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LOS ANGELES- “Fifty Shades of Grey” star Jamie Dornan said fans of the erotic box office hit could look forward to more action when the sequel, “Fifty Shades Darker”, reaches theaters next week.

The Northern Irish actor and co-star Dakota Johnson reprise their sadomasochist relationship in the follow up to the 2015 hit, which made $571 million worldwide.

“We pull out all the stops,” Dornan said at the world premiere of “Fifty Shades Darker” in Los Angeles on Thursday.

“If you’re making a sequel to anything, I think there has to be some kind of advancement on the first, you have to go a bit bigger in a lot of areas, and I don’t think this film is any different.”

“Fifty Shades Darker”, based on the second book in the trilogy of novels by E.L. James, begins its global roll out from Feb. 8. (rtr) Cast member Dakota Johnson pose at the premiere of the film “Fifty Shades Darker” in Los Angeles, California, February 2, 2017.

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Turkish anti-terrorism police break a door during an operation to arrest people over alleged links to the Islamic State group, in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, early Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. Turkey’s state-run agency says anti-terrorism police have detained more than 400 people in simultaneous police operations that spanned several cities, including Istanbul and Gaziantep near the border with Syria, according to the report.

Turkish police detain over 440 people in anti-IS operation ISTANBUL — Turkey’s anti-terrorism police have detained over 440 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group, the state-run agency reported Sunday. The Anadolu Agency said 60 IS suspects, the vast majority of them foreigners, were taken into custody early Sunday in the capital, Ankara.

It said a total of 445 people were detained in simultaneous pre-dawn police operations that spanned several cities, including Istanbul and Gaziantep, near the border with Syria. The largest operation was in the southeast province of Sanliurfa, where police took into custody more than 100 suspects from multiple addresses and found materials relating to Islamic State militants.

Security forces also apprehended nine suspects who were allegedly preparing an attack in the northwestern city of Izmir.

Anadolu did not give the nationalities of all those detained but there were 10 minors among the foreigners detained in Istanbul and the northwestern province of Kocaeli.

Turkey, which last year endured a failed coup attempt and dozens of bloody attacks linked to IS or Kurdish militants, has been stepping up its anti-terrorism efforts.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a New Year Eve mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people. It claims to have multiple cells in Turkey.

Turkey is a member of the NATO alliance and the U.S-led coalition against IS. It shares borders with Syria and Iraq, two war-torn nations at the heart of the fight against IS militants. Turkish forces have been deployed in Syria since August with the aim of clearing a border patch of IS militants and Syrian Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers related to its own Kurdish insurgency.

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Circulation of gorilla tobacco getting massive Two dealers arrested

MANGUPURA - The circulation of ‘gorilla tobacco’ and ‘herbal smoke tea’ is increasingly prevalent in Bali. The Narcotic Investigation Unit of Badung police are not standing idly by but have arrested seom dealers. On Monday (Jan. 23), police arrested two dealers; a 33 year old with the P.A.S. on Jalan Imam Bonjol Gang Nyuh Sudamala, Denpasar and a 38 year old with the initials I. on Jalan Gunung Andakasa, Gang Soka, Denpasar.

Chief of the Badung Police, Ruddi Setiawan, accompanied by chief of the Narcotics Investigation Unit, Djoko Hariadi said on Thursday (Feb. 2) that after testing the gorilla tobacco in the forensics laboratory, it was declared negative of narcotics and suspected of being a conterfeit item. Meanwhile the herbal smoke tea tobacco tested positive as a class one narcotic. The suspect PAS had been living on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, in Mumbul, South Kuta. The evidence secured by police consisted of six plastic boxes of herbal smoke tea weighing 150.6 grams.

“This tobacco contains preparations of ABFubinaca listed as a class one narcotic and as such vioates the Ministery of Health’s laws.

Here is now the emmergence fo the circulation of gorilla tobacco”, he added.

Disclosure of this case, said the police chief, originated from reports from the public that someone had been circulating tobacco that had the ability to ‘get people high’ like marijuana does. Based on this information, Djoko and his team conducted an investigation and shadowed suspects. On Monday at 13:00, police arrested one suspect in his dorm room on Jalan Imam Bonjol, West Denpasar.

During the search, the officers secured evidence consisting of six plastic boxes of herbal smoke tea with a total weight of 150.6 grams.

The goods were found in a backpack belonging to the suspect.

“The suspect admitted that the tobacco was to be sold and that the goods had been purchased online. One box weighs 5 grams and is sold for IDR 250,000”, said said Djoko.

Suspect I.D, was then arrested on Jalan Gunung Andakasa Gang Soka at 19:30. Police seized total of 10 plastic boxes of herbal smoke tea weighing 150.6 grams in total. Police arrested the suspect when he was in his rented house where police found evidence in the suspect’s backpack. .

I.D. admitted to be distributing the marijuana-like tobacco. “The suspect purchased the tobacco online and in the same way that meth dealers do, he planned to have the goods delivered to one place and payment transferred digitally”, he said. (kmb36)

Division Head of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Tabanan Agriculture Agency, I Made Arya Putra, said on Thursday (Feb. 2) that last year just 53,000 dogs were vaccinated in Tabanan, so they plan to increse the numbers this year in order to corresond to the growing dog population.

Putra explained that only 5

percent of Tananan’s 55,000 dogs are stray dogs, another 70 percent have owners who let them roam freely and just 25 percent are caged or on a leash. Based on these figures, it is evident that there is a lack of public awareness about the governements recommendation that people keeo their dogs on leashes in order to

Harbor, Lombok. To ensure a safe crossing process, he explained that they always coordinate with Padanbai harbor authorities (KSOP) “We always coordinate with the KSOP. If everything is safe, then we set out to sea”, he said.

The only significant change to the corssing is the departure times as the crossing takes longer than usual due to the weather. Normally it takes about 4 houts to corss but now it can take 5 to 6 hours. Rosta sadi that they remian vigilant with this bad weather especially since the central government has an appeal to be vigilant at sea. “If the

weather is bad, it is better to delay (the crossing) than not to arrive at the destination”, he said.

Despite such conditions there are still the regular 31 crosings a day, departing to Pandangbai at least every hour. Although the crossing activities are normal, he said that the number of passengers has decreased dramatically. Based on latest data on the number of passengers, Rosta affirmed there is a decline of as much as 15 percent.

However, the decrease in the number of passengers is not only due to bad weather but also du to the fact that is is a new crossing

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prevent the potential spread of rabies.

The mass vaccination in April will be held with the expectation that dog owners will cooperate in the yearly vaccination that dogs require in order to remain immunue to rabbies. “Dogs require a booster vaccination once a year to maintain resistence to rabies”,

explained Arya.

Most cases of people being bitten by rabies infected dogs, involve dogs that have not been re- vaccinated and have been allowed to raom freely. People are therefor being asked to keep their dogs on leashes and to have their dogs vaccinated every year. (kmb24)

Impact of bad weather, Padangbai crossing normal but passenger decrease

AMLAPURA - Heavy rain and strong winds cause a number of disturbances including an increasing in sailing time to Padangbai Harbour, Mangis from Lombok. Although there has been no other weather related interference with the crossings, there has been a significant decrese in the number of passengers since the start of the new year.

Head ASDP for Indonesia Ferry Padangbai, Wayan Rosta, when contacted on Thursday (Feb. 2) said that in general the extreme weather of the past week has not disturbed the crossing activities from Padangbai Harbor to Lembar

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55,000 dogs targeted in mass vaccination to start in April TABANAN - One of the measures being taken to address the spread of rabbies on the island is to conduct mass vaccinations on carrier animals. For 2017 a mass vaccination of dogs is scheduled to take place in April and will target some 55,000 dogs, which is the estimated dog population of Tabanan.

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route from Lembar Harbour and not all the warehouses are in fuill operation as they are still influenced by lunar celebrations.

Rosta asserted starting December 1, 2016, Surabaya Harbor opened a new direct crossing line to Lembar Harbor. This new crossing line clearly affects the number of passengers at Padangbai Harbor.

Besides, the other new crossing lines are also in the trial process, includgin the new line from Ketapang to Lembar Harbor. However, this specific line does not yet have a definite schedule as it is still in the trial phase.

“According to preliminary information, this new line will serve crossings twice a week, either from Surabaya or Ketapang” he said.

Chief of Padangbai police area, I Ketut Suharto Giri, also revealed that the crossing at Padangbai Harbor rare currently running smoothly and they are still coordinating with the KSOP of Padangbai and the Denpasar weather service (BMKG) in anticipation of weaterh conditions that could affect the crossing.

Police personnel are also looking out for the security of passengers departing from and arriving to Padangbai Harbor. (kmb31)

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tion against wild animals and other threats.

Each new year, the fattened pigs are slaughtered and the carcasses decorated and paraded through the streets of Sanxia, a traditional district in northern Taiwan, to the temple.

The owner of the biggest pig wins the competition and with it

an auspicious sign that the year to come will be a lucky one.

“This is a custom at our Tzu Shih Yeh (founder ancestor) temple in Sanxia. We cannot abolish this tradition,” said Liu Chingsheng, owner of this year’s winning pig.

Animal protection groups say the process of fattening the animals

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BPS highlights inflation rate in Denpasar and Singaraja

Taiwan’s “holy pig” festival SANXIA - The winner of Taiwan’s “holy pig” ceremony on Thursday defended the lunar new year tradition against critics who argue the fattened animals are raised under cruel conditions.

The ceremony harkens back to a time when early Chinese settlers to Taiwan used to pray to mountain gods and local deities for protec-

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-- a pig raised for the ceremony can weigh more than 800 kg (1763 lbs) compared to a normal weight of 120 kg -- is cruel.

“Just like for us humans, obesity in animals is a disease,” Chen Yumin, director of the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan, told Reuters Television.

She said the pigs’ movements

are restricted while they are fattened and the additional weight puts a strain on their internal organs.

“In addition to the inhumane process of fattening is the last moment when they are about to be slaughtered. This moment is actually very cruel and inhumane,” she said. (rtr)

Spokesman for the Bali Police, Hengky Widjaja

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Related to threat of terror action

Bali police ward the warning of American embassy

DENPASAR - Information circulating on social media sites about the United States Embassy having declared that there is the potential for a terrorist attack in Bali that would target nightclubs and shopping centers appears to be unfounded. When contacted for a confirmation of this hearsay, Spokesman for the Bali Police, Hengky Widjaja, stated that there has been no official information reagrding such a warning.

“If there has in fact been such a warning, there must instructions and attention from the national police headquarters.

So far, there has been no such information”, said Hengky on Friday (Feb. 3).

Nevertheless, continued Hengky, Balinese people are urged to remain vigilant. However people should not panic in the face of uncertain information. “If we panic and this is seen by travelers, this will disrupt us whereas such a threat is not necessarily true”, he said.

People’s vigilance must be encouraged and increased. If there

is something suspicious, Hengky asked that it be reported immediately. Maintaining security in Bali must be the priority of the people.

Moreover, Balinese people on the Island of the Gods are united to protect Bali from external threats.

Clashes amongst fellow Balinese must also be avoided, he said.

“Even though people outside Bali make a scene, Balinese people should join in. As a tourist destination, Bali should remain safe and conducive to peace”, he said.

Bali police continue to improve preemptive and preventive measures and to assign intelligence officers. Since there has been no instruction related to any warning, police authorities are not on special standby. Although the information is vague, his institution is not ignoring it and is still taking action.

“Probably the locations mentioned are just a decoy. The target may be different. Security officers at the entrances to Bali remains on alert, though until now conditions are safe and secure”, he affimed. (kmb)

DENPASAR - Denpasar and Singaraja experienced relatively high inflation rate during the period of January 2017. Such high inflation rate is triggered by many factors, such as the price hike of cayenne pepper, vehicle registration renewal fee and wage of domestic workers. This was revealed in the official release submitted by the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, Adi Nugroho, on Wednesday (Feb. 1).

“Inflation rate in Denpasar during the period of January 2017 reached 1.39 percent and Singaraja records the inflation rate of 1.79 percent,” he said.

Inflation in these two major cities, said Adi, gets the attention of BPS Bali because it is higher than the national inflation rate reaching 0.394 percent.

Of the ten major commodities contributing to inflation in Denpasar, the increase in vehicle registration renewal fee of 105.76 percent has contributed the most.

It is followed by price hike of cayenne pepper reaching 72.32 percent and domestic worker wage increase of 2.27 percent.

“Other commodities contributing to inflation are credit of mobile phone, electricity tariff, price of cars, non-subsidized fuel, cigarette filters and anchovy,”

he added.

Adi continued that commodities contributing to inflation rate in Singaraja included the price hike of cayenne pepper, electricity tariff, vehicle registration renewal fee, chicken, non-subsidized fuel, beans, credit of mobile phone, tuna, egg and spinach. In addition, he also presented the development of cumulative value of export commodities from Bali which increased from USD 498,681,698 during the period from January to December 2015 to USD 505,119,761 during the period from January to December 2016. In other words, the export value of Bali increased as much as 1.29 percent.

The countries becoming the major export markets of Bali are the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore and China.

“The US still occupies the highest percentage namely 25.52 percent followed by Australia at 9.19 percent,” he said while hoping that America’s policy under the leadership of Donald Trump will remain in favor of the export growth from Bali Province.

