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Male artists win big but female singers dominate American Music Awards stage

LOS ANGELES, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Pink, Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera led female artists of pop music dominating the American Music Awards stage on Sunday with powerful performances, despite being edged out by male artists in most award categories this year.

Bruno Mars won Artist of the Year, former One Direction member Niall Horan won New Artist of the Year and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee won Collaboration of the Year for the catchy “Despacito.”

The women of pop delivered the night’s biggest moments.

Pink and Kelly Clarkson sang REM’s “Everybody Hurts,” dedicated to first responders and victims of the recent hurricanes and wildfires that have ravaged parts of the United States.

Pink later performed aerial acrobatics from a highrise building while singing “Beautiful Trauma.”

Lady Gaga performed “The Cure” from the Washington D.C. stop of her tour, playing on a Perspex piano and then dancing as sparks rained down on stage. She won favorite female pop/rock artist.

“Just remember that if you feel different or not understood, don’t you dare give up on who you are, fight like hell for what you believe in,” Lady Gaga said.

Motown superstar Diana Ross received this year’s lifetime achievement award with video tributes from Barack and Michelle Obama and Taylor Swift. Ross performed a medley of her hits including “I’m Coming Out,” “Take Me Higher” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

“I feel so humbled by this,” Ross said, surrounded by her family on stage.

The fan-voted American Music Awards show, televised on ABC, features performances from pop music’s biggest names.

Actress Viola Davis paid tribute to the late Whitney Houston and the 25th anniversary of Houston’s film “The Bodyguard,” as Christina Aguilera belted a medley of hits from the film. Houston died in 2012 aged 48 after drowning in a hotel bathtub.

Demi Lovato, who was accompanied by newlyelected Virginia legislator Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person to win a state legislative seat, performed her latest hit “Sorry/Not Sorry.” (rtr)

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Singer Diana Ross poses with her Lifetime Achievement award.

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Demonstrators chant slogans as they protest against the release of the upcoming Bollywood movie ‘Padmavati’ in Bengaluru, India, November 15, 2017.

Release of Indian film about Rajput queen delayed after protests

NEW DELHI - The producers of “Padmavati” - a Bollywood movie based on an epic poem about a Rajput queen, said on Sunday they had indefinitely delayed the release of the film, which has been accused of distorting history and has sparked protests.

The movie, which was due to go on release in India on Dec. 1, has led to protests in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and other states. It has also faced a delays in approval from the Indian censor board.

The studio behind the movie, Viacom 18 - a joint venture between Viacom Inc and Network 18 owned

by Reliance Industries, said on Sunday it had “voluntarily deferred the release date of the film.”

“We have faith that we will soon obtain the requisite clearances to release the film. We will announce the revised release date of the film in due course,” the company said

in a statement.

The film ran into trouble earlier this year when a Rajput caste organisation, the Rajput Karni Sena, attacked director Sanjay Leela Bhansali on the set in Rajasthan in January.

The Sena, based in Rajasthan, has been critical of the film, saying it would offend the Rajput community, and that Bhansali was deliberately distorting history.

Based on an epic poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, the film tells the story of Padmavati, the queen of the Rajput warrior clan and Mughal conqueror Alaudin Khilji.

India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party had also warned the federal government that there would be law and order problems in Uttar Pradesh if the film was released. (rtr)

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Indonesia’s Speaker of the House Setya Novanto, identified as a suspect in a corruption case, arrives at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building in Jakarta, Indonesia November 19, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken November 19, 2017.

Indonesia parliament speaker taken into custody by anti-graft agency

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s parliament speaker, Setya Novanto, has been taken into custody by the anti-corruption agency after being arrested over his alleged role in causing state losses of $170 million linked to a national electronic identity card scheme. Novanto, clad in an orange vest worn by detainees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), was transferred from a hospital on Sunday night into a KPK detention facility.

He is one of the most senior politicians to be detained by the agency, popular among ordinary Indonesians for targeting members of the establishment suspected of abuse of power. Novanto was arrested on Friday night but his detention was postponed while he received treatment for injuries suffered in a car crash the day before.

“Delay of the arrest is no longer needed,” as a medical statement

showed Novanto did not need further hospital treatment, Laode Muhammad Syarif, the deputy head of the agency, said in a video on its official Periscope page.

On Sunday night, Novanto told reporters he was still suffering from vertigo after the crash that he said had injured a leg, an arm and his head. “I thought I would be given time for recovery, but I obey the law,” Novanto was quoted by news

website Kumparan.com as saying.

Novanto will be held for 20 days for questioning, said KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah. He will be detained in a sparsely-furnished holding cell with some mattresses and a shared toilet.

Graft agency officials tried to arrest Novanto, the chairman of Golkar, Indonesia’s second-largest party and partner in the ruling coalition, at his house in Jakarta late on

Wednesday. But they failed to find him, sparking speculation that he had gone into hiding.

Later, Novanto was involved in a car accident and his lawyer, Fredrich Yunadi, said a journalist was driving the vehicle and interviewing his client at the time. The car crash was found to be an accident, media cited Jakarta’s deputy director of traffic police as saying, dismissing speculation that the mishap was staged.

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Novanto has denied wrongdoing but has repeatedly missed summonses for questioning by the agency in recent months, saying he was ill and

needed heart surgery. The agency is investigating state losses of about $170 million after allegations that sums ranging from $5,000 to $5.5 million, generated by marking up procurement costs for the ID cards, were divided up among politicians in parliament.

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Fogging, one of the effort to reduce the spread of dengue fever.

Bali Pink Ribbon (BPR) supported by Hatten Wines, Bali’s award-winning winery, is celebrating “Pink on the Green” this month to support the fight against breast cancer. BPR will host an elegant and dazzling evening of music, song, and fundraising at the Hatten Wine building on Saturday, 25 November 2017.

Themed “Pink on the Green”, the event brings the message of breast cancer awareness in a

Nengah Mandri,, one of the few fishermen left in Kusamba Village.

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Kusamba fishermen loose hope of next generation continuing this trade

The professsion of fisherman can no longer promise a life of prosperity to people living in coastal communities like Kusamba village in Dawan, Klungkung. Because it has become increasingly difficult to make a living as a fisherman, young people are unwilling to learn this trade, so this may be the last generation of fishermen in Kusamba.

It is 10:00 in the morning and 45 year old Nengah Suryata sits under a hibiscus tree on the beach to avoid the stinging heat of the sun. He gazes out to sea watching the waves lapping the shore. This has become a common activity for Suryata over the last few weeks as he fights the boredom brought on by lack of fish to catch. In fact this has become an annual occurrence that Surayata has grown used to in recent years, teaching him to be patient.

This father of three children shared his stories of life as a fisherman over the years. For about ten years, Suryata and hundreds of his fellow villagers all worked as fishermen. They would go out to sea en mass and when the catches were few they would be frustrated.

But as time went on these sharing of joys and hardships faded as one by one the fishermen stopped going out to sea. One of the reasons they stopped is because of the uncertain income that fishing provides. Fishing could no longer

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Health Agency declares all villages in Denpasar to be endemic to dengue

DENPASAR —IN this transitional period from the dry season to the rainy season, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is becoming more widespread. All related parties are therefor expected to step up efforts to prevent the transmission of this disease by mosquito bite. Moreover, all villages in Denpasar are still declared to be endemic to DHF, although there has been a decrease in the number of cases in 2017 when compared to the same period in 2016.

Head of the Denpasar Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, on Sunday (Nov. 19) explained that the results of their evaluation of dengue cases from January to October 2017 showed there are 910 cases or with an incidence rate (IR) of 99.53 per 100,000 populations. This number showed a decreased when compared to the same period in 2016. At that time, there were 2,339 cases with IR of 356.20 per 100,000 populations. The case fatality rate (CFR) for 2016 was reached 0.72 percent with a total of 17 dengue caused deaths.

Of all the sub-districts in Denpasar, West Denpasar still shows the largest number of cases of dengue. This year there have already been 338 cases showing an incidence rate of 127.79 per 100,000 people. There was also one death caused by dengue in West Denpasar. South Denpasar had 285 cases, East Denpasar (162 cases) with the lowest number of cases being in North Denpasar (125 cases).

Given the relatively large number of cases of dengue in Denpasar, Mayor I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra said that he hopes the public can improve the effectiveness of larva monitoring officers in every hamlet. The municipal government also plans to design a ‘smart larva monitoring officer system’ to maximize the prevention and minimize the number of dengue cases.

He said that so far there are 44,173 independent larva monitoring officers, equivalent to 10 percent of the population of the City of Denpasar. “If their work can be improved, I am confident that we can bring down the number of cases of dengue even more”, said Rai Mantra.

Dengue, added Mayor Mantra has become a national problem with many people affected. This makes urban populations uneasy – including people in Denpasar. In fact dengue is considered endemic to Denpasar as there have been cases reported for three years in a row. It is therefore necessary to increase public awareness and to take preventative measures early on to prevent outbreaks from occurring. (kmb12)

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provide the hope of a prosperous life. Many took work as construction workers and the like to earn a more certain income. “ Sometimes we do not catch any fish while operating costs are quite high”, explained Suryata.

Today, there are only about 25 fishermen left in Kusamba and most of them are aged. Like farming, this profession is being pushed to the fringes by the younger generation who have no interest in learning the trade. Young people want work that is more promising and prestigious. “We are the last generation who are still fishing, the young people no longer want to”, he said woefully.

This is different than when he was young. By the time Nengah was 15 he was already going out to sea, sailing against shocking waves that were sometimes quite fierce. Departing at 3:00 and returning at 9:00 provided his daily bread and butter. “Today it is not like that for my kids, they never want to go out to sea”, said

Suryata.

On the beach, visitors can see local residents repairing their nets with hnads that are nibble and good and cutting the knitted threads. It is an impressive sight and visitors watch carefully as 46 year Nengah Mandri works the nets he used to struggle with at sea with Suryata. “I stopped fishing in 2002”, he says.

With all the uncertainty involved in fishing, including things like tidal waves, Mandri decided to search for another source of livelihood. Today he repairs fishing nets for other fishermen. For a large net, he can earn IDR 500,000 for repairs that take anywhere from 5 to 7 days. He also squeezes out a few rupiah working as a porter for passengers travelling to Nusa Penida. He makes about IDR 100, 000 a day loading goods onto these small boats. “This is work I can do every day and the results are more certain and no preparations are needed”, explained this ex-fisherman. (sos)

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Reverse migration? Pollution in India’s cities draws residents back to rural life

MUMBAI - Namita Singh’s young daughter suffered from bronchitis when the family lived in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, where fumes from clogged traffic and a smoky haze every winter outweighed the charms of its Mughal architecture and famed cuisine.

When her husband was transferred to the town of Dehradun, in the foothills of the Himalayas, her daughter recovered in the clean mountain air.

So when her husband’s job took him to Delhi a couple of years later, the choice was clear: Singh and her daughter remained in Dehradun, while he moved to the capital.

As a toxic smog enveloped Delhi and northern parts of India, forcing emergency measures, Singh said she was relieved not to be living there.

“I cannot think of living in Delhi, with the pollution so bad,” said Singh, whose husband visits every two weeks.

“My daughter is so much better here in the cleaner air. We cannot think of moving back to that pollution,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Pollution levels climbed to 12 times above the recommended limit this week in New Delhi. Officials said they knew what was needed to control the haze, but nothing would be done, at least this year.

City pollution has triggered a reverse migration trend in India from the city to the countryside.

While it is a mere trickle com-

pared to the inexorable rural to urban flow, some high-profile moves have made the news in recent years, such as the departure of Costa Rica’s ambassador to southern India because Delhi’s air had made her sick.

At least 2.5 million people in India died early because of pollution in 2015, more than any other country in the world, according to a study by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health.

In New Delhi - now the most polluted city in the world, according to the Brookings Institute - illegal crop burning in areas near the capital, as well as vehicle exhaust and construction dust are blamed for the smog that descends in cooler weather every year.

The city, home to more than 20 million people, has become a “gas chamber”, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said.

‘HARDSHIP’ POSTING As sales of face masks rose and chatter about air purifiers filled internet chat rooms, others took more concrete action: they moved to smaller cities on the coast or the mountains.

The pollution did not even spare

Delhi’s elite diplomatic corps.

In a blog post gone viral, Mariela Cruz Alvarez, the Costa Rican ambassador, said she had developed a serious respiratory infection, and had moved to Karnataka in the south to recover.

“India has become a threat to my health and the health of my friends and colleagues,” Alvarez wrote.

Local newspapers said several embassies have cut down on nonessential staff in Delhi, and moved some positions to neighbouring countries like Singapore.

Delhi may soon be considered a “hardship” posting because of the high levels of pollution, some missions said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart Cities Mission aims to modernise 100 cities by 2020 with high-speed internet, uninterrupted power and water supply, efficient public transport and living standards comparable to Europe.

But such efforts must include a long-term plan to control pollution, said Anumita Roy Chowdhury, executive director at research and advocacy group, Centre for Science and Environment.

“Air pollution is a huge issue, but it is a myth that only big cities are

polluted; pollution levels are rising in smaller cities, too. So where can you run away to?” she said.

“Our template for urbanisation needs changing.”

Tens of thousands of people living in rural areas migrate to the cities every day, seeking better economic opportunities. Many end up in slums and informal settlements, and are particularly vulnerable to the pollution.

Some of those who can are heading in the opposite direction.

A popular anchor on a leading financial television network

stepped down four years ago, and said he was moving to the mountain state of Uttarakhand for a cleaner, quieter life. Even those who have recently moved to the cities are taking stock of their decisions.

Vinod Kumar, who moved from a village in southern Tamil Nadu to Chennai city to be a driver, said he planned to return to his village and take up organic farming on the family land. “It’s only now that I realise how lucky we were in the village to have clean air and clean water, and not be ill from pollution all the time,” he said. (rtr)

MANGUPURA — The number of Indonesians who travelled abroad (outbound travelers) increased by about 7 million last year.

Thus figure is much lower than the number of Indonesians travelling within the archipelago. The benefit of intensively promoting tourism in Indonesia will be greatly reduced if it is only foreign tourists who are attracted to visit Indonesia and not domestic tourists.

