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Prince to release new albums Agence France-Presse

PARIS - US pop star Prince will release two new albums at the end of September, his record label said on Tuesday, marking the end of one of the longest-running employment disputes in musical history.

Prince -- whose 1984 album “Purple Rain” sold over 13 million copies in the US -- fell out with Warner Bros Records in the early 1990s, prompting him to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol and appear in public with the word “slave” daubed across his face.

The name change bewildered fans and led the press to dub him “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince”.

But following a reconciliation with the record label announced in April,

two albums -- “Art Official Age” and “Plectrumelectrum -- will be released on September 30, the label said on its website.

“Art Official Age” is a 13-track solo album, described by the label as “a contemporary concoction of soul, R&B and funk”.

The second is by Prince’s new band 3RDEYEGIRL consisting of guitarist Donna Grantis, drummer Hannah Ford Welton and bassist Ida Nielsen. Many of its “funk-rock” tracks were performed live on the group’s recent mini-tour.

In its announcement, Warner Bros acknowledged the acrimonious dispute with the 56-year-old star -- who it first signed in 1977.

The renewed partnership came about after it “returned to Prince the master re-

cordings of his pioneering 1980s albums, including “Dirty Mind”, “Purple Rain” and “Sign o’ the Times”, it said.

The singer had demanded that he should retain the rights to the master tapes of his albums and also clashed with the label over the frequency of releases.

The new agreement, however, looks unlikely to curb his public criticism of the way the entertainment industry is run. Just weeks after he signed his latest record deal, he lambasted music bosses for being lazy.

Prior to Prince’s reconciliation with Warner Bros., he had used his own NPG Records label to release his more recent records. Under his new record deal, a digitally remastered deluxe edition of “Purple Rain” will also be released to mark the album’s 30th anniversary.

Brosnan back as spy in new action thriller Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Former 007 star Pierce Brosnan returns to the world of guns and spies in “The November Man,” an action thriller that pits his character against his former CIA bosses, with explosive effect.

The Irish actor, who has never hidden his desire to have played James Bond for a little longer, said he is still up to the action game despite his 61 years -- although he had to work hard to get in shape.

“I like my beer, I like my wine,” said the man who took on the role of Britain’s most famous fictional spy in four Bond movies. “I have to keep up. Tennis, work out, work out, play tennis... I have had so many trainers.”

Shot in Belgrade, his latest movie -- out Wednesday in the United States -- includes all the classic action flick elements -- car chases, traitors and beautiful women waiting to be saved (ex-Bond girl Olga Kurylenko).

“The November Man,” which was co-produced by Brosnan and based on a series of novels by Bill Granger, tells the adventures of Peter Devereaux, a former CIA hitman brought out of retirement for

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This image released by Relativity Media shows Pierce Brosnan, center, and Olga Kurylenko in a scene from the film, “The November Man.”

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one last mission.

His task: to extract a female spy, who just happens to be the mother of his daughter, from Moscow because she has evidence of sex crimes committed by a Russian presidential candidate.

Devereaux’s former spy trainee, David Mason (Luke Bracey) is tasked in parallel with killing the former lover.

Devereaux is devastated and vows vengeance against his former protege.

As the story threatens to blow up in the CIA’s face, Mason is given the mission of killing his former mentor, whom he still respects and admires.

Brosnan admits that playing a hardliving spy again after 12 years was tough.

“There is a certain mileage on the bones, the heart and the soul,” he told a small group of reporters.

“You have to work just as hard (in terms of training), but you don’t have to try so hard” in terms of credibility, given his 007 fame, he added.

The imposing actor, who has deep blue eyes and still a star-power smile despite his years on the celebrity circuit, said training was tough.

Said to have vowed to become an actor after seeing Sean Connery in “Goldfinger,” Brosnan talks easily and openly about his time as Her Majesty’s most famous spy. Director Roger Donaldson, who had already worked with Brosnan on 1997’s “Dante’s Peak,” added: “He’s a smart, intelligent guy (who has) made the best of his fame.”

This included “not letting his fame destroy him like maybe Robin Williams did,” he said, referring to the comedy icon’s recent death by apparent suicide.

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Lampard retires from England, with tech his legacy

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No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict

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Security beefed up ahead UNAOC meeting

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Five warships of the Indonesian Navy have been sent to secure the 6th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) meeting in Bali on August 27-30, 2014.

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NUSA DUA - Personnel from regional military and police commands have been jointly deployed to strengthen security arrangements ahead of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) meeting in Bali on August 28-30.

“A multi-tier security arrangement is in place, including Ring 1 zone covered by military personnel and outside the zone secured by the joint teams of military and police personnel,” Chief of Bali Regional Police Inspector General Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu as deputy commander of UNAOC VVIP Security Operations stated on Wednesday.

He emphasized that heightened security will be provided to the heads of states, ministers, and officials, venues of activities, routes

to be taken by delegates, and hotels where the guests will stay.

“It has all been arranged based on standard operating procedures,” he noted.

Warship Deployed Five warships of the Indonesian Navy have been sent to secure the 6th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) meeting in Bali on August 27-30, 2014, Lieutenant Colonel Marine Abdul Kadir reported.

“The five ships are already in

Bali waters. They will remain until the end of the meeting,” said Lt. Col. Abdul, spokesman for the Navy in East Indonesia.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to officially open the Sixth Global Forum of UNAOC at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center, Bali, on August 29.

The objective of the Global Forum is to bridge inter-civilization communication across the world, Teuku Faizasyah, a presidential special staff in charge of international relations, said in a statement.

“UNAOC is aimed at promoting ‘Harmony among Civilizations’ and bridging the gap between Islam and the West. Furthermore, UNAOC endorses the common political will and aims to mobilize common actions against prejudice and misper-

ception, and to eliminate extremism in societies,” he emphasized.

The UNAOC was initiated by the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on July 14, 2005, and was co-sponsored by the former prime minister of Spain Jose Luis Rodreguez Zapatero and Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The forum will be attended by UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon, UN High Representative of the UNAOC Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, and prominent speakers from government and non-government organizations.

The meeting will be preceded by the UNAOC Youth Forum, bringing together around 200 young delegates from across the world, on August 28.

On the sidelines of the Global

Forum, President Yudhoyono is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with Ban Ki-moon, OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani, and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, according to Faizasyah.

The Global Forum themed “Unity in Diversity” has focus on four pillars: Education, Youth, Media, and Migration. The theme is based on Indonesia’s national motto “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” or “Unity in Diversity.” The motto reflects the outlook of Indonesia’s founding fathers and embraces the wealth of Indonesia’s cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity.

The Sixth UNAOC Global Forum will be attended by 114 members of UNAOC’s Group of Friends and 20 ministerial-level officials.

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Fuel scarce, Bali Police deploy special security Bali Post

DENPASAR - Other than in Java, fuel scarcity also started happening in Bali, especially in Denpasar. Vehicles were snaking at every petrol station. Even, some people could not purchase fuel. To anticipate any negative effect caused by the fuel shortages, Bali Police deployed special security.

The long queue is seen in one of the gas station in Denpasar

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“Two security systems are applied to prevent riots and hoarding of fuel at petrol station. However, the condition in Bali is not as severe as in other regions,” said Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, Tuesday (Aug 26).

Security at each petrol station was intensified to prevent riots as people scrambled to get fuel. In addition, an investigation was also conducted by police to anticipate any fuel hoarding. “Sometimes, this kind of opportunity is taken advantage to hoard fuel that can result in a great advantage. This is what we want to anticipate. When proved to have hoarded, the culprits will be processed according to the existing procedures,” he said.

According to the Spokesperson, the Chief of Bali Police, Benny Mokalu,

had ordered each county police department to deploy their personnel at respective petrol station. Every petrol station should be guarded by at least 2 to 3 officers. In addition, a patrol was also increased to check petrol stations with vulnerable condition. “Until now, the condition in Bali is not too severe.

However, security continues to be made without specified time or until the condition returns to be normal,” said Hery.

Based on field observation, on Tuesday around 10 o’clock in the morning, long lines occurred at petrol station located on Jalan Raya Puputan, Renon, East Denpasar. Motorcycles and cars should line up to the road. Meanwhile, at petrol station on Jalan Kamboja, Kreneng, Denpasar, was mounted a notice board if the Premium (gasoline) had run out. (kmb36)

Prohibited from buying fuel, fishermen protest Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Fishermen on Kusamba Beach, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung, protested. It happened because they were prohibited from purchasing fuel. Despite having owned the fisherman membership card, they were still prohibited from purchasing fuel at petrol station across Klungkung because the fuel stock tended to steadily decrease.

It was conveyed by a fisherman from Kusamba, Nengah Rusta, Tuesday (Aug 26). He said that he very much wanted to go to sea because the fish catch of fishermen had started to be crowded.

However, since four days ago, he had not been getting fuel. Every effort had been undertaken.

He even admitted to have been pleading to Pertamina. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to

purchase fuel. As a result, he could just laze on the beach with other porters. A similar fate was also experienced by other fishermen on Kusamba Beach. As a result, the local fishing activities paralyzed.

Fuel shortages had occurred since the past week. Fishermen finally lost revenue. They could only rent their boat to fishing hobbyists in the waters of Kusamba.

Meanwhile, some others repaired nets and fixed boats. “Now, Pertamina is too decisive. Even, police are deployed to guard petrol stations to oversee the security each day,” said Rusta. Another fisherman, Wayan Lantur, also revealed similar comment. Due to fuel scarcity, he did not have any livelihood to meet the needs of family. He did not have any other skills other than being a fisherman. On that account, he

hoped the fuel stock could quickly get recovered.

Aside from fishermen, the fish mongers were also affected by such condition. One of them was Wayan Ningsih who claimed to be distraught as no fishermen went to sea. Even, since four days ago, she suffered losses when coming to Kusamba Beach to get fish.

Actually, she dared to purchase at more expensive price as long as the fish was available. If this condition continued, the fish boiling activities at Kusamba would depend again on the supply of fish from outside Bali. Unluckily, the fish supply from outside Bali only came occasionally.

He hoped the condition could return to be normal. Although getting a small number of fish catch, but at least she could provide a fish supply to Kusamba. (kmb31)

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Inna Bali Hotel maintains Dutch architectural design

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DENPASAR - Inna Bali Hotel located on Jalan Veteran Denpasar remains to maintain the Dutch architectural design.

It was revealed by Marketing Manager of the Inna Bali Hotel, Ari Sulistiari, amidst the melaspas and mecaru druwa bineda ritual at the Gayatri Building, Sunday (Aug 17). The ritual was attended by Secretary of Denpasar Municipality, AAN Rai Iswara.

Ari Sulistiari said the Inna Bali Hotel located on Jalan Veteran Denpasar had a history in which posed the legacy of Dutch colonization. “So, to maintain the history, the design and structure of the building remain to be preserved. As a result, young generation can know the histories of the city of Denpasar,” she said.

The Inna Bali Hotel, said Ari Sulistiari, was flanking the road where the properties were located in the west and east of the road. With this condition, the ritual of melaspas then applied the caru

druwa bineda, greater than rishi gana but smaller than caru panca kelud. “This caru ritual functions to avoid the properties and dwellers from undesirable things,” she said.

To attract domestic and foreign travelers, Ari Sulistiari admitted to promote the hotel property through website, distributing brochures to offices and making cooperation with various media. “Inna Bali Hotel also provides room facilities with 3 to 4 people per room, so it is also promoted to schools,” she added.

Other facilities like lobby, lounge and meeting room were very complete.

Meeting room accommodates 300 to 400 people. Aside from being used for meeting, the meeting room is also used for graduation event. The Inna Bali Hotel on Jalan Veteran totally has 70 rooms, consisting of two Suite Rooms, 28 Deluxe Rooms and the remaining ones are Standard Rooms. Their room rates are IDR 1,250,000 (Suite), IDR 975,000 (Deluxe) and IDR 750,000 (Standard).

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

The boat of the fisherman in Klungkung cacnot be used because the lack of fule avalable in the regency

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14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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WHO urges stiff regulatory curbs on e-cigarettes Reuters

GENEVA/LONDON - The World Health Organization (WHO) called for stiff regulation of electronic cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors, in the latest bid to control the booming new market.

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In this April 23, 2014, file photo, an electronic cigarette is demonstrated in Chicago.

Do-it-yourself blood pressure care can beat MDs

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CHICAGO — “Do-it-yourself” blood pressure measurements and medicine changes work better than usual doctor-office care in some patients, a study of older adults in England found.

Those who did their own readings at home and adjusted their medicine as needed had healthier blood pressure levels after a year than those who got standard doctors’ care.

Self-care patients weren’t completely on their own — any changes they made were part of a treatment plan previously approved by their doctors. But the patients didn’t need to consult their doctors every time they increased the dose if it was part of the original treatment plan.

Why self-management worked best is uncertain, but patients who participated were taking more medication than the others and were perhaps more vigilant than doctors treating the usualcare group, the study suggests.

It’s possible usual-care doctors had “clinical inertia” — a phenomenon described in other research showing that physicians often fail to increase blood pressure medication doses even when office measurements show patients’ levels are too high, said study author Richard McManus, a professor and researcher at the University of Oxford.

The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults have high blood pressure — measuring 140 over 90 or higher — but only about half of them have it adequately controlled, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

High blood pressure rates are similar in England, health surveys there have found.

The study involved 450 patients with previous heart trouble, strokes, diabetes or kidney disease, aged 70 on average, who were followed for a year. About half got usual care; the

others did self-care.

Average blood pressure measurements at the study’s start were about 143 over 80. At the end, that dropped to about 128 over 74 in the self-care patients and 138 over 76 in the usualcare group.

That difference would be expected to result in a drop in heart problems or other complications, although more research is needed to evaluate longterm benefits, according to a JAMA editorial.

The researchers estimate that if the self-care group’s lower levels could be sustained, they’d likely see a 30 percent reduction in stroke risk compared with the other group.

Self-monitoring blood pressure is common in some countries and in the United Kingdom, and the study notes that blood pressure monitors are widely available there, costing as little as $25 (15 pounds, 18 euros). Similarly priced home blood-pressure monitors are sold in the United States.

In a long-awaited report that will be debated by member states at a meeting in October in Moscow, the United Nations health agency on Tuesday also voiced concern about the concentration of the $3 billion market in the hands of big tobacco companies.

“In a nutshell, the WHO report shows that e-cigarettes and similar devices pose threats to public health,” Douglas Bettcher, director of the agency’s department on noncommunicable diseases, told a news briefing in Geneva.

The uptake of e-cigarettes, which use battery-powered cartridges to produce a nicotine-laced vapour, has rocketed in the past two years, but there is fierce debate about the risks.

Because they are so new, there is a lack of long-term scientific evidence to support their safety, and some fear they could lead to nicotine addiction and tobacco smoking.

“We must emphasise that the onus of responsibility for showing safety, for answering many of these questions, must be on the com-

panies and the industries owning them,” Bettcher said.

“The reports finds, at this point in time anyway, that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that e-cigarettes help users to quit smoking or not. The jury is still out,” he said.

The European Union has already agreed to requirements around advertising and packaging to ensure the safety and quality of ecigarettes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed banning sales to anyone under 18 but no curbs on advertising.

Activists welcomed the WHO recommendations.

“As Big Tobacco corners the e-cigarette market, it is using ecigarettes as a global PR scheme to gloss over its tarnished image, positioning itself as a ‘solution’ to the problem it drives. In reality, the e-cigarette industry is taking advantage of the regulatory vacuum to employ the Big Tobacco playbook to hook a new generation on its products,” said John Stewart of the U.S.-based group Corporate Accountability International.

