide lowers our five-person pontoon boat down the steep bank to the fast-flowing emerald waters. The descent down to the river leads over roots and boulders to a small flat spot where our guide loads us one by one into the four elevated seats of our craft.

Within a few minutes we spot our first raptor flying on broad wings above the trees. More are roosting in trees along the shore as the river became wider. The water flows in serpentine bends that seem endless. Uprooted trees from a recent flood were lodged on nearby gravel bars. I see no other boats on the river. We were alone with the eagles.

The eagles increased dramatically after we passed by the Nooksack Salmon Hatchery. The fish returning to spawn stay downstream of the hatchery so that is where the birds congregate.

We leave the boat at a shallow ford and walk along the wide gravel banks to get a closer view of an eagle nest high in the trees along the shore. It seemed to be guarded by a pair of birds perched nearby. Our guide drifts our rubber hulled craft downstream to another wide gravel bar.

We step off and slowly creep across the rocks to the other channel in the hopes of seeing eagle feeding along the shore. I hear the distinctive call of other eagles from a tree downstream.

Several white-headed lookouts look on perhaps warning the other birds as they fly into the gray sky before we get close. The eagles seem more skittish on the Nooksack then the ones on the Skagit.

The last few miles before our pullout increases the count of eagles to nearly 200 by the time the Mosquito Lake Road Bridge comes into view. Every other tree seemed to have two or three birds sitting in them.

The Nooksack is a very different river experience than the Skagit. It is a wild and scenic adventure that allows you to experience nature and see the cycle of life played out on its shores. The Skagit and the Nooksack provide one of the great winter wildlife experiences you can have. Don’t miss it. (net)

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Bali Transportation Agency anticipates flight closure NEGARA - Bali Transportation Agency claimed to have prepared a number of anticipatory efforts if there are obstacles in the Eid transportation this year, especially the delay in air transportation related to the eruption of Mount Agung.

Head of the Bali Transportation Agency, I Gde Wayan Samsi Gunarta, revealed it after reviewing readiness at Gilimanuk Harbor on Thursday (May 30).

Samsi added that from the beginning the anticipation is carried out in coordination with the Bali Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD). When there are obstacles in air transportation due to eruption, for example, the Transportation Agency will coordinate with Organda Bali to provide alternative transportation by land. “We have anticipated it by coordinating with the BPBD Bali,” said Wayan Samsi.

Meanwhile, results of the monitoring related to the homecoming traffic (Eid transportation) conducted by the Bali Transportation Agency last Thursday, especially in the Denpasar-Gilimanuk line to Gilimanuk Harbor, have showed readiness.

In terms of infrastructure, especially roads, it is feasible to go through with some road maintenance and repairs. He admitted there are some invisible traffic signs on the road, especially in the road lane after repairs. “It indeed happens because the road has been repaired, but in general it is ready for Eid transportation,” he added.

In the meantime, other than securing on land routes, security at sea is also carried out. Joint officers of Jembrana SAR Post and Jembrana Police are also alerted for the current traffic in the Bali Strait.

Sea-level patrols in the Bali Strait are carried out every day to anticipate sea traffic and other incidents as done on Thursday (May 30). Two boats belonging to the Jembrana Police and SAR and one Jet Ski of SAR Agency patrol in the Gilimanuk waters.

Apart from alerting personnel and rescue vessels completed with SAR equipment at sea, the officers are also on standby along with main equipment.

Coordinator of Jembrana SAR Post, Komang Sudiarsa, said that in anticipation of the incidents at sea, a number of joint personnel are alerted along with the main equipment.

“All potentials involved are ready to provide SAR services for all harbor service users and on land,” explained Komang Sudiarsa. The weather factor in the Bali Strait is uncertain and the current is strong Made Alit SUANTARA / AFP enough to be one of the factors of vulnerability that A plume of ash is released as Mount Agung volcano erupts, seen from the Kubu subdistrict in Karangasem needs to be anticipated. (kmb26) Regency on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on May 31, 2019.

Bringing no passport, Indian citizen tried misdemeanor GIANYAR - The Gianyar District Court imposed a fine as much as IDR 15 million or one-month subsidiary imprisonment on Chetan Joshi. This decision was read out in a misdemeanor session at the Gianyar District Court on Wednesday (May 29). This India citizen was previously secured by the officers of Denpasar Immigration Office because he did not bring a passport while traveling around

Ubud.

Wearing a white shirt with black trousers, Chetan Joshi came to the Gianyar District Court accompanied by the Denpasar Immigration Office on Wednesday morning at around 09:00. He seemed resigned to the misdemeanor trial undertaken in the Gianyar District Court.

Occasionally, Joshi looked to greet the officers in the courthouse by pressing the palms of hands to-

gether in his chest.

In the courtroom, IB Ari Suamba as the sole judge of the trial stated that the defendant had violated article 71 point b of the Law of the RI No. 6/2011 concerning immigration. To account for his actions, the judge imposed the defendant with a fine of IDR 15 million or onemonth subsidiary imprisonment.

“The defendant is fined at IDR 15 million or one-month imprison-

ment,” said IB Ari Suamba.

Separately, Spokesperson of Gianyar District Court, Edi Prasetyo, explained the defendant was secured by the Denpasar Immigration Office because he was unable to present his travel documents. “The defendant was unable to submit his travel documents in the form of a passport or residence permit,” he said when met after the trial.

The inspection was conducted

around Ubud. Well, since being unable to show off the documents, the defendant was then secured by the officers from the Denpasar Immigration Office, with the continuation process ended in misdemeanor trial on Wednesday (May 29).

“He was only unable to show off his travel documents during the inspection held by immigration officials in the Ubud area,” he concluded. (kmb35)

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Peak load of electricity usage downs 9 percent

DENPASAR - During the holidays of Eid al-Fitr 1440 H, PLN Bali predicted the peak load of electricity consumption in Bali will only reach 817 Mega Watts (MW). This peak load has decreased 9 percent from the previous one ever achieved.

“Peak load during holidays has decreased by around 9 percent from what was previously achieved. Some activities have indeed decreased throughout the holidays,” said Nyoman Suwarjoni Astawa, General Manager (GM) of PLN Bali on Friday (May 31).

Nevertheless, PLN is committed to maintaining the reliability of supply during the holidays, by alerting 890 personnel. The 890 personnel consist of employees and partners, 13 rapid reaction units, 27 units of Mobile Substation (UGB), 5 units of Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS), 3 vehicles of detection systems, and 14 generators. The alert period of Eid al-Fitr takes place on June 1-10. “We are trying to minimize the disruption, so the officers will remain on standby for 24 hours,” said Astawa.

PLN also opens a homecoming post on the Denpasar - Gilimanuk road section. The number is around 51 posts. All PLN officers guard in the posts scattered throughout Bali. Eid post of PLN Bali provides charging station facilities, snacks and resting places for travelers. “Customers can stop by,” he explained.

Astawa also urged homecomers to check electrical installations, remove electronic equipment from electricity, and fill electricity tokens for prepaid customers before leaving home. Astawa did not forget to represent all management and staff of PLN Bali to wish a happy Eid al-Fitr 1440 H for all PLN customers that celebrate. (kmb42)

American student donates wigs to cancer patients at Sanglah Hospital

DENPASAR - Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital brought together cancer patients to receive wigs from an American girl, Kyan Zabriskie, on Friday (May 31). The girl speaking Indonesian fluently is a student of Green School Bali.

She said the wigs are a humanitarian project.

In line with the tag line ‘Hair for Hope’ it is the gift of love. The gift in the form of wig is expected to help increase self-confidence in cancer patients having undergone chemotherapy.

“Hopefully, the wig provided can help increase self-confidence of cancer sufferers who have undergone chemotherapy. Aside

from pediatric patients, I will also give it to adult patients who lose their hair after chemotherapy,” said Kyan.

She also added that the wigs were made at home from real hair ingredients that she got from donors.

Dayu Dewi, a Public Relations partner at Sanglah Hospital (volunteer), expressed her gratitude for having met with Kyan. “We really need this assistance, especially considering that many friends of cancer sufferers have lost their hair after undergoing chemotherapy,” said Dayu. Similarly, she promised to give the wigs to the right patients and in need for a wig. (kmb42)

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In this file photo taken on May 29, 2019, Indian residents fetch drinking water from a well in the outskirts of Chennai. Temperatures pushed towards 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) across much of India on June 1 as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heat stroke.

India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius

NEW DELHI - Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.

The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu on Saturday, the weather department said.

All of Rajasthan suffered in severe heat with several cities hitting maximum temperatures above 47 Celsius.

In May 2016, Phalodi in Rajasthan recorded India’s highest-ever temperature of 51 Celsius (123.8 Fahrenheit).

The Indian Meteorological Department said severe heat could stay for up to a week across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh states.

Several deaths from heatstroke have already been recorded.

A red alert severe heat warning has been issued in the capital New Delhi as temperatures passed 46 Celsius, and residents were advised not to go out during the hottest hours of the day.

Even in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, where many wealthy Indians go to escape the summer heat, temperatures reached 44.9 Celsius in Una. Several major cities, led by Chennai, have reported fears of water shortages as lakes and rivers start to dry up.

In the western state of Maharashtra, farmers struggled to find water for thirsty animals and crops.

“We have to source water tankers from nearby villages as water reserves, lakes and rivers have dried up,” said Rajesh Chandrakant, a resident of Beed, one of the worst-hit districts.

“Farmers only get water every three days for their livestock.”

Raghunath Tonde, a farmer with a family of seven, said the area has suffered worsening shortages for five years.

“There is no drinking water available for days on end and we get one tanker every three days for

the entire village,” Tonde told AFP. “We are scared for our lives and livelihood,” he added.

The Hindustan Times newspaper said many Beed residents had stopped washing and cleaning clothes due to the water shortage.

More than 40 percent of India faces drought this year, experts from Gandhinagar city’s Indian Institute of Technology, warned last month.

The annual monsoon -- which normally brings much needed rain to South Asia -- is running a week behind schedule and is only expected to hit India’s southern tip on June 6, the weather department said.

And private forecaster Skymet has said there will be less rain than average this year.

The Indian peninsula has seen a drastic change in rainfall patterns over the past decade, marked by frequent droughts, floods and sudden storms. (afp)

HONG KONG - Thirty years after they fled the bullets and tanks, Tiananmen exiles say their dream of returning to a democratic China are more distant than ever as their homeland descends further into authoritarianism and state surveillance.

Zhou Fengsuo has always erred on the side of optimism.

Five years ago, to mark the 25th anniversary of Beijing’s deadly crackdown, he took advantage of a 72-hour transit visa to sneak back into China on his American passport.

It was an act that would be unthinkable now.

Under President Xi Jinping, China has returned to a level of oppression not seen since the Mao era, its security apparatus bolstered by cutting edge technology and the party’s ability to silence critics virtually unchallenged.

“There is no reason to be optimistic for China now if you look at what’s happening,” said Zhou, a former student leader who was number five on Beijing’s ‘Most Wanted’ list in the aftermath of the crackdown and who now lives in the United States.

“It’s darkening day by day, (what) was unimaginable a year ago, now it’s becoming reality.

Even ‘1984’, the novel, couldn’t go that far,” he told AFP in New York, referencing George Orwell’s seminal novel on life in a totalitarian state.

Most of those young protesters drawn to Beijing’s streets in the spring of 1989 are now in their early fifties and there is a profound sense of urgency that time is running out to keep alive the memory of what happened.

The ‘Great Firewall’ and eagleeyed party censors have proven adept at scrubbing the web inside China of any reference to Tiananmen.

And in more recent years university campuses in the West have witnessed increasingly strident nationalist rhetoric from overseas Chinese students.

“There is nothing to be optimistic about the younger generation at campus today, they grew up completely under the shadow of the firewall, so that means they are indoctrinated by the brainwashing when they are babies,” Zhou told AFP. - Crushed by tanks Fang Zheng, a Tiananmen survivor who lost his legs when they were crushed by a tank, is similarly grim in his projections.

The last thing he remembered

before losing consciousness was seeing the shattered white bones of his legs exposed to the air.

Few survivors have suffered so physically as Fang. Yet each spring he has flown all over the world to tell his story.

But he has little hope for China’s future.

“I’m getting more and more pessimistic,” he told AFP by phone from his home in San Fransisco.

“Especially since Xi became leader, the government now uses all sorts of means to control residents.

High-tech devices help the government to monitor the people.”

Most of the politically active Tiananmen survivors have made their homes in the States, often after serving prison sentences and years spent persuading the Chinese authorities to give them passports.

Wu’er Kaixi stayed closer, chosing the democratic island of Taiwan.

Hailing from China’s Uighur minority -- who now face unprecedented levels of forced incarceration and state surveillance in western Xinjiang province -- Wu’er became one of the most outspoken student leaders during the 1989 protests.

He famously rebuked Premier Li Peng on national television, an unprecedented dressing down of a top party official, one who later went on to oversee the deadly crackdown.

Wu’er said he had spent the last three decades watching with horror as western nations embraced China, hopeful that economic growth might nudge the party towards political liberalisation.

“They call it engagement, I call it appeasement, and that has led to the consequences that China is a clear threat to the world order and universal values,” he told AFP at the sidelines of a Tiananmen conference in Taipei.

There is a sense of fatigue in his voice, that every June it has been up to a small coterie of survivors to remind the world of Tiananmen’s legacy.

