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Cast member Mariah Carey poses at the premiere of the movie “The LEGO Batman Movie” in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 4, 2017.

‘Lego Batman’ Flies High Over ‘Great Wall,’ ‘Fist Fight’

LOS ANGELES - “The Lego Batman Movie” is dominating the North American box office with an estimated $44 million this President’s Day weekend -- nearly matching the combined haul of “Fifty Shades Darker” and “The Great Wall.”

Universal’s second weekend of “Fifty Shades” is heading for $24 million at 3,714 sites and its action-fantasy “The Great Wall” was projected to wind up with $21 million at 3,325 locations for the Friday-Monday period. Lionsgate’s second weekend of “John Wick: Chapter 2” is finishing in a solid fourth place with $19.5 million at 3,113 venues as holdovers propped up the holiday weekend business.

New Line’s opening of high school comedy “Fist Fight” showed only a modest punch in fifth with around $14 million at 3,185 locations. And Fox’s horror-thriller “A Cure for Wellness” was scaring up a modest $4.9 million at 2,704 screens as it was projected to finish 11th.

“Lego Batman,” Warner Bros.’ spinoff of 2014’s “The Lego Movie,” is playing at 4,088 sites and will wind up the weekend with

more than $108 million in its first 11 days. It opened with $53 million on the Feb. 10-12 weekend, so it’s declined by only 35 percent in the second Friday-Sunday period.

Will Arnett returns as the voice of Batman, along with Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, and Ralph Fiennes. “Lego Batman” scored strong critical support with a 91 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Fifty Shades Darker” declined about 55 percent from its opening weekend and should finish the weekend with an 11-day total of $93 million. (rtr)

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Members of the Iraqi rapid response forces fire a missile toward Islamic State militants during a battle in south of Mosul, Iraq February 19, 2017.

Iraq launches offensive on last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul

BAGHDAD/ERBIL - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western part of the city of Mosul, and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the offensive in the northern city, asking the armed forces to “respect human rights” during the battle and to take care of those displaced by the fighting.

Islamic State militants are essentially under siege in western Mosul, along with an estimated 650,000 civilians, after they were forced out of the eastern part of the city in the first phase of an offensive that concluded last month, after 100 days of fighting.

Up to 400,000 civilians could be displaced by the offensive as residents of western Mosul suffer food and fuel shortages and markets are closed, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq Lise Grande told Reuters on Saturday.

Iraqi federal police units are leading a northward charge on the Mosul districts that lie west of the Tigris river, aiming to capture Mosul airport, just south of the city, according to statements from the armed forces joint command. They dashed through several villages, reaching Zakrutiya, a hamlet 5 km (3 miles) south of the airport by the end of the day, the statements said, and captured a power distribution station along the way, killing sev-

eral jihadists, including snipers.

The Rapid Response, an elite Interior Ministry Unit, is advancing alongside the federal police and captured several villages, according to an officer, who said they were largely abandoned. “Mosul would be a tough fight for any army in the world,” the commander of the U.S.-led coalition forces, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, said in a statement.

To date, the coalition has conducted more than 10,000 air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and trained and equipped more than 70,000 Iraqi forces, the statement said.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declined to offer details about U.S. battle plans when speaking to reporters in the United Arab Emirates.

“The coalition forces are in support of this operation and we will continue ... with the accelerated effort to destroy ISIS,” he said, using an acronym for the militant group. Islamic State has escalated its insurgency in retaliation for the military setbacks that have, over the past year, forced it

out of most Iraqi cities it had captured in 2014 and 2015. Two militants blew themselves up in eastern Mosul on Sunday, killing three soldiers and two civilians, and wounding a dozen people, security sources said.

CIVILIAN LIVES Coalition aircraft and artillery have continued to bombard targets in the west during the break that followed the taking of eastern Mosul.

The United States, which has deployed more than 5,000 troops in the fighting, leads an international coalition providing key air and ground support, including artillery fire, to the Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

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The abrasion at Pengambengan.

Coastal Abrasion at Pengambengan Beach getting worse Residents protest against factory

NEGARA —

Coastal abrasion at Pengambengan, particularly at Ketapang Lampu and Ketapang Muara, is getting worse. Many people’s homes both on state land and on private land have been destroyed.

On Sunday (Feb. 19), local residents protested by putting up a giant signboard on a fishing boat. They accused companies located in the area of being responsible for the abrasion and demanded that they take responsibility for worsening conditions.

Local residents also wrote on the wall of a house that has been left in ruins asking who they should complain to and who can help.

Some residents complained about factories on the beachside that fortressed their establishments with large bolders and backfilled the sea. “Municipal police had tried to stop the construction but the company insisted on building and even looked strong. We are the ones who have become the victims. Abrasino is gettign worse and or houses have been destroyed because of the changes they made to the coast” said local residents who had been living just west of

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Hilton Returns To Bali

Conservation of palm-leaf manuscripts requires public awareness

DENPASAR — Some high school students diligently cleaned dust off palm-leaf manuscripts with brushes. Next, they took a piece of cotton dipped in a mixture of alcohol and citronella oil and further cleaned off the ancient texts. These stuents from SMAN 3 Denpasar were learning about palm-leaf manuscript conservation from Udayana University’s palm-leaf manuscript techincal unit on Saturday (Feb. 18).

“Why are we teaching palm-leaf manuscript conservatoin? Because palm leaf is fragile and many of the manuscripts being kept in people’s homes are very old, some of them are hundreds of years old”, said chief of the palm-leaf manuscript technical unit of Udayana University, Dr. Ida Bagus Rai Putra.

According to Rai Putra, there are a lot of palm-leaf manuscripts out there that have not been very well maintained. Since these manuscripts are considered hole, may people who have had them passed down to them are afraif to touch the manuscripts out of respect. Some palm-leaf manuscripts are even abandoned because the heirs are not familiar with the contents of the manuscripts. Actually, these manuscripts are an invaluable heritage as a source of remarkable ideas inherent to the Balinese people.

“Palm-leaf manuscripts also contain applied science. Any field of science can be added to or compared to the information in some palm-leaf manuscripts. We at the Udayana University, for instance, have dozens of palm-leaf manuscripts about healing that are now in the process of being conserved and digitized”, he explained.

Aside from manuscripts about healing, said Rai Putra, many palm-leaf manuscripts also contain valuable information about literature, technology, agriculture, astronomy, almanac, seasons and early detection of diseases.

So far, Udayana University’s palm-leaf manuscript technical unit has gathered approximately 970 manuscripts in their collections. These include manuscripts that had been stored in people’s homes but that were not being maintained in good condition.

“We have made an MoU with people who have palm-leaf manuscripts that they can still read or take them back whenever needed. If the manuscripts are not needed and cannot be kept in good conditions, we have a suitable place to store them”, he added.

Rai Putra also added that the most important aspect of palm-leaf manuscript conservation is making more people aware about the importance of physically preserving this heritage. Although there is a tradition in Bali known as nedun meaning to preserve, Udayana is also digitizing many palm-leaf manuscripts in an attempt to ensure the sruvival of the data recorded on these precious leaves.

“We also train personnel to read palm-leaf manuscript. We’ve often go to different communities to read purana (mythology and folklore), inscriptions or chronicles. Anyone can contact our palm-leaf manuscript technical unit and we wil be happy to help the community”, he explained. wen Rai Putra went on to say that they also try to physically rescue these manuscripts by cleaning each page with a mixture of citronella oil and alcohol. Citronella oil is made of lemongrass and functions to kill microbes on the palm-leaf. It is best to celan the leaves frequently. A single volume of a palm leaf manuscript can included anywhere form 10 to 400 sheets of plam leaf. (kmb32)

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the Bali Bumi Mina (BBM) factory that had already been protested by locals previosuly.

Disturbingly, the house of an 85 year old grandmother named Sri Ani located in Ketapang Lampu is currently being destroyed by the waves that lash at her bedroom door.

Grandma Sri Ani lives alone in the house and is now sick and says that she cannot sleep well because she is constantly worried about the alarmingly high level of the sea. “ IN the past, our house was a fair distance form the beach.

Now our house is being destroyed and the sea is just an inch away, right in front of the bedroom” said Grandma Sri Ani. This grandmother said that she would like to move, but has nowhere to go. This house is all that here husband left her and she has not been granted any substitue land.

In order to buld this house they had

to go hungry. It is the home of their love and she is reluctant to leave. “ But one day I will be forced to leave, but I do not know where to go. Maybe I will go stay with my widowed daughter”, she said mournfully.

She went on to explain that she has been sick for the last three months. Before that she was still able to work collecting fish, but now she cannot do anything and depends on the mercy of others.

Grandma Sri Ani is not the only one facing such hardship. The house of late grandpa Parno is also being eaten away by the sea. “Now, grandpa Parno’s house is occupied by his friend and sometimes his children also come here”, said a neighbour.

Residents in the area are feeling restless about the fact that there is no ‘mitigation assistance’ forthcoming from the factories or from the government. Many have no other place to seek shelter.

“Hopefully, there will be some assistance from the factory or the government”, said another locall resident. (kmb)

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Finding poison in N. Korea attack may be hardest part

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on a supply mission to the International Space Station from historic launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 19, 2017.

SpaceX launches rocket from historic NASA pad in Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL - A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off on Sunday from a Florida launch pad once used to send NASA astronauts to the moon, a step forward for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his company’s goal of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station.

The 229-foot tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 soared off a seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) carrying a Dragon cargo ship that holds supplies and science experiments for the station.

Nine minutes after blastoff, the main section of the rocket flew back to a landing pad at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the eighth successful touchdown for Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

“Baby came back,” Musk wrote on Twitter, celebrating the landing.

SpaceX had decided to delay the mission on Saturday, 13 seconds before launch due to concerns about the steering system in the rocket’s upper stage.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration closely monitored Sunday’s launch to learn more about the company’s operations before it clears SpaceX to fly U.S. astronauts.

The liftoff marked a successful debut for SpaceX at Kennedy’s

Launch Complex 39A, originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program and later repurposed for the space shuttles. SpaceX plans to use the pad for commercial missions, as well as future manned flights.

The pad was last used for the final space shuttle launch in 2011.

In 2014, SpaceX signed a 20-year lease and has spent millions on remodeling.

“It was really awesome to see 39A roar back to life,” SpaceX Dragon program manager Jessica Jensen told reporters after the launch. “This is a huge deal for us.”

It was also SpaceX’s first launch from Florida since an accident in September caused heavy damage to what had been the company’s prime site at Cape Canaveral Air

Force Station, located just south of the NASA spaceport.

NASA hired SpaceX to fly cargo to the station after the shuttle program ended. SpaceX and Boeing Co are scheduled to begin flying crews to the station by the end of 2018, but a U.S. government report last week said technical hurdles likely will delay both companies.

Last month, SpaceX resumed flying its Falcon 9 rockets using a second launch pad in California, where the first stage of the rocket also succeeded in relanding.

The company plans to reuse the rockets to slash costs and reduce pricing.

SpaceX aims to have the Florida launch pad damaged in last year’s explosion up and running by this summer. (rtr)

KUALA LUMPUR — A paranoid dictator’s estranged brother.

Two young female assassins. A crowded international airport. And a mysterious poison that kills within hours.

It’s the perfect recipe for a thrilling cloak-and-dagger spy novel.

Except some — or possibly even all — of this tale could be true in the apparent assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the older half brother of reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. And just like similar intriguing cases from the past, the public is hanging on to every detail because there’s just something about murder by poison that captivates.

“A gun announces its mischief; poison can sneak in with a sip of champagne,” said Robert Thompson, a pop culture expert at Syracuse University. “The question isn’t why we are fascinated with this latest story, it’s why wouldn’t we be?”

Still, speculation that Kim Jong Nam was killed by two young female “agents” at the busy Kuala Lumpur airport last week left even the most seasoned toxicology sleuths shaking their heads. Add in that the portly sibling was apparently sprayed in the face with a substance so potent it killed him before he could reach the hospital, and you’ve got a scene straight out of a James Bond movie.

Four people, including the two women — one Indonesian and the other traveling on a Vietnamese passport — have been detained.

The Indonesian told authorities she thought she was participating in a comedy show prank. Conspiracy theories and speculation abound as police scramble to unravel what really happened to Kim Jong Nam, aged 45 or 46, the son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and a mistress. After falling out of favor with the family, the son lived for years in exile and was about to catch a flight to Macau when the attack took place. He sought help at the airport clinic after suddenly falling ill and died en route to the hospital. An autopsy has been performed, but the results have not been released.

If a chemical agent really was to blame, finding it may be the hardest part of all. Tissue and fluid samples may need to be sent abroad for analysis at a facility with greater capabilities, such as in Japan or at the FBI’s crime lab, if Malaysian experts cannot pinpoint the cause of death.

“The more unusual, the more potent, the more volatile a poison is, the less likely it is to be detected,” said Olif Drummer, a toxicologist at Australia’s Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine who has spent 40 years in the field.

Experts routinely tasked with finding answers in poisoning cases say the events at Kuala Lumpur’s budget airline terminal are bizarre, but not impossible. They wonder: What substance could have been used to kill the victim so quickly without sickening the women who apparently deployed it, along with anyone else nearby? Difficult, they say, but doable.

“It’s not an agent that could be cooked up in a hotel room. It’s going to take a lot of knowledge regarding the chemical in order to facilitate an attack like this,” said Bruce Goldberger, a leading toxicologist who heads the forensic medicine division at the University of Florida. He said a nerve gas or ricin, a deadly substance found in castor beans, could be possible. A strong opioid compound could also have been used, though that would likely have incapacitated the victim immediately.

“It would have to be cleverly designed in order to be applied in this fashion without hurting anyone else,” Goldberger said.

History is filled with poisoners. From jilted lovers seeking revenge to greedy spouses looking to collect on life insurance policies.

Arsenic, cyanide and strychnine are often the toxins of choice used in murders, but political hits are usually a much more complicated business.