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In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo, Monica Torres, left, checks the blood pressure of Esther Fisher, right, during an event at the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Miss.

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Five ASEAN countries sign women’s political declaration

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DENPASAR - Five ASEAN member countries have signed the declaration of “Transforming Women’s Political Participation into Active Citizens in Southeast Asia” as an effort to fight for gender equality in politics.

The five countries include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Timor Leste, chairman of the Indonesian Women’s Coalition (KPI), Dian Kartikasari said on Tuesday.

“To date, the five countries have been struggling to increase the number of women getting elected and proving to be able to sit in parliament,” Dian noted.

According to her, women’s coalition members have realized that representation of women in the field of politics is important in advancing gender equality, freedom, human rights, and democracy as a whole.

“They also urged that sustainable development and peace can be achieved by ensuring the participation of women in politics,” Dian stated.

The declaration also called for actions in several areas, including the involvement of women in government and politics through direct representatives or freely elected.

Likewise, the declaration has urged an increased access for women politicians to take the position of leader and decision maker, to enable them to actively voice their political rights.

“They should be able to change the paradigm that will help women to become leaders or equal partners with men in the community of Southeast Asia,” Dian added.

The meeting carried the theme “Women in Political Leadership in Southeast Asia.”

Media plays active role in creating world peace

Antara NUSA DUA - Director of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for Jakarta Branch Hubert Gijzen reported that media has an important role in establishing world peace.

“Media is the agent of change to be a part of overcoming the world’s problems, including creating peace and reducing poverty,” Gijzen noted.

The forum is targeted to encourage media role in creating the desired future.

Gijzen expressed hope that Media could contribute on the international debate that is ongoing on the importance of media, information, and communication technology for sustainable peace and development, and provide inputs for post-2015 development.

“Currently, a number of growing media are available in Indonesia, which are being dominated by cellphone owners by accessing social media,” stated the Indonesian Information and Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring while opening the forum.

Separately in the same occasion, the Public Information and Communication Director General from the Indonesian Information and Communication Ministry Freddy Tulung emphasized that Indonesian journalists must show off their competency in this event and must utilize it as a knowledge exchange program with fellow foreign journalists.

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Heather Mack, the daughter of an American woman found dead inside a suitcase on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, gestures while in custody in a police station in Denpasar August 14, 2014.

Bali suitcase murder case

U.S. suspect appoints new lawyer

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DENPASAR - A U.S. teenager detained in Bali in connection with the grisly death of her mother has hired a new Indonesian lawyer on the advice of her U.S.-based legal team, her police-appointed attorney said.

Heather Mack, 19, was scheduled to be questioned by police this week when she would be advised by a new lawyer, Haposan Sihombing, her current legal representative, told Reuters.

“We received a letter from (Chicago-based attorney) Michael Elkin...to appoint an Indonesian lawyer by the name of Raja Nasution,” Sihombing said. He did not elaborate.

Mack, 19, from Chicago, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, were arrested on Aug. 13 as suspects in the

death of Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, whose battered body was found in a suitcase in a taxi outside the resort island of Bali’s luxury St. Regis hotel.

An official at the hospital that conducted the autopsy said von WieseMack had been repeatedly hit on the face and head with a blunt object.

Mack and her mother had a troubled relationship and von Wiese-Mack had frequently reported that her daughter punched and bit her, according to police reports cited by Chicago media.

Von Wiese-Mack had recently moved to a condominium in Chicago.

Her husband, and Heather’s father, classical music composer James Mack, died in 2006.

Mack has so far refused to make a statement to police or to Sihombing.

It was not clear whether Schaefer has retained an American attorney.

The two suspects have not been formally charged with a crime. Under Indonesian law, charges would follow an investigation that could take weeks.

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The former Regent of Klungkung I Wayan Candra, center, is arrested by the police due to the fraud case of Gunaksa Quay

Gunaksa Quay case

State losses reach more than IDR 7 billion Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - State losses related to the allegation of corruption case in the land acquisition for Gunaksa Quay is in fantastic amount. Head of Klungkung District Attorney, Totok Bambang Sapto Dwijo, said on Tuesday (Aug 26) that it valued at over IDR 7 billion. Even, the amount of state loss could increase following the recent findings of the investigations.

The amount of state losses was quite surprising. Actually, the total cost of compensation when the land acquisition was carried out for road access and jetty area of the Gunaksa Quay reached IDR 17 billion. The element of state losses was found through the investigation by an investigator team assisted by the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis (PPATK). Currently, the exact amount of state losses continued to be explored by the investigator team, both in the allegation of corruption case of the land acquisition and money laundering.

Especially for the money laundering case, his party affirmed the flow should be clarified. It would be investigated about who gave the money, where it sourced from, to whom the money handed over and where it was saved. All these elements were explored in order to clarify and determine the next steps. However, from the results of initial investigation on the money laundering (TPPU), there were quite a lot of properties having been traced by the investigator team. Possibly in the near future, there would the prop-

erty of the suspect Candra that would be confiscated by the investigator team.

“The properties to be confiscated have been listed,” he said. Unfortunately, the list of the properties to be confiscated was still concealed. However, information in the circle of the Klungkung District Attorney mentioned that one of the properties owned by the former Regent Candra was included in the confiscation list. It was a magnificent house located on Jalan Bypass IB Mantra Klungkung named Puri Cempaka. Even, from the results of the Candra’s case investigation, the Head of District Attorney affirmed there was possibility to reveal the other cases alleged to ensnare the former regent of Klungkung from Pikat village serving for two periods.

Totok asserted that as long as there were new materials, his party would continue to follow up. He asked the public of Klungkung to help find the evidence related to the previous cases leading to the involvement of Candra. “Please help me collect the evidence. Having got sufficient evidence, we will surely follow up

other cases,” he said. In response to the possibility to the handling case leading to the other cases, a community leader of Klungkung, Dewa Sena, expected the District Attorney could reveal the previous unresolved cases.

He expressed, Klungkung had a bad experience in law enforcement. Many corruption cases were revealed and they alleged to involve Candra. Although a number of suspects had been established, ultimately they ended with the Warrant of Investigation Termination (SP3). It happened to the case on the procurement of fishing boat (2004), gratification of Municipal Waterworks or PDAM (2008), office construction of the Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency (2008) and other cases.

His party did not want if the handling of the corruption allegation cases related to the land procurement and physical development of Gunaksa Quay would face the same end. “Today, there is a turning point to restore public confidence in law enforcement by Klungkung District Attorney in the handling of corruption cases,” he said. He judged the Gunaksa Quay case was only a fraction of the alleged corruption cases occurred within the past 10 years during the leadership of Wayan Candra. He hoped the handling of the cases could become the entry point in revealing other cases considered to have proliferated in Klungkung. (kmb31)

Due to drought, Tegallinggah villagers must buy water Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Drought condition is still experienced by the community of Tegallinggah, Sukasada subdistrict. One of the local residents, Wayan Sukarni, 50, should purchase clean water. Moreover, to get the clean water she had to stand in line at local water cistern and brought it home on the head by jerrycan, Tuesday afternoon (Aug 26).

She claimed to forcibly purchase clean water on foot along 200 meters considering it was difficult to get clean water at the village during dry season and prolonged drought. Moreover, it had not rained for so long. The clean water purchased was used for cooking, bathing and washing clothes of her husband and children.

Local residents purchased water at the home of Made Sugianta. When arriving at location, residents should line up by sequencing their jerrycan and waiting the turn to purchase the clean water. The price of water was IDR 1,000 per small jerrycan and they were respectively charged with subscription fee at IDR 15,000 each month. “Since my childhood, it’s been indeed difficult to get water here, sir. I am accustomed to doing this because I am not tired. With IDR 1,000, I can purchase a jerrycan of water and we have to queue for that,” she said.

Meanwhile, Made Sugianta, 55, whose home had water connection said the water sourced from Subak Tying Tali. For the operating cost to get the clean water, he should pay at IDR 400,000 each month to subak. “The water subscription each month reaches IDR 400,000, while we charge the residents at IDR 1,000 to get the clean water. When the connection does not work, we will not charge anything to housewives because it’s a pity that they experience water difficulty here,” he said. (kmb34)

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, second left, welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, second right, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, to their talks after after posing for a photo in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014.

No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s ruling party convened on Wednesday to confirm Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as its new chairman and prime minister-designate, to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he becomes president — a position he has pledged to transform from a ceremonial post to one of real power. Erdogan hand-picked his stalwart ally to succeed him and the 55-year old is standing unopposed for chairman of the Justice and Development Party at its extraordinary congress. Erdogan, Turkey’s first popularly elected president, is to be sworn in Thursday.

Davutoglu is expected to play a largely backseat role, allowing Erdogan — who has dominated Turkish politics for over a decade — to keep a grip on the running of the country. Although the office of president is mainly ceremonial, Erdogan has said he will activate its seldom-used powers, such as summoning, and presiding over Cabinet meetings.

Erdogan told delegates that he would appoint Davutoglu to form the new government immediately after his inauguration ceremony and that a new government would be in place by Friday.

Davutoglu has steered Turkish foreign policy as Erdogan’s chief adviser since 2003 and as foreign minister since 2009. Though he won praise in his early years for efforts to forge closer ties with Turkey’s old foes, detractors say his “zero problems with neighbors” policy has since unraveled, leaving Turkey with very few allies in the Middle East.

Davutoglu’s main task will be to keep the party together after Erdogan — Turkish history has two examples of former prime ministers who sought to maintain control of parliament after moving to the presidency, only to see their parties collapse.

He will also be tasked with leading the party to victory in parliamentary elections in June 2015, when Erdogan hopes to secure a strong majority that would allow the party to rewrite the constitution and change Turkey’s political system to a presidential one.

Associated Press Writer

MINSK, Belarus — Ukraine’s president said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin accepts the principles of a peace plan for Ukraine but the Russian leader insisted that only Kiev can reach a cease-fire deal with the pro-Moscow separatists. Following meetings between Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that included a one-on-one session that stretched into the night, there was no indication of a quick end to the fighting that has engulfed eastern Ukraine.

“This is not our business,” Putin said of any cease-fire plan. “This is Ukraine’s business.” Russia “can only help to create an atmosphere of trust for this important and necessary process,” Putin said. “We in Russia cannot talk about any conditions for the cease-fire, about any agreements between Kiev, Donetsk, Luhansk,” the two rebel regions.

Although Poroshenko told reporters that he had secured support for a peace plan from leaders who attended the summit and Putin called the sessions “overall positive,” the first substantial encounter between the two leaders did not produce a breakthrough in efforts to end the fighting.

If anything, there were signs of spreading violence. For the past two days, heavy shelling hit an area of southeast Ukraine that had escaped the intense fighting of recent weeks, and Ukrainian officials said the pro-Russia separatists it has been

battling were aiming to open a new front. The meeting in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, also came on the same day that Ukraine said it captured 10 Russian soldiers who had come over the border.

Putin did not directly address the allegation but appeared to tacitly recognize it and suggested that the soldiers simply had become lost. “I haven’t received a report from the defense ministry and the general staff yet, but the first thing I have heard is that that they were patrolling the border and may have found themselves on the Ukrainian territory,” Putin said.

Shortly after becoming president in June, Poroshenko put forth a peace plan that included an amnesty for those not accused of serious crimes and called for some decentralization of power to the region.

Early Wednesday, he said “I can say that the logic of this peaceful plan was finally supported by all,

without exclusion, of the heads of state,” according to the Interfax news agency.

However, Putin said there was no specific talk about implementing a cease-fire because Russia is not a party to the conflict. Moscow is accused by Kiev and the West of arming and supporting the rebels — a charge the Kremlin denies — and it is not clear how much it is willing or able to try to pressure them into ending the fighting.

Besides their face-to-face talks, Putin and Poroshenko also met Tuesday with the presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus and top European Union officials. The presence of the other two presidents highlighted one of the difficult issues of Ukraine-Russia tensions: Their countries are part of a trade bloc with Russia, and Moscow fears that Poroshenko’s determination to pursue closer ties with the EU will hurt Russia’s economy.

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President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu embrace in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014.

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Malaysia Airlines staff brace for job cuts

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KUALA LUMPUR - As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with their pink and turquoise uniforms, sobbed and clung to each other in grief.

The 19,500 staff of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) now face a new ordeal - a quarter of them may lose their jobs at the unprofitable airline, hit by two jet disasters this year. Flight MH370 remains untraced since its disappearance en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March.

Deep job losses, route cuts and a change of leadership are expected to feature in a restructuring plan being prepared by Malaysia’s government for announcement as early as Thursday, when MAS also reports second-quarter results. Likely the last before being de-listed, the numbers are expected to show plunging ticket sales and heavy losses even before July’s shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine.

As state fund Khazanah Nasional, the majority owner, prepares to take the company private and inject efficiency into the airline, it must tackle crumbling staff morale and win over the powerful main labour union if turnaround efforts are to succeed.

“MAS is suffering from an image problem and a problem with the staff,” said Nik Huslan, former chief pilot at MAS. “They have to find someone the staff can respect and rally behind.”

Even before the lost aircraft tragedies, airline insiders said staff discontent had been growing for years due to strategy U-turns, leadership changes and poor career prospects.

One of the region’s most prestigious and fastest-growing airlines in the 1990s, MAS has steadily fallen

behind high-end rivals such as Singapore Airlines and been battered by the rise of Asia’s budget carriers like AirAsia. The company hasn’t made an annual profit since 2010.

This year’s twin disasters have caused new stresses. A total of 186 MAS flight crew quit between January and July, many of them due to family pressure not to fly after the crashes, MAS says. Over 5,000 MAS staff work as cabin crew or pilots and the airline says the resignation rate has now returned to normal.

About a quarter of MAS staff are likely to lose their jobs under Khazanah’s plan, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The pill is likely to be sweetened with costly redundancy packages and offers of jobs at other state enterprises.

The company has cut fares on most of its routes in an attempt to lure back nervous passengers, though it is too early to gauge its success. It has almost doubled its commission payments to Australiabased travel agents to revive sales there, according to Australian media reports.

Malaysia Airlines executives told Reuters that the tragedies had served as a wake-up call to staff, and even to recalcitrant union bosses, that drastic change could no longer be avoided if the 42-year-old company is to survive.

“There needs to be a change in the mindset, and people are coming around to that,” said one senior executive. “People must realise that they may need to work differently - the

WELLINGTON — New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Wednesday it’s forming a partnership with China’s Beingmate to help meet growing demand for infant formula in the world’s most populous nation.

Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, said it plans to take a stake of up to 20 percent in Beingmate, an infant food company

based in Hangzhou.

Fonterra said the two companies also plan to establish a joint venture in Australia to purchase Fonterra’s Darnum plant. Fonterra said Beingmate will own 51 percent of the joint venture to satisfy Chinese regulatory requirements and Fonterra will supply the plant with raw milk.

Fonterra said its total investment in the partnership would be up to 615 million New Zealand dollars ($513 million). It remains

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Regatta thronged by participants on Kerobokan Beach Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Excitement of hundreds of sail boats looked vibrant along the Kerobokan Beach, Sawan subdistrict, Buleleng County. A total of 102 participants joined the regatta by passing through the groove of Binaria Beach, Lovina. From the morning, hundreds of people seemed to throng the Kerobokan Beach to watch the regatta becoming an annual event of the Buleleng County, Tuesday morning (Aug 26).

