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Actor Jennifer Lawrence poses with James MacAvoy at a screening of X-Men Apocalypse at a cinema in London, Britain, May 9, 2016.

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Estimated 240,000 people watch Leicester parade EPL trophy

Mosquitoes adapt to environment, dengue virus spreads

The X-Men are back, this time fighting “Apocalypse” REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

LONDON - Hollywood stars Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy reprise their roles as powerful mutants in “X-Men: Apocalypse”, this time joining forces against a new supervillain.

Oscar-winner Lawrence returns as the blue, shape-shifting Mystique, while McAvoy plays the younger, mind-reading Professor Charles Xavier, a role portrayed by Patrick Stewart in the franchise’s first films.

In the movie, the world’s first mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) awakes in 1980s Cairo after hibernation in ancient Egypt and embarks on a mission for global power with his new recruits, including Magneto (Michael Fassbender).

Professor Xavier seeks to defeat him with the help of Mystique and other mutant students from his school - characters introduced in

the original “X-Men” movies and brought to life here by a younger generation of actors. “...none of these superheroes in these movies are that capable of winning the day on their own,” McAvoy told Reuters in a joint interview with Lawrence.

“They’re all fairly flawed... They need each other, and what I like about it is that it’s about community and it’s about society and it’s about family.”

The movie is the latest superhero action flick hitting screens as Hollywood continues to expand its comic book cinematic universe.

This month, Disney-Marvel’s

“Captain America: Civil War” brought together Marvel characters such as Iron Man, Ant-Man, Black Widow and Scarlet Witch as well as a new Spider-Man on screen.

Asked if they could see their mutant characters joining forces with other superheroes in a franchise crossover, Lawrence said “no”.

“Maybe when people get really tired of superhero movies, they’ll do it as one last ditch desperate attempt to kind of milk the cow dry,” McAvoy said.

“I think there are so many characters in the X-Men universe that we could go and explore before we have to go and mash up with those guys,” he said.

“X-Men: Apocalypse” hits cinemas worldwide from May 18. (rtr)

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DENPASAR - Increasing cases of dengue fever this year is alleged to have been caused by mosquitoes having made adaptation to environmental condition. “It is a kind of evolution, either due to resistance to chemical exposure, lifestyle, time of biting or others,” said Made Kerta Duana, Chairman of the Indonesian Association of Public Health Expert (IAKMI) of Bali, Monday (May 16).

From some tests performed, in fact the mosquitoes are now resistant to dosage having been previously effective such as in the fogging or abate. Allegedly their biting behavior does not only occur in the morning but also in the afternoon as well as their larvae is also found not only in a dark container. “Formerly, mosquitoes chose dark-colored container with clean water, but now they are also found in bright containers such as ceramic, clear bottles, holy water container, drinking water pot of birds, etc.,” explained the man who is also a lecturer at Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University.

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Suspects of last year’s Bangkok blast Bilal Mohammed (L) (also known as Adem Karadag) and Yusufu Mieraili are escorted by prison officers as they arrive at the military court in Bangkok, Thailand, April 20, 2016.

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Bangkok Bomb Suspect: ‘I’m Not An Animal’

BANGKOK - Adem Karadag, also known as Bilal Mohammed, a suspect in last year’s Bangkok blast, shouting as he is escorted to court in Bangkok. Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili, two ethnic Uighur Muslims from China, arrived at court on Tuesday dressed in orange jumpsuits and guarded by police.

As he was led him into a military court, a shaven, shackled and barefoot Karadag shouted: “I’m human, I’m human.”

Inside, he told through his interpreter that he had been beaten twice this month while in custody, lifting his shirt and point-

ing to bruises . Karadag’s lawyer requested he be transferred, something the judge agreed to consider.

A stony-faced Mieraili pleaded as he emerged from a prison van outside court: “We’re innocent, help us, help us. “Where are the human rights?”

Twenty people were killed and

more than 120 injured in the 17 August bombing at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine. Five of the victims were from China and two from Hong Kong. Police say Karadag, 31, was seen on CCTV sitting on a bench at the shrine, taking off a bulky backpack and then walking away just before the blast.

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There are dirtier areas than Bali, but the mosquitoes in Bali proliferate rapidly and carry dengue virus.

It is not solely due to environmental sanitation. “Environmental sanitation is a bit different as a risk factor,” he said. Bali is endemic to dengue fever because it is supported by a high population density, population mobility and there are many containers for mosquitoes to proliferate.

Denpasar, for instance, has many lands or unoccupied homes and unused goods. Similarly, in Gianyar there are many cans of paint, etc. used in the craft making.

Although it is endemic throughout the year, the increase in cases is still affected by season where at the end of rainy season the dengue cases

will increase.

On that account, the most effective way for prevention against dengue fever is the eradication of mosquito nests by cleaning up the environment. “Eradication of mosquito nests includes draining, covering, burying and taking advantage of unused goods. It is the most effective way to break the chain of its transmission from larvae to adult mosquitoes, while fogging is intended for adult mosquitoes only. Larvae will hatch into mosquitoes. If there are increasing cases, the eradication of mosquito nests and fogging should be done at once,” he said.

In the meantime, the virus itself is begun to be studied in terms of its virulence because there are some cases causing death without passing through the usual phases. He said that this case is being assessed and

the results are not yet available.

There are four types of dengue virus namely the Dengue 1, Dengue 2, Dengue, Dengue 3 and 4.

Each virus has its own malignancy.

“Someone having suffered dengue can get another dengue virus of different type,” said Gede Wira Sunetra, the Division Head of the Disease Control and Environmental Sanitation (P2PL) at the Bali Health Agency.

Based on the data of dengue from January to April, a total of 30 people died where 11 victims in Buleleng, Jembrana (1), Badung (2), Denpasar (9) and Gianyar (7).

In the meantime, the total dengue fever cases until the end of April reached 6,812 cases. Each month showed an increase, where in January reached 1,033 cases, February (1,619 cases), March (2,407 cases) and April (1,753 cases). (kmb42)

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The hospital is packed with dengue fever patients

TABANAN — Surprising information emerged when dozens subak chiefs (pekaseh) of three subak areas in the region of Selemadeg namely the Subak Bulungdaya, Lanyah Bajera 1 and Lanyah Bajera II submitted their complaint to the ranks of legislative related to the realization of healthy rice program, Monday (May 16). In the meeting, a farmer who is also a middleman, Ketut Widana, recognized that the grain of healthy rice was sold to Banyuwangi. It happens because there is no clear decision on the purchase by Perpadi as the institution handling the healthy rice project.

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After being processed sold to Bali

The farmer are grinding the rice.

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Sadly, healthy grain even brought to Banyuwangi

He purchases the healthy rice of farmers at IDR 3,900 net without any deductions. He has a wealth of experience for some ten years of becoming farmer and middleman.

In 2015, he even sent 45,000 tons of grain to Banyuwangi because it is not accommodated in Tabanan.

“If Perpadi purchases the rice of farmers at Subak Bulungdaya, I personally will not purchase it by buying-up system. I do this because there is no certainty of Perpadi to purchase the rice of farmers,” he explained.

Chief of Subak Bulungdaya, I Wayan Targa, before the ranks of the legislators also explained that the healthy rice planted at five hectares of paddy field by local farmers has turned yellow and been ready to harvest. But until now, there have been no local government officers coming down to purchase. “As the

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chief of subak, I am always contacted by subak members. They asked when the rice will be purchased by the government, in this case the Perpadi,” he explained.

Because of being continuously urged and unable to answer the question of subak members regarding the certainty of the government to come down, his leadership with 28 subak members eventually decided to sell the yellowing rice to middleman.

“We need instant cash. If nobody buys our paddy we are worried it will be unsalable especially when the rain intensity is high,” he explained.

With such a joint decision, the healthy grain is finally sold at IDR 3,900 per kilogram to middleman. He explained that this harvest is the second pilot project of the healthy rice program launched by the government of Tabanan. The first pilot project faced a total failure due to dry season.

“The first pilot project totally failed at five hectares,” he explained.

At that time, the pilot project of healthy rice was supported by the government by funding as much as IDR 6.5 million per hectare of land.

His organization hoped that the farmer’s complaint can be heard by the Tabanan House of Representatives so that the fate of farmers could be struggled for.

Chief of Subak Lanyah 1, I Nengah Supariana, admitted similar condition. Moreover, he got information that the grain purchased by Perpadi should have been wrapped in a sack and received on truck. “We very much deplore this,” he said.

Although his subak members have not harvested yet, he hoped the incident at Subak Bulungdaya will not happen to his subak area.

Chairman of the Tabanan House of Representatives, IK Suryadi, said that he will immediately summon the executive in this regard. Moreover, there is information that the grain of farmers purchased by Perpadi was unpaid yet. “This feedback of farmers is very good. We will follow up this matter by summoning the executive and Perpadi,” he said.

“Now (Monday—Ed) we send a recommendation to the executive to follow up on this issue,” he said. (kmb28)

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NASA launches near-space monitoring balloon from New Zealand

WELLINGTON - NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from New Zealand’s South Island Wanaka Airport Tuesday to conduct near-space scientific investigations.

The launch marks the fifth attempt to get the massive balloon airborne, with previous bids thwarted by bad weather, NASA said in a release.

Long-duration balloon flights at constant altitudes play an important role in providing inexpensive access to the near-space environment for science and technology.

The 532,000 cubic metres (18.8 million cubic feet) balloon is expected to circumnavigate the globe about the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitudes once every one to three weeks, depending on wind speeds in the stratosphere, NASA said. The aim is for it remain airborne for more than 100 days.

According to NASA the balloon’s operational float altitude is 33.5 kms (20.8 miles) and it will be visible from the ground, particularly at sunrise and sunset, in the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, such as Argentina and South Africa.

NASA’s balloon experts at its Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility and NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, will control balloon flight operations throughout the mission.

The current record for a NASA super pressure balloon flight is 54 days. Tuesday’s launch was the second super pressure balloon mission from Wanaka.

The first launch occurred March 27, 2015, flying 32 NASA launches near-space monitoring balloon from New Zealand. days, 5 hours, and 51 minutes. (rtr)

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Companies propose deep-water wind farms off Hawaii shores

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This Oct. 2011, photo provided by Principle Power shows a WindFloat Prototype (WF1) handoff to ocean going tug vessel, in the Sado River Estuary near Setubal, Portugal. Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands.

HONOLULU — Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands.

Two companies have proposed offshore wind turbine projects for federal waters off Oahu as Hawaii pushes to meet its aggressive renewable energy goals.

Their plans would use technology that floats the tall turbines in deep waters miles offshore.

The proposals are in the early stages and would face years of environmental reviews and community meetings before possible approval.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the agency that would decide whether to approve ocean leases for the projects, held a meeting about the proposals Monday.

A.W. Hawaii Wind, a Texas company that’s a subsidiary of Denmark-based Alpha Wind Energy, is proposing two offshore floating wind farms, each generating about 400 megawatts of energy with 50 turbines. One is proposed for the northwest side of Oahu 12 miles off the coast of Kaena Point, in waters about a half-mile deep.

The company also is proposing a wind farm in waters 17 miles south of Diamond Head.

A second company, Progression Hawaii Offshore Wind, is proposing a $1.8 billion, 400 megawatt wind farm using 40 to 50 floating turbines off Oahu’s South Shore, in waters that are also about a halfmile deep.

