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Adele cancels remainder of world tour with damaged vocal cords

Adele sings “Hello” at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 12, 2017.

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LONDON - Singer Adele has cancelled the last two sell-out shows of her world tour due to take place at London’s Wembley Stadium this weekend after damaging her vocal cords.

Adele, 29, said she went to see a throat doctor on Friday night, who advised her not to perform. She had already performed two nights to crowds at Wembley, but said that she had been struggling vocally.

“To say I’m heartbroken would be an understatement,” Adele, said on her Twitter page.

One of the biggest selling artists in the world, she said she was so desperate perform that she had even

considered miming at the shows.

“I’ve never done it and I cannot in a million years do that to you,” she said. “It wouldn’t be the real me up there.”

Adele said refunds would be available if the shows could not be rescheduled. The Grammy-award singer has previously had to cancel concerts due to problems with her throat following vocal cord surgery in 2011. (rtr)

DiCaprio hails Mexican ban on type of fishing net killing porpoises

MEXICO CITY - Mexico on Friday banned fishing with gillnets in the northern Gulf of California as part of its pledge to save a critically-endangered species of porpoise whose cause has been championed by Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and others.

The snub-nosed vaquita porpoise has all but died out due to gillnet fishing for shrimp and to-

toaba, a delicacy in Asia. Mexico three weeks ago unveiled a plan with DiCaprio to protect the diminutive marine mammal.

Gillnets, which use mesh sizes designed to allow fish to get only their head through the netting but not their body, are blamed for trapping the vaquita porpoises and killing them.

In its official gazette, the Mexi-

U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio looks on prior to speaking on stage during the Paris premiere of the documentary film “Before the Flood” at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France on October 17, 2016.

can government said it had issued a permanent ban on fishing with gillnets in the northern Gulf of California, where the few remaining vaquitas live.

DiCaprio’s foundation estimated in early June there are now fewer than 30 vaquitas left in the wild.

On his Twitter account, the American actor hailed as “great news” the announcement that a previous temporary ban on the nets had been made permanent, offering his thanks to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and the World Wildlife Fund. (rtr)

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People stand in front of a large inflatable duck installation on the waterfront, as the country marks its 150th anniversary with “Canada 150” celebrations, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 1, 2017.

On rainy 150th birthday, nation celebrates the meaning of Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s long-anticipated 150th birthday celebrations on Saturday were marked by heavy rains and some protests, though the downpour failed to dampen spirits of revelers who thronged in large numbers to enjoy musical performances and parades. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off celebrations amid heavy security and some 25,000 people assembled at a large outdoor celebration in front of the national Parliament in Ottawa, where Irish singer Bono and other members of rock band U2 enthralled the audience.

“When others build walls, you open doors; when others divide, your arms are open wide; where you lead, others follow,” Bono said. But the bad weather meant a fly-past featuring Canadian warplanes was canceled and later on, an evening concert was delayed by an hour to allow the rain storms to pass. The long-anticipated Canada Day festivities, which included other features such as acrobats, and special citizenship ceremonies across large cities, concluded with fireworks.

Trudeau, accompanied by Brit-

ain’s Prince Charles, shook hands with some of the thousands of revelers who converged on Canada’s capital Ottawa. “Canada is a country made strong not in spite of our differences but because of them,” Trudeau told the gathering. “We don’t aspire to be a melting pot – indeed, we know true strength and resilience flows through Canadian diversity.”

Still, in the run-up to the celebrations, some controversy was stirred at home, particularly among First Nations who noted Canada’s history of mistreatment of indig-

enous people. Activists erected a teepee on Parliament Hill on Thursday in protest. On Saturday, about 100 indigenous protesters marched through Toronto, carrying red flags and with some holding the Canadian national flag upside down.

RUBBER DUCK Some cities celebrated in more unusual ways. Toronto, Canada’s largest city, featured a giant rubber duck floating in its harbor, while Calgary planned a “living flag” composed of people wearing

red and white. The yellow duck, which cost C$200,000 ($154,273) including the rent, according to the Globe and Mail, drew criticism from some who described it as a waste of taxpayer money.

Security was already ramped up in the days ahead of the celebration and partygoers contended with road closures and concrete barriers across entrances into Parliament Hill, located in downtown Ottawa.

Heavy downpours prompted Ottawa firefighters to pump water off the grounds on Parliament Hill and the Ottawa Fire Service urged citizens to follow safety instructions. National and local police were also out in force, with security top of mind for many Canadians in the wake of fatal attacks in London, Paris and Germany.

Saturday marks the 150th anniversary of the day Canada officially became a country. Britain had ruled it before 1867. “Canada 150 years ago was a project, it was an idea to bring together four colonies with very different historical backgrounds,” said Pierre Anctil, history professor at the University of Ottawa.

“We should celebrate but we should not be complacent. It’s not a finished project,” he added.

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Tourism could be a contributing factor to harmony

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the tourism sector and can reach the markets that demand these products, and that tourism functions in conjunction with farmlands not at their expense, obviously requires sustained cooperation and communication between interested groups. One rather large group is the tourism sector.

Tourism is not the only solution for the challenges that agriculture in Bali is facing, but given the massive role that tourism plays on the island, it certainly could make a substantial contribution to alleviating some of the struggles faced by the farmers and guardians of this beautiful land. Some direct ways are; by tourism businesses buying local farm products and when possible directly from farmers, generating income for farmers and through various forms of agrotourism that directly compensate farmers for their work in maintaining the landscape.

There are in fact increasing numbers of tourism businesses engaged in such practices and judging by the overwhelmingly positive response that they receive from their clients and customers, there is indeed hope for a better future.

Prana Dew, for example, is a hotel made up of beautifully designed traditional style wooden houses

set in organic rice paddies near the jungle at the foot of Batukaru mountain, a short walk from Batukaru Temple. Prana Dewi has been intimately involved in supporting sustainable farm practices for many years through hands on education and by serving all local organic food in their onsite restaurant that serves local dishes that cater to western tastes.

Their new swimming pool is fed by spring water and uses no chemicals but instead uses natural processes to filter the water. All the tours that they offer to their guests allow for a truly natural experience of the shockingly beautiful surrounding landscape and directly benefit the local farmers and other caretakers of this land .

The bamboo and wooden buildings on the grounds that have been moderately landscaped, are a beautiful example of how local architecture, food and atmosphere can be harmoniously translated into a deeply luxurious experience that benefits everyone involved while enhancing the social, economic and ecological surroundings.

Royal Tulip Sarangan is a five star hotel that recently opened in Baturiti where most of Bali’s vegetables are grown. This hotel has been designed as a luxurious

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Harmony is a musical term that refers to different notes or frequencies coming together to produce a pleasant sound or to put in another way: different elements finding agreement. I think it is safe to say that we all agree that it is thanks to farmers that we can eat and that by coming together to support their important work, we will all feel more harmonious.

With tourism representing our relationship with our fellow humans, farming as our relationship with the environment and ceremonies representing our relationship with the divine, we can start to see how interconnected these three relationships are.

People from all over the world come to Bali to enjoy comfortable tourism accommodations and facilities, stunning stepped rice field landscapes and the art and culture of Bali that is intimately tied to religious beliefs. Agricultural in Bali can in fact benefit from tourism by having local farm product bought at equitable prices.

Ensuring that Bali’s farmlands are cared for in a sustainable way by the next generation of farmers, that farmers are supported by the government through policies, ongoing education and assistance, that agricultural products are valued by

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Buddhist-style monastery with conspicuous attention to the landscape in which it rests and is complete with an onsite Yoga and ayurvedic specialist to assist their guests in connecting with the harmony that these guests seek in Bali.

The hotel grounds include an onsite organic vegetable garden and rooftop herb garden that provides for some of their restaurant’s needs. The remaining vegetables that they require are bought directly from local farmers in the area. The fairly large number of rooms here were built into the slope down from the main road, allowing for a maximum of arable land to remain as farmland.

They are also committed to compositing all of their organic waste and recycling as much of their non-organic waste as they can through the local junk bank.

The Royal Tulip Sarangan is also in the process of building bridges with the local community by creating various low-impact tours that would provide income to the local temple and banjar.

By giving attention to the interplay between tourism, agriculture and Balinese religious customs, the same number of tourists could stay in Balinese-style (harmoniously integrated with the environment)

accommodations that they crossed oceans to experience.

After all, farming not only provides attractive landscapes and drives gratitude based religious practices but is also the source of nearly all our food. Should farming not at least be given the same attention as other sources of income that bring short term prosperity at best and irreparable damage at worst?

Planting food is one way of relieving economic pressures.

Developing consistent relationships between farmers and the markets that demand their products is another way. The tourism sector, that leaves a substantial footprint on this small island through the massive amounts of water, fuel and land that it requires, could very well become of tremendous benefit to farmers by buying agricultural products directly from producers and also by offering tourists the option of more sustainable ways of enjoying their visit.

A tourist is after all a person who has stepped out of their routine life in order to find some peace of mind and all humans find peace of mind by remembering that they are part of a much bigger story, a story that is fundamentally based on harmony.(kmb)

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“It can be said that I’m really stuck in Semara Pegulingan,” Von stated when did an interaction with the audiences of PKB (39th Bali Art Festival) at Kalangan

Asoka, Taman Budaya Denpasar on Wednesday (Jun. 28). He and his crew in Sanggar Mekar Bhuana was performing semara pegulingan klasik tiga gaya percussion at Bali

Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs

Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City.

The tower is believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a massive array of skulls that struck fear into the Spanish conquistadores when they captured the city under Hernan Cortes, and mentioned the structure in contemporary accounts.

Historians relate how the severed heads of captured warriors adorned tzompantli, or skull racks, found in a number of Mesoamerican cultures before the Spanish conquest.

But the archaeological dig in the bowels of old Mexico City that began in 2015 suggests that picture was not complete.

“We were expecting just men, obviously young men, as warriors would be, and the thing about the women and children is that you’d think they wouldn’t be going to war,” said Rodrigo Bolanos, a biological anthropologist investigating the find.

“Something is happening that we have no record of, and this is really new, a first in the Huey Tzompantli,” he added.

Raul Barrera, one of the archaeologists working at the site alongside the huge Metropolitan Cathedral built over the Templo Mayor, said the skulls would have been set

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Von Hath, a Western man who ‘Loves’ Semara Pegulingan

DENPASAR - Mostly for 20 years, Von Hatch (42) doing a study, research, and training on semara pegulingan, a kind of Balinese percussions. A man who comes from New Zealand even did the reconstruction of the semara pegulingan percussions which are nearly extinct. One of them is tabuh telu, a percussion of Puri Payangan style which was lately played 70 years ago.

MEXICO CITY - A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.

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in the tower after they had stood on public display on the tzompantli.

Roughly six meters in diameter, the tower stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. Its base has yet to be unearthed.

There was no doubt that the tower was one of the skull edifices mentioned by Andres de Tapia, a Spanish soldier who accompanied Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico, Barrera said.

In his account of the campaign, de Tapia said he counted tens of thousands of skulls at what became known as the Huey Tzompantli. Barrera said 676 skulls had so far been found, and that the number would rise as excavations went on.

The Aztecs and other Mesoamerican peoples performed ritualistic human sacrifices as offerings to the sun. (rtr)

Art Festival this year. Sanggar Mekar Bhuana was found in 2000 with the classic songs concept.

According to Von, there are still incomplete facts found in previous researches about semara pegulingan. For instance, there were only two kinds of it were found previously, namely semara pegulingan saih (note) 5 and saih(note) 7 , whereas he found two instruments of semara pegulingan saih(note) 6 that are still played until the beginning of 20th century.

We performed saih 5 in the festival this year which is different with the usual performances held in Bali that use saih (note) 7. Therefore, we want to show the community especially young Balinese how humble the beat of this percussion is. Moreover, there are layers of sound that do not exist in other percussions instruments,” stated a man who has Balinese name Wayan

Pon Semara.

Von added that all percussion songs performed by Sanggar Mekar Bhuana had been researched deeply and accurately.

For instance, the reconstruction of Tabuh Gria was analyzed from a commercial CD record published

by Library of Congress in 1996.

Meanwhile, Tabuh Gria was lately recorded in 1941 in Teges Kanginan, Ubud. That record was even played for the audience in Bali Art Festival in the beginning of the performance. Then, it was played directly by the crew of Sanggar Mekar Bhuana supported by Sekaa Sik’ru.

“I want to invite the community to appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of semara pegulingan instruments from every aspect so we do not learn from the inaccurate history. In other words, we learn from history not from his story

(unknown story-Ed),” he added.

Von also hopes that art institutes or schools in Bali can pay more attention of the semara pegulingan styles in every village or regency in Bali. Moreover, there are many styles of Semara Pegulingan.

Sanggar Mekar Bhuana performed 5 styles of Semara Pegulingan included the style of Puri Payangan (tabuh gari), Kaliungu Kelod (tabuh telu lasem pegambuhan), Puri Gerenceng (tabuh sinom lawe), and Kaliungu Kelod (tabuh pat suduk maru) “I did not lie, there is a record, and there is evidence. The question now is, why the style of that percussion today is different? It is because of the contemporary influences.

Not only from the instrument’s point of view, but also from the adjustment, decency, stage formation, and the clothes of the artists,” he explained. (kmb)

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Batik Air, the full-fare affiliate of the Lion Air Group, will fly to Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai in India starting in July 2017.

Batik Air Announces Imminent Plans to Connect Indonesia with Three Indian Cities: Chennai, New Delhi, and Mumbai BATIK Air, the full-fare affiliate of the Lion Air Group, will fly to Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai in India starting in July 2017. The CEO of Batik Air, Achmad Luthfi, told the press that all preparations to serve the Indian market have been completed by the Airline. Approvals are in hand from both the Indonesian and Indian governments.

“The process has been finalized. Hopefully, it won’t be much longer. Ya, sometime around July. We have received flights slots in India, Malaysia, and Australia,” said Luthfi.

Luthfi sees India as a market with strong potential for Lion Air. The rapid economic growth and the resulting large middle class in India are very promising for tourism development. Adding: “The economies of Indonesia and India continue to develop. What’s more, both countries have two of the world’s largest populations. India, for example, the total of the middle class and above residents exceeds 200 million people. Certainly, if they want to travel, they will travel abroad. The situation (of India) is not much different than China.”