Adi Nugroho added that the presence of micro and small industry in Bali Province also experienced positive growth in 2016, reaching 11.56 percent. The same thing happened to the number of Gini ratio (expenditure inequality) perching in the range of 0.374 percent, lower than the national average reaching 0.394 percent. (kmb32)

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Adi Nugroho (left)

German tourist sentenced to five years and eight months For posession of crystal meth- making equipment DENPASAR - Do you still remember the German that police said had been in posession of crystalmeth making equiment and ingredients? Defendant Benjamin Bailer was convicted on Thursday (Feb. 2) and sentenced to five years and eight months in jail by a panel of judges led by Ekstar Oktavi.

The Denpasar District Court, also fined the defendant IDR 1 billion, with a subsidiary of three months in prison.

The sentence was less than the seven years, and finr of IDR 1 billion and 8 month subsiduary time that public prosecutor Paul had requested. The judge charged the

defendant under Article 112 paragraph 1 of the Law on Narcotics.

After hearing the verdict, the prosecutor and legal counsel of the defendant, Bernardin et al, and the defendant immediately accepted the judge’s verdict and signed the acceptance form.

To note, German citizen Benja-

min Bailer was found in posession of both crystal meth-making equipment as well as 0.71 grams of crystal meth found on the side tabel of the defendants room onteh second floor. The defendant claimed that he wanted the crystoal meth for his own personal use and learned hwo to make more form the internet. In

addition to the crystal meth, police also found the raw ingredeints needed to make more.

Benjamin Bailer’s arrrest was made possible due to the discolser by convict Vicky Monaro who admitted to having received 1.12 grams of free crystal meth from the german man. (kmb37)

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Govt needs to immediately repair Ubud’s infrastructure

GIANYAR - There are a total of 13 areas throughout Ubud that are categorized as developed. Ubud is visited by thousands of travelers every day who come to enjoy the arts and the culture of homestays. Behind Ubud’s great appeal the government is doing little to repair damaged infrasturcture in the region.

Road damage is the most obvious infrasturcture issue in Ubud. Almost all the sidewalks in the area are damaged from having never been repaired over the years. There are even giant holes in some sidewalks. Such conditions are truly unfortunate given how many travellwers come here to walk the streets and enjoy the beauty of the area.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office, A.A. Bagus Ari Brahmanta, when contacted on this matter admitted that Ubid’s infrastructure needs the attention fo the government. The Tourism Ofice he said has been coordinating with the public works department to prorotize infrastucture repair in Ubud. “We have reported this matter to the governemnt, and the district road sections will soon be repaired”, he said.

He added that 13 villages in Ubud out of Gianyar’s 25 villages are categorized as developed. “These are developed tourism villages so we need to improve their quality, such as repairing roads and damaged sidewalks. Obviously, we have coordinated with the district and provincial Public Works Agency”, he said.

Outside of Ubud, there are seven villages which are developing tourism villages, and five vother villages are included in the development plan. “From a total of 25 tourism villages, five villages are new additions planned to be included as tourism village, but their potential will be reviewed again. They are: Negari hamlet (Singapadu Tengah, Sukawati, Singapadu Kaler, Kedisan hamlet and Kendran Manuaba hamlet, Tegallalang) and Marga hamlet, Payangan”, he explained.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office affirmed that the government of Gianyar has given special attention to the regions tat have been developed into tourism villages. In the development of tourism villages, communities are directly involved as players, not just as spectators. “So, in addition to really touching people, the effort to provide guidance for tourism villages can also be used as a form of cultural preservation, especially Gianyar that that is famous for art and culture,” he said. (kmb35)

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In this Dec. 29, 2016 file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a long-range S-200 missile is fired in a military drill in the port city of Bushehr, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran.

Iran vows “roaring missiles” if threatened, defies new sanctions

DUBAI - A Revolutionary Guards commander said Iran would use its missiles if its security is under threat, as the elite force defied new U.S. sanctions on its missile programme by holding a military exercise on Saturday.

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Road damage is the most obvious infrasturcture issue in Ubud. Almost all the sidewalks in the area are damaged from having never been repaired over the years.

Rainy season

Residents behind the hills collect rainwater in cistern

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Local people are relying on rainwater to meet their daily needs.

BANGLI - Residents of Madya hamlet, Terunyan, Kintamani, are still facing a clean water shortages.

Local people are relying on rainwater to meet their daily needs. During the rainy seaon, residents collect rainwater in cisterns.

Resident of Madya hamlet, Wayan Santep, said that most of his fellow residents collect rainwater using permanent cisterns, while several other residents use tarpaulins. The water collected during the rainy season only lasts for a few months.

Usually by May, residents living behind the hills are forced to turn to water from Lake Batur to meet their dailly needs. “During the dry season, we walk to the lake to fetch water for the necessities of life like bathing and giving to our livestock as drinking

water. We too consume the lake water”, he said on Friday (Feb. 3).

He explained that he and his neighbours usually set off for the lake to collect water early in the morning as it takes two hours to get there and back and Madya hamlets residents need to hike up and down Terunyan Hill. Purchasing water is simply not possible for them because the road to Madya is severly damaged so trucks cannot get to their hamlet. The road that was created through the TMMD program in 2014 is so badly damaged that cars cannot use it.

The road has never been repaved since it was first created. “Vehicles from lower areas cannot make it up here because of the severe damage to the road”, he added. (kmb40)

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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since a recent Iranian ballistic missile test which prompted U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn said the Washington was putting Iran on notice over its “destabilising activity”, and Trump tweeted Tehran was “playing with fire” “We are working day and night to protect Iran’s security,” head of Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace unit, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.

“If we see smallest misstep from the enemies, our roaring missiles will fall on their heads,” he added.

Despite the heated words, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday he was not considering raising the number of U.S. forces in the Middle East to address Iran’s “misbehavior”, but warned that the world would not ignore Iranian activities.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is holding the military exercise in

Semnan province on Saturday to test missile and radar systems and to “showcase the power of Iran’s revolution and to dismiss the sanctions,” according to the force’s website.

Dismissing Trump’s comments that “nothing is off the table” in dealing with Tehran, the commander of Iran’s ground forces said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic has been hearing such threats since its 1979 revolution.

“The defence capability and the offensive prowess of Iran’s armed forces would make America or any other enemy regretful of any incursion,” Ahmad Reza Pourdastan was quoted as saying by ISNA. BALLISTIC TEST Iranian state news agencies reported that home-made missile systems, radars, command and control centres, and cyber warfare systems would be tested in Saturday’s drill.

Iran has one of the Middle East’s largest missile programmes and held a similar exercise in December to showcase its defence systems, including radars, anti-missile defence units, and short and medium-

range missiles.

Tehran confirmed on Wednesday that it had test-fired a new ballistic missile, but said the test did not breach the Islamic Republic’s nuclear agreement with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the pact. Iran has test-fired several ballistic missiles since the nuclear deal in 2015, but the latest test was the first since Trump entered the White House. Trump said during his election campaign that he would stop Iran’s missile programme.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday and recommended the missile testing be studied at committee level. The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called the test “unacceptable”.

The Security Council resolution was adopted to buttress the deal under which Iran curbed its nuclear activities to allay concerns they could be used to develop atomic bombs, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

The resolution urged Tehran to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons.

Critics say the resolution’s language does not make this obligatory.

Tehran says it has not carried out any work on missiles specifically designed to carry nuclear payloads. (rtr)

MANILA - The Philippine government derided Catholic bishops on Sunday as “out of touch” after they used weekend sermons to attack a war on drugs they said had created a “reign of terror” for the poor.

Members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) had dramatised President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign and, instead of criticising, should focus on contributing to the “reign of peace” that innocent people now felt, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said.

The church assailed bloodshed that had caused suffering, and said killing people was not the way to deal with illegal drugs.

In a pastoral letter read out on Saturday and repeated to congregations at churches on Sunday, bishops said it was disturbing that many Filipinos were indifferent to the killings, or even approved of them.

Abella, a former pastor, said the war on drugs had made the country safer, “far from the ‘terror’ the bishops paint rather dramatically.”

“The officials of the CBCP are apparently out of touch with the sentiments of the faithful who overwhelmingly support the changes in the Philippines,” Abella said in a statement.

More than 7,600 people have been killed since Duterte unleashed a ferocious crackdown seven months ago, more than 2,500 in police raids and sting operations.

Human rights groups believe many other deaths that police had attributed to vigilantes were carried out by assassins likely colluding with police. The government and police vehemently deny extrajudicial killings have occurred.

The CBCP’s message was read at numerous churches in Manila attended by Reuters, though not all. Church sources said the Archdiocese of Manila issued a circular telling parishes to read the pastoral letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters prior to the first readings.

The drugs war is a contentious issue, with some bishops keen to make a stand and others hesitant to risk a backlash by criticising a campaign that enjoys broad public support.

Duterte has routinely attacked the Church, and as recently as this week called for a “showdown” with priests whom he has accused of having wives, engaging in homosexual acts, graft and child abuse. (rtr)

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte holds a compilation of pictures of people involved in drugs, as he speaks during a meeting in Davao city in southern Philippines February 2, 2017.

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Sengkui

Sengkui is wickerwork or matting made from coconut leaf tip plaited in such a way resembling plaited coconut leaf roof but in smaller size. Sengkui is made in accordance with urip pengider (specified scores) with remaining to contain the end as the tail of the sengkui. Sengkui is typically used in the bhuta yajna ritual like mecaru where it is used as a base to place ebat-ebatan or caru oblations. Hindu community in Bali believes that sengkui can fly the ritual oblations to Dalem temple. Thus, the deity at Dalem Temple knows that his devotees have performed pecaruan ritual. So, he confers purificatory blessing to balance macrocosm and microcosm.(kmb)

China raises shortterm interest rates in fresh tightening sign

SHANGHAI - China’s central bank surprised financial markets on Friday by raising short-term interest rates on the first day back from a long holiday, in a further sign of policy tightening as the economy shows signs of steadying.

While the rate increases were modest, they reinforced views that Chinese authorities are intent on both containing capital outflows and reining in risks to the financial system created by years of debtfueled stimulus.

Higher interest rates could prod debt-laden firms into deleveraging, though at the risk of stunting growth.

“It appears to be an intent to control a real estate bubble. It could also be aimed at arresting the yuan’s depreciation, although it is on the reverse repo they touched upon and the impact remains to be seen,” said Naoto Saito, chief economic researcher at the Daiwa Institute of Research In Tokyo.

“All in all, it comes across as a move to tweak interest rate levels to accompany a broader monetary policy shift.”

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) raised the interest rate on open market operation reverse repurchase agreements (repos) by 10 basis points, effective on Feb. 3. It also raised the lending rates on its standing lending facility (SLF) short-term loans.

PBOC assistant governor Zhang Xiaohui said later on Friday that monetary policy will be kept generally prudent and stable, while also avoiding either a rapid slowdown in economic growth or excessive

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liquidity injections.

Zhang also said China will keep the yuan basically stable and will avoid large volatility in interest rates and foreign exchange rates.

The comments were made in an essay published by China Finance, a PBOC-affiliated magazine, through the messaging service WeChat.

Analysts said the tightening of primarily money market rates suggested the PBOC wanted to retain policy flexibility as it balances the need to keep the economy from slowing again.

Other moves in recent months had signalled that Beijing was eyeing a gradual shift from its loose policy stance.

In late January, the PBOC raised rates on its medium-term loan facility (MLF) for the first time since it debuted the liquidity tool in 2014.

It was the first time it has raised one of its policy interest rates since July 2011.

Analysts expect any further steps to be gradual as policymakers weigh their impact on economic growth, and believe the PBOC will be in no hurry to raise the policy lending rate for now. The one-year policy lending rate was last cut in October 2015 to 4.35 percent.

“China’s economic recovery is still shaky, while the global economic situation is unstable, so raising open market rates is more appropriate than raising benchmark rates,” said Li Huiyong, chief economist at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities.

“It’s a flexible tool, which can be easily reversed if China’s economy shows signs weakness again.”(rtr)

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Job hunters walk into a job fair in Binzhou, Shandong province, China, February 4, 2017.

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Business and residential buildings are seen in Sisli district in Istanbul, Turkey May 6, 2016.

World business grows as it faces upcoming risks

LONDON - Global businesses started 2017 on a solid footing, surveys showed on Friday, thriving ahead of a myriad of political risks in the coming year.

Fears of a growing protectionist agenda in the United States, whether national elections across Europe upset the status quo and just how fractious Britain’s divorce proceedings from the European Union become, are all expected to weigh in the months ahead.

Yet so far those risks seem to have been mostly ignored with firms from Asia to Europe to the United States increasing or at least largely maintaining activity.

Euro zone businesses started 2017 by increasing activity at the same multi-year record pace they set in December while the U.S. non-farm payroll report showed job growth surging more than expected in January as construction firms and retailers ramped up hiring.

“Overall while this report is further evidence that the (U.S.) labour market is buoyant the continued slow pace of wage growth means that the (Federal Reserve) will feel under no great pressure to step up

the pace of monetary tightening,” economists at Lloyds Bank told clients in a note.

China’s factory activity grew for a seventh month and while India’s services business contracted for a third month as firms struggled to recover from a government crackdown on currency in circulation, the pace slowed.

“The outlook for this year is reasonably bright despite all the risks. The numbers for January have generally been quite positive,” said Andrew Kenningham, chief global economist at Capital Economics.

