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English wedding: Pippa Middleton marries as royals look on

ENGLEFIELD — Two likely future British kings were there, along with one of the world’s most photographed women, the often-adorable Prince Harry, a multilingual tennis legend and a brash TV reality star.

— including having such young children in the wedding party. But George and Charlotte — and the rest of the page boys and

But all eyes were on Pippa Middleton on Saturday as she walked down the aisle of a 12th-century church wearing a custom hand-embroidered gown with a tiara and long veil to marry hedge fund manager James Matthews.

Reporters, photographers and camera crews invaded the small village of Englefield west of London, home to St. Mark’s Church, and nearby Bucklebury, where a lavish reception was being held Saturday night at the estate of the bride’s parents, Michael and Carole Middleton.

Middleton, 33, is not royalty. But the starstudded wedding took on some aspects of a royal wedding, with well-wishers gathering outside the church grounds hoping for a glimpse.

She arrived in a vintage Jaguar to enter the church on the arm of her father. Older sister Kate, also known as the Duchess of Cambridge, looked after the page boys and bridesmaids, who were all under five years old and included her own children, Prince George, 3, and Princess Charlotte, 2.

Prince William and Prince Harry, decked out in formal morning suits, seemed relaxed

Pippa Middleton and her new husband James Matthews smile following their wedding ceremony at St Mark’s Church in Englefield, west of London, on May 20, 2017.

as they strolled into the church and were greeted by the groom’s well-known brother, Spencer Matthews, a star on the TV show “Made in Chelsea.”

Matthews, 41, smiled broadly and sported elegant formal wear set off by a pale blue vest.

The new couple emerged from the church an hour later. The children dropped flower petals in their path before the couple celebrated their union with a kiss. Then it was off for champagne and, later, a short spin in a different Jaguar.

Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty Magazine, said the Middletons could take pleasure in the day: Their first daughter, Kate, had married a future king, and their second daughter, Pippa, had married an extremely wealthy, charming and handsome man.

“You can’t do better than that,” she said.

Matthew and Pippa briefly dated in 2012 but became serious last year. He proposed during a visit to the enchanting Lake District, setting in motion what is being called the society wedding of the year.

The wedding plan was not without risks

bridesmaids — did extremely well in public, winning hearts along the way in their custommade outfits. (ap)

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‘Alien: Covenant’ Slides Past ‘Guardians 2’ to Win Weekend With $36 Million

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This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows a scene from “Alien: Covenant.”

LOS ANGELES - As this weekend approached, the question lingered if “Alien: Covenant” would be able to unseat “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” from the top spot at the domestic box office.

Now, we have an answer. As of Sunday morning, “Covenant,” from 20th Century Fox and Scott Free Productions, looks to be the winner with a three-day estimate of $36 million from 3,761 locations.

That’s just above Disney’s “Guardians” sequel which is raking in an

additional $35.3 million from 4,347 spots. The super sequel is seeing only a 46% drop from last weekend, and its total domestic earnings now exceed $300 million.

While “Alien” may have won, the film’s price tag in the $100 million range and marketing costs detract from the victory. The sixth installment in the Alien franchise (not counting the two Alien vs.

Predator films) was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston,

Billy Crudup, and Danny McBride.

It holds a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is in line with 2012’s “Prometheus.” Although it came in already having made $42 million overseas and $36 million was enough to land in the top slot, “Alien” grossed less during its first weekend in the U.S. than “Prometheus” did in 2012 ($51 million).

Its final domestic earnings also came in below earlier projections, which pegged the horror flick at at least $40 million. (rtr)

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People shout slogans during a rally in Madrid, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Thousands of Spaniards rallied in Madrid to support a no-confidence vote against conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy brought by the far-left Podemos party.

No risk of snap election in Spain after Sanchez’s return, says PM

MADRID - There is no risk of a snap national election in Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday, playing down any threat to his minority-led government from a change of leadership in the opposition Socialist party. The track record of left-winger Pedro Sanchez, ousted as Socialist leader in October and re-elected to the post on Sunday, points to less cooperation with the government on major cross-party issues including labour reform and budget spending.

But Rajoy noted his government had already passed legislation during its seven-month tenure without the backing of the second-biggest party in parliament.

“There won’t be early elections,” he told journalists on Monday. “The Socialist party changes nothing for me. I’ll try and reach agreement with them on issues, but if we don’t reach an understanding, so be it.”

Financial markets - attuned to political tensions in the euro zone after Austria, the Netherlands and France have this year fended off

populist challenges at elections - reacted nervously to Sanchez’s election on Monday.

By 1240 GMT, Spain’s Ibex was down 0.3 percent while the broader pan-European STOXX 600 index was flat. The yield on the country’s 10-year benchmark bond rose about 5 basis points, with gains trimmed slightly after Rajoy’s comments.

BITTERLY DIVIDED Spanish analysts and commentators took a more sanguine view. “I

don’t think the new PSOE (Socialist) secretary general is interested in destabilising the government right now,” wrote the editor of El Mundo newspaper, Pedro Guartango, in an editorial. “He is more likely to play for time and build an alternative to Rajoy.”

The PP holds 134 seats in parliament, compared to 84 for the Socialists. For a no-confidence vote in Rajoy to pass, the Socialists would have to join forces with far-left newcomer Podemos - an alliance they failed to create in the past - and

PP ally Ciudadanos would have to abstain. Rajoy has been able to pass policies without the support of the Socialists by counting on the support of market-friendly Ciudadanos and others.

Spain’s long-delayed 2017 budget is due for a parliamentary vote of approval in coming weeks and the PP says it has the backing to pass the bill after courting regional governments in the Basque country and the Canary Islands. Rajoy had warned that if the 2017 budget was blocked he would call fresh elections.

Sanchez’s re-election despite presiding over a slump in support carries parallels with the continued party backing for his counterparts in Britain and France, Jeremy Cor-

byn and Benoit Hamon, who have also performed poorly in polls.

Party leader from 2014 to 2016, Sanchez garnered the worst electoral showing on record for the Socialists when he headed the 138-year-old party in the last two elections. The 45-year-old’s first task will be to unite a bitterly divided party, which he promised to do in his victory speech late on Sunday.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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German Beach conjured up into public park MANGPURA —The government of Badung will conjure up the German Beach into a representative public park. Formerly, the white sandy beach was the harbor of Kuta. At this harbor, numerous merchants from outside Bali docked while carrying merchandise for transaction at that time.

However, today the beach located on Jalan Wana Segara, Tuban customary village, Kuta, is exposed to seawater abrasion. Local community then proposed to district government of Badung to do the arrangement.

Head of the Badung Public Works and Housing Agency (PUPR), I.B. Surya Suamba, confirmed that his agency is doing the arrangement of the German Beach, Kuta. This arrangement activity is the proposal of the Segara hamlet community, Kuta village.

“In the future, this area will be arranged into a representative public park. We will undertake it gradually along one kilometer,” said Surya Suamba when asked for his confirmation on Sunday (May 21).

According to him, his agency is now just carrying out regular arrangement, namely smoothing the sand by using heavy equipment. Related to the Detail Engineering Design (DED), it will be proposed in the 2017 budgetary amendment. “Since the proposal of re-arranging the German Beach is from the local community, in the planning it will involve the community as well,” he explained.

It is said that in general the arrangement of the German Beach is intended to create a representative public park for the community and tourists. A legislator of the Badung House of Representatives from Kuta, Ni Luh Gede Sri Mediastuti, stated that the arrangement of German Beach is indeed one of the proposals of the Segara hamlet community that will be followed up by the government soon.

“The regent has agreed to do the arrangement of the German Beach so that it will become a more representative public area,” he said. This politician of Golkar Party further stated that the community will play an active role in the arrangement of the German Beach starting from planning to the implementation, in the form of carrying out mutual assistance activities. (kmb27)

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The pig which will be slaughter is inspected.

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MSS issues recedes, price of pig remains to drop TABANAN —

Pig farm in Tabanan had been hit by the issue of Streptococcus suis meningitis (MSS) some time ago and now it has begun to subside. People gradually buy pork again without worries.

This can be seen from the increasingly better condition of the market demand for pork. Even though it has improved, the price of pig at farmer level remains plummeted.

Deputy Chairman of Bali pig breeder association (GUBI), Nyoman Ariadi, said on Sunday (May 21) in Tabanan said that after the MSS the fate of pig farmers is not better than before.

The price of pigs that previously dropped as the impact of MSS does not change significantly.

“In other words, the price tends to stagnate and even decreases at this time,” he said.

This price decline makes community-based farmers still lose after the meningitis issue.

Actually the current stock of pigs at the level of breeders has gone far down from previously. Under the law of market, if the stock declines, the price should increase, but the decline in stock does not make the price of pigs at the level of breeders exciting. According to Ariadi, it is alleged to happen due to strategy at butcher level that makes the price of pigs down as much as IDR 1,000-IDR 2,000 per kg than before. “Previously, the price was in the range

of IDR 26,000-IDR 27,000 per kg, now it is even in the range IDR 24,000-IDR 25,000 per kg.

Moreover, the price even touches the point of IDR 23,000 per kg depending on meat quality,” he explained.

He continued that indication of the slaughter’s strategy to reduce the selling price of pigs can be seen in the act of butchers that buy pigs at breeders at IDR 24,000 per kg and they promised to take the pig within one or two days. However, in reality after the price agreement, the butcher did not immediately take the pigs purchased as per the agreement.

As a result, the breeders are confused because the longer the maintenance cost to be borne by farmers becomes quite larger as well, especially for the purchase of feed.

“Finally, the condition makes the pig farmers resigned. At the end, no matter how much the price offered by other butchers, the breeders tends to forcibly

follow the price to be offered, even though it is cheaper than the market price,” he said.

Ariadi, who is also a pig farmer in Tabanan, added that defenseless condition of pig breeders to the selling price is further aggravated by the absence of rules on the pig selling price by the government to protect breeders all this time. In the pig farming, the break-even point (BEP) is at IDR 24,000 per kg. With this range, the estimated price of pork in the market is IDR 30,000 per kg. “Actually, breeders only ask for a little profit of the BEP. In fact, the price of pig in the field at the level of breeders tends to touch the price of BEP,” he said.

He hoped the upcoming local governments can protect pig breeders, so that they can get revenue from the ideal business results. In other words, the breeders get the difference from the cost incurred so that they can run the business vivaciously. (kmb24)

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The First “Bali Fashion and Food Festival” At Beachwalk Shopping Center

FOOD STARTS HERE! This May Beachwalk Shopping Center still presents “THE ISLAND RECIPES”. By highlighting the Food as a major theme, Beachwalk brings new atmosphere with new spirit for the shoppers. Furthermore, Beachwalk Shopping Center is offering a bunch of events and promo to the Customers.

The acme on this month, Beachwalk working with a young entrepreneur from Gianyar - Mr. Ari Danangga specially conducting the first “BALI FASHION AND FOOD FESTIVAL” - an event that merging 2 major themes, those are; Fashion and Food, and festiviy of Exhibition Carnival. Furthermore, this event is a moment to indulge fashionistas and foodies in the island with countless kind of food, culinary presentation and island fashion industry. Through this event, all fashion enthusiasts can follow the latest trend in Bali with the presence of fashion show and local bazaar for variant fashion products. During this festive season, food lovers being pampered by several activities, such as; ramen competition, ice cream competition, cooking demo,

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called “MEET THE BIRD STARS” will be held on May 14th 2017 at Deck Stage Beachwalk level 1. Customers can meet and having interaction with the exotic birds by Bali Bird Park.

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Culture service recruits 8 stage managers for BAF

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The Janger from Menyali village, Sawan that emerged during the colonial period has been reconstructed by the Janger Saraswati Art Troupe and was recently performed in the former Buleleng Harbour.

Janger Menyali

NASA plans emergency spacewalk on International Space Station

CAPE CANAVERAL - A pair of astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for an emergency spacewalk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major U.S. systems aboard the orbiting outpost, NASA said on Sunday.

The primary device failed on Saturday, leaving the $100 billion orbiting laboratory to depend on a backup system to route commands to its solar power system, radiators, cooling loops and other equipment.

The station’s current five-mem-

ber crew from the United States, Russia and France were never in any danger, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement.

Station commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Jack

Fischer, both with NASA, will partner for the spacewalk, which is expected to last two hours, the U.S. space agency said.

Earlier on Sunday, Whitson assembled and tested a spare electronics box to replace the failed

device, which had been installed during a spacewalk on March 30, said NASA spokesman Dan Huot.

NASA’s last emergency spacewalk took place in December 2015 when two U.S. astronauts left the station to release the brakes on a robot arm’s mobile transporter.

The ISS, which is staffed by rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts, serves as a research

laboratory for biology, life science, materials science and physics experiments, as well as astronomical observations and Earth remote sensing.

The station, owned and operated by 15 nations, flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth and orbits the planet about every 90 minutes.

It has been continuously staffed since 2000. (rtr)

Scientists to test whether Zika can kill brain cancer cells

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In this Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, responsible for transmitting Zika, sit in a petri dish at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Brazil.

LONDON - Scientists in Britain plan to harness the Zika virus to try to kill brain tumour cells in experiments that they say could lead to new ways to fight an aggressive type of cancer.

The research will focus on glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer, which has a five-year survival rate of barely 5 percent.

Zika causes severe disability in babies by attacking developing stem cells in the brain - but in adults, whose brains are fully formed, it often causes no more than mild flu-like symptoms.

In glioblastoma, the cancer cells are similar to those in the developing

brain, suggesting that the virus could be used to target them while sparing normal adult brain tissue.

Experts say existing treatments have to be given at low doses to avoid damaging healthy tissue.

Researchers led by Harry Bulstrode at Cambridge University will use tumour cells in the lab and in mice to assess Zika’s potential.

The mosquito-borne virus has spread to more than 60 countries and territories in a global outbreak that was first identified in Brazil in 2015.

“Zika virus infection in babies and children is a major global health

concern, and the focus has been to discover more about the virus to find new possible treatments,” Bulstrode said in a statement.

“We’re taking a different approach, and want to use these new insights to see if the virus can be unleashed against one of the hardest-to-treat cancers ... “We hope to show that the Zika virus can slow down brain tumour growth in tests in the lab,” Bulstrode added. “If we can learn lessons from Zika’s ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and target brain stem cells selectively, we could be holding the key to future treatments.” (rtr)

Awakening art nostalgia of Dutch occupation period

SINGARAJA - Apart from office buildings another heritage left from the Dutch colonial period is the art of Janger that was a popular form of entertainment in Buleleng during the occupation.