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Tourism is hoping that Batik Air’s plans to fly to Australia, Malaysia and India will help the Nation achieve a target of 20 million foreign visitors by 2019.

Batik Air currently operates an armada of 37 airplanes with plans to grow to 41 airplanes by the end of 2017. The Airline operates 209 flights each day with an on-time performance factor of 95%. (kmb)

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Von Hatch (r) and his crew in Sanggar Mekar Bhuana was performing semara pegulingan klasik tiga gaya percussion at Bali Art Festival this year.

SCHEDULE The 39th Bali Arts Festival Monday, 3rd July 2017 Time : 11.00 Location : Angsoka Stage Program : Ritual Baris Dance, by the Baris Group of Pengotan Village, representing Bangli Regency.

Time : 11.00 Location : Ayodya Stage Program : Children Game and Dance, by the Art Group of Dharma Panji Lestari, Melinggih Village, Payangan Sub-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 14.00 Location : Ratna Kanda Stage Program : Innovative Gambelan Suling Musics,

by Art Group of Semeton Nika Manu, Mas Village, Ubud Sud-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 17.00 Location : Angsoka Stage

Program : New Creation of Balinese Dance and Musics, by the Art Community of Kencana Agung, Blahbatuh Village, Blahbatuh Sud-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 20.00 Location : Ayodya Stage Program : Barong Landung performance,

by Art Group of Rare Kumara, Tegallalang Village, Tegallalang Sud-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 20.00 Location : Ksirarnawa Hall Program : Participation by the Art Group of Noujourn Ermasrah Korba, Tunis.

Time : 20.00 Location : Ardha Candra Amphiteatre Program : Parade of Gong Kebyar, woman performers, by the Gong Group of Sekar Nagasari, representing Bangli Regency with the Group of Swandewi, representing Bali Province.

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Hundreds of Daup villagers eat together at Bale Agung Temple

BANGLI — Hundreds of Daup customary villagers, Kintamani, thronged the outermost courtyard of the Bale Agung Temple on Wednesday afternoon (Jun. 28) to eat together. This joint meal activity held around 14:00 is part of the traditional ngaturang lakon procession carried out by ten former leaders of Daup customary village.

Jero Penyarikan Payu accompanied by headman of Daup, Dewa Nyoman Saliawan, when met last Wednesday explained that ngaturang lakon poses a tradition that must be executed by former customary leaders of Daup customary village, Kintamani. As for those who included in the former customary leaders are Jero Kubayan, Jero Bau, Jero Singgukan, Jero Nyarikan and temple priest. In the meantime, on Wednesday those performing the ngaturang lakon amounted to ten residents. Seven of whom had served as Jero Kubayan, two as Jero Bau and a Jero Mangku.

“This ngaturang lakon has significance of returning the offerings having been accepted when they were forerunners. And through the tradition of ngaturang lakon the evidence is returned,” he said.

In the tradition of ngaturang lakon, the residents once served as kubayan (highest position in the ulu apad system) are obliged to offer some oblations and two pigs.

Then, the residents who had served as Jero Bau and temple priests only offer a pig. “In the tradition of ngaturang lakon this time, there are a total of 17 pigs to be offered,”

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This joint meal activity is part of the traditional ngaturang lakon procession carried out by ten former leaders of Daup customary village. he said.

Jero Penyarikan Payu explained that tradition of ngaturang laku begins with negtegang procession, nanceb taring and ngingsah.

The procession was commenced three days ago. In the meantime, on Wednesday, the procession held was mapiuning (notifying)

at Puseh Temple in the morning.

Other than bringing the offerings, in mapiuning procession, the pig to be used is also taken to Puseh Temple.

Later in the afternoon, after performing the mapiuning procession, the residents are back to the Bale Agung and slaughter all the pigs

and then make various preparations. “Some pork is processed for offerings, some other is intended for malang (divided equally for the entire heads of the family) and the remaining is processed for joint meals in the form of lawar, sate and other types of food,” he explained.

Jero Penyarikan Payu said that the tradition of ngaturang lakon actually is not a necessity. However, if not implemented, it will become a psychical debt. “One will terminate its position as customary leaders (peduluan) when all their children have got married,” he added. (kmb40)

Cash Not Accepted

Only E-Money Accepted on Bali’s Mandara Toll Road BISNIS Bali reports that the Indonesian banking sector has promised to fully support a national policy that will no longer accept cash payment from toll road users, effective October 1, 2017, leaving e-money cards as the only remaining option for vehicle operators.

The regional CEO of Bank

Mandiri for Bali and Nusa Tenggara, R. Erwan Djoko Hermawan, said on Thursday, June 22, 2017, said his bank would support the policy in order to reduce waiting times at the entrance to toll roads.

The bank has added 1,000 emoney cards with an additional 500 cards expected shortly.

Credit cards are not an option

for paying toll fees given the realtive low value of each trip, the need for card holder verification, and the additional need for asignature that would together defeat the goal of making use of the toll more efficient.

An estimated 2-4% of Bali toll users currently pay with e-money cards. (kmb)

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China’s Xi talks tough on Hong Kong as tens of thousands call for democracy

HONG KONG - Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong’s new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won’t tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China.

Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy protesters from getting to the harbour-front venue close to where the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, tearfully handed back Hong Kong to China in the pouring rain in 1997. Xi said Hong Kong should crack down on moves towards “Hong Kong independence”.

“Any attempt to endanger China’s sovereignty and security, challenge the power of the central government ... or use Hong Kong to carry out infiltration and sabotage activities against the mainland is an act that crosses the red line and is absolutely impermissible,” Xi said.

He also referred to the “humiliation and sorrow” China suffered during the first Opium War in the early 1840s that led to ceding Hong Kong to the British.

Hong Kong has been racked by demands for full democracy and,

more recently, by calls by some pockets of protesters for independence, a subject that is anathema to Beijing.

Xi’s speech was his strongest yet to the city amid concerns over what some perceive as increased meddling

by Beijing, illustrated in recent years by the abduction by mainland agents of some Hong Kong booksellers and Beijing’s efforts in disqualifying two pro-independence lawmakers elected to the city legislature.

“It’s a more frank and pointed way of dealing with the problems,” said former senior Hong Kong government adviser Lau Siu-kai on Hong Kong’s Cable Television. “The central government’s power hasn’t been sufficiently respected... they’re concerned about this.”

The tightly choreographed visit was full of pro-China rhetoric amid a virtually unprecedented security lockdown close to the scene

of pro-democracy protests in 2014 that grabbed global headlines with clashes and tear gas rising between waterfront skyscrapers.

Xi did not make contact with the people in the street or with any pro-democracy voices, forgoing an opportunity to lower the political heat through a softer, more nuanced approach.

The hardening stance of the democrats and Beijing could perhaps widen, spawning greater radicalism, though some activists also concede a spreading disillusionment has sapped momentum among the democracy movement since Xi came to power.

Under the mini-constitution, the Basic Law, Hong Kong is guaranteed wide-ranging autonomy for “at least 50 years” after 1997 under a “one country, two systems” formula praised by Xi. It also specifies universal suffrage as an eventual goal.

But Beijing’s refusal to grant full democracy triggered the nearly three months of street protests in 2014 that posed one of the greatest populist challenges to Beijing in decades. (rtr)

KIEV - Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian security services were involved in a recent cyber attack on the country, with the aim of destroying important data and spreading panic.

The SBU, Ukraine’s state security service, said the attack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on Tuesday, was by the same hackers who attacked the Ukrainian power grid in December 2016. Ukrainian politicians were quick to blame Russia for Tuesday’s attack, but a Kremlin spokesman dismissed “unfounded blanket accusations”.

Cyber security firms are trying to piece together who was behind the computer worm, dubbed NotPetya by some experts, which conked out computers, hit banks, disrupted shipping and shut down a chocolate factory in Australia.

The attack also hit major Russian firms, leading some cyber security researchers to suggest that Moscow was not behind it.

The malicious code in the virus encrypted data on computers, and demanded victims pay a $300 ransom, similar to the extortion tactic used in a global WannaCry ransomware attack in May. But Ukrainian officials and some security experts say the ransomware feature was likely a smokescreen.

Relations between Ukraine and Russia went into freefall after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent outbreak of a Kremlin-backed separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 10,000 people.

Hacking Ukrainian state institutions is part of what Ukraine says is a “hybrid war” by Russia on Kiev. Russia denies sending troops or military equipment to eastern

Ukraine.

“The available data, including those obtained in cooperation with international antivirus companies, give us reason to believe that the same hacking groups are involved in the attacks, which in December 2016 attacked the financial system, transport and energy facilities of Ukraine using TeleBots and BlackEnergy,” the SBU said.

“This testifies to the involvement of the special services of Russian Federation in this attack.”

The SBU in an earlier statement on Friday said it had seized equipment it said belonged to Russian agents in May and June to launch cyber attacks against Ukraine and other countries.

Referencing the $300 ransomware demand, the SBU said “the virus is cover for a large-scale attack on Ukraine. This is evidenced by a lack of a real mechanism for taking possession of the funds ... enrichment was not the aim of the attack.”

“The main purpose of the virus was the destruction of important data, disrupting the work of public and private institutions in Ukraine and spreading panic among the people.”

A cyber attack in December on a Ukrainian state energy computer caused a power cut in the northern part of the capital Kiev.

The Russian foreign ministry and Federal Security Service did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the latest allegations.

Russian oil major Rosneft was one of the first companies to reveal it had been compromised by the virus and sources told Reuters on Thursday computers at state gas giant Gazprom had also been infected. (rtr)

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A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017.

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BUSINESS India launches new single nationwide tax

NEW DELHI — India’s Parliament held a special midnight session Friday to introduce a new single nationwide tax, replacing a complicated mix of state and federal taxes that will change the cost of nearly everything people buy. India’s president and the prime minister pressed a button heralding the major overhaul of the taxation system — known as the single Goods and Services Tax — from July 1.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a speech that the new system would eliminate 500 types of taxes in favor of one tax across the country, a catalyst that would remove trade imbalance and promote exports. “GST is a simple, transparent system which prevents generation of blackmoney and curbs corruption. The system gives opportunity to honesty and people who do honest business,” he said.

The main opposition Congress and some other parties boycotted the midnight ceremony, arguing that nearly 7 million traders needed more time to prepare for the new system as they would be required to file tax returns every month. The opposition, however, supported the new tax system. India’s Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian was confident of resolving teething problems of the implementation in a month or two.

“There will be some hurdles initially. But we will be able to remove them in 1-2 months,” Subramanian told reporters. The government published lists last month showing almost every item for sale in India, from shampoo to tea to automobiles, should be taxed within four broad categories — at rates of 5 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent or 28 percent. It had already ordered all businesses in January to adopt or upgrade cash registers and computer systems so they are able to file tax returns that comply with the new tax regime.

Most of India’s 29 states have passed local laws to implement the new tax regime, but some have pleaded for more time. The government dismissed that idea, but at least one industry grouping — the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India — urged a delay, saying the government’s own computer networks are not yet ready for the change.

First proposed in 2003, the idea was bogged down for years in bipartisan debate, with various governments trying to push it forward while opposition politicians dragged it back. Before Modi and his Bharatya Janata Party came to power three years ago, they were staunchly against the move.

Some opposition parties asked the government to delay implementation of the new system until October as Indian businesses were still recovering from the government’s snap decision to remove 86 percent of its currency from circulation overnight on Nov. 8. In the months that followed, India replaced the old currency notes with newly designed bills. But the move caused chaos within the country’s cashdependent economy, hurting industries like construction and tourism, and hitting poor people the hardest.

On Friday, at a crowded New Delhi market plastered with posters announcing massive sales, shoppers were vacuuming up household gadgets and high-end electronics in the last days before the new sales tax took effect.

Nafees Ahmad scoured the stores for a new air-conditioner and LED television set with his wife and teenage son in tow.

“Our TV is fine. We did want to buy a new one, just not this soon,” he said with a smile as he checked prices at the Electronics Paradise store. “But when the GST is applied everything will cost more so we decided to just go ahead and buy it now.” He may even splurge on a new oven and a few other items if the prices were low enough, he added.(ap)

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Repel Calamities, Residents of Sema Agung Do Melasti with Tektekan

There are always unique things under the skies of Bali Island.

Melasti procession held by residents of Sema Agung customary village, Tusan, Banjarangkan, Klungkung, to Tegal Besar Beach, Negari Village, on Tuesday (Apr. 11), looked different from the usual. It happens because the residents carried tektekan (bamboo split drum) and put on a hat of green coconut leaves with the aim of rejecting calamities. This procession was held in a series of ngusaba desa at local village.

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Oxfam’s Big Heads depict G20 leaders take part in protests ahead of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 2, 2017.

As anti-G20 protests begin, Merkel says growth must be inclusive

BERLIN - With an eye on anti-globalisation protests brewing in Hamburg before this week’s G20 summit, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday leaders will have to focus on sustainable and inclusive economic growth rather than their own prosperity. In her weekly podcast, the German chancellor said this year’s G20 summit will delve into issues championed by protesters such as distribution of wealth and consumption of resources - alongside related issues like climate change, free markets, consumer protection and upholding social standards.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched against the meeting in the rain in Hamburg on Sunday in a prelude to the July 7-8 gathering, where 21,000 police from across Germany will protect the meetings of the world’s 20 largest economies.

“It’s not only going to be about (economic) growth but rather sustainable growth,” Merkel said. “We’ve got to have a ‘win-win’ situation for everyone. The issues obviously revolve around: how do we achieve inclusive or sustainable growth?”

Merkel, seeking a fourth term in a Sept. 24 election, outlined the issues as: “What are we doing with our resources? What are the rules for distribution of wealth? How many people are taking part? And how many countries are able to profit from that?”

Without mentioning the protests that have German security officials worried about possible acts of sabotage this week in the country’s second-largest city,

Merkel noted that these non-traditional issues were forced onto the G20 agenda.

“If we simply try to carry on as we have in the past, the worldwide developments will definitely not be sustainable and inclusive,” she said. “We need the climate protection agreement, open markets and improved trade agreements in which consumer protection, social and environmental standards are upheld.”

In a speech to parliament last week, Merkel promised to fight for free trade and press on with multilateral efforts to combat climate change at the summit, challenging the “America First” policies of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The G20 meeting follows a G7 summit in Sicily a month ago that exposed deep divisions between other Western countries and Trump on climate change, trade and migration.

