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Ariana Grande says she is “broken” in tweet after Manchester attack

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LOS ANGELES - Pop star Ariana Grande said on Monday she was “broken” five hours after a bombing killed 19 people and wounded dozens of others at her concert in Manchester, England.

and then in Belgium, Poland and Germany in the coming weeks. It was not immediately clear whether those concerts would go forward following Monday’s attack.

Grande, who starred in the Broadway musical “13” and on the Nickelodeon TV series Victorious before releasing her solo debut album, is credited with having an exceptionally broad vocal range for a pop star.

She is best known for her singles “Problem,” and “Break Free” from her sophomore album, My Everything. (rtr)

In this Sept. 24, 2016 file photo, Ariana Grande performs at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

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At least 22 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a suicide bomber struck as thousands of fans streamed out of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande in Manchester on Monday.

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she plays the mother of children mysteriously struck with paralysis, which director Yorgos Lanthimos says is a comedy, but plays out much more like a horror film.

“I love to be asked to be in those things because that’s just where I am,” Kidman said. “I have always had that slightly rebel spirit where I have gone: ‘I don’t want to conform, I want to find a way not to.’

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d’Or. Kidman -- whose other Cannes offerings are science fiction teenage film “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, an episode of Jane Campion’s TV series “Top of the Lake” and “The Beguiled” by Sofia Coppola -said she sought unusual projects.

“I want to support people who are trying different things or have a very, very unique filmmaking style,” she said.

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CANNES - For an A-list star who, as she says herself, does not have to work, Nicole Kidman has been pretty busy ahead of Cannes, appearing in three movies and a TV series screening at the film festival.

“I don’t have to work. I work because it’s still my passion, it’s the way in which I express myself,” she told a news conference after the screening of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, one of two Kidman movies competing for the Palme

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A woman lays flowers for the victims of the Manchester Arena attack, in central Manchester, Britain May 23, 2017.

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Making her first comment since an explosion detonated just outside Manchester Arena at the end of her performance there, Grande said on Twitter: “broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don’t have words.”

Representatives for Grande have said that the 23-year-old pop star was physically “okay” following the blast, which British authorities say was being treated as a terrorist attack.

Two U.S. officials have told Reuters on condition of anonymity that initial signs pointed to a suicide bomber as being responsible for the bombing.

Grande was performing in Manchester during the European leg of a concert tour to support her latest album, “Dangerous Woman.”

She was scheduled to perform at London’s O2 arena on Thursday

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MANCHESTER — For the young crowd of music fans, the Ariana Grande concert was supposed to be a night of high-energy candy pop and fun on a school night. The scene quickly turned into sheer terror when a bomb went off at the end, sending terrified parents into a desperate search for their loved ones. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives as the American singer wrapped up her show Monday night in Manchester for thousands of her so-called Arianators, the name adopted by her fans — many of them teenagers and ‘tweens.

Police said children were among the 22 people killed. About 60 others were wounded. Witness spoke of metal nuts and bolts strewn across the blast site, suggesting the attacker may have packed his explosive device with shrapnel — a gruesome tactic to maximize casualties that was also used by suicide bombers in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people in 2015 and repeatedly in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Fans, many clutching pink plastic balloons, scrambled in panic for

exits of the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Some half-climbed, half-tumbled over barriers in terror.

Parents, who were waiting outside

to pick up their children at the end of the show, waded into the fleeing crowds desperately hunting for loved ones.

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Land conversion reduces Hotel management asked to stake care farmland in Badung of turtle nests Turtle egg nest location

MANGUPURA - Government of Badung district must immediately realize the program of rural and urban property tax (PBB P2). It is following the land conversion continuously eroding the green open land. Moreover, the land conversion occurred in Badung in 2016 already reached 36 hectares.

Head of the Badung Agriculture and Food Agency, IGAK Sudaratmaja, when confirmed on Monday (May 22) admitted that land conversion remains to occur.

“We do not deny it (land conversion—Ed). This happens because residents sell their paddy fields and then are turned into residential areas,” he said.

According to him, the largest land conversion takes place in the area of North Kuta. In addition to switching to settlements and industrial estates, the development of tourist accommodation also contributes to the extensive land conversion occurred in the region.

“Construction of tourist accommodation such as villa also contributes to the addition of land conversion, other than turning into a settlement,” he said.

In order to compensate the shrinking land, Sudaratmaja said that his agency has succeeded in creating 25 hectares of paddy fields in 2015 and 5 hectares in 2016 located at Subak Pangsut Sari, Belok Sidan village, Petang, despite the target of creating new paddy fields amounts to 100 hectares.

“In 2015 the diversion and or addition of land area

has also been successfully done in several areas with a total of 37 hectares with details that 20 hectares sits in Mengwi, 10 hectares in North Kuta and 7 hectares in Abiansemal. This addition occurred because there was error in the data collection,” he explained.

The Badung agriculture and food agency recorded that land conversion in 2013 amounted to 51 hectares, then in 2014 soared to 160 hectares, and in 2015 decreased to 40 hectares, then for 2016 decreased again to 36 hectares. In 2013, the land conversion reached 51 hectares with details that 38 hectares is transformed into settlement in North Kuta, 11 hectares transformed into housing, and 2 hectares also transformed into housing.

In 2014, land conversion reached 160 hectares transformed into housing estate, with details that 123 hectares located in North Kuta, 33 hectares in Mengwi, 3 hectares in Kuta and 1 hectare in Abiansemal.

In 2015, land conversion took place over 40 hectares into residential area, with details that 17 hectares are located in Kuta Utara, 12 hectares in Mengwi, 7 hectares in Kuta and 4 hectares in Abiansemal.

In 2016, the land conversion reached 36 hectares transformed into residential area, with details that 17 hectares are located in North Kuta, 14 hectares in Mengwi, and 5 hectares in Abiansemal. Thus, in the past three years or in the period of 2013-2016 the remaining land in the Badung area covers an area of 9,975 hectares. (kmb27)

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MANGUPURA - South Bali coastal area is indeed a suitable location for turtle to lay eggs, especially for olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea). The turtle laying area extends from Kuta to Nusa Dua, though most of the turtle egg laying happens along the coast of Nusa Dua. .

In fact many of the turtle lay their eggs on the beach in front of Nusa Dua hotels. According to date from the Nusa Dua Reef Foundation, there were 33 turtle nests in Nusa Dua last year. As of May 2017, a total of seven nests have been recorded. These seven nests are scattered in several locations: 5 nests on Mengiat Beach, 1 in front of the Club Med hotel and 1 in front of Conrad Hotel.

“So far this year, we have found seven turtle egg nests, however we estimate that this number will increase considering than in 2016 we recorded a total of 33 turtle egg nests” explained Pariama Hutasoit, from the Nusa Dua Reef Foundation when contacted on Monday (May 22).

The Nusa Dua Reef Foundation plans to continuously provide guidance to hotel managers around Nusa about how to deal with turtle egg nests. Hotel managers are asked to put up a sign near any turtle nests that they encounter and to cordon off the nest area as a means of protecting the eggs from damage. “We appeal to hotel management to take care of the turtle nests by putting up signs that explain what kind of turtle egg is there, the date that the eggs were laid and the estimated time of hatching.

The incubation period for sea turtles is somewhere between 45-55 days” explained Pariama.

In order to work sustainably with the turtles, hotels are also expected not to collect and raise the turtle hatchlings themselves as this disrupts the eco-system. Once hatched, turtles must be release no more than

three days later. The Nusa Dua Reef foundation provides information about how to release hatchlings. “ The releasing of turtle hatchlings into their natural habitat can involve the participation of tourists from the hotels and can thus serve as a tourist attraction” he said.

In the area of Mengiat Beach, the Yasa Segara Mengiat supervisory community patrols the beach every night during spawning season. When turtles are found getting ready to lay eggs, they are secured and relocated to an area of Mengiat Beach that is managed by the village cooperative (KUD) and the supervisory community group. Although they relocate the nesting location of the turtles for the security of the eggs, they do not plan to create an artificial nesting site “ IT is not recommended as it is preferable to remain as natural as possible” said Pariama.

The Nusa Dua Reef Foundation’s concern for the environment and care for the coral reef also extends to working with tourism stakeholders especially when it comes to turtel conservation. The foundation is actively involved in providing information to hotels and in searching our turtle nests.

The government is also involved in this endeavour, through the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries” Center for Coastal and Marine Resources (PBSPL) Denpasar who also provide coaching.

When contacted separately, Chief of Yasa Segara Mengiat supervisory community group, Ketut Koder, said that the community group consisting of 29 members who work around the clock. The members are divided in 4 groups of 7 people who generally deal with the tourism sector in the morning and supervise the area at night.

Because the month of May is turtle nesting season, constant supervision is required. (kmb23)

Badung to takes makotekan tradition to BAF 2017

MANGUPURA - Mekotek is one of Munggu Village’s, traditional catastrophe-repelling art forms that will be presented in this year’s Bali Arts Festival (BAF).

Mekotek is an ancestral heritage art that is carried out every six months on Saturday Kliwon Kuningan.

Head of the Badung Culture Office, Ida Bagus Anom Bhasma, explained that the art of mekotekan or ngerebek has been recognized as

an intangible cultural heritage and will soon be registered as such with UNESCO. “In the mean time, we will show this traditional art at the BAF so that more people will know that this art form exists in Badung” said Anom Bhasma on Monday (May 22).

The Badung Culture Office will involve hundreds of artists in the annual cultural extravaganza organized by the government of

Bali at the Denpasar Art Center.

“There are about 500 artists from Badung involved in the BAF including dancers and traditional music performers. This cultural event will go on for a whole month so we can show off a number of different arts”, he added. The district of Badung representatives will be appearing from June 10- July and are still preparing for the festival.

“In addition to presenting the me-

kotekan tradition, we will also be presenting a creative dance called the Surf Dance during the opening parade of the BAF”, he said. The Surf Dance form Legian he said is a special water related dance.

During the BAF 2016, the district of Badung involved at least 3,000 artists with a budget of IDR 3 billion. Besides, his agency presented a reconstruction of Cupak Gerantang Arja operetta from Blumbang ham-

let, Penarungan, Mengwi. He said that the Arja operetta was popular back in the day but has since faded from the stage, so his agency is seeking to restore this art form.

Anom Bhasma added that he hopes that all the artists will give their best. “ We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the participation of all the artists who will perform in the BAF”, he concluded. (kmb27)

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The World’s First Robot Police Officer Just Debuted in Dubai

DUBAI - From fast food cooks to concierges at restaurants and hotels, robots are slowly infiltrating the workforce in nearly every industry. Most recently, the world welcomed its first operational robot policeman.

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An operational robot policeman is seen at the opening of the 4th Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 22, 2017.

“Robocop,” the newest member of the Dubai police force, debuted on May 22 at the Fourth Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference, where it greeted guests.

At approximately 70 inches tall and weighing nearly 220 pounds, Robocop seeks to engage with city residents and tourists. Featuring an “emotion detector,” the robot can recognize a person’s gestures and body language from nearly five feet away. Robocop’s skills don’t stop there -- the emotionally intelligent bot can detect if a person is happy, sad and even angry by studying his or her facial expression. And just like your human friends would do, if Robocop sees you’re unhappy, it will try to lift your spirits.

More importantly, when it comes to fighting crime, the robot uses the internet of things, artificial intelligence and other smart technologies to spot offenders using facial recognition. Its navigation skills grant it the ability to map out areas and travel on its own.

Equipped with a built-in tablet, Robocop can communicate with people, speak six languages, respond to public queries, shake hands and even military salute.

“With an aim to assist and help people in the malls or on the streets,” said BrigadierGeneral Khalid Nasser Al Razzouqi, director-general of smart services at Dubai Police, “the Robocop is the latest smart addition to the force and has been designed to help us fight crime, keep the city safe and improve happiness levels.”

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Titian Art Space presents

Rebirth: Solo exhibition by I Wayan Aris Sarmantra

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Chinese Go player Ke Jie, left, looks at the board as a person makes a move on behalf of Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during a game of Go at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

Computer beats Chinese champion in ancient board game of go

WUZHEN — A computer defeated China’s top player of the ancient board game go on Tuesday, earning praise that it might have finally surpassed human abilities in one of the last games machines have yet to dominate.

Google’s AlphaGo won the first of three planned games this week against Ke Jie, a 19-year-old prodigy, in this town west of Shanghai.

The computer will also face other top-ranked Chinese players during the five-day event.

AlphaGo beat Ke by a halfpoint, “the closest margin possible,” according to Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, the Google-owned company in London that developed AlphaGo. AlphaGo has improved markedly since it defeated South Korea’s top competitor last year and is a “completely different player,” Ke told reporters.

“For the first time, AlphaGo was quite human-like,” Ke said. “In the past it had some weaknesses. But now I feel its understanding of go and the judgment of the game is beyond our ability.”

Go players take turns putting white or black stones on a rectangular grid with 361 intersections, trying to capture territory and each other’s pieces by surrounding them.

Competitors play until both agree there are no more places to put stones or one quits.

The game, which originated in China more than 25 centuries ago, has avoided mastery by computers even as they surpassed humans in most other games. They conquered chess in 1997 when IBM Corp.’s Deep Blue system defeated cham-

pion Garry Kasparov.

Go, known as weiqi in China and baduk in Korea, is considered more challenging because the near-infinite number of possible positions requires intuition and flexibility.

Players had expected it to be at least another decade before computers could beat the best humans due to go’s complexity and reliance on intuition, but AlphaGo surprised them in 2015 by beating a European champion. Last year, it defeated South Korea’s Lee Sedol.