A 400 megawatt wind farm could provide roughly a quarter of Oahu’s power, said Chris Swartley, partner with Portland, Oregonbased Progression Energy.

Both companies are proposing to use a technology called WindFloat, where a turbine that stands about 600 feet is attached to a triangular platform that floats near the surface of the ocean. The floats would be anchored to the ocean floor, and undersea cables would transfer the energy to power plants on land. Offshore wind farms are not new, but most use turbines fixed to the ocean floor, and floating turbines are rare.

There are many challenges to taking on a project of this scope in Hawaii, including cultural and environmental issues, deep water, a relatively small electric grid, and unexploded ordnance in the ocean waters surrounding the island, said

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Jens Borsting Petersen, owner of A.W. Hawaii Wind.

“This is by far the most difficult thing in wind that’s ever been attempted on this globe,” said Petersen. “When you talk about wind energy, trying to do something on Hawaii offshore is exceptionally complicated.”

Progression Energy has held more than 140 meetings with environmental, tourism, Native Hawaiian and other stakeholder groups, using their feedback to choose a site, Swartley said.

Looking out from the beach, most of the turbines would be over the horizon, he said.

“You’ll be able to see them if you really look for them, but it will be really tough,” Swartley said.

Among concerns raised so far is the potential danger that whales or submarines could bump into the cords anchoring the turbines to the ocean floor, said Henry Curtis, executive director of Life of the Land, a Hawaii nonprofit organization.

“Do you want to really turn the ocean into the next industrial site?” Curtis asked.

Some fishermen are concerned about the possible impact on birds flying over the sea. (ap)

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Agro tourism at Subak Sembung

Crop yields down but October brings hope

DENPASAR - Subak Sembung, located in Denpasar covers a total area area of 115 hectares and is divided into six sub-subaks each managed by 12-20 farmers who cultivate plots of land of about 0.50 hectares.

All of the farmers of Subak Sembung had reduced crop yields this April and May with only about 6.5 tons per hectare (total of 374 hectares), whereas October’s harvest could yield up to 9 tons per hectare.

Chief of Subak Sembung, Wayan Sunarta, said that only 50 percent of their paddy fields have been harvested while the other half are waiting to ripen.

He explained that the reduced yields are common for the April-May harvest due to the increased amount of rain at this time of year. “Sunshine is good and makes for good dew at night which is good for the paddy harvests”, he said.

The bad weather between January to April also led to the rapid proliferation of pests. Access to water was not a problem for Subak Sembung as the water is flowed in turns to each farmers’ plot of land.

This also means that not all the farmers harvest at the same time.

In July, the farmers will begin planting new paddy that will be harvest in October. It is predicted that October’s harvest will increase to a total of nine tons.

The harvested grain is sold to collectors for about IDR 200,000 per square meter if the weather is bad, while if the weather is good, the price can be reach as much IDR 320,000 per acre. Production costs for farming amount to about IDR 100,000 per square meter. “Farmers make very little profit”, he added.

Sunarta admitted that they do not use 100 organic fertilizer but instead combine chemical fertilizers as well. Also farmers at Subak Sembung do not apply the jajar legowo planting pattern everywhere but instead they still use the tile planting pattern. “The farmers are accustomed to using the tle planting pattern. Some have starting using the jajar legowo patterns but not all. It takes time to becoming accustomed to a new pattern of planting”, he said.

Sunarta himself has one hectare of land that he plants with both rice and vegetables. Cultivating vegetables such as mustard greens, peppers and water spinach, he said gives far more favourable results that he if he just planting rice.

Chief of Subak Sembung Ecotourism, I Made Suastika, said that his management has signed an MoU with Udayana University’s Faculty of Agriculture who will be conducting research and providing guidance to the farmers of Subak Sembung.

The initiative to create agro-tourism at Subak Sembung agrotourism, came out of a desire tho motivate the farmers not to sell their land and instead retain the paddy fields. Agro tourism attractions have thus been created as well as several festivals.

Product development is also an ongoing project as another way to motivate farmers to preserve their paddy fields. (kmb42)

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Subak Sembung, located in Denpasar covers a total area area of 115 hectares and is divided into six sub-subaks each managed by 12-20 farmers who cultivate plots of land of about 0.50 hectares.

Rescuers still searching for missing fisherman in Bali

BULELENG - Rescuers are still searching for a 42-year-old fisherman Made Parsana, who had reportedly gone missing in the northern waters of Bali. Head of the Buleleng Search and Rescue Team post Anak Agung Ketut Alit

Supartana stated here on Monday that the rescuers had now deployed a helicopter to search for the missing fisherman.

During the last four days of the search operation, the team had combed the northern waters of

Bali aboard a boat but had failed to find any trace of Parsana. “We had deployed a boat in the waters of Penimbangan. We had to refuel every two or three hours during the search,” Supartana remarked.

The rescue team has been cooperat-

ing with the Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency to monitor the current weather and the sea conditions at the designated location.

However, the strong sea currents are believed to have drifted the body of Parsana away from his last

reported location, Supartana said.

A canoe belonging to Parsana was found on the coast of Pacung Village and was taken to Pura Bingin Beach. Parsana was reported missing on Thursday (May 12) at around 2 p.m. local time. (ant)

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Four hamlets hit by water shortages, BPBD ready to supply water SEMARAPURA - The recent erratic season has caused four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict to experience drought. The four hamlets located on highland face water shortages due to lack of rains to fill in people’s reservoirs. This condition also makes the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Klungkung intervened to regularly supply water to hundreds of communities at four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict experiencing water shortages.

The Division Head of Emergency and Logistics at the BPBD Klungkung, Made Mula Astra, said that currently the residents at the four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict are experiencing difficulties to get water as it does not rain. The four hamlets are Bukit Tengah, Pesinggahan (60 families), Dangin Bukit Sabang and Bukit Abah, Besan (299 families), Glogor hamlet, Pikat (50 families) and Babung hamlet, Gunaksa (60 families).

He revealed the four hamlets on the hills take advantage of water obtained from rainwater. In the meantime, water service of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) Klungkung until now has not been able to provide services to the region. To help the public, the BPBD Klungkung deployed a tank truck to supply water to the four regions. This action is taken to help the PDAM Klungkung having the responsibility of supplying water to the region.

“The BPBD comes down to help because it only has one tank truck and it has problem so that it cannot transport water for the water short-

age,” he said.

He explained the water distributed to the region lacking of water is obtained from the PDAM Klungkung. Water supply is provided twice a week namely on Tuesdays and Thursdays by using the operating cost for the purchase of gasoline.

In the meantime, the water supplied to the four hamlets is free obtained from the PDAM Klungkung. “Once departure of transporting water needs 40 liters of fuel, while the truck is provided by the BPBD Bali,” he said while adding that delivery is done by the quick response team consisting of five personnel.

This official claimed to continuously send water for the people in need. In addition to the four hamlets, its agency also supplied water when disturbances happen to the water distribution of the PDAM. “When there is disruption of water distribution of the PDAM, we also come down and when there is a request from the community,” he concluded. (dwa)

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Clinton faces pressure for win in Oregon and Kentucky contests

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her being waged by Republican candidate Donald Trump.

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The recent erratic season has caused four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict to experience drought.

The four hamlets located on highland face water shortages due to lack of rains to fill in people’s reservoirs.

Drugs reach breeders in Penebel

MANGUPURA - Actually the circulation of drugs has penetrated to remote villages.

As evidence, the drugs have been circulating among layer poultry breeders in Penebel region, Tabanan. Without immediate handling, it is feared to make the breeders in the region go bankrupt.

“One of my friends in Penebel claimed to have consumed drugs for 1.5 months and I ordered him to take rehabilitation for fear of getting into more serious condition. A drug abuser is not crazy and not normal,” affirmed the Head of the Bali National Narcotic Agency (BNNP), Putu Gede Suastawa, Monday (May 16), after opening the training to improve the rehabilitator competency for government agency in the field of motivational interviewing in Kuta.

Quick penetration of the drug to villages, said Suastawa, happened because the dealers promoted it as stamina enhancer. Actually it is misdirection and can result in contradictory effects.

“I’d like to emphasize that drug use will cause permanent impotence. Moreover, they are no IBP/file longer concerned about their family,” he said.

Instead, drug users are happy in prison beBali is ranked eleventh in terms of vulnerability to drug abuse in Indonesia.

This year the rehabilitation is more focused on quality of rehabilitation to cause they do not support their family. They are even given food and money by their wife and the addicts.

family. “This is a fact that they are comfortable in prison. Their condition is very alarming,” he said.

On that account, his agency wanted to reach the users of illicit goods to subdistrict area.

To optimize the efforts, the BNN empowers the doctors and counselors at health centers.

Suastawa hoped they proactively handle the people having the symptoms of drug users.

“We enfold them to expand the reach. In addition, they can go to schools so that students have the understanding on the hazards of drugs,” he said.

According to him, Bali is ranked eleventh in terms of vulnerability to drug abuse in Indonesia. On that account, this year the rehabilitation is more focused on quality of rehabilitation to the addicts. In addition, his agency makes integration with related agencies, Health Agency, Social Agency, Law and Human Rights and others.

“In 2015, only 35 percent of the rehabilitation process could run successfully. In other words, the remaining amount or 65 percent cannot be monitored whether they have recovered or not.

We do hope that there is seriousness to recover from drugs,” he said. (kmb36)

The continued presence in the race of Bernie Sanders - who remains a long shot to upset Clinton and win the Democratic nomination - is prompting concerns among Clinton allies that he will damage her ability to take on Trump and hurt the Democrat in the fall.

But many supporters of Sanders are not worried about any ill effects of the U.S. senator remaining in the race, arguing that Trump is such a flawed candidate that Clinton will easily dispatch with him if she faces him in the Nov. 8 election.

“Either way we’re going to get a Democratic president,” Alisha Liedtke, 28, a Sanders supporter from Ellensburg, Washington.

In interviews with 14 voters who back the senator from Vermont, supporters said they are not concerned that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, might succeed U.S. President Barack Obama because they do not believe the real estate mogul could win the general election.

They said Sanders should keep fighting until the Democratic National Convention in July, to push Clinton to the left and challenge her

ties to Wall Street and support for free-trade deals.

Allies of Clinton have held back from overt calls for Sanders to exit the race. Any moves by her campaign to try drive Sanders out could risk angering Democratic voters and end up backfiring.

So Clinton must continue her primary fight in Kentucky and Oregon, where analysts predict she will have a hard time winning.

The Democratic race is unlikely to wrap up before California, New Jersey and several other states vote on June 7.

Oregon, with a heavily white, liberal population, politically resembles its northern neighbor Washington, which voted for Sanders. Oregon voters cast their ballots by mail, meaning voting there actually began in the last week of April.

After Sanders won both West Virginia and Indiana this month, analysts said he has a good chance of taking Kentucky. But Louisville and the western part of the state are more moderate politically, and Clinton spent Sunday and Monday campaigning there. (rtr)

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., May 16, 2016.

Truckers block roads in test week of protest for France’s Hollande

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Striking French truckers block petroleum tanker lorries from leaving Perguilhem SAS to make deliveries in Ambes, France, May 17, 2016.