Growth in Britain’s services sector slowed for the first time in four months in January, dipping just below its long-run average, as businesses battled the sharpest rise in costs in more than five years.

But on Thursday the Bank of England sharply revised up its growth forecast for 2017 to 2.0 percent, a view held by only the most optimistic forecaster in a Reuters poll of 50 economists taken last month.

Britain’s economy unexpectedly outpaced all its major peers last year, wrongfooting those who expected an immediate hit from June’s Brexit vote.

The Markit/CIPS British services Purchasing Managers’ Index dropped to a three-month low of 54.5 last month from December’s 15-month high, at the bottom end of a range of forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists, but Markit said the PMIs still point to first quarter growth of 0.5 percent.

“Despite the slightly disappointing outcome this remains a very strong report,” said James Knightley, senior economist at ING. IHS Markit’s final composite PMI for the euro zone, seen as a good guide to growth, held at 54.4. It has not been higher since May 2011 and has remained above the 50 mark dividing growth from contraction since mid-2013.

That points to first quarter expansion of 0.4 percent, Markit said, matching the median prediction in a Reuters poll. A similar survey from the U.S. showed non-manufacturing growth dipped marginally last month.

China’s factory activity expanded for the seventh straight month in January, giving Beijing more room to tackle chronic imbalances in the economy. The Caixin/ Markit Manufacturing PMI fell to 51.0.(rtr)

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Police officers bless weapons during a ritual called “Tumpek Landep” at a police station in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. The ritual is celebrated once in every 210 days when Balinese pray for weapons, vehicles and other metal objects.

Polygamy Area, Manifestation of Respect to Women

How unique it is. Penglipuran village in Bangli district can be said as the only anti-polygamy village in Bali. The men at the local village are strictly forbidden from having more than one wife. If they insist on taking polygamy, they must be willing to be ostracized in a vacant land located in the south of local village, known as karang memadu or polygamy area.

The polygamy area is vacant land measuring approximately 9×21 meters.

It is located in the southern of people’s residence. Local residents consider it spiritually impure (leteh). As being impure, any fruits cultivated in the area like bananas cannot to be taken advantage as a means of ritual oblation, but should only be consumed.

A signboard reading ‘Polygamy Area’ is installed to mark this land and indeed made special by residents. Any residents daring to violate the rules set forth in the customary bylaw or awig-awig of Penglipuran, they must consequently be willing to be ostracized and occupy the area with their wife. Not only that, they will also be subject to some other social sanctions. They are not allowed to cross the number of certain roads in the village area. One of them is the main intersection at the village next to the local meeting hall.

They are only allowed to exit through the road to the south of the polygamy area.

Headman of Penglipuran, Wayan

Supat, when met recently said that the prohibition from polygamy has been passed down from generation to generation. “People committing polygamy are not allowed to pass northwards to the village intersection or catus pata. It includes visiting the entire village temple of Penglipuran because they are considered in impure state,” he explained. In addition, the validity of the couple’s marriage will also never be approved by customary village.

READ Bukit Nampo, Ikon Baru Desa Wisata Sibetan He said the impact of social sanctions is severe enough so that until now the polygamy area remains vacant without any buildings. No people dare to occupy the area. According to Supat, the existence of prohibition for men to have polygamy indicates that the ancestors of local communities very much respect to women from time immemorial. Indirectly the rules also educate men to be faithful to one partner only. (kmb)

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Facing new challenger, Merkel rallies troublesome Bavarian ally

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel meets her Bavarian allies on Sunday for two days of talks aimed at rallying their troubled conservative alliance to take on the re-energised Social Democrats in a September election she expects to be “tough like no other”.

Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been a thorn in her side for much of the last two years, pressing for a cap on migrants that she is unwilling to support.

But a spectacular revival in the Social Democrats’ fortunes, after they nominated former European Parliament president Martin Schulz as party leader last week, is forcing the conservative “Union” allies to bind together if they are to hold on to power.

“Seehofer has to end his onslaught against Merkel if the Union wants to have any chance at all,” said Forsa pollster Manfred Guellner.

A survey by another pollster, Infratest dimap, on Thursday showed support for the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) jumped by 8 points to 28 percent, the highest since the last federal election in

2013, following Schulz’s nomination.

The CDU/CSU alliance remained ahead on 34 percent, but worryingly for Merkel the poll showed Schulz beating her comfortably in a theoretical headto-head contest.

Seehofer’s prime concern has been holding onto the CSU’s absolute majority in Bavaria in a regional election in 2018, when he is worried about losing votes to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD).

However, the revival of the SPD is focusing attention in the CSU, which needs a strong CDU to retain the national clout that gives it sway in Bavaria.

Likewise, Merkel needs the CSU to perform well in the federal election if she is to retain power.

The fact that Merkel is carving two days out of her schedule to spend on the meeting in Munich underlines the importance she places on improving relations between the allies.

Seehofer, who has been relentless in his criticism of her decision in 2015 to open Germany’s doors to a wave of migrants from the Middle East, must now convince Bavarians she is the right candidate for chancellor in the Sept. 24 election. (rtr)

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Australian army chief to meet Indonesian military leaders after spat

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Reda Abdullah al-Hamamy, the father of Abdullah Reda alHamamy who is suspected of attacking a soldier in Paris’ Louvre museum, holds a picture of his son during an interview with Reuters in Daqahliya, Egypt, February 4, 2017.

Father of Louvre attacker says son is not a terrorist

CAIRO - The father of the machete-wielding man who was shot by a guard as he tried to enter Paris’s Louvre museum said on Saturday his son was not an Islamist and the French were only accusing him of terrorism to excuse the brutality used to stop him.

Abdullah Reda al-Hamamy, an Egyptian, was shot several times after attacking soldiers outside the museum crying “Allahu Akbar” on Friday, in what President Francois Hollande called a terrorist attack.

Al-Hamamy was initially feared to be close to death but doctors at the hospital where he is being treated no longer consider his life in danger, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

Paint spray cans - but no explosives - were found in his back pack.

Back in Egypt, Hamamy’s father, Reda Al Refaai, said he had

learned of his son’s case from Facebook and was still not aware of his fate.

“Is he alive? Is he dead? Was it really him?” he asked Reuters.

“For them to say in the end that he is a terrorist is nonsense ... This is a cover up so they don’t have to apologise or justify the acts of this soldier who used brute force with a poor young man of 29.”

Al-Hamamy’s uncle, Riyad alRefaai, said: “I find it incomprehensible that a young man on his way to commit a terrorist act only has a knife with him. If you tell me he had a gun, a rifle, then yes, I’d believe you, but I don’t know ... All we want is the truth,” he said.

Al Refaai said he son worked in Sharja in the United Arab Emirates and was on a business trip to Paris for a week. French authorities say al-Hamamy arrived in France on Jan. 26 after obtaining a tourist visa in Dubai. (rtr)

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the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab for weeks as part of an operation that has been going on for more than five months.

Four of those killed were socalled emirs, or local commanders, the Turkish military said, adding that its jets destroyed 56 buildings and three command control centres in the al-Bab and Bzagah regions.

Coalition forces also conducted eight airstrikes in the al-Bab region, destroying two defence positions and two armed vehicles.(ap)

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Some of those taken into custody Sunday reportedly were active in conflict zones and engaged in recruitment efforts for IS, relaying its propaganda over social media.

Turkey hit 59 Islamic State targets and killed 51 militants in northern Syria as part of its ongoing incursion, the Turkish military said on Saturday.

Turkish forces have surrounded

JAKARTA - Australian army chief Angus Campbell will meet Indonesian military leaders in Jakarta on Wednesday, after defence cooperation was suspended last month over “insulting” teaching material found at an Australian base.

Campbell is due to meet Indonesian military (TNI) chief, Gatot Nurmantyo and army chief of staff Mulyono, TNI spokesman Wuryanto said.

Indonesia’s military chief declared the rupture in military ties after an Indonesian officer found “offensive” teaching material while on a language training course in Australia late last year.

Nurmantyo said that the material “discredited the TNI, the nation of Indonesia and even the ideology of Indonesia”, referring to material concerning East Timor and “Papua needing to be independent”, as well as mocking the country’s founding principles, known as Pancasila.

Both governments moved quickly to try to cool tensions and Indonesia’s chief security minister, Wiranto, later said only cooperation related to the military’s Australiabased language training programme had been suspended.

Australian media said Campbell would discuss the findings of an

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investigation by the defence department into the issue after Indonesia had sought assurances over the training material.

TNI spokesman Wuryanto declined to comment on the agenda for Wednesday’s talks. A spokesman for Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne confirmed the visit but also declined to comment further on the talks.

The countries have extensive military cooperation, which ranges from counter-terrorism cooperation to border protection.

But they have had a rocky military relationship in recent years.

Australia stopped joint training exercises with Indonesian special forces (Kopassus) after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999 as the territory prepared for independence.

Ties resumed when counterterrorism cooperation became imperative after the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Indonesia most recently suspended military ties in 2013 over revelations that Australian spies had tapped the mobile telephone of then president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. (rtr)

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Muslim activists hold posters depicting U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017.

Indonesians, Filipinos protest Trump’s immigration policy

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JAKARTA — Indonesian and Filipino students on Saturday protested President Donald Trump’s immigration policy outside the U.S. embassies in their capitals.

In Jakarta, dozens of students and activists from several rights groups called on the Indonesian government and the international community to help stop Trump’s order that temporarily banned travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries. They do not include Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the Philippines, a key U.S. ally.

However, Indonesia is home to nearly 14,000 refugees seeking resettlement in third countries, and Trump’s ban will significantly impact their chances of going to the U.S., said rights activist Veronica Koman, who organized the protest.

A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a nationwide hold on Trump’s ban on travelers and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, siding with two states that had challenged the executive order that has launched legal battles across the country.

“We are here to protest Trump’s xenophobic and Islamophobia policies,” Koman said. Protesters waved banners such as “I’m angry with Trump” and “No ban, no wall.”

“Actually this is not only for Muslims but this is war against humanity because the immigrants or refugees around the world, not only from Muslim countries, don’t have to be treated like this,” said activist Filza Inanuma. “Everybody should have rights to go everywhere they want for their protection, for their life.”

A similar rally was held outside the seaside U.S. Embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila, where protesters burned a portrait of Trump. No violence was reported. (ap)

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Bolt sprinkles star-dust as athletics goes Hollywood

Taking the baton from Olympic gold medal-winning team MELBOURNE - The Nitro Series promised to make athletics a show and the sport’s ultimate showman Usain Bolt capped its first meeting in Melbourne on Saturday by propelling his team of international mate Asafa Powell, Jamaican Bolt powered down the second leg at Lakeside Stadium before Americans Jenna Prandini and “All-Stars” to a crowd-pleasing win in the 4x100 metres relay.

Jeneba Tarmoh completed the win in the mixed team event ahead of Japan and Australia.

Bolt’s first run of the year and first in Australia brought the curtain down on opening night of the Series, which has pledged to “revolutionise” athletics with a team-based event that borrows heavily from the formula of sport and entertainment which has underpinned Twenty20 cricket’s considerable success.

With athletics struggling to maintain a profile outside of the Olympics and rocked by major doping and corruption scandals in recent years, organisers hope the series can reinvigorate the sport by shaking up the traditional schedule of events - and sprinkling some star-dust from marquee man Bolt.

Bolt, who completed a “treble treble” of 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay Olympic titles at the 2016 Rio Games, was paid a seven-figure appearance fee to commit to all three meetings in the inaugural series in Melbourne this month and given a stake in the company running the event.

He fulfilled his role as athletics’ great entertainer, galloping on to the field before the meeting as flame cannons shot fireballs into the air and dancing to thumping pop music.

“Tonight is the first night, we just want to do something different,” Bolt told reporters as a crowd of hundreds of spectators craned necks to capture a glimpse. “I’ve never handed (a baton) over to a girl. For me that was exciting.

“Everybody was having fun, everyone was trying to support their team mates.” Bolt’s appearance helped secure a clutch of big names for the event, with American former Olympic 400m hurdles champion Kerron Clement running in his All-Stars team who won the overall event ahead of Australia.

Christine Ohuruogu, the 2008 Olympic 400m champion, captained Team England.

With mixed team events, a 2x300m relay and an eliminaREUTERS/Hamish Blair tion mile in which runners were knocked out progressively, the Olympic champion Usain Bolt dances with entertainers before the start of the Nitro Athletics series at meeting carried on with troupes of dancers gyrating to electronic music in front of an enthusiastic crowd of about 7,000. (rtr) the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, Australia February 4, 2017.

Nelayan Beach

BADUNG - Nelayan Beach in Bali is a 350m-long stretch of black sand between Canggu’s two other popular beaches, namely Batu Bolong and Berawa. The beach is mainly a local fisherman’s landing coast, where you can catch a view of them hauling in their wooden outriggers while unloading their early morning catches.

Nelayan Beach offers a bit of seclusion, and is a great spot for quiet sunsets. Two small river mouths border both ends of the beach. There are several luxury villas in the area offering cosy retreats just beyond the coconut groves, the likes of Tirtarum Villas and the Nelayan Villas.

