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Miss Arkansas Savvy Shields, 21, reacts after winning the 96th Miss America Pageant inside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey September 11, 2016.

Robot detonates New Jersey device in latest bomb discovery Page 6

Concerns remain after Ukraine awarded Champions League final Page 8

India weighs response to deadly Kashmir attack it blames on Pakistan Page 13

Miss Arkansas crowned Miss America 2017 in pageant’s 96th year REUTERS/Mark Makela

NEW JERSEY - Savvy Shields, a college student from Arkansas, won the annual Miss America pageant on Sunday after impressing judges with a jazz dance routine and her answer to a question about her take on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Shields, a native of Fayetteville and student at the University of Arkansas, was one of seven finalists given 20 seconds to answer highly topical questions on some controversial issues, such as immigration and Clinton rival, Donald Trump.

Asked what her take was on Clinton, Shields offered that “if you’re trying to be leader of the free world, everything you say and do matters.”

She noted that the media has sensationalized the campaign so that it was “hard to tell what is truth and scandal,” then added that “both these candidates have done a great

job, but they also need to watch what they’re doing.”

Shields, who adopted “eat better, live better” as her platform for the competition, earlier performed a jazz dance to “They Just Keep Moving the Line” from the TV show “Smash.”

The first runner-up was Rachel Wyatt, Miss South Carolina, who fielded a question about immigration in the United States. She was followed by contestants from New York, Washington and Mississippi.

Missouri’s Erin O’Flaherty, who in June became the first openly les-

bian contestant in the history of the nearly century-old pageant, failed to make the first cut of 15 selected from 52 entrants from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Shields went into Sunday’s live two-hour ABC broadcast from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. with the advantage of having prevailed earlier in the week during preliminary judging in the talent competition.

Wearing a black strapless gown, she was crowned by the outgoing title holder, Betty Cantrell.

The pageant returned to the seaside gambling resort a few years ago after nearly a decade in Las Vegas. It was dropped by ABC in 2004 following a steep ratings decline, but returned after years on cable. (rtr)

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People stand near a boat which according to officials, capsized on the Chao Phraya river while carrying 150 Thai Muslims, in the ancient tourist city of Ayutthaya, Thailand September 18, 2016.

Boat in fatal Thai accident was overcrowded, piloted recklessly - police

BANGKOK - An overcrowded tourist boat carrying Muslim pilgrims was being piloted recklessly before it capsized, killing at least 15 Thai people, officials said on Monday as divers and other rescuers searched for 11 people still missing.

The accident happened on Sunday on the Chao Phraya River in Ayutthaya, a UNESCO World Heritage site located some 80 km (50 miles) north of the Thai capital of Bangkok.

The double-decker tourist boat carrying around 100 Thai Muslims on a pilgrimage tried to overtake a sand barge and ran

into a barrier, police said, causing the boat to capsize. Eleven people are still missing and police divers resumed their search early on Monday. No foreigners were believed to be among the dead.

The boat was 50 passengers over its capacity at the time of the accident, police commander

Surapong Thampitak told Reuters on Monday.

The boat’s driver will be charged with reckless driving causing loss of life and overloading the boat beyond its safety limit, said Surapong. The driver was detained on Sunday night and was being questioned by police, he said.

“We are searching for around 11 missing people today,” Ayutthaya Deputy Governor Rewat Prasong told reporters.

The accident came as Thailand

expects to welcome a record 33 million visitors this year. Road and boat accidents involving tourists are common in Thailand, where safety standards are sometimes well below international norms.

However, accidents barely make a dent on Thailand’s tourism industry, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise lacklustre economy. A series of bomb blasts in southern Thailand have also had little impact.

One of those attacks on Aug.

11-12 killed four Thais and wounded dozens, including foreigners. Police have blamed the bombings on Malay Muslim insurgents operating in Thailand’s far south. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

As economic backbone

Traditional market must continuously improve

DENPASAR - Traditional market is the backbone of local economy. On that account, to maintain the people’s

economy, the traditional market should also be well maintained.

Chief of the village market management forum (FPPD), Nyoman Suwarta, said that people need to improve the market and

keep making innovation. He considered that traditional markets especially in Denpasar have been well improved with the help of regional budget or central government. “Improvement of traditional market has been

so advanced so that the market in Denpasar can be compared to other markets,” he said recently.

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In terms of physical aspect, some traditional markets have been revitalized such as the Agung market and Nyanggelan market. “Currently, the Poh Gading market is being revitalized in the second stage with the assistance of IDR 6 billion, while the first phase got IDR 5 billion,” he said.

In addition, the Sudamerta market has also been revitalized through special allocation fund (DAK) and regional budget, Anggabaya market with regional budget, Penatih market with the Ministry of Cooperatives and Pedungan Sari market with regional budget.

“Why are those markets revitalized? Because the government wants to improve people’s economy realizing that traditional market is the backbone of local economy,” said Suwarta who is also the chief of Agung market of Peninjoan customary village.

In the future, traditional markets owned by customary village should continuously make improvement in terms of management and service provision.

“Do not just be in a comfort zone but must continuously change,” he said. If modern store can open for 24 hours, traditional market must also think about people’s needs lasting nearly for 24 hours.

Provision of various facilities like Wi-Fi, convenient and secure parking, friendly services, consumer protection both in terms of food safety and the scale accuracy of merchants, including waste management are the changes that must be made.

“Management of the market must continue to innovate, refer to the needs of society and should quickly change to follow it,” he said. (kmb42)

The situation in Badung Market

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Ahead of harvest, price of rice slightly slumps AMLAPURA—

Ahead of the massive rice harvest in Karangasem, the price of rice slightly slumps. Decline in the price of rice belonging to particular brand occurs in the range of IDR 5,000 to IDR 8,000 per sack (25 kg). This is the result of monitoring at the number of rice merchants and buyers at some markets in Karangasem until Sunday (Sep. 18).

The rice paddy is seen on the picture.

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The decline in rice prices is expected to continuously occur considering that some areas in Karangasem already harvested this month or before the massive rice harvest at Subak Subagan and surrounding villages in the district of Karangasem such as Bebandem, Selat, Sidemen, Selat and Rendang. After this harvest season, more and more paddy fields will be in drought next month because it has entered dry season.

A legislator of the Karangasem House of Representatives from Ababi village, Made Dipta, said that rice farmers at the village are increasingly difficult to get irrigation water. It happens because the spring at the village is getting smaller and more springs are also taken advantage by the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) of Karangasem. Due to difficulty of irrigation water, farmers can only plant maize. He hoped there is good communication between subak members and the PDAM in the use of springs, so as not to result in conflict of interests with farmers as the

providers of food.

Similar opinion was conveyed by another legislator, Gede Dana. In addition to communication related to the use of water with the PDAM authority, farmers also need to be helped.

According to him, the irrigation water for agricultural purposes should not continuously be undermined, but all concerned stakeholders must collectively preserve water sources as well as the catchment areas and rainwater catchment in the upstream up to the hills and Mount Agung.

“There is a tradition and local genius in the form of holding piodalan at temple at the springs in the upstream area or welcoming water ritual. The PDAM and the government should help and resume with maintenance or reforestation to the rainfall catchment area, namely by reforesting the land having been dredged by quarrying activities or the barren forest on Mount Agung as regularly experiencing fire every drought,” said Gede Dana. (013)

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Deep-sea volcano a hotspot for mysterious life

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Deep sea coral and sponges sit on the summit of the Cook seamount, seen from the Pisces V submersible during a dive to the previously unexplored underwater volcano off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island on Sept. 6, 2016. The Cook is a 13,000-foot extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea whose summit is 3,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific.

radio communications from the surface, the hum of an air scrubber that removes carbon dioxide from the passenger chamber, and the voices of the crew. The thick, hot tropical air inside the steel sphere became cooler and drier as the submarine descended.

“We don’t know what we’re going to find,” said Conservation International’s Greg Stone, a marine biologist on board. “There will always be the unexpected when you go into the deep ocean.”

Halfway to the volcano’s summit, which is 3,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific, no sunlight penetrated.

The only light that could be seen from the submarine’s face-sized windows was the bluish glow of the vessel’s own bright lights. Occasionally, bioluminescent creatures drifted past in the darkness.

Stone and subpilot Terry Kerby, who helps run the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, watched as the volcano and its rugged basalt walls hundreds of yards high came into view.

Seamounts are either active or dormant volcanoes that rise dramatically from the bottom of the ocean and never reach the surface. They are hotspots for marine life because they carry nutrient-rich water upward from the sea floor. Seamounts are believed to cover about 18 million square miles of the planet. (ap)

Scientists decipher color of ‘super cute’ bristly dinosaur WASHINGTON - Scientists guided by small structures preserved in fossilized skin have deciphered the color and camouflage pattern of a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed thick forests in China about 120 million years ago.

Psittacosaurus was mainly brown but with a paler underside of the tail and belly, a pattern called countershading that may have helped the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter) bipedal plant-eater go unnoticed by hungry predators, the scientists said on Thursday.

It also had a heavily pigmented face and hind legs that were striped on the inside and reticulated and spotted on the outside.

The color pattern suggested Psittacosaurus (pronounced sit-TAK-ah-sawr-us) lived in a forest environment with diffuse light from a dense canopy of trees, the researchers said. They created a life-sized, full-color, three-dimensional model based on their findings.

“Our model suggests it was super, super cute. I think they would have made fantastic pets. They look a bit like E.T.,” said molecular paleobiologist Jakob Vinther of the University of Bristol in Britain, referring to the friendly alien in the 1982 film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

Psittacosaurus, meaning “parrot lizard,” is one of the most thoroughly studied dinosaurs, with hundreds of individual fossils. It was roughly the size of a Labrador retriever, and probably was a common meal for Cretaceous Period predators like the 30-foot-long (9 meters) T. rex cousin Yutyrannus.

“It was eaten by a lot of other animals,” Vinther said, and must have quickly evolved optimal color patterns for camouflage.

Psittacosaurus is the third dinosaur to have its color deduced using fossilized organelles called melanosomes that synthesize and store the pigment melanin in vertebrate animals and are present in hair, feathers and skin. It also was the first time researchers were able to hypothesize the environment a dinosaur inhabited based on its coloration.

Psittacosaurus, an early member of the horned-dinosaur group that includes the massive Triceratops, had a short face and a strong beak to eat plants, and boasted bristly long filaments above the tail.

Countershading is a pattern that serves to conceal shadows on an animal, making it appear more flat optically and less conspicuous, Vinther said. (rtr)

Courtesy Jakob Vinther/Handout via REUTERS

An artist’s illustration of Psittacosaurus, a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed thick forests in China about 120 million years ago is shown in this image released on September 15, 2016.

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Hazardous substances easy to get

Individual takes advantage of it to get profit DENPASAR - No wonder that so many foods containing hazardous ingredients are rampant lately. It happens because hazardous substances such as borax, formalin, Rhodamine B are easily obtainable.

GEOLOGIST SEAMOUNTS — The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts.

The three-man submarine went down, down, down into the abyss and drew within sight of something no human had ever laid eyes on: Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea.

Scientists aboard the vessel Pisces V visited the volcano earlier this month to examine its geological features and its rich variety of marine life, and an Associated Press reporter was given exclusive access to the dive. It was the first-ever expedition to the Cook seamount by a manned submersible.

Among other things, the researchers from the University of Hawaii and the nonprofit group Conservation International spotted such wonders as a rare type of octopus with big fins that look like Dumbo’s ears, and a potentially new species of violet-hued coral they dubbed Purple Haze.

Conservation International hopes to study 50 seamounts, or undersea volcanoes, over the next five years.

“We don’t know anything about the ocean floor,” said Peter Seligmann, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Conservation International.

“What we know is that each one of those seamounts is a refuge for new species, but we don’t know what they are. We don’t know how they’ve evolved. We don’t know what lessons they have for us.”

During the Sept. 6 dive, the submarine splashed into the water, and as it dove, the only sounds were

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Hazardous substances such as borax, formalin, Rhodamine B are easily obtainable.