PARIS - Truckers blocked motorways across France on Tuesday as opponents of proposed labour law reforms began a fresh wave of strikes and street marches.

This week has been billed by media as make or break for a protest movement that has appeared to lose steam after weeks of sometimes violent confrontation.

President Francois Hollande stood firm, saying on radio that the law - a flagship reform that would make hiring and firing easier - would not be scrapped, and warning that police would not tolerate violence.

“I will not give in,” the Socialist leader, whose popularity rating is at rock bottom a year from an election, told Europe 1 radio.

The truckers are employees rather than owner drivers and so were not at the wheels of their lorries. However, they were able to slow or blocked traffic at strategic points in the north and west, most notably in the Bordeaux region, where they turned away deliveries to a major supermarket supply hub and a fuel depot.

Marches in Paris and other French cities were scheduled for later in the day, when railworkers are set to join the fray with stoppages expected to cause major disruption for commuters through to Friday.

Hollande said over 1,000 people had been ar-

rested during clashes with police over recent months, with more than 300 police and a number of protesters hurt in clashes where some, including foreigners, were coming just for the fight.

“People have a right to protest but rioting is an offence that will be punished,” he said.

France’s police chief said ahead of a week of tension that a small group of hardline protesters had been banned from the streets of Paris.

The hardline CGT labour union has called for rolling strikes by rail workers, dockers and airport staff as well as two days of street demonstrations, on Tuesday and Thursday.

Turnout numbers from police suggested protest numbers fell at rallies last week to tens of thousands from the hundreds of thousands that took part in earlier ones - fuelling speculation that the protest movement is weakening.

The government has already watered down its initial labour law reform project, but last week decided to bypass parliament and force the change through by decree, causing splits within its own ranks in parliament.

Its plan would allow employers to opt out of the obligations of national labour law in favour of pay terms and conditions set at company level, a change opponents see undermining labour protection rules to an unacceptable extent. (rtr)

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“I consider air pollution and climate change to be serious, longterm threats to the forests,” said Lovett, senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in the Hudson Valley. “But neither of those is changing the forest the way the pests are.”

In a study published this month in the journal Ecological Applications, Lovett and 15 colleagues estimated that 63 percent of U.S. forest land, or about 825 million acres, is at risk of increased damage from established pests, and new pests continue to arrive with cargo shipments from overseas.

There are more than 400 forest pests in the country with every state affected, Lovett said. New York has the most, with 62 types of pest. The Northeast and upper Midwest are the most heavily infested regions. Lovett said that’s because of centuries of overseas trade from regions where tree species are similar but have evolved with insect pest resistance that U.S. trees lack.

Imported tree pests long ago wiped out eastern chestnuts and elms. Now under siege are hemlocks, ash, beech, oaks, maples

and dogwood.

Imported forest pests cause more than $2 billion in damage each year, with communities and homeowners bearing the greatest cost because of the expense of removing and replanting trees that take decades to mature.

“You don’t realize the cost until you have to do it,” said Stanley Burgiel, assistant director of the National Invasive Species Council Secretariat, an independent council established by presidential order in 1999. “I had to take down all the oaks in my backyard, at $1,000 to $2,000 per tree.”

Lovett and co-authors from Harvard Forest, the U.S. Forest Service, the Nature Conservancy, Dartmouth College, McGill University and Michigan State compiled existing data on the ecological and economic impacts of forest pests and made a case for several trade policy solutions.

Their top recommendations are to eliminate solid wood shipping pallets and end or greatly limit imports of live trees and shrubs similar to U.S. native plants.

Burgiel said progress is being made in both areas, with some

major importers such as Wal-Mart eliminating wood packaging or switching to plastic for efficiency reasons, and the nursery and landscape industry taking steps such as importing plants without soil to reduce the risk of infestations.

“I think there would be resistance from overseas partners that are shipping a lot of material using these wood pallets,” said Frank Lowenstein, deputy director of the New England Forestry Foundation, a conservation group based in Littleton, Massachusetts.

“But moving away from solid wood packaging could be really beneficial ecologically not only here in the United States but in some of our international trading partners’ forests as well,” Lowenstein said, noting how old-growth hardwood trees had been cut down in prime orangutan habitat in Indonesia to make shipping pallets in China.

Engineered wood, such as a product resembling corrugated cardboard and another made with a heat and glue laminating process, is a safe alternative to solid wood, Lowenstein said.

“These techniques are becoming more prevalent and less expensive all the time,” he said. “Probably the economics are going to favor a move away from solid wood pallets regardless of the ecological benefits.”(ap)

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Pan Chiu-chung, center, father of a detained Taiwanese fishing boat captain Pan Chien-peng, condemns Japan during an anti-Japan protest, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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FILE - In this May 21, 2009, file photo, a dead Asian longhorned beetle is seen in its adult stage, front, and as a larva at the state Department of Resources and Economic Development Division of Forest and Lands office in Hillsboro, N.H.

UK inflation falls for the first time since September

LONDON — Official figures show that Britain’s annual inflation rate dropped last month to 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent in March, as stores slashed prices on clothes amid cool temperatures and airlines cut fares after Easter holidays.

The inflation rate, reported Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics, remains well below the Bank of England’s target of 2 percent.

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But economists say that inflation looks likely to gradually rise, in part because oil prices are starting to recover. Brent crude, the benchmark for North Sea oil, is nearing $50 a barrel, up from a 12-year low in January.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned a vote to leave the European Union in a June referendum would cause the pound to drop, which would push up inflation.(ap)

FILE - In this Friday April 24, 2009 file photo, shoppers walk down Oxford Street in London. The eurozone economy has finally recouped all the ground lost in the recessions of the past eight years after official figures Friday April 29, 2016, showed that the 19-country single currency bloc expanded by a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent in the first three months of the year.

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Imported forest pests cause $2 billion in damage annually

ALBANY, N.Y. — When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying — not from acid rain, but from insect attacks.

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Indonesia nabs 3 boats with 79 trafficked fishermen on board

JAKARTA — Three Thai fishing boat captains have escaped from custody in Indonesia after their vessels were seized with dozens of trafficked foreign fishermen on board, an official said Tuesday.

The captains were detained on April 12 when they were found operating trawlers under Malaysian flags that were fishing off Kalimantan, Indonesia’s part of Borneo island, said Sumono Darwinto, chief of the local fishing office in Pontianak.

He said the captains escaped on May 7 after scaling the wall of their detention center in the middle of the night, and are being sought by police and military officials. Eight other Thai crew members remain in detention.

The Fisheries Ministry in Jakarta said the 79 crew members from Cambodia and Myanmar were identified as victims

of trafficking, and most had fake Thai travel documents.

Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry has said 54 of its citizens were found on the boats after having been lured into taking jobs that promised high salaries and large bonuses for bringing in a lot of fish.

Indonesian authorities have been aggressively cracking down on foreign fishing vessels operating illegally in the country’s waters. To send a message to foreign fishing companies, Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has ordered that boats found plundering fish from

Indonesian waters be blown up and sunk, and has taken a strong stance against trafficked fishermen.

The latest boat seizures come after a yearlong Associated Press investigation into human trafficking in Southeast Asia’s lucrative seafood industry. It exposed a slave island in remote eastern Indonesia where hundreds of poor migrant fishermen, mostly from Myanmar, were being brutally abused aboard Thai-run trawlers and forced to fish for little or no money for years at a time. The AP followed the fish caught by the slaves to Thailand and then to some of America’s largest food sellers, including Wal-Mart, Kroger and Sysco. More than 2,000 fishermen were freed last year after the stories were published.(ap)

SEOUL - Indonesian President Joko Widodo introduced the concept of “blusukan,” or impromptu visits, which he frequently practiced as a leader, to the participants of the 7th Asian Leadership Conference, here, Tuesday.

“We call the term for my impromptu visits as blusukan that can be translated into English as management by working around,” he informed the participants at the conference being held at The Shilla Hotel here.

At the conference officially inaugurated by South Korean President Park Geun-hye and featuring outstanding speakers, including former US president George W. Bush, President Widodo shared his experiences in resolving problems when he was the mayor of Solo city in Central Java and the governor of Jakarta. With his leadership style, partly marked by his frequent impromptu visits, the president has successfully resolved issues related to street vendors and the dumping of garbage.

During his speech at the conference, President Widodo underlined the importance of innovation for boosting Indonesias competitiveness and the significance of poverty eradication for countering extremism and terrorism.

After speaking at the conference, organized by the leading media group Chosun Ilbo, the head of state is scheduled to visit South Koreas National Heroes Cemetery to pay his respects to the fallen heroes of the country.(ant)

Surabaya to declare all places nosmoking areas

SURABAYA - The Surabaya city government in East Java is planning to declare all offices, schools, health facilities, playgrounds and other public places as non-smoking areas.

“We must make sure that they remain free from smoking. Certain places have been declared nonsmoking areas, so we will not find it hard to impose the ban all over the city,” Surabaya Vice Mayor Whisnu Sakti Buana said, after attending a plenary meeting at the city legislative assembly (DPRD) building here on Monday.

In their general views on the draft bylaw on nonsmoking areas, some factions in the city legislative assembly said the smoking ban in public areas actually confirms the 2008 bylaw concerning smoking free areas and limited-smoking areas. “So far, the public has understood that they can refrain from smoking in schools,” he said.

However, he added, to make the bylaw effective, the city government needs to explain the details of the bylaw to the public. “Let us see the deliberation (of the draft bylaw) with the DPRD,” he said.

Chief of the Surabaya City Health Office Febria Rahmanita said when the draft bylaw is passed into law, smoking areas will no longer be available in public places.

Under bylaw number 5 of 2008, smoking areas were still available in public areas. “But they will all be banned,” she said.(ant)

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HONG KONG - A top ranked Chinese official began a rare visit to Hong Kong on Tuesday vowing to listen to residents’ political concerns, seeking to address increasingly strident calls in the city for greater autonomy or even independence from the mainland.

The visit by Zhang Dejiang, the first by a senior Chinese figure since the 2014 Occupy democracy protests, was officially to attend an economic summit.

However, his first comments addressed the hot button political issue of Hong Kong’s relationship with China, a topic that has sparked fierce debate in the Asian financial hub. “(I will listen to) all sectors of society’s suggestions and demands on how ... the country and Hong Kong should develop,” Zhang told reporters at Hong Kong airport.

Following the unsuccessful Occupy protests of 2014, a handful of activists have been calling for an outright breakaway from China, a move some say would imperil Hong Kong’s economic and political future.

“These young people have no

idea that they could be putting Hong Kong on a potentially dangerous collision course with the motherland and bringing an unmitigated disaster,” wrote former top Hong Kong security official Regina Ip in a recent editorial in the state-run China Daily.

Tensions in the city are high, with thousands police mobilised for Zhang’s visit.

Local media reported pavement bricks were being glued down to quell the prospect of violent protests while police were camping atop a mountain where a prodemocracy banner was hung two years ago.

A banner demanding “true universal suffrage” was hung on a different mountaintop on Tuesday morning. “(We) are facing a very great threat from China: Our culture, our

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language, our people...we are dying!” Chan Ho-tin, the head of the newly-formed National party, told Reuters.

“Do (Hong Kong people) want to be a Chinese city or do they want to be an independent country?

There are only two choices,” said Chan, whose party is expected to contest legislative elections in September.