There’s a lot of sand allowing you to freely roam or laze about while enjoying the open seascapes. However, the waves at Nelayan Beach don’t offer much for surfers, who would instead paddle out to neighbouring Batu Bolong with its long rights and lava-rock reefs. Parasols-forrent and vendors peddling cold Bintangs are also scarce here compared to the adjacent beaches. Expect a bit of debris during the monsoonal months, between December and February. To get here, just follow down the namesake Jalan Nelayan road that branches off from Jalan Batu Bolong. (IBP/net)

Australia, France and U.S. progress in Davis Cup

Echo Beach BADUNG - Echo Beach is one of Bali’s most recently christened surf spots. The nickname overshadows its local name ‘Pantai Batu Mejan’, after a significant Balinese Hindu sea temple on site. Sharing the serene rice field-landscaped region of Canggu with other wave-riding haunts such as Berawa, Seseh and Pererenan, Echo Beach has become most popular due to its advanced reef breaks, 180-degree seascape and sunsets, and array of delicious seafood cafes set on a high vantage point from where to enjoy it all. The black-sand beach is approximately 35km northwest of Kuta and Seminyak, and a 14km drive west from the provincial capital of Denpasar.

For those staying in one of the many luxury villas in Canggu, such as The Bali Dream Villa Resort, Ametis Villa and the LV8 Resort, this coastal region can be reached by a 45-minute transfer from Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban, South Bali.

Past the upscale area of Seminyak, the journey further west takes you to Canggu’s green expanses of paddies, which remain well-kept and tended to by local Balinese villagers. Echo Beach is at the end of Jalan Pantai Batu Mejan, the road originally named after the temple there, but which now has more signposts bearing its new nickname. Before a Balinese-style gateway that opens to a glimpse of the horizon are rows of shacks with surfboards for rent, ding repairs, and a motorcycle parking spot.

Sunset dining spots line the paved alley left of the gate, starting with Sticky Fingers Osteria Italiana, then Sate Bali, Dian Café, and the Echo Beach House which is responsible for its moniker. While most open during the day, many come to life a little later with barbecues and unique boat-shaped buffets at sunset. At the far end of the cafes you will be able to see the outline of the centuries-old temple. The temple

and the cafes sit on a small cliff overlooking the surf, and the black-sand beach is accessible down a few steps to the right of the gate. A hundred metres along the coastline and set upon the low-lying rocks is Sand Bar, parasols and colourful beanbags await you for great chill-out sessions.

While the coast is excellent for sunbathing, leisurely strolls, and surf and landscape photographers, the waves of Echo Beach are strictly for advanced riders. Surfers dominate the scene by day, before shifting to a more ambient dining scene by night. The beach is clean and well-kept, the result of the joint efforts among various surf schools and clubs along Canggu’s coast, which carry out routine beach cleanups along its kilometre-length.

To sum up, Echo Beach serves as one of the island’s best surf spots, and a great place to chill with a laidback vibe, great views, and delicious seafood. (IBP/net)

OTTAWA - Davis Cup holders Argentina came from behind to beat Italy in a thrilling doubles match on Saturday and keep alive their hopes of retaining the trophy for at least one more day.

On a day in which Australia, France, the United States and Serbia all recorded doubles victories to move into the quarter-finals, 2016 champions Argentina and 2015 winners Britain both recorded crucial triumphs.

British pair Jamie Murray and Dominic Inglot defeated Canadians Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in four sets in Ottawa to give Britain a 2-1 lead ahead of Sunday’s reverse singles.

“It was a 50-50 match going into it,” Murray told reporters after the 7-6 6-7 7-6 6-3 triumph.

“We knew it would be close, because everyone knows how to play doubles. So we’re pleased to give the guys two bites at the cherry tomorrow. I think we did a

great job.”

In Buenos Aires, reigning champions Argentina fought their way to a dramatic win in front of a passionate home crowd.

Home pair Carlos Berlocq and Leonardo Mayer won the first two sets but Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini fought back to level the score.

Both sides had match points in a pulsating fifth set but the local boys eventually won a final-set tie break after more than four hours’ play.

“With heart and total commitment we’ve got to Sunday alive and we’ll see what happens,” said Argentine captain Daniel Orsanic.

“We’ve got a lot of sporting pride and the players will give their best.”

The winners will play either Belgium or Germany with the Belgians, who have never beaten their neighbours in eight previous Davis Cup encounters, 2-1 up.

Rubens Bemelmans and Joris

de Loore defeated German brothers Alexander and Mischa Zverev in five sets to give them a slender advantage going into the reverse singles in Frankfurt.

It also took five sets for Croatians Marin Draganja and Nikola Mektic to beat Spanish pair Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in Osijek and give the home side the edge before Sunday’s final singles rubbers. The winners of that tie will play Serbia, who qualified on Saturday thanks to a doubles win over Russia that gave them an unassailable 3-0 victory.

The other three teams to guarantee their quarter-final places were France, Australia and the United States. In Tokyo, French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut dispatched home partners Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-4 6-4 to clinch the tie 3-0.

In Melbourne, Sam Gorth and John Peers were even more domi-

nant, beating Czechs Jan Satral and Jiri Vesely 6-3 6-2 6-2.

Australia will play the U.S., who beat Switzerland 3-0 in Bir-

mingham. Doubles pairing Steve Johnson and Jack Sock overcame Adrian Bossel and Henri Laaksonen 7-6 6-3 7-6. (rtr)

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Britain’s Dominic Inglot and Jamie Murray shake hands after defeating Canada’s Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in their doubles match.

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Messi collects another record as Barca sink Athletic Bilbao

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Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp looks dejected

Klopp baffled by Liverpool’s 2017 slump after Hull calamity

Juergen Klopp, lauded for overseeing the most attractive side in English football before Christmas, said Liverpool’s New Year decline made “no sense” after their Premier League title challenge evaporated on Saturday. A 2-0 defeat at struggling Hull City was probably the worst display

by Liverpool in a woeful series of performances that seemed unthinkable after they ended 2016 with a vibrant win over fellow contenders Manchester City.

Since that New Year’s Eve victory, they have won just one of 10 matches and that was a fairly undistinguished affair against fourth-tier Plymouth Argyle in the FA cup.

Their malaise, again in evidence as they ran out of attacking ideas against Hull -- losing to goals from the Tigers’ on-loan Senegalese strikers, debutant Alfred N’Diaye and Oumar Niasse -- has been put down to numerous factors.

Weariness stemming from their energetic pressing game, the loss of Sadio Mane to the African Nations Cup, an overcrowded schedule, the belief that other sides have cottoned on to Klopp’s methods... all these have been put forward as reasons for Liverpool’s slump.

Yet even Klopp himself sounded as if he could not fathom the reasons as he told the BBC after the game: “We gave both goals away

easily, the overall performance was not like it should be. “It makes no sense for us to play like this. If we played like we did in the second half for the whole game, no team can cope with us. But we need to wake up; that was not acceptable.

“I have a lot of thoughts at the moment and I can’t even say a few of them right now because I really need to think about what happened.”

Once again, his side dominated the ball but did not come close to making their 72 percent worth of possession count, even after they improved on their insipid first-half showing. “We had a lot of possession, but what is possession?” mused Klopp.

“Possession is only good if you create something. It was not like we expected from ourselves. We have to take the criticism, think about it, find a few answers and react.

“We have quality still but we have to show it, it’s not to talk about it or to find excuses. Maybe a few teams have found a solution to us but that doesn’t matter because we are making chances and should score goals.” Most alarming for Klopp has been to see the goals dry up. Before Christmas they had been comfortably the most prolific scorers in the league but they have scored just eight times in their 10 matches this year. (rtr)

BARCELONA - La Liga champions Barcelona stayed on the heels of leaders Real Madrid by coasting to a 3-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao on Saturday as Lionel Messi became the club’s top scorer from free kicks.

Paco Alcacer scored his first league goal since joining from Valencia last year by turning in a pass from Neymar in the 18th minute while Messi whipped in an angled strike in the 40th, his 27th goal from a free kick for Barca.

Aleix Vidal scored the most impressive goal of the game by finishing off an audacious solo run in the 67th minute. Barca stayed second in the standings, moving one point behind Real Madrid having played two games more. The leaders were due to visit Celta Vigo on Sunday but the game was postponed after the Balaidos stadium roof was damaged by storms.

Third-placed Sevilla visit Las Palmas on Sunday.

Fernando Torres made the most of a rare start by scoring both goals as Atletico Madrid beat neighbours Leganes 2-0 on Saturday.

Torres, who made his debut for Atletico against Leganes back in 2001, looked lively throughout the game. He could have scored as early as the second minute when he came charging at goal on the counterattack but his attempted chip missed the target. He won a penalty in the 14th minute and followed up on the rebound to put the hosts in charge after Antoine Griezmann saw his spot kick repelled by goalkeeper Iago Herrerin. Torres scored his second goal in the 51st minute, beating the offside trap and latching on to a through ball before calmly lifting it over Herrerin.

Atletico are fourth in the standings on 39 points.

Valencia were thrashed 4-0 at home by tiny Eibar, Voro’s side suffering a second straight defeat after their troubles had been temporarily eased by two consecutive wins. Valencia are 16th on 19 points, six above Sporting Gijon who occupy the final spot in the relegation zone. Eibar move up to seventh on 32 points.

Espanyol are also on 32 points, in eighth position, after winning 1-0 at Malaga, their third consecutive league win. In Barcelona, coach Luis Enrique made six changes to the team that beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 in Wednesday’s King’s Cup semi-final first leg, resting top scorer Luis Suarez, and it looked a risky move as Athletic made a bold start.

Raul Garcia struck the post early on, after Inaki Williams dispossessed Vidal, while Williams headed just beyond the post soon after as Barca again lacked control without injured midfielders Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta.

However, they took the lead when Neymar cut inside from the left and held off four opponents to serve up the ball for Alcacer to finally score a league goal for Barca in his 11th appearance.

Athletic continued to cause problems but the Cata-

lans doubled their advantage before the break when Messi smashed the ball from the right-hand side of the area straight past Athletic goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz.

The goal moved him ahead of Ronald Koeman as the club’s top set-piece specialist with 27 goals from free kicks in all competitions.

Early in the second half, Barca midfielder Rafinha was forced off with a bleeding head after colliding with his goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, while Pique was taken off with a suspected hamstring strain.

Messi was substituted in the 64th minute but the Argentine maestro was soon all smiles as he watched Vidal race towards goal on the counter, flicking the ball over a defender before arrowing the ball into the far corner for the third.

“Athletic are always difficult opponents and although at times we were imprecise it’s been a very positive day for us,” Luis Enrique told reporters. “If we want to win all three competitions this season we have to use the whole squad and today the players who play less often showed their worth.” (rtr)

Dortmund ‘deeply regrets’ violence against Leipzig fans

D O RT M U N D — B o r u s sia Dortmund “deeply regrets” that there was violence against Leipzig supporters including women and children before the

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sides’ Bundesliga game on Saturday evening.

Dortmund police say in a statement that they filed 28 charges for breaches of the law concerning ex-

plosives, assault, dangerous bodily injury, damage to property and theft after Leipzig supporters approaching the stadium were pelted with stones and cans by Dortmund fans.

Burkina Faso beats Ghana in 3rd-place match at African Cup PORT-GENTIL — Alain Traore fired in an 89th-minute free kick to give Burkina Faso a 1-0 win over Ghana in the third-place match at the African Cup of Nations on Saturday, the game that no one wants to play.

Traore’s powerful shot into the top left corner settled it at Stade de Port-Gentil, handing departing Ghana coach Avram Grant a defeat in his final game in charge. The former Chelsea manager’s contract is up with Ghana and he’ll leave after losing in the final of the 2015 African Cup and in the semifinals this year.

Saturday’s victory lifted the mood of the Burkina Faso team,

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which lost in a penalty shootout to Egypt in the semifinals in Gabon.

While Burkina Faso started with something near a full-strength team, Grant gave many of his second-string youngsters a chance to play. They were better than Burkina Faso for most of the game, but still finished the African Cup with a loss.

Thomas Partey hit the crossbar for Ghana in the first half and defender Daniel Amartey missed with a header when unmarked and in front of goal in injury time at the end. A draw would have taken the game straight to a penalty shootout, with no extra time in the bronze medal match.

For Ghana, it was another major disappointment at the African Cup, with its loss to Cameroon in the semifinals ensuring that a painful and long quest for a fifth title will have to wait at least another two years.

Ghana hasn’t won since 1982 and it’ll be 37 years and counting when the next African championship is played in Cameroon in 2019.

This was the first time that Burkina Faso finished third. It was fourth at home in 1998 and lost in the final in South Africa in 2013.

Egypt, seeking a record-extending eighth African title, will play Cameroon in Sunday’s final in the Gabonese capital Libreville. (ap)

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Four police officers and a police dog were injured.

The police say, “All-in-all, extreme aggression and readiness for violence could be established among the Dortmund fans against the visitors. This was directed

against any person who could be identified as a Leipzig fan, regardless of whether they were small children, women or families.”

Dortmund says it is working with police to deal with the incidents. (ap)

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Dortmund’s supporters on the southern tribune protest against the Red Bull owned RB Leipzig club prior the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig in Dortmund, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017.

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Messi collects another record as Barca sink Athletic Bilbao

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Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp looks dejected

Klopp baffled by Liverpool’s 2017 slump after Hull calamity

Juergen Klopp, lauded for overseeing the most attractive side in English football before Christmas, said Liverpool’s New Year decline made “no sense” after their Premier League title challenge evaporated on Saturday. A 2-0 defeat at struggling Hull City was probably the worst display

by Liverpool in a woeful series of performances that seemed unthinkable after they ended 2016 with a vibrant win over fellow contenders Manchester City.