Each subdistrict sent a representative to participate in the regatta event. They were obliged to cover a distance of 12 kilometers in 30

minutes. Each boat was controlled by two people, so that they seemed excited though facing difficulty in controlling the boat while trying

to unfold the sail. At that time, the wind was blowing from the west to the east, while the participants should sail to the west. Quite a lot of obstacles were faced by participants but they did not discourage to paddle to finish line.

During the race, people were vivacious to watch. It was disclosed by the Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna. Total participant involved this year reached one hundred that

exceeded the amount of last year reaching less than one hundred.

“We will hold this kind of regatta every year due to people’s enthusiasm was very high. In addition to entertainment, this regatta also poses a way to preserve the tradition of fishing in coastal area of Buleleng,” he told reporter of Bali Post.

The regatta activity was inaugurated by the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, who

on the occasion was welcomed with baleganjur gamelan orchestra and helped distribute fingerlings.

He said the regatta posed a means of cultural preservation and appreciation to the role of fishermen in Buleleng. “We will attempt to preserve all kinds of marine activities considering that Buleleng has the longest coastline in Bali.

Surely we should be proud of and keep preserving it,” he said. (kmb34)

REUTERS/Olivia Harris

Ground crew work among Malaysia Airlines planes on the runway at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang July 25, 2014. The 19,500 staff of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) now face a new ordeal - a quarter of them may lose their jobs at the unprofitable airline, hit by two jet disasters this year.

crew may have to work longer shifts or they may have shorter layovers.

The engineers may have to work a bit longer or clear aircraft faster.”

But such demands would also have to be leavened with incentives to encourage staff, or at least a convincing message that they will eventually see benefits, the main union has warned.

“We want to see things in total, and what the long-term plan is,” said Mohd Jabarullah Abdul Kadir, executive secretary of the Malaysia Airlines Employees Union (MASEU), which represents 13,000 of the carrier’s staff. “If there are retrenchments, they cannot cut staff

numbers without basis.”

For Prime Minister Najib Razak, who chairs Khazanah, the plan will be seen as the latest gauge of his credentials as a reformer in Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy.

State firms are used as one tool to reinforce affirmative action policies favouring majority ethnic Malays over other races and are heavily intertwined with Najib’s long-ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). The main union at MAS has close ties to UMNO - and has successfully resisted previous restructuring attempts.

Crew who have worked at the airline recently complained about

a lack of opportunities to progress in their careers. Cabin crew are typically offered five-year contracts, they said, after which they start from scratch with a new five-year deal.

The sober demeanour of current chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, who relaxes by competing in triathlons, is a stark contrast to the brash showmanship of Malaysia’s most famous airline boss, Tony Fernandes of budget carrier AirAsia.

Others say previous changes in the carrier’s management have failed to wipe out inefficiencies, while breeding scepticism among staff that new leadership can bring lasting improvements.

Fonterra to invest in China infant formula company

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subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals.

Fonterra Chief Executive Theo Spierings said the partnership will be a “game-changer” that will provide a direct line into China’s infant formula market.

“By working together with Beingmate, we will strengthen our infant formula brand presence in China and link China to high-quality ingredients from New Zealand,” Spierings said.

Many Chinese parents remain skeptical of the purity of local infant formula and prefer to buy more expensive imported products.

In 2008, six babies died after local Chinese milk formula was tainted with the chemical melamine.

At the time, Fonterra was a minority shareholder in one of the dairy companies that had tainted its milk. It was applauded by some in China for helping to be a whistleblower in the scandal.

Fonterra is New Zealand’s largest business, with annual revenue of $16 billion. It’s a cooperative owned by farmers and is a lynchpin of the nation’s economy.

In a separate announcement Wednesday, Fonterra said it plans to invest 555 million New Zealand dollars ($463 million) in building a new high-efficiency milk powder drying plant in New Zealand and increasing milk processing capacity elsewhere in the country.

Incredible India at 9th SVF 2014 IBP/Courtesy of India Consulate General

In its effort to reach out to each & every member of the Balinese community, the Consulate General of India in Bali presented Indian art & culture through soulful Indian music & classical dances as well as Incredible India tourism promotion.

IBP DENPASAR - In its effort to reach out to each & every member of the Balinese community, the Consulate General of India in Bali presented Indian art & culture through soulful Indian music & classical dances as well as Incredible India tourism promotion alongside its various programmes for education and capacity building of the Balinese at the just concluded Sanur Village Festival, which ran from 20 to 24 August 2014.

The Sanur Village Festival honoured the memory of India’s first Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, who described the island of Bali as the “Morning of the World”,

which has been adopted by the Festival as its theme. This was eloquently explained by the Denpasar Mayor during the inauguration event.

The Consulate contributed two photographs to the photo exhibition currently on at the Santrian Art Gallery from 15 August to 5 September 2014. These photographs show Prime Minister Nehru, along with President Sukarno, during his first visit to Bali in June 1950.

The ‘Incredible India’ booth set up for the first time at this year’s Sanur Village Festival with support from the India Tourist Office (ITO), Singapore, disseminated information on tourism destinations in India, including for religious pilgrimage

(tirtha yatra) not only for Hindus but also for the followers of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, besides adventure tourism, heritage tourism, medical tourism, wildlife tourism, wellness, golf, MICE etc.

The pavilion announced commencement of new classes at the Indian Cultural Centre in Renon, Denpasar for learning Sanskrit, Hindi, Yoga, including Yoga Teachers’ Training Course, as also Ayurveda treatment and therapies, including Abhyangam & Panchakarma, with free registration offered during the festival period.

All these courses are conducted by competent professionals from India.

Ayurvedacharya Dr. Parveen Kumar

is a BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery) graduate from the University of Health Sciences in Haryana while the Yoga Guru Parveen Kumar is an accomplished Yoga teacher and has been teaching yoga for past several years. The language courses of Sanskrit & Hindi are also conducted by certified professional teachers from India.

The pavilion provided an opportunity for the Balinese community and the students to learn about scholarship and capacity building programmes of the Government of India to pursue higher education and skills development in Indian institutions.

Johar Ali, the outstanding great

artiste, currently teaching music at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Cultural Centre (JNICC) in Jakarta, performed Indian classical, semiclassical & popular music/songs on his violin, to great appreciation of the audience, with Steve Bolton & Gita Yuliani accompanying him on Tabla. He performed twice on 22 & on 23 August 2014 at the Sanur Village Festival. For the first time in Bali, Indian classical music was played on the traditional Balinese Gamelan, which was beautifully choreographed by a noted Balinese artiste, Sinta Wulur. Classical Kathak dance from India was performed

by Werdi, a senior student of the ICC, Bali.

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Journalist’s killing highlights freelancers’ role

company GlobalPost, one of the organizations he freelanced for, went “above and beyond” in working behind the scenes to try to get him freed. But other freelancers may not get that kind of backing, she said.

Major news organizations may have a risk assessment team determining whether a place is safe and things for employees like hostile environment training, health insurance, life insurance, kidnap and ransom insurance and expensive protective equipment including helmets and fitted body armor.

Reporters Without Borders tries to fill the gap by loaning freelancers protective gear and GPS personal distress beacons, and providing safety training sessions and insurance, said Delphine Halgand, the U.S. director of the Paris-based group.

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Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual “tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014.

Annual tomato battle leaves Spanish town red Associated Press Writer

BUNOL, Spain — The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” battle that has become a major tourist attraction.

At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 125 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants —many from abroad — to

throw during the hour-long morning festivities.

This was the second year nonresident participants were charged — 10 euros ($13) — to take part. The town of about 20,000 people began charging to help pay off debts of some 5.5 million euros. The event was sold out weeks ahead.

The event was inspired by a food fight between local children in 1945 in the tomato-producing region.

IMF’s Lagarde put under investigation in French fraud case

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Candles are lighted on the town common during a vigil for James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, N.H., Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Foley, a freelance journalist, was killed earlier in the week by Islamic State militants. He was abducted in November 2012 while covering fighting in Syria.

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President-elect to announce cabinet in early October

WASHINGTON — Journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Peter Theo Curtis all shared one thing in common when they were captured by Islamic militants in Syria: the title “freelance journalist.” mon, who worked as a freelancer himself in Latin America. If freelancers are injured or detained, for example, it can take longer for word to get out because no one is monitoring their whereabouts — and early intervention can be crucial to their survival, he said.

According to the committee’s data, just under half of the 70 journalists killed in Syria since the conflict began in 2011 have been freelancers. Foley, who was beheaded by Islamic militants in a grisly video released last week, is one of them, and militants threatened to make Sotloff their next victim. Other militants freed Curtis on Sunday.

Ellen Shearer, the co-director of Northwestern University’s National Security Journalism Initiative and one of Foley’s former professors, said when Foley went missing in 2012, the Boston-based media

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The role of freelancers, who make a living by selling individual stories, photos and video to multiple media outlets, has expanded across conflict zones in recent years with the spread of technology and social media. Some are cautious and well-trained; Others take major risks. And they often lack the institutional support that staff journalists receive if they get into trouble in a conflict zone.

“There is no question that people with less experience and less support are venturing out into conflict zones and seeking to make their name as journalists,” said Joel Simon, the executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

While freelance journalists make important contributions, those who go into danger without the support of an established organization can face immense challenges, said Si-

International

PARIS - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has been placed under formal investigation by French magistrates for negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

Lawyer Yves Repiquet told Reuters that Lagarde, who this week was questioned by magistrates in Paris for a fourth time under her existing status as a witness in the long-running saga, said the step was unfounded.

“We are appealing it,” Repiquet said by telephone, adding that Lagarde, who was due to return to IMF headquarters in Washington later on Wednesday, had no plans to resign.

In French law, magistrates place someone under formal investigation when they believe there are indications of wrongdoing, but that does not always lead to a trial.

The inquiry relates to allegations tycoon Bernard Tapie, a supporter of conservative ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, was improperly awarded 403 million euros in an arbitration to settle a dispute with now defunct, state-

owned bank Credit Lyonnais.

The inquiry has already embroiled several of Sarkozy’s cabinet members and France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard, who was an aide to Lagarde when she was Sarkozy’s finance minister.

In previous rounds of questioning, Lagarde accused Richard of having used her pre-printed signature to sign off on a document facilitating the payment, local media has said. However Richard has stated that Lagarde was fully briefed on the matter.

Investigators are trying to determine whether Tapie’s political connections played a role in the government’s decision to resort to arbitration that won him a huge pay-out.

The offence of negligence by a person charged with public responsibility in France carries a maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment and a 15,000-euro fine.

Lagarde has been managing director of the IMF since July 2011. The IMF last year said that the global lender’s board had discussed possible consequences of the Tapie case and determined that she would be able to lead.

JAKARTA - Joko Widodo will announce his cabinet team in early October, according to a senior adviser to the president-elect, as he steps up preparations to become the next leader of the world’s third largest democracy.

All eyes are on Widodo’s choices to head the main economic ministries, who will inherit problems in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy ranging from a widening current account deficit and cooling investment to the slowest growth since 2009.

But the most pressing problem will be cutting big fuel subsidies, a politically sensitive issue that raises the spectre of protests within weeks of the new administration taking office.

“Subsidies are a top priority for us to solve,” said Luhut Panjaitan, an adviser on the team handling Widodo’s transition into office and a leading contender for the position of chief economics minister.

“With a huge fuel subsidy how

can you send a good signal to the markets?”

Widodo narrowly won last month’s election and is set to take office on Oct. 20. He is bound by law to appoint a cabinet within two weeks of his inauguration.

According to an economic adviser to Widodo, those in the running to become chief economics minister, who aims to coordinate the work of different ministries, include Panjaitan, Rini Soemarno, former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, central bank governor Agus Martowardojo and a former central bank governor, Darmin Nasution.

Soemarno, a close aide of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri

Newmont drops action against Indonesia over ore ban

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JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont said it has withdrawn an international arbitration claim against Indonesia over a controversial mineral ore export ban after a breakthrough in talks with the government.

Last month, Newmont announced it was seeking a ruling at the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes to allow it to resume exports of copper from its huge mine in central Indonesia.

But the company announced it was withdrawing the arbitration filing, saying it hoped the move would help it strike a deal with the government.

“The decision to discontinue and withdraw arbitration comes after commitments from senior government officials,” said Newmont’s Indonesian unit in a statement late Tuesday.

It added the officials had pledged to open “formal negotiations” on a new agreement with Newmont that would allow it to resume work at its Batu Hijau mine, on condition the legal action was withdrawn.

Exports from Batu Hijau have been halted since January, when Southeast Asia’s top economy introduced a ban

on shipments of some unprocessed minerals, and higher taxes on others that can still be shipped out of the country.

It is one of a raft of economic policies that critics have dubbed “resource nationalism”, and which are pushed by politicians who argue that Indonesia is losing out by allowing foreign firms easy access to lucrative industries.

Copper concentrate, a partially processed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments.

But Newmont refused, saying that the levies conflict with its original agreements to operate in Indonesia, and stopped exports.

In June it ceased production at Batu Hijau after its stores filled up, declared “force majeure” to avoid penalties on missed deliveries, and sent thousands of workers on temporary leave.

Freeport-McMoRan also halted exports from Indonesia after locking horns with the government over the new regulations. But it resumed shipments earlier in August after a six-month hiatus following a new agreement with officials.

and head of Widodo’s transition office, has kept a low profile since serving as trade and industry minister in Megawati’s administration 10 years ago.

Educated abroad, she won respect in business circles as head of Astra International, the country’s largest automobile distributor. She told Reuters this month it was too early to comment on the possibility of taking a ministry job.

Sri Mulyani won praise for her reformist approach as finance minister under Yudhoyono but resigned in 2010 amid political pressure. She is a managing director at the World Bank.

Martowardojo and Nasution both have technocratic backgrounds.

Widodo is scheduled to meet outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week to discuss the possibility of raising fuel prices before the October handover.

“We are hoping Yudhoyono agrees to increase fuel prices otherwise there

is no room for Jokowi’s cabinet to move,” Panjaitan said, referring to Widodo by his nickname.

Panjaitan said an increase of 3,000 rupiah (25 U.S. cents) per litre would

help save $15 billion next year.

Indonesia has among the lowest gasoline prices in the region, at 6,500 rupiah a litre. Nearly 40 percent of Indonesians live on $2 a day.

ANTARA FOTO/Vitalis Yogi Trisna

Joko Widodo will announce his cabinet team in early October, according to a senior adviser to the president-elect, as he steps up preparations to become the next leader of the world’s third largest democracy.

Parlianment passes law on geothermal energy Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The Indonesian parliament on Tuesday passed a longawaited law to bolster the geothermal energy industry and tap the power of the vast archipelago’s scores of volcanoes.

Made up of thousands of islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans, Indonesia is home to some 130 volcanoes and is estimated to hold around 40 percent of the world’s geothermal potential.

However it produces only a tiny fraction of its energy by converting underground heat into electricity, and lags far behind others such as the United States and the neighbouring Philippines.

Red tape and legal uncertainty have long held back the industry and obstructed much-needed investment, but the government hopes the new law will speed up the development of the sector.

Most importantly, it stipulates that exploration for geothermal energy and

development of plants is no longer considered mining.

It was regarded as such previously, which meant the industry faced problems working in Indonesia’s vast tracts of protected forest, where there is much geothermal potential but mining is illegal.

The law also stipulates higher prices for electricity produced by geothermal, following complaints from companies developing plants that tariffs were not enough to cover the high cost of production.

