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Rolling Stones tell giant crowd “times are changing” at Cuba debut
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HAVANA - The Rolling Stones rocked a massive crowd at a free, outdoor concert in Havana on Friday, capping a week of engagement with the West for the Communist-led country that once censored the veteran British band’s music. The Stones started their firstever show in Cuba with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” a song recorded in 1968, when Cuban rock fans were secretly sharing pirated vinyl records and risked being sent to rural work brigades to cure “ideological deviation.” “We know that years back it was hard to hear our music in Cuba, but here we are playing. I also think the times are changing,” lead singer Mick Jagger said in Spanish to a roar from the crowd. The singer spoke in Spanish throughout of the 18-song show of hits that lasted more than two hours. The band played “Sympathy for the Devil” as a yellow moon rose through clouds, and they finished a two-song encore with “Satisfaction.” Fans started gathering 18 hours ahead of time at Havana’s Sports City football and baseball fields, including Cubans who traveled from across the Caribbean’s largest island and foreigners who flew in for the occasion. While no official estimate was
immediately available for the crowd size, Cuban state media estimated half a million people could fit in the venue, which was nearly full. The audience ranged from teenagers to pensioners and reserved some of the biggest cheers for Jagger’s snakey dance moves. “I love Mick Jagger so much. I’ve always dreamed about this. I couldn’t sleep knowing he would be here,” said Angela Menendez, who cleans floors in a hospital. Security was low key and there was a noticeable absence of wouldbe entrepreneurs selling T-shirts or memorabilia. People were dressed in all manner of jeans, T-shirts and boots with the Stones’ tongue and lips logo. Cubans have taken to coloring the tongue with the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag, whether in the mistaken belief that the British rock stars were American or in the spirit of this week’s historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Stones formed in London
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Fans attend a free outdoor concert by the Rolling Stones at Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex in Havana, Cuba March 25, 2016. in 1962, three years after Fidel Castro’s bearded rebels toppled a pro-American government.
Castro’s revolutionary government came to see counterculture bands like the Stones and the Beat-
les as dangerously subversive and prohibited their music on TV and radio. (rtr)
Australian actor Hugh Jackman helps swimmers to safety from dangerous surf
SYDNEY - Australian actor Hugh Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Saturday, when he helped his son and another man to safety from strong currents in the surf. Jackman is shown linking hands with a man and pulling him from a fast-flowing channel on to a sandbar, where the water is shallow, in television footage broadcast by the Nine Network. The network said Jackman later helped his own son, Oscar, 15, from the same current. Peter Adam, who told Nine he was the man Jackman helped, said he wasn’t REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files rescued by the film star. Actor Hugh Jackman arrives for the premiere of the film “Chappie” in New York in this March “He wasn’t rescuing me, I was as4, 2015 file photo. Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on March 26, sisting him to get his daughter up to 2016, when he helped his son and another man to safety from strong currents in the surf. the sandbar. He then grabbed my hand
to get us up,” Adam said. The actor is also shown beckoning other swimmers to shore, away from a rip current flowing out to sea. Jackman was at the beach with his family, Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. Witness Lynzey Murphy told the paper that surf conditions changed quickly, but that Jackman stayed calm. “When we got in the water 20 minutes earlier it was fine. Then the water just came up suddenly,” she said. “Hugh just pulled them calmly on to the sandbar. He then said: ‘All right, we are going to walk towards the flags.’” A lifeguard told the paper that the beach was later closed because of dangerous surf. (rtr)
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In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, photo, North Korean soldiers march across the Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. With tensions high and the United States and South Korea preparing to hold their massive annual wargames, Pyongyang is warning it will respond to any violations of its territory with “merciless” retaliation, including strikes on Seoul and the U.S. mainland itself.
MANGUPURA - Currently Bali has about 130,000 hotel rooms, most of which are located in South Bali. In Badung district alone there are 95,000 rooms with occupancy rates below 60 percent for star hotels and 40 percent for non-star hotels. Results of a study conducted by the Badung Tourism Promotion Board (BPBD) in 2015 shows that hotel rooms are in oversupply. “The increase tin the number of hotel rooms has occired too quickly and they are all concentrated in the South. Ideally, the occupancy rate should be around 70-80 percent or more for star hotels, and above 50 percent for budget hotels. An occupancy rate of just 40 percent, is only enough to cover operation costs” said member of BPBD Badung, I Putu Anom, during a tourism seminar in Kuta. Rooms... Continued on page 2
North Korea warns of strike on Seoul’s presidential palace
PYONGYANG — North Korea warned Saturday that its military is ready to attack Seoul’s presidential palace unless South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologizes for “treason” and publicly executes officials responsible for what Pyongyang says are plans to attack its leadership. The warning, issued by state media in the name of a unit of the Korean People’s Army, is the latest in a barrage of threats against Washington and Seoul over joint military drills now underway that the North sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion. It also came shortly after a North Korean propaganda outlet posted a video depicting a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. The joint military exercises are held annually, but tensions are particularly high this year because the drills
are bigger than ever and come on the heels of North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch. Further angering Pyongyang have been reports in South Korean media that this year’s exercises include simulated training for a “decapitation strike” targeting North Korea’s top leaders. The warning Saturday said the South Korean presidential palace is within striking range of the North’s artillery units, and that if an order to attack is made it is “just a click away.”
North Korea is believed to have artillery capable of striking Seoul with little or no warning and causing severe damage and casualties in the city of 10 million. A strike on Seoul, however, is highly unlikely, and Pyongyang has previously issued similar threats without following through. There were few signs Saturday of the heightened tensions in Pyongyang, where residents went about their daily routines as usual. Earlier on Saturday, the North Korean propaganda website DPRK Today posted a video depicting a nuclear attack on Washington. The four-minute video, titled “Last Chance,” showed a digitally
created scene of a missile fired from a submerged vessel in the sea soaring through the clouds, darting back to Earth, and crashing into the streets near Washington’s Lincoln Memorial before the explosion wipes out the city. “Choose, United States. Whether the country called United States continues to exist in this planet depends on your choice,” read a message that flashed on the screen to the background of a burning U.S. Capitol building and American flag. The video also warned that the North would “not hesitate” to attack the United States with its nuclear weapons if “American imperialists even make the slightest move against us.”
A similar video got a great deal of attention in 2013, when North Korea also conducted a nuclear test and satellite launch. North Korea has been developing its nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, but is not believed to have perfected either enough to pose a credible threat to major U.S. cities.(ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.