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Farmland narrows, farmers find out side job

MANGUPURA - Agricultural sector in the Badung district is increasingly eroded by rapid development.

Moreover, farmers currently cannot depend only on food sector, but have to find out a second job to support their family.

This condition is justified by the Head of the Badung Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency, I Gusti A. Ketut Sudaratmaja.

According to him, the current agricultural sector in Badung is developing based on production and the economy.

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Actors Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh and Tom Cruise arrive for the German premiere of the film “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” in Berlin, Germany, October 21, 2016.

Tom Cruise’s ‘Jack Reacher’ expected to dominate U.S. box office

LOS ANGELES - Tom Cruise’s action-packed thriller “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” is expected to top the North American box office on Sunday, edging out new Halloween-themed films.

Paramount Pictures’ “Jack Reacher” is expected to open with $19 million, according to film tracker BoxOfficeMojo.com, while Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry Halloween spoof “Boo! A Madea Halloween”

is expected to scare up $17.3 million.

Universal Pictures’ horror sequel “Ouija: Origin of Evil” is estimated to debut with $16 million this weekend.

Ben Affleck’s action-packed Warner Bros’ film “The Accountant,” which topped the box office last week, is expected to take in another $13.5 million this week, while Universal Pictures’ DreamWorks film “The Girl on the Train” is estimated to take in $6.9 million in its third week in theaters. (rtr)

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Peshmerga forces fires a mortar towards Islamic state militants’ positions in the town of Naweran near Mosul, October 23, 2016.

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Toxic smoke hampers offensive to retake IS stronghold of Mosul ERBIL - Concerns grow for the welfare of more than a million civilians trapped in the Iraqi city, amid deteriorating living standards. Troops have retaken a Christian region, including the town of Bartella, as they edged toward Iraq’s second biggest city.

Around 50 villages have been liberated since Monday, according to the Iraqi army. Kurdish Peshmerga forces are understood to be planning to stop along a line at an average of 12 miles outside Mosul and a US military official said on Saturday that the troops were “pretty much there”.

Elite federal forces are then expected to lead the breach on the city. However, progress has been hampered by a toxic cloud from by a fire started by IS fighters at a sulphur plant south of Mosul.

It has killed at least two civilians and forced some American

personnel taking part in the USbacked operation to wear protective masks.

A local health centre said it had treated 500 people complaining of breathing problems.

A senior interior ministry officer in Qayyarah, a main staging base south of Mosul, said: “Of course, this is affecting our planned progress.” Meanwhile, Kurdish forces are also engaged in a huge push around the Islamic State-held town of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul.

They gained significant ground in the early days of the offensive, which launched on 17 October.

US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter praised them for “the way their efforts are completely coordinated with the Iraqi security forces”. He said the fight for Mosul was “on track and on schedule”.

More than 30,000 troops are involved in the mission to retake the city. A key concern is for the safety of up to 1.2 million civilians in Mosul, who are trapped by the fighting.

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“Farmers in Badung are now based on production and economy.

In other words, 50 percent of the income of farmers in Badung depends on agriculture and the remaining 50 percent on non-agriculture. Farmers can be said to have taken side job because the acreage of farmland is limited,” said Sudaratmaja, Thursday (Oct. 20).

According to him, the agricultural land area of 10,000 hectares is not enough to support the life.

“Just imagine that with a total of 33,000 families, each family will just averagely cultivate 0.3 hectare of land. If they cultivate the land, surely it will not suffice. Thus, they should seize other job opportunities in other sectors,” he explained.

On that account, the government

will continuously encourage the agricultural sector in order to grow, one of which is by providing a tractor. Such assistance in the form of tractor unit is meant to support the food self-sufficiency program, particularly in the national level.

“The hand tractor assistance is given by central government whose fund is taken from the state budget.

It is intended to accelerate the process of transplanting because amid the irrigation water availability, farmers need to cultivate their land quickly so that it is required a mechanization,” he said.

He said that a total of 60 tractor assistances given to irrigated and non-irrigated subak group in 2016 were distributed to four subdistricts, namely the Petang, North Kuta, Mengwi and Abiansemal where the handover is made gradually.

“This assistance is provided for

irrigated and non-irrigated subak groups. However, it is prioritized

for irrigated subak groups. The remaining will come today (Thurs-

As field observation on Friday (Oct. 21), residents have relied on water supply from public taps installed by the village government

since the water crisis hit. Every morning or late afternoon, the public tap at three locations in this area is always crowded by people

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day—Ed) amounting to 23 units,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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Two hamlets at Alasangker face clean water issue

SINGARAJA - Two of the six hamlets at Alasangker village, Buleleng subdistrict, face water difficulty to access clean water. Residents at Tenaon and Bengkel hamlet have long been shortage of clean water because the discharge of water from springs is small. This condition is aggravated by the location of spring at lower point. Thus, it requires huge funds to take up the water to people’s residence at a height.

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that will take water to drink. Water discharge of the public tap is small, so that people will line up at the moment when taking water.

A local resident, Luh Widi, when met on the line to take water said that the clean water at her village has never run for long time. When running, it has small discharge so that he must hold water for a long time.

Due to this condition, this preg-

The water crisis is happening in Alasangker village, Buleleng subdistrict.

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nant woman is also looking for drinking water to the public tap. In order to get enough drinking water, she is forced to spend more time in the morning or sometimes stop working in order to get water.

But the water for shower, washing clothes or defecate, Widi and her family members are forced to seek in the river near their home.

“From few years ago, the water sometimes runs and sometimes does not. Water discharge at public taps is also small, so that the time to work is used to queue for water at public taps. It is still better than not cooking or not having drinking in the kitchen,” she said.

Similar opinion was disclosed by another resident, Ketut Rening. Although being elderly, she is forced to fetch water from public taps because there is no drinking water pipeline at her home. With the remaining strength, Rening fetches water with a bucket of medium size so that she can cook rice and cooked for drinking water.

Fortunately, location of the public taps is not far away from her home.

Hence, she can take water one or two times in a queue.

“As being unable to buy water, I prefer to take water at public taps though having to queue. Most importantly, I can cook rice and drink,” she said.

In the meantime, hamlet chief of Bengkel, Nyoman Pasek, said the most severe clean water shortages occurred at Bengkel and Tenaon hamlet. Four other villages namely the Alasangker, Pendem, Juwuk Manis and Pumaan remain to get adequate clean water supply though there is decline in water discharge during the peak of dry season.

Especially in his area, there are about 216 families getting difficulty in obtaining drinking water, while Tenaon hamlet has almost the same condition, so that the residents still rely on public taps.

Then, for the need of shower or washing and toilet, they still rely on streams.

This water shortage has not been handled because the source of raw water in the form of puddle is located at lower point than residential areas. As a result, to drain water with greater discharge needs high cost. It has not been resolved by the village government.

“The existing water source has small discharge and is not sufficient. To drain in larger flow needs fund because the water source is located at lower point. If flowed to higher location and larger discharge it need high cost. So far, the village has not been able to resolve the problem of water supply in our region,’ he explained. (kmb38)

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Permanent building sits on cultural heritage area

GIANYAR - Encroachment against regional spatial planning is increasingly rife in Gianyar. Other than violations of coastal border and river border near Goa Gajah attraction formerly guarded strictly by the government of Gianyar as belongs to cultural heritage area, currently permanent buildings begin to be rampant.

The Tompkins Square Halloween dog parade MANHATTAN - Pooches let their alter-egos shine, putting on some of the cutest and most creative costumes you’ve ever seen at the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. CNN calls it “the largest dog costume parade in the world” with hundreds of

dogs in costumes and thousands of spectators. The London Guardian says “It’s Barkin’ Mad.” This year’s parade will be sponsored by Purina Beggin’ with contestants competing for thousands of dollars in prizes.

The always adorable Tompkins

Square Halloween Dog Parade returns to the East Village. Dog owners go all out to dress up their canine friends, often choosing timely and humorous costumes. And sometimes owners join in on the fun, dressing to match their four-legged companions. (IBP/net)

The head of the regional development planning board (Bappeda) of Gianyar, Kadek Wisnu Wijaya, when asked for his confirmation on Thursday (Oct. 20) explained that around the Goa Gajah cultural heritage is protected area since many archaeological sites are estimated to still be buried. “In terms of spatial layout, it indeed belongs to a cultural heritage and has been protected with the law.

In appropriate with regional bylaw (Perda), the area still belongs to green belt,” he explained.

In the meantime, as field observation on Thursday afternoon, a number of workers were found working on permanent buildings.

This project is known to have been lasting for a month. However, it is not the first building established because a few meters in the western border near the Petanu River has also been established a permanent building.

When confirmed, his agency will soon coordinate with municipal police and the integrated licensing office (BPPT) of Gianyar. “I will immediately make coordination with relevant agencies, whether there has been any permit issued or not because so far there is no change in the rules (RTRW—Ed) because it is a protected area,” he explained.

A legislator of the Gianyar House of Representatives, I.B. Nyoman Rai, urged the executive to firmly maintain spatial area in the district in appropriate with the regulations. Moreover, the next area to the Goa Gajah attraction having been protected by the executive is now neglected. “It belongs to protected area because it remains in the area of the ancient site of Goa Gajah,” he said.

I.B. Rai also asked for the municipal police to make an intense control in protecting green belt having been set forth in the regional bylaw. Moreover, in the future the status of Gianyar municipal police will be upgraded to an agency. “In the new institution, the municipal police are upgraded to an agency. Thus, it is expected to conduct surveillance, so that it is not just passively waiting for a report,” he said. (kmb35)

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A number of workers were found working on permanent buildings. This project is known to have been lasting for a month.

Badung purchases additional cervical cancer detectors MANGUPURA - The government of Badung is procuring early detection device of cervical cancer.

This measure is an attempt to minimize the spread of cervical cancer to women. Tender of the procurement for the early detection device of cervical cancer is opened to the public on October 19-26.

Chief of the Badung Health Agency, Gede Putra Suteja, said that the procurement is still in the bidding process through electronic procurement service (LPSE). The

government has prepared a budget of some IDR 4.5 billion for the procurement of three devices.

“The three additional units of the scanner are meant to complete the existing three units today.

This procurement is budgeted in the amended regional budget 2016. With these three additional units, Badung will totally have six units,” said Putra Suteja, Friday (Oct. 21).

He said that Badung has two scanners of cervical cancer. How-

ever, considering there are 13 health centers spreading across the six subdistricts, the government will draft the purchase of additional early detection device of cervical cancer in the parent regional budget in 2017.

‘Thus, all the existing subdistricts will respectively have a single unit. Next year, we will draft the purchase of seven units, so that all health centers will have one,” he said.

This official recognized that the

new device of cervical cancer can detect accurately and quickly. On that account, the early detection device purchased offers the latest technology. “When compared to the previous model of similar device, the new ones are much more sophisticated,” he said.