AlphaGo was designed to mimic such intuition in tackling complex tasks. Google officials say they want to apply those technologies to areas such as smartphone assistants and solving real-world problems.

AlphaGo defeated Lee in four out of five games during a weeklong match in March 2016. Lee lost the first three games, then won the fourth, after which he said he took advantages of weaknesses including AlphaGo’s poor response to surprises.

Following Lee’s surprise victory, “we went back to try and improve the architecture and the system,” said Hassabis.

“We believe we have fixed that knowledge gap but of course there could be many other new areas that it doesn’t know and that we don’t know either.”

Go is hugely popular in Asia, with tens of millions of players in China, Japan and the Koreas.

Google said a broadcast of Lee’s 2016 match with AlphaGo was watched by an estimated 280 million people. (ap)

THIS small but very strong exhibition of paintings is a testament to the power of Balinese tradition to maintain its distinctive and essential qualities while stretching to meet contemporary aesthetics and issues.

The Batuan style of painting underwent its first dramatic shift in the 1930’s with foreign artists, new materials and an emerging art market making their prescience felt. The works of 22year old I Wayan Aris Sarmantra’s mark the second great shift in the Batuan style. Though clearly rooted in the aesthetic and thematic traditions of the Batuan School of art, these paintings also speak clearly of both local and global issues in a distinct personal style that breaks free from the more general characteristic of the Batuan style reaching towards a broader mode of expression.

The very fact that Sarmantra has carved out such a unique style tells us something about the influence that the outside world has had on Bali in general and on this artist in particular. And while while Sarmantra is certainly not the first

Balinese artist to have developed such a distinctive style, his works are a particularly good example of how the most outstanding features of a traditional art practice can be elaborated on through the great talent of an individual to bring to life fine art that can be appreciated by a larger audience.

The Batuan School of painting has been characterized by the somber tone of both colours and content, most often depicting scenes drawn from Balinese religious lore, filling the pictorial space with intricate drawings of the darker forces of life. While the paintings shown in Rebirth also draw on themes taken from Balinese religious lore, they are more that simple representation these scenes. Instead this iconography is taken as a point of reference to speak of broader issues.

The somber colours for which the Batuan style is known have been replaced with a stunningly colourful palette in Sarmantas works. This is not to say that the content of theses paintings lacks the somber quality for which this style is known, but more playful at times paradoxical modes of expression are used. Sarmantra’s depictions of the darker forces are presented more as light entertainment, perhaps speaking to the insidious way that these forces make their way into our lives or perhaps simply a

reflection of the general tendency of Balinese people to approach even the darkest aspects of life with a light heart.

Bali Not For Sale for example shows the angry face of a traditional baris (warrior) dancer whose headdress is filled with the beauty of Balinese culture with a dark scene of a big city in the background and a greedy business man and a humble protestor in the foreground. While the pairing clearly has a socio-political message to convey, its rendition is beautiful

and well balanced and does not staying too far from the wealth and skill of the tradition from which this artist draws.

Rebirth will be showing until August 5th, 2017 at Titian Art Space that was founded on January 29th, 2016 exactly 80 years after the Mita Maha Arts Society was founded. Titian Art Space is part of a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Balinese artists and bringing their talent to the world stage. Jalan Bisma no.88, Ubud.

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BALI NOT FOR SALE/TANGIS AMARAH PULAU KECIL, I Wayan Aris Sarmanta, 83x89cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2016.

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Those who are serious about cultivating mushrooms will sometimes search for good seeds outside of Bali to make sure that they are getting the quality they need.

Mushroom cultivation market

SEMARAPURA — There is a large demand for mushrooms in the district of Klungkung and yet very few people there grow mushrooms. Most of the mushrooms consumed in Klungkung come from growers in Bangli. Made Juli Astuti is a mushroom seed seller from Pikat village, Pangi, Dawan, and she explained that the reason that resident of Klungkung are reluctant to cultivate fungi is because they think the process is complicated. Also, if people do not start off with good seeds, their crops may not be optimal which could cause them to suffer losses.

“The harvest yield depends on the seeds. Those who are serious about cultivating mushrooms will sometimes search for good seeds outside of Bali to make sure that they are getting the quality they need” she said.

Astuti who was working for

the Klungkung government saw a potential market and so she started to cooperate with a retired army official who has been selling mushrooms seeds in Singaraja since 2009. This cooperation proved to be a success and Astuti now sells 3,000 log bags of white oyster

mushrroms every 15 days. “ I sell each log bag for IDR 3,000. Since my mushrooms are are very good quality, I receive orders not only from around Klungkung, but also from Karangasem, Denpasar and other districts”, she explained.

In order to explaind her busi-

ness, Astuti plans to open a nursery warehouse with a capacity of 10,000 log bags and also hopes to a “mushroom house” to provide consultation to farmers wanting to cultivate mushrooms. “ The profits from mushroom cultivation are pretty good, each IDR 3,000 bag can produce 100 grams of mushrooms every 15 days and be harvested up to six times. I usually sell 200 grams for IDR 5,000 to my office mates, but more to farmers” she said.

Astusti added that cultivating

oyster mushrooms is not as complicated as people sometimes imagine.

The newly purchased log bags must be place din a room with a temperature of 28-30 degrees Celsius and watered every two days in the afternoon when the roots have filled the bag ¾ full. “After 40 days, the mushrooms can be harvested. The hard part is making the mushroom seeds because they need to be fed a special formula. If the formula is not correct, the mushrooms grown from these seeds will not be suitable”, she concluded. (dwa)

Lelambatan gamelan music maestro in critical condition at Ari Santi ICU GIANYAR — Wayan Djebeg is one of the natural artists from Batur hamlet, Batubulan, Sukawati and has a wealth of experience as a maestro of lelambatan gamelan composing.

He has toured all over Indonesia and received dozens of awards for his talent as a traditional music artist. Now 85 years old, Grandpa Djebeg as he is familiarly known has become ill and on Monday May 22 started undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Ari Santi Hospital in Mas village, Ubud.

Grandpa Djebeg’s grandson, Wayan Eka Jaya Suputra, explained that the maestro’s is lying unconscious due to illness. “My grandfather is now being treated in the ICU, no one is allowed to visit except for the family”said Saputra

on Monday afternoon from the Wantilan Hall of Batubulan village, Sukawati.

Grandson Saputra explained that Djebeg’s illness came on quite suddenly and that he was rushed to the emergency room of Ganesha hospital on Sunday May 14 at around 02:00. “ He received treatment there but since he was only diagnosed with an ulcer he was discharged a two hours later” said Saputra.

A few hours after arriving home, at around 06:00 Grandpa Djebeg (husband of the late Ni Wayan Lembon) started convulsing, so his family immediately brought him to Ari Shanti hospital in Mas, Ubud.

“The doctors told us that there seem to be a lesion on Grandpa’S head

and that he was suffering form obstruction of the uretha and that his nerves were not functioning properly”, explained his grandson.

The doctors added that this was likely caused by fatigue brought on by the fact that despite the maestro’s advanced years, he continued to think about art activities. “Before this, our grandfather was never sick so he remained busy teaching gamelan music and attending a number of barong performances”, said Saputra.

Wayan Djebeg started school at the age of 7 years but due to economic difficulties could not pursue his education past “sekolah rakyat” as it was called at the time – now known as elementary school. However, armed with great vivacity, diligence and hard work,

Djebeg became a gandrung (male dancer) in 1942. “Grandfather is a self-taught artist, creating works of art without the special guidance of an instructor and was the only person in his neighbourhood to start creating art” he explained.

Djebeg’s artistic activities brought him to Europe and in 1999 Wayan Djebeg performed lelambatan gamelan compositions in India.

Saputra added that his grandfather has become a well known lelambatan gamelan music maestro. “My grandfather told me that lelambatan gamelan music has in fact existed for a long time, but that his compositions added variety to this genre that made it popular in many artistic circles” explained Saputra.

After wandering for a long time

in the field of traditional gamelan music, Wayan Djebeg finally married Ni Wayan Lambon and together they had seven children. After giving borth to Ni Wayan Darni their next two children died. Ni Wayan later gave birth to child Ni Ketut Nadi, I Wayan Sudiarti, Ni Made Kormi and Ni Nyoman Sukanti.

When asked about government assistance for the lelambatan gamelan maestro known as Grandpa Djebeg, Saputra said that there has been none and that even now as this great maestro lies in the ICU of Ari Shanti hospital, no official from the district of Gianyar has visited the 85 year old artist. “We have not received any assistance of any kind, not even from the government” he concluded. (kmb35)

Asylum-seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea March 21, 2014. Faces pixellated at source. Picture taken March 21, 2014.

U.S. starts “extreme vetting” at Australia’s offshore detention centres

SYDNEY - U.S. Homeland Security officials have begun “extreme vetting” interviews at Australia’s offshore detention centres, two sources at the camps told Reuters on Tuesday, as Washington honours a refugee swap that U.S. President Donald Trump had called “a dumb deal”.

The Trump administration said last month the agreement to offer refuge to up to 1,250 asylum seekers in the centres would progress on condition that refugees satisfied strict checks.

In exchange, Australia has pledged to take Central American refugees from a centre in Costa Rica, where the United States has expanded intake in recent years, under the deal struck with former President Barack Obama.

The first security interviews finished last week at Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island detention centre, two refugees who went through the process told Reuters.

The refugees told Reuters that interviews began with an oath to God to tell the truth and then proceeded for as long as six hours, with in-depth questions on associates, family, friends and any interactions with the Islamic State militant group.

“They asked about why I fled my home, why I sought asylum in Australia,” said one refugee who declined to be named, fearing it could jeopardise his application for U.S. resettlement.

The security interviews are the last stage of U.S. consideration of applicants. Manus Island is one of two Australian-operated detention centres, which hold nearly 1,300 people who were intercepted trying to reach Australia by boat.

Human rights groups have condemned the intercept policy and the harsh conditions of the camps.

Australia says offshore processing is needed as a deterrent after thousands of people drowned at sea before the policy was introduced in 2013.

A decision on the fate of the first 70 people interviewed is expected to be reached within the next month, a different source who works with refugees said.

A spokesman for Australia’s immigration minister refused to comment on the resettlement process.

The U.S. State Department and White House did not immediately respond to questions.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for extreme vetting have extended to those travelling to the United States from Muslim countries.

Australia’s relationship with the new administration in Washington got off to a rocky start when Trump lambasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the resettlement arrangement, which Trump labelled a “dumb deal”.

Details of an acrimonious phone call between the pair soon after Trump took office made headlines around the world. Australia is one of Washington’s staunchest allies and has sent troops to fight alongside the U.S. military in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The relocation of asylum seekers to the United States is designed to help Papua New Guinea and Australia proceed with the planned closure of the Manus detention centre on Oct. 31. (rtr)

TOKYO - Raytheon Co and Lockheed Martin Corp are working with Japanese partners on rival projects to develop new radars that will enhance Japan’s shield against any North Korean missile strike, government and defence industry sources in Tokyo told Reuters.

As nuclear-armed Pyongyang builds ever more advanced missiles with the ability to strike anywhere in Japan, Tokyo is likely to fund a ground version of the ship-based Aegis defence system deployed on warships in the Sea of Japan, other sources had said earlier.

Raytheon is allied with Mitsubishi Electric Corp on the project while Lockheed is working with Fujitsu Ltd. The intent is to extend the range of Japan’s detection and targeting radars multiple times beyond range of models currently deployed at sea, the five government and industry sources said.

“Japan’s government is very interested in acquiring this capability,” said one of the sources with knowledge of the radar plans. The sources asked not to be identified because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

“Japan wants to have Aegis Ashore operational by 2023 at the latest,” said another of the sources.

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Mitsubishi Electric declined comment, while Fujitsu did not respond to requests for comment.

A spokesman for Japan’s Ministry of Defence said Tokyo did not currently have any concrete plans to collaborate with the United States on Aegis radars. “It is not our place to discuss the activities of corporations,” the spokesman added.

The proposed Aegis Ashore radars would be variants of models already developed by Raytheon and Lockheed, the sources said.

They would include components using gallium nitride, an advanced material fabricated separately by Mitsubishi Electric and Fujitsu that can amplify power far more efficiently than conventional siliconbased semiconductors.

Nuclear-capable North Korea has a fast accelerating missile development programme and Japanese officials have been worried that its ballistic missile defences (BMD) could be overwhelmed by swarm attacks or be circumvented by warheads launched on lofted trajectories.

In the latest snub to demands it end its weapons programme, North Korea on Sunday fired what it described as a intermediaterange ballistic missile that flew about 500 km (311 miles), falling into waters off its east coast.

It had tested another missile the previous Sunday. North Korea said that launch tested the capability to carry a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead” and put the U.S. mainland within “sighting range.”

Japan would likely need three Aegis Ashore batteries to cover the whole country, each of which would cost around $700 million without missiles, one of the sources said. (rtr)

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Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex in Romania

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BUSINESS European economic rebound showing surprising strength

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Janger Menyali, Awakening Art Nostalgia of Dutch Occupation Period

BRUSSELS — Europe’s economic recovery is showing surprising strength, as key surveys of business activity and optimism hit their highest levels in years. The data released Tuesday hold out hope that the region is set to see a sustained and marked decline in its unemployment rate from the current 9.5 percent. And the good economic news could well add pressure on the European Central Bank to signal a withdrawal of its extraordinary stimulus measures.

One of the indicators the ECB looks at when assessing its policy stance is the monthly survey of business activity from financial information company IHS Markit.