Take the Cold War case of Bulgarian defector and journalist Georgi Markov. He was jabbed in the leg with an umbrella in 1978 at a bus stop in London. He died three days later, and a pellet of highly toxic ricin was found under his skin — shot there by a device concealed inside the umbrella. No one was ever arrested, but Bulgarian secret police were suspected with help from the Soviet KGB. The Kremlin has been implicated in a number of high-profile cases including Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who fled to the United Kingdom and was lethally poisoned by radioactive polonium-210 in 2006. In a report published last year, a British judge wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the assassination carried out by the country’s security service.(ap)

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Distaster vicitims stocked for ten days

BANGLI — Assistance continues to be received by the main post at the Kintamani subdistrict head office from related agencies. Head of the Bangli Social Services, I Nengah Sukarta, said that he believes that the stock of basic foods clothing and other supplies donated to the victims of the recent landslide, should be enough for about a week.

“Right now, supplies keep coming in and at the main post at the two

temporary settlements at Songan and Yeh Mampeh are farily sub-

stantial. So we are confident that the vicitms will be not be lacking for the

next ten days”, he said.

Sukarta explained that the assistance delivered by social services has been received by the landslide victims. This assistance includes, life inssurance and dealing with the corpses of the dead as well as medical

Assistance continues to be received by the main post at the Kintamani subdistrict head office from related agencies.

treatement for those seriously injured and those with minor injuries too.

Villagers affected by flash floods and landslides have also been provided with assistance and the Bangli hospital has also provided free treatment to those in need. (kmb41)

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Bengkala landfill is overloaded SINGARAJA — The landfill at Bengkala village, Kubutambahan, is overloaded. In order to reduce the volume of waste being dumped here, the government of Buleleng continues to encourage waste management at the household level.

Head of the Buleleng Environment Agency, Nyoman Genep, stated that waste generated by houselholds in Buleleng ,especially in urban areas, is mostly transported to the landfill, causing the 4.8 hectare landfill to become overloaded.. “Garbage at the landfill has been mounting and the dump site is now classified as overloaded” said Genep recently.

According to Genep, before garbage is transported the the landfill, it must

first be sorted at the depot and the integrated waste processing (TPST) site.

Oganic waste should be processed into compost that can be used to fetilize the neighborhood urban parks, while inorganic waste one can be sold to one of the 17 waste banks in the area. “For the time being, we are maximizong the sorting process at the depot. We also continuously encourage sorting at household level”, he explained.

He also explained that in the next few years, garbage that has been buried for five years in two holes at the landfill will be dug up and sieved. “Waste that has been buried in the holes for five years according to the santitary landfill systme, can be strained and used as fetilizer”, he said. (kmb45)

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In order to reduce the volume of waste being dumped here, the government of Buleleng continues to encourage waste management at the household level

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Airport killing seen on CCTV, probe strains MalaysiaN.Korea ties

Two puppies infected with rabies found in Jembrana NEGARA - More dogs with rabies were found early this year in Jembrana. Subdivision of Animal Health at the Jembrana Food and Agriculture Agency found two puppies infected with rabies in Tulung hamlet, Sarikuning, Melaya, in early February and one inPalunganbatu hamlet, Batuagung, in mid February.

Subdivision Head of Animal Health, A.A. Ngurah Mahadikara, accompanied by Head of Observer and Investigation, I Wayan Widarsa, said on Friday (Feb. 17) that although there were several cases of people being bitten by dogs in Jembrana in January, based on samples and follow-up, none of the dogs were found to be carrying rabies.

According to Mahadikara, as of mid-February, his agency had sent samples from 17 dogs to be lab tested and 2 of them were declared to be infected with rabies. The two positive cases were both puppies that were about 3 months old.

As soon as they found out that the puppy from Tulung hamlet had been carrying rabies, his agency went to this hamlet to vaccinate all the dogs and elminated four dogs in the area suspected of carrying rabbies.

Samples from the four dogs were tested by the Denpasar Veterinary Center (BBVet) and were declared rabies negative.

Vaccinations and selective elimination were held Palunganbatu on Monday (Feb. 20).

The two rabies puppies are suspected of having become infected by rabbies because they had not been vaccinated. Mass vacccinations took place in Jembrana in April and November 2016.

The spread of rabbies is caused by the tendancy of dog owners to let their dogs run wild rendering these dogs vulnerable to the transmission of rabies from other dogs or other carrier animals. (120)

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday his government’s investigation of the killing of the North Korean leader’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, will be “objective”, as tension rose between the countries.

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The prescence of chicken coops in the area is suspected of being responsible for the thousands of flies that have invaded Tusan.

Fly invasion in Tusan remains unresolved

SEMARAPURA — So far, the fly invasion problem in Tusan village, Banjarangkan, has not been resolved. The prescence of chicken coops in the area is suspected of being responsible for the thousands of flies that have invaded Tusan. Although officials from the subdistrict of Banjarangkan and related agencies had previsouly looked into the matter, the people of Tusan are still having to deal with the flies.

Complaints about the large number of flies that have been disturbung the people of Tusan are directly related to the prescence of the nearby chicken coops. Subdistrict head of Banjarangkan, I.B. Mas Ananda, stated that these chicken coops should not result in so many flies, given that the coop requires certain permits to operate, including an environemntal hindance permit (HO).

Ananda however added that the subdistict government doe not have the authority to issue such permits. This is not the first time that residents of Tusan have complained about flies. IN

fact at the end of 2016, officers from the subdistrict of Banjarangkan and the Banjarangkan Health Center conducted a field inspection in response to similar complaints. “In addition to fruit season, chicken manure also cuases many flies to gather at that location. The problem should be resolved by spraying insecticide”, he said when contacted on Sunday (Feb.19).

Ananda promised to go down to Tusan village to ensure the that health of surrounding communities is not at tisk and to and address the issue of the fly invasion. According to Mas Ananda, the flies will disappear as soon as the

Earlier on Monday, Malaysia said it has recalled its envoy from Pyongyang and summoned North Korea’s ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, who again cast doubt on the impartiality of Malaysia’s investigation into the murder and said the victim was not Kim Jong Nam. “We have no reason why we want to do something to paint North Korea in a bad light, but we will be objective,” Najib told reporters in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

CCTV footage obtained by Reuters appeared to show Kim Jong Nam being attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday last week by a woman, who is believed to have wiped a fast-acting poison on his face.

Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the video, and police officials were not immediately available for comment.

Kim Jong Nam, 46, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing’s

chicken coop has finished their slaughter. He addd that he nonetheless hopes that the coop owner will spray insecticide so that the flies will nto continue to invade people’s homes.

Resident of Tusan village, Dewa Ayu, siad that the flies have been ivading her village for the past week, since the coop started their slaughter. Even though the chicken have been slaughtered, the coop has not been well cleaned and chicken manure remains. This has been an ongoign problem that has yet ot be resolved.

Residents of Tusan are feeling very uneasy about the fly invasion and these insects are everywhere and frequently land on people.

If such conditions persiste, there is fear that disease will follow, particulalry in small children.. “Actually the chicken were slaughtered last week, but the manure has not been cleaned up. This is a reoccuring problem” mourned Ayu. (dwa)

Environment Agency cleans up remaining marine debris on Jimbaran Beach

MANGUPURA — On Sunday (Feb. 19), the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK) cleaned up the piles of marine debris along Jimbaran Beach that had been untouched. The marine debris -in the form of twigs and plastic garbage, that had been dumped in some alleyways, on th ehoghway and on the beach.

“The team started the clean-up at 07:00. Ten trucks were deployed to transport the marine debirs that had been littering Jimbrana Beach just north of the Intercon Hotel”, said Putu Eka Merthawan on Sunday.

The cleanup, said Eka Merthawan, took lace to avoide the vile impression that resulted from the pile up garbage along a number of

roads accessing the beach. “The national weather service (BMKG) predicts Febuary to be the peak of extreme weather. Indeed, apart from naturual disasters, there is also an increase in the volue of waste being washed onto the beaches”, he said.

Mertahwan added that there has not been anymore plastic waste

washing up in Jimbrana for the last five days, but there is a greater volume of garnage washing up in Badung.

“Approximately 500 DLHK employees have been deployed to handle waste in Badung –on beaches and elsewhere. Even with the support of 15 trucks and 3 loaders, our employees are still

overwhelmed”, he explained.

There has also been an 25 ton per day increse in organic and plasic waste. Normally Badung collects some 248 tons of garbage per day but this has goen up to 275 tons per day, because heavy rain fall wahses garbage out of the rivers onto the roads and beaches. (kmb45)

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Suspects Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (top L), North Korean Ri Jong Chol (top R), Indonesian Siti Aisyah (bottom L) and Malaysian Muhammad Farid Bin Jallaludin (bottom R) are seen in this combination of undated handouts released by the Royal Malaysia Police to Reuters on February 19, 2017. The four were arrested in connection with the murder of Kim Jong Nam.

protection, had spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic control of isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.

South Korean legislators last week cited their spy agency as saying the young and unpredictable North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, had issued a “standing order” for his half-brother’s assassination, and that there had been a failed attempt in 2012.

Malaysian police are hunting four North Koreans who fled from the country on the day of the attack, having already detained one North Korean man, a Vietnamese woman, an Indonesian woman, and a Malaysian man.

At least three of the wanted North Koreans caught an Emirates flight to Dubai from Jakarta late on the day of the attack, an immigration official in Indonesia told Reuters.

Malaysia’s Star newspaper reported that all four had returned to North Korea. North Korea had sought to prevent Malaysia from conducting an autopsy, insisting the body be handed over. Its envoy in Kuala Lumpur accused Malaysian authorities of “delaying” the release of the body.

“At the moment we cannot trust the investigation by the Malaysian police,” ambassador Kang Chol told reporters after talks at the foreign ministry.

He said the embassy had only identified the victim as Kim Chol, based on the passport found on the dead man, and suggested a joint investigation with Malaysian authorities. Kim Jong Nam had been caught using fake travel documents in the past.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry announced the withdrawal “for consultations” of its ambassador in North Korea and said the body would be handed over to the next of kin, although none had come forward. Malaysia’s health minister said autopsy results could be released by Wednesday.

Malaysia is one of the few countries that maintains ties with the reclusive state and the dispute could further isolate impoverished North Korea. (rtr)

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte salutes in front of the cadets upon his arrival at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) alumni homecoming in Fort Del Pilar, Baguio city, north of Manila, Philippines February 18, 2017.

Retired Philippine policeman says Duterte ordered ‘death squad’ hits

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte operated a “death squad” while mayor of Davao city, giving cash and orders for police and assassins to murder criminals, according to a former policeman who said he was involved in the clandestine killings.

In remarks contradicting his denial under oath last year of the existence of such a “death squad”, Arturo Lascanas said he was one of the ringleaders of the group that began operating when Duterte became mayor of the southern city in 1988.

Duterte has repeatedly denied involvement in vigilantism or summary executions, either as president or during his 22 years as Davao mayor. His police chief has denied there was ever a death squad in Davao, describing it as fiction created by the media.

On Monday, Lascanas asserted that the Davao death squad was no myth and he was one of those who carried out secret killings of drug dealers and criminals at Duterte’s behest.

“It is true, the Davao death squad, or DDS, really exists,” Lascanas told reporters at the Senate in Manila.

“When Mayor Duterte sat down as mayor for the first time, we started what is called ‘salvaging’ of people, these people are suspects committing crime in Davao.”

“We implemented the personal orders of Mayor Duterte to us.”

Duterte’s legal counsel, Salvadore Panelo, said Lascanas’ allegations were a “continuing fabrication” and “another false narration”.

Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said allegations that Duterte was linked to extrajudicial killings had been

proved false by numerous independent agencies.

“Our people are aware that this character assassination is nothing but vicious politics,” he told CNN Philippines. Lascanas said he had decided his “obedience and loyalty” to Duterte must end and had promised God that he would confess.

He is the second man to go public with claims of involvement in murders allegedly ordered by Duterte, the hugely popular president nicknamed “the Punisher”, whose ruthless approach to tackling crime has won public approval.

‘EXPLOSIVE’ The account given by Lascanas was similar to that of hit man Edgar Matobato, who testified in September he had also been a death squad member in Davao and he had seen Duterte shoot a man dead and give orders for police to kill criminals.

Senator Antonio Trillanes, a critic of Duterte who appeared at the same news conference as Lascanes, said he would file a motion for a Senate investigation into the so-called Davao death squad.

Another anti-Duterte Senator, Leila de Lima, who led a Senate investigation last year into the Davao killings, described Lascanas’ account as “a very, very explosive development”.

Human rights groups have documented about 1,400 suspicious killings in Davao while Duterte was mayor and critics say the war on drugs he unleashed as president has the same hallmarks. More than 7,700 people have been killed in the latest crackdown, some 2,500 in what police say are shootouts during raids and sting operations. (rtr)

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Unique Tradition of Penglipuran Village

Other than being known as the cleanest village in the world, Penglipuran village also has some unique traditions.

So far, it remains to absolutely adhere to the tradition handed down by the ancestors. Other than the concept of house architecture still reflecting the nuances of local wisdom, it also has a unique burial tradition. At the village having been popular with loloh cemcem or hog plum herbal drink, there are differences in the position between the burial of women’s and men’s bodies.

Operations Manager of Penglipuran village attraction, Nengah Moneng, explained that the local tradition handed down by his ancestors has differences in the burial position for the bodies of men and women. Women’s body is buried in the gazing upward position as the common position found at other villages, while position of men’s body is facedown.

According to him, such different burial position has its own philosophy. Such women’s position symbolizes the earth (prathivi), while men’s position symbolizes sky (akhasa). “That’s the philosophy I’ve got from our predecessors,” he said.

Besides, when buried, the head of both women’s and men’s body is equally positioned westwards or to the direction of sunset. “It is made in such a position because the location of Dalem Pingit Temple is in the southwest.