Aside from the purchase of cervical cancer early detection device, another government program to minimize patients of cervical cancer is through mass vaccination. In the regional budget 2016, Badung

prepares around IDR 12.6 billion for procurement of cervical cancer vaccine targeting 8,269 people.

Based on the existing data, the vaccination program has been conducted since 2012. In 2012, the vaccination of cervix cancer reached 1,502 people of the 1,517 targets.

Then, in 2013 it increased to 2,455 people of the 2,892 targeted people; in 2014 reached 2,150 people of the 2,238 targeted people; and in 2015 reached 1,977 people of the 2,070 targeted people. (kmb27)

Two foreigners allegedly killed in accident.

MANGUPURA - The bodies of two young tourists who had been staying at Celebrity Villa in Tmbak Bayuh Village, Mengwi were found dead on (Oct.22). French citizen, 23 year-old Emilie Martine Canet and Swiss citizen, 26 year old Lovid Vincent Dominique Lezeyras are

alleged to have died following a traffic.

According to the Badung Police, the victims had been drinking at their villa accompanied by 20 year old Alexis Nierfeix and 24 Marion Nierfeix at around 02:00. After two hours of drinking the two victims

set off on a Honda Vario motorcycle at high speed to buy more alcohol at Pererenan Beach. Alexis was concerned about their condition, so she followed them.

“Lovid was driving with Emilie in back and they didn’t seem to know the way to the beach”, said

one police officer.

Allegedly the victims, crashed into the rocks on Pererenan Beach.

When Alexis approached them she saw that they were both lying lifeless. Emilie had suffered a broken neck and Lovid had smashed his head. The bodies of both victims

were taken to Sanglah Hospital.

Chief of Mengwi Police Criminal Investigation, Aan Saputra, confirmed the facts of the incident and considering that the case involves a traffic accident, it is now being handled by the Badung Police Traffic Affaris. (kmb)

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Pristine beauty of Bunutin waterfalls

ESEKA — Authorities in Cameroon rushed more than 600 injured people to hospitals in the country’s two main cities Saturday in an effort to save lives a day after an overcrowded train derailed, killing more than 70 people.

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Police have tightened security at Gilimanuk harbour and improvements have been made to the inspection of freight and vehicles.

Security at Gilimanuk tightened after police station attack in Tangerang

NEGARA - After the recent attack on the Tangerang police station, police have tightened security at Gilimanuk harbour and improvements have been made to the inspection of freight and vehicles.

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Cameroon train crash kills more than 70, injures 600

BANGLI - There are many charming waterfalls in Bangli including the yellow waterfalls at Tamanbali village and Cepung River waterfalls at Tembuku village, and Bunutin waterfalls.

As the name implies, Bunutin waterfalls are located in Bunutin village, Kintamani and a roadside sign directs visitors to the location of the falls, which are however some way from the road, so visitors should be ready for a bit of a hike. In fact, there is no actual path to the falls, so visitors have to pass through 300 meters of tangerine orchards.

The fatigue endured by visitors is well paid off when they reach the falls and experience the pristine beauty of the setting. The crystal clear water and lush vegetation are sure to make all visitors want to linger. However, visitors wanting to swim in the pool at the base of the waterfalls should proceed with caution as they is quicksand that could be hazardous if stepped into.

Headman of Bunutin, Made Subrata, said that peopel have been visiting Bunutin waterfall despite the lack of path leading to it. “It is a little challenging to get there and the way is steep”, he said.

Subrata said that there are plans to create a proper pathway to the waterfalls and that he hopes that relevant agencies will help promote the location so that more visitors can come and enjoy this spot and contribute to the welfare of the surrounding community. (kmb40)

The crystal clear water and lush vegetation are sure to make all visitors want to linger.

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“Actually, whether there is an incident or not, we always improving supervision and vigilance and all the more if there is information about anything that needs our special attention. However, following the incident at Tangerang, security has been further enhanced”, said Chief of Jembrana Police, Djoni Widodo on Saturday (Oct. 22). He also added that all personnel, all 21 operations and all migrants at Gilimanuk, are also being inspected by a joint team of experts.

Djoni Widodo said that he hopes

to enhance surveillance even further so inspections are being carried out at checkpoints and also at police stations. Any suspicious people ate immediately investigated and watched closely. All police stations need to be manned 24 hours a day, so they need to increase their personnel.

“Patroling needs to be done in groups not by solitary officers.

Gilimanuk harbour in particular is said to have carried out Interpol and mobile brigade meetings in order to increase security. We ask

that every post be safeguarded by 2 or 5 officers in turns. Likewise, municipal police and the military personnel have also been increased at Gilimanuk. The local population and the civil registry agency also has to play a more active role in security”, he said.

In relation to the prisoner who escaped from Ubud, officers are being asked to check the condition of all prisoners as well as the condition of the detention room.

The Police station in Jembrana for example is quite old.

“Similarly trellises need to be checked and data in the log book needs to be properly record”, he affirmed. Widodo hopes that security will be well maintained. (kmb)

Bodies remained strewn along the tracks as rescue workers searched for more injured or dead. The injured were being taken to hospitals in the capital, Yaounde, and the port city where the train was heading, Douala, officials said, as the president declared Monday to be a national day of mourning.

“My sincere condolences to the families of the victims of the derailment” of the Camrail train,” President Paul Biya said on his official Facebook page. About 70 people died and 600 were wounded, he said, and the cause of the crash was being investigated.

The local hospital had been overwhelmed, with only about 60 beds, said transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o.

“I am calling on everyone to double efforts to save the lives of the injured,” Ngo’o said.

Eseka is about 125 kilometers (75 miles) west of Yaounde.

Rescue workers and medical staff at hospitals put the death toll at 73, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to speak to the press about the issue.

State radio reported more than 75 dead.

The train had been carrying about 1,300 passengers, instead of its capacity of 600. The passenger load was higher because a road had collapsed due to landslides following heavy rains between Yaounde and Douala.

The 30-year-old railway line and train could not carry the load, officials told state radio.

One of those injured died as he arrived in Douala, and “we are doing everything possible to save the lives of the close to 200 victims sent to Douala,” said Governor Ivaha Diboua Dieudonne of the western Littoral region. (ap)

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Parts of a derailed train in Eseka, Cameroon, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. Rescue workers dug through the rubble Saturday in search of more injured and dead after a train traveling between two major cities in Cameroon derailed in Eseka, killing scores of people, according to rescue workers and hospital staff.

Spain’s Socialists seen clearing the way for end to political deadlock

MADRID - Spain’s Socialists on Sunday were expected to clear the way for the conservative People’s Party (PP) to be sworn in for a second term, ending a 10-month political deadlock that has paralysed institutions and threatened to derail an economic recovery.

In an unprecedented move in Spain’s modern politics, more than 250 members of the Socialists are meeting to consider abstaining in a new confidence vote due next week which would grant acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a second term.

The result of the Socialist vote is expected to be announced by early afternoon.

Spain has had a caretaker government since December after no single party managed to REUTERS/Andrea Comas win a clear parliamentary majority in two A supporter of Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) holds a poster reading “No” inconclusive elections which have broken the outside Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) headquarters during a party meeting stable two-party system that the country has in Madrid, Spain, October 23, 2016. had since the 1970s.

Rajoy’s PP won the most votes in the two ballots but failed to win a wide enough majority to form a government. In both elections, the Socialists came second place followed by newcomer parties Podemos and Ciudadanos, which together secured close to a third of Parliamentary seats.

To form a minority government, Rajoy needed sufficient support, or an abstention, from his rivals in a confidence vote, though deep party divides made reaching any accord impossible.

The Socialists, after denying Rajoy’s reelection twice, were set to vote against him again under the leadership of Pedro Sanchez, sending the country into its third election in a year.

However, many in Sanchez’ party feared voters would turn their backs on the Socialists, dropping them into third place behind leftist Podemos if another election was called. (rtr)

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Egyptians losing patience with Sisi as economy deteriorates

CAIRO - A cartoon which appeared on social media shows a drowning Egyptian, only his hand protruding from the depths, waving for help. The next strips show President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi diving in, taking the drowning man’s watch and turning away.

The cartoon captures the mood of desperation and anger among Egyptians clobbered by tax rises, soaring food price inflation and cuts in state subsidies. Some fear a repeat of the mass street protests that drove Sisi’s two immediate predecessors from power. Core inflation is at seven-year-highs, near 14 percent, as a foreign exchange shortage and a hike in customs duties bite hard in a country that imports everything from sugar to luxury cars.

The government raised electricity prices by 25-40 percent in August and is phasing in a 13 percent valueadded tax approved by parliament in the same month.

As part of reforms aimed at clinching a $12 billion IMF loan needed to plug its gaping budget deficit, the government is also expected to cut petrol subsidies and devalue the Egyptian pound, prompting a further cycle of inflation in Egypt, where tens of millions rely on statesubsidised bread. “Prices are rising daily, not monthly,” said Gamal Darwish, a civil servant, as he queued to buy subsidised sugar in Cairo.

“This situation will push people to do bad things. It could slip out of hand and the government will not be able to control it because if the poorest cannot get enough to eat they will steal. If someone has children to feed, what will he do?” The government has tried to win public support for the austerity measures with a billboard campaign and media blitz and has also sought to expand social security schemes to shield the poorest from the effects of the rising prices.

But many Egyptians who would not qualify for such schemes complain they can no longer afford meat, while sugar shortages have driven fears of an impending food crisis.

Social justice was one of the key demands made by protesters during the 2011 revolt that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

In 2013 Egyptians again filled the streets to protest against Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood official who was democratically elected after the uprising but presided over a year of power cuts, petrol shortages

and economic turmoil. Three years after Sisi, an army general, ousted Mursi and seized power, his promise to restore stability is wearing thin.

The arrival of sugar in a government van caused a frenzy in the working class district of Sayyida Zeinab on Tuesday, as people jostled, 10-pound-notes in hand, for 2-kilo rations.

“After two revolutions, the Egyptian people are going backwards not forwards,” said Abdel Hasib Ahmed Mohamed, a middle-aged court employee watching the sugar scrum.

“We are heading for an explosion and this time it won’t be peaceful.”

NO EASY ANSWERS For the government, the case for economic reforms and the need to seal a planned three-year lending programme with the International Monetary Fund is clear. Egypt’s economy is likely to grow 3.5 percent in the 2016/17 fiscal year, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, missing the government’s target of about 5 percent and dipping below last year’s growth rate.

The budget deficit is near 10 percent of national output. The foreign currency shortage has made it hard for firms to import and foreign investors to repatriate profit. Some have shut shop after nearly two years of capital and import controls.