“It is no longer just the Chinese democracy activists’ responsibility to bring China to freedom and democracy, nowadays the whole world share a piece of blame and responsibility,” he said.

In an illustration of China’s growing ability to counter dissidents, the conference which Wu’er was attending used to be held in Hong Kong. But with the international finance hub witnessing its own crackdown, organisers moved it to Taipei. (afp)

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Why the US economy may have already peaked for the year

WASHINGTON - Enjoy it while it lasts. The U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.1% annual rate in the JanuaryMarch quarter — a pace that will likely prove to be the high-water mark for the year before growth weakens in the coming months.

That’s the assessment widely shared by economists in light of the rising threats facing the U.S. economy, from a raging trade war to more cautious spending by consumers and businesses to a global slowdown. Their collective forecast is that last year’s 2.9% growth — the fastest year of expansion since 2015 — will be followed by a more tepid 2.3% gain this year.

That pace would roughly match the average annual growth since the current expansion began in 2009. In two months, it will become the longest post-recession recovery on record. But it has also been the slowest since World War II. The Trump administration, defying the assessments of mainstream economists, insists that its program of tax cuts, regulatory reform and tougher enforcement of trade deals will produce dramatically higher annual growth above 3% for the next six years.

Here are three key reasons why economists think growth has peaked for the year:

A PENDULUM SWINGS BACK Half the 3.1% growth rate in the JanuaryMarch quarter that the government reported Thursday was due to two temporary factors: A surge in business efforts to restock shelves.

And a big narrowing in the trade deficit.

In the calculations that produce the nation’s gross domestic product, a widening trade deficit subtracts from growth. By contrast, a narrowing trade deficit, like the one last quarter, raises growth. Yet economists predict that the pendulum will swing back to a wider trade gap in the current April-June quarter. That’s because neither a sharp drop in imports nor a big surge in exports in the first quarter is expected to persist.

For that reason, analysts foresee secondquarter growth slowing to around a 1.5 percent annul rate — just about half the first-quarter figure.

FADING STIMULUS President Donald Trump’s signature domestic achievement was the passage of a $1.5 trillion tax cut in December 2017. Billions in additional spending for domestic and military programs that Congress approved in early 2018 also delivered a stimulative lift to the economy.

The tax cuts allowed companies, which received a major portion of the bounty, to

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Police officers escort foreign nationals arrested for selling drugs prior to a press conference at the regional police headquarters in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Friday, May 31, 2019. Police on the resort island have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine on the island.

5 foreigners accused of selling drugs on Bali

DENPASAR - Indonesian authorities have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine and marijuana on Bali, police said Friday.

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In this May 10, 2019, file photo a container ship is unloaded at the Virginia International Gateway terminal in Norfolk, Va. On Thursday, May 30, the Commerce Department issues the second estimate of how the U.S. economy performed in the January-March quarter. spend more on plants and equipment. Business investment grew sharply as a result.

So did stock buybacks, which helped boost the stock market. And for households, tax cuts began showing up in paychecks early last year in the form of lower withholding amounts, leaving consumers with more money to spend. Consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of economic activity, averaged a sizzling 3.3% annual rate over the final three quarters of 2018.

But the initial surge from the tax cuts and the increased government spending are waning now. That’s a major reason why economists think growth this year will slow to a modest 2.3% annual pace, in line with the pattern of the past decade.

AN OMINOUS TRADE WAR A return to a 2.3% growth rate, while slower than last year, would still likely leave

the economy with enough steam to keep unemployment, already near a 50-year low, at a healthy level. What concerns economists is that some further shock might significantly slow growth.

Analysts are warily monitoring an array of risks, from disruptions resulting from a British exit from the European Union to weakening manufacturing and retail industries to jitters over congressional investigations into Trump’s presidency.

But the gravest perceived threat may be the escalating trade war between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies. Stock markets have been falling since talks broke off this month and the Trump administration announced that it was boosting tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods. Beijing vowed to retaliate against U.S. products as it has done with previous Trump tariffs.

For economists, the concern is that the disruptions in trade could become severe enough to trigger a recession in an already weakening economy.

“If the trade war escalates, that could cause unemployment to start to rise and that could cause consumers to cut back on their spending, which would then prompt businesses to cut back,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s. “Then the recession risks become very high.”

Yet Zandi said he thought that risk could fade if the United States and China can at least declare a truce in their trade war, which would keep punitive tariffs from widening further.

Economists are watching for such an outcome, with Trump and President Xi Jinping set to meet on the sidelines of a Group of 20 major nations’ summit next month in Japan. (ap)

The three men and two women were paraded at a police news conference in the Bali provincial capital, Denpasar, days after being arrested. They were arrested between May 20 and 24 in the tourist

hotspot of Kuta, said Denpasar police chief Ruddi Setiawan.

He said the arrests began when police caught a 33-year-old Russian man, identified only as Nikita, arranging cocaine sales by phone to

foreign tourists. Police seized 20.18 grams (0.7 ounce) of cocaine and 44.14 grams (1.6 ounces) of marijuana from the group.

“We are still investigating how they got that cocaine and marijuana,” Setiawan said. “We believe they are part of an international syndicate and got the drugs from abroad.”

Police identified the 31-year-old American suspect as Ian. A Russian woman, 31, was identified as Maria and a Spanish woman, 33, as Laura. A 37-year-old Spanish man identified as Juan had operated a restaurant in Kerobokan near Denpasar for a long period of time, police said.

Indonesia has strict drug laws

and dozens of convicted smugglers are on death row. Its last executions were in July 2016, when an Indonesian and three foreigners were shot by a firing squad.

An Indonesian court last week sentenced a Frenchman to death for smuggling ecstasy to Lombok, next to Bali, even though prosecutors had sought a 20-year sentence. (ap)

Fried Red Rice Offers Savory Taste Do you enjoy fried rice of white rice ingredients? Well, it has been a commonplace! How about tasting a dish of fried rice made from red rice ingredients. It is something new. Other than offering delicious flavor, this type of fried rice is also low in cholesterol and very good for health. Moreover, when combined with Balinese spices, it must be tempting to immediately try it. The fried rice found in one of the restaurants in Ubud is combined with local and international nuances.

Rice is indeed the target for people to consume, especially those wishing to reduce cholesterol. This red rice is also ingredient in food

stalls to restaurants on the Island of the Gods. Including in tourism areas, this serving is an attractive offer for tourists. “Carbohydrates in brown rice do exist, but in low sugar content, so they are chosen especially for those desiring to reduce sugar consumption,” Chef UNAME Restaurant Ubud, I Wayan Partana.

Partana said that to give a sensational flavor, the brown rice is cooked with Balinese spices (base genep) which accentuate the flavor of garlic and aromatic ginger.

Then, add bulun baon leaf, kluwek and Moringa leaves as vegetables mixed in the cooking process and added with chicken meat to give a

distinctive local flavor. “Vegetables added give a slightly bitter and savory taste and an acidic sensation with extra kluwek or pangium,” he explained.

The types of vegetables used are also rich in benefits for the body that function as medicine, especially bulun baon. The cooking only takes advantage of a little oil so that it causes the fried rice to have low fat. For additional condiment, it is made from cut tomatoes, green cayenne pepper, sprouts, avocados and lime juice that can provide international-style food. “There are poached eggs to provide additional delight when savoring fried rice,” he concluded. (kmb)

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Captain charged over Budapest boat tragedy

BUDAPEST - The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel was charged Saturday over the accident in Budapest that killed seven South Korean tourists and left 21 missing.

The Mermaid carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank late Wednesday, seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise ship on a busy stretch of the Danube in the heart of Budapest.

Strong currents have hampered the search for those missing -- 19 South Koreans and two Hungarians -- preventing divers from reaching the submerged boat.

The Sigyn’s Ukrainian captain was charged Saturday, a Budapest court official told AFP, but gave no further details.

The 64-year-old was detained Thursday for questioning

for “endangering waterborne traffic resulting in multiple deaths”, police have said.

The captain’s lawyer, Balazs Toth, said the court had granted bail, but prosecutors were appealing and so his client remained detained.

“He is devastated by the number of victims and is asking constantly that condolences are conveyed to their families,” Toth said.

“My client has not changed his statement made as a witness. He insists that he has not made any error,” his other lawyer, Gabor Elo, told reporters after the hearing.

- Four-country search -

Near the accident site, a floating crane has been erected, as well as a small pier for use by divers.

But with the Danube swollen after weeks of rain, the strong current has complicated plans to lift the wreck, and the prospects of finding any of the passengers alive are seen as very slim.

Serbia, Romania and Croatia -- countries along the Danube, south of Hungary -- have been asked to help in the search after South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyungwha insisted in Budapest on Friday her country would not give up hope of finding survivors.

One of the bodies had been found about 11 kilometres (seven miles) downstream of the accident site.

South Korean relatives of the Mermaid passengers arrived in Budapest Friday, and officials took them to the banks of the Danube.

The Hungarian Magyar Nemzet daily, meanwhile, on Saturday quoted police reports as saying the Sigyn might not have warned the pilot of smaller ship that he was going to overtake.

According to the newspaper, he also did not alert police about the collision.

- Black flags -

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A man throws flowers into the river Danube at the site where a river cruise collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel on June 1, 2019 in Budapest. The Mermaid carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank late Wednesday, seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise on a busy stretch of the Danube in the heart of Budapest.

People have been laying flowers along the river bank and on a bridge near the collision site, as well as at the South Korean embassy.

On Saturday, black flags were flying along the bridge.

Only seven people are known to have survived so far.

Those missing include a six-year-old girl, as well as the Mermaid’s Hungarian captain and a crew member.

The collision happened on a popular part of the river from where sightseers can view the city and parliament, which is lit up at night.

Larger river cruise boats travelling on the Danube between Germany and the Black Sea typically spend several days moored in the capital. (afp)

Descend, Eat, Marvel: Europe’s first underwater restaurant

LINDESNES - For the chef and diners alike, each meal beneath the waves at Europe’s first underwater restaurant is a thing of wonder.

“We have this small window next to the kitchen and every time some special kind of fish comes by, I always start thinking about how it would taste,” says chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard.

The aptly named new restaurant Under opened a few weeks ago in Lindesnes on Norway’s southern tip.

It serves up Poseidon’s delicacies in an architectural showpiece that stretches down five metres (15 feet) underwater, offering a unique closeup of ocean life.

From the outside, the giant concrete monolith juts out from the craggy shoreline, while its other end tips down into the North Sea. Customers enter the restaurant onshore through a wood-panelled passage and descend down a long, oak staircase into a dimly lit dining room. Here, a gigantic plexiglass underwater window takes centre stage.

The 36-square-metre (398-squarefoot) window -- “like a sunken periscope” in the words of its designers

-- offers a panoramic view of the ever changing live aquatic show.

In Norwegian “’Under’ means it’s under, like submerged, underwater, and it also means a sense of wonder,” says Stig Ubostad, who co-owns the eatery with his brother, Gaute.

“It is without doubt the largest one in the world and the only one in Europe.”

- ‘Nature’s never disappointing’ -

There are no clown fish or sharks, like at other underwater restaurants in more tropical locations such as the Maldives or Dubai.

Rather, it is in this simple, but no less spectacular forest of kelp that cod, pollock and wrasse swim past depending on the season, with occasional visits from their predators, seals and the large seaducks, eider.

“It’s an area on the southern tip where the brackish water from the east meets the salty water from the Atlantic, so the richness of the species is very high,” says Trond Rafoss, a marine biologist involved in the project.

In addition to its distinctive architecture and fine dining, Under wants

to shine a spotlight on environmental issues. The international waiting staff are trained to provide guests with information about the aquatic show they are watching.

“The guests are on an adventure. They are exploring the nature themselves, because this is not an aquarium.

“The fish might look at us as an aquarium because what’s happening outside here is under natural control,” Rafoss says.

“You will never be disappointed, nature is never disappointing.”

- Algae dessert -

The restaurant is a 34-metre monolith designed by Norwegian firm Snohetta, known for its celebrated buildings such as the Oslo Opera and the 9/11 Memorial Pavilion in New York.

It can serve up to 40 diners during its one sitting a day, five nights a week.

In the kitchen, Danish chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard and his staff let their imaginations run wild when creating seasonal menus based primarily on what the sea has to offer, including

a dessert composed of five different types of algae collected from a nearby shore.

“We try to use things that are in the area, and also use things that nobody else is really using,” Ellitsgaard says.

Liverpool...

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Pochettino had opted to start Kane after an ankle injury, meaning Lucas was on the bench. Kane hardly touched the ball.

Eight members of Liverpool’s team also started last season’s final, when Salah went off injured and in tears in the first half.

This time Liverpool were the ones celebrating early on, Slovenian referee Damir Skomina pointing to the spot inside 25 seconds when Moussa Sissoko blocked Sadio Mane’s cross with his arm.

Salah confidently blasted home the penalty for the second-fastest goal ever in the final of the modern Champions League.

The only faster effort was Paolo

The restaurant however is probably not for everyone’s budget.

The tasting menu, consisting of 16 to 18 dishes, costs 2,250 kroner (230 euros, $258) per person -- and double that when wine is included. (afp) Maldini’s goal for AC Milan against Liverpool in Istanbul in 2005, when the Anfield side famously won on penalties.

Spurs just did not get going, and there was none of the frenzied pressing and attacking associated with Klopp’s side, although Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson both came close in the first half.

