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Pregnant Beyonce keeps all eyes on her despite shock Grammy loss

LOS ANGELES - A surprise loss didn’t stop Beyonce from being center of attention Sunday’s Grammy awards, as the pregnant singer delivered the night’s most anticipated performance and was praised on stage by the artist who triumphed over her.

Beyonce, 35, went into music’s biggest night with a leading nine nominations including the top awards of the night - album, record and song of the year - but lost all three to Britain’s Adele.

“The ‘Lemonade’ album is so monumental and so well thought out and so beautiful and soul-baring, and we got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see and we appreciate that,” Adele said, addressing Beyonce, as she accepted the album of the year award for “25.”

Beyonce, dressed in a red sequined gown, mouthed ‘thank

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Supporters of Indonesia capital’s governor in colourful push for votes

JAKARTA - Supporters of the governor of Indonesia’s capital are hoping their checkered shirts in red, white and blue will help galvanize the vote in a city election on Wednesday and win a second term for their leader. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is Jakarta’s first ethnic Chinese and Christian governor, and the election in the city of 10 million people has stoked religious tension in the Muslim-majority country.

you,’ as she looked on.

The R&B singer did win two Grammy awards, including best urban contemporary album for “Lemonade.”

“My intention was to create a body of work that would give voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history,” Beyonce said as she accepted her Grammy trophy.

While Beyonce is usually known to deliver energetic dance-filled performances, the singer opted to slow things down now she is expecting twins and instead centered her set on the theme of motherhood.

For her performance of “Love Drought” and “Sandcastles,” a video projection of Beyonce dressed in a gold chain bikini and gold halo crown appeared on stage, as she caressed her pregnant belly and posed with her mother Tina Lawson and 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy. (rtr)

Purnama has won middle-class support for cutting red tape and improving the performance of the bureaucracy, but he has been campaigning for reelection while on trial for blasphemy, after being accused of insulting the Koran. He denies doing so.

The checkered shirts were first popularised by his predecessor as city governor, Joko Widodo, who became president of the world’s third-largest democracy in 2014. The shirts are aimed at invoking a folksy charm and conjuring up a sense of hard work, and Purnama often wears one.

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Beyonce holds the awards she won for Best Urban Contemporary Album for “Lemonade” and Best Music Video for “Formation” at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S. , February 12, 2017.

In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 photo, incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, right, and his deputy and also running mate Djarot Saiful Hidayat pose for photographers as they attend a campaign rally in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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BASUKI TJAHAJA PURNAMA, KNOWN AS “AHOK” AGUS YUDHOYONO He is the oldest son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and retired from the military at 38 to run for the governorship. He is backed by the Democrat Party and some Islamic parties. Yuhoyono’s campaign has focused on improving the lives of Jakarta’s poor and he has promised cash handouts to low-income families.

The incumbent governor took over running Jakarta in 2014 when his then boss, Joko Widodo, won the presidency.

Purnama, 50, is the city’s first ethnic Chinese and Christian leader, and has angered some Muslim voters for allegedly insulting the Koran. He has denied wrongdoing, but is on trial for blasphemy in a case that some view as politically motivated. He is backed by the country’s ruling party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

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Onslaught of foreign workers and growth of new entrepreneurs become homework

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The Indonesian young entrepreneurs association (HIPMI) Bali held a regional deliberation on Monday (Feb. 13) at the Inna Grand Bali Beach. Such deliberation is a part of the organizational consolidation. It was filled with the election of chairman of the HIPMI Bali for the period of 2017-2020.

Chairman will have to draft a program decided in the regional deliberation. “Good programs should be resumed, while the poor programs should be improved,” said Chairman of the central executive of the HIPMI, Bahlil Lahadalia, on Monday (Feb. 13). In addition, the synergy between the central executive and regional one must be undertaken.

He admitted that in 2017 the HIPMI has to face the toughest homework due to the arrival of foreign workers. They can work in Indonesia if they qualify for the laws such as having the capability of speaking Bahasa Indonesia and having a special skill. “Well, what happens today is that construction workers and truck drivers are brought in from outside. This should not be allowed as threatening the potential opportunities of domestic workers. Meanwhile, one of the aims of investment is how to create job opportunities for the people of Indonesia. If the labor is brought in from outside, what

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Waste and silting of river can cause floods

TABANAN — Apart from heavy rainfall, another factor contributing to floods and avalanche in the region of Candikuning village, Baturiti, some time ago is waste and silting of river. The waste dumped out of place and not managed properly will drift along the stream. Eventually, it clog the flow and trigger floods and avalanche.

As observation of Bali Post, the avalanche sweeping away some houses was caused by the water of watershed. Remaining materials of the disaster, other than wood and bamboo, there are also piles of rubbish mostly comprising plastic dumped by communities.

A resident of Candikuning hamlet II, Candikuning, Sriani, 25, admitted on Saturday (Feb. 11) that people still dump their waste individually. On the other hand, there is no landfill so that people dispose of theirs haphazardly. “Most people dump their waste roadside leading to botanical garden.

Sometimes, a pick-up truck of waste was dumped there,” he said.

As resident, the availability of landfill is very important. Sriani claimed that she did not mind paying monthly levies as long as there is a regular garbage truck transporting their waste every day. Headman of Candikuning, Made Mudita, admitted that waste can potentially cause floods.

According to him, in addition to silting of river and the lack of land absorbability to water, waste also contributes to the cause of floods.

Nevertheless, some residents of Candikuning village have been processing and sorting their own waste. “There has been a waste sorting and processing. The organic waste is processed into fertilizer,” he said.

He admitted that currently Candikuning village has not owned a landfill. The only existing landfill is to accommodate the waste of Ulundanu Beratan tourist attraction. Moreover, it is not wide enough. On that account, Mudita hoped there will be landfill used to accommodate waste in Baturiti. “Candikuning area is not good for the making of landfill because it is concave. It should be made outside the village,” he said.

Other than waste, added Mudita, silting of river also causes water to spill into residential areas. It is supported by reduction of water absorption by soil because the plantation areas in Baturiti that formerly consisted of long term plants like coffee have been replaced with vegetable crops.

In the meantime, the Head of the Tabanan Environment Agency (DLH), A.A. Ngurah Raka Icwara, said on Sunday (Feb. 12) that Baturiti areas served by the DLH in matter of waste transportation on a regular basis include the Baturiti vegetable market, Baturiti market and Candikuning market. “Meanwhile, the DLH just signed MoU with the governing body of Bedugul,” he said.

Currently, the DLH service is indeed optimized for urban areas of Tabanan. The areas having not been covered by the services are expected to provide self-service by local community, especially in terms of providing landfill. “It depends on the will of community facilitated by customary village and other agencies. We very much support if there is land property owned by customary village to be functioned as landfill,” he hoped. (kmb24)

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Thus, the government should be more massive and consistent in enforcing the rules. “We should immediately ask the government to restrict the ways committed by particular corporations that deliberately violate the laws, especially in the matter of foreign worker employment, it is not allowed,” he said.

He recognized that no HIPMI members bring in foreign workers that are not in accordance with the applicable laws because the HIPMI entrepreneurs are nationalist businessmen.

The next homework is to maintain the strength of local economy.

“The obstacle is that the number of our entrepreneurs remains below the WHO standards or economic perspective. We still lack 1.8 million young entrepreneurs,” he said.

In Indonesia, the total number of entrepreneurs reaches 1.65 percent of the population, while ideally it should be 2 percent. “To meet the standard of 2 percent, we are still short of 1.8 million,” he concluded.

However, if using the theory of the World Bank, it should be 4 percent.

On that account, Indonesia requires 5.8 million entrepreneurs, while currently it only amounts to 1.6 percent. “Other than HIPMI, there is no organization aiming to create young entrepreneurs,” he added.

Former chairperson of the HIPMI Bali, Indha Trimafo Yudha, said that during her leadership in the 13th period with the ranks has engaged in activities that strengthen entrepreneurship. “So, we are trying to strengthen the entrepreneurial productivity. At first, we open networking among young entrepreneurs across Bali,” she said.

During her tenure, she also established relations with central HIPMI to strengthen network and some international organizations.

“We also conduct the HIPMI Festival on regular basis and social activities,” she explained. In addition, she started to motivate HIPMI entrepreneurs, one of which is through the activities carried out amid the regional deliberation yesterday.

During her leadership, she said that many new entrepreneurs emerged. At least, there are 100200 active members of the HIPMI. However, at least there are 1,000members scattered throughout Bali. (kmb42)

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Senators try to speed up deployment of self-driving cars

WASHINGTON — In the first major congressional attempt to address the advent of self-driving cars, two senators said Monday they’re launching a bipartisan effort to help to speed up the deployment of the vehicles on the nation’s roads.

Republican John Thune of South Dakota, the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Democrat Gary Peters of Michigan, said they’re exploring legislation that “clears hurdles and advances innovation in self-driving vehicle technology.”

The senators’ counterparts in the House are also gearing up to address the new technology, with a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Automakers cite federal requirements that all vehicles must have steering wheels and brake pedals as examples of regulations that presume there will be a human driver and might inhibit the introduction of self-driving cars. Congressional action may be needed to make changes.

“Without changes to those regulations, it may be years before the promise of today’s technology can be realized and thousands of preventable deaths that could have been avoided will happen,” Michael Ableson, General Motors’ vice president of global strategy, plans to tell the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to prepared testimony.

Proponents of self-driving cars say they hold the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths by eliminating human error, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says is a factor in 94 percent of all fatal crashes. More than 35,000 people were killed on the nation’s roads in 2015, up over 7 percent from the previous year. Traffic deaths surged an additional 8 percent in the first nine months of last year.

Automakers also complain that states are moving ahead with their own regulations, creating the potential for a confusing “patchwork” of laws.

“Our effort will also include a discussion on the existing patchwork of laws and regulations and the traditional roles of federal and state regulators,” Thune and Peters said in a joint statement.

Safety advocates have urged the government to set standards that specifically address the safety of self-driving cars. The Obama administration last year issued a voluntary set of safety goals for makers of self-driving cars to meet with the understanding that enforceable regulations could follow.

The Trump administration hasn’t yet indicated what approach it will take to the technology. (ap)

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Operations of botanical garden postponed until cleanup process ends TABANAN - The operations of Bedugul Botanical Garden having been closed since Friday (Feb. 10) after hit by floods and scheduled to open on Monday (Feb. 13) seems to be postponed.

It happens because the management is still doing cleanup at the location.

Section Head of Services and Information of the ka Karya Botanical Garden Bedugul, Wawan Sujarwo, PhD., explained on Monday (Feb. 13) that the main road to botanical garden is still filled with materials brought by floods. The management is still

doing a cleanup. “If the transportation of flood materials along the main road can be resolved this Monday, it can be opened tomorrow,” he said.

Wawan added if the cleanup cannot be finished on Monday the operation of botanical garden

can be postponed again. “If the cleanup cannot be accomplished this Monday, the operation may be opened on Wednesday (Feb. 15),” he said.

In addition, he described that tourist visit to the botanical garden in January 2017 showed a

decrease when compared to the same month in 2016. In January 2016, the visit reached 50,000 people, while the visit in January 2017 even dropped to approximately 37,000 people.

The drop in tourist visit is inseparable from disastrous incidents afflicting to Candikuning area in December 2016 that almost leveled the Teratai Bang Temple in the area of the botani-

cal garden. Due to the disaster, the Eka Karya botanical garden was closed for approximately one week.

“We cannot estimate the tourist visit this February whether there will be a decline. Based on past experiences, there is a decrease in tourist visit when compared to last year’s visit due to the disaster,” said Wawan. (kmb24)

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A model of EHang 184 and the next generation of Dubai Drone Taxi is seen during the second day of the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.

Up, up and away: Passenger-carrying drone to fly in Dubai

DUBAI — Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July.

In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, an Uber driverless car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco. In the first major congressional attempt to address the advent of self-driving cars, two key senators said Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, they’re launching a bipartisan effort to help to speed up the deployment of the vehicles on the nation’s roads.

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The arrival of the Chinese-made EHang 184 — which already has had its flying debut over Dubai’s iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel — comes as the Emirati city also has partnered with other cutting-edge technology companies, including Hyperloop One. The question is whether the egg-shaped, four-legged craft will really take off as a transportation alternative in this car-clogged city already home to the world’s longest driverless metro line.

Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai’s Roads & Transportation Agency, announced plans to have the craft regularly flying at the World Government Summit.

Before his remarks on Monday, most treated the four-legged, eight-propeller craft as just another curiosity at an event that views itself as a desert Davos.

“This is not only a model,” al-Tayer said. “We have actually experimented with this vehicle flying in Dubai’s skies.”

The craft can carry a pas-

senger weighing up to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) and a small suitcase. After buckling into its race-car-style seat, the craft’s sole passenger selects a destination on a touch-screen pad in front of the seat and the drone flies there automatically.

The drone, which has a battery allowing for a half-hour flight time and a range of up to 50 kilometers (31 miles), will be monitored remotely by a control room on the ground. It has a top speed of 160 kph (100 mph), but authorities say it will be operated typically at 100 kph (62 mph).

Al-Tayer said the drone would begin regular operations in July.

He did not elaborate.

The Road and Transportation Agency later issued a statement saying the drone had been examined by the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and was controlled through 4G mobile internet. The agency did not immediately respond to further questions from The Associated Press.

The United Arab Emirates already requires drone hobbyists to register their aircraft. However, drone intrusions at Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, has seen it shut down for hours at a time in recent months.