“Indonesia’s need for energy keeps increasing,” lawmaker Nazarudin Kiemas, who headed a parliamentary committee on the new law, was quoted as saying on the legislature’s website.

“There is abundant potential for geothermal energy.”

Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must sign off on the new law, but that is expected to be a formality.

Indonesia is estimated to have more than 28,000 megawatts of geothermal

potential but is currently producing just over 1,300 MW of its electricity from the clean source.

Most of its electricity comes from coal and oil.

High cost has long been one of the major obstacles. A geothermal plant costs about twice as much as a coal-fired power station, and can take many more years in research and development to get online.

But once established, geothermal plants like the one built in Kamojang on the main island of Java in the 1980s can convert the endless supply of volcanic heat into electricity with much lower overheads -- and less pollution -- than coal.

Yudhoyono has also focused on geothermal as part of his plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.

Indonesia is the world’s thirdbiggest greenhouse gas emitter due its use of dirty fuels to produce electricity and to rampant deforestation.

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Enjoy civet coffee in Agro Tourism Tegalalang IBP

GIANYAR - In Bali, there are some areas which become a well-known coffee development such as Banyuatis Singaraja, Kintamani Bangli and Tegalalang Gianyar. However, most of them is not tourist attractions. So, for those who want to see the process of civet coffee, do not get confused. Just come to Bali Pulina in Ubud subdistrict, Gianyar.

Originally this place was a regular plantation. There were many plants, especially coffee, fruit and traditional Balinese spices. Because it has the tourism potential such as beautiful panorama, the owner, I Nyoman Diana, then opened it to the public as agro tourism area on January 19, 2011.

Traveler who entered the Bali Pulina is free of charge. Even, the staff will offer the guest eight kinds of herbal beverages plus cassava chips from Bali in free of charge. For tourists who want to enjoy civet coffee in Bali Pulina, can order ready-made at a price of Rp. 50,000/cup.

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Teenager gatecrashes Serena and Federer party Reuters

NEW YORK - Despite boasting 34 grand slam singles titles between them, Serena Williams and Roger Federer were forced to share the spotlight with a 15-year-old at the U.S. Open on Tuesday as all three advanced to the second round. American wild card Catherine Bellis, the youngest player in the draw, took her place alongside the five-times U.S. champions by stunning 12th seeded Australian Open finalist Dominica Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-1 4-6 6-4.

The second-seeded Federer, looking to extend his record men’s haul of slam titles to 18, posted a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (4) demolition of Australian Marinko Matosevic as the 33-year-old’s boyhood idol Michael Jordan of basketball fame looked on. “He was just my hero of all sports,” said Federer, who has collaborated with Jordan on a sneakers design. “Besides (Stefan) Edberg and (Boris) Becker being my tennis idols, I had Jordan as my all-sports idol.”

Williams advanced 6-3 6-1 over unseeded fellow American Taylor Townsend as she followed Federer onto the Arthur Ashe Stadium court to cap the second day of the championships.

Should she go on to win the tournament, the two-times defending champion would join Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in fourth place on the all-time list of women’s

grand slam singles champions with 18 titles apiece. “Hopefully, I can just build on this,” said Williams, who has had a disappointing slam season with her best result a fourthround exit at the Australian Open back in January. Margaret Court (24), Steffi Graf (22) and Helen Wills Moody (19) are the only three women to have won more grand slam titles.

Energy Jolt Other leading contenders were keen to display their skills on a sunny day in Flushing Meadows. Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and runner-up Eugenie Bouchard launched their Open campaigns with a bang, blasting by their respective first-round opponents with a minimum of fuss.

They were joined in the second round by eighth-seeded former world number one Ana Ivanovic,

11th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta, 16th seed Victoria Azarenka and 2011 champion Sam Stosur, but the biggest jolt of energy was supplied

by Bellis.

Playing on the secondary Court Six, the teenager added her name to the record books by becoming the youngest female to win a match at the U.S. Open since Anna Kournikova in 1996. “I went into the match thinking it was going to be such a great experience,” said the pony-tailed Bellis, who received her wild card when she became the youngest player to win the girls’ 18s national championships since Lindsay Davenport in 1991.

“But I never thought I would come out on top winning. I’m still in shock about that match.” Thirdseeded Kvitova of the Czech Republic crushed Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-1 6-0, while Bouchard was nearly as efficient in dismissing Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-2 6-1 in the afternoon sunshine.

“I’m very happy. First round is always nerves,” said the hardhitting Kvitova, who won the lead-in tournament in New Haven last weekend. “It was the same today. When I wake up, I start to feel nervous. I was just glad how I played today.”

McLaren considering F1 options for Stoffel Vandoorne

McLaren is weighing up 2015 Formula 1 options for its junior driver Stoffel Vandoorne, but has not ruled out keeping him in GP2 for another season.

Vandoorne has made good progress in recent rounds, winning the sprint race at the Hungaroring and battling hard for the feature race

victory at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend before losing out to eventual winner Raffaele Marciello, who is part of Ferrari’s F1 junior scheme.

His run of form has left Vandoorne convinced he is ready for F1, and McLaren racing director Eric Boullier admitted on Tuesday that it

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was possible he could get promoted to either a test role or racing opportunity further down the grid in 2015.

“It is a little bit too early to take a decision,” said Boullier during a McLaren media phone-in. “I think if you have to go to F1, first he needs to feel ready, and I am happy that he feels ready. He also needs the opportunity to step into F1, but not in any condition [at all costs].

“We are now assessing all scenarios. I think GP2 is one of them, as he still has to learn more about GP2, get more wins and obviously fight for the championship.

“He is doing a good job for the first year. You can see really clear progress over the last few races.

“He is very dedicated and I am happy to see he is getting there - but it is too early to have plans, so everything is open.”

Vandoorne, who also won the GP2 season opener in Bahrain, thinks that his experience this season - allied to the F1 testing he did at Barcelona and Silverstone, means he feels the time is right to move up.

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Boxer Jermain Taylor arrested after home shooting Associated Press

MAUMELLE, Arkansas — Former middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor was arrested Friday following a shooting at his home in suburban Little Rock, Arkansas, according to a spokesman for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office.

“Mr. Taylor was arrested for domestic battery, first-degree, and aggravated assault,” said sheriff’s Lt. Carl Minden. “It was his cousin and another individual that came over to his house, an altercation ensued, he (Taylor) grabbed a weapon and opened fire.”

The cousin was hospitalized in serious condition with an apparent gunshot wound, the other man, described as a friend of the cousin, was not injured, Minden said. The two drove away from the home and were found at a Dollar General discount store several blocks away, Minden said, after a woman believed to be Taylor’s wife called 911 shortly before 6 p.m. to report an intruder and a shooting at the home. The names of the cousin and other man were not released.

Taylor, 36, was being held in the Pulaski County jail without bond early Wednesday, according to online jail records. His attorney did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Minden said the nature of the altercation between the men was still under investigation, and that Taylor was arrested without incident.

“He was very calm and very cooperative with our investigators,” according to Minden.

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Lampard retires from England, with tech his legacy Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Despite never winning a trophy with the so-called “golden generation,” Frank Lampard retired from England duty on Tuesday having provided his greatest legacy to football in one game he’d rather forget. The midfielder prompted the introduction of goal-line technology when he was denied a clear goal in England’s humiliating 4-1 loss to Germany at the 2010 World Cup. The referee’s mistake was so glaring that FIFA President Sepp Blatter quickly reversed his long-standing opposition to goal-line technology.

For the 2014 World Cup, FIFA used cameras in stadiums to instantly determine if a ball had crossed the line.

But as football entered a new era in Brazil, Lampard was in the final act of an international career that began in 1999. The 36-year-old midfielder made just one appearance at the World Cup, earning a 106th and final cap in a 0-0 draw against Costa Rica when England was already out of contention to advance from the group stage.

With the inquest into England’s

worst-ever World Cup showing still continuing, Lampard decided to follow captain Steven Gerrard into international retirement and leave qualifying for the 2016 European Championship to younger players.

“It has been a very tough decision for me to make, which is why I have given it so much thought since the World Cup,” Lampard said in a statement. “I have always been exceptionally proud and honored to represent my country and have to say looking back I have enjoyed every minute of wearing the England shirt.”

Lampard has just embarked on a new phase of his club career after a trophy-laden, 13-year spell at Chel-

sea was ended by the club in May. He joined New York City FC, which sent him back to the Premier League on loan to partner club Manchester City to prepare for the Major League Soccer team’s debut in 2015.

“Due to my club career now going in a different direction it is of utmost importance for me to consider my family first — also, to concentrate on how I can perform consistently to the best of my abilities over my next few years in club football,” Lampard said.

Lampard’s announcement comes a month after the 34-year-old Gerrard also decided to focus on his club career at Liverpool. Their international retirements draw a line

under a debate that dominated England discussion for years — whether Gerrard and Lampard could play together in midfield.

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 file photo, England’s Frank Lampard applauds supporters after defeating Moldova 5-0 in Chisinau, Moldova, in their G r o u p H F I FA World Cup qualifier soccer match.

Everton signs striker Samuel Eto’o on 2-year deal Associated Press

LIVERPOOL, England — Everton strengthened its attacking options by signing Samuel Eto’o on a two-year deal on Tuesday after the striker was released by Premier League rival Chelsea.

The 33-year-old Cameroon international, who scored 12 goals in 35 matches in his only season at Chelsea, is available to make his debut against the west London club on Saturday.

“I was impressed about the hunger he still has,” Everton man-

ager Roberto Martinez said. “For someone who has achieved nearly everything, he still has the desire he had at 15 when he went to Spain and showed what he could do. For many reasons he has got a point to prove.

“We are very excited and I think Everton is the perfect home for him. The fans will make him ready and feel sharp but we have got to be a bit patient with the fitness levels and make sure he is back to his best.” Eto’o is joining an Everton side which finished fifth in the Premier League last season.

“I have been very impressed by the style of play Everton adopt,” Eto’o said. “I could see straight away that at this club I will have the opportunity to play football.”

Before his move to English football, the striker won two Champions League titles, three Spanish league trophies and one Copa del Rey during a five-year spell with Barcelona. He then joined Inter Milan in 2009, helping the Italian club win the Serie A title, the Champions League, the Coppa Italia (twice) and the Club World Cup. Voted African

Footballer of the Year four times, he also helped his national team win the African Cup of Nations twice.

However, Eto’o signed for Everton hours after being dropped as Cameroon’s captain and permanently replaced by midfielder Stephane Mbia.

Eto’o had already been left out of coach Volker Finke’s initial squad for the final round of African Cup of Nations qualifiers starting next month, which could signal the end of his international career.

Palmeiras ends talks to sign Ronaldinho Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Brazilian club Palmeiras says it could not reach an agreement with former World Cup veteran Ronaldinho, ending its hopes of signing the player as part of its centennial celebrations Tuesday.

The club said on its official Twitter page that “negotiations between Palmeiras and Ronaldinho” ended after “the parts failed to reach a financial agreement.”

The 34-year-old Ronaldinho has been without a club since leaving

Atletico Mineiro in July, and talks had been under way for him to sign with Palmeiras for the remainder of the Brazilian league season.

The two-time FIFA world player of the year has hinted he may join a Major League Soccer team in 2015, but until then his goal is to keep playing in Brazil.

Palmeiras, the Brazilian club with the most national titles, celebrated its 100th anniversary on Tuesday.

It was the third time that Palmeiras negotiated to sign Ronaldinho since the player returned to Brazil

in 2011 after a successful career in Europe at clubs such as Barcelona and AC Milan.

Ronaldinho ended up joining Flamengo after his return, and a year later moved to Atletico Mineiro, which he led to its first Copa Libertadores title in 2013. That same year, Ronaldinho also helped the club win the traditional Minas Gerais state championship and the Recopa Sudamericana. He scored 28 goals in nearly 90 matches with the club.

Ronaldinho didn’t clearly explain why he decided to end his stint

with Atletico Mineiro. Local media said he was expected to join a club either in Asia or in the Arab world, but no deal was reached.

Ronaldinho’s brother and agent, Roberto Assis, reportedly offered him to several Brazilian clubs in recent weeks, including Corinthians, Santos, Gremio and Fluminense, but all negotiations failed. There were also rumors that the player would join Besiktas in Turkey and Boca Juniors in Argentina.

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Man United’s humiliation is Milton Keynes’ glory Reuters

LONDON - From being the most reviled club in British football, MK Dons woke up on Wednesday to find they had gained new friends all over the world with a single result. Derided since their formation a decade ago as an artificial “franchise” club, the League One (third tier) side caused widespread delight by inflicting a humiliating 4-0 defeat on Louis van Gaal’s supposedly mighty Manchester United.

It came on the day that United, English champions 13 times in the last 22 years, paid a British record transfer fee of almost sixty million pounds ($99.40 million) for Real Madrid’s Angel di Maria.

Van Gaal, who has yet to win in three competitive matches

for his new club, may have made ten changes for the game, but nobody in Milton Keynes, 45 miles north-west of London, was allowing that to detract from the greatest day in the history of the football club - and arguably the town itself.

Developed from a small village in the 1960s, with the aim of becoming a major regional centre, Milton Keynes had been best known until a decade ago for its roundabouts and iconic sculpture of concrete cows.

Then in 2003 Wimbledon football club, FA Cup winners 15 years earlier, were moved there from south London by their owners against the wishes of most supporters. The following year the name was changed to MK Dons, while dissenting fans formed their own club, AFC Wimbledon, who subsequently reached the Football League.

BAD FEELING

Bad feeling remains between the two, who have subsequently met twice in cup matches. The most recent occasion was a fortnight ago in the first round of the Capital One Cup, when a 3-1 victory earned MK Dons their glamour tie

against United. By winning it in such convincing fashion on Tuesday night, in front of a record attendance of 26,969, they hope to have thrown off the mantle of unpopularity in which they have always been shrouded.

“It’s the day we came of age,” the club’s owner and chairman Pete Winkelman, a former music executive, told BBC Radio on Wednesday. “We’re a young club with lots of controversy in the beginning and we’re proud to be making history at last.” Asked if it would lead to greater acceptance within football, he said: “I hope that it will allow the club to look forward.

“Since the club’s been in Milton Keynes it’s made a real difference locally.” Although the club have never played above the third tier, Winkelman has greater ambitions. “I’ve no doubt that one day Milton Keynes Dons will be a Premier League football team,” he said. “But whatever happens, that result will never be forgotten in Milton Keynes.”

Bayern agrees deal for Roma defender Benatia

Manchester United Manager Louis van Gaal, centre rear, shows his dejection after their defeat by MK Dons in their League Cup Second Round match at Stadium:mk, Milton Keynes, England, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2014. MK Dons defeated Manchester United 4-0.

Associated Press Writer

MUNICH — Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich says it has reached a deal with Roma to sign Morocco defender Mehdi Benatia. Benatia will travel to Munich soon to undergo a medical and is expected to sign a five-year contract.

Bayern says it has agreed with Roma not to disclose the terms of the deal. But Italian media reports say Roma was asking between €25 million ($32.98 million) and €30 million ($39.58 million) for the defender.

Bayern was looking for a defender after Javi Martinez tore knee ligaments, an injury that will keep him sidelined for about six months.

AP Photo/PA, Nick Potts

Celtic slammed after second Champions League exit

Reuters

Former Celtic players accused the club of refusing to invest sufficiently in the squad after the Scottish champions wasted a Champions League reprieve by crashing out of the competition in the play-off round.