Once again, it was strong, with the purchasing managers’ index — a broad gauge of economic activity — for the 19 countries that use the euro currency unchanged at a sixyear high of 56.8 in May. The results are consistent with quarterly economic growth of 0.6-0.7 percent, higher than the first quarter’s 0.5 percent growth.

Chris Williamson, IHS Markit’s chief economist, says the consensus forecast for second-quarter growth of 0.4 percent may prove “overly pessimistic.” He also noted that job creation has surged to the secondhighest in nearly a decade as firms expand capacity and meet rising demand.

The strong purchasing managers’ survey comes on top of the 26-year high reached by Germany’s Ifo monthly confidence index. It rose to 114.6 points for May from 113.0 in April. Economists had forecast that it would increase, but only to 114.1.

Ifo said that was the highest

figure since 1991 and, along with other data, points to growth of 0.6 percent in the second quarter, matching the quarter-on-quarter growth figure of 0.6 percent for the January-March period.

“Today’s strong German data add to the evidence that, not only the German economy, but the entire eurozone economy could become the positive growth surprise of 2017,” ING-Diba economist Carsten Brzeski said. “This sentiment is also spreading across financial markets, with many market participants now realizing that the eurozone economy had been written off too early.” The eurozone grew 0.5 percent in the first quarter compared to the quarter before, and 1.7 percent compared to the yearago quarter.

Germany has been the main engine behind the region’s recovery from recession which began four years ago. It’s been buoyed by strong exports of its cars and machinery. Stronger consumer confidence due to low unemployment of 3.9 percent has also supported the recovery. However, for the region to really push on growth has to come from all corners and a run of

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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.

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European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici arrives for a euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium May 22, 2017. surveys are pointing to a pick-up, particularly in France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy.

The strong data mean the eurozone is closer to no longer needing extraordinary stimulus provided by the European Central Bank through

its 60 billion euros ($67 billion) in monthly bond purchases. The purchases pump newly printed money into the economy in an attempt to raise inflation that is considered too weak, and to protect the recovery from any new troubles. The bank

has said it will continue the purchases at least through year end.

Analysts expect more hints about the bank’s future plans at its June 8 meeting and a clear roadmap for tapering the stimulus could emerge in September.(ap)

German business confidence hits 26-year high in May BERLIN — A survey shows that business confidence in Germany has risen to its highest level in 26 years. The strong showing was slightly above economists’ expectations.

The Ifo institute said Tuesday that its monthly confidence index, a closely watched indicator FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen on a construction site for family homes in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, May 10, 2017. Picture taken May 10, 2017.

for Europe’s biggest the economy, rose to 114.6 points for May from 113.0 in April. Economists had forecast that it would increase to 114.1.

Ifo said that that was the highest figure since 1991 and, along with other data, points to growth of 0.6 percent in the second quarter. That would match the quarter-on-quarter growth figure of 0.6 percent for the January-March period.

Ifo surveys some 7,000 companies for its index. In May, executives’ view of both their current situation and the outlook for the next six months brightened.(ap)

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. (kmb)

Kerobokan Beach Offers Overlay of Pristine Beach A beach with an expanse of pristine nature can become an advantage for a trip. This condition,

for example, is owned by Kerobokan village in Sawan, Buleleng. It is worth visiting by domestic and

foreign travelers. To welcome the visit, it is expected to be supported by arrangement, particularly in the matter of beach sanitation. So, economically it is expected to increase the income of local villagers in the future.

Such a hope is not excessive because the beach is also becoming an option as alternative tourist destination, especially in relieving tiredness after a long day activities.

Inevitably, those making a visit are not only local visitors. However, foreign guests have also visited the Kerobokan Beach.

According to headman of Kerobokan, Putu Wisnu Wardana, it is important to arrange the coastal area. He said that visitors will easily find the beach by seeing the

directions or signpost. In addition, an open stage has been being built expected to provide a space for cultural events. “As the nearest agenda, we started working on open stage. It is expected to be useful for entertainment space should there be an event,” he said, some time ago.

He explained that in the amended budget 2016 based on submission to the district government in 2016, he expected to get an assistance of IDR 200 million for the construction of a ring road. It is meant to resolve traffic congestion during high season of tourist visit.

“We proposed for financial assistance to the district government and have made coordination with customary and administrative village. The budget will be allocated

for the arrangement to make a leading tourist attraction. Reportedly the budget has received verification and simply wait for the approval for the amended budget in the district,” he explained.

He did not know exactly when the budget will be disbursed. But there is information if the budget for the arrangement of Kerobokan Beach is estimated to be disbursed in October 2016. While waiting for the budget, the public continues to make arrangement to improve sanitation, including shading the existing garden. “We plan to create eight to ten food stalls and arrange the irrigation. Currently the revenue from parking ticket is managed by customary village,” he said. (kmb)

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S.Korea fires at suspected drone at border with North amid missile crisis

SEOUL - South Korea’s military fired warning shots at a suspected drone from North Korea on Tuesday amid tension over Pyongyang’s latest missile test which drew international condemnation and a warning from China.

The identity of the object remained unclear, the military said, but Yonhap news agency said it was possibly a drone, more than 90 shots were fired in return and it disappeared from radar screens.

The incursion came with tension already high on the Korean peninsula after the North’s test-launch of a ballistic missile test on Sunday which Pyongyang said proved advances in its pursuit of building a nucleartipped weapon that can hit U.S. targets.

The United States has been trying to persuade China, North Korea’s lone major ally, to do more to rein in North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile launches and tested two nuclear bombs since the start of last year, in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and resolutions.

The North has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of striking the United States and has ignored calls to halt its weapons programmes, even from China. It says the programme is necessary to counter U.S. aggression.

“We urge North Korea to not do anything to again violate U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a statement posted on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Tuesday.

“At the same time, we hope all parties can maintain restraint, not be influenced by every single incident,

...persist in carrying out Security Council resolutions on North Korea and persevere with the resolution of the issue through peaceful means, dialogue and consultation.”

Wang was responding to reporters’ questions on Monday while in Ivory Coast, according to the statement.

The North’s official KCNA news agency, citing the spokesman for the foreign ministry, said the country had “substantially displayed” the capabilities for mounting a nuclear attack on Hawaii and Alaska and had built full capabilities for attacking the U.S. mainland.

U.S. and South Korean officials and experts believe the North is several years away from having such a capability.

North Korea said on Monday that Sunday’s launch met all technical requirements that could allow massproduction of the missile, which it calls the Pukguksong-2.

The test was North Korea’s second in a week and South Korea’s new liberal government said it dashed its hopes for peace on the peninsula.

The U.N. Security Council condemned the launch and again expressed its concern over the North’s behaviour. The Security Council is due to meet behind closed doors later on Tuesday.

North Korea’s recent missile tests were a legitimate act of self-defence by a “fully-fledged nuclear power”, North Korean diplomat Ju Yong Chol told the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday. (rtr)

North Korean drone during 2012 military parade in Pyongyang.

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Those with no news from those inside amid the mayhem took to social media, appealing for help. The hashtag #MissingInManchester became a cry for assistance on Twitter, as family and friends hunted for loved ones.

“I’ve called the hospitals.

I’ve called all the places, the hotels where people said that children have been taken and I’ve called the police,” tearful mother Charlotte Campbell told ITV television’s Good Morning Britain breakfast show, as she waited at home, hoping that her 15-year-old daughter Olivia would walk through the door or call. Olivia attended the show with a school friend who was found and being treated in a hospital. “She’s not turned up,” the mother said. “We can’t get through to her.”

In targeting Manchester, the attacker also struck at one of Britain’s cultural hearts. The once gritty industrial city, with London and Liverpool, has been one of the main cultural influences on modern Britain, with its iconic Manchester United soccer team, its cross-city rival Manchester City and chart-toppers Oasis, The Smiths and other globally famous bands. Oasis singer Liam Gallagher tweeted that he is “in total shock and absolutely devastated.”

Former Manchester United soccer star David Beckham posted on Facebook: “As a father & a human what has happened truly saddens me. My thoughts are with all of those that have been affected by this tragedy.”

Hayley Lunt took her 10-year-old daughter Abigail to the show. It was her first concert.

The blast, “what sounded like gunshots: ‘bang, bang,’” came just as Grande left the stage: “It was almost like they waited for her to go,” the mother said.

“Then we just heard lots of people screaming, and we just ran,” she said. “What should have been a superb evening is now just horrible.” Grande was physically unhurt, but described herself as “broken.” “From the bottom of my heart, I am so, so sorry. I don’t have words,” she said on Twitter. Concert-goer Bethany Keeling said: “There was debris everywhere.”

“Everyone ran back up the stairs and we eventually got out and they told us to run. We ran out of the arena and there were bodies on the floor,” said the 21-year-old from Keighley in northern England. “It was terrifying.”

Shaun Hunter was with his

daughters, Eva, 10, and Ruby, 12, who were wearing kitten ears like the star of the show, when the house lights went on.

He called the rush of concertgoers after the explosion “a stampede.” “I saw one bloke carrying his daughter. She was bleeding,” Hunter told The Times of London. Andy Holey, who went to the arena to pick up his family, said the blast threw him around 30 feet (nine meters) through a set of doors.

“When I got up and looked around there was about 30 people scattered everywhere, some of them looked dead, they might have been unconscious but there was a lot of fatalities,” he said.

Elena Semino and her husband were waiting by the arena ticket office for her daughter when the explosion went off.

“My husband and I were standing against the wall, luckily, and all of a sudden there was this thing,” she told The Guardian. “I can’t even describe it.

There was this heat on my neck and when I looked up there were bodies everywhere.” Despite wounds to her neck and a leg, Semino dashed into the auditorium in search of her daughter while her husband, who had only a minor injury, stayed behind to help an injured woman. She found her daughter Natalie, 17, and her friends safe.

British authorities say an 8-year-old girl, Saffie Roussos, was among the 22 who died in the Manchester bombing. Medical officials say 12 children under the age of 16 were among those injured in the suicide bombing attack at a pop concert in Manchester, England.

David Ratcliffe, medical director of North West Ambulance Service, told reporters Tuesday that the children were among those taken to hospitals after the explosion at Manchester Arena Monday night, where scores of teenagers and youngsters were attending an Ariana Grande concert. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for the suicide attack at an Ariana Grande show. Pop concerts and nightclubs have been a terrorism target before. Most of the 130 dead in the November 2015 attacks in Paris were at the Bataclan concert hall, which gunman struck during a performance by Eagles of Death Metal. In Turkey, 39 people died when a gunman attacked New Year’s revelers at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul.

Manchester, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northwest of London, was hit by a huge Irish Republican Army bomb in 1996 that leveled a swath of the city center. More than 200 people were injured, though no one was killed. (ap)

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Ahok dropped appeal for interests of all: Veronica Tan

JAKARTA - Former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) decided to drop his appeal against the two-year jail sentence for the interests of all, his wife, Veronica Tan, stated at a press conference here on Tuesday. “It is for the sake of all; the interests of all. It means we will not prolong the case. We will just carry out what has been decided,” she noted.

On the occasion, Tan also read out a letter from her husband to his supporters in which Ahok thanked them and all the volunteers. “I

wish to thank all who consistently supported me by offering prayers, bouquets, food, greeting cards, letters, and books that have been sent

to me so far as well as by holding candle-light vigils,” Tan said while reading out Ahoks letters.

Ahok said it was not right to hold demonstrations to protest against the current process that he has been through.

“I am afraid many parties may infiltrate if you (volunteers) hold rallies. Moreover, clashes could occur against those who do not

like us,” he noted. Ahok expressed gratitude to all his supporters who had organized rallies and candlelight vigils in accordance with the law in their efforts to fight for the preservation of the Unitary State of Indonesia, the 1945 Constitution, and the Principle of Unity in Diversity.

Ahok was sentenced to two years in jail after being declared

guilty of violating Article 156a on religious blasphemy. He is now held at the Police Mobile Brigade detention center, pending confirmation of his sentence from the higher court where he had earlier submitted an appeal. Ahok had lost the Jakarta gubernatorial election to former education minister Anies Baswedan in the most heated regional election ever. (ant)

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The wife of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok, Veronica Tan (right), accompanied by lawyer I Wayan Sudirta (center), and Harry Basuki, cried when giving information to reporters about the appeal of the judge’s verdict in Jakarta on Tuesday (23/5 / 2017).

Lawyers and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama agreed not to appeal the North Jakarta District Court judge’s verdict on a two-year sentence in a legal case for alleged defamation at the request of the family.

Two men publicly caned in Indonesia for having gay sex

BANDA ACEH - Religious police in Indonesia caned two men for gay sex on Tuesday, with hooded men inflicting 82 lashes on each of them as hundreds of people watched the punishment ordered by an Islamic court. Cheers and applause went up from a crowd gathered outside a mosque in the city of Banda Aceh, capital of the conservative province of Aceh, as the masked men took turns to flog the pair on a raised platform.

The men stood quietly, their heads down, as spectators heckled them and shouted insults. The punishment, condemned by rights groups, marked the first application of anti-homosexuality laws introduced in the province in 2014. Aceh has long had a reputation as Indonesia’s most conservative region. It is the only province that criminalises same-sex relations and that uses Islamic law as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.

Up to 1,000 people, many filming with smartphones, watched as the two men received 82 lashes each. Many others watched the punishment being meted out on a livestream video. Some in the crowd carried banners rejecting the presence of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Aceh.

“I hope there won’t be any more such cases of homosexuality, it is shocking,” said Eni Tri Ret-

naningsih, a 20-year-old student who said she had watched others caned before for other offences such as adultery. At least eight other men and women were caned for other offences ahead of the punishment of the two found guilty of having gay sex. Police separated men and women in the crowd as proceedings began, with 10 men in brown robes and hoods preparing a bundle of canes in case any broke during the flogging.