EHang did not respond to a request for comment. In May, authorities in Nevada announced they would partner with EHang to test the 184 to possibly be cleared by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

The drone may be a techno curiosity for now but Dubai — the commercial capital of the oil-rich UAE and home to the long-haul carrier Emirates — has bold visions for the future and the 184 fits right into its plans.

Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced in April he wanted 25 percent of all passenger trips in the city to be done by driverless vehicles in 2030. To that end, Dubai already has had the boxshaped driverless EZ10, built by France’s EasyMile, cruise nearby the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. (ap)

The management is still doing cleanup at the location.

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Malaysian citizen arrested as bringing drugs DENPASAR - The provincial national narcotic agency (BNNP) Bali interdiction team in cooperation with the Ngurah Rai Airport customs arrested a Malaysian citizen with the initials SBMS, 39, on Saturday (Feb. 4). This man was arrested after landing at Ngurah Rai Airport previously flying with Air Asia with flight number AK374 from Kuala Lumpur to Denpasar.

Chief of BNNP Bali, Putu Gede

Suastawa, said on Monday (Feb. 13) that the suspect was arrested at 01:50. “Perpetrator’s attitude was suspicious so that he was then immediately searched. At that time, a clear glass pipe wrapped in tissue containing crystal meth weighing 0.11 gram was secured. Furthermore, the suspect was taken to the BNNP office on Jalan Kamboja, Denpasar. He is a user,” he said.

Additionally, the BNNP eradication team rummaged through

Kuta on Wednesday (Feb. 8). In the boarding house on Jalan Segara Madu, Kedonganan, the team arrested the suspect Muhammad Taufiq, 25. The team seized seven plastic clips containing crystal meth weighing 3.88 grams, a hand phone, crystal meth suction tool, small wallet, yellow gas lighter and electric scale. The suspect claimed to get the crystal meth from Sukandar.

The next day was the turn of

boarding house without number on Jalan Segara Madu, Kedonganan, Kuta. The team arrested Sukandar, 33, from Pamekasan, Madura, East Java, when having a crystal meth party. From the suspect was seized seven plastic clips of crystal meth weighing 6.39 grams, a small plastic clip containing crystal meth weighing 0.47 gram, one electric scale, bong and two hand phones.

Additionally, the team also arrested Sudarwati alias Resa,

26, living on Jalan Teges Nunggal Gunung Lawu, Nusa Dua; M. Saifuddin, 23, living on Jalan Segara Madu, Gang Ratna, Kedonganan; and M. Sugiono, 19, living on Jalan Nuansa Bukit, Jimbaran, South Kuta.

“No evidence can be found on these three suspects. Results of their urine test indicated they are positive to crystal meth, so that they are directed to rehabilitation,” he said. (kmb36)

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Anti-extortion taskforce arrests ten ticket attendants in Kintamani

BANGLI - A total of ten tourism ticket attendants in Kintamani were arrested by anti-extortion (Saber Pungli) taskforce in red-handed operations (OTT) on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 12). The ten attendants were arrested from two different crime scenes of ticket booth located at Petung hamlet, Batur Tengah, and three-way intersection to Sekaan village. In the operation, the taskforce seized some evidences such as cash worth IDR 33 million.

Chief of Bangli Police, Danang Beny K, accompanied by Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit Deni Septiawan mentioned that the ten ticket attendants arrested in the red-handed operation at the first scene of Petung hamlet, Batur Utara, are I Nyoman Dedi Dharmadi, 47, I Ketut Suardana, 47, I Komang Nawasara, 45, I Ketut Ardana, 48, I Wayan Supriman, 50, and I Ketut Ardin, 50. Then, those who were on duty at the second scene, Sekaan three-way intersection, consist of I Nyoman Muliada, 46, I Nyoman Litawan, 47, I Gede Adhi Ariyana, 49, and I Ketut Kampiun, 58.

Police chief explained that the red-handed operation was conducted by the taskforce on Sunday at 14:00.

The arrest was made based on the results of investigation by the anti-extortion taskforce of Bangli since the past few days. When arrested, the taskforce found the ticket attendants collecting tourism levies inappropriate with provisions.

Police chief said there are three modes committed by the offenders in their act all this time. They include receiving money but do not give the ticket to tour guides, drivers or visiting guests. Secondly, the ticket attendant gives the ticket but does not match the amount of visiting guests in the entourage. For instance, eight visiting guests are only issued six tickets.

“Another mode is by issuing ticket of domestic visitors for foreign visitors. However, it is charged at the price of ticket for foreign visitors. For instance, the ticket attendant issued local or domestic ticket at IDR 16,000, but the money collected is IDR 31,000,” he explained.

In committing their fraudulent acts, the attendants get personal benefit in moderate amount. One ticket booth, at Katung for instance, at least the profit obtained can reach approximately IDR 4.5 million. The profit of whole post is usually collected first and then distributed to all the ticket attendants.

Police chief added that other than arresting ten ticket attendants in the red-handed operation, the antiextortion taskforce also secured some evidences. At the first scene, the taskforce secured cash worth IDR 21.9 million, hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for foreign visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for domestic visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for car, buses, motorcycle, a calculator, a daily report book and a bag.

Then, in the second scene, the taskforce secured the evidences in the form of cash worth IDR 11.478 million, hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for foreign visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission tickets for domestic visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for car, bus, motorcycle, calculator, a daily report book and blue bag.

“Surely we will further develop the results of this arrest, so that the problem having become a complaint of tourism players all this time can be resolved,” he said. (kmb40)

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No return home in sight for thousands of Californians sheltering from dam

OROVILLE - Tens of thousands of Californians faced an indefinite stay in shelters as engineers worked for a second day on Tuesday to fix the United States’ tallest dam before more storms sweep the region.

Based on information compiled, the water crisis hit 15 villages

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Avalanche and flash flood cause villages in water crisis

SINGARAJA - Dozens of villages in Buleleng face clean water crisis due to broken pipelines after hit by avalanche and flash floods. Seeing such condition, the district government immediately did short-term handling by tank truck water supply. So, to prevent it from continuing, any corrective measures should be immediately made. This was discussed at the coordination meeting on Monday (Feb. 13).

Based on information compiled, the water crisis hit 15 villages, namely Tajun, Mengening, Tamblang, Bila, Pakisan, Bontihing, Sudaji, Menyali, Sawan, Bebetin, Banyuatis, Penglatan, Galungan, Kayuputih and Tirtasari. It happened after the pipeline rupture due to hit by recent avalanche and flash floods. Aside from water issue, the infrastructure and settlements are also damaged.

After chairing a meeting, Regional Secretary of Buleleng, Dewa Ketut Puspaka, recognized that the disaster, especially that occurred three days before, left quite significant impact for the community. To face it, last Monday the district

government immediately established the status of the emergency response.

To follow it up, one of the solutions taken is supplying water by tank truck.

Meanwhile, relevant agency is asked to collect data on the losses as accurately as possible for the handling of broken pipelines. Similar measure should also be done on any other damages, such as infrastructure and settlements. It is considered important to find out which disaster is worth fighting to get aids from the provincial and central government. “Now, we must take action, action to work and action to make a report. This kind of measure must be quick,” he said.

To handle the disaster, he said the district government has prepared windfall budget worth IDR 2.25 billion. It has been ascertained to be disbursed on Tuesday. If the budget is not sufficient, continued Puspaka, it will be made a shift to budget of other programs. This will be discussed with the parliament.

“We ask that data collection on the losses should have been completed on Thursday. If the budget is not sufficient, it will be discussed again with the parliament on Friday which budget can be shifted to the windfall budget,” he said.

Other than sourcing from the regional budget, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, suggested the agency leadership to participate in providing assistance.

“It is not coercion and should not necessarily in the form of money. It can also be in the other forms. This will be handed over after regional election so that it will not be associated with votes,” he said. (kmb45)

Healthcare facilities in South Kuta still inadequate PUBLIC health facilities needed in southern Badung, especially in South Kuta, are currently considered still inadequate. It is incomparable to the population of South Kuta, reaching approximately 94,000 people. So far, there is only one main public health center. With this condition, it is certainly not possible to reach the population optimally.

“At least, South Kuta needs to establish the South Kuta 2 public health center that provides hospitalization service. In this case, we will prioritize, while for

land preparation we will take advantage of the existing social facilities,” said Deputy Regent of Badung, Ketut Suiasa, on Monday (Feb. 13).

He said that in a series of preparing foremost service to community in matter of the KIS and KBS application, after scrutinized, the Mangusada Hospital has been currently overloaded. This happens because people’s awareness to get health check has increased. The provision of healthcare facility also has an impact.

“To that end, the community of South

Badung cannot use the facility maximally due to distance factor,” he said.

All this time, the KIS and KBS services can only be provided by hospital having rooms of class 3. Meanwhile, there are very few hospitals of such category in South Kuta. On that account, South Kuta needs hospital that can provide such services in the future. “This is our main plan. It is the aspiration of people who are expecting a hospital development in the future. It will be further discussed in the budgetary amendment,” he concluded. (kmb23)

After what looks set to be the wettest winter in Northern California following years of drought, more rain was forecast for as early as Wednesday and through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Crews were working to shore up an overflow channel and drain the reservoir at the Lake Oroville Dam but authorities gave no indication of when it would be safe for people to go home.

Late on Sunday, about 188,000 residents were ordered to evacuate their homes in the Feather River valley below the dam, 65 miles (105 km) north of Sacramento.

Authorities say they had averted the immediate danger of a catastrophic failure at the dam that could unleash a wall of water three stories tall on towns below.

“We’re doing everything we can to get this dam in shape that they can return and they can live safely without fear. It’s very difficult,” California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters during a news conference on Monday evening.

On Monday, Brown sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump asking him to issue an emergency declaration, which would open up federal assistance for the affected communities, after an emergency overflow channel appeared on the brink of collapse.

Yolanda Davila, 62, of Thermalito, ended up at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, one of only five in the area taking people with pets. She left home without medicine and dog food in the rush to find shelter before the evacuation deadline.

She said that areas such as Sacramento had been issued flood warnings earlier in the

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California Department of Water Resources crews inspect and evaluate the erosion just below the Lake Oroville Emergency Spillway site after lake levels receded, in Oroville, California, U.S., February 13, 2017. week and that authorities should have warned residents near Oroville much sooner.

“We didn’t have a plan, all we knew is to head north toward Chico,” Davila said. “If I knew we had to get out earlier I would have went to the Bay Area.”

The earth-filled dam is just upstream and

east of Oroville, a town of about 16,000 people. At 770 feet (230 meters) high, the structure, built between 1962 and 1968, it is more than 40 feet taller than the Hoover Dam. On Monday afternoon, crews dropped large bags filled with rocks into a gap at the

top of the emergency spillway to rebuild the eroded hillside.

The main spillway, a separate channel, is also damaged because part of its concrete lining fell apart last week. Both spillways are to the side of the dam itself, which has not been compromised, engineers said. (rtr)

In Belarus, wolf-hunters lay traps at edge of Chernobyl zone

KHRAPKOVO - Wolf fur grows thickest in winter, so Belarussian hunter Vladimir Krivenchik only sets his traps once snow is on the ground.

He and his wife live on the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone - 2,600 square km (1,000 square miles) of land on the Belarus-Ukraine border that was contaminated by a nuclear disaster in 1986.

The zone’s resurgent wolf population poses a threat to nearby livestock, so local farms pay hunters like Krivenchik a flat fee of 150 Belarussian roubles ($80) for each wolf they kill. He sells the pelts separately.

This equates to about three-quarters REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY of Krivenchik’s monthly salary as a Vladimir Krivenchik (L) and Nikolay Skidan, hunters, strangle a wolf which is caught watchman at a granary, but he does not in a trap near the village of Khrapkovo, Belarus February 1, 2017. like to hunt year-round.

“In the summer, I feel bad killing a wolf as their fur is so bad,” he said.

Every morning in winter, Krivenchik checks his traps and adjusts or moves them if they are empty. If a wolf is caught in the jaws of a trap, he kills it and takes it home for skinning.

Krivenchik says no part of the animal goes to waste as the heart, legbones and other parts are sold for use in traditional medicine.

Wolf numbers are more than seven times higher in the Belarussian part of the Chernobyl zone than in uncontaminated areas elsewhere in the region, according to a study published in scientific journal Current Biology in 2015. About 1,700 wolves were culled in 2016, according to official data. (rtr)

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Zimbabwe’s street vendors use card payments, cars to stay ahead

HARARE - Clutching a payment terminal in one hand and a customer’s debit card in the other, 34-year-old street vendor Melisa Mbiza stands on the roadside by her truck loaded with mangoes, touting for business in central Harare. “I’m in a hurry - please can you be quick,” said her client, one of a sizeable queue forming as Mbiza swiped the card and packed the fruit into a plastic bag.

Mbiza hummed jovially while taking debit cards from her waiting customers and doling out mangoes.

“There is very little hard cash circulating these days and if I relax, I risk going broke in business - so I have had to embrace electronic payments on the streets,” she said. Business has been good since she started using the point-of-sale machine last April, she added.

With Zimbabwe’s economy struggling and a shortage of cash as people hoard U.S. dollars, the main currency, some 230 companies shut up shop in the first half of 2016, according to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, pushing more people into an already bulging informal economy.

But even in a high-tech form like Mbiza’s, street vending is illegal in Zimbabwe, as stipulated in local bylaws. That doesn’t put off the vendors, who have found their own ways to

cope with tough conditions, including what they describe as “harassment” by the police if they set up on pavements.

“We now often choose to come into town at night when city council police have finished work for the day,” said Mbiza.

Street vendors get some help to deal with daily challenges, thanks to civil society groups like the Zimbabwe Informal Sector Organisation (ZISO). It helps traders whose goods are seized by police to restock so they can stay in business.