Having been beaten 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw in the previous qualifying round, Celtic were reinstated in the tournament

by UEFA because the Polish club had fielded a suspended player for the last few minutes of the second leg.

However, after drawing 1-1 away

at Slovenian champions NK Maribor last week, they lost Tuesday’s home match 1-0 and will now play in the Europa League instead of the highly lucrative Champions League group stages.

Rubbing salt into the wounds of elimination is the fact that Norwegian manager Ronny Deila and his team have achieved the unwanted distinction of being knocked out of the same competition twice in three weeks.

“I think they’re stockpiling cash,” former Scottish international winger Andy Walker, who played almost 200 times for the club, told Sky Sports on Wednesday.

“They’re not prepared to pay serious money for anyone with pedigree. They’re very much a selling club.”

Former hero Charlie Nicholas was equally critical, claiming of the 45-time Scottish champions and 1967 European Cup winners: “The only interest of board members is cash and finance. That’s why they spend two million pounds ($3.31 million) on budget players who don’t have any experience of the Champions League.

“The quality they’ve brought in is very, very poor. In the cold light of day what’s going to happen is that fans won’t be turning up and Celtic can write off the trust that the fans were giving them.”

Terry Butcher, the former England international who played for great rivals Rangers, added: “They’re not even half the side they were. It’s really disappointing for Scottish football.”

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia,file

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2013 file picture AS Roma’s Mehdi Benatia, of Morocco, mimics shooting as he celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match against Catania in Rome’s Olympic Stadium.

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Lampard retires from England, with tech his legacy Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Despite never winning a trophy with the so-called “golden generation,” Frank Lampard retired from England duty on Tuesday having provided his greatest legacy to football in one game he’d rather forget. The midfielder prompted the introduction of goal-line technology when he was denied a clear goal in England’s humiliating 4-1 loss to Germany at the 2010 World Cup. The referee’s mistake was so glaring that FIFA President Sepp Blatter quickly reversed his long-standing opposition to goal-line technology.

For the 2014 World Cup, FIFA used cameras in stadiums to instantly determine if a ball had crossed the line.

But as football entered a new era in Brazil, Lampard was in the final act of an international career that began in 1999. The 36-year-old midfielder made just one appearance at the World Cup, earning a 106th and final cap in a 0-0 draw against Costa Rica when England was already out of contention to advance from the group stage.

With the inquest into England’s

worst-ever World Cup showing still continuing, Lampard decided to follow captain Steven Gerrard into international retirement and leave qualifying for the 2016 European Championship to younger players.

“It has been a very tough decision for me to make, which is why I have given it so much thought since the World Cup,” Lampard said in a statement. “I have always been exceptionally proud and honored to represent my country and have to say looking back I have enjoyed every minute of wearing the England shirt.”

Lampard has just embarked on a new phase of his club career after a trophy-laden, 13-year spell at Chel-

sea was ended by the club in May. He joined New York City FC, which sent him back to the Premier League on loan to partner club Manchester City to prepare for the Major League Soccer team’s debut in 2015.

“Due to my club career now going in a different direction it is of utmost importance for me to consider my family first — also, to concentrate on how I can perform consistently to the best of my abilities over my next few years in club football,” Lampard said.

Lampard’s announcement comes a month after the 34-year-old Gerrard also decided to focus on his club career at Liverpool. Their international retirements draw a line

under a debate that dominated England discussion for years — whether Gerrard and Lampard could play together in midfield.

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 file photo, England’s Frank Lampard applauds supporters after defeating Moldova 5-0 in Chisinau, Moldova, in their G r o u p H F I FA World Cup qualifier soccer match.

Everton signs striker Samuel Eto’o on 2-year deal Associated Press

LIVERPOOL, England — Everton strengthened its attacking options by signing Samuel Eto’o on a two-year deal on Tuesday after the striker was released by Premier League rival Chelsea.

The 33-year-old Cameroon international, who scored 12 goals in 35 matches in his only season at Chelsea, is available to make his debut against the west London club on Saturday.

“I was impressed about the hunger he still has,” Everton man-

ager Roberto Martinez said. “For someone who has achieved nearly everything, he still has the desire he had at 15 when he went to Spain and showed what he could do. For many reasons he has got a point to prove.

“We are very excited and I think Everton is the perfect home for him. The fans will make him ready and feel sharp but we have got to be a bit patient with the fitness levels and make sure he is back to his best.” Eto’o is joining an Everton side which finished fifth in the Premier League last season.

“I have been very impressed by the style of play Everton adopt,” Eto’o said. “I could see straight away that at this club I will have the opportunity to play football.”

Before his move to English football, the striker won two Champions League titles, three Spanish league trophies and one Copa del Rey during a five-year spell with Barcelona. He then joined Inter Milan in 2009, helping the Italian club win the Serie A title, the Champions League, the Coppa Italia (twice) and the Club World Cup. Voted African

Footballer of the Year four times, he also helped his national team win the African Cup of Nations twice.

However, Eto’o signed for Everton hours after being dropped as Cameroon’s captain and permanently replaced by midfielder Stephane Mbia.

Eto’o had already been left out of coach Volker Finke’s initial squad for the final round of African Cup of Nations qualifiers starting next month, which could signal the end of his international career.

Palmeiras ends talks to sign Ronaldinho Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Brazilian club Palmeiras says it could not reach an agreement with former World Cup veteran Ronaldinho, ending its hopes of signing the player as part of its centennial celebrations Tuesday.

The club said on its official Twitter page that “negotiations between Palmeiras and Ronaldinho” ended after “the parts failed to reach a financial agreement.”

The 34-year-old Ronaldinho has been without a club since leaving

Atletico Mineiro in July, and talks had been under way for him to sign with Palmeiras for the remainder of the Brazilian league season.

The two-time FIFA world player of the year has hinted he may join a Major League Soccer team in 2015, but until then his goal is to keep playing in Brazil.

Palmeiras, the Brazilian club with the most national titles, celebrated its 100th anniversary on Tuesday.

It was the third time that Palmeiras negotiated to sign Ronaldinho since the player returned to Brazil

in 2011 after a successful career in Europe at clubs such as Barcelona and AC Milan.

Ronaldinho ended up joining Flamengo after his return, and a year later moved to Atletico Mineiro, which he led to its first Copa Libertadores title in 2013. That same year, Ronaldinho also helped the club win the traditional Minas Gerais state championship and the Recopa Sudamericana. He scored 28 goals in nearly 90 matches with the club.

Ronaldinho didn’t clearly explain why he decided to end his stint

with Atletico Mineiro. Local media said he was expected to join a club either in Asia or in the Arab world, but no deal was reached.

Ronaldinho’s brother and agent, Roberto Assis, reportedly offered him to several Brazilian clubs in recent weeks, including Corinthians, Santos, Gremio and Fluminense, but all negotiations failed. There were also rumors that the player would join Besiktas in Turkey and Boca Juniors in Argentina.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

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Man United’s humiliation is Milton Keynes’ glory Reuters

LONDON - From being the most reviled club in British football, MK Dons woke up on Wednesday to find they had gained new friends all over the world with a single result. Derided since their formation a decade ago as an artificial “franchise” club, the League One (third tier) side caused widespread delight by inflicting a humiliating 4-0 defeat on Louis van Gaal’s supposedly mighty Manchester United.

It came on the day that United, English champions 13 times in the last 22 years, paid a British record transfer fee of almost sixty million pounds ($99.40 million) for Real Madrid’s Angel di Maria.

Van Gaal, who has yet to win in three competitive matches

for his new club, may have made ten changes for the game, but nobody in Milton Keynes, 45 miles north-west of London, was allowing that to detract from the greatest day in the history of the football club - and arguably the town itself.

Developed from a small village in the 1960s, with the aim of becoming a major regional centre, Milton Keynes had been best known until a decade ago for its roundabouts and iconic sculpture of concrete cows.

Then in 2003 Wimbledon football club, FA Cup winners 15 years earlier, were moved there from south London by their owners against the wishes of most supporters. The following year the name was changed to MK Dons, while dissenting fans formed their own club, AFC Wimbledon, who subsequently reached the Football League.

BAD FEELING

Bad feeling remains between the two, who have subsequently met twice in cup matches. The most recent occasion was a fortnight ago in the first round of the Capital One Cup, when a 3-1 victory earned MK Dons their glamour tie

against United. By winning it in such convincing fashion on Tuesday night, in front of a record attendance of 26,969, they hope to have thrown off the mantle of unpopularity in which they have always been shrouded.

“It’s the day we came of age,” the club’s owner and chairman Pete Winkelman, a former music executive, told BBC Radio on Wednesday. “We’re a young club with lots of controversy in the beginning and we’re proud to be making history at last.” Asked if it would lead to greater acceptance within football, he said: “I hope that it will allow the club to look forward.

“Since the club’s been in Milton Keynes it’s made a real difference locally.” Although the club have never played above the third tier, Winkelman has greater ambitions. “I’ve no doubt that one day Milton Keynes Dons will be a Premier League football team,” he said. “But whatever happens, that result will never be forgotten in Milton Keynes.”

Bayern agrees deal for Roma defender Benatia

Manchester United Manager Louis van Gaal, centre rear, shows his dejection after their defeat by MK Dons in their League Cup Second Round match at Stadium:mk, Milton Keynes, England, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2014. MK Dons defeated Manchester United 4-0.

Associated Press Writer

MUNICH — Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich says it has reached a deal with Roma to sign Morocco defender Mehdi Benatia. Benatia will travel to Munich soon to undergo a medical and is expected to sign a five-year contract.

Bayern says it has agreed with Roma not to disclose the terms of the deal. But Italian media reports say Roma was asking between €25 million ($32.98 million) and €30 million ($39.58 million) for the defender.

Bayern was looking for a defender after Javi Martinez tore knee ligaments, an injury that will keep him sidelined for about six months.

AP Photo/PA, Nick Potts

Celtic slammed after second Champions League exit

Reuters

Former Celtic players accused the club of refusing to invest sufficiently in the squad after the Scottish champions wasted a Champions League reprieve by crashing out of the competition in the play-off round.

Having been beaten 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw in the previous qualifying round, Celtic were reinstated in the tournament

by UEFA because the Polish club had fielded a suspended player for the last few minutes of the second leg.

However, after drawing 1-1 away

at Slovenian champions NK Maribor last week, they lost Tuesday’s home match 1-0 and will now play in the Europa League instead of the highly lucrative Champions League group stages.

Rubbing salt into the wounds of elimination is the fact that Norwegian manager Ronny Deila and his team have achieved the unwanted distinction of being knocked out of the same competition twice in three weeks.

“I think they’re stockpiling cash,” former Scottish international winger Andy Walker, who played almost 200 times for the club, told Sky Sports on Wednesday.

“They’re not prepared to pay serious money for anyone with pedigree. They’re very much a selling club.”

Former hero Charlie Nicholas was equally critical, claiming of the 45-time Scottish champions and 1967 European Cup winners: “The only interest of board members is cash and finance. That’s why they spend two million pounds ($3.31 million) on budget players who don’t have any experience of the Champions League.

“The quality they’ve brought in is very, very poor. In the cold light of day what’s going to happen is that fans won’t be turning up and Celtic can write off the trust that the fans were giving them.”

Terry Butcher, the former England international who played for great rivals Rangers, added: “They’re not even half the side they were. It’s really disappointing for Scottish football.”

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia,file

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2013 file picture AS Roma’s Mehdi Benatia, of Morocco, mimics shooting as he celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match against Catania in Rome’s Olympic Stadium.

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Enjoy civet coffee in Agro Tourism Tegalalang IBP

GIANYAR - In Bali, there are some areas which become a well-known coffee development such as Banyuatis Singaraja, Kintamani Bangli and Tegalalang Gianyar. However, most of them is not tourist attractions. So, for those who want to see the process of civet coffee, do not get confused. Just come to Bali Pulina in Ubud subdistrict, Gianyar.

Originally this place was a regular plantation. There were many plants, especially coffee, fruit and traditional Balinese spices. Because it has the tourism potential such as beautiful panorama, the owner, I Nyoman Diana, then opened it to the public as agro tourism area on January 19, 2011.

Traveler who entered the Bali Pulina is free of charge. Even, the staff will offer the guest eight kinds of herbal beverages plus cassava chips from Bali in free of charge. For tourists who want to enjoy civet coffee in Bali Pulina, can order ready-made at a price of Rp. 50,000/cup.

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Teenager gatecrashes Serena and Federer party Reuters

NEW YORK - Despite boasting 34 grand slam singles titles between them, Serena Williams and Roger Federer were forced to share the spotlight with a 15-year-old at the U.S. Open on Tuesday as all three advanced to the second round. American wild card Catherine Bellis, the youngest player in the draw, took her place alongside the five-times U.S. champions by stunning 12th seeded Australian Open finalist Dominica Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-1 4-6 6-4.

The second-seeded Federer, looking to extend his record men’s haul of slam titles to 18, posted a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (4) demolition of Australian Marinko Matosevic as the 33-year-old’s boyhood idol Michael Jordan of basketball fame looked on. “He was just my hero of all sports,” said Federer, who has collaborated with Jordan on a sneakers design. “Besides (Stefan) Edberg and (Boris) Becker being my tennis idols, I had Jordan as my all-sports idol.”

Williams advanced 6-3 6-1 over unseeded fellow American Taylor Townsend as she followed Federer onto the Arthur Ashe Stadium court to cap the second day of the championships.

Should she go on to win the tournament, the two-times defending champion would join Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in fourth place on the all-time list of women’s

grand slam singles champions with 18 titles apiece. “Hopefully, I can just build on this,” said Williams, who has had a disappointing slam season with her best result a fourthround exit at the Australian Open back in January. Margaret Court (24), Steffi Graf (22) and Helen Wills Moody (19) are the only three women to have won more grand slam titles.

Energy Jolt Other leading contenders were keen to display their skills on a sunny day in Flushing Meadows. Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and runner-up Eugenie Bouchard launched their Open campaigns with a bang, blasting by their respective first-round opponents with a minimum of fuss.

They were joined in the second round by eighth-seeded former world number one Ana Ivanovic,

11th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta, 16th seed Victoria Azarenka and 2011 champion Sam Stosur, but the biggest jolt of energy was supplied

by Bellis.

Playing on the secondary Court Six, the teenager added her name to the record books by becoming the youngest female to win a match at the U.S. Open since Anna Kournikova in 1996. “I went into the match thinking it was going to be such a great experience,” said the pony-tailed Bellis, who received her wild card when she became the youngest player to win the girls’ 18s national championships since Lindsay Davenport in 1991.

“But I never thought I would come out on top winning. I’m still in shock about that match.” Thirdseeded Kvitova of the Czech Republic crushed Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-1 6-0, while Bouchard was nearly as efficient in dismissing Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-2 6-1 in the afternoon sunshine.

“I’m very happy. First round is always nerves,” said the hardhitting Kvitova, who won the lead-in tournament in New Haven last weekend. “It was the same today. When I wake up, I start to feel nervous. I was just glad how I played today.”

McLaren considering F1 options for Stoffel Vandoorne

McLaren is weighing up 2015 Formula 1 options for its junior driver Stoffel Vandoorne, but has not ruled out keeping him in GP2 for another season.

Vandoorne has made good progress in recent rounds, winning the sprint race at the Hungaroring and battling hard for the feature race

victory at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend before losing out to eventual winner Raffaele Marciello, who is part of Ferrari’s F1 junior scheme.

His run of form has left Vandoorne convinced he is ready for F1, and McLaren racing director Eric Boullier admitted on Tuesday that it

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was possible he could get promoted to either a test role or racing opportunity further down the grid in 2015.