The Janger from Menyali village, Sawan that emerged during the colonial period has been reconstructed by the Janger Saraswati Art Troupe and was recently performed in the former Buleleng Harbour.

The District of Buleleng will be presenting the Janger Menyali during the 39th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) in June at the Denpasar Art Center, evoking the heyday of this art form.

The Janger Menyali performance in Buleleng Harbour was especially interesting because it was performed by elderly dancers who had not performed the Janger since the 1960’s and 70’s. The dancers looking dapper

in their attire of red berets, badges, shirts, socks and shoes, This costume, he said is different than the one usually worn by more contemporary Janger dances.

Headman of Menyali, Made Jaya Harta, explained that male Janger dancers used to be known as jipak.

Jipak Janger dancers from his village indeed used to be wear costumes inspired by the Dutch Army that was docked at Buleleng Customs (former Buleleng Harbor—Ed). Over time, the style and costume of Janger Menyali changed under the influenced of other arts including “Janger Kreasi”.

“The songs and dance movements are similar but the costumes

for “Janger Kresi” are quite different.

Janger Menyali is rarely ever performed anymore and was on the verge of disappearing all together before this reconstruction was put together.

There was one staging of this dance not too long ago in Lombok”, said Headman Harta.

The reconstruction of Janger Menyali started in Febuary 2017. It was considered to be important to revive this dance as it is believed to be a sacred dance (sanghyang dance). Harta and others are therefor committed to preserving the Janger Menyali dance.

“We have to preserve this ancestral heritage from the Dutch era.

We started to reconstruct this dance by teaming up with the old dancers and then got some younger dancers involved. The result is a dance that can make Buleleng proud” explained Harta. (mud)

PPDS manages tourist attractions

TABANAN - Aside from marketing the products of villageowned enterprises (BUMDes) in the form of processed coconut, chocolate and coffee, the Dharma Santika Regional Company (PPDS) of Tabanan has planned to manage tourist attraction in Tabanan.

Director of PDDS, I Putu Sugi Darmawan, said on Sunday (May 21) that management of the tourist

attraction is one of the medium-term programs of the PDDS. He continued that management of tourist attractions still requires a study. According to him, the management of tourism attraction can be realized soon because it does not require a large budget is the management of Angseri hot spring tourist attraction and culinary tourism on Yeh Gangga Beach. “Management of

Angseri hot spring tourist attraction as well as culinary tourism on Yeh Gangga Beach need an affordable capital to be implemented,” he said.

In addition to these two attractions, the PDDS is also expected to be able to manage Bedugul tourist attraction. This object, according to Sugi Darmawan, takes a long time in the realization because it requires a large enough capital.(kmb24)

DENPASAR - Every performance of the Bali Arts Festival, staged at the Denpasar Art Center needs its own stage manager. The Bali culture office has recruited eight professional stage managers in order to ensure that this year’s festival runs smoothly and also with the hope that the momontony of previous year’a performances can be spiced up.

“There will also be colossal performances at the festival this year. Three differetn zones will be handled by eight stage managers and additional stage managers will be handling the Ksiraarnawa and Mandala buildings as well as the small stages like Kalangan Ayodya, Angsoka, Ratna Kanda and Wantilan” said the Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, when contacted recently.

Beratha added that he hopes that the stage managers will be able to help improve the experience for the audience. Artitst will be treated better and soundsystems, lighting and stage blocking will also be more professional.

The 39th BAF will also be holding workshops, and Focused

Group Discussion around the theme of gambuh.

This year’s BAF will take place from June 10 to July 8 with the theme of Ulundanu (Preserving Water as the Source of Life). As with previous years, artists from nine districts / municipality as well as art troupes from other regions of Indoneisas and even from overseas. Will be performing. There are the envoys from the NTT tourism office and association of Tirossa residents of NTTBali, the Bangkalan culture and tourism office, ISI Yogyakarta, Magelang education and culture office, Central Kalimantan culture and tourism office, the Flico Group in collaboration with Flying Balloon Puppet Yogyakarta and a group from the government of Blitar.

Overseas envoys from the consul general of Timor Leste, consul general of India, Alliance Francaise collaborating with the Cultural Society of Yasa Putra Sedana, Payangan, Gianyar, Sruajit Sakar India, art troupe of the Noujourn Ermasrah Korba Tunisia, and Bintang Asia art troupe from Tokyo, Japan. (kmb32)

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Grape growers shift to paddy cultivation

SINGARAJA - Grape growers at Dencarik village (Banjar sub-district) and Kalianget village (Seririt subdistrict) are often frustrated in recent years. It happens because the price of pesticides and fertilizers are getting more expensive. In the meantime, the price of grape at harvest season hardly changes. Such conditions cause some farmers to switch to plant rice.

A local farmer, Artawan, said that lately the grape growers are increasingly choked. The problems faced are not only limited to falling out crop yields as a result of bad weather. However, the price of fungicides and pesticides is also getting expensive. “The price of fungicide increased from IDR 95,000 to IDR 150,000 per kilogram. For the land area of 0.5 hectare it can only be used twice. The price of other pesticides also jumped,” he said last Sunday (May 21).

Price increases also occur in fertilizer, in the range of IDR 30,000 per sack. This matter is increasingly burdensome on farmers. It is not poised by the increase in selling price of grapes. “The price of grapes

tends to be stagnant, while its production cost increases. It is hard to make money. So far, farmers only get subsidies for urea fertilizer, but it is not enough,” he said.

In the meantime, a farmer at Kalianget village, Seririt, Ketut Paneca, said the high production cost has caused some farmers to no longer cultivate grapes. They chose to re-plant rice. “The prospect is no longer good, different from the past. It caused some farmers to plant rice again,” he said.

Division Head of Horticulture of the Buleleng Agriculture Agency, Gede Subudi, justified the price of pesticides and fertilizers tend to increase. Behind it, since the past few seasons the selling price of

grape is quite good. “It is true that the price of the pesticides goes up and so does that of fertilizer. Fortunately, the price of the grape is quite good. In the past, it was IDR 5,000 on trees, now has been higher than it,” he said.

Especially for those switching to plant rice, this bureaucrat from Busungbiu explained it is not fully caused by the non-promising prospect. In addition, it also happens due to the age of the vine is old.

“After more than ten years old, it is usually unproductive. Temporarily, the land is planted with rice, but later on it will be planted with grapes again. Such condition widely happens at Dencarik and Kalianget,” he said. (kmb45)

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Lately the grape growers are increasingly choked. The problems faced are not only limited to falling out crop yields as a result of bad weather but the price of fungicides and pesticides is also getting expensive.

Nine countries participate in Dragon Boat Festival MANGUPURA - Dragon Boat Festival denoting the first festival designed since 2015 was followed by participants from nine countries. Located on the Kedonganan Beach on Sunday (May 21), this activity was also coupled with the Badung Marine Festival (BBF).

Technical coordinator of the Dragon Boat Festival, Prof. Dr. Eri Barlian, said on Sunday (May 21) that since it is held for the first held, it only contests a very simple number and the preferred are 12 mixed rowers. Nevertheless, he said, the participants’ interest is very extraordinary,

Located on the Kedonganan Beach on Sunday (May 21), this activity was also coupled with the Badung Marine Festival (BBF).

even they are willing to bring a boat from Padang, West Sumatra.

On this race, the committee contested four numbers with a distance of only 500 meters. In the meantime, the race included 12 men’s rowers and 12 women’s rowers, 12 mixed and 1 Challenge. For this Chal-

lenge, the participants are allowed to come from overseas. “There are nine foreign participants from the US, New Zealand, the Netherlands, UK, China, Taipei, Taiwan, Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia, while for Indonesia was followed by almost all the islands,” he said. (kmb23)

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Thai forensic police carry evidence as they leave from a site of bomb blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, May 22, 2017.

Bangkok hospital bomb wounds 24, junta blames its opponents BANGKOK - A bomb at a hospital in the Thai capital wounded 24 people on Monday, the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup, the government said, with the army chief blaming groups opposed to the junta.

There was no claim of responsibility for the blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, which is popular with soldiers and their families and retired military officers.

“We found the pieces that were used to make the bomb,” Kamthorn Aucharoen, commander of the police’s explosive ordnance team, told Reuters, adding it was not clear who was responsible.

“Right now, authorities are checking out closed circuit cameras.”

Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said 24 people were wounded. Mostd were hit by flying glass, the military’s national security unit said.

Suspicion is likely to focus either on political dissidents opposed to military rule or Muslim separatists based in the south of the predominately Buddhist country.

Army chief Chalermchai Sittisart blamed groups opposed to the junta.

“It doesn’t have to be the junta anniversary. People who don’t like the junta, given the chance,

will do this,” Chalermchai said in a televised interview, adding that troops in uniform and plainclothes security officers would be deployed to increase security.

Deputy national police chief General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul said the bomb had been hidden in a container near the entrance of a pharmacy.

The May 22, 2014, military coup toppled a democratically elected government and ended months of unrest, including sometimes deadly street demonstrations. The junta said it needed to take power to restore order and usher in political reforms.

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ejected in the 2014 coup, called for a swift return to democracy in a Facebook post on Monday, adding that the economy had been hit hard.

Thailand’s export-dependent economy is showing signs of recovery following a shaky three years that saw weak consumer spending and a slump in trade.

Since the coup, the junta, known

as the National Council for Peace and Order, has clamped down on dissent and ramped up prosecutions under sedition and royal defamation laws.

The military has always played a prominent role in Thai life but since the coup it has become embedded in society.

The military government has acknowledged it wants to weaken political parties and maintain permanent influence over elected governments, partly through a new constitution approved by the king last month.

An election is due by the end of next year.

The blast comes weeks after a car bomb at a shopping centre in the province of Pattani, near Thailand’s border with Malaysia, which wounded 61 people and which authorities blamed on the Muslim insurgents.

The far south of Thailand, which includes the Muslim-majority provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, is home to a long-running separatist insurgency. A bomb exploded in Yala earlier on Monday, wounding military officers.

Attacks by the Muslim rebels have largely, though not always, been confined to their southern heartland. (rtr)

ANKARA - Turkey put on trial 200 suspects on Monday including senior military officers accused of plotting and orchestrating last year’s failed coup, in a court case where prosecutors are calling for life sentences.

The defendants, among them President Tayyip Erdogan’s aidede-camp, the former head of Turkey’s air force, and dozens of generals, colonels and majors, were paraded on their way to court past dozens of protesters who demanded the death penalty and threw nooses towards them.

Around 1,500 security personnel were deployed for security at the trial, state-run Anadolu news agency reported, which was held in a purpose-built courthouse in Sincan on the outskirts of the Turkish capital.

More than 240 people, many of them civilians, were killed in the failed coup on July 15, 2016, when a group of rogue soldiers commandeered tanks, warplanes and helicopters, bombing the parliament and attempting to overthrow the government.

Those on trial in Sincan included core suspects behind the coup who raided the state broadcaster and forced the presenter to read out an announcement saying the army had taken over and Turkey was being run by a committee they called “Peace at Home”.

Erdogan blames Fetullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric and a former ally, and his global network for orchestrating the coup, a charge Gulen denies. Turkish authorities have arrested nearly 50,000 people over

alleged links with the preacher.

At the start of the hearing, families of the victims attending the trial screamed at the defendants, and one woman in the courtroom, whose son was killed during the coup, broke down.

“Kill these traitors, the murderers of my son,” she screamed before fainting. The judge called for a medical team to be brought into the courtroom.

From a total of 221 defendants, more than 200 are from the military and more than half of those were officers who held ranks from captains up to generals. All but 12 of the suspects, who are still at large, appeared in court. Gulen, who is among the defendants, is among those being tried in absentia.

Following confirmation of the suspects’ identity and the reading of a summary of the roughly 2,000page indictment, suspects will be able to put forward their defence.

Hearings at the trial, one of the largest of several coup-related trials taking place across Turkey, are expected to last until June 16.

Citing the coup attempt as a grave threat to the state, Turkish authorities have also sacked or suspended around 150,000 civil servants, teachers, judges, prosecutors, police and soldiers and have shut down around 150 media outlets.

While the detentions may have been supported by some Turks in the immediate aftermath of the abortive putsch, criticism mounted as arrests widened to include groups of which many deny any connection to Gulen. (rtr)

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Paramilitary police officers and commandos escort the alleged instigators of last summer’s failed military coup before their trial at a courthouse in the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Monday, May 22, 2017.

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Water Festival, Capital of Suwat to Become Tourism Village

Greece looks for debt help after backing further cuts BRUSSELS - Greece is seeking Monday to persuade its creditors in Europe that it has done enough to get another chunk of bailout loans and a commitment on alleviating Athens’ hefty debt burden. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is to meet his counterparts from the 19-country eurozone at a meeting in Brussels, where Greece will once again be top of the agenda.

The country is in the middle of its third international bailout, but its progress has been slow in light of various disagreements related to the reforms the government has to impose in return for the rescue money.

The left-led Greek government hopes that a package of measures, including further spending cuts and economic reforms, passed by lawmakers last week will be enough to break the logjam and allow the so-called eurogroup to release a new bailout installment, without which the country would struggle to meet its debt servicing obligations in July. Agreement will also accelerate negotiations on easing Greece’s debt repayment terms.

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said his new administration will push for a Greek debt relief deal. Macron’s office said the president spoke Monday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and stressed “his determination to find an accord soon to lighten the burden of Greek debt over the long term.” The phone conversation was the first contact between the two since Macron’s election earlier this month.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, named last week, is joining his peers for the talks Monday and is traveling to the Belgian capital with Wolfgang Schaeuble, his counterpart in Berlin who has been a vocal critic of Greece over the seven years of its bailout era.

While Le Maire said it’s “important there be a solution that reassures the Greek people and of course reassures Greece’s creditors,” Schaeuble insisted that “structural reforms are the decisive thing” to improve Greek growth.

He said that “extra measures if required” would come after the bailout program expires next year. The Greek government is hoping to secure a deal as soon as possible so it can lift the uncertainty that’s been hanging around the Greek economy over recent months.

Though Greece emerged from its economic depression in 2014 and its public finances have improved dramatically, the economy is back in recession, having shrunk for two straight quarters. Analysts say the main reason why Greece has taken a step back is its stalled bailout negotiations. The hope is that the release of bailout funds soon will shore up confidence that the country won’t face bankruptcy again soon.