“We source money from good Samaritans and the donor community, which we use to compensate vendors who lose their goods to city council police,” said ZISO executive director Promise Mkwananzi.

‘VOICELESS’ 1 MILLION The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ), founded in

2008, also represents street traders, who have become a common feature in towns and cities across the southern African nation in recent years. There are more than 1 million informal vendors in Zimbabwe, with over 100,000 operating in Harare, of whom some 20,000 peddle their wares on pavements in the Central Business District, according to NAVUZ statistics.

The number of Zimbabweans classed by government data as employed was 6.3 million in 2015, with the vast majority working in the informal sector which includes small-scale farmers. NAVUZ Chair Sten Zvorwadza pointed to a “huge disconnect” between the government and the informal economy, highlighting the union’s role as “the voice of the voiceless”, given that many of the street vendors are women, children and young people.

“NAVUZ has mobilised vendors to seek redress on issues that have a bearing on the welfare of vendors’ rights, policy formulation and raising awareness to push the government to recognise the informal economy,” said Zvorwadza. It has, for example, led street protests calling for an end to the harassment of vendors, and says

its efforts have helped reduce the daily battles between traders and police.

Further help for the struggling vendors has come from democracy lobby groups, such as Occupy Africa Unity Square. “Where else can the vendors earn a living if they don’t descend on the streets?” said Elvis Mugari, a member of the anti-government group. It has launched a series of legal challenges against city council police for violating the rights of street vendors, which have yet to be heard in court, he added. NAVUZ says little or no help has been offered by the Zimbabwean government itself.

“Despite the hard work and innovative methods being displayed by vendors plying the streets, no support has come from the government to encourage growth in the informal sector or to create conducive working environments,” said Zvorwadza.

RESTAURANT ON WHEELS The government, however, says it is doing its best for the growing ranks of vendors. “We have come up with designated points where we have erected proper and modern market stalls around towns and cities to enable vendors to conduct their

business in an orderly fashion,” said an official from the Ministry of Local Government, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media. But for millions of vendors here, any government assistance has been far less than what they need. “The market stalls the government brags about are far away from town where we have many customers - plus the stalls are too few,” said Charlene Chauke, a vendor and NAVUZ member.

Many traders like her and Mbiza say they have not benefited from any government help. “Only vendors who are known to be loyal supporters of the ruling party ZANU-PF here may be getting favours from government,” she said. For vendors like Miriam Ngulube, aged 27, it is survival of the fittest as she sells cooked food from her car boot on Harare’s streets, while trying to evade detection.

“My car has become my restaurant, as I try to move on with my business without attracting the attention of the council police,” she said. “I can’t afford to rent a proper restaurant and so I just prepare food at home and bring it in my car to sell here on the streets.”(rtr)

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Foreigners take part in Mejaya-Jaya Ritual

Foreign travelers learning yoga at Shanti Toya Ashram in Penarungan village, Mengwi, Badung, were invited to start their program with a mejaya-jaya ritual. They took part in a melukat (purificatory rite) and cleansed themselves physically and psychically through a ceremony officiated over by Ida Panditha Mpu Putra Yoga Parama Dhaksa, at Geria Agung Batur Sari, Mengwi.

A total of 15 foreigners from various countries including the Philippines, Malaysia, the USA, Korea joined in the mejaya-jaya ritual. EVENthough the participants had only just met, there was a

familiar atmosphere as if everyone was part of one big family. Some of the them had visited Bali many times before, others were here for the first time and they all followed the the mejaya-jaya ritual piously.

Pradnya Wati, founder and owner of Shanti Toya Ashram, yoga teacher at Fivelements and yoga assistant at Gokul Yoga Bali, said the mejaya-jaya is obligatory for anyone who studies yoga at Shanti Toya Ashram. All the participants in this program will become yoga trainers who will be able to guide those wishing to practice yoga. “The ritual is intended to expedite the process of learning yoga”, said Pradnya while added that he also enjoys

sharing yoga online at www. shantiretreatsbali.org and www. gokulyogabali.com.

By following the ritual, explained Pradnya Wati, the material studied in the yoga program will be easier to follow, absorb and practice. “Before learning yoga, all the participants must follow the purification rite and cleansing.

This is our belief at Shanti Toya Ashram, The following day, the students start their three week yoga program” she said.

READ February-March: Enthralling Pasola Jousting Festivals 2017 on Sumba Island Ida Panditha Mpu Putra Yoga Parama Dhaksa said that the purification rite is meant to cleanse one’s karma through mantras and that for those who believe, it is very effective. “Hopefully, what needs to be learned will be absorbed easily and quickly by the participants.

If you trust the teacher, you can surely learn the lessons quickly”, she added. (kmb)

Tanah Lot as Spiritual Tourist Attraction

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Street vendors sell fruit and vegetables on the pavement in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.

For foreign travelers, Tanah Lot is a unique place to relax because it offers an exotic and panoramic view. Different from the case with Bali local residents, Tanah Lot is really a spiritual tourist destination to invoke physical and spiritual peace.

Balinese people flock to implement worship at temples on piodalan or temple anniversary or typical days.

For instance, piodalan at Pakendungan Temple on Saturday (Sep. 17) coincided with the Kuningan feast.

Hindu community is booming to say prayers.

The ceremony was started the day before with purificatory rite to local spring, so it became a live cultural attraction. Similarly, the procession of parading the Bendesa Shakti kris dagger was held by Kediri Palace. Both became unique moment for tourists. After the parade, it was resumed with piodalan procession. “Piodalan ritual is held

at 20:0 until 23:00. The ritual is prepared by Kedungu customary village,” said Operations Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, I Ketut Toya Adnyana.

Extreme heat accompanied with cloudy weather did not dampen the intention of pilgrims to pray and visitors to have leisure. Thousands of Hindus pilgrims from various regions in Bali come to say prayers at Pakendungan Temple. The crowd began to look at 10:00, and the peak occurred at 14:00 till night.

“We’ve arranged the merchants and forbid them from selling around the temple area so as to provide comfort for pilgrims desiring to say prayers,” he said.

The piodalan lasted for three days consecutively until Tuesday (Sep. 20). Along with piodalan at Pakendungan Temple, similar ritual also took place at Batu Mejan Temple located in the area of

Enjung Galuh and adjacent to Batu Bolong Temple and Patok Temple near Pakendungan Temple. “To anticipate congestion, pecalang or customary security guard of Kedungu customary village makes cooperation with related division at Tanah Lot for arrangement of parking space,” he added.

Other than large number of pilgrims saying prayers to Pakendungan and Batu Mejan Temple, Tanah Lot tourist attraction is also thronged by other visitors from local Bali and outside the island.

They came to Tanah Lot to spend holiday of Kuningan feast and ongoing local school holidays. In addition, religious atmosphere of Tanah Lot seemed to add to the cool and calm atmosphere, so that visitors and pilgrims feel comfortable and not affected by any circumstances beyond the context of the visit and prayers. (kmb)

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Trump national security aide Flynn resigns over Russian contacts WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned late on Monday after revelations that he had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office and misled Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations.

Flynn’s resignation came hours after it was reported that the Justice Department had warned the White House weeks ago that Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail for contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump took power on Jan. 20.

Flynn’s departure was a sobering development in Trump’s young presidency, a 24-day period during which his White House has been repeatedly distracted by miscues and internal dramas.

The departure could slow Trump’s bid to warm up relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Flynn submitted his resignation hours after Trump, through a spokesman, pointedly declined to publicly back Flynn, saying he was reviewing the situation and talking to Pence.

Flynn had promised Pence he had not discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russians, but transcripts of intercepted communications, described by U.S. officials, showed that the subject had come up in conversations between him and the Russian ambassador.

Such contacts could potentially be in violation of a law banning private citizens from engaging in foreign policy, known as the Logan Act. Pence had defended Flynn in television interviews and was described by administration officials as upset about being misled.

“Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the president and the vice president, and they have accepted

my apology,” Flynn said in his resignation letter.

Retired General Keith Kellogg, who has been chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, was named the acting national security adviser while Trump determines who should fill the position.

Kellogg, retired General David Petraeus, a former CIA director, and Robert Harward, a former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, are under consideration for the position, a White House official said.

Harward was described by officials as the leading candidate.

A U.S. official confirmed a Washington Post report that Sally Yates, the then-acting U.S. attorney general, told the White House late last month that she believed Flynn had misled them about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador.

She said Flynn might have put himself in a compromising position, possibly leaving himself vulnerable to blackmail, the official said. Yates was later fired for opposing Trump’s temporary entry ban for people from seven mostly Muslim nations. (rtr)

PARIS - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon faced a fresh party rebellion on Tuesday after some 40 lawmakers demanded a “crisis” meeting to discuss his fate amid fears a fake work scandal could derail their bid to win the election.

Fillon, once the election frontrunner, has been fighting to keep his campaign alive and has said he will only step down if he is put under formal investigation.

Over the past week he had

appeared to rally his party, but French media reports at the weekend suggested the country’s financial prosecutor was likely to take further legal steps into allegations of fake work by Fillon’s wife.

That was followed on Monday evening by dissenting lawmakers publicly dining at a central Paris restaurant to discuss whether their candidate was best-suited to represent them, as opinion polls since the scandal broke almost three weeks ago show him slipping out of the race.

“On Feb. 1st ... you asked us to hold on 15 more days on the basis that the situation would be clarified favourably,” said an open letter agreed by some 40 lawmakers.

“However, this period has expired, and there has yet to be any clarification. As a result, we have a real concern that our political family, The Republicans, will not be able to compete in this presidential election in a calm and dignified way.”

Voters have been turned off Fillon by the probe into a report by the Canard Enchaine satirical weekly that

his wife was paid hundreds of thousands of euros in taxpayers’ money for work she may not have done.

The Journal de Dimanche (JDD) on Sunday cited unidentified sources saying the proceedings - which would mean the prosecutor had decided against dropping the case for lack of evidence - would involve both Fillon and his British wife Penelope.

“Facing this major crisis, it is your duty to hold without delay a meeting of the political bureau of our movement, the only legitimate place to decide the conditions in which we

could renew hope and confidence to the country,” the letter obtained by Reuters said.

The polls, which before the affair saw Fillon as favourite to win the presidency, show the 62-year-old former prime minister coming a close third in the first round vote on April 23.

That would leave first- and second-placed Marine Le Pen of the National Front and centrist Emmanuel Macron to contest the May 7 second round, a runoff the polls show Macron winning comfortably. (rtr)

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Trump’s “Make America Great Again” red baseball caps did. “It’s simple, easily remembered and is a symbol for hard workers,” said Purnama campaign official Guntur Romli.

“We’re invoking that memory,” Romli said, referring to recollections of Widodo, a hugely popular Jakarta governor who has retained strong backing after his move to the presidential palace. Near Purnama’s campaign headquarters, the red, white and dark blue checkered shirts cost up to 170,000 rupiah ($13) and have recently been selling fast at street stalls.

Hats, mugs and key chains bearing the likeness of Purnama, who is known by his nickname Ahok, were also on display. Office worker Emma Kusuma, who was browsing through the merchandise this week, said she had made the trip from the outskirts of Jakarta.

“I was hoping to catch a glimpse of Ahok and take photos with him,” she said. Other businesses are also trying to cash in: fast-food chains and online shopping sites have launched election promotions, including discounts for those who share the same name as candidates.

Purnama, who was Widodo’s

deputy when he was running Jakarta, is in a tight race with Agus Yudhoyono, the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and a former education minister, Anies Baswedan.

Baswedan often wears a white shirt and a black Muslim cap while campaigning, while Yudhoyono tends to be more casual in a black polo shirt. But neither has established a trademark style.

the first round, a runoff is expected in May between the two candidates securing the most votes. Defeated candidates can dispute the results in the Constitutional Court.

If incumbent governor Purnama wins the Jakarta election but is convicted of blasphemy, he is legally allowed to assume office as long as the appeals process is ongoing.

7.1 million people are registered to vote in Jakarta. Elections will be held for governors, mayors and regents in 101 regions throughout the country. Seven provinces, including Jakarta, will choose a governor and there will 18 city elections and 76 district elections. (rtr)

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Pressure mounts on France’s Fillon as party lawmakers rebel

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His supporters have also taken up the fashion, turning up at his weekly court appearances where they are separated by police in colourful contrast to white-clad members of a hardline Muslim group calling for Purnama to be jailed. Purnama suffered a hit in the polls, apparently related to his trial, but his support has rebounded over the past few weeks.

His campaign team is hoping the checkered shirts will resonate with voters, in much the same way that U.S President Donald

Australia, Indonesia making joint effort to protect WW2 wreck

SYDNEY - Australia and Indonesia are sending divers to inspect the wreck of a warship torpedoed off the coast of Java during World War Two next month to determine how best to protect the site from looters who have stripped numerous other WW2 wrecks.

The Australian cruiser HMAS Perth was sunk by Japanese forces in 1942 off the northwest tip of Java during the Battle of Sunda Strait.

Of the 681 crew on board, 353 perished. During the same battle, the USS Houston was sunk. Only 368

White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (C) arrives prior to a joint news conference between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2017.

VOTING PROCESS IN JAKARTA Official results are expected to be announced March 8-10. If no candidates achieves a majority in

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Forbidden love: Valentine’s Day ban for some in Muslim-majority Indonesia

JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities in parts of the Muslimmajority nation have confiscated condoms and banned students from celebrating Valentine’s Day, saying the romantic tradition encourages casual sex and runs counter to cultural norms.