Indonesians travelling abroad cannot be avoided, however and in fact tourism in the Asia-Pacific region is growing fast. Indonesia is not only a destination but also a target market. “ Indonesia, India and Japan serve as potential markets for tourism to other places. Korea and Japan are attracting increasing numbers of Indonesian tourists”, said Prof. I Gde Pitana, Deputy of Overseas Tourism Marketing Development, Ministry of Tourism, on Friday (Nov. 17) during a seminar entitled Indonesia Tourism Outlook 2018 held at Ayodya Resort Nusa Dua, Bali.

In order to prevent too many Indonesians from visiting other countries, Pitana’s division is looking to develop local destinations that appeal to the needs of the local tourism market. “ For example who visits Malang? Who visits the new tourist destinations in Western or Southern Sumatra? It is mostly Indonesian tourists”, he said.

Man domestic tourists prefer to travel abroad rather than in country as it can actually be cheaper. Flying to Singapore for example is cheaper than fling to Eastern Indonesia. “ It costs about IDR 8 million to fly form Bali to Raja Ampat, wheras it only costs IDR 4 million to fly to Singapore”, admitted Pitana.

Improvement to infrastructure are thereof needed in order to boost local tourism in the future, he said adding that Indonesian destinations also need to be improved so that they can stand up to the competition of other countries. Vietnam for example is emerging as a new tourist destination that is even using the tagline “the New Bali”, offering patterned destinations like Nusa Dua. “We need to be innovative and creative”, he said.

As economic observer, Faisal Basri said during the same seminar, although there were 7 million Indonesian travelling abroad last year, there are still larger numbers of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia. “ I am still worried about the increasing number of outbound travellers though”, said Basri. Travel fairs organized by airline companies actually caused many domestic tourists to travel overseas.

According to recent studies, in the next two years, Indonesians are going to travel further for longer periods of time and shop more while they are abroad. Basri therefor hopes to see a focus not just on increasing the number of foreign tourists who visit Indonesia (presently targeted to reach 20 million per year), but also on per capita spending. “ Next year, we have ot get more Europeans, American and Japanese tourists to visit, because they are higher quality tourists”, concluded Basri. (kmb42)

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Improvements in the quality and quantity of such infrastructure – particularly highways, needs to take into account of the negative impacts that the increase in the number of vehicles has on the quality of the environment.

Development of transportation infrastructure must not degrade quality of the environment

MANGUPURA — The development of transportation plays an important role in supporting economic progress. However, improvements in the quality and quantity of such infrastructure – particularly highways, needs to take into account of the negative impacts that the increase in the number of vehicles has on the quality of the environment.

“Going forward, the development of transportation infrastructure should not decrease the environmental quality”, said Prof.

Putu Alit Suthanaya, Ph.D. in his acceptance speech for being made into a permanent professor at Udayana University Bukit Jimbaran Campus on Saturday (Nov. 18).

There is an increase of about 8 percent in the number of motor vehicles in Indonesia avery year.

Improvements to infrastructure and and facilitates however is not keeping pace with the increase in the number of vehicles, continued Prof. Suthanaya. As a result, many cities in Indonesia are facing serious issues with traffic congestion.

Denpasar is one example, where originally it was a small town that developed into a major city and has now become a metropolitan

city.

“The decline in the speed at which vehicels can circulate due to traffic congestion also causes increases in fuel consumption”, said this professor in the Transport Science devpartement of the Faculty of Engineering at Udayana University.

Prof Suthanaya added that traffic congestion has led to a concentration of air pollution at peak traffic hours on main roads, that surpasses acceptable thresholds.

Air pollution has the potential of adversely affecting human health and eco-sytsems. Noise and potential traffic accidents are also becoming problematic, he said. As of yet, there is no agreement on the criteria for sustainable transportation – especially at metropolitan and sub-metropolitan level.

“Environmental indicators used

to evaluate transport performance at the local level need to be looked at to determine wether they correspond to conditions both locally and globally”, he explained Noise levels for example, stated Prof. Suthanaya, are determined based on local indicators not global indicators. Such indicators, he said need to correspond to sustainability goals and transportation targets. The hierarchy of these indicators need to be understood before they are determined, he explained.

“Traffic patterns can be used as an environmental indicator for sustainable urban transport. For example, increases in mileage and use of private vehicles is associated with higher energy consumption and increased emissions”, said this transportation scientist. (kmb32)

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Town of Bangli floods again after few hours of heavy rain BANGLI — The streets of Bangli were flooded again after a few hours of torrential downpour on Sunday (Nov. 19). As a result of the flooding many motorists had to stop moving and south of SMAN 1 Bangli, on Jalan Ngurah Rai, local residents had to install an emergency embankment to prevent their homes from being flooded.

Rain fell heavily on Bangli from about 13:00- until 15:30 causing the drainage channel south of SMAN I Bangli to overflow up to 20 centimeters onto the road. The overflowing water carried all manner of garbage with it littering the streets of Bangli with plastic trash.

One local resident name Gede Imbawan, said the water had overflowed because the drainage channels in the Town of Bangli do not work properly and large amounts of garbage in the channels compounds the problem. “This happens every time there is heavy rain”, he said,

adding that this recent incident was nothing compared to the flooding that has happened in the past when many people’s homes were inundated.

Naturally,Imbhawan and other local residents hope that the drainage channels can be improved as soon as possible. He also mentioned that the garbage in the drainage channels needs to be removed immediately so as to prevent such flooding when it rains hard.

People living near the Bangli District Court office expressed similar hopes explaining that they had to make emergency embankments made of sand bags outside their front doors on Sunday to prevent water from flowing into their homes as it has in the past.

Meanwhile, Commander of the 1626/Bangli Military District, Suka Prajaka, said that they too had to take action to prevent their office from becoming flooded. (kmb40)

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Wanagiri village offer great places for selfies with Lake Bunyan and Lake Tamblingan as backdrops. This village also home to dozens of waterfalls.

No management for dozens of waterfalls at Wanagiri

SINGARAJA — Wanagiri village in the subdistrict of Sukasada not only offer great places for selfies with Lake Bunyan and Lake Tamblingan as backdrops, this village with a mild is also home to dozens of waterfalls.

However, so far, only three of the waterfalls in Wanagiri are managed by local village community groups.

The natural scenery at the location of these waterfall remains pristine as the waterfalls are located in forests that are well preserved. In addition to the clean high mountain water, the natural settings of these waterfalls, whether in forest or plantations adds to the natural wealth of Wanagiri village’s beauty.

The only three waterfalls that are currently being managed by community groups are; only local people visit these waterfalls that are promoted using social media platforms that have become so popular nowadays. The paths to these waterfalls are still very narrow and are not equipped with supporting facilities.

Headman of Wanagiri, Wayan Gumiasa, said on Friday (Nov. 17) that many of the waterfalls were accidentally discovered after the central government program launched their village forest management (HPHD) program. Small pathways to these waterfalls were gradually mae without cutting down any trees in

the village forest. Not al of the waterfalls have paths to them however so many remain untouched as there are no community groups ready to manage them.

“There is no problem with making pathways to the waterfalls, and no trees need to be cut down. The problem is that we do not have enough community groups to develop the waterfalls as attractions. Therefor, so far only the three waterfall sare being managed. Even though this is being doen in a very simple manner, we have still managed to attract visitors”, explained Gumiasa.

Gumiasa added that he hopes that the Bulelelng Tourism Office or other third parties can help to develop the potential of these natural attractions. Topographically Wanagiri village is located in the tourist area of Bedugul that is crowded with local and foreign tourists every day. So, I fhtese waterfall attractions are developed they are quite likely to draw visitors.

Gumiasa also said that he is confident that with the involvement of related agencies and third parties, these natural tourist attractions can have positive impact on the village’S economy.

“There is no problem with road access because with the HPHD permit the village has been given the right to manage the village and can prepare pathways. The rest depends on management, marketing and promotion”, he explained. (kmb38)

Satellite calls yield no clues on missing Argentine submarine

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Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney, Australia, against the treatment of asylumseekers at Australia-run detention centres located at Nauru and Manus Island, November 18, 2017.

Australia, NZ officials discuss screening for Manus refugees - NZ PM

WELLINGTON - New Zealand and Australian officials have begun talks about screening processes for asylum seekers who have shut themselves inside a Papua New Guinea detention centre, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.

Australia has been refusing New Zealand’s offer to take up to 150 of the detainees from the Australianrun camp on Manus Island, but Ardern’s comments have raised speculation that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is ready to accept the offer.

The centre was closed almost three weeks ago after PNG’s High Court ruled it was illegal, but more than 400 detainees have refused to leave, citing concerns for their security if they were moved to transit centres, as planned.

Turnbull has been refusing New Zealand’s offer to take some of the men, because he is worried that asylum seekers would view it as a “back door” to Australia, undermining the country’s tough immigration policies.

Ardern said the conversations

were about establishing the screening processes.

“To be clear we have not started that process,” Ardern told Radio New Zealand. “But I think that certainly we’re a bit further along than we have been before - we haven’t even had officials having those discussions in the past.”

The United Nations, which has warned of a “looming humanitarian crisis”, last week urged Australia to accept New Zealand’s offer to take the men.

Turnbull has insisted the priority was an existing refugee swap deal he negotiated with former U.S. President Barack Obama last year.

The men holed up inside the camp are reliant on erratic food supplies smuggled in by supporters. They have no power or running water.

Australia’s “sovereign borders” immigration policy, under which it refuses to allow asylum seekers arriving by boat to reach its shores, has been heavily criticised by the United Nations and human rights groups but has bipartisan political support in Australia. (rtr)

MAR DEL PLATA - A storm on Sunday complicated efforts to find an Argentine navy submarine missing in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members, while satellite calls thought to come from the vessel did not help searchers identify the vessel’s location.

The defense ministry has said the ARA San Juan appeared to try to make contact through seven failed satellite calls on Saturday between late morning and early afternoon. The vessel was 432 km (268 miles) off Argentina’s coast when its location was last known early on Wednesday.

As waves of up to 8 meters (20 feet) and winds reaching 40 knots complicated the search by sea, authorities spent Sunday trying to trace the submarine’s location through data from the satellite calls without significant progress, a navy official told reporters.

“We analyzed these signals, which as we know were intermittent and weak,” said Gabriel Galeazzi, a naval commander. “They could not help determine a point on the map to help the search.”

U.S. satellite communications company Iridium Communications Inc, which was brought in to help analyze the calls, said they did not originate with its device aboard the vessel and may have been from another satellite communications company’s equipment.

It said the last call it detected from its device was on Wednesday, the same day the government said the vessel vanished.

More than a dozen boats and aircraft from Argentina, the United States, Britain, Chile and Brazil had joined the effort. Authorities have mainly been scanning the sea from above as the storm made the search difficult for boats, navy Admiral Gabriel Gonzalez told reporters.

“Unfortunately these conditions are expected to remain for the next 48 hours,” Gonzalez said from the Mar del Plata naval base, about 420 km (240 miles) south of Buenos Aires where the submarine had been heading toward before vanishing. (rtr)

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Undated and unlocated handout picture released by Argentina’s Navy showing Argentine submarinist Eliana Krawczyk onboard the Argentine ARA Salta submarine. Argentina’s navy is hunting for one of its submarines which has been reported missing in the South Atlantic with a crew of 44 on board.

South Korea fears further missile advances by North this year in threat to U.S.

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The water had overflowed because the drainage channels in the Town of Bangli do not work properly and large amounts of garbage in the channels compounds the problem.

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SEOUL - North Korea may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the United States, South Korea’s spy agency said on Monday, adding that it was monitoring developments closely.

North Korea is pursuing nuclear weapons and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council

sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. It has fired two missiles over Japan.

The reclusive state appears to have carried out a recent missile engine test while brisk movements of vehicles were spotted near known missile facilities, Yi Wan-young, a member of South Korea’s parliamentary intelligence committee

which was briefed by Seoul’s National Intelligence Service, said.

No sign of an imminent nuclear test had been detected, Yi noted.

The third tunnel at the Punggye-ri complex remained ready for another detonation “at any time”, while construction had recently resumed at a fourth tunnel, making it out of use for the time being.

“The agency is closely following

the developments because there is a possibility that North Korea could fire an array of ballistic missiles this year under the name of a satellite launch and peaceful development of space, but in fact to ratchet up its threats against the United States,” the lawmakers told reporters after a closeddoor briefing by the spy agency.

North Korea defends its weapons programmes as a necessary

defence against U.S. plans to invade. The United States, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean war, denies any such intention.

Pyongyang is also carrying out a sweeping ideological scrutiny of the political unit of the military for the first time in 20 years, according to Kim Byung-kee, another lawmaker in the committee. (rtr)

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German stocks led the move downward, with the country’s main index down by over 0.2 percent, pulling the main pan-European broader Euro STOXX 600 index lower by a similar amount. Investors instead preferred safe haven government bonds: the yield on Germany’s 10-year government bond, the benchmark for the bloc, edged lower to a 1-1/2 week low of 0.35 percent at one stage. “The collapse of the talks was a surprise and there is little clarity on how things will unfold from here. It adds to uncertainty which is weighing on risk sentiment in world markets,” said Rainer Guntermann, rates strategist at Commerzbank.

Other analysts said however, that the overall sentiment towards the euro zone remains positive, reflected in the resilience of the euro on Monday. “The eurozone political story is an outlier at the moment in the G10 currency trading space. The German political news over the weekend is not a game changer in our view,” said Viraj Patel, a currency strategist at ING in London. “The broader story still remains of a recovering

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“Dari Masa Ka Rasa”

Indonesian contemporary artists embrace holistic approach

European markets jarred by German coalition collapse

LONDON - European stocks slipped and safe haven government bonds were in demand early on Monday as the collapse of coalition talks in Germany served as a reminder of political risk that still runs as an undercurrent in Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday her efforts to form a three-way coalition government had failed, thrusting Germany into a political crisis and pushing Europe’s largest economy closer to a possible new election.

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eurozone with improving fundamentals.”