“It is a little bit too early to take a decision,” said Boullier during a McLaren media phone-in. “I think if you have to go to F1, first he needs to feel ready, and I am happy that he feels ready. He also needs the opportunity to step into F1, but not in any condition [at all costs].

“We are now assessing all scenarios. I think GP2 is one of them, as he still has to learn more about GP2, get more wins and obviously fight for the championship.

“He is doing a good job for the first year. You can see really clear progress over the last few races.

“He is very dedicated and I am happy to see he is getting there - but it is too early to have plans, so everything is open.”

Vandoorne, who also won the GP2 season opener in Bahrain, thinks that his experience this season - allied to the F1 testing he did at Barcelona and Silverstone, means he feels the time is right to move up.

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Boxer Jermain Taylor arrested after home shooting Associated Press

MAUMELLE, Arkansas — Former middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor was arrested Friday following a shooting at his home in suburban Little Rock, Arkansas, according to a spokesman for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office.

“Mr. Taylor was arrested for domestic battery, first-degree, and aggravated assault,” said sheriff’s Lt. Carl Minden. “It was his cousin and another individual that came over to his house, an altercation ensued, he (Taylor) grabbed a weapon and opened fire.”

The cousin was hospitalized in serious condition with an apparent gunshot wound, the other man, described as a friend of the cousin, was not injured, Minden said. The two drove away from the home and were found at a Dollar General discount store several blocks away, Minden said, after a woman believed to be Taylor’s wife called 911 shortly before 6 p.m. to report an intruder and a shooting at the home. The names of the cousin and other man were not released.

Taylor, 36, was being held in the Pulaski County jail without bond early Wednesday, according to online jail records. His attorney did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Minden said the nature of the altercation between the men was still under investigation, and that Taylor was arrested without incident.

“He was very calm and very cooperative with our investigators,” according to Minden.

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company GlobalPost, one of the organizations he freelanced for, went “above and beyond” in working behind the scenes to try to get him freed. But other freelancers may not get that kind of backing, she said.

Major news organizations may have a risk assessment team determining whether a place is safe and things for employees like hostile environment training, health insurance, life insurance, kidnap and ransom insurance and expensive protective equipment including helmets and fitted body armor.

Reporters Without Borders tries to fill the gap by loaning freelancers protective gear and GPS personal distress beacons, and providing safety training sessions and insurance, said Delphine Halgand, the U.S. director of the Paris-based group.

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Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual “tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014.

Annual tomato battle leaves Spanish town red Associated Press Writer

BUNOL, Spain — The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” battle that has become a major tourist attraction.

At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 125 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants —many from abroad — to

throw during the hour-long morning festivities.

This was the second year nonresident participants were charged — 10 euros ($13) — to take part. The town of about 20,000 people began charging to help pay off debts of some 5.5 million euros. The event was sold out weeks ahead.

The event was inspired by a food fight between local children in 1945 in the tomato-producing region.

IMF’s Lagarde put under investigation in French fraud case

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Candles are lighted on the town common during a vigil for James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, N.H., Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Foley, a freelance journalist, was killed earlier in the week by Islamic State militants. He was abducted in November 2012 while covering fighting in Syria.

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WASHINGTON — Journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Peter Theo Curtis all shared one thing in common when they were captured by Islamic militants in Syria: the title “freelance journalist.” mon, who worked as a freelancer himself in Latin America. If freelancers are injured or detained, for example, it can take longer for word to get out because no one is monitoring their whereabouts — and early intervention can be crucial to their survival, he said.

According to the committee’s data, just under half of the 70 journalists killed in Syria since the conflict began in 2011 have been freelancers. Foley, who was beheaded by Islamic militants in a grisly video released last week, is one of them, and militants threatened to make Sotloff their next victim. Other militants freed Curtis on Sunday.

Ellen Shearer, the co-director of Northwestern University’s National Security Journalism Initiative and one of Foley’s former professors, said when Foley went missing in 2012, the Boston-based media

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The role of freelancers, who make a living by selling individual stories, photos and video to multiple media outlets, has expanded across conflict zones in recent years with the spread of technology and social media. Some are cautious and well-trained; Others take major risks. And they often lack the institutional support that staff journalists receive if they get into trouble in a conflict zone.

“There is no question that people with less experience and less support are venturing out into conflict zones and seeking to make their name as journalists,” said Joel Simon, the executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

While freelance journalists make important contributions, those who go into danger without the support of an established organization can face immense challenges, said Si-

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PARIS - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has been placed under formal investigation by French magistrates for negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

Lawyer Yves Repiquet told Reuters that Lagarde, who this week was questioned by magistrates in Paris for a fourth time under her existing status as a witness in the long-running saga, said the step was unfounded.

“We are appealing it,” Repiquet said by telephone, adding that Lagarde, who was due to return to IMF headquarters in Washington later on Wednesday, had no plans to resign.

In French law, magistrates place someone under formal investigation when they believe there are indications of wrongdoing, but that does not always lead to a trial.

The inquiry relates to allegations tycoon Bernard Tapie, a supporter of conservative ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, was improperly awarded 403 million euros in an arbitration to settle a dispute with now defunct, state-

owned bank Credit Lyonnais.

The inquiry has already embroiled several of Sarkozy’s cabinet members and France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard, who was an aide to Lagarde when she was Sarkozy’s finance minister.

In previous rounds of questioning, Lagarde accused Richard of having used her pre-printed signature to sign off on a document facilitating the payment, local media has said. However Richard has stated that Lagarde was fully briefed on the matter.

Investigators are trying to determine whether Tapie’s political connections played a role in the government’s decision to resort to arbitration that won him a huge pay-out.

The offence of negligence by a person charged with public responsibility in France carries a maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment and a 15,000-euro fine.

Lagarde has been managing director of the IMF since July 2011. The IMF last year said that the global lender’s board had discussed possible consequences of the Tapie case and determined that she would be able to lead.

JAKARTA - Joko Widodo will announce his cabinet team in early October, according to a senior adviser to the president-elect, as he steps up preparations to become the next leader of the world’s third largest democracy.

All eyes are on Widodo’s choices to head the main economic ministries, who will inherit problems in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy ranging from a widening current account deficit and cooling investment to the slowest growth since 2009.

But the most pressing problem will be cutting big fuel subsidies, a politically sensitive issue that raises the spectre of protests within weeks of the new administration taking office.

“Subsidies are a top priority for us to solve,” said Luhut Panjaitan, an adviser on the team handling Widodo’s transition into office and a leading contender for the position of chief economics minister.

“With a huge fuel subsidy how

can you send a good signal to the markets?”

Widodo narrowly won last month’s election and is set to take office on Oct. 20. He is bound by law to appoint a cabinet within two weeks of his inauguration.

According to an economic adviser to Widodo, those in the running to become chief economics minister, who aims to coordinate the work of different ministries, include Panjaitan, Rini Soemarno, former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, central bank governor Agus Martowardojo and a former central bank governor, Darmin Nasution.

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Newmont drops action against Indonesia over ore ban

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JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont said it has withdrawn an international arbitration claim against Indonesia over a controversial mineral ore export ban after a breakthrough in talks with the government.

Last month, Newmont announced it was seeking a ruling at the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes to allow it to resume exports of copper from its huge mine in central Indonesia.

But the company announced it was withdrawing the arbitration filing, saying it hoped the move would help it strike a deal with the government.

“The decision to discontinue and withdraw arbitration comes after commitments from senior government officials,” said Newmont’s Indonesian unit in a statement late Tuesday.

It added the officials had pledged to open “formal negotiations” on a new agreement with Newmont that would allow it to resume work at its Batu Hijau mine, on condition the legal action was withdrawn.

Exports from Batu Hijau have been halted since January, when Southeast Asia’s top economy introduced a ban

on shipments of some unprocessed minerals, and higher taxes on others that can still be shipped out of the country.

It is one of a raft of economic policies that critics have dubbed “resource nationalism”, and which are pushed by politicians who argue that Indonesia is losing out by allowing foreign firms easy access to lucrative industries.

Copper concentrate, a partially processed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments.

But Newmont refused, saying that the levies conflict with its original agreements to operate in Indonesia, and stopped exports.

In June it ceased production at Batu Hijau after its stores filled up, declared “force majeure” to avoid penalties on missed deliveries, and sent thousands of workers on temporary leave.

Freeport-McMoRan also halted exports from Indonesia after locking horns with the government over the new regulations. But it resumed shipments earlier in August after a six-month hiatus following a new agreement with officials.

and head of Widodo’s transition office, has kept a low profile since serving as trade and industry minister in Megawati’s administration 10 years ago.

Educated abroad, she won respect in business circles as head of Astra International, the country’s largest automobile distributor. She told Reuters this month it was too early to comment on the possibility of taking a ministry job.

Sri Mulyani won praise for her reformist approach as finance minister under Yudhoyono but resigned in 2010 amid political pressure. She is a managing director at the World Bank.

Martowardojo and Nasution both have technocratic backgrounds.

Widodo is scheduled to meet outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week to discuss the possibility of raising fuel prices before the October handover.

“We are hoping Yudhoyono agrees to increase fuel prices otherwise there

is no room for Jokowi’s cabinet to move,” Panjaitan said, referring to Widodo by his nickname.

Panjaitan said an increase of 3,000 rupiah (25 U.S. cents) per litre would

help save $15 billion next year.

Indonesia has among the lowest gasoline prices in the region, at 6,500 rupiah a litre. Nearly 40 percent of Indonesians live on $2 a day.

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Joko Widodo will announce his cabinet team in early October, according to a senior adviser to the president-elect, as he steps up preparations to become the next leader of the world’s third largest democracy.

Parlianment passes law on geothermal energy Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The Indonesian parliament on Tuesday passed a longawaited law to bolster the geothermal energy industry and tap the power of the vast archipelago’s scores of volcanoes.

Made up of thousands of islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans, Indonesia is home to some 130 volcanoes and is estimated to hold around 40 percent of the world’s geothermal potential.

However it produces only a tiny fraction of its energy by converting underground heat into electricity, and lags far behind others such as the United States and the neighbouring Philippines.

Red tape and legal uncertainty have long held back the industry and obstructed much-needed investment, but the government hopes the new law will speed up the development of the sector.

Most importantly, it stipulates that exploration for geothermal energy and

development of plants is no longer considered mining.

It was regarded as such previously, which meant the industry faced problems working in Indonesia’s vast tracts of protected forest, where there is much geothermal potential but mining is illegal.

The law also stipulates higher prices for electricity produced by geothermal, following complaints from companies developing plants that tariffs were not enough to cover the high cost of production.

“Indonesia’s need for energy keeps increasing,” lawmaker Nazarudin Kiemas, who headed a parliamentary committee on the new law, was quoted as saying on the legislature’s website.

“There is abundant potential for geothermal energy.”

Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must sign off on the new law, but that is expected to be a formality.

Indonesia is estimated to have more than 28,000 megawatts of geothermal

potential but is currently producing just over 1,300 MW of its electricity from the clean source.

Most of its electricity comes from coal and oil.

High cost has long been one of the major obstacles. A geothermal plant costs about twice as much as a coal-fired power station, and can take many more years in research and development to get online.

But once established, geothermal plants like the one built in Kamojang on the main island of Java in the 1980s can convert the endless supply of volcanic heat into electricity with much lower overheads -- and less pollution -- than coal.

Yudhoyono has also focused on geothermal as part of his plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.

Indonesia is the world’s thirdbiggest greenhouse gas emitter due its use of dirty fuels to produce electricity and to rampant deforestation.

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Malaysia Airlines staff brace for job cuts

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KUALA LUMPUR - As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with their pink and turquoise uniforms, sobbed and clung to each other in grief.

The 19,500 staff of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) now face a new ordeal - a quarter of them may lose their jobs at the unprofitable airline, hit by two jet disasters this year. Flight MH370 remains untraced since its disappearance en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March.

Deep job losses, route cuts and a change of leadership are expected to feature in a restructuring plan being prepared by Malaysia’s government for announcement as early as Thursday, when MAS also reports second-quarter results. Likely the last before being de-listed, the numbers are expected to show plunging ticket sales and heavy losses even before July’s shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine.

As state fund Khazanah Nasional, the majority owner, prepares to take the company private and inject efficiency into the airline, it must tackle crumbling staff morale and win over the powerful main labour union if turnaround efforts are to succeed.

“MAS is suffering from an image problem and a problem with the staff,” said Nik Huslan, former chief pilot at MAS. “They have to find someone the staff can respect and rally behind.”

Even before the lost aircraft tragedies, airline insiders said staff discontent had been growing for years due to strategy U-turns, leadership changes and poor career prospects.

One of the region’s most prestigious and fastest-growing airlines in the 1990s, MAS has steadily fallen

behind high-end rivals such as Singapore Airlines and been battered by the rise of Asia’s budget carriers like AirAsia. The company hasn’t made an annual profit since 2010.

This year’s twin disasters have caused new stresses. A total of 186 MAS flight crew quit between January and July, many of them due to family pressure not to fly after the crashes, MAS says. Over 5,000 MAS staff work as cabin crew or pilots and the airline says the resignation rate has now returned to normal.

About a quarter of MAS staff are likely to lose their jobs under Khazanah’s plan, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The pill is likely to be sweetened with costly redundancy packages and offers of jobs at other state enterprises.

The company has cut fares on most of its routes in an attempt to lure back nervous passengers, though it is too early to gauge its success. It has almost doubled its commission payments to Australiabased travel agents to revive sales there, according to Australian media reports.

Malaysia Airlines executives told Reuters that the tragedies had served as a wake-up call to staff, and even to recalcitrant union bosses, that drastic change could no longer be avoided if the 42-year-old company is to survive.

“There needs to be a change in the mindset, and people are coming around to that,” said one senior executive. “People must realise that they may need to work differently - the

WELLINGTON — New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Wednesday it’s forming a partnership with China’s Beingmate to help meet growing demand for infant formula in the world’s most populous nation.

Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, said it plans to take a stake of up to 20 percent in Beingmate, an infant food company

based in Hangzhou.

Fonterra said the two companies also plan to establish a joint venture in Australia to purchase Fonterra’s Darnum plant. Fonterra said Beingmate will own 51 percent of the joint venture to satisfy Chinese regulatory requirements and Fonterra will supply the plant with raw milk.

Fonterra said its total investment in the partnership would be up to 615 million New Zealand dollars ($513 million). It remains

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Regatta thronged by participants on Kerobokan Beach Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Excitement of hundreds of sail boats looked vibrant along the Kerobokan Beach, Sawan subdistrict, Buleleng County. A total of 102 participants joined the regatta by passing through the groove of Binaria Beach, Lovina. From the morning, hundreds of people seemed to throng the Kerobokan Beach to watch the regatta becoming an annual event of the Buleleng County, Tuesday morning (Aug 26).

Each subdistrict sent a representative to participate in the regatta event. They were obliged to cover a distance of 12 kilometers in 30

minutes. Each boat was controlled by two people, so that they seemed excited though facing difficulty in controlling the boat while trying

to unfold the sail. At that time, the wind was blowing from the west to the east, while the participants should sail to the west. Quite a lot of obstacles were faced by participants but they did not discourage to paddle to finish line.

During the race, people were vivacious to watch. It was disclosed by the Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna. Total participant involved this year reached one hundred that

exceeded the amount of last year reaching less than one hundred.