In the city of Makassar on Sulawesi island, police raided minimarts and seized condoms that were readily available in most parts of Indonesia, a secular country whose state ideology enshrines religious diversity.

“These raids were done after we received reports from residents that the minimarts were selling condoms in an unregulated way, especially on Valentine’s Day,” Makassar police official Jufri was quoted as saying in a media report.

He added employees of the minimarts were told not to sell contraceptives to teenagers, the report said.

Indonesia’s highest Islamic clerical council declared Valentine’s Day forbidden by Islamic law in 2012, saying it was contradictory to Muslim culture and teachings.

But the vast majority of In-

donesia’s more than 220 million Muslims follow a moderate form of Islam in a country with sizeable Christian and Hindu minorities.

In Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, and other parts of the country, Valentine’s Day has grown in popularity with companies looking to cash in by offering special discounts and promotions.

For example, national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is offering a 15 percent discount on air fares this week and motor bike delivery services are promoting week-long discounts to send flowers and chocolates to loved ones.

Rights groups have expressed concerns over the growing influence of Islamist groups, who have targeted how people lead their lives. A hardline group went around malls in East Java late last year to check whether

outlets had ordered Muslim staff to wear Christmas apparel such as Santa hats.

In Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, government officials ordered schools to ban students from celebrating Valentine’s Day “in or outside of school” because it ran counter to “cultural and social norms”, according to a copy of the letter on the city’s official website.

A similar letter was also sent to public education agencies and schools in West Java province, according to a statement on the provincial government’s website.

West Java is the country’s most populous province.

West Java and other provinces, such as Aceh, which is the only province in Indonesia to follow sharia law, have issued similar bans on celebrating Valentine’s Day in previous years.

Under Indonesia’s decentralised system of government, regional authorities are allowed to issue bylaws without approval from the central government.(rtr)

of its 1,061 crew survived.

“A physical dive on the site with archeologists will be the only way to gain a clear picture of what remains of Perth,” said Kevin Sumption, director of the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Divers discovered in November that the wrecks of two Dutch warships sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, which the Perth had also participated in, had been completely stripped by marine salvagers, who have ransacked many other wrecks lying in Indonesian waters.(rtr)

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Legian Beach

BADUNG - Legian Beach is probably the second most popular area with visitors after Kuta because of its close association with beach life and its parties. Indeed, one of Legian’s main attractions is its extravagant nightlife.

Another attraction is the white sandy beach filled with tanned wannabe celebrities. For first timers, Legian is just like another Kuta but give yourself a day, and an evening walk along the famous Double Six Beach, and a night in a cosy club, then you decide what you’ll do with the rest of your vacation. As its name suggests, literally ‘sweet’ in Balinese, Legian promises sweet memories of a Bali holiday.

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Badung Market DENPASAR - Badung Market, or ‘Pasar Badung’ in the local tongue, is considered the largest traditional market in Bali. It seemingly never sleeps, functioning as the main source of fresh produce among locals. Regular stalls open well before the break of dawn, with a daily flow of fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers from suppliers in farming regions in the central highlands and elsewhere, and often stay open well after midnight, creating a night market scene. The market comprises an open and spacious ground level area adjoining its parking space, and a four-storey building (currently under repair following a recent fire) that houses dozens of shops selling mostly non-perishable goods, such as

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This central landmark in Denpasar is located on the eastern bank of the namesake Badung River, with the Kumbasari Art Market on the other side. The negotiable prices here can usually be a whole lot cheaper than in other markets in Bali, and the mandatory hard bargaining always adds to the shopping experience here. (IBP/net)

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Rosberg warns Bottas about Hamilton rivalry

MONACO - Retired Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg has warned his Mercedes replacement Valtteri Bottas not to expect an “easy ride” from team mate Lewis Hamilton.

Speaking ahead of the Laureus World Sport Awards on Tuesday, the 31-year old said he would be happy to give the Finn some advice ahead of the seasonopening Australian Grand Prix in March.

“I would tell him don’t expect an easy ride, that’s for sure,” Rosberg told reporters in Monaco. “It’s going to be challenging coming into a new team with Lewis having been there for so many years and with the new regulations.

“Lewis is one of the best out there so the level is extremely high. At the same time Valtteri is very talented. He can achieve great things as well, as long as the team give him a good car.

“He (Bottas) has asked if we can have a chat soon and I am happy to do that, of course - but I will stay very, very neutral. I won’t give away any Lewis secrets for example, I’ll just help him in a way to integrate better into the team.”

Rosberg beat Hamilton to the 2016 drivers’ title only to announce his shock retirement days later, walking away from a contract reported to be worth around 18 million pounds ($22.48 million) a year.

Bottas, 27, has joined the champions after spending the five previous seasons at Williams.

This week Rosberg suggested his own longstanding rivalry with Hamilton, which started when they were teenagers in karting, had added friction and he would often feel even more angry when the Briton did “something that crosses the line”.

But the German, whose tense relationship with Hamilton on and off the track has been well documented, did not rule out a reconciliation with the three-times world champion.

“The competition has gone completely, sadly.

We’ve already had some nice, relaxed moments and who knows, I am open to having a better relationship with him again in the future,” he said.

“We were best friends after all, 15 years ago.” Rosberg has been nominated in the World Breakthrough Of The Year category at the 2017 Laureus World Sport for securing his first F1 crown last year. (rtr)

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WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for a U.S. government lawsuit seeking nearly $100 million in damages from former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong to go to trial, court papers showed.

The U.S. Justice Department has accused Armstrong of defrauding the government by accepting millions of dollars in sponsorship money from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as he led the team to a string of Tour de France victories while doping.

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned for life from bicycle racing in 2012 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after it accused him in a report of engineering one of the most sophisticated doping schemes in sports.

Nicole Navas, a spokeswoman from the Department of Justice, declined to comment on the case.

Eliot Peters, an attorney for Arm-

strong, did not respond to a request for comment. Armstrong, who had long denied using performanceenhancing drugs (PEDs), admitted to doping in January 2013.

Armstrong’s former teammate, Floyd Landis, originally brought the lawsuit in 2010 under a federal law, the False Claims Act, that lets whistle-blowers pursue fraud cases on behalf of the government, and obtain rewards if successful.

The Justice Department joined the case in February 2013. Armstrong, who contends that the USPS benefits outweighed the sponsorship costs, sought to have the case decided by summary judgment in April 2016.

“Because the government has offered evidence that Armstrong withheld information about the team’s doping and use of PEDs and that the anti-doping provisions of the sponsorship agreements were material to USPS’s decision to continue

the sponsorship and make payments under the agreements, the Court must deny Armstrong’s motion for summary judgment on this issue,” Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in a 37-page ruling on Monday.

The USPS paid around $32.3 million to Armstrong’s cycling team, the now-defunct Tailwind Sports Corp, from 2000 to 2004, looking to capitalize on Armstrong’s Tour de France victories, as well as his “compelling personal story,” Cooper said in his ruling.

The government has calculated damages at three times this amount.

Landis stands to gain up to 25 percent of whatever sum the government recovers. Paul Scott, an attorney for Landis, said by email, “We look forward to the day soon when we can put this case before the jury at long last.” (rtr)

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AC Milan end losing run in Serie A by drawing with Lazio 1-1

City overcomes Gabriel Jesus injury, beats Bournemouth 2-0

BOURNEMOUTH — Manchester City overcame Gabriel Jesus’ early departure because of injury to beat Bournemouth 2-0 and climb to second place in the English PREMIER LEAGUE, eight points behind Chelsea on Monday.

Raheem Sterling’s 29th-minute strike and an own-goal in the 69th from Tyrone Mings, who deflected in an effort from substitute Sergio Aguero, earned City a third straight league win.

Aguero — City’s chief striker since 2011 — has lost his starting place to Gabriel Jesus but played most of the match after coming on for the Brazil striker, who hobbled off in the 15th minute with an apparent twisted right ankle. Gabriel Jesus initially tried to play on after injuring himself when landing awkwardly stretching for a cross, but slumped to the ground within minutes and signaled to the bench.

“Tomorrow morning, we’ll know exactly,” City manager Pep Guardiola said. “I will pray tonight.” Aguero thought he scored when he slid in to glance a cross from Sterling toward goal. The ball struck the foot of Mings and deflected in, with the PREMIER LEAGUE awarding it as an own goal.

Sterling opened the scoring by tapping home at the far post after Leroy Sane’s cross from the left ricocheted into his fellow winger’s path. The England international has scored five goals against Bournemouth, more than any other opponent.

Sterling and Sane also struck the goal frame as Pep Guardiola’s team dominated on the south coast.

“We play a good game in one of the toughest games away,” Guardiola said. “Except for 10 minutes in the second half, we controlled.”

City leapfrogged Liverpool, ARSENAL, and Tottenham to be the latest nearest challenger to Chelsea, which is the big favorite for the title. City still has to play Chelsea away in early April. “It’s so, so difficult to win all the games,” Guardiola said. “The gap is too big.”

Bournemouth hasn’t won in 2017 and is in freefall, just six points from the relegation zone. The hosts weren’t helped b y captain Simon Francis (hamstring) a n d midfielder Jack Wilshere (ankle) going off injured in the first half.

“We reorganized and had a go,” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said, “but ultimately they were too good.

“We have to be positive. We go into a break in the PREMIER LEAGUE calendar and have to come back refreshed and ready to fight for our league survival.”(ap)

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates his side’s second goal during their English PREMIER LEAGUE soccer match against AFC Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth, England, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.

ROME — Suso saved AC Milan from more misery by scoring a late equalizer at Lazio for 1-1 in Serie A on Monday. Milan had lost three straight and was desperate to change course in a key match for the Europa League places.

Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona cheers during the match.

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Maradona to try to give Napoli a boost against Real Madrid

MADRID — Diego Maradona couldn’t do much on the field to keep Napoli from being eliminated by Real Madrid the last time the teams met in a European competition. Almost 30 years later, though, he will be at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium trying to cheer the Italian club to its greatest Champions League achievement.

Maradona was Napoli’s biggest star in that European Cup encounter in 1987, when Madrid won 3-1 on aggregate.

On Wednesday, he will be the team’s symbolic No. 1 fan.

Maradona and about 10,000 Napoli supporters made the trip to Madrid for what could be a historic moment for the club i n E u r o p e ’s t o p team competition.

Napoli has a chance to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in its history.

“If I was a prophet, I wouldn’t need to be a player,” Maradona said when asked about his prediction for the first leg as he arrived in the Spanish capital. It is only the second time that Napoli is playing the last 16 of the Champions League. It also reached this stage in 2011-12, when it was eliminated by CHELSEA. The 56-year-old Maradona was invited by Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis to watch the game against the defending Euro-

pean champions in Madrid. He is staying at the team’s hotel and reportedly will be giving a pep talk to the players ahead of Wednesday’s match.

The Argentina great led Napoli to its only two Serie A titles in 1987 and 1990, along with the 1987 Italian Cup and the 1989 UEFA Cup. He remains the club’s all-time top scorer with 115 goals. He played below expectations, though, when Napoli faced Madrid in the first round of the 1987-88 European Cup. Madrid won the first leg at the Bernabeu 2-0 and held on for a 1-1 draw in Italy in the return game.

Maradona, who also played for Madrid rival Barcelona, left Napoli in the early 1990s after testing positive for cocaine, but remains highly revered in Naples. He was greeted by a roar of applause and cheers when he walked on stage at Naples’ opera house last month as a guest honor at an event to celebrate the team’s first Serie A title three decades ago.

“I feel at home here, as I’ve always felt,” he said at the time. De Laurentiis confirmed that Maradona has a job offer with the club once he settles his decades-long feud with Italy’s tax collection agency.

Last week, Maradona was named an ambassador for FIFA to promote the game across the globe.

The talented playmaker led Argentina to the World Cup title in 1986, and to a runner-up finish in 1990. Brazil great Careca, who thrived with Napoli alongside Maradona in the late 1980s, is also expected to be at the Bernabeu on Wednesday.

Of the reported 10,000 Napoli fans who traveled to Madrid, about 4,000 will be in the visitors’ section, and many of the others bought tickets for other areas of the stadium, including through Madrid membership cards, according to Italian media.(ap)

Lazio remained sixth, three points ahead of Milan, with the top six teams likely to qualify for Europe.

Milan has finished outside the top six for three straight seasons.

“There’s a long way to go, a lot of matches to play, but this is a big point,” Suso said. “We’ll fight until the last match to get back into Europe.”

Midfielder Lucas Biglia converted a penalty in first-half injury time for Lazio after Milan’s 17-year-old goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, was whistled for tripping Ciro Immobile.

Donnarumma kept Milan in the match with tough saves then Suso evaded three defenders to score with a delightful solo effort

inside the area five minutes from time. Milan has scored four of its last eight Serie A goals after the 85th minute.

As usual, Milan struggled in the first half, conceding the most shots (16) and shots on target (eight) in the first half of any Serie A match this season.

“We didn’t play a great match and they scored in a key moment before the half. But we left everything we had out on the pitch in the second half,” Suso said. “It’s a well-earned point.”(ap)

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

AC Milan’s Suso celebrates after scoring a goal during an Italian Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Milan, at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.

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Bayern’s Franck Ribery kicks the ball during a training session prior to the Champions League round of 16 soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Arsenal London, in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017.

Bayern winger Ribery loses bid to be fit to face Arsenal

MUNICH — Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery has lost his race to be back in time from a thigh injury to face Arsenal in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Bayern says Ribery took part only in running exercises on Monday is too soon after he strained a muscle at the back of his right thigh in training on Jan. 31.

Defender Jerome Boateng is also

out of the round-of-16 first leg in Munich as he recovers from a chest injury.