And so the euro, which had dipped to as low as $1.1722 at one stage, was back up on the day by 0900 GMT, resuming a more than 2 percent recovery against the dollar over the past two weeks. Against the yen, the single currency dipped as much as 0.8 percent in Asian trading to a two-month low of 131.16 yen . But it was flat in London trade at 131.97 yen, down just 0.2 percent on the day.

In Asia, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was off its session lows to be slightly down, as volatile Chinese shares reversed earlier sharp losses. Japan’s Nikkei stock average finished down 0.6 percent.

“It’s year-end season, so people have more incentive to take profits,” said Kyoya Okazawa, Hong Kong-based head of institutional clients, APAC at BNP Paribas Securities. This after Wall Street had ended last week on a sour note with major indexes slipping as investors weighed the fate of the Republicans’ tax overhaul plan. The dollar edged lower against a basket of major currencies on Monday, and was close to one-month lows hit last week.

Crude oil futures were mixed. Brent crude oil LCOc1 dipped 19 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $62.51 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 added 9 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $56.64 a barrel. Oil rebounded more than 2 percent on Friday after falling for five straight session as a major U.S. crude pipeline was shut and traders anticipated an OPEC deal to extend curbs on production. But crude prices still fell for the first week in six, pressured by rising U.S. output data and doubts that Russia would support an extension of the OPEC output cut deal. (rtr)

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A container ship is seen at the shipping terminal Eurokai in the Port of Hamburg, Germany November 6, 2017.

Opioid crisis cost U.S. economy $504 billion in 2015: White House WASHINGTON - Opioid drug abuse, which has ravaged parts of the United States in recent years, cost the economy as much as $504 billion in 2015, White House economists said in a report made public on Sunday. The White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) said the toll from the opioid crisis represented 2.8 percent of gross domestic product that year.

President Donald Trump last month declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. While Republican lawmakers said that was an important step in fighting opioid abuse, some critics, including Democrats, said the move was meaningless without additional funding.

The report could be used by the Trump White House to urge Republicans in Congress - who historically have opposed increasing government spending - to provide more funding for fighting the opioid crisis by arguing that the economic losses far outweigh the cost of additional government funding.

Using a combination of statistical models, the CEA said the lost economic output stemming from 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015 could be between $221 billion

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and $431 billion, depending on the methodology used.

In addition, the report looked at the cost of non-fatal opioid usage, estimating a total of $72 billion for 2.4 million people with opioid addictions in 2015. Those costs included medical treatment, criminal justice system expenses and the decreased economic productivity of addicts.

The CEA said its estimate was larger than those of some prior studies because it took a broad look at the value of lives lost to overdoses. The CEA also said its methodology incorporated an adjustment to reflect the fact that opioids were underreported on death certificates.

“The crisis has worsened, especially in terms of overdose deaths which have doubled in the past ten years,” the CEA said. “While previous studies have focused exclusively on prescription opioids, we consider illicit opioids including heroin as well.”

Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, are fueling the drug overdoses. More than 100 Americans die daily from related overdoses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventi\on. (rtr)

Art has always been produced in the context of a given era and the particular conditions that the artist finds themselves in. Whether an artists chooses to produce art which specifically references this era and conditions or whether they choose to focus on more general ideas or even their own feelings and perceptions, the era in which they make their art nonetheless informs their art. Such referencing has become highly conceptualized - some say to the determent of the artistry of art.

As art writer and curator Rain Rosidi explains in the catalogue of the Dari Masa ka Rasa exhibition , modern art was born out of a reaction to the Romantic movement that placed man at the centre of the universe and emphasized imaginary settings and personal feelings with little regard for or reference to tthe world around them. Their technical mastery yielded highly realist landscapes and figures yet remained devoid of any commentary on these subjects., which according to critics is the primary task of the artist- to share their perception of conditions and context.

Whereas fine art is fundamentally based on a mastery of technic, as modern art sought to develop more critical approaches to art production this eventually led to contemporary art that increasingly moved so far into the conceptual that techique and aesthetic beauty were often abandoned altogether. In reaction such extreme conditions in the art world, artists Agung Tato (Surabaya), Angga Sukma Permana (Yogyakarta), Agustan (Jakarta), M. Muhlis Lugis (Makasar), and Made Ddwi Kenak Adyana

(Bali) have come together to restore balance.

The five artists that make up art collective ‘Segitiga’ first joined forces on the campus of ISI Yogyakarta where they were studying for their masters degrees in FIne Arts. Their lengthly and ongoing verbal and graphic exchanges at that time -which naturally were informed by the theoretical basis of their studies, led them to a shared desire to comment on the current conditions of contemporary art in Indonesia through their art works. Although each artist came to the table with a different background, style and method, they shared a vision of creating art works that combined critical, conceptual, technical and aesthetic elements, without any of these elements being at the expense of the other.

Humanity has seen various changes in the conditions in which we live and thus our perception of the world and the place of art.

From the cave paintings of early man to the highly conceptual art works in vogue today, art is constantly developing according to the era in which artists live, said Rosidi. It is up to the artist to share their perception of such conditions, which can be done in myriad ways as witnessed by the variety of technics, subject matter and concepts expressed by the five artists in this exhibition.

As Art Writer I Made Susanta Dwitanya eloquently put it in his introductory words of the exhibition catalogue, the title Dari Masa ka Rasa (from era to feeling), can be interpreted as a reference to the personal journey of these five artist from the era or time and space of

their formal studies to the feelings they shared with one and other informally on campus. It can also be read as a reference to ‘era’ as the natural cycles of nature from day to night and season to season that delineate time in space to the personal journey of humans through these cycles of their own personal life.

Or, further still the exhibition title ‘from era to feelings’ can be interpreted as a commentary on Indonesia Contemporary Art, with these five artists serving as representatives of the journey

from the ‘era’ of formal or theoretical conceptual explorations of art, to the personal sharing they have been engaged in which led them to more technique-based, personal and critical explorations of their artistic expression.

Perhaps more generally ‘from era to feeling’ can be read as an invitation for all humans to move into their heart space so as to choose a more wholistic approach to contemporary conditions so as to find solutions to the challenges we all face.

All five artist show clear technical mastery of the art of painting and although each artist expresses this mastery in their own unique personal style, they also each express a particular vision or commentary on present conditions, whether political, environmental or aesthetic, Despite the strong emphasis on technique and commentary, the basis on which art is founded - aesthetic beauty as an expression of intangible feelings remains a distinct feature in all the art works of ‘Dari Masa ka Rasa’ which is on display at Griya Santrian Gallery, Sanur (Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur) until December 31rst, 2017.

It is also worth noting that this is the last exhibition of Griya Santrian Gallery’s 15th year running. This gallery, that has provided a space for Balinese contemporary art to become better known to the public for 15 years, deliberately chose to have their end of year exhibition feature artists from all over Indonesia.

Although this is not the first time that artists from outside Bali have exhibited in this space, this particular exhibition speaks to the increasingly dynamic range of Balinese contemporary art and the national art context that is informed by and which informs art in Bali. Dari Masa Ka Rasa shows a promising start to a new era for Griya Santrian Gallery for its next 15 years, and perhaps for contemporary Indonesia art in general, which may start to embrace both feeling and critical commentary again as a valuable component of the nations art. (kmb)

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UK queen and husband Philip celebrate 70 years of marriage, quietly

Yogyakarta holds ninth Jogja International Heritage Walk

The opening of the ninth Jogja International Heritage Walk was conducted in Yogyakarta on Nov. 18. This was an event that combined walking and cultural activities A total of 7,500 people, 285 of them were overseas tourists took part in the main event that was held on Nov. 19.

These international tourists came from countries such as Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Russia, China, Taiwan, the United States and Canada.

Additionally, Indonesia is the only ASEAN country that is listed as a member of the International Marching League (IML). Jogja Heritage Walk was divided into three categories: five kilometers, 10 kilometers and 20 kilometers. Participants had to walk past several temples such as Kedulan, Sari, Sambisari and Prambanan as well as other tourist sites like Silik Bridge in Karantengah Hamlet, Kedungmiri, Sriharjo and Oya Bridge.

The event also had other supporting activities namely Family Fun Walk, Coloring and Umbrella Painting competitions and an educational trip by the Medang Heritage Society and Hompimpa Kampung Dolanan Anak. Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said that the event does not only promoted a healthy lifestyle but also encouraged interaction between people from different backgrounds and helped in strengthening the tourism sector in Yogyakarta. “We hope that this [event] can become one of the tourist events and bring in more tourists to increase the country’s foreign exchange,” told Sri Sultan.(rtr)

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth and husband Prince Philip mark their platinum wedding anniversary with a small family get-together on Monday, a far cry from the pomp and celebration which greeted their marriage 70 years ago.

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Handout photo issued November 18, 2017 by Camera Press of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle in early November, in celebration of their platinum wedding anniversary on November 20.

The couple married at London’s Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947, just two years after the end of World War Two, in a glittering ceremony which attracted statesmen and royalty from around the world and huge crowds of cheering well-wishers.

Seventy years on, no public events are planned. Elizabeth, now 91, and her 96-year-old husband, who retired from active public life in August, will celebrate the milestone with a private party at Windsor Castle, the monarch’s home to the west of London.

That contrasts with their silver, golden and diamond wedding anniversaries when they attended thanksgiving services at the thousand-year-old Abbey, where the queen was crowned and where her grandson and his wife, William and Kate, were married in 2011.

However, the Abbey itself will

mark the occasion with a full peal of its bells involving 5,070 change of sequences, with the 70 reflecting the anniversary, which will last more than three hours.

“Congratulations to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh as they celebrate their Platinum Wedding anniversary,” Prime Minister Theresa May said on Twitter.

“They have devoted their lives to the service of the UK and the Commonwealth - my best wishes to them both on this special occasion.”

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth, as she then was, to the dashing naval officer Philip Mountbatten was seen as raising the nation’s spirits amid an austere background of rationing and shortages that followed the war.

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of colour on the hard road we have to travel,” said

former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Five years later, Elizabeth succeeded her father George VI on the throne and has ruled for the following 65 years, more than any other monarch in British history, with Philip by her side throughout.

“The support he gives to my grandmother is phenomenal,” Prince Harry said in a documentary to mark her 60th year on the throne.

“Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river, the fact that he’s there - I personally don’t think that she could do it without him.”

While the couple’s marriage has remained strong, three of their four children have seen their unions end in divorce, most notably heir Prince Charles’s ill-fated union with his late first wife Princess Diana. (rtr)

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe has until noon to stand down or face impeachment

HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has until noon (1000 GMT) on Monday to stand down or the ruling ZANUPF will begin impeachment proceedings after the 93-year-old leader defied expectations he would resign.

Mugabe stunned Zimbabweans in a rambling late night Sunday television address by avoiding any mention of resignation, pledging instead to preside over a congress next month of ZANU-PF, which had sacked him as its leader only hours earlier.

Parliament does not sit on Mondays so any impeachment would have to wait until Tuesday, although a vote may not necessarily take place the same day.

Zimbabwe’s liberation war veterans, who have been among the most vocal in calling for Mugabe’s resignation, will hold a media briefing at 9.30 a.m.

Moments after Mugabe’s address, war veterans leader Chris

Mutsvangwa told Reuters they would lead public protests in the streets of Harare, cranking up the pressure on Zimbabwe’s ruler of the last 37 years.

Having been sacked by his party, Mugabe has run out of options but appears to be steadfastly clinging to the very last vestiges of power.

There was even speculation that he read the wrong speech in his live television address, or skipped over passages about standing down.

Anxious Zimbabweans have been trying to decipher a barely audible aside comment he made to military chief Constantino Chiwenga at the end of the address.

In the audio, which is not clear, Mugabe refers to a “long speech” or a “wrong speech”.

ZANU-PF’s central committee had earlier named Emmerson Mnangagwa as its new leader. It was Mugabe’s sacking of Mnangagwa as his vice-president - pav-

ing the way for his wife Grace to succeed him - that triggered the army to seize control on Wednesday.

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of the capital Harare to celebrate Mugabe’s expected downfall and hail a new era for their country.

The huge crowds in Harare have given a quasi-democratic veneer to the army’s intervention, backing its assertion that it was merely effecting a constitutional transfer of power, rather than a plain coup, which would risk a diplomatic backlash.

But some of Mugabe’s opponents are uneasy about the prominent role played by the military, and fear Zimbabwe might be swapping one army-backed autocrat for another, rather than allowing the people to choose their next leader.

Armoured vehicles manned by soldiers were still stationed on some street corners in the capital on Monday. (rtr)

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People watch as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses the nation on television, at a bar in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 19, 2017.

Novanto was named a suspect on Nov. Indonesia parliament ... 10 again after he had used a controversial

legal manoeuvre, a pre-trial motion, to get earlier charges dropped last month.

President Joko Widodo told reporters on Monday that he had asked Novanto to “follow the legal process”. The KPK has been collaborating with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on the case, said agency spokesman Diansyah.

The FBI has been investigating the activities of Johannes Marliem, a U.S.-based contractor for the ID card scheme, who later committed suicide in Los Angeles.

The parliament speaker’s legal battle with the graft agency has gripped Indonesia, with newspaper front pages splashing the story and social media circulating memes mocking him. Novanto gained a measure of international fame in September 2015 when Donald Trump, then a U.S. presidential candidate, hailed him as a “great man” at a news conference.

“Do they like me in Indonesia?” Trump asked after introducing Novanto to reporters at Trump Tower. “Yes, highly,” Novanto replied. (rtr)

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Vehicles used for transporting workers to the Grasberg copper mine operated by Freeport McMoRan Inc are seen at the Gorong-Gorong terminal in Timika, Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia on November 16, 2017. Picture taken November 16, 2017.

Freeport evacuating Indonesian mine worker families after shootings

TIMIKA - U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc is evacuating spouses and children of workers from its giant Indonesian copper mine after a string of shootings in the area raised security concerns. The move follows efforts by Indonesian authorities on Friday to evacuate villages near Freeport’s Grasberg mine in the eastern province of Papua that authorities said had been occupied by armed separatists.