Trump later announced he was pulling the United States out of a landmark agreement to combat climate change reached in 2015 in Paris.

German authorities are bracing for trouble in Hamburg, worried that the protests could turn violent as they did outside a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy in 2001 when one person was shot dead and hundreds injured.

The German Federal Crime Office warned that violent G20 opponents could carry out arson and sabotage at infrastructure targets such as the Hamburg harbour and airport, newspaper Welt am Sonntag said on Sunday.

“New and creative forms of attack have to be watched out for,” the report said. It added Hamburg police are bracing for attempts by activists to disrupt electrical power in Hamburg.

Sunday’s demonstration was organised by a group called “Protest Wave G20”, with 50,000 to 100,000 protesters expected on an afternoon march through the city centre. Other demonstrations this week are called “Welcome to Hell” and “G20 Not Welcome”(rtr)

While cheering, people hit the bamboo along the road leading to the beach so that generates tektekan sound believed by citizens as the gong of the gods. They also believe that tektekan is used to dismiss calamities or a kind of ritual to dismiss pest and diseases. But in keeping with the passage of time, the use of tektekan is equipped with bamboo fire blower and gamelan.

“Historically, this tradition has been indeed inherited from past time. According to our senior figures, in the past the tektekan was trusted to dismiss calamities like in the nangluk merana ritual,” said the priest of Dalem Penyarikan Puseh Bale Agung Temple of Sema Agung, Ketut Purna, not long ago. He told there are 75 pieces of tektekan brought by residents.

They are created at people’s home.

Once completed, they are collected at Dalem Penyarikan Temple to be ritually activated (pasupati).

The making of such bamboo split drum or tektekan is done in turn by customary villagers. Currently, the tektekan is made by residents of Kawan hamlet, while the ritual

is organized by Kanginan hamlet.

More specifically, Jro Mangku Purna said the melasti procession is started by residents by gathering at the intersection of Sema Agung.

After that, the residents venerating the deities head to Ulunsuwi Temple and Dalem Setra.

From Dalem Setra, they proceed to Dalem Penyarikan at Puseh Bale Agung Temple. At this temple, devotees say prayers together and invoke purificatory holy water. The procession is done to ward off pests or eliminate calamities or disaster at village such as diseases and epidemics.

Residents walk along five kilometers to the beach and resume the melasti procession to Tegal Besar Beach. A few people are in trance from the road to Tegal Besar Beach.

After sprinkled with holy water, the devotees in trance then regained their consciousness. Arriving back from melasti procession to the beach, the deities spun clockwise at the boundaries of Sema Agung customary village. Next, the deities were enthroned at Melanting Temple.

“After the deities are enthroned

at Melanting Temple, the following day, Wednesday (Apr. 12) the deities dance, and the ritual then comes to an end on the Penampahan Kuningan,” said Jro Mangku Purna.

According to Jro Mangku Purna, after carrying out melasti the tektekan is put at the temple. It is allowed to be taken home by residents after the closing ceremony at the Dalem Penyarikan. Tektekan can also be used for the next year in

the same ceremony. But if broken, it can be replaced with the new one by the residents and activated.

“In the 1970s, the deities of Dalem Penyarikan performed melasti procession to the beach, while the face of companion is smeared with char.

However, it is rarely done today,” he said.

Jro Mangku Purna also recognized that melasti procession by using tektekan is once abolished due to coinciding with Nyepi

Jungut Batu Village Jungut Batu refers to both the seaside village and its coast in the north-western area of Lembongan.

It is one of the two main beachfronts, and the longest stretch on the island, where you’ll find most of the hotels and restaurants. The small rocky cliff to its south provides great views over the island’s main surf breaks, namely Shipwrecks and Lacerations, together with the beautiful sunsets over mainland Bali afar.

The island of Nusa Lembongan is just 30 minute’s boat ride from Bali and makes a relaxing break when the traffic and tourists of the South gets too much. Boats for Lembongan depart from Sanur and you can either go by slow boat or the more expensive fast boat.

Most boats from Bali will drop you off in Jungut Batu, one of the two main villages on Nusa Lembongan. There’s a range of accommodation within walking distance,

however if you plan on staying at Mushroom Bay, Dream Beach or any of the other areas on Lembongan then you will have to arrange your own transport there.

Bear in mind that whether arriving by fast boat or slow boat, you will have to wade through shallow water to get on to the beach, so wearing shorts and slip-on shoes is recommended.

The Beach There is plenty of sand obviously and some hotels do put out deckchairs, but there is a fair amount of refuse and you just don’t see many people swimming here.

That’s not to say it isn’t a pretty beach though. The sunsets can be fabulous and at low tide the entire seaweed industry will be laid out for you to observe. Fascinating and very photogenic. You cannot swim here at low tide.

Note that much of the immedi-

celebration. As a result, it brought in plague. Many plants belonging to residents were attacked by pests. So, the use of tektekan in the melasti procession is held back abruptly and then regularly held every year coinciding with the full moon in the Balinese tenth month.

“At that time, our residents immediately held a melasti procession by using tektekan. Thus, the ritual lasted till night,” added Jro Mangku Purna. (kmb)

ate off-beach area here is used for drying seaweed and it has a very distinct, well, seaweedy smell.

You get used to it after a while, but some find it gag-worthy. Although the beach at Jungut Batu may not be the best place to swim due to all the boats anchored off shore, it’s still possible to find a small stretch to take a dip and cool off in. Just look at the village kids who do this on a daily basis and see how much fun they have!

The beach also offers stunning views across to Mount Agung in Bali on a clear day, and the sunsets from this side of the island are some of the best we reckon. Heading south from the main beach, there’s a lovely little walkway that takes you up to the bukit or hill, where more upmarket accommodation is available. This area is also great to enjoy sunset drinks and views across to Mount Agung in Bali.

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World leaders bid farewell to Germany’s Kohl as force for European unity

SPEYER - Leaders from the United States, Russia and across Europe paid tribute on Saturday to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as the architect of German reunification and a driving force for European integration.

Kohl, who died on June 16 at 87, was lauded at a ceremony at the European Parliament as a dedicated European who abhorred war by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Russia Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and other figures.

A funeral service was held later on Saturday with 900 invited guests at Speyer Cathedral, where as a teenager Kohl found shelter from World War Two aerial bombings.

His casket was flown by helicopter from Strasbourg to his hometown Ludwigshafen before being carried by boat up the Rhine to Speyer, one of Germany’s oldest towns where Kohl took former world leaders including Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Mikail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Margaret Thatcher for private meetings.

“Helmut Kohl gave us the chance to be involved in something bigger than ourselves, bigger than our terms in office and bigger than our fleeting careers,” Clinton said in Strasbourg of the man who was German chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and oversaw German reunification in 1990.

The two-hour memorial in Strasbourg, a city that

has often changed hands and now lies in France, symbolised the role Kohl played in reconciling the two erstwhile enemies France and Germany while driving European integration forward.

A blue European Union flag was draped over Kohl’s casket in Strasbourg. A German flag later covered the coffin in Germany, where thousands watched from the streets as his coffin moved through Ludwigshafen and later from the banks of the Rhine.

“He was the architect of the world order,” said Medvedev of Kohl, who skilfully negotiated reunification with communist East Germany with then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. “In Russia, we’ll remember him as our friend -- a wise and sincere person.”

‘EUROPEAN PATRIOT’ The resting place of many rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, itself a Europe-spanning polity, Speyer Cathedral was seen by Kohl as a symbol of European unity.

“Helmut Kohl was a German patriot and a European patriot,” said Juncker, a former Luxembourg prime minister and close friend of Kohl who switched between German and French in his tribute. “We’ve lost a giant of the post-war era.”

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who served as a minister under Kohl in the 1990s but later had a falling out over his role in receiving $1 million in illegal campaign cash donations, remembered Kohl as an at-times controversial figure with numerous enemies. (rtr)

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The coffin of late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pictured during a pontifical requiem mass in the cathedral in Speyer, Germany, July 1, 2017.

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The nationwide party comes as Canada is enjoying an unusual amount of interest from the rest of the world, largely due to the election of charismatic and selfie-prone leader Trudeau. “As a society, we

must acknowledge and apologize for past wrongs, and chart a path forward for the next 150 years,” Trudeau said in a statement ahead of the official kickoff. Indigenous rights group Idle No More has called for a national day of action on Saturday, telling supporters to hold rallies and take to social media.

Events and installations celebrating the sesquicentennial milestone have already been held across the country this year, with the total cost to the federal government reported to be half a billion dollars.

Along with fireworks, free museums and outdoor concerts nationwide on Saturday, more than 50 special ceremonies to swear in new citizens

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Qatar’s Minister of Defense Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah in Ankara, Turkey, July 1, 2017.

Qatar says Arab states’ demands “made to be rejected”, says open to talks

ROME - Demands made of Qatar by four other Arab states were designed to be rejected, Doha’s foreign minister said on Saturday, explaining that their ultimatum was aimed not at tackling terrorism but at curtailing his country’s sovereignty.

However Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, speaking to reporters in Rome, added Doha was still ready to sit down and discuss the grievances raised by its Arab neighbours.

He was speaking ahead of a deadline set by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt for Doha to accept 13 demands. Officials say they are aimed at ending a rift that erupted last month over accusations that Qatar supports terrorism, charges it denies.

“This list of demands is made to be rejected. It’s not meant to be accepted or ... to be negotiated,” Sheikh Mohammed said, adding that Qatar was willing to engage in further dialogue given “the proper conditions”.

The demands included severing ties with terrorist groups, closing down the pan-Arab Al Jazeera satellite channel, downgrading ties with arch-rival Iran and closing a Turkish air base in Qatar.

Arab states have said the demands are not negotiable and warned that further unspecified measures will follow if Qatar does not comply.

But Sheikh Mohammed was adamant.

“Regarding the demands and our position, we have been from the beginning very clear on this. We are not going to accept anything that infringes on our sovereignty or anything that is imposed on Qatar,” he said.

were planned across the country.

Twitter users were sharing their favorite Canadian songs and food, along with photos of the preparations under the hashtag Canada150.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived for an official visit on Thursday. The royals began a threeday tour with a trip to the northern territory of Nunavut, home to a large

number of First Nations and Inuit people. The bash in Ottawa culminated with a musical fireworks show that is billed as largest-ever such display for Canada Day. It lasted 20 minutes and 17 seconds to commemorate 2017. “One hundred fifty years? Nah. Look at us: Canada is being born today,” Trudeau told the crowd soaked in rains. (rtr)

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Qatari officials have repeatedly said the demands are so draconian that they suspect the four countries never seriously intended to negotiate on them and were instead seeking to hobble Doha’s sovereignty.

Asked if he feared any military moves, he said his country was not afraid but believed that wisdom would prevail.

“International law should not be violated and there is a border which should not be crossed,” he said.

He spoke after arriving from the United States. Washington is helping Kuwait, which has retained ties with Qatar, to mediate in the dispute..

Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the news conference, he said that the demand by the Arab states that Qatar close the Turkish air base was “out of the question.”

NATO ally Turkey has backed Qatar in the dispute.

“We are not going to retreat from any agreement we have already signed. We really appreciate the relationship we have with Turkey,” he said. (rtr)

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Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his speech during the 4th Congress of the Indonesian Diasporas in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 1, 2017.

Obama pushes tolerance, respect in childhood home Jakarta

JAKARTA — Following another week of dust-ups between the media and President Donald Trump, his predecessor shared a bit of wisdom from the other side of the world about tolerance and taking the daily news cycle in stride. “I wasn’t worried about what was in the newspapers today,” former President Barack Obama said Saturday during a nostalgic visit to Indonesia’s capital, his childhood home. “What I was worried about was, ‘What are they going to write about me 20 years from now when I look back?’”

Obama has largely stayed away from U.S. politics and the Trump administration, but he did tout one of his accomplishments while in office. “In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history about climate change, an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership, can still give our children a fighting chance,” he said.

Trump shocked many countries last month by announcing he was pulling out of the accord. He has also had a difficult relationship with members of the press and was recently condemned by Democrats and Republicans for a tweet that attacked a female MSNBC host.

Obama stressed the importance of stepping away from news sites where only like-minded views are shared, and warned about social media giving rise to resentment of minorities and bad treatment of people. The former president was greeted by a crowd of thousands, including leaders, students and businesspeople, in Jakarta, where he opened the Fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora. He is wildly popular in Indonesia, where many view him as an adopted son. A statue of the boy still remembered as “Barry” stands outside his old elementary school.

He reminisced about moving to Jakarta in 1967 when he was just 6 years old, shouting, “Indonesia bagian dari diri saya!” or “Indonesia is part of me!” Obama said he had been gorging on the local food since arriving.

“If the rainy season came, the floods were coming and we had to clean out the floors in our house and then chase the chickens because they had gone someplace else,” he said to roaring laughter. “Today, Jakarta is a thriving center of commerce marked by highways and high-rises. So much has changed, so much progress has been made.” Obama lived in the country with his mother, an anthropologist, and his Indonesian stepfather. The couple split up after having his half-sister, and Obama moved back to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his grandparents. But he said he has never forgotten the years he spent in Indonesia.

“My time here made me cherish respect for people’s differences,” he said, noting how he and his family had just visited two of the most treasured ancient temples — Borobudur, a Buddhist complex, and the Hindu compound of Prambanan — in the world’s most populous Muslim country.

Obama’s speech came on the final leg of his 10-day vacation in Indonesia. In addition to visiting the temples in the city of Yogyakarta on the island of Java, he and his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Sasha and Malia, also went rafting and toured the resort island of Bali. On Friday, he met Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo at the grand Bogor Palace in West Java, just outside Jakarta.

The Indonesian visit marked Obama’s first trip to Asia since leaving office. He urged the country to be a light of democracy and to never stop embracing differences. Indonesia has faced a rise in Islamic radicalism and anti-gay attacks, and was recently condemned by rights groups for jailing Jakarta’s former governor, an ethnic Chinese Christian, for blasphemy.

“The spirit of this country has to be one of tolerance.