Tottenham improved after the break, but Virgil van Dijk was immense for Liverpool and there was no way past Alisson, the Brazilian saving well from Son Heung-min and Christian Eriksen late on.

It was left to Origi, one of the heroes of the stunning semi-final win over Barcelona, to wrap it up with three minutes left as he swept home inside the box. (afp)

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Ani Yudhoyono, the last wing of a soldier’s daughter

JAKARTA - Following four months of aggressive treatment at the National University Hospital in Singapore, former First Lady Ani Yudhoyono breathed her last on Saturday, June 1, 2019.

SBY, whom she married on July 30, 1976, was also an Army officer, who later became the president, while Ani’s eldest son, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, also was a soldier, although he retired early as a major.

With her demise, Indonesia has lost one of its finest figures, who served as first lady to the sixth Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) during the 2004-2014 period.

During the SBY administration’s decade-long term, the government was confounded with numerous challenges for which quick and accurate solutions were found.

Merely few months into assuming office as president to replace Megawati Soekarnoputri, a tsunami devastated Aceh and Nias in December 20014, resulting in Indonesia incurring huge losses.

During that time, the government had to promptly implement emergency response measures to move the dead and care for the injured while supporting survivors and setting up refugee camps. Even as assistance from friendly nations later poured in, the government also had to ensure that aid was channeled properly without affecting the sovereignty of the country.

In the midst of these challenges, Ani Yudhoyono, as the first lady, was by the president’s side, lending support, not only to her husband but also to the Acehnese affected by this major disaster.

Ani then formed an organization for the wives of cabinet ministers called SIKIB that works in the field of children’s education, by initiating mobile libraries, or “perpustakaan keliling.”

One of the popular programs is to promote the establishment of smart houses, or “rumah pintar,” aimed at providing space for children to access reading books and a place for women to pick up skills and families to have empowerment activities.

Ani Yudhoyono, the third child of Military General Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, was born in Yogyakarta on July 6, 1952.

Her biography titled “Ani Yudhoyono: Kepak Sayap Putri Prajurit” (Ani Yudhoyono: the Wings of a Soldier’s Daughter) sheds light on Ani being born and raised in a family of soldiers, who were constantly on the move to follow her father’s assignments.

Ani’s life, as quoted from the biography written by Alberthiene Endah, could not be separated from soldiers.

Photography

In the midst of her hectic life as first lady, Ani harbored keen interest in photography, with several of her photographs shot on camera posted on her Instagram account @aniyudhoyono that has 6.4 million followers.

Ani’s Instagram posts frequently drew positive responses and comments from netizens, while she seemed to enjoy photography as a hobby in addition to gardening.

The journalists that reported during SBY’s administration knew Ani as also being a friendly and warm figure. During official events at the Presidential Palace as well as visits to regions in Indonesia and abroad, she always greeted reporters on several occasions.

Not only greeting them, Ani also obliged with requests for joint photographs from journalists, covering the president’s activities on several occasions.

An interesting fact about Ani Yudhoyono was that before the 2014 election, several people had anticipated her becoming a candidate for president. However, Ani remained unwavering in her stance to not enter politics, as she elucidated in her biography published in 2010.

“If SBY is not a president, then the most honorable position for me is to continue to be Mrs. SBY. Not to be president,” she stated.

for the treatment of her illness. SBY then decided to curtail his political activities to offer full support and care for his lovely wife.

Several figures, including President Joko Widodo and First Lady Iriana, had paid a visit to Ani at the hospital to support her.

However, God had a different plan for Ani. A month before her 67th birthday, the woman, whose full name was Kristiani Herrawati, passed away.

Ani is survived by SBY, two sons, two daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren.

Ani Yudhoyono finally stopped flapping her wings as the daughter of a soldier, the wife of a soldier, and the mother of a soldier, leaving behind fond memories for all Indonesians, who had borne witness to her magnanimity and kindness. (afp)

Last wing flap

In February 2019, SBY had informed the public of Ani’s health after she was diagnosed with blood cancer. The news came as a shock to the public, as Ani was known to be an active woman.

In 2018, Ani was active on a tour of the Democratic Party, led by SBY, to several Indonesian regions. A year earlier, Ani, accompanied her first son, Agus Harimurti, on a campaign for the Jakarta regional election that was later won by Anies Baswedan and his pair Sandiaga Uno as governor and vice governor of Jakarta.

Since February this year, Ani Yudhoyono was in Singapore

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(File Photo) - Former First Lady Ani Yudhoyono waves goodbye to well-wishers ahead boarding to aircraft, accompanying former President Susilo Yudhoyono for a work visit aboard.

Referendum denies history: Indonesia Ulema Council

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Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Ulema Council Zainut Tauhid Saadi during a doorstop interview with the press in Jakarta on Saturday (June 1, 2019).

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Ulema Council Zainut Tauhid Saadi said the demand for referendums from several regions to separate themselves from the the Republic of Indonesia was a form of historical denial.

“The referendum can disrupt our sense of nationality and diversity, which in turn will threaten the unity of the Indonesian people,” Zainut told reporters in Jakarta on Saturday.

He said the demand for the referendum must be rejected because it

does not have a constitutional basis and is contrary to the spirit of the Pancasila and Indonesia as a unity.

For this reason, he invited all parties to return to the spirit of the noble agreement of the Indonesian people, who had laid the foundations of the Republic of Indonesia, namely Pancasila.

That way, he continued, the Indonesian nation could survive and avoid the danger of division and remain upright until the end of time.

“Reaffirm the national commitment and solidify the national

consensus of the founding fathers that Pancasila and Indonesia are the final form in the life of the nation and state,” he said.

Proposals for referendums were heard after the Commander of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Muzakir Manaf, called for a referendum on Acehnese society.

The former Deputy Governor of Aceh presented the idea of a referendum at the 9th anniversary of the death of the Acehnese mayor, Teuku Muhammad Hasan Ditiro, at the Amel Building, Banda Aceh, Monday (May 27). (ant)

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Ruiz shocks Joshua for heavyweight world title

LOS ANGELES - Anthony Joshua’s bid to make a splash in his US debut ended in misery for the three belt heavyweight world champion with a stunning loss to underdog Andy Ruiz at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.

Ruiz recorded a monster upset, knocking down Britain’s Joshua four times to take the World Boxing Association, International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization titles.

Ruiz came into the fight as a massive 20-1 underdog. But he won it in the middle of the seventh round when the referee stopped it at 1:26 of the round after the fourth knockdown.

Ruiz, sent to the canvas once himself, knocked Joshua down twice in the third round and twice more in the seventh.

Joshua had a massive height and reach advantage as he weighed in at a chiselled 255 pounds compared to the portly Ruiz, who beefed up to 268 pounds compared to 250 for his most recent fight.

Ruiz, who has won four fights in a row, looked fearless and poised while Joshua -- who had won all 22 of his previous bouts -- never seemed to recover from the first knockdown early in the third. (afp)

Amed

AMLAPURA - Amed is located on the north-east coast of Bali. By car, about 15 mins south of Tulamben, along the main road, and then 15 mins on a local road, so Amed is much prettier than Tulamben. It is also a sand beach as opposed to Tulamben’s stony one. On the outskirts of Amed, you can see traditional salt-panning and buy sea salt as a souvenir of your visit! As recently as 1997 the reef within the shallow bay at Amed (more accurately called Jemeluk) was extremely healthy – full of hard corals, magnificent barrel sponges and gorgonian fans. However, in 1998, Amed was badly affected by coral-bleaching as a result of El Nino that affected the reef within the bay and down to 10-12M. The reef is slowly recovering but we cannot yet tell when it will reach its former glory. Immediately outside Jemeluk Bay are 2 dive sites, Amed Wall and Amed Reef, both of which can be done as a shore- or boat-dives. The boats are small outriggers (jukung) – long and narrow fishing boats. Due to the easy conditions at Amed, it is suitable both for novice and experienced divers. There is very rarely any wave action at the surface, so any surface swims and ascents/ descents, are worry-free. Divers have virtually no currents to contend with, so no buoyancy problems for the less-experienced, and the opportunity to get right up close for those who have perfected their buoyancy and enjoy all the smaller animals on offer. The water temperature can be affected by thermoclines, and the visibility is usually 14-22M. (IBP/net)

USA’s Andy Ruiz celebrates after knocking down England’s Anthony Joshua (off frame) in the 7th round to win by TKO during their 12-round IBF, WBA, WBO & IBO World Heavyweight Championship fight at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 1, 2019.

Warriors, Curry have been ‘transformational’ for NBA

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TORONTO - Stephen Curry’s recordshattering 3-point shooting and Golden State’s run to five consecutive NBA Finals have transformed basketball with more long shots, versatile playmakers and switching defensive schemes.

It’s an evolution on display in this year’s best-of-seven championship series as the Warriors, seeking a third consecutive title and fourth in five seasons, meet a Toronto squad fashioned in Golden State’s image.

“They have definitely left a stamp on basketball in this league,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said.

Curry’s uncanny ability to sink 3-pointers -- he stretched his NBA Finals career 3-pointers record to 102 with four in game one -- and create opportunities along with backcourt partner Klay Thompson has led a push outside from eras when giants dominated inside or stars like Michael Jordan or LeBron James ruled with acrobatic shotmaking.

“I call him a transformational player,” Nurse said of Curry. “He has got kids all over the world shooting from 40 feet away.

“As you’ve seen the 3-point shot become so rapidly used in the last three or four years, a lot of that is because of Golden State and Steph and Klay. Now you’re seeing quickly the league start to shoot six to eight feet behind the line pretty regularly. You didn’t see that maybe even a couple years ago.

“He has transformed the way people view the 3-pointer.”

The risk of a long shot is being more than overtaken by the benefits of an extra point for every made basket from beyond the arc.

Curry warns, however, that it takes exceptional work to sink them often enough to make it worth doing.

“You don’t just wake up and accidentally or coincidentally be great at something. You got to put the time in,” Curry said.

Parents say kids want to mimic the highlights they see on television and Curry is proud to be a role model.

“Hopefully they understand and appreciate the countless hours and the hard work that goes into it. Hopefully they’re inspired and motivated they can do some of the stuff I do.”

Curry works not only on accuracy but on creating opportunities.

“He’s got an incredible shooting stroke from anywhere,” Nurse said. “When people are chasing him, he just dribbles and gets around them.

“He has a great, skillful finishing game with the floaters, taking it right to the rim if you’re constantly pressed up on him, and then he’s unbelievable at giving it up and racing back outside the line and catching and firing a three.”

- ‘Head on a swivel’ Warriors reserve Shaun Livingston says constant motion is the secret to success for Curry and Golden State.

“You’re constantly moving. You’re keeping everybody’s head on a swivel,” he said.

“They create so much space without having the ball. Not very many people that can do it. That’s kind of what makes us go.”

Defensively, the Warriors switch off coverage assignments in rapid-fire style, baffling

rivals unprepared for such dynamic adapting on the fly.

“These guys brought the switching defense to prominence years ago and now everybody is doing it,” Nurse said. “Five years ago, it wasn’t like that. Now you’re seeing it so much, your guys get 100 games a year to get used to that.”

- Raptors mimic Warriors Thompson sees the Raptors as much like the Warriors in the early days of their dynasty run.

“They’re very long. They don’t really

play with a traditional post player, which is kind of similar. They really spread you out,” Thompson said. “When you have playmakers everywhere, it’s hard to guard.”

Raptors guard Fred VanVleet is happy for the comparison to trendsetters.

“They were kind of revolutionary for the game, with the way that they built their team,” VanVleet said. “It’s just positionless basketball where you have multiple playmakers.

“Those guys won a couple rings. I don’t think it’s a bad compliment to remind somebody we look like them.” (afp)

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Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors shoots during practice and media availability as part of the 2019 NBA Finals on June 01, 2019 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Jubilant Liverpool fans celebrate Champions League win in Madrid

Liverpool’s Champions League party moves to England

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Liverpool’s celebrations stretched long into the night after they became six-time European champions with goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi to beat Tottenham -- and the party was set to move to England on Sunday where tens of thousands of fans awaited the team’s return.

The 2-0 win in the sweltering Metropolitano Stadium delivered a first trophy in seven years for Liverpool, and -finally -- a first win in seven finals for coach Jurgen Klopp.

The final whistle sparked wild scenes among the Liverpool fans in the stadium and back home in northwest England, where the team will have a victory parade on Sunday.

“We were all pretty much crying on the pitch, because it was so emotional, it was so big, it means so much to us,” Klopp said.

For Liverpool it was sweet redemption after defeat to Real Madrid in last year’s final in Kiev.

Mohamed Salah, who emphatically scored a penalty awarded in the very first minute, revealed he had drawn motivation from the disappointment of that match in which he left the pitch in tears with a shoulder injury.

“Before the game, I looked at a picture of last year and we were so disappointed to lose the final,” Salah said.

“I was very disappointed after that injury, I went off after 30 minutes and we lost the game. It motivated me to win today. When you know how it feels to lose, you say to yourself ‘Let’s go and win that’.”

- Guardiola’s congratulations -

Klopp revealed he had received a congratulatory call from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Three weeks ago, Liverpool were denied a first league title in 30 years by City, despite losing just once all season.

“We promised each other already that we will kick our butts next year again,” Klopp said of his brief exchange with Guardiola.

“We will go for everything and we’ll see if we get something.” Liverpool’s sixth success in Europe’s top club trophy -- coming after wins in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984 and 2005 -masks the fact they have not won the English title since 1990.