Greece is currently in the midst of its third bailout program — the current three-year program expires in the summer of 2018 and could be worth up to 86 billion euros ($95 billion) in total. In return for the money, the government promised to enact a series of austerity measures as well as economic reforms — its progress is continually monitored by institutions from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

While the austerity measures have seen Greece’s public finances improve, the draconian spending cuts have seen poverty rates surge to more than 35 percent. And the country’s debt burden stands at around 175 percent, a level that the Greek government thinks is unsustainable in the long-term — hence its insistence on some debt relief, at least in the form of lower interest payments and longer repayment terms. The IMF, also, thinks Greece needs a big debt relief deal to get back on track.(ap)

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire attend a news conference in Berlin, Germany, May 22, 2017.

EU: Euro zone fiscal stance stronger, France struggling to comply REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

BRUSSELS - Euro zone countries improved their fiscal stance, a sign of growing financial stability, the EU Commission said on Monday, but it called on France to take new action to comply with EU deficit limits and warned Italy faced “urgent” challenges. Every spring the EU executive publishes an assessment of the fiscal positions of each of the 28 EU member states, along with its recommendations for economic reforms and for disciplinary measures against those with unbalanced budgets.

The 19-country euro zone has lowered its total budget deficit to 1.5 percent of the bloc’s gross domestic product in 2016. The Commission forecasts the gap is to fall further this year and next, well below the 3 percent of GDP limit. The EU as a whole had an aggregate deficit of 1.7 percent last year, which is also set to decrease.

In its report the commission recommended an end to disciplinary procedures against Portugal and Croatia due to improvements in their public finances. The commission’s recommendations must be approved by EU finance ministers to come into force.

But around the bloc economic recovery and budget improvements were “uneven,” Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said in a statement.

France, along with Spain, Greece, Britain, will continue to face disciplinary procedures for its excessive budget deficit. Disciplinary steps against France, the euro zone’s second largest economy, have been in place since 2009. It has until the end of this year to

bring the budget shortfall below the EU ceiling of 3 percent of GDP. The Commission forecasts France’s deficit will this year shrink to 3.0 percent this year but rebound again to 3.2 percent next year, unless the government appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron takes action.

“France needs to stand ready to take further measures to ensure compliance in 2017 and ... further measures will be needed as of 2018 to comply with the provisions of the Stability and Growth Pact,” the Commission said.

France must cut its structural deficit -- the measure that excludes business cycle swings and one off spending and revenue -- by a minimum of 0.4 percent of GDP next year, but under existing policies that deficit is predicted to rise 0.5 percent of GDP. But the Commission also signalled it would apply discretion in the application of its budget rules to allow France to take any measures to strengthen its economy that would help it comply.

“In that context, the Commission

intends to make use of the applicable margin of appreciation in the light of the cyclical situation of France,” the Commission said.

ITALY’S WOES Italy, which after Greece has the bloc’s largest public debt, faces “urgent challenges”, the Commission said, though it sees additional budget measures adopted by Rome in April as sufficient to keep Italy’s accounts in line with EU rules for this year.

Nonetheless the Italian government needs to make “substantial fiscal efforts” and carry out important reforms next year, targeting taxation, excessively long civil trials and the reduction of bad loans in troubled banks.

Italy has asked for more time to sell non-performing loans in an attempt to obtain better prices and reduce capital shortfalls in ailing banks.

Any austerity measures imposed by the EU on Italy could strengthen the country’s eurosceptic parties, which are on the rise as the country gears up for elections due

by May 2018. The bloc’s pact for fiscal accountability is already unpopular in Italy.

The Commission pledged to use all possible leeway to review the agreed target of a structural correction of at least 0.6 percent of the Italian GDP next year. Italy is forecast to have the slowest growth in the EU this year and next at around 1 percent of GDP.(rtr)

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Fishermen load ice onto their boat as they prepare for fishing at sunset on a beach in Bali, Indonesia Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Water festival becomes a foremost tourist attraction for Suwat tourism village, Gianyar. If last year the water festival was only opened to the public from local village, while this year’s festival to welcome the New Year in 2017 was followed by residents from outside the village. The festival opened to the public is better known as water war. Not only that, the opening was filled with cultural parade by several hamlets of Suwat village and Kesian village.

Chairman of the Suwat Water Festival committee, I Putu Oka Mahendra, said that the festival aims to promote tourist attraction in North Gianyar. Moreover, it had already been coordinated with the Gianyar Tourism Agency to feature Suwat village as tourism village. “To make it a tourism village, we are making various efforts where one of them is this festival. We use village funds to improve the infrastructure like roads,” he said.

This water festival is also filled with a number of competitions and followed by picking up holy water to water sources at Tukad Melangit. “In the procession of taking the holy water, we use more than 200 water jars to fetch water from seven showers in the source of water, then taken in tandem,” he said. (kmb)

Significance of Galungan Feast Day Series

Galungan falling on Buda (Wednesday) Kliwon Dungulan is the eagerly awaited feast day by the Hindu communities in Indonesia. This feast day falls every 210 days as it is based on intersection of panca wara (five-day week) and sapta wara (seven-day week). The series of celebrations to welcome Galungan has begun 25 days earlier namely on Tumpek Pengatag. On this day, Hindu followers perform a ritual to respect for plants so that they could bear fruits and lushly flower to be used in welcoming Galungan.

Next processions include the Penyekeban Galungan, Penyajaan Galungan and Penampahan Galungan. Penyekeban Galungan falls on Sunday (Redite Paing Dungulan)

which is usually followed by a process of ‘ripening’ (penyekeban) fruits. Philosophically, Penyekeban Galungan can mean that humans should shrink the ego of their deeds,

so that they can get closer to God. Significance of Galungan Feast Day Series_penjor After this procession is Penyajaan Galungan falling on Monday (Soma Pon Dungulan). It is time for the Hindus to prepare various cakes to be used in the ritual oblation of Galungan. Philosophically, Penyajaan Galungan is interpreted as an attempt to make creation with sweet and useful characteristic for humans.

Moralized knowledge is an expected effect that occurs in harmony with the celebration of Penyajaan Galungan. When knowledge comes without morality, then the destruction of the world is at stake.

Meanwhile, Penampahan Galungan falling on Tuesday (Anggara Wage Dungulan) is a long-awaited day by the Hindus in Bali. Penampahan Galungan is celebrated by preparing very festive cooking.

Slaughtering a swine is a commonplace activity carried out. On this day, all members of the Hindu community will try to do their best in preparing delicacies to be eaten on the day of Galungan on the next day.

Philosophically, the celebration of Penampahan Galungan is actually put emphasis on the effort to

eradicate the existing animal nature in human. Thus, on the celebration of Galungan humans could be freed from the animal nature. Swine is a symbol of laziness, so that slaughtering it then symbolizes that laziness can be eliminated.

Penampahan Galungan is also followed by natab byakala ritual in the afternoon for self-purification.

The philosophical meaning of Penampahan Galungan is gradually replaced with literal meaning, namely slaughtering swine for the preparation of Galungan. Ignorance about the significance of the celebration may probably have side impacts such as followed by drunkenness and so forth.

“Philosophically, the three series of Galungan feast day are actually a process of self-purification so that in the celebration of Galungan we truly celebrate the victory of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth). If the philosophical meaning is set aside, we do not get goodness, but adharma will even go rampant in the life of community,” said Chairman of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bali, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana.

Nevertheless, in this current globalization era, the philosophy

of Galungan feast day series has undergone a shift in meaning. An academician, Dr. I.B. Radendra Suastama, believed that the shift in the meaning is influenced by the Hindu perspective in understanding the procession of Galungan and Kuningan.

It is inseparable from the growth of pragmatic, consumptive and instant mental attitude among the members of Hindu community today. Actually, the significance of each series of Galungan and Kuningan feast day is essentially philosophically profound.

Starting from the meaning of self-restraint, self-preparation to the essence of meaning against lust in human self to victory in the fight of dharma against adharma which is actually going on inside human self now tends to be more oriented in and focused on the aspects of celebration and hedonism.

“Self-indulgence of earthly desires is hued by capital hegemony wrapped in communal traditions on spiritual meanings. This phenomenon needs to be clarified so that it could be corresponding to the initial idea. To that end, it will require an ongoing communication and dissemination,” said Dr. I.B. Radendra. (win)

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Venezuela holds 5,000 Russian surface-to-air MANPADS missiles

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Demonstrators wave flags during anti-NATO protest as Montenegro’s parliament discusses NATO membership agreement in Cetinje, Montenegro, April 28, 2017.

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Hackers hit Russian bank customers, planned international cyber raids

MOSCOW - Russian cyber criminals used malware planted on Android mobile devices to steal from domestic bank customers and were planning to target European lenders before their arrest, investigators and sources with knowledge of the case told Reuters.

Their campaign raised a relatively small sum by cyber-crime standards - more than 50 million roubles ($892,000) - but they had also obtained more sophisticated malicious software for a modest monthly fee to go after the clients of banks in France and possibly a range of other western nations.

Russia’s relationship to cyber crime is under intense scrutiny after U.S. intelligence officials alleged that Russian hackers had tried to help Republican Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency by hacking Democratic Party servers.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied the allegation.

The gang members tricked the Russian banks’ customers into downloading malware via fake mobile banking applications, as well as via pornography and e-commerce programmes, according to a report compiled by cyber security firm Group-IB which investigated the attack with the Russian Interior Ministry.

The criminals - 16 suspects were arrested by Russian law enforcement authorities in November last year - infected more than a million smartphones in Russia, on average compromising 3,500 devices a day, Group-IB said.

The hackers targeted customers of state lender Sberbank , and also stole money from accounts at Alfa Bank and online payments company Qiwi, exploiting weaknesses in the companies’ SMS text message transfer services, said two people with direct knowledge of the case.(rtr)

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Indonesia police arrest dozens in raid on Jakarta gay sauna

CARACAS - Venezuela possesses 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS surface-to-air weapons, according to a military document reviewed by Reuters, the largest known stockpile in Latin America and a source of concern for U.S. officials amid the country’s mounting turmoil.

Venezuela’s socialist government has long used the threat of an “imperialist” invasion by the United States to justify an arms buildup. Much of that arsenal was obtained from Russia by Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez, whose tenure lasted from 1999 until his death in 2013.

The missiles, which are shoulder-mounted and can be operated by one person, pose a serious threat to commercial and military aircraft. Weapons experts said there have long been fears that the weapons could be stolen, sold or somehow channeled to the wrong hands, concerns exacerbated by the current civil unrest in Venezuela and the economic crisis roiling the oil-producing nation.

According to a Venezuelan military presentation seen by Reuters, the South American country has 5,000 SA-24 Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS) missiles, also known as the Igla-S. The document seen by Reuters provides the most complete count to date of the size of the arms stockpile. Public weapons registries confirm the bulk of the numbers seen on the Venezuelan military presentation.

Venezuelan government and military officials did not respond to requests for comment about the report. (rtr)

A Venezuelan soldier practises on an anti-aircraft artillery simulator as part of a defensive military exercise in conjunction with the general public in Caracas March 14, 2015.

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End of the affair: Montenegro jilts Russia by joining NATO

BUDVA - Tiny Montenegro will take a huge step towards integrating with the West when it becomes the 29th member of NATO this week, but it risks paying a heavy price for spurning Russia.

For nearly a decade after Montenegro split from Serbia in 2006, Moscow cultivated close ties with the former Yugoslav republic, and money poured in from Russian investors and tourists.

It was a love affair underpinned not just by commercial and diplomatic logic but also by historic, religious and linguistic ties between the two Slav countries.

“Back in 2006 Montenegro was advertised as a desirable destination for Russians, because it is a beautiful country and an Orthodox Christian one,” said Vadim Verhovski, a Russian investment banker who, with partners, has invested 25 million euros ($28 million) to buy land near the coastal town of Budva.

Now the romance has turned to rancour. Montenegro blamed Russia for an alleged plot to as-

sassinate its prime minister last October which officials said was aimed at blocking its entry to NATO. The Kremlin called that absurd.

In April, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned of a “surge of anti-Russian hysteria” in Montenegro.

The chill is hitting tourism: latest available data, for March, showed Russians accounted for 7.3 percent of all tourist overnight stays that month compared to nearly 30 percent in March 2014 and 19.2 percent in March 2016.

Advertising hoardings in Russian, promoting luxury apartments with views of the Adriatic, were once ubiquitous along the coastal highway. Now they have vanished, and Russian-language

signs have largely disappeared from shops.

Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said a recent Russian ban on imports of wine from Montenegro was linked to its NATO membership. Moscow said it had discovered banned pesticides in the wine.

“We are prepared for any decision (by Russia) and nothing is going to deter us from the path we decided to take,” Markovic told reporters.

In an emailed statement to Reuters, he said: “The Balkans for centuries has been the scene of a struggle between the West and the East. Like other states in the region, Montenegro has strong links with the East, but in the 2006 we made a key decision that we would like to adopt Western standards and values.” (rtr)

JAKARTA — Indonesian police detained dozens of men including several foreigners in a weekend raid on a gay sauna in the capital, another sign of growing hostility to homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Police spokesman Argo Yuwono said 141 men were detained for questioning in the raid Sunday evening on the gym and sauna in north Jakarta. Police say the sauna was the venue for a sex party promoted as “The Wild One.” Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, but police said the country’s pornography laws had been violated. Ten people will be charged, police said, including the sauna’s owner, several staff including strippers, a gym trainer, receptionist and security guard, and two visitors to the club who allegedly performed oral sex. If found guilty, they face penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines.

As media waited for a police news conference on Monday afternoon, some of the arrested men were put on display, their faces covered by black ski masks.

Last month, police in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, arrested 14 men at what they alleged was a sex party and forced them to have HIV tests.

A coalition of legal aid and criminal justice reform groups condemned the raid and “arbi-

trary” arrests. It said police further violated the rights of those arrested by photographing them naked and facilitating the spread of those images on social media.

The group, which is providing legal representation, said in a statement that some of the men were brought to a police station in north Jakarta naked, and that others were stripped at the station.

North Jakarta chief police detective Nasriadi, who goes by one name, said four foreigners were caught in the raid — two men from Malaysia, one Singaporean and one UK man. They are still being questioned as witnesses, he said.

Indonesia’s low-profile LGBT community has been increasingly under siege in the past year. Prejudice has been fanned by stridently anti-gay comments from Cabinet ministers and other high-profile Indonesians.