Midfielder Xabi Alonso was forced out of Monday’s training session with a blow to his knee but Bayern says it was just a precaution.

Five-time champion Bayern has knocked ARSENAL out in the round of 16 three times — in 2005, 2013 and 2014.(ap)

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AC Milan end losing run in Serie A by drawing with Lazio 1-1

City overcomes Gabriel Jesus injury, beats Bournemouth 2-0

BOURNEMOUTH — Manchester City overcame Gabriel Jesus’ early departure because of injury to beat Bournemouth 2-0 and climb to second place in the English PREMIER LEAGUE, eight points behind Chelsea on Monday.

Raheem Sterling’s 29th-minute strike and an own-goal in the 69th from Tyrone Mings, who deflected in an effort from substitute Sergio Aguero, earned City a third straight league win.

Aguero — City’s chief striker since 2011 — has lost his starting place to Gabriel Jesus but played most of the match after coming on for the Brazil striker, who hobbled off in the 15th minute with an apparent twisted right ankle. Gabriel Jesus initially tried to play on after injuring himself when landing awkwardly stretching for a cross, but slumped to the ground within minutes and signaled to the bench.

“Tomorrow morning, we’ll know exactly,” City manager Pep Guardiola said. “I will pray tonight.” Aguero thought he scored when he slid in to glance a cross from Sterling toward goal. The ball struck the foot of Mings and deflected in, with the PREMIER LEAGUE awarding it as an own goal.

Sterling opened the scoring by tapping home at the far post after Leroy Sane’s cross from the left ricocheted into his fellow winger’s path. The England international has scored five goals against Bournemouth, more than any other opponent.

Sterling and Sane also struck the goal frame as Pep Guardiola’s team dominated on the south coast.

“We play a good game in one of the toughest games away,” Guardiola said. “Except for 10 minutes in the second half, we controlled.”

City leapfrogged Liverpool, ARSENAL, and Tottenham to be the latest nearest challenger to Chelsea, which is the big favorite for the title. City still has to play Chelsea away in early April. “It’s so, so difficult to win all the games,” Guardiola said. “The gap is too big.”

Bournemouth hasn’t won in 2017 and is in freefall, just six points from the relegation zone. The hosts weren’t helped b y captain Simon Francis (hamstring) a n d midfielder Jack Wilshere (ankle) going off injured in the first half.

“We reorganized and had a go,” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said, “but ultimately they were too good.

“We have to be positive. We go into a break in the PREMIER LEAGUE calendar and have to come back refreshed and ready to fight for our league survival.”(ap)

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates his side’s second goal during their English PREMIER LEAGUE soccer match against AFC Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth, England, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.

ROME — Suso saved AC Milan from more misery by scoring a late equalizer at Lazio for 1-1 in Serie A on Monday. Milan had lost three straight and was desperate to change course in a key match for the Europa League places.

Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona cheers during the match.

REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

Maradona to try to give Napoli a boost against Real Madrid

MADRID — Diego Maradona couldn’t do much on the field to keep Napoli from being eliminated by Real Madrid the last time the teams met in a European competition. Almost 30 years later, though, he will be at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium trying to cheer the Italian club to its greatest Champions League achievement.

Maradona was Napoli’s biggest star in that European Cup encounter in 1987, when Madrid won 3-1 on aggregate.

On Wednesday, he will be the team’s symbolic No. 1 fan.

Maradona and about 10,000 Napoli supporters made the trip to Madrid for what could be a historic moment for the club i n E u r o p e ’s t o p team competition.

Napoli has a chance to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in its history.

“If I was a prophet, I wouldn’t need to be a player,” Maradona said when asked about his prediction for the first leg as he arrived in the Spanish capital. It is only the second time that Napoli is playing the last 16 of the Champions League. It also reached this stage in 2011-12, when it was eliminated by CHELSEA. The 56-year-old Maradona was invited by Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis to watch the game against the defending Euro-

pean champions in Madrid. He is staying at the team’s hotel and reportedly will be giving a pep talk to the players ahead of Wednesday’s match.

The Argentina great led Napoli to its only two Serie A titles in 1987 and 1990, along with the 1987 Italian Cup and the 1989 UEFA Cup. He remains the club’s all-time top scorer with 115 goals. He played below expectations, though, when Napoli faced Madrid in the first round of the 1987-88 European Cup. Madrid won the first leg at the Bernabeu 2-0 and held on for a 1-1 draw in Italy in the return game.

Maradona, who also played for Madrid rival Barcelona, left Napoli in the early 1990s after testing positive for cocaine, but remains highly revered in Naples. He was greeted by a roar of applause and cheers when he walked on stage at Naples’ opera house last month as a guest honor at an event to celebrate the team’s first Serie A title three decades ago.

“I feel at home here, as I’ve always felt,” he said at the time. De Laurentiis confirmed that Maradona has a job offer with the club once he settles his decades-long feud with Italy’s tax collection agency.

Last week, Maradona was named an ambassador for FIFA to promote the game across the globe.

The talented playmaker led Argentina to the World Cup title in 1986, and to a runner-up finish in 1990. Brazil great Careca, who thrived with Napoli alongside Maradona in the late 1980s, is also expected to be at the Bernabeu on Wednesday.

Of the reported 10,000 Napoli fans who traveled to Madrid, about 4,000 will be in the visitors’ section, and many of the others bought tickets for other areas of the stadium, including through Madrid membership cards, according to Italian media.(ap)

Lazio remained sixth, three points ahead of Milan, with the top six teams likely to qualify for Europe.

Milan has finished outside the top six for three straight seasons.

“There’s a long way to go, a lot of matches to play, but this is a big point,” Suso said. “We’ll fight until the last match to get back into Europe.”

Midfielder Lucas Biglia converted a penalty in first-half injury time for Lazio after Milan’s 17-year-old goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, was whistled for tripping Ciro Immobile.

Donnarumma kept Milan in the match with tough saves then Suso evaded three defenders to score with a delightful solo effort

inside the area five minutes from time. Milan has scored four of its last eight Serie A goals after the 85th minute.

As usual, Milan struggled in the first half, conceding the most shots (16) and shots on target (eight) in the first half of any Serie A match this season.

“We didn’t play a great match and they scored in a key moment before the half. But we left everything we had out on the pitch in the second half,” Suso said. “It’s a well-earned point.”(ap)

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

AC Milan’s Suso celebrates after scoring a goal during an Italian Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Milan, at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.

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Bayern’s Franck Ribery kicks the ball during a training session prior to the Champions League round of 16 soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Arsenal London, in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017.

Bayern winger Ribery loses bid to be fit to face Arsenal

MUNICH — Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery has lost his race to be back in time from a thigh injury to face Arsenal in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Bayern says Ribery took part only in running exercises on Monday is too soon after he strained a muscle at the back of his right thigh in training on Jan. 31.

Defender Jerome Boateng is also

out of the round-of-16 first leg in Munich as he recovers from a chest injury.

Midfielder Xabi Alonso was forced out of Monday’s training session with a blow to his knee but Bayern says it was just a precaution.

Five-time champion Bayern has knocked ARSENAL out in the round of 16 three times — in 2005, 2013 and 2014.(ap)

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Another attraction is the white sandy beach filled with tanned wannabe celebrities. For first timers, Legian is just like another Kuta but give yourself a day, and an evening walk along the famous Double Six Beach, and a night in a cosy club, then you decide what you’ll do with the rest of your vacation. As its name suggests, literally ‘sweet’ in Balinese, Legian promises sweet memories of a Bali holiday.

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This central landmark in Denpasar is located on the eastern bank of the namesake Badung River, with the Kumbasari Art Market on the other side. The negotiable prices here can usually be a whole lot cheaper than in other markets in Bali, and the mandatory hard bargaining always adds to the shopping experience here. (IBP/net)

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Rosberg warns Bottas about Hamilton rivalry

MONACO - Retired Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg has warned his Mercedes replacement Valtteri Bottas not to expect an “easy ride” from team mate Lewis Hamilton.

Speaking ahead of the Laureus World Sport Awards on Tuesday, the 31-year old said he would be happy to give the Finn some advice ahead of the seasonopening Australian Grand Prix in March.

“I would tell him don’t expect an easy ride, that’s for sure,” Rosberg told reporters in Monaco. “It’s going to be challenging coming into a new team with Lewis having been there for so many years and with the new regulations.

“Lewis is one of the best out there so the level is extremely high. At the same time Valtteri is very talented. He can achieve great things as well, as long as the team give him a good car.

“He (Bottas) has asked if we can have a chat soon and I am happy to do that, of course - but I will stay very, very neutral. I won’t give away any Lewis secrets for example, I’ll just help him in a way to integrate better into the team.”

Rosberg beat Hamilton to the 2016 drivers’ title only to announce his shock retirement days later, walking away from a contract reported to be worth around 18 million pounds ($22.48 million) a year.

Bottas, 27, has joined the champions after spending the five previous seasons at Williams.

This week Rosberg suggested his own longstanding rivalry with Hamilton, which started when they were teenagers in karting, had added friction and he would often feel even more angry when the Briton did “something that crosses the line”.

But the German, whose tense relationship with Hamilton on and off the track has been well documented, did not rule out a reconciliation with the three-times world champion.

“The competition has gone completely, sadly.

We’ve already had some nice, relaxed moments and who knows, I am open to having a better relationship with him again in the future,” he said.

“We were best friends after all, 15 years ago.” Rosberg has been nominated in the World Breakthrough Of The Year category at the 2017 Laureus World Sport for securing his first F1 crown last year. (rtr)

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U.S. Postal Service Team rider Lance Armstrong of the United States raises his arms as he crosses the finish line to win the 204.5 km long 17th stage of the Tour de France from Bourdd’Oisans to Le Grand Bornand, France, July 22, 2004.

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for a U.S. government lawsuit seeking nearly $100 million in damages from former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong to go to trial, court papers showed.

The U.S. Justice Department has accused Armstrong of defrauding the government by accepting millions of dollars in sponsorship money from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as he led the team to a string of Tour de France victories while doping.

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned for life from bicycle racing in 2012 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after it accused him in a report of engineering one of the most sophisticated doping schemes in sports.

Nicole Navas, a spokeswoman from the Department of Justice, declined to comment on the case.

Eliot Peters, an attorney for Arm-

strong, did not respond to a request for comment. Armstrong, who had long denied using performanceenhancing drugs (PEDs), admitted to doping in January 2013.

Armstrong’s former teammate, Floyd Landis, originally brought the lawsuit in 2010 under a federal law, the False Claims Act, that lets whistle-blowers pursue fraud cases on behalf of the government, and obtain rewards if successful.

The Justice Department joined the case in February 2013. Armstrong, who contends that the USPS benefits outweighed the sponsorship costs, sought to have the case decided by summary judgment in April 2016.

“Because the government has offered evidence that Armstrong withheld information about the team’s doping and use of PEDs and that the anti-doping provisions of the sponsorship agreements were material to USPS’s decision to continue

the sponsorship and make payments under the agreements, the Court must deny Armstrong’s motion for summary judgment on this issue,” Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in a 37-page ruling on Monday.

The USPS paid around $32.3 million to Armstrong’s cycling team, the now-defunct Tailwind Sports Corp, from 2000 to 2004, looking to capitalize on Armstrong’s Tour de France victories, as well as his “compelling personal story,” Cooper said in his ruling.

The government has calculated damages at three times this amount.

Landis stands to gain up to 25 percent of whatever sum the government recovers. Paul Scott, an attorney for Landis, said by email, “We look forward to the day soon when we can put this case before the jury at long last.” (rtr)

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Trump national security aide Flynn resigns over Russian contacts WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned late on Monday after revelations that he had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office and misled Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations.

Flynn’s resignation came hours after it was reported that the Justice Department had warned the White House weeks ago that Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail for contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump took power on Jan. 20.

Flynn’s departure was a sobering development in Trump’s young presidency, a 24-day period during which his White House has been repeatedly distracted by miscues and internal dramas.

The departure could slow Trump’s bid to warm up relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Flynn submitted his resignation hours after Trump, through a spokesman, pointedly declined to publicly back Flynn, saying he was reviewing the situation and talking to Pence.

Flynn had promised Pence he had not discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russians, but transcripts of intercepted communications, described by U.S. officials, showed that the subject had come up in conversations between him and the Russian ambassador.

Such contacts could potentially be in violation of a law banning private citizens from engaging in foreign policy, known as the Logan Act. Pence had defended Flynn in television interviews and was described by administration officials as upset about being misled.

“Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the president and the vice president, and they have accepted

my apology,” Flynn said in his resignation letter.

Retired General Keith Kellogg, who has been chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, was named the acting national security adviser while Trump determines who should fill the position.

Kellogg, retired General David Petraeus, a former CIA director, and Robert Harward, a former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, are under consideration for the position, a White House official said.

Harward was described by officials as the leading candidate.

A U.S. official confirmed a Washington Post report that Sally Yates, the then-acting U.S. attorney general, told the White House late last month that she believed Flynn had misled them about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador.

She said Flynn might have put himself in a compromising position, possibly leaving himself vulnerable to blackmail, the official said. Yates was later fired for opposing Trump’s temporary entry ban for people from seven mostly Muslim nations. (rtr)

PARIS - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon faced a fresh party rebellion on Tuesday after some 40 lawmakers demanded a “crisis” meeting to discuss his fate amid fears a fake work scandal could derail their bid to win the election.

Fillon, once the election frontrunner, has been fighting to keep his campaign alive and has said he will only step down if he is put under formal investigation.