Joshua Wong, another prominent young activist who launched a new political party called Demosisto this year, wouldn’t rule out taking an independence line in upcoming campaigns.

“The problem with young people is that they are not 100 percent preoccupied with economic considerations,” said Michael Tien, a Hong Kong delegate to China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, which Zhang heads.

“A lot of young people saying they don’t want development, they want a better environment, they want better work-life balance, they want better quality of life.” (rtr)

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Sri Lankan men push an auto rickshaw stranded in a flooded road after heavy rains in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 16, 2016. Flash floods caused by heavy rains have displaced hundreds of families in several parts of Sri Lanka as the Indian Ocean Island is experiencing extreme weather conditions over the last two days.

Sri Lanka’s torrential rains drive more than 130,000 from homes

COLOMBO - Flash floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, triggered by more than three days of heavy rain, have forced more than 130,000 people to leave their homes for higher ground and killed at least 11, disaster officials said on Tuesday.

Troops have launched rescue operations in inundated areas of the Indian Ocean island, with boats and helicopters deployed to pull to safety more than 200 people trapped in the northwestern coastal district of Puttalam, officials said.

“This is the worst torrential rain we have seen since 2010,” said Pradeep Kodippili, a spokesman for the country’s disaster management centre, adding that many incidents were still flowing in from the 19 districts hit, among Sri Lanka’s 25.

Flooded roads and fallen trees led to traffic jams in the capital, Colombo. Trains were halted as water submerged railway tracks, officials said. Families living beside rivers used boats to negotiate their way to safety.

A DMC bulletin reported a total of eight deaths, ascribing four to landslides, and one each to floods, electric shock, a lightning strike

and an uprooted tree.

But it did not reflect three further deaths in a landslide in the central district of Kandy, the DMC spokesman added.

Eight people have reported missing and nine have been injured, the bulletin said.

Transport disruptions included the diversion of three Colombobound international flights, which went instead to Sri Lanka’s second airport in its south and Cochin airport in nearby south India.

Flooding and mass displacement due to torrential rains are common in Sri Lanka.

The rains are expected to disperse slightly, weather officials said, as a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal that brought them moves away, but strong winds will persist a few days longer.

In 2014, a landslide caused by heavy rains killed at least 16 people in a hilly tea plantation area and more than 100 went missing.

Flooding and drought are cyclical in Sri Lanka, which is battered by a southern monsoon between the months of May and September, while a northeastern monsoon runs from December to February. (rtr)

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109 of their people to China the previous month.

Police have ruled out terrorism as a motive, saying the bombers were part of a network trafficking Uighurs and that the bomb was retaliation after a Thai crackdown on the trade.

Arrest warrants have been issued for 15 others, eight of whom are thought to have ties to Turkey.

Most Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language, live in China’s Xinjiang region, where activists say government policies restrict their culture and religion. (rtr)

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The chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, Zhang Dejiang, center, speaks to media next to Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, second left, after arriving at Hong Kong’s airport, Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

Mieraili, 26, is accused of delivering the backpack bomb. Karadag, also known as Bilal Mohammed, and Mieraili deny the charges against them. More than 250 witnesses could be called to give evidence at the coming trial, which may take more than a year.

No group claimed responsibility but some suspect the attack was linked to sympathisers of the Uighur Muslim minority, angry at the Thai junta’s deportation of

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Thunder steal Game 1 from Warriors

OAKLAND - Oklahoma center Steven Adams converted an errant pass by team mate Russell Westbrook into two critical free throws with 1:01 left on Monday to short-circuit a Golden State rally and help the Thunder to a 108-102 Game 1 victory in the Western Conference finals.

Westbrook overcame a slow start to score a game-high 27 points. Kevin Durant added 26, including a lead-extending jumper with 30.7 seconds left, as the Thunder stole home-court advantage from the top-seeded Warriors.

The Thuder overcame a 13-point halftime deficit. Game 2 is scheduled for Wednesday in Oakland, where the Warriors absorbed their first loss of the postseason on Monday.

Adams’ free throws came after the Warriors rallied within 101-100 on an interior hoop by Harrison Barnes with 2:02 to go.

After an exchange of possessions, Thunder power forward Serge Ibaka recovered a missed jumper by Durant, giving Oklahoma City a second crack with 1:12 to play.

Westbrook then drove toward the hoop and lobbed a pass that smacked hard off the backboard and deflected toward the free-throw line, where Adams retrieved it and took off for the hoop.

He was fouled on a shot attempt, and he made both free throws to increase Oklahoma City’s lead to 103-100.

The Thunder were able to win despite relatively poor shooting by Durant (10for-30) and Westbrook (7-for-21).

Each contributed in other areas, with Durant grabbing 10 rebounds and Westbrook dishing off 12 assists.

Adams played a key role in the win, recording a 16-point, 12-rebound doubledouble. Ibaka also had a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Warriors star Stephen Curry had 26 points to go with team-highs in rebounds (10) and assists (seven).

He hit six of his 14 3-point attempts,

Subak Museum

TABANAN - Subak Museum is a museum of Balinese traditional agriculture tools and old documentation to remind all young generation about Subak Organization which has famous in the world. It is located in Sanggulan countryside, Kediri sub district and Tabanan regency precisely 20 Km west part of Denpasar town. This museum is opened for public and to be one of tourist destinations in Tabanan regency, west part of Bali. It is strategically located in Tabanan town and close with other tourist destinations in this regency.

The Subak Museum provides a film which describes the process of handling the agricultural land. This process consists of various activities, from the meeting of Subak members to arrange the Subak rules to cultivating the land up to expressing gratitude to God for a good harvest. The museum also shows the variety of ceremonies commonly conducted at various stages of the cultivation cycle. There are also a miniature of

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but the Warriors struggled from beyond the arc, shooting just 11-for-30 and outscoring the Thunder (8-for-17) by just nine despite taking 13 more attempts.

Klay Thompson had 25 points and Draymond Green 23 for the Warriors, who lost just twice at home during the regular season.

The Thunder had not led since 10-9 midway through the first quarter before Durant buried a 3-pointer and Westbrook

a driving hoop in the first 90 seconds of the final period, pushing Oklahoma City into a 90-88 advantage.

The lead grew to as much as 101-93 with 4:42 to play as the Thunder defense took control of the game, limiting Golden State to just two field goals in the first 7 1/2 minutes of the fourth quarter.

A 3-pointer by Curry, the Warriors’ first of the fourth quarter after seven consecutive misses, ended the Golden State

drought and got the Warriors within 10196 with 4:28 to go.

Green and Barnes converted interior hoops as a desperation Golden State surge continued, closing the gap to 101-100 with 2:02 to go.

However, Green then failed to convert on a drive to the hoop, and Adams came up with his key play for the Thunder, allowing Oklahoma City to finish off the upset victory. (rtr)

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Kimi Raikkonen could not pass Max Verstappen in Barcelona due to Ferrari’s struggles in the last corner, says Maurizio Arrivabene.

CATALUNYA - Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said the car’s performance through the final sector in Catalunya was to blame for Kimi Raikkonen’s failure to beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Rosberg, Hamilton on top in Spain as Verstappen impresses Omnisport Verstappen became the youngest race winner in Formula One history after holding off Raikkonen to take the chequered flag at Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix.

The 18-year-old was making his Red Bull debut after replacing Daniil Kvyat, who was demoted to sister team Toro Rosso following

several under par performances.

Raikkonen trailed Verstappen for the final 22 laps of the race but, despite being assisted by DRS down the main and back straights, could not get close enough to pass the Dutchman and had to settle for second on the podium.

Arrivabene believes his failure to pass Verstappen was down to Ferrari’s poor performance through the final complex at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

“If we had reversed the strategy most probably [Ferrari team-mate] Sebastian [Vettel] would have been in the same position as Kimi,” he explained.

“The problem was not the strat-

egy, the problem was - as happened in qualifying - we were not good enough in the last part of the track, in the slow corner.

“It was in the last part of the track the Red Bull was going big time, and Kimi was unable to catch him again until the end of the straight.

“So it wasn’t a question of strategy. The question is, like in qualifying, why were we very, very slow in the last part of the track?”

He added: “Kimi had a fantastic race in my opinion.

“It’s a pity we weren’t good enough in certain parts of the track to give him the possibility of winning the race.” (IBP/net)

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Sp rt Estimated 240,000 people watch Leicester parade EPL trophy LEICESTER — An estimated 240,000 people turned

out to watch Leicester’s players parade the Premier League trophy in an open-top bus tour through the streets of the city in central England on Monday.

Leicester captain Wes Morgan said “looking out, you feel very proud seeing all the people, flags, everyone enjoying themselves, and it shows what we have achieved this

season.”

Leicester started the season as a 5,000-1 longshot to win the title, having only narrowly avoided relegation at the end of the 2014-15 campaign.

A party atmosphere built throughout the day as supporters gathered to watch the bus — with the players and trophy aboard — carve a route through the city center. The club’s Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was on the bus. Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri said “it’s unbelievable. All the city is here.”

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Ranieri received three manager of the month awards during the season, and was chosen Italian manager of the year in his homeland last month. (ap)

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney during the warm up before the match

England have what it takes to get the better of any opponent but need to be consistent if they are to win their first European Championship in France, captain Wayne Rooney has said.

Manager Roy Hodgson announced his provisional England squad for the tournament on Monday and will hope to guide the country to their first major trophy since winning the World Cup in 1966.

A confident England side will head to France with a 100 percent record in the European qualifiers Group E, having won all their 10 games.

“I feel we’ve got a very good squad. It’s probably the first time I’ve felt the squad is capable in any given game of matching any team,” Rooney, the team’s all-time leading goalscorer, told Sky Sports.

“But obviously it’s one thing hav-

ing that, and another being able to do that consistently throughout a tournament.

“We’ve got players who can play anywhere across that front line. Myself, Jamie Vardy, Raheem Sterling, Daniel Sturridge can play out wide too. It’s always difficult for opponents as well. “We’ve had a good European Qualifiers campaign, but we need to make sure that we don’t slack, that we keep going and keep pushing forward, and give ourselves every possible chance.”

Rooney, who prefers playing as a striker, has acknowledged he might have to drop deeper into midfield where he has also been used by Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal this season.

With younger and faster talents coming through England’s ranks, such as United teenager Marcus

Rashford, Rooney was confident he can cope with any role in the squad.

“As a player you are always adapting. You adapt to your team mates, you adapt to the different coaches you are working under. It depends what the coaches want from you,” said the 30-year-old, who scored seven goals in the qualifying campaign to overtake Bobby Charlton as England’s top goalscorer.

“Throughout my career I’ve adapted to different situations and different teams I’ve played in, and I have no problem doing it. In football you need players who can play in different positions. “I’ve always felt like I can play in different positions.”

England face Russia, Slovakia and Wales in Group B of the 24-team tournament in France that starts on June 10. (rtr)

Costa, Mata and Cazorla left out of Spain squad BARCELONA - Premier League-based trio Diego Costa, Juan Mata and Santi Cazorla were among a high-profile list of absentees when Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque named his provisional 25-man squad for Euro 2016 on Tuesday.

Costa injured his hamstring against Liverpool in Chelsea’s penultimate game of the season.

Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres was also absent from the squad despite his improved form towards the end of the season, as were Arsenal midfielder Cazorla

and Valencia forward Paco Alcacer, Spain’s top scorer in their qualifying campaign.