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The beatings were delivered on the clothed backs of the men and women, some of whom cried out in pain with each stroke. In some cases, the caning was suspended briefly if the offender signalled they were in too much pain. At the end of the lashing, the two men were helped off the platform. They were free to return to their families, authorities said.

Aceh is Indonesia’s most westerly province, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where Islam first took hold in the archipelago. The province caned 339 people in 2016 for a range of crimes, according to Human Rights Watch.

Indonesia has the world’s largest population of Muslims but is officially a secular country. Most Muslims practice a moderate form of the religion. (rtr)

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Upside Down World Fun Trick-Eye House in Bali MANGUPURA - Upside Down World Bali adds to the growing list of fun indoor activities on the island, where you can enter seven specially designed rooms whose décor and furniture are simply, and deliberately, the wrong way up. It is where you can enjoy a fun day out with your partner or friends and strike many whacky poses, only to end up as gravity-defying stunts in photos. Selfie sticks don’t really work here… but don’t worry, friendly staff are on standby to help you with shots.

Upside Down World Bali, as the name implies is the attraction with a variety of rooms that were made “upside down.” Tables, chairs and complimentary ornaments are

made attached to the ceiling in the building, the result, we seemed to walk upside down. But the excitement is currently looking for interesting poses unique moment to look behind the photos, this is quite tricky because it’s hard to imagine the results were reversed.

Among the most favourite theme rooms at Upside Down World Bali are the master bedroom, the kitchen and dining room, the laundry, and the 90-degrees ‘Balinese room’ which features ornate wooden carvings and antique furniture.

This room is perfect for couples, who often share a slightly intimate pose, but silly nonetheless, where one sits on the sofa while holding a cup, and the other scales the wall

‘pouring’ from a teapot.

Upside Down World Bali is definitely a place to take some interesting pictures, however, it always helps if you know how to set up poses and take the best angles.

Bring a tripod. And, always try to ask the staff who can guide you through the disorientating rooms, suggest the most common poses that people take if you can’t think of your own, and even take the shot for you. Two of its rooms feature 3D art. Entrance is IDR 100,000 for adults and IDR 50,000 for kids with a maximum height of 1.2m. Upside Down World Bali is halfway on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, the main street heading towards Sanur from Kuta. (IBP/net)

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Former MotoGP champion Hayden dies after cycling accident ROME - Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has died five days after the American was hit by a car while cycling in eastern Italy, his Honda World Superbike team said in a statement on Monday.

“It is with great sadness that Red Bull Honda... has to announce that Nicky Hayden has succumbed to injuries suffered during an incident while riding his bicycle last Wednesday,” the team said.

“Nicky passed away at 19.09 (local time) this evening at Maurizio Bufalini hospital in Cesena. His fiancee Jackie, mother Rose and brother Tommy were at his side.”

The 35-year-old had been in intensive care with severe brain damage since he was struck by a car while training on his bicycle along Italy’s Adriatic Coast.

The force of the impact shattered the car windscreen. MotoGP promoters Dorna joined in tributes from across the world of motorsport for the ‘Kentucky Kid’ who won the 2006 world title for Honda.

“A true Champion on and off track, Hayden will be deeply missed,” they said.

“Hayden will be deeply missed by the paddocks he has graced throughout an incredible career, his millions of fans around the world, and by all those closest to him.”

The last medical bulletin from the

hospital, dated May 20, said Hayden remained in a critical condition. The hospital had previously said he had suffered serious brain damage in the accident.

Hayden last raced in the MotoGP championship in Spain in September 2016 as a stand-in for injured Australian Jack Miller at the privately-run Marc VDS Honda team. He started 216 races between 2003 and 2015, winning three.

“Although this is obviously a sad time, we would like everyone to remember Nicky at his happiest riding a motorcycle,” said his brother Tommy in the team statement.

“He dreamed as a kid of being a pro rider and not only achieved that but also managed to reach the pinnacle of his chosen sport in becoming world champion. We are all so proud of that.”

Italian newspapers reported on Monday that investigators had found video of the accident from a camera on a house overlooking the road.

They said the images suggested Hayden had failed to stop at an intersection and was hit full on by the passing car. (rtr)

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In this Friday, June 14, 2013 file photo, Nicky Hayden, of the U.S sits in his garage at the Montmelo racetrack in Montmelo, outside Barcelona.

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Britain’s Andy Murray reacts during his Men’s singles second round match against Russia’s Andrey Rublev.

WHEN the ATP Race standings were updated this week Andy Murray, the world number one, languished down at 13th.

It is not a statistical anomaly either. Unlike the actual world ranking that is a rolling 12-month points total, the Race standings are a gauge of form since January when everybody starts on zero.

On current form 13th is probably generous. With the French Open starting on Sunday, Murray has accrued 1,210 to the 4,915 of Rafael Nadal and looks a pale imitation of the player who won his last 24 matches of 2016 to knock Novak Djokovic off his pedestal and seize power in men’s tennis.

Not since Pete Sampras in 1999 has a world number one had a worse start to a year with Murray’s win percentage at a fairly modest 70.8 percent -- a figure that actually disguises just how bad the slump has become of late.

There was an encouraging run to the semi-finals in Barcelona where he lost to Dominic Thiem but in

Madrid, where he went down with a whimper against Borna Coric, and in Rome where he was defending champion he was outclassed by Fabio Fognini.

Last year, when Murray won nine titles including a second Wimbledon, a second Olympic title and the ATP Tour Finals in London, he suffered nine losses all season.

This time his win-loss record reads 16-7 and it’s only May. Murray seems muddled and at a loss to explain his struggles.

But with a huge haul of ranking points to defend in the next couple of months, starting at Roland Garros where he lost to Djokovic in last year’s final after his best claycourt season, he needs a solution fast.

“There is no reason for it from my end,” Murray said.

“I’m just not playing good tennis and I need to try and work out how to turn that around. Last couple of weeks have been a struggle and a long way from where I’d like to be.”

It is the nature of the defeats that

is most surprising.

At the start of the European claycourt swing in Monte Carlo Murray lost to Spaniard Albert RamosVinolas having led 4-0 in the final set. In Madrid he was bullied by the 20-year-old Coric and in Rome he was flattered by the 6-2 6-4 scoreline against an inspired Fognini.

Earlier in his career Murray was criticised for being too passive with his game -- a preference for playing counter-attacking tennis based on rock-solid defence and superhuman court coverage rather than taking it on.

With the help of coach Ivan Lendl, he became more forceful, leading to breakthrough titles at the 2012 U.S. Open and Wimbledon in 2013 and Lendl’s second stint as coach spurred Murray to become world number one.

However, he seems to have slipped back into lock-down mode and has paid the price especially against aggressive opponents who enjoy playing on the front foot such as Thiem and Fognini. (rtr)

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Martin Rickett/PA via AP

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, center facing, stands alongside his teammates ahead of a training session at the AON Training Complex in Carrington, England, Tuesday May 23, 2017, for a minute of silence to remember the victims after an apparent suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night.

So long, Wayne?: Cup final may be Rooney’s last United game

MANCHESTER — Wayne Rooney could finish his Manchester United career by hoisting a European trophy, surrounded by jubilant teammates and with fireworks exploding around him. Still, it wouldn’t be quite the end he would have envisioned after 13 years at the English club. Rooney is set to be a substitute for United on Wednesday in the Europa League final against Ajax in Stockholm, a role which the club’s captain and record scorer has become increasingly accustomed to this season.

Depending on the situation in the match, he might not even come on.

That’s how it’s been for most of this season, watching from afar at a club where he was once the main man. Talk about United’s key players ahead of a final that means so much to the English club, and many would say Marcus Rashford or Paul Pogba or Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

Few would say Rooney. That’s the reason why this game might be his last for United despite having two years left on his contract, why he has been linked for much of the past few months with a return to former club Everton, a move to MLS in the United States, or a short spell in the Chinese league.

United is moving on under Jose Mourinho and Rooney is being left behind. Speculation grows that James Rodriguez will be moving to Old Trafford from Real Madrid, adding to the list of attackers who will be ahead of Rooney in the pecking order next season.

There was a symbolic moment Sunday on the final day of the Premier League season. Rooney was one of the few senior players picked for a virtually meaning-

less match against Crystal Palace — Mourinho rested most of his Europa League starters — and he was replaced in the final minutes by 16-year-old attacking midfielder Angel Gomes, who became the first player born this millennium to play in the Premier League.

Rooney applauded all corners of Old Trafford and walked off with his head down. Was he saying goodbye to the stadium he has played at since 2004, when — at 18 — he made a spectacular debut by scoring a hat trick in a Champions League game against Fenerbahce?

Since then, he has racked up 253 goals for United to surpass Bobby Charlton’s longstanding club record.

He is also England’s record scorer with 53 goals, again overtaking Charlton.

He has won the Premier League title five times, the FA Cup once, the League Cup three times and the Champions League once. That last trophy came in 2008 when he was part of the famous frontline containing Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez.

Rooney is no longer the force of old, unable to influence matches in the same way or tear around the field harassing opponents. Games can pass him by and there is the fear that, after 15 years in the spotlight of the soccer world, he is simply burnt out. In his last appearance at a news conference, prior to the second leg of the Europa League semifinals against Celta Vigo, Rooney said his priority at this stage of his career was to “play football.” When asked if that meant at United, he added: “Of course.”

He will end this season likely having started 25 of United’s 64 games. Often, he was an unused substitute.

Mourinho said he would not sell Rooney against his wishes, so it is for the player to decide if Wednesday is the last time he dons a United jersey. Whether he actually makes it onto the field remains to be seen. (ap)

A j a x A ms t erdam ’ s youthful squad will not be overawed by the occasion when they face Manchester United in the Europa League final on Wednesday, former Ajax and United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has said.

Despite an average age of 22, the Dutch side led by manager Peter Bosz have displayed no sign of nerves in beating Schalke 04 and Olympique Lyonnais to reach their first European final since 1996.

“They have played the same system. They have the same philosophy and they know what to do when the game starts,” Van der Sar told the Times.

“Sometimes you know what they can do but in other clubs they don’t get the opportunity to show it. At Ajax, you get the opportunity. “You saw it in the games against Schalke (in the quarter-final) and Lyon (in the semi-final). I never saw in those

games that these boys could not play in the final.”

Ajax have often had to sell their best players to richer rivals in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

And while 19-year-old striker Kasper Dolberg and captain Davy Klaassen have already linked with moves at the end of the season, Van der Sar said academy prospects were already groomed to replace any outgoing players.

“At a certain point, at 24-25, they are ready to take the next step to a different club and we know that. That is not a problem,” he added.

“If our academy works well, then his follow-up is there already and pushing him out of the club because he wants to take his place.

“We will maybe lose one player in the summer but I think this team is going to stick around for a few years.” (rtr)

Ex-Barcelona president Rosell held in money laundering probe

MADRID — Spanish authorities say former Barcelona president Sandro Rosell and his wife have been detained in a probe over his businesses in Brazil. The detentions early Tuesday are part of a money laundering investigation related to buying television rights for past matches of Brazil’s national team.

Three other people have been detained, but their identities were not immediately released by authorities.

Police raided offices, homes, and businesses in Barcelona and other locations in Spain as part of “Operation Rimet,” in reference to former FIFA President Jules Rimet.

Authorities said the operation used information from the FBI following the U.S. case against high-level FIFA officials in 2015.

Rosell is already standing trial for fraud and corruption charges involving the 2013 transfer of Brazilian striker Neymar. (ap)

UEFA: ‘No specific intelligence’ of risk to Europa final STOCKHOLM — After a deadly bombing at a concert in Manchester, UEFA said Tuesday it has “no specific intelligence” that the Europa League final featuring Manchester United will be a target. Man United plays Ajax on Wednesday in Stockholm, and security was already intensified following a deadly truck attack in the Swedish capital last month. “The terrorist risk had been taken into account since the very beginning of the project,” UEFA said, noting it has worked with Swedish authorities “for many months” to plan for the game.

“There is currently no specific intelligence which might suggest that any of the UEFA Europa League Final activities in Stockholm may be the target of attacks,” UEFA said in a statement. At least 22 people were killed when an apparent suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert as the performance ended on Monday in Manchester.

Man United players observed a minute’s silence for the victims at a Tuesday morning training session before flying to Sweden.

United coach Jose Mourinho’s scheduled news

conference later in the day at the Friends Arena in Stockholm was canceled at the club’s request, UEFA said. Ajax joined many in the soccer world expressing support for the victims. “From Amsterdam with love to Manchester,” the Dutch team posted on its official Twitter account. “Our thoughts are with the victims and the loved ones of those affected.”

Former United greats used social media to show support for the city. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Twitter account had a post of a British flag with “MANCHESTER” written across the red central stripe.

David Beckham wrote on Facebook: “As a father & a human what has happened truly saddens me.”

The club said its “staff are ready to help the police and other emergency services in any way that may be required at this challenging time for our city.”

Old Trafford, including a club store and museum, was closed on Tuesday. Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany wrote on Twitter: “I would like to express my deepest condolences to the families of the victims. It’s a sad day for the great city of Manchester. #Unity.” (ap)

Peter Byrne/PA via AP

AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file

FILE - This is a Wednesday, May 3, 2017. file photo of Ajax’s Justin Kluivert as he plays the ball during the first leg semi final soccer match between Ajax and Olympique Lyon in the Amsterdam ArenA stadium, Netherlands.