Over the past week he had

appeared to rally his party, but French media reports at the weekend suggested the country’s financial prosecutor was likely to take further legal steps into allegations of fake work by Fillon’s wife.

That was followed on Monday evening by dissenting lawmakers publicly dining at a central Paris restaurant to discuss whether their candidate was best-suited to represent them, as opinion polls since the scandal broke almost three weeks ago show him slipping out of the race.

“On Feb. 1st ... you asked us to hold on 15 more days on the basis that the situation would be clarified favourably,” said an open letter agreed by some 40 lawmakers.

“However, this period has expired, and there has yet to be any clarification. As a result, we have a real concern that our political family, The Republicans, will not be able to compete in this presidential election in a calm and dignified way.”

Voters have been turned off Fillon by the probe into a report by the Canard Enchaine satirical weekly that

his wife was paid hundreds of thousands of euros in taxpayers’ money for work she may not have done.

The Journal de Dimanche (JDD) on Sunday cited unidentified sources saying the proceedings - which would mean the prosecutor had decided against dropping the case for lack of evidence - would involve both Fillon and his British wife Penelope.

“Facing this major crisis, it is your duty to hold without delay a meeting of the political bureau of our movement, the only legitimate place to decide the conditions in which we

could renew hope and confidence to the country,” the letter obtained by Reuters said.

The polls, which before the affair saw Fillon as favourite to win the presidency, show the 62-year-old former prime minister coming a close third in the first round vote on April 23.

That would leave first- and second-placed Marine Le Pen of the National Front and centrist Emmanuel Macron to contest the May 7 second round, a runoff the polls show Macron winning comfortably. (rtr)

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Trump’s “Make America Great Again” red baseball caps did. “It’s simple, easily remembered and is a symbol for hard workers,” said Purnama campaign official Guntur Romli.

“We’re invoking that memory,” Romli said, referring to recollections of Widodo, a hugely popular Jakarta governor who has retained strong backing after his move to the presidential palace. Near Purnama’s campaign headquarters, the red, white and dark blue checkered shirts cost up to 170,000 rupiah ($13) and have recently been selling fast at street stalls.

Hats, mugs and key chains bearing the likeness of Purnama, who is known by his nickname Ahok, were also on display. Office worker Emma Kusuma, who was browsing through the merchandise this week, said she had made the trip from the outskirts of Jakarta.

“I was hoping to catch a glimpse of Ahok and take photos with him,” she said. Other businesses are also trying to cash in: fast-food chains and online shopping sites have launched election promotions, including discounts for those who share the same name as candidates.

Purnama, who was Widodo’s

deputy when he was running Jakarta, is in a tight race with Agus Yudhoyono, the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and a former education minister, Anies Baswedan.

Baswedan often wears a white shirt and a black Muslim cap while campaigning, while Yudhoyono tends to be more casual in a black polo shirt. But neither has established a trademark style.

the first round, a runoff is expected in May between the two candidates securing the most votes. Defeated candidates can dispute the results in the Constitutional Court.

If incumbent governor Purnama wins the Jakarta election but is convicted of blasphemy, he is legally allowed to assume office as long as the appeals process is ongoing.

7.1 million people are registered to vote in Jakarta. Elections will be held for governors, mayors and regents in 101 regions throughout the country. Seven provinces, including Jakarta, will choose a governor and there will 18 city elections and 76 district elections. (rtr)

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His supporters have also taken up the fashion, turning up at his weekly court appearances where they are separated by police in colourful contrast to white-clad members of a hardline Muslim group calling for Purnama to be jailed. Purnama suffered a hit in the polls, apparently related to his trial, but his support has rebounded over the past few weeks.

His campaign team is hoping the checkered shirts will resonate with voters, in much the same way that U.S President Donald

Australia, Indonesia making joint effort to protect WW2 wreck

SYDNEY - Australia and Indonesia are sending divers to inspect the wreck of a warship torpedoed off the coast of Java during World War Two next month to determine how best to protect the site from looters who have stripped numerous other WW2 wrecks.

The Australian cruiser HMAS Perth was sunk by Japanese forces in 1942 off the northwest tip of Java during the Battle of Sunda Strait.

Of the 681 crew on board, 353 perished. During the same battle, the USS Houston was sunk. Only 368

White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (C) arrives prior to a joint news conference between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2017.

VOTING PROCESS IN JAKARTA Official results are expected to be announced March 8-10. If no candidates achieves a majority in

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Forbidden love: Valentine’s Day ban for some in Muslim-majority Indonesia

JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities in parts of the Muslimmajority nation have confiscated condoms and banned students from celebrating Valentine’s Day, saying the romantic tradition encourages casual sex and runs counter to cultural norms.

In the city of Makassar on Sulawesi island, police raided minimarts and seized condoms that were readily available in most parts of Indonesia, a secular country whose state ideology enshrines religious diversity.

“These raids were done after we received reports from residents that the minimarts were selling condoms in an unregulated way, especially on Valentine’s Day,” Makassar police official Jufri was quoted as saying in a media report.

He added employees of the minimarts were told not to sell contraceptives to teenagers, the report said.

Indonesia’s highest Islamic clerical council declared Valentine’s Day forbidden by Islamic law in 2012, saying it was contradictory to Muslim culture and teachings.

But the vast majority of In-

donesia’s more than 220 million Muslims follow a moderate form of Islam in a country with sizeable Christian and Hindu minorities.

In Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, and other parts of the country, Valentine’s Day has grown in popularity with companies looking to cash in by offering special discounts and promotions.

For example, national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is offering a 15 percent discount on air fares this week and motor bike delivery services are promoting week-long discounts to send flowers and chocolates to loved ones.

Rights groups have expressed concerns over the growing influence of Islamist groups, who have targeted how people lead their lives. A hardline group went around malls in East Java late last year to check whether

outlets had ordered Muslim staff to wear Christmas apparel such as Santa hats.

In Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, government officials ordered schools to ban students from celebrating Valentine’s Day “in or outside of school” because it ran counter to “cultural and social norms”, according to a copy of the letter on the city’s official website.

A similar letter was also sent to public education agencies and schools in West Java province, according to a statement on the provincial government’s website.

West Java is the country’s most populous province.

West Java and other provinces, such as Aceh, which is the only province in Indonesia to follow sharia law, have issued similar bans on celebrating Valentine’s Day in previous years.

Under Indonesia’s decentralised system of government, regional authorities are allowed to issue bylaws without approval from the central government.(rtr)

of its 1,061 crew survived.

“A physical dive on the site with archeologists will be the only way to gain a clear picture of what remains of Perth,” said Kevin Sumption, director of the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Divers discovered in November that the wrecks of two Dutch warships sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, which the Perth had also participated in, had been completely stripped by marine salvagers, who have ransacked many other wrecks lying in Indonesian waters.(rtr)

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Zimbabwe’s street vendors use card payments, cars to stay ahead

HARARE - Clutching a payment terminal in one hand and a customer’s debit card in the other, 34-year-old street vendor Melisa Mbiza stands on the roadside by her truck loaded with mangoes, touting for business in central Harare. “I’m in a hurry - please can you be quick,” said her client, one of a sizeable queue forming as Mbiza swiped the card and packed the fruit into a plastic bag.

Mbiza hummed jovially while taking debit cards from her waiting customers and doling out mangoes.

“There is very little hard cash circulating these days and if I relax, I risk going broke in business - so I have had to embrace electronic payments on the streets,” she said. Business has been good since she started using the point-of-sale machine last April, she added.

With Zimbabwe’s economy struggling and a shortage of cash as people hoard U.S. dollars, the main currency, some 230 companies shut up shop in the first half of 2016, according to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, pushing more people into an already bulging informal economy.

But even in a high-tech form like Mbiza’s, street vending is illegal in Zimbabwe, as stipulated in local bylaws. That doesn’t put off the vendors, who have found their own ways to

cope with tough conditions, including what they describe as “harassment” by the police if they set up on pavements.

“We now often choose to come into town at night when city council police have finished work for the day,” said Mbiza.

Street vendors get some help to deal with daily challenges, thanks to civil society groups like the Zimbabwe Informal Sector Organisation (ZISO). It helps traders whose goods are seized by police to restock so they can stay in business.

“We source money from good Samaritans and the donor community, which we use to compensate vendors who lose their goods to city council police,” said ZISO executive director Promise Mkwananzi.

‘VOICELESS’ 1 MILLION The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ), founded in

2008, also represents street traders, who have become a common feature in towns and cities across the southern African nation in recent years. There are more than 1 million informal vendors in Zimbabwe, with over 100,000 operating in Harare, of whom some 20,000 peddle their wares on pavements in the Central Business District, according to NAVUZ statistics.

The number of Zimbabweans classed by government data as employed was 6.3 million in 2015, with the vast majority working in the informal sector which includes small-scale farmers. NAVUZ Chair Sten Zvorwadza pointed to a “huge disconnect” between the government and the informal economy, highlighting the union’s role as “the voice of the voiceless”, given that many of the street vendors are women, children and young people.

“NAVUZ has mobilised vendors to seek redress on issues that have a bearing on the welfare of vendors’ rights, policy formulation and raising awareness to push the government to recognise the informal economy,” said Zvorwadza. It has, for example, led street protests calling for an end to the harassment of vendors, and says

its efforts have helped reduce the daily battles between traders and police.

Further help for the struggling vendors has come from democracy lobby groups, such as Occupy Africa Unity Square. “Where else can the vendors earn a living if they don’t descend on the streets?” said Elvis Mugari, a member of the anti-government group. It has launched a series of legal challenges against city council police for violating the rights of street vendors, which have yet to be heard in court, he added. NAVUZ says little or no help has been offered by the Zimbabwean government itself.

“Despite the hard work and innovative methods being displayed by vendors plying the streets, no support has come from the government to encourage growth in the informal sector or to create conducive working environments,” said Zvorwadza.

RESTAURANT ON WHEELS The government, however, says it is doing its best for the growing ranks of vendors. “We have come up with designated points where we have erected proper and modern market stalls around towns and cities to enable vendors to conduct their

business in an orderly fashion,” said an official from the Ministry of Local Government, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media. But for millions of vendors here, any government assistance has been far less than what they need. “The market stalls the government brags about are far away from town where we have many customers - plus the stalls are too few,” said Charlene Chauke, a vendor and NAVUZ member.

Many traders like her and Mbiza say they have not benefited from any government help. “Only vendors who are known to be loyal supporters of the ruling party ZANU-PF here may be getting favours from government,” she said. For vendors like Miriam Ngulube, aged 27, it is survival of the fittest as she sells cooked food from her car boot on Harare’s streets, while trying to evade detection.

“My car has become my restaurant, as I try to move on with my business without attracting the attention of the council police,” she said. “I can’t afford to rent a proper restaurant and so I just prepare food at home and bring it in my car to sell here on the streets.”(rtr)

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Foreigners take part in Mejaya-Jaya Ritual

Foreign travelers learning yoga at Shanti Toya Ashram in Penarungan village, Mengwi, Badung, were invited to start their program with a mejaya-jaya ritual. They took part in a melukat (purificatory rite) and cleansed themselves physically and psychically through a ceremony officiated over by Ida Panditha Mpu Putra Yoga Parama Dhaksa, at Geria Agung Batur Sari, Mengwi.

A total of 15 foreigners from various countries including the Philippines, Malaysia, the USA, Korea joined in the mejaya-jaya ritual. EVENthough the participants had only just met, there was a

familiar atmosphere as if everyone was part of one big family. Some of the them had visited Bali many times before, others were here for the first time and they all followed the the mejaya-jaya ritual piously.

Pradnya Wati, founder and owner of Shanti Toya Ashram, yoga teacher at Fivelements and yoga assistant at Gokul Yoga Bali, said the mejaya-jaya is obligatory for anyone who studies yoga at Shanti Toya Ashram. All the participants in this program will become yoga trainers who will be able to guide those wishing to practice yoga. “The ritual is intended to expedite the process of learning yoga”, said Pradnya while added that he also enjoys

sharing yoga online at www. shantiretreatsbali.org and www. gokulyogabali.com.

By following the ritual, explained Pradnya Wati, the material studied in the yoga program will be easier to follow, absorb and practice. “Before learning yoga, all the participants must follow the purification rite and cleansing.

This is our belief at Shanti Toya Ashram, The following day, the students start their three week yoga program” she said.

READ February-March: Enthralling Pasola Jousting Festivals 2017 on Sumba Island Ida Panditha Mpu Putra Yoga Parama Dhaksa said that the purification rite is meant to cleanse one’s karma through mantras and that for those who believe, it is very effective. “Hopefully, what needs to be learned will be absorbed easily and quickly by the participants.

If you trust the teacher, you can surely learn the lessons quickly”, she added. (kmb)

Tanah Lot as Spiritual Tourist Attraction

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Street vendors sell fruit and vegetables on the pavement in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.

For foreign travelers, Tanah Lot is a unique place to relax because it offers an exotic and panoramic view. Different from the case with Bali local residents, Tanah Lot is really a spiritual tourist destination to invoke physical and spiritual peace.

Balinese people flock to implement worship at temples on piodalan or temple anniversary or typical days.

For instance, piodalan at Pakendungan Temple on Saturday (Sep. 17) coincided with the Kuningan feast.

Hindu community is booming to say prayers.

The ceremony was started the day before with purificatory rite to local spring, so it became a live cultural attraction. Similarly, the procession of parading the Bendesa Shakti kris dagger was held by Kediri Palace. Both became unique moment for tourists. After the parade, it was resumed with piodalan procession. “Piodalan ritual is held

at 20:0 until 23:00. The ritual is prepared by Kedungu customary village,” said Operations Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, I Ketut Toya Adnyana.