Since August at least 12 people have been injured and two police officers have been killed by gunmen with suspected links to separatist rebels. Freeport has asked family and household members of its employees to prepare over the weekend for a temporary relocation from the mining town of Tembagapura, about 10 km (6.2 miles) from Grasberg, company sources said. Workers have been asked to stay behind and maintain their work schedule, they said.

Details of the evacuation or

the number of people impacted were not immediately clear. Shots were fired at a light vehicle and two large mining trucks were set on fire at Grasberg on Saturday, one of the sources said. The sources declined to be named as they were not authorised to talk to the media.

Freeport in a statement on Saturday confirmed the evacuation plan and said it will be carried out immediately. “We are working closely with government and law enforcement to ensure the safety

of our people and those in the communities we support, and to bring about the return of peace and stability as soon as possible,” it said.

Grasberg is the world’s secondlargest copper mine by volume.

The separatist West Papua National Liberation Army (TPN-OPM) says it is at war with Indonesian authorities and wants to “destroy” Freeport in an effort to gain sovereignty for the region. TPN-OPM has claimed responsibility for the shootings but denies police allegations it took civilian hostages.(rtr)

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Alonso turns rookie for endurance test with Toyota

BAHRAIN - Double Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso turned rookie for a day on Sunday when he tried out Toyota’s world endurance championship car in a test that could lead to a Le Mans 24 Hours entry next year.

The 36-year-old McLaren driver completed 113 laps of the Bahrain International Circuit in the TS050 hybrid for a total distance of 611km.

The end-of-season test came a day after Toyota won the Six Hours of Bahrain race at the track.

“It was a great day. Testing an LMP1 (Le Mans top tier) car is always a nice thing for any racing driver because these cars are amazing to drive,” Alonso said in a Toyota statement.

“They are very consistent throughout a stint which is a positive thing. I have wanted to test a car like this for a long time now and today I could achieve that so I am happy,” added the Spaniard.

Alonso, who will be racing in Formula One’s Abu Dhabi seasonender next weekend, posted a best time of one minute 43.013 which compared to a 1:42.38 set by Toyota regular Mike Conway.

The Spaniard had visited Toy-

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McLaren are partnered by Honda, Toyota’s big domestic auto industry rivals, but that relationship will terminate at the end of this season -- leaving Alonso free to race for Toyota at Le Mans without contractual problems should he secure a drive.

Le Mans in June does not clash with any Formula One commitments.

Toyota have yet to confirm their continuation in the endurance championship, with champions Porsche pulling out, but are expected to stay as favourites to win Le Mans.

Alonso, who competed in this year’s Indianapolis 500, has set his sights on completing the so-called Triple Crown of motorsport.

The feat, only achieved by the late British driver Graham Hill, involves winning Indianapolis, The Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar car and the Formula One world championship.

Some consider the Triple Crown to be the Monaco Grand Prix, rather than the world championship, but Alonso has won both. (rtr)

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Dimitrov comes of age to win ATP Finals title

LONDON - Grigor Dimitrov claimed the biggest title of his career and sent out a huge statement of intent as the stylish Bulgarian beat David Goffin 7-5 4-6 6-3 to win the ATP Finals on Sunday.

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Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov (L) holds the winner’s trophy as Belgium’s David Goffin poses with the runners-up plate folowing their men’s singles final on day eight of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament at the O2 Arena in London on November 19, 2017. Dimitrov won the match 7-5, 6-4, 6-3.

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McLaren’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso adjusts his cap as he poses for pictures in the pits before the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix, at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 12, 2017.

The 26-year-old recovered from losing his opening two service games to finally get the better of the willowy Belgian player, but it was fiercely-fought twoand-a-half hour duel with Goffin saving four match points before finally succumbing.

Dimitrov’s unbeaten run this week in London earned him $2.5 million while the 1,500 ranking points have catapulted him to end an impressive year ranked third in the world -- behind only all-time greats Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

More significantly perhaps, landing the unofficial “fifth” grand slam appears to be proof that the former junior Wimbledon champion, once dubbed ‘Baby Federer’ because of his easy-on-the-eye style, has finally come of age.

“It’s been an amazing week for me,” Dimitrov said on court after becoming the first player to win the elite eight-man tournament on his first appearance in the event since Spaniard Alex Corretja beat countryman Carlos Moya in 1998.

“It’s such an honour to be here and this week has been one of the best weeks I’ve ever had.”

He was still on court nearly an hour after the match ended, signing autographs for the sizeable Bulgarian contingent who had roared their man to victory.

Yet it was tough on Goffin who, like Dimitrov, was his country’s first qualifier for the ATP Finals.

His substantial consolation, though, was to end the year at a career-high seventh, having become only the sixth man to beat Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the same tournament.

He will need to recover fast from the two hour 30

minute final -- the longest since the event adopted a three-set format -- as a Davis Cup final looms in France next weekend.

Many of the capacity crowd in the O2 Arena had doubtless booked their tickets in anticipation of watching the top two seeds Federer and Nadal go head-tohead but the two newcomers provided a fitting end to an extraordinary ATP season.

Goffin managed only two games against Dimitrov when they met on Wednesday in group play but recovered to beat Dominic Thiem to reach the semis where he stunned six-times champion Federer.

For Dimitrov, he was quickly a different proposition in the final, using his pinpoint accuracy to keep his gifted opponent under control and he was way ahead on the winner count as he moved 4-3 ahead.

A double-fault at 30-30 followed by a wayward forehand, though, gifted Dimitrov a break and seemed to energise the Bulgarian.

Dimitrov began to assert himself and piled on the pressure when Goffin served at 5-6. Goffin saved four set points, two with forehand winners, but doublefaulted on a game point of his own before Dimitrov forced an error to wrap up the opener.

Goffin needed just one break of serve to take the match into a decider and looked the more likely winner for a while but when Dimitrov survived a 10-minute service game at the start of the third, saving four break points, it proved crucial.

With Goffin beginning to tire, Dimitrov moved 5-2 ahead with a break and then went 0-40 ahead on Goffin’s serve.

Somehow Goffin survived to extend the contest to another game and saved another match point on the Bulgarian’s serve.

He looked poised to save another one as he stretched Dimitrov all over the court but with the court at his mercy he put an attempted drop-volley into the net. (rtr)

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

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Pulis sacked as West Brom head coach

Man Utd chasing Premier, Champions League titles: Ibrahimovic

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Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris, Genoa, Italy - November 19, 2017 Sampdoria celebrate after the match

Juve beaten at Samp, hapless Benevento lose in stoppage time

Manchester United are able to mount a serious challenge for both the Premier and Champions League titles this season thanks to a stronger squad, striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said.

Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Marcos Rojo returned to United’s squad for Saturday’s 4-1 league win over Newcastle United as Jose Mourinho’s side, who are second in the league, remained eight points behind neighbours City.

With four wins from four Champions League group games this season, United need just one more point from two matches to qualify for the last 16. They visit FC Basel on Wednesday. Ibrahimovic told British media that a domestic and European double was very much a target.

“I think there is a possibility for everything ... We are stronger this season. We believe we can do it – that’s the aim. To win and get the trophies,” he said. “I think we can chase City, why is it not a possibility?

“This week the manager has been very happy because he has a full team ... He knows what he is doing, even when the number of players are limited because he’s a winner and has been winning every season.”

Ibrahimovic and Rojo returned from serious knee injuries sustained last season and started on the bench for an almost full-strength United squad. The Swede came on in the latter stages of the game.

Frenchman Pogba recovered from a hamstring injury and scored in his first game since September.

Defenders Eric Bailly and Phil Jones and midfielder Michael Carrick are the only remaining injury concerns for United.(rtr)

Italian champions Juventus slumped to a 3-2 defeat at Sampdoria in Serie A on Sunday while hapless Benevento were denied their first point of the season when they lost 2-1 at home to Sassuolo in stoppage time. Two second-half headers from Mauro Icardi gave Inter Milan a 2-0 win at home to Atalanta, which took them two points above Juve into second place to stand two points behind Napoli, and left the Argentine with 13 goals from as many games.

Federico Peluso’s 94th-minute winner for Sassuolo, which came minutes after his team missed a penalty, meant bottom team Benevento were condemned to a record-extending 13th straight Serie A defeat.

Juve trailed 3-0 at Sampdoria before stoppage-time goals by Gonzalo Higuain, with a penalty, and Paulo Dybala made the score more respectable.

Juventus rested goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Andrea Barzagli, who both confirmed their international retirements after playing in Monday’s 0-0 draw with Sweden which meant Italy failed to qualify for next year’s World Cup. They missed a host of firsthalf chances then collapsed after the break as Samp maintained their perfect home record.

Duvan Zapata headed Sampdoria ahead in the 52nd minute, Lucas Torreira blasted the second and Gian Marco Ferrari turned in Fabio Quagliarella’s cross from the byline for the third. “It was one of our best first halves of the season and we just

needed to keep our cool in front of goal,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri. “They scored three goals from four shots.”

Icardi put Inter ahead in the 52nd minute against Atalanta when he got away from his marker to head in Antonio Candreva’s free kick and struck again with a superb glancing header from Danilo D’Ambrosio’s cross on the hour.

Napoli, 2-1 winners over visiting AC Milan on Saturday, lead the standings with 35 points from 13 games ahead of Inter on 33, with both teams still unbeaten. They are followed by Juventus on 31, AS Roma on 30 and Lazio with 28.

“GOOD EFFORT” Benevento gifted Sassuolo the lead after 57 minutes when Alessandro Matri was left to tap the ball into an empty net after a backpass was intercepted by Simone Missiroli. In a game that summed up Benevento’s season, Samuel Armenteros equalised eight minutes later but they almost immediately had Gaetano

Letizia sent off for a second booking. Benevento held out until added time when Sassuolo got a penalty for handball which Domenico Berardi smashed against the bar.

The home team’s relief was short-lived, however, as Peluso headed in from a corner for the winner from the next attack, the second time Benevento have been beaten deep into stoppage time. “We put in a good effort and the attitude is there,” said Benevento coach Roberto De Zerbi. “It’s our fault that we lost points again at the end - in those situations, the ball has to be cleared.” In other matches, Luca Rigoni’s early goal gave Genoa a 1-0 win at Crotone and a winning start to Davide Ballardini’s third stint as their coach after he replaced Ivan Juric.

Torino striker Andrea Belotti had a second-half penalty saved by Stefano Sorrentino as the Bulls were held 1-1 at home by Chievo, while Fiorentina’s match at SPAL ended with the same scoreline and Cagliari won 1-0 at troubled Udinese.(rtr)

Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine

Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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Valencia coach Marcelino

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Marcelino dismissed but Valencia keep pressure on Barca BARCELONA - Valencia coach Marcelino was sent off from the dugout for dissent before watching his side earn a barely deserved 2-0 win at Espanyol to stay in touch with Barcelona ahead of next week’s showdown against the Liga leaders. A rocket from Geoffrey Kondogbia put Valencia on their way to victory midway through the second half soon after Marcelino received his marching orders and Santi Mina sealed the victory late in the game.

Marcelino, who had opted to rest top scorer Simone Zaza and in-form winger Goncalo Guedes, saw his side survive a flurry of attempts from the hosts in both halves. Gerard Moreno struck the post while Sergio Garcia and former Valencia man Pablo Piatti narrowly missed the target.

After Marcelino’s sending off, which means he will be absent from the dugout for the visit of Barca, French midfielder Kondogbia broke the deadlock against the run of play with a

deadly shot from the edge of the area in the 66th minute, his third goal of the season. Mina then pounced on a defensive clanger from Espanyol’s Victor Sanchez in the 82nd minute to seal a club record eighth league win in a row for Valencia, who have emerged as unlikely candidates to jostle Barcelona for the Liga title.

“We had to work very hard for this win, we were second best in the first half but we managed to cope, stay compact and compete,” Mina told reporters. “In the second half we had more of the ball, we were more comfortable and we take away three points from this very difficult ground.

“Valencia have always been a great team and today we showed we can compete against anyone.

Big teams also win this way, the important thing is that we won again because next week we have a battle that will be just as tough and we need to be prepared.”

Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid fell 10 points behind the Catalans following Saturday’s goalless

local derby.

Barca lead the standings on 34 points from 12 games, Valencia are second in 30, while Real are third and Atletico fourth, both on 24. Valencia host Barca next Sunday at Mestalla.

Elsewhere, Athletic Bilbao’s veteran striker Aritz Aduriz scored a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Villarreal to save the Basque side from a fourth straight defeat while Las Palmas suffered an eighth consecutive loss, 2-0 at home to Levante.

Las Palmas prop up the table on six points with their embattled coach Pako Ayestaran now having now lost a league record 13 consecutive games across three seasons with two clubs. Malaga earned a second straight home win by beating Deportivo La Coruna 3-2 to ease pressure on coach Michel although his side are still in the relegation zone, 18th on seven points. They are a place ahead of Alaves, who are alongside Las Palmas on six.(rtr)

Tony Pulis has been sacked as West Bromwich Albion manager after a sequence of poor results, the Premier League club said on Monday. The 59-year-old Pulis, one of the League’s most experienced managers, has paid the price after nearly three years at Albion with the Midlands club struggling just a point above the Premier League relegation zone. Pulis’s assistant Gary Megson, the club’s former manager between 2000 and 2004, will take over as caretaker manager.

West Brom’s 4-0 hammering at home by Chelsea on Saturday proved the final straw for the Chinese owner of the Midlands club, Guochuan Lai, who was growing impatient with its poor form. Albion had won their first three games of the season but had not managed a victory in any competition since late August when they beat League Two Accrington Stanley 3-1 in the Carabao Cup. They subsequently failed to

earn a win with even the pragmatic Pulis, whose prosaic sides have usually been mainly notable for being difficult to beat. Pulis said he would not be surprised if he was dismissed.

West Brom are in 17th position in the league with 10 points from 12 league games, recording six losses in the process. “We are in a results business and over the back end of last season and this season to date, ours have been very disappointing,” West Brom chairman John Williams said. “These decisions are never taken lightly but always in the interests of the club.