Manchester United midfielder Mata, Barcelona’s Sergi Roberto and Villarreal’s Mario Gaspar were also excluded from the defending champions’ squad despite being involved in the March friendlies with Italy and Romania.

Spain will play three friendlies, against Bosnia, South Korea and Georgia before starting the defence of their title against Czech Republic on June. 13. (rtr)

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Sp rt Estimated 240,000 people watch Leicester parade EPL trophy LEICESTER — An estimated 240,000 people turned

out to watch Leicester’s players parade the Premier League trophy in an open-top bus tour through the streets of the city in central England on Monday.

Leicester captain Wes Morgan said “looking out, you feel very proud seeing all the people, flags, everyone enjoying themselves, and it shows what we have achieved this

season.”

Leicester started the season as a 5,000-1 longshot to win the title, having only narrowly avoided relegation at the end of the 2014-15 campaign.

A party atmosphere built throughout the day as supporters gathered to watch the bus — with the players and trophy aboard — carve a route through the city center. The club’s Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was on the bus. Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri said “it’s unbelievable. All the city is here.”

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Engl i s h League Managers Association, only the second nonBriton to earn the award. Arsene Wenger was the first, in 2002 and 2004.

Ranieri received three manager of the month awards during the season, and was chosen Italian manager of the year in his homeland last month. (ap)

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney during the warm up before the match

England have what it takes to get the better of any opponent but need to be consistent if they are to win their first European Championship in France, captain Wayne Rooney has said.

Manager Roy Hodgson announced his provisional England squad for the tournament on Monday and will hope to guide the country to their first major trophy since winning the World Cup in 1966.

A confident England side will head to France with a 100 percent record in the European qualifiers Group E, having won all their 10 games.

“I feel we’ve got a very good squad. It’s probably the first time I’ve felt the squad is capable in any given game of matching any team,” Rooney, the team’s all-time leading goalscorer, told Sky Sports.

“But obviously it’s one thing hav-

ing that, and another being able to do that consistently throughout a tournament.

“We’ve got players who can play anywhere across that front line. Myself, Jamie Vardy, Raheem Sterling, Daniel Sturridge can play out wide too. It’s always difficult for opponents as well. “We’ve had a good European Qualifiers campaign, but we need to make sure that we don’t slack, that we keep going and keep pushing forward, and give ourselves every possible chance.”

Rooney, who prefers playing as a striker, has acknowledged he might have to drop deeper into midfield where he has also been used by Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal this season.

With younger and faster talents coming through England’s ranks, such as United teenager Marcus

Rashford, Rooney was confident he can cope with any role in the squad.

“As a player you are always adapting. You adapt to your team mates, you adapt to the different coaches you are working under. It depends what the coaches want from you,” said the 30-year-old, who scored seven goals in the qualifying campaign to overtake Bobby Charlton as England’s top goalscorer.

“Throughout my career I’ve adapted to different situations and different teams I’ve played in, and I have no problem doing it. In football you need players who can play in different positions. “I’ve always felt like I can play in different positions.”

England face Russia, Slovakia and Wales in Group B of the 24-team tournament in France that starts on June 10. (rtr)

Costa, Mata and Cazorla left out of Spain squad BARCELONA - Premier League-based trio Diego Costa, Juan Mata and Santi Cazorla were among a high-profile list of absentees when Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque named his provisional 25-man squad for Euro 2016 on Tuesday.

Costa injured his hamstring against Liverpool in Chelsea’s penultimate game of the season.

Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres was also absent from the squad despite his improved form towards the end of the season, as were Arsenal midfielder Cazorla

and Valencia forward Paco Alcacer, Spain’s top scorer in their qualifying campaign.

Manchester United midfielder Mata, Barcelona’s Sergi Roberto and Villarreal’s Mario Gaspar were also excluded from the defending champions’ squad despite being involved in the March friendlies with Italy and Romania.

Spain will play three friendlies, against Bosnia, South Korea and Georgia before starting the defence of their title against Czech Republic on June. 13. (rtr)

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Leicester City players and staff celebrate with the trophy after winning the English Premier League during an open top bus parade through Leicester city centre, England, Monday May 16, 2016.

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Thunder steal Game 1 from Warriors

OAKLAND - Oklahoma center Steven Adams converted an errant pass by team mate Russell Westbrook into two critical free throws with 1:01 left on Monday to short-circuit a Golden State rally and help the Thunder to a 108-102 Game 1 victory in the Western Conference finals.

Westbrook overcame a slow start to score a game-high 27 points. Kevin Durant added 26, including a lead-extending jumper with 30.7 seconds left, as the Thunder stole home-court advantage from the top-seeded Warriors.

The Thuder overcame a 13-point halftime deficit. Game 2 is scheduled for Wednesday in Oakland, where the Warriors absorbed their first loss of the postseason on Monday.

Adams’ free throws came after the Warriors rallied within 101-100 on an interior hoop by Harrison Barnes with 2:02 to go.

After an exchange of possessions, Thunder power forward Serge Ibaka recovered a missed jumper by Durant, giving Oklahoma City a second crack with 1:12 to play.

Westbrook then drove toward the hoop and lobbed a pass that smacked hard off the backboard and deflected toward the free-throw line, where Adams retrieved it and took off for the hoop.

He was fouled on a shot attempt, and he made both free throws to increase Oklahoma City’s lead to 103-100.

The Thunder were able to win despite relatively poor shooting by Durant (10for-30) and Westbrook (7-for-21).

Each contributed in other areas, with Durant grabbing 10 rebounds and Westbrook dishing off 12 assists.

Adams played a key role in the win, recording a 16-point, 12-rebound doubledouble. Ibaka also had a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Warriors star Stephen Curry had 26 points to go with team-highs in rebounds (10) and assists (seven).

He hit six of his 14 3-point attempts,

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The Subak Museum provides a film which describes the process of handling the agricultural land. This process consists of various activities, from the meeting of Subak members to arrange the Subak rules to cultivating the land up to expressing gratitude to God for a good harvest. The museum also shows the variety of ceremonies commonly conducted at various stages of the cultivation cycle. There are also a miniature of

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but the Warriors struggled from beyond the arc, shooting just 11-for-30 and outscoring the Thunder (8-for-17) by just nine despite taking 13 more attempts.

Klay Thompson had 25 points and Draymond Green 23 for the Warriors, who lost just twice at home during the regular season.

The Thunder had not led since 10-9 midway through the first quarter before Durant buried a 3-pointer and Westbrook

a driving hoop in the first 90 seconds of the final period, pushing Oklahoma City into a 90-88 advantage.

The lead grew to as much as 101-93 with 4:42 to play as the Thunder defense took control of the game, limiting Golden State to just two field goals in the first 7 1/2 minutes of the fourth quarter.

A 3-pointer by Curry, the Warriors’ first of the fourth quarter after seven consecutive misses, ended the Golden State

drought and got the Warriors within 10196 with 4:28 to go.

Green and Barnes converted interior hoops as a desperation Golden State surge continued, closing the gap to 101-100 with 2:02 to go.

However, Green then failed to convert on a drive to the hoop, and Adams came up with his key play for the Thunder, allowing Oklahoma City to finish off the upset victory. (rtr)

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Kimi Raikkonen could not pass Max Verstappen in Barcelona due to Ferrari’s struggles in the last corner, says Maurizio Arrivabene.

CATALUNYA - Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said the car’s performance through the final sector in Catalunya was to blame for Kimi Raikkonen’s failure to beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Rosberg, Hamilton on top in Spain as Verstappen impresses Omnisport Verstappen became the youngest race winner in Formula One history after holding off Raikkonen to take the chequered flag at Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix.

The 18-year-old was making his Red Bull debut after replacing Daniil Kvyat, who was demoted to sister team Toro Rosso following

several under par performances.

Raikkonen trailed Verstappen for the final 22 laps of the race but, despite being assisted by DRS down the main and back straights, could not get close enough to pass the Dutchman and had to settle for second on the podium.

Arrivabene believes his failure to pass Verstappen was down to Ferrari’s poor performance through the final complex at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

“If we had reversed the strategy most probably [Ferrari team-mate] Sebastian [Vettel] would have been in the same position as Kimi,” he explained.

“The problem was not the strat-

egy, the problem was - as happened in qualifying - we were not good enough in the last part of the track, in the slow corner.

“It was in the last part of the track the Red Bull was going big time, and Kimi was unable to catch him again until the end of the straight.

“So it wasn’t a question of strategy. The question is, like in qualifying, why were we very, very slow in the last part of the track?”

He added: “Kimi had a fantastic race in my opinion.

“It’s a pity we weren’t good enough in certain parts of the track to give him the possibility of winning the race.” (IBP/net)

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China’s No. 3 leader to “listen” to HK demands as independence calls grow

HONG KONG - A top ranked Chinese official began a rare visit to Hong Kong on Tuesday vowing to listen to residents’ political concerns, seeking to address increasingly strident calls in the city for greater autonomy or even independence from the mainland.

The visit by Zhang Dejiang, the first by a senior Chinese figure since the 2014 Occupy democracy protests, was officially to attend an economic summit.

However, his first comments addressed the hot button political issue of Hong Kong’s relationship with China, a topic that has sparked fierce debate in the Asian financial hub. “(I will listen to) all sectors of society’s suggestions and demands on how ... the country and Hong Kong should develop,” Zhang told reporters at Hong Kong airport.

Following the unsuccessful Occupy protests of 2014, a handful of activists have been calling for an outright breakaway from China, a move some say would imperil Hong Kong’s economic and political future.

“These young people have no

idea that they could be putting Hong Kong on a potentially dangerous collision course with the motherland and bringing an unmitigated disaster,” wrote former top Hong Kong security official Regina Ip in a recent editorial in the state-run China Daily.

Tensions in the city are high, with thousands police mobilised for Zhang’s visit.

Local media reported pavement bricks were being glued down to quell the prospect of violent protests while police were camping atop a mountain where a prodemocracy banner was hung two years ago.

A banner demanding “true universal suffrage” was hung on a different mountaintop on Tuesday morning. “(We) are facing a very great threat from China: Our culture, our

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language, our people...we are dying!” Chan Ho-tin, the head of the newly-formed National party, told Reuters.

“Do (Hong Kong people) want to be a Chinese city or do they want to be an independent country?

There are only two choices,” said Chan, whose party is expected to contest legislative elections in September.

Joshua Wong, another prominent young activist who launched a new political party called Demosisto this year, wouldn’t rule out taking an independence line in upcoming campaigns.

“The problem with young people is that they are not 100 percent preoccupied with economic considerations,” said Michael Tien, a Hong Kong delegate to China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, which Zhang heads.

“A lot of young people saying they don’t want development, they want a better environment, they want better work-life balance, they want better quality of life.” (rtr)

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Sri Lankan men push an auto rickshaw stranded in a flooded road after heavy rains in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 16, 2016. Flash floods caused by heavy rains have displaced hundreds of families in several parts of Sri Lanka as the Indian Ocean Island is experiencing extreme weather conditions over the last two days.

Sri Lanka’s torrential rains drive more than 130,000 from homes

COLOMBO - Flash floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, triggered by more than three days of heavy rain, have forced more than 130,000 people to leave their homes for higher ground and killed at least 11, disaster officials said on Tuesday.