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Police guard close to the Manchester Arena in Manchester, Britain, Tuesday May 23, 2017, a day after an explosion. An apparent suicide bomber set off an improvised explosive device that killed over a dozen people at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, Manchester police said Tuesday.

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File

FILE - In this July 19, 2013 file photo, FC Barcelona’s president Sandro Rosell attends a press conference at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain.

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Ajax youngsters will not freeze on the big stage - Van der Sar

Martin Rickett/PA via AP

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, center facing, stands alongside his teammates ahead of a training session at the AON Training Complex in Carrington, England, Tuesday May 23, 2017, for a minute of silence to remember the victims after an apparent suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night.

So long, Wayne?: Cup final may be Rooney’s last United game

MANCHESTER — Wayne Rooney could finish his Manchester United career by hoisting a European trophy, surrounded by jubilant teammates and with fireworks exploding around him. Still, it wouldn’t be quite the end he would have envisioned after 13 years at the English club. Rooney is set to be a substitute for United on Wednesday in the Europa League final against Ajax in Stockholm, a role which the club’s captain and record scorer has become increasingly accustomed to this season.

Depending on the situation in the match, he might not even come on.

That’s how it’s been for most of this season, watching from afar at a club where he was once the main man. Talk about United’s key players ahead of a final that means so much to the English club, and many would say Marcus Rashford or Paul Pogba or Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

Few would say Rooney. That’s the reason why this game might be his last for United despite having two years left on his contract, why he has been linked for much of the past few months with a return to former club Everton, a move to MLS in the United States, or a short spell in the Chinese league.

United is moving on under Jose Mourinho and Rooney is being left behind. Speculation grows that James Rodriguez will be moving to Old Trafford from Real Madrid, adding to the list of attackers who will be ahead of Rooney in the pecking order next season.

There was a symbolic moment Sunday on the final day of the Premier League season. Rooney was one of the few senior players picked for a virtually meaning-

less match against Crystal Palace — Mourinho rested most of his Europa League starters — and he was replaced in the final minutes by 16-year-old attacking midfielder Angel Gomes, who became the first player born this millennium to play in the Premier League.

Rooney applauded all corners of Old Trafford and walked off with his head down. Was he saying goodbye to the stadium he has played at since 2004, when — at 18 — he made a spectacular debut by scoring a hat trick in a Champions League game against Fenerbahce?

Since then, he has racked up 253 goals for United to surpass Bobby Charlton’s longstanding club record.

He is also England’s record scorer with 53 goals, again overtaking Charlton.

He has won the Premier League title five times, the FA Cup once, the League Cup three times and the Champions League once. That last trophy came in 2008 when he was part of the famous frontline containing Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez.

Rooney is no longer the force of old, unable to influence matches in the same way or tear around the field harassing opponents. Games can pass him by and there is the fear that, after 15 years in the spotlight of the soccer world, he is simply burnt out. In his last appearance at a news conference, prior to the second leg of the Europa League semifinals against Celta Vigo, Rooney said his priority at this stage of his career was to “play football.” When asked if that meant at United, he added: “Of course.”

He will end this season likely having started 25 of United’s 64 games. Often, he was an unused substitute.

Mourinho said he would not sell Rooney against his wishes, so it is for the player to decide if Wednesday is the last time he dons a United jersey. Whether he actually makes it onto the field remains to be seen. (ap)

A j a x A ms t erdam ’ s youthful squad will not be overawed by the occasion when they face Manchester United in the Europa League final on Wednesday, former Ajax and United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has said.

Despite an average age of 22, the Dutch side led by manager Peter Bosz have displayed no sign of nerves in beating Schalke 04 and Olympique Lyonnais to reach their first European final since 1996.

“They have played the same system. They have the same philosophy and they know what to do when the game starts,” Van der Sar told the Times.

“Sometimes you know what they can do but in other clubs they don’t get the opportunity to show it. At Ajax, you get the opportunity. “You saw it in the games against Schalke (in the quarter-final) and Lyon (in the semi-final). I never saw in those

games that these boys could not play in the final.”

Ajax have often had to sell their best players to richer rivals in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

And while 19-year-old striker Kasper Dolberg and captain Davy Klaassen have already linked with moves at the end of the season, Van der Sar said academy prospects were already groomed to replace any outgoing players.

“At a certain point, at 24-25, they are ready to take the next step to a different club and we know that. That is not a problem,” he added.

“If our academy works well, then his follow-up is there already and pushing him out of the club because he wants to take his place.

“We will maybe lose one player in the summer but I think this team is going to stick around for a few years.” (rtr)

Ex-Barcelona president Rosell held in money laundering probe

MADRID — Spanish authorities say former Barcelona president Sandro Rosell and his wife have been detained in a probe over his businesses in Brazil. The detentions early Tuesday are part of a money laundering investigation related to buying television rights for past matches of Brazil’s national team.

Three other people have been detained, but their identities were not immediately released by authorities.

Police raided offices, homes, and businesses in Barcelona and other locations in Spain as part of “Operation Rimet,” in reference to former FIFA President Jules Rimet.

Authorities said the operation used information from the FBI following the U.S. case against high-level FIFA officials in 2015.

Rosell is already standing trial for fraud and corruption charges involving the 2013 transfer of Brazilian striker Neymar. (ap)

UEFA: ‘No specific intelligence’ of risk to Europa final STOCKHOLM — After a deadly bombing at a concert in Manchester, UEFA said Tuesday it has “no specific intelligence” that the Europa League final featuring Manchester United will be a target. Man United plays Ajax on Wednesday in Stockholm, and security was already intensified following a deadly truck attack in the Swedish capital last month. “The terrorist risk had been taken into account since the very beginning of the project,” UEFA said, noting it has worked with Swedish authorities “for many months” to plan for the game.

“There is currently no specific intelligence which might suggest that any of the UEFA Europa League Final activities in Stockholm may be the target of attacks,” UEFA said in a statement. At least 22 people were killed when an apparent suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert as the performance ended on Monday in Manchester.

Man United players observed a minute’s silence for the victims at a Tuesday morning training session before flying to Sweden.

United coach Jose Mourinho’s scheduled news

conference later in the day at the Friends Arena in Stockholm was canceled at the club’s request, UEFA said. Ajax joined many in the soccer world expressing support for the victims. “From Amsterdam with love to Manchester,” the Dutch team posted on its official Twitter account. “Our thoughts are with the victims and the loved ones of those affected.”

Former United greats used social media to show support for the city. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Twitter account had a post of a British flag with “MANCHESTER” written across the red central stripe.

David Beckham wrote on Facebook: “As a father & a human what has happened truly saddens me.”

The club said its “staff are ready to help the police and other emergency services in any way that may be required at this challenging time for our city.”

Old Trafford, including a club store and museum, was closed on Tuesday. Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany wrote on Twitter: “I would like to express my deepest condolences to the families of the victims. It’s a sad day for the great city of Manchester. #Unity.” (ap)

Peter Byrne/PA via AP

AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file

FILE - This is a Wednesday, May 3, 2017. file photo of Ajax’s Justin Kluivert as he plays the ball during the first leg semi final soccer match between Ajax and Olympique Lyon in the Amsterdam ArenA stadium, Netherlands.

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Police guard close to the Manchester Arena in Manchester, Britain, Tuesday May 23, 2017, a day after an explosion. An apparent suicide bomber set off an improvised explosive device that killed over a dozen people at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, Manchester police said Tuesday.

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File

FILE - In this July 19, 2013 file photo, FC Barcelona’s president Sandro Rosell attends a press conference at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain.

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Upside Down World Fun Trick-Eye House in Bali MANGUPURA - Upside Down World Bali adds to the growing list of fun indoor activities on the island, where you can enter seven specially designed rooms whose décor and furniture are simply, and deliberately, the wrong way up. It is where you can enjoy a fun day out with your partner or friends and strike many whacky poses, only to end up as gravity-defying stunts in photos. Selfie sticks don’t really work here… but don’t worry, friendly staff are on standby to help you with shots.

Upside Down World Bali, as the name implies is the attraction with a variety of rooms that were made “upside down.” Tables, chairs and complimentary ornaments are

made attached to the ceiling in the building, the result, we seemed to walk upside down. But the excitement is currently looking for interesting poses unique moment to look behind the photos, this is quite tricky because it’s hard to imagine the results were reversed.

Among the most favourite theme rooms at Upside Down World Bali are the master bedroom, the kitchen and dining room, the laundry, and the 90-degrees ‘Balinese room’ which features ornate wooden carvings and antique furniture.

This room is perfect for couples, who often share a slightly intimate pose, but silly nonetheless, where one sits on the sofa while holding a cup, and the other scales the wall

‘pouring’ from a teapot.

Upside Down World Bali is definitely a place to take some interesting pictures, however, it always helps if you know how to set up poses and take the best angles.

Bring a tripod. And, always try to ask the staff who can guide you through the disorientating rooms, suggest the most common poses that people take if you can’t think of your own, and even take the shot for you. Two of its rooms feature 3D art. Entrance is IDR 100,000 for adults and IDR 50,000 for kids with a maximum height of 1.2m. Upside Down World Bali is halfway on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, the main street heading towards Sanur from Kuta. (IBP/net)

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Former MotoGP champion Hayden dies after cycling accident ROME - Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has died five days after the American was hit by a car while cycling in eastern Italy, his Honda World Superbike team said in a statement on Monday.

“It is with great sadness that Red Bull Honda... has to announce that Nicky Hayden has succumbed to injuries suffered during an incident while riding his bicycle last Wednesday,” the team said.

“Nicky passed away at 19.09 (local time) this evening at Maurizio Bufalini hospital in Cesena. His fiancee Jackie, mother Rose and brother Tommy were at his side.”

The 35-year-old had been in intensive care with severe brain damage since he was struck by a car while training on his bicycle along Italy’s Adriatic Coast.

The force of the impact shattered the car windscreen. MotoGP promoters Dorna joined in tributes from across the world of motorsport for the ‘Kentucky Kid’ who won the 2006 world title for Honda.

“A true Champion on and off track, Hayden will be deeply missed,” they said.

“Hayden will be deeply missed by the paddocks he has graced throughout an incredible career, his millions of fans around the world, and by all those closest to him.”

The last medical bulletin from the

hospital, dated May 20, said Hayden remained in a critical condition. The hospital had previously said he had suffered serious brain damage in the accident.

Hayden last raced in the MotoGP championship in Spain in September 2016 as a stand-in for injured Australian Jack Miller at the privately-run Marc VDS Honda team. He started 216 races between 2003 and 2015, winning three.

“Although this is obviously a sad time, we would like everyone to remember Nicky at his happiest riding a motorcycle,” said his brother Tommy in the team statement.

“He dreamed as a kid of being a pro rider and not only achieved that but also managed to reach the pinnacle of his chosen sport in becoming world champion. We are all so proud of that.”

Italian newspapers reported on Monday that investigators had found video of the accident from a camera on a house overlooking the road.

They said the images suggested Hayden had failed to stop at an intersection and was hit full on by the passing car. (rtr)

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File

In this Friday, June 14, 2013 file photo, Nicky Hayden, of the U.S sits in his garage at the Montmelo racetrack in Montmelo, outside Barcelona.

Muddled Murray searching for form ahead of French Open

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Britain’s Andy Murray reacts during his Men’s singles second round match against Russia’s Andrey Rublev.

WHEN the ATP Race standings were updated this week Andy Murray, the world number one, languished down at 13th.

It is not a statistical anomaly either. Unlike the actual world ranking that is a rolling 12-month points total, the Race standings are a gauge of form since January when everybody starts on zero.

On current form 13th is probably generous. With the French Open starting on Sunday, Murray has accrued 1,210 to the 4,915 of Rafael Nadal and looks a pale imitation of the player who won his last 24 matches of 2016 to knock Novak Djokovic off his pedestal and seize power in men’s tennis.

Not since Pete Sampras in 1999 has a world number one had a worse start to a year with Murray’s win percentage at a fairly modest 70.8 percent -- a figure that actually disguises just how bad the slump has become of late.

There was an encouraging run to the semi-finals in Barcelona where he lost to Dominic Thiem but in

Madrid, where he went down with a whimper against Borna Coric, and in Rome where he was defending champion he was outclassed by Fabio Fognini.

Last year, when Murray won nine titles including a second Wimbledon, a second Olympic title and the ATP Tour Finals in London, he suffered nine losses all season.

This time his win-loss record reads 16-7 and it’s only May. Murray seems muddled and at a loss to explain his struggles.

But with a huge haul of ranking points to defend in the next couple of months, starting at Roland Garros where he lost to Djokovic in last year’s final after his best claycourt season, he needs a solution fast.

“There is no reason for it from my end,” Murray said.

“I’m just not playing good tennis and I need to try and work out how to turn that around. Last couple of weeks have been a struggle and a long way from where I’d like to be.”

It is the nature of the defeats that

is most surprising.

At the start of the European claycourt swing in Monte Carlo Murray lost to Spaniard Albert RamosVinolas having led 4-0 in the final set. In Madrid he was bullied by the 20-year-old Coric and in Rome he was flattered by the 6-2 6-4 scoreline against an inspired Fognini.

Earlier in his career Murray was criticised for being too passive with his game -- a preference for playing counter-attacking tennis based on rock-solid defence and superhuman court coverage rather than taking it on.

With the help of coach Ivan Lendl, he became more forceful, leading to breakthrough titles at the 2012 U.S. Open and Wimbledon in 2013 and Lendl’s second stint as coach spurred Murray to become world number one.