“We would like to place on record our appreciation of Tony’s contribution and hard work during a period of transition for the club which included a change of ownership. We wish him well in his future endeavours.” West Brom ended last season in a healthy 10th position but finished the campaign disappointingly with just one win in their last eight league games..(rtr)

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

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Pulis sacked as West Brom head coach

Man Utd chasing Premier, Champions League titles: Ibrahimovic

REUTERS/Massimo Pinca

Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris, Genoa, Italy - November 19, 2017 Sampdoria celebrate after the match

Juve beaten at Samp, hapless Benevento lose in stoppage time

Manchester United are able to mount a serious challenge for both the Premier and Champions League titles this season thanks to a stronger squad, striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said.

Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Marcos Rojo returned to United’s squad for Saturday’s 4-1 league win over Newcastle United as Jose Mourinho’s side, who are second in the league, remained eight points behind neighbours City.

With four wins from four Champions League group games this season, United need just one more point from two matches to qualify for the last 16. They visit FC Basel on Wednesday. Ibrahimovic told British media that a domestic and European double was very much a target.

“I think there is a possibility for everything ... We are stronger this season. We believe we can do it – that’s the aim. To win and get the trophies,” he said. “I think we can chase City, why is it not a possibility?

“This week the manager has been very happy because he has a full team ... He knows what he is doing, even when the number of players are limited because he’s a winner and has been winning every season.”

Ibrahimovic and Rojo returned from serious knee injuries sustained last season and started on the bench for an almost full-strength United squad. The Swede came on in the latter stages of the game.

Frenchman Pogba recovered from a hamstring injury and scored in his first game since September.

Defenders Eric Bailly and Phil Jones and midfielder Michael Carrick are the only remaining injury concerns for United.(rtr)

Italian champions Juventus slumped to a 3-2 defeat at Sampdoria in Serie A on Sunday while hapless Benevento were denied their first point of the season when they lost 2-1 at home to Sassuolo in stoppage time. Two second-half headers from Mauro Icardi gave Inter Milan a 2-0 win at home to Atalanta, which took them two points above Juve into second place to stand two points behind Napoli, and left the Argentine with 13 goals from as many games.

Federico Peluso’s 94th-minute winner for Sassuolo, which came minutes after his team missed a penalty, meant bottom team Benevento were condemned to a record-extending 13th straight Serie A defeat.

Juve trailed 3-0 at Sampdoria before stoppage-time goals by Gonzalo Higuain, with a penalty, and Paulo Dybala made the score more respectable.

Juventus rested goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Andrea Barzagli, who both confirmed their international retirements after playing in Monday’s 0-0 draw with Sweden which meant Italy failed to qualify for next year’s World Cup. They missed a host of firsthalf chances then collapsed after the break as Samp maintained their perfect home record.

Duvan Zapata headed Sampdoria ahead in the 52nd minute, Lucas Torreira blasted the second and Gian Marco Ferrari turned in Fabio Quagliarella’s cross from the byline for the third. “It was one of our best first halves of the season and we just

needed to keep our cool in front of goal,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri. “They scored three goals from four shots.”

Icardi put Inter ahead in the 52nd minute against Atalanta when he got away from his marker to head in Antonio Candreva’s free kick and struck again with a superb glancing header from Danilo D’Ambrosio’s cross on the hour.

Napoli, 2-1 winners over visiting AC Milan on Saturday, lead the standings with 35 points from 13 games ahead of Inter on 33, with both teams still unbeaten. They are followed by Juventus on 31, AS Roma on 30 and Lazio with 28.

“GOOD EFFORT” Benevento gifted Sassuolo the lead after 57 minutes when Alessandro Matri was left to tap the ball into an empty net after a backpass was intercepted by Simone Missiroli. In a game that summed up Benevento’s season, Samuel Armenteros equalised eight minutes later but they almost immediately had Gaetano

Letizia sent off for a second booking. Benevento held out until added time when Sassuolo got a penalty for handball which Domenico Berardi smashed against the bar.

The home team’s relief was short-lived, however, as Peluso headed in from a corner for the winner from the next attack, the second time Benevento have been beaten deep into stoppage time. “We put in a good effort and the attitude is there,” said Benevento coach Roberto De Zerbi. “It’s our fault that we lost points again at the end - in those situations, the ball has to be cleared.” In other matches, Luca Rigoni’s early goal gave Genoa a 1-0 win at Crotone and a winning start to Davide Ballardini’s third stint as their coach after he replaced Ivan Juric.

Torino striker Andrea Belotti had a second-half penalty saved by Stefano Sorrentino as the Bulls were held 1-1 at home by Chievo, while Fiorentina’s match at SPAL ended with the same scoreline and Cagliari won 1-0 at troubled Udinese.(rtr)

Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine

Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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Valencia coach Marcelino

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Marcelino dismissed but Valencia keep pressure on Barca BARCELONA - Valencia coach Marcelino was sent off from the dugout for dissent before watching his side earn a barely deserved 2-0 win at Espanyol to stay in touch with Barcelona ahead of next week’s showdown against the Liga leaders. A rocket from Geoffrey Kondogbia put Valencia on their way to victory midway through the second half soon after Marcelino received his marching orders and Santi Mina sealed the victory late in the game.

Marcelino, who had opted to rest top scorer Simone Zaza and in-form winger Goncalo Guedes, saw his side survive a flurry of attempts from the hosts in both halves. Gerard Moreno struck the post while Sergio Garcia and former Valencia man Pablo Piatti narrowly missed the target.

After Marcelino’s sending off, which means he will be absent from the dugout for the visit of Barca, French midfielder Kondogbia broke the deadlock against the run of play with a

deadly shot from the edge of the area in the 66th minute, his third goal of the season. Mina then pounced on a defensive clanger from Espanyol’s Victor Sanchez in the 82nd minute to seal a club record eighth league win in a row for Valencia, who have emerged as unlikely candidates to jostle Barcelona for the Liga title.

“We had to work very hard for this win, we were second best in the first half but we managed to cope, stay compact and compete,” Mina told reporters. “In the second half we had more of the ball, we were more comfortable and we take away three points from this very difficult ground.

“Valencia have always been a great team and today we showed we can compete against anyone.

Big teams also win this way, the important thing is that we won again because next week we have a battle that will be just as tough and we need to be prepared.”

Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid fell 10 points behind the Catalans following Saturday’s goalless

local derby.

Barca lead the standings on 34 points from 12 games, Valencia are second in 30, while Real are third and Atletico fourth, both on 24. Valencia host Barca next Sunday at Mestalla.

Elsewhere, Athletic Bilbao’s veteran striker Aritz Aduriz scored a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Villarreal to save the Basque side from a fourth straight defeat while Las Palmas suffered an eighth consecutive loss, 2-0 at home to Levante.

Las Palmas prop up the table on six points with their embattled coach Pako Ayestaran now having now lost a league record 13 consecutive games across three seasons with two clubs. Malaga earned a second straight home win by beating Deportivo La Coruna 3-2 to ease pressure on coach Michel although his side are still in the relegation zone, 18th on seven points. They are a place ahead of Alaves, who are alongside Las Palmas on six.(rtr)

Tony Pulis has been sacked as West Bromwich Albion manager after a sequence of poor results, the Premier League club said on Monday. The 59-year-old Pulis, one of the League’s most experienced managers, has paid the price after nearly three years at Albion with the Midlands club struggling just a point above the Premier League relegation zone. Pulis’s assistant Gary Megson, the club’s former manager between 2000 and 2004, will take over as caretaker manager.

West Brom’s 4-0 hammering at home by Chelsea on Saturday proved the final straw for the Chinese owner of the Midlands club, Guochuan Lai, who was growing impatient with its poor form. Albion had won their first three games of the season but had not managed a victory in any competition since late August when they beat League Two Accrington Stanley 3-1 in the Carabao Cup. They subsequently failed to

earn a win with even the pragmatic Pulis, whose prosaic sides have usually been mainly notable for being difficult to beat. Pulis said he would not be surprised if he was dismissed.

West Brom are in 17th position in the league with 10 points from 12 league games, recording six losses in the process. “We are in a results business and over the back end of last season and this season to date, ours have been very disappointing,” West Brom chairman John Williams said. “These decisions are never taken lightly but always in the interests of the club.

“We would like to place on record our appreciation of Tony’s contribution and hard work during a period of transition for the club which included a change of ownership. We wish him well in his future endeavours.” West Brom ended last season in a healthy 10th position but finished the campaign disappointingly with just one win in their last eight league games..(rtr)

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

International

Alonso turns rookie for endurance test with Toyota

BAHRAIN - Double Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso turned rookie for a day on Sunday when he tried out Toyota’s world endurance championship car in a test that could lead to a Le Mans 24 Hours entry next year.

The 36-year-old McLaren driver completed 113 laps of the Bahrain International Circuit in the TS050 hybrid for a total distance of 611km.

The end-of-season test came a day after Toyota won the Six Hours of Bahrain race at the track.

“It was a great day. Testing an LMP1 (Le Mans top tier) car is always a nice thing for any racing driver because these cars are amazing to drive,” Alonso said in a Toyota statement.

“They are very consistent throughout a stint which is a positive thing. I have wanted to test a car like this for a long time now and today I could achieve that so I am happy,” added the Spaniard.

Alonso, who will be racing in Formula One’s Abu Dhabi seasonender next weekend, posted a best time of one minute 43.013 which compared to a 1:42.38 set by Toyota regular Mike Conway.

The Spaniard had visited Toy-

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McLaren are partnered by Honda, Toyota’s big domestic auto industry rivals, but that relationship will terminate at the end of this season -- leaving Alonso free to race for Toyota at Le Mans without contractual problems should he secure a drive.

Le Mans in June does not clash with any Formula One commitments.

Toyota have yet to confirm their continuation in the endurance championship, with champions Porsche pulling out, but are expected to stay as favourites to win Le Mans.

Alonso, who competed in this year’s Indianapolis 500, has set his sights on completing the so-called Triple Crown of motorsport.

The feat, only achieved by the late British driver Graham Hill, involves winning Indianapolis, The Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar car and the Formula One world championship.

Some consider the Triple Crown to be the Monaco Grand Prix, rather than the world championship, but Alonso has won both. (rtr)

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Dimitrov comes of age to win ATP Finals title

LONDON - Grigor Dimitrov claimed the biggest title of his career and sent out a huge statement of intent as the stylish Bulgarian beat David Goffin 7-5 4-6 6-3 to win the ATP Finals on Sunday.

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Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov (L) holds the winner’s trophy as Belgium’s David Goffin poses with the runners-up plate folowing their men’s singles final on day eight of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament at the O2 Arena in London on November 19, 2017. Dimitrov won the match 7-5, 6-4, 6-3.

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The 26-year-old recovered from losing his opening two service games to finally get the better of the willowy Belgian player, but it was fiercely-fought twoand-a-half hour duel with Goffin saving four match points before finally succumbing.

Dimitrov’s unbeaten run this week in London earned him $2.5 million while the 1,500 ranking points have catapulted him to end an impressive year ranked third in the world -- behind only all-time greats Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

More significantly perhaps, landing the unofficial “fifth” grand slam appears to be proof that the former junior Wimbledon champion, once dubbed ‘Baby Federer’ because of his easy-on-the-eye style, has finally come of age.

“It’s been an amazing week for me,” Dimitrov said on court after becoming the first player to win the elite eight-man tournament on his first appearance in the event since Spaniard Alex Corretja beat countryman Carlos Moya in 1998.

“It’s such an honour to be here and this week has been one of the best weeks I’ve ever had.”

He was still on court nearly an hour after the match ended, signing autographs for the sizeable Bulgarian contingent who had roared their man to victory.

Yet it was tough on Goffin who, like Dimitrov, was his country’s first qualifier for the ATP Finals.

His substantial consolation, though, was to end the year at a career-high seventh, having become only the sixth man to beat Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the same tournament.

He will need to recover fast from the two hour 30

minute final -- the longest since the event adopted a three-set format -- as a Davis Cup final looms in France next weekend.

Many of the capacity crowd in the O2 Arena had doubtless booked their tickets in anticipation of watching the top two seeds Federer and Nadal go head-tohead but the two newcomers provided a fitting end to an extraordinary ATP season.

Goffin managed only two games against Dimitrov when they met on Wednesday in group play but recovered to beat Dominic Thiem to reach the semis where he stunned six-times champion Federer.

For Dimitrov, he was quickly a different proposition in the final, using his pinpoint accuracy to keep his gifted opponent under control and he was way ahead on the winner count as he moved 4-3 ahead.

A double-fault at 30-30 followed by a wayward forehand, though, gifted Dimitrov a break and seemed to energise the Bulgarian.

Dimitrov began to assert himself and piled on the pressure when Goffin served at 5-6. Goffin saved four set points, two with forehand winners, but doublefaulted on a game point of his own before Dimitrov forced an error to wrap up the opener.

Goffin needed just one break of serve to take the match into a decider and looked the more likely winner for a while but when Dimitrov survived a 10-minute service game at the start of the third, saving four break points, it proved crucial.

With Goffin beginning to tire, Dimitrov moved 5-2 ahead with a break and then went 0-40 ahead on Goffin’s serve.

Somehow Goffin survived to extend the contest to another game and saved another match point on the Bulgarian’s serve.

He looked poised to save another one as he stretched Dimitrov all over the court but with the court at his mercy he put an attempted drop-volley into the net. (rtr)

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UK queen and husband Philip celebrate 70 years of marriage, quietly

Yogyakarta holds ninth Jogja International Heritage Walk

The opening of the ninth Jogja International Heritage Walk was conducted in Yogyakarta on Nov. 18. This was an event that combined walking and cultural activities A total of 7,500 people, 285 of them were overseas tourists took part in the main event that was held on Nov. 19.

These international tourists came from countries such as Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Russia, China, Taiwan, the United States and Canada.

Additionally, Indonesia is the only ASEAN country that is listed as a member of the International Marching League (IML). Jogja Heritage Walk was divided into three categories: five kilometers, 10 kilometers and 20 kilometers. Participants had to walk past several temples such as Kedulan, Sari, Sambisari and Prambanan as well as other tourist sites like Silik Bridge in Karantengah Hamlet, Kedungmiri, Sriharjo and Oya Bridge.