Dollar rationing at banks has driven businesses toward the black market where the dollar is now selling for more than 15.5 pounds - a huge mark-up from the official rate of about 8.8. Egypt’s IMF programme has yet to win the lender’s final approval because the government must first muster $6 billion in bilateral financing, giving it the cash buffer it needs to devalue and ditch its fixed exchange rate. The IMF has said it is helping Egypt to secure the necessary funds.

The government said this week it had secured 60 percent of the bilateral funds, boosting foreign reserves to $19.6 billion in September. Central Bank Governor Tarek Amer has said he would consider floating the pound once reserves hit $25 billion.

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Powerful explosion reduces pizza hut store to rubbleBekasi – A Pizza Hut Delivery (PHD) store in Hankam street, Jatimurni, Pondok Melati district, Bekasi City, West Java province, Indonesia, reduced to rubble in a powerful explosion on Sunday, which also destroyed nearby minimarket and houses.

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Models walk the runway wearing designs by Byo during Jakarta Fashion Week 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

49 hajj pilgrims with Philippine passports return to Indonesia

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An Egyptian vegetable seller waits for customers at a market in Cairo, Egypt October 14, 2016.

Picture taken October 14, 2016.

But the rising prices and periodic shortages in state-subsidised food have forced the government to increase its purchases, burning rapidly through those newfound dollars when it is meant to be cutting spending. The pound’s continued depreciation on the black market since the IMF deal was announced in August also poses a big challenge.

If the central bank makes a meagre adjustment in the exchange rate, economists say, downward pressure will continue to mount on the pound.

But if it makes a 6-8 pound adjustment, the political and social impact could be explosive.

Although the black market rate is already priced in across much of the private sector, a steep devaluation would prove costly for the government, which imports thousands of tonnes a month of vital commodities including wheat and oil for its food subsidy programme as well as gas for its power stations.

Rumours have spread that Nov. 11 will be a day of protest over economic conditions. Police have already detained about 70 people for

inciting protests, accusing many of loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Under Sisi the Islamist group has been banned as a terrorist organisation - a charge it rejects.

“Food price inflation in Egypt .... fell a bit year-on-year in September, but for the poor it is still for me at a level that is politically toxic,” said Angus Blair, Chief Operating Officer at Pharos Holding, a Cairo-based investment bank. “It is a worry, especially with calls for a demo on Nov. 11.”

“NO VISION” In his speeches, Sisi has sought to persuade Egyptians that a collective sacrifice is necessary to save the country from financial ruin, even urging people to donate fakka, or spare change, in comments that drew online derision. But Sisi, who has crushed the Brotherhood and jailed secular dissenters, has also warned that the army could be deployed within six hours in case of trouble on the streets.

There has been no sign so far of the mass protests of 2011 or 2013,

though anger over an increase in social housing costs turned into a street demonstration by hundreds last week in Port Said, near the mouth of the strategic Suez Canal.

Fear for the future is not limited to poorer Egyptians, and businessmen who struggle daily with the dollar crisis are among the most concerned.

“The dollar crunch is so bad that things have been piling up at the port for a long time and you cannot get them out. Dollars are not available... and the situation is deteriorating,” said Ashraf Morcos, who runs an import-export company.

Some new policies seem at odds with the government’s reform drive.

For example, the Supply Minister said this week the state would increase, not cut, subsidies on food smart cards, which give Egyptians points to claim against bread and other items.

“This government has no vision, it is not transparent about its policies,” said Morcos. “At this point, the country doesn’t need rhetoric. People need their basic necessities, to eat and drink...”(rtr)

JAKARTA - A total of 49 Hajj pilgrims with Philippine passports have returned to Indonesia on the second day of repatriation, carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This last batch was accompanied by the embassy staff through Terminal 2 Banda Soekarno Hatta, Banten, on Saturday morning at 12 pm.

In the process, the pilgrims also received a briefing from the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Religious Affairs before being sent to Pondok Gede Hajj Dormitory to stay and

undergo an interview process by the police.

“After this, they will be accommodated temporarily in a dormitory, then there is an interview process and the examination of the immigration authorities and the police.

After that, they could return to their homes,” said Arif Hidayat, an official from Directorate of Indonesian Citizens Protection and Legal Entities of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Although the government has managed to repatriate pilgrims he warned that the legal process in the Philippines is still ongoing

and is expected to be completed properly.

Overall, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repatriated 106 Indonesian citizens consisting of 28 men and 78 women, of who 42 are aged over 60, and used Philippines passports.

Most came from nine regions, namely South Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, Jakarta and Lampung.

Meanwhile, others are citizens who are domiciled in Sabah, Malaysia. (ant)

Two minimarket employees were injured, Bekasi City Police chief Sr. Comr. Umar Surya Fana said. But, none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening. “Two Alfamidi employees slightly injured, while no PHD employees at the time (of explosion) because the store is still closed,” Umar said, Kompas. com reported. He added that no one inside the American chain store and all employees had gone home at 11 pm Saturday night.

Gas explosion An eyewitness, Cipto, said the explosion happened at 6.30 in the morning. He posted a photo showing a completely destroyed Pizza Hut store building on Twitter.

“Rumors say it’s a gas explosion,”

he said. “PHD store completely destroyed. (The blast) also shattered Alfamidi’s windows in its left and damaged shops around it, even some stores (walls) cracked.”

Umar confirmed Cipto’s statement. “Initial allegation say the explosion caused by 50 kilograms gas cylinder inside PHD,” he said.

However, he could not confirm what causes the cylinder to explode.

Police are still seeking information from witnesses at the scene, while waiting for National Police’s Central Forensic Laboratory to discover the exact cause of the explosion. Umar said, police could not enter the site of explosion because there was a strong smell of gas around the scene.(ant)

Indonesian Ministry of Agrarian affairs to conduct land certification JAKARTA - Indonesian Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Layout Ministry/ National Land Agency (BPN) plans to carry out land certification throughout the country and expects to complete it by 2025.

“There are 178 million hectares of land plots in Indonesia but only 40 percent of them have been registered and 67 percent of them have been already certified,” special staff of the ministry, Sugeng Suparwoto,

said in a written statement received here.

He noted that his office, working under Minister Sofyan Jalil, would strive to meet the target by expediting the process of certification.

Sugeng said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has included the land certification program in the medium-term national development plan 2015.

The certification process, he

disclosed, lagged behind because of a shortage of land surveyors. “At present, there are only 2,000 land surveyors,” he informed.

To overcome the problem, his office has begun registering certified land surveyors drafted from private agencies.

He underlined that the government expected the land certification program to help prevent conflicts in the community.(ant)

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A firefighter inspects the damage after an explosion occurred at a pizza delivery outlet in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Initial police report said that the explosion was caused by gas leaks at the outlet. No casualties were reported in the incident.

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Maduro opponents march after Venezuela referendum sunk

CARACAS - Led by women dressed in white, several thousand Venezuelans marched through Caracas on Saturday in the first of what the opposition hopes will be growing protests against the quashing of a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro.

The opposition coalition, seeking to end 17 years of socialism in the South American OPEC nation, says this week’s suspension of its drive for a plebiscite against the unpopular leader shows Venezuela has abandoned democracy.

“We’re here to demand respect for the constitution, for Venezuelans to have elections to escape dictatorship,” said human resources worker Nayiber Bracho, 35, marching under a hot sun in a crowd with banners, whistles and pets.

The marchers closed one lane of a major highway.

They were headed by Lilian Tintori and Patricia Gutierrez, both wives of jailed political leaders and advocates of hardline tactics

against the government.

“There’s no obstacle that can defeat Venezuelan mothers, fighting for the future of their children,” said Tintori, who has called for civil disobedience in Venezuela, saying democratic options are lacking.

Despite sitting on the world’s biggest oil reserves, Venezuela is undergoing an unprecedented economic crisis, with many people skipping meals amid shortages and soaring prices.

Polls showed the majority wanted the recall referendum, but the election board halted the process this week citing court orders based on government allegations of fraud during an initial signature drive.

That left Maduro, who won an election to succeed Hugo Chavez

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in 2013, on track to complete the six-year term.

Government officials have been exulting at the referendum’s failure, saying the opposition is to blame for delaying the process and then committing fraud by adding names of minors and dead people to their first signature drive.

“Under no circumstances are we going to let them overthrow the government,” Socialist Party second-in-command Diosdado Cabello said at a press conference later on Saturday.

Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader narrowly elected three years ago after Chavez died from cancer, has seen his popularity tumble to just above 20 percent.

While foes blame failed socialist policies for the crisis, Maduro points to the steep slump in oil prices and accuses the United States of leading an “economic war” against his government. (rtr)

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Lilian Tintori (L), wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and her motherin-law Antonieta Mendoza (R) arrive to a rally to demand a referendum to remove Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela October 22, 2016.

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According to residents, living conditions are deteriorating daily, with food shortages and IS paranoia of informants mounting.

The United Nations has said Mosul could need the biggest humanitarian relief operation in the

world once it has been liberated.

The interior minister of the Kurdish regional government, Karim Sinjari, said there were reports of people in Mosul rising up against IS and carrying out nighttime attacks.

He also claimed Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had been in Mosul to try and rally the thousands of fighters who control the city. (rtr)

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An aircraft of Colombian airline Avianca takes off from El Dorado Airport in Bogota, Colombia, June 6, 2016.

Colombia airline restarts Venezuela flights after warplane incident

BOGOTA - Colombia’s Avianca airline will restart flights to Venezuela after one of its aircraft was approached by at least one Venezuelan warplane on Friday, creating a diplomatic incident and prompting the airline to cancel flights to and from the socialist country.

Avianca said it would resume flights on Sunday, after cancelling transport to Venezuela when a passenger jet flying from Madrid to Bogota was briefly approached

by Venezuelan military aircraft on Friday evening, resulting in diplomatic conversations and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordering an investigation.

“After clarifications between the governments of Colombia and Venezuela about the incident registered last night in Venezuelan skies with an Avianca plane, the Colombian civil aviation authority has authorized the restart of operations to and from Venezuela,” Avianca said in a statement on Saturday evening.

The South American neighbors have for years had a volatile relationship, with Venezuela’s socialist government sometimes accusing Colombia of provocation, and

claims in the other direction that Caracas has supported Colombian guerrillas.

The two countries’ lengthy border is a constant source of tension.

Data from online tracker FlightRadar24 showed Avianca’s flights were avoiding Venezuela on Saturday and a source from the company confirmed to Reuters that flights to Venezuela had been cancelled.

Flight data also showed the Avianca Boeing Dreamliner took a sharp turn when flying over west Venezuela around 2000 local time (2000 EST/0000 GMT) on Friday, in line with a statement about the incident released by the Colombian defense ministry.

Both nations’ defense and foreign ministers discussed the plane incident, the statement said. It said Maduro “personally ordered the investigation into the case.”