Centre-back Virgil van Dijk, named man of the match, said the team would try to put that right next season. “In July when we start again, everyone starts on nil and everyone’s working towards their goals,” the Dutchman said.

“Obviously we want to challenge for every trophy if possible. We have the squad for it, but you’ve also seen it this year, you still have to do it, and hopefully we can challenge Manchester City again next season for the title.”

Liverpool had won nothing since beating Cardiff City on penalties in the 2012 League Cup final.

After losing the Europa League final in 2016 and last year’s Champions League final, Liverpool seized their chance.

Salah scored the penalty after Sadio Mane’s attempted cross within seconds of the start struck Tottenham defender Moussa Sissoko and was adjudged to be handball.

MADRID - Thousands of euphoric Liverpool fans, chanting “champions” and clad in their team’s red colours, took to the streets of Madrid to celebrate victory in their Champions League final against Tottenham.

Liverpool supporters erupted in delight at Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium after Saturday’s 2-0 Champions League victory over Spurs, which gave the team its sixth European Cup. “Unbelievable, I can’t believe we did it again. What a club. What a fan base. What a team. That’s what we are all about,” said 32-year-old Craig Williams who came to Madrid from Liverpool for the match.

“We have come back from last year’s disappointments...we come to Madrid this year, and we won it.

Yes! Come on!”.

A year ago Liverpool lost the Champions League final 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kiev after Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah was forced to go off injured and in tears.

This time around Salah gave Liverpool the perfect start to the match by converting a penalty to open the scoring in the second minute.

“It’s incredible. In one minute, two minutes and there is a penalty, and it changes the entire game,” said Diego Martinez, a 41-yearold lawyer and Tottenham fan who

came to Madrid for the match from Mexico City.

“This penalty changes the game, and the tactics maybe for the team,” he added outside the stadium as jubilant Liverpool supporters celebrated around him.

Some fans held up six figures or chanted “Six times! Six times! Six times!” as they left the stadium.

Others raised red and white team scarves over their heads or chanted “Champions!” as they made their way from the stadium to nearby metro stations.

Mohamed Elneanaey, a 28-yearold who came from Egypt for the match and bears a striking resemblance to Liverpool’s Salah, was mobbed by fans outside of the stadium who wanted to pose for selfies with him.

“We are celebrating now. It’s big. It’s gonna be amazing. We are celebrating here with guys and, then we will go to the streets to celebrate,” he said as people around him jokingly called out “Salah!

Salah”.

Paul Jordan, a 33-year-old shop manager, who flew to the Spanish capital from Liverpool via Prague to be at the match because he could not get a direct flight, said he planned to celebrate the win with his friends “until Monday here in Madrid”.

“This is an incredible feeling,”

the 68,000-capacity Wanda Metropolitano stadium.

Hundreds of extra flights to the Spanish capital were added and the

Madrid hotel association estimates that a total of 70,000 English fans will spend the weekend in the city because of the match. (afp)

Loli San Jose / AFP

Liverpool supporters celebrates Liverpool win against Tottenham Hotspur during the UEFA Champions League final football match at Plaza Mayor in Madrid on June 2, 2019.

‘Proud’ Pochettino hints he could stay at Spurs after final defeat

Harry Kane and Son Heung-min laboured for Spurs but a match that never hit the heights was put to bed by a late strike from Origi, a forward who had played only a bit role for much of the season.

- ‘Only the start’ -

Liverpool were already a club reborn under Klopp’s management, but such a tangible reward was needed, three and a half years on from his arrival on Merseyside.

“I’m interested really in development, but I get it, we have to win things, and so it’s really important that people don’t ask now all the time about not winning things,” Klopp said.

“Now we won something, and we will carry on, we want to win things, 100 percent. “This is only the start for this group, it’s a wonderful age group, they still have the best times in their career still ahead of them, so that’s big.”

Twelve months after two glaring errors by Loris Karius cost them dear against Real, his replacement Alisson showed just why Liverpool were prepared to pay £66.8 million (75 million euros, $84 million) to sign the Brazilian from Roma as he made several key saves late in the game. “He of course played a sensational game, he looked completely unbeatable pretty much,” said Klopp.

Van Dijk was again outstanding, snuffing out Kane’s threat. In Madrid, Liverpool fans who had swarmed into the city were overjoyed.

“Unbelievable, I can’t believe we did it again. What a club.

What a fan base. What a team. That’s what we are all about,” one supporter, 32-year-old Craig Williams, told AFP. (afp)

he added.

The authorities estimate around 32,000 ticket-holding fans from both teams attended the match at

Ben STANSALL / AFP

Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino (R) talks to Slovenian referee Damir Skomina during the UEFA Champions League final football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid on June 1, 2019.

Mauricio Pochettino kept tight-lipped about his future as Tottenham Hotspur coach after his side lost the Champions League final to Liverpool on Saturday.

The Argentine has been linked with a move to Italian champions Juventus and German giants Bayern Munich but suggested he may stay to try to guide Spurs to another final after their 2-0 defeat in Madrid.

“When you live this experience you want to do it again. I hope we can do it again in the future,” Pochettino told BT Sport.

“It’s about trying, it’s about believing, it’s about building, and I hope it happens again as soon as possible.”

Spurs fell behind to a Mohamed Salah penalty almost straight after kick-off but were the better side after the break, before Divock Origi arrowed in a second late on.

Pochettino has said he wants clarity on Tottenham’s ambitions before the start of next season and

said on Saturday he would be holding talks with the club.

“Now is the time to stay calm, change the mood, for sure we are going to have time to talk,” said Pochettino.

“It is not a moment now to talk too much. You can interpret things in different ways. People want to compare me with different managers but they don’t know that we are in a different project in a different position and different place.

“In five years at Tottenham the project was so clear, our ambition was amazing, and the commitment from the players was amazing -- the club played their first Champions League final.”

Pochettino made the decision to start Harry Kane, despite the striker not playing a match in almost two months.

Kane had just recovered from an ankle injury and struggled for chances against a resilient Liverpool defence. “It’s not about playing with Harry Kane or Lucas

Moura,” Pochettino said.

“We had to make a decision and of course for me, Harry Kane after one month and a half finished the game fresh.

“He didn’t score like other players but it’s not a point to talk about too much. My decision I promise was about analytics and thinking with all the information. I don’t regret my decision.”

Spurs were never at their best during a subdued match at the Wanda Metropolitano, forced to chase the game after Moussa Sissoko conceded a penalty after 23 seconds.

“You never believe that after one minute you’re going to be 1-0 down, a situation that not only changed our plans, it changed the dynamic (of the game),” Pochettino said.

“I’m very proud with the effort, how we fought. We played so well, we played so well in the second half. I feel so proud, there is nothing else to say.” (afp)

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Jubilant Liverpool fans celebrate Champions League win in Madrid

Liverpool’s Champions League party moves to England

Loli San Jose / AFP

Liverpool’s celebrations stretched long into the night after they became six-time European champions with goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi to beat Tottenham -- and the party was set to move to England on Sunday where tens of thousands of fans awaited the team’s return.

The 2-0 win in the sweltering Metropolitano Stadium delivered a first trophy in seven years for Liverpool, and -finally -- a first win in seven finals for coach Jurgen Klopp.

The final whistle sparked wild scenes among the Liverpool fans in the stadium and back home in northwest England, where the team will have a victory parade on Sunday.

“We were all pretty much crying on the pitch, because it was so emotional, it was so big, it means so much to us,” Klopp said.

For Liverpool it was sweet redemption after defeat to Real Madrid in last year’s final in Kiev.

Mohamed Salah, who emphatically scored a penalty awarded in the very first minute, revealed he had drawn motivation from the disappointment of that match in which he left the pitch in tears with a shoulder injury.

“Before the game, I looked at a picture of last year and we were so disappointed to lose the final,” Salah said.

“I was very disappointed after that injury, I went off after 30 minutes and we lost the game. It motivated me to win today. When you know how it feels to lose, you say to yourself ‘Let’s go and win that’.”

- Guardiola’s congratulations -

Klopp revealed he had received a congratulatory call from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Three weeks ago, Liverpool were denied a first league title in 30 years by City, despite losing just once all season.

“We promised each other already that we will kick our butts next year again,” Klopp said of his brief exchange with Guardiola.

“We will go for everything and we’ll see if we get something.” Liverpool’s sixth success in Europe’s top club trophy -- coming after wins in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984 and 2005 -masks the fact they have not won the English title since 1990.

Centre-back Virgil van Dijk, named man of the match, said the team would try to put that right next season. “In July when we start again, everyone starts on nil and everyone’s working towards their goals,” the Dutchman said.

“Obviously we want to challenge for every trophy if possible. We have the squad for it, but you’ve also seen it this year, you still have to do it, and hopefully we can challenge Manchester City again next season for the title.”

Liverpool had won nothing since beating Cardiff City on penalties in the 2012 League Cup final.

After losing the Europa League final in 2016 and last year’s Champions League final, Liverpool seized their chance.

Salah scored the penalty after Sadio Mane’s attempted cross within seconds of the start struck Tottenham defender Moussa Sissoko and was adjudged to be handball.

MADRID - Thousands of euphoric Liverpool fans, chanting “champions” and clad in their team’s red colours, took to the streets of Madrid to celebrate victory in their Champions League final against Tottenham.

Liverpool supporters erupted in delight at Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium after Saturday’s 2-0 Champions League victory over Spurs, which gave the team its sixth European Cup. “Unbelievable, I can’t believe we did it again. What a club. What a fan base. What a team. That’s what we are all about,” said 32-year-old Craig Williams who came to Madrid from Liverpool for the match.

“We have come back from last year’s disappointments...we come to Madrid this year, and we won it.

Yes! Come on!”.

A year ago Liverpool lost the Champions League final 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kiev after Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah was forced to go off injured and in tears.

This time around Salah gave Liverpool the perfect start to the match by converting a penalty to open the scoring in the second minute.

“It’s incredible. In one minute, two minutes and there is a penalty, and it changes the entire game,” said Diego Martinez, a 41-yearold lawyer and Tottenham fan who

came to Madrid for the match from Mexico City.

“This penalty changes the game, and the tactics maybe for the team,” he added outside the stadium as jubilant Liverpool supporters celebrated around him.

Some fans held up six figures or chanted “Six times! Six times! Six times!” as they left the stadium.

Others raised red and white team scarves over their heads or chanted “Champions!” as they made their way from the stadium to nearby metro stations.

Mohamed Elneanaey, a 28-yearold who came from Egypt for the match and bears a striking resemblance to Liverpool’s Salah, was mobbed by fans outside of the stadium who wanted to pose for selfies with him.

“We are celebrating now. It’s big. It’s gonna be amazing. We are celebrating here with guys and, then we will go to the streets to celebrate,” he said as people around him jokingly called out “Salah!

Salah”.

Paul Jordan, a 33-year-old shop manager, who flew to the Spanish capital from Liverpool via Prague to be at the match because he could not get a direct flight, said he planned to celebrate the win with his friends “until Monday here in Madrid”.

“This is an incredible feeling,”

the 68,000-capacity Wanda Metropolitano stadium.

Hundreds of extra flights to the Spanish capital were added and the

Madrid hotel association estimates that a total of 70,000 English fans will spend the weekend in the city because of the match. (afp)

Loli San Jose / AFP

Liverpool supporters celebrates Liverpool win against Tottenham Hotspur during the UEFA Champions League final football match at Plaza Mayor in Madrid on June 2, 2019.

‘Proud’ Pochettino hints he could stay at Spurs after final defeat

Harry Kane and Son Heung-min laboured for Spurs but a match that never hit the heights was put to bed by a late strike from Origi, a forward who had played only a bit role for much of the season.

- ‘Only the start’ -

Liverpool were already a club reborn under Klopp’s management, but such a tangible reward was needed, three and a half years on from his arrival on Merseyside.

“I’m interested really in development, but I get it, we have to win things, and so it’s really important that people don’t ask now all the time about not winning things,” Klopp said.

“Now we won something, and we will carry on, we want to win things, 100 percent. “This is only the start for this group, it’s a wonderful age group, they still have the best times in their career still ahead of them, so that’s big.”

Twelve months after two glaring errors by Loris Karius cost them dear against Real, his replacement Alisson showed just why Liverpool were prepared to pay £66.8 million (75 million euros, $84 million) to sign the Brazilian from Roma as he made several key saves late in the game. “He of course played a sensational game, he looked completely unbeatable pretty much,” said Klopp.

Van Dijk was again outstanding, snuffing out Kane’s threat. In Madrid, Liverpool fans who had swarmed into the city were overjoyed.

“Unbelievable, I can’t believe we did it again. What a club.

What a fan base. What a team. That’s what we are all about,” one supporter, 32-year-old Craig Williams, told AFP. (afp)

he added.

The authorities estimate around 32,000 ticket-holding fans from both teams attended the match at

Ben STANSALL / AFP

Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino (R) talks to Slovenian referee Damir Skomina during the UEFA Champions League final football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid on June 1, 2019.

Mauricio Pochettino kept tight-lipped about his future as Tottenham Hotspur coach after his side lost the Champions League final to Liverpool on Saturday.

The Argentine has been linked with a move to Italian champions Juventus and German giants Bayern Munich but suggested he may stay to try to guide Spurs to another final after their 2-0 defeat in Madrid.

“When you live this experience you want to do it again. I hope we can do it again in the future,” Pochettino told BT Sport.

“It’s about trying, it’s about believing, it’s about building, and I hope it happens again as soon as possible.”