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Dr. I Made Agus Gelgel Wirasuta, Chief of the Institute for Forensic Science and Criminology at the Udayana University, recently argued that the substances are easily obtained because they are not intended for food. In Java, borax has been familiarly used in food.

He continued that food product is very commercial. Indonesian society lies in a phase of not considering whether the food is healthy but just in the phase of being able to purchase the food to meet consumption so that they tend to think to meet consumption or meet the need pursuant to economic condition. “This becomes the opportunity of irresponsible people, for example, by adding formalin,” he said.

As hazardous compound, formalin is toxic to nerves. “Formalin is neuro-toxic and if we use constantly, our nerves will be poisoned.

Try to imagine, at a certain age we should be able to live long but our nerves have been poisoned. What will happen to us?” he explained.

In the meantime, it is very easy for formalin to come into the body but very hard to be taken out. Thus, it will settle in the body. If people do not know or do not recognize the purchased food contains formalin will result in a problem so that the Bali Agency of Drug and Food Control (BBPOM) is intensively conducting a raid against food containing formalin.

Communities need to be taught about the ways to identify foods containing formalin and people are encouraged to buy on reliable sources.

However, he expressed that currently the distribution of formalin has already started to be set and it can only be used for the purposes of corpse embalming. As a result, formalin started hard to get. “But the dye is still very easy to obtain in the community,” he said. Food containing dye such as Rhodamine B will look flashy and be hard to lose.

“Under the exposure of sunlight, its color will never fade and color distribution goes evenly and strongly. Besides, this substance is carcinogenic causing cancer,” he explained. (kmb42)

Rubbish litters the border of Pohsanten-Pergung village NEGARA - Pergung riverbank remains to be used as landfill whereas it has been provided with waste container at the riverside and has been regularly transported. As a result, the river also denoting the border of Pergung and Pohsanten village, Mendoyo, looks shabby.

As seen on Sunday (Sep. 18), the rubbish dominated by domestic waste spilled into the river. Most rubbish looked to pile up on the side of the village border of Pergung.

Although waste container has been provided near the river, it does not change people’s habit of throwing rubbish into the river. “Rubbish across the river has been frequently cleaned up, while the one near this container is accustomed to be discarded into the river, not into the container,” said a resident. People usually throw rubbish into the river directly from their motorcycle. So, it is scattered to overflow into the river.

This resident hoped the location should not be functioned as landfill but must be jointly maintained. Waste container has been provided and should be used properly. Thus, people will no longer throw rubbish into the river.

The resident asking for anonymity claimed to have often rebuked the unscrupulous people throwing away rubbish carelessly. This resident also admitted they are not only from Pergung but there are also from Pohsanten and surrounding areas. Position of the container near the road will make anyone easier to throw.

Headman of Pergung, I Ketut Wimantra, did not dismiss such condition. Indeed, it is difficult to change people’s habit of littering. A number of efforts have been done by village authorities such mutual assistance to clean up the river to put waste container. Unfortunately, there are still people throwing garbage into the river. He has attempted to coordinate with the subdistrict authority so that another waste container can also be provided across the river namely in the area of Pohsanten village. (kmb26)

Most rubbish looked to pile up on the side of the village border of Pergung.

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District govt asked to provide sustainable coaching

BANGLI - Lately, the wooden souvenir makers at Malet Kuta Mesir hamlet, Tiga, Susut, are still experiencing difficulties in expanding their product marketing.

Responding to this condition, the district government actually has provided coaching. However, it just lasted a moment. The community hoped it can be done in a sustainable manner.

Hamlet chief of Malet Kuta Mesir, I Ketut Redam, said the wooden souvenir craft has been growing since 1990. Nearly 50 percent of villagers are engaged in this craft.

In addition to be made as side job, some residents even make it their main livelihood.

They can yield quite varied products, ranging from key chains, wall decorations and business card holder to mini calendar. “This sector has become a source of income for many people,” he said recently.

Behind its development, marketing of the products in fact has just been able to reach some areas such as Badung and Gianyar. So far, they still have difficulty to expand the market reach. Responding to this, local government has given guidance, but it only lasted for a

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few moments. “Coaching is only provided for a few days. Crafters are not yet fully understood and the coaching already stopped.

Hopefully, it can last sustainably.

Moreover, the younger generation has begun to get involved. So, it is quite important,” he said.

He added that the coaching in need includes how to create products to its finishing. All this time, the products taken by collectors from Gianyar are merely half-finished. Indirectly it has an impact on the sale price. “After taken in halffinished condition from here, they are then resumed with finishing (in Gianyar—Ed). After being sold to guests, the product is claimed as their own product whereas it is produced here (Malet Kuta Mesir— Ed),” said Redam.

Other than souvenirs, this hamlet near Tampaksiring (Gianyar) also produces bamboo walls. It offers quite complicated motif and has its own characteristics. Its quality is not inferior to products from other regions. The selling price ranges from IDR 60,000 to IDR 70,000 per square meter.

“The price depends on the motif.

Its marketing also needs help,” he said. (kmb45)

China says Japan trying to “confuse” S.China Sea situation

BEIJING - China on Monday accused Japan of trying to “confuse” the situation in the South China Sea, after its neighbor said it would step up activity in the contested waters, through joint training patrols with the United States.

Ties between Asia’s two largest economies have long been overshadowed by arguments over their painful wartime history and a territorial spat in the East China Sea, among other issues.

China has repeatedly denounced what it views as interference by the United States and its ally Japan in the South China Sea. Japan will also help build the capacity of coastal states in the busy waterway, its defense minister said last week during a visit to Washington.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said countries in the region had reached a consensus that the South China Sea issue should be resolved through talks between the parties directly involved, and that China and Southeast Asian countries should jointly maintain peace and stability there.

“Let’s have a look at the results of Japan’s throwing things into disorder over this same time period ... trying to confuse the South China Sea situation under the pretense of (acting for) the international community,” Lu told a daily news briefing, when asked about Japan’s announcement.

Japan’s actions have simply pushed other countries away from it, and it has failed to compel other nations to see its point of view, he added.

“China is resolute in its determination to protect its sovereignty and maritime interests,” Lu said.

China claims almost all of the South China Sea, through which ships carrying about $5 trillion in trade pass every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims in the sea, which is also believed to be rich in energy resources and fish stocks.

In July, an arbitration court in the Hague said China’s claims to the waterway were invalid, after a case was brought by the Philippines. Beijing has refused to recognize the ruling. (rtr)

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Although it was only opened for three days on Kuningan, the market has been able to attract many visitors.

Seasonal market thronged by visitors

GIANYAR - Impromptu market held seasonally when entering religious celebration starts to be demanded by general public like the impromptu market at the outermost courtyard of Mengening Temple, Saraseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Sunday (Sep. 18). Although it was only opened for three days on Kuningan, the market has been able to attract many visitors.

Chief of Saraseda customary village, I Nyoman Weda, explained that seasonal market has been opened in 2003 with a total of 20 booths. Opening of this market was intended for fundraising. “Until now, it is still running because the vivacity of residents is quite high. Visitors are not only from the region of Gianyar, but also from Denpasar and Bangli,” he said.

Until now, in the market has

been occupied by more than 40 booths, plus many hawkers enlivening the seasonal market.

He added that visitors having the hobby of fishing have been provided with rental of fishing rods to hunt fish in the river near the location. “Yes, we continue to develop each year, one of which is with the addition of fishing ground,” he said.

Although the market is only held for three days in a series of

celebrating the Kuningan, it can give contribution to religious activities at Saraseda customary village. So far, Weda claimed to have no expansion plan to increase the capacity of the market due to limited land area. “We do not want to disturb the security. We think this land area has just been more than enough,” he said.

One of the used clothing merchants, Witari, from Tabanan, admitted to regularly participate in selling the market every six months. Other than at the location, she also used to sell at some markets Gianyar. “During the opening for three days, the visitors here are quite crowded,” she said. (kmb35)

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Protesters burn an effigy depicting “terrorism” along with the national flag of Pakistan during a protest against Sunday’s attack at an Indian army base in Kashmir’s Uri, in Chandigarh, India, September 19, 2016.

India weighs response to deadly Kashmir attack it blames on Pakistan

SRINAGAR - India stepped up patrols along its de facto border with Pakistan on Monday after gunmen killed 17 soldiers at a nearby army base, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration weighed its response to an attack India blames on its neighbour.

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the wooden souvenir craft has been growing since 1990.

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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) transits in formation with Japan Maritime SelfDefense Force ships JS Kirisame (DD 104) and JS Asayuki (DD 132) during bilateral training in South China Sea on April 21, 2015.

The assault, in which four commando-style gunmen burst into the brigade headquarters in Uri at 5.30 a.m. (midnight GMT) on Sunday, was among the deadliest in Kashmir and has sharply ratcheted up tension between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Army officials said three critically wounded had been flown to a hospital in New Delhi. Most of dead and wounded suffered severe burns after their tents and temporary shelters caught fire from incendiary ammunition while they were sleeping.

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday called Pakistan “a terrorist state” and army Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh said troops were “ready to give a befitting response”, without elaborating.

Pakistan denies any role and

accused India of apportioning blame before it had properly investigated.

Kashmir, divided between India and Pakistan since 1947, is at the heart the neighbours’ seven decades of mutual distrust. Two of their three wars since independence from Britain have been fought over the region.

India’s options to hit back at Pakistan appeared limited, as they carry the risk of escalation. India held back from military retaliation when a Pakistan-based group killed 166 people in a 2008 rampage through Mumbai for fear of igniting a broader conflict and opted instead for a diplomatic offensive to isolate Islamabad.

An attack on another Indian base near the border in January

also drew a measured response, but the casualty toll was lower than in Sunday’s raid.

The concern is that Modi’s government has several times signalled a lower threshold for retaliating against attacks from Pakistan than the previous Congress government, which adopted a policy of “strategic restraint”.

Among the options that India could consider are artillery strikes on Pakistani army positions for helping militants cross over into its part of Kashmir, military experts say. But that would imperil a 2003 ceasefire along the frontier, although it has frayed in recent years.

A second option on the table would be sending special forces inside Pakistan to attack guerrilla training camps, but that was a highrisk gamble that could easily go wrong, they said.

Modi held talks with leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party at a cabinet meeting on how to respond. (rtr)

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ROME - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stepped up his attacks against other European Union leaders on Sunday after an EU summit in Bratislava which he said amounted to no more than “a nice cruise on the Danube.”

Renzi said at the end of Friday’s summit he was dissatisfied with its closing statement, after he was excluded from a joint news conference by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande..

In particular, he criticised the lack of commitments on the economy and immigration in the summit’s conclusions, which he himself signed.

In a fiery interview in daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday Renzi - who has staked his career on a referendum this year on his plan for constitutional reform - intensified his criticisms, though he remained vague on what commitments he would have liked the summit to have produced.

“If we want to pass the afternoon writing documents without any soul or any horizon they can do

it on their own,” Renzi said of his fellow leaders.

“I don’t know what Merkel is referring to when she talks about the ‘spirit of Bratislava’,” he said. “If things go on like this, instead of the spirit of Bratislava we’ll be talking about the ghost of Europe.”

Renzi has promised to resign if he loses the autumn referendum and is preparing a 2017 budget which he says will cut taxes despite a slowing economy and record high public debt. “At Bratislava we had a nice cruise on the Danube, but I hoped for answers to the crisis caused by Brexit (Britain’s exit from the EU), not just to go on a boat trip,” he said.

He was similarly belligerent about the budget to be presented next month, saying there would be “no negotiation” with Brussels, and money he planned to spend

on tackling immigration and making Italy safer from earthquakes would be excluded from EU rules on deficit limits.

Other countries were more guilty than Italy of breaking budget rules and Italy had met its commitments on tackling the inflows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, Renzi said.

“I’m not going to stay silent for the sake of a quiet life ... if someone wants to keep Italy quiet they have picked the wrong place, the wrong method and the wrong subject.”