Thus, the bodies are buried with the orientation to the west or towards the sunset,” he explained.

Apart from the burial position, Moneng also revealed that cemetery at Penglipuran is divided into three areas. The easternmost cemetery is specifically intended to bury people that died due to unnatural causes (suicide and accident), the middle one is intended to bury babies and he adults who have never married. “In the meantime, the westernmost one is intended to bury people who died of natural causes,” said Moneng. (kmb)

Traffic jams cost U.S. drivers $1,200 a year -study

DETROIT - Traffic jams cost U.S. drivers an average of $1,200 a year in wasted fuel and time, and much more in Los Angeles, the city with the world’s biggest rush hour traffic delays, according to a study by INRIX Inc released on Monday.

INRIX, based in Kirkland, Washington, aggregates and analyzes traffic data collected from vehicles and highway infrastructure. The company said the latest edition of its Global Traffic Scorecard report was based on 500 terabytes of data from 300 million sources.

While Thailand was the world’s most congested country in 2016, according to the study, the United States had the worst traffic among rich, developed economies. Five of the world’s 10 most congested cities are in the United States, INRIX found.

U.S. traffic congestion is not a new problem, but it could get renewed attention if President Donald Trump pushes for a large-scale infrastructure investment program as he has promised.

Chronic traffic jams are a concern for global automakers, and some major cities have begun to limit private motor vehicle access to central city areas.

The INRIX study sliced data in different ways. Los Angeles drivers

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spent an average of 104 peak drivetime hours fighting slow traffic during 2016. That put Los Angeles at the top of the list of cities where drivers spent the most hours stuck in slow rush hour traffic.

But on a different measure, time stuck in congestion as a share of all driving, Moscow drivers had it worse. They spent 25.2 percent of their total driving hours on congested roads, while Los Angeles motorists spent 12.7 percent of their total driving time in slow traffic, the study found. In Bogota, Colombia, motorists spend 31.8 percent of their total driving time in traffic jams.

The worst stretch of road in the United States is New York City’s Cross Bronx Expressway, where drivers on the 4.7 mile (7.5 km) road spent an average of 86 hours a year staring at the bumper of the car ahead.

After Los Angeles, INRIX listed New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Miami as the most traffic-choked U.S. cities.(rtr)

Colorado town getting a drive-through marijuana shop PARACHUTE, Colo. — The western Colorado town of Parachute is getting a drive-through marijuana shop, believed to be the first in the state. The Parachute Board of Trustees approved a business license for Tumbleweed Express last week, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/2m1PZCA).

“As far as I can tell, we are not aware of this business model ever coming up before,” said Robert Goulding, spokesman for the state Marijuana Enforcement Division. The business is expected to open in March in a former car wash.

Tumbleweed Express also had to get approval from the Marijuana Enforcement Division, which said the store cannot allow anyone younger than 21 on the premises, FILE- In this Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, farmworkers remove stems and leaves from newly-harvested marijuana plants, at Los Suenos Farms, America’s largest legal open air marijuana farm, in Avondale, southern Colo.

even in the back seat of a car.

The business must also have security and surveillance, and marijuana may not be visible from outside the dispensary. The car wash building will allow the goods to be screened from outside view.

“We think the drive-through is a very creative and innovative idea,” Parachute Town Manager Stuart McArthur said.

Marijuana accounted for nearly 30 percent of the community’s 2016 sales tax revenue of just over $1 million, McArthur said. “The really good news is that other businesses are benefiting from it,” he said.

Travelers stopping to buy marijuana in Parachute are more likely to stop at restaurants and other shops, he said, helping an economy that was hit hard by a downturn in natural gas production.

Parachute Mayor Roy McClung said the town’s economy would have been in serious trouble without legalized recreational marijuana.

Statewide, marijuana sales brought in close to $200 million in taxes and fees last year, the Colorado Department of Revenue said.(ap)

Residents of East Duda Hold Tug-of-War in Muddy Field

Exciting activity like this will intrigue everyone. Residents of East Duda, Selat, Karangasem, held tug-of-war in the mud so that it became a very special attraction.

Unsurprisingly, this traditional sport drew appreciation and extraordinary adrenaline. It is more challenging and needs prime energy and carefulness in thinking of beating their rivals. Obviously, the challenge is far more different from the tug-of-war on grass.

The atmosphere became more interesting when the whole body of the players was covered in mud. Their hair, face to other parts of the body was filled with mud. For newcomers, it is really a very interesting attraction when taking action to drag the rope and avoid the sprinkle of mud.

The participants consisted of representatives from nine hamlets throughout East Duda village where each delegated one men’s team and one women’s team. Each team has ten personnel.

At that time, the contest was followed by the women’s team of Pesangkan Anyar hamlet against the women’s team of Batu Gede hamlet.

Though the participants were women, the contest became more exciting than the tug-of-war on the grass. If they already got dragged, it would be difficult to hold because it was quite slippery

and heavy.

Even though being flushed by heavy rains, it did not dampen the vivacity of the residents to play or to watch the contest. “The event is aimed at encouraging young people into farming. This tug-of-war in the mud actually has become an annual event held every Christmas or December 25,” said headman of East Duda, I Gede Pawana, Monday (Dec. 26).

Such an event is also associated with the anniversary of East Duda village. It is intended for entertainment, inspiring and motivating young people so that they want to get involved in the paddy field activity as farmers. “Contest of the tug-of-war in the mud is held in one of the paddy fields at Subak Pesangkan. Formerly, the field was converted into a snakefruit orchard. This activity is also to welcome the arrival of harvest season,” he explained.

Tug-of-war activity in the mud got appreciation from the Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri. According to her, the tug-of-war in the mud is not only able to increase togetherness, but also proves that village government is able to implement its work program and get appreciation from its residents. “Actually this tug-of-war activity serves as a medium to build civilizations and closer friendship as the indicator if the work program of the village has run relatively well,” she said. (kmb)

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Hundreds of migrants cross into Spain’s Ceuta in second wave in 3 days

MADRID - Some 359 African migrants broke through the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta early on Monday, in a second mass push after about 500 migrants breached the fence on Friday.

More than 1,400 migrants are now waiting in the North African enclave to be processed, Ceuta authorities said, adding that tents had been requested to house the latest arrivals.

They must now wait to be transferred to the mainland to have their papers processed. Most are likely to be returned to Morocco or their country of origin.

Ceuta authorities said around 600 people had attempted to break into the enclave on Monday using wire cutters and blunt weapons, at the same location as on Friday.

Three people were hospitalised with serious injuries, including two police officers, after the rush to jump the six-metre, barbed-wire fence that surrounds Ceuta, the authorities said.

Spain’s two North African enclaves, Ceuta on Morocco’s northern point off the Strait of Gibraltar, and Melilla, which lies further to the east and closer to the Algerian border, are often the focus of attempted illegal border crossings.

African migrants attempt to climb fences or swim around the border along the coast as they seek an entry point into Europe.

More than 1,100 migrants attempted to cross into Ceuta in January, but most were turned back. (rtr)

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Iraq...

From page 1 Islamic State imposed a radical version of Islam in Mosul, banning cigarettes, televisions and radios, and forcing men to grow beards and women to cover from head to toe. Citizens who failed to comply risked death.

Capturing Mosul would effectively end the Sunni group’s ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq. The militants are expected to continue to wage an insurgency, however, carrying out suicide bombings and inspiring

lone-wolf actions abroad.

About 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the start of the offensive in October, U.N. officials say. Medical and humanitarian agencies estimate the total number of dead and wounded - both civilian and military - at several thousand.

“This is the grim choice for children in western Mosul right now: bombs, crossfire and hunger if they stay – or execution and snipers if they try to run,” Save the Children said, adding that children make up about half the population trapped in the city.(ap)

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Indonesia Islamists urge ouster of Jakarta governor, plan more protests JAKARTA - Indonesian Islamist groups on Monday called on the government to suspend the Christian governor of the capital and for the courts to convict him of blasphemy, demands they will make again at a rally outside parliament on Tuesday. Islamist groups have held two big rallies since November against the governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is on trial for insulting the Koran, and in the midst of an election in which he hopes to win a second term.

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and European Council President Donald Tusk hold a joint news conference in Brussels, Belgium, February 20, 2017.

Pence in Brussels, seeking “deeper” ties with EU

BRUSSELS - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told senior European Union officials in Brussels on Monday that the Trump administration was looking at ways to “deepen our relationship” with the EU.

African migrants react as they arrive at the CETI, the short-stay immigrant centre, after crossing the border from Morocco to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, Spain, February 17, 2017.

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P r e s i d e n t D o n a l d Tr u m p alarmed EU leaders by endorsing Britain’s decision to leave the bloc and by suggesting last month that other states might follow. Pence spent the weekend in Germany seeking to reassure Europeans that Trump was committed to the NATO defence pact, but left some unconvinced.

Speaking to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini before meetings with the heads of the European Council, European Commission and NATO, Pence

said he was “very grateful to have the opportunity to visit with you and explore ways that we can deepen our relationship with the European Union”.

He met Mogherini at the U.S. mission to the EU. The last U.S. ambassador, who was dismissed

by Trump as he took office, warned the new administration against reversing decades of postwar U.S. encouragement of European integration and said supporting Brexit was “the height of folly”.

Mogherini told Pence that Eu-

ropeans and the United States had much to work on and that discussions were already under way.

In a statement, she later said she and Pence had “an open and warm conversation” in which she “reaffirmed a strong willingness of the EU to continue building a strong EU-U.S. partnership on the basis of clear values and interests”.

She said they discussed Syria, Ukraine, Libya, the Middle East, Afghanistan and North Korea among other topics. Mogherini stressed “the need to preserve and fully implement the Iran deal” on controlling Iran’s nuclear developments. Trump has called Iran the “number one terrorist state”. (rtr)

DUBLIN - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny may lay out a timetable for stepping down at a meeting of his ruling Fine Gael party on Wednesday.

With calls increasing for Kenny to spell out his plans, his spokesman said on Monday that the prime minister would not comment on the issue until that meeting, planting it firmly in the limelight.

Kenny, who has been prime minister since 2011, has said he will not lead the party into the next election

due late next year.

His minority government, however, has become increasingly unstable and only narrowly survived a vote of no-confidence over its handling of a policing scandal last week, prompting concerns among his colleagues.

One of the two leading contenders to take over as leader of the centreright party said on Sunday that a new leader should be chosen after Kenny’s trip to Washington for the annual meeting with the U.S. president to

mark St. Patrick’s Day on March 17.

“I think after that visit you will see, I hope, an orderly and quite a quick transition to new leadership within Fine Gael,” Simon Coveney, the country’s housing minister, told national broadcaster RTE. Fine Gael’s vice-chairman said last week that he expected Kenny to inform the party’s internal meeting on Wednesday of an exact timetable for his departure and hoped it would not be necessary to table a motion of no confidence in his leadership. (rtr)

Irish PM to respond to leadership questions as disquiet grows

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Muslim men raise their fists during a rally at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Tens of thousands gathered at the national mosque for the mass prayers on Saturday urging Indonesians to vote for Muslims in city and district elections being held across the country next week.

“Our demands to parliament are that they urge the government to suspend Purnama ... and urge the Supreme Court and judges to detain him and impose the maximum sentence,” said Muhammad al Khaththath of the Islamic People’s Forum. The forum is one of the groups organising the Tuesday rally.

Previous rallies drew hundreds of thousands of people and raised concern about the erosion of religious tolerance in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

Purnama, Jakarta’s first ethnic Chinese and Christian leader, denies insulting the Koran.

He has been allowed to remain in office while the court case is going on but faces up to four years in prison if found guilty of blasphemy. His supporters say the charge against him is politically motivated.

Last Wednesday, he stood against two Muslim candidates in a city governor elec-

Rafflesia Arnoldii flower blooms in Bengkulu Province BENGKULU - A Rafflesia Arnoldii flower, measuring 55 centimeters in diameter, has bloomed in the protected forest area of Bukit Daun, Taba Penanjung Sub-district, Central Bengkulu District, Bengkulu Province.

“The flower is blooming perfectly and can be enjoyed for the next three days,” said Gilang Ibnu, a resident who found the rare flower in Bengkulu on Monday. Arnoldii Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, with a diameter exceeding 100 centimeters.

Ibnu said that flower enthusiasts can visit the site of the blooming Rafflesia Arnoldii by walking as far as 20 meters into the forest. Visitors only need to drive from the city of Bengkulu towards Kepahiang District, passing through the crossroad of Bengkulu-South Sumatra and then stopping at the 47th kilometer mark.

“We have placed a banner on the side of the road to allow visitors to find the spot where the flower is blossoming,” he remarked. In addition to the blooming flower, visitors can also see the bud

of Rafflesia Arnoldii that is expected to blossom in the next few weeks.

Ibnu, in cooperation with a Rafflesia flower care group, has prepared a walkway to facilitate visitors to reach the site in the forest. “We have also put up tents to protect the flower, as it is vulnerable to being damaged or stolen by irresponsible parties,” he pointed out.

The visitors are not charged a levy to see the unique flower. Nevertheless, each visitor has to pay Rp5 thousand to take pictures with the flower. A visitor named Namora expressed delight on watching the blooming Rafflesia flower in its habitat.

“It was a unique and rare experience to witness the rare Rafflesia flower blooming in its habitat. It should serve as a capital to develop the tourism in Bengkulu Province,” Namora affirmed.

In addition to the Rafflesia Arnoldii flower, three different types of Rafflesia have been identified in the forests of Bengkulu: Rafflesia Bengkuluensis, Rafflesia Gadutensis, and Rafflesia Hasselti.(ant)

tion but none of them got enough votes to win outright.

A second round is due in mid-April with Purnama competing against a former education minister, Anies Baswedan, who has appealed to the Muslim vote in the city of more than 10 million. Jakarta police have stepped up security ahead of Tuesday’s demonstration which up to 10,000 people are expected to join, said police spokesman Argo Yuwono.