Spurs fell behind to a Mohamed Salah penalty almost straight after kick-off but were the better side after the break, before Divock Origi arrowed in a second late on.

Pochettino has said he wants clarity on Tottenham’s ambitions before the start of next season and

said on Saturday he would be holding talks with the club.

“Now is the time to stay calm, change the mood, for sure we are going to have time to talk,” said Pochettino.

“It is not a moment now to talk too much. You can interpret things in different ways. People want to compare me with different managers but they don’t know that we are in a different project in a different position and different place.

“In five years at Tottenham the project was so clear, our ambition was amazing, and the commitment from the players was amazing -- the club played their first Champions League final.”

Pochettino made the decision to start Harry Kane, despite the striker not playing a match in almost two months.

Kane had just recovered from an ankle injury and struggled for chances against a resilient Liverpool defence. “It’s not about playing with Harry Kane or Lucas

Moura,” Pochettino said.

“We had to make a decision and of course for me, Harry Kane after one month and a half finished the game fresh.

“He didn’t score like other players but it’s not a point to talk about too much. My decision I promise was about analytics and thinking with all the information. I don’t regret my decision.”

Spurs were never at their best during a subdued match at the Wanda Metropolitano, forced to chase the game after Moussa Sissoko conceded a penalty after 23 seconds.

“You never believe that after one minute you’re going to be 1-0 down, a situation that not only changed our plans, it changed the dynamic (of the game),” Pochettino said.

“I’m very proud with the effort, how we fought. We played so well, we played so well in the second half. I feel so proud, there is nothing else to say.” (afp)

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Ruiz shocks Joshua for heavyweight world title

LOS ANGELES - Anthony Joshua’s bid to make a splash in his US debut ended in misery for the three belt heavyweight world champion with a stunning loss to underdog Andy Ruiz at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.

Ruiz recorded a monster upset, knocking down Britain’s Joshua four times to take the World Boxing Association, International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization titles.

Ruiz came into the fight as a massive 20-1 underdog. But he won it in the middle of the seventh round when the referee stopped it at 1:26 of the round after the fourth knockdown.

Ruiz, sent to the canvas once himself, knocked Joshua down twice in the third round and twice more in the seventh.

Joshua had a massive height and reach advantage as he weighed in at a chiselled 255 pounds compared to the portly Ruiz, who beefed up to 268 pounds compared to 250 for his most recent fight.

Ruiz, who has won four fights in a row, looked fearless and poised while Joshua -- who had won all 22 of his previous bouts -- never seemed to recover from the first knockdown early in the third. (afp)

Amed

AMLAPURA - Amed is located on the north-east coast of Bali. By car, about 15 mins south of Tulamben, along the main road, and then 15 mins on a local road, so Amed is much prettier than Tulamben. It is also a sand beach as opposed to Tulamben’s stony one. On the outskirts of Amed, you can see traditional salt-panning and buy sea salt as a souvenir of your visit! As recently as 1997 the reef within the shallow bay at Amed (more accurately called Jemeluk) was extremely healthy – full of hard corals, magnificent barrel sponges and gorgonian fans. However, in 1998, Amed was badly affected by coral-bleaching as a result of El Nino that affected the reef within the bay and down to 10-12M. The reef is slowly recovering but we cannot yet tell when it will reach its former glory. Immediately outside Jemeluk Bay are 2 dive sites, Amed Wall and Amed Reef, both of which can be done as a shore- or boat-dives. The boats are small outriggers (jukung) – long and narrow fishing boats. Due to the easy conditions at Amed, it is suitable both for novice and experienced divers. There is very rarely any wave action at the surface, so any surface swims and ascents/ descents, are worry-free. Divers have virtually no currents to contend with, so no buoyancy problems for the less-experienced, and the opportunity to get right up close for those who have perfected their buoyancy and enjoy all the smaller animals on offer. The water temperature can be affected by thermoclines, and the visibility is usually 14-22M. (IBP/net)

USA’s Andy Ruiz celebrates after knocking down England’s Anthony Joshua (off frame) in the 7th round to win by TKO during their 12-round IBF, WBA, WBO & IBO World Heavyweight Championship fight at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 1, 2019.

Warriors, Curry have been ‘transformational’ for NBA

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TORONTO - Stephen Curry’s recordshattering 3-point shooting and Golden State’s run to five consecutive NBA Finals have transformed basketball with more long shots, versatile playmakers and switching defensive schemes.

It’s an evolution on display in this year’s best-of-seven championship series as the Warriors, seeking a third consecutive title and fourth in five seasons, meet a Toronto squad fashioned in Golden State’s image.

“They have definitely left a stamp on basketball in this league,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said.

Curry’s uncanny ability to sink 3-pointers -- he stretched his NBA Finals career 3-pointers record to 102 with four in game one -- and create opportunities along with backcourt partner Klay Thompson has led a push outside from eras when giants dominated inside or stars like Michael Jordan or LeBron James ruled with acrobatic shotmaking.

“I call him a transformational player,” Nurse said of Curry. “He has got kids all over the world shooting from 40 feet away.

“As you’ve seen the 3-point shot become so rapidly used in the last three or four years, a lot of that is because of Golden State and Steph and Klay. Now you’re seeing quickly the league start to shoot six to eight feet behind the line pretty regularly. You didn’t see that maybe even a couple years ago.

“He has transformed the way people view the 3-pointer.”

The risk of a long shot is being more than overtaken by the benefits of an extra point for every made basket from beyond the arc.

Curry warns, however, that it takes exceptional work to sink them often enough to make it worth doing.

“You don’t just wake up and accidentally or coincidentally be great at something. You got to put the time in,” Curry said.

Parents say kids want to mimic the highlights they see on television and Curry is proud to be a role model.

“Hopefully they understand and appreciate the countless hours and the hard work that goes into it. Hopefully they’re inspired and motivated they can do some of the stuff I do.”

Curry works not only on accuracy but on creating opportunities.

“He’s got an incredible shooting stroke from anywhere,” Nurse said. “When people are chasing him, he just dribbles and gets around them.

“He has a great, skillful finishing game with the floaters, taking it right to the rim if you’re constantly pressed up on him, and then he’s unbelievable at giving it up and racing back outside the line and catching and firing a three.”

- ‘Head on a swivel’ Warriors reserve Shaun Livingston says constant motion is the secret to success for Curry and Golden State.

“You’re constantly moving. You’re keeping everybody’s head on a swivel,” he said.

“They create so much space without having the ball. Not very many people that can do it. That’s kind of what makes us go.”

Defensively, the Warriors switch off coverage assignments in rapid-fire style, baffling

rivals unprepared for such dynamic adapting on the fly.

“These guys brought the switching defense to prominence years ago and now everybody is doing it,” Nurse said. “Five years ago, it wasn’t like that. Now you’re seeing it so much, your guys get 100 games a year to get used to that.”

- Raptors mimic Warriors Thompson sees the Raptors as much like the Warriors in the early days of their dynasty run.

“They’re very long. They don’t really

play with a traditional post player, which is kind of similar. They really spread you out,” Thompson said. “When you have playmakers everywhere, it’s hard to guard.”

Raptors guard Fred VanVleet is happy for the comparison to trendsetters.

“They were kind of revolutionary for the game, with the way that they built their team,” VanVleet said. “It’s just positionless basketball where you have multiple playmakers.

“Those guys won a couple rings. I don’t think it’s a bad compliment to remind somebody we look like them.” (afp)

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Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors shoots during practice and media availability as part of the 2019 NBA Finals on June 01, 2019 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Captain charged over Budapest boat tragedy

BUDAPEST - The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel was charged Saturday over the accident in Budapest that killed seven South Korean tourists and left 21 missing.

The Mermaid carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank late Wednesday, seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise ship on a busy stretch of the Danube in the heart of Budapest.

Strong currents have hampered the search for those missing -- 19 South Koreans and two Hungarians -- preventing divers from reaching the submerged boat.

The Sigyn’s Ukrainian captain was charged Saturday, a Budapest court official told AFP, but gave no further details.

The 64-year-old was detained Thursday for questioning

for “endangering waterborne traffic resulting in multiple deaths”, police have said.

The captain’s lawyer, Balazs Toth, said the court had granted bail, but prosecutors were appealing and so his client remained detained.

“He is devastated by the number of victims and is asking constantly that condolences are conveyed to their families,” Toth said.

“My client has not changed his statement made as a witness. He insists that he has not made any error,” his other lawyer, Gabor Elo, told reporters after the hearing.

- Four-country search -

Near the accident site, a floating crane has been erected, as well as a small pier for use by divers.

But with the Danube swollen after weeks of rain, the strong current has complicated plans to lift the wreck, and the prospects of finding any of the passengers alive are seen as very slim.

Serbia, Romania and Croatia -- countries along the Danube, south of Hungary -- have been asked to help in the search after South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyungwha insisted in Budapest on Friday her country would not give up hope of finding survivors.

One of the bodies had been found about 11 kilometres (seven miles) downstream of the accident site.

South Korean relatives of the Mermaid passengers arrived in Budapest Friday, and officials took them to the banks of the Danube.

The Hungarian Magyar Nemzet daily, meanwhile, on Saturday quoted police reports as saying the Sigyn might not have warned the pilot of smaller ship that he was going to overtake.

According to the newspaper, he also did not alert police about the collision.

- Black flags -

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A man throws flowers into the river Danube at the site where a river cruise collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel on June 1, 2019 in Budapest. The Mermaid carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank late Wednesday, seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise on a busy stretch of the Danube in the heart of Budapest.

People have been laying flowers along the river bank and on a bridge near the collision site, as well as at the South Korean embassy.

On Saturday, black flags were flying along the bridge.

Only seven people are known to have survived so far.

Those missing include a six-year-old girl, as well as the Mermaid’s Hungarian captain and a crew member.

The collision happened on a popular part of the river from where sightseers can view the city and parliament, which is lit up at night.

Larger river cruise boats travelling on the Danube between Germany and the Black Sea typically spend several days moored in the capital. (afp)

Descend, Eat, Marvel: Europe’s first underwater restaurant

LINDESNES - For the chef and diners alike, each meal beneath the waves at Europe’s first underwater restaurant is a thing of wonder.

“We have this small window next to the kitchen and every time some special kind of fish comes by, I always start thinking about how it would taste,” says chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard.

The aptly named new restaurant Under opened a few weeks ago in Lindesnes on Norway’s southern tip.

It serves up Poseidon’s delicacies in an architectural showpiece that stretches down five metres (15 feet) underwater, offering a unique closeup of ocean life.

From the outside, the giant concrete monolith juts out from the craggy shoreline, while its other end tips down into the North Sea. Customers enter the restaurant onshore through a wood-panelled passage and descend down a long, oak staircase into a dimly lit dining room. Here, a gigantic plexiglass underwater window takes centre stage.

The 36-square-metre (398-squarefoot) window -- “like a sunken periscope” in the words of its designers

-- offers a panoramic view of the ever changing live aquatic show.

In Norwegian “’Under’ means it’s under, like submerged, underwater, and it also means a sense of wonder,” says Stig Ubostad, who co-owns the eatery with his brother, Gaute.

“It is without doubt the largest one in the world and the only one in Europe.”

- ‘Nature’s never disappointing’ -

There are no clown fish or sharks, like at other underwater restaurants in more tropical locations such as the Maldives or Dubai.

Rather, it is in this simple, but no less spectacular forest of kelp that cod, pollock and wrasse swim past depending on the season, with occasional visits from their predators, seals and the large seaducks, eider.

“It’s an area on the southern tip where the brackish water from the east meets the salty water from the Atlantic, so the richness of the species is very high,” says Trond Rafoss, a marine biologist involved in the project.

In addition to its distinctive architecture and fine dining, Under wants

to shine a spotlight on environmental issues. The international waiting staff are trained to provide guests with information about the aquatic show they are watching.

“The guests are on an adventure. They are exploring the nature themselves, because this is not an aquarium.

“The fish might look at us as an aquarium because what’s happening outside here is under natural control,” Rafoss says.

“You will never be disappointed, nature is never disappointing.”

- Algae dessert -

The restaurant is a 34-metre monolith designed by Norwegian firm Snohetta, known for its celebrated buildings such as the Oslo Opera and the 9/11 Memorial Pavilion in New York.

It can serve up to 40 diners during its one sitting a day, five nights a week.

In the kitchen, Danish chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard and his staff let their imaginations run wild when creating seasonal menus based primarily on what the sea has to offer, including

a dessert composed of five different types of algae collected from a nearby shore.

“We try to use things that are in the area, and also use things that nobody else is really using,” Ellitsgaard says.

Liverpool...

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Pochettino had opted to start Kane after an ankle injury, meaning Lucas was on the bench. Kane hardly touched the ball.

Eight members of Liverpool’s team also started last season’s final, when Salah went off injured and in tears in the first half.

This time Liverpool were the ones celebrating early on, Slovenian referee Damir Skomina pointing to the spot inside 25 seconds when Moussa Sissoko blocked Sadio Mane’s cross with his arm.

Salah confidently blasted home the penalty for the second-fastest goal ever in the final of the modern Champions League.

The only faster effort was Paolo

The restaurant however is probably not for everyone’s budget.

The tasting menu, consisting of 16 to 18 dishes, costs 2,250 kroner (230 euros, $258) per person -- and double that when wine is included. (afp) Maldini’s goal for AC Milan against Liverpool in Istanbul in 2005, when the Anfield side famously won on penalties.