“The ministers have spoken and cleared it all up, everything is normal,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said during a visit to cacao growers on Saturday afternoon. “There’s no need to worry.” (rtr)

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British first as Crutchlow holds off Rossi in Australia

MELBOURNE - Cal Crutchlow comfortably held off Valentino Rossi over 18 laps at Phillip Island on Sunday to claim his second career MotoGP victory and become the first British winner of the Australian Grand Prix.

The 30-year-old, whose victory at Brno in August was the first in the premier class of grand prix racing for a British rider in 35 years, took full advantage after world champion Marc Marquez crashed out while leading the race.

The LCR Honda rider held his nerve despite being chased by six-times world champion Rossi and crossed the line in 40 minutes, 48.543 seconds.

Italian Rossi finished 4.218 seconds behind in 40:52.761.

“I’m really pleased for my team, I was confident I could have won even with Marc in the race,” said Crutchlow.

“I look forward to the last two races and then we’ll see what happens next season.”

Marquez, who sealed his third world title in Japan last weekend, led the race from pole until he misjudged his breaking point on the fourth turn of the ninth lap and ended up in the trackside gravel.

With the rain that had disrupted his qualifying staying away, Rossi had stormed through the field from 15th on the grid into third place when Marquez crashed out, but was unable to close the 1.9 second gap on Crutchlow.

“This morning we discovered we had good pace in good conditions,” Rossi said. “I tried to get to Cal but he was too fast, too strong.”

Rossi’s second place, ahead of Spanish Suzuki rider Maverick Vinales (40:53.852), helped him open up a 24-point gap on Yamaha team mate Jorge Lorenzo, who was sixth, in the race for second spot in the riders’ standings behind Marquez.

Marquez, who was looking for his sixth win of 2016, took full responsibility for his first failure to finish in 16 races this season.

“I was taking a lot of risks trying to push from the beginning,” he said. “It was completely my mistake, all season I was careful on the breaking points. (rtr)

Palasari Dam

JEMBRANA - Palasari Dam located in Palarejo area of Ekasari Village, Melaya district, about 26 km west of Negara city. The dam is functioned to control the volume and pressure of waters to avoid flood. Palasari Dam is also utilized for irrigation, fishery and recreational place. The dam is surrounded by the green natural forest within the cool refreshing air. A traditional small boat is provided for visitors who want to go around the dam. Meanwhile, it is quite accessible to get into this area. (IBP/net)

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Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova kisses her trophy as she won the first place at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament against Australia’s Daria Gavrilova in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

SINGAPORE - Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova raced to a 6-2 6-1 victory over Australian Daria Gavrilova to defend her Kremlin Cup title in Moscow on Saturday and secure a place at the season-ending WTA Finals.

Kuznetsova was broken in her first service game to fall 2-0 behind but the 31-year-old broke back immediately to claim the first of 10 straight games as she roared to victory in 73 minutes against the world number 37.

The Russian had to win to qualify for Singapore and her victory represents heartbreak for Briton Johanna Konta, who held the final spot for the Singapore event but will now drop down to first alternate after even taking part in a glitzy draw ceremony on Friday.

Kuznetsova, a twice grand slam

champion, must now rush to Singapore for her first round robin match in the White Group against defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Monday.

Czech Karolina Pliskova and Spanish French Open champion Garbine Muguruza are the other two players in the group.

Action starts in the Red Group on Sunday when Romania’s Simona Halep faces American Madison Keys before German world number one Angelique Kerber takes on Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova.

The top two players from each pool advance to the semi-finals.

Kuznetsova will be making her sixth appearance at the year-ending tournament and will be looking to advance from the round robin stage for a first time. (rtr)

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Locatelli gives Milan controversial win over Juve

MILAN - A stunning second-half strike by 18-year-old Manuel Locatelli gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over Juventus after the Serie A titleholders had a goal controversially disallowed on Saturday.

Juventus thought they had gone ahead in the first half from Miralem Pjanic’s free kick but the goal was ruled out for offside after a two-minute consultation between match officials. It was Milan’s first win over Juventus for nearly four years and ended a run of nine successive defeats against the Turin side.

Earlier, an unlucky own goal by Armando Izzo handed Sampdoria a 2-1 win over neighbours and bitter rivals Genoa in a pulsating derby.

Sampdoria also missed a penalty in first-half stoppage time.

Juventus stayed top with 21 points from nine games but Milan closed the gap to two points. “It’s

clear that the goal was good, everyone else is saying that, not just me,” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. “The Milan protests made the referee doubt his decision, but we as teams should think about playing.”

Juventus have won the last five Serie A titles while Milan have slumped into midtable mediocrity but the seven-times European champions have made a bright start this season under new coach Vincenzo Montella.

The game at San Siro was an intense, tactical battle but erupted in controversy after 35 minutes.

Pjanic floated a 35-metre free kick over the wall, Juve’s Leonardo

Bonucci lunged and failed to make contact with the ball but distracted Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and it flew into the net.

Juventus players were back on the halfway line waiting for the restart when referee Nicola Rizzoli disallowed the goal for offisde against Bonucci although replays suggested he was onside when the ball was played. Locatelli added to Juve’s sense of injustice when he collected Suso’s pass and fired an unstoppable shot past Gianluigi Buffon into the top corner in the 65th minute.

Donnarumma, 17, ensured Milan’s win by turning away Sami Khedira’s long-range shot with the last kick of the game. Sampdoria ended a six-match winless run that had put coach Marco Giampaolo’s job on the line in the so-called

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AC Milan’s Manuel Locatelli kicks to score.

Derby of the Lighthouse.

Genoa’s misfortune came two minutes into the second half when Luis Muriel crossed from the right, goalkeeper Mattia Perin palmed the ball away but it flew straight at Izzo and rebounded into the net.

Colombia forward Muriel, a constant thorn in Genoa’s side, gave Sampdoria the lead after 12 minutes when he side footed the ball home after Fabio Quagliarella cleverly laid the ball into his path.

Luca Rigoni levelled in the 24th minute from Edenilson’s pass and the hapless Izzo saw a shot hit the crossbar shortly after that.

Quagliarella won a penalty for Sampdoria in first-half stoppage time and the same player took the spot kick but saw his effort saved

by Perin. (rtr)

Prandelli not surprised calls went Barcelona’s way

MADRID — Valencia coach Cesare Prandelli was not surprised that the controversial calls went Barcelona’s way.

The former Italy manager said it happens all over the world: The big teams always seem to get the benefit of the doubt when

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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, second right, argues with the crowd after they threw objects, after scoring a penalty during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Valencia and FC Barcelona at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

it comes to refereeing. He saw that it’s no different in the Spanish league.

Prandelli tried not to blame his team’s 3-2 home defeat to Barcelona on alleged bad calls by the referee, but hinted more than once after Saturday’s game that refs have too much respect for the top teams.

“Everyone knows that the big teams always have a ‘psychological advantage,’ as we say in Italy,” Prandelli said. “It’s the same in every country.”

Barcelona won thanks to a penalty kick converted by Lionel Messi in second-half stoppage time in a game in which Valencia loudly complained about calls against Prandelli’s team at Mestalla Stadium.

Although the last-minute penalty appeared to be called correctly as Aymen Abdennour fouled Luis Suarez inside the area, the hosts said the Uruguay striker should have been called offside when he stood in front of the goal as Messi opened the scoring in the first half. They also were upset at a non-call of an alleged penalty on striker Rodrigo about 10 minutes later, and argued that Sergio Busquets should have received his second yellow card for a hard foul just before halftime.

“In Italy I preferred not to comment about the refereeing,” Prandelli said. “I rather not

do it, but the images are clear. It’s useless to say anything else, the images are very clear.”

It was the first loss in two matches for Prandelli since he took charge of Valencia, which has only nine points after nine rounds and is not far off the relegation zone.

“I am disappointed with the result, I’m disappointed for the players, I’m disappointed for our fans because they created a magnificent atmosphere,” Prandelli said.

Valencia sports director Suso Garcia Pitarch harshly complained about referee Undiano Mallenco.

“He will be ashamed if he watches this game again some day,” Pitarch said. “Spanish soccer can’t afford to have such lamentable refereeing in a game like this.”

Saturday’s game was also marked by fans throwing a water bottle at Barcelona players while they celebrated Messi’s late winner.

Neymar and Suarez both went to ground putting their hands to their heads, but were not seriously injured.

Prandelli said he did not see the incident but condemned it, as did Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, dismissing any insinuation that his players might have provoked the Valencia supporters behind the goal.

“We celebrated a goal like you should celebrate a goal in the last minute against a tough rival,” he said. “It was normal.” (ap)

Lacazette scores but Lyon’s defense falls apart in 3-1 loss

PARIS — Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette remembered how to take penalties but his teammates forget how to defend in a 3-1 home loss to Guingamp in the French league on Saturday. A fifth defeat in six games heaps the pressure on Lyon coach Bruno Genesio.

After finishing second last season, Lyon is down in eighth place and trails leader Nice by 10 points, having played a game more.

“I sense that I am in difficulty.

I won’t run away from my responsibilities,” Genesio said. “I’m not thinking about my own situation, we have to face up to this.”

Lacazette, who scored 48 league goals in the past two seasons, went some way to making up for his midweek penalty miss against Juventus by scoring from the spot near halftime.

On Tuesday, his penalty was saved by Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi

Buffon and the miss proved costly as Lyon lost 1-0.

But Swedish goalie Karl-Johan Johnsson does not have the presence of Buffon, and Lacazette made no mistake this time, drilling a low shot down the middle as Johnsson gambled wrongly by diving to his right.

It was his seventh league goal of the season and third from the spot. The penalty was given after midfielder Maxime Gonalons was fouled by Moustapha Diallo. Lyon deserved to be ahead but then fell apart at the start of the second half.

Striker Yannis Salibur scored within a minute of the restart and midfielder Marcus Coco made it 2-1 after turning in veteran forward Jimmy Briand’s cross. Shortly after the second goal, Lyon’s fans displayed a banner reading “Stop Les Excuses ... Gagnez” (Stop the

excuses ... Win).

Lacazette was upended in the area and should have been awarded a penalty midway through the second half.

But Coco scored again and Guingamp finished the stronger side with teen midfielder Ludovic Blas going close to making it 4-1 in injury time.

“It’s a big blow on the head for us, a massive disappointment,” Genesio said. “I feel for the players, the president and the fans.” Monaco won 6-2 on Friday to move up to second spot. (ap) Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette looks on during their French League One soccer match against Guingamp in Decines, near Lyon, central France, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

Hertha Berlin criticizes ultra fans’ homophobic banner

BERLIN — Hertha Berlin has criticized supporters who displayed a large homophobic banner during the side’s Bundesliga win over Cologne on Saturday. The banner, approximately 50 meters (yards) long, said, “WH96: Rather a mother than two fathers!”