Last week, a Shariah court in the conservative province of Aceh sentenced two men to public caning for gay sex. Vigilantes broke into the couple’s rented accommodation to film them having sex and handed them over to Shariah police. The court sentenced the men, aged 20 and 23, to 85 lashes each, sparking condemnation from rights groups. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, though some areas have adopted Shariah-style bylaws.(ap)

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Police officers escort men arrested in a raid on a gay sauna at North Jakarta police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 22, 2017. Indonesian police detained dozens of men in a weekend raid on a gay sauna in the capital, another sign of growing hostility to homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

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A man holds up a sign reading “Free Ahok” during a protest by supporters of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, outside Cipinang Prison, where he was taken following his conviction of blasphemy, in Jakarta, Indonesia May 9, 2017.

U.N. experts urge Indonesia to overturn Jakarta governor’s blasphemy conviction

GENEVA - U.N. experts urged Indonesia on Monday to free Jakarta’s Christian governor, who was jailed this month for blasphemy - a conviction that risks encouraging Islamists to challenge secularism in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese popularly known as “Ahok”, was jailed on May 9 for a longer-thanexpected two years under a fatwa from Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council and after aggressive media campaigns and violent protests. The government should have stood up to those pressures, the three U.N. experts said.

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo was an ally of Purnama and the verdict will be a setback for his government as it seeks to quell radical groups and soothe investors’ concerns that the country’s secular values were at risk.

“Instead of speaking out against hate speech by the leaders of the protests, the Indonesian authorities appear to have appeased incitement to religious intolerance and discrimination,” the U.N. experts said in a statement. Letting the verdict stand would undermine freedom of religion in Indonesia, they said.

“We urge the Government to overturn Mr. Purnama’s sentence on appeal or to extend to him whatever form of clemency may be available under Indonesian law so that he may be released from prison immediately,” the experts said.“Criminal laws that penalize blasphemy represent an unlawful restriction on freedom of expression, and disproportionately target persons belonging to religious minorities or traditional religions, non-believers and political dissidents,” they said.

The joint statement was backed by the U.N. Special Rapporteurs on

freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, and on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas.

Indonesian authorities were not immediately available to comment but immediately after the verdict Widodo urged all sides to respect the verdict as well as Purnama’s decision to appeal.(rtr)

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Djokovic names Agassi as coach after Rome defeat by Zverev

ROME - Novak Djokovic confirmed he will be coached

by Andre Agassi at the French Open after being humbled by German youngster Alexander Zverev in the final of the Italian Open on Sunday.

Kuta Theater Magic and Cultural Show in Kuta MANGUPURA - Kuta is one of Bali’s favorite destinations because in this area you can find beach, waterpark, shopping center, and many more. Furthermore, we have recommendation for a place to visit with your family. Kuta Theather is a must visit and see cultural theater show that blends drama, modern illusion and Balinese traditional dance.

Their must see show is magical cultural live show called Lights of Faith. It tells a story of traditional

friendship faced with the challenges of modernism. The show is fun, hilarious and educational, so it is also will be good to bring your kids here. Feel the magic of Bali and experience something new during your holiday in Bali. Located at Jalan Kartika Plaza 8x.

Kuta Theater is where you can witness a cultural show with a unique twist in Bali. The theatre features nightly stage performances, with most of its cast in dazzling

Balinese dance costumes, but all of which only serve as cool diversions to the variety of modern illusions and tricks that unfold throughout the act. The theatre is a great alternative to the beach, as well as the bars and nightlife offerings in Kuta or Legian, and is simply a great place to drop by before dinner.

The theatre is on the eastern side of Kuta’s Jalan Kartika Plaza, just across from the Bali Garden Beach Resort and upstairs in the

second building at the Kuta Centre.

The start of the show has the stage curtains opening to a simplified rendition of the Legong Dance.

Then the magicians and their supporting actors and actresses take over the scene, performing sets of illusions with a touch of theatrical drama and mystery.

Some of the illusions are well executed, ranging from the classic sawing a lady in half, a good deal of diversion and vanishing tricks,

levitations, displacements and others. Gasping, then thinking about just how they did it is all part of the entertainment, and will keep you and the kids wowing and talking after the show. Kuta Theater is a great option to take the family out to while in Kuta. Shows are USD 10, and there are VIP seats available for those wanting a closer view, as well as dinner packages for a one-stop evening experience.

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The Serb, beaten 6-4 6-3 by Zverev in the Rome sunshine, said he would join up with eight-times grand slam champion Agassi as he prepares to defend his Roland Garros crown.

He did not say whether the partnership would be long term.

“I spoke to Andre the last couple weeks on the phone, and we decided to get together in Paris,” Djokovic said.

“So he’s gonna be there. We are both excited to work together and see where it takes us.

“We don’t have any long-term commitment. It’s just us trying to get to know each other in Paris a little bit,” added the 12-times grand slam champion.

“Obviously, Andre is someone that I have tremendous respect for as a person and as a player. He has been through everything that I’m going through.

“He understands the game amazingly well.”

Earlier this month the former world number one split with his long-time coach Marian Vajda as well as fitness coach Gebhard Phil Gritsch and physio Miljan Amanovic.

He said he wanted to rediscover

Djokovic reacts during the match. the “spark” after a worrying loss of form since completing the career grand slam in Paris last year where he beat Andy Murray in the final.

Boris Becker left the Djokovic entourage last December after three successful years together.

Djokovic, who turns 30 on Mon-

day, looked back to his dazzling best when he demolished Dominic Thiem in the semi-final on Saturday for the loss of one game. But he was outplayed by Zverev who dominated the match after breaking serve in the opening game.

It was the biggest win in 20-year-

old Zverev’s career as he became the youngest winner of a Masters 1000 tournament since Djokovic himself won Miami in 2007.

He controlled play from the back of the court with his fluid two-handed backhand and heavy forehand.

REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Zverev broke again in the third game of the second set and clinched the match with another break in the ninth game.

Victory will push Zverev into the ATP’s top 10 for the first time when the rankings are released on Monday. (rtr)

Gritty Celtics stun Cavs to reduce series deficit

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Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson (13) fights for possession with Boston Celtics center Kelly Olynyk (41) and guard Marcus Smart (36) during the first half in game three of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Quicken Loans Arena.

CLEVELAND - Avery Bradley’s three-pointer in the last second of Game Three touched every part of the rim before bouncing in, giving the Celtics an improbable 111-108 road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals on Sunday.

The surprise loss means Cleveland leads the best-of-seven series 2-1 ahead of Game Four in Quicken Loans Arena on Tuesday.

“Thank God it’s bouncing on the rim because that’s taking time,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens told reporters.

“If it goes in or doesn’t go in, they have a timeout left. So when it bounced around, I was actually

hoping it went in, obviously, but not completely disappointed that it was bouncing up there.”

The Celtics came into the contest missing star player Isaiah Thomas, who is out for the remainder of the post-season because of a hip injury, and aware that the Cavaliers had lost just one home game to an Eastern team in the playoffs since 2015.

However, Thomas’ replacement, Marcus Smart, scored a career-high 27 points and handed out seven assists, and Bradley had 20 points.

Al Horford added 16 points, Jae Crowder amassed 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Kelly Olynyk contributed 15 off the bench for

the Celtics, who were beaten by an average of 28.5 points in the first two games.

When the two teams left Boston after Game Two, the Cavs had beaten the Celtics by 44 points for the most lopsided win in Eastern finals history, a defeat that both stung and inspired Stevens’ side.

“We’ve got guys that have chips on their shoulders,” Stevens added. “A lot of these guys have been overlooked, and this is their first opportunity to really play a meaningful role.

“We knew that while Friday was a 44-point disaster, it was worth one (game). It wasn’t worth four.” (rtr)

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Ajax remain selling club despite final windfall

How Herrera became unlikely leader of Mourinho’s United

BARCELONA - Ander Herrera attracted admiration from the last four Manchester United managers, from being man-marked by Alex Ferguson to being scouted by David Moyes and signed by Louis Van Gaal, but it is under Jose Mourinho that the little Spaniard has truly thrived. The Spain international pipped top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic and world record signing Paul Pogba to United’s Player of the Season award in his third campaign at the club, in which he has grown into one of Mourinho’s most loyal disciples.

Originally brought to United for the passing ability and vision he showed at Athletic Bilbao, Herrera has transformed into a defensive leader in midfield and will be responsible for shutting out Ajax in Wednesday’s Europa League final. It will be his second appearance in a Europa League final after losing the 2012 edition with Athletic to Atletico Madrid 3-0 after a thrilling run to the showpiece that included beating United 5-3 on aggregate in the last 16.

Herrera had been one of the stars of the 3-2 win at Old Trafford in the first leg, leading Alex Ferguson to get Park Ji- Sung to man-mark him in the second leg, which he later said he understood as Ferguson’s highest compliment.

Yet Herrera found himself playing the role of destroyer in United’s 2-0 win over Chelsea in April, taking Eden Hazard out of the game to perfection as well as assisting Marcus Rashford’s opener before scoring the second.

That match-winning display was his best performance in a role he has grown into during the season and relished. “The manager had a conversation and he told me I was going to be an important player if I do what he wanted me to do,” Herrera said in an interview with ESPN. “I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position. So I say to myself, if I want to play every game for Manchester United, which is my dream, I have to do something else for the club and the manager.

“I think we have a good understanding between the manager and myself.

We understand football the same way and we think the same way. If you give everything, you are going to give things to the team.”

MAKING HISTORY Herrera has shown his gratitude to Mourinho by repeatedly defending his manager in a difficult season, with the run to the Europa League final and the League Cup triumph the saving graces of a campaign that has fallen well short of expectations. United supporters have also warmed to Herrera, who Ferguson’s successor Moyes tried to sign a year before Van Gaal swooped for him for £29 million in 2014.

The midfielder has conveyed a childlike enthusiasm for English football in his many appearances in the media, raving about FA Cup games at Cambridge United and constantly praising his side’s fervent away support.

After winning the FA Cup and League Cup, he now has his eyes on the one trophy United have never won, with another fallen European giant in Ajax standing in the way.

“We can make history for the club, so that’s the only thing I have in my mind,” he added. “Always respecting the opponent because they want to make history, as well. But I don’t have anything else in my mind apart from winning the final and trying to get the trophy for this club.”(rtr)

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Ander Herrera celebrates after scoring the fourth goal for Manchester United

AMSTERDAM - Ajax Amsterdam can expect a big windfall from its Europa League final against Manchester United on Wednesday but any thought it could prove the start of a dynasty to rival their all-conquering team of the 1970s will be quashed by contemporary reality. Success in reaching a first European club competition final in 21 years has revitalised the Ajax brand.

“It is probably the biggest compliment of this year’s run to the final that Europe is again talking about Ajax,” said club marketing director Edwin van der Sar, who kept goal for both Manchester United and Ajax. But the reality for the Dutch club - with an operating budget of 85 million euros – over the last decades has been their role as a producer, and then swift seller, of talent.

The shop window of the Europa League final in Stockholm means Ajax can expect added interest in a bevy of players already earmarked for the exit door at lucrative profit for the Amsterdam club. Captain Davy Klaassen has a price tag of some 25 million euros and is set for a move to Everton, according to Dutch media. Ronald Koeman was in the stands for Ajax’s semifinal success over Olympique Lyonnais and with 20 goals in 49 games this season, Klaassen, a 24-year-old midfielder, has made a persuasive case for himself.

Ajax’s team for the final cost just 19.6 million euros to assemble with midfielder Hakim Ziyech alone costing 11 million last August. Five of the expected starting line-up on Wednesday came through the club academy without any transfer fee outlay, including 17-year-old

centre-back Matthis de Ligt, Lasse Schone and Kenny Tete.

None of them are expected to stay long as Ajax adhere to a nominal salary cap of some 40,000 euros per week. “In the past, only the best players went but now Ajax develops players until a sack of money is laid down in front of them and then the player is gone,” former defender Sonny Silooy said in De Volkskrant on Monday.

But Ajax are still hopeful Wednesday’s final will lead to more glory in Europe to rival the time when they were the continent’s best, taking three European Cups in a row between 1971 and 1973.

“We hope Ajax can continue to show good things in Europe and in the next years to prove reaching this final was no accident,” Van der Sar added in Dutch newspaper interviews at the weekend.(rtr)

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Kroenke says Arsenal not for sale after Usmanov bid

LONDON — Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke says he has no interest in selling the Premier League club.

The statement from the American sports tycoon comes after The Associated Press reported on Friday that minority Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov offered a $1.3 billion takeover bid.

Kroenke’s company said Mon-

day that “its shares are not, and never have been, for sale,” adding that it “is a committed, long term investor in Arsenal and will remain so.”

There were chants against Kroenke during Arsenal’s game against Everton on Sunday as the team failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years.(ap)

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

An Arsenal fan holds up a protest banner after the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Everton at The Emirates stadium in London, Sunday May 21, 2017.

REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Real Madrid players celebrate atop their bus as it arrives to Cibeles square after Real Madrid won the La Liga title.

Real title win “an incredible feeling” for Zidane

BARCELONA - Zinedine Zidane declared that leading Real Madrid to their first La Liga title in five years, and 33rd overall, was one of the happiest days of his glittering sporting career.

Real beat Malaga 2-0 on the final day of the season on Sunday to finish three points clear of Barcelona and reclaim the title for the first time since 2012.

“For me the Spanish league is the best in the world so it’s an incredible feeling to win it,” Zidane told reporters.

“It was very important to win the league after many years without it and we know that the league is the competition of every day and it’s a huge thing to win it. It’s even more important for Real Madrid because it’s the biggest club in the world and we had to win it again.”

The coach also hailed his squad for embracing his rotation policy

which he said had been vital to winning the title and praised the players who had accepted being left out of the starting line-up on occasion.

“It’s a spectacular day, everyone deserves credit but above all the players have fought, the message has always been that every player is important and that’s been the key to this success,” he said.

“It’s been a very hard fought win, difficult at some moments but after 38 games there’s no better feeling than being at the top.”

Zidane has won four trophies in 16 months since taking charge of the Spanish giants and he is one step from becoming the first

Real coach since 1958 to win the European Cup and league title in the same season.

Real meet Juventus in the Champions League final on June 3 and will be bidding to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since AC Milan in 1990.

“I can finally celebrate after months and months of work. There are no words to define how I feel now,” added Zidane, whose list of achievements include winning the league title as a Real player in 2003, scoring the winning goal in the 2002 Champions League final and capturing the 1998 World Cup with France.

“When you’re the Real Madrid coach you know that expectations are very high but I like that. Winning the league is the best thing imaginable.”(rtr)

Reuters / Michael Kooren / File Photo / Livepic

Ajax’s Justin Kluivert comes on as a substitute to replace Amin Younes.