It’s enshrined in Indonesia’s constitution, it’s symbolized by mosques and temples and churches beside each other,” Obama said. “That spirit is one of the defining things about Indonesia. It is one of the most important characteristics to set as an example for other Muslim countries around the world.” (ap)

10 injured as volcano erupts on Indonesia’s main Java island

JAKARTA — A volcano popular with tourists erupted Sunday on Indonesia’s main island of Java, injuring 10 people, an official said.

Sileri Crater at Dieng Plateau spewed cold lava, mud and ash as high as 50 meters (164 feet) into the sky when it erupted,

said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

He said the sudden eruption occurred at around 11:30 a.m., when there were about 17 visitors around the crater. Ten people were injured and were being treated at

a hospital.

Soldiers and police officers were dispatched to the scene, while local residents and visitors were asked to evacuate the area in case of further eruptions, Nugroho said.

Sileri is the most active and dan-

gerous among some 10 craters at Dieng Plateau. Its most recent eruption was in 2009, when it unleashed volcanic materials up to 200 meters (656 feet) high and triggered the creation of three new craters.

Dieng Plateau, located in the Central Java province district of

Banjarnegara, is a popular tourist attraction because of its cool climate and ninth-century Hindu temples. It sits about 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) above sea level.

Some 142 people were reportedly asphyxiated in 1979 when the volcano spewed gases. (ap)

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Diving on Nusa Lembongan

SEMARAPURA - While most of the dive shops are on Lembongan, many of the best sites are actually in the waters off Nusa Penida.

Blue Corner and Lembongan Point are the only two we were told about near Lembongan itself, with the more famous spots such as Crystal Bay, Manta Point and SD Point (among others) all off Nusa Penida.

The waters around here, especially off Penida, are known for their strong and unforgiving currents, so if you’re learning, Bali is more suited to absolute beginners.

The three islands of Nusa Penida, Lembongan and Ceningan are home to 250 species of coral and close to 600 species of reef fish making them one of the biggest biodiversity locations in the Coral Triangle offering world-class div-

ing with some of the best dive sites in Bali and the whole Indonesia.

With the combination of the legendary Mola-mola (Oceanic sun fish) and the Manta rays, diving in Nusa Lembongan guaranties the best underwater experience you can dream about!

The gentle sloping reefs of the north coast of Penida provide beautiful coral reefs starting at just 2 meters underwater and cover the

slope all the way to the bottom.

These mixing hard and soft corals, provide homes to many small critters like; nudibranch, crabs and shrimps while also providing a healthy living environment for many schooling reef fish. Off the reef and cruising in the blue water, it is possible to see the large fish like Giant Trevally, Turtles, Napoleon wrasse and Barracuda.

The large plateaus of the south

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provide the cleaning and feeding stations for the Manta Rays and this where the two manta dive sites are located. Although not as rich in coral diversity as the north, the plateaus do offer divers interesting rock formations covered in sponge and coral. The high light of the southern dive sites, is having the chance to see the Manta feeding in the shallows or being cleaned by the reef fish. (IBP/net)

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Jeff Horn of Australia punches Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines.

Horn stuns Pacquiao to win WBO welterweight world title

SYDNEY - Australia’s Jeff Horn stunned Filipino Manny Pacquiao in a bloody Brisbane battle to claim a unanimous 12-round decision and win the WBO world welterweight title in front of 50,000 fans at Lang Park on Sunday.

The unheralded 29-year-old former schoolteacher, who improved his record to 17-0-1, was awarded the win over the eight-division world champion by scores of 117111, 115-113 and 115-113.

“I’m so happy, I can’t explain my feelings,” Horn said at ringside, before welcoming the prospect of a rematch.

“I’ve just believed since I was very young that I could do this.”

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Pacquiao, one of the finest boxers of his generation, paid the price for a slow start and his inability to end the fight with a knockout.

The 38-year-old was knocked off his stride by the aggression of the taller and heavier Australian in the early rounds but looked to have weathered the storm as the fight wore on and Horn tired.

With blood pouring from both sides of his forehead after acciden-

tal butts, the southpaw launched a fierce assault on Horn which nearly ended the contest in round nine.

“Show me something in this round, or I’m going to stop the fight,” the referee warned the Australian. Horn, who was cut above his right eye in round two, said he had been exhausted and rattled by the Filipino’s punches.

“It was hard, hard getting through that round, hard getting hit, getting caught with a shot and then continue on,” Horn said. “(But) I was like ‘settle down everyone, I’m fine’. I was recovering pretty quickly.” (rtr)

DUESSELDORF - Reigning champion Chris Froome wasted no time flexing his muscles at the Tour de France as he powered to sixth place in a treacherous opening time trial won superbly by Team Sky colleague Geraint Thomas on Saturday.

Heavy rain turned what, on paper, had looked like a regulation 14km circuit alongside the Rhine river into an incident-packed Grand Depart that could have major consequences in the three-week battle for the yellow jersey.

While it was a great start for Team Sky, with Thomas, three-times champion Froome, Vasil Kiryienka and Michal Kwiatkowski all in the top eight of the 198 riders to start, Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde’s Tour is already over after a sickening crash.

Several riders continued after crashing on the greasy roads but there was no getting up for Valverde, third overall in 2015, after he careered into crowd barriers after skidding off before being taken to hospital with leg injuries.

It was heart-breaking for Valverde and also a huge blow for team mate Nairo Quintana who would have been counting on Valverde’s experience in the mountain stages to come to have a real chance of halting Froome’s bid for a hat-trick.

Welshman Thomas, riding his eighth Tour de France, looked completely at home in the puddles as he became the eighth Briton to wear the yellow jersey -- making up for the disappointment of crashing out of the Giro d’Italia as team leader.

He displayed brilliant bike-handling to cross the finish line alongside the sprawling Messe Duesseldorf exhibition complex in 16 minutes 04 seconds. He was five seconds ahead of BMC’s Swiss rider Stefan Kueng, who was two seconds ahead of Kiryienka in third.

Froome, the last rider out, was 12 seconds slower than Thomas, but significantly quicker than all his main General Classification (GC) rivals -- 35 seconds ahead of Australian Richie Porte, 36 seconds ahead of Quintana and 42 ahead of Spain’s twice former winner Alberto Contador.

French hopefuls Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet were also off the pace after conservative rides. (rtr)

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LONDON - Roger Federer warned on Saturday that he and the rest of the big four of men’s tennis were going to be as tough to beat as ever at Wimbledon this year as they seek to continue their astonishing monopoly of the event.

In the last 14 editions, one of either Federer, the seven-times champion, double winners Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, or triple victor Novak Djokovic has lifted the men’s singles title at The All England Club.

While reporters quizzed Federer on Saturday about who in the game’s young brigade could become the first man outside that quartet to win since Lleyton Hewitt in 2002, the Swiss felt it would be best to keep faith with the usual suspects.

Federer’s rivals have had mixed preparations for Wimbledon. Murray’s harboured hip trouble after an early exit at Queen’s, Nadal decided to skip grasscourt warm-ups to rest his body after winning the French

Open while Djokovic burst into life earlier on Saturday by winning the Eastbourne title.

Do not be fooled, suggested Federer. All these 30-something luminaries would again be “tough to beat”.

“Depending how fit it is, if he’s anything close to 100 percent physically, I consider him (Murray) one of the big favourites to win the tournament. It’s that simple. It’s the same for Novak and the same for Rafa,”

reckoned Federer.

“I think it’s very even when we put it all out on the line. Everybody has their own little story right now.

“Queen’s for Andy (where he was knocked out early) doesn’t matter so much because I feel like he’s one of the best players in the first week at Wimbledon, so I don’t worry too much for him there. He can play himself into shape for week two.

“Novak is just coming back from winning Eastbourne now. Rafa is

coming in red hot from the clay. So I see it positive for them rather than negative in some shape, which I’m sure people will try to see that way.

“But I see that they are going to be tough to beat here.”

Federer himself seemed to have recaptured a touch of his fantastic early-season spark which saw him down Nadal in an epic Australian Open five-set final as he lifted his favourite pre-Wimbledon grasscourt title in Halle. (rtr)

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Sp rt Russia praised for football hosting as doping casts shadow ST. PETERSBURG — Russia won praise on Saturday for a successful World Cup warm-up tournament, though it has faced new questions about past doping issues. Germany captain Julian Draxler joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino in thanking Russia ahead of the Confederations Cup final on Sunday when the 2014 World Cup winner plays South American champion Chile. “Thank you for your brilliant organization, for the many helping hands along the way, and for always making us feel safe,” Draxler said in a statement published Saturday by the Germany team.

Infantino said later at a news conference in St. Petersburg stadium that “everything ran perfectly”

Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino shake hands before the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Russia and New Zealand, at the St. Petersburg Stadium, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 17, 2017.

The Confederations Cup has kicked off with host nation Russia opening the World Cup rehearsal tournament against New Zealand.

in Russia. “We were hearing about violence, about incidents, about hooligans, about racism — but we had nothing,” Infantino said, referring to pre-tournament questions that have dogged football in the host nation.

Still, the doping shadow cast on Russian sports by a series of World Anti-Doping Agency investigation reports since 2015 also re-emerged during the twoweek World Cup dress rehearsal. FIFA is aware of 155 potentially suspect samples given by players in Russia that need to be tested, WADA-appointed investigator Richard McLaren has told German broadcaster ARD. Infantino, who was flanked by Russian deputy prime minister Vitaly Mutko, said Saturday he could not set a timetable for Russian cases that the FIFA disciplinary committee must handle arising from McLaren reports.

However, key judgments on the Canadian law professor’s allegations against Russia are looming and could be announced within weeks. An International Olympic Committee panel is preparing to announce its first verdicts involving Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Games who are suspected of benefiting from a state-backed doping conspiracy operating at the Olympic laboratory in Sochi. “We are waiting as well for these reports,” Infantino acknowledged Saturday.

Though the IOC panel will look only at Sochi Olympic cases, its rulings will help define the integrity of McLaren’s evidence and witnesses that Russian officials have repeatedly sought to discredit.

“If something comes out about (football player) samples having been tampered or whatever then there will be sanctions obviously,” Infantino said. Mutko, who chairs the 2018 World Cup organizing committee and was linked in McLaren evidence to covering up one football doping case, again dismissed claims of a government-run program. “If I perform a Russian dance here in front of you, will you stop asking these questions or not?” he said through a translator.

“We will never let down this respectable and powerful organization,” Mutko said earlier, praising FIFA. In other comments Saturday: (asterisk)On video review trials in Russia, Infantino acknowledged that referees’ ability to communicate their decisions to players and fans is the main focus for improvement.

The FIFA president is a big supporter of video assistance, and believes “nothing is standing in the way” of using it at the World Cup. (asterisk)Infantino is less sure about the future of the Confederations Cup on FIFA’s slate of tournaments: “At this stage there is not more to say.” (asterisk) Around 27,000 non-Russian used Fan IDs at the tournament — the document allowing ticket-holders visa-free entry into Russia. A breakdown by nationality was not given. Fewer than 100 fans from Cameroon or New Zealand could be seen at their games.

Russian organizers said a total of 440,000 Fan IDs had been issued for the 16-game Confederations Cup. (asterisk)FIFA officials are satisfied that only two yellow cards for dissent were shown in the first 14 games, suggesting that players are more accepting of referees’ decisions and authority. (ap)

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Atletico Madrid ties midfielder Saul Niguez through 2026 MADRID — Atletico Madrid says midfielder Saul Niguez has agreed to a new contract that will tie him to the Spanish club through 2026.

The 22-year-old Niguez extended his current contract by five seasons a day after he helped Spain

reach the final of the Under-21 European Championship, which they lost to Germany 1-0 on Friday. Niguez was the tournament leading scorer with five, including a hat trick to beat Italy 3-0 in the semifinals.

Strong in attack and defense,

Niguez has been a key player for Atletico coach Diego Simeone for the past three seasons. He has formed a talented midfield pairing with Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion.

Niguez says, “I am happy at Atletico because we are a family and there is no better place to be.” (ap)

Brazilian center back Marquinhos signs new PSG contract

PARIS — Brazilian center half Marquinhos has signed a new three-year deal with Paris SaintGermain, tying him to the club until 2022. The 23-year-old international joined PSG from Italian side Roma in 2013, but was in and out of the team until becoming a first-choice defender last season under coach Unai Emery.

Marquinhos, whose previous contract expired in 2019, has made 161 appearances for PSG and

scored 13 goals, using his heading ability from set pieces.

PSG president Nasser El-Khelaifi says Marquinhos “has always shown an irreproachable attitude” and has “developed a very strong link with our club (and) its supporters.”

He becomes the latest key player to extend his contract, following top scorer Edinson Cavani and center back partner Thiago Silva. (ap) AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

Spain’s Saul Niguez celebrates after scoring during the Euro Under 21 semifinal soccer match between Italy and Spain, at the Krakow Stadium, Poland, Tuesday, June 27, 2017.

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Spain’s Gerard Deulofeu runs with the ball during the Euro Under 21 semifinal soccer match between Italy and Spain, at the Krakow Stadium, Poland, Tuesday, June 27, 2017.

Spain winger Deulofeu returning to Barcelona on 2-year deal

BARCELONA — Gerard Deulofeu is returning to Barcelona after the Spanish club triggered the buy-back clause in his deal with Everton on Friday. The 23-year-old right winger joined Everton in June 2015, on condition that Barcelona could re-sign him within the first two years of his contract.

Barcelona said it has activated the clause and will finalize the transfer in the coming days. Barca said Deulofeu’s contract will run through June 2019.

Deulofeu came through Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy, but failed to establish himself in the first team and spent seasons

on loan at Everton (2013-14) and Sevilla (2014-15). Overall, Deulofeu scored five goals in 62 league games for Everton.

He spent the second half of last season on loan at AC Milan from Everton, scoring four league goals in 17 games.

Barcelona also said on Friday that it had agreed to transfer 25-year-old forward Cristian Tello to Real Betis, where he has signed a five-year contract. Tello had played on loan at FC Porto and Fiorentina for the past three seasons.

Real Madrid also announced that it had transferred 23-year-old reserve team striker Mariano Diaz to French club Lyon. (ap)

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File

FILE- In this Wednesday March 8, 2017 file photo, PSG’s Marquinhos is challenged by Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta, left, during the Champion’s League round of 16, second leg soccer match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Brazilian center half Marquinhos has signed a new three-year deal with Paris Saint-Germain, Saturday, July 1, 2017, tying him to the club until 2022.