It was apparently directed at a Cologne ultra group called Die Wilde Horde 1996 (WH96), which has been involved in an ongoing spat with their Berlin counterparts.

Hertha says in a tweet to its fans to “Leave out the stupidity! Hertha Berlin has always distanced itself from every form of discrimination.”

The banner had drawn a mostly negative reaction on social media. Football magazine 11 Freunde wrote, “A pity, Hertha, everything thrown away again.” (rtr)

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Locatelli gives Milan controversial win over Juve

MILAN - A stunning second-half strike by 18-year-old Manuel Locatelli gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over Juventus after the Serie A titleholders had a goal controversially disallowed on Saturday.

Juventus thought they had gone ahead in the first half from Miralem Pjanic’s free kick but the goal was ruled out for offside after a two-minute consultation between match officials. It was Milan’s first win over Juventus for nearly four years and ended a run of nine successive defeats against the Turin side.

Earlier, an unlucky own goal by Armando Izzo handed Sampdoria a 2-1 win over neighbours and bitter rivals Genoa in a pulsating derby.

Sampdoria also missed a penalty in first-half stoppage time.

Juventus stayed top with 21 points from nine games but Milan closed the gap to two points. “It’s

clear that the goal was good, everyone else is saying that, not just me,” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. “The Milan protests made the referee doubt his decision, but we as teams should think about playing.”

Juventus have won the last five Serie A titles while Milan have slumped into midtable mediocrity but the seven-times European champions have made a bright start this season under new coach Vincenzo Montella.

The game at San Siro was an intense, tactical battle but erupted in controversy after 35 minutes.

Pjanic floated a 35-metre free kick over the wall, Juve’s Leonardo

Bonucci lunged and failed to make contact with the ball but distracted Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and it flew into the net.

Juventus players were back on the halfway line waiting for the restart when referee Nicola Rizzoli disallowed the goal for offisde against Bonucci although replays suggested he was onside when the ball was played. Locatelli added to Juve’s sense of injustice when he collected Suso’s pass and fired an unstoppable shot past Gianluigi Buffon into the top corner in the 65th minute.

Donnarumma, 17, ensured Milan’s win by turning away Sami Khedira’s long-range shot with the last kick of the game. Sampdoria ended a six-match winless run that had put coach Marco Giampaolo’s job on the line in the so-called

REUTERS/ Alessandro Garofalo

AC Milan’s Manuel Locatelli kicks to score.

Derby of the Lighthouse.

Genoa’s misfortune came two minutes into the second half when Luis Muriel crossed from the right, goalkeeper Mattia Perin palmed the ball away but it flew straight at Izzo and rebounded into the net.

Colombia forward Muriel, a constant thorn in Genoa’s side, gave Sampdoria the lead after 12 minutes when he side footed the ball home after Fabio Quagliarella cleverly laid the ball into his path.

Luca Rigoni levelled in the 24th minute from Edenilson’s pass and the hapless Izzo saw a shot hit the crossbar shortly after that.

Quagliarella won a penalty for Sampdoria in first-half stoppage time and the same player took the spot kick but saw his effort saved

by Perin. (rtr)

Prandelli not surprised calls went Barcelona’s way

MADRID — Valencia coach Cesare Prandelli was not surprised that the controversial calls went Barcelona’s way.

The former Italy manager said it happens all over the world: The big teams always seem to get the benefit of the doubt when

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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, second right, argues with the crowd after they threw objects, after scoring a penalty during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Valencia and FC Barcelona at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

it comes to refereeing. He saw that it’s no different in the Spanish league.

Prandelli tried not to blame his team’s 3-2 home defeat to Barcelona on alleged bad calls by the referee, but hinted more than once after Saturday’s game that refs have too much respect for the top teams.

“Everyone knows that the big teams always have a ‘psychological advantage,’ as we say in Italy,” Prandelli said. “It’s the same in every country.”

Barcelona won thanks to a penalty kick converted by Lionel Messi in second-half stoppage time in a game in which Valencia loudly complained about calls against Prandelli’s team at Mestalla Stadium.

Although the last-minute penalty appeared to be called correctly as Aymen Abdennour fouled Luis Suarez inside the area, the hosts said the Uruguay striker should have been called offside when he stood in front of the goal as Messi opened the scoring in the first half. They also were upset at a non-call of an alleged penalty on striker Rodrigo about 10 minutes later, and argued that Sergio Busquets should have received his second yellow card for a hard foul just before halftime.

“In Italy I preferred not to comment about the refereeing,” Prandelli said. “I rather not

do it, but the images are clear. It’s useless to say anything else, the images are very clear.”

It was the first loss in two matches for Prandelli since he took charge of Valencia, which has only nine points after nine rounds and is not far off the relegation zone.

“I am disappointed with the result, I’m disappointed for the players, I’m disappointed for our fans because they created a magnificent atmosphere,” Prandelli said.

Valencia sports director Suso Garcia Pitarch harshly complained about referee Undiano Mallenco.

“He will be ashamed if he watches this game again some day,” Pitarch said. “Spanish soccer can’t afford to have such lamentable refereeing in a game like this.”

Saturday’s game was also marked by fans throwing a water bottle at Barcelona players while they celebrated Messi’s late winner.

Neymar and Suarez both went to ground putting their hands to their heads, but were not seriously injured.

Prandelli said he did not see the incident but condemned it, as did Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, dismissing any insinuation that his players might have provoked the Valencia supporters behind the goal.

“We celebrated a goal like you should celebrate a goal in the last minute against a tough rival,” he said. “It was normal.” (ap)

Lacazette scores but Lyon’s defense falls apart in 3-1 loss

PARIS — Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette remembered how to take penalties but his teammates forget how to defend in a 3-1 home loss to Guingamp in the French league on Saturday. A fifth defeat in six games heaps the pressure on Lyon coach Bruno Genesio.

After finishing second last season, Lyon is down in eighth place and trails leader Nice by 10 points, having played a game more.

“I sense that I am in difficulty.

I won’t run away from my responsibilities,” Genesio said. “I’m not thinking about my own situation, we have to face up to this.”

Lacazette, who scored 48 league goals in the past two seasons, went some way to making up for his midweek penalty miss against Juventus by scoring from the spot near halftime.

On Tuesday, his penalty was saved by Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi

Buffon and the miss proved costly as Lyon lost 1-0.

But Swedish goalie Karl-Johan Johnsson does not have the presence of Buffon, and Lacazette made no mistake this time, drilling a low shot down the middle as Johnsson gambled wrongly by diving to his right.

It was his seventh league goal of the season and third from the spot. The penalty was given after midfielder Maxime Gonalons was fouled by Moustapha Diallo. Lyon deserved to be ahead but then fell apart at the start of the second half.

Striker Yannis Salibur scored within a minute of the restart and midfielder Marcus Coco made it 2-1 after turning in veteran forward Jimmy Briand’s cross. Shortly after the second goal, Lyon’s fans displayed a banner reading “Stop Les Excuses ... Gagnez” (Stop the

excuses ... Win).

Lacazette was upended in the area and should have been awarded a penalty midway through the second half.

But Coco scored again and Guingamp finished the stronger side with teen midfielder Ludovic Blas going close to making it 4-1 in injury time.

“It’s a big blow on the head for us, a massive disappointment,” Genesio said. “I feel for the players, the president and the fans.” Monaco won 6-2 on Friday to move up to second spot. (ap) Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette looks on during their French League One soccer match against Guingamp in Decines, near Lyon, central France, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

Hertha Berlin criticizes ultra fans’ homophobic banner

BERLIN — Hertha Berlin has criticized supporters who displayed a large homophobic banner during the side’s Bundesliga win over Cologne on Saturday. The banner, approximately 50 meters (yards) long, said, “WH96: Rather a mother than two fathers!”

It was apparently directed at a Cologne ultra group called Die Wilde Horde 1996 (WH96), which has been involved in an ongoing spat with their Berlin counterparts.

Hertha says in a tweet to its fans to “Leave out the stupidity! Hertha Berlin has always distanced itself from every form of discrimination.”

The banner had drawn a mostly negative reaction on social media. Football magazine 11 Freunde wrote, “A pity, Hertha, everything thrown away again.” (rtr)

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British first as Crutchlow holds off Rossi in Australia

MELBOURNE - Cal Crutchlow comfortably held off Valentino Rossi over 18 laps at Phillip Island on Sunday to claim his second career MotoGP victory and become the first British winner of the Australian Grand Prix.

The 30-year-old, whose victory at Brno in August was the first in the premier class of grand prix racing for a British rider in 35 years, took full advantage after world champion Marc Marquez crashed out while leading the race.

The LCR Honda rider held his nerve despite being chased by six-times world champion Rossi and crossed the line in 40 minutes, 48.543 seconds.

Italian Rossi finished 4.218 seconds behind in 40:52.761.

“I’m really pleased for my team, I was confident I could have won even with Marc in the race,” said Crutchlow.

“I look forward to the last two races and then we’ll see what happens next season.”

Marquez, who sealed his third world title in Japan last weekend, led the race from pole until he misjudged his breaking point on the fourth turn of the ninth lap and ended up in the trackside gravel.

With the rain that had disrupted his qualifying staying away, Rossi had stormed through the field from 15th on the grid into third place when Marquez crashed out, but was unable to close the 1.9 second gap on Crutchlow.

“This morning we discovered we had good pace in good conditions,” Rossi said. “I tried to get to Cal but he was too fast, too strong.”

Rossi’s second place, ahead of Spanish Suzuki rider Maverick Vinales (40:53.852), helped him open up a 24-point gap on Yamaha team mate Jorge Lorenzo, who was sixth, in the race for second spot in the riders’ standings behind Marquez.

Marquez, who was looking for his sixth win of 2016, took full responsibility for his first failure to finish in 16 races this season.

“I was taking a lot of risks trying to push from the beginning,” he said. “It was completely my mistake, all season I was careful on the breaking points. (rtr)

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Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova kisses her trophy as she won the first place at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament against Australia’s Daria Gavrilova in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

SINGAPORE - Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova raced to a 6-2 6-1 victory over Australian Daria Gavrilova to defend her Kremlin Cup title in Moscow on Saturday and secure a place at the season-ending WTA Finals.

Kuznetsova was broken in her first service game to fall 2-0 behind but the 31-year-old broke back immediately to claim the first of 10 straight games as she roared to victory in 73 minutes against the world number 37.

The Russian had to win to qualify for Singapore and her victory represents heartbreak for Briton Johanna Konta, who held the final spot for the Singapore event but will now drop down to first alternate after even taking part in a glitzy draw ceremony on Friday.

Kuznetsova, a twice grand slam

champion, must now rush to Singapore for her first round robin match in the White Group against defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Monday.

Czech Karolina Pliskova and Spanish French Open champion Garbine Muguruza are the other two players in the group.