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Ajax remain selling club despite final windfall

How Herrera became unlikely leader of Mourinho’s United

BARCELONA - Ander Herrera attracted admiration from the last four Manchester United managers, from being man-marked by Alex Ferguson to being scouted by David Moyes and signed by Louis Van Gaal, but it is under Jose Mourinho that the little Spaniard has truly thrived. The Spain international pipped top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic and world record signing Paul Pogba to United’s Player of the Season award in his third campaign at the club, in which he has grown into one of Mourinho’s most loyal disciples.

Originally brought to United for the passing ability and vision he showed at Athletic Bilbao, Herrera has transformed into a defensive leader in midfield and will be responsible for shutting out Ajax in Wednesday’s Europa League final. It will be his second appearance in a Europa League final after losing the 2012 edition with Athletic to Atletico Madrid 3-0 after a thrilling run to the showpiece that included beating United 5-3 on aggregate in the last 16.

Herrera had been one of the stars of the 3-2 win at Old Trafford in the first leg, leading Alex Ferguson to get Park Ji- Sung to man-mark him in the second leg, which he later said he understood as Ferguson’s highest compliment.

Yet Herrera found himself playing the role of destroyer in United’s 2-0 win over Chelsea in April, taking Eden Hazard out of the game to perfection as well as assisting Marcus Rashford’s opener before scoring the second.

That match-winning display was his best performance in a role he has grown into during the season and relished. “The manager had a conversation and he told me I was going to be an important player if I do what he wanted me to do,” Herrera said in an interview with ESPN. “I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position. So I say to myself, if I want to play every game for Manchester United, which is my dream, I have to do something else for the club and the manager.

“I think we have a good understanding between the manager and myself.

We understand football the same way and we think the same way. If you give everything, you are going to give things to the team.”

MAKING HISTORY Herrera has shown his gratitude to Mourinho by repeatedly defending his manager in a difficult season, with the run to the Europa League final and the League Cup triumph the saving graces of a campaign that has fallen well short of expectations. United supporters have also warmed to Herrera, who Ferguson’s successor Moyes tried to sign a year before Van Gaal swooped for him for £29 million in 2014.

The midfielder has conveyed a childlike enthusiasm for English football in his many appearances in the media, raving about FA Cup games at Cambridge United and constantly praising his side’s fervent away support.

After winning the FA Cup and League Cup, he now has his eyes on the one trophy United have never won, with another fallen European giant in Ajax standing in the way.

“We can make history for the club, so that’s the only thing I have in my mind,” he added. “Always respecting the opponent because they want to make history, as well. But I don’t have anything else in my mind apart from winning the final and trying to get the trophy for this club.”(rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine / Livepic / File PhotoEDITORIAL USE ONLY. /File Photo

Ander Herrera celebrates after scoring the fourth goal for Manchester United

AMSTERDAM - Ajax Amsterdam can expect a big windfall from its Europa League final against Manchester United on Wednesday but any thought it could prove the start of a dynasty to rival their all-conquering team of the 1970s will be quashed by contemporary reality. Success in reaching a first European club competition final in 21 years has revitalised the Ajax brand.

“It is probably the biggest compliment of this year’s run to the final that Europe is again talking about Ajax,” said club marketing director Edwin van der Sar, who kept goal for both Manchester United and Ajax. But the reality for the Dutch club - with an operating budget of 85 million euros – over the last decades has been their role as a producer, and then swift seller, of talent.

The shop window of the Europa League final in Stockholm means Ajax can expect added interest in a bevy of players already earmarked for the exit door at lucrative profit for the Amsterdam club. Captain Davy Klaassen has a price tag of some 25 million euros and is set for a move to Everton, according to Dutch media. Ronald Koeman was in the stands for Ajax’s semifinal success over Olympique Lyonnais and with 20 goals in 49 games this season, Klaassen, a 24-year-old midfielder, has made a persuasive case for himself.

Ajax’s team for the final cost just 19.6 million euros to assemble with midfielder Hakim Ziyech alone costing 11 million last August. Five of the expected starting line-up on Wednesday came through the club academy without any transfer fee outlay, including 17-year-old

centre-back Matthis de Ligt, Lasse Schone and Kenny Tete.

None of them are expected to stay long as Ajax adhere to a nominal salary cap of some 40,000 euros per week. “In the past, only the best players went but now Ajax develops players until a sack of money is laid down in front of them and then the player is gone,” former defender Sonny Silooy said in De Volkskrant on Monday.

But Ajax are still hopeful Wednesday’s final will lead to more glory in Europe to rival the time when they were the continent’s best, taking three European Cups in a row between 1971 and 1973.

“We hope Ajax can continue to show good things in Europe and in the next years to prove reaching this final was no accident,” Van der Sar added in Dutch newspaper interviews at the weekend.(rtr)

9

Kroenke says Arsenal not for sale after Usmanov bid

LONDON — Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke says he has no interest in selling the Premier League club.

The statement from the American sports tycoon comes after The Associated Press reported on Friday that minority Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov offered a $1.3 billion takeover bid.

Kroenke’s company said Mon-

day that “its shares are not, and never have been, for sale,” adding that it “is a committed, long term investor in Arsenal and will remain so.”

There were chants against Kroenke during Arsenal’s game against Everton on Sunday as the team failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years.(ap)

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

An Arsenal fan holds up a protest banner after the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Everton at The Emirates stadium in London, Sunday May 21, 2017.

REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Real Madrid players celebrate atop their bus as it arrives to Cibeles square after Real Madrid won the La Liga title.

Real title win “an incredible feeling” for Zidane

BARCELONA - Zinedine Zidane declared that leading Real Madrid to their first La Liga title in five years, and 33rd overall, was one of the happiest days of his glittering sporting career.

Real beat Malaga 2-0 on the final day of the season on Sunday to finish three points clear of Barcelona and reclaim the title for the first time since 2012.

“For me the Spanish league is the best in the world so it’s an incredible feeling to win it,” Zidane told reporters.

“It was very important to win the league after many years without it and we know that the league is the competition of every day and it’s a huge thing to win it. It’s even more important for Real Madrid because it’s the biggest club in the world and we had to win it again.”

The coach also hailed his squad for embracing his rotation policy

which he said had been vital to winning the title and praised the players who had accepted being left out of the starting line-up on occasion.

“It’s a spectacular day, everyone deserves credit but above all the players have fought, the message has always been that every player is important and that’s been the key to this success,” he said.

“It’s been a very hard fought win, difficult at some moments but after 38 games there’s no better feeling than being at the top.”

Zidane has won four trophies in 16 months since taking charge of the Spanish giants and he is one step from becoming the first

Real coach since 1958 to win the European Cup and league title in the same season.

Real meet Juventus in the Champions League final on June 3 and will be bidding to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since AC Milan in 1990.

“I can finally celebrate after months and months of work. There are no words to define how I feel now,” added Zidane, whose list of achievements include winning the league title as a Real player in 2003, scoring the winning goal in the 2002 Champions League final and capturing the 1998 World Cup with France.

“When you’re the Real Madrid coach you know that expectations are very high but I like that. Winning the league is the best thing imaginable.”(rtr)

Reuters / Michael Kooren / File Photo / Livepic

Ajax’s Justin Kluivert comes on as a substitute to replace Amin Younes.

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Djokovic names Agassi as coach after Rome defeat by Zverev

ROME - Novak Djokovic confirmed he will be coached

by Andre Agassi at the French Open after being humbled by German youngster Alexander Zverev in the final of the Italian Open on Sunday.

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The Serb, beaten 6-4 6-3 by Zverev in the Rome sunshine, said he would join up with eight-times grand slam champion Agassi as he prepares to defend his Roland Garros crown.

He did not say whether the partnership would be long term.

“I spoke to Andre the last couple weeks on the phone, and we decided to get together in Paris,” Djokovic said.

“So he’s gonna be there. We are both excited to work together and see where it takes us.

“We don’t have any long-term commitment. It’s just us trying to get to know each other in Paris a little bit,” added the 12-times grand slam champion.

“Obviously, Andre is someone that I have tremendous respect for as a person and as a player. He has been through everything that I’m going through.

“He understands the game amazingly well.”

Earlier this month the former world number one split with his long-time coach Marian Vajda as well as fitness coach Gebhard Phil Gritsch and physio Miljan Amanovic.

He said he wanted to rediscover

Djokovic reacts during the match. the “spark” after a worrying loss of form since completing the career grand slam in Paris last year where he beat Andy Murray in the final.

Boris Becker left the Djokovic entourage last December after three successful years together.

Djokovic, who turns 30 on Mon-

day, looked back to his dazzling best when he demolished Dominic Thiem in the semi-final on Saturday for the loss of one game. But he was outplayed by Zverev who dominated the match after breaking serve in the opening game.

It was the biggest win in 20-year-

old Zverev’s career as he became the youngest winner of a Masters 1000 tournament since Djokovic himself won Miami in 2007.

He controlled play from the back of the court with his fluid two-handed backhand and heavy forehand.

REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Zverev broke again in the third game of the second set and clinched the match with another break in the ninth game.

Victory will push Zverev into the ATP’s top 10 for the first time when the rankings are released on Monday. (rtr)

Gritty Celtics stun Cavs to reduce series deficit

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Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson (13) fights for possession with Boston Celtics center Kelly Olynyk (41) and guard Marcus Smart (36) during the first half in game three of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Quicken Loans Arena.

CLEVELAND - Avery Bradley’s three-pointer in the last second of Game Three touched every part of the rim before bouncing in, giving the Celtics an improbable 111-108 road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals on Sunday.

The surprise loss means Cleveland leads the best-of-seven series 2-1 ahead of Game Four in Quicken Loans Arena on Tuesday.

“Thank God it’s bouncing on the rim because that’s taking time,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens told reporters.

“If it goes in or doesn’t go in, they have a timeout left. So when it bounced around, I was actually

hoping it went in, obviously, but not completely disappointed that it was bouncing up there.”

The Celtics came into the contest missing star player Isaiah Thomas, who is out for the remainder of the post-season because of a hip injury, and aware that the Cavaliers had lost just one home game to an Eastern team in the playoffs since 2015.

However, Thomas’ replacement, Marcus Smart, scored a career-high 27 points and handed out seven assists, and Bradley had 20 points.

Al Horford added 16 points, Jae Crowder amassed 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Kelly Olynyk contributed 15 off the bench for

the Celtics, who were beaten by an average of 28.5 points in the first two games.

When the two teams left Boston after Game Two, the Cavs had beaten the Celtics by 44 points for the most lopsided win in Eastern finals history, a defeat that both stung and inspired Stevens’ side.

“We’ve got guys that have chips on their shoulders,” Stevens added. “A lot of these guys have been overlooked, and this is their first opportunity to really play a meaningful role.

“We knew that while Friday was a 44-point disaster, it was worth one (game). It wasn’t worth four.” (rtr)

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Demonstrators wave flags during anti-NATO protest as Montenegro’s parliament discusses NATO membership agreement in Cetinje, Montenegro, April 28, 2017.

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Hackers hit Russian bank customers, planned international cyber raids

MOSCOW - Russian cyber criminals used malware planted on Android mobile devices to steal from domestic bank customers and were planning to target European lenders before their arrest, investigators and sources with knowledge of the case told Reuters.

Their campaign raised a relatively small sum by cyber-crime standards - more than 50 million roubles ($892,000) - but they had also obtained more sophisticated malicious software for a modest monthly fee to go after the clients of banks in France and possibly a range of other western nations.

Russia’s relationship to cyber crime is under intense scrutiny after U.S. intelligence officials alleged that Russian hackers had tried to help Republican Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency by hacking Democratic Party servers.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied the allegation.

The gang members tricked the Russian banks’ customers into downloading malware via fake mobile banking applications, as well as via pornography and e-commerce programmes, according to a report compiled by cyber security firm Group-IB which investigated the attack with the Russian Interior Ministry.

The criminals - 16 suspects were arrested by Russian law enforcement authorities in November last year - infected more than a million smartphones in Russia, on average compromising 3,500 devices a day, Group-IB said.

The hackers targeted customers of state lender Sberbank , and also stole money from accounts at Alfa Bank and online payments company Qiwi, exploiting weaknesses in the companies’ SMS text message transfer services, said two people with direct knowledge of the case.(rtr)

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Indonesia police arrest dozens in raid on Jakarta gay sauna

CARACAS - Venezuela possesses 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS surface-to-air weapons, according to a military document reviewed by Reuters, the largest known stockpile in Latin America and a source of concern for U.S. officials amid the country’s mounting turmoil.

Venezuela’s socialist government has long used the threat of an “imperialist” invasion by the United States to justify an arms buildup. Much of that arsenal was obtained from Russia by Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez, whose tenure lasted from 1999 until his death in 2013.

The missiles, which are shoulder-mounted and can be operated by one person, pose a serious threat to commercial and military aircraft. Weapons experts said there have long been fears that the weapons could be stolen, sold or somehow channeled to the wrong hands, concerns exacerbated by the current civil unrest in Venezuela and the economic crisis roiling the oil-producing nation.

According to a Venezuelan military presentation seen by Reuters, the South American country has 5,000 SA-24 Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS) missiles, also known as the Igla-S. The document seen by Reuters provides the most complete count to date of the size of the arms stockpile. Public weapons registries confirm the bulk of the numbers seen on the Venezuelan military presentation.

Venezuelan government and military officials did not respond to requests for comment about the report. (rtr)

A Venezuelan soldier practises on an anti-aircraft artillery simulator as part of a defensive military exercise in conjunction with the general public in Caracas March 14, 2015.

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End of the affair: Montenegro jilts Russia by joining NATO

BUDVA - Tiny Montenegro will take a huge step towards integrating with the West when it becomes the 29th member of NATO this week, but it risks paying a heavy price for spurning Russia.

For nearly a decade after Montenegro split from Serbia in 2006, Moscow cultivated close ties with the former Yugoslav republic, and money poured in from Russian investors and tourists.

It was a love affair underpinned not just by commercial and diplomatic logic but also by historic, religious and linguistic ties between the two Slav countries.

“Back in 2006 Montenegro was advertised as a desirable destination for Russians, because it is a beautiful country and an Orthodox Christian one,” said Vadim Verhovski, a Russian investment banker who, with partners, has invested 25 million euros ($28 million) to buy land near the coastal town of Budva.