Since that New Year’s Eve victory, they have won just one of 10 matches and that was a fairly undistinguished affair against fourth-tier Plymouth Argyle in the FA cup.

Their malaise, again in evidence as they ran out of attacking ideas against Hull -- losing to goals from the Tigers’ on-loan Senegalese strikers, debutant Alfred N’Diaye and Oumar Niasse -- has been put down to numerous factors.

Weariness stemming from their energetic pressing game, the loss of Sadio Mane to the African Nations Cup, an overcrowded schedule, the belief that other sides have cottoned on to Klopp’s methods... all these have been put forward as reasons for Liverpool’s slump.

Yet even Klopp himself sounded as if he could not fathom the reasons as he told the BBC after the game: “We gave both goals away

easily, the overall performance was not like it should be. “It makes no sense for us to play like this. If we played like we did in the second half for the whole game, no team can cope with us. But we need to wake up; that was not acceptable.

“I have a lot of thoughts at the moment and I can’t even say a few of them right now because I really need to think about what happened.”

Once again, his side dominated the ball but did not come close to making their 72 percent worth of possession count, even after they improved on their insipid first-half showing. “We had a lot of possession, but what is possession?” mused Klopp.

“Possession is only good if you create something. It was not like we expected from ourselves. We have to take the criticism, think about it, find a few answers and react.

“We have quality still but we have to show it, it’s not to talk about it or to find excuses. Maybe a few teams have found a solution to us but that doesn’t matter because we are making chances and should score goals.” Most alarming for Klopp has been to see the goals dry up. Before Christmas they had been comfortably the most prolific scorers in the league but they have scored just eight times in their 10 matches this year. (rtr)

BARCELONA - La Liga champions Barcelona stayed on the heels of leaders Real Madrid by coasting to a 3-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao on Saturday as Lionel Messi became the club’s top scorer from free kicks.

Paco Alcacer scored his first league goal since joining from Valencia last year by turning in a pass from Neymar in the 18th minute while Messi whipped in an angled strike in the 40th, his 27th goal from a free kick for Barca.

Aleix Vidal scored the most impressive goal of the game by finishing off an audacious solo run in the 67th minute. Barca stayed second in the standings, moving one point behind Real Madrid having played two games more. The leaders were due to visit Celta Vigo on Sunday but the game was postponed after the Balaidos stadium roof was damaged by storms.

Third-placed Sevilla visit Las Palmas on Sunday.

Fernando Torres made the most of a rare start by scoring both goals as Atletico Madrid beat neighbours Leganes 2-0 on Saturday.

Torres, who made his debut for Atletico against Leganes back in 2001, looked lively throughout the game. He could have scored as early as the second minute when he came charging at goal on the counterattack but his attempted chip missed the target. He won a penalty in the 14th minute and followed up on the rebound to put the hosts in charge after Antoine Griezmann saw his spot kick repelled by goalkeeper Iago Herrerin. Torres scored his second goal in the 51st minute, beating the offside trap and latching on to a through ball before calmly lifting it over Herrerin.

Atletico are fourth in the standings on 39 points.

Valencia were thrashed 4-0 at home by tiny Eibar, Voro’s side suffering a second straight defeat after their troubles had been temporarily eased by two consecutive wins. Valencia are 16th on 19 points, six above Sporting Gijon who occupy the final spot in the relegation zone. Eibar move up to seventh on 32 points.

Espanyol are also on 32 points, in eighth position, after winning 1-0 at Malaga, their third consecutive league win. In Barcelona, coach Luis Enrique made six changes to the team that beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 in Wednesday’s King’s Cup semi-final first leg, resting top scorer Luis Suarez, and it looked a risky move as Athletic made a bold start.

Raul Garcia struck the post early on, after Inaki Williams dispossessed Vidal, while Williams headed just beyond the post soon after as Barca again lacked control without injured midfielders Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta.

However, they took the lead when Neymar cut inside from the left and held off four opponents to serve up the ball for Alcacer to finally score a league goal for Barca in his 11th appearance.

Athletic continued to cause problems but the Cata-

lans doubled their advantage before the break when Messi smashed the ball from the right-hand side of the area straight past Athletic goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz.

The goal moved him ahead of Ronald Koeman as the club’s top set-piece specialist with 27 goals from free kicks in all competitions.

Early in the second half, Barca midfielder Rafinha was forced off with a bleeding head after colliding with his goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, while Pique was taken off with a suspected hamstring strain.

Messi was substituted in the 64th minute but the Argentine maestro was soon all smiles as he watched Vidal race towards goal on the counter, flicking the ball over a defender before arrowing the ball into the far corner for the third.

“Athletic are always difficult opponents and although at times we were imprecise it’s been a very positive day for us,” Luis Enrique told reporters. “If we want to win all three competitions this season we have to use the whole squad and today the players who play less often showed their worth.” (rtr)

Dortmund ‘deeply regrets’ violence against Leipzig fans

D O RT M U N D — B o r u s sia Dortmund “deeply regrets” that there was violence against Leipzig supporters including women and children before the

REUTERS/Albert Gea

sides’ Bundesliga game on Saturday evening.

Dortmund police say in a statement that they filed 28 charges for breaches of the law concerning ex-

plosives, assault, dangerous bodily injury, damage to property and theft after Leipzig supporters approaching the stadium were pelted with stones and cans by Dortmund fans.

Burkina Faso beats Ghana in 3rd-place match at African Cup PORT-GENTIL — Alain Traore fired in an 89th-minute free kick to give Burkina Faso a 1-0 win over Ghana in the third-place match at the African Cup of Nations on Saturday, the game that no one wants to play.

Traore’s powerful shot into the top left corner settled it at Stade de Port-Gentil, handing departing Ghana coach Avram Grant a defeat in his final game in charge. The former Chelsea manager’s contract is up with Ghana and he’ll leave after losing in the final of the 2015 African Cup and in the semifinals this year.

Saturday’s victory lifted the mood of the Burkina Faso team,

Burkina Faso fans

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring their second goal.

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which lost in a penalty shootout to Egypt in the semifinals in Gabon.

While Burkina Faso started with something near a full-strength team, Grant gave many of his second-string youngsters a chance to play. They were better than Burkina Faso for most of the game, but still finished the African Cup with a loss.

Thomas Partey hit the crossbar for Ghana in the first half and defender Daniel Amartey missed with a header when unmarked and in front of goal in injury time at the end. A draw would have taken the game straight to a penalty shootout, with no extra time in the bronze medal match.

For Ghana, it was another major disappointment at the African Cup, with its loss to Cameroon in the semifinals ensuring that a painful and long quest for a fifth title will have to wait at least another two years.

Ghana hasn’t won since 1982 and it’ll be 37 years and counting when the next African championship is played in Cameroon in 2019.

This was the first time that Burkina Faso finished third. It was fourth at home in 1998 and lost in the final in South Africa in 2013.

Egypt, seeking a record-extending eighth African title, will play Cameroon in Sunday’s final in the Gabonese capital Libreville. (ap)

Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh Livepic

Four police officers and a police dog were injured.

The police say, “All-in-all, extreme aggression and readiness for violence could be established among the Dortmund fans against the visitors. This was directed

against any person who could be identified as a Leipzig fan, regardless of whether they were small children, women or families.”

Dortmund says it is working with police to deal with the incidents. (ap)

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Dortmund’s supporters on the southern tribune protest against the Red Bull owned RB Leipzig club prior the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig in Dortmund, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017.

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Bolt sprinkles star-dust as athletics goes Hollywood

Taking the baton from Olympic gold medal-winning team MELBOURNE - The Nitro Series promised to make athletics a show and the sport’s ultimate showman Usain Bolt capped its first meeting in Melbourne on Saturday by propelling his team of international mate Asafa Powell, Jamaican Bolt powered down the second leg at Lakeside Stadium before Americans Jenna Prandini and “All-Stars” to a crowd-pleasing win in the 4x100 metres relay.

Jeneba Tarmoh completed the win in the mixed team event ahead of Japan and Australia.

Bolt’s first run of the year and first in Australia brought the curtain down on opening night of the Series, which has pledged to “revolutionise” athletics with a team-based event that borrows heavily from the formula of sport and entertainment which has underpinned Twenty20 cricket’s considerable success.

With athletics struggling to maintain a profile outside of the Olympics and rocked by major doping and corruption scandals in recent years, organisers hope the series can reinvigorate the sport by shaking up the traditional schedule of events - and sprinkling some star-dust from marquee man Bolt.

Bolt, who completed a “treble treble” of 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay Olympic titles at the 2016 Rio Games, was paid a seven-figure appearance fee to commit to all three meetings in the inaugural series in Melbourne this month and given a stake in the company running the event.

He fulfilled his role as athletics’ great entertainer, galloping on to the field before the meeting as flame cannons shot fireballs into the air and dancing to thumping pop music.

“Tonight is the first night, we just want to do something different,” Bolt told reporters as a crowd of hundreds of spectators craned necks to capture a glimpse. “I’ve never handed (a baton) over to a girl. For me that was exciting.

“Everybody was having fun, everyone was trying to support their team mates.” Bolt’s appearance helped secure a clutch of big names for the event, with American former Olympic 400m hurdles champion Kerron Clement running in his All-Stars team who won the overall event ahead of Australia.

Christine Ohuruogu, the 2008 Olympic 400m champion, captained Team England.

With mixed team events, a 2x300m relay and an eliminaREUTERS/Hamish Blair tion mile in which runners were knocked out progressively, the Olympic champion Usain Bolt dances with entertainers before the start of the Nitro Athletics series at meeting carried on with troupes of dancers gyrating to electronic music in front of an enthusiastic crowd of about 7,000. (rtr) the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, Australia February 4, 2017.

Nelayan Beach

BADUNG - Nelayan Beach in Bali is a 350m-long stretch of black sand between Canggu’s two other popular beaches, namely Batu Bolong and Berawa. The beach is mainly a local fisherman’s landing coast, where you can catch a view of them hauling in their wooden outriggers while unloading their early morning catches.

Nelayan Beach offers a bit of seclusion, and is a great spot for quiet sunsets. Two small river mouths border both ends of the beach. There are several luxury villas in the area offering cosy retreats just beyond the coconut groves, the likes of Tirtarum Villas and the Nelayan Villas.

There’s a lot of sand allowing you to freely roam or laze about while enjoying the open seascapes. However, the waves at Nelayan Beach don’t offer much for surfers, who would instead paddle out to neighbouring Batu Bolong with its long rights and lava-rock reefs. Parasols-forrent and vendors peddling cold Bintangs are also scarce here compared to the adjacent beaches. Expect a bit of debris during the monsoonal months, between December and February. To get here, just follow down the namesake Jalan Nelayan road that branches off from Jalan Batu Bolong. (IBP/net)

Australia, France and U.S. progress in Davis Cup

Echo Beach BADUNG - Echo Beach is one of Bali’s most recently christened surf spots. The nickname overshadows its local name ‘Pantai Batu Mejan’, after a significant Balinese Hindu sea temple on site. Sharing the serene rice field-landscaped region of Canggu with other wave-riding haunts such as Berawa, Seseh and Pererenan, Echo Beach has become most popular due to its advanced reef breaks, 180-degree seascape and sunsets, and array of delicious seafood cafes set on a high vantage point from where to enjoy it all. The black-sand beach is approximately 35km northwest of Kuta and Seminyak, and a 14km drive west from the provincial capital of Denpasar.

For those staying in one of the many luxury villas in Canggu, such as The Bali Dream Villa Resort, Ametis Villa and the LV8 Resort, this coastal region can be reached by a 45-minute transfer from Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban, South Bali.

Past the upscale area of Seminyak, the journey further west takes you to Canggu’s green expanses of paddies, which remain well-kept and tended to by local Balinese villagers. Echo Beach is at the end of Jalan Pantai Batu Mejan, the road originally named after the temple there, but which now has more signposts bearing its new nickname. Before a Balinese-style gateway that opens to a glimpse of the horizon are rows of shacks with surfboards for rent, ding repairs, and a motorcycle parking spot.

Sunset dining spots line the paved alley left of the gate, starting with Sticky Fingers Osteria Italiana, then Sate Bali, Dian Café, and the Echo Beach House which is responsible for its moniker. While most open during the day, many come to life a little later with barbecues and unique boat-shaped buffets at sunset. At the far end of the cafes you will be able to see the outline of the centuries-old temple. The temple

and the cafes sit on a small cliff overlooking the surf, and the black-sand beach is accessible down a few steps to the right of the gate. A hundred metres along the coastline and set upon the low-lying rocks is Sand Bar, parasols and colourful beanbags await you for great chill-out sessions.

While the coast is excellent for sunbathing, leisurely strolls, and surf and landscape photographers, the waves of Echo Beach are strictly for advanced riders. Surfers dominate the scene by day, before shifting to a more ambient dining scene by night. The beach is clean and well-kept, the result of the joint efforts among various surf schools and clubs along Canggu’s coast, which carry out routine beach cleanups along its kilometre-length.

To sum up, Echo Beach serves as one of the island’s best surf spots, and a great place to chill with a laidback vibe, great views, and delicious seafood. (IBP/net)

OTTAWA - Davis Cup holders Argentina came from behind to beat Italy in a thrilling doubles match on Saturday and keep alive their hopes of retaining the trophy for at least one more day.