“We will hold this kind of regatta every year due to people’s enthusiasm was very high. In addition to entertainment, this regatta also poses a way to preserve the tradition of fishing in coastal area of Buleleng,” he told reporter of Bali Post.

The regatta activity was inaugurated by the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, who

on the occasion was welcomed with baleganjur gamelan orchestra and helped distribute fingerlings.

He said the regatta posed a means of cultural preservation and appreciation to the role of fishermen in Buleleng. “We will attempt to preserve all kinds of marine activities considering that Buleleng has the longest coastline in Bali.

Surely we should be proud of and keep preserving it,” he said. (kmb34)

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Ground crew work among Malaysia Airlines planes on the runway at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang July 25, 2014. The 19,500 staff of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) now face a new ordeal - a quarter of them may lose their jobs at the unprofitable airline, hit by two jet disasters this year.

crew may have to work longer shifts or they may have shorter layovers.

The engineers may have to work a bit longer or clear aircraft faster.”

But such demands would also have to be leavened with incentives to encourage staff, or at least a convincing message that they will eventually see benefits, the main union has warned.

“We want to see things in total, and what the long-term plan is,” said Mohd Jabarullah Abdul Kadir, executive secretary of the Malaysia Airlines Employees Union (MASEU), which represents 13,000 of the carrier’s staff. “If there are retrenchments, they cannot cut staff

numbers without basis.”

For Prime Minister Najib Razak, who chairs Khazanah, the plan will be seen as the latest gauge of his credentials as a reformer in Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy.

State firms are used as one tool to reinforce affirmative action policies favouring majority ethnic Malays over other races and are heavily intertwined with Najib’s long-ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). The main union at MAS has close ties to UMNO - and has successfully resisted previous restructuring attempts.

Crew who have worked at the airline recently complained about

a lack of opportunities to progress in their careers. Cabin crew are typically offered five-year contracts, they said, after which they start from scratch with a new five-year deal.

The sober demeanour of current chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, who relaxes by competing in triathlons, is a stark contrast to the brash showmanship of Malaysia’s most famous airline boss, Tony Fernandes of budget carrier AirAsia.

Others say previous changes in the carrier’s management have failed to wipe out inefficiencies, while breeding scepticism among staff that new leadership can bring lasting improvements.

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subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals.

Fonterra Chief Executive Theo Spierings said the partnership will be a “game-changer” that will provide a direct line into China’s infant formula market.

“By working together with Beingmate, we will strengthen our infant formula brand presence in China and link China to high-quality ingredients from New Zealand,” Spierings said.

Many Chinese parents remain skeptical of the purity of local infant formula and prefer to buy more expensive imported products.

In 2008, six babies died after local Chinese milk formula was tainted with the chemical melamine.

At the time, Fonterra was a minority shareholder in one of the dairy companies that had tainted its milk. It was applauded by some in China for helping to be a whistleblower in the scandal.

Fonterra is New Zealand’s largest business, with annual revenue of $16 billion. It’s a cooperative owned by farmers and is a lynchpin of the nation’s economy.

In a separate announcement Wednesday, Fonterra said it plans to invest 555 million New Zealand dollars ($463 million) in building a new high-efficiency milk powder drying plant in New Zealand and increasing milk processing capacity elsewhere in the country.

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In its effort to reach out to each & every member of the Balinese community, the Consulate General of India in Bali presented Indian art & culture through soulful Indian music & classical dances as well as Incredible India tourism promotion.

IBP DENPASAR - In its effort to reach out to each & every member of the Balinese community, the Consulate General of India in Bali presented Indian art & culture through soulful Indian music & classical dances as well as Incredible India tourism promotion alongside its various programmes for education and capacity building of the Balinese at the just concluded Sanur Village Festival, which ran from 20 to 24 August 2014.

The Sanur Village Festival honoured the memory of India’s first Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, who described the island of Bali as the “Morning of the World”,

which has been adopted by the Festival as its theme. This was eloquently explained by the Denpasar Mayor during the inauguration event.

The Consulate contributed two photographs to the photo exhibition currently on at the Santrian Art Gallery from 15 August to 5 September 2014. These photographs show Prime Minister Nehru, along with President Sukarno, during his first visit to Bali in June 1950.

The ‘Incredible India’ booth set up for the first time at this year’s Sanur Village Festival with support from the India Tourist Office (ITO), Singapore, disseminated information on tourism destinations in India, including for religious pilgrimage

(tirtha yatra) not only for Hindus but also for the followers of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, besides adventure tourism, heritage tourism, medical tourism, wildlife tourism, wellness, golf, MICE etc.

The pavilion announced commencement of new classes at the Indian Cultural Centre in Renon, Denpasar for learning Sanskrit, Hindi, Yoga, including Yoga Teachers’ Training Course, as also Ayurveda treatment and therapies, including Abhyangam & Panchakarma, with free registration offered during the festival period.

All these courses are conducted by competent professionals from India.

Ayurvedacharya Dr. Parveen Kumar

is a BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery) graduate from the University of Health Sciences in Haryana while the Yoga Guru Parveen Kumar is an accomplished Yoga teacher and has been teaching yoga for past several years. The language courses of Sanskrit & Hindi are also conducted by certified professional teachers from India.

The pavilion provided an opportunity for the Balinese community and the students to learn about scholarship and capacity building programmes of the Government of India to pursue higher education and skills development in Indian institutions.

Johar Ali, the outstanding great

artiste, currently teaching music at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Cultural Centre (JNICC) in Jakarta, performed Indian classical, semiclassical & popular music/songs on his violin, to great appreciation of the audience, with Steve Bolton & Gita Yuliani accompanying him on Tabla. He performed twice on 22 & on 23 August 2014 at the Sanur Village Festival. For the first time in Bali, Indian classical music was played on the traditional Balinese Gamelan, which was beautifully choreographed by a noted Balinese artiste, Sinta Wulur. Classical Kathak dance from India was performed

by Werdi, a senior student of the ICC, Bali.

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The former Regent of Klungkung I Wayan Candra, center, is arrested by the police due to the fraud case of Gunaksa Quay

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State losses reach more than IDR 7 billion Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - State losses related to the allegation of corruption case in the land acquisition for Gunaksa Quay is in fantastic amount. Head of Klungkung District Attorney, Totok Bambang Sapto Dwijo, said on Tuesday (Aug 26) that it valued at over IDR 7 billion. Even, the amount of state loss could increase following the recent findings of the investigations.

The amount of state losses was quite surprising. Actually, the total cost of compensation when the land acquisition was carried out for road access and jetty area of the Gunaksa Quay reached IDR 17 billion. The element of state losses was found through the investigation by an investigator team assisted by the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis (PPATK). Currently, the exact amount of state losses continued to be explored by the investigator team, both in the allegation of corruption case of the land acquisition and money laundering.

Especially for the money laundering case, his party affirmed the flow should be clarified. It would be investigated about who gave the money, where it sourced from, to whom the money handed over and where it was saved. All these elements were explored in order to clarify and determine the next steps. However, from the results of initial investigation on the money laundering (TPPU), there were quite a lot of properties having been traced by the investigator team. Possibly in the near future, there would the prop-

erty of the suspect Candra that would be confiscated by the investigator team.

“The properties to be confiscated have been listed,” he said. Unfortunately, the list of the properties to be confiscated was still concealed. However, information in the circle of the Klungkung District Attorney mentioned that one of the properties owned by the former Regent Candra was included in the confiscation list. It was a magnificent house located on Jalan Bypass IB Mantra Klungkung named Puri Cempaka. Even, from the results of the Candra’s case investigation, the Head of District Attorney affirmed there was possibility to reveal the other cases alleged to ensnare the former regent of Klungkung from Pikat village serving for two periods.

Totok asserted that as long as there were new materials, his party would continue to follow up. He asked the public of Klungkung to help find the evidence related to the previous cases leading to the involvement of Candra. “Please help me collect the evidence. Having got sufficient evidence, we will surely follow up

other cases,” he said. In response to the possibility to the handling case leading to the other cases, a community leader of Klungkung, Dewa Sena, expected the District Attorney could reveal the previous unresolved cases.

He expressed, Klungkung had a bad experience in law enforcement. Many corruption cases were revealed and they alleged to involve Candra. Although a number of suspects had been established, ultimately they ended with the Warrant of Investigation Termination (SP3). It happened to the case on the procurement of fishing boat (2004), gratification of Municipal Waterworks or PDAM (2008), office construction of the Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency (2008) and other cases.

His party did not want if the handling of the corruption allegation cases related to the land procurement and physical development of Gunaksa Quay would face the same end. “Today, there is a turning point to restore public confidence in law enforcement by Klungkung District Attorney in the handling of corruption cases,” he said. He judged the Gunaksa Quay case was only a fraction of the alleged corruption cases occurred within the past 10 years during the leadership of Wayan Candra. He hoped the handling of the cases could become the entry point in revealing other cases considered to have proliferated in Klungkung. (kmb31)

Due to drought, Tegallinggah villagers must buy water Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Drought condition is still experienced by the community of Tegallinggah, Sukasada subdistrict. One of the local residents, Wayan Sukarni, 50, should purchase clean water. Moreover, to get the clean water she had to stand in line at local water cistern and brought it home on the head by jerrycan, Tuesday afternoon (Aug 26).

She claimed to forcibly purchase clean water on foot along 200 meters considering it was difficult to get clean water at the village during dry season and prolonged drought. Moreover, it had not rained for so long. The clean water purchased was used for cooking, bathing and washing clothes of her husband and children.

Local residents purchased water at the home of Made Sugianta. When arriving at location, residents should line up by sequencing their jerrycan and waiting the turn to purchase the clean water. The price of water was IDR 1,000 per small jerrycan and they were respectively charged with subscription fee at IDR 15,000 each month. “Since my childhood, it’s been indeed difficult to get water here, sir. I am accustomed to doing this because I am not tired. With IDR 1,000, I can purchase a jerrycan of water and we have to queue for that,” she said.

Meanwhile, Made Sugianta, 55, whose home had water connection said the water sourced from Subak Tying Tali. For the operating cost to get the clean water, he should pay at IDR 400,000 each month to subak. “The water subscription each month reaches IDR 400,000, while we charge the residents at IDR 1,000 to get the clean water. When the connection does not work, we will not charge anything to housewives because it’s a pity that they experience water difficulty here,” he said. (kmb34)

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, second left, welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, second right, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, to their talks after after posing for a photo in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014.

No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s ruling party convened on Wednesday to confirm Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as its new chairman and prime minister-designate, to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he becomes president — a position he has pledged to transform from a ceremonial post to one of real power. Erdogan hand-picked his stalwart ally to succeed him and the 55-year old is standing unopposed for chairman of the Justice and Development Party at its extraordinary congress. Erdogan, Turkey’s first popularly elected president, is to be sworn in Thursday.

Davutoglu is expected to play a largely backseat role, allowing Erdogan — who has dominated Turkish politics for over a decade — to keep a grip on the running of the country. Although the office of president is mainly ceremonial, Erdogan has said he will activate its seldom-used powers, such as summoning, and presiding over Cabinet meetings.

Erdogan told delegates that he would appoint Davutoglu to form the new government immediately after his inauguration ceremony and that a new government would be in place by Friday.

Davutoglu has steered Turkish foreign policy as Erdogan’s chief adviser since 2003 and as foreign minister since 2009. Though he won praise in his early years for efforts to forge closer ties with Turkey’s old foes, detractors say his “zero problems with neighbors” policy has since unraveled, leaving Turkey with very few allies in the Middle East.

Davutoglu’s main task will be to keep the party together after Erdogan — Turkish history has two examples of former prime ministers who sought to maintain control of parliament after moving to the presidency, only to see their parties collapse.

He will also be tasked with leading the party to victory in parliamentary elections in June 2015, when Erdogan hopes to secure a strong majority that would allow the party to rewrite the constitution and change Turkey’s political system to a presidential one.

Associated Press Writer

MINSK, Belarus — Ukraine’s president said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin accepts the principles of a peace plan for Ukraine but the Russian leader insisted that only Kiev can reach a cease-fire deal with the pro-Moscow separatists. Following meetings between Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that included a one-on-one session that stretched into the night, there was no indication of a quick end to the fighting that has engulfed eastern Ukraine.

“This is not our business,” Putin said of any cease-fire plan. “This is Ukraine’s business.” Russia “can only help to create an atmosphere of trust for this important and necessary process,” Putin said. “We in Russia cannot talk about any conditions for the cease-fire, about any agreements between Kiev, Donetsk, Luhansk,” the two rebel regions.

Although Poroshenko told reporters that he had secured support for a peace plan from leaders who attended the summit and Putin called the sessions “overall positive,” the first substantial encounter between the two leaders did not produce a breakthrough in efforts to end the fighting.

If anything, there were signs of spreading violence. For the past two days, heavy shelling hit an area of southeast Ukraine that had escaped the intense fighting of recent weeks, and Ukrainian officials said the pro-Russia separatists it has been

battling were aiming to open a new front. The meeting in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, also came on the same day that Ukraine said it captured 10 Russian soldiers who had come over the border.

Putin did not directly address the allegation but appeared to tacitly recognize it and suggested that the soldiers simply had become lost. “I haven’t received a report from the defense ministry and the general staff yet, but the first thing I have heard is that that they were patrolling the border and may have found themselves on the Ukrainian territory,” Putin said.

Shortly after becoming president in June, Poroshenko put forth a peace plan that included an amnesty for those not accused of serious crimes and called for some decentralization of power to the region.

Early Wednesday, he said “I can say that the logic of this peaceful plan was finally supported by all,

without exclusion, of the heads of state,” according to the Interfax news agency.

However, Putin said there was no specific talk about implementing a cease-fire because Russia is not a party to the conflict. Moscow is accused by Kiev and the West of arming and supporting the rebels — a charge the Kremlin denies — and it is not clear how much it is willing or able to try to pressure them into ending the fighting.

Besides their face-to-face talks, Putin and Poroshenko also met Tuesday with the presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus and top European Union officials. The presence of the other two presidents highlighted one of the difficult issues of Ukraine-Russia tensions: Their countries are part of a trade bloc with Russia, and Moscow fears that Poroshenko’s determination to pursue closer ties with the EU will hurt Russia’s economy.

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President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu embrace in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014.

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WHO urges stiff regulatory curbs on e-cigarettes Reuters

GENEVA/LONDON - The World Health Organization (WHO) called for stiff regulation of electronic cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors, in the latest bid to control the booming new market.

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In this April 23, 2014, file photo, an electronic cigarette is demonstrated in Chicago.

Do-it-yourself blood pressure care can beat MDs

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CHICAGO — “Do-it-yourself” blood pressure measurements and medicine changes work better than usual doctor-office care in some patients, a study of older adults in England found.

Those who did their own readings at home and adjusted their medicine as needed had healthier blood pressure levels after a year than those who got standard doctors’ care.

Self-care patients weren’t completely on their own — any changes they made were part of a treatment plan previously approved by their doctors. But the patients didn’t need to consult their doctors every time they increased the dose if it was part of the original treatment plan.

Why self-management worked best is uncertain, but patients who participated were taking more medication than the others and were perhaps more vigilant than doctors treating the usualcare group, the study suggests.

It’s possible usual-care doctors had “clinical inertia” — a phenomenon described in other research showing that physicians often fail to increase blood pressure medication doses even when office measurements show patients’ levels are too high, said study author Richard McManus, a professor and researcher at the University of Oxford.

The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults have high blood pressure — measuring 140 over 90 or higher — but only about half of them have it adequately controlled, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

High blood pressure rates are similar in England, health surveys there have found.