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Sp rt Russia praised for football hosting as doping casts shadow ST. PETERSBURG — Russia won praise on Saturday for a successful World Cup warm-up tournament, though it has faced new questions about past doping issues. Germany captain Julian Draxler joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino in thanking Russia ahead of the Confederations Cup final on Sunday when the 2014 World Cup winner plays South American champion Chile. “Thank you for your brilliant organization, for the many helping hands along the way, and for always making us feel safe,” Draxler said in a statement published Saturday by the Germany team.

Infantino said later at a news conference in St. Petersburg stadium that “everything ran perfectly”

Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino shake hands before the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Russia and New Zealand, at the St. Petersburg Stadium, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 17, 2017.

The Confederations Cup has kicked off with host nation Russia opening the World Cup rehearsal tournament against New Zealand.

in Russia. “We were hearing about violence, about incidents, about hooligans, about racism — but we had nothing,” Infantino said, referring to pre-tournament questions that have dogged football in the host nation.

Still, the doping shadow cast on Russian sports by a series of World Anti-Doping Agency investigation reports since 2015 also re-emerged during the twoweek World Cup dress rehearsal. FIFA is aware of 155 potentially suspect samples given by players in Russia that need to be tested, WADA-appointed investigator Richard McLaren has told German broadcaster ARD. Infantino, who was flanked by Russian deputy prime minister Vitaly Mutko, said Saturday he could not set a timetable for Russian cases that the FIFA disciplinary committee must handle arising from McLaren reports.

However, key judgments on the Canadian law professor’s allegations against Russia are looming and could be announced within weeks. An International Olympic Committee panel is preparing to announce its first verdicts involving Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Games who are suspected of benefiting from a state-backed doping conspiracy operating at the Olympic laboratory in Sochi. “We are waiting as well for these reports,” Infantino acknowledged Saturday.

Though the IOC panel will look only at Sochi Olympic cases, its rulings will help define the integrity of McLaren’s evidence and witnesses that Russian officials have repeatedly sought to discredit.

“If something comes out about (football player) samples having been tampered or whatever then there will be sanctions obviously,” Infantino said. Mutko, who chairs the 2018 World Cup organizing committee and was linked in McLaren evidence to covering up one football doping case, again dismissed claims of a government-run program. “If I perform a Russian dance here in front of you, will you stop asking these questions or not?” he said through a translator.

“We will never let down this respectable and powerful organization,” Mutko said earlier, praising FIFA. In other comments Saturday: (asterisk)On video review trials in Russia, Infantino acknowledged that referees’ ability to communicate their decisions to players and fans is the main focus for improvement.

The FIFA president is a big supporter of video assistance, and believes “nothing is standing in the way” of using it at the World Cup. (asterisk)Infantino is less sure about the future of the Confederations Cup on FIFA’s slate of tournaments: “At this stage there is not more to say.” (asterisk) Around 27,000 non-Russian used Fan IDs at the tournament — the document allowing ticket-holders visa-free entry into Russia. A breakdown by nationality was not given. Fewer than 100 fans from Cameroon or New Zealand could be seen at their games.

Russian organizers said a total of 440,000 Fan IDs had been issued for the 16-game Confederations Cup. (asterisk)FIFA officials are satisfied that only two yellow cards for dissent were shown in the first 14 games, suggesting that players are more accepting of referees’ decisions and authority. (ap)

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Atletico Madrid ties midfielder Saul Niguez through 2026 MADRID — Atletico Madrid says midfielder Saul Niguez has agreed to a new contract that will tie him to the Spanish club through 2026.

The 22-year-old Niguez extended his current contract by five seasons a day after he helped Spain

reach the final of the Under-21 European Championship, which they lost to Germany 1-0 on Friday. Niguez was the tournament leading scorer with five, including a hat trick to beat Italy 3-0 in the semifinals.

Strong in attack and defense,

Niguez has been a key player for Atletico coach Diego Simeone for the past three seasons. He has formed a talented midfield pairing with Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion.

Niguez says, “I am happy at Atletico because we are a family and there is no better place to be.” (ap)

Brazilian center back Marquinhos signs new PSG contract

PARIS — Brazilian center half Marquinhos has signed a new three-year deal with Paris SaintGermain, tying him to the club until 2022. The 23-year-old international joined PSG from Italian side Roma in 2013, but was in and out of the team until becoming a first-choice defender last season under coach Unai Emery.

Marquinhos, whose previous contract expired in 2019, has made 161 appearances for PSG and

scored 13 goals, using his heading ability from set pieces.

PSG president Nasser El-Khelaifi says Marquinhos “has always shown an irreproachable attitude” and has “developed a very strong link with our club (and) its supporters.”

He becomes the latest key player to extend his contract, following top scorer Edinson Cavani and center back partner Thiago Silva. (ap) AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

Spain’s Saul Niguez celebrates after scoring during the Euro Under 21 semifinal soccer match between Italy and Spain, at the Krakow Stadium, Poland, Tuesday, June 27, 2017.

AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

Spain’s Gerard Deulofeu runs with the ball during the Euro Under 21 semifinal soccer match between Italy and Spain, at the Krakow Stadium, Poland, Tuesday, June 27, 2017.

Spain winger Deulofeu returning to Barcelona on 2-year deal

BARCELONA — Gerard Deulofeu is returning to Barcelona after the Spanish club triggered the buy-back clause in his deal with Everton on Friday. The 23-year-old right winger joined Everton in June 2015, on condition that Barcelona could re-sign him within the first two years of his contract.

Barcelona said it has activated the clause and will finalize the transfer in the coming days. Barca said Deulofeu’s contract will run through June 2019.

Deulofeu came through Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy, but failed to establish himself in the first team and spent seasons

on loan at Everton (2013-14) and Sevilla (2014-15). Overall, Deulofeu scored five goals in 62 league games for Everton.

He spent the second half of last season on loan at AC Milan from Everton, scoring four league goals in 17 games.

Barcelona also said on Friday that it had agreed to transfer 25-year-old forward Cristian Tello to Real Betis, where he has signed a five-year contract. Tello had played on loan at FC Porto and Fiorentina for the past three seasons.

Real Madrid also announced that it had transferred 23-year-old reserve team striker Mariano Diaz to French club Lyon. (ap)

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File

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Diving on Nusa Lembongan

SEMARAPURA - While most of the dive shops are on Lembongan, many of the best sites are actually in the waters off Nusa Penida.

Blue Corner and Lembongan Point are the only two we were told about near Lembongan itself, with the more famous spots such as Crystal Bay, Manta Point and SD Point (among others) all off Nusa Penida.

The waters around here, especially off Penida, are known for their strong and unforgiving currents, so if you’re learning, Bali is more suited to absolute beginners.

The three islands of Nusa Penida, Lembongan and Ceningan are home to 250 species of coral and close to 600 species of reef fish making them one of the biggest biodiversity locations in the Coral Triangle offering world-class div-

ing with some of the best dive sites in Bali and the whole Indonesia.

With the combination of the legendary Mola-mola (Oceanic sun fish) and the Manta rays, diving in Nusa Lembongan guaranties the best underwater experience you can dream about!

The gentle sloping reefs of the north coast of Penida provide beautiful coral reefs starting at just 2 meters underwater and cover the

slope all the way to the bottom.

These mixing hard and soft corals, provide homes to many small critters like; nudibranch, crabs and shrimps while also providing a healthy living environment for many schooling reef fish. Off the reef and cruising in the blue water, it is possible to see the large fish like Giant Trevally, Turtles, Napoleon wrasse and Barracuda.

The large plateaus of the south

Thomas wins Tour opener as Froome lays down early marker

provide the cleaning and feeding stations for the Manta Rays and this where the two manta dive sites are located. Although not as rich in coral diversity as the north, the plateaus do offer divers interesting rock formations covered in sponge and coral. The high light of the southern dive sites, is having the chance to see the Manta feeding in the shallows or being cleaned by the reef fish. (IBP/net)

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Jeff Horn of Australia punches Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines.

Horn stuns Pacquiao to win WBO welterweight world title

SYDNEY - Australia’s Jeff Horn stunned Filipino Manny Pacquiao in a bloody Brisbane battle to claim a unanimous 12-round decision and win the WBO world welterweight title in front of 50,000 fans at Lang Park on Sunday.

The unheralded 29-year-old former schoolteacher, who improved his record to 17-0-1, was awarded the win over the eight-division world champion by scores of 117111, 115-113 and 115-113.

“I’m so happy, I can’t explain my feelings,” Horn said at ringside, before welcoming the prospect of a rematch.

“I’ve just believed since I was very young that I could do this.”

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Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas of Britain wearing the leader’s yellow jersey celebrates on the podium.

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Pacquiao, one of the finest boxers of his generation, paid the price for a slow start and his inability to end the fight with a knockout.

The 38-year-old was knocked off his stride by the aggression of the taller and heavier Australian in the early rounds but looked to have weathered the storm as the fight wore on and Horn tired.

With blood pouring from both sides of his forehead after acciden-

tal butts, the southpaw launched a fierce assault on Horn which nearly ended the contest in round nine.

“Show me something in this round, or I’m going to stop the fight,” the referee warned the Australian. Horn, who was cut above his right eye in round two, said he had been exhausted and rattled by the Filipino’s punches.

“It was hard, hard getting through that round, hard getting hit, getting caught with a shot and then continue on,” Horn said. “(But) I was like ‘settle down everyone, I’m fine’. I was recovering pretty quickly.” (rtr)

DUESSELDORF - Reigning champion Chris Froome wasted no time flexing his muscles at the Tour de France as he powered to sixth place in a treacherous opening time trial won superbly by Team Sky colleague Geraint Thomas on Saturday.

Heavy rain turned what, on paper, had looked like a regulation 14km circuit alongside the Rhine river into an incident-packed Grand Depart that could have major consequences in the three-week battle for the yellow jersey.

While it was a great start for Team Sky, with Thomas, three-times champion Froome, Vasil Kiryienka and Michal Kwiatkowski all in the top eight of the 198 riders to start, Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde’s Tour is already over after a sickening crash.

Several riders continued after crashing on the greasy roads but there was no getting up for Valverde, third overall in 2015, after he careered into crowd barriers after skidding off before being taken to hospital with leg injuries.

It was heart-breaking for Valverde and also a huge blow for team mate Nairo Quintana who would have been counting on Valverde’s experience in the mountain stages to come to have a real chance of halting Froome’s bid for a hat-trick.

Welshman Thomas, riding his eighth Tour de France, looked completely at home in the puddles as he became the eighth Briton to wear the yellow jersey -- making up for the disappointment of crashing out of the Giro d’Italia as team leader.

He displayed brilliant bike-handling to cross the finish line alongside the sprawling Messe Duesseldorf exhibition complex in 16 minutes 04 seconds. He was five seconds ahead of BMC’s Swiss rider Stefan Kueng, who was two seconds ahead of Kiryienka in third.

Froome, the last rider out, was 12 seconds slower than Thomas, but significantly quicker than all his main General Classification (GC) rivals -- 35 seconds ahead of Australian Richie Porte, 36 seconds ahead of Quintana and 42 ahead of Spain’s twice former winner Alberto Contador.

French hopefuls Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet were also off the pace after conservative rides. (rtr)

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LONDON - Roger Federer warned on Saturday that he and the rest of the big four of men’s tennis were going to be as tough to beat as ever at Wimbledon this year as they seek to continue their astonishing monopoly of the event.

In the last 14 editions, one of either Federer, the seven-times champion, double winners Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, or triple victor Novak Djokovic has lifted the men’s singles title at The All England Club.

While reporters quizzed Federer on Saturday about who in the game’s young brigade could become the first man outside that quartet to win since Lleyton Hewitt in 2002, the Swiss felt it would be best to keep faith with the usual suspects.

Federer’s rivals have had mixed preparations for Wimbledon. Murray’s harboured hip trouble after an early exit at Queen’s, Nadal decided to skip grasscourt warm-ups to rest his body after winning the French

Open while Djokovic burst into life earlier on Saturday by winning the Eastbourne title.

Do not be fooled, suggested Federer. All these 30-something luminaries would again be “tough to beat”.

“Depending how fit it is, if he’s anything close to 100 percent physically, I consider him (Murray) one of the big favourites to win the tournament. It’s that simple. It’s the same for Novak and the same for Rafa,”

reckoned Federer.

“I think it’s very even when we put it all out on the line. Everybody has their own little story right now.

“Queen’s for Andy (where he was knocked out early) doesn’t matter so much because I feel like he’s one of the best players in the first week at Wimbledon, so I don’t worry too much for him there. He can play himself into shape for week two.

“Novak is just coming back from winning Eastbourne now. Rafa is

coming in red hot from the clay. So I see it positive for them rather than negative in some shape, which I’m sure people will try to see that way.

“But I see that they are going to be tough to beat here.”

Federer himself seemed to have recaptured a touch of his fantastic early-season spark which saw him down Nadal in an epic Australian Open five-set final as he lifted his favourite pre-Wimbledon grasscourt title in Halle. (rtr)

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World leaders bid farewell to Germany’s Kohl as force for European unity

SPEYER - Leaders from the United States, Russia and across Europe paid tribute on Saturday to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as the architect of German reunification and a driving force for European integration.

Kohl, who died on June 16 at 87, was lauded at a ceremony at the European Parliament as a dedicated European who abhorred war by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Russia Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and other figures.

A funeral service was held later on Saturday with 900 invited guests at Speyer Cathedral, where as a teenager Kohl found shelter from World War Two aerial bombings.

His casket was flown by helicopter from Strasbourg to his hometown Ludwigshafen before being carried by boat up the Rhine to Speyer, one of Germany’s oldest towns where Kohl took former world leaders including Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Mikail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Margaret Thatcher for private meetings.

“Helmut Kohl gave us the chance to be involved in something bigger than ourselves, bigger than our terms in office and bigger than our fleeting careers,” Clinton said in Strasbourg of the man who was German chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and oversaw German reunification in 1990.

The two-hour memorial in Strasbourg, a city that

has often changed hands and now lies in France, symbolised the role Kohl played in reconciling the two erstwhile enemies France and Germany while driving European integration forward.

A blue European Union flag was draped over Kohl’s casket in Strasbourg. A German flag later covered the coffin in Germany, where thousands watched from the streets as his coffin moved through Ludwigshafen and later from the banks of the Rhine.