The Jakarta election is widely seen as a proxy battle for the next presidential election in 2019. Purnama is a former deputy of President Joko Widodo, when Widodo was Jakarta governor, and he is being backed by the president’s party.

Baswedan is backed by a retired general, Prabowo Subianto, who Widodo defeated in the last presidential election, in 2014, and who is promising a political comeback.(ant)

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Dominant Hirscher takes slalom gold

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Winner Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine (R) and runner-up Kei Nishikori of Japan pose with their trophies.

Juwuk Manis the twin waterfall AMLAPURA - Bali is a paradise for the traveler. Each of its natural charm can be used as a fascinating tourist spot. Although it’s just only a mini waterfall, one of them is a waterfall located in the Juwuk Manis Village, Manggis Sari village, Pekutatan District, Jembrana. The name of the waterfall is “ Juwuk Manis”, the name also adopted from the village name. The height of the Manis waterfall is only 4 meters.

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has quite beautiful atmosphere that can relieve your fatigue. But the hard work needed to get to the waterfall Juwuk Manis. You must be trekking down a steep footpath along the 1 km by passing coffee and clove plantations. You also need to be careful when yougoing down by following the stairs because quite steep.

Your adventure will be accompanied with cool air and unspoiled views of the hills. Once you arrived at the waterfall, the freshness of the water will im-

mediately remove your tiredness after trekking. Your struggle was paid when you touch the Juwuk Manis waterfall. After enjoying the scenery, you can immediately shower or splash around in the small pool while enjoying the waterfall splash.

Although Juwuk Manis Village only has twin waterfall in one spot, it doesn’t mean that Juwuk Village is not interested. So many people come to Juwuk Village to see try to reach the Juwuk Manis Waterfall when weekend with their family

or friends.

Juwuk Manis Village also has another interest place beside waterfall, local people call it Bukit Cinta or The Hill Of Love, Bukit Cinta be excellent for anyone who wishes to see the beauty of the morning sun while enjoying traditional fields with backgrounds highest point on the island of Bali is Mount Agung. And if you’re lucky, in the morning the fields below the hill will be shrouded in mist that adds to the exquisite scenery. (IBP/net)

Dolgopolov upsets Nishikori to win Argentina Open

BUENOS AIRES - Unseeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov upset favourite Kei Nishikori 7-6(4) 6-4 to win the Argentina Open on Sunday and lift his first title in five years.

The 28-year-old Dolgopolov, who took one hour and 40 minutes to win the final at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, earned his first victory over the Japanese world number five at the sixth attempt.

Dolgopolov, the world number 66, lifted his third career ATP title by going through the claycourt tournament without dropping a set.

“I’d never won even a set against Kei, let alone a match. I’m really happy to have done so,” Dolgopolov told reporters.

“I played really well and I’m at my best level for the last two years.

I’m really glad to be back.”

The Ukrainian, whose previous crown came at Washington in 2012, the year of his career-high ranking of 13th, went toe-to-toe with Nishikori in a long first set that he clinched 7-4 in the tiebreak with his second set point.

He then broke his opponent for the first time when they were 3-3 in the second set with a winner from his potent backhand and went on

to take victory with his first match point.

Top seed Nishikori was looking for a 12th title, having won his last at Memphis last year, and now moves on to the Rio Open with Dolgopolov.

The Japanese said he still had some way to go to take his ranking higher. “I’d have to improve several things (in my game)... be more consistent week in week out,” he said.

Dolgopolov ended a run of seven successive Argentina Open triumphs by Spanish champions in Buenos Aires as he succeeded last year’s winner Rafael Nadal. (rtr)

ST MORITZ - Favourite Marcel Hirscher of Austria provided a spectacular climax to the alpine skiing world championships by storming to victory in the men’s slalom on Sunday to claim his second gold medal of the event.

The trophy-laden 27-year-old took his overall world championship tally to six gold medals and nine in total after he also won Friday’s giant slalom and finished runner-up in the combined event.

Having led a second successive one-two finish for the Austrians, he was in jovial mood on the podium after compatriot Manuel Feller claimed the silver medal ahead of third-placed German Felix Neureuther.

“It is perfect; the sun is shining and great conditions today,” he told reporters.

“The skiing was pretty good as well and Austria is pretty stoked with another two podiums. Thank you for an amazing crowd, have a nice Sunday and a safe trip home.”

Hirscher, whose victory propelled Austria to the top of the medals table with three gold, four silver and two bronze ahead of host nation Switzerland, was candid about what drives him to new heights.

“The young guns are kicking my ass in every training run so am I very thankful for this,” said the winner of the last five overall World Cup titles who is in a commanding position to claim a sixth.

“It helps me make improvements in every training run.”

Dave Ryding fuelled hopes of a first-ever medal for a British man in the world championships after a superb first run left him fourth, but he dropped to 11th after the second.

With ruts appearing around the gates during the second run, most of the top 15 racers struggled on a deteriorating course and Neureuther took advantage after finishing the first leg in 10th position.

His blistering run gave Germany their only medal of the championships, as the likes of Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen and Austrian Michael Matt, who was third after the first run, faltered.

The 24-year old Feller, seventh after the opening run, matched the German’s grit and jumped into the driving seat before the majestic Hirscher stormed through a massive 0.68 seconds ahead of his team mate. (rtr)

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Gold medalist Marcel Hirscher of Austria poses with his medals during the medal ceremony.

Wolff and Lauda renew Mercedes F1 contracts to 2020

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LONDON - Mercedes team bosses and shareholders Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda have agreed new contracts to the end of 2020, the Formula One world champions said on Monday.

The date aligns the two Austrians’ contracts with the expiration of the current Commercial Agreement with Formula One Management.

Mercedes motorsport head Wolff, who is effectively the team principal, has a 30 percent stake in Mercedes Grand Prix Limited while non-executive chairman Lauda, a retired triple world champion, has 10 percent. Daimler AG hold the remaining 60 percent.

“In 2013, we restructured the management of the Team with the clear goal of

improving our performance. Since then, however, the results have exceeded our expectations,” said Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche in a statement.

“A key factor in this success has been the combination of Toto’s entrepreneurial skills and Niki’s experience. Their renewed commitment gives our programme important continuity for the next four years.”

Mercedes have won both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships for the past three years.

“The last few years have been some of the most enjoyable I have had in Formula One,” said Lauda, who won his titles with Ferrari in 1975 and 1977 and McLaren in 1984. He suffered a near-fatal accident in 1976. (rtr)

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Wenger concerned by artificial pitch at minor league Sutton

PARIS — Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe, the rising star of French football, is doing better than Thierry Henry was at the same age.

Manchester City fans know all about Henry — Arsenal’s all-time leading scorer — but are poised to get a glimpse of Mbappe’s talent when City hosts Monaco in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

Because of his electric speed and style of play the 18-year-old Mbappe has drawn comparisons with Henry —a world class finisher and France’s record scorer with 51 goals. Henry used to make the same dazzling runs when cutting inside from the left that Mbappe makes now, and the parallel is made stronger by the fact they broke into the Monaco side as teenagers.

Mbappe’s first professional goal came at the age of 17 years, 62 days, which just happened to beat the Monaco club record held by Henry. “Every player wants to write their own history. (Henry) has written his and I hope to write mine,” Mbappe said. “I just hope it’s as good or better.”

Where Mbappe has the edge is that he can already play at center forward — a quality that Henry developed at a later age. It is testament to Mbappe’s maturity that when called upon by Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim, he has switched easily from left winger to striker.

When Jardim rested Radamel Falcao, his main striker, for a French Cup game and a league game this month, Mbappe scored in both. Then, when paired alongside Falcao against Metz recently, he scored a hat trick.

“All that remains is finding his true position, out wide or through the middle,” said Jean-Claude Giuntini, Mbappe’s coach with France’s under-17s.

Henry became a striker when he joined Arsenal from Juventus in 1999 — by which time he was nearly 22.

Coach Arsene Wenger converted him from a winger averaging one goal every five games at his previous clubs into the Premier League’s most feared marksman.

Mbappe, who joined Monaco at 14, started drawing attention when still shy of his 17th birthday. It was for the way he set up Monaco’s goal in a 4-1 loss to Tottenham in the Europa League, turning right back Kieran Trippier inside out before feeding striker Stephan El Shaarawy.

Amid growing interest, Mbappe turned down Real Madrid last summer. He had previously visited Madrid’s facilities aged 14, greeted in person by Zinedine Zidane, one of the illustrious club’s finest ever players and its future coach.

“I was a kid who had the best player in French history speaking to him,” Mbappe recounted. “It didn’t happen because I wanted to stay in my country. I decided to come to Monaco and I think I made the right choice.”

Monaco has a gift for finding rare talent. Forward Anthony Martial joined Manchester United from Monaco in January last year, aged 20. But Mbappe is showing even more potential than Martial.

Like Martial and Henry, he also grew up in the

Paris suburbs. Following in their footsteps, he soon joined France’s youth academy at Clairefontaine, nestled in leafy countryside about one hour from Paris.

The logical choice would seemingly have been to join Paris Saint-Germain. But Mbappe saw better opportunities with Monaco. It’s a side known for developing young players, whereas PSG had a reputation for overlooking local talent — having missed out on Henry and Martial.

Last May, Mbappe helped Monaco win the Gambardella Cup — the French Youth Cup — by scoring twice in the final against Lens: an Henrylike finish for his first goal and a brilliant strike for his second.

Although Mbappe’s signature move is stepping over the ball multiple times when running at speed — a hallmark of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo — he has outrageous trickery of his own.

In the Euro under-19 final against Italy last July, he received the ball down the right flank. Feigning to go one way, he flicked the ball the other way over the Italian player’s head and then crossed it. All of this on his weaker foot.

He was the tournament’s star, scoring five goals as France won. Earlier on, in a 2-0 defeat of Croatia, he scored another Henry-like goal, controlling a long pass perfectly with his right foot, then gliding around the keeper before slotting in with his left.

That Monaco has managed to keep Mbappe is largely down to a strong family structure.

Mbappe does not have a high-profile agent like Mino Raiola, who has Manchester United stars Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic among his elite clients. Mbappe, whose mother played professional handball and whose half-brother played striker for first division Rennes, is represented only by his Cameroonian father Wilfried.

When Mbappe was on the bench earlier this season, his father gave a newspaper interview bluntly advising Jardim to pick him. The message got through.(ap)

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 file photo, Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe Lottin celebrates scoring the third goal against Troyes during their French League One soccer match, in Monaco. Because of his electric speed and style of play, the 18-year-old Mbappe has drawn comparisons with Thierry Henry, who is also France’s record scorer.

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Ars e n a l manager Arsene Wenger believes Sutton United’s artificial pitch could cause his side problems and warned against complacency when they visit the National League team in the fifth round of the FA Cup later on Monday.

Sutton are 17th in the National League but Wenger said his team would need to overcome a number of obstacles to progress to the next round.

“Firstly, the pitch,” the Frenchman told reporters when asked about the issues his team would

have to contend with against their minor league opponents.

“Secondly, their enthusiasm. Thirdly if we are not ready for a big fight.

Subconsciously if we think ‘no matter, it’s a non-league team, we will pass’, that will not happen.

“Ideally we would like to play on a normal pitch. But it has been accepted so... competition is also about dealing with what you face.

We face an artificial pitch and we have to deal with it.”

Arsenal were beaten 5-1 at Bayern Munich in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Wednesday and much of the buildup to the game focused on Wenger’s future at the club. The manager, however, was more worried how his team would adapt to the artificial surface and get past Sutton.

“I’ve heard that Sutton have a wet pitch, they water it before the game so it’ll be much quicker,” Wenger added.

“It means the weight on the joints is stronger, you cannot glide, you have to block every time so it makes football a bit different because the ball comes to you and somebody accelerates and doesn’t slow down like in a normal game so you have to get used to the difference in speed.”

Striker Danny Welbeck, who has recently returned from a lengthy injury layoff and played for Arsenal’s under-23 team on Sunday, confirmed he would not play against Sutton.

“Glad to get 70 minutes (on Sunday) to build up my match fitness.

Plastic pitch at Sutton isn’t the best idea at the moment,” he tweeted.

The winner of Monday’s match will face the National League’s Lincoln City in the next round.(rtr)

Messi’s 90th minute penalty give Barcelona win over Leganes BARCELONA — Lionel Messi scored a 90th-minute penalty for his second goal of the night to give Barcelona a 2-1 win over lowly Leganes in the Spanish league on Sunday.

Messi’s spot-kick, following a questionable penalty after Neymar tumbled in the area, saved Barcelona from a second demoralizing result this week after a 4-0 loss at Paris SaintGermain in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Coach Luis Enrique, however, acknowledged that the match was far from uplifting for a team that is staring at elimination from European competition and is trailing Real Madrid in La Liga.

“We foresaw that it could be a complicated match given where we were coming from in the Champions League,” said Luis Enrique, who has been heavily criticized for the loss at PSG.

“Everything was difficult for us, and that after having scored at the start. It’s clear we were lacking confidence for stretches. The game was finally decided by a penalty, but considering how we are right now, we will take it.”

Leganes was clinging to a well-deserved point when Neymar stumbled over Martin Mantovani in the area.

The contact was enough to secure a penalty and Messi’s league-leading 19th goal of the season.

The match couldn’t have started better for the hosts, when Messi tapped in Luis Suarez’s cross after just four minutes. But Leganes, a modest club from Madrid that earned topflight promotion for the first time last season, never lost its poise and threatened whenever it emerged from defending its area.

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen had to make four saves of

goal-bound strikes before Leganes’s Unai Lopez got one past him for the equalizer in the 71st.

“We wanted to leave here reinforced either way, with points or thanks to our showing,” Leganes coach Asier Garitano said. “We didn’t get the points, but I think we leave bolstered by the match. We competed well.”