Action starts in the Red Group on Sunday when Romania’s Simona Halep faces American Madison Keys before German world number one Angelique Kerber takes on Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova.

The top two players from each pool advance to the semi-finals.

Kuznetsova will be making her sixth appearance at the year-ending tournament and will be looking to advance from the round robin stage for a first time. (rtr)

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Maduro opponents march after Venezuela referendum sunk

CARACAS - Led by women dressed in white, several thousand Venezuelans marched through Caracas on Saturday in the first of what the opposition hopes will be growing protests against the quashing of a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro.

The opposition coalition, seeking to end 17 years of socialism in the South American OPEC nation, says this week’s suspension of its drive for a plebiscite against the unpopular leader shows Venezuela has abandoned democracy.

“We’re here to demand respect for the constitution, for Venezuelans to have elections to escape dictatorship,” said human resources worker Nayiber Bracho, 35, marching under a hot sun in a crowd with banners, whistles and pets.

The marchers closed one lane of a major highway.

They were headed by Lilian Tintori and Patricia Gutierrez, both wives of jailed political leaders and advocates of hardline tactics

against the government.

“There’s no obstacle that can defeat Venezuelan mothers, fighting for the future of their children,” said Tintori, who has called for civil disobedience in Venezuela, saying democratic options are lacking.

Despite sitting on the world’s biggest oil reserves, Venezuela is undergoing an unprecedented economic crisis, with many people skipping meals amid shortages and soaring prices.

Polls showed the majority wanted the recall referendum, but the election board halted the process this week citing court orders based on government allegations of fraud during an initial signature drive.

That left Maduro, who won an election to succeed Hugo Chavez

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in 2013, on track to complete the six-year term.

Government officials have been exulting at the referendum’s failure, saying the opposition is to blame for delaying the process and then committing fraud by adding names of minors and dead people to their first signature drive.

“Under no circumstances are we going to let them overthrow the government,” Socialist Party second-in-command Diosdado Cabello said at a press conference later on Saturday.

Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader narrowly elected three years ago after Chavez died from cancer, has seen his popularity tumble to just above 20 percent.

While foes blame failed socialist policies for the crisis, Maduro points to the steep slump in oil prices and accuses the United States of leading an “economic war” against his government. (rtr)

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Lilian Tintori (L), wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and her motherin-law Antonieta Mendoza (R) arrive to a rally to demand a referendum to remove Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela October 22, 2016.

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According to residents, living conditions are deteriorating daily, with food shortages and IS paranoia of informants mounting.

The United Nations has said Mosul could need the biggest humanitarian relief operation in the

world once it has been liberated.

The interior minister of the Kurdish regional government, Karim Sinjari, said there were reports of people in Mosul rising up against IS and carrying out nighttime attacks.

He also claimed Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had been in Mosul to try and rally the thousands of fighters who control the city. (rtr)

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An aircraft of Colombian airline Avianca takes off from El Dorado Airport in Bogota, Colombia, June 6, 2016.

Colombia airline restarts Venezuela flights after warplane incident

BOGOTA - Colombia’s Avianca airline will restart flights to Venezuela after one of its aircraft was approached by at least one Venezuelan warplane on Friday, creating a diplomatic incident and prompting the airline to cancel flights to and from the socialist country.

Avianca said it would resume flights on Sunday, after cancelling transport to Venezuela when a passenger jet flying from Madrid to Bogota was briefly approached

by Venezuelan military aircraft on Friday evening, resulting in diplomatic conversations and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordering an investigation.

“After clarifications between the governments of Colombia and Venezuela about the incident registered last night in Venezuelan skies with an Avianca plane, the Colombian civil aviation authority has authorized the restart of operations to and from Venezuela,” Avianca said in a statement on Saturday evening.

The South American neighbors have for years had a volatile relationship, with Venezuela’s socialist government sometimes accusing Colombia of provocation, and

claims in the other direction that Caracas has supported Colombian guerrillas.

The two countries’ lengthy border is a constant source of tension.

Data from online tracker FlightRadar24 showed Avianca’s flights were avoiding Venezuela on Saturday and a source from the company confirmed to Reuters that flights to Venezuela had been cancelled.

Flight data also showed the Avianca Boeing Dreamliner took a sharp turn when flying over west Venezuela around 2000 local time (2000 EST/0000 GMT) on Friday, in line with a statement about the incident released by the Colombian defense ministry.

Both nations’ defense and foreign ministers discussed the plane incident, the statement said. It said Maduro “personally ordered the investigation into the case.”

“The ministers have spoken and cleared it all up, everything is normal,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said during a visit to cacao growers on Saturday afternoon. “There’s no need to worry.” (rtr)

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Powerful explosion reduces Pizza Hut store to rubble

Egyptians losing patience with Sisi as economy deteriorates

CAIRO - A cartoon which appeared on social media shows a drowning Egyptian, only his hand protruding from the depths, waving for help. The next strips show President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi diving in, taking the drowning man’s watch and turning away.

The cartoon captures the mood of desperation and anger among Egyptians clobbered by tax rises, soaring food price inflation and cuts in state subsidies. Some fear a repeat of the mass street protests that drove Sisi’s two immediate predecessors from power. Core inflation is at seven-year-highs, near 14 percent, as a foreign exchange shortage and a hike in customs duties bite hard in a country that imports everything from sugar to luxury cars.

The government raised electricity prices by 25-40 percent in August and is phasing in a 13 percent valueadded tax approved by parliament in the same month.

As part of reforms aimed at clinching a $12 billion IMF loan needed to plug its gaping budget deficit, the government is also expected to cut petrol subsidies and devalue the Egyptian pound, prompting a further cycle of inflation in Egypt, where tens of millions rely on statesubsidised bread. “Prices are rising daily, not monthly,” said Gamal Darwish, a civil servant, as he queued to buy subsidised sugar in Cairo.

“This situation will push people to do bad things. It could slip out of hand and the government will not be able to control it because if the poorest cannot get enough to eat they will steal. If someone has children to feed, what will he do?” The government has tried to win public support for the austerity measures with a billboard campaign and media blitz and has also sought to expand social security schemes to shield the poorest from the effects of the rising prices.

But many Egyptians who would not qualify for such schemes complain they can no longer afford meat, while sugar shortages have driven fears of an impending food crisis.

Social justice was one of the key demands made by protesters during the 2011 revolt that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

In 2013 Egyptians again filled the streets to protest against Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood official who was democratically elected after the uprising but presided over a year of power cuts, petrol shortages

and economic turmoil. Three years after Sisi, an army general, ousted Mursi and seized power, his promise to restore stability is wearing thin.

The arrival of sugar in a government van caused a frenzy in the working class district of Sayyida Zeinab on Tuesday, as people jostled, 10-pound-notes in hand, for 2-kilo rations.

“After two revolutions, the Egyptian people are going backwards not forwards,” said Abdel Hasib Ahmed Mohamed, a middle-aged court employee watching the sugar scrum.

“We are heading for an explosion and this time it won’t be peaceful.”

NO EASY ANSWERS For the government, the case for economic reforms and the need to seal a planned three-year lending programme with the International Monetary Fund is clear. Egypt’s economy is likely to grow 3.5 percent in the 2016/17 fiscal year, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, missing the government’s target of about 5 percent and dipping below last year’s growth rate.

The budget deficit is near 10 percent of national output. The foreign currency shortage has made it hard for firms to import and foreign investors to repatriate profit. Some have shut shop after nearly two years of capital and import controls.

Dollar rationing at banks has driven businesses toward the black market where the dollar is now selling for more than 15.5 pounds - a huge mark-up from the official rate of about 8.8. Egypt’s IMF programme has yet to win the lender’s final approval because the government must first muster $6 billion in bilateral financing, giving it the cash buffer it needs to devalue and ditch its fixed exchange rate. The IMF has said it is helping Egypt to secure the necessary funds.

The government said this week it had secured 60 percent of the bilateral funds, boosting foreign reserves to $19.6 billion in September. Central Bank Governor Tarek Amer has said he would consider floating the pound once reserves hit $25 billion.

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Powerful explosion reduces pizza hut store to rubbleBekasi – A Pizza Hut Delivery (PHD) store in Hankam street, Jatimurni, Pondok Melati district, Bekasi City, West Java province, Indonesia, reduced to rubble in a powerful explosion on Sunday, which also destroyed nearby minimarket and houses.

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Models walk the runway wearing designs by Byo during Jakarta Fashion Week 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

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An Egyptian vegetable seller waits for customers at a market in Cairo, Egypt October 14, 2016.

Picture taken October 14, 2016.

But the rising prices and periodic shortages in state-subsidised food have forced the government to increase its purchases, burning rapidly through those newfound dollars when it is meant to be cutting spending. The pound’s continued depreciation on the black market since the IMF deal was announced in August also poses a big challenge.

If the central bank makes a meagre adjustment in the exchange rate, economists say, downward pressure will continue to mount on the pound.

But if it makes a 6-8 pound adjustment, the political and social impact could be explosive.

Although the black market rate is already priced in across much of the private sector, a steep devaluation would prove costly for the government, which imports thousands of tonnes a month of vital commodities including wheat and oil for its food subsidy programme as well as gas for its power stations.

Rumours have spread that Nov. 11 will be a day of protest over economic conditions. Police have already detained about 70 people for

inciting protests, accusing many of loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Under Sisi the Islamist group has been banned as a terrorist organisation - a charge it rejects.

“Food price inflation in Egypt .... fell a bit year-on-year in September, but for the poor it is still for me at a level that is politically toxic,” said Angus Blair, Chief Operating Officer at Pharos Holding, a Cairo-based investment bank. “It is a worry, especially with calls for a demo on Nov. 11.”

“NO VISION” In his speeches, Sisi has sought to persuade Egyptians that a collective sacrifice is necessary to save the country from financial ruin, even urging people to donate fakka, or spare change, in comments that drew online derision. But Sisi, who has crushed the Brotherhood and jailed secular dissenters, has also warned that the army could be deployed within six hours in case of trouble on the streets.

There has been no sign so far of the mass protests of 2011 or 2013,

though anger over an increase in social housing costs turned into a street demonstration by hundreds last week in Port Said, near the mouth of the strategic Suez Canal.

Fear for the future is not limited to poorer Egyptians, and businessmen who struggle daily with the dollar crisis are among the most concerned.

“The dollar crunch is so bad that things have been piling up at the port for a long time and you cannot get them out. Dollars are not available... and the situation is deteriorating,” said Ashraf Morcos, who runs an import-export company.

Some new policies seem at odds with the government’s reform drive.

For example, the Supply Minister said this week the state would increase, not cut, subsidies on food smart cards, which give Egyptians points to claim against bread and other items.