“He was the architect of the world order,” said Medvedev of Kohl, who skilfully negotiated reunification with communist East Germany with then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. “In Russia, we’ll remember him as our friend -- a wise and sincere person.”

‘EUROPEAN PATRIOT’ The resting place of many rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, itself a Europe-spanning polity, Speyer Cathedral was seen by Kohl as a symbol of European unity.

“Helmut Kohl was a German patriot and a European patriot,” said Juncker, a former Luxembourg prime minister and close friend of Kohl who switched between German and French in his tribute. “We’ve lost a giant of the post-war era.”

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who served as a minister under Kohl in the 1990s but later had a falling out over his role in receiving $1 million in illegal campaign cash donations, remembered Kohl as an at-times controversial figure with numerous enemies. (rtr)

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The coffin of late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pictured during a pontifical requiem mass in the cathedral in Speyer, Germany, July 1, 2017.

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The nationwide party comes as Canada is enjoying an unusual amount of interest from the rest of the world, largely due to the election of charismatic and selfie-prone leader Trudeau. “As a society, we

must acknowledge and apologize for past wrongs, and chart a path forward for the next 150 years,” Trudeau said in a statement ahead of the official kickoff. Indigenous rights group Idle No More has called for a national day of action on Saturday, telling supporters to hold rallies and take to social media.

Events and installations celebrating the sesquicentennial milestone have already been held across the country this year, with the total cost to the federal government reported to be half a billion dollars.

Along with fireworks, free museums and outdoor concerts nationwide on Saturday, more than 50 special ceremonies to swear in new citizens

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Qatar’s Minister of Defense Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah in Ankara, Turkey, July 1, 2017.

Qatar says Arab states’ demands “made to be rejected”, says open to talks

ROME - Demands made of Qatar by four other Arab states were designed to be rejected, Doha’s foreign minister said on Saturday, explaining that their ultimatum was aimed not at tackling terrorism but at curtailing his country’s sovereignty.

However Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, speaking to reporters in Rome, added Doha was still ready to sit down and discuss the grievances raised by its Arab neighbours.

He was speaking ahead of a deadline set by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt for Doha to accept 13 demands. Officials say they are aimed at ending a rift that erupted last month over accusations that Qatar supports terrorism, charges it denies.

“This list of demands is made to be rejected. It’s not meant to be accepted or ... to be negotiated,” Sheikh Mohammed said, adding that Qatar was willing to engage in further dialogue given “the proper conditions”.

The demands included severing ties with terrorist groups, closing down the pan-Arab Al Jazeera satellite channel, downgrading ties with arch-rival Iran and closing a Turkish air base in Qatar.

Arab states have said the demands are not negotiable and warned that further unspecified measures will follow if Qatar does not comply.

But Sheikh Mohammed was adamant.

“Regarding the demands and our position, we have been from the beginning very clear on this. We are not going to accept anything that infringes on our sovereignty or anything that is imposed on Qatar,” he said.

were planned across the country.

Twitter users were sharing their favorite Canadian songs and food, along with photos of the preparations under the hashtag Canada150.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived for an official visit on Thursday. The royals began a threeday tour with a trip to the northern territory of Nunavut, home to a large

number of First Nations and Inuit people. The bash in Ottawa culminated with a musical fireworks show that is billed as largest-ever such display for Canada Day. It lasted 20 minutes and 17 seconds to commemorate 2017. “One hundred fifty years? Nah. Look at us: Canada is being born today,” Trudeau told the crowd soaked in rains. (rtr)

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Qatari officials have repeatedly said the demands are so draconian that they suspect the four countries never seriously intended to negotiate on them and were instead seeking to hobble Doha’s sovereignty.

Asked if he feared any military moves, he said his country was not afraid but believed that wisdom would prevail.

“International law should not be violated and there is a border which should not be crossed,” he said.

He spoke after arriving from the United States. Washington is helping Kuwait, which has retained ties with Qatar, to mediate in the dispute..

Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the news conference, he said that the demand by the Arab states that Qatar close the Turkish air base was “out of the question.”

NATO ally Turkey has backed Qatar in the dispute.

“We are not going to retreat from any agreement we have already signed. We really appreciate the relationship we have with Turkey,” he said. (rtr)

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Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his speech during the 4th Congress of the Indonesian Diasporas in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 1, 2017.

Obama pushes tolerance, respect in childhood home Jakarta

JAKARTA — Following another week of dust-ups between the media and President Donald Trump, his predecessor shared a bit of wisdom from the other side of the world about tolerance and taking the daily news cycle in stride. “I wasn’t worried about what was in the newspapers today,” former President Barack Obama said Saturday during a nostalgic visit to Indonesia’s capital, his childhood home. “What I was worried about was, ‘What are they going to write about me 20 years from now when I look back?’”

Obama has largely stayed away from U.S. politics and the Trump administration, but he did tout one of his accomplishments while in office. “In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history about climate change, an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership, can still give our children a fighting chance,” he said.

Trump shocked many countries last month by announcing he was pulling out of the accord. He has also had a difficult relationship with members of the press and was recently condemned by Democrats and Republicans for a tweet that attacked a female MSNBC host.

Obama stressed the importance of stepping away from news sites where only like-minded views are shared, and warned about social media giving rise to resentment of minorities and bad treatment of people. The former president was greeted by a crowd of thousands, including leaders, students and businesspeople, in Jakarta, where he opened the Fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora. He is wildly popular in Indonesia, where many view him as an adopted son. A statue of the boy still remembered as “Barry” stands outside his old elementary school.

He reminisced about moving to Jakarta in 1967 when he was just 6 years old, shouting, “Indonesia bagian dari diri saya!” or “Indonesia is part of me!” Obama said he had been gorging on the local food since arriving.

“If the rainy season came, the floods were coming and we had to clean out the floors in our house and then chase the chickens because they had gone someplace else,” he said to roaring laughter. “Today, Jakarta is a thriving center of commerce marked by highways and high-rises. So much has changed, so much progress has been made.” Obama lived in the country with his mother, an anthropologist, and his Indonesian stepfather. The couple split up after having his half-sister, and Obama moved back to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his grandparents. But he said he has never forgotten the years he spent in Indonesia.

“My time here made me cherish respect for people’s differences,” he said, noting how he and his family had just visited two of the most treasured ancient temples — Borobudur, a Buddhist complex, and the Hindu compound of Prambanan — in the world’s most populous Muslim country.

Obama’s speech came on the final leg of his 10-day vacation in Indonesia. In addition to visiting the temples in the city of Yogyakarta on the island of Java, he and his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Sasha and Malia, also went rafting and toured the resort island of Bali. On Friday, he met Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo at the grand Bogor Palace in West Java, just outside Jakarta.

The Indonesian visit marked Obama’s first trip to Asia since leaving office. He urged the country to be a light of democracy and to never stop embracing differences. Indonesia has faced a rise in Islamic radicalism and anti-gay attacks, and was recently condemned by rights groups for jailing Jakarta’s former governor, an ethnic Chinese Christian, for blasphemy.

“The spirit of this country has to be one of tolerance.

It’s enshrined in Indonesia’s constitution, it’s symbolized by mosques and temples and churches beside each other,” Obama said. “That spirit is one of the defining things about Indonesia. It is one of the most important characteristics to set as an example for other Muslim countries around the world.” (ap)

10 injured as volcano erupts on Indonesia’s main Java island

JAKARTA — A volcano popular with tourists erupted Sunday on Indonesia’s main island of Java, injuring 10 people, an official said.

Sileri Crater at Dieng Plateau spewed cold lava, mud and ash as high as 50 meters (164 feet) into the sky when it erupted,

said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

He said the sudden eruption occurred at around 11:30 a.m., when there were about 17 visitors around the crater. Ten people were injured and were being treated at

a hospital.

Soldiers and police officers were dispatched to the scene, while local residents and visitors were asked to evacuate the area in case of further eruptions, Nugroho said.

Sileri is the most active and dan-

gerous among some 10 craters at Dieng Plateau. Its most recent eruption was in 2009, when it unleashed volcanic materials up to 200 meters (656 feet) high and triggered the creation of three new craters.

Dieng Plateau, located in the Central Java province district of

Banjarnegara, is a popular tourist attraction because of its cool climate and ninth-century Hindu temples. It sits about 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) above sea level.

Some 142 people were reportedly asphyxiated in 1979 when the volcano spewed gases. (ap)

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BUSINESS India launches new single nationwide tax

NEW DELHI — India’s Parliament held a special midnight session Friday to introduce a new single nationwide tax, replacing a complicated mix of state and federal taxes that will change the cost of nearly everything people buy. India’s president and the prime minister pressed a button heralding the major overhaul of the taxation system — known as the single Goods and Services Tax — from July 1.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a speech that the new system would eliminate 500 types of taxes in favor of one tax across the country, a catalyst that would remove trade imbalance and promote exports. “GST is a simple, transparent system which prevents generation of blackmoney and curbs corruption. The system gives opportunity to honesty and people who do honest business,” he said.

The main opposition Congress and some other parties boycotted the midnight ceremony, arguing that nearly 7 million traders needed more time to prepare for the new system as they would be required to file tax returns every month. The opposition, however, supported the new tax system. India’s Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian was confident of resolving teething problems of the implementation in a month or two.

“There will be some hurdles initially. But we will be able to remove them in 1-2 months,” Subramanian told reporters. The government published lists last month showing almost every item for sale in India, from shampoo to tea to automobiles, should be taxed within four broad categories — at rates of 5 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent or 28 percent. It had already ordered all businesses in January to adopt or upgrade cash registers and computer systems so they are able to file tax returns that comply with the new tax regime.

Most of India’s 29 states have passed local laws to implement the new tax regime, but some have pleaded for more time. The government dismissed that idea, but at least one industry grouping — the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India — urged a delay, saying the government’s own computer networks are not yet ready for the change.

First proposed in 2003, the idea was bogged down for years in bipartisan debate, with various governments trying to push it forward while opposition politicians dragged it back. Before Modi and his Bharatya Janata Party came to power three years ago, they were staunchly against the move.

Some opposition parties asked the government to delay implementation of the new system until October as Indian businesses were still recovering from the government’s snap decision to remove 86 percent of its currency from circulation overnight on Nov. 8. In the months that followed, India replaced the old currency notes with newly designed bills. But the move caused chaos within the country’s cashdependent economy, hurting industries like construction and tourism, and hitting poor people the hardest.

On Friday, at a crowded New Delhi market plastered with posters announcing massive sales, shoppers were vacuuming up household gadgets and high-end electronics in the last days before the new sales tax took effect.

Nafees Ahmad scoured the stores for a new air-conditioner and LED television set with his wife and teenage son in tow.

“Our TV is fine. We did want to buy a new one, just not this soon,” he said with a smile as he checked prices at the Electronics Paradise store. “But when the GST is applied everything will cost more so we decided to just go ahead and buy it now.” He may even splurge on a new oven and a few other items if the prices were low enough, he added.(ap)

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Repel Calamities, Residents of Sema Agung Do Melasti with Tektekan

There are always unique things under the skies of Bali Island.

Melasti procession held by residents of Sema Agung customary village, Tusan, Banjarangkan, Klungkung, to Tegal Besar Beach, Negari Village, on Tuesday (Apr. 11), looked different from the usual. It happens because the residents carried tektekan (bamboo split drum) and put on a hat of green coconut leaves with the aim of rejecting calamities. This procession was held in a series of ngusaba desa at local village.

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Oxfam’s Big Heads depict G20 leaders take part in protests ahead of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 2, 2017.

As anti-G20 protests begin, Merkel says growth must be inclusive

BERLIN - With an eye on anti-globalisation protests brewing in Hamburg before this week’s G20 summit, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday leaders will have to focus on sustainable and inclusive economic growth rather than their own prosperity. In her weekly podcast, the German chancellor said this year’s G20 summit will delve into issues championed by protesters such as distribution of wealth and consumption of resources - alongside related issues like climate change, free markets, consumer protection and upholding social standards.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched against the meeting in the rain in Hamburg on Sunday in a prelude to the July 7-8 gathering, where 21,000 police from across Germany will protect the meetings of the world’s 20 largest economies.

“It’s not only going to be about (economic) growth but rather sustainable growth,” Merkel said. “We’ve got to have a ‘win-win’ situation for everyone. The issues obviously revolve around: how do we achieve inclusive or sustainable growth?”

Merkel, seeking a fourth term in a Sept. 24 election, outlined the issues as: “What are we doing with our resources? What are the rules for distribution of wealth? How many people are taking part? And how many countries are able to profit from that?”

Without mentioning the protests that have German security officials worried about possible acts of sabotage this week in the country’s second-largest city,

Merkel noted that these non-traditional issues were forced onto the G20 agenda.

“If we simply try to carry on as we have in the past, the worldwide developments will definitely not be sustainable and inclusive,” she said. “We need the climate protection agreement, open markets and improved trade agreements in which consumer protection, social and environmental standards are upheld.”

In a speech to parliament last week, Merkel promised to fight for free trade and press on with multilateral efforts to combat climate change at the summit, challenging the “America First” policies of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The G20 meeting follows a G7 summit in Sicily a month ago that exposed deep divisions between other Western countries and Trump on climate change, trade and migration.

Trump later announced he was pulling the United States out of a landmark agreement to combat climate change reached in 2015 in Paris.

German authorities are bracing for trouble in Hamburg, worried that the protests could turn violent as they did outside a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy in 2001 when one person was shot dead and hundreds injured.

The German Federal Crime Office warned that violent G20 opponents could carry out arson and sabotage at infrastructure targets such as the Hamburg harbour and airport, newspaper Welt am Sonntag said on Sunday.

“New and creative forms of attack have to be watched out for,” the report said. It added Hamburg police are bracing for attempts by activists to disrupt electrical power in Hamburg.

Sunday’s demonstration was organised by a group called “Protest Wave G20”, with 50,000 to 100,000 protesters expected on an afternoon march through the city centre. Other demonstrations this week are called “Welcome to Hell” and “G20 Not Welcome”(rtr)

While cheering, people hit the bamboo along the road leading to the beach so that generates tektekan sound believed by citizens as the gong of the gods. They also believe that tektekan is used to dismiss calamities or a kind of ritual to dismiss pest and diseases. But in keeping with the passage of time, the use of tektekan is equipped with bamboo fire blower and gamelan.