While Barcelona remained one point behind leader Real Madrid— which has two games in hand, few of its fans will take much solace from the drab performance against a side making its first visit to Camp Nou. Barcelona had romped to a 5-1 victory at Leganes earlier this season, but this time around Leganes was by no means intimidated by Europe’s biggest stadium. It remained disciplined in defense despite falling behind early and knew when to take its chances going forward.(ap)

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

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Wenger concerned by artificial pitch at minor league Sutton

PARIS — Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe, the rising star of French football, is doing better than Thierry Henry was at the same age.

Manchester City fans know all about Henry — Arsenal’s all-time leading scorer — but are poised to get a glimpse of Mbappe’s talent when City hosts Monaco in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

Because of his electric speed and style of play the 18-year-old Mbappe has drawn comparisons with Henry —a world class finisher and France’s record scorer with 51 goals. Henry used to make the same dazzling runs when cutting inside from the left that Mbappe makes now, and the parallel is made stronger by the fact they broke into the Monaco side as teenagers.

Mbappe’s first professional goal came at the age of 17 years, 62 days, which just happened to beat the Monaco club record held by Henry. “Every player wants to write their own history. (Henry) has written his and I hope to write mine,” Mbappe said. “I just hope it’s as good or better.”

Where Mbappe has the edge is that he can already play at center forward — a quality that Henry developed at a later age. It is testament to Mbappe’s maturity that when called upon by Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim, he has switched easily from left winger to striker.

When Jardim rested Radamel Falcao, his main striker, for a French Cup game and a league game this month, Mbappe scored in both. Then, when paired alongside Falcao against Metz recently, he scored a hat trick.

“All that remains is finding his true position, out wide or through the middle,” said Jean-Claude Giuntini, Mbappe’s coach with France’s under-17s.

Henry became a striker when he joined Arsenal from Juventus in 1999 — by which time he was nearly 22.

Coach Arsene Wenger converted him from a winger averaging one goal every five games at his previous clubs into the Premier League’s most feared marksman.

Mbappe, who joined Monaco at 14, started drawing attention when still shy of his 17th birthday. It was for the way he set up Monaco’s goal in a 4-1 loss to Tottenham in the Europa League, turning right back Kieran Trippier inside out before feeding striker Stephan El Shaarawy.

Amid growing interest, Mbappe turned down Real Madrid last summer. He had previously visited Madrid’s facilities aged 14, greeted in person by Zinedine Zidane, one of the illustrious club’s finest ever players and its future coach.

“I was a kid who had the best player in French history speaking to him,” Mbappe recounted. “It didn’t happen because I wanted to stay in my country. I decided to come to Monaco and I think I made the right choice.”

Monaco has a gift for finding rare talent. Forward Anthony Martial joined Manchester United from Monaco in January last year, aged 20. But Mbappe is showing even more potential than Martial.

Like Martial and Henry, he also grew up in the

Paris suburbs. Following in their footsteps, he soon joined France’s youth academy at Clairefontaine, nestled in leafy countryside about one hour from Paris.

The logical choice would seemingly have been to join Paris Saint-Germain. But Mbappe saw better opportunities with Monaco. It’s a side known for developing young players, whereas PSG had a reputation for overlooking local talent — having missed out on Henry and Martial.

Last May, Mbappe helped Monaco win the Gambardella Cup — the French Youth Cup — by scoring twice in the final against Lens: an Henrylike finish for his first goal and a brilliant strike for his second.

Although Mbappe’s signature move is stepping over the ball multiple times when running at speed — a hallmark of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo — he has outrageous trickery of his own.

In the Euro under-19 final against Italy last July, he received the ball down the right flank. Feigning to go one way, he flicked the ball the other way over the Italian player’s head and then crossed it. All of this on his weaker foot.

He was the tournament’s star, scoring five goals as France won. Earlier on, in a 2-0 defeat of Croatia, he scored another Henry-like goal, controlling a long pass perfectly with his right foot, then gliding around the keeper before slotting in with his left.

That Monaco has managed to keep Mbappe is largely down to a strong family structure.

Mbappe does not have a high-profile agent like Mino Raiola, who has Manchester United stars Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic among his elite clients. Mbappe, whose mother played professional handball and whose half-brother played striker for first division Rennes, is represented only by his Cameroonian father Wilfried.

When Mbappe was on the bench earlier this season, his father gave a newspaper interview bluntly advising Jardim to pick him. The message got through.(ap)

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 file photo, Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe Lottin celebrates scoring the third goal against Troyes during their French League One soccer match, in Monaco. Because of his electric speed and style of play, the 18-year-old Mbappe has drawn comparisons with Thierry Henry, who is also France’s record scorer.

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Ars e n a l manager Arsene Wenger believes Sutton United’s artificial pitch could cause his side problems and warned against complacency when they visit the National League team in the fifth round of the FA Cup later on Monday.

Sutton are 17th in the National League but Wenger said his team would need to overcome a number of obstacles to progress to the next round.

“Firstly, the pitch,” the Frenchman told reporters when asked about the issues his team would

have to contend with against their minor league opponents.

“Secondly, their enthusiasm. Thirdly if we are not ready for a big fight.

Subconsciously if we think ‘no matter, it’s a non-league team, we will pass’, that will not happen.

“Ideally we would like to play on a normal pitch. But it has been accepted so... competition is also about dealing with what you face.

We face an artificial pitch and we have to deal with it.”

Arsenal were beaten 5-1 at Bayern Munich in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Wednesday and much of the buildup to the game focused on Wenger’s future at the club. The manager, however, was more worried how his team would adapt to the artificial surface and get past Sutton.

“I’ve heard that Sutton have a wet pitch, they water it before the game so it’ll be much quicker,” Wenger added.

“It means the weight on the joints is stronger, you cannot glide, you have to block every time so it makes football a bit different because the ball comes to you and somebody accelerates and doesn’t slow down like in a normal game so you have to get used to the difference in speed.”

Striker Danny Welbeck, who has recently returned from a lengthy injury layoff and played for Arsenal’s under-23 team on Sunday, confirmed he would not play against Sutton.

“Glad to get 70 minutes (on Sunday) to build up my match fitness.

Plastic pitch at Sutton isn’t the best idea at the moment,” he tweeted.

The winner of Monday’s match will face the National League’s Lincoln City in the next round.(rtr)

Messi’s 90th minute penalty give Barcelona win over Leganes BARCELONA — Lionel Messi scored a 90th-minute penalty for his second goal of the night to give Barcelona a 2-1 win over lowly Leganes in the Spanish league on Sunday.

Messi’s spot-kick, following a questionable penalty after Neymar tumbled in the area, saved Barcelona from a second demoralizing result this week after a 4-0 loss at Paris SaintGermain in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Coach Luis Enrique, however, acknowledged that the match was far from uplifting for a team that is staring at elimination from European competition and is trailing Real Madrid in La Liga.

“We foresaw that it could be a complicated match given where we were coming from in the Champions League,” said Luis Enrique, who has been heavily criticized for the loss at PSG.

“Everything was difficult for us, and that after having scored at the start. It’s clear we were lacking confidence for stretches. The game was finally decided by a penalty, but considering how we are right now, we will take it.”

Leganes was clinging to a well-deserved point when Neymar stumbled over Martin Mantovani in the area.

The contact was enough to secure a penalty and Messi’s league-leading 19th goal of the season.

The match couldn’t have started better for the hosts, when Messi tapped in Luis Suarez’s cross after just four minutes. But Leganes, a modest club from Madrid that earned topflight promotion for the first time last season, never lost its poise and threatened whenever it emerged from defending its area.

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen had to make four saves of

goal-bound strikes before Leganes’s Unai Lopez got one past him for the equalizer in the 71st.

“We wanted to leave here reinforced either way, with points or thanks to our showing,” Leganes coach Asier Garitano said. “We didn’t get the points, but I think we leave bolstered by the match. We competed well.”

While Barcelona remained one point behind leader Real Madrid— which has two games in hand, few of its fans will take much solace from the drab performance against a side making its first visit to Camp Nou. Barcelona had romped to a 5-1 victory at Leganes earlier this season, but this time around Leganes was by no means intimidated by Europe’s biggest stadium. It remained disciplined in defense despite falling behind early and knew when to take its chances going forward.(ap)

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

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Dominant Hirscher takes slalom gold

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Winner Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine (R) and runner-up Kei Nishikori of Japan pose with their trophies.

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Your adventure will be accompanied with cool air and unspoiled views of the hills. Once you arrived at the waterfall, the freshness of the water will im-

mediately remove your tiredness after trekking. Your struggle was paid when you touch the Juwuk Manis waterfall. After enjoying the scenery, you can immediately shower or splash around in the small pool while enjoying the waterfall splash.

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or friends.

Juwuk Manis Village also has another interest place beside waterfall, local people call it Bukit Cinta or The Hill Of Love, Bukit Cinta be excellent for anyone who wishes to see the beauty of the morning sun while enjoying traditional fields with backgrounds highest point on the island of Bali is Mount Agung. And if you’re lucky, in the morning the fields below the hill will be shrouded in mist that adds to the exquisite scenery. (IBP/net)

Dolgopolov upsets Nishikori to win Argentina Open

BUENOS AIRES - Unseeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov upset favourite Kei Nishikori 7-6(4) 6-4 to win the Argentina Open on Sunday and lift his first title in five years.

The 28-year-old Dolgopolov, who took one hour and 40 minutes to win the final at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, earned his first victory over the Japanese world number five at the sixth attempt.

Dolgopolov, the world number 66, lifted his third career ATP title by going through the claycourt tournament without dropping a set.

“I’d never won even a set against Kei, let alone a match. I’m really happy to have done so,” Dolgopolov told reporters.

“I played really well and I’m at my best level for the last two years.

I’m really glad to be back.”

The Ukrainian, whose previous crown came at Washington in 2012, the year of his career-high ranking of 13th, went toe-to-toe with Nishikori in a long first set that he clinched 7-4 in the tiebreak with his second set point.

He then broke his opponent for the first time when they were 3-3 in the second set with a winner from his potent backhand and went on

to take victory with his first match point.

Top seed Nishikori was looking for a 12th title, having won his last at Memphis last year, and now moves on to the Rio Open with Dolgopolov.

The Japanese said he still had some way to go to take his ranking higher. “I’d have to improve several things (in my game)... be more consistent week in week out,” he said.

Dolgopolov ended a run of seven successive Argentina Open triumphs by Spanish champions in Buenos Aires as he succeeded last year’s winner Rafael Nadal. (rtr)

ST MORITZ - Favourite Marcel Hirscher of Austria provided a spectacular climax to the alpine skiing world championships by storming to victory in the men’s slalom on Sunday to claim his second gold medal of the event.

The trophy-laden 27-year-old took his overall world championship tally to six gold medals and nine in total after he also won Friday’s giant slalom and finished runner-up in the combined event.

Having led a second successive one-two finish for the Austrians, he was in jovial mood on the podium after compatriot Manuel Feller claimed the silver medal ahead of third-placed German Felix Neureuther.

“It is perfect; the sun is shining and great conditions today,” he told reporters.

“The skiing was pretty good as well and Austria is pretty stoked with another two podiums. Thank you for an amazing crowd, have a nice Sunday and a safe trip home.”

Hirscher, whose victory propelled Austria to the top of the medals table with three gold, four silver and two bronze ahead of host nation Switzerland, was candid about what drives him to new heights.

“The young guns are kicking my ass in every training run so am I very thankful for this,” said the winner of the last five overall World Cup titles who is in a commanding position to claim a sixth.

“It helps me make improvements in every training run.”

Dave Ryding fuelled hopes of a first-ever medal for a British man in the world championships after a superb first run left him fourth, but he dropped to 11th after the second.

With ruts appearing around the gates during the second run, most of the top 15 racers struggled on a deteriorating course and Neureuther took advantage after finishing the first leg in 10th position.

His blistering run gave Germany their only medal of the championships, as the likes of Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen and Austrian Michael Matt, who was third after the first run, faltered.

The 24-year old Feller, seventh after the opening run, matched the German’s grit and jumped into the driving seat before the majestic Hirscher stormed through a massive 0.68 seconds ahead of his team mate. (rtr)

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Gold medalist Marcel Hirscher of Austria poses with his medals during the medal ceremony.

Wolff and Lauda renew Mercedes F1 contracts to 2020

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LONDON - Mercedes team bosses and shareholders Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda have agreed new contracts to the end of 2020, the Formula One world champions said on Monday.

The date aligns the two Austrians’ contracts with the expiration of the current Commercial Agreement with Formula One Management.

Mercedes motorsport head Wolff, who is effectively the team principal, has a 30 percent stake in Mercedes Grand Prix Limited while non-executive chairman Lauda, a retired triple world champion, has 10 percent. Daimler AG hold the remaining 60 percent.

“In 2013, we restructured the management of the Team with the clear goal of

improving our performance. Since then, however, the results have exceeded our expectations,” said Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche in a statement.

“A key factor in this success has been the combination of Toto’s entrepreneurial skills and Niki’s experience. Their renewed commitment gives our programme important continuity for the next four years.”

Mercedes have won both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships for the past three years.

“The last few years have been some of the most enjoyable I have had in Formula One,” said Lauda, who won his titles with Ferrari in 1975 and 1977 and McLaren in 1984. He suffered a near-fatal accident in 1976. (rtr)

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Hundreds of migrants cross into Spain’s Ceuta in second wave in 3 days

MADRID - Some 359 African migrants broke through the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta early on Monday, in a second mass push after about 500 migrants breached the fence on Friday.

More than 1,400 migrants are now waiting in the North African enclave to be processed, Ceuta authorities said, adding that tents had been requested to house the latest arrivals.

They must now wait to be transferred to the mainland to have their papers processed. Most are likely to be returned to Morocco or their country of origin.