With polls showing the referendum too close to call, Renzi insisted he had “never been so optimistic” about its outcome. The ballot is expected to be held in late November or early December.

The other EU leader to most vocally criticise the results of the Bratislava summit was Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, who faces his own domestic referendum next month, on the EU’s plan to relocate refugees throughout the continent. (rtr)

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Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union leaders summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 16, 2016.

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a news conference in Davao after Norwegian national Kjartan Sekkingstad was freed from the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Islamist militant group in Jolo, Sulu in southern Philippines September 18, 2016.

Three Indonesians freed by militant Abu Sayyaf group in Philippines

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Vendors selling produce wait for customers at their roadside stalls in Caracas, Venezuela September 18, 2016.

Venezuela says OPEC, non-OPEC oil stabilizing deal close

MARGARITA ISLAND - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that OPEC and non-OPEC countries were close to reaching a deal to stabilize oil markets and that he aimed for a deal to be announced this month.

OPEC members may call an extraordinary meeting to discuss oil prices if they reach consensus at an informal gathering in Algiers this month, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said during a visit to Algeria, the country’s state news agency, APS, reported on Sunday.

Maduro, an oil price hawk who was speaking at the end of a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement on Margarita Island, Venezuela, where diplomats also met to discuss the oil market, said a deal was imminent.

“We had a long bilateral meeting with Rouhani. We’re close to a deal between OPEC producer countries and non-OPEC,” Maduro told a

news conference.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who attended the summit, said Tehran supported any move to stabilize the global oil market and lift prices, according to the Iranian Oil Ministry news agency, SHANA. Venezuela has been seeking an oil deal for years as its state-led economy reels under low oil prices, and has often said it was close to reaching an agreement.

OPEC members will meet on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum, which groups producers and consumers, in Algeria from Sept. 26 to 28. Non-OPEC producer Russia is also attending the forum.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will probably revive talks on freezing oil production levels when it meets non-OPEC nations in Algeria, sources have told Reuters. (rtr)

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Study estimates 100,000 deaths from Indonesia haze

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MANILA - Three Indonesian fishermen held by Islamic State-linked rebels in the Philippines have been released, a Philippine military spokesman said on Sunday, just hours after the militias freed a Norwegian man after a year-long ordeal.

The Indonesians - identified as Lorence Koten, Teo Doros Kofong, and Emmanuel Arakian - were released by the Abu Sayyaf group on Saturday night at an undisclosed place in Sulu in the Southwest Philippines, said spokesman Major Filemon Tan. They were taken on July 9 this year from the Malaysian state of Sabah, he said.

The Indonesians were set free just hours after the same group notorious for kidnappings, beheadings and extortion released Norwegian captive Kjartan Sekkingstad, who met President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao City on Sunday evening.

Sekkingstad was taken from an upscale resort on Samal island in Davao del Norte along with a Filipina, who has already been freed, and two Canadians, whom the militants later executed.

While it is widely believed that no captives are released by the Abu Sayyaf without the payment of ransom, the Philippine government said it did not pay the group and was unaware of any payment made by other parties for the release of the victims.

“I would like to reiterate that the government maintains the no-ransom policy,” Communications Minister Martin Andanar said. Now if there was a third party who made the payment, if it’s the family (of those kidnapped), we are not aware of that.”

The Philippine military insists the release of the kidnap victims was a result of the ongoing intensified military operations against the Abu Sayyaf, with the assistance of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), one of the two major Muslim rebel groups based in the south of the mainly Catholic nation.

In a media briefing in Davao City, Duterte lauded the efforts of his peace adviser Jesus Dureza, former Sulu Governor Abdusakur Mahail Tan, and MNLF leader Nur Misuari. Dureza confirmed the release of the Indonesian captives.

Duterte told Sekkingstad and the Norwegian government that justice would be sought for his abduction. “I am very happy to be alive and free,” Sekkingstad said at the briefing.

A new round of peace talks between the Philippine government and the Maoist-led rebels resumed in Norway in August to end nearly five decades of conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.(ap)

JAKARTA - Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks last year may have caused more than 100,000 deaths, according to new research that will add to pressure on Indonesia’s government to tackle the annual crisis.

The study by scientists from Harvard University and Columbia University to be published in the journal Environmental Research Letters is being welcomed by other researchers and Indonesia’s medical profession as an advance in quantifying the suspected serious public health effects of the fires, which are set to clear land for agriculture and forestry. The number of deaths is an estimate derived from a complex analysis that has not yet been validated by analysis of official data on mortality.

The research has implications for land-use practices and Indonesia’s vast pulp and paper industry. The researchers showed that peatlands within timber concessions, and peatlands overall, were a much bigger proportion of the fires observed by satellite than in 2006, which was another particularly bad year for haze. The researchers surmise that draining of the peatlands to prepare them for pulpwood plantations and other uses made them more vulnerable to fires.

The estimate of early deaths linked to respiratory illness and other causes covers Indonesia and its neighbors Singapore and Malaysia. It dwarfs Indonesia’s official toll of 19 that included deaths from illness and the deaths of firefighters.

However, the possible scale of serious health consequences was indicated by a statement from the country’s disaster management agency in October that said more than 43 million Indonesians were exposed to smoke from the fires and half a million suffered acute respiratory infections.

The study considered only the health impact on adults and restricts itself to the effects of health-threatening fine particulate matter, often referred to as PM2.5, rather than all toxins that would be in the smoke from burning peatlands and forests. The bulk of the estimated deaths

are in Indonesia, by far the most populous of the three countries and the country with the biggest land area affected by haze.

The fires from July to October last year in southern Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo were the worst since 1997 and exacerbated by El Nino dry conditions. About 261,000 hectares of land burned. Some of the fires started accidently, but many were deliberately set by companies and villagers to clear land for plantations and agriculture.

Rajasekhar Bala, an environmental engineering expert at the National University of Singapore, one of five experts who reviewed the paper for The Associated Press and were not involved in the research, said the study is preliminary and involved a “very challenging” task of analyzing the sources and spread of fine particulate matter over several countries and a lengthy time frame.

Even with caveats, it should serve as a “wake-up call” for firm action in Indonesia to curb peatland and forest fires and for regional cooperation to deal with the fallout on public health, he said.

“Air pollution, especially that caused by atmospheric fine particles, has grave implications for human health,” he said.

Frank Murray, an associate professor of environment science at Australia’s Murdoch University, said the death estimates are not “precise health outcomes” but their overall scale should trigger intensified efforts to deal with the crisis. The study is a major contribution to addressing an international problem, he said.

The study finds there is a high statistical probability that early deaths ranged between 26,300 and 174,300. Its main estimate of 100,300 deaths is the average of those two figures. It predicts 91,600 deaths in Indonesia, another 6,500 in Malaysia and 2,200 in Singapore.

The researchers involved in the study

say the model they developed can be combined with satellite and ground station observations to analyze the haze in close to real time. That gives it the potential to be used to direct firefighting efforts in a way that reduces the amount of illness caused, they say.

The annual fires have strained relations between Indonesia and its wealthier neighbors Singapore and Malaysia, who are at the mercy of winds that carry the haze into their territory from Sumatra.

But the brunt of the crisis is faced by millions of Indonesians in Sumatra and Kalimantan, many of them poor and with little or no means to protect themselves from the blanket of smoke.

“Particles penetrate indoors, and housing in Indonesia is very well ventilated, so I don’t think there is any avertive behavior that people there could have taken that would have been effective,” said Joel Schwartz, an air pollution epidemiologist at Harvard who co-authored the study. “In Singapore, if you close all the windows and turn on the air conditioning you get some protection, which may have happened.”

The Indonesian Medical Association’s West Kalimantan chapter said Indonesia faces an overall decline in the health of future generations with social and economic consequences if the situation is not tackled.

“We are the doctors who care for the vulnerable groups exposed to toxic smoke,” said Nursyam Ibrahim, deputy head of the West Kalimantan chapter of the association. “And we know how awful it is to see the disease symptoms experienced by babies and children in our care.”

Howard Frumpkin, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, said it is possible the health consequences are greater than indicated by the study because higher incidence of certain health problems in developing countries could make populations more susceptible to the effects of fine particulate matter. (ap)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 file photo, a fireman sprays water to extinguish wildfire on a peatland field in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks in 2015 may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths, according to new research that will add to pressure on Indonesia’s government to tackle the annual crisis.

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Bomb squad personnel stand around the scene of an explosion near the train station early Monday, Sept 19, 2016, in Elizabeth, N.J. A suspicious device found Sunday night in a trash can near a New Jersey train station exploded early Monday as a bomb squad robot attempted to disarm it.

Robot detonates New Jersey device in latest bomb discovery

NEW YORK - Five potential bombs were discovered overnight near a New Jersey station, one of which blew up on Monday as a bomb squad robot tried to disable it, after a weekend of attacks and security alerts in the United States.

The devices were found late on Sunday, a day after a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded in New York City’s Chelsea district, wounding 29 people, and a pipe bomb went off along the route of a New Jersey charity run without hurting anyone. Also on Saturday, a man armed with a knife wounded nine people at a Minnesota shopping mall.

Investigators were probing possible links between the attacks, which came as world leaders begin converging on New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

While officials described the weekend bombs and the Minnesota attack as deliberate, criminal acts and said they were investigating them as potential acts of terrorism, they stopped short of characterizing the motivation behind any of them until more evidence is uncovered.

In the latest incident, five potential explosive devices were found in a backpack left in a trash can near a train station and a bar in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Mayor Christian Bollwage told reporters.

After cordoning off the area, a bomb squad used a robot to cut a wire to try to disable the device, but inadvertently

set off an explosion, he said.

No one was hurt, but Bollwage said: “I can imagine that if all five of them went off at the same time, that the loss of life could have been enormous if there was an event going on.”

The incident took place less than 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Manhattan.

Two men discovered the backpack and reported it to police after they saw “wires and a pipe” in the package, Bollwage said.

No suspects were immediately identified in the New York and New Jersey attacks or the latest incident in Elizabeth. (rtr)

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Pro-Putin party wins landslide victory in Russian election MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin’s political allies won a landslide victory in a parliamentary election in Russia, near final results showed on Monday, paving the way for Putin to run for a fourth term as president in 18 months if, as expected, he chooses to do so.

The ruling United Russia party, founded by Putin almost 16 years ago after he first became president, was on track to win 343 seats or 76 percent of 450 available seats in Russia’s Duma, the lower house of parliament, the Central Election Commission said, after 93 percent of ballots had been counted.

That is up from 238 seats in the last parliamentary election, in 2011, and would allow United Russia to change the constitution, although Putin can run again under the existing one as he was prime minister between his second and third terms.

Liberal opposition parties failed to win any seats, after holding just one before.

Not everything went Putin’s way though. Near complete results showed turnout was around 48 percent, down from nearly 60 percent in 2011, suggesting apathy among some Russians and a softening of enthusiasm for the ruling elite.

Putin, speaking to United Russia campaign staff a few minutes after polling stations closed on Sunday night, said the win showed voters still trusted the leadership despite an economic slowdown made worse by Western sanctions over Ukraine.

“We can say with certainty that the party has achieved a very good result; it’s won,” Putin said at the United Russia headquarters, where he arrived together with his ally, Dmitry Medvedev, who is prime minister and the party’s leader.

Alluding to the spluttering economy, which is forecast to shrink this year by at least 0.3 percent, Putin said: “We know that life is hard for people, there are lots of problems, lots of unresolved problems. Nevertheless, we have this result.”

Putin’s aides are likely to use the result as a springboard for his own re-election campaign, though he has not yet confirmed he will seek another term. (rtr)

Merkel’s party suffers rout in Berlin in migrant policy backlash

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party suffered its second electoral blow in two weeks on Sunday, slumping to its lowest level since 1990 in a Berlin state vote that rejected her open-door refugee policy.

Voters turned to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), which with 12.9 percent of the vote will enter its 10th regional assembly among the country’s 16 states.