“This government has no vision, it is not transparent about its policies,” said Morcos. “At this point, the country doesn’t need rhetoric. People need their basic necessities, to eat and drink...”(rtr)

JAKARTA - A total of 49 Hajj pilgrims with Philippine passports have returned to Indonesia on the second day of repatriation, carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This last batch was accompanied by the embassy staff through Terminal 2 Banda Soekarno Hatta, Banten, on Saturday morning at 12 pm.

In the process, the pilgrims also received a briefing from the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Religious Affairs before being sent to Pondok Gede Hajj Dormitory to stay and

undergo an interview process by the police.

“After this, they will be accommodated temporarily in a dormitory, then there is an interview process and the examination of the immigration authorities and the police.

After that, they could return to their homes,” said Arif Hidayat, an official from Directorate of Indonesian Citizens Protection and Legal Entities of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Although the government has managed to repatriate pilgrims he warned that the legal process in the Philippines is still ongoing

and is expected to be completed properly.

Overall, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repatriated 106 Indonesian citizens consisting of 28 men and 78 women, of who 42 are aged over 60, and used Philippines passports.

Most came from nine regions, namely South Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, Jakarta and Lampung.

Meanwhile, others are citizens who are domiciled in Sabah, Malaysia. (ant)

Two minimarket employees were injured, Bekasi City Police chief Sr. Comr. Umar Surya Fana said. But, none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening. “Two Alfamidi employees slightly injured, while no PHD employees at the time (of explosion) because the store is still closed,” Umar said, Kompas. com reported. He added that no one inside the American chain store and all employees had gone home at 11 pm Saturday night.

Gas explosion An eyewitness, Cipto, said the explosion happened at 6.30 in the morning. He posted a photo showing a completely destroyed Pizza Hut store building on Twitter.

“Rumors say it’s a gas explosion,”

he said. “PHD store completely destroyed. (The blast) also shattered Alfamidi’s windows in its left and damaged shops around it, even some stores (walls) cracked.”

Umar confirmed Cipto’s statement. “Initial allegation say the explosion caused by 50 kilograms gas cylinder inside PHD,” he said.

However, he could not confirm what causes the cylinder to explode.

Police are still seeking information from witnesses at the scene, while waiting for National Police’s Central Forensic Laboratory to discover the exact cause of the explosion. Umar said, police could not enter the site of explosion because there was a strong smell of gas around the scene.(ant)

Indonesian Ministry of Agrarian affairs to conduct land certification JAKARTA - Indonesian Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Layout Ministry/ National Land Agency (BPN) plans to carry out land certification throughout the country and expects to complete it by 2025.

“There are 178 million hectares of land plots in Indonesia but only 40 percent of them have been registered and 67 percent of them have been already certified,” special staff of the ministry, Sugeng Suparwoto,

said in a written statement received here.

He noted that his office, working under Minister Sofyan Jalil, would strive to meet the target by expediting the process of certification.

Sugeng said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has included the land certification program in the medium-term national development plan 2015.

The certification process, he

disclosed, lagged behind because of a shortage of land surveyors. “At present, there are only 2,000 land surveyors,” he informed.

To overcome the problem, his office has begun registering certified land surveyors drafted from private agencies.

He underlined that the government expected the land certification program to help prevent conflicts in the community.(ant)

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A firefighter inspects the damage after an explosion occurred at a pizza delivery outlet in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Initial police report said that the explosion was caused by gas leaks at the outlet. No casualties were reported in the incident.

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Pristine beauty of Bunutin waterfalls

ESEKA — Authorities in Cameroon rushed more than 600 injured people to hospitals in the country’s two main cities Saturday in an effort to save lives a day after an overcrowded train derailed, killing more than 70 people.

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Police have tightened security at Gilimanuk harbour and improvements have been made to the inspection of freight and vehicles.

Security at Gilimanuk tightened after police station attack in Tangerang

NEGARA - After the recent attack on the Tangerang police station, police have tightened security at Gilimanuk harbour and improvements have been made to the inspection of freight and vehicles.

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BANGLI - There are many charming waterfalls in Bangli including the yellow waterfalls at Tamanbali village and Cepung River waterfalls at Tembuku village, and Bunutin waterfalls.

As the name implies, Bunutin waterfalls are located in Bunutin village, Kintamani and a roadside sign directs visitors to the location of the falls, which are however some way from the road, so visitors should be ready for a bit of a hike. In fact, there is no actual path to the falls, so visitors have to pass through 300 meters of tangerine orchards.

The fatigue endured by visitors is well paid off when they reach the falls and experience the pristine beauty of the setting. The crystal clear water and lush vegetation are sure to make all visitors want to linger. However, visitors wanting to swim in the pool at the base of the waterfalls should proceed with caution as they is quicksand that could be hazardous if stepped into.

Headman of Bunutin, Made Subrata, said that peopel have been visiting Bunutin waterfall despite the lack of path leading to it. “It is a little challenging to get there and the way is steep”, he said.

Subrata said that there are plans to create a proper pathway to the waterfalls and that he hopes that relevant agencies will help promote the location so that more visitors can come and enjoy this spot and contribute to the welfare of the surrounding community. (kmb40)

The crystal clear water and lush vegetation are sure to make all visitors want to linger.

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“Actually, whether there is an incident or not, we always improving supervision and vigilance and all the more if there is information about anything that needs our special attention. However, following the incident at Tangerang, security has been further enhanced”, said Chief of Jembrana Police, Djoni Widodo on Saturday (Oct. 22). He also added that all personnel, all 21 operations and all migrants at Gilimanuk, are also being inspected by a joint team of experts.

Djoni Widodo said that he hopes

to enhance surveillance even further so inspections are being carried out at checkpoints and also at police stations. Any suspicious people ate immediately investigated and watched closely. All police stations need to be manned 24 hours a day, so they need to increase their personnel.

“Patroling needs to be done in groups not by solitary officers.

Gilimanuk harbour in particular is said to have carried out Interpol and mobile brigade meetings in order to increase security. We ask

that every post be safeguarded by 2 or 5 officers in turns. Likewise, municipal police and the military personnel have also been increased at Gilimanuk. The local population and the civil registry agency also has to play a more active role in security”, he said.

In relation to the prisoner who escaped from Ubud, officers are being asked to check the condition of all prisoners as well as the condition of the detention room.

The Police station in Jembrana for example is quite old.

“Similarly trellises need to be checked and data in the log book needs to be properly record”, he affirmed. Widodo hopes that security will be well maintained. (kmb)

Bodies remained strewn along the tracks as rescue workers searched for more injured or dead. The injured were being taken to hospitals in the capital, Yaounde, and the port city where the train was heading, Douala, officials said, as the president declared Monday to be a national day of mourning.

“My sincere condolences to the families of the victims of the derailment” of the Camrail train,” President Paul Biya said on his official Facebook page. About 70 people died and 600 were wounded, he said, and the cause of the crash was being investigated.

The local hospital had been overwhelmed, with only about 60 beds, said transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o.

“I am calling on everyone to double efforts to save the lives of the injured,” Ngo’o said.

Eseka is about 125 kilometers (75 miles) west of Yaounde.

Rescue workers and medical staff at hospitals put the death toll at 73, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to speak to the press about the issue.

State radio reported more than 75 dead.

The train had been carrying about 1,300 passengers, instead of its capacity of 600. The passenger load was higher because a road had collapsed due to landslides following heavy rains between Yaounde and Douala.

The 30-year-old railway line and train could not carry the load, officials told state radio.

One of those injured died as he arrived in Douala, and “we are doing everything possible to save the lives of the close to 200 victims sent to Douala,” said Governor Ivaha Diboua Dieudonne of the western Littoral region. (ap)

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Parts of a derailed train in Eseka, Cameroon, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. Rescue workers dug through the rubble Saturday in search of more injured and dead after a train traveling between two major cities in Cameroon derailed in Eseka, killing scores of people, according to rescue workers and hospital staff.

Spain’s Socialists seen clearing the way for end to political deadlock

MADRID - Spain’s Socialists on Sunday were expected to clear the way for the conservative People’s Party (PP) to be sworn in for a second term, ending a 10-month political deadlock that has paralysed institutions and threatened to derail an economic recovery.

In an unprecedented move in Spain’s modern politics, more than 250 members of the Socialists are meeting to consider abstaining in a new confidence vote due next week which would grant acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a second term.

The result of the Socialist vote is expected to be announced by early afternoon.

Spain has had a caretaker government since December after no single party managed to REUTERS/Andrea Comas win a clear parliamentary majority in two A supporter of Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) holds a poster reading “No” inconclusive elections which have broken the outside Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) headquarters during a party meeting stable two-party system that the country has in Madrid, Spain, October 23, 2016. had since the 1970s.

Rajoy’s PP won the most votes in the two ballots but failed to win a wide enough majority to form a government. In both elections, the Socialists came second place followed by newcomer parties Podemos and Ciudadanos, which together secured close to a third of Parliamentary seats.

To form a minority government, Rajoy needed sufficient support, or an abstention, from his rivals in a confidence vote, though deep party divides made reaching any accord impossible.

The Socialists, after denying Rajoy’s reelection twice, were set to vote against him again under the leadership of Pedro Sanchez, sending the country into its third election in a year.

However, many in Sanchez’ party feared voters would turn their backs on the Socialists, dropping them into third place behind leftist Podemos if another election was called. (rtr)

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Permanent building sits on cultural heritage area

GIANYAR - Encroachment against regional spatial planning is increasingly rife in Gianyar. Other than violations of coastal border and river border near Goa Gajah attraction formerly guarded strictly by the government of Gianyar as belongs to cultural heritage area, currently permanent buildings begin to be rampant.

The Tompkins Square Halloween dog parade MANHATTAN - Pooches let their alter-egos shine, putting on some of the cutest and most creative costumes you’ve ever seen at the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. CNN calls it “the largest dog costume parade in the world” with hundreds of

dogs in costumes and thousands of spectators. The London Guardian says “It’s Barkin’ Mad.” This year’s parade will be sponsored by Purina Beggin’ with contestants competing for thousands of dollars in prizes.

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The head of the regional development planning board (Bappeda) of Gianyar, Kadek Wisnu Wijaya, when asked for his confirmation on Thursday (Oct. 20) explained that around the Goa Gajah cultural heritage is protected area since many archaeological sites are estimated to still be buried. “In terms of spatial layout, it indeed belongs to a cultural heritage and has been protected with the law.

In appropriate with regional bylaw (Perda), the area still belongs to green belt,” he explained.

In the meantime, as field observation on Thursday afternoon, a number of workers were found working on permanent buildings.

This project is known to have been lasting for a month. However, it is not the first building established because a few meters in the western border near the Petanu River has also been established a permanent building.