Now the romance has turned to rancour. Montenegro blamed Russia for an alleged plot to as-

sassinate its prime minister last October which officials said was aimed at blocking its entry to NATO. The Kremlin called that absurd.

In April, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned of a “surge of anti-Russian hysteria” in Montenegro.

The chill is hitting tourism: latest available data, for March, showed Russians accounted for 7.3 percent of all tourist overnight stays that month compared to nearly 30 percent in March 2014 and 19.2 percent in March 2016.

Advertising hoardings in Russian, promoting luxury apartments with views of the Adriatic, were once ubiquitous along the coastal highway. Now they have vanished, and Russian-language

signs have largely disappeared from shops.

Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said a recent Russian ban on imports of wine from Montenegro was linked to its NATO membership. Moscow said it had discovered banned pesticides in the wine.

“We are prepared for any decision (by Russia) and nothing is going to deter us from the path we decided to take,” Markovic told reporters.

In an emailed statement to Reuters, he said: “The Balkans for centuries has been the scene of a struggle between the West and the East. Like other states in the region, Montenegro has strong links with the East, but in the 2006 we made a key decision that we would like to adopt Western standards and values.” (rtr)

JAKARTA — Indonesian police detained dozens of men including several foreigners in a weekend raid on a gay sauna in the capital, another sign of growing hostility to homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Police spokesman Argo Yuwono said 141 men were detained for questioning in the raid Sunday evening on the gym and sauna in north Jakarta. Police say the sauna was the venue for a sex party promoted as “The Wild One.” Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, but police said the country’s pornography laws had been violated. Ten people will be charged, police said, including the sauna’s owner, several staff including strippers, a gym trainer, receptionist and security guard, and two visitors to the club who allegedly performed oral sex. If found guilty, they face penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines.

As media waited for a police news conference on Monday afternoon, some of the arrested men were put on display, their faces covered by black ski masks.

Last month, police in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, arrested 14 men at what they alleged was a sex party and forced them to have HIV tests.

A coalition of legal aid and criminal justice reform groups condemned the raid and “arbi-

trary” arrests. It said police further violated the rights of those arrested by photographing them naked and facilitating the spread of those images on social media.

The group, which is providing legal representation, said in a statement that some of the men were brought to a police station in north Jakarta naked, and that others were stripped at the station.

North Jakarta chief police detective Nasriadi, who goes by one name, said four foreigners were caught in the raid — two men from Malaysia, one Singaporean and one UK man. They are still being questioned as witnesses, he said.

Indonesia’s low-profile LGBT community has been increasingly under siege in the past year. Prejudice has been fanned by stridently anti-gay comments from Cabinet ministers and other high-profile Indonesians.

Last week, a Shariah court in the conservative province of Aceh sentenced two men to public caning for gay sex. Vigilantes broke into the couple’s rented accommodation to film them having sex and handed them over to Shariah police. The court sentenced the men, aged 20 and 23, to 85 lashes each, sparking condemnation from rights groups. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, though some areas have adopted Shariah-style bylaws.(ap)

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Police officers escort men arrested in a raid on a gay sauna at North Jakarta police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 22, 2017. Indonesian police detained dozens of men in a weekend raid on a gay sauna in the capital, another sign of growing hostility to homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

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A man holds up a sign reading “Free Ahok” during a protest by supporters of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, outside Cipinang Prison, where he was taken following his conviction of blasphemy, in Jakarta, Indonesia May 9, 2017.

U.N. experts urge Indonesia to overturn Jakarta governor’s blasphemy conviction

GENEVA - U.N. experts urged Indonesia on Monday to free Jakarta’s Christian governor, who was jailed this month for blasphemy - a conviction that risks encouraging Islamists to challenge secularism in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese popularly known as “Ahok”, was jailed on May 9 for a longer-thanexpected two years under a fatwa from Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council and after aggressive media campaigns and violent protests. The government should have stood up to those pressures, the three U.N. experts said.

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo was an ally of Purnama and the verdict will be a setback for his government as it seeks to quell radical groups and soothe investors’ concerns that the country’s secular values were at risk.

“Instead of speaking out against hate speech by the leaders of the protests, the Indonesian authorities appear to have appeased incitement to religious intolerance and discrimination,” the U.N. experts said in a statement. Letting the verdict stand would undermine freedom of religion in Indonesia, they said.

“We urge the Government to overturn Mr. Purnama’s sentence on appeal or to extend to him whatever form of clemency may be available under Indonesian law so that he may be released from prison immediately,” the experts said.“Criminal laws that penalize blasphemy represent an unlawful restriction on freedom of expression, and disproportionately target persons belonging to religious minorities or traditional religions, non-believers and political dissidents,” they said.

The joint statement was backed by the U.N. Special Rapporteurs on

freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, and on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas.

Indonesian authorities were not immediately available to comment but immediately after the verdict Widodo urged all sides to respect the verdict as well as Purnama’s decision to appeal.(rtr)

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Water Festival, Capital of Suwat to Become Tourism Village

Greece looks for debt help after backing further cuts BRUSSELS - Greece is seeking Monday to persuade its creditors in Europe that it has done enough to get another chunk of bailout loans and a commitment on alleviating Athens’ hefty debt burden. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is to meet his counterparts from the 19-country eurozone at a meeting in Brussels, where Greece will once again be top of the agenda.

The country is in the middle of its third international bailout, but its progress has been slow in light of various disagreements related to the reforms the government has to impose in return for the rescue money.

The left-led Greek government hopes that a package of measures, including further spending cuts and economic reforms, passed by lawmakers last week will be enough to break the logjam and allow the so-called eurogroup to release a new bailout installment, without which the country would struggle to meet its debt servicing obligations in July. Agreement will also accelerate negotiations on easing Greece’s debt repayment terms.

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said his new administration will push for a Greek debt relief deal. Macron’s office said the president spoke Monday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and stressed “his determination to find an accord soon to lighten the burden of Greek debt over the long term.” The phone conversation was the first contact between the two since Macron’s election earlier this month.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, named last week, is joining his peers for the talks Monday and is traveling to the Belgian capital with Wolfgang Schaeuble, his counterpart in Berlin who has been a vocal critic of Greece over the seven years of its bailout era.

While Le Maire said it’s “important there be a solution that reassures the Greek people and of course reassures Greece’s creditors,” Schaeuble insisted that “structural reforms are the decisive thing” to improve Greek growth.

He said that “extra measures if required” would come after the bailout program expires next year. The Greek government is hoping to secure a deal as soon as possible so it can lift the uncertainty that’s been hanging around the Greek economy over recent months.

Though Greece emerged from its economic depression in 2014 and its public finances have improved dramatically, the economy is back in recession, having shrunk for two straight quarters. Analysts say the main reason why Greece has taken a step back is its stalled bailout negotiations. The hope is that the release of bailout funds soon will shore up confidence that the country won’t face bankruptcy again soon.

Greece is currently in the midst of its third bailout program — the current three-year program expires in the summer of 2018 and could be worth up to 86 billion euros ($95 billion) in total. In return for the money, the government promised to enact a series of austerity measures as well as economic reforms — its progress is continually monitored by institutions from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

While the austerity measures have seen Greece’s public finances improve, the draconian spending cuts have seen poverty rates surge to more than 35 percent. And the country’s debt burden stands at around 175 percent, a level that the Greek government thinks is unsustainable in the long-term — hence its insistence on some debt relief, at least in the form of lower interest payments and longer repayment terms. The IMF, also, thinks Greece needs a big debt relief deal to get back on track.(ap)

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire attend a news conference in Berlin, Germany, May 22, 2017.

EU: Euro zone fiscal stance stronger, France struggling to comply REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

BRUSSELS - Euro zone countries improved their fiscal stance, a sign of growing financial stability, the EU Commission said on Monday, but it called on France to take new action to comply with EU deficit limits and warned Italy faced “urgent” challenges. Every spring the EU executive publishes an assessment of the fiscal positions of each of the 28 EU member states, along with its recommendations for economic reforms and for disciplinary measures against those with unbalanced budgets.

The 19-country euro zone has lowered its total budget deficit to 1.5 percent of the bloc’s gross domestic product in 2016. The Commission forecasts the gap is to fall further this year and next, well below the 3 percent of GDP limit. The EU as a whole had an aggregate deficit of 1.7 percent last year, which is also set to decrease.

In its report the commission recommended an end to disciplinary procedures against Portugal and Croatia due to improvements in their public finances. The commission’s recommendations must be approved by EU finance ministers to come into force.

But around the bloc economic recovery and budget improvements were “uneven,” Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said in a statement.

France, along with Spain, Greece, Britain, will continue to face disciplinary procedures for its excessive budget deficit. Disciplinary steps against France, the euro zone’s second largest economy, have been in place since 2009. It has until the end of this year to

bring the budget shortfall below the EU ceiling of 3 percent of GDP. The Commission forecasts France’s deficit will this year shrink to 3.0 percent this year but rebound again to 3.2 percent next year, unless the government appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron takes action.

“France needs to stand ready to take further measures to ensure compliance in 2017 and ... further measures will be needed as of 2018 to comply with the provisions of the Stability and Growth Pact,” the Commission said.

France must cut its structural deficit -- the measure that excludes business cycle swings and one off spending and revenue -- by a minimum of 0.4 percent of GDP next year, but under existing policies that deficit is predicted to rise 0.5 percent of GDP. But the Commission also signalled it would apply discretion in the application of its budget rules to allow France to take any measures to strengthen its economy that would help it comply.

“In that context, the Commission

intends to make use of the applicable margin of appreciation in the light of the cyclical situation of France,” the Commission said.

ITALY’S WOES Italy, which after Greece has the bloc’s largest public debt, faces “urgent challenges”, the Commission said, though it sees additional budget measures adopted by Rome in April as sufficient to keep Italy’s accounts in line with EU rules for this year.

Nonetheless the Italian government needs to make “substantial fiscal efforts” and carry out important reforms next year, targeting taxation, excessively long civil trials and the reduction of bad loans in troubled banks.

Italy has asked for more time to sell non-performing loans in an attempt to obtain better prices and reduce capital shortfalls in ailing banks.

Any austerity measures imposed by the EU on Italy could strengthen the country’s eurosceptic parties, which are on the rise as the country gears up for elections due

by May 2018. The bloc’s pact for fiscal accountability is already unpopular in Italy.

The Commission pledged to use all possible leeway to review the agreed target of a structural correction of at least 0.6 percent of the Italian GDP next year. Italy is forecast to have the slowest growth in the EU this year and next at around 1 percent of GDP.(rtr)

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Fishermen load ice onto their boat as they prepare for fishing at sunset on a beach in Bali, Indonesia Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Water festival becomes a foremost tourist attraction for Suwat tourism village, Gianyar. If last year the water festival was only opened to the public from local village, while this year’s festival to welcome the New Year in 2017 was followed by residents from outside the village. The festival opened to the public is better known as water war. Not only that, the opening was filled with cultural parade by several hamlets of Suwat village and Kesian village.

Chairman of the Suwat Water Festival committee, I Putu Oka Mahendra, said that the festival aims to promote tourist attraction in North Gianyar. Moreover, it had already been coordinated with the Gianyar Tourism Agency to feature Suwat village as tourism village. “To make it a tourism village, we are making various efforts where one of them is this festival. We use village funds to improve the infrastructure like roads,” he said.

This water festival is also filled with a number of competitions and followed by picking up holy water to water sources at Tukad Melangit. “In the procession of taking the holy water, we use more than 200 water jars to fetch water from seven showers in the source of water, then taken in tandem,” he said. (kmb)

Significance of Galungan Feast Day Series

Galungan falling on Buda (Wednesday) Kliwon Dungulan is the eagerly awaited feast day by the Hindu communities in Indonesia. This feast day falls every 210 days as it is based on intersection of panca wara (five-day week) and sapta wara (seven-day week). The series of celebrations to welcome Galungan has begun 25 days earlier namely on Tumpek Pengatag. On this day, Hindu followers perform a ritual to respect for plants so that they could bear fruits and lushly flower to be used in welcoming Galungan.

Next processions include the Penyekeban Galungan, Penyajaan Galungan and Penampahan Galungan. Penyekeban Galungan falls on Sunday (Redite Paing Dungulan)

which is usually followed by a process of ‘ripening’ (penyekeban) fruits. Philosophically, Penyekeban Galungan can mean that humans should shrink the ego of their deeds,

so that they can get closer to God. Significance of Galungan Feast Day Series_penjor After this procession is Penyajaan Galungan falling on Monday (Soma Pon Dungulan). It is time for the Hindus to prepare various cakes to be used in the ritual oblation of Galungan. Philosophically, Penyajaan Galungan is interpreted as an attempt to make creation with sweet and useful characteristic for humans.

Moralized knowledge is an expected effect that occurs in harmony with the celebration of Penyajaan Galungan. When knowledge comes without morality, then the destruction of the world is at stake.

Meanwhile, Penampahan Galungan falling on Tuesday (Anggara Wage Dungulan) is a long-awaited day by the Hindus in Bali. Penampahan Galungan is celebrated by preparing very festive cooking.

Slaughtering a swine is a commonplace activity carried out. On this day, all members of the Hindu community will try to do their best in preparing delicacies to be eaten on the day of Galungan on the next day.

Philosophically, the celebration of Penampahan Galungan is actually put emphasis on the effort to

eradicate the existing animal nature in human. Thus, on the celebration of Galungan humans could be freed from the animal nature. Swine is a symbol of laziness, so that slaughtering it then symbolizes that laziness can be eliminated.

Penampahan Galungan is also followed by natab byakala ritual in the afternoon for self-purification.

The philosophical meaning of Penampahan Galungan is gradually replaced with literal meaning, namely slaughtering swine for the preparation of Galungan. Ignorance about the significance of the celebration may probably have side impacts such as followed by drunkenness and so forth.

“Philosophically, the three series of Galungan feast day are actually a process of self-purification so that in the celebration of Galungan we truly celebrate the victory of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth). If the philosophical meaning is set aside, we do not get goodness, but adharma will even go rampant in the life of community,” said Chairman of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bali, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana.

Nevertheless, in this current globalization era, the philosophy

of Galungan feast day series has undergone a shift in meaning. An academician, Dr. I.B. Radendra Suastama, believed that the shift in the meaning is influenced by the Hindu perspective in understanding the procession of Galungan and Kuningan.

It is inseparable from the growth of pragmatic, consumptive and instant mental attitude among the members of Hindu community today. Actually, the significance of each series of Galungan and Kuningan feast day is essentially philosophically profound.