A year before a national election, the result is set to raise pressure on Merkel and deepen rifts in her conservative camp, with more sniping expected from her CSU allies in Bavaria.

The CSU’s Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder was quick to call it the “second massive wake-up call” in two weeks.

“A long-term and massive loss in trust among traditional voters threatens the conservative bloc,” he

told the Bild daily, adding Merkel’s right-left national coalition had to win back support by changing course on its immigration policy.

Merkel’s Christian Democrats were routed in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern two weeks ago, triggering calls from the CSU for her to toughen up her migrant policy.

In particular, they want a cap of 200,000 refugees per year, which Merkel rejects. (rtr)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Prime Minister and Chairman of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev during a visit to the party’s campaign headquarters following a parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia, September 18, 2016.

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NEGARA - Sagkaragung village located in the State District approximately 5 km to the east of the State.

In the village there Sangkaragung arts center that is typical of Jembrana Jegog. Sangkaragung world famous village with art Jegog especially in Japan. Jegog Sangkaragung perform in Japan each year more than three times. While the village itself Jegog Sangkaragung staged for tourists every Sunday and Thursday at Sanggar Jegog Suar Agung.

Tourist may learn to play (beating) Jegog in this workshop.

Jegog is a type of Balinese music using fourteen giant bamboo xylophones. Jegog music is indigenous to Bali’s western region of Jembrana, in particular a number of villages around the Jembrana capital city, Negara.

Suar Agung was founded in 1971 by two brothers—its current leader, I Ketut Suwentra, and the late I Nyoman Jayus—in Sangkaragung Village in the Jembrana Regency of west Bali. Yayasan Suar Agung, or Suar Agung Foundation, aims to promote Balinese music and dance performance. Suar Agung is most famous for its Jegog music, a unique style of gamelan music played on giant bamboo instruments. Jegog music was first created in the early 20th century within the farming communities of Bali’s least populated province, but was banned in the 40s by its Dutch rulers who feared the bamboo tubes could be used as weapons of uprising against them. (IBP/net)

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Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg of Germany leads after the start of the race.

Singapore GP attendance falls as economic slowdown hurts

SINGAPORE - Attendance at the Singapore Grand Prix, one of the most popular races on the calendar fell this year, hurt by a slowdown in the local and global economy.

The night race, won by Germany’s Nico Rosberg, saw an average of 73,000 spectators attend for each of the three days of the race weekend, promoter Singapore GP said.

The 2015 edition attracted

about 87,000 spectators daily, while the inaugural race in 2008 welcomed over 100,000 spectators.

“The overall ticket take-up is 15 percent lower than the average attendance at the Circuit Park

since the inaugural race,” Singapore GP said.

The outbreak of the mosquitoborne Zika virus in the city-state had expected to have an effect on spectator numbers though many interviewed by Reuters on Friday took it in their stride.

“It’s everywhere now,” dancer Matt Steffanina from Los Angeles told Reuters. “We are closer to

South America and Zika is way worse there, so I’m not too worried about it here.”

While the additional dollars from the race itself represent a small portion of Singapore’s annual tourism revenues, it marks an opportunity for Singapore to sell itself as a country that works hard and parties as hard.

Singapore’s tourism receipts

grew by two percent to reach S$5.4 billion ($4 billion) in the first quarter of 2016, data from the Singapore Tourism Board shows.

Rosberg celebrated his 200th Formula One race by retaking the championship lead from Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton after a pole to flag win on Sunday. (rtr)

Exhausted Murray desperate for a break

LONDON - Andy Murray is itching for a break after an exhausting few months, the world number two said, after defending champions Britain were knocked out by Argentina 3-2 in the Davis Cup semi-final.

The 29-year-old had a busy European summer when he reached the French Open final, followed by his second Wimbledon triumph, and then successfully defended his Olympic gold at Rio. A tired Murray then lost to Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the quarter-

finals of the U.S. Open.

Murray was involved in both the singles and doubles matches in the Davis Cup semi-finals defeat against Argentina, including a fivehour marathon against Juan Martin del Potro.

“I have played so much tennis in the last few months, I need a break and I need it now,” Murray was quoted as saying by the Times.

“I knew I was going to be in some pain this weekend and I spoke to my team about that it was

going to be really hard. But my expectations were less than what I’m feeling now.”

Murray is scheduled to next play in the China Open, beginning on Oct. 3, followed by the Shanghai Masters.

He had a thigh injury worry during his straight-sets win against Guido Pella in the reverse singles.

“I’ve never really had any muscle injuries before. That was worrying for me and thankfully I managed to get it done in straight sets,” Murray said. (rtr)

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Great Britain’s Andy Murray applauds during Dan Evans’ match against Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer.

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Juventus loses 2-1 at Inter as cracks start to appear

Concerns remain after Ukraine awarded Champions League final

MILAN — A sixth successive Serie A title for Juventus might not be the foregone conclusion it appeared to be at the start of the season.

Cracks have started to appear and Juventus lost its perfect start to the season on Sunday as Inter Milan came from behind to win the Derby d’Italia 2-1.

Mauro Icardi and substitute Ivan Perisic scored for Inter to cancel out Stephan Lichtsteiner’s opener.

“We couldn’t hold out for even two minutes (after scoring),” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. “It’s brought us back to earth, we will have to fight. This defeat hurts us but at least it will do us good.

“Wednesday we’re playing against Cagliari and we have the chance to immediately get back on track and take home the three points.”

Juventus, which also drew 0-0 against Sevilla in the Champions League, was very much second best at San Siro for large periods — and this against a team which lost 2-0 at home to Hapoel Beer-Sheva in the Europa League on Thursday.

Inter had won just one of its first three league matches. Coach Frank de Boer, who replaced Roberto Mancini less than two weeks before the start of the season, was very much under pressure amid reports of being fired if the Nerazzurri lost heavily to its bitter rival.

“I don’t want to talk about revenge, I can’t do miracles,” De Boer said. “Today we didn’t lose our heads. The team played very well and we deserved to win. Today I saw the team fight right until the end and we have so much quality if we do that. There are those who played fantastically but no one is bigger than Inter and everyone has to be proud to wear this shirt.”

Juventus broke the deadlock in the 66th minute. Lichsteiner, who had been strongly linked with Inter in the offseason, got in front of Davide Santon to volley in Alex Sandro’s cross from close range.

However, Icardi had scored six goals in his last seven Serie A matches against Juventus and he struck again, heading in a corner just two minutes after the opener. It was the Argentina forward’s fourth goal in his last three league matches.

Indeed no one else had scored for Inter this season until Perisic headed in Icardi’s cross in the 78th.

Allegri had brought on Gonzalo Higuain four minutes earlier but Italy’s most expensive signing could not change anything.

Even the sending off of midfielder Ever Banega in the final minute, following two yellow cards in quick succession, could not dampen Inter’s spirits as it held out to seal a first home win over Juventus in more than six years. Juventus is second, a point behind Napoli, which is now the only unbeaten side in the league.(ap)

Ukraine’s capital Kiev will play host to the Champions League final at its 70,000-capacity Olympic Stadium less than a month before Russia’s 2018 World Cup begins. The decision was announced by UEFA on Thursday.

Just like in neighboring Russia, there are concerns over footballrelated racism and violence in Ukraine.

While a game at the stadium Sunday between Dynamo Kiev and Zorya Luhansk appeared to pass without incident as Dynamo lost 1-0, the club has been repeatedly punished by UEFA for violence, racism and pitch invasions by its fans at the Olympic Stadium. There were also safety violations related to blocked stairways at the stadium.

At a Champions League game against Chelsea in October last

Inter Milan’s Ivan Perisic celebrates scoring their second goal

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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2011 file photo, fireworks are set off near the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. The 2018 Champions League final will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Ukraine’s capital Kiev, UEFA executive committee member Frantisek Laurinec confirmed Thursday, Sept.

15, 2016, ending year-long negotiations.

KIEV — Russia and Ukraine’s political rivalry will extend into the world of football next year as they try to outdo each other in hosting two of the sport’s biggest events. year, a gang of supporters believed to be from the hardline nationalist Rodychi group roamed the stands for much of the first half. They carried out unprovoked attacks on black fans and other supporters who opposed the rampage.

UEFA ordered Dynamo to play its next two Champions League games behind closed doors, but there was further controversy when the stadium’s director, Volodymyr Spilnichenko, suggested on Ukrainian TV he could consider segregating black fans into a separate sector of the stadium to avoid further racist incidents. Spilnichenko later said his comments had been wrongly interpreted and he did not back segregation.

After being awarded the 2018 Champions League final, stadium management did not respond to

questions from The Associated Press on its security plans for the game and whether security had been tightened to stop further violence.

The Olympic Stadium previously hosted the final of the 2012 European Championship, which saw little trouble in Ukraine, the co-host of the tournament with Poland.

When Dynamo hosted Napoli at the Olympic Stadium in the Champions League group stage Wednesday, small groups of fans from both teams appeared to have tried to attack one another, but were thwarted by stewards and fences, according to pictures posted in online fan forums.

However, there was evidence of an attack on visiting Turkish fans at a bar in the Ukrainian city of Odessa ahead of a Europa League game there.(ap)

Reuters / Stefano Rellandini

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Mourinho fears United succumbing to pressure after 3rd loss LONDON — The footballing divide in Manchester is becoming clearer a month into the season. On the blue side, Pep Guardiola is thriving at the start of his Manchester City career with five wins out of five in the Premier League.

On the red side, Jose Mourinho is discovering the toils David Moyes and Louis van Gaal endured trying to live up to Alex Ferguson’s high achievements during his 26-year reign at United.

After opening the campaign with three successive wins, the record 20-time English champions have now lost three games in around a week.

United’s 3-1 loss at Watford on Sunday — ending a 30-year unbeaten run against the club based north of London — followed a losing start to the

Europa League on Thursday at Feyenoord in the Netherlands.

The miserable sequence started last Saturday by losing the first Manchester derby of the season to Guardiola’s City.

“I feel that some individuals probably feel the pressure and responsibility too much,” Mourinho said at Vicarage Road. “We started the season very well with (winning) the Community Shield and three victories in a row in the Premier League, the best start that a new manager has had at Manchester United I think.

“But was I thinking that my team was ready, perfect, unbeatable? Not at all. I was completely aware that we were not perfect, with lots of players who are not end products and can make their own mistakes.”

Although 18-year-old Mar-

cus Rashford marked his first start of the season for Mourinho by canceling out Etienne Capoue’s opener, Watford surged back in front in the 83rd minute at Vicarage Road. Substitute Camilo Zuniga scored within a minute of coming off the bench and Troy Deeney netted a penalty in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

It’s only five games into the Premier League season but United is already six points behind the leaders — Guardiola’s City.

“We have to improve, no doubt, individually and collectively,” Mourinho said. “And that’s my job.” If not Manchester United could be missing out on the top-four again and face another season out of the Champions League. But there’s a long way to go in the season.(ap)

Lloyd scores 94th international goal, US beats Netherlands ATLANTA — Carli Lloyd scored her 94th international goal, Megan Rapinoe knelt again during the national anthem and the U.S. women’s national team beat the Netherlands 3-1 on Sunday night.

Rapinoe, who entered as a substitute in the 64th minute, took a knee during the anthem for the second straight national team match and fourth game overall. She has said she wanted to express solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who is attempting to bring attention to racial inequality.

Lloyd tied it at 1 in the 35th minute. Tobin Heath ran in open space down the right sideline and found a trailing Lloyd near the penalty spot.

Lloyd, who was coming off a hat trick against Thailand on Thursday, scored her 15th goal of the year.

The U.S. took a 2-1 lead in the 50th on an own goal after it appeared Netherlands defender Mandy van den Berg was tripped into the ball in front of the net. Allie Long made it 3-1 in the 78th. Rapinoe chipped it into the 6-yard box, Alex Morgan headed it back across goal and Long knocked it in.

It was the team’s second game since goalkeeper Hope Solo was suspended for six months. Ashlyn Harris started in the United States’ 9-0 victory over Thailand and Alyssa Naeher got the nod against the Netherlands. Naeher didn’t face much pressure after the opening

five minutes and finished with four saves.