Ceuta authorities said around 600 people had attempted to break into the enclave on Monday using wire cutters and blunt weapons, at the same location as on Friday.

Three people were hospitalised with serious injuries, including two police officers, after the rush to jump the six-metre, barbed-wire fence that surrounds Ceuta, the authorities said.

Spain’s two North African enclaves, Ceuta on Morocco’s northern point off the Strait of Gibraltar, and Melilla, which lies further to the east and closer to the Algerian border, are often the focus of attempted illegal border crossings.

African migrants attempt to climb fences or swim around the border along the coast as they seek an entry point into Europe.

More than 1,100 migrants attempted to cross into Ceuta in January, but most were turned back. (rtr)

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Iraq...

From page 1 Islamic State imposed a radical version of Islam in Mosul, banning cigarettes, televisions and radios, and forcing men to grow beards and women to cover from head to toe. Citizens who failed to comply risked death.

Capturing Mosul would effectively end the Sunni group’s ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq. The militants are expected to continue to wage an insurgency, however, carrying out suicide bombings and inspiring

lone-wolf actions abroad.

About 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the start of the offensive in October, U.N. officials say. Medical and humanitarian agencies estimate the total number of dead and wounded - both civilian and military - at several thousand.

“This is the grim choice for children in western Mosul right now: bombs, crossfire and hunger if they stay – or execution and snipers if they try to run,” Save the Children said, adding that children make up about half the population trapped in the city.(ap)

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Indonesia Islamists urge ouster of Jakarta governor, plan more protests JAKARTA - Indonesian Islamist groups on Monday called on the government to suspend the Christian governor of the capital and for the courts to convict him of blasphemy, demands they will make again at a rally outside parliament on Tuesday. Islamist groups have held two big rallies since November against the governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is on trial for insulting the Koran, and in the midst of an election in which he hopes to win a second term.

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and European Council President Donald Tusk hold a joint news conference in Brussels, Belgium, February 20, 2017.

Pence in Brussels, seeking “deeper” ties with EU

BRUSSELS - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told senior European Union officials in Brussels on Monday that the Trump administration was looking at ways to “deepen our relationship” with the EU.

African migrants react as they arrive at the CETI, the short-stay immigrant centre, after crossing the border from Morocco to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, Spain, February 17, 2017.

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P r e s i d e n t D o n a l d Tr u m p alarmed EU leaders by endorsing Britain’s decision to leave the bloc and by suggesting last month that other states might follow. Pence spent the weekend in Germany seeking to reassure Europeans that Trump was committed to the NATO defence pact, but left some unconvinced.

Speaking to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini before meetings with the heads of the European Council, European Commission and NATO, Pence

said he was “very grateful to have the opportunity to visit with you and explore ways that we can deepen our relationship with the European Union”.

He met Mogherini at the U.S. mission to the EU. The last U.S. ambassador, who was dismissed

by Trump as he took office, warned the new administration against reversing decades of postwar U.S. encouragement of European integration and said supporting Brexit was “the height of folly”.

Mogherini told Pence that Eu-

ropeans and the United States had much to work on and that discussions were already under way.

In a statement, she later said she and Pence had “an open and warm conversation” in which she “reaffirmed a strong willingness of the EU to continue building a strong EU-U.S. partnership on the basis of clear values and interests”.

She said they discussed Syria, Ukraine, Libya, the Middle East, Afghanistan and North Korea among other topics. Mogherini stressed “the need to preserve and fully implement the Iran deal” on controlling Iran’s nuclear developments. Trump has called Iran the “number one terrorist state”. (rtr)

DUBLIN - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny may lay out a timetable for stepping down at a meeting of his ruling Fine Gael party on Wednesday.

With calls increasing for Kenny to spell out his plans, his spokesman said on Monday that the prime minister would not comment on the issue until that meeting, planting it firmly in the limelight.

Kenny, who has been prime minister since 2011, has said he will not lead the party into the next election

due late next year.

His minority government, however, has become increasingly unstable and only narrowly survived a vote of no-confidence over its handling of a policing scandal last week, prompting concerns among his colleagues.

One of the two leading contenders to take over as leader of the centreright party said on Sunday that a new leader should be chosen after Kenny’s trip to Washington for the annual meeting with the U.S. president to

mark St. Patrick’s Day on March 17.

“I think after that visit you will see, I hope, an orderly and quite a quick transition to new leadership within Fine Gael,” Simon Coveney, the country’s housing minister, told national broadcaster RTE. Fine Gael’s vice-chairman said last week that he expected Kenny to inform the party’s internal meeting on Wednesday of an exact timetable for his departure and hoped it would not be necessary to table a motion of no confidence in his leadership. (rtr)

Irish PM to respond to leadership questions as disquiet grows

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Muslim men raise their fists during a rally at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Tens of thousands gathered at the national mosque for the mass prayers on Saturday urging Indonesians to vote for Muslims in city and district elections being held across the country next week.

“Our demands to parliament are that they urge the government to suspend Purnama ... and urge the Supreme Court and judges to detain him and impose the maximum sentence,” said Muhammad al Khaththath of the Islamic People’s Forum. The forum is one of the groups organising the Tuesday rally.

Previous rallies drew hundreds of thousands of people and raised concern about the erosion of religious tolerance in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

Purnama, Jakarta’s first ethnic Chinese and Christian leader, denies insulting the Koran.

He has been allowed to remain in office while the court case is going on but faces up to four years in prison if found guilty of blasphemy. His supporters say the charge against him is politically motivated.

Last Wednesday, he stood against two Muslim candidates in a city governor elec-

Rafflesia Arnoldii flower blooms in Bengkulu Province BENGKULU - A Rafflesia Arnoldii flower, measuring 55 centimeters in diameter, has bloomed in the protected forest area of Bukit Daun, Taba Penanjung Sub-district, Central Bengkulu District, Bengkulu Province.

“The flower is blooming perfectly and can be enjoyed for the next three days,” said Gilang Ibnu, a resident who found the rare flower in Bengkulu on Monday. Arnoldii Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, with a diameter exceeding 100 centimeters.

Ibnu said that flower enthusiasts can visit the site of the blooming Rafflesia Arnoldii by walking as far as 20 meters into the forest. Visitors only need to drive from the city of Bengkulu towards Kepahiang District, passing through the crossroad of Bengkulu-South Sumatra and then stopping at the 47th kilometer mark.

“We have placed a banner on the side of the road to allow visitors to find the spot where the flower is blossoming,” he remarked. In addition to the blooming flower, visitors can also see the bud

of Rafflesia Arnoldii that is expected to blossom in the next few weeks.

Ibnu, in cooperation with a Rafflesia flower care group, has prepared a walkway to facilitate visitors to reach the site in the forest. “We have also put up tents to protect the flower, as it is vulnerable to being damaged or stolen by irresponsible parties,” he pointed out.

The visitors are not charged a levy to see the unique flower. Nevertheless, each visitor has to pay Rp5 thousand to take pictures with the flower. A visitor named Namora expressed delight on watching the blooming Rafflesia flower in its habitat.

“It was a unique and rare experience to witness the rare Rafflesia flower blooming in its habitat. It should serve as a capital to develop the tourism in Bengkulu Province,” Namora affirmed.

In addition to the Rafflesia Arnoldii flower, three different types of Rafflesia have been identified in the forests of Bengkulu: Rafflesia Bengkuluensis, Rafflesia Gadutensis, and Rafflesia Hasselti.(ant)

tion but none of them got enough votes to win outright.

A second round is due in mid-April with Purnama competing against a former education minister, Anies Baswedan, who has appealed to the Muslim vote in the city of more than 10 million. Jakarta police have stepped up security ahead of Tuesday’s demonstration which up to 10,000 people are expected to join, said police spokesman Argo Yuwono.

The Jakarta election is widely seen as a proxy battle for the next presidential election in 2019. Purnama is a former deputy of President Joko Widodo, when Widodo was Jakarta governor, and he is being backed by the president’s party.

Baswedan is backed by a retired general, Prabowo Subianto, who Widodo defeated in the last presidential election, in 2014, and who is promising a political comeback.(ant)

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Unique Tradition of Penglipuran Village

Other than being known as the cleanest village in the world, Penglipuran village also has some unique traditions.

So far, it remains to absolutely adhere to the tradition handed down by the ancestors. Other than the concept of house architecture still reflecting the nuances of local wisdom, it also has a unique burial tradition. At the village having been popular with loloh cemcem or hog plum herbal drink, there are differences in the position between the burial of women’s and men’s bodies.

Operations Manager of Penglipuran village attraction, Nengah Moneng, explained that the local tradition handed down by his ancestors has differences in the burial position for the bodies of men and women. Women’s body is buried in the gazing upward position as the common position found at other villages, while position of men’s body is facedown.

According to him, such different burial position has its own philosophy. Such women’s position symbolizes the earth (prathivi), while men’s position symbolizes sky (akhasa). “That’s the philosophy I’ve got from our predecessors,” he said.

Besides, when buried, the head of both women’s and men’s body is equally positioned westwards or to the direction of sunset. “It is made in such a position because the location of Dalem Pingit Temple is in the southwest.

Thus, the bodies are buried with the orientation to the west or towards the sunset,” he explained.

Apart from the burial position, Moneng also revealed that cemetery at Penglipuran is divided into three areas. The easternmost cemetery is specifically intended to bury people that died due to unnatural causes (suicide and accident), the middle one is intended to bury babies and he adults who have never married. “In the meantime, the westernmost one is intended to bury people who died of natural causes,” said Moneng. (kmb)

Traffic jams cost U.S. drivers $1,200 a year -study

DETROIT - Traffic jams cost U.S. drivers an average of $1,200 a year in wasted fuel and time, and much more in Los Angeles, the city with the world’s biggest rush hour traffic delays, according to a study by INRIX Inc released on Monday.

INRIX, based in Kirkland, Washington, aggregates and analyzes traffic data collected from vehicles and highway infrastructure. The company said the latest edition of its Global Traffic Scorecard report was based on 500 terabytes of data from 300 million sources.

While Thailand was the world’s most congested country in 2016, according to the study, the United States had the worst traffic among rich, developed economies. Five of the world’s 10 most congested cities are in the United States, INRIX found.

U.S. traffic congestion is not a new problem, but it could get renewed attention if President Donald Trump pushes for a large-scale infrastructure investment program as he has promised.

Chronic traffic jams are a concern for global automakers, and some major cities have begun to limit private motor vehicle access to central city areas.

The INRIX study sliced data in different ways. Los Angeles drivers

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spent an average of 104 peak drivetime hours fighting slow traffic during 2016. That put Los Angeles at the top of the list of cities where drivers spent the most hours stuck in slow rush hour traffic.

But on a different measure, time stuck in congestion as a share of all driving, Moscow drivers had it worse. They spent 25.2 percent of their total driving hours on congested roads, while Los Angeles motorists spent 12.7 percent of their total driving time in slow traffic, the study found. In Bogota, Colombia, motorists spend 31.8 percent of their total driving time in traffic jams.

The worst stretch of road in the United States is New York City’s Cross Bronx Expressway, where drivers on the 4.7 mile (7.5 km) road spent an average of 86 hours a year staring at the bumper of the car ahead.

After Los Angeles, INRIX listed New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Miami as the most traffic-choked U.S. cities.(rtr)

Colorado town getting a drive-through marijuana shop PARACHUTE, Colo. — The western Colorado town of Parachute is getting a drive-through marijuana shop, believed to be the first in the state. The Parachute Board of Trustees approved a business license for Tumbleweed Express last week, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/2m1PZCA).

“As far as I can tell, we are not aware of this business model ever coming up before,” said Robert Goulding, spokesman for the state Marijuana Enforcement Division. The business is expected to open in March in a former car wash.

Tumbleweed Express also had to get approval from the Marijuana Enforcement Division, which said the store cannot allow anyone younger than 21 on the premises, FILE- In this Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, farmworkers remove stems and leaves from newly-harvested marijuana plants, at Los Suenos Farms, America’s largest legal open air marijuana farm, in Avondale, southern Colo.

even in the back seat of a car.

The business must also have security and surveillance, and marijuana may not be visible from outside the dispensary. The car wash building will allow the goods to be screened from outside view.

“We think the drive-through is a very creative and innovative idea,” Parachute Town Manager Stuart McArthur said.

Marijuana accounted for nearly 30 percent of the community’s 2016 sales tax revenue of just over $1 million, McArthur said. “The really good news is that other businesses are benefiting from it,” he said.

Travelers stopping to buy marijuana in Parachute are more likely to stop at restaurants and other shops, he said, helping an economy that was hit hard by a downturn in natural gas production.

Parachute Mayor Roy McClung said the town’s economy would have been in serious trouble without legalized recreational marijuana.

Statewide, marijuana sales brought in close to $200 million in taxes and fees last year, the Colorado Department of Revenue said.(ap)

Residents of East Duda Hold Tug-of-War in Muddy Field

Exciting activity like this will intrigue everyone. Residents of East Duda, Selat, Karangasem, held tug-of-war in the mud so that it became a very special attraction.

Unsurprisingly, this traditional sport drew appreciation and extraordinary adrenaline. It is more challenging and needs prime energy and carefulness in thinking of beating their rivals. Obviously, the challenge is far more different from the tug-of-war on grass.

The atmosphere became more interesting when the whole body of the players was covered in mud. Their hair, face to other parts of the body was filled with mud. For newcomers, it is really a very interesting attraction when taking action to drag the rope and avoid the sprinkle of mud.

The participants consisted of representatives from nine hamlets throughout East Duda village where each delegated one men’s team and one women’s team. Each team has ten personnel.

At that time, the contest was followed by the women’s team of Pesangkan Anyar hamlet against the women’s team of Batu Gede hamlet.

Though the participants were women, the contest became more exciting than the tug-of-war on the grass. If they already got dragged, it would be difficult to hold because it was quite slippery

and heavy.