Starting from the meaning of self-restraint, self-preparation to the essence of meaning against lust in human self to victory in the fight of dharma against adharma which is actually going on inside human self now tends to be more oriented in and focused on the aspects of celebration and hedonism.

“Self-indulgence of earthly desires is hued by capital hegemony wrapped in communal traditions on spiritual meanings. This phenomenon needs to be clarified so that it could be corresponding to the initial idea. To that end, it will require an ongoing communication and dissemination,” said Dr. I.B. Radendra. (win)

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Turkey puts 200 suspected military coup plotters on trial amid heavy security

Grape growers shift to paddy cultivation

SINGARAJA - Grape growers at Dencarik village (Banjar sub-district) and Kalianget village (Seririt subdistrict) are often frustrated in recent years. It happens because the price of pesticides and fertilizers are getting more expensive. In the meantime, the price of grape at harvest season hardly changes. Such conditions cause some farmers to switch to plant rice.

A local farmer, Artawan, said that lately the grape growers are increasingly choked. The problems faced are not only limited to falling out crop yields as a result of bad weather. However, the price of fungicides and pesticides is also getting expensive. “The price of fungicide increased from IDR 95,000 to IDR 150,000 per kilogram. For the land area of 0.5 hectare it can only be used twice. The price of other pesticides also jumped,” he said last Sunday (May 21).

Price increases also occur in fertilizer, in the range of IDR 30,000 per sack. This matter is increasingly burdensome on farmers. It is not poised by the increase in selling price of grapes. “The price of grapes

tends to be stagnant, while its production cost increases. It is hard to make money. So far, farmers only get subsidies for urea fertilizer, but it is not enough,” he said.

In the meantime, a farmer at Kalianget village, Seririt, Ketut Paneca, said the high production cost has caused some farmers to no longer cultivate grapes. They chose to re-plant rice. “The prospect is no longer good, different from the past. It caused some farmers to plant rice again,” he said.

Division Head of Horticulture of the Buleleng Agriculture Agency, Gede Subudi, justified the price of pesticides and fertilizers tend to increase. Behind it, since the past few seasons the selling price of

grape is quite good. “It is true that the price of the pesticides goes up and so does that of fertilizer. Fortunately, the price of the grape is quite good. In the past, it was IDR 5,000 on trees, now has been higher than it,” he said.

Especially for those switching to plant rice, this bureaucrat from Busungbiu explained it is not fully caused by the non-promising prospect. In addition, it also happens due to the age of the vine is old.

“After more than ten years old, it is usually unproductive. Temporarily, the land is planted with rice, but later on it will be planted with grapes again. Such condition widely happens at Dencarik and Kalianget,” he said. (kmb45)

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Lately the grape growers are increasingly choked. The problems faced are not only limited to falling out crop yields as a result of bad weather but the price of fungicides and pesticides is also getting expensive.

Nine countries participate in Dragon Boat Festival MANGUPURA - Dragon Boat Festival denoting the first festival designed since 2015 was followed by participants from nine countries. Located on the Kedonganan Beach on Sunday (May 21), this activity was also coupled with the Badung Marine Festival (BBF).

Technical coordinator of the Dragon Boat Festival, Prof. Dr. Eri Barlian, said on Sunday (May 21) that since it is held for the first held, it only contests a very simple number and the preferred are 12 mixed rowers. Nevertheless, he said, the participants’ interest is very extraordinary,

Located on the Kedonganan Beach on Sunday (May 21), this activity was also coupled with the Badung Marine Festival (BBF).

even they are willing to bring a boat from Padang, West Sumatra.

On this race, the committee contested four numbers with a distance of only 500 meters. In the meantime, the race included 12 men’s rowers and 12 women’s rowers, 12 mixed and 1 Challenge. For this Chal-

lenge, the participants are allowed to come from overseas. “There are nine foreign participants from the US, New Zealand, the Netherlands, UK, China, Taipei, Taiwan, Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia, while for Indonesia was followed by almost all the islands,” he said. (kmb23)

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Thai forensic police carry evidence as they leave from a site of bomb blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, May 22, 2017.

Bangkok hospital bomb wounds 24, junta blames its opponents BANGKOK - A bomb at a hospital in the Thai capital wounded 24 people on Monday, the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup, the government said, with the army chief blaming groups opposed to the junta.

There was no claim of responsibility for the blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, which is popular with soldiers and their families and retired military officers.

“We found the pieces that were used to make the bomb,” Kamthorn Aucharoen, commander of the police’s explosive ordnance team, told Reuters, adding it was not clear who was responsible.

“Right now, authorities are checking out closed circuit cameras.”

Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said 24 people were wounded. Mostd were hit by flying glass, the military’s national security unit said.

Suspicion is likely to focus either on political dissidents opposed to military rule or Muslim separatists based in the south of the predominately Buddhist country.

Army chief Chalermchai Sittisart blamed groups opposed to the junta.

“It doesn’t have to be the junta anniversary. People who don’t like the junta, given the chance,

will do this,” Chalermchai said in a televised interview, adding that troops in uniform and plainclothes security officers would be deployed to increase security.

Deputy national police chief General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul said the bomb had been hidden in a container near the entrance of a pharmacy.

The May 22, 2014, military coup toppled a democratically elected government and ended months of unrest, including sometimes deadly street demonstrations. The junta said it needed to take power to restore order and usher in political reforms.

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ejected in the 2014 coup, called for a swift return to democracy in a Facebook post on Monday, adding that the economy had been hit hard.

Thailand’s export-dependent economy is showing signs of recovery following a shaky three years that saw weak consumer spending and a slump in trade.

Since the coup, the junta, known

as the National Council for Peace and Order, has clamped down on dissent and ramped up prosecutions under sedition and royal defamation laws.

The military has always played a prominent role in Thai life but since the coup it has become embedded in society.

The military government has acknowledged it wants to weaken political parties and maintain permanent influence over elected governments, partly through a new constitution approved by the king last month.

An election is due by the end of next year.

The blast comes weeks after a car bomb at a shopping centre in the province of Pattani, near Thailand’s border with Malaysia, which wounded 61 people and which authorities blamed on the Muslim insurgents.

The far south of Thailand, which includes the Muslim-majority provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, is home to a long-running separatist insurgency. A bomb exploded in Yala earlier on Monday, wounding military officers.

Attacks by the Muslim rebels have largely, though not always, been confined to their southern heartland. (rtr)

ANKARA - Turkey put on trial 200 suspects on Monday including senior military officers accused of plotting and orchestrating last year’s failed coup, in a court case where prosecutors are calling for life sentences.

The defendants, among them President Tayyip Erdogan’s aidede-camp, the former head of Turkey’s air force, and dozens of generals, colonels and majors, were paraded on their way to court past dozens of protesters who demanded the death penalty and threw nooses towards them.

Around 1,500 security personnel were deployed for security at the trial, state-run Anadolu news agency reported, which was held in a purpose-built courthouse in Sincan on the outskirts of the Turkish capital.

More than 240 people, many of them civilians, were killed in the failed coup on July 15, 2016, when a group of rogue soldiers commandeered tanks, warplanes and helicopters, bombing the parliament and attempting to overthrow the government.

Those on trial in Sincan included core suspects behind the coup who raided the state broadcaster and forced the presenter to read out an announcement saying the army had taken over and Turkey was being run by a committee they called “Peace at Home”.

Erdogan blames Fetullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric and a former ally, and his global network for orchestrating the coup, a charge Gulen denies. Turkish authorities have arrested nearly 50,000 people over

alleged links with the preacher.

At the start of the hearing, families of the victims attending the trial screamed at the defendants, and one woman in the courtroom, whose son was killed during the coup, broke down.

“Kill these traitors, the murderers of my son,” she screamed before fainting. The judge called for a medical team to be brought into the courtroom.

From a total of 221 defendants, more than 200 are from the military and more than half of those were officers who held ranks from captains up to generals. All but 12 of the suspects, who are still at large, appeared in court. Gulen, who is among the defendants, is among those being tried in absentia.

Following confirmation of the suspects’ identity and the reading of a summary of the roughly 2,000page indictment, suspects will be able to put forward their defence.

Hearings at the trial, one of the largest of several coup-related trials taking place across Turkey, are expected to last until June 16.

Citing the coup attempt as a grave threat to the state, Turkish authorities have also sacked or suspended around 150,000 civil servants, teachers, judges, prosecutors, police and soldiers and have shut down around 150 media outlets.

While the detentions may have been supported by some Turks in the immediate aftermath of the abortive putsch, criticism mounted as arrests widened to include groups of which many deny any connection to Gulen. (rtr)

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Paramilitary police officers and commandos escort the alleged instigators of last summer’s failed military coup before their trial at a courthouse in the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Monday, May 22, 2017.

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Culture service recruits 8 stage managers for BAF

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The Janger from Menyali village, Sawan that emerged during the colonial period has been reconstructed by the Janger Saraswati Art Troupe and was recently performed in the former Buleleng Harbour.

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NASA plans emergency spacewalk on International Space Station

CAPE CANAVERAL - A pair of astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for an emergency spacewalk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major U.S. systems aboard the orbiting outpost, NASA said on Sunday.

The primary device failed on Saturday, leaving the $100 billion orbiting laboratory to depend on a backup system to route commands to its solar power system, radiators, cooling loops and other equipment.

The station’s current five-mem-

ber crew from the United States, Russia and France were never in any danger, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement.

Station commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Jack

Fischer, both with NASA, will partner for the spacewalk, which is expected to last two hours, the U.S. space agency said.

Earlier on Sunday, Whitson assembled and tested a spare electronics box to replace the failed

device, which had been installed during a spacewalk on March 30, said NASA spokesman Dan Huot.

NASA’s last emergency spacewalk took place in December 2015 when two U.S. astronauts left the station to release the brakes on a robot arm’s mobile transporter.

The ISS, which is staffed by rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts, serves as a research

laboratory for biology, life science, materials science and physics experiments, as well as astronomical observations and Earth remote sensing.

The station, owned and operated by 15 nations, flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth and orbits the planet about every 90 minutes.

It has been continuously staffed since 2000. (rtr)

Scientists to test whether Zika can kill brain cancer cells

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In this Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, responsible for transmitting Zika, sit in a petri dish at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Brazil.

LONDON - Scientists in Britain plan to harness the Zika virus to try to kill brain tumour cells in experiments that they say could lead to new ways to fight an aggressive type of cancer.

The research will focus on glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer, which has a five-year survival rate of barely 5 percent.

Zika causes severe disability in babies by attacking developing stem cells in the brain - but in adults, whose brains are fully formed, it often causes no more than mild flu-like symptoms.

In glioblastoma, the cancer cells are similar to those in the developing

brain, suggesting that the virus could be used to target them while sparing normal adult brain tissue.

Experts say existing treatments have to be given at low doses to avoid damaging healthy tissue.

Researchers led by Harry Bulstrode at Cambridge University will use tumour cells in the lab and in mice to assess Zika’s potential.

The mosquito-borne virus has spread to more than 60 countries and territories in a global outbreak that was first identified in Brazil in 2015.

“Zika virus infection in babies and children is a major global health

concern, and the focus has been to discover more about the virus to find new possible treatments,” Bulstrode said in a statement.

“We’re taking a different approach, and want to use these new insights to see if the virus can be unleashed against one of the hardest-to-treat cancers ... “We hope to show that the Zika virus can slow down brain tumour growth in tests in the lab,” Bulstrode added. “If we can learn lessons from Zika’s ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and target brain stem cells selectively, we could be holding the key to future treatments.” (rtr)

Awakening art nostalgia of Dutch occupation period

SINGARAJA - Apart from office buildings another heritage left from the Dutch colonial period is the art of Janger that was a popular form of entertainment in Buleleng during the occupation.

The Janger from Menyali village, Sawan that emerged during the colonial period has been reconstructed by the Janger Saraswati Art Troupe and was recently performed in the former Buleleng Harbour.

The District of Buleleng will be presenting the Janger Menyali during the 39th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) in June at the Denpasar Art Center, evoking the heyday of this art form.

The Janger Menyali performance in Buleleng Harbour was especially interesting because it was performed by elderly dancers who had not performed the Janger since the 1960’s and 70’s. The dancers looking dapper

in their attire of red berets, badges, shirts, socks and shoes, This costume, he said is different than the one usually worn by more contemporary Janger dances.

Headman of Menyali, Made Jaya Harta, explained that male Janger dancers used to be known as jipak.

Jipak Janger dancers from his village indeed used to be wear costumes inspired by the Dutch Army that was docked at Buleleng Customs (former Buleleng Harbor—Ed). Over time, the style and costume of Janger Menyali changed under the influenced of other arts including “Janger Kreasi”.

“The songs and dance movements are similar but the costumes

for “Janger Kresi” are quite different.

Janger Menyali is rarely ever performed anymore and was on the verge of disappearing all together before this reconstruction was put together.

There was one staging of this dance not too long ago in Lombok”, said Headman Harta.

The reconstruction of Janger Menyali started in Febuary 2017. It was considered to be important to revive this dance as it is believed to be a sacred dance (sanghyang dance). Harta and others are therefor committed to preserving the Janger Menyali dance.

“We have to preserve this ancestral heritage from the Dutch era.

We started to reconstruct this dance by teaming up with the old dancers and then got some younger dancers involved. The result is a dance that can make Buleleng proud” explained Harta. (mud)

PPDS manages tourist attractions

TABANAN - Aside from marketing the products of villageowned enterprises (BUMDes) in the form of processed coconut, chocolate and coffee, the Dharma Santika Regional Company (PPDS) of Tabanan has planned to manage tourist attraction in Tabanan.

Director of PDDS, I Putu Sugi Darmawan, said on Sunday (May 21) that management of the tourist

attraction is one of the medium-term programs of the PDDS. He continued that management of tourist attractions still requires a study. According to him, the management of tourism attraction can be realized soon because it does not require a large budget is the management of Angseri hot spring tourist attraction and culinary tourism on Yeh Gangga Beach. “Management of

Angseri hot spring tourist attraction as well as culinary tourism on Yeh Gangga Beach need an affordable capital to be implemented,” he said.

In addition to these two attractions, the PDDS is also expected to be able to manage Bedugul tourist attraction. This object, according to Sugi Darmawan, takes a long time in the realization because it requires a large enough capital.(kmb24)

DENPASAR - Every performance of the Bali Arts Festival, staged at the Denpasar Art Center needs its own stage manager. The Bali culture office has recruited eight professional stage managers in order to ensure that this year’s festival runs smoothly and also with the hope that the momontony of previous year’a performances can be spiced up.