The Netherlands opened the scoring in the second minute when Shanice van de Sanden finished on a breakaway. She raced to a glancing defensive header and finished on a breakaway by powering it past Naeher. Van de Sanden had an open shot knocked wide by Naeher in the 79th. Lieke Martens tried to chip Naeher in the fourth minute but it went over the crossbar.

The U.S. had two shots hit off the post in the second half.

Ali Krieger sent in a cross in the 49th minute but Morgan Brian’s one-touch deflected off the post and Morgan’s rebound attempt was blocked. Christen Press had an open shot hit the post in the 53rd.(ap)

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho looks across the pitch before the English Premier League soccer match between Watford and Manchester United at Vicarage Road in London, Sunday Sept. 18, 2016.

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Juventus loses 2-1 at Inter as cracks start to appear

Concerns remain after Ukraine awarded Champions League final

MILAN — A sixth successive Serie A title for Juventus might not be the foregone conclusion it appeared to be at the start of the season.

Cracks have started to appear and Juventus lost its perfect start to the season on Sunday as Inter Milan came from behind to win the Derby d’Italia 2-1.

Mauro Icardi and substitute Ivan Perisic scored for Inter to cancel out Stephan Lichtsteiner’s opener.

“We couldn’t hold out for even two minutes (after scoring),” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. “It’s brought us back to earth, we will have to fight. This defeat hurts us but at least it will do us good.

“Wednesday we’re playing against Cagliari and we have the chance to immediately get back on track and take home the three points.”

Juventus, which also drew 0-0 against Sevilla in the Champions League, was very much second best at San Siro for large periods — and this against a team which lost 2-0 at home to Hapoel Beer-Sheva in the Europa League on Thursday.

Inter had won just one of its first three league matches. Coach Frank de Boer, who replaced Roberto Mancini less than two weeks before the start of the season, was very much under pressure amid reports of being fired if the Nerazzurri lost heavily to its bitter rival.

“I don’t want to talk about revenge, I can’t do miracles,” De Boer said. “Today we didn’t lose our heads. The team played very well and we deserved to win. Today I saw the team fight right until the end and we have so much quality if we do that. There are those who played fantastically but no one is bigger than Inter and everyone has to be proud to wear this shirt.”

Juventus broke the deadlock in the 66th minute. Lichsteiner, who had been strongly linked with Inter in the offseason, got in front of Davide Santon to volley in Alex Sandro’s cross from close range.

However, Icardi had scored six goals in his last seven Serie A matches against Juventus and he struck again, heading in a corner just two minutes after the opener. It was the Argentina forward’s fourth goal in his last three league matches.

Indeed no one else had scored for Inter this season until Perisic headed in Icardi’s cross in the 78th.

Allegri had brought on Gonzalo Higuain four minutes earlier but Italy’s most expensive signing could not change anything.

Even the sending off of midfielder Ever Banega in the final minute, following two yellow cards in quick succession, could not dampen Inter’s spirits as it held out to seal a first home win over Juventus in more than six years. Juventus is second, a point behind Napoli, which is now the only unbeaten side in the league.(ap)

Ukraine’s capital Kiev will play host to the Champions League final at its 70,000-capacity Olympic Stadium less than a month before Russia’s 2018 World Cup begins. The decision was announced by UEFA on Thursday.

Just like in neighboring Russia, there are concerns over footballrelated racism and violence in Ukraine.

While a game at the stadium Sunday between Dynamo Kiev and Zorya Luhansk appeared to pass without incident as Dynamo lost 1-0, the club has been repeatedly punished by UEFA for violence, racism and pitch invasions by its fans at the Olympic Stadium. There were also safety violations related to blocked stairways at the stadium.

At a Champions League game against Chelsea in October last

Inter Milan’s Ivan Perisic celebrates scoring their second goal

AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, file

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2011 file photo, fireworks are set off near the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. The 2018 Champions League final will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Ukraine’s capital Kiev, UEFA executive committee member Frantisek Laurinec confirmed Thursday, Sept.

15, 2016, ending year-long negotiations.

KIEV — Russia and Ukraine’s political rivalry will extend into the world of football next year as they try to outdo each other in hosting two of the sport’s biggest events. year, a gang of supporters believed to be from the hardline nationalist Rodychi group roamed the stands for much of the first half. They carried out unprovoked attacks on black fans and other supporters who opposed the rampage.

UEFA ordered Dynamo to play its next two Champions League games behind closed doors, but there was further controversy when the stadium’s director, Volodymyr Spilnichenko, suggested on Ukrainian TV he could consider segregating black fans into a separate sector of the stadium to avoid further racist incidents. Spilnichenko later said his comments had been wrongly interpreted and he did not back segregation.

After being awarded the 2018 Champions League final, stadium management did not respond to

questions from The Associated Press on its security plans for the game and whether security had been tightened to stop further violence.

The Olympic Stadium previously hosted the final of the 2012 European Championship, which saw little trouble in Ukraine, the co-host of the tournament with Poland.

When Dynamo hosted Napoli at the Olympic Stadium in the Champions League group stage Wednesday, small groups of fans from both teams appeared to have tried to attack one another, but were thwarted by stewards and fences, according to pictures posted in online fan forums.

However, there was evidence of an attack on visiting Turkish fans at a bar in the Ukrainian city of Odessa ahead of a Europa League game there.(ap)

Reuters / Stefano Rellandini

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Mourinho fears United succumbing to pressure after 3rd loss LONDON — The footballing divide in Manchester is becoming clearer a month into the season. On the blue side, Pep Guardiola is thriving at the start of his Manchester City career with five wins out of five in the Premier League.

On the red side, Jose Mourinho is discovering the toils David Moyes and Louis van Gaal endured trying to live up to Alex Ferguson’s high achievements during his 26-year reign at United.

After opening the campaign with three successive wins, the record 20-time English champions have now lost three games in around a week.

United’s 3-1 loss at Watford on Sunday — ending a 30-year unbeaten run against the club based north of London — followed a losing start to the

Europa League on Thursday at Feyenoord in the Netherlands.

The miserable sequence started last Saturday by losing the first Manchester derby of the season to Guardiola’s City.

“I feel that some individuals probably feel the pressure and responsibility too much,” Mourinho said at Vicarage Road. “We started the season very well with (winning) the Community Shield and three victories in a row in the Premier League, the best start that a new manager has had at Manchester United I think.

“But was I thinking that my team was ready, perfect, unbeatable? Not at all. I was completely aware that we were not perfect, with lots of players who are not end products and can make their own mistakes.”

Although 18-year-old Mar-

cus Rashford marked his first start of the season for Mourinho by canceling out Etienne Capoue’s opener, Watford surged back in front in the 83rd minute at Vicarage Road. Substitute Camilo Zuniga scored within a minute of coming off the bench and Troy Deeney netted a penalty in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

It’s only five games into the Premier League season but United is already six points behind the leaders — Guardiola’s City.

“We have to improve, no doubt, individually and collectively,” Mourinho said. “And that’s my job.” If not Manchester United could be missing out on the top-four again and face another season out of the Champions League. But there’s a long way to go in the season.(ap)

Lloyd scores 94th international goal, US beats Netherlands ATLANTA — Carli Lloyd scored her 94th international goal, Megan Rapinoe knelt again during the national anthem and the U.S. women’s national team beat the Netherlands 3-1 on Sunday night.

Rapinoe, who entered as a substitute in the 64th minute, took a knee during the anthem for the second straight national team match and fourth game overall. She has said she wanted to express solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who is attempting to bring attention to racial inequality.

Lloyd tied it at 1 in the 35th minute. Tobin Heath ran in open space down the right sideline and found a trailing Lloyd near the penalty spot.

Lloyd, who was coming off a hat trick against Thailand on Thursday, scored her 15th goal of the year.

The U.S. took a 2-1 lead in the 50th on an own goal after it appeared Netherlands defender Mandy van den Berg was tripped into the ball in front of the net. Allie Long made it 3-1 in the 78th. Rapinoe chipped it into the 6-yard box, Alex Morgan headed it back across goal and Long knocked it in.

It was the team’s second game since goalkeeper Hope Solo was suspended for six months. Ashlyn Harris started in the United States’ 9-0 victory over Thailand and Alyssa Naeher got the nod against the Netherlands. Naeher didn’t face much pressure after the opening

five minutes and finished with four saves.

The Netherlands opened the scoring in the second minute when Shanice van de Sanden finished on a breakaway. She raced to a glancing defensive header and finished on a breakaway by powering it past Naeher. Van de Sanden had an open shot knocked wide by Naeher in the 79th. Lieke Martens tried to chip Naeher in the fourth minute but it went over the crossbar.

The U.S. had two shots hit off the post in the second half.

Ali Krieger sent in a cross in the 49th minute but Morgan Brian’s one-touch deflected off the post and Morgan’s rebound attempt was blocked. Christen Press had an open shot hit the post in the 53rd.(ap)

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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho looks across the pitch before the English Premier League soccer match between Watford and Manchester United at Vicarage Road in London, Sunday Sept. 18, 2016.

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Jegog is a type of Balinese music using fourteen giant bamboo xylophones. Jegog music is indigenous to Bali’s western region of Jembrana, in particular a number of villages around the Jembrana capital city, Negara.

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Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg of Germany leads after the start of the race.

Singapore GP attendance falls as economic slowdown hurts

SINGAPORE - Attendance at the Singapore Grand Prix, one of the most popular races on the calendar fell this year, hurt by a slowdown in the local and global economy.

The night race, won by Germany’s Nico Rosberg, saw an average of 73,000 spectators attend for each of the three days of the race weekend, promoter Singapore GP said.

The 2015 edition attracted

about 87,000 spectators daily, while the inaugural race in 2008 welcomed over 100,000 spectators.

“The overall ticket take-up is 15 percent lower than the average attendance at the Circuit Park

since the inaugural race,” Singapore GP said.

The outbreak of the mosquitoborne Zika virus in the city-state had expected to have an effect on spectator numbers though many interviewed by Reuters on Friday took it in their stride.

“It’s everywhere now,” dancer Matt Steffanina from Los Angeles told Reuters. “We are closer to

South America and Zika is way worse there, so I’m not too worried about it here.”

While the additional dollars from the race itself represent a small portion of Singapore’s annual tourism revenues, it marks an opportunity for Singapore to sell itself as a country that works hard and parties as hard.

Singapore’s tourism receipts

grew by two percent to reach S$5.4 billion ($4 billion) in the first quarter of 2016, data from the Singapore Tourism Board shows.

Rosberg celebrated his 200th Formula One race by retaking the championship lead from Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton after a pole to flag win on Sunday. (rtr)

Exhausted Murray desperate for a break

LONDON - Andy Murray is itching for a break after an exhausting few months, the world number two said, after defending champions Britain were knocked out by Argentina 3-2 in the Davis Cup semi-final.

The 29-year-old had a busy European summer when he reached the French Open final, followed by his second Wimbledon triumph, and then successfully defended his Olympic gold at Rio. A tired Murray then lost to Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the quarter-

finals of the U.S. Open.

Murray was involved in both the singles and doubles matches in the Davis Cup semi-finals defeat against Argentina, including a fivehour marathon against Juan Martin del Potro.

“I have played so much tennis in the last few months, I need a break and I need it now,” Murray was quoted as saying by the Times.

“I knew I was going to be in some pain this weekend and I spoke to my team about that it was

going to be really hard. But my expectations were less than what I’m feeling now.”

Murray is scheduled to next play in the China Open, beginning on Oct. 3, followed by the Shanghai Masters.

He had a thigh injury worry during his straight-sets win against Guido Pella in the reverse singles.

“I’ve never really had any muscle injuries before. That was worrying for me and thankfully I managed to get it done in straight sets,” Murray said. (rtr)

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Great Britain’s Andy Murray applauds during Dan Evans’ match against Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer.