Even though being flushed by heavy rains, it did not dampen the vivacity of the residents to play or to watch the contest. “The event is aimed at encouraging young people into farming. This tug-of-war in the mud actually has become an annual event held every Christmas or December 25,” said headman of East Duda, I Gede Pawana, Monday (Dec. 26).

Such an event is also associated with the anniversary of East Duda village. It is intended for entertainment, inspiring and motivating young people so that they want to get involved in the paddy field activity as farmers. “Contest of the tug-of-war in the mud is held in one of the paddy fields at Subak Pesangkan. Formerly, the field was converted into a snakefruit orchard. This activity is also to welcome the arrival of harvest season,” he explained.

Tug-of-war activity in the mud got appreciation from the Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri. According to her, the tug-of-war in the mud is not only able to increase togetherness, but also proves that village government is able to implement its work program and get appreciation from its residents. “Actually this tug-of-war activity serves as a medium to build civilizations and closer friendship as the indicator if the work program of the village has run relatively well,” she said. (kmb)

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Airport killing seen on CCTV, probe strains MalaysiaN.Korea ties

Two puppies infected with rabies found in Jembrana NEGARA - More dogs with rabies were found early this year in Jembrana. Subdivision of Animal Health at the Jembrana Food and Agriculture Agency found two puppies infected with rabies in Tulung hamlet, Sarikuning, Melaya, in early February and one inPalunganbatu hamlet, Batuagung, in mid February.

Subdivision Head of Animal Health, A.A. Ngurah Mahadikara, accompanied by Head of Observer and Investigation, I Wayan Widarsa, said on Friday (Feb. 17) that although there were several cases of people being bitten by dogs in Jembrana in January, based on samples and follow-up, none of the dogs were found to be carrying rabies.

According to Mahadikara, as of mid-February, his agency had sent samples from 17 dogs to be lab tested and 2 of them were declared to be infected with rabies. The two positive cases were both puppies that were about 3 months old.

As soon as they found out that the puppy from Tulung hamlet had been carrying rabies, his agency went to this hamlet to vaccinate all the dogs and elminated four dogs in the area suspected of carrying rabbies.

Samples from the four dogs were tested by the Denpasar Veterinary Center (BBVet) and were declared rabies negative.

Vaccinations and selective elimination were held Palunganbatu on Monday (Feb. 20).

The two rabies puppies are suspected of having become infected by rabbies because they had not been vaccinated. Mass vacccinations took place in Jembrana in April and November 2016.

The spread of rabbies is caused by the tendancy of dog owners to let their dogs run wild rendering these dogs vulnerable to the transmission of rabies from other dogs or other carrier animals. (120)

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday his government’s investigation of the killing of the North Korean leader’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, will be “objective”, as tension rose between the countries.

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The prescence of chicken coops in the area is suspected of being responsible for the thousands of flies that have invaded Tusan.

Fly invasion in Tusan remains unresolved

SEMARAPURA — So far, the fly invasion problem in Tusan village, Banjarangkan, has not been resolved. The prescence of chicken coops in the area is suspected of being responsible for the thousands of flies that have invaded Tusan. Although officials from the subdistrict of Banjarangkan and related agencies had previsouly looked into the matter, the people of Tusan are still having to deal with the flies.

Complaints about the large number of flies that have been disturbung the people of Tusan are directly related to the prescence of the nearby chicken coops. Subdistrict head of Banjarangkan, I.B. Mas Ananda, stated that these chicken coops should not result in so many flies, given that the coop requires certain permits to operate, including an environemntal hindance permit (HO).

Ananda however added that the subdistict government doe not have the authority to issue such permits. This is not the first time that residents of Tusan have complained about flies. IN

fact at the end of 2016, officers from the subdistrict of Banjarangkan and the Banjarangkan Health Center conducted a field inspection in response to similar complaints. “In addition to fruit season, chicken manure also cuases many flies to gather at that location. The problem should be resolved by spraying insecticide”, he said when contacted on Sunday (Feb.19).

Ananda promised to go down to Tusan village to ensure the that health of surrounding communities is not at tisk and to and address the issue of the fly invasion. According to Mas Ananda, the flies will disappear as soon as the

Earlier on Monday, Malaysia said it has recalled its envoy from Pyongyang and summoned North Korea’s ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, who again cast doubt on the impartiality of Malaysia’s investigation into the murder and said the victim was not Kim Jong Nam. “We have no reason why we want to do something to paint North Korea in a bad light, but we will be objective,” Najib told reporters in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

CCTV footage obtained by Reuters appeared to show Kim Jong Nam being attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday last week by a woman, who is believed to have wiped a fast-acting poison on his face.

Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the video, and police officials were not immediately available for comment.

Kim Jong Nam, 46, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing’s

chicken coop has finished their slaughter. He addd that he nonetheless hopes that the coop owner will spray insecticide so that the flies will nto continue to invade people’s homes.

Resident of Tusan village, Dewa Ayu, siad that the flies have been ivading her village for the past week, since the coop started their slaughter. Even though the chicken have been slaughtered, the coop has not been well cleaned and chicken manure remains. This has been an ongoign problem that has yet ot be resolved.

Residents of Tusan are feeling very uneasy about the fly invasion and these insects are everywhere and frequently land on people.

If such conditions persiste, there is fear that disease will follow, particulalry in small children.. “Actually the chicken were slaughtered last week, but the manure has not been cleaned up. This is a reoccuring problem” mourned Ayu. (dwa)

Environment Agency cleans up remaining marine debris on Jimbaran Beach

MANGUPURA — On Sunday (Feb. 19), the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK) cleaned up the piles of marine debris along Jimbaran Beach that had been untouched. The marine debris -in the form of twigs and plastic garbage, that had been dumped in some alleyways, on th ehoghway and on the beach.

“The team started the clean-up at 07:00. Ten trucks were deployed to transport the marine debirs that had been littering Jimbrana Beach just north of the Intercon Hotel”, said Putu Eka Merthawan on Sunday.

The cleanup, said Eka Merthawan, took lace to avoide the vile impression that resulted from the pile up garbage along a number of

roads accessing the beach. “The national weather service (BMKG) predicts Febuary to be the peak of extreme weather. Indeed, apart from naturual disasters, there is also an increase in the volue of waste being washed onto the beaches”, he said.

Mertahwan added that there has not been anymore plastic waste

washing up in Jimbrana for the last five days, but there is a greater volume of garnage washing up in Badung.

“Approximately 500 DLHK employees have been deployed to handle waste in Badung –on beaches and elsewhere. Even with the support of 15 trucks and 3 loaders, our employees are still

overwhelmed”, he explained.

There has also been an 25 ton per day increse in organic and plasic waste. Normally Badung collects some 248 tons of garbage per day but this has goen up to 275 tons per day, because heavy rain fall wahses garbage out of the rivers onto the roads and beaches. (kmb45)

Royal Malaysia Police/Handout via Reuters

Suspects Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (top L), North Korean Ri Jong Chol (top R), Indonesian Siti Aisyah (bottom L) and Malaysian Muhammad Farid Bin Jallaludin (bottom R) are seen in this combination of undated handouts released by the Royal Malaysia Police to Reuters on February 19, 2017. The four were arrested in connection with the murder of Kim Jong Nam.

protection, had spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic control of isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea.

South Korean legislators last week cited their spy agency as saying the young and unpredictable North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, had issued a “standing order” for his half-brother’s assassination, and that there had been a failed attempt in 2012.

Malaysian police are hunting four North Koreans who fled from the country on the day of the attack, having already detained one North Korean man, a Vietnamese woman, an Indonesian woman, and a Malaysian man.

At least three of the wanted North Koreans caught an Emirates flight to Dubai from Jakarta late on the day of the attack, an immigration official in Indonesia told Reuters.

Malaysia’s Star newspaper reported that all four had returned to North Korea. North Korea had sought to prevent Malaysia from conducting an autopsy, insisting the body be handed over. Its envoy in Kuala Lumpur accused Malaysian authorities of “delaying” the release of the body.

“At the moment we cannot trust the investigation by the Malaysian police,” ambassador Kang Chol told reporters after talks at the foreign ministry.

He said the embassy had only identified the victim as Kim Chol, based on the passport found on the dead man, and suggested a joint investigation with Malaysian authorities. Kim Jong Nam had been caught using fake travel documents in the past.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry announced the withdrawal “for consultations” of its ambassador in North Korea and said the body would be handed over to the next of kin, although none had come forward. Malaysia’s health minister said autopsy results could be released by Wednesday.

Malaysia is one of the few countries that maintains ties with the reclusive state and the dispute could further isolate impoverished North Korea. (rtr)

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte salutes in front of the cadets upon his arrival at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) alumni homecoming in Fort Del Pilar, Baguio city, north of Manila, Philippines February 18, 2017.

Retired Philippine policeman says Duterte ordered ‘death squad’ hits

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte operated a “death squad” while mayor of Davao city, giving cash and orders for police and assassins to murder criminals, according to a former policeman who said he was involved in the clandestine killings.

In remarks contradicting his denial under oath last year of the existence of such a “death squad”, Arturo Lascanas said he was one of the ringleaders of the group that began operating when Duterte became mayor of the southern city in 1988.

Duterte has repeatedly denied involvement in vigilantism or summary executions, either as president or during his 22 years as Davao mayor. His police chief has denied there was ever a death squad in Davao, describing it as fiction created by the media.

On Monday, Lascanas asserted that the Davao death squad was no myth and he was one of those who carried out secret killings of drug dealers and criminals at Duterte’s behest.

“It is true, the Davao death squad, or DDS, really exists,” Lascanas told reporters at the Senate in Manila.

“When Mayor Duterte sat down as mayor for the first time, we started what is called ‘salvaging’ of people, these people are suspects committing crime in Davao.”

“We implemented the personal orders of Mayor Duterte to us.”

Duterte’s legal counsel, Salvadore Panelo, said Lascanas’ allegations were a “continuing fabrication” and “another false narration”.

Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said allegations that Duterte was linked to extrajudicial killings had been

proved false by numerous independent agencies.

“Our people are aware that this character assassination is nothing but vicious politics,” he told CNN Philippines. Lascanas said he had decided his “obedience and loyalty” to Duterte must end and had promised God that he would confess.

He is the second man to go public with claims of involvement in murders allegedly ordered by Duterte, the hugely popular president nicknamed “the Punisher”, whose ruthless approach to tackling crime has won public approval.

‘EXPLOSIVE’ The account given by Lascanas was similar to that of hit man Edgar Matobato, who testified in September he had also been a death squad member in Davao and he had seen Duterte shoot a man dead and give orders for police to kill criminals.

Senator Antonio Trillanes, a critic of Duterte who appeared at the same news conference as Lascanes, said he would file a motion for a Senate investigation into the so-called Davao death squad.

Another anti-Duterte Senator, Leila de Lima, who led a Senate investigation last year into the Davao killings, described Lascanas’ account as “a very, very explosive development”.

Human rights groups have documented about 1,400 suspicious killings in Davao while Duterte was mayor and critics say the war on drugs he unleashed as president has the same hallmarks. More than 7,700 people have been killed in the latest crackdown, some 2,500 in what police say are shootouts during raids and sting operations. (rtr)

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on a supply mission to the International Space Station from historic launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 19, 2017.

SpaceX launches rocket from historic NASA pad in Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL - A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off on Sunday from a Florida launch pad once used to send NASA astronauts to the moon, a step forward for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his company’s goal of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station.

The 229-foot tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 soared off a seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) carrying a Dragon cargo ship that holds supplies and science experiments for the station.

Nine minutes after blastoff, the main section of the rocket flew back to a landing pad at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the eighth successful touchdown for Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

“Baby came back,” Musk wrote on Twitter, celebrating the landing.

SpaceX had decided to delay the mission on Saturday, 13 seconds before launch due to concerns about the steering system in the rocket’s upper stage.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration closely monitored Sunday’s launch to learn more about the company’s operations before it clears SpaceX to fly U.S. astronauts.

The liftoff marked a successful debut for SpaceX at Kennedy’s

Launch Complex 39A, originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program and later repurposed for the space shuttles. SpaceX plans to use the pad for commercial missions, as well as future manned flights.

The pad was last used for the final space shuttle launch in 2011.

In 2014, SpaceX signed a 20-year lease and has spent millions on remodeling.

“It was really awesome to see 39A roar back to life,” SpaceX Dragon program manager Jessica Jensen told reporters after the launch. “This is a huge deal for us.”

It was also SpaceX’s first launch from Florida since an accident in September caused heavy damage to what had been the company’s prime site at Cape Canaveral Air

Force Station, located just south of the NASA spaceport.

NASA hired SpaceX to fly cargo to the station after the shuttle program ended. SpaceX and Boeing Co are scheduled to begin flying crews to the station by the end of 2018, but a U.S. government report last week said technical hurdles likely will delay both companies.

Last month, SpaceX resumed flying its Falcon 9 rockets using a second launch pad in California, where the first stage of the rocket also succeeded in relanding.

The company plans to reuse the rockets to slash costs and reduce pricing.

SpaceX aims to have the Florida launch pad damaged in last year’s explosion up and running by this summer. (rtr)

KUALA LUMPUR — A paranoid dictator’s estranged brother.

Two young female assassins. A crowded international airport. And a mysterious poison that kills within hours.

It’s the perfect recipe for a thrilling cloak-and-dagger spy novel.

Except some — or possibly even all — of this tale could be true in the apparent assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the older half brother of reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. And just like similar intriguing cases from the past, the public is hanging on to every detail because there’s just something about murder by poison that captivates.

“A gun announces its mischief; poison can sneak in with a sip of champagne,” said Robert Thompson, a pop culture expert at Syracuse University. “The question isn’t why we are fascinated with this latest story, it’s why wouldn’t we be?”

Still, speculation that Kim Jong Nam was killed by two young female “agents” at the busy Kuala Lumpur airport last week left even the most seasoned toxicology sleuths shaking their heads. Add in that the portly sibling was apparently sprayed in the face with a substance so potent it killed him before he could reach the hospital, and you’ve got a scene straight out of a James Bond movie.