Extreme heat accompanied with cloudy weather did not dampen the intention of pilgrims to pray and visitors to have leisure. Thousands of Hindus pilgrims from various regions in Bali come to say prayers at Pakendungan Temple. The crowd began to look at 10:00, and the peak occurred at 14:00 till night.

“We’ve arranged the merchants and forbid them from selling around the temple area so as to provide comfort for pilgrims desiring to say prayers,” he said.

The piodalan lasted for three days consecutively until Tuesday (Sep. 20). Along with piodalan at Pakendungan Temple, similar ritual also took place at Batu Mejan Temple located in the area of

Enjung Galuh and adjacent to Batu Bolong Temple and Patok Temple near Pakendungan Temple. “To anticipate congestion, pecalang or customary security guard of Kedungu customary village makes cooperation with related division at Tanah Lot for arrangement of parking space,” he added.

Other than large number of pilgrims saying prayers to Pakendungan and Batu Mejan Temple, Tanah Lot tourist attraction is also thronged by other visitors from local Bali and outside the island.

They came to Tanah Lot to spend holiday of Kuningan feast and ongoing local school holidays. In addition, religious atmosphere of Tanah Lot seemed to add to the cool and calm atmosphere, so that visitors and pilgrims feel comfortable and not affected by any circumstances beyond the context of the visit and prayers. (kmb)

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Anti-extortion taskforce arrests ten ticket attendants in Kintamani

BANGLI - A total of ten tourism ticket attendants in Kintamani were arrested by anti-extortion (Saber Pungli) taskforce in red-handed operations (OTT) on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 12). The ten attendants were arrested from two different crime scenes of ticket booth located at Petung hamlet, Batur Tengah, and three-way intersection to Sekaan village. In the operation, the taskforce seized some evidences such as cash worth IDR 33 million.

Chief of Bangli Police, Danang Beny K, accompanied by Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit Deni Septiawan mentioned that the ten ticket attendants arrested in the red-handed operation at the first scene of Petung hamlet, Batur Utara, are I Nyoman Dedi Dharmadi, 47, I Ketut Suardana, 47, I Komang Nawasara, 45, I Ketut Ardana, 48, I Wayan Supriman, 50, and I Ketut Ardin, 50. Then, those who were on duty at the second scene, Sekaan three-way intersection, consist of I Nyoman Muliada, 46, I Nyoman Litawan, 47, I Gede Adhi Ariyana, 49, and I Ketut Kampiun, 58.

Police chief explained that the red-handed operation was conducted by the taskforce on Sunday at 14:00.

The arrest was made based on the results of investigation by the anti-extortion taskforce of Bangli since the past few days. When arrested, the taskforce found the ticket attendants collecting tourism levies inappropriate with provisions.

Police chief said there are three modes committed by the offenders in their act all this time. They include receiving money but do not give the ticket to tour guides, drivers or visiting guests. Secondly, the ticket attendant gives the ticket but does not match the amount of visiting guests in the entourage. For instance, eight visiting guests are only issued six tickets.

“Another mode is by issuing ticket of domestic visitors for foreign visitors. However, it is charged at the price of ticket for foreign visitors. For instance, the ticket attendant issued local or domestic ticket at IDR 16,000, but the money collected is IDR 31,000,” he explained.

In committing their fraudulent acts, the attendants get personal benefit in moderate amount. One ticket booth, at Katung for instance, at least the profit obtained can reach approximately IDR 4.5 million. The profit of whole post is usually collected first and then distributed to all the ticket attendants.

Police chief added that other than arresting ten ticket attendants in the red-handed operation, the antiextortion taskforce also secured some evidences. At the first scene, the taskforce secured cash worth IDR 21.9 million, hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for foreign visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for domestic visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for car, buses, motorcycle, a calculator, a daily report book and a bag.

Then, in the second scene, the taskforce secured the evidences in the form of cash worth IDR 11.478 million, hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for foreign visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission tickets for domestic visitors (adults and children), hundreds of pieces of admission ticket for car, bus, motorcycle, calculator, a daily report book and blue bag.

“Surely we will further develop the results of this arrest, so that the problem having become a complaint of tourism players all this time can be resolved,” he said. (kmb40)

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No return home in sight for thousands of Californians sheltering from dam

OROVILLE - Tens of thousands of Californians faced an indefinite stay in shelters as engineers worked for a second day on Tuesday to fix the United States’ tallest dam before more storms sweep the region.

Based on information compiled, the water crisis hit 15 villages

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Avalanche and flash flood cause villages in water crisis

SINGARAJA - Dozens of villages in Buleleng face clean water crisis due to broken pipelines after hit by avalanche and flash floods. Seeing such condition, the district government immediately did short-term handling by tank truck water supply. So, to prevent it from continuing, any corrective measures should be immediately made. This was discussed at the coordination meeting on Monday (Feb. 13).

Based on information compiled, the water crisis hit 15 villages, namely Tajun, Mengening, Tamblang, Bila, Pakisan, Bontihing, Sudaji, Menyali, Sawan, Bebetin, Banyuatis, Penglatan, Galungan, Kayuputih and Tirtasari. It happened after the pipeline rupture due to hit by recent avalanche and flash floods. Aside from water issue, the infrastructure and settlements are also damaged.

After chairing a meeting, Regional Secretary of Buleleng, Dewa Ketut Puspaka, recognized that the disaster, especially that occurred three days before, left quite significant impact for the community. To face it, last Monday the district

government immediately established the status of the emergency response.

To follow it up, one of the solutions taken is supplying water by tank truck.

Meanwhile, relevant agency is asked to collect data on the losses as accurately as possible for the handling of broken pipelines. Similar measure should also be done on any other damages, such as infrastructure and settlements. It is considered important to find out which disaster is worth fighting to get aids from the provincial and central government. “Now, we must take action, action to work and action to make a report. This kind of measure must be quick,” he said.

To handle the disaster, he said the district government has prepared windfall budget worth IDR 2.25 billion. It has been ascertained to be disbursed on Tuesday. If the budget is not sufficient, continued Puspaka, it will be made a shift to budget of other programs. This will be discussed with the parliament.

“We ask that data collection on the losses should have been completed on Thursday. If the budget is not sufficient, it will be discussed again with the parliament on Friday which budget can be shifted to the windfall budget,” he said.

Other than sourcing from the regional budget, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, suggested the agency leadership to participate in providing assistance.

“It is not coercion and should not necessarily in the form of money. It can also be in the other forms. This will be handed over after regional election so that it will not be associated with votes,” he said. (kmb45)

Healthcare facilities in South Kuta still inadequate PUBLIC health facilities needed in southern Badung, especially in South Kuta, are currently considered still inadequate. It is incomparable to the population of South Kuta, reaching approximately 94,000 people. So far, there is only one main public health center. With this condition, it is certainly not possible to reach the population optimally.

“At least, South Kuta needs to establish the South Kuta 2 public health center that provides hospitalization service. In this case, we will prioritize, while for

land preparation we will take advantage of the existing social facilities,” said Deputy Regent of Badung, Ketut Suiasa, on Monday (Feb. 13).

He said that in a series of preparing foremost service to community in matter of the KIS and KBS application, after scrutinized, the Mangusada Hospital has been currently overloaded. This happens because people’s awareness to get health check has increased. The provision of healthcare facility also has an impact.

“To that end, the community of South

Badung cannot use the facility maximally due to distance factor,” he said.

All this time, the KIS and KBS services can only be provided by hospital having rooms of class 3. Meanwhile, there are very few hospitals of such category in South Kuta. On that account, South Kuta needs hospital that can provide such services in the future. “This is our main plan. It is the aspiration of people who are expecting a hospital development in the future. It will be further discussed in the budgetary amendment,” he concluded. (kmb23)

After what looks set to be the wettest winter in Northern California following years of drought, more rain was forecast for as early as Wednesday and through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Crews were working to shore up an overflow channel and drain the reservoir at the Lake Oroville Dam but authorities gave no indication of when it would be safe for people to go home.

Late on Sunday, about 188,000 residents were ordered to evacuate their homes in the Feather River valley below the dam, 65 miles (105 km) north of Sacramento.

Authorities say they had averted the immediate danger of a catastrophic failure at the dam that could unleash a wall of water three stories tall on towns below.

“We’re doing everything we can to get this dam in shape that they can return and they can live safely without fear. It’s very difficult,” California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters during a news conference on Monday evening.

On Monday, Brown sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump asking him to issue an emergency declaration, which would open up federal assistance for the affected communities, after an emergency overflow channel appeared on the brink of collapse.

Yolanda Davila, 62, of Thermalito, ended up at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, one of only five in the area taking people with pets. She left home without medicine and dog food in the rush to find shelter before the evacuation deadline.

She said that areas such as Sacramento had been issued flood warnings earlier in the

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California Department of Water Resources crews inspect and evaluate the erosion just below the Lake Oroville Emergency Spillway site after lake levels receded, in Oroville, California, U.S., February 13, 2017. week and that authorities should have warned residents near Oroville much sooner.

“We didn’t have a plan, all we knew is to head north toward Chico,” Davila said. “If I knew we had to get out earlier I would have went to the Bay Area.”

The earth-filled dam is just upstream and

east of Oroville, a town of about 16,000 people. At 770 feet (230 meters) high, the structure, built between 1962 and 1968, it is more than 40 feet taller than the Hoover Dam. On Monday afternoon, crews dropped large bags filled with rocks into a gap at the

top of the emergency spillway to rebuild the eroded hillside.

The main spillway, a separate channel, is also damaged because part of its concrete lining fell apart last week. Both spillways are to the side of the dam itself, which has not been compromised, engineers said. (rtr)

In Belarus, wolf-hunters lay traps at edge of Chernobyl zone

KHRAPKOVO - Wolf fur grows thickest in winter, so Belarussian hunter Vladimir Krivenchik only sets his traps once snow is on the ground.

He and his wife live on the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone - 2,600 square km (1,000 square miles) of land on the Belarus-Ukraine border that was contaminated by a nuclear disaster in 1986.

The zone’s resurgent wolf population poses a threat to nearby livestock, so local farms pay hunters like Krivenchik a flat fee of 150 Belarussian roubles ($80) for each wolf they kill. He sells the pelts separately.

This equates to about three-quarters REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY of Krivenchik’s monthly salary as a Vladimir Krivenchik (L) and Nikolay Skidan, hunters, strangle a wolf which is caught watchman at a granary, but he does not in a trap near the village of Khrapkovo, Belarus February 1, 2017. like to hunt year-round.

“In the summer, I feel bad killing a wolf as their fur is so bad,” he said.

Every morning in winter, Krivenchik checks his traps and adjusts or moves them if they are empty. If a wolf is caught in the jaws of a trap, he kills it and takes it home for skinning.

Krivenchik says no part of the animal goes to waste as the heart, legbones and other parts are sold for use in traditional medicine.

Wolf numbers are more than seven times higher in the Belarussian part of the Chernobyl zone than in uncontaminated areas elsewhere in the region, according to a study published in scientific journal Current Biology in 2015. About 1,700 wolves were culled in 2016, according to official data. (rtr)

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Senators try to speed up deployment of self-driving cars

WASHINGTON — In the first major congressional attempt to address the advent of self-driving cars, two senators said Monday they’re launching a bipartisan effort to help to speed up the deployment of the vehicles on the nation’s roads.

Republican John Thune of South Dakota, the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Democrat Gary Peters of Michigan, said they’re exploring legislation that “clears hurdles and advances innovation in self-driving vehicle technology.”

The senators’ counterparts in the House are also gearing up to address the new technology, with a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Automakers cite federal requirements that all vehicles must have steering wheels and brake pedals as examples of regulations that presume there will be a human driver and might inhibit the introduction of self-driving cars. Congressional action may be needed to make changes.

“Without changes to those regulations, it may be years before the promise of today’s technology can be realized and thousands of preventable deaths that could have been avoided will happen,” Michael Ableson, General Motors’ vice president of global strategy, plans to tell the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to prepared testimony.

Proponents of self-driving cars say they hold the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths by eliminating human error, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says is a factor in 94 percent of all fatal crashes. More than 35,000 people were killed on the nation’s roads in 2015, up over 7 percent from the previous year. Traffic deaths surged an additional 8 percent in the first nine months of last year.

Automakers also complain that states are moving ahead with their own regulations, creating the potential for a confusing “patchwork” of laws.

“Our effort will also include a discussion on the existing patchwork of laws and regulations and the traditional roles of federal and state regulators,” Thune and Peters said in a joint statement.

Safety advocates have urged the government to set standards that specifically address the safety of self-driving cars. The Obama administration last year issued a voluntary set of safety goals for makers of self-driving cars to meet with the understanding that enforceable regulations could follow.

The Trump administration hasn’t yet indicated what approach it will take to the technology. (ap)

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Operations of botanical garden postponed until cleanup process ends TABANAN - The operations of Bedugul Botanical Garden having been closed since Friday (Feb. 10) after hit by floods and scheduled to open on Monday (Feb. 13) seems to be postponed.

It happens because the management is still doing cleanup at the location.

Section Head of Services and Information of the ka Karya Botanical Garden Bedugul, Wawan Sujarwo, PhD., explained on Monday (Feb. 13) that the main road to botanical garden is still filled with materials brought by floods. The management is still

doing a cleanup. “If the transportation of flood materials along the main road can be resolved this Monday, it can be opened tomorrow,” he said.

Wawan added if the cleanup cannot be finished on Monday the operation of botanical garden

can be postponed again. “If the cleanup cannot be accomplished this Monday, the operation may be opened on Wednesday (Feb. 15),” he said.