However, he seems to have slipped back into lock-down mode and has paid the price especially against aggressive opponents who enjoy playing on the front foot such as Thiem and Fognini. (rtr)

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S.Korea fires at suspected drone at border with North amid missile crisis

SEOUL - South Korea’s military fired warning shots at a suspected drone from North Korea on Tuesday amid tension over Pyongyang’s latest missile test which drew international condemnation and a warning from China.

The identity of the object remained unclear, the military said, but Yonhap news agency said it was possibly a drone, more than 90 shots were fired in return and it disappeared from radar screens.

The incursion came with tension already high on the Korean peninsula after the North’s test-launch of a ballistic missile test on Sunday which Pyongyang said proved advances in its pursuit of building a nucleartipped weapon that can hit U.S. targets.

The United States has been trying to persuade China, North Korea’s lone major ally, to do more to rein in North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile launches and tested two nuclear bombs since the start of last year, in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and resolutions.

The North has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of striking the United States and has ignored calls to halt its weapons programmes, even from China. It says the programme is necessary to counter U.S. aggression.

“We urge North Korea to not do anything to again violate U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a statement posted on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Tuesday.

“At the same time, we hope all parties can maintain restraint, not be influenced by every single incident,

...persist in carrying out Security Council resolutions on North Korea and persevere with the resolution of the issue through peaceful means, dialogue and consultation.”

Wang was responding to reporters’ questions on Monday while in Ivory Coast, according to the statement.

The North’s official KCNA news agency, citing the spokesman for the foreign ministry, said the country had “substantially displayed” the capabilities for mounting a nuclear attack on Hawaii and Alaska and had built full capabilities for attacking the U.S. mainland.

U.S. and South Korean officials and experts believe the North is several years away from having such a capability.

North Korea said on Monday that Sunday’s launch met all technical requirements that could allow massproduction of the missile, which it calls the Pukguksong-2.

The test was North Korea’s second in a week and South Korea’s new liberal government said it dashed its hopes for peace on the peninsula.

The U.N. Security Council condemned the launch and again expressed its concern over the North’s behaviour. The Security Council is due to meet behind closed doors later on Tuesday.

North Korea’s recent missile tests were a legitimate act of self-defence by a “fully-fledged nuclear power”, North Korean diplomat Ju Yong Chol told the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday. (rtr)

North Korean drone during 2012 military parade in Pyongyang.

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UK blast...

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Those with no news from those inside amid the mayhem took to social media, appealing for help. The hashtag #MissingInManchester became a cry for assistance on Twitter, as family and friends hunted for loved ones.

“I’ve called the hospitals.

I’ve called all the places, the hotels where people said that children have been taken and I’ve called the police,” tearful mother Charlotte Campbell told ITV television’s Good Morning Britain breakfast show, as she waited at home, hoping that her 15-year-old daughter Olivia would walk through the door or call. Olivia attended the show with a school friend who was found and being treated in a hospital. “She’s not turned up,” the mother said. “We can’t get through to her.”

In targeting Manchester, the attacker also struck at one of Britain’s cultural hearts. The once gritty industrial city, with London and Liverpool, has been one of the main cultural influences on modern Britain, with its iconic Manchester United soccer team, its cross-city rival Manchester City and chart-toppers Oasis, The Smiths and other globally famous bands. Oasis singer Liam Gallagher tweeted that he is “in total shock and absolutely devastated.”

Former Manchester United soccer star David Beckham posted on Facebook: “As a father & a human what has happened truly saddens me. My thoughts are with all of those that have been affected by this tragedy.”

Hayley Lunt took her 10-year-old daughter Abigail to the show. It was her first concert.

The blast, “what sounded like gunshots: ‘bang, bang,’” came just as Grande left the stage: “It was almost like they waited for her to go,” the mother said.

“Then we just heard lots of people screaming, and we just ran,” she said. “What should have been a superb evening is now just horrible.” Grande was physically unhurt, but described herself as “broken.” “From the bottom of my heart, I am so, so sorry. I don’t have words,” she said on Twitter. Concert-goer Bethany Keeling said: “There was debris everywhere.”

“Everyone ran back up the stairs and we eventually got out and they told us to run. We ran out of the arena and there were bodies on the floor,” said the 21-year-old from Keighley in northern England. “It was terrifying.”

Shaun Hunter was with his

daughters, Eva, 10, and Ruby, 12, who were wearing kitten ears like the star of the show, when the house lights went on.

He called the rush of concertgoers after the explosion “a stampede.” “I saw one bloke carrying his daughter. She was bleeding,” Hunter told The Times of London. Andy Holey, who went to the arena to pick up his family, said the blast threw him around 30 feet (nine meters) through a set of doors.

“When I got up and looked around there was about 30 people scattered everywhere, some of them looked dead, they might have been unconscious but there was a lot of fatalities,” he said.

Elena Semino and her husband were waiting by the arena ticket office for her daughter when the explosion went off.

“My husband and I were standing against the wall, luckily, and all of a sudden there was this thing,” she told The Guardian. “I can’t even describe it.

There was this heat on my neck and when I looked up there were bodies everywhere.” Despite wounds to her neck and a leg, Semino dashed into the auditorium in search of her daughter while her husband, who had only a minor injury, stayed behind to help an injured woman. She found her daughter Natalie, 17, and her friends safe.

British authorities say an 8-year-old girl, Saffie Roussos, was among the 22 who died in the Manchester bombing. Medical officials say 12 children under the age of 16 were among those injured in the suicide bombing attack at a pop concert in Manchester, England.

David Ratcliffe, medical director of North West Ambulance Service, told reporters Tuesday that the children were among those taken to hospitals after the explosion at Manchester Arena Monday night, where scores of teenagers and youngsters were attending an Ariana Grande concert. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for the suicide attack at an Ariana Grande show. Pop concerts and nightclubs have been a terrorism target before. Most of the 130 dead in the November 2015 attacks in Paris were at the Bataclan concert hall, which gunman struck during a performance by Eagles of Death Metal. In Turkey, 39 people died when a gunman attacked New Year’s revelers at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul.

Manchester, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northwest of London, was hit by a huge Irish Republican Army bomb in 1996 that leveled a swath of the city center. More than 200 people were injured, though no one was killed. (ap)

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Ahok dropped appeal for interests of all: Veronica Tan

JAKARTA - Former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) decided to drop his appeal against the two-year jail sentence for the interests of all, his wife, Veronica Tan, stated at a press conference here on Tuesday. “It is for the sake of all; the interests of all. It means we will not prolong the case. We will just carry out what has been decided,” she noted.

On the occasion, Tan also read out a letter from her husband to his supporters in which Ahok thanked them and all the volunteers. “I

wish to thank all who consistently supported me by offering prayers, bouquets, food, greeting cards, letters, and books that have been sent

to me so far as well as by holding candle-light vigils,” Tan said while reading out Ahoks letters.

Ahok said it was not right to hold demonstrations to protest against the current process that he has been through.

“I am afraid many parties may infiltrate if you (volunteers) hold rallies. Moreover, clashes could occur against those who do not

like us,” he noted. Ahok expressed gratitude to all his supporters who had organized rallies and candlelight vigils in accordance with the law in their efforts to fight for the preservation of the Unitary State of Indonesia, the 1945 Constitution, and the Principle of Unity in Diversity.

Ahok was sentenced to two years in jail after being declared

guilty of violating Article 156a on religious blasphemy. He is now held at the Police Mobile Brigade detention center, pending confirmation of his sentence from the higher court where he had earlier submitted an appeal. Ahok had lost the Jakarta gubernatorial election to former education minister Anies Baswedan in the most heated regional election ever. (ant)

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The wife of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok, Veronica Tan (right), accompanied by lawyer I Wayan Sudirta (center), and Harry Basuki, cried when giving information to reporters about the appeal of the judge’s verdict in Jakarta on Tuesday (23/5 / 2017).

Lawyers and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama agreed not to appeal the North Jakarta District Court judge’s verdict on a two-year sentence in a legal case for alleged defamation at the request of the family.

Two men publicly caned in Indonesia for having gay sex

BANDA ACEH - Religious police in Indonesia caned two men for gay sex on Tuesday, with hooded men inflicting 82 lashes on each of them as hundreds of people watched the punishment ordered by an Islamic court. Cheers and applause went up from a crowd gathered outside a mosque in the city of Banda Aceh, capital of the conservative province of Aceh, as the masked men took turns to flog the pair on a raised platform.

The men stood quietly, their heads down, as spectators heckled them and shouted insults. The punishment, condemned by rights groups, marked the first application of anti-homosexuality laws introduced in the province in 2014. Aceh has long had a reputation as Indonesia’s most conservative region. It is the only province that criminalises same-sex relations and that uses Islamic law as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.

Up to 1,000 people, many filming with smartphones, watched as the two men received 82 lashes each. Many others watched the punishment being meted out on a livestream video. Some in the crowd carried banners rejecting the presence of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Aceh.

“I hope there won’t be any more such cases of homosexuality, it is shocking,” said Eni Tri Ret-

naningsih, a 20-year-old student who said she had watched others caned before for other offences such as adultery. At least eight other men and women were caned for other offences ahead of the punishment of the two found guilty of having gay sex. Police separated men and women in the crowd as proceedings began, with 10 men in brown robes and hoods preparing a bundle of canes in case any broke during the flogging.

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The beatings were delivered on the clothed backs of the men and women, some of whom cried out in pain with each stroke. In some cases, the caning was suspended briefly if the offender signalled they were in too much pain. At the end of the lashing, the two men were helped off the platform. They were free to return to their families, authorities said.

Aceh is Indonesia’s most westerly province, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where Islam first took hold in the archipelago. The province caned 339 people in 2016 for a range of crimes, according to Human Rights Watch.

Indonesia has the world’s largest population of Muslims but is officially a secular country. Most Muslims practice a moderate form of the religion. (rtr)

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Janger Menyali, Awakening Art Nostalgia of Dutch Occupation Period

BRUSSELS — Europe’s economic recovery is showing surprising strength, as key surveys of business activity and optimism hit their highest levels in years. The data released Tuesday hold out hope that the region is set to see a sustained and marked decline in its unemployment rate from the current 9.5 percent. And the good economic news could well add pressure on the European Central Bank to signal a withdrawal of its extraordinary stimulus measures.

One of the indicators the ECB looks at when assessing its policy stance is the monthly survey of business activity from financial information company IHS Markit.

Once again, it was strong, with the purchasing managers’ index — a broad gauge of economic activity — for the 19 countries that use the euro currency unchanged at a sixyear high of 56.8 in May. The results are consistent with quarterly economic growth of 0.6-0.7 percent, higher than the first quarter’s 0.5 percent growth.

Chris Williamson, IHS Markit’s chief economist, says the consensus forecast for second-quarter growth of 0.4 percent may prove “overly pessimistic.” He also noted that job creation has surged to the secondhighest in nearly a decade as firms expand capacity and meet rising demand.

The strong purchasing managers’ survey comes on top of the 26-year high reached by Germany’s Ifo monthly confidence index. It rose to 114.6 points for May from 113.0 in April. Economists had forecast that it would increase, but only to 114.1.

Ifo said that was the highest

figure since 1991 and, along with other data, points to growth of 0.6 percent in the second quarter, matching the quarter-on-quarter growth figure of 0.6 percent for the January-March period.

“Today’s strong German data add to the evidence that, not only the German economy, but the entire eurozone economy could become the positive growth surprise of 2017,” ING-Diba economist Carsten Brzeski said. “This sentiment is also spreading across financial markets, with many market participants now realizing that the eurozone economy had been written off too early.” The eurozone grew 0.5 percent in the first quarter compared to the quarter before, and 1.7 percent compared to the yearago quarter.

Germany has been the main engine behind the region’s recovery from recession which began four years ago. It’s been buoyed by strong exports of its cars and machinery. Stronger consumer confidence due to low unemployment of 3.9 percent has also supported the recovery. However, for the region to really push on growth has to come from all corners and a run of

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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.

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European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici arrives for a euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium May 22, 2017. surveys are pointing to a pick-up, particularly in France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy.

The strong data mean the eurozone is closer to no longer needing extraordinary stimulus provided by the European Central Bank through

its 60 billion euros ($67 billion) in monthly bond purchases. The purchases pump newly printed money into the economy in an attempt to raise inflation that is considered too weak, and to protect the recovery from any new troubles. The bank

has said it will continue the purchases at least through year end.

Analysts expect more hints about the bank’s future plans at its June 8 meeting and a clear roadmap for tapering the stimulus could emerge in September.(ap)

German business confidence hits 26-year high in May BERLIN — A survey shows that business confidence in Germany has risen to its highest level in 26 years. The strong showing was slightly above economists’ expectations.

The Ifo institute said Tuesday that its monthly confidence index, a closely watched indicator FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen on a construction site for family homes in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, May 10, 2017. Picture taken May 10, 2017.

for Europe’s biggest the economy, rose to 114.6 points for May from 113.0 in April. Economists had forecast that it would increase to 114.1.

Ifo said that that was the highest figure since 1991 and, along with other data, points to growth of 0.6 percent in the second quarter. That would match the quarter-on-quarter growth figure of 0.6 percent for the January-March period.

Ifo surveys some 7,000 companies for its index. In May, executives’ view of both their current situation and the outlook for the next six months brightened.(ap)

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. (kmb)

Kerobokan Beach Offers Overlay of Pristine Beach A beach with an expanse of pristine nature can become an advantage for a trip. This condition,

for example, is owned by Kerobokan village in Sawan, Buleleng. It is worth visiting by domestic and

foreign travelers. To welcome the visit, it is expected to be supported by arrangement, particularly in the matter of beach sanitation. So, economically it is expected to increase the income of local villagers in the future.