Spurs just did not get going, and there was none of the frenzied pressing and attacking associated with Klopp’s side, although Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson both came close in the first half.

Tottenham improved after the break, but Virgil van Dijk was immense for Liverpool and there was no way past Alisson, the Brazilian saving well from Son Heung-min and Christian Eriksen late on.

It was left to Origi, one of the heroes of the stunning semi-final win over Barcelona, to wrap it up with three minutes left as he swept home inside the box. (afp)

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Ani Yudhoyono, the last wing of a soldier’s daughter

JAKARTA - Following four months of aggressive treatment at the National University Hospital in Singapore, former First Lady Ani Yudhoyono breathed her last on Saturday, June 1, 2019.

SBY, whom she married on July 30, 1976, was also an Army officer, who later became the president, while Ani’s eldest son, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, also was a soldier, although he retired early as a major.

With her demise, Indonesia has lost one of its finest figures, who served as first lady to the sixth Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) during the 2004-2014 period.

During the SBY administration’s decade-long term, the government was confounded with numerous challenges for which quick and accurate solutions were found.

Merely few months into assuming office as president to replace Megawati Soekarnoputri, a tsunami devastated Aceh and Nias in December 20014, resulting in Indonesia incurring huge losses.

During that time, the government had to promptly implement emergency response measures to move the dead and care for the injured while supporting survivors and setting up refugee camps. Even as assistance from friendly nations later poured in, the government also had to ensure that aid was channeled properly without affecting the sovereignty of the country.

In the midst of these challenges, Ani Yudhoyono, as the first lady, was by the president’s side, lending support, not only to her husband but also to the Acehnese affected by this major disaster.

Ani then formed an organization for the wives of cabinet ministers called SIKIB that works in the field of children’s education, by initiating mobile libraries, or “perpustakaan keliling.”

One of the popular programs is to promote the establishment of smart houses, or “rumah pintar,” aimed at providing space for children to access reading books and a place for women to pick up skills and families to have empowerment activities.

Ani Yudhoyono, the third child of Military General Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, was born in Yogyakarta on July 6, 1952.

Her biography titled “Ani Yudhoyono: Kepak Sayap Putri Prajurit” (Ani Yudhoyono: the Wings of a Soldier’s Daughter) sheds light on Ani being born and raised in a family of soldiers, who were constantly on the move to follow her father’s assignments.

Ani’s life, as quoted from the biography written by Alberthiene Endah, could not be separated from soldiers.

Photography

In the midst of her hectic life as first lady, Ani harbored keen interest in photography, with several of her photographs shot on camera posted on her Instagram account @aniyudhoyono that has 6.4 million followers.

Ani’s Instagram posts frequently drew positive responses and comments from netizens, while she seemed to enjoy photography as a hobby in addition to gardening.

The journalists that reported during SBY’s administration knew Ani as also being a friendly and warm figure. During official events at the Presidential Palace as well as visits to regions in Indonesia and abroad, she always greeted reporters on several occasions.

Not only greeting them, Ani also obliged with requests for joint photographs from journalists, covering the president’s activities on several occasions.

An interesting fact about Ani Yudhoyono was that before the 2014 election, several people had anticipated her becoming a candidate for president. However, Ani remained unwavering in her stance to not enter politics, as she elucidated in her biography published in 2010.

“If SBY is not a president, then the most honorable position for me is to continue to be Mrs. SBY. Not to be president,” she stated.

for the treatment of her illness. SBY then decided to curtail his political activities to offer full support and care for his lovely wife.

Several figures, including President Joko Widodo and First Lady Iriana, had paid a visit to Ani at the hospital to support her.

However, God had a different plan for Ani. A month before her 67th birthday, the woman, whose full name was Kristiani Herrawati, passed away.

Ani is survived by SBY, two sons, two daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren.

Ani Yudhoyono finally stopped flapping her wings as the daughter of a soldier, the wife of a soldier, and the mother of a soldier, leaving behind fond memories for all Indonesians, who had borne witness to her magnanimity and kindness. (afp)

Last wing flap

In February 2019, SBY had informed the public of Ani’s health after she was diagnosed with blood cancer. The news came as a shock to the public, as Ani was known to be an active woman.

In 2018, Ani was active on a tour of the Democratic Party, led by SBY, to several Indonesian regions. A year earlier, Ani, accompanied her first son, Agus Harimurti, on a campaign for the Jakarta regional election that was later won by Anies Baswedan and his pair Sandiaga Uno as governor and vice governor of Jakarta.

Since February this year, Ani Yudhoyono was in Singapore

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(File Photo) - Former First Lady Ani Yudhoyono waves goodbye to well-wishers ahead boarding to aircraft, accompanying former President Susilo Yudhoyono for a work visit aboard.

Referendum denies history: Indonesia Ulema Council

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Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Ulema Council Zainut Tauhid Saadi during a doorstop interview with the press in Jakarta on Saturday (June 1, 2019).

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Ulema Council Zainut Tauhid Saadi said the demand for referendums from several regions to separate themselves from the the Republic of Indonesia was a form of historical denial.

“The referendum can disrupt our sense of nationality and diversity, which in turn will threaten the unity of the Indonesian people,” Zainut told reporters in Jakarta on Saturday.

He said the demand for the referendum must be rejected because it

does not have a constitutional basis and is contrary to the spirit of the Pancasila and Indonesia as a unity.

For this reason, he invited all parties to return to the spirit of the noble agreement of the Indonesian people, who had laid the foundations of the Republic of Indonesia, namely Pancasila.

That way, he continued, the Indonesian nation could survive and avoid the danger of division and remain upright until the end of time.

“Reaffirm the national commitment and solidify the national

consensus of the founding fathers that Pancasila and Indonesia are the final form in the life of the nation and state,” he said.

Proposals for referendums were heard after the Commander of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Muzakir Manaf, called for a referendum on Acehnese society.

The former Deputy Governor of Aceh presented the idea of a referendum at the 9th anniversary of the death of the Acehnese mayor, Teuku Muhammad Hasan Ditiro, at the Amel Building, Banda Aceh, Monday (May 27). (ant)

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Why the US economy may have already peaked for the year

WASHINGTON - Enjoy it while it lasts. The U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.1% annual rate in the JanuaryMarch quarter — a pace that will likely prove to be the high-water mark for the year before growth weakens in the coming months.

That’s the assessment widely shared by economists in light of the rising threats facing the U.S. economy, from a raging trade war to more cautious spending by consumers and businesses to a global slowdown. Their collective forecast is that last year’s 2.9% growth — the fastest year of expansion since 2015 — will be followed by a more tepid 2.3% gain this year.

That pace would roughly match the average annual growth since the current expansion began in 2009. In two months, it will become the longest post-recession recovery on record. But it has also been the slowest since World War II. The Trump administration, defying the assessments of mainstream economists, insists that its program of tax cuts, regulatory reform and tougher enforcement of trade deals will produce dramatically higher annual growth above 3% for the next six years.

Here are three key reasons why economists think growth has peaked for the year:

A PENDULUM SWINGS BACK Half the 3.1% growth rate in the JanuaryMarch quarter that the government reported Thursday was due to two temporary factors: A surge in business efforts to restock shelves.

And a big narrowing in the trade deficit.

In the calculations that produce the nation’s gross domestic product, a widening trade deficit subtracts from growth. By contrast, a narrowing trade deficit, like the one last quarter, raises growth. Yet economists predict that the pendulum will swing back to a wider trade gap in the current April-June quarter. That’s because neither a sharp drop in imports nor a big surge in exports in the first quarter is expected to persist.

For that reason, analysts foresee secondquarter growth slowing to around a 1.5 percent annul rate — just about half the first-quarter figure.

FADING STIMULUS President Donald Trump’s signature domestic achievement was the passage of a $1.5 trillion tax cut in December 2017. Billions in additional spending for domestic and military programs that Congress approved in early 2018 also delivered a stimulative lift to the economy.

The tax cuts allowed companies, which received a major portion of the bounty, to

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Police officers escort foreign nationals arrested for selling drugs prior to a press conference at the regional police headquarters in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Friday, May 31, 2019. Police on the resort island have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine on the island.

5 foreigners accused of selling drugs on Bali

DENPASAR - Indonesian authorities have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine and marijuana on Bali, police said Friday.

AP Photo/Steve Helber, File

In this May 10, 2019, file photo a container ship is unloaded at the Virginia International Gateway terminal in Norfolk, Va. On Thursday, May 30, the Commerce Department issues the second estimate of how the U.S. economy performed in the January-March quarter. spend more on plants and equipment. Business investment grew sharply as a result.

So did stock buybacks, which helped boost the stock market. And for households, tax cuts began showing up in paychecks early last year in the form of lower withholding amounts, leaving consumers with more money to spend. Consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of economic activity, averaged a sizzling 3.3% annual rate over the final three quarters of 2018.

But the initial surge from the tax cuts and the increased government spending are waning now. That’s a major reason why economists think growth this year will slow to a modest 2.3% annual pace, in line with the pattern of the past decade.

AN OMINOUS TRADE WAR A return to a 2.3% growth rate, while slower than last year, would still likely leave

the economy with enough steam to keep unemployment, already near a 50-year low, at a healthy level. What concerns economists is that some further shock might significantly slow growth.

Analysts are warily monitoring an array of risks, from disruptions resulting from a British exit from the European Union to weakening manufacturing and retail industries to jitters over congressional investigations into Trump’s presidency.

But the gravest perceived threat may be the escalating trade war between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies. Stock markets have been falling since talks broke off this month and the Trump administration announced that it was boosting tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods. Beijing vowed to retaliate against U.S. products as it has done with previous Trump tariffs.

For economists, the concern is that the disruptions in trade could become severe enough to trigger a recession in an already weakening economy.

“If the trade war escalates, that could cause unemployment to start to rise and that could cause consumers to cut back on their spending, which would then prompt businesses to cut back,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s. “Then the recession risks become very high.”

Yet Zandi said he thought that risk could fade if the United States and China can at least declare a truce in their trade war, which would keep punitive tariffs from widening further.

Economists are watching for such an outcome, with Trump and President Xi Jinping set to meet on the sidelines of a Group of 20 major nations’ summit next month in Japan. (ap)

The three men and two women were paraded at a police news conference in the Bali provincial capital, Denpasar, days after being arrested. They were arrested between May 20 and 24 in the tourist

hotspot of Kuta, said Denpasar police chief Ruddi Setiawan.

He said the arrests began when police caught a 33-year-old Russian man, identified only as Nikita, arranging cocaine sales by phone to

foreign tourists. Police seized 20.18 grams (0.7 ounce) of cocaine and 44.14 grams (1.6 ounces) of marijuana from the group.

“We are still investigating how they got that cocaine and marijuana,” Setiawan said. “We believe they are part of an international syndicate and got the drugs from abroad.”

Police identified the 31-year-old American suspect as Ian. A Russian woman, 31, was identified as Maria and a Spanish woman, 33, as Laura. A 37-year-old Spanish man identified as Juan had operated a restaurant in Kerobokan near Denpasar for a long period of time, police said.

Indonesia has strict drug laws

and dozens of convicted smugglers are on death row. Its last executions were in July 2016, when an Indonesian and three foreigners were shot by a firing squad.

An Indonesian court last week sentenced a Frenchman to death for smuggling ecstasy to Lombok, next to Bali, even though prosecutors had sought a 20-year sentence. (ap)

Fried Red Rice Offers Savory Taste Do you enjoy fried rice of white rice ingredients? Well, it has been a commonplace! How about tasting a dish of fried rice made from red rice ingredients. It is something new. Other than offering delicious flavor, this type of fried rice is also low in cholesterol and very good for health. Moreover, when combined with Balinese spices, it must be tempting to immediately try it. The fried rice found in one of the restaurants in Ubud is combined with local and international nuances.

Rice is indeed the target for people to consume, especially those wishing to reduce cholesterol. This red rice is also ingredient in food

stalls to restaurants on the Island of the Gods. Including in tourism areas, this serving is an attractive offer for tourists. “Carbohydrates in brown rice do exist, but in low sugar content, so they are chosen especially for those desiring to reduce sugar consumption,” Chef UNAME Restaurant Ubud, I Wayan Partana.

Partana said that to give a sensational flavor, the brown rice is cooked with Balinese spices (base genep) which accentuate the flavor of garlic and aromatic ginger.

Then, add bulun baon leaf, kluwek and Moringa leaves as vegetables mixed in the cooking process and added with chicken meat to give a

distinctive local flavor. “Vegetables added give a slightly bitter and savory taste and an acidic sensation with extra kluwek or pangium,” he explained.

The types of vegetables used are also rich in benefits for the body that function as medicine, especially bulun baon. The cooking only takes advantage of a little oil so that it causes the fried rice to have low fat. For additional condiment, it is made from cut tomatoes, green cayenne pepper, sprouts, avocados and lime juice that can provide international-style food. “There are poached eggs to provide additional delight when savoring fried rice,” he concluded. (kmb)

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Eid holidays

From 1989 to ‘1984’: Generation Tiananmen lament China’s descent

Peak load of electricity usage downs 9 percent

DENPASAR - During the holidays of Eid al-Fitr 1440 H, PLN Bali predicted the peak load of electricity consumption in Bali will only reach 817 Mega Watts (MW). This peak load has decreased 9 percent from the previous one ever achieved.