“Historically, this tradition has been indeed inherited from past time. According to our senior figures, in the past the tektekan was trusted to dismiss calamities like in the nangluk merana ritual,” said the priest of Dalem Penyarikan Puseh Bale Agung Temple of Sema Agung, Ketut Purna, not long ago. He told there are 75 pieces of tektekan brought by residents.

They are created at people’s home.

Once completed, they are collected at Dalem Penyarikan Temple to be ritually activated (pasupati).

The making of such bamboo split drum or tektekan is done in turn by customary villagers. Currently, the tektekan is made by residents of Kawan hamlet, while the ritual

is organized by Kanginan hamlet.

More specifically, Jro Mangku Purna said the melasti procession is started by residents by gathering at the intersection of Sema Agung.

After that, the residents venerating the deities head to Ulunsuwi Temple and Dalem Setra.

From Dalem Setra, they proceed to Dalem Penyarikan at Puseh Bale Agung Temple. At this temple, devotees say prayers together and invoke purificatory holy water. The procession is done to ward off pests or eliminate calamities or disaster at village such as diseases and epidemics.

Residents walk along five kilometers to the beach and resume the melasti procession to Tegal Besar Beach. A few people are in trance from the road to Tegal Besar Beach.

After sprinkled with holy water, the devotees in trance then regained their consciousness. Arriving back from melasti procession to the beach, the deities spun clockwise at the boundaries of Sema Agung customary village. Next, the deities were enthroned at Melanting Temple.

“After the deities are enthroned

at Melanting Temple, the following day, Wednesday (Apr. 12) the deities dance, and the ritual then comes to an end on the Penampahan Kuningan,” said Jro Mangku Purna.

According to Jro Mangku Purna, after carrying out melasti the tektekan is put at the temple. It is allowed to be taken home by residents after the closing ceremony at the Dalem Penyarikan. Tektekan can also be used for the next year in

the same ceremony. But if broken, it can be replaced with the new one by the residents and activated.

“In the 1970s, the deities of Dalem Penyarikan performed melasti procession to the beach, while the face of companion is smeared with char.

However, it is rarely done today,” he said.

Jro Mangku Purna also recognized that melasti procession by using tektekan is once abolished due to coinciding with Nyepi

Jungut Batu Village Jungut Batu refers to both the seaside village and its coast in the north-western area of Lembongan.

It is one of the two main beachfronts, and the longest stretch on the island, where you’ll find most of the hotels and restaurants. The small rocky cliff to its south provides great views over the island’s main surf breaks, namely Shipwrecks and Lacerations, together with the beautiful sunsets over mainland Bali afar.

The island of Nusa Lembongan is just 30 minute’s boat ride from Bali and makes a relaxing break when the traffic and tourists of the South gets too much. Boats for Lembongan depart from Sanur and you can either go by slow boat or the more expensive fast boat.

Most boats from Bali will drop you off in Jungut Batu, one of the two main villages on Nusa Lembongan. There’s a range of accommodation within walking distance,

however if you plan on staying at Mushroom Bay, Dream Beach or any of the other areas on Lembongan then you will have to arrange your own transport there.

Bear in mind that whether arriving by fast boat or slow boat, you will have to wade through shallow water to get on to the beach, so wearing shorts and slip-on shoes is recommended.

The Beach There is plenty of sand obviously and some hotels do put out deckchairs, but there is a fair amount of refuse and you just don’t see many people swimming here.

That’s not to say it isn’t a pretty beach though. The sunsets can be fabulous and at low tide the entire seaweed industry will be laid out for you to observe. Fascinating and very photogenic. You cannot swim here at low tide.

Note that much of the immedi-

celebration. As a result, it brought in plague. Many plants belonging to residents were attacked by pests. So, the use of tektekan in the melasti procession is held back abruptly and then regularly held every year coinciding with the full moon in the Balinese tenth month.

“At that time, our residents immediately held a melasti procession by using tektekan. Thus, the ritual lasted till night,” added Jro Mangku Purna. (kmb)

ate off-beach area here is used for drying seaweed and it has a very distinct, well, seaweedy smell.

You get used to it after a while, but some find it gag-worthy. Although the beach at Jungut Batu may not be the best place to swim due to all the boats anchored off shore, it’s still possible to find a small stretch to take a dip and cool off in. Just look at the village kids who do this on a daily basis and see how much fun they have!

The beach also offers stunning views across to Mount Agung in Bali on a clear day, and the sunsets from this side of the island are some of the best we reckon. Heading south from the main beach, there’s a lovely little walkway that takes you up to the bukit or hill, where more upmarket accommodation is available. This area is also great to enjoy sunset drinks and views across to Mount Agung in Bali.

(IBP)

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Tradition of Ngaturang Lakon

Ukraine points finger at Russian security services in recent cyber attack

Hundreds of Daup villagers eat together at Bale Agung Temple

BANGLI — Hundreds of Daup customary villagers, Kintamani, thronged the outermost courtyard of the Bale Agung Temple on Wednesday afternoon (Jun. 28) to eat together. This joint meal activity held around 14:00 is part of the traditional ngaturang lakon procession carried out by ten former leaders of Daup customary village.

Jero Penyarikan Payu accompanied by headman of Daup, Dewa Nyoman Saliawan, when met last Wednesday explained that ngaturang lakon poses a tradition that must be executed by former customary leaders of Daup customary village, Kintamani. As for those who included in the former customary leaders are Jero Kubayan, Jero Bau, Jero Singgukan, Jero Nyarikan and temple priest. In the meantime, on Wednesday those performing the ngaturang lakon amounted to ten residents. Seven of whom had served as Jero Kubayan, two as Jero Bau and a Jero Mangku.

“This ngaturang lakon has significance of returning the offerings having been accepted when they were forerunners. And through the tradition of ngaturang lakon the evidence is returned,” he said.

In the tradition of ngaturang lakon, the residents once served as kubayan (highest position in the ulu apad system) are obliged to offer some oblations and two pigs.

Then, the residents who had served as Jero Bau and temple priests only offer a pig. “In the tradition of ngaturang lakon this time, there are a total of 17 pigs to be offered,”

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Pro-democracy activist Avery Ng is detained by police as he takes part in a protest demanding the release of Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu Xiaobo, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit in Hong Kong, China July 1, 2017. Siu

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This joint meal activity is part of the traditional ngaturang lakon procession carried out by ten former leaders of Daup customary village. he said.

Jero Penyarikan Payu explained that tradition of ngaturang laku begins with negtegang procession, nanceb taring and ngingsah.

The procession was commenced three days ago. In the meantime, on Wednesday, the procession held was mapiuning (notifying)

at Puseh Temple in the morning.

Other than bringing the offerings, in mapiuning procession, the pig to be used is also taken to Puseh Temple.

Later in the afternoon, after performing the mapiuning procession, the residents are back to the Bale Agung and slaughter all the pigs

and then make various preparations. “Some pork is processed for offerings, some other is intended for malang (divided equally for the entire heads of the family) and the remaining is processed for joint meals in the form of lawar, sate and other types of food,” he explained.

Jero Penyarikan Payu said that the tradition of ngaturang lakon actually is not a necessity. However, if not implemented, it will become a psychical debt. “One will terminate its position as customary leaders (peduluan) when all their children have got married,” he added. (kmb40)

Cash Not Accepted

Only E-Money Accepted on Bali’s Mandara Toll Road BISNIS Bali reports that the Indonesian banking sector has promised to fully support a national policy that will no longer accept cash payment from toll road users, effective October 1, 2017, leaving e-money cards as the only remaining option for vehicle operators.

The regional CEO of Bank

Mandiri for Bali and Nusa Tenggara, R. Erwan Djoko Hermawan, said on Thursday, June 22, 2017, said his bank would support the policy in order to reduce waiting times at the entrance to toll roads.

The bank has added 1,000 emoney cards with an additional 500 cards expected shortly.

Credit cards are not an option

for paying toll fees given the realtive low value of each trip, the need for card holder verification, and the additional need for asignature that would together defeat the goal of making use of the toll more efficient.

An estimated 2-4% of Bali toll users currently pay with e-money cards. (kmb)

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China’s Xi talks tough on Hong Kong as tens of thousands call for democracy

HONG KONG - Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong’s new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won’t tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China.

Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy protesters from getting to the harbour-front venue close to where the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, tearfully handed back Hong Kong to China in the pouring rain in 1997. Xi said Hong Kong should crack down on moves towards “Hong Kong independence”.

“Any attempt to endanger China’s sovereignty and security, challenge the power of the central government ... or use Hong Kong to carry out infiltration and sabotage activities against the mainland is an act that crosses the red line and is absolutely impermissible,” Xi said.

He also referred to the “humiliation and sorrow” China suffered during the first Opium War in the early 1840s that led to ceding Hong Kong to the British.

Hong Kong has been racked by demands for full democracy and,

more recently, by calls by some pockets of protesters for independence, a subject that is anathema to Beijing.

Xi’s speech was his strongest yet to the city amid concerns over what some perceive as increased meddling

by Beijing, illustrated in recent years by the abduction by mainland agents of some Hong Kong booksellers and Beijing’s efforts in disqualifying two pro-independence lawmakers elected to the city legislature.

“It’s a more frank and pointed way of dealing with the problems,” said former senior Hong Kong government adviser Lau Siu-kai on Hong Kong’s Cable Television. “The central government’s power hasn’t been sufficiently respected... they’re concerned about this.”

The tightly choreographed visit was full of pro-China rhetoric amid a virtually unprecedented security lockdown close to the scene

of pro-democracy protests in 2014 that grabbed global headlines with clashes and tear gas rising between waterfront skyscrapers.

Xi did not make contact with the people in the street or with any pro-democracy voices, forgoing an opportunity to lower the political heat through a softer, more nuanced approach.

The hardening stance of the democrats and Beijing could perhaps widen, spawning greater radicalism, though some activists also concede a spreading disillusionment has sapped momentum among the democracy movement since Xi came to power.

Under the mini-constitution, the Basic Law, Hong Kong is guaranteed wide-ranging autonomy for “at least 50 years” after 1997 under a “one country, two systems” formula praised by Xi. It also specifies universal suffrage as an eventual goal.

But Beijing’s refusal to grant full democracy triggered the nearly three months of street protests in 2014 that posed one of the greatest populist challenges to Beijing in decades. (rtr)

KIEV - Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian security services were involved in a recent cyber attack on the country, with the aim of destroying important data and spreading panic.

The SBU, Ukraine’s state security service, said the attack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on Tuesday, was by the same hackers who attacked the Ukrainian power grid in December 2016. Ukrainian politicians were quick to blame Russia for Tuesday’s attack, but a Kremlin spokesman dismissed “unfounded blanket accusations”.

Cyber security firms are trying to piece together who was behind the computer worm, dubbed NotPetya by some experts, which conked out computers, hit banks, disrupted shipping and shut down a chocolate factory in Australia.

The attack also hit major Russian firms, leading some cyber security researchers to suggest that Moscow was not behind it.

The malicious code in the virus encrypted data on computers, and demanded victims pay a $300 ransom, similar to the extortion tactic used in a global WannaCry ransomware attack in May. But Ukrainian officials and some security experts say the ransomware feature was likely a smokescreen.

Relations between Ukraine and Russia went into freefall after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent outbreak of a Kremlin-backed separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 10,000 people.

Hacking Ukrainian state institutions is part of what Ukraine says is a “hybrid war” by Russia on Kiev. Russia denies sending troops or military equipment to eastern

Ukraine.

“The available data, including those obtained in cooperation with international antivirus companies, give us reason to believe that the same hacking groups are involved in the attacks, which in December 2016 attacked the financial system, transport and energy facilities of Ukraine using TeleBots and BlackEnergy,” the SBU said.

“This testifies to the involvement of the special services of Russian Federation in this attack.”

The SBU in an earlier statement on Friday said it had seized equipment it said belonged to Russian agents in May and June to launch cyber attacks against Ukraine and other countries.

Referencing the $300 ransomware demand, the SBU said “the virus is cover for a large-scale attack on Ukraine. This is evidenced by a lack of a real mechanism for taking possession of the funds ... enrichment was not the aim of the attack.”

“The main purpose of the virus was the destruction of important data, disrupting the work of public and private institutions in Ukraine and spreading panic among the people.”

A cyber attack in December on a Ukrainian state energy computer caused a power cut in the northern part of the capital Kiev.

The Russian foreign ministry and Federal Security Service did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the latest allegations.

Russian oil major Rosneft was one of the first companies to reveal it had been compromised by the virus and sources told Reuters on Thursday computers at state gas giant Gazprom had also been infected. (rtr)

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A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017.

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“It can be said that I’m really stuck in Semara Pegulingan,” Von stated when did an interaction with the audiences of PKB (39th Bali Art Festival) at Kalangan

Asoka, Taman Budaya Denpasar on Wednesday (Jun. 28). He and his crew in Sanggar Mekar Bhuana was performing semara pegulingan klasik tiga gaya percussion at Bali

Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs

Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City.

The tower is believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a massive array of skulls that struck fear into the Spanish conquistadores when they captured the city under Hernan Cortes, and mentioned the structure in contemporary accounts.

Historians relate how the severed heads of captured warriors adorned tzompantli, or skull racks, found in a number of Mesoamerican cultures before the Spanish conquest.

But the archaeological dig in the bowels of old Mexico City that began in 2015 suggests that picture was not complete.

“We were expecting just men, obviously young men, as warriors would be, and the thing about the women and children is that you’d think they wouldn’t be going to war,” said Rodrigo Bolanos, a biological anthropologist investigating the find.

“Something is happening that we have no record of, and this is really new, a first in the Huey Tzompantli,” he added.

Raul Barrera, one of the archaeologists working at the site alongside the huge Metropolitan Cathedral built over the Templo Mayor, said the skulls would have been set

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Von Hath, a Western man who ‘Loves’ Semara Pegulingan

DENPASAR - Mostly for 20 years, Von Hatch (42) doing a study, research, and training on semara pegulingan, a kind of Balinese percussions. A man who comes from New Zealand even did the reconstruction of the semara pegulingan percussions which are nearly extinct. One of them is tabuh telu, a percussion of Puri Payangan style which was lately played 70 years ago.

MEXICO CITY - A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.

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in the tower after they had stood on public display on the tzompantli.