Such a hope is not excessive because the beach is also becoming an option as alternative tourist destination, especially in relieving tiredness after a long day activities.

Inevitably, those making a visit are not only local visitors. However, foreign guests have also visited the Kerobokan Beach.

According to headman of Kerobokan, Putu Wisnu Wardana, it is important to arrange the coastal area. He said that visitors will easily find the beach by seeing the

directions or signpost. In addition, an open stage has been being built expected to provide a space for cultural events. “As the nearest agenda, we started working on open stage. It is expected to be useful for entertainment space should there be an event,” he said, some time ago.

He explained that in the amended budget 2016 based on submission to the district government in 2016, he expected to get an assistance of IDR 200 million for the construction of a ring road. It is meant to resolve traffic congestion during high season of tourist visit.

“We proposed for financial assistance to the district government and have made coordination with customary and administrative village. The budget will be allocated

for the arrangement to make a leading tourist attraction. Reportedly the budget has received verification and simply wait for the approval for the amended budget in the district,” he explained.

He did not know exactly when the budget will be disbursed. But there is information if the budget for the arrangement of Kerobokan Beach is estimated to be disbursed in October 2016. While waiting for the budget, the public continues to make arrangement to improve sanitation, including shading the existing garden. “We plan to create eight to ten food stalls and arrange the irrigation. Currently the revenue from parking ticket is managed by customary village,” he said. (kmb)

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Those who are serious about cultivating mushrooms will sometimes search for good seeds outside of Bali to make sure that they are getting the quality they need.

Mushroom cultivation market

SEMARAPURA — There is a large demand for mushrooms in the district of Klungkung and yet very few people there grow mushrooms. Most of the mushrooms consumed in Klungkung come from growers in Bangli. Made Juli Astuti is a mushroom seed seller from Pikat village, Pangi, Dawan, and she explained that the reason that resident of Klungkung are reluctant to cultivate fungi is because they think the process is complicated. Also, if people do not start off with good seeds, their crops may not be optimal which could cause them to suffer losses.

“The harvest yield depends on the seeds. Those who are serious about cultivating mushrooms will sometimes search for good seeds outside of Bali to make sure that they are getting the quality they need” she said.

Astuti who was working for

the Klungkung government saw a potential market and so she started to cooperate with a retired army official who has been selling mushrooms seeds in Singaraja since 2009. This cooperation proved to be a success and Astuti now sells 3,000 log bags of white oyster

mushrroms every 15 days. “ I sell each log bag for IDR 3,000. Since my mushrooms are are very good quality, I receive orders not only from around Klungkung, but also from Karangasem, Denpasar and other districts”, she explained.

In order to explaind her busi-

ness, Astuti plans to open a nursery warehouse with a capacity of 10,000 log bags and also hopes to a “mushroom house” to provide consultation to farmers wanting to cultivate mushrooms. “ The profits from mushroom cultivation are pretty good, each IDR 3,000 bag can produce 100 grams of mushrooms every 15 days and be harvested up to six times. I usually sell 200 grams for IDR 5,000 to my office mates, but more to farmers” she said.

Astusti added that cultivating

oyster mushrooms is not as complicated as people sometimes imagine.

The newly purchased log bags must be place din a room with a temperature of 28-30 degrees Celsius and watered every two days in the afternoon when the roots have filled the bag ¾ full. “After 40 days, the mushrooms can be harvested. The hard part is making the mushroom seeds because they need to be fed a special formula. If the formula is not correct, the mushrooms grown from these seeds will not be suitable”, she concluded. (dwa)

Lelambatan gamelan music maestro in critical condition at Ari Santi ICU GIANYAR — Wayan Djebeg is one of the natural artists from Batur hamlet, Batubulan, Sukawati and has a wealth of experience as a maestro of lelambatan gamelan composing.

He has toured all over Indonesia and received dozens of awards for his talent as a traditional music artist. Now 85 years old, Grandpa Djebeg as he is familiarly known has become ill and on Monday May 22 started undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Ari Santi Hospital in Mas village, Ubud.

Grandpa Djebeg’s grandson, Wayan Eka Jaya Suputra, explained that the maestro’s is lying unconscious due to illness. “My grandfather is now being treated in the ICU, no one is allowed to visit except for the family”said Saputra

on Monday afternoon from the Wantilan Hall of Batubulan village, Sukawati.

Grandson Saputra explained that Djebeg’s illness came on quite suddenly and that he was rushed to the emergency room of Ganesha hospital on Sunday May 14 at around 02:00. “ He received treatment there but since he was only diagnosed with an ulcer he was discharged a two hours later” said Saputra.

A few hours after arriving home, at around 06:00 Grandpa Djebeg (husband of the late Ni Wayan Lembon) started convulsing, so his family immediately brought him to Ari Shanti hospital in Mas, Ubud.

“The doctors told us that there seem to be a lesion on Grandpa’S head

and that he was suffering form obstruction of the uretha and that his nerves were not functioning properly”, explained his grandson.

The doctors added that this was likely caused by fatigue brought on by the fact that despite the maestro’s advanced years, he continued to think about art activities. “Before this, our grandfather was never sick so he remained busy teaching gamelan music and attending a number of barong performances”, said Saputra.

Wayan Djebeg started school at the age of 7 years but due to economic difficulties could not pursue his education past “sekolah rakyat” as it was called at the time – now known as elementary school. However, armed with great vivacity, diligence and hard work,

Djebeg became a gandrung (male dancer) in 1942. “Grandfather is a self-taught artist, creating works of art without the special guidance of an instructor and was the only person in his neighbourhood to start creating art” he explained.

Djebeg’s artistic activities brought him to Europe and in 1999 Wayan Djebeg performed lelambatan gamelan compositions in India.

Saputra added that his grandfather has become a well known lelambatan gamelan music maestro. “My grandfather told me that lelambatan gamelan music has in fact existed for a long time, but that his compositions added variety to this genre that made it popular in many artistic circles” explained Saputra.

After wandering for a long time

in the field of traditional gamelan music, Wayan Djebeg finally married Ni Wayan Lambon and together they had seven children. After giving borth to Ni Wayan Darni their next two children died. Ni Wayan later gave birth to child Ni Ketut Nadi, I Wayan Sudiarti, Ni Made Kormi and Ni Nyoman Sukanti.

When asked about government assistance for the lelambatan gamelan maestro known as Grandpa Djebeg, Saputra said that there has been none and that even now as this great maestro lies in the ICU of Ari Shanti hospital, no official from the district of Gianyar has visited the 85 year old artist. “We have not received any assistance of any kind, not even from the government” he concluded. (kmb35)

Asylum-seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea March 21, 2014. Faces pixellated at source. Picture taken March 21, 2014.

U.S. starts “extreme vetting” at Australia’s offshore detention centres

SYDNEY - U.S. Homeland Security officials have begun “extreme vetting” interviews at Australia’s offshore detention centres, two sources at the camps told Reuters on Tuesday, as Washington honours a refugee swap that U.S. President Donald Trump had called “a dumb deal”.

The Trump administration said last month the agreement to offer refuge to up to 1,250 asylum seekers in the centres would progress on condition that refugees satisfied strict checks.

In exchange, Australia has pledged to take Central American refugees from a centre in Costa Rica, where the United States has expanded intake in recent years, under the deal struck with former President Barack Obama.

The first security interviews finished last week at Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island detention centre, two refugees who went through the process told Reuters.

The refugees told Reuters that interviews began with an oath to God to tell the truth and then proceeded for as long as six hours, with in-depth questions on associates, family, friends and any interactions with the Islamic State militant group.

“They asked about why I fled my home, why I sought asylum in Australia,” said one refugee who declined to be named, fearing it could jeopardise his application for U.S. resettlement.

The security interviews are the last stage of U.S. consideration of applicants. Manus Island is one of two Australian-operated detention centres, which hold nearly 1,300 people who were intercepted trying to reach Australia by boat.

Human rights groups have condemned the intercept policy and the harsh conditions of the camps.

Australia says offshore processing is needed as a deterrent after thousands of people drowned at sea before the policy was introduced in 2013.

A decision on the fate of the first 70 people interviewed is expected to be reached within the next month, a different source who works with refugees said.

A spokesman for Australia’s immigration minister refused to comment on the resettlement process.

The U.S. State Department and White House did not immediately respond to questions.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for extreme vetting have extended to those travelling to the United States from Muslim countries.

Australia’s relationship with the new administration in Washington got off to a rocky start when Trump lambasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the resettlement arrangement, which Trump labelled a “dumb deal”.

Details of an acrimonious phone call between the pair soon after Trump took office made headlines around the world. Australia is one of Washington’s staunchest allies and has sent troops to fight alongside the U.S. military in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The relocation of asylum seekers to the United States is designed to help Papua New Guinea and Australia proceed with the planned closure of the Manus detention centre on Oct. 31. (rtr)

TOKYO - Raytheon Co and Lockheed Martin Corp are working with Japanese partners on rival projects to develop new radars that will enhance Japan’s shield against any North Korean missile strike, government and defence industry sources in Tokyo told Reuters.

As nuclear-armed Pyongyang builds ever more advanced missiles with the ability to strike anywhere in Japan, Tokyo is likely to fund a ground version of the ship-based Aegis defence system deployed on warships in the Sea of Japan, other sources had said earlier.

Raytheon is allied with Mitsubishi Electric Corp on the project while Lockheed is working with Fujitsu Ltd. The intent is to extend the range of Japan’s detection and targeting radars multiple times beyond range of models currently deployed at sea, the five government and industry sources said.

“Japan’s government is very interested in acquiring this capability,” said one of the sources with knowledge of the radar plans. The sources asked not to be identified because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

“Japan wants to have Aegis Ashore operational by 2023 at the latest,” said another of the sources.

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Mitsubishi Electric declined comment, while Fujitsu did not respond to requests for comment.

A spokesman for Japan’s Ministry of Defence said Tokyo did not currently have any concrete plans to collaborate with the United States on Aegis radars. “It is not our place to discuss the activities of corporations,” the spokesman added.

The proposed Aegis Ashore radars would be variants of models already developed by Raytheon and Lockheed, the sources said.

They would include components using gallium nitride, an advanced material fabricated separately by Mitsubishi Electric and Fujitsu that can amplify power far more efficiently than conventional siliconbased semiconductors.

Nuclear-capable North Korea has a fast accelerating missile development programme and Japanese officials have been worried that its ballistic missile defences (BMD) could be overwhelmed by swarm attacks or be circumvented by warheads launched on lofted trajectories.

In the latest snub to demands it end its weapons programme, North Korea on Sunday fired what it described as a intermediaterange ballistic missile that flew about 500 km (311 miles), falling into waters off its east coast.

It had tested another missile the previous Sunday. North Korea said that launch tested the capability to carry a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead” and put the U.S. mainland within “sighting range.”

Japan would likely need three Aegis Ashore batteries to cover the whole country, each of which would cost around $700 million without missiles, one of the sources said. (rtr)

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Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex in Romania

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The World’s First Robot Police Officer Just Debuted in Dubai

DUBAI - From fast food cooks to concierges at restaurants and hotels, robots are slowly infiltrating the workforce in nearly every industry. Most recently, the world welcomed its first operational robot policeman.

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An operational robot policeman is seen at the opening of the 4th Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 22, 2017.

“Robocop,” the newest member of the Dubai police force, debuted on May 22 at the Fourth Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference, where it greeted guests.

At approximately 70 inches tall and weighing nearly 220 pounds, Robocop seeks to engage with city residents and tourists. Featuring an “emotion detector,” the robot can recognize a person’s gestures and body language from nearly five feet away. Robocop’s skills don’t stop there -- the emotionally intelligent bot can detect if a person is happy, sad and even angry by studying his or her facial expression. And just like your human friends would do, if Robocop sees you’re unhappy, it will try to lift your spirits.

More importantly, when it comes to fighting crime, the robot uses the internet of things, artificial intelligence and other smart technologies to spot offenders using facial recognition. Its navigation skills grant it the ability to map out areas and travel on its own.

Equipped with a built-in tablet, Robocop can communicate with people, speak six languages, respond to public queries, shake hands and even military salute.

“With an aim to assist and help people in the malls or on the streets,” said BrigadierGeneral Khalid Nasser Al Razzouqi, director-general of smart services at Dubai Police, “the Robocop is the latest smart addition to the force and has been designed to help us fight crime, keep the city safe and improve happiness levels.”

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Chinese Go player Ke Jie, left, looks at the board as a person makes a move on behalf of Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during a game of Go at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

Computer beats Chinese champion in ancient board game of go

WUZHEN — A computer defeated China’s top player of the ancient board game go on Tuesday, earning praise that it might have finally surpassed human abilities in one of the last games machines have yet to dominate.

Google’s AlphaGo won the first of three planned games this week against Ke Jie, a 19-year-old prodigy, in this town west of Shanghai.

The computer will also face other top-ranked Chinese players during the five-day event.

AlphaGo beat Ke by a halfpoint, “the closest margin possible,” according to Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, the Google-owned company in London that developed AlphaGo. AlphaGo has improved markedly since it defeated South Korea’s top competitor last year and is a “completely different player,” Ke told reporters.

“For the first time, AlphaGo was quite human-like,” Ke said. “In the past it had some weaknesses. But now I feel its understanding of go and the judgment of the game is beyond our ability.”

Go players take turns putting white or black stones on a rectangular grid with 361 intersections, trying to capture territory and each other’s pieces by surrounding them.

Competitors play until both agree there are no more places to put stones or one quits.