“Peak load during holidays has decreased by around 9 percent from what was previously achieved. Some activities have indeed decreased throughout the holidays,” said Nyoman Suwarjoni Astawa, General Manager (GM) of PLN Bali on Friday (May 31).

Nevertheless, PLN is committed to maintaining the reliability of supply during the holidays, by alerting 890 personnel. The 890 personnel consist of employees and partners, 13 rapid reaction units, 27 units of Mobile Substation (UGB), 5 units of Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS), 3 vehicles of detection systems, and 14 generators. The alert period of Eid al-Fitr takes place on June 1-10. “We are trying to minimize the disruption, so the officers will remain on standby for 24 hours,” said Astawa.

PLN also opens a homecoming post on the Denpasar - Gilimanuk road section. The number is around 51 posts. All PLN officers guard in the posts scattered throughout Bali. Eid post of PLN Bali provides charging station facilities, snacks and resting places for travelers. “Customers can stop by,” he explained.

Astawa also urged homecomers to check electrical installations, remove electronic equipment from electricity, and fill electricity tokens for prepaid customers before leaving home. Astawa did not forget to represent all management and staff of PLN Bali to wish a happy Eid al-Fitr 1440 H for all PLN customers that celebrate. (kmb42)

American student donates wigs to cancer patients at Sanglah Hospital

DENPASAR - Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital brought together cancer patients to receive wigs from an American girl, Kyan Zabriskie, on Friday (May 31). The girl speaking Indonesian fluently is a student of Green School Bali.

She said the wigs are a humanitarian project.

In line with the tag line ‘Hair for Hope’ it is the gift of love. The gift in the form of wig is expected to help increase self-confidence in cancer patients having undergone chemotherapy.

“Hopefully, the wig provided can help increase self-confidence of cancer sufferers who have undergone chemotherapy. Aside

from pediatric patients, I will also give it to adult patients who lose their hair after chemotherapy,” said Kyan.

She also added that the wigs were made at home from real hair ingredients that she got from donors.

Dayu Dewi, a Public Relations partner at Sanglah Hospital (volunteer), expressed her gratitude for having met with Kyan. “We really need this assistance, especially considering that many friends of cancer sufferers have lost their hair after undergoing chemotherapy,” said Dayu. Similarly, she promised to give the wigs to the right patients and in need for a wig. (kmb42)

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In this file photo taken on May 29, 2019, Indian residents fetch drinking water from a well in the outskirts of Chennai. Temperatures pushed towards 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) across much of India on June 1 as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heat stroke.

India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius

NEW DELHI - Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.

The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu on Saturday, the weather department said.

All of Rajasthan suffered in severe heat with several cities hitting maximum temperatures above 47 Celsius.

In May 2016, Phalodi in Rajasthan recorded India’s highest-ever temperature of 51 Celsius (123.8 Fahrenheit).

The Indian Meteorological Department said severe heat could stay for up to a week across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh states.

Several deaths from heatstroke have already been recorded.

A red alert severe heat warning has been issued in the capital New Delhi as temperatures passed 46 Celsius, and residents were advised not to go out during the hottest hours of the day.

Even in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, where many wealthy Indians go to escape the summer heat, temperatures reached 44.9 Celsius in Una. Several major cities, led by Chennai, have reported fears of water shortages as lakes and rivers start to dry up.

In the western state of Maharashtra, farmers struggled to find water for thirsty animals and crops.

“We have to source water tankers from nearby villages as water reserves, lakes and rivers have dried up,” said Rajesh Chandrakant, a resident of Beed, one of the worst-hit districts.

“Farmers only get water every three days for their livestock.”

Raghunath Tonde, a farmer with a family of seven, said the area has suffered worsening shortages for five years.

“There is no drinking water available for days on end and we get one tanker every three days for

the entire village,” Tonde told AFP. “We are scared for our lives and livelihood,” he added.

The Hindustan Times newspaper said many Beed residents had stopped washing and cleaning clothes due to the water shortage.

More than 40 percent of India faces drought this year, experts from Gandhinagar city’s Indian Institute of Technology, warned last month.

The annual monsoon -- which normally brings much needed rain to South Asia -- is running a week behind schedule and is only expected to hit India’s southern tip on June 6, the weather department said.

And private forecaster Skymet has said there will be less rain than average this year.

The Indian peninsula has seen a drastic change in rainfall patterns over the past decade, marked by frequent droughts, floods and sudden storms. (afp)

HONG KONG - Thirty years after they fled the bullets and tanks, Tiananmen exiles say their dream of returning to a democratic China are more distant than ever as their homeland descends further into authoritarianism and state surveillance.

Zhou Fengsuo has always erred on the side of optimism.

Five years ago, to mark the 25th anniversary of Beijing’s deadly crackdown, he took advantage of a 72-hour transit visa to sneak back into China on his American passport.

It was an act that would be unthinkable now.

Under President Xi Jinping, China has returned to a level of oppression not seen since the Mao era, its security apparatus bolstered by cutting edge technology and the party’s ability to silence critics virtually unchallenged.

“There is no reason to be optimistic for China now if you look at what’s happening,” said Zhou, a former student leader who was number five on Beijing’s ‘Most Wanted’ list in the aftermath of the crackdown and who now lives in the United States.

“It’s darkening day by day, (what) was unimaginable a year ago, now it’s becoming reality.

Even ‘1984’, the novel, couldn’t go that far,” he told AFP in New York, referencing George Orwell’s seminal novel on life in a totalitarian state.

Most of those young protesters drawn to Beijing’s streets in the spring of 1989 are now in their early fifties and there is a profound sense of urgency that time is running out to keep alive the memory of what happened.

The ‘Great Firewall’ and eagleeyed party censors have proven adept at scrubbing the web inside China of any reference to Tiananmen.

And in more recent years university campuses in the West have witnessed increasingly strident nationalist rhetoric from overseas Chinese students.

“There is nothing to be optimistic about the younger generation at campus today, they grew up completely under the shadow of the firewall, so that means they are indoctrinated by the brainwashing when they are babies,” Zhou told AFP. - Crushed by tanks Fang Zheng, a Tiananmen survivor who lost his legs when they were crushed by a tank, is similarly grim in his projections.

The last thing he remembered

before losing consciousness was seeing the shattered white bones of his legs exposed to the air.

Few survivors have suffered so physically as Fang. Yet each spring he has flown all over the world to tell his story.

But he has little hope for China’s future.

“I’m getting more and more pessimistic,” he told AFP by phone from his home in San Fransisco.

“Especially since Xi became leader, the government now uses all sorts of means to control residents.

High-tech devices help the government to monitor the people.”

Most of the politically active Tiananmen survivors have made their homes in the States, often after serving prison sentences and years spent persuading the Chinese authorities to give them passports.

Wu’er Kaixi stayed closer, chosing the democratic island of Taiwan.

Hailing from China’s Uighur minority -- who now face unprecedented levels of forced incarceration and state surveillance in western Xinjiang province -- Wu’er became one of the most outspoken student leaders during the 1989 protests.

He famously rebuked Premier Li Peng on national television, an unprecedented dressing down of a top party official, one who later went on to oversee the deadly crackdown.

Wu’er said he had spent the last three decades watching with horror as western nations embraced China, hopeful that economic growth might nudge the party towards political liberalisation.

“They call it engagement, I call it appeasement, and that has led to the consequences that China is a clear threat to the world order and universal values,” he told AFP at the sidelines of a Tiananmen conference in Taipei.

There is a sense of fatigue in his voice, that every June it has been up to a small coterie of survivors to remind the world of Tiananmen’s legacy.

“It is no longer just the Chinese democracy activists’ responsibility to bring China to freedom and democracy, nowadays the whole world share a piece of blame and responsibility,” he said.

In an illustration of China’s growing ability to counter dissidents, the conference which Wu’er was attending used to be held in Hong Kong. But with the international finance hub witnessing its own crackdown, organisers moved it to Taipei. (afp)

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Watching the bald eagles of Skagit and Nooksack rivers, Washington State, USA

THE white head is easy to spot in the moss-covered and leafless tree branches. Huge wings are silhouetted against the cloudy sky. Each bend of the river displays another tree dotted with these large raptors. Hundreds of bald eagles migrate south in the winter from Canada and Alaska in search of food to the cold glacier fed waters of the Skagit and Nooksack rivers of Washington State.

They feed on the winter run of chum salmon that arrives from November through January each year. The deep snows and cold temperatures farther north drive the birds to seek the milder climate of the northern reaches of the Pacific Northwest.

I experience this natural wonder while running the Skagit river in a jet boat and the Nooksack river on a pontoon boat to see the most famous of birds.

The water level of this river changes constantly in the winter and new obstacles, gravel bars, snags, and downed trees are everywhere. There are very few access points for boats and only very shallow draft pontoon boats can float the several miles of scenic river between Maple Falls and the Mosquito Lake Road Bridge.

Alone with the eagles

Pushing the boat out to take a picture

The afternoon in Mid-December is cloudy, cool, and threatens rain. The forecast is for a three-hour window of dry conditions as I board the jet boat anchored to the muddy shore of Howard Miller Steelhead Park in Rockport. Wayne of Skagit River Guide Service helps the half a dozen photographers with their long lenses to board and pushed the boat off into the strong current.

Skagit River

The water is clear as we roar up the cold snow-fed river towards Marblemount in the North Cascades National Park. Eagles can be seen in the bare tree branches along the shore. There is an odour of rotting salmon as we slow to view these raptors feeding along the shoreline. After a run of only a couple of miles the large motor shuts down and a small quieter trolling engine is engaged. We float back downstream with the small engine helping to keep us in the current and away from the many snags, root balls and rocks.

Wayne knows this river well and gently puts the boat onto a gravel bar near a common feeding spot. The river deposits the dying salmon and their bodies onto the many gravel bars and the eagles feast on the flesh. Everyone is quiet as we watch a great blue heron wade toward an eagle feasting on a salmon.

The long-legged bird and his white-headed adversary fight over the delectable tiger striped fish. The heron first walks slowly by and when the eagle fails to leave, he turns and extends his long neck and beak screams at the raptor. The eagle with its talons firmly in the flesh of the fish seems unfazed and just stares at his challenger. The heron remains and pecks a morsel or two when the eagle looked away.

We work our way back and forth up river and down to watch the birds in their daily routine. Young eagles are common with their brown feathers just tinged with white. A golden eagle had been seen in the same area just the day before. The cloudy weather keeps the birds near the river. If the sun shines the raptors fly sky-

ward to float on the thermals. I’m lucky, the rain held off till the end of my tour and the birds kept to their roosts till they spotted their next meal. I watch as they launch themselves into the air and extend their huge brown wings.

The adult eagles with their distinctive white heads and tails drop from their perches high in the branches of the nearby trees to swoop down and snag a smaller fish right from the river. The eagle uses his wings to break his descent as he nears the water.

He extends his yellow talons and strikes the fish just below the surface. The bird quickly flaps back into the air and flies away to eat his meal on a nearby snag.

We float by a large root ball of a downed tree with a mature eagle trying to lift a large chum salmon from the water onto the roots. The eight-mile section of the Skagit river between Rockport and Marblemount can be the feeding ground for dozens to hundreds of eagles depending on the strength of the salmon run and the frequency of flooding. I saw at least 50 different birds in the section of the river. I looked forward to the next day when I would float the Nooksack River further North where hundreds of bald eagles were waiting for me.

Nooksack River

The Nooksack River is a favourite of migrating bald eagles.

The spectacular North Fork is the northernmost river in Washington, running milky with snowmelt from the glaciers on Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan in North Cascades National Park. The North fork is joined by the Middle and South forks as it winds through forests and farmlands on its way to Puget Sound, near Bellingham.

I watch as our guide lowers our five-person pontoon boat down the steep bank to the fast-flowing emerald waters. The descent down to the river leads over roots and boulders to a small flat spot where our guide loads us one by one into the four elevated seats of our craft.

Within a few minutes we spot our first raptor flying on broad wings above the trees. More are roosting in trees along the shore as the river became wider. The water flows in serpentine bends that seem endless. Uprooted trees from a recent flood were lodged on nearby gravel bars. I see no other boats on the river. We were alone with the eagles.

The eagles increased dramatically after we passed by the Nooksack Salmon Hatchery. The fish returning to spawn stay downstream of the hatchery so that is where the birds congregate.

We leave the boat at a shallow ford and walk along the wide gravel banks to get a closer view of an eagle nest high in the trees along the shore. It seemed to be guarded by a pair of birds perched nearby. Our guide drifts our rubber hulled craft downstream to another wide gravel bar.

We step off and slowly creep across the rocks to the other channel in the hopes of seeing eagle feeding along the shore. I hear the distinctive call of other eagles from a tree downstream.

Several white-headed lookouts look on perhaps warning the other birds as they fly into the gray sky before we get close. The eagles seem more skittish on the Nooksack then the ones on the Skagit.

The last few miles before our pullout increases the count of eagles to nearly 200 by the time the Mosquito Lake Road Bridge comes into view. Every other tree seemed to have two or three birds sitting in them.

The Nooksack is a very different river experience than the Skagit. It is a wild and scenic adventure that allows you to experience nature and see the cycle of life played out on its shores. The Skagit and the Nooksack provide one of the great winter wildlife experiences you can have. Don’t miss it. (net)

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Bali Transportation Agency anticipates flight closure NEGARA - Bali Transportation Agency claimed to have prepared a number of anticipatory efforts if there are obstacles in the Eid transportation this year, especially the delay in air transportation related to the eruption of Mount Agung.