The event also had other supporting activities namely Family Fun Walk, Coloring and Umbrella Painting competitions and an educational trip by the Medang Heritage Society and Hompimpa Kampung Dolanan Anak. Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said that the event does not only promoted a healthy lifestyle but also encouraged interaction between people from different backgrounds and helped in strengthening the tourism sector in Yogyakarta. “We hope that this [event] can become one of the tourist events and bring in more tourists to increase the country’s foreign exchange,” told Sri Sultan.(rtr)

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth and husband Prince Philip mark their platinum wedding anniversary with a small family get-together on Monday, a far cry from the pomp and celebration which greeted their marriage 70 years ago.

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Handout photo issued November 18, 2017 by Camera Press of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle in early November, in celebration of their platinum wedding anniversary on November 20.

The couple married at London’s Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947, just two years after the end of World War Two, in a glittering ceremony which attracted statesmen and royalty from around the world and huge crowds of cheering well-wishers.

Seventy years on, no public events are planned. Elizabeth, now 91, and her 96-year-old husband, who retired from active public life in August, will celebrate the milestone with a private party at Windsor Castle, the monarch’s home to the west of London.

That contrasts with their silver, golden and diamond wedding anniversaries when they attended thanksgiving services at the thousand-year-old Abbey, where the queen was crowned and where her grandson and his wife, William and Kate, were married in 2011.

However, the Abbey itself will

mark the occasion with a full peal of its bells involving 5,070 change of sequences, with the 70 reflecting the anniversary, which will last more than three hours.

“Congratulations to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh as they celebrate their Platinum Wedding anniversary,” Prime Minister Theresa May said on Twitter.

“They have devoted their lives to the service of the UK and the Commonwealth - my best wishes to them both on this special occasion.”

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth, as she then was, to the dashing naval officer Philip Mountbatten was seen as raising the nation’s spirits amid an austere background of rationing and shortages that followed the war.

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of colour on the hard road we have to travel,” said

former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Five years later, Elizabeth succeeded her father George VI on the throne and has ruled for the following 65 years, more than any other monarch in British history, with Philip by her side throughout.

“The support he gives to my grandmother is phenomenal,” Prince Harry said in a documentary to mark her 60th year on the throne.

“Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river, the fact that he’s there - I personally don’t think that she could do it without him.”

While the couple’s marriage has remained strong, three of their four children have seen their unions end in divorce, most notably heir Prince Charles’s ill-fated union with his late first wife Princess Diana. (rtr)

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe has until noon to stand down or face impeachment

HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has until noon (1000 GMT) on Monday to stand down or the ruling ZANUPF will begin impeachment proceedings after the 93-year-old leader defied expectations he would resign.

Mugabe stunned Zimbabweans in a rambling late night Sunday television address by avoiding any mention of resignation, pledging instead to preside over a congress next month of ZANU-PF, which had sacked him as its leader only hours earlier.

Parliament does not sit on Mondays so any impeachment would have to wait until Tuesday, although a vote may not necessarily take place the same day.

Zimbabwe’s liberation war veterans, who have been among the most vocal in calling for Mugabe’s resignation, will hold a media briefing at 9.30 a.m.

Moments after Mugabe’s address, war veterans leader Chris

Mutsvangwa told Reuters they would lead public protests in the streets of Harare, cranking up the pressure on Zimbabwe’s ruler of the last 37 years.

Having been sacked by his party, Mugabe has run out of options but appears to be steadfastly clinging to the very last vestiges of power.

There was even speculation that he read the wrong speech in his live television address, or skipped over passages about standing down.

Anxious Zimbabweans have been trying to decipher a barely audible aside comment he made to military chief Constantino Chiwenga at the end of the address.

In the audio, which is not clear, Mugabe refers to a “long speech” or a “wrong speech”.

ZANU-PF’s central committee had earlier named Emmerson Mnangagwa as its new leader. It was Mugabe’s sacking of Mnangagwa as his vice-president - pav-

ing the way for his wife Grace to succeed him - that triggered the army to seize control on Wednesday.

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of the capital Harare to celebrate Mugabe’s expected downfall and hail a new era for their country.

The huge crowds in Harare have given a quasi-democratic veneer to the army’s intervention, backing its assertion that it was merely effecting a constitutional transfer of power, rather than a plain coup, which would risk a diplomatic backlash.

But some of Mugabe’s opponents are uneasy about the prominent role played by the military, and fear Zimbabwe might be swapping one army-backed autocrat for another, rather than allowing the people to choose their next leader.

Armoured vehicles manned by soldiers were still stationed on some street corners in the capital on Monday. (rtr)

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People watch as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses the nation on television, at a bar in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 19, 2017.

Novanto was named a suspect on Nov. Indonesia parliament ... 10 again after he had used a controversial

legal manoeuvre, a pre-trial motion, to get earlier charges dropped last month.

President Joko Widodo told reporters on Monday that he had asked Novanto to “follow the legal process”. The KPK has been collaborating with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on the case, said agency spokesman Diansyah.

The FBI has been investigating the activities of Johannes Marliem, a U.S.-based contractor for the ID card scheme, who later committed suicide in Los Angeles.

The parliament speaker’s legal battle with the graft agency has gripped Indonesia, with newspaper front pages splashing the story and social media circulating memes mocking him. Novanto gained a measure of international fame in September 2015 when Donald Trump, then a U.S. presidential candidate, hailed him as a “great man” at a news conference.

“Do they like me in Indonesia?” Trump asked after introducing Novanto to reporters at Trump Tower. “Yes, highly,” Novanto replied. (rtr)

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Vehicles used for transporting workers to the Grasberg copper mine operated by Freeport McMoRan Inc are seen at the Gorong-Gorong terminal in Timika, Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia on November 16, 2017. Picture taken November 16, 2017.

Freeport evacuating Indonesian mine worker families after shootings

TIMIKA - U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc is evacuating spouses and children of workers from its giant Indonesian copper mine after a string of shootings in the area raised security concerns. The move follows efforts by Indonesian authorities on Friday to evacuate villages near Freeport’s Grasberg mine in the eastern province of Papua that authorities said had been occupied by armed separatists.

Since August at least 12 people have been injured and two police officers have been killed by gunmen with suspected links to separatist rebels. Freeport has asked family and household members of its employees to prepare over the weekend for a temporary relocation from the mining town of Tembagapura, about 10 km (6.2 miles) from Grasberg, company sources said. Workers have been asked to stay behind and maintain their work schedule, they said.

Details of the evacuation or

the number of people impacted were not immediately clear. Shots were fired at a light vehicle and two large mining trucks were set on fire at Grasberg on Saturday, one of the sources said. The sources declined to be named as they were not authorised to talk to the media.

Freeport in a statement on Saturday confirmed the evacuation plan and said it will be carried out immediately. “We are working closely with government and law enforcement to ensure the safety

of our people and those in the communities we support, and to bring about the return of peace and stability as soon as possible,” it said.

Grasberg is the world’s secondlargest copper mine by volume.

The separatist West Papua National Liberation Army (TPN-OPM) says it is at war with Indonesian authorities and wants to “destroy” Freeport in an effort to gain sovereignty for the region. TPN-OPM has claimed responsibility for the shootings but denies police allegations it took civilian hostages.(rtr)

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German stocks led the move downward, with the country’s main index down by over 0.2 percent, pulling the main pan-European broader Euro STOXX 600 index lower by a similar amount. Investors instead preferred safe haven government bonds: the yield on Germany’s 10-year government bond, the benchmark for the bloc, edged lower to a 1-1/2 week low of 0.35 percent at one stage. “The collapse of the talks was a surprise and there is little clarity on how things will unfold from here. It adds to uncertainty which is weighing on risk sentiment in world markets,” said Rainer Guntermann, rates strategist at Commerzbank.

Other analysts said however, that the overall sentiment towards the euro zone remains positive, reflected in the resilience of the euro on Monday. “The eurozone political story is an outlier at the moment in the G10 currency trading space. The German political news over the weekend is not a game changer in our view,” said Viraj Patel, a currency strategist at ING in London. “The broader story still remains of a recovering

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Indonesian contemporary artists embrace holistic approach

European markets jarred by German coalition collapse

LONDON - European stocks slipped and safe haven government bonds were in demand early on Monday as the collapse of coalition talks in Germany served as a reminder of political risk that still runs as an undercurrent in Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday her efforts to form a three-way coalition government had failed, thrusting Germany into a political crisis and pushing Europe’s largest economy closer to a possible new election.

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eurozone with improving fundamentals.”

And so the euro, which had dipped to as low as $1.1722 at one stage, was back up on the day by 0900 GMT, resuming a more than 2 percent recovery against the dollar over the past two weeks. Against the yen, the single currency dipped as much as 0.8 percent in Asian trading to a two-month low of 131.16 yen . But it was flat in London trade at 131.97 yen, down just 0.2 percent on the day.

In Asia, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was off its session lows to be slightly down, as volatile Chinese shares reversed earlier sharp losses. Japan’s Nikkei stock average finished down 0.6 percent.

“It’s year-end season, so people have more incentive to take profits,” said Kyoya Okazawa, Hong Kong-based head of institutional clients, APAC at BNP Paribas Securities. This after Wall Street had ended last week on a sour note with major indexes slipping as investors weighed the fate of the Republicans’ tax overhaul plan. The dollar edged lower against a basket of major currencies on Monday, and was close to one-month lows hit last week.

Crude oil futures were mixed. Brent crude oil LCOc1 dipped 19 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $62.51 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 added 9 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $56.64 a barrel. Oil rebounded more than 2 percent on Friday after falling for five straight session as a major U.S. crude pipeline was shut and traders anticipated an OPEC deal to extend curbs on production. But crude prices still fell for the first week in six, pressured by rising U.S. output data and doubts that Russia would support an extension of the OPEC output cut deal. (rtr)

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A container ship is seen at the shipping terminal Eurokai in the Port of Hamburg, Germany November 6, 2017.

Opioid crisis cost U.S. economy $504 billion in 2015: White House WASHINGTON - Opioid drug abuse, which has ravaged parts of the United States in recent years, cost the economy as much as $504 billion in 2015, White House economists said in a report made public on Sunday. The White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) said the toll from the opioid crisis represented 2.8 percent of gross domestic product that year.

President Donald Trump last month declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. While Republican lawmakers said that was an important step in fighting opioid abuse, some critics, including Democrats, said the move was meaningless without additional funding.

The report could be used by the Trump White House to urge Republicans in Congress - who historically have opposed increasing government spending - to provide more funding for fighting the opioid crisis by arguing that the economic losses far outweigh the cost of additional government funding.

Using a combination of statistical models, the CEA said the lost economic output stemming from 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015 could be between $221 billion

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and $431 billion, depending on the methodology used.

In addition, the report looked at the cost of non-fatal opioid usage, estimating a total of $72 billion for 2.4 million people with opioid addictions in 2015. Those costs included medical treatment, criminal justice system expenses and the decreased economic productivity of addicts.

The CEA said its estimate was larger than those of some prior studies because it took a broad look at the value of lives lost to overdoses. The CEA also said its methodology incorporated an adjustment to reflect the fact that opioids were underreported on death certificates.

“The crisis has worsened, especially in terms of overdose deaths which have doubled in the past ten years,” the CEA said. “While previous studies have focused exclusively on prescription opioids, we consider illicit opioids including heroin as well.”

Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, are fueling the drug overdoses. More than 100 Americans die daily from related overdoses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventi\on. (rtr)

Art has always been produced in the context of a given era and the particular conditions that the artist finds themselves in. Whether an artists chooses to produce art which specifically references this era and conditions or whether they choose to focus on more general ideas or even their own feelings and perceptions, the era in which they make their art nonetheless informs their art. Such referencing has become highly conceptualized - some say to the determent of the artistry of art.

As art writer and curator Rain Rosidi explains in the catalogue of the Dari Masa ka Rasa exhibition , modern art was born out of a reaction to the Romantic movement that placed man at the centre of the universe and emphasized imaginary settings and personal feelings with little regard for or reference to tthe world around them. Their technical mastery yielded highly realist landscapes and figures yet remained devoid of any commentary on these subjects., which according to critics is the primary task of the artist- to share their perception of conditions and context.

Whereas fine art is fundamentally based on a mastery of technic, as modern art sought to develop more critical approaches to art production this eventually led to contemporary art that increasingly moved so far into the conceptual that techique and aesthetic beauty were often abandoned altogether. In reaction such extreme conditions in the art world, artists Agung Tato (Surabaya), Angga Sukma Permana (Yogyakarta), Agustan (Jakarta), M. Muhlis Lugis (Makasar), and Made Ddwi Kenak Adyana

(Bali) have come together to restore balance.

The five artists that make up art collective ‘Segitiga’ first joined forces on the campus of ISI Yogyakarta where they were studying for their masters degrees in FIne Arts. Their lengthly and ongoing verbal and graphic exchanges at that time -which naturally were informed by the theoretical basis of their studies, led them to a shared desire to comment on the current conditions of contemporary art in Indonesia through their art works. Although each artist came to the table with a different background, style and method, they shared a vision of creating art works that combined critical, conceptual, technical and aesthetic elements, without any of these elements being at the expense of the other.

Humanity has seen various changes in the conditions in which we live and thus our perception of the world and the place of art.

From the cave paintings of early man to the highly conceptual art works in vogue today, art is constantly developing according to the era in which artists live, said Rosidi. It is up to the artist to share their perception of such conditions, which can be done in myriad ways as witnessed by the variety of technics, subject matter and concepts expressed by the five artists in this exhibition.

As Art Writer I Made Susanta Dwitanya eloquently put it in his introductory words of the exhibition catalogue, the title Dari Masa ka Rasa (from era to feeling), can be interpreted as a reference to the personal journey of these five artist from the era or time and space of

their formal studies to the feelings they shared with one and other informally on campus. It can also be read as a reference to ‘era’ as the natural cycles of nature from day to night and season to season that delineate time in space to the personal journey of humans through these cycles of their own personal life.

Or, further still the exhibition title ‘from era to feelings’ can be interpreted as a commentary on Indonesia Contemporary Art, with these five artists serving as representatives of the journey

from the ‘era’ of formal or theoretical conceptual explorations of art, to the personal sharing they have been engaged in which led them to more technique-based, personal and critical explorations of their artistic expression.