Four people, including the two women — one Indonesian and the other traveling on a Vietnamese passport — have been detained.

The Indonesian told authorities she thought she was participating in a comedy show prank. Conspiracy theories and speculation abound as police scramble to unravel what really happened to Kim Jong Nam, aged 45 or 46, the son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and a mistress. After falling out of favor with the family, the son lived for years in exile and was about to catch a flight to Macau when the attack took place. He sought help at the airport clinic after suddenly falling ill and died en route to the hospital. An autopsy has been performed, but the results have not been released.

If a chemical agent really was to blame, finding it may be the hardest part of all. Tissue and fluid samples may need to be sent abroad for analysis at a facility with greater capabilities, such as in Japan or at the FBI’s crime lab, if Malaysian experts cannot pinpoint the cause of death.

“The more unusual, the more potent, the more volatile a poison is, the less likely it is to be detected,” said Olif Drummer, a toxicologist at Australia’s Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine who has spent 40 years in the field.

Experts routinely tasked with finding answers in poisoning cases say the events at Kuala Lumpur’s budget airline terminal are bizarre, but not impossible. They wonder: What substance could have been used to kill the victim so quickly without sickening the women who apparently deployed it, along with anyone else nearby? Difficult, they say, but doable.

“It’s not an agent that could be cooked up in a hotel room. It’s going to take a lot of knowledge regarding the chemical in order to facilitate an attack like this,” said Bruce Goldberger, a leading toxicologist who heads the forensic medicine division at the University of Florida. He said a nerve gas or ricin, a deadly substance found in castor beans, could be possible. A strong opioid compound could also have been used, though that would likely have incapacitated the victim immediately.

“It would have to be cleverly designed in order to be applied in this fashion without hurting anyone else,” Goldberger said.

History is filled with poisoners. From jilted lovers seeking revenge to greedy spouses looking to collect on life insurance policies.

Arsenic, cyanide and strychnine are often the toxins of choice used in murders, but political hits are usually a much more complicated business.

Take the Cold War case of Bulgarian defector and journalist Georgi Markov. He was jabbed in the leg with an umbrella in 1978 at a bus stop in London. He died three days later, and a pellet of highly toxic ricin was found under his skin — shot there by a device concealed inside the umbrella. No one was ever arrested, but Bulgarian secret police were suspected with help from the Soviet KGB. The Kremlin has been implicated in a number of high-profile cases including Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who fled to the United Kingdom and was lethally poisoned by radioactive polonium-210 in 2006. In a report published last year, a British judge wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the assassination carried out by the country’s security service.(ap)

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Distaster vicitims stocked for ten days

BANGLI — Assistance continues to be received by the main post at the Kintamani subdistrict head office from related agencies. Head of the Bangli Social Services, I Nengah Sukarta, said that he believes that the stock of basic foods clothing and other supplies donated to the victims of the recent landslide, should be enough for about a week.

“Right now, supplies keep coming in and at the main post at the two

temporary settlements at Songan and Yeh Mampeh are farily sub-

stantial. So we are confident that the vicitms will be not be lacking for the

next ten days”, he said.

Sukarta explained that the assistance delivered by social services has been received by the landslide victims. This assistance includes, life inssurance and dealing with the corpses of the dead as well as medical

Assistance continues to be received by the main post at the Kintamani subdistrict head office from related agencies.

treatement for those seriously injured and those with minor injuries too.

Villagers affected by flash floods and landslides have also been provided with assistance and the Bangli hospital has also provided free treatment to those in need. (kmb41)

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Bengkala landfill is overloaded SINGARAJA — The landfill at Bengkala village, Kubutambahan, is overloaded. In order to reduce the volume of waste being dumped here, the government of Buleleng continues to encourage waste management at the household level.

Head of the Buleleng Environment Agency, Nyoman Genep, stated that waste generated by houselholds in Buleleng ,especially in urban areas, is mostly transported to the landfill, causing the 4.8 hectare landfill to become overloaded.. “Garbage at the landfill has been mounting and the dump site is now classified as overloaded” said Genep recently.

According to Genep, before garbage is transported the the landfill, it must

first be sorted at the depot and the integrated waste processing (TPST) site.

Oganic waste should be processed into compost that can be used to fetilize the neighborhood urban parks, while inorganic waste one can be sold to one of the 17 waste banks in the area. “For the time being, we are maximizong the sorting process at the depot. We also continuously encourage sorting at household level”, he explained.

He also explained that in the next few years, garbage that has been buried for five years in two holes at the landfill will be dug up and sieved. “Waste that has been buried in the holes for five years according to the santitary landfill systme, can be strained and used as fetilizer”, he said. (kmb45)

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In order to reduce the volume of waste being dumped here, the government of Buleleng continues to encourage waste management at the household level

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The foreigners are inspecting the palm-leaf manuscript.

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The abrasion at Pengambengan.

Coastal Abrasion at Pengambengan Beach getting worse Residents protest against factory

NEGARA —

Coastal abrasion at Pengambengan, particularly at Ketapang Lampu and Ketapang Muara, is getting worse. Many people’s homes both on state land and on private land have been destroyed.

On Sunday (Feb. 19), local residents protested by putting up a giant signboard on a fishing boat. They accused companies located in the area of being responsible for the abrasion and demanded that they take responsibility for worsening conditions.

Local residents also wrote on the wall of a house that has been left in ruins asking who they should complain to and who can help.

Some residents complained about factories on the beachside that fortressed their establishments with large bolders and backfilled the sea. “Municipal police had tried to stop the construction but the company insisted on building and even looked strong. We are the ones who have become the victims. Abrasino is gettign worse and or houses have been destroyed because of the changes they made to the coast” said local residents who had been living just west of

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Hilton Returns To Bali

Conservation of palm-leaf manuscripts requires public awareness

DENPASAR — Some high school students diligently cleaned dust off palm-leaf manuscripts with brushes. Next, they took a piece of cotton dipped in a mixture of alcohol and citronella oil and further cleaned off the ancient texts. These stuents from SMAN 3 Denpasar were learning about palm-leaf manuscript conservation from Udayana University’s palm-leaf manuscript techincal unit on Saturday (Feb. 18).

“Why are we teaching palm-leaf manuscript conservatoin? Because palm leaf is fragile and many of the manuscripts being kept in people’s homes are very old, some of them are hundreds of years old”, said chief of the palm-leaf manuscript technical unit of Udayana University, Dr. Ida Bagus Rai Putra.

According to Rai Putra, there are a lot of palm-leaf manuscripts out there that have not been very well maintained. Since these manuscripts are considered hole, may people who have had them passed down to them are afraif to touch the manuscripts out of respect. Some palm-leaf manuscripts are even abandoned because the heirs are not familiar with the contents of the manuscripts. Actually, these manuscripts are an invaluable heritage as a source of remarkable ideas inherent to the Balinese people.

“Palm-leaf manuscripts also contain applied science. Any field of science can be added to or compared to the information in some palm-leaf manuscripts. We at the Udayana University, for instance, have dozens of palm-leaf manuscripts about healing that are now in the process of being conserved and digitized”, he explained.

Aside from manuscripts about healing, said Rai Putra, many palm-leaf manuscripts also contain valuable information about literature, technology, agriculture, astronomy, almanac, seasons and early detection of diseases.

So far, Udayana University’s palm-leaf manuscript technical unit has gathered approximately 970 manuscripts in their collections. These include manuscripts that had been stored in people’s homes but that were not being maintained in good condition.

“We have made an MoU with people who have palm-leaf manuscripts that they can still read or take them back whenever needed. If the manuscripts are not needed and cannot be kept in good conditions, we have a suitable place to store them”, he added.

Rai Putra also added that the most important aspect of palm-leaf manuscript conservation is making more people aware about the importance of physically preserving this heritage. Although there is a tradition in Bali known as nedun meaning to preserve, Udayana is also digitizing many palm-leaf manuscripts in an attempt to ensure the sruvival of the data recorded on these precious leaves.

“We also train personnel to read palm-leaf manuscript. We’ve often go to different communities to read purana (mythology and folklore), inscriptions or chronicles. Anyone can contact our palm-leaf manuscript technical unit and we wil be happy to help the community”, he explained. wen Rai Putra went on to say that they also try to physically rescue these manuscripts by cleaning each page with a mixture of citronella oil and alcohol. Citronella oil is made of lemongrass and functions to kill microbes on the palm-leaf. It is best to celan the leaves frequently. A single volume of a palm leaf manuscript can included anywhere form 10 to 400 sheets of plam leaf. (kmb32)

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the Bali Bumi Mina (BBM) factory that had already been protested by locals previosuly.

Disturbingly, the house of an 85 year old grandmother named Sri Ani located in Ketapang Lampu is currently being destroyed by the waves that lash at her bedroom door.

Grandma Sri Ani lives alone in the house and is now sick and says that she cannot sleep well because she is constantly worried about the alarmingly high level of the sea. “ IN the past, our house was a fair distance form the beach.

Now our house is being destroyed and the sea is just an inch away, right in front of the bedroom” said Grandma Sri Ani. This grandmother said that she would like to move, but has nowhere to go. This house is all that here husband left her and she has not been granted any substitue land.

In order to buld this house they had

to go hungry. It is the home of their love and she is reluctant to leave. “ But one day I will be forced to leave, but I do not know where to go. Maybe I will go stay with my widowed daughter”, she said mournfully.

She went on to explain that she has been sick for the last three months. Before that she was still able to work collecting fish, but now she cannot do anything and depends on the mercy of others.

Grandma Sri Ani is not the only one facing such hardship. The house of late grandpa Parno is also being eaten away by the sea. “Now, grandpa Parno’s house is occupied by his friend and sometimes his children also come here”, said a neighbour.

Residents in the area are feeling restless about the fact that there is no ‘mitigation assistance’ forthcoming from the factories or from the government. Many have no other place to seek shelter.

“Hopefully, there will be some assistance from the factory or the government”, said another locall resident. (kmb)

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Cast member Mariah Carey poses at the premiere of the movie “The LEGO Batman Movie” in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 4, 2017.

‘Lego Batman’ Flies High Over ‘Great Wall,’ ‘Fist Fight’

LOS ANGELES - “The Lego Batman Movie” is dominating the North American box office with an estimated $44 million this President’s Day weekend -- nearly matching the combined haul of “Fifty Shades Darker” and “The Great Wall.”

Universal’s second weekend of “Fifty Shades” is heading for $24 million at 3,714 sites and its action-fantasy “The Great Wall” was projected to wind up with $21 million at 3,325 locations for the Friday-Monday period. Lionsgate’s second weekend of “John Wick: Chapter 2” is finishing in a solid fourth place with $19.5 million at 3,113 venues as holdovers propped up the holiday weekend business.

New Line’s opening of high school comedy “Fist Fight” showed only a modest punch in fifth with around $14 million at 3,185 locations. And Fox’s horror-thriller “A Cure for Wellness” was scaring up a modest $4.9 million at 2,704 screens as it was projected to finish 11th.

“Lego Batman,” Warner Bros.’ spinoff of 2014’s “The Lego Movie,” is playing at 4,088 sites and will wind up the weekend with

more than $108 million in its first 11 days. It opened with $53 million on the Feb. 10-12 weekend, so it’s declined by only 35 percent in the second Friday-Sunday period.

Will Arnett returns as the voice of Batman, along with Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, and Ralph Fiennes. “Lego Batman” scored strong critical support with a 91 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Fifty Shades Darker” declined about 55 percent from its opening weekend and should finish the weekend with an 11-day total of $93 million. (rtr)

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Members of the Iraqi rapid response forces fire a missile toward Islamic State militants during a battle in south of Mosul, Iraq February 19, 2017.

Iraq launches offensive on last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul

BAGHDAD/ERBIL - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western part of the city of Mosul, and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the offensive in the northern city, asking the armed forces to “respect human rights” during the battle and to take care of those displaced by the fighting.

Islamic State militants are essentially under siege in western Mosul, along with an estimated 650,000 civilians, after they were forced out of the eastern part of the city in the first phase of an offensive that concluded last month, after 100 days of fighting.

Up to 400,000 civilians could be displaced by the offensive as residents of western Mosul suffer food and fuel shortages and markets are closed, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq Lise Grande told Reuters on Saturday.

Iraqi federal police units are leading a northward charge on the Mosul districts that lie west of the Tigris river, aiming to capture Mosul airport, just south of the city, according to statements from the armed forces joint command. They dashed through several villages, reaching Zakrutiya, a hamlet 5 km (3 miles) south of the airport by the end of the day, the statements said, and captured a power distribution station along the way, killing sev-

eral jihadists, including snipers.

The Rapid Response, an elite Interior Ministry Unit, is advancing alongside the federal police and captured several villages, according to an officer, who said they were largely abandoned. “Mosul would be a tough fight for any army in the world,” the commander of the U.S.-led coalition forces, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, said in a statement.

To date, the coalition has conducted more than 10,000 air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and trained and equipped more than 70,000 Iraqi forces, the statement said.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declined to offer details about U.S. battle plans when speaking to reporters in the United Arab Emirates.

“The coalition forces are in support of this operation and we will continue ... with the accelerated effort to destroy ISIS,” he said, using an acronym for the militant group. Islamic State has escalated its insurgency in retaliation for the military setbacks that have, over the past year, forced it

out of most Iraqi cities it had captured in 2014 and 2015. Two militants blew themselves up in eastern Mosul on Sunday, killing three soldiers and two civilians, and wounding a dozen people, security sources said.

CIVILIAN LIVES Coalition aircraft and artillery have continued to bombard targets in the west during the break that followed the taking of eastern Mosul.

The United States, which has deployed more than 5,000 troops in the fighting, leads an international coalition providing key air and ground support, including artillery fire, to the Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

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