On a day in which Australia, France, the United States and Serbia all recorded doubles victories to move into the quarter-finals, 2016 champions Argentina and 2015 winners Britain both recorded crucial triumphs.

British pair Jamie Murray and Dominic Inglot defeated Canadians Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in four sets in Ottawa to give Britain a 2-1 lead ahead of Sunday’s reverse singles.

“It was a 50-50 match going into it,” Murray told reporters after the 7-6 6-7 7-6 6-3 triumph.

“We knew it would be close, because everyone knows how to play doubles. So we’re pleased to give the guys two bites at the cherry tomorrow. I think we did a

great job.”

In Buenos Aires, reigning champions Argentina fought their way to a dramatic win in front of a passionate home crowd.

Home pair Carlos Berlocq and Leonardo Mayer won the first two sets but Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini fought back to level the score.

Both sides had match points in a pulsating fifth set but the local boys eventually won a final-set tie break after more than four hours’ play.

“With heart and total commitment we’ve got to Sunday alive and we’ll see what happens,” said Argentine captain Daniel Orsanic.

“We’ve got a lot of sporting pride and the players will give their best.”

The winners will play either Belgium or Germany with the Belgians, who have never beaten their neighbours in eight previous Davis Cup encounters, 2-1 up.

Rubens Bemelmans and Joris

de Loore defeated German brothers Alexander and Mischa Zverev in five sets to give them a slender advantage going into the reverse singles in Frankfurt.

It also took five sets for Croatians Marin Draganja and Nikola Mektic to beat Spanish pair Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in Osijek and give the home side the edge before Sunday’s final singles rubbers. The winners of that tie will play Serbia, who qualified on Saturday thanks to a doubles win over Russia that gave them an unassailable 3-0 victory.

The other three teams to guarantee their quarter-final places were France, Australia and the United States. In Tokyo, French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut dispatched home partners Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-4 6-4 to clinch the tie 3-0.

In Melbourne, Sam Gorth and John Peers were even more domi-

nant, beating Czechs Jan Satral and Jiri Vesely 6-3 6-2 6-2.

Australia will play the U.S., who beat Switzerland 3-0 in Bir-

mingham. Doubles pairing Steve Johnson and Jack Sock overcame Adrian Bossel and Henri Laaksonen 7-6 6-3 7-6. (rtr)

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Britain’s Dominic Inglot and Jamie Murray shake hands after defeating Canada’s Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in their doubles match.

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Facing new challenger, Merkel rallies troublesome Bavarian ally

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel meets her Bavarian allies on Sunday for two days of talks aimed at rallying their troubled conservative alliance to take on the re-energised Social Democrats in a September election she expects to be “tough like no other”.

Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been a thorn in her side for much of the last two years, pressing for a cap on migrants that she is unwilling to support.

But a spectacular revival in the Social Democrats’ fortunes, after they nominated former European Parliament president Martin Schulz as party leader last week, is forcing the conservative “Union” allies to bind together if they are to hold on to power.

“Seehofer has to end his onslaught against Merkel if the Union wants to have any chance at all,” said Forsa pollster Manfred Guellner.

A survey by another pollster, Infratest dimap, on Thursday showed support for the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) jumped by 8 points to 28 percent, the highest since the last federal election in

2013, following Schulz’s nomination.

The CDU/CSU alliance remained ahead on 34 percent, but worryingly for Merkel the poll showed Schulz beating her comfortably in a theoretical headto-head contest.

Seehofer’s prime concern has been holding onto the CSU’s absolute majority in Bavaria in a regional election in 2018, when he is worried about losing votes to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD).

However, the revival of the SPD is focusing attention in the CSU, which needs a strong CDU to retain the national clout that gives it sway in Bavaria.

Likewise, Merkel needs the CSU to perform well in the federal election if she is to retain power.

The fact that Merkel is carving two days out of her schedule to spend on the meeting in Munich underlines the importance she places on improving relations between the allies.

Seehofer, who has been relentless in his criticism of her decision in 2015 to open Germany’s doors to a wave of migrants from the Middle East, must now convince Bavarians she is the right candidate for chancellor in the Sept. 24 election. (rtr)

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Australian army chief to meet Indonesian military leaders after spat

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Reda Abdullah al-Hamamy, the father of Abdullah Reda alHamamy who is suspected of attacking a soldier in Paris’ Louvre museum, holds a picture of his son during an interview with Reuters in Daqahliya, Egypt, February 4, 2017.

Father of Louvre attacker says son is not a terrorist

CAIRO - The father of the machete-wielding man who was shot by a guard as he tried to enter Paris’s Louvre museum said on Saturday his son was not an Islamist and the French were only accusing him of terrorism to excuse the brutality used to stop him.

Abdullah Reda al-Hamamy, an Egyptian, was shot several times after attacking soldiers outside the museum crying “Allahu Akbar” on Friday, in what President Francois Hollande called a terrorist attack.

Al-Hamamy was initially feared to be close to death but doctors at the hospital where he is being treated no longer consider his life in danger, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

Paint spray cans - but no explosives - were found in his back pack.

Back in Egypt, Hamamy’s father, Reda Al Refaai, said he had

learned of his son’s case from Facebook and was still not aware of his fate.

“Is he alive? Is he dead? Was it really him?” he asked Reuters.

“For them to say in the end that he is a terrorist is nonsense ... This is a cover up so they don’t have to apologise or justify the acts of this soldier who used brute force with a poor young man of 29.”

Al-Hamamy’s uncle, Riyad alRefaai, said: “I find it incomprehensible that a young man on his way to commit a terrorist act only has a knife with him. If you tell me he had a gun, a rifle, then yes, I’d believe you, but I don’t know ... All we want is the truth,” he said.

Al Refaai said he son worked in Sharja in the United Arab Emirates and was on a business trip to Paris for a week. French authorities say al-Hamamy arrived in France on Jan. 26 after obtaining a tourist visa in Dubai. (rtr)

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the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab for weeks as part of an operation that has been going on for more than five months.

Four of those killed were socalled emirs, or local commanders, the Turkish military said, adding that its jets destroyed 56 buildings and three command control centres in the al-Bab and Bzagah regions.

Coalition forces also conducted eight airstrikes in the al-Bab region, destroying two defence positions and two armed vehicles.(ap)

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Some of those taken into custody Sunday reportedly were active in conflict zones and engaged in recruitment efforts for IS, relaying its propaganda over social media.

Turkey hit 59 Islamic State targets and killed 51 militants in northern Syria as part of its ongoing incursion, the Turkish military said on Saturday.

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JAKARTA - Australian army chief Angus Campbell will meet Indonesian military leaders in Jakarta on Wednesday, after defence cooperation was suspended last month over “insulting” teaching material found at an Australian base.

Campbell is due to meet Indonesian military (TNI) chief, Gatot Nurmantyo and army chief of staff Mulyono, TNI spokesman Wuryanto said.

Indonesia’s military chief declared the rupture in military ties after an Indonesian officer found “offensive” teaching material while on a language training course in Australia late last year.

Nurmantyo said that the material “discredited the TNI, the nation of Indonesia and even the ideology of Indonesia”, referring to material concerning East Timor and “Papua needing to be independent”, as well as mocking the country’s founding principles, known as Pancasila.

Both governments moved quickly to try to cool tensions and Indonesia’s chief security minister, Wiranto, later said only cooperation related to the military’s Australiabased language training programme had been suspended.

Australian media said Campbell would discuss the findings of an

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investigation by the defence department into the issue after Indonesia had sought assurances over the training material.

TNI spokesman Wuryanto declined to comment on the agenda for Wednesday’s talks. A spokesman for Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne confirmed the visit but also declined to comment further on the talks.

The countries have extensive military cooperation, which ranges from counter-terrorism cooperation to border protection.

But they have had a rocky military relationship in recent years.

Australia stopped joint training exercises with Indonesian special forces (Kopassus) after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999 as the territory prepared for independence.

Ties resumed when counterterrorism cooperation became imperative after the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Indonesia most recently suspended military ties in 2013 over revelations that Australian spies had tapped the mobile telephone of then president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. (rtr)

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Muslim activists hold posters depicting U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017.

Indonesians, Filipinos protest Trump’s immigration policy

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JAKARTA — Indonesian and Filipino students on Saturday protested President Donald Trump’s immigration policy outside the U.S. embassies in their capitals.

In Jakarta, dozens of students and activists from several rights groups called on the Indonesian government and the international community to help stop Trump’s order that temporarily banned travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries. They do not include Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the Philippines, a key U.S. ally.

However, Indonesia is home to nearly 14,000 refugees seeking resettlement in third countries, and Trump’s ban will significantly impact their chances of going to the U.S., said rights activist Veronica Koman, who organized the protest.

A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a nationwide hold on Trump’s ban on travelers and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, siding with two states that had challenged the executive order that has launched legal battles across the country.

“We are here to protest Trump’s xenophobic and Islamophobia policies,” Koman said. Protesters waved banners such as “I’m angry with Trump” and “No ban, no wall.”

“Actually this is not only for Muslims but this is war against humanity because the immigrants or refugees around the world, not only from Muslim countries, don’t have to be treated like this,” said activist Filza Inanuma. “Everybody should have rights to go everywhere they want for their protection, for their life.”

A similar rally was held outside the seaside U.S. Embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila, where protesters burned a portrait of Trump. No violence was reported. (ap)

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Sengkui

Sengkui is wickerwork or matting made from coconut leaf tip plaited in such a way resembling plaited coconut leaf roof but in smaller size. Sengkui is made in accordance with urip pengider (specified scores) with remaining to contain the end as the tail of the sengkui. Sengkui is typically used in the bhuta yajna ritual like mecaru where it is used as a base to place ebat-ebatan or caru oblations. Hindu community in Bali believes that sengkui can fly the ritual oblations to Dalem temple. Thus, the deity at Dalem Temple knows that his devotees have performed pecaruan ritual. So, he confers purificatory blessing to balance macrocosm and microcosm.(kmb)

China raises shortterm interest rates in fresh tightening sign

SHANGHAI - China’s central bank surprised financial markets on Friday by raising short-term interest rates on the first day back from a long holiday, in a further sign of policy tightening as the economy shows signs of steadying.

While the rate increases were modest, they reinforced views that Chinese authorities are intent on both containing capital outflows and reining in risks to the financial system created by years of debtfueled stimulus.

Higher interest rates could prod debt-laden firms into deleveraging, though at the risk of stunting growth.

“It appears to be an intent to control a real estate bubble. It could also be aimed at arresting the yuan’s depreciation, although it is on the reverse repo they touched upon and the impact remains to be seen,” said Naoto Saito, chief economic researcher at the Daiwa Institute of Research In Tokyo.

“All in all, it comes across as a move to tweak interest rate levels to accompany a broader monetary policy shift.”

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) raised the interest rate on open market operation reverse repurchase agreements (repos) by 10 basis points, effective on Feb. 3. It also raised the lending rates on its standing lending facility (SLF) short-term loans.

PBOC assistant governor Zhang Xiaohui said later on Friday that monetary policy will be kept generally prudent and stable, while also avoiding either a rapid slowdown in economic growth or excessive

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liquidity injections.

Zhang also said China will keep the yuan basically stable and will avoid large volatility in interest rates and foreign exchange rates.

The comments were made in an essay published by China Finance, a PBOC-affiliated magazine, through the messaging service WeChat.

Analysts said the tightening of primarily money market rates suggested the PBOC wanted to retain policy flexibility as it balances the need to keep the economy from slowing again.

Other moves in recent months had signalled that Beijing was eyeing a gradual shift from its loose policy stance.

In late January, the PBOC raised rates on its medium-term loan facility (MLF) for the first time since it debuted the liquidity tool in 2014.

It was the first time it has raised one of its policy interest rates since July 2011.

Analysts expect any further steps to be gradual as policymakers weigh their impact on economic growth, and believe the PBOC will be in no hurry to raise the policy lending rate for now. The one-year policy lending rate was last cut in October 2015 to 4.35 percent.

“China’s economic recovery is still shaky, while the global economic situation is unstable, so raising open market rates is more appropriate than raising benchmark rates,” said Li Huiyong, chief economist at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities.

“It’s a flexible tool, which can be easily reversed if China’s economy shows signs weakness again.”(rtr)

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Job hunters walk into a job fair in Binzhou, Shandong province, China, February 4, 2017.

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Business and residential buildings are seen in Sisli district in Istanbul, Turkey May 6, 2016.

World business grows as it faces upcoming risks

LONDON - Global businesses started 2017 on a solid footing, surveys showed on Friday, thriving ahead of a myriad of political risks in the coming year.

Fears of a growing protectionist agenda in the United States, whether national elections across Europe upset the status quo and just how fractious Britain’s divorce proceedings from the European Union become, are all expected to weigh in the months ahead.

Yet so far those risks seem to have been mostly ignored with firms from Asia to Europe to the United States increasing or at least largely maintaining activity.

Euro zone businesses started 2017 by increasing activity at the same multi-year record pace they set in December while the U.S. non-farm payroll report showed job growth surging more than expected in January as construction firms and retailers ramped up hiring.

“Overall while this report is further evidence that the (U.S.) labour market is buoyant the continued slow pace of wage growth means that the (Federal Reserve) will feel under no great pressure to step up

the pace of monetary tightening,” economists at Lloyds Bank told clients in a note.