Perhaps more generally ‘from era to feeling’ can be read as an invitation for all humans to move into their heart space so as to choose a more wholistic approach to contemporary conditions so as to find solutions to the challenges we all face.

All five artist show clear technical mastery of the art of painting and although each artist expresses this mastery in their own unique personal style, they also each express a particular vision or commentary on present conditions, whether political, environmental or aesthetic, Despite the strong emphasis on technique and commentary, the basis on which art is founded - aesthetic beauty as an expression of intangible feelings remains a distinct feature in all the art works of ‘Dari Masa ka Rasa’ which is on display at Griya Santrian Gallery, Sanur (Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur) until December 31rst, 2017.

It is also worth noting that this is the last exhibition of Griya Santrian Gallery’s 15th year running. This gallery, that has provided a space for Balinese contemporary art to become better known to the public for 15 years, deliberately chose to have their end of year exhibition feature artists from all over Indonesia.

Although this is not the first time that artists from outside Bali have exhibited in this space, this particular exhibition speaks to the increasingly dynamic range of Balinese contemporary art and the national art context that is informed by and which informs art in Bali. Dari Masa Ka Rasa shows a promising start to a new era for Griya Santrian Gallery for its next 15 years, and perhaps for contemporary Indonesia art in general, which may start to embrace both feeling and critical commentary again as a valuable component of the nations art. (kmb)

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Town of Bangli floods again after few hours of heavy rain BANGLI — The streets of Bangli were flooded again after a few hours of torrential downpour on Sunday (Nov. 19). As a result of the flooding many motorists had to stop moving and south of SMAN 1 Bangli, on Jalan Ngurah Rai, local residents had to install an emergency embankment to prevent their homes from being flooded.

Rain fell heavily on Bangli from about 13:00- until 15:30 causing the drainage channel south of SMAN I Bangli to overflow up to 20 centimeters onto the road. The overflowing water carried all manner of garbage with it littering the streets of Bangli with plastic trash.

One local resident name Gede Imbawan, said the water had overflowed because the drainage channels in the Town of Bangli do not work properly and large amounts of garbage in the channels compounds the problem. “This happens every time there is heavy rain”, he said,

adding that this recent incident was nothing compared to the flooding that has happened in the past when many people’s homes were inundated.

Naturally,Imbhawan and other local residents hope that the drainage channels can be improved as soon as possible. He also mentioned that the garbage in the drainage channels needs to be removed immediately so as to prevent such flooding when it rains hard.

People living near the Bangli District Court office expressed similar hopes explaining that they had to make emergency embankments made of sand bags outside their front doors on Sunday to prevent water from flowing into their homes as it has in the past.

Meanwhile, Commander of the 1626/Bangli Military District, Suka Prajaka, said that they too had to take action to prevent their office from becoming flooded. (kmb40)

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Wanagiri village offer great places for selfies with Lake Bunyan and Lake Tamblingan as backdrops. This village also home to dozens of waterfalls.

No management for dozens of waterfalls at Wanagiri

SINGARAJA — Wanagiri village in the subdistrict of Sukasada not only offer great places for selfies with Lake Bunyan and Lake Tamblingan as backdrops, this village with a mild is also home to dozens of waterfalls.

However, so far, only three of the waterfalls in Wanagiri are managed by local village community groups.

The natural scenery at the location of these waterfall remains pristine as the waterfalls are located in forests that are well preserved. In addition to the clean high mountain water, the natural settings of these waterfalls, whether in forest or plantations adds to the natural wealth of Wanagiri village’s beauty.

The only three waterfalls that are currently being managed by community groups are; only local people visit these waterfalls that are promoted using social media platforms that have become so popular nowadays. The paths to these waterfalls are still very narrow and are not equipped with supporting facilities.

Headman of Wanagiri, Wayan Gumiasa, said on Friday (Nov. 17) that many of the waterfalls were accidentally discovered after the central government program launched their village forest management (HPHD) program. Small pathways to these waterfalls were gradually mae without cutting down any trees in

the village forest. Not al of the waterfalls have paths to them however so many remain untouched as there are no community groups ready to manage them.

“There is no problem with making pathways to the waterfalls, and no trees need to be cut down. The problem is that we do not have enough community groups to develop the waterfalls as attractions. Therefor, so far only the three waterfall sare being managed. Even though this is being doen in a very simple manner, we have still managed to attract visitors”, explained Gumiasa.

Gumiasa added that he hopes that the Bulelelng Tourism Office or other third parties can help to develop the potential of these natural attractions. Topographically Wanagiri village is located in the tourist area of Bedugul that is crowded with local and foreign tourists every day. So, I fhtese waterfall attractions are developed they are quite likely to draw visitors.

Gumiasa also said that he is confident that with the involvement of related agencies and third parties, these natural tourist attractions can have positive impact on the village’S economy.

“There is no problem with road access because with the HPHD permit the village has been given the right to manage the village and can prepare pathways. The rest depends on management, marketing and promotion”, he explained. (kmb38)

Satellite calls yield no clues on missing Argentine submarine

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Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney, Australia, against the treatment of asylumseekers at Australia-run detention centres located at Nauru and Manus Island, November 18, 2017.

Australia, NZ officials discuss screening for Manus refugees - NZ PM

WELLINGTON - New Zealand and Australian officials have begun talks about screening processes for asylum seekers who have shut themselves inside a Papua New Guinea detention centre, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.

Australia has been refusing New Zealand’s offer to take up to 150 of the detainees from the Australianrun camp on Manus Island, but Ardern’s comments have raised speculation that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is ready to accept the offer.

The centre was closed almost three weeks ago after PNG’s High Court ruled it was illegal, but more than 400 detainees have refused to leave, citing concerns for their security if they were moved to transit centres, as planned.

Turnbull has been refusing New Zealand’s offer to take some of the men, because he is worried that asylum seekers would view it as a “back door” to Australia, undermining the country’s tough immigration policies.

Ardern said the conversations

were about establishing the screening processes.

“To be clear we have not started that process,” Ardern told Radio New Zealand. “But I think that certainly we’re a bit further along than we have been before - we haven’t even had officials having those discussions in the past.”

The United Nations, which has warned of a “looming humanitarian crisis”, last week urged Australia to accept New Zealand’s offer to take the men.

Turnbull has insisted the priority was an existing refugee swap deal he negotiated with former U.S. President Barack Obama last year.

The men holed up inside the camp are reliant on erratic food supplies smuggled in by supporters. They have no power or running water.

Australia’s “sovereign borders” immigration policy, under which it refuses to allow asylum seekers arriving by boat to reach its shores, has been heavily criticised by the United Nations and human rights groups but has bipartisan political support in Australia. (rtr)

MAR DEL PLATA - A storm on Sunday complicated efforts to find an Argentine navy submarine missing in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members, while satellite calls thought to come from the vessel did not help searchers identify the vessel’s location.

The defense ministry has said the ARA San Juan appeared to try to make contact through seven failed satellite calls on Saturday between late morning and early afternoon. The vessel was 432 km (268 miles) off Argentina’s coast when its location was last known early on Wednesday.

As waves of up to 8 meters (20 feet) and winds reaching 40 knots complicated the search by sea, authorities spent Sunday trying to trace the submarine’s location through data from the satellite calls without significant progress, a navy official told reporters.

“We analyzed these signals, which as we know were intermittent and weak,” said Gabriel Galeazzi, a naval commander. “They could not help determine a point on the map to help the search.”

U.S. satellite communications company Iridium Communications Inc, which was brought in to help analyze the calls, said they did not originate with its device aboard the vessel and may have been from another satellite communications company’s equipment.

It said the last call it detected from its device was on Wednesday, the same day the government said the vessel vanished.

More than a dozen boats and aircraft from Argentina, the United States, Britain, Chile and Brazil had joined the effort. Authorities have mainly been scanning the sea from above as the storm made the search difficult for boats, navy Admiral Gabriel Gonzalez told reporters.

“Unfortunately these conditions are expected to remain for the next 48 hours,” Gonzalez said from the Mar del Plata naval base, about 420 km (240 miles) south of Buenos Aires where the submarine had been heading toward before vanishing. (rtr)

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Undated and unlocated handout picture released by Argentina’s Navy showing Argentine submarinist Eliana Krawczyk onboard the Argentine ARA Salta submarine. Argentina’s navy is hunting for one of its submarines which has been reported missing in the South Atlantic with a crew of 44 on board.

South Korea fears further missile advances by North this year in threat to U.S.

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The water had overflowed because the drainage channels in the Town of Bangli do not work properly and large amounts of garbage in the channels compounds the problem.

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SEOUL - North Korea may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the United States, South Korea’s spy agency said on Monday, adding that it was monitoring developments closely.

North Korea is pursuing nuclear weapons and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council

sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. It has fired two missiles over Japan.

The reclusive state appears to have carried out a recent missile engine test while brisk movements of vehicles were spotted near known missile facilities, Yi Wan-young, a member of South Korea’s parliamentary intelligence committee

which was briefed by Seoul’s National Intelligence Service, said.

No sign of an imminent nuclear test had been detected, Yi noted.

The third tunnel at the Punggye-ri complex remained ready for another detonation “at any time”, while construction had recently resumed at a fourth tunnel, making it out of use for the time being.

“The agency is closely following

the developments because there is a possibility that North Korea could fire an array of ballistic missiles this year under the name of a satellite launch and peaceful development of space, but in fact to ratchet up its threats against the United States,” the lawmakers told reporters after a closeddoor briefing by the spy agency.

North Korea defends its weapons programmes as a necessary

defence against U.S. plans to invade. The United States, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean war, denies any such intention.

Pyongyang is also carrying out a sweeping ideological scrutiny of the political unit of the military for the first time in 20 years, according to Kim Byung-kee, another lawmaker in the committee. (rtr)

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Reverse migration? Pollution in India’s cities draws residents back to rural life

MUMBAI - Namita Singh’s young daughter suffered from bronchitis when the family lived in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, where fumes from clogged traffic and a smoky haze every winter outweighed the charms of its Mughal architecture and famed cuisine.

When her husband was transferred to the town of Dehradun, in the foothills of the Himalayas, her daughter recovered in the clean mountain air.

So when her husband’s job took him to Delhi a couple of years later, the choice was clear: Singh and her daughter remained in Dehradun, while he moved to the capital.

As a toxic smog enveloped Delhi and northern parts of India, forcing emergency measures, Singh said she was relieved not to be living there.

“I cannot think of living in Delhi, with the pollution so bad,” said Singh, whose husband visits every two weeks.

“My daughter is so much better here in the cleaner air. We cannot think of moving back to that pollution,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Pollution levels climbed to 12 times above the recommended limit this week in New Delhi. Officials said they knew what was needed to control the haze, but nothing would be done, at least this year.

City pollution has triggered a reverse migration trend in India from the city to the countryside.

While it is a mere trickle com-

pared to the inexorable rural to urban flow, some high-profile moves have made the news in recent years, such as the departure of Costa Rica’s ambassador to southern India because Delhi’s air had made her sick.

At least 2.5 million people in India died early because of pollution in 2015, more than any other country in the world, according to a study by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health.

In New Delhi - now the most polluted city in the world, according to the Brookings Institute - illegal crop burning in areas near the capital, as well as vehicle exhaust and construction dust are blamed for the smog that descends in cooler weather every year.

The city, home to more than 20 million people, has become a “gas chamber”, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said.

‘HARDSHIP’ POSTING As sales of face masks rose and chatter about air purifiers filled internet chat rooms, others took more concrete action: they moved to smaller cities on the coast or the mountains.

The pollution did not even spare

Delhi’s elite diplomatic corps.

In a blog post gone viral, Mariela Cruz Alvarez, the Costa Rican ambassador, said she had developed a serious respiratory infection, and had moved to Karnataka in the south to recover.

“India has become a threat to my health and the health of my friends and colleagues,” Alvarez wrote.

Local newspapers said several embassies have cut down on nonessential staff in Delhi, and moved some positions to neighbouring countries like Singapore.

Delhi may soon be considered a “hardship” posting because of the high levels of pollution, some missions said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart Cities Mission aims to modernise 100 cities by 2020 with high-speed internet, uninterrupted power and water supply, efficient public transport and living standards comparable to Europe.

But such efforts must include a long-term plan to control pollution, said Anumita Roy Chowdhury, executive director at research and advocacy group, Centre for Science and Environment.

“Air pollution is a huge issue, but it is a myth that only big cities are

polluted; pollution levels are rising in smaller cities, too. So where can you run away to?” she said.

“Our template for urbanisation needs changing.”

Tens of thousands of people living in rural areas migrate to the cities every day, seeking better economic opportunities. Many end up in slums and informal settlements, and are particularly vulnerable to the pollution.

Some of those who can are heading in the opposite direction.

A popular anchor on a leading financial television network

stepped down four years ago, and said he was moving to the mountain state of Uttarakhand for a cleaner, quieter life. Even those who have recently moved to the cities are taking stock of their decisions.

Vinod Kumar, who moved from a village in southern Tamil Nadu to Chennai city to be a driver, said he planned to return to his village and take up organic farming on the family land. “It’s only now that I realise how lucky we were in the village to have clean air and clean water, and not be ill from pollution all the time,” he said. (rtr)

MANGUPURA — The number of Indonesians who travelled abroad (outbound travelers) increased by about 7 million last year.

Thus figure is much lower than the number of Indonesians travelling within the archipelago. The benefit of intensively promoting tourism in Indonesia will be greatly reduced if it is only foreign tourists who are attracted to visit Indonesia and not domestic tourists.

Indonesians travelling abroad cannot be avoided, however and in fact tourism in the Asia-Pacific region is growing fast. Indonesia is not only a destination but also a target market. “ Indonesia, India and Japan serve as potential markets for tourism to other places. Korea and Japan are attracting increasing numbers of Indonesian tourists”, said Prof. I Gde Pitana, Deputy of Overseas Tourism Marketing Development, Ministry of Tourism, on Friday (Nov. 17) during a seminar entitled Indonesia Tourism Outlook 2018 held at Ayodya Resort Nusa Dua, Bali.