“There will also be colossal performances at the festival this year. Three differetn zones will be handled by eight stage managers and additional stage managers will be handling the Ksiraarnawa and Mandala buildings as well as the small stages like Kalangan Ayodya, Angsoka, Ratna Kanda and Wantilan” said the Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, when contacted recently.

Beratha added that he hopes that the stage managers will be able to help improve the experience for the audience. Artitst will be treated better and soundsystems, lighting and stage blocking will also be more professional.

The 39th BAF will also be holding workshops, and Focused

Group Discussion around the theme of gambuh.

This year’s BAF will take place from June 10 to July 8 with the theme of Ulundanu (Preserving Water as the Source of Life). As with previous years, artists from nine districts / municipality as well as art troupes from other regions of Indoneisas and even from overseas. Will be performing. There are the envoys from the NTT tourism office and association of Tirossa residents of NTTBali, the Bangkalan culture and tourism office, ISI Yogyakarta, Magelang education and culture office, Central Kalimantan culture and tourism office, the Flico Group in collaboration with Flying Balloon Puppet Yogyakarta and a group from the government of Blitar.

Overseas envoys from the consul general of Timor Leste, consul general of India, Alliance Francaise collaborating with the Cultural Society of Yasa Putra Sedana, Payangan, Gianyar, Sruajit Sakar India, art troupe of the Noujourn Ermasrah Korba Tunisia, and Bintang Asia art troupe from Tokyo, Japan. (kmb32)

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German Beach conjured up into public park MANGPURA —The government of Badung will conjure up the German Beach into a representative public park. Formerly, the white sandy beach was the harbor of Kuta. At this harbor, numerous merchants from outside Bali docked while carrying merchandise for transaction at that time.

However, today the beach located on Jalan Wana Segara, Tuban customary village, Kuta, is exposed to seawater abrasion. Local community then proposed to district government of Badung to do the arrangement.

Head of the Badung Public Works and Housing Agency (PUPR), I.B. Surya Suamba, confirmed that his agency is doing the arrangement of the German Beach, Kuta. This arrangement activity is the proposal of the Segara hamlet community, Kuta village.

“In the future, this area will be arranged into a representative public park. We will undertake it gradually along one kilometer,” said Surya Suamba when asked for his confirmation on Sunday (May 21).

According to him, his agency is now just carrying out regular arrangement, namely smoothing the sand by using heavy equipment. Related to the Detail Engineering Design (DED), it will be proposed in the 2017 budgetary amendment. “Since the proposal of re-arranging the German Beach is from the local community, in the planning it will involve the community as well,” he explained.

It is said that in general the arrangement of the German Beach is intended to create a representative public park for the community and tourists. A legislator of the Badung House of Representatives from Kuta, Ni Luh Gede Sri Mediastuti, stated that the arrangement of German Beach is indeed one of the proposals of the Segara hamlet community that will be followed up by the government soon.

“The regent has agreed to do the arrangement of the German Beach so that it will become a more representative public area,” he said. This politician of Golkar Party further stated that the community will play an active role in the arrangement of the German Beach starting from planning to the implementation, in the form of carrying out mutual assistance activities. (kmb27)

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MSS issues recedes, price of pig remains to drop TABANAN —

Pig farm in Tabanan had been hit by the issue of Streptococcus suis meningitis (MSS) some time ago and now it has begun to subside. People gradually buy pork again without worries.

This can be seen from the increasingly better condition of the market demand for pork. Even though it has improved, the price of pig at farmer level remains plummeted.

Deputy Chairman of Bali pig breeder association (GUBI), Nyoman Ariadi, said on Sunday (May 21) in Tabanan said that after the MSS the fate of pig farmers is not better than before.

The price of pigs that previously dropped as the impact of MSS does not change significantly.

“In other words, the price tends to stagnate and even decreases at this time,” he said.

This price decline makes community-based farmers still lose after the meningitis issue.

Actually the current stock of pigs at the level of breeders has gone far down from previously. Under the law of market, if the stock declines, the price should increase, but the decline in stock does not make the price of pigs at the level of breeders exciting. According to Ariadi, it is alleged to happen due to strategy at butcher level that makes the price of pigs down as much as IDR 1,000-IDR 2,000 per kg than before. “Previously, the price was in the range

of IDR 26,000-IDR 27,000 per kg, now it is even in the range IDR 24,000-IDR 25,000 per kg.

Moreover, the price even touches the point of IDR 23,000 per kg depending on meat quality,” he explained.

He continued that indication of the slaughter’s strategy to reduce the selling price of pigs can be seen in the act of butchers that buy pigs at breeders at IDR 24,000 per kg and they promised to take the pig within one or two days. However, in reality after the price agreement, the butcher did not immediately take the pigs purchased as per the agreement.

As a result, the breeders are confused because the longer the maintenance cost to be borne by farmers becomes quite larger as well, especially for the purchase of feed.

“Finally, the condition makes the pig farmers resigned. At the end, no matter how much the price offered by other butchers, the breeders tends to forcibly

follow the price to be offered, even though it is cheaper than the market price,” he said.

Ariadi, who is also a pig farmer in Tabanan, added that defenseless condition of pig breeders to the selling price is further aggravated by the absence of rules on the pig selling price by the government to protect breeders all this time. In the pig farming, the break-even point (BEP) is at IDR 24,000 per kg. With this range, the estimated price of pork in the market is IDR 30,000 per kg. “Actually, breeders only ask for a little profit of the BEP. In fact, the price of pig in the field at the level of breeders tends to touch the price of BEP,” he said.

He hoped the upcoming local governments can protect pig breeders, so that they can get revenue from the ideal business results. In other words, the breeders get the difference from the cost incurred so that they can run the business vivaciously. (kmb24)

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The First “Bali Fashion and Food Festival” At Beachwalk Shopping Center

FOOD STARTS HERE! This May Beachwalk Shopping Center still presents “THE ISLAND RECIPES”. By highlighting the Food as a major theme, Beachwalk brings new atmosphere with new spirit for the shoppers. Furthermore, Beachwalk Shopping Center is offering a bunch of events and promo to the Customers.

The acme on this month, Beachwalk working with a young entrepreneur from Gianyar - Mr. Ari Danangga specially conducting the first “BALI FASHION AND FOOD FESTIVAL” - an event that merging 2 major themes, those are; Fashion and Food, and festiviy of Exhibition Carnival. Furthermore, this event is a moment to indulge fashionistas and foodies in the island with countless kind of food, culinary presentation and island fashion industry. Through this event, all fashion enthusiasts can follow the latest trend in Bali with the presence of fashion show and local bazaar for variant fashion products. During this festive season, food lovers being pampered by several activities, such as; ramen competition, ice cream competition, cooking demo,

cooking class, making donuts, and wine tasting. All customers are being invited to enjoy every content of “BALI FASHION AND FOOD FESTIVAL” while also supporting the love of local products from May 5th until May 14th 2017 only at Beachwalk Shopping Center.

Furthermore, Beachwalk also presents “JAVANESE WOOD MASK” to give people more awareness the rich culture of Java region. This event enliven with traditional Java Mask Dance and local Javanese product.

“JAVANESE WOOD MASK” will be held from May 19th - 28th 2017 at Fountain Stage Beachwalk level 1.

Every Thursday Beachwalk and HIPMI Gianyar regularly present “UBUD CULTURAL EXPERIENCE” . Both International and Domestic Customers can interactively relish the experience and learn more about Balinese culture exclusively in Ubud regency like learn traditional Balinese dance, Balinese Drama Musical, how to create Balinese offering (Canang) and Balinese traditional dessert called Jaja Bali. This cultural experience will be conducted at the Deck Stage, Beachwalk level 1. Moreover there’s also another interactive event

called “MEET THE BIRD STARS” will be held on May 14th 2017 at Deck Stage Beachwalk level 1. Customers can meet and having interaction with the exotic birds by Bali Bird Park.

Visitors always have the opportunity to win the various prizes on this May’s SHOP & WIN program; those are Instant Rewards and Lucky Draw.

By spending at a minimum purchase of IDR 500,000 (single receipt), customers can get instant rewards such as beauty products, shopping vouchers, restaurant vouchers, and many more.

There is something special on this Shop & Win May 2017; by spending minimum of IDR 1,500,000 (single receipt) customers can get instant rewards of 2 ticket Splash Water Park

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Beachwalk Shopping Center always presents the unique experiences for tourists and shoppers. The various monthly programs offer more attractions in Kuta and emphasizing the Beachwalk Shopping Center’s tagline, “Bali Starts Here”.

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English wedding: Pippa Middleton marries as royals look on

ENGLEFIELD — Two likely future British kings were there, along with one of the world’s most photographed women, the often-adorable Prince Harry, a multilingual tennis legend and a brash TV reality star.

— including having such young children in the wedding party. But George and Charlotte — and the rest of the page boys and

But all eyes were on Pippa Middleton on Saturday as she walked down the aisle of a 12th-century church wearing a custom hand-embroidered gown with a tiara and long veil to marry hedge fund manager James Matthews.

Reporters, photographers and camera crews invaded the small village of Englefield west of London, home to St. Mark’s Church, and nearby Bucklebury, where a lavish reception was being held Saturday night at the estate of the bride’s parents, Michael and Carole Middleton.

Middleton, 33, is not royalty. But the starstudded wedding took on some aspects of a royal wedding, with well-wishers gathering outside the church grounds hoping for a glimpse.

She arrived in a vintage Jaguar to enter the church on the arm of her father. Older sister Kate, also known as the Duchess of Cambridge, looked after the page boys and bridesmaids, who were all under five years old and included her own children, Prince George, 3, and Princess Charlotte, 2.

Prince William and Prince Harry, decked out in formal morning suits, seemed relaxed

Pippa Middleton and her new husband James Matthews smile following their wedding ceremony at St Mark’s Church in Englefield, west of London, on May 20, 2017.

as they strolled into the church and were greeted by the groom’s well-known brother, Spencer Matthews, a star on the TV show “Made in Chelsea.”

Matthews, 41, smiled broadly and sported elegant formal wear set off by a pale blue vest.

The new couple emerged from the church an hour later. The children dropped flower petals in their path before the couple celebrated their union with a kiss. Then it was off for champagne and, later, a short spin in a different Jaguar.

Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty Magazine, said the Middletons could take pleasure in the day: Their first daughter, Kate, had married a future king, and their second daughter, Pippa, had married an extremely wealthy, charming and handsome man.

“You can’t do better than that,” she said.

Matthew and Pippa briefly dated in 2012 but became serious last year. He proposed during a visit to the enchanting Lake District, setting in motion what is being called the society wedding of the year.

The wedding plan was not without risks

bridesmaids — did extremely well in public, winning hearts along the way in their custommade outfits. (ap)

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‘Alien: Covenant’ Slides Past ‘Guardians 2’ to Win Weekend With $36 Million

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LOS ANGELES - As this weekend approached, the question lingered if “Alien: Covenant” would be able to unseat “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” from the top spot at the domestic box office.

Now, we have an answer. As of Sunday morning, “Covenant,” from 20th Century Fox and Scott Free Productions, looks to be the winner with a three-day estimate of $36 million from 3,761 locations.

That’s just above Disney’s “Guardians” sequel which is raking in an

additional $35.3 million from 4,347 spots. The super sequel is seeing only a 46% drop from last weekend, and its total domestic earnings now exceed $300 million.

While “Alien” may have won, the film’s price tag in the $100 million range and marketing costs detract from the victory. The sixth installment in the Alien franchise (not counting the two Alien vs.

Predator films) was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston,

Billy Crudup, and Danny McBride.

It holds a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is in line with 2012’s “Prometheus.” Although it came in already having made $42 million overseas and $36 million was enough to land in the top slot, “Alien” grossed less during its first weekend in the U.S. than “Prometheus” did in 2012 ($51 million).

Its final domestic earnings also came in below earlier projections, which pegged the horror flick at at least $40 million. (rtr)

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People shout slogans during a rally in Madrid, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Thousands of Spaniards rallied in Madrid to support a no-confidence vote against conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy brought by the far-left Podemos party.

No risk of snap election in Spain after Sanchez’s return, says PM

MADRID - There is no risk of a snap national election in Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday, playing down any threat to his minority-led government from a change of leadership in the opposition Socialist party. The track record of left-winger Pedro Sanchez, ousted as Socialist leader in October and re-elected to the post on Sunday, points to less cooperation with the government on major cross-party issues including labour reform and budget spending.

But Rajoy noted his government had already passed legislation during its seven-month tenure without the backing of the second-biggest party in parliament.

“There won’t be early elections,” he told journalists on Monday. “The Socialist party changes nothing for me. I’ll try and reach agreement with them on issues, but if we don’t reach an understanding, so be it.”

Financial markets - attuned to political tensions in the euro zone after Austria, the Netherlands and France have this year fended off

populist challenges at elections - reacted nervously to Sanchez’s election on Monday.

By 1240 GMT, Spain’s Ibex was down 0.3 percent while the broader pan-European STOXX 600 index was flat. The yield on the country’s 10-year benchmark bond rose about 5 basis points, with gains trimmed slightly after Rajoy’s comments.

BITTERLY DIVIDED Spanish analysts and commentators took a more sanguine view. “I

don’t think the new PSOE (Socialist) secretary general is interested in destabilising the government right now,” wrote the editor of El Mundo newspaper, Pedro Guartango, in an editorial. “He is more likely to play for time and build an alternative to Rajoy.”

The PP holds 134 seats in parliament, compared to 84 for the Socialists. For a no-confidence vote in Rajoy to pass, the Socialists would have to join forces with far-left newcomer Podemos - an alliance they failed to create in the past - and

PP ally Ciudadanos would have to abstain. Rajoy has been able to pass policies without the support of the Socialists by counting on the support of market-friendly Ciudadanos and others.

Spain’s long-delayed 2017 budget is due for a parliamentary vote of approval in coming weeks and the PP says it has the backing to pass the bill after courting regional governments in the Basque country and the Canary Islands. Rajoy had warned that if the 2017 budget was blocked he would call fresh elections.

Sanchez’s re-election despite presiding over a slump in support carries parallels with the continued party backing for his counterparts in Britain and France, Jeremy Cor-

byn and Benoit Hamon, who have also performed poorly in polls.

Party leader from 2014 to 2016, Sanchez garnered the worst electoral showing on record for the Socialists when he headed the 138-year-old party in the last two elections. The 45-year-old’s first task will be to unite a bitterly divided party, which he promised to do in his victory speech late on Sunday.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.