Troops have launched rescue operations in inundated areas of the Indian Ocean island, with boats and helicopters deployed to pull to safety more than 200 people trapped in the northwestern coastal district of Puttalam, officials said.

“This is the worst torrential rain we have seen since 2010,” said Pradeep Kodippili, a spokesman for the country’s disaster management centre, adding that many incidents were still flowing in from the 19 districts hit, among Sri Lanka’s 25.

Flooded roads and fallen trees led to traffic jams in the capital, Colombo. Trains were halted as water submerged railway tracks, officials said. Families living beside rivers used boats to negotiate their way to safety.

A DMC bulletin reported a total of eight deaths, ascribing four to landslides, and one each to floods, electric shock, a lightning strike

and an uprooted tree.

But it did not reflect three further deaths in a landslide in the central district of Kandy, the DMC spokesman added.

Eight people have reported missing and nine have been injured, the bulletin said.

Transport disruptions included the diversion of three Colombobound international flights, which went instead to Sri Lanka’s second airport in its south and Cochin airport in nearby south India.

Flooding and mass displacement due to torrential rains are common in Sri Lanka.

The rains are expected to disperse slightly, weather officials said, as a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal that brought them moves away, but strong winds will persist a few days longer.

In 2014, a landslide caused by heavy rains killed at least 16 people in a hilly tea plantation area and more than 100 went missing.

Flooding and drought are cyclical in Sri Lanka, which is battered by a southern monsoon between the months of May and September, while a northeastern monsoon runs from December to February. (rtr)

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109 of their people to China the previous month.

Police have ruled out terrorism as a motive, saying the bombers were part of a network trafficking Uighurs and that the bomb was retaliation after a Thai crackdown on the trade.

Arrest warrants have been issued for 15 others, eight of whom are thought to have ties to Turkey.

Most Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language, live in China’s Xinjiang region, where activists say government policies restrict their culture and religion. (rtr)

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The chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, Zhang Dejiang, center, speaks to media next to Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, second left, after arriving at Hong Kong’s airport, Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

Mieraili, 26, is accused of delivering the backpack bomb. Karadag, also known as Bilal Mohammed, and Mieraili deny the charges against them. More than 250 witnesses could be called to give evidence at the coming trial, which may take more than a year.

No group claimed responsibility but some suspect the attack was linked to sympathisers of the Uighur Muslim minority, angry at the Thai junta’s deportation of

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“I consider air pollution and climate change to be serious, longterm threats to the forests,” said Lovett, senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in the Hudson Valley. “But neither of those is changing the forest the way the pests are.”

In a study published this month in the journal Ecological Applications, Lovett and 15 colleagues estimated that 63 percent of U.S. forest land, or about 825 million acres, is at risk of increased damage from established pests, and new pests continue to arrive with cargo shipments from overseas.

There are more than 400 forest pests in the country with every state affected, Lovett said. New York has the most, with 62 types of pest. The Northeast and upper Midwest are the most heavily infested regions. Lovett said that’s because of centuries of overseas trade from regions where tree species are similar but have evolved with insect pest resistance that U.S. trees lack.

Imported tree pests long ago wiped out eastern chestnuts and elms. Now under siege are hemlocks, ash, beech, oaks, maples

and dogwood.

Imported forest pests cause more than $2 billion in damage each year, with communities and homeowners bearing the greatest cost because of the expense of removing and replanting trees that take decades to mature.

“You don’t realize the cost until you have to do it,” said Stanley Burgiel, assistant director of the National Invasive Species Council Secretariat, an independent council established by presidential order in 1999. “I had to take down all the oaks in my backyard, at $1,000 to $2,000 per tree.”

Lovett and co-authors from Harvard Forest, the U.S. Forest Service, the Nature Conservancy, Dartmouth College, McGill University and Michigan State compiled existing data on the ecological and economic impacts of forest pests and made a case for several trade policy solutions.

Their top recommendations are to eliminate solid wood shipping pallets and end or greatly limit imports of live trees and shrubs similar to U.S. native plants.

Burgiel said progress is being made in both areas, with some

major importers such as Wal-Mart eliminating wood packaging or switching to plastic for efficiency reasons, and the nursery and landscape industry taking steps such as importing plants without soil to reduce the risk of infestations.

“I think there would be resistance from overseas partners that are shipping a lot of material using these wood pallets,” said Frank Lowenstein, deputy director of the New England Forestry Foundation, a conservation group based in Littleton, Massachusetts.

“But moving away from solid wood packaging could be really beneficial ecologically not only here in the United States but in some of our international trading partners’ forests as well,” Lowenstein said, noting how old-growth hardwood trees had been cut down in prime orangutan habitat in Indonesia to make shipping pallets in China.

Engineered wood, such as a product resembling corrugated cardboard and another made with a heat and glue laminating process, is a safe alternative to solid wood, Lowenstein said.

“These techniques are becoming more prevalent and less expensive all the time,” he said. “Probably the economics are going to favor a move away from solid wood pallets regardless of the ecological benefits.”(ap)

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Pan Chiu-chung, center, father of a detained Taiwanese fishing boat captain Pan Chien-peng, condemns Japan during an anti-Japan protest, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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FILE - In this May 21, 2009, file photo, a dead Asian longhorned beetle is seen in its adult stage, front, and as a larva at the state Department of Resources and Economic Development Division of Forest and Lands office in Hillsboro, N.H.

UK inflation falls for the first time since September

LONDON — Official figures show that Britain’s annual inflation rate dropped last month to 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent in March, as stores slashed prices on clothes amid cool temperatures and airlines cut fares after Easter holidays.

The inflation rate, reported Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics, remains well below the Bank of England’s target of 2 percent.

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But economists say that inflation looks likely to gradually rise, in part because oil prices are starting to recover. Brent crude, the benchmark for North Sea oil, is nearing $50 a barrel, up from a 12-year low in January.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned a vote to leave the European Union in a June referendum would cause the pound to drop, which would push up inflation.(ap)

FILE - In this Friday April 24, 2009 file photo, shoppers walk down Oxford Street in London. The eurozone economy has finally recouped all the ground lost in the recessions of the past eight years after official figures Friday April 29, 2016, showed that the 19-country single currency bloc expanded by a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent in the first three months of the year.

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Imported forest pests cause $2 billion in damage annually

ALBANY, N.Y. — When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying — not from acid rain, but from insect attacks.

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Indonesia nabs 3 boats with 79 trafficked fishermen on board

JAKARTA — Three Thai fishing boat captains have escaped from custody in Indonesia after their vessels were seized with dozens of trafficked foreign fishermen on board, an official said Tuesday.

The captains were detained on April 12 when they were found operating trawlers under Malaysian flags that were fishing off Kalimantan, Indonesia’s part of Borneo island, said Sumono Darwinto, chief of the local fishing office in Pontianak.

He said the captains escaped on May 7 after scaling the wall of their detention center in the middle of the night, and are being sought by police and military officials. Eight other Thai crew members remain in detention.

The Fisheries Ministry in Jakarta said the 79 crew members from Cambodia and Myanmar were identified as victims

of trafficking, and most had fake Thai travel documents.

Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry has said 54 of its citizens were found on the boats after having been lured into taking jobs that promised high salaries and large bonuses for bringing in a lot of fish.

Indonesian authorities have been aggressively cracking down on foreign fishing vessels operating illegally in the country’s waters. To send a message to foreign fishing companies, Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has ordered that boats found plundering fish from

Indonesian waters be blown up and sunk, and has taken a strong stance against trafficked fishermen.

The latest boat seizures come after a yearlong Associated Press investigation into human trafficking in Southeast Asia’s lucrative seafood industry. It exposed a slave island in remote eastern Indonesia where hundreds of poor migrant fishermen, mostly from Myanmar, were being brutally abused aboard Thai-run trawlers and forced to fish for little or no money for years at a time. The AP followed the fish caught by the slaves to Thailand and then to some of America’s largest food sellers, including Wal-Mart, Kroger and Sysco. More than 2,000 fishermen were freed last year after the stories were published.(ap)

SEOUL - Indonesian President Joko Widodo introduced the concept of “blusukan,” or impromptu visits, which he frequently practiced as a leader, to the participants of the 7th Asian Leadership Conference, here, Tuesday.

“We call the term for my impromptu visits as blusukan that can be translated into English as management by working around,” he informed the participants at the conference being held at The Shilla Hotel here.

At the conference officially inaugurated by South Korean President Park Geun-hye and featuring outstanding speakers, including former US president George W. Bush, President Widodo shared his experiences in resolving problems when he was the mayor of Solo city in Central Java and the governor of Jakarta. With his leadership style, partly marked by his frequent impromptu visits, the president has successfully resolved issues related to street vendors and the dumping of garbage.

During his speech at the conference, President Widodo underlined the importance of innovation for boosting Indonesias competitiveness and the significance of poverty eradication for countering extremism and terrorism.

After speaking at the conference, organized by the leading media group Chosun Ilbo, the head of state is scheduled to visit South Koreas National Heroes Cemetery to pay his respects to the fallen heroes of the country.(ant)

Surabaya to declare all places nosmoking areas

SURABAYA - The Surabaya city government in East Java is planning to declare all offices, schools, health facilities, playgrounds and other public places as non-smoking areas.

“We must make sure that they remain free from smoking. Certain places have been declared nonsmoking areas, so we will not find it hard to impose the ban all over the city,” Surabaya Vice Mayor Whisnu Sakti Buana said, after attending a plenary meeting at the city legislative assembly (DPRD) building here on Monday.

In their general views on the draft bylaw on nonsmoking areas, some factions in the city legislative assembly said the smoking ban in public areas actually confirms the 2008 bylaw concerning smoking free areas and limited-smoking areas. “So far, the public has understood that they can refrain from smoking in schools,” he said.

However, he added, to make the bylaw effective, the city government needs to explain the details of the bylaw to the public. “Let us see the deliberation (of the draft bylaw) with the DPRD,” he said.

Chief of the Surabaya City Health Office Febria Rahmanita said when the draft bylaw is passed into law, smoking areas will no longer be available in public places.

Under bylaw number 5 of 2008, smoking areas were still available in public areas. “But they will all be banned,” she said.(ant)

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Four hamlets hit by water shortages, BPBD ready to supply water SEMARAPURA - The recent erratic season has caused four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict to experience drought. The four hamlets located on highland face water shortages due to lack of rains to fill in people’s reservoirs. This condition also makes the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Klungkung intervened to regularly supply water to hundreds of communities at four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict experiencing water shortages.

The Division Head of Emergency and Logistics at the BPBD Klungkung, Made Mula Astra, said that currently the residents at the four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict are experiencing difficulties to get water as it does not rain. The four hamlets are Bukit Tengah, Pesinggahan (60 families), Dangin Bukit Sabang and Bukit Abah, Besan (299 families), Glogor hamlet, Pikat (50 families) and Babung hamlet, Gunaksa (60 families).

He revealed the four hamlets on the hills take advantage of water obtained from rainwater. In the meantime, water service of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) Klungkung until now has not been able to provide services to the region. To help the public, the BPBD Klungkung deployed a tank truck to supply water to the four regions. This action is taken to help the PDAM Klungkung having the responsibility of supplying water to the region.

“The BPBD comes down to help because it only has one tank truck and it has problem so that it cannot transport water for the water short-

age,” he said.