In order to prevent too many Indonesians from visiting other countries, Pitana’s division is looking to develop local destinations that appeal to the needs of the local tourism market. “ For example who visits Malang? Who visits the new tourist destinations in Western or Southern Sumatra? It is mostly Indonesian tourists”, he said.

Man domestic tourists prefer to travel abroad rather than in country as it can actually be cheaper. Flying to Singapore for example is cheaper than fling to Eastern Indonesia. “ It costs about IDR 8 million to fly form Bali to Raja Ampat, wheras it only costs IDR 4 million to fly to Singapore”, admitted Pitana.

Improvement to infrastructure are thereof needed in order to boost local tourism in the future, he said adding that Indonesian destinations also need to be improved so that they can stand up to the competition of other countries. Vietnam for example is emerging as a new tourist destination that is even using the tagline “the New Bali”, offering patterned destinations like Nusa Dua. “We need to be innovative and creative”, he said.

As economic observer, Faisal Basri said during the same seminar, although there were 7 million Indonesian travelling abroad last year, there are still larger numbers of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia. “ I am still worried about the increasing number of outbound travellers though”, said Basri. Travel fairs organized by airline companies actually caused many domestic tourists to travel overseas.

According to recent studies, in the next two years, Indonesians are going to travel further for longer periods of time and shop more while they are abroad. Basri therefor hopes to see a focus not just on increasing the number of foreign tourists who visit Indonesia (presently targeted to reach 20 million per year), but also on per capita spending. “ Next year, we have ot get more Europeans, American and Japanese tourists to visit, because they are higher quality tourists”, concluded Basri. (kmb42)

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Improvements in the quality and quantity of such infrastructure – particularly highways, needs to take into account of the negative impacts that the increase in the number of vehicles has on the quality of the environment.

Development of transportation infrastructure must not degrade quality of the environment

MANGUPURA — The development of transportation plays an important role in supporting economic progress. However, improvements in the quality and quantity of such infrastructure – particularly highways, needs to take into account of the negative impacts that the increase in the number of vehicles has on the quality of the environment.

“Going forward, the development of transportation infrastructure should not decrease the environmental quality”, said Prof.

Putu Alit Suthanaya, Ph.D. in his acceptance speech for being made into a permanent professor at Udayana University Bukit Jimbaran Campus on Saturday (Nov. 18).

There is an increase of about 8 percent in the number of motor vehicles in Indonesia avery year.

Improvements to infrastructure and and facilitates however is not keeping pace with the increase in the number of vehicles, continued Prof. Suthanaya. As a result, many cities in Indonesia are facing serious issues with traffic congestion.

Denpasar is one example, where originally it was a small town that developed into a major city and has now become a metropolitan

city.

“The decline in the speed at which vehicels can circulate due to traffic congestion also causes increases in fuel consumption”, said this professor in the Transport Science devpartement of the Faculty of Engineering at Udayana University.

Prof Suthanaya added that traffic congestion has led to a concentration of air pollution at peak traffic hours on main roads, that surpasses acceptable thresholds.

Air pollution has the potential of adversely affecting human health and eco-sytsems. Noise and potential traffic accidents are also becoming problematic, he said. As of yet, there is no agreement on the criteria for sustainable transportation – especially at metropolitan and sub-metropolitan level.

“Environmental indicators used

to evaluate transport performance at the local level need to be looked at to determine wether they correspond to conditions both locally and globally”, he explained Noise levels for example, stated Prof. Suthanaya, are determined based on local indicators not global indicators. Such indicators, he said need to correspond to sustainability goals and transportation targets. The hierarchy of these indicators need to be understood before they are determined, he explained.

“Traffic patterns can be used as an environmental indicator for sustainable urban transport. For example, increases in mileage and use of private vehicles is associated with higher energy consumption and increased emissions”, said this transportation scientist. (kmb32)

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Fogging, one of the effort to reduce the spread of dengue fever.

Bali Pink Ribbon (BPR) supported by Hatten Wines, Bali’s award-winning winery, is celebrating “Pink on the Green” this month to support the fight against breast cancer. BPR will host an elegant and dazzling evening of music, song, and fundraising at the Hatten Wine building on Saturday, 25 November 2017.

Themed “Pink on the Green”, the event brings the message of breast cancer awareness in a

Nengah Mandri,, one of the few fishermen left in Kusamba Village.

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Kusamba fishermen loose hope of next generation continuing this trade

The professsion of fisherman can no longer promise a life of prosperity to people living in coastal communities like Kusamba village in Dawan, Klungkung. Because it has become increasingly difficult to make a living as a fisherman, young people are unwilling to learn this trade, so this may be the last generation of fishermen in Kusamba.

It is 10:00 in the morning and 45 year old Nengah Suryata sits under a hibiscus tree on the beach to avoid the stinging heat of the sun. He gazes out to sea watching the waves lapping the shore. This has become a common activity for Suryata over the last few weeks as he fights the boredom brought on by lack of fish to catch. In fact this has become an annual occurrence that Surayata has grown used to in recent years, teaching him to be patient.

This father of three children shared his stories of life as a fisherman over the years. For about ten years, Suryata and hundreds of his fellow villagers all worked as fishermen. They would go out to sea en mass and when the catches were few they would be frustrated.

But as time went on these sharing of joys and hardships faded as one by one the fishermen stopped going out to sea. One of the reasons they stopped is because of the uncertain income that fishing provides. Fishing could no longer

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Health Agency declares all villages in Denpasar to be endemic to dengue

DENPASAR —IN this transitional period from the dry season to the rainy season, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is becoming more widespread. All related parties are therefor expected to step up efforts to prevent the transmission of this disease by mosquito bite. Moreover, all villages in Denpasar are still declared to be endemic to DHF, although there has been a decrease in the number of cases in 2017 when compared to the same period in 2016.

Head of the Denpasar Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, on Sunday (Nov. 19) explained that the results of their evaluation of dengue cases from January to October 2017 showed there are 910 cases or with an incidence rate (IR) of 99.53 per 100,000 populations. This number showed a decreased when compared to the same period in 2016. At that time, there were 2,339 cases with IR of 356.20 per 100,000 populations. The case fatality rate (CFR) for 2016 was reached 0.72 percent with a total of 17 dengue caused deaths.

Of all the sub-districts in Denpasar, West Denpasar still shows the largest number of cases of dengue. This year there have already been 338 cases showing an incidence rate of 127.79 per 100,000 people. There was also one death caused by dengue in West Denpasar. South Denpasar had 285 cases, East Denpasar (162 cases) with the lowest number of cases being in North Denpasar (125 cases).

Given the relatively large number of cases of dengue in Denpasar, Mayor I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra said that he hopes the public can improve the effectiveness of larva monitoring officers in every hamlet. The municipal government also plans to design a ‘smart larva monitoring officer system’ to maximize the prevention and minimize the number of dengue cases.

He said that so far there are 44,173 independent larva monitoring officers, equivalent to 10 percent of the population of the City of Denpasar. “If their work can be improved, I am confident that we can bring down the number of cases of dengue even more”, said Rai Mantra.

Dengue, added Mayor Mantra has become a national problem with many people affected. This makes urban populations uneasy – including people in Denpasar. In fact dengue is considered endemic to Denpasar as there have been cases reported for three years in a row. It is therefore necessary to increase public awareness and to take preventative measures early on to prevent outbreaks from occurring. (kmb12)

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provide the hope of a prosperous life. Many took work as construction workers and the like to earn a more certain income. “ Sometimes we do not catch any fish while operating costs are quite high”, explained Suryata.

Today, there are only about 25 fishermen left in Kusamba and most of them are aged. Like farming, this profession is being pushed to the fringes by the younger generation who have no interest in learning the trade. Young people want work that is more promising and prestigious. “We are the last generation who are still fishing, the young people no longer want to”, he said woefully.

This is different than when he was young. By the time Nengah was 15 he was already going out to sea, sailing against shocking waves that were sometimes quite fierce. Departing at 3:00 and returning at 9:00 provided his daily bread and butter. “Today it is not like that for my kids, they never want to go out to sea”, said

Suryata.

On the beach, visitors can see local residents repairing their nets with hnads that are nibble and good and cutting the knitted threads. It is an impressive sight and visitors watch carefully as 46 year Nengah Mandri works the nets he used to struggle with at sea with Suryata. “I stopped fishing in 2002”, he says.

With all the uncertainty involved in fishing, including things like tidal waves, Mandri decided to search for another source of livelihood. Today he repairs fishing nets for other fishermen. For a large net, he can earn IDR 500,000 for repairs that take anywhere from 5 to 7 days. He also squeezes out a few rupiah working as a porter for passengers travelling to Nusa Penida. He makes about IDR 100, 000 a day loading goods onto these small boats. “This is work I can do every day and the results are more certain and no preparations are needed”, explained this ex-fisherman. (sos)

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Male artists win big but female singers dominate American Music Awards stage

LOS ANGELES, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Pink, Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera led female artists of pop music dominating the American Music Awards stage on Sunday with powerful performances, despite being edged out by male artists in most award categories this year.

Bruno Mars won Artist of the Year, former One Direction member Niall Horan won New Artist of the Year and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee won Collaboration of the Year for the catchy “Despacito.”

The women of pop delivered the night’s biggest moments.

Pink and Kelly Clarkson sang REM’s “Everybody Hurts,” dedicated to first responders and victims of the recent hurricanes and wildfires that have ravaged parts of the United States.

Pink later performed aerial acrobatics from a highrise building while singing “Beautiful Trauma.”

Lady Gaga performed “The Cure” from the Washington D.C. stop of her tour, playing on a Perspex piano and then dancing as sparks rained down on stage. She won favorite female pop/rock artist.

“Just remember that if you feel different or not understood, don’t you dare give up on who you are, fight like hell for what you believe in,” Lady Gaga said.

Motown superstar Diana Ross received this year’s lifetime achievement award with video tributes from Barack and Michelle Obama and Taylor Swift. Ross performed a medley of her hits including “I’m Coming Out,” “Take Me Higher” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

“I feel so humbled by this,” Ross said, surrounded by her family on stage.

The fan-voted American Music Awards show, televised on ABC, features performances from pop music’s biggest names.

Actress Viola Davis paid tribute to the late Whitney Houston and the 25th anniversary of Houston’s film “The Bodyguard,” as Christina Aguilera belted a medley of hits from the film. Houston died in 2012 aged 48 after drowning in a hotel bathtub.

Demi Lovato, who was accompanied by newlyelected Virginia legislator Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person to win a state legislative seat, performed her latest hit “Sorry/Not Sorry.” (rtr)

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Demonstrators chant slogans as they protest against the release of the upcoming Bollywood movie ‘Padmavati’ in Bengaluru, India, November 15, 2017.

Release of Indian film about Rajput queen delayed after protests

NEW DELHI - The producers of “Padmavati” - a Bollywood movie based on an epic poem about a Rajput queen, said on Sunday they had indefinitely delayed the release of the film, which has been accused of distorting history and has sparked protests.

The movie, which was due to go on release in India on Dec. 1, has led to protests in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and other states. It has also faced a delays in approval from the Indian censor board.

The studio behind the movie, Viacom 18 - a joint venture between Viacom Inc and Network 18 owned

by Reliance Industries, said on Sunday it had “voluntarily deferred the release date of the film.”

“We have faith that we will soon obtain the requisite clearances to release the film. We will announce the revised release date of the film in due course,” the company said

in a statement.

The film ran into trouble earlier this year when a Rajput caste organisation, the Rajput Karni Sena, attacked director Sanjay Leela Bhansali on the set in Rajasthan in January.

The Sena, based in Rajasthan, has been critical of the film, saying it would offend the Rajput community, and that Bhansali was deliberately distorting history.

Based on an epic poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, the film tells the story of Padmavati, the queen of the Rajput warrior clan and Mughal conqueror Alaudin Khilji.

India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party had also warned the federal government that there would be law and order problems in Uttar Pradesh if the film was released. (rtr)

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Indonesia’s Speaker of the House Setya Novanto, identified as a suspect in a corruption case, arrives at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building in Jakarta, Indonesia November 19, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken November 19, 2017.

Indonesia parliament speaker taken into custody by anti-graft agency

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s parliament speaker, Setya Novanto, has been taken into custody by the anti-corruption agency after being arrested over his alleged role in causing state losses of $170 million linked to a national electronic identity card scheme. Novanto, clad in an orange vest worn by detainees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), was transferred from a hospital on Sunday night into a KPK detention facility.

He is one of the most senior politicians to be detained by the agency, popular among ordinary Indonesians for targeting members of the establishment suspected of abuse of power. Novanto was arrested on Friday night but his detention was postponed while he received treatment for injuries suffered in a car crash the day before.

“Delay of the arrest is no longer needed,” as a medical statement

showed Novanto did not need further hospital treatment, Laode Muhammad Syarif, the deputy head of the agency, said in a video on its official Periscope page.

On Sunday night, Novanto told reporters he was still suffering from vertigo after the crash that he said had injured a leg, an arm and his head. “I thought I would be given time for recovery, but I obey the law,” Novanto was quoted by news

website Kumparan.com as saying.

Novanto will be held for 20 days for questioning, said KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah. He will be detained in a sparsely-furnished holding cell with some mattresses and a shared toilet.

Graft agency officials tried to arrest Novanto, the chairman of Golkar, Indonesia’s second-largest party and partner in the ruling coalition, at his house in Jakarta late on

Wednesday. But they failed to find him, sparking speculation that he had gone into hiding.

Later, Novanto was involved in a car accident and his lawyer, Fredrich Yunadi, said a journalist was driving the vehicle and interviewing his client at the time. The car crash was found to be an accident, media cited Jakarta’s deputy director of traffic police as saying, dismissing speculation that the mishap was staged.

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Novanto has denied wrongdoing but has repeatedly missed summonses for questioning by the agency in recent months, saying he was ill and

needed heart surgery. The agency is investigating state losses of about $170 million after allegations that sums ranging from $5,000 to $5.5 million, generated by marking up procurement costs for the ID cards, were divided up among politicians in parliament.

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