In addition, he described that tourist visit to the botanical garden in January 2017 showed a

decrease when compared to the same month in 2016. In January 2016, the visit reached 50,000 people, while the visit in January 2017 even dropped to approximately 37,000 people.

The drop in tourist visit is inseparable from disastrous incidents afflicting to Candikuning area in December 2016 that almost leveled the Teratai Bang Temple in the area of the botani-

cal garden. Due to the disaster, the Eka Karya botanical garden was closed for approximately one week.

“We cannot estimate the tourist visit this February whether there will be a decline. Based on past experiences, there is a decrease in tourist visit when compared to last year’s visit due to the disaster,” said Wawan. (kmb24)

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A model of EHang 184 and the next generation of Dubai Drone Taxi is seen during the second day of the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.

Up, up and away: Passenger-carrying drone to fly in Dubai

DUBAI — Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July.

In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, an Uber driverless car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco. In the first major congressional attempt to address the advent of self-driving cars, two key senators said Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, they’re launching a bipartisan effort to help to speed up the deployment of the vehicles on the nation’s roads.

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The arrival of the Chinese-made EHang 184 — which already has had its flying debut over Dubai’s iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel — comes as the Emirati city also has partnered with other cutting-edge technology companies, including Hyperloop One. The question is whether the egg-shaped, four-legged craft will really take off as a transportation alternative in this car-clogged city already home to the world’s longest driverless metro line.

Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai’s Roads & Transportation Agency, announced plans to have the craft regularly flying at the World Government Summit.

Before his remarks on Monday, most treated the four-legged, eight-propeller craft as just another curiosity at an event that views itself as a desert Davos.

“This is not only a model,” al-Tayer said. “We have actually experimented with this vehicle flying in Dubai’s skies.”

The craft can carry a pas-

senger weighing up to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) and a small suitcase. After buckling into its race-car-style seat, the craft’s sole passenger selects a destination on a touch-screen pad in front of the seat and the drone flies there automatically.

The drone, which has a battery allowing for a half-hour flight time and a range of up to 50 kilometers (31 miles), will be monitored remotely by a control room on the ground. It has a top speed of 160 kph (100 mph), but authorities say it will be operated typically at 100 kph (62 mph).

Al-Tayer said the drone would begin regular operations in July.

He did not elaborate.

The Road and Transportation Agency later issued a statement saying the drone had been examined by the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and was controlled through 4G mobile internet. The agency did not immediately respond to further questions from The Associated Press.

The United Arab Emirates already requires drone hobbyists to register their aircraft. However, drone intrusions at Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, has seen it shut down for hours at a time in recent months.

EHang did not respond to a request for comment. In May, authorities in Nevada announced they would partner with EHang to test the 184 to possibly be cleared by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

The drone may be a techno curiosity for now but Dubai — the commercial capital of the oil-rich UAE and home to the long-haul carrier Emirates — has bold visions for the future and the 184 fits right into its plans.

Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced in April he wanted 25 percent of all passenger trips in the city to be done by driverless vehicles in 2030. To that end, Dubai already has had the boxshaped driverless EZ10, built by France’s EasyMile, cruise nearby the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. (ap)

The management is still doing cleanup at the location.

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Malaysian citizen arrested as bringing drugs DENPASAR - The provincial national narcotic agency (BNNP) Bali interdiction team in cooperation with the Ngurah Rai Airport customs arrested a Malaysian citizen with the initials SBMS, 39, on Saturday (Feb. 4). This man was arrested after landing at Ngurah Rai Airport previously flying with Air Asia with flight number AK374 from Kuala Lumpur to Denpasar.

Chief of BNNP Bali, Putu Gede

Suastawa, said on Monday (Feb. 13) that the suspect was arrested at 01:50. “Perpetrator’s attitude was suspicious so that he was then immediately searched. At that time, a clear glass pipe wrapped in tissue containing crystal meth weighing 0.11 gram was secured. Furthermore, the suspect was taken to the BNNP office on Jalan Kamboja, Denpasar. He is a user,” he said.

Additionally, the BNNP eradication team rummaged through

Kuta on Wednesday (Feb. 8). In the boarding house on Jalan Segara Madu, Kedonganan, the team arrested the suspect Muhammad Taufiq, 25. The team seized seven plastic clips containing crystal meth weighing 3.88 grams, a hand phone, crystal meth suction tool, small wallet, yellow gas lighter and electric scale. The suspect claimed to get the crystal meth from Sukandar.

The next day was the turn of

boarding house without number on Jalan Segara Madu, Kedonganan, Kuta. The team arrested Sukandar, 33, from Pamekasan, Madura, East Java, when having a crystal meth party. From the suspect was seized seven plastic clips of crystal meth weighing 6.39 grams, a small plastic clip containing crystal meth weighing 0.47 gram, one electric scale, bong and two hand phones.

Additionally, the team also arrested Sudarwati alias Resa,

26, living on Jalan Teges Nunggal Gunung Lawu, Nusa Dua; M. Saifuddin, 23, living on Jalan Segara Madu, Gang Ratna, Kedonganan; and M. Sugiono, 19, living on Jalan Nuansa Bukit, Jimbaran, South Kuta.

“No evidence can be found on these three suspects. Results of their urine test indicated they are positive to crystal meth, so that they are directed to rehabilitation,” he said. (kmb36)

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The Indonesian young entrepreneurs association (HIPMI) Bali held a regional deliberation on Monday (Feb. 13) at the Inna Grand Bali Beach. Such deliberation is a part of the organizational consolidation. It was filled with the election of chairman of the HIPMI Bali for the period of 2017-2020.

Chairman will have to draft a program decided in the regional deliberation. “Good programs should be resumed, while the poor programs should be improved,” said Chairman of the central executive of the HIPMI, Bahlil Lahadalia, on Monday (Feb. 13). In addition, the synergy between the central executive and regional one must be undertaken.

He admitted that in 2017 the HIPMI has to face the toughest homework due to the arrival of foreign workers. They can work in Indonesia if they qualify for the laws such as having the capability of speaking Bahasa Indonesia and having a special skill. “Well, what happens today is that construction workers and truck drivers are brought in from outside. This should not be allowed as threatening the potential opportunities of domestic workers. Meanwhile, one of the aims of investment is how to create job opportunities for the people of Indonesia. If the labor is brought in from outside, what

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TABANAN — Apart from heavy rainfall, another factor contributing to floods and avalanche in the region of Candikuning village, Baturiti, some time ago is waste and silting of river. The waste dumped out of place and not managed properly will drift along the stream. Eventually, it clog the flow and trigger floods and avalanche.

As observation of Bali Post, the avalanche sweeping away some houses was caused by the water of watershed. Remaining materials of the disaster, other than wood and bamboo, there are also piles of rubbish mostly comprising plastic dumped by communities.

A resident of Candikuning hamlet II, Candikuning, Sriani, 25, admitted on Saturday (Feb. 11) that people still dump their waste individually. On the other hand, there is no landfill so that people dispose of theirs haphazardly. “Most people dump their waste roadside leading to botanical garden.

Sometimes, a pick-up truck of waste was dumped there,” he said.

As resident, the availability of landfill is very important. Sriani claimed that she did not mind paying monthly levies as long as there is a regular garbage truck transporting their waste every day. Headman of Candikuning, Made Mudita, admitted that waste can potentially cause floods.

According to him, in addition to silting of river and the lack of land absorbability to water, waste also contributes to the cause of floods.

Nevertheless, some residents of Candikuning village have been processing and sorting their own waste. “There has been a waste sorting and processing. The organic waste is processed into fertilizer,” he said.

He admitted that currently Candikuning village has not owned a landfill. The only existing landfill is to accommodate the waste of Ulundanu Beratan tourist attraction. Moreover, it is not wide enough. On that account, Mudita hoped there will be landfill used to accommodate waste in Baturiti. “Candikuning area is not good for the making of landfill because it is concave. It should be made outside the village,” he said.

Other than waste, added Mudita, silting of river also causes water to spill into residential areas. It is supported by reduction of water absorption by soil because the plantation areas in Baturiti that formerly consisted of long term plants like coffee have been replaced with vegetable crops.

In the meantime, the Head of the Tabanan Environment Agency (DLH), A.A. Ngurah Raka Icwara, said on Sunday (Feb. 12) that Baturiti areas served by the DLH in matter of waste transportation on a regular basis include the Baturiti vegetable market, Baturiti market and Candikuning market. “Meanwhile, the DLH just signed MoU with the governing body of Bedugul,” he said.

Currently, the DLH service is indeed optimized for urban areas of Tabanan. The areas having not been covered by the services are expected to provide self-service by local community, especially in terms of providing landfill. “It depends on the will of community facilitated by customary village and other agencies. We very much support if there is land property owned by customary village to be functioned as landfill,” he hoped. (kmb24)

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Thus, the government should be more massive and consistent in enforcing the rules. “We should immediately ask the government to restrict the ways committed by particular corporations that deliberately violate the laws, especially in the matter of foreign worker employment, it is not allowed,” he said.

He recognized that no HIPMI members bring in foreign workers that are not in accordance with the applicable laws because the HIPMI entrepreneurs are nationalist businessmen.

The next homework is to maintain the strength of local economy.

“The obstacle is that the number of our entrepreneurs remains below the WHO standards or economic perspective. We still lack 1.8 million young entrepreneurs,” he said.

In Indonesia, the total number of entrepreneurs reaches 1.65 percent of the population, while ideally it should be 2 percent. “To meet the standard of 2 percent, we are still short of 1.8 million,” he concluded.

However, if using the theory of the World Bank, it should be 4 percent.

On that account, Indonesia requires 5.8 million entrepreneurs, while currently it only amounts to 1.6 percent. “Other than HIPMI, there is no organization aiming to create young entrepreneurs,” he added.

Former chairperson of the HIPMI Bali, Indha Trimafo Yudha, said that during her leadership in the 13th period with the ranks has engaged in activities that strengthen entrepreneurship. “So, we are trying to strengthen the entrepreneurial productivity. At first, we open networking among young entrepreneurs across Bali,” she said.

During her tenure, she also established relations with central HIPMI to strengthen network and some international organizations.

“We also conduct the HIPMI Festival on regular basis and social activities,” she explained. In addition, she started to motivate HIPMI entrepreneurs, one of which is through the activities carried out amid the regional deliberation yesterday.

During her leadership, she said that many new entrepreneurs emerged. At least, there are 100200 active members of the HIPMI. However, at least there are 1,000members scattered throughout Bali. (kmb42)

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LOS ANGELES - A surprise loss didn’t stop Beyonce from being center of attention Sunday’s Grammy awards, as the pregnant singer delivered the night’s most anticipated performance and was praised on stage by the artist who triumphed over her.

Beyonce, 35, went into music’s biggest night with a leading nine nominations including the top awards of the night - album, record and song of the year - but lost all three to Britain’s Adele.

“The ‘Lemonade’ album is so monumental and so well thought out and so beautiful and soul-baring, and we got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see and we appreciate that,” Adele said, addressing Beyonce, as she accepted the album of the year award for “25.”

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Supporters of Indonesia capital’s governor in colourful push for votes

JAKARTA - Supporters of the governor of Indonesia’s capital are hoping their checkered shirts in red, white and blue will help galvanize the vote in a city election on Wednesday and win a second term for their leader. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is Jakarta’s first ethnic Chinese and Christian governor, and the election in the city of 10 million people has stoked religious tension in the Muslim-majority country.

you,’ as she looked on.

The R&B singer did win two Grammy awards, including best urban contemporary album for “Lemonade.”

“My intention was to create a body of work that would give voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history,” Beyonce said as she accepted her Grammy trophy.

While Beyonce is usually known to deliver energetic dance-filled performances, the singer opted to slow things down now she is expecting twins and instead centered her set on the theme of motherhood.

For her performance of “Love Drought” and “Sandcastles,” a video projection of Beyonce dressed in a gold chain bikini and gold halo crown appeared on stage, as she caressed her pregnant belly and posed with her mother Tina Lawson and 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy. (rtr)

Purnama has won middle-class support for cutting red tape and improving the performance of the bureaucracy, but he has been campaigning for reelection while on trial for blasphemy, after being accused of insulting the Koran. He denies doing so.

The checkered shirts were first popularised by his predecessor as city governor, Joko Widodo, who became president of the world’s third-largest democracy in 2014. The shirts are aimed at invoking a folksy charm and conjuring up a sense of hard work, and Purnama often wears one.

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Beyonce holds the awards she won for Best Urban Contemporary Album for “Lemonade” and Best Music Video for “Formation” at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S. , February 12, 2017.

In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 photo, incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, right, and his deputy and also running mate Djarot Saiful Hidayat pose for photographers as they attend a campaign rally in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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BASUKI TJAHAJA PURNAMA, KNOWN AS “AHOK” AGUS YUDHOYONO He is the oldest son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and retired from the military at 38 to run for the governorship. He is backed by the Democrat Party and some Islamic parties. Yuhoyono’s campaign has focused on improving the lives of Jakarta’s poor and he has promised cash handouts to low-income families.

The incumbent governor took over running Jakarta in 2014 when his then boss, Joko Widodo, won the presidency.

Purnama, 50, is the city’s first ethnic Chinese and Christian leader, and has angered some Muslim voters for allegedly insulting the Koran. He has denied wrongdoing, but is on trial for blasphemy in a case that some view as politically motivated. He is backed by the country’s ruling party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

ANIES BASWEDAN Baswedan, 47, was the former education minister in President Widodo’s government. He is supported by Gerindra, a party headed by failed presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto. Baswedan’s campaign has focused on improving public education and combating the rising costs of food and living.