China’s factory activity grew for a seventh month and while India’s services business contracted for a third month as firms struggled to recover from a government crackdown on currency in circulation, the pace slowed.

“The outlook for this year is reasonably bright despite all the risks. The numbers for January have generally been quite positive,” said Andrew Kenningham, chief global economist at Capital Economics.

Growth in Britain’s services sector slowed for the first time in four months in January, dipping just below its long-run average, as businesses battled the sharpest rise in costs in more than five years.

But on Thursday the Bank of England sharply revised up its growth forecast for 2017 to 2.0 percent, a view held by only the most optimistic forecaster in a Reuters poll of 50 economists taken last month.

Britain’s economy unexpectedly outpaced all its major peers last year, wrongfooting those who expected an immediate hit from June’s Brexit vote.

The Markit/CIPS British services Purchasing Managers’ Index dropped to a three-month low of 54.5 last month from December’s 15-month high, at the bottom end of a range of forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists, but Markit said the PMIs still point to first quarter growth of 0.5 percent.

“Despite the slightly disappointing outcome this remains a very strong report,” said James Knightley, senior economist at ING. IHS Markit’s final composite PMI for the euro zone, seen as a good guide to growth, held at 54.4. It has not been higher since May 2011 and has remained above the 50 mark dividing growth from contraction since mid-2013.

That points to first quarter expansion of 0.4 percent, Markit said, matching the median prediction in a Reuters poll. A similar survey from the U.S. showed non-manufacturing growth dipped marginally last month.

China’s factory activity expanded for the seventh straight month in January, giving Beijing more room to tackle chronic imbalances in the economy. The Caixin/ Markit Manufacturing PMI fell to 51.0.(rtr)

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Police officers bless weapons during a ritual called “Tumpek Landep” at a police station in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. The ritual is celebrated once in every 210 days when Balinese pray for weapons, vehicles and other metal objects.

Polygamy Area, Manifestation of Respect to Women

How unique it is. Penglipuran village in Bangli district can be said as the only anti-polygamy village in Bali. The men at the local village are strictly forbidden from having more than one wife. If they insist on taking polygamy, they must be willing to be ostracized in a vacant land located in the south of local village, known as karang memadu or polygamy area.

The polygamy area is vacant land measuring approximately 9×21 meters.

It is located in the southern of people’s residence. Local residents consider it spiritually impure (leteh). As being impure, any fruits cultivated in the area like bananas cannot to be taken advantage as a means of ritual oblation, but should only be consumed.

A signboard reading ‘Polygamy Area’ is installed to mark this land and indeed made special by residents. Any residents daring to violate the rules set forth in the customary bylaw or awig-awig of Penglipuran, they must consequently be willing to be ostracized and occupy the area with their wife. Not only that, they will also be subject to some other social sanctions. They are not allowed to cross the number of certain roads in the village area. One of them is the main intersection at the village next to the local meeting hall.

They are only allowed to exit through the road to the south of the polygamy area.

Headman of Penglipuran, Wayan

Supat, when met recently said that the prohibition from polygamy has been passed down from generation to generation. “People committing polygamy are not allowed to pass northwards to the village intersection or catus pata. It includes visiting the entire village temple of Penglipuran because they are considered in impure state,” he explained. In addition, the validity of the couple’s marriage will also never be approved by customary village.

READ Bukit Nampo, Ikon Baru Desa Wisata Sibetan He said the impact of social sanctions is severe enough so that until now the polygamy area remains vacant without any buildings. No people dare to occupy the area. According to Supat, the existence of prohibition for men to have polygamy indicates that the ancestors of local communities very much respect to women from time immemorial. Indirectly the rules also educate men to be faithful to one partner only. (kmb)

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Maintaining 13 tourism villages

Philippines govt says church ‘out of touch’ in attacking drugs war

Govt needs to immediately repair Ubud’s infrastructure

GIANYAR - There are a total of 13 areas throughout Ubud that are categorized as developed. Ubud is visited by thousands of travelers every day who come to enjoy the arts and the culture of homestays. Behind Ubud’s great appeal the government is doing little to repair damaged infrasturcture in the region.

Road damage is the most obvious infrasturcture issue in Ubud. Almost all the sidewalks in the area are damaged from having never been repaired over the years. There are even giant holes in some sidewalks. Such conditions are truly unfortunate given how many travellwers come here to walk the streets and enjoy the beauty of the area.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office, A.A. Bagus Ari Brahmanta, when contacted on this matter admitted that Ubid’s infrastructure needs the attention fo the government. The Tourism Ofice he said has been coordinating with the public works department to prorotize infrastucture repair in Ubud. “We have reported this matter to the governemnt, and the district road sections will soon be repaired”, he said.

He added that 13 villages in Ubud out of Gianyar’s 25 villages are categorized as developed. “These are developed tourism villages so we need to improve their quality, such as repairing roads and damaged sidewalks. Obviously, we have coordinated with the district and provincial Public Works Agency”, he said.

Outside of Ubud, there are seven villages which are developing tourism villages, and five vother villages are included in the development plan. “From a total of 25 tourism villages, five villages are new additions planned to be included as tourism village, but their potential will be reviewed again. They are: Negari hamlet (Singapadu Tengah, Sukawati, Singapadu Kaler, Kedisan hamlet and Kendran Manuaba hamlet, Tegallalang) and Marga hamlet, Payangan”, he explained.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office affirmed that the government of Gianyar has given special attention to the regions tat have been developed into tourism villages. In the development of tourism villages, communities are directly involved as players, not just as spectators. “So, in addition to really touching people, the effort to provide guidance for tourism villages can also be used as a form of cultural preservation, especially Gianyar that that is famous for art and culture,” he said. (kmb35)

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In this Dec. 29, 2016 file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a long-range S-200 missile is fired in a military drill in the port city of Bushehr, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran.

Iran vows “roaring missiles” if threatened, defies new sanctions

DUBAI - A Revolutionary Guards commander said Iran would use its missiles if its security is under threat, as the elite force defied new U.S. sanctions on its missile programme by holding a military exercise on Saturday.

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Road damage is the most obvious infrasturcture issue in Ubud. Almost all the sidewalks in the area are damaged from having never been repaired over the years.

Rainy season

Residents behind the hills collect rainwater in cistern

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Local people are relying on rainwater to meet their daily needs.

BANGLI - Residents of Madya hamlet, Terunyan, Kintamani, are still facing a clean water shortages.

Local people are relying on rainwater to meet their daily needs. During the rainy seaon, residents collect rainwater in cisterns.

Resident of Madya hamlet, Wayan Santep, said that most of his fellow residents collect rainwater using permanent cisterns, while several other residents use tarpaulins. The water collected during the rainy season only lasts for a few months.

Usually by May, residents living behind the hills are forced to turn to water from Lake Batur to meet their dailly needs. “During the dry season, we walk to the lake to fetch water for the necessities of life like bathing and giving to our livestock as drinking

water. We too consume the lake water”, he said on Friday (Feb. 3).

He explained that he and his neighbours usually set off for the lake to collect water early in the morning as it takes two hours to get there and back and Madya hamlets residents need to hike up and down Terunyan Hill. Purchasing water is simply not possible for them because the road to Madya is severly damaged so trucks cannot get to their hamlet. The road that was created through the TMMD program in 2014 is so badly damaged that cars cannot use it.

The road has never been repaved since it was first created. “Vehicles from lower areas cannot make it up here because of the severe damage to the road”, he added. (kmb40)

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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since a recent Iranian ballistic missile test which prompted U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn said the Washington was putting Iran on notice over its “destabilising activity”, and Trump tweeted Tehran was “playing with fire” “We are working day and night to protect Iran’s security,” head of Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace unit, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.

“If we see smallest misstep from the enemies, our roaring missiles will fall on their heads,” he added.

Despite the heated words, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday he was not considering raising the number of U.S. forces in the Middle East to address Iran’s “misbehavior”, but warned that the world would not ignore Iranian activities.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is holding the military exercise in

Semnan province on Saturday to test missile and radar systems and to “showcase the power of Iran’s revolution and to dismiss the sanctions,” according to the force’s website.

Dismissing Trump’s comments that “nothing is off the table” in dealing with Tehran, the commander of Iran’s ground forces said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic has been hearing such threats since its 1979 revolution.

“The defence capability and the offensive prowess of Iran’s armed forces would make America or any other enemy regretful of any incursion,” Ahmad Reza Pourdastan was quoted as saying by ISNA. BALLISTIC TEST Iranian state news agencies reported that home-made missile systems, radars, command and control centres, and cyber warfare systems would be tested in Saturday’s drill.

Iran has one of the Middle East’s largest missile programmes and held a similar exercise in December to showcase its defence systems, including radars, anti-missile defence units, and short and medium-

range missiles.

Tehran confirmed on Wednesday that it had test-fired a new ballistic missile, but said the test did not breach the Islamic Republic’s nuclear agreement with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the pact. Iran has test-fired several ballistic missiles since the nuclear deal in 2015, but the latest test was the first since Trump entered the White House. Trump said during his election campaign that he would stop Iran’s missile programme.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday and recommended the missile testing be studied at committee level. The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called the test “unacceptable”.

The Security Council resolution was adopted to buttress the deal under which Iran curbed its nuclear activities to allay concerns they could be used to develop atomic bombs, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

The resolution urged Tehran to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons.

Critics say the resolution’s language does not make this obligatory.

Tehran says it has not carried out any work on missiles specifically designed to carry nuclear payloads. (rtr)

MANILA - The Philippine government derided Catholic bishops on Sunday as “out of touch” after they used weekend sermons to attack a war on drugs they said had created a “reign of terror” for the poor.

Members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) had dramatised President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign and, instead of criticising, should focus on contributing to the “reign of peace” that innocent people now felt, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said.

The church assailed bloodshed that had caused suffering, and said killing people was not the way to deal with illegal drugs.

In a pastoral letter read out on Saturday and repeated to congregations at churches on Sunday, bishops said it was disturbing that many Filipinos were indifferent to the killings, or even approved of them.

Abella, a former pastor, said the war on drugs had made the country safer, “far from the ‘terror’ the bishops paint rather dramatically.”

“The officials of the CBCP are apparently out of touch with the sentiments of the faithful who overwhelmingly support the changes in the Philippines,” Abella said in a statement.

More than 7,600 people have been killed since Duterte unleashed a ferocious crackdown seven months ago, more than 2,500 in police raids and sting operations.

Human rights groups believe many other deaths that police had attributed to vigilantes were carried out by assassins likely colluding with police. The government and police vehemently deny extrajudicial killings have occurred.

The CBCP’s message was read at numerous churches in Manila attended by Reuters, though not all. Church sources said the Archdiocese of Manila issued a circular telling parishes to read the pastoral letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters prior to the first readings.

The drugs war is a contentious issue, with some bishops keen to make a stand and others hesitant to risk a backlash by criticising a campaign that enjoys broad public support.

Duterte has routinely attacked the Church, and as recently as this week called for a “showdown” with priests whom he has accused of having wives, engaging in homosexual acts, graft and child abuse. (rtr)

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte holds a compilation of pictures of people involved in drugs, as he speaks during a meeting in Davao city in southern Philippines February 2, 2017.

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tion against wild animals and other threats.

Each new year, the fattened pigs are slaughtered and the carcasses decorated and paraded through the streets of Sanxia, a traditional district in northern Taiwan, to the temple.

The owner of the biggest pig wins the competition and with it

an auspicious sign that the year to come will be a lucky one.

“This is a custom at our Tzu Shih Yeh (founder ancestor) temple in Sanxia. We cannot abolish this tradition,” said Liu Chingsheng, owner of this year’s winning pig.

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BPS highlights inflation rate in Denpasar and Singaraja

Taiwan’s “holy pig” festival SANXIA - The winner of Taiwan’s “holy pig” ceremony on Thursday defended the lunar new year tradition against critics who argue the fattened animals are raised under cruel conditions.

The ceremony harkens back to a time when early Chinese settlers to Taiwan used to pray to mountain gods and local deities for protec-

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-- a pig raised for the ceremony can weigh more than 800 kg (1763 lbs) compared to a normal weight of 120 kg -- is cruel.

“Just like for us humans, obesity in animals is a disease,” Chen Yumin, director of the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan, told Reuters Television.

She said the pigs’ movements

are restricted while they are fattened and the additional weight puts a strain on their internal organs.

“In addition to the inhumane process of fattening is the last moment when they are about to be slaughtered. This moment is actually very cruel and inhumane,” she said. (rtr)

Spokesman for the Bali Police, Hengky Widjaja

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Related to threat of terror action

Bali police ward the warning of American embassy

DENPASAR - Information circulating on social media sites about the United States Embassy having declared that there is the potential for a terrorist attack in Bali that would target nightclubs and shopping centers appears to be unfounded. When contacted for a confirmation of this hearsay, Spokesman for the Bali Police, Hengky Widjaja, stated that there has been no official information reagrding such a warning.

“If there has in fact been such a warning, there must instructions and attention from the national police headquarters.

So far, there has been no such information”, said Hengky on Friday (Feb. 3).

Nevertheless, continued Hengky, Balinese people are urged to remain vigilant. However people should not panic in the face of uncertain information. “If we panic and this is seen by travelers, this will disrupt us whereas such a threat is not necessarily true”, he said.

People’s vigilance must be encouraged and increased. If there

is something suspicious, Hengky asked that it be reported immediately. Maintaining security in Bali must be the priority of the people.