He explained the water distributed to the region lacking of water is obtained from the PDAM Klungkung. Water supply is provided twice a week namely on Tuesdays and Thursdays by using the operating cost for the purchase of gasoline.

In the meantime, the water supplied to the four hamlets is free obtained from the PDAM Klungkung. “Once departure of transporting water needs 40 liters of fuel, while the truck is provided by the BPBD Bali,” he said while adding that delivery is done by the quick response team consisting of five personnel.

This official claimed to continuously send water for the people in need. In addition to the four hamlets, its agency also supplied water when disturbances happen to the water distribution of the PDAM. “When there is disruption of water distribution of the PDAM, we also come down and when there is a request from the community,” he concluded. (dwa)

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Clinton faces pressure for win in Oregon and Kentucky contests

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her being waged by Republican candidate Donald Trump.

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The recent erratic season has caused four hamlets in Dawan subdistrict to experience drought.

The four hamlets located on highland face water shortages due to lack of rains to fill in people’s reservoirs.

Drugs reach breeders in Penebel

MANGUPURA - Actually the circulation of drugs has penetrated to remote villages.

As evidence, the drugs have been circulating among layer poultry breeders in Penebel region, Tabanan. Without immediate handling, it is feared to make the breeders in the region go bankrupt.

“One of my friends in Penebel claimed to have consumed drugs for 1.5 months and I ordered him to take rehabilitation for fear of getting into more serious condition. A drug abuser is not crazy and not normal,” affirmed the Head of the Bali National Narcotic Agency (BNNP), Putu Gede Suastawa, Monday (May 16), after opening the training to improve the rehabilitator competency for government agency in the field of motivational interviewing in Kuta.

Quick penetration of the drug to villages, said Suastawa, happened because the dealers promoted it as stamina enhancer. Actually it is misdirection and can result in contradictory effects.

“I’d like to emphasize that drug use will cause permanent impotence. Moreover, they are no IBP/file longer concerned about their family,” he said.

Instead, drug users are happy in prison beBali is ranked eleventh in terms of vulnerability to drug abuse in Indonesia.

This year the rehabilitation is more focused on quality of rehabilitation to cause they do not support their family. They are even given food and money by their wife and the addicts.

family. “This is a fact that they are comfortable in prison. Their condition is very alarming,” he said.

On that account, his agency wanted to reach the users of illicit goods to subdistrict area.

To optimize the efforts, the BNN empowers the doctors and counselors at health centers.

Suastawa hoped they proactively handle the people having the symptoms of drug users.

“We enfold them to expand the reach. In addition, they can go to schools so that students have the understanding on the hazards of drugs,” he said.

According to him, Bali is ranked eleventh in terms of vulnerability to drug abuse in Indonesia. On that account, this year the rehabilitation is more focused on quality of rehabilitation to the addicts. In addition, his agency makes integration with related agencies, Health Agency, Social Agency, Law and Human Rights and others.

“In 2015, only 35 percent of the rehabilitation process could run successfully. In other words, the remaining amount or 65 percent cannot be monitored whether they have recovered or not.

We do hope that there is seriousness to recover from drugs,” he said. (kmb36)

The continued presence in the race of Bernie Sanders - who remains a long shot to upset Clinton and win the Democratic nomination - is prompting concerns among Clinton allies that he will damage her ability to take on Trump and hurt the Democrat in the fall.

But many supporters of Sanders are not worried about any ill effects of the U.S. senator remaining in the race, arguing that Trump is such a flawed candidate that Clinton will easily dispatch with him if she faces him in the Nov. 8 election.

“Either way we’re going to get a Democratic president,” Alisha Liedtke, 28, a Sanders supporter from Ellensburg, Washington.

In interviews with 14 voters who back the senator from Vermont, supporters said they are not concerned that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, might succeed U.S. President Barack Obama because they do not believe the real estate mogul could win the general election.

They said Sanders should keep fighting until the Democratic National Convention in July, to push Clinton to the left and challenge her

ties to Wall Street and support for free-trade deals.

Allies of Clinton have held back from overt calls for Sanders to exit the race. Any moves by her campaign to try drive Sanders out could risk angering Democratic voters and end up backfiring.

So Clinton must continue her primary fight in Kentucky and Oregon, where analysts predict she will have a hard time winning.

The Democratic race is unlikely to wrap up before California, New Jersey and several other states vote on June 7.

Oregon, with a heavily white, liberal population, politically resembles its northern neighbor Washington, which voted for Sanders. Oregon voters cast their ballots by mail, meaning voting there actually began in the last week of April.

After Sanders won both West Virginia and Indiana this month, analysts said he has a good chance of taking Kentucky. But Louisville and the western part of the state are more moderate politically, and Clinton spent Sunday and Monday campaigning there. (rtr)

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., May 16, 2016.

Truckers block roads in test week of protest for France’s Hollande

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Striking French truckers block petroleum tanker lorries from leaving Perguilhem SAS to make deliveries in Ambes, France, May 17, 2016.

PARIS - Truckers blocked motorways across France on Tuesday as opponents of proposed labour law reforms began a fresh wave of strikes and street marches.

This week has been billed by media as make or break for a protest movement that has appeared to lose steam after weeks of sometimes violent confrontation.

President Francois Hollande stood firm, saying on radio that the law - a flagship reform that would make hiring and firing easier - would not be scrapped, and warning that police would not tolerate violence.

“I will not give in,” the Socialist leader, whose popularity rating is at rock bottom a year from an election, told Europe 1 radio.

The truckers are employees rather than owner drivers and so were not at the wheels of their lorries. However, they were able to slow or blocked traffic at strategic points in the north and west, most notably in the Bordeaux region, where they turned away deliveries to a major supermarket supply hub and a fuel depot.

Marches in Paris and other French cities were scheduled for later in the day, when railworkers are set to join the fray with stoppages expected to cause major disruption for commuters through to Friday.

Hollande said over 1,000 people had been ar-

rested during clashes with police over recent months, with more than 300 police and a number of protesters hurt in clashes where some, including foreigners, were coming just for the fight.

“People have a right to protest but rioting is an offence that will be punished,” he said.

France’s police chief said ahead of a week of tension that a small group of hardline protesters had been banned from the streets of Paris.

The hardline CGT labour union has called for rolling strikes by rail workers, dockers and airport staff as well as two days of street demonstrations, on Tuesday and Thursday.

Turnout numbers from police suggested protest numbers fell at rallies last week to tens of thousands from the hundreds of thousands that took part in earlier ones - fuelling speculation that the protest movement is weakening.

The government has already watered down its initial labour law reform project, but last week decided to bypass parliament and force the change through by decree, causing splits within its own ranks in parliament.

Its plan would allow employers to opt out of the obligations of national labour law in favour of pay terms and conditions set at company level, a change opponents see undermining labour protection rules to an unacceptable extent. (rtr)

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NASA launches near-space monitoring balloon from New Zealand

WELLINGTON - NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from New Zealand’s South Island Wanaka Airport Tuesday to conduct near-space scientific investigations.

The launch marks the fifth attempt to get the massive balloon airborne, with previous bids thwarted by bad weather, NASA said in a release.

Long-duration balloon flights at constant altitudes play an important role in providing inexpensive access to the near-space environment for science and technology.

The 532,000 cubic metres (18.8 million cubic feet) balloon is expected to circumnavigate the globe about the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitudes once every one to three weeks, depending on wind speeds in the stratosphere, NASA said. The aim is for it remain airborne for more than 100 days.

According to NASA the balloon’s operational float altitude is 33.5 kms (20.8 miles) and it will be visible from the ground, particularly at sunrise and sunset, in the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, such as Argentina and South Africa.

NASA’s balloon experts at its Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility and NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, will control balloon flight operations throughout the mission.

The current record for a NASA super pressure balloon flight is 54 days. Tuesday’s launch was the second super pressure balloon mission from Wanaka.

The first launch occurred March 27, 2015, flying 32 NASA launches near-space monitoring balloon from New Zealand. days, 5 hours, and 51 minutes. (rtr)

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Companies propose deep-water wind farms off Hawaii shores

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This Oct. 2011, photo provided by Principle Power shows a WindFloat Prototype (WF1) handoff to ocean going tug vessel, in the Sado River Estuary near Setubal, Portugal. Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands.

HONOLULU — Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands.

Two companies have proposed offshore wind turbine projects for federal waters off Oahu as Hawaii pushes to meet its aggressive renewable energy goals.

Their plans would use technology that floats the tall turbines in deep waters miles offshore.

The proposals are in the early stages and would face years of environmental reviews and community meetings before possible approval.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the agency that would decide whether to approve ocean leases for the projects, held a meeting about the proposals Monday.

A.W. Hawaii Wind, a Texas company that’s a subsidiary of Denmark-based Alpha Wind Energy, is proposing two offshore floating wind farms, each generating about 400 megawatts of energy with 50 turbines. One is proposed for the northwest side of Oahu 12 miles off the coast of Kaena Point, in waters about a half-mile deep.

The company also is proposing a wind farm in waters 17 miles south of Diamond Head.

A second company, Progression Hawaii Offshore Wind, is proposing a $1.8 billion, 400 megawatt wind farm using 40 to 50 floating turbines off Oahu’s South Shore, in waters that are also about a halfmile deep.

A 400 megawatt wind farm could provide roughly a quarter of Oahu’s power, said Chris Swartley, partner with Portland, Oregonbased Progression Energy.

Both companies are proposing to use a technology called WindFloat, where a turbine that stands about 600 feet is attached to a triangular platform that floats near the surface of the ocean. The floats would be anchored to the ocean floor, and undersea cables would transfer the energy to power plants on land. Offshore wind farms are not new, but most use turbines fixed to the ocean floor, and floating turbines are rare.

There are many challenges to taking on a project of this scope in Hawaii, including cultural and environmental issues, deep water, a relatively small electric grid, and unexploded ordnance in the ocean waters surrounding the island, said

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Jens Borsting Petersen, owner of A.W. Hawaii Wind.

“This is by far the most difficult thing in wind that’s ever been attempted on this globe,” said Petersen. “When you talk about wind energy, trying to do something on Hawaii offshore is exceptionally complicated.”

Progression Energy has held more than 140 meetings with environmental, tourism, Native Hawaiian and other stakeholder groups, using their feedback to choose a site, Swartley said.

Looking out from the beach, most of the turbines would be over the horizon, he said.

“You’ll be able to see them if you really look for them, but it will be really tough,” Swartley said.

Among concerns raised so far is the potential danger that whales or submarines could bump into the cords anchoring the turbines to the ocean floor, said Henry Curtis, executive director of Life of the Land, a Hawaii nonprofit organization.

“Do you want to really turn the ocean into the next industrial site?” Curtis asked.

Some fishermen are concerned about the possible impact on birds flying over the sea. (ap)

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Agro tourism at Subak Sembung

Crop yields down but October brings hope

DENPASAR - Subak Sembung, located in Denpasar covers a total area area of 115 hectares and is divided into six sub-subaks each managed by 12-20 farmers who cultivate plots of land of about 0.50 hectares.

All of the farmers of Subak Sembung had reduced crop yields this April and May with only about 6.5 tons per hectare (total of 374 hectares), whereas October’s harvest could yield up to 9 tons per hectare.