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Bomb squad personnel stand around the scene of an explosion near the train station early Monday, Sept 19, 2016, in Elizabeth, N.J. A suspicious device found Sunday night in a trash can near a New Jersey train station exploded early Monday as a bomb squad robot attempted to disarm it.

Robot detonates New Jersey device in latest bomb discovery

NEW YORK - Five potential bombs were discovered overnight near a New Jersey station, one of which blew up on Monday as a bomb squad robot tried to disable it, after a weekend of attacks and security alerts in the United States.

The devices were found late on Sunday, a day after a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded in New York City’s Chelsea district, wounding 29 people, and a pipe bomb went off along the route of a New Jersey charity run without hurting anyone. Also on Saturday, a man armed with a knife wounded nine people at a Minnesota shopping mall.

Investigators were probing possible links between the attacks, which came as world leaders begin converging on New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

While officials described the weekend bombs and the Minnesota attack as deliberate, criminal acts and said they were investigating them as potential acts of terrorism, they stopped short of characterizing the motivation behind any of them until more evidence is uncovered.

In the latest incident, five potential explosive devices were found in a backpack left in a trash can near a train station and a bar in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Mayor Christian Bollwage told reporters.

After cordoning off the area, a bomb squad used a robot to cut a wire to try to disable the device, but inadvertently

set off an explosion, he said.

No one was hurt, but Bollwage said: “I can imagine that if all five of them went off at the same time, that the loss of life could have been enormous if there was an event going on.”

The incident took place less than 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Manhattan.

Two men discovered the backpack and reported it to police after they saw “wires and a pipe” in the package, Bollwage said.

No suspects were immediately identified in the New York and New Jersey attacks or the latest incident in Elizabeth. (rtr)

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Pro-Putin party wins landslide victory in Russian election MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin’s political allies won a landslide victory in a parliamentary election in Russia, near final results showed on Monday, paving the way for Putin to run for a fourth term as president in 18 months if, as expected, he chooses to do so.

The ruling United Russia party, founded by Putin almost 16 years ago after he first became president, was on track to win 343 seats or 76 percent of 450 available seats in Russia’s Duma, the lower house of parliament, the Central Election Commission said, after 93 percent of ballots had been counted.

That is up from 238 seats in the last parliamentary election, in 2011, and would allow United Russia to change the constitution, although Putin can run again under the existing one as he was prime minister between his second and third terms.

Liberal opposition parties failed to win any seats, after holding just one before.

Not everything went Putin’s way though. Near complete results showed turnout was around 48 percent, down from nearly 60 percent in 2011, suggesting apathy among some Russians and a softening of enthusiasm for the ruling elite.

Putin, speaking to United Russia campaign staff a few minutes after polling stations closed on Sunday night, said the win showed voters still trusted the leadership despite an economic slowdown made worse by Western sanctions over Ukraine.

“We can say with certainty that the party has achieved a very good result; it’s won,” Putin said at the United Russia headquarters, where he arrived together with his ally, Dmitry Medvedev, who is prime minister and the party’s leader.

Alluding to the spluttering economy, which is forecast to shrink this year by at least 0.3 percent, Putin said: “We know that life is hard for people, there are lots of problems, lots of unresolved problems. Nevertheless, we have this result.”

Putin’s aides are likely to use the result as a springboard for his own re-election campaign, though he has not yet confirmed he will seek another term. (rtr)

Merkel’s party suffers rout in Berlin in migrant policy backlash

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party suffered its second electoral blow in two weeks on Sunday, slumping to its lowest level since 1990 in a Berlin state vote that rejected her open-door refugee policy.

Voters turned to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), which with 12.9 percent of the vote will enter its 10th regional assembly among the country’s 16 states.

A year before a national election, the result is set to raise pressure on Merkel and deepen rifts in her conservative camp, with more sniping expected from her CSU allies in Bavaria.

The CSU’s Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder was quick to call it the “second massive wake-up call” in two weeks.

“A long-term and massive loss in trust among traditional voters threatens the conservative bloc,” he

told the Bild daily, adding Merkel’s right-left national coalition had to win back support by changing course on its immigration policy.

Merkel’s Christian Democrats were routed in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern two weeks ago, triggering calls from the CSU for her to toughen up her migrant policy.

In particular, they want a cap of 200,000 refugees per year, which Merkel rejects. (rtr)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Prime Minister and Chairman of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev during a visit to the party’s campaign headquarters following a parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia, September 18, 2016.

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ROME - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stepped up his attacks against other European Union leaders on Sunday after an EU summit in Bratislava which he said amounted to no more than “a nice cruise on the Danube.”

Renzi said at the end of Friday’s summit he was dissatisfied with its closing statement, after he was excluded from a joint news conference by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande..

In particular, he criticised the lack of commitments on the economy and immigration in the summit’s conclusions, which he himself signed.

In a fiery interview in daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday Renzi - who has staked his career on a referendum this year on his plan for constitutional reform - intensified his criticisms, though he remained vague on what commitments he would have liked the summit to have produced.

“If we want to pass the afternoon writing documents without any soul or any horizon they can do

it on their own,” Renzi said of his fellow leaders.

“I don’t know what Merkel is referring to when she talks about the ‘spirit of Bratislava’,” he said. “If things go on like this, instead of the spirit of Bratislava we’ll be talking about the ghost of Europe.”

Renzi has promised to resign if he loses the autumn referendum and is preparing a 2017 budget which he says will cut taxes despite a slowing economy and record high public debt. “At Bratislava we had a nice cruise on the Danube, but I hoped for answers to the crisis caused by Brexit (Britain’s exit from the EU), not just to go on a boat trip,” he said.

He was similarly belligerent about the budget to be presented next month, saying there would be “no negotiation” with Brussels, and money he planned to spend

on tackling immigration and making Italy safer from earthquakes would be excluded from EU rules on deficit limits.

Other countries were more guilty than Italy of breaking budget rules and Italy had met its commitments on tackling the inflows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, Renzi said.

“I’m not going to stay silent for the sake of a quiet life ... if someone wants to keep Italy quiet they have picked the wrong place, the wrong method and the wrong subject.”

With polls showing the referendum too close to call, Renzi insisted he had “never been so optimistic” about its outcome. The ballot is expected to be held in late November or early December.

The other EU leader to most vocally criticise the results of the Bratislava summit was Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, who faces his own domestic referendum next month, on the EU’s plan to relocate refugees throughout the continent. (rtr)

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Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union leaders summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 16, 2016.

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a news conference in Davao after Norwegian national Kjartan Sekkingstad was freed from the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Islamist militant group in Jolo, Sulu in southern Philippines September 18, 2016.

Three Indonesians freed by militant Abu Sayyaf group in Philippines

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Vendors selling produce wait for customers at their roadside stalls in Caracas, Venezuela September 18, 2016.

Venezuela says OPEC, non-OPEC oil stabilizing deal close

MARGARITA ISLAND - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that OPEC and non-OPEC countries were close to reaching a deal to stabilize oil markets and that he aimed for a deal to be announced this month.

OPEC members may call an extraordinary meeting to discuss oil prices if they reach consensus at an informal gathering in Algiers this month, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said during a visit to Algeria, the country’s state news agency, APS, reported on Sunday.

Maduro, an oil price hawk who was speaking at the end of a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement on Margarita Island, Venezuela, where diplomats also met to discuss the oil market, said a deal was imminent.

“We had a long bilateral meeting with Rouhani. We’re close to a deal between OPEC producer countries and non-OPEC,” Maduro told a

news conference.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who attended the summit, said Tehran supported any move to stabilize the global oil market and lift prices, according to the Iranian Oil Ministry news agency, SHANA. Venezuela has been seeking an oil deal for years as its state-led economy reels under low oil prices, and has often said it was close to reaching an agreement.

OPEC members will meet on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum, which groups producers and consumers, in Algeria from Sept. 26 to 28. Non-OPEC producer Russia is also attending the forum.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will probably revive talks on freezing oil production levels when it meets non-OPEC nations in Algeria, sources have told Reuters. (rtr)

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MANILA - Three Indonesian fishermen held by Islamic State-linked rebels in the Philippines have been released, a Philippine military spokesman said on Sunday, just hours after the militias freed a Norwegian man after a year-long ordeal.

The Indonesians - identified as Lorence Koten, Teo Doros Kofong, and Emmanuel Arakian - were released by the Abu Sayyaf group on Saturday night at an undisclosed place in Sulu in the Southwest Philippines, said spokesman Major Filemon Tan. They were taken on July 9 this year from the Malaysian state of Sabah, he said.

The Indonesians were set free just hours after the same group notorious for kidnappings, beheadings and extortion released Norwegian captive Kjartan Sekkingstad, who met President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao City on Sunday evening.

Sekkingstad was taken from an upscale resort on Samal island in Davao del Norte along with a Filipina, who has already been freed, and two Canadians, whom the militants later executed.

While it is widely believed that no captives are released by the Abu Sayyaf without the payment of ransom, the Philippine government said it did not pay the group and was unaware of any payment made by other parties for the release of the victims.

“I would like to reiterate that the government maintains the no-ransom policy,” Communications Minister Martin Andanar said. Now if there was a third party who made the payment, if it’s the family (of those kidnapped), we are not aware of that.”

The Philippine military insists the release of the kidnap victims was a result of the ongoing intensified military operations against the Abu Sayyaf, with the assistance of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), one of the two major Muslim rebel groups based in the south of the mainly Catholic nation.

In a media briefing in Davao City, Duterte lauded the efforts of his peace adviser Jesus Dureza, former Sulu Governor Abdusakur Mahail Tan, and MNLF leader Nur Misuari. Dureza confirmed the release of the Indonesian captives.

Duterte told Sekkingstad and the Norwegian government that justice would be sought for his abduction. “I am very happy to be alive and free,” Sekkingstad said at the briefing.

A new round of peace talks between the Philippine government and the Maoist-led rebels resumed in Norway in August to end nearly five decades of conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.(ap)

JAKARTA - Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks last year may have caused more than 100,000 deaths, according to new research that will add to pressure on Indonesia’s government to tackle the annual crisis.

The study by scientists from Harvard University and Columbia University to be published in the journal Environmental Research Letters is being welcomed by other researchers and Indonesia’s medical profession as an advance in quantifying the suspected serious public health effects of the fires, which are set to clear land for agriculture and forestry. The number of deaths is an estimate derived from a complex analysis that has not yet been validated by analysis of official data on mortality.

The research has implications for land-use practices and Indonesia’s vast pulp and paper industry. The researchers showed that peatlands within timber concessions, and peatlands overall, were a much bigger proportion of the fires observed by satellite than in 2006, which was another particularly bad year for haze. The researchers surmise that draining of the peatlands to prepare them for pulpwood plantations and other uses made them more vulnerable to fires.

The estimate of early deaths linked to respiratory illness and other causes covers Indonesia and its neighbors Singapore and Malaysia. It dwarfs Indonesia’s official toll of 19 that included deaths from illness and the deaths of firefighters.

However, the possible scale of serious health consequences was indicated by a statement from the country’s disaster management agency in October that said more than 43 million Indonesians were exposed to smoke from the fires and half a million suffered acute respiratory infections.

The study considered only the health impact on adults and restricts itself to the effects of health-threatening fine particulate matter, often referred to as PM2.5, rather than all toxins that would be in the smoke from burning peatlands and forests. The bulk of the estimated deaths

are in Indonesia, by far the most populous of the three countries and the country with the biggest land area affected by haze.

The fires from July to October last year in southern Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo were the worst since 1997 and exacerbated by El Nino dry conditions. About 261,000 hectares of land burned. Some of the fires started accidently, but many were deliberately set by companies and villagers to clear land for plantations and agriculture.

Rajasekhar Bala, an environmental engineering expert at the National University of Singapore, one of five experts who reviewed the paper for The Associated Press and were not involved in the research, said the study is preliminary and involved a “very challenging” task of analyzing the sources and spread of fine particulate matter over several countries and a lengthy time frame.

Even with caveats, it should serve as a “wake-up call” for firm action in Indonesia to curb peatland and forest fires and for regional cooperation to deal with the fallout on public health, he said.