Roughly six meters in diameter, the tower stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. Its base has yet to be unearthed.

There was no doubt that the tower was one of the skull edifices mentioned by Andres de Tapia, a Spanish soldier who accompanied Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico, Barrera said.

In his account of the campaign, de Tapia said he counted tens of thousands of skulls at what became known as the Huey Tzompantli. Barrera said 676 skulls had so far been found, and that the number would rise as excavations went on.

The Aztecs and other Mesoamerican peoples performed ritualistic human sacrifices as offerings to the sun. (rtr)

Art Festival this year. Sanggar Mekar Bhuana was found in 2000 with the classic songs concept.

According to Von, there are still incomplete facts found in previous researches about semara pegulingan. For instance, there were only two kinds of it were found previously, namely semara pegulingan saih (note) 5 and saih(note) 7 , whereas he found two instruments of semara pegulingan saih(note) 6 that are still played until the beginning of 20th century.

We performed saih 5 in the festival this year which is different with the usual performances held in Bali that use saih (note) 7. Therefore, we want to show the community especially young Balinese how humble the beat of this percussion is. Moreover, there are layers of sound that do not exist in other percussions instruments,” stated a man who has Balinese name Wayan

Pon Semara.

Von added that all percussion songs performed by Sanggar Mekar Bhuana had been researched deeply and accurately.

For instance, the reconstruction of Tabuh Gria was analyzed from a commercial CD record published

by Library of Congress in 1996.

Meanwhile, Tabuh Gria was lately recorded in 1941 in Teges Kanginan, Ubud. That record was even played for the audience in Bali Art Festival in the beginning of the performance. Then, it was played directly by the crew of Sanggar Mekar Bhuana supported by Sekaa Sik’ru.

“I want to invite the community to appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of semara pegulingan instruments from every aspect so we do not learn from the inaccurate history. In other words, we learn from history not from his story

(unknown story-Ed),” he added.

Von also hopes that art institutes or schools in Bali can pay more attention of the semara pegulingan styles in every village or regency in Bali. Moreover, there are many styles of Semara Pegulingan.

Sanggar Mekar Bhuana performed 5 styles of Semara Pegulingan included the style of Puri Payangan (tabuh gari), Kaliungu Kelod (tabuh telu lasem pegambuhan), Puri Gerenceng (tabuh sinom lawe), and Kaliungu Kelod (tabuh pat suduk maru) “I did not lie, there is a record, and there is evidence. The question now is, why the style of that percussion today is different? It is because of the contemporary influences.

Not only from the instrument’s point of view, but also from the adjustment, decency, stage formation, and the clothes of the artists,” he explained. (kmb)

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Batik Air, the full-fare affiliate of the Lion Air Group, will fly to Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai in India starting in July 2017.

Batik Air Announces Imminent Plans to Connect Indonesia with Three Indian Cities: Chennai, New Delhi, and Mumbai BATIK Air, the full-fare affiliate of the Lion Air Group, will fly to Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai in India starting in July 2017. The CEO of Batik Air, Achmad Luthfi, told the press that all preparations to serve the Indian market have been completed by the Airline. Approvals are in hand from both the Indonesian and Indian governments.

“The process has been finalized. Hopefully, it won’t be much longer. Ya, sometime around July. We have received flights slots in India, Malaysia, and Australia,” said Luthfi.

Luthfi sees India as a market with strong potential for Lion Air. The rapid economic growth and the resulting large middle class in India are very promising for tourism development. Adding: “The economies of Indonesia and India continue to develop. What’s more, both countries have two of the world’s largest populations. India, for example, the total of the middle class and above residents exceeds 200 million people. Certainly, if they want to travel, they will travel abroad. The situation (of India) is not much different than China.”

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Tourism is hoping that Batik Air’s plans to fly to Australia, Malaysia and India will help the Nation achieve a target of 20 million foreign visitors by 2019.

Batik Air currently operates an armada of 37 airplanes with plans to grow to 41 airplanes by the end of 2017. The Airline operates 209 flights each day with an on-time performance factor of 95%. (kmb)

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Von Hatch (r) and his crew in Sanggar Mekar Bhuana was performing semara pegulingan klasik tiga gaya percussion at Bali Art Festival this year.

SCHEDULE The 39th Bali Arts Festival Monday, 3rd July 2017 Time : 11.00 Location : Angsoka Stage Program : Ritual Baris Dance, by the Baris Group of Pengotan Village, representing Bangli Regency.

Time : 11.00 Location : Ayodya Stage Program : Children Game and Dance, by the Art Group of Dharma Panji Lestari, Melinggih Village, Payangan Sub-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 14.00 Location : Ratna Kanda Stage Program : Innovative Gambelan Suling Musics,

by Art Group of Semeton Nika Manu, Mas Village, Ubud Sud-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 17.00 Location : Angsoka Stage

Program : New Creation of Balinese Dance and Musics, by the Art Community of Kencana Agung, Blahbatuh Village, Blahbatuh Sud-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 20.00 Location : Ayodya Stage Program : Barong Landung performance,

by Art Group of Rare Kumara, Tegallalang Village, Tegallalang Sud-district, Gianyar Regency.

Time : 20.00 Location : Ksirarnawa Hall Program : Participation by the Art Group of Noujourn Ermasrah Korba, Tunis.

Time : 20.00 Location : Ardha Candra Amphiteatre Program : Parade of Gong Kebyar, woman performers, by the Gong Group of Sekar Nagasari, representing Bangli Regency with the Group of Swandewi, representing Bali Province.

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the tourism sector and can reach the markets that demand these products, and that tourism functions in conjunction with farmlands not at their expense, obviously requires sustained cooperation and communication between interested groups. One rather large group is the tourism sector.

Tourism is not the only solution for the challenges that agriculture in Bali is facing, but given the massive role that tourism plays on the island, it certainly could make a substantial contribution to alleviating some of the struggles faced by the farmers and guardians of this beautiful land. Some direct ways are; by tourism businesses buying local farm products and when possible directly from farmers, generating income for farmers and through various forms of agrotourism that directly compensate farmers for their work in maintaining the landscape.

There are in fact increasing numbers of tourism businesses engaged in such practices and judging by the overwhelmingly positive response that they receive from their clients and customers, there is indeed hope for a better future.

Prana Dew, for example, is a hotel made up of beautifully designed traditional style wooden houses

set in organic rice paddies near the jungle at the foot of Batukaru mountain, a short walk from Batukaru Temple. Prana Dewi has been intimately involved in supporting sustainable farm practices for many years through hands on education and by serving all local organic food in their onsite restaurant that serves local dishes that cater to western tastes.

Their new swimming pool is fed by spring water and uses no chemicals but instead uses natural processes to filter the water. All the tours that they offer to their guests allow for a truly natural experience of the shockingly beautiful surrounding landscape and directly benefit the local farmers and other caretakers of this land .

The bamboo and wooden buildings on the grounds that have been moderately landscaped, are a beautiful example of how local architecture, food and atmosphere can be harmoniously translated into a deeply luxurious experience that benefits everyone involved while enhancing the social, economic and ecological surroundings.

Royal Tulip Sarangan is a five star hotel that recently opened in Baturiti where most of Bali’s vegetables are grown. This hotel has been designed as a luxurious

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Harmony is a musical term that refers to different notes or frequencies coming together to produce a pleasant sound or to put in another way: different elements finding agreement. I think it is safe to say that we all agree that it is thanks to farmers that we can eat and that by coming together to support their important work, we will all feel more harmonious.

With tourism representing our relationship with our fellow humans, farming as our relationship with the environment and ceremonies representing our relationship with the divine, we can start to see how interconnected these three relationships are.

People from all over the world come to Bali to enjoy comfortable tourism accommodations and facilities, stunning stepped rice field landscapes and the art and culture of Bali that is intimately tied to religious beliefs. Agricultural in Bali can in fact benefit from tourism by having local farm product bought at equitable prices.

Ensuring that Bali’s farmlands are cared for in a sustainable way by the next generation of farmers, that farmers are supported by the government through policies, ongoing education and assistance, that agricultural products are valued by

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Buddhist-style monastery with conspicuous attention to the landscape in which it rests and is complete with an onsite Yoga and ayurvedic specialist to assist their guests in connecting with the harmony that these guests seek in Bali.

The hotel grounds include an onsite organic vegetable garden and rooftop herb garden that provides for some of their restaurant’s needs. The remaining vegetables that they require are bought directly from local farmers in the area. The fairly large number of rooms here were built into the slope down from the main road, allowing for a maximum of arable land to remain as farmland.

They are also committed to compositing all of their organic waste and recycling as much of their non-organic waste as they can through the local junk bank.

The Royal Tulip Sarangan is also in the process of building bridges with the local community by creating various low-impact tours that would provide income to the local temple and banjar.

By giving attention to the interplay between tourism, agriculture and Balinese religious customs, the same number of tourists could stay in Balinese-style (harmoniously integrated with the environment)

accommodations that they crossed oceans to experience.

After all, farming not only provides attractive landscapes and drives gratitude based religious practices but is also the source of nearly all our food. Should farming not at least be given the same attention as other sources of income that bring short term prosperity at best and irreparable damage at worst?

Planting food is one way of relieving economic pressures.

Developing consistent relationships between farmers and the markets that demand their products is another way. The tourism sector, that leaves a substantial footprint on this small island through the massive amounts of water, fuel and land that it requires, could very well become of tremendous benefit to farmers by buying agricultural products directly from producers and also by offering tourists the option of more sustainable ways of enjoying their visit.

A tourist is after all a person who has stepped out of their routine life in order to find some peace of mind and all humans find peace of mind by remembering that they are part of a much bigger story, a story that is fundamentally based on harmony.(kmb)

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Adele cancels remainder of world tour with damaged vocal cords

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LONDON - Singer Adele has cancelled the last two sell-out shows of her world tour due to take place at London’s Wembley Stadium this weekend after damaging her vocal cords.

Adele, 29, said she went to see a throat doctor on Friday night, who advised her not to perform. She had already performed two nights to crowds at Wembley, but said that she had been struggling vocally.

“To say I’m heartbroken would be an understatement,” Adele, said on her Twitter page.

One of the biggest selling artists in the world, she said she was so desperate perform that she had even

considered miming at the shows.

“I’ve never done it and I cannot in a million years do that to you,” she said. “It wouldn’t be the real me up there.”

Adele said refunds would be available if the shows could not be rescheduled. The Grammy-award singer has previously had to cancel concerts due to problems with her throat following vocal cord surgery in 2011. (rtr)

DiCaprio hails Mexican ban on type of fishing net killing porpoises

MEXICO CITY - Mexico on Friday banned fishing with gillnets in the northern Gulf of California as part of its pledge to save a critically-endangered species of porpoise whose cause has been championed by Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and others.

The snub-nosed vaquita porpoise has all but died out due to gillnet fishing for shrimp and to-

toaba, a delicacy in Asia. Mexico three weeks ago unveiled a plan with DiCaprio to protect the diminutive marine mammal.

Gillnets, which use mesh sizes designed to allow fish to get only their head through the netting but not their body, are blamed for trapping the vaquita porpoises and killing them.

In its official gazette, the Mexi-

U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio looks on prior to speaking on stage during the Paris premiere of the documentary film “Before the Flood” at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France on October 17, 2016.

can government said it had issued a permanent ban on fishing with gillnets in the northern Gulf of California, where the few remaining vaquitas live.

DiCaprio’s foundation estimated in early June there are now fewer than 30 vaquitas left in the wild.

On his Twitter account, the American actor hailed as “great news” the announcement that a previous temporary ban on the nets had been made permanent, offering his thanks to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and the World Wildlife Fund. (rtr)

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People stand in front of a large inflatable duck installation on the waterfront, as the country marks its 150th anniversary with “Canada 150” celebrations, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 1, 2017.

On rainy 150th birthday, nation celebrates the meaning of Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s long-anticipated 150th birthday celebrations on Saturday were marked by heavy rains and some protests, though the downpour failed to dampen spirits of revelers who thronged in large numbers to enjoy musical performances and parades. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off celebrations amid heavy security and some 25,000 people assembled at a large outdoor celebration in front of the national Parliament in Ottawa, where Irish singer Bono and other members of rock band U2 enthralled the audience.

“When others build walls, you open doors; when others divide, your arms are open wide; where you lead, others follow,” Bono said. But the bad weather meant a fly-past featuring Canadian warplanes was canceled and later on, an evening concert was delayed by an hour to allow the rain storms to pass. The long-anticipated Canada Day festivities, which included other features such as acrobats, and special citizenship ceremonies across large cities, concluded with fireworks.

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ain’s Prince Charles, shook hands with some of the thousands of revelers who converged on Canada’s capital Ottawa. “Canada is a country made strong not in spite of our differences but because of them,” Trudeau told the gathering. “We don’t aspire to be a melting pot – indeed, we know true strength and resilience flows through Canadian diversity.”

Still, in the run-up to the celebrations, some controversy was stirred at home, particularly among First Nations who noted Canada’s history of mistreatment of indig-

enous people. Activists erected a teepee on Parliament Hill on Thursday in protest. On Saturday, about 100 indigenous protesters marched through Toronto, carrying red flags and with some holding the Canadian national flag upside down.

RUBBER DUCK Some cities celebrated in more unusual ways. Toronto, Canada’s largest city, featured a giant rubber duck floating in its harbor, while Calgary planned a “living flag” composed of people wearing

red and white. The yellow duck, which cost C$200,000 ($154,273) including the rent, according to the Globe and Mail, drew criticism from some who described it as a waste of taxpayer money.

Security was already ramped up in the days ahead of the celebration and partygoers contended with road closures and concrete barriers across entrances into Parliament Hill, located in downtown Ottawa.

Heavy downpours prompted Ottawa firefighters to pump water off the grounds on Parliament Hill and the Ottawa Fire Service urged citizens to follow safety instructions. National and local police were also out in force, with security top of mind for many Canadians in the wake of fatal attacks in London, Paris and Germany.

Saturday marks the 150th anniversary of the day Canada officially became a country. Britain had ruled it before 1867. “Canada 150 years ago was a project, it was an idea to bring together four colonies with very different historical backgrounds,” said Pierre Anctil, history professor at the University of Ottawa.

“We should celebrate but we should not be complacent. It’s not a finished project,” he added.

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