Moreover, Balinese people on the Island of the Gods are united to protect Bali from external threats.

Clashes amongst fellow Balinese must also be avoided, he said.

“Even though people outside Bali make a scene, Balinese people should join in. As a tourist destination, Bali should remain safe and conducive to peace”, he said.

Bali police continue to improve preemptive and preventive measures and to assign intelligence officers. Since there has been no instruction related to any warning, police authorities are not on special standby. Although the information is vague, his institution is not ignoring it and is still taking action.

“Probably the locations mentioned are just a decoy. The target may be different. Security officers at the entrances to Bali remains on alert, though until now conditions are safe and secure”, he affimed. (kmb)

DENPASAR - Denpasar and Singaraja experienced relatively high inflation rate during the period of January 2017. Such high inflation rate is triggered by many factors, such as the price hike of cayenne pepper, vehicle registration renewal fee and wage of domestic workers. This was revealed in the official release submitted by the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, Adi Nugroho, on Wednesday (Feb. 1).

“Inflation rate in Denpasar during the period of January 2017 reached 1.39 percent and Singaraja records the inflation rate of 1.79 percent,” he said.

Inflation in these two major cities, said Adi, gets the attention of BPS Bali because it is higher than the national inflation rate reaching 0.394 percent.

Of the ten major commodities contributing to inflation in Denpasar, the increase in vehicle registration renewal fee of 105.76 percent has contributed the most.

It is followed by price hike of cayenne pepper reaching 72.32 percent and domestic worker wage increase of 2.27 percent.

“Other commodities contributing to inflation are credit of mobile phone, electricity tariff, price of cars, non-subsidized fuel, cigarette filters and anchovy,”

he added.

Adi continued that commodities contributing to inflation rate in Singaraja included the price hike of cayenne pepper, electricity tariff, vehicle registration renewal fee, chicken, non-subsidized fuel, beans, credit of mobile phone, tuna, egg and spinach. In addition, he also presented the development of cumulative value of export commodities from Bali which increased from USD 498,681,698 during the period from January to December 2015 to USD 505,119,761 during the period from January to December 2016. In other words, the export value of Bali increased as much as 1.29 percent.

The countries becoming the major export markets of Bali are the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore and China.

“The US still occupies the highest percentage namely 25.52 percent followed by Australia at 9.19 percent,” he said while hoping that America’s policy under the leadership of Donald Trump will remain in favor of the export growth from Bali Province.

Adi Nugroho added that the presence of micro and small industry in Bali Province also experienced positive growth in 2016, reaching 11.56 percent. The same thing happened to the number of Gini ratio (expenditure inequality) perching in the range of 0.374 percent, lower than the national average reaching 0.394 percent. (kmb32)

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Adi Nugroho (left)

German tourist sentenced to five years and eight months For posession of crystal meth- making equipment DENPASAR - Do you still remember the German that police said had been in posession of crystalmeth making equiment and ingredients? Defendant Benjamin Bailer was convicted on Thursday (Feb. 2) and sentenced to five years and eight months in jail by a panel of judges led by Ekstar Oktavi.

The Denpasar District Court, also fined the defendant IDR 1 billion, with a subsidiary of three months in prison.

The sentence was less than the seven years, and finr of IDR 1 billion and 8 month subsiduary time that public prosecutor Paul had requested. The judge charged the

defendant under Article 112 paragraph 1 of the Law on Narcotics.

After hearing the verdict, the prosecutor and legal counsel of the defendant, Bernardin et al, and the defendant immediately accepted the judge’s verdict and signed the acceptance form.

To note, German citizen Benja-

min Bailer was found in posession of both crystal meth-making equipment as well as 0.71 grams of crystal meth found on the side tabel of the defendants room onteh second floor. The defendant claimed that he wanted the crystoal meth for his own personal use and learned hwo to make more form the internet. In

addition to the crystal meth, police also found the raw ingredeints needed to make more.

Benjamin Bailer’s arrrest was made possible due to the discolser by convict Vicky Monaro who admitted to having received 1.12 grams of free crystal meth from the german man. (kmb37)

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Circulation of gorilla tobacco getting massive Two dealers arrested

MANGUPURA - The circulation of ‘gorilla tobacco’ and ‘herbal smoke tea’ is increasingly prevalent in Bali. The Narcotic Investigation Unit of Badung police are not standing idly by but have arrested seom dealers. On Monday (Jan. 23), police arrested two dealers; a 33 year old with the P.A.S. on Jalan Imam Bonjol Gang Nyuh Sudamala, Denpasar and a 38 year old with the initials I. on Jalan Gunung Andakasa, Gang Soka, Denpasar.

Chief of the Badung Police, Ruddi Setiawan, accompanied by chief of the Narcotics Investigation Unit, Djoko Hariadi said on Thursday (Feb. 2) that after testing the gorilla tobacco in the forensics laboratory, it was declared negative of narcotics and suspected of being a conterfeit item. Meanwhile the herbal smoke tea tobacco tested positive as a class one narcotic. The suspect PAS had been living on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, in Mumbul, South Kuta. The evidence secured by police consisted of six plastic boxes of herbal smoke tea weighing 150.6 grams.

“This tobacco contains preparations of ABFubinaca listed as a class one narcotic and as such vioates the Ministery of Health’s laws.

Here is now the emmergence fo the circulation of gorilla tobacco”, he added.

Disclosure of this case, said the police chief, originated from reports from the public that someone had been circulating tobacco that had the ability to ‘get people high’ like marijuana does. Based on this information, Djoko and his team conducted an investigation and shadowed suspects. On Monday at 13:00, police arrested one suspect in his dorm room on Jalan Imam Bonjol, West Denpasar.

During the search, the officers secured evidence consisting of six plastic boxes of herbal smoke tea with a total weight of 150.6 grams.

The goods were found in a backpack belonging to the suspect.

“The suspect admitted that the tobacco was to be sold and that the goods had been purchased online. One box weighs 5 grams and is sold for IDR 250,000”, said said Djoko.

Suspect I.D, was then arrested on Jalan Gunung Andakasa Gang Soka at 19:30. Police seized total of 10 plastic boxes of herbal smoke tea weighing 150.6 grams in total. Police arrested the suspect when he was in his rented house where police found evidence in the suspect’s backpack. .

I.D. admitted to be distributing the marijuana-like tobacco. “The suspect purchased the tobacco online and in the same way that meth dealers do, he planned to have the goods delivered to one place and payment transferred digitally”, he said. (kmb36)

Division Head of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Tabanan Agriculture Agency, I Made Arya Putra, said on Thursday (Feb. 2) that last year just 53,000 dogs were vaccinated in Tabanan, so they plan to increse the numbers this year in order to corresond to the growing dog population.

Putra explained that only 5

percent of Tananan’s 55,000 dogs are stray dogs, another 70 percent have owners who let them roam freely and just 25 percent are caged or on a leash. Based on these figures, it is evident that there is a lack of public awareness about the governements recommendation that people keeo their dogs on leashes in order to

Harbor, Lombok. To ensure a safe crossing process, he explained that they always coordinate with Padanbai harbor authorities (KSOP) “We always coordinate with the KSOP. If everything is safe, then we set out to sea”, he said.

The only significant change to the corssing is the departure times as the crossing takes longer than usual due to the weather. Normally it takes about 4 houts to corss but now it can take 5 to 6 hours. Rosta sadi that they remian vigilant with this bad weather especially since the central government has an appeal to be vigilant at sea. “If the

weather is bad, it is better to delay (the crossing) than not to arrive at the destination”, he said.

Despite such conditions there are still the regular 31 crosings a day, departing to Pandangbai at least every hour. Although the crossing activities are normal, he said that the number of passengers has decreased dramatically. Based on latest data on the number of passengers, Rosta affirmed there is a decline of as much as 15 percent.

However, the decrease in the number of passengers is not only due to bad weather but also du to the fact that is is a new crossing

contains peanuts. Taking place every Friday evening, Satay Night will delight guests with live cooking demonstrations followed by a dinner presentation featuring 5 kinds of mouthwatering satays, appetizer and soup before ending with an array of desserts for a sweet ending. Priced at only IDR

WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS EVERY SATURDAY Meditation class by Mangku Budi Dharma 14-16:30 Bona, Blahbatuh meet at Ubud Cocomarket at 13:00 Saturday Market Oldman’s Cafe Canggu, Batu Bolong Beach, pottery fresh produce, clothing Sand Beach Club and Restaurant, Sanur Every second Saturday Biasa Art Space, Jl. Raya Seminyak 24, Seminyak, Fresh produce, potted plants, meat pie, sshie, coffee and more.

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prevent the potential spread of rabies.

The mass vaccination in April will be held with the expectation that dog owners will cooperate in the yearly vaccination that dogs require in order to remain immunue to rabbies. “Dogs require a booster vaccination once a year to maintain resistence to rabies”,

explained Arya.

Most cases of people being bitten by rabies infected dogs, involve dogs that have not been re- vaccinated and have been allowed to raom freely. People are therefor being asked to keep their dogs on leashes and to have their dogs vaccinated every year. (kmb24)

Impact of bad weather, Padangbai crossing normal but passenger decrease

AMLAPURA - Heavy rain and strong winds cause a number of disturbances including an increasing in sailing time to Padangbai Harbour, Mangis from Lombok. Although there has been no other weather related interference with the crossings, there has been a significant decrese in the number of passengers since the start of the new year.

Head ASDP for Indonesia Ferry Padangbai, Wayan Rosta, when contacted on Thursday (Feb. 2) said that in general the extreme weather of the past week has not disturbed the crossing activities from Padangbai Harbor to Lembar

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55,000 dogs targeted in mass vaccination to start in April TABANAN - One of the measures being taken to address the spread of rabbies on the island is to conduct mass vaccinations on carrier animals. For 2017 a mass vaccination of dogs is scheduled to take place in April and will target some 55,000 dogs, which is the estimated dog population of Tabanan.

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route from Lembar Harbour and not all the warehouses are in fuill operation as they are still influenced by lunar celebrations.

Rosta asserted starting December 1, 2016, Surabaya Harbor opened a new direct crossing line to Lembar Harbor. This new crossing line clearly affects the number of passengers at Padangbai Harbor.

Besides, the other new crossing lines are also in the trial process, includgin the new line from Ketapang to Lembar Harbor. However, this specific line does not yet have a definite schedule as it is still in the trial phase.

“According to preliminary information, this new line will serve crossings twice a week, either from Surabaya or Ketapang” he said.

Chief of Padangbai police area, I Ketut Suharto Giri, also revealed that the crossing at Padangbai Harbor rare currently running smoothly and they are still coordinating with the KSOP of Padangbai and the Denpasar weather service (BMKG) in anticipation of weaterh conditions that could affect the crossing.

Police personnel are also looking out for the security of passengers departing from and arriving to Padangbai Harbor. (kmb31)

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LOS ANGELES- “Fifty Shades of Grey” star Jamie Dornan said fans of the erotic box office hit could look forward to more action when the sequel, “Fifty Shades Darker”, reaches theaters next week.

The Northern Irish actor and co-star Dakota Johnson reprise their sadomasochist relationship in the follow up to the 2015 hit, which made $571 million worldwide.

“We pull out all the stops,” Dornan said at the world premiere of “Fifty Shades Darker” in Los Angeles on Thursday.

“If you’re making a sequel to anything, I think there has to be some kind of advancement on the first, you have to go a bit bigger in a lot of areas, and I don’t think this film is any different.”

“Fifty Shades Darker”, based on the second book in the trilogy of novels by E.L. James, begins its global roll out from Feb. 8. (rtr) Cast member Dakota Johnson pose at the premiere of the film “Fifty Shades Darker” in Los Angeles, California, February 2, 2017.

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Turkish anti-terrorism police break a door during an operation to arrest people over alleged links to the Islamic State group, in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, early Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. Turkey’s state-run agency says anti-terrorism police have detained more than 400 people in simultaneous police operations that spanned several cities, including Istanbul and Gaziantep near the border with Syria, according to the report.

Turkish police detain over 440 people in anti-IS operation ISTANBUL — Turkey’s anti-terrorism police have detained over 440 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group, the state-run agency reported Sunday. The Anadolu Agency said 60 IS suspects, the vast majority of them foreigners, were taken into custody early Sunday in the capital, Ankara.

It said a total of 445 people were detained in simultaneous pre-dawn police operations that spanned several cities, including Istanbul and Gaziantep, near the border with Syria. The largest operation was in the southeast province of Sanliurfa, where police took into custody more than 100 suspects from multiple addresses and found materials relating to Islamic State militants.

Security forces also apprehended nine suspects who were allegedly preparing an attack in the northwestern city of Izmir.

Anadolu did not give the nationalities of all those detained but there were 10 minors among the foreigners detained in Istanbul and the northwestern province of Kocaeli.

Turkey, which last year endured a failed coup attempt and dozens of bloody attacks linked to IS or Kurdish militants, has been stepping up its anti-terrorism efforts.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a New Year Eve mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people. It claims to have multiple cells in Turkey.

Turkey is a member of the NATO alliance and the U.S-led coalition against IS. It shares borders with Syria and Iraq, two war-torn nations at the heart of the fight against IS militants. Turkish forces have been deployed in Syria since August with the aim of clearing a border patch of IS militants and Syrian Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers related to its own Kurdish insurgency.

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