“Air pollution, especially that caused by atmospheric fine particles, has grave implications for human health,” he said.

Frank Murray, an associate professor of environment science at Australia’s Murdoch University, said the death estimates are not “precise health outcomes” but their overall scale should trigger intensified efforts to deal with the crisis. The study is a major contribution to addressing an international problem, he said.

The study finds there is a high statistical probability that early deaths ranged between 26,300 and 174,300. Its main estimate of 100,300 deaths is the average of those two figures. It predicts 91,600 deaths in Indonesia, another 6,500 in Malaysia and 2,200 in Singapore.

The researchers involved in the study

say the model they developed can be combined with satellite and ground station observations to analyze the haze in close to real time. That gives it the potential to be used to direct firefighting efforts in a way that reduces the amount of illness caused, they say.

The annual fires have strained relations between Indonesia and its wealthier neighbors Singapore and Malaysia, who are at the mercy of winds that carry the haze into their territory from Sumatra.

But the brunt of the crisis is faced by millions of Indonesians in Sumatra and Kalimantan, many of them poor and with little or no means to protect themselves from the blanket of smoke.

“Particles penetrate indoors, and housing in Indonesia is very well ventilated, so I don’t think there is any avertive behavior that people there could have taken that would have been effective,” said Joel Schwartz, an air pollution epidemiologist at Harvard who co-authored the study. “In Singapore, if you close all the windows and turn on the air conditioning you get some protection, which may have happened.”

The Indonesian Medical Association’s West Kalimantan chapter said Indonesia faces an overall decline in the health of future generations with social and economic consequences if the situation is not tackled.

“We are the doctors who care for the vulnerable groups exposed to toxic smoke,” said Nursyam Ibrahim, deputy head of the West Kalimantan chapter of the association. “And we know how awful it is to see the disease symptoms experienced by babies and children in our care.”

Howard Frumpkin, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, said it is possible the health consequences are greater than indicated by the study because higher incidence of certain health problems in developing countries could make populations more susceptible to the effects of fine particulate matter. (ap)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 file photo, a fireman sprays water to extinguish wildfire on a peatland field in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks in 2015 may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths, according to new research that will add to pressure on Indonesia’s government to tackle the annual crisis.

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District govt asked to provide sustainable coaching

BANGLI - Lately, the wooden souvenir makers at Malet Kuta Mesir hamlet, Tiga, Susut, are still experiencing difficulties in expanding their product marketing.

Responding to this condition, the district government actually has provided coaching. However, it just lasted a moment. The community hoped it can be done in a sustainable manner.

Hamlet chief of Malet Kuta Mesir, I Ketut Redam, said the wooden souvenir craft has been growing since 1990. Nearly 50 percent of villagers are engaged in this craft.

In addition to be made as side job, some residents even make it their main livelihood.

They can yield quite varied products, ranging from key chains, wall decorations and business card holder to mini calendar. “This sector has become a source of income for many people,” he said recently.

Behind its development, marketing of the products in fact has just been able to reach some areas such as Badung and Gianyar. So far, they still have difficulty to expand the market reach. Responding to this, local government has given guidance, but it only lasted for a

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few moments. “Coaching is only provided for a few days. Crafters are not yet fully understood and the coaching already stopped.

Hopefully, it can last sustainably.

Moreover, the younger generation has begun to get involved. So, it is quite important,” he said.

He added that the coaching in need includes how to create products to its finishing. All this time, the products taken by collectors from Gianyar are merely half-finished. Indirectly it has an impact on the sale price. “After taken in halffinished condition from here, they are then resumed with finishing (in Gianyar—Ed). After being sold to guests, the product is claimed as their own product whereas it is produced here (Malet Kuta Mesir— Ed),” said Redam.

Other than souvenirs, this hamlet near Tampaksiring (Gianyar) also produces bamboo walls. It offers quite complicated motif and has its own characteristics. Its quality is not inferior to products from other regions. The selling price ranges from IDR 60,000 to IDR 70,000 per square meter.

“The price depends on the motif.

Its marketing also needs help,” he said. (kmb45)

China says Japan trying to “confuse” S.China Sea situation

BEIJING - China on Monday accused Japan of trying to “confuse” the situation in the South China Sea, after its neighbor said it would step up activity in the contested waters, through joint training patrols with the United States.

Ties between Asia’s two largest economies have long been overshadowed by arguments over their painful wartime history and a territorial spat in the East China Sea, among other issues.

China has repeatedly denounced what it views as interference by the United States and its ally Japan in the South China Sea. Japan will also help build the capacity of coastal states in the busy waterway, its defense minister said last week during a visit to Washington.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said countries in the region had reached a consensus that the South China Sea issue should be resolved through talks between the parties directly involved, and that China and Southeast Asian countries should jointly maintain peace and stability there.

“Let’s have a look at the results of Japan’s throwing things into disorder over this same time period ... trying to confuse the South China Sea situation under the pretense of (acting for) the international community,” Lu told a daily news briefing, when asked about Japan’s announcement.

Japan’s actions have simply pushed other countries away from it, and it has failed to compel other nations to see its point of view, he added.

“China is resolute in its determination to protect its sovereignty and maritime interests,” Lu said.

China claims almost all of the South China Sea, through which ships carrying about $5 trillion in trade pass every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims in the sea, which is also believed to be rich in energy resources and fish stocks.

In July, an arbitration court in the Hague said China’s claims to the waterway were invalid, after a case was brought by the Philippines. Beijing has refused to recognize the ruling. (rtr)

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Although it was only opened for three days on Kuningan, the market has been able to attract many visitors.

Seasonal market thronged by visitors

GIANYAR - Impromptu market held seasonally when entering religious celebration starts to be demanded by general public like the impromptu market at the outermost courtyard of Mengening Temple, Saraseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Sunday (Sep. 18). Although it was only opened for three days on Kuningan, the market has been able to attract many visitors.

Chief of Saraseda customary village, I Nyoman Weda, explained that seasonal market has been opened in 2003 with a total of 20 booths. Opening of this market was intended for fundraising. “Until now, it is still running because the vivacity of residents is quite high. Visitors are not only from the region of Gianyar, but also from Denpasar and Bangli,” he said.

Until now, in the market has

been occupied by more than 40 booths, plus many hawkers enlivening the seasonal market.

He added that visitors having the hobby of fishing have been provided with rental of fishing rods to hunt fish in the river near the location. “Yes, we continue to develop each year, one of which is with the addition of fishing ground,” he said.

Although the market is only held for three days in a series of

celebrating the Kuningan, it can give contribution to religious activities at Saraseda customary village. So far, Weda claimed to have no expansion plan to increase the capacity of the market due to limited land area. “We do not want to disturb the security. We think this land area has just been more than enough,” he said.

One of the used clothing merchants, Witari, from Tabanan, admitted to regularly participate in selling the market every six months. Other than at the location, she also used to sell at some markets Gianyar. “During the opening for three days, the visitors here are quite crowded,” she said. (kmb35)

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Protesters burn an effigy depicting “terrorism” along with the national flag of Pakistan during a protest against Sunday’s attack at an Indian army base in Kashmir’s Uri, in Chandigarh, India, September 19, 2016.

India weighs response to deadly Kashmir attack it blames on Pakistan

SRINAGAR - India stepped up patrols along its de facto border with Pakistan on Monday after gunmen killed 17 soldiers at a nearby army base, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration weighed its response to an attack India blames on its neighbour.

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the wooden souvenir craft has been growing since 1990.

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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) transits in formation with Japan Maritime SelfDefense Force ships JS Kirisame (DD 104) and JS Asayuki (DD 132) during bilateral training in South China Sea on April 21, 2015.

The assault, in which four commando-style gunmen burst into the brigade headquarters in Uri at 5.30 a.m. (midnight GMT) on Sunday, was among the deadliest in Kashmir and has sharply ratcheted up tension between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Army officials said three critically wounded had been flown to a hospital in New Delhi. Most of dead and wounded suffered severe burns after their tents and temporary shelters caught fire from incendiary ammunition while they were sleeping.

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday called Pakistan “a terrorist state” and army Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh said troops were “ready to give a befitting response”, without elaborating.

Pakistan denies any role and

accused India of apportioning blame before it had properly investigated.

Kashmir, divided between India and Pakistan since 1947, is at the heart the neighbours’ seven decades of mutual distrust. Two of their three wars since independence from Britain have been fought over the region.

India’s options to hit back at Pakistan appeared limited, as they carry the risk of escalation. India held back from military retaliation when a Pakistan-based group killed 166 people in a 2008 rampage through Mumbai for fear of igniting a broader conflict and opted instead for a diplomatic offensive to isolate Islamabad.

An attack on another Indian base near the border in January

also drew a measured response, but the casualty toll was lower than in Sunday’s raid.

The concern is that Modi’s government has several times signalled a lower threshold for retaliating against attacks from Pakistan than the previous Congress government, which adopted a policy of “strategic restraint”.

Among the options that India could consider are artillery strikes on Pakistani army positions for helping militants cross over into its part of Kashmir, military experts say. But that would imperil a 2003 ceasefire along the frontier, although it has frayed in recent years.

A second option on the table would be sending special forces inside Pakistan to attack guerrilla training camps, but that was a highrisk gamble that could easily go wrong, they said.

Modi held talks with leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party at a cabinet meeting on how to respond. (rtr)

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Deep sea coral and sponges sit on the summit of the Cook seamount, seen from the Pisces V submersible during a dive to the previously unexplored underwater volcano off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island on Sept. 6, 2016. The Cook is a 13,000-foot extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea whose summit is 3,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific.

radio communications from the surface, the hum of an air scrubber that removes carbon dioxide from the passenger chamber, and the voices of the crew. The thick, hot tropical air inside the steel sphere became cooler and drier as the submarine descended.

“We don’t know what we’re going to find,” said Conservation International’s Greg Stone, a marine biologist on board. “There will always be the unexpected when you go into the deep ocean.”

Halfway to the volcano’s summit, which is 3,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific, no sunlight penetrated.

The only light that could be seen from the submarine’s face-sized windows was the bluish glow of the vessel’s own bright lights. Occasionally, bioluminescent creatures drifted past in the darkness.

Stone and subpilot Terry Kerby, who helps run the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, watched as the volcano and its rugged basalt walls hundreds of yards high came into view.

Seamounts are either active or dormant volcanoes that rise dramatically from the bottom of the ocean and never reach the surface. They are hotspots for marine life because they carry nutrient-rich water upward from the sea floor. Seamounts are believed to cover about 18 million square miles of the planet. (ap)

Scientists decipher color of ‘super cute’ bristly dinosaur WASHINGTON - Scientists guided by small structures preserved in fossilized skin have deciphered the color and camouflage pattern of a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed thick forests in China about 120 million years ago.

Psittacosaurus was mainly brown but with a paler underside of the tail and belly, a pattern called countershading that may have helped the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter) bipedal plant-eater go unnoticed by hungry predators, the scientists said on Thursday.

It also had a heavily pigmented face and hind legs that were striped on the inside and reticulated and spotted on the outside.

The color pattern suggested Psittacosaurus (pronounced sit-TAK-ah-sawr-us) lived in a forest environment with diffuse light from a dense canopy of trees, the researchers said. They created a life-sized, full-color, three-dimensional model based on their findings.

“Our model suggests it was super, super cute. I think they would have made fantastic pets. They look a bit like E.T.,” said molecular paleobiologist Jakob Vinther of the University of Bristol in Britain, referring to the friendly alien in the 1982 film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

Psittacosaurus, meaning “parrot lizard,” is one of the most thoroughly studied dinosaurs, with hundreds of individual fossils. It was roughly the size of a Labrador retriever, and probably was a common meal for Cretaceous Period predators like the 30-foot-long (9 meters) T. rex cousin Yutyrannus.

“It was eaten by a lot of other animals,” Vinther said, and must have quickly evolved optimal color patterns for camouflage.