The game, which originated in China more than 25 centuries ago, has avoided mastery by computers even as they surpassed humans in most other games. They conquered chess in 1997 when IBM Corp.’s Deep Blue system defeated cham-

pion Garry Kasparov.

Go, known as weiqi in China and baduk in Korea, is considered more challenging because the near-infinite number of possible positions requires intuition and flexibility.

Players had expected it to be at least another decade before computers could beat the best humans due to go’s complexity and reliance on intuition, but AlphaGo surprised them in 2015 by beating a European champion. Last year, it defeated South Korea’s Lee Sedol.

AlphaGo was designed to mimic such intuition in tackling complex tasks. Google officials say they want to apply those technologies to areas such as smartphone assistants and solving real-world problems.

AlphaGo defeated Lee in four out of five games during a weeklong match in March 2016. Lee lost the first three games, then won the fourth, after which he said he took advantages of weaknesses including AlphaGo’s poor response to surprises.

Following Lee’s surprise victory, “we went back to try and improve the architecture and the system,” said Hassabis.

“We believe we have fixed that knowledge gap but of course there could be many other new areas that it doesn’t know and that we don’t know either.”

Go is hugely popular in Asia, with tens of millions of players in China, Japan and the Koreas.

Google said a broadcast of Lee’s 2016 match with AlphaGo was watched by an estimated 280 million people. (ap)

THIS small but very strong exhibition of paintings is a testament to the power of Balinese tradition to maintain its distinctive and essential qualities while stretching to meet contemporary aesthetics and issues.

The Batuan style of painting underwent its first dramatic shift in the 1930’s with foreign artists, new materials and an emerging art market making their prescience felt. The works of 22year old I Wayan Aris Sarmantra’s mark the second great shift in the Batuan style. Though clearly rooted in the aesthetic and thematic traditions of the Batuan School of art, these paintings also speak clearly of both local and global issues in a distinct personal style that breaks free from the more general characteristic of the Batuan style reaching towards a broader mode of expression.

The very fact that Sarmantra has carved out such a unique style tells us something about the influence that the outside world has had on Bali in general and on this artist in particular. And while while Sarmantra is certainly not the first

Balinese artist to have developed such a distinctive style, his works are a particularly good example of how the most outstanding features of a traditional art practice can be elaborated on through the great talent of an individual to bring to life fine art that can be appreciated by a larger audience.

The Batuan School of painting has been characterized by the somber tone of both colours and content, most often depicting scenes drawn from Balinese religious lore, filling the pictorial space with intricate drawings of the darker forces of life. While the paintings shown in Rebirth also draw on themes taken from Balinese religious lore, they are more that simple representation these scenes. Instead this iconography is taken as a point of reference to speak of broader issues.

The somber colours for which the Batuan style is known have been replaced with a stunningly colourful palette in Sarmantas works. This is not to say that the content of theses paintings lacks the somber quality for which this style is known, but more playful at times paradoxical modes of expression are used. Sarmantra’s depictions of the darker forces are presented more as light entertainment, perhaps speaking to the insidious way that these forces make their way into our lives or perhaps simply a

reflection of the general tendency of Balinese people to approach even the darkest aspects of life with a light heart.

Bali Not For Sale for example shows the angry face of a traditional baris (warrior) dancer whose headdress is filled with the beauty of Balinese culture with a dark scene of a big city in the background and a greedy business man and a humble protestor in the foreground. While the pairing clearly has a socio-political message to convey, its rendition is beautiful

and well balanced and does not staying too far from the wealth and skill of the tradition from which this artist draws.

Rebirth will be showing until August 5th, 2017 at Titian Art Space that was founded on January 29th, 2016 exactly 80 years after the Mita Maha Arts Society was founded. Titian Art Space is part of a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Balinese artists and bringing their talent to the world stage. Jalan Bisma no.88, Ubud.

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BALI NOT FOR SALE/TANGIS AMARAH PULAU KECIL, I Wayan Aris Sarmanta, 83x89cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2016.

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MANGUPURA - Government of Badung district must immediately realize the program of rural and urban property tax (PBB P2). It is following the land conversion continuously eroding the green open land. Moreover, the land conversion occurred in Badung in 2016 already reached 36 hectares.

Head of the Badung Agriculture and Food Agency, IGAK Sudaratmaja, when confirmed on Monday (May 22) admitted that land conversion remains to occur.

“We do not deny it (land conversion—Ed). This happens because residents sell their paddy fields and then are turned into residential areas,” he said.

According to him, the largest land conversion takes place in the area of North Kuta. In addition to switching to settlements and industrial estates, the development of tourist accommodation also contributes to the extensive land conversion occurred in the region.

“Construction of tourist accommodation such as villa also contributes to the addition of land conversion, other than turning into a settlement,” he said.

In order to compensate the shrinking land, Sudaratmaja said that his agency has succeeded in creating 25 hectares of paddy fields in 2015 and 5 hectares in 2016 located at Subak Pangsut Sari, Belok Sidan village, Petang, despite the target of creating new paddy fields amounts to 100 hectares.

“In 2015 the diversion and or addition of land area

has also been successfully done in several areas with a total of 37 hectares with details that 20 hectares sits in Mengwi, 10 hectares in North Kuta and 7 hectares in Abiansemal. This addition occurred because there was error in the data collection,” he explained.

The Badung agriculture and food agency recorded that land conversion in 2013 amounted to 51 hectares, then in 2014 soared to 160 hectares, and in 2015 decreased to 40 hectares, then for 2016 decreased again to 36 hectares. In 2013, the land conversion reached 51 hectares with details that 38 hectares is transformed into settlement in North Kuta, 11 hectares transformed into housing, and 2 hectares also transformed into housing.

In 2014, land conversion reached 160 hectares transformed into housing estate, with details that 123 hectares located in North Kuta, 33 hectares in Mengwi, 3 hectares in Kuta and 1 hectare in Abiansemal.

In 2015, land conversion took place over 40 hectares into residential area, with details that 17 hectares are located in Kuta Utara, 12 hectares in Mengwi, 7 hectares in Kuta and 4 hectares in Abiansemal.

In 2016, the land conversion reached 36 hectares transformed into residential area, with details that 17 hectares are located in North Kuta, 14 hectares in Mengwi, and 5 hectares in Abiansemal. Thus, in the past three years or in the period of 2013-2016 the remaining land in the Badung area covers an area of 9,975 hectares. (kmb27)

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MANGUPURA - South Bali coastal area is indeed a suitable location for turtle to lay eggs, especially for olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea). The turtle laying area extends from Kuta to Nusa Dua, though most of the turtle egg laying happens along the coast of Nusa Dua. .

In fact many of the turtle lay their eggs on the beach in front of Nusa Dua hotels. According to date from the Nusa Dua Reef Foundation, there were 33 turtle nests in Nusa Dua last year. As of May 2017, a total of seven nests have been recorded. These seven nests are scattered in several locations: 5 nests on Mengiat Beach, 1 in front of the Club Med hotel and 1 in front of Conrad Hotel.

“So far this year, we have found seven turtle egg nests, however we estimate that this number will increase considering than in 2016 we recorded a total of 33 turtle egg nests” explained Pariama Hutasoit, from the Nusa Dua Reef Foundation when contacted on Monday (May 22).

The Nusa Dua Reef Foundation plans to continuously provide guidance to hotel managers around Nusa about how to deal with turtle egg nests. Hotel managers are asked to put up a sign near any turtle nests that they encounter and to cordon off the nest area as a means of protecting the eggs from damage. “We appeal to hotel management to take care of the turtle nests by putting up signs that explain what kind of turtle egg is there, the date that the eggs were laid and the estimated time of hatching.

The incubation period for sea turtles is somewhere between 45-55 days” explained Pariama.

In order to work sustainably with the turtles, hotels are also expected not to collect and raise the turtle hatchlings themselves as this disrupts the eco-system. Once hatched, turtles must be release no more than

three days later. The Nusa Dua Reef foundation provides information about how to release hatchlings. “ The releasing of turtle hatchlings into their natural habitat can involve the participation of tourists from the hotels and can thus serve as a tourist attraction” he said.

In the area of Mengiat Beach, the Yasa Segara Mengiat supervisory community patrols the beach every night during spawning season. When turtles are found getting ready to lay eggs, they are secured and relocated to an area of Mengiat Beach that is managed by the village cooperative (KUD) and the supervisory community group. Although they relocate the nesting location of the turtles for the security of the eggs, they do not plan to create an artificial nesting site “ IT is not recommended as it is preferable to remain as natural as possible” said Pariama.

The Nusa Dua Reef Foundation’s concern for the environment and care for the coral reef also extends to working with tourism stakeholders especially when it comes to turtel conservation. The foundation is actively involved in providing information to hotels and in searching our turtle nests.

The government is also involved in this endeavour, through the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries” Center for Coastal and Marine Resources (PBSPL) Denpasar who also provide coaching.

When contacted separately, Chief of Yasa Segara Mengiat supervisory community group, Ketut Koder, said that the community group consisting of 29 members who work around the clock. The members are divided in 4 groups of 7 people who generally deal with the tourism sector in the morning and supervise the area at night.

Because the month of May is turtle nesting season, constant supervision is required. (kmb23)

Badung to takes makotekan tradition to BAF 2017

MANGUPURA - Mekotek is one of Munggu Village’s, traditional catastrophe-repelling art forms that will be presented in this year’s Bali Arts Festival (BAF).

Mekotek is an ancestral heritage art that is carried out every six months on Saturday Kliwon Kuningan.

Head of the Badung Culture Office, Ida Bagus Anom Bhasma, explained that the art of mekotekan or ngerebek has been recognized as

an intangible cultural heritage and will soon be registered as such with UNESCO. “In the mean time, we will show this traditional art at the BAF so that more people will know that this art form exists in Badung” said Anom Bhasma on Monday (May 22).

The Badung Culture Office will involve hundreds of artists in the annual cultural extravaganza organized by the government of

Bali at the Denpasar Art Center.

“There are about 500 artists from Badung involved in the BAF including dancers and traditional music performers. This cultural event will go on for a whole month so we can show off a number of different arts”, he added. The district of Badung representatives will be appearing from June 10- July and are still preparing for the festival.

“In addition to presenting the me-

kotekan tradition, we will also be presenting a creative dance called the Surf Dance during the opening parade of the BAF”, he said. The Surf Dance form Legian he said is a special water related dance.

During the BAF 2016, the district of Badung involved at least 3,000 artists with a budget of IDR 3 billion. Besides, his agency presented a reconstruction of Cupak Gerantang Arja operetta from Blumbang ham-

let, Penarungan, Mengwi. He said that the Arja operetta was popular back in the day but has since faded from the stage, so his agency is seeking to restore this art form.

Anom Bhasma added that he hopes that all the artists will give their best. “ We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the participation of all the artists who will perform in the BAF”, he concluded. (kmb27)

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LOS ANGELES - Pop star Ariana Grande said on Monday she was “broken” five hours after a bombing killed 19 people and wounded dozens of others at her concert in Manchester, England.

and then in Belgium, Poland and Germany in the coming weeks. It was not immediately clear whether those concerts would go forward following Monday’s attack.

Grande, who starred in the Broadway musical “13” and on the Nickelodeon TV series Victorious before releasing her solo debut album, is credited with having an exceptionally broad vocal range for a pop star.

She is best known for her singles “Problem,” and “Break Free” from her sophomore album, My Everything. (rtr)

In this Sept. 24, 2016 file photo, Ariana Grande performs at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

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“I love to be asked to be in those things because that’s just where I am,” Kidman said. “I have always had that slightly rebel spirit where I have gone: ‘I don’t want to conform, I want to find a way not to.’

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d’Or. Kidman -- whose other Cannes offerings are science fiction teenage film “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, an episode of Jane Campion’s TV series “Top of the Lake” and “The Beguiled” by Sofia Coppola -said she sought unusual projects.

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CANNES - For an A-list star who, as she says herself, does not have to work, Nicole Kidman has been pretty busy ahead of Cannes, appearing in three movies and a TV series screening at the film festival.

“I don’t have to work. I work because it’s still my passion, it’s the way in which I express myself,” she told a news conference after the screening of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, one of two Kidman movies competing for the Palme

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Making her first comment since an explosion detonated just outside Manchester Arena at the end of her performance there, Grande said on Twitter: “broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don’t have words.”

Representatives for Grande have said that the 23-year-old pop star was physically “okay” following the blast, which British authorities say was being treated as a terrorist attack.

Two U.S. officials have told Reuters on condition of anonymity that initial signs pointed to a suicide bomber as being responsible for the bombing.

Grande was performing in Manchester during the European leg of a concert tour to support her latest album, “Dangerous Woman.”

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MANCHESTER — For the young crowd of music fans, the Ariana Grande concert was supposed to be a night of high-energy candy pop and fun on a school night. The scene quickly turned into sheer terror when a bomb went off at the end, sending terrified parents into a desperate search for their loved ones. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives as the American singer wrapped up her show Monday night in Manchester for thousands of her so-called Arianators, the name adopted by her fans — many of them teenagers and ‘tweens.

Police said children were among the 22 people killed. About 60 others were wounded. Witness spoke of metal nuts and bolts strewn across the blast site, suggesting the attacker may have packed his explosive device with shrapnel — a gruesome tactic to maximize casualties that was also used by suicide bombers in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people in 2015 and repeatedly in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Fans, many clutching pink plastic balloons, scrambled in panic for

exits of the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Some half-climbed, half-tumbled over barriers in terror.

Parents, who were waiting outside

to pick up their children at the end of the show, waded into the fleeing crowds desperately hunting for loved ones.

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