Chief of Subak Sembung, Wayan Sunarta, said that only 50 percent of their paddy fields have been harvested while the other half are waiting to ripen.

He explained that the reduced yields are common for the April-May harvest due to the increased amount of rain at this time of year. “Sunshine is good and makes for good dew at night which is good for the paddy harvests”, he said.

The bad weather between January to April also led to the rapid proliferation of pests. Access to water was not a problem for Subak Sembung as the water is flowed in turns to each farmers’ plot of land.

This also means that not all the farmers harvest at the same time.

In July, the farmers will begin planting new paddy that will be harvest in October. It is predicted that October’s harvest will increase to a total of nine tons.

The harvested grain is sold to collectors for about IDR 200,000 per square meter if the weather is bad, while if the weather is good, the price can be reach as much IDR 320,000 per acre. Production costs for farming amount to about IDR 100,000 per square meter. “Farmers make very little profit”, he added.

Sunarta admitted that they do not use 100 organic fertilizer but instead combine chemical fertilizers as well. Also farmers at Subak Sembung do not apply the jajar legowo planting pattern everywhere but instead they still use the tile planting pattern. “The farmers are accustomed to using the tle planting pattern. Some have starting using the jajar legowo patterns but not all. It takes time to becoming accustomed to a new pattern of planting”, he said.

Sunarta himself has one hectare of land that he plants with both rice and vegetables. Cultivating vegetables such as mustard greens, peppers and water spinach, he said gives far more favourable results that he if he just planting rice.

Chief of Subak Sembung Ecotourism, I Made Suastika, said that his management has signed an MoU with Udayana University’s Faculty of Agriculture who will be conducting research and providing guidance to the farmers of Subak Sembung.

The initiative to create agro-tourism at Subak Sembung agrotourism, came out of a desire tho motivate the farmers not to sell their land and instead retain the paddy fields. Agro tourism attractions have thus been created as well as several festivals.

Product development is also an ongoing project as another way to motivate farmers to preserve their paddy fields. (kmb42)

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Subak Sembung, located in Denpasar covers a total area area of 115 hectares and is divided into six sub-subaks each managed by 12-20 farmers who cultivate plots of land of about 0.50 hectares.

Rescuers still searching for missing fisherman in Bali

BULELENG - Rescuers are still searching for a 42-year-old fisherman Made Parsana, who had reportedly gone missing in the northern waters of Bali. Head of the Buleleng Search and Rescue Team post Anak Agung Ketut Alit

Supartana stated here on Monday that the rescuers had now deployed a helicopter to search for the missing fisherman.

During the last four days of the search operation, the team had combed the northern waters of

Bali aboard a boat but had failed to find any trace of Parsana. “We had deployed a boat in the waters of Penimbangan. We had to refuel every two or three hours during the search,” Supartana remarked.

The rescue team has been cooperat-

ing with the Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency to monitor the current weather and the sea conditions at the designated location.

However, the strong sea currents are believed to have drifted the body of Parsana away from his last

reported location, Supartana said.

A canoe belonging to Parsana was found on the coast of Pacung Village and was taken to Pura Bingin Beach. Parsana was reported missing on Thursday (May 12) at around 2 p.m. local time. (ant)

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There are dirtier areas than Bali, but the mosquitoes in Bali proliferate rapidly and carry dengue virus.

It is not solely due to environmental sanitation. “Environmental sanitation is a bit different as a risk factor,” he said. Bali is endemic to dengue fever because it is supported by a high population density, population mobility and there are many containers for mosquitoes to proliferate.

Denpasar, for instance, has many lands or unoccupied homes and unused goods. Similarly, in Gianyar there are many cans of paint, etc. used in the craft making.

Although it is endemic throughout the year, the increase in cases is still affected by season where at the end of rainy season the dengue cases

will increase.

On that account, the most effective way for prevention against dengue fever is the eradication of mosquito nests by cleaning up the environment. “Eradication of mosquito nests includes draining, covering, burying and taking advantage of unused goods. It is the most effective way to break the chain of its transmission from larvae to adult mosquitoes, while fogging is intended for adult mosquitoes only. Larvae will hatch into mosquitoes. If there are increasing cases, the eradication of mosquito nests and fogging should be done at once,” he said.

In the meantime, the virus itself is begun to be studied in terms of its virulence because there are some cases causing death without passing through the usual phases. He said that this case is being assessed and

the results are not yet available.

There are four types of dengue virus namely the Dengue 1, Dengue 2, Dengue, Dengue 3 and 4.

Each virus has its own malignancy.

“Someone having suffered dengue can get another dengue virus of different type,” said Gede Wira Sunetra, the Division Head of the Disease Control and Environmental Sanitation (P2PL) at the Bali Health Agency.

Based on the data of dengue from January to April, a total of 30 people died where 11 victims in Buleleng, Jembrana (1), Badung (2), Denpasar (9) and Gianyar (7).

In the meantime, the total dengue fever cases until the end of April reached 6,812 cases. Each month showed an increase, where in January reached 1,033 cases, February (1,619 cases), March (2,407 cases) and April (1,753 cases). (kmb42)

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TABANAN — Surprising information emerged when dozens subak chiefs (pekaseh) of three subak areas in the region of Selemadeg namely the Subak Bulungdaya, Lanyah Bajera 1 and Lanyah Bajera II submitted their complaint to the ranks of legislative related to the realization of healthy rice program, Monday (May 16). In the meeting, a farmer who is also a middleman, Ketut Widana, recognized that the grain of healthy rice was sold to Banyuwangi. It happens because there is no clear decision on the purchase by Perpadi as the institution handling the healthy rice project.

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Sadly, healthy grain even brought to Banyuwangi

He purchases the healthy rice of farmers at IDR 3,900 net without any deductions. He has a wealth of experience for some ten years of becoming farmer and middleman.

In 2015, he even sent 45,000 tons of grain to Banyuwangi because it is not accommodated in Tabanan.

“If Perpadi purchases the rice of farmers at Subak Bulungdaya, I personally will not purchase it by buying-up system. I do this because there is no certainty of Perpadi to purchase the rice of farmers,” he explained.

Chief of Subak Bulungdaya, I Wayan Targa, before the ranks of the legislators also explained that the healthy rice planted at five hectares of paddy field by local farmers has turned yellow and been ready to harvest. But until now, there have been no local government officers coming down to purchase. “As the

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chief of subak, I am always contacted by subak members. They asked when the rice will be purchased by the government, in this case the Perpadi,” he explained.

Because of being continuously urged and unable to answer the question of subak members regarding the certainty of the government to come down, his leadership with 28 subak members eventually decided to sell the yellowing rice to middleman.

“We need instant cash. If nobody buys our paddy we are worried it will be unsalable especially when the rain intensity is high,” he explained.

With such a joint decision, the healthy grain is finally sold at IDR 3,900 per kilogram to middleman. He explained that this harvest is the second pilot project of the healthy rice program launched by the government of Tabanan. The first pilot project faced a total failure due to dry season.

“The first pilot project totally failed at five hectares,” he explained.

At that time, the pilot project of healthy rice was supported by the government by funding as much as IDR 6.5 million per hectare of land.

His organization hoped that the farmer’s complaint can be heard by the Tabanan House of Representatives so that the fate of farmers could be struggled for.

Chief of Subak Lanyah 1, I Nengah Supariana, admitted similar condition. Moreover, he got information that the grain purchased by Perpadi should have been wrapped in a sack and received on truck. “We very much deplore this,” he said.

Although his subak members have not harvested yet, he hoped the incident at Subak Bulungdaya will not happen to his subak area.

Chairman of the Tabanan House of Representatives, IK Suryadi, said that he will immediately summon the executive in this regard. Moreover, there is information that the grain of farmers purchased by Perpadi was unpaid yet. “This feedback of farmers is very good. We will follow up this matter by summoning the executive and Perpadi,” he said.

“Now (Monday—Ed) we send a recommendation to the executive to follow up on this issue,” he said. (kmb28)

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The X-Men are back, this time fighting “Apocalypse” REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

LONDON - Hollywood stars Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy reprise their roles as powerful mutants in “X-Men: Apocalypse”, this time joining forces against a new supervillain.

Oscar-winner Lawrence returns as the blue, shape-shifting Mystique, while McAvoy plays the younger, mind-reading Professor Charles Xavier, a role portrayed by Patrick Stewart in the franchise’s first films.

In the movie, the world’s first mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) awakes in 1980s Cairo after hibernation in ancient Egypt and embarks on a mission for global power with his new recruits, including Magneto (Michael Fassbender).

Professor Xavier seeks to defeat him with the help of Mystique and other mutant students from his school - characters introduced in

the original “X-Men” movies and brought to life here by a younger generation of actors. “...none of these superheroes in these movies are that capable of winning the day on their own,” McAvoy told Reuters in a joint interview with Lawrence.

“They’re all fairly flawed... They need each other, and what I like about it is that it’s about community and it’s about society and it’s about family.”

The movie is the latest superhero action flick hitting screens as Hollywood continues to expand its comic book cinematic universe.

This month, Disney-Marvel’s

“Captain America: Civil War” brought together Marvel characters such as Iron Man, Ant-Man, Black Widow and Scarlet Witch as well as a new Spider-Man on screen.

Asked if they could see their mutant characters joining forces with other superheroes in a franchise crossover, Lawrence said “no”.

“Maybe when people get really tired of superhero movies, they’ll do it as one last ditch desperate attempt to kind of milk the cow dry,” McAvoy said.

“I think there are so many characters in the X-Men universe that we could go and explore before we have to go and mash up with those guys,” he said.

“X-Men: Apocalypse” hits cinemas worldwide from May 18. (rtr)

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From some tests performed, in fact the mosquitoes are now resistant to dosage having been previously effective such as in the fogging or abate. Allegedly their biting behavior does not only occur in the morning but also in the afternoon as well as their larvae is also found not only in a dark container. “Formerly, mosquitoes chose dark-colored container with clean water, but now they are also found in bright containers such as ceramic, clear bottles, holy water container, drinking water pot of birds, etc.,” explained the man who is also a lecturer at Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University.

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Suspects of last year’s Bangkok blast Bilal Mohammed (L) (also known as Adem Karadag) and Yusufu Mieraili are escorted by prison officers as they arrive at the military court in Bangkok, Thailand, April 20, 2016.

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Bangkok Bomb Suspect: ‘I’m Not An Animal’

BANGKOK - Adem Karadag, also known as Bilal Mohammed, a suspect in last year’s Bangkok blast, shouting as he is escorted to court in Bangkok. Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili, two ethnic Uighur Muslims from China, arrived at court on Tuesday dressed in orange jumpsuits and guarded by police.

As he was led him into a military court, a shaven, shackled and barefoot Karadag shouted: “I’m human, I’m human.”

Inside, he told through his interpreter that he had been beaten twice this month while in custody, lifting his shirt and point-

ing to bruises . Karadag’s lawyer requested he be transferred, something the judge agreed to consider.

A stony-faced Mieraili pleaded as he emerged from a prison van outside court: “We’re innocent, help us, help us. “Where are the human rights?”

Twenty people were killed and

more than 120 injured in the 17 August bombing at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine. Five of the victims were from China and two from Hong Kong. Police say Karadag, 31, was seen on CCTV sitting on a bench at the shrine, taking off a bulky backpack and then walking away just before the blast.

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