Psittacosaurus is the third dinosaur to have its color deduced using fossilized organelles called melanosomes that synthesize and store the pigment melanin in vertebrate animals and are present in hair, feathers and skin. It also was the first time researchers were able to hypothesize the environment a dinosaur inhabited based on its coloration.

Psittacosaurus, an early member of the horned-dinosaur group that includes the massive Triceratops, had a short face and a strong beak to eat plants, and boasted bristly long filaments above the tail.

Countershading is a pattern that serves to conceal shadows on an animal, making it appear more flat optically and less conspicuous, Vinther said. (rtr)

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An artist’s illustration of Psittacosaurus, a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed thick forests in China about 120 million years ago is shown in this image released on September 15, 2016.

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Hazardous substances easy to get

Individual takes advantage of it to get profit DENPASAR - No wonder that so many foods containing hazardous ingredients are rampant lately. It happens because hazardous substances such as borax, formalin, Rhodamine B are easily obtainable.

GEOLOGIST SEAMOUNTS — The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts.

The three-man submarine went down, down, down into the abyss and drew within sight of something no human had ever laid eyes on: Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea.

Scientists aboard the vessel Pisces V visited the volcano earlier this month to examine its geological features and its rich variety of marine life, and an Associated Press reporter was given exclusive access to the dive. It was the first-ever expedition to the Cook seamount by a manned submersible.

Among other things, the researchers from the University of Hawaii and the nonprofit group Conservation International spotted such wonders as a rare type of octopus with big fins that look like Dumbo’s ears, and a potentially new species of violet-hued coral they dubbed Purple Haze.

Conservation International hopes to study 50 seamounts, or undersea volcanoes, over the next five years.

“We don’t know anything about the ocean floor,” said Peter Seligmann, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Conservation International.

“What we know is that each one of those seamounts is a refuge for new species, but we don’t know what they are. We don’t know how they’ve evolved. We don’t know what lessons they have for us.”

During the Sept. 6 dive, the submarine splashed into the water, and as it dove, the only sounds were

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Hazardous substances such as borax, formalin, Rhodamine B are easily obtainable.

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Dr. I Made Agus Gelgel Wirasuta, Chief of the Institute for Forensic Science and Criminology at the Udayana University, recently argued that the substances are easily obtained because they are not intended for food. In Java, borax has been familiarly used in food.

He continued that food product is very commercial. Indonesian society lies in a phase of not considering whether the food is healthy but just in the phase of being able to purchase the food to meet consumption so that they tend to think to meet consumption or meet the need pursuant to economic condition. “This becomes the opportunity of irresponsible people, for example, by adding formalin,” he said.

As hazardous compound, formalin is toxic to nerves. “Formalin is neuro-toxic and if we use constantly, our nerves will be poisoned.

Try to imagine, at a certain age we should be able to live long but our nerves have been poisoned. What will happen to us?” he explained.

In the meantime, it is very easy for formalin to come into the body but very hard to be taken out. Thus, it will settle in the body. If people do not know or do not recognize the purchased food contains formalin will result in a problem so that the Bali Agency of Drug and Food Control (BBPOM) is intensively conducting a raid against food containing formalin.

Communities need to be taught about the ways to identify foods containing formalin and people are encouraged to buy on reliable sources.

However, he expressed that currently the distribution of formalin has already started to be set and it can only be used for the purposes of corpse embalming. As a result, formalin started hard to get. “But the dye is still very easy to obtain in the community,” he said. Food containing dye such as Rhodamine B will look flashy and be hard to lose.

“Under the exposure of sunlight, its color will never fade and color distribution goes evenly and strongly. Besides, this substance is carcinogenic causing cancer,” he explained. (kmb42)

Rubbish litters the border of Pohsanten-Pergung village NEGARA - Pergung riverbank remains to be used as landfill whereas it has been provided with waste container at the riverside and has been regularly transported. As a result, the river also denoting the border of Pergung and Pohsanten village, Mendoyo, looks shabby.

As seen on Sunday (Sep. 18), the rubbish dominated by domestic waste spilled into the river. Most rubbish looked to pile up on the side of the village border of Pergung.

Although waste container has been provided near the river, it does not change people’s habit of throwing rubbish into the river. “Rubbish across the river has been frequently cleaned up, while the one near this container is accustomed to be discarded into the river, not into the container,” said a resident. People usually throw rubbish into the river directly from their motorcycle. So, it is scattered to overflow into the river.

This resident hoped the location should not be functioned as landfill but must be jointly maintained. Waste container has been provided and should be used properly. Thus, people will no longer throw rubbish into the river.

The resident asking for anonymity claimed to have often rebuked the unscrupulous people throwing away rubbish carelessly. This resident also admitted they are not only from Pergung but there are also from Pohsanten and surrounding areas. Position of the container near the road will make anyone easier to throw.

Headman of Pergung, I Ketut Wimantra, did not dismiss such condition. Indeed, it is difficult to change people’s habit of littering. A number of efforts have been done by village authorities such mutual assistance to clean up the river to put waste container. Unfortunately, there are still people throwing garbage into the river. He has attempted to coordinate with the subdistrict authority so that another waste container can also be provided across the river namely in the area of Pohsanten village. (kmb26)

Most rubbish looked to pile up on the side of the village border of Pergung.

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In terms of physical aspect, some traditional markets have been revitalized such as the Agung market and Nyanggelan market. “Currently, the Poh Gading market is being revitalized in the second stage with the assistance of IDR 6 billion, while the first phase got IDR 5 billion,” he said.

In addition, the Sudamerta market has also been revitalized through special allocation fund (DAK) and regional budget, Anggabaya market with regional budget, Penatih market with the Ministry of Cooperatives and Pedungan Sari market with regional budget.

“Why are those markets revitalized? Because the government wants to improve people’s economy realizing that traditional market is the backbone of local economy,” said Suwarta who is also the chief of Agung market of Peninjoan customary village.

In the future, traditional markets owned by customary village should continuously make improvement in terms of management and service provision.

“Do not just be in a comfort zone but must continuously change,” he said. If modern store can open for 24 hours, traditional market must also think about people’s needs lasting nearly for 24 hours.

Provision of various facilities like Wi-Fi, convenient and secure parking, friendly services, consumer protection both in terms of food safety and the scale accuracy of merchants, including waste management are the changes that must be made.

“Management of the market must continue to innovate, refer to the needs of society and should quickly change to follow it,” he said. (kmb42)

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Ahead of harvest, price of rice slightly slumps AMLAPURA—

Ahead of the massive rice harvest in Karangasem, the price of rice slightly slumps. Decline in the price of rice belonging to particular brand occurs in the range of IDR 5,000 to IDR 8,000 per sack (25 kg). This is the result of monitoring at the number of rice merchants and buyers at some markets in Karangasem until Sunday (Sep. 18).

The rice paddy is seen on the picture.

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The decline in rice prices is expected to continuously occur considering that some areas in Karangasem already harvested this month or before the massive rice harvest at Subak Subagan and surrounding villages in the district of Karangasem such as Bebandem, Selat, Sidemen, Selat and Rendang. After this harvest season, more and more paddy fields will be in drought next month because it has entered dry season.

A legislator of the Karangasem House of Representatives from Ababi village, Made Dipta, said that rice farmers at the village are increasingly difficult to get irrigation water. It happens because the spring at the village is getting smaller and more springs are also taken advantage by the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) of Karangasem. Due to difficulty of irrigation water, farmers can only plant maize. He hoped there is good communication between subak members and the PDAM in the use of springs, so as not to result in conflict of interests with farmers as the

providers of food.

Similar opinion was conveyed by another legislator, Gede Dana. In addition to communication related to the use of water with the PDAM authority, farmers also need to be helped.

According to him, the irrigation water for agricultural purposes should not continuously be undermined, but all concerned stakeholders must collectively preserve water sources as well as the catchment areas and rainwater catchment in the upstream up to the hills and Mount Agung.

“There is a tradition and local genius in the form of holding piodalan at temple at the springs in the upstream area or welcoming water ritual. The PDAM and the government should help and resume with maintenance or reforestation to the rainfall catchment area, namely by reforesting the land having been dredged by quarrying activities or the barren forest on Mount Agung as regularly experiencing fire every drought,” said Gede Dana. (013)

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NEW JERSEY - Savvy Shields, a college student from Arkansas, won the annual Miss America pageant on Sunday after impressing judges with a jazz dance routine and her answer to a question about her take on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Shields, a native of Fayetteville and student at the University of Arkansas, was one of seven finalists given 20 seconds to answer highly topical questions on some controversial issues, such as immigration and Clinton rival, Donald Trump.

Asked what her take was on Clinton, Shields offered that “if you’re trying to be leader of the free world, everything you say and do matters.”

She noted that the media has sensationalized the campaign so that it was “hard to tell what is truth and scandal,” then added that “both these candidates have done a great

job, but they also need to watch what they’re doing.”

Shields, who adopted “eat better, live better” as her platform for the competition, earlier performed a jazz dance to “They Just Keep Moving the Line” from the TV show “Smash.”

The first runner-up was Rachel Wyatt, Miss South Carolina, who fielded a question about immigration in the United States. She was followed by contestants from New York, Washington and Mississippi.

Missouri’s Erin O’Flaherty, who in June became the first openly les-

bian contestant in the history of the nearly century-old pageant, failed to make the first cut of 15 selected from 52 entrants from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Shields went into Sunday’s live two-hour ABC broadcast from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. with the advantage of having prevailed earlier in the week during preliminary judging in the talent competition.

Wearing a black strapless gown, she was crowned by the outgoing title holder, Betty Cantrell.

The pageant returned to the seaside gambling resort a few years ago after nearly a decade in Las Vegas. It was dropped by ABC in 2004 following a steep ratings decline, but returned after years on cable. (rtr)

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People stand near a boat which according to officials, capsized on the Chao Phraya river while carrying 150 Thai Muslims, in the ancient tourist city of Ayutthaya, Thailand September 18, 2016.

Boat in fatal Thai accident was overcrowded, piloted recklessly - police

BANGKOK - An overcrowded tourist boat carrying Muslim pilgrims was being piloted recklessly before it capsized, killing at least 15 Thai people, officials said on Monday as divers and other rescuers searched for 11 people still missing.

The accident happened on Sunday on the Chao Phraya River in Ayutthaya, a UNESCO World Heritage site located some 80 km (50 miles) north of the Thai capital of Bangkok.

The double-decker tourist boat carrying around 100 Thai Muslims on a pilgrimage tried to overtake a sand barge and ran

into a barrier, police said, causing the boat to capsize. Eleven people are still missing and police divers resumed their search early on Monday. No foreigners were believed to be among the dead.

The boat was 50 passengers over its capacity at the time of the accident, police commander

Surapong Thampitak told Reuters on Monday.

The boat’s driver will be charged with reckless driving causing loss of life and overloading the boat beyond its safety limit, said Surapong. The driver was detained on Sunday night and was being questioned by police, he said.

“We are searching for around 11 missing people today,” Ayutthaya Deputy Governor Rewat Prasong told reporters.

The accident came as Thailand

expects to welcome a record 33 million visitors this year. Road and boat accidents involving tourists are common in Thailand, where safety standards are sometimes well below international norms.

However, accidents barely make a dent on Thailand’s tourism industry, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise lacklustre economy. A series of bomb blasts in southern Thailand have also had little impact.

One of those attacks on Aug.

11-12 killed four Thais and wounded dozens, including foreigners. Police have blamed the bombings on Malay Muslim insurgents operating in Thailand’s far south. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

As economic backbone

Traditional market must continuously improve

DENPASAR - Traditional market is the backbone of local economy. On that account, to maintain the people’s

economy, the traditional market should also be well maintained.

Chief of the village market management forum (FPPD), Nyoman Suwarta, said that people need to improve the market and

keep making innovation. He considered that traditional markets especially in Denpasar have been well improved with the help of regional budget or central government. “Improvement of traditional market has been

so advanced so that the market in Denpasar can be compared to other markets,” he said recently.

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