When confirmed, his agency will soon coordinate with municipal police and the integrated licensing office (BPPT) of Gianyar. “I will immediately make coordination with relevant agencies, whether there has been any permit issued or not because so far there is no change in the rules (RTRW—Ed) because it is a protected area,” he explained.

A legislator of the Gianyar House of Representatives, I.B. Nyoman Rai, urged the executive to firmly maintain spatial area in the district in appropriate with the regulations. Moreover, the next area to the Goa Gajah attraction having been protected by the executive is now neglected. “It belongs to protected area because it remains in the area of the ancient site of Goa Gajah,” he said.

I.B. Rai also asked for the municipal police to make an intense control in protecting green belt having been set forth in the regional bylaw. Moreover, in the future the status of Gianyar municipal police will be upgraded to an agency. “In the new institution, the municipal police are upgraded to an agency. Thus, it is expected to conduct surveillance, so that it is not just passively waiting for a report,” he said. (kmb35)

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A number of workers were found working on permanent buildings. This project is known to have been lasting for a month.

Badung purchases additional cervical cancer detectors MANGUPURA - The government of Badung is procuring early detection device of cervical cancer.

This measure is an attempt to minimize the spread of cervical cancer to women. Tender of the procurement for the early detection device of cervical cancer is opened to the public on October 19-26.

Chief of the Badung Health Agency, Gede Putra Suteja, said that the procurement is still in the bidding process through electronic procurement service (LPSE). The

government has prepared a budget of some IDR 4.5 billion for the procurement of three devices.

“The three additional units of the scanner are meant to complete the existing three units today.

This procurement is budgeted in the amended regional budget 2016. With these three additional units, Badung will totally have six units,” said Putra Suteja, Friday (Oct. 21).

He said that Badung has two scanners of cervical cancer. How-

ever, considering there are 13 health centers spreading across the six subdistricts, the government will draft the purchase of additional early detection device of cervical cancer in the parent regional budget in 2017.

‘Thus, all the existing subdistricts will respectively have a single unit. Next year, we will draft the purchase of seven units, so that all health centers will have one,” he said.

This official recognized that the

new device of cervical cancer can detect accurately and quickly. On that account, the early detection device purchased offers the latest technology. “When compared to the previous model of similar device, the new ones are much more sophisticated,” he said.

Aside from the purchase of cervical cancer early detection device, another government program to minimize patients of cervical cancer is through mass vaccination. In the regional budget 2016, Badung

prepares around IDR 12.6 billion for procurement of cervical cancer vaccine targeting 8,269 people.

Based on the existing data, the vaccination program has been conducted since 2012. In 2012, the vaccination of cervix cancer reached 1,502 people of the 1,517 targets.

Then, in 2013 it increased to 2,455 people of the 2,892 targeted people; in 2014 reached 2,150 people of the 2,238 targeted people; and in 2015 reached 1,977 people of the 2,070 targeted people. (kmb27)

Two foreigners allegedly killed in accident.

MANGUPURA - The bodies of two young tourists who had been staying at Celebrity Villa in Tmbak Bayuh Village, Mengwi were found dead on (Oct.22). French citizen, 23 year-old Emilie Martine Canet and Swiss citizen, 26 year old Lovid Vincent Dominique Lezeyras are

alleged to have died following a traffic.

According to the Badung Police, the victims had been drinking at their villa accompanied by 20 year old Alexis Nierfeix and 24 Marion Nierfeix at around 02:00. After two hours of drinking the two victims

set off on a Honda Vario motorcycle at high speed to buy more alcohol at Pererenan Beach. Alexis was concerned about their condition, so she followed them.

“Lovid was driving with Emilie in back and they didn’t seem to know the way to the beach”, said

one police officer.

Allegedly the victims, crashed into the rocks on Pererenan Beach.

When Alexis approached them she saw that they were both lying lifeless. Emilie had suffered a broken neck and Lovid had smashed his head. The bodies of both victims

were taken to Sanglah Hospital.

Chief of Mengwi Police Criminal Investigation, Aan Saputra, confirmed the facts of the incident and considering that the case involves a traffic accident, it is now being handled by the Badung Police Traffic Affaris. (kmb)

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“Farmers in Badung are now based on production and economy.

In other words, 50 percent of the income of farmers in Badung depends on agriculture and the remaining 50 percent on non-agriculture. Farmers can be said to have taken side job because the acreage of farmland is limited,” said Sudaratmaja, Thursday (Oct. 20).

According to him, the agricultural land area of 10,000 hectares is not enough to support the life.

“Just imagine that with a total of 33,000 families, each family will just averagely cultivate 0.3 hectare of land. If they cultivate the land, surely it will not suffice. Thus, they should seize other job opportunities in other sectors,” he explained.

On that account, the government

will continuously encourage the agricultural sector in order to grow, one of which is by providing a tractor. Such assistance in the form of tractor unit is meant to support the food self-sufficiency program, particularly in the national level.

“The hand tractor assistance is given by central government whose fund is taken from the state budget.

It is intended to accelerate the process of transplanting because amid the irrigation water availability, farmers need to cultivate their land quickly so that it is required a mechanization,” he said.

He said that a total of 60 tractor assistances given to irrigated and non-irrigated subak group in 2016 were distributed to four subdistricts, namely the Petang, North Kuta, Mengwi and Abiansemal where the handover is made gradually.

“This assistance is provided for

irrigated and non-irrigated subak groups. However, it is prioritized

for irrigated subak groups. The remaining will come today (Thurs-

As field observation on Friday (Oct. 21), residents have relied on water supply from public taps installed by the village government

since the water crisis hit. Every morning or late afternoon, the public tap at three locations in this area is always crowded by people

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Two hamlets at Alasangker face clean water issue

SINGARAJA - Two of the six hamlets at Alasangker village, Buleleng subdistrict, face water difficulty to access clean water. Residents at Tenaon and Bengkel hamlet have long been shortage of clean water because the discharge of water from springs is small. This condition is aggravated by the location of spring at lower point. Thus, it requires huge funds to take up the water to people’s residence at a height.

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that will take water to drink. Water discharge of the public tap is small, so that people will line up at the moment when taking water.

A local resident, Luh Widi, when met on the line to take water said that the clean water at her village has never run for long time. When running, it has small discharge so that he must hold water for a long time.

Due to this condition, this preg-

The water crisis is happening in Alasangker village, Buleleng subdistrict.

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nant woman is also looking for drinking water to the public tap. In order to get enough drinking water, she is forced to spend more time in the morning or sometimes stop working in order to get water.

But the water for shower, washing clothes or defecate, Widi and her family members are forced to seek in the river near their home.

“From few years ago, the water sometimes runs and sometimes does not. Water discharge at public taps is also small, so that the time to work is used to queue for water at public taps. It is still better than not cooking or not having drinking in the kitchen,” she said.

Similar opinion was disclosed by another resident, Ketut Rening. Although being elderly, she is forced to fetch water from public taps because there is no drinking water pipeline at her home. With the remaining strength, Rening fetches water with a bucket of medium size so that she can cook rice and cooked for drinking water.

Fortunately, location of the public taps is not far away from her home.

Hence, she can take water one or two times in a queue.

“As being unable to buy water, I prefer to take water at public taps though having to queue. Most importantly, I can cook rice and drink,” she said.

In the meantime, hamlet chief of Bengkel, Nyoman Pasek, said the most severe clean water shortages occurred at Bengkel and Tenaon hamlet. Four other villages namely the Alasangker, Pendem, Juwuk Manis and Pumaan remain to get adequate clean water supply though there is decline in water discharge during the peak of dry season.

Especially in his area, there are about 216 families getting difficulty in obtaining drinking water, while Tenaon hamlet has almost the same condition, so that the residents still rely on public taps.

Then, for the need of shower or washing and toilet, they still rely on streams.

This water shortage has not been handled because the source of raw water in the form of puddle is located at lower point than residential areas. As a result, to drain water with greater discharge needs high cost. It has not been resolved by the village government.

“The existing water source has small discharge and is not sufficient. To drain in larger flow needs fund because the water source is located at lower point. If flowed to higher location and larger discharge it need high cost. So far, the village has not been able to resolve the problem of water supply in our region,’ he explained. (kmb38)

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Farmland narrows, farmers find out side job

MANGUPURA - Agricultural sector in the Badung district is increasingly eroded by rapid development.

Moreover, farmers currently cannot depend only on food sector, but have to find out a second job to support their family.

This condition is justified by the Head of the Badung Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency, I Gusti A. Ketut Sudaratmaja.

According to him, the current agricultural sector in Badung is developing based on production and the economy.

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Tom Cruise’s ‘Jack Reacher’ expected to dominate U.S. box office

LOS ANGELES - Tom Cruise’s action-packed thriller “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” is expected to top the North American box office on Sunday, edging out new Halloween-themed films.

Paramount Pictures’ “Jack Reacher” is expected to open with $19 million, according to film tracker BoxOfficeMojo.com, while Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry Halloween spoof “Boo! A Madea Halloween”

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Universal Pictures’ horror sequel “Ouija: Origin of Evil” is estimated to debut with $16 million this weekend.

Ben Affleck’s action-packed Warner Bros’ film “The Accountant,” which topped the box office last week, is expected to take in another $13.5 million this week, while Universal Pictures’ DreamWorks film “The Girl on the Train” is estimated to take in $6.9 million in its third week in theaters. (rtr)

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Peshmerga forces fires a mortar towards Islamic state militants’ positions in the town of Naweran near Mosul, October 23, 2016.

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Toxic smoke hampers offensive to retake IS stronghold of Mosul ERBIL - Concerns grow for the welfare of more than a million civilians trapped in the Iraqi city, amid deteriorating living standards. Troops have retaken a Christian region, including the town of Bartella, as they edged toward Iraq’s second biggest city.

Around 50 villages have been liberated since Monday, according to the Iraqi army. Kurdish Peshmerga forces are understood to be planning to stop along a line at an average of 12 miles outside Mosul and a US military official said on Saturday that the troops were “pretty much there”.

Elite federal forces are then expected to lead the breach on the city. However, progress has been hampered by a toxic cloud from by a fire started by IS fighters at a sulphur plant south of Mosul.

It has killed at least two civilians and forced some American

personnel taking part in the USbacked operation to wear protective masks.

A local health centre said it had treated 500 people complaining of breathing problems.

A senior interior ministry officer in Qayyarah, a main staging base south of Mosul, said: “Of course, this is affecting our planned progress.” Meanwhile, Kurdish forces are also engaged in a huge push around the Islamic State-held town of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul.

They gained significant ground in the early days of the offensive, which launched on 17 October.

US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter praised them for “the way their efforts are completely coordinated with the Iraqi security forces”. He said the fight for Mosul was “on track and on schedule”.

More than 30,000 troops are involved in the mission to retake the city. A key concern is for the safety of up to 1.2 million civilians in Mosul, who are trapped by the fighting.

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