Head of the Bali Transportation Agency, I Gde Wayan Samsi Gunarta, revealed it after reviewing readiness at Gilimanuk Harbor on Thursday (May 30).

Samsi added that from the beginning the anticipation is carried out in coordination with the Bali Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD). When there are obstacles in air transportation due to eruption, for example, the Transportation Agency will coordinate with Organda Bali to provide alternative transportation by land. “We have anticipated it by coordinating with the BPBD Bali,” said Wayan Samsi.

Meanwhile, results of the monitoring related to the homecoming traffic (Eid transportation) conducted by the Bali Transportation Agency last Thursday, especially in the Denpasar-Gilimanuk line to Gilimanuk Harbor, have showed readiness.

In terms of infrastructure, especially roads, it is feasible to go through with some road maintenance and repairs. He admitted there are some invisible traffic signs on the road, especially in the road lane after repairs. “It indeed happens because the road has been repaired, but in general it is ready for Eid transportation,” he added.

In the meantime, other than securing on land routes, security at sea is also carried out. Joint officers of Jembrana SAR Post and Jembrana Police are also alerted for the current traffic in the Bali Strait.

Sea-level patrols in the Bali Strait are carried out every day to anticipate sea traffic and other incidents as done on Thursday (May 30). Two boats belonging to the Jembrana Police and SAR and one Jet Ski of SAR Agency patrol in the Gilimanuk waters.

Apart from alerting personnel and rescue vessels completed with SAR equipment at sea, the officers are also on standby along with main equipment.

Coordinator of Jembrana SAR Post, Komang Sudiarsa, said that in anticipation of the incidents at sea, a number of joint personnel are alerted along with the main equipment.

“All potentials involved are ready to provide SAR services for all harbor service users and on land,” explained Komang Sudiarsa. The weather factor in the Bali Strait is uncertain and the current is strong Made Alit SUANTARA / AFP enough to be one of the factors of vulnerability that A plume of ash is released as Mount Agung volcano erupts, seen from the Kubu subdistrict in Karangasem needs to be anticipated. (kmb26) Regency on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on May 31, 2019.

Bringing no passport, Indian citizen tried misdemeanor GIANYAR - The Gianyar District Court imposed a fine as much as IDR 15 million or one-month subsidiary imprisonment on Chetan Joshi. This decision was read out in a misdemeanor session at the Gianyar District Court on Wednesday (May 29). This India citizen was previously secured by the officers of Denpasar Immigration Office because he did not bring a passport while traveling around

Ubud.

Wearing a white shirt with black trousers, Chetan Joshi came to the Gianyar District Court accompanied by the Denpasar Immigration Office on Wednesday morning at around 09:00. He seemed resigned to the misdemeanor trial undertaken in the Gianyar District Court.

Occasionally, Joshi looked to greet the officers in the courthouse by pressing the palms of hands to-

gether in his chest.

In the courtroom, IB Ari Suamba as the sole judge of the trial stated that the defendant had violated article 71 point b of the Law of the RI No. 6/2011 concerning immigration. To account for his actions, the judge imposed the defendant with a fine of IDR 15 million or onemonth subsidiary imprisonment.

“The defendant is fined at IDR 15 million or one-month imprison-

ment,” said IB Ari Suamba.

Separately, Spokesperson of Gianyar District Court, Edi Prasetyo, explained the defendant was secured by the Denpasar Immigration Office because he was unable to present his travel documents. “The defendant was unable to submit his travel documents in the form of a passport or residence permit,” he said when met after the trial.

The inspection was conducted

around Ubud. Well, since being unable to show off the documents, the defendant was then secured by the officers from the Denpasar Immigration Office, with the continuation process ended in misdemeanor trial on Wednesday (May 29).

“He was only unable to show off his travel documents during the inspection held by immigration officials in the Ubud area,” he concluded. (kmb35)

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The need for reconstructing rare arts

UNFORTUNATELY, this method cannot be optimally done because the local government still has difficulty in getting a budget to finance the reconstruction of rare arts in the region. This condition has made the reconstruction of Balinese rare traditional art unable to run optimally. This was acknowledged by the Head of the Buleleng Culture Agency, Gede Komang, on Saturday (Jun. 1). Reconstruction of the rare arts can only be carried out starting in 2019. Meanwhile, several years before the reconstruction had not been programmed. This condition cannot be avoided because of budget difficulties. “It has not been reconstructed because of budget difficulties. To reconstruct an art requires funding of IDR 100 million,” he said.

According to him, since he is assigned to occupy the current position, he is not discouraged to reconstruct rare arts of Buleleng. With an approach and preparation of proposals, starting this year two old arts of Buleleng will be reconstructed. In addition to struggling to find funding sources, the artists of the Buleleng are also involved in the reconstruction. One of the artists getting involved in the reconstruction this time is the dancer Luh Menek from Teja Manik Studio.

The first reconstruction is the Cendrawasih Dance by utilizing funds from the central government (national budget).

Before starting the reconstruction phase, the dance will be performed in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). It is meant to examine the aspects that should be reconstructed. “Previously, Cendrawasih Dance had been performed at the Buleleng BAF. Before being reconstructed, it is also displayed on the provincial level BAF, so that we will know whether the dancer’s costume, dance movement or musical instruments needs to be reconstructed,” he explained.

In addition to the Cendrawasih Dance, this year’s reconstruction will also be done to Wiranjaya Dance composed by artist

from Dauh Jung (West Buleleng—Ed). The art reconstruction is carried out after the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar. “For the first time, we reconstruct two rare arts despite budgetary difficulties, we have to arrange the programs beyond the funding of the regional budget or APBD,” he explained.

On the other hand, this man who is also a Wayang Wong dancer of Tejakula said there are still some rare arts in Buleleng that should be reconstructed so they are not left behind. Two of them are Gambuh and Parwa Art. Gede Komang mentioned that in the next 10 to 15 years if it is not reconstructed, the artistic heritages will become extinct because many perpetrators of the arts are elderly and exacerbated by condition of young generation or young people that do not understand, so they do not love the arts.

“This Buleleng artist is the oldest in Bali and many arts need to be reconstructed in order to stay sustainable and be loved by younger generation. There must be exploration from reconstruction and this needs to be included in the regional budget program or through proposals to third parties,” he explained. (mud)

Bangli reconstructs Joged Gandrung Dance, While Karangasem does it to Rejang Lilit

JOGED Gandrung Dance is one of the traditional arts owned by Bangli district. The existence of this dance is almost extinct, but in the end it was successfully reconstructed in 2015. Just like joged dance in general, this Joged Gandrung Dance belongs to social dance. Its difference lies in the gandrung dancers that don’t look for pengibing or invite the audience to join the dance.

Currently Joged Gandrung dance is still preserved by the people at

Pengotan village, Bangli. This dance is usually performed as entertainment in the events held at local village.

Nengah Gunawan, as the instructor at Pengotan village in charge of the art section revealed that in the past the Joged Gandrung dance was performed as entertainment for every rice harvest. Other than in the Pengotan village area, they often went around dancing to other villages.

Along with the development of the era, Joged Gandrung experi-

enced a bleak and almost went to extinction. Pengotan village community then took the initiative to revive this art by reconstructing it in cooperation with leaders and the dancers involved during the heyday of the Joged Gandrung dance. “Until now, this dance is still performed when there is an event at the village,” he explained.

Gunawan explained that even though it is called joged dance, there are some things that distin-

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Bali has a variety of rare artistic heritages. Some of the honorable legacies are now at the verge of extinction due to the development of modern art in millennial times. Overcoming these difficult conditions, there must be a reconstruction of the rare arts. One of the purposes is trying to find new regeneration so the rare arts are not going to extinction, but must be preserved.

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guish Joged Gandrung dance from joged dance in general. In terms of costumes is one of them. Joged Gandrung dancers put on white costumes with long sleeves like that of Legong Keraton. Meanwhile, on the head they wear gelungan or head accessories where on the rear part of it is equipped with white clothes like hairs.

In addition, Joged Gandrung also has different movement from joged dance in general. Joged Gandrung

dance has its own styles. There is no excessive swaying movement in this dance. In the performance, Joged Gandrung dance is accompanied with traditional bamboo gamelan instrument.

Gunawan added that currently there are 6 Joged Gandrung dancers at Pengotan village. Three of them are old dancers. To preserve the dance, Pengotan village has been making efforts to regenerate the dancers.(kmb)

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Elton John blasts Russian cuts of gay sex scenes in ‘Rocketman’

MOSCOW - Elton John has slammed the removal of gay sex scenes from the Russian version of the musical biopic of his life “Rocketman” as “cruelly unaccepting”.

Film critics who watched a preview on Friday said the local distributor had censored some scenes for legal reasons.

In a joint statement with the filmmakers, the superstar said he only became aware of the cuts on Friday.

“We reject in the strongest possible terms the decision to censor Rocketman for the Russian market,” said the statement, published on the singer’s Twitter account.

“That the local distributor had found it necessary to edit out certain scenes, denying the audience the opportunity to see the film as it was intended is a sad reflection on the divided world we still live in and how it can still be so cruelly unaccepting of the love between

two people.”

Russia has a dire record on LGBT rights and a controversial law bans the promotion of “nontraditional sexual relationships” to minors, though it is not clear why this would apply to the 18-rated film.

Film critic Anton Dolin wrote on his Facebook page that all the sex or kissing scenes had been cut out, adding that the edits had been “very obvious”.

The film, which is set for general release in Russia next week, addresses the British pop icon’s struggles with his sexuality, drugs and alcohol.

Another journalist who attended the screening, Misha Kozyrev, wrote that scenes featuring drugs were also cut from the film.

“Yes, the film has been amended to comply with the laws of the Russian Federation,” distribution company Central Partnership told the TASS news agency, without providing details. (afp)

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Robert Pattinson picked as the new Batman: report

LOS ANGELES - Robert Pattinson has been chosen as the new Batman, beating out several other actors, including Nicholas Hoult, to play the Caped Crusader, Variety said Friday.

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The 33-year-old “Twilight” heartthrob is set to play the vigilante superhero in a standalone movie called “The Batman,” under the direction of Matt Reeves, who was behind the last two “Planet of the Apes” sequels, the entertainment magazine said. Filming is slated to start in the coming months with a release date expected in June 2021.

A Warner Bros spokeswoman would not confirm the news to AFP,

saying only: “I can confirm that we are in negotiations.” Pattinson’s agent did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Pattinson, who shot to fame as teenage vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” saga, has avoided the spotlight in recent years, evolving from a teenage heartthrob to an indie darling.

He recently starred in acclaimed French director Claire Denis’s sci-fi

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mystery “High Life,” which earned him critical praise.

He also stars in “The Lighthouse,” a dark fantasy horror film that was also well received at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

As Batman, Pattinson will be replacing Ben Affleck who retired from the role after playing Bruce Wayne in 2016’s “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2017’s “Justice League.” (afp)

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Liverpool’s players throw German manager Jurgen Klopp (C) in the air after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on June 1, 2019.

‘It means so much’ - Liverpool beat Tottenham to win sixth European Cup

MADRID - Jurgen Klopp admitted his Liverpool team were overcome with emotion after beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 to win Saturday’s all-English Champions League final in Madrid and take the trophy for the sixth time in the club’s history.

Mohamed Salah’s second-minute penalty and a late Divock Origi goal settled what was not a classic at the Metropolitano Stadium, as Liverpool made up for their defeat in last year’s final against Real Madrid and the deflation of missing out on the Premier League title to Manchester City.

“We were all pretty much crying on the pitch, because it was so emotional, it was so big, it means so much to us,” Klopp said.

The revered German has his first trophy as Liverpool manager, three and a half years on from his arrival at the club. This result saw him end a run of six straight defeats in finals.

For Salah there was redemption after injury ruined his night against Real a year ago, and for Liverpool it is now half a dozen European Cups, as they further cement their status as one of football’s most storied clubs.

They now have more than Barcelona or Bayern Munich, and twice as many as their greatest rivals, Manchester United. The biggest party is still to come.

“Tomorrow, going to Liverpool and having something to celebrate, that is big, and I am really looking forward to that,” said Klopp.

“When we drive through the city then we will all realise what these

boys have done.”

Perhaps the occasion was just too much for Tottenham in their first ever appearance in the Champions League final. They have now lost all three meetings with these opponents this season, winning just one of their last 15 encounters.

Mauricio Pochettino’s decision to start Harry Kane after nearly two months out did not pay off, and he is still looking for his first trophy after five years in charge.

- Kane fails to make impact Nevertheless, if they can keep him, and with the impetus from the move to their new stadium, maybe

they will be back on such a stage before long.

“It is so painful but at the same time we need to be calm and feel proud. The season was fantastic,” he said. That Spurs were here at all was remarkable, Lucas Moura’s sensational hat-trick that dumped out Ajax in the semi-finals capping a memorable Champions League season all round.

The stage was set for this match, only the second all-English final, but after all the hype and the stories of fans paying thousands for tickets for a game they simply could not miss, this was a strangely subdued affair between the two goals.

- Suffocating heat Perhaps the stakes were simply too high, or perhaps the three-week

break since the end of the Premier League season was to blame.

Most likely the suffocating Madrid heat -- Klopp’s description of “pretty warm” was an understatement -- impacted on the players and prevented this from being like a typical Premier League clash.

However, it might also have been a result of the opening goal coming so early, badly affecting Tottenham’s confidence.

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