The study involved 450 patients with previous heart trouble, strokes, diabetes or kidney disease, aged 70 on average, who were followed for a year. About half got usual care; the

others did self-care.

Average blood pressure measurements at the study’s start were about 143 over 80. At the end, that dropped to about 128 over 74 in the self-care patients and 138 over 76 in the usualcare group.

That difference would be expected to result in a drop in heart problems or other complications, although more research is needed to evaluate longterm benefits, according to a JAMA editorial.

The researchers estimate that if the self-care group’s lower levels could be sustained, they’d likely see a 30 percent reduction in stroke risk compared with the other group.

Self-monitoring blood pressure is common in some countries and in the United Kingdom, and the study notes that blood pressure monitors are widely available there, costing as little as $25 (15 pounds, 18 euros). Similarly priced home blood-pressure monitors are sold in the United States.

In a long-awaited report that will be debated by member states at a meeting in October in Moscow, the United Nations health agency on Tuesday also voiced concern about the concentration of the $3 billion market in the hands of big tobacco companies.

“In a nutshell, the WHO report shows that e-cigarettes and similar devices pose threats to public health,” Douglas Bettcher, director of the agency’s department on noncommunicable diseases, told a news briefing in Geneva.

The uptake of e-cigarettes, which use battery-powered cartridges to produce a nicotine-laced vapour, has rocketed in the past two years, but there is fierce debate about the risks.

Because they are so new, there is a lack of long-term scientific evidence to support their safety, and some fear they could lead to nicotine addiction and tobacco smoking.

“We must emphasise that the onus of responsibility for showing safety, for answering many of these questions, must be on the com-

panies and the industries owning them,” Bettcher said.

“The reports finds, at this point in time anyway, that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that e-cigarettes help users to quit smoking or not. The jury is still out,” he said.

The European Union has already agreed to requirements around advertising and packaging to ensure the safety and quality of ecigarettes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed banning sales to anyone under 18 but no curbs on advertising.

Activists welcomed the WHO recommendations.

“As Big Tobacco corners the e-cigarette market, it is using ecigarettes as a global PR scheme to gloss over its tarnished image, positioning itself as a ‘solution’ to the problem it drives. In reality, the e-cigarette industry is taking advantage of the regulatory vacuum to employ the Big Tobacco playbook to hook a new generation on its products,” said John Stewart of the U.S.-based group Corporate Accountability International.

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In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo, Monica Torres, left, checks the blood pressure of Esther Fisher, right, during an event at the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Miss.

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Five ASEAN countries sign women’s political declaration

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DENPASAR - Five ASEAN member countries have signed the declaration of “Transforming Women’s Political Participation into Active Citizens in Southeast Asia” as an effort to fight for gender equality in politics.

The five countries include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Timor Leste, chairman of the Indonesian Women’s Coalition (KPI), Dian Kartikasari said on Tuesday.

“To date, the five countries have been struggling to increase the number of women getting elected and proving to be able to sit in parliament,” Dian noted.

According to her, women’s coalition members have realized that representation of women in the field of politics is important in advancing gender equality, freedom, human rights, and democracy as a whole.

“They also urged that sustainable development and peace can be achieved by ensuring the participation of women in politics,” Dian stated.

The declaration also called for actions in several areas, including the involvement of women in government and politics through direct representatives or freely elected.

Likewise, the declaration has urged an increased access for women politicians to take the position of leader and decision maker, to enable them to actively voice their political rights.

“They should be able to change the paradigm that will help women to become leaders or equal partners with men in the community of Southeast Asia,” Dian added.

The meeting carried the theme “Women in Political Leadership in Southeast Asia.”

Media plays active role in creating world peace

Antara NUSA DUA - Director of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for Jakarta Branch Hubert Gijzen reported that media has an important role in establishing world peace.

“Media is the agent of change to be a part of overcoming the world’s problems, including creating peace and reducing poverty,” Gijzen noted.

The forum is targeted to encourage media role in creating the desired future.

Gijzen expressed hope that Media could contribute on the international debate that is ongoing on the importance of media, information, and communication technology for sustainable peace and development, and provide inputs for post-2015 development.

“Currently, a number of growing media are available in Indonesia, which are being dominated by cellphone owners by accessing social media,” stated the Indonesian Information and Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring while opening the forum.

Separately in the same occasion, the Public Information and Communication Director General from the Indonesian Information and Communication Ministry Freddy Tulung emphasized that Indonesian journalists must show off their competency in this event and must utilize it as a knowledge exchange program with fellow foreign journalists.

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Heather Mack, the daughter of an American woman found dead inside a suitcase on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, gestures while in custody in a police station in Denpasar August 14, 2014.

Bali suitcase murder case

U.S. suspect appoints new lawyer

Reuters

DENPASAR - A U.S. teenager detained in Bali in connection with the grisly death of her mother has hired a new Indonesian lawyer on the advice of her U.S.-based legal team, her police-appointed attorney said.

Heather Mack, 19, was scheduled to be questioned by police this week when she would be advised by a new lawyer, Haposan Sihombing, her current legal representative, told Reuters.

“We received a letter from (Chicago-based attorney) Michael Elkin...to appoint an Indonesian lawyer by the name of Raja Nasution,” Sihombing said. He did not elaborate.

Mack, 19, from Chicago, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, were arrested on Aug. 13 as suspects in the

death of Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, whose battered body was found in a suitcase in a taxi outside the resort island of Bali’s luxury St. Regis hotel.

An official at the hospital that conducted the autopsy said von WieseMack had been repeatedly hit on the face and head with a blunt object.

Mack and her mother had a troubled relationship and von Wiese-Mack had frequently reported that her daughter punched and bit her, according to police reports cited by Chicago media.

Von Wiese-Mack had recently moved to a condominium in Chicago.

Her husband, and Heather’s father, classical music composer James Mack, died in 2006.

Mack has so far refused to make a statement to police or to Sihombing.

It was not clear whether Schaefer has retained an American attorney.

The two suspects have not been formally charged with a crime. Under Indonesian law, charges would follow an investigation that could take weeks.

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Fuel scarce, Bali Police deploy special security Bali Post

DENPASAR - Other than in Java, fuel scarcity also started happening in Bali, especially in Denpasar. Vehicles were snaking at every petrol station. Even, some people could not purchase fuel. To anticipate any negative effect caused by the fuel shortages, Bali Police deployed special security.

The long queue is seen in one of the gas station in Denpasar

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“Two security systems are applied to prevent riots and hoarding of fuel at petrol station. However, the condition in Bali is not as severe as in other regions,” said Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, Tuesday (Aug 26).

Security at each petrol station was intensified to prevent riots as people scrambled to get fuel. In addition, an investigation was also conducted by police to anticipate any fuel hoarding. “Sometimes, this kind of opportunity is taken advantage to hoard fuel that can result in a great advantage. This is what we want to anticipate. When proved to have hoarded, the culprits will be processed according to the existing procedures,” he said.

According to the Spokesperson, the Chief of Bali Police, Benny Mokalu,

had ordered each county police department to deploy their personnel at respective petrol station. Every petrol station should be guarded by at least 2 to 3 officers. In addition, a patrol was also increased to check petrol stations with vulnerable condition. “Until now, the condition in Bali is not too severe.

However, security continues to be made without specified time or until the condition returns to be normal,” said Hery.

Based on field observation, on Tuesday around 10 o’clock in the morning, long lines occurred at petrol station located on Jalan Raya Puputan, Renon, East Denpasar. Motorcycles and cars should line up to the road. Meanwhile, at petrol station on Jalan Kamboja, Kreneng, Denpasar, was mounted a notice board if the Premium (gasoline) had run out. (kmb36)

Prohibited from buying fuel, fishermen protest Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Fishermen on Kusamba Beach, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung, protested. It happened because they were prohibited from purchasing fuel. Despite having owned the fisherman membership card, they were still prohibited from purchasing fuel at petrol station across Klungkung because the fuel stock tended to steadily decrease.

It was conveyed by a fisherman from Kusamba, Nengah Rusta, Tuesday (Aug 26). He said that he very much wanted to go to sea because the fish catch of fishermen had started to be crowded.

However, since four days ago, he had not been getting fuel. Every effort had been undertaken.

He even admitted to have been pleading to Pertamina. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to

purchase fuel. As a result, he could just laze on the beach with other porters. A similar fate was also experienced by other fishermen on Kusamba Beach. As a result, the local fishing activities paralyzed.

Fuel shortages had occurred since the past week. Fishermen finally lost revenue. They could only rent their boat to fishing hobbyists in the waters of Kusamba.

Meanwhile, some others repaired nets and fixed boats. “Now, Pertamina is too decisive. Even, police are deployed to guard petrol stations to oversee the security each day,” said Rusta. Another fisherman, Wayan Lantur, also revealed similar comment. Due to fuel scarcity, he did not have any livelihood to meet the needs of family. He did not have any other skills other than being a fisherman. On that account, he

hoped the fuel stock could quickly get recovered.

Aside from fishermen, the fish mongers were also affected by such condition. One of them was Wayan Ningsih who claimed to be distraught as no fishermen went to sea. Even, since four days ago, she suffered losses when coming to Kusamba Beach to get fish.

Actually, she dared to purchase at more expensive price as long as the fish was available. If this condition continued, the fish boiling activities at Kusamba would depend again on the supply of fish from outside Bali. Unluckily, the fish supply from outside Bali only came occasionally.

He hoped the condition could return to be normal. Although getting a small number of fish catch, but at least she could provide a fish supply to Kusamba. (kmb31)

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Inna Bali Hotel maintains Dutch architectural design

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DENPASAR - Inna Bali Hotel located on Jalan Veteran Denpasar remains to maintain the Dutch architectural design.

It was revealed by Marketing Manager of the Inna Bali Hotel, Ari Sulistiari, amidst the melaspas and mecaru druwa bineda ritual at the Gayatri Building, Sunday (Aug 17). The ritual was attended by Secretary of Denpasar Municipality, AAN Rai Iswara.

Ari Sulistiari said the Inna Bali Hotel located on Jalan Veteran Denpasar had a history in which posed the legacy of Dutch colonization. “So, to maintain the history, the design and structure of the building remain to be preserved. As a result, young generation can know the histories of the city of Denpasar,” she said.

The Inna Bali Hotel, said Ari Sulistiari, was flanking the road where the properties were located in the west and east of the road. With this condition, the ritual of melaspas then applied the caru

druwa bineda, greater than rishi gana but smaller than caru panca kelud. “This caru ritual functions to avoid the properties and dwellers from undesirable things,” she said.

To attract domestic and foreign travelers, Ari Sulistiari admitted to promote the hotel property through website, distributing brochures to offices and making cooperation with various media. “Inna Bali Hotel also provides room facilities with 3 to 4 people per room, so it is also promoted to schools,” she added.

Other facilities like lobby, lounge and meeting room were very complete.

Meeting room accommodates 300 to 400 people. Aside from being used for meeting, the meeting room is also used for graduation event. The Inna Bali Hotel on Jalan Veteran totally has 70 rooms, consisting of two Suite Rooms, 28 Deluxe Rooms and the remaining ones are Standard Rooms. Their room rates are IDR 1,250,000 (Suite), IDR 975,000 (Deluxe) and IDR 750,000 (Standard).

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

The boat of the fisherman in Klungkung cacnot be used because the lack of fule avalable in the regency

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14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Prince to release new albums Agence France-Presse

PARIS - US pop star Prince will release two new albums at the end of September, his record label said on Tuesday, marking the end of one of the longest-running employment disputes in musical history.

Prince -- whose 1984 album “Purple Rain” sold over 13 million copies in the US -- fell out with Warner Bros Records in the early 1990s, prompting him to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol and appear in public with the word “slave” daubed across his face.

The name change bewildered fans and led the press to dub him “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince”.

But following a reconciliation with the record label announced in April,

two albums -- “Art Official Age” and “Plectrumelectrum -- will be released on September 30, the label said on its website.

“Art Official Age” is a 13-track solo album, described by the label as “a contemporary concoction of soul, R&B and funk”.

The second is by Prince’s new band 3RDEYEGIRL consisting of guitarist Donna Grantis, drummer Hannah Ford Welton and bassist Ida Nielsen. Many of its “funk-rock” tracks were performed live on the group’s recent mini-tour.

In its announcement, Warner Bros acknowledged the acrimonious dispute with the 56-year-old star -- who it first signed in 1977.

The renewed partnership came about after it “returned to Prince the master re-

cordings of his pioneering 1980s albums, including “Dirty Mind”, “Purple Rain” and “Sign o’ the Times”, it said.

The singer had demanded that he should retain the rights to the master tapes of his albums and also clashed with the label over the frequency of releases.

The new agreement, however, looks unlikely to curb his public criticism of the way the entertainment industry is run. Just weeks after he signed his latest record deal, he lambasted music bosses for being lazy.

Prior to Prince’s reconciliation with Warner Bros., he had used his own NPG Records label to release his more recent records. Under his new record deal, a digitally remastered deluxe edition of “Purple Rain” will also be released to mark the album’s 30th anniversary.

Brosnan back as spy in new action thriller Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Former 007 star Pierce Brosnan returns to the world of guns and spies in “The November Man,” an action thriller that pits his character against his former CIA bosses, with explosive effect.

The Irish actor, who has never hidden his desire to have played James Bond for a little longer, said he is still up to the action game despite his 61 years -- although he had to work hard to get in shape.

“I like my beer, I like my wine,” said the man who took on the role of Britain’s most famous fictional spy in four Bond movies. “I have to keep up. Tennis, work out, work out, play tennis... I have had so many trainers.”

Shot in Belgrade, his latest movie -- out Wednesday in the United States -- includes all the classic action flick elements -- car chases, traitors and beautiful women waiting to be saved (ex-Bond girl Olga Kurylenko).

“The November Man,” which was co-produced by Brosnan and based on a series of novels by Bill Granger, tells the adventures of Peter Devereaux, a former CIA hitman brought out of retirement for

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This image released by Relativity Media shows Pierce Brosnan, center, and Olga Kurylenko in a scene from the film, “The November Man.”

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one last mission.

His task: to extract a female spy, who just happens to be the mother of his daughter, from Moscow because she has evidence of sex crimes committed by a Russian presidential candidate.

Devereaux’s former spy trainee, David Mason (Luke Bracey) is tasked in parallel with killing the former lover.

Devereaux is devastated and vows vengeance against his former protege.

As the story threatens to blow up in the CIA’s face, Mason is given the mission of killing his former mentor, whom he still respects and admires.

Brosnan admits that playing a hardliving spy again after 12 years was tough.

“There is a certain mileage on the bones, the heart and the soul,” he told a small group of reporters.

“You have to work just as hard (in terms of training), but you don’t have to try so hard” in terms of credibility, given his 007 fame, he added.

The imposing actor, who has deep blue eyes and still a star-power smile despite his years on the celebrity circuit, said training was tough.

Said to have vowed to become an actor after seeing Sean Connery in “Goldfinger,” Brosnan talks easily and openly about his time as Her Majesty’s most famous spy. Director Roger Donaldson, who had already worked with Brosnan on 1997’s “Dante’s Peak,” added: “He’s a smart, intelligent guy (who has) made the best of his fame.”

This included “not letting his fame destroy him like maybe Robin Williams did,” he said, referring to the comedy icon’s recent death by apparent suicide.

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Security beefed up ahead UNAOC meeting

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Five warships of the Indonesian Navy have been sent to secure the 6th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) meeting in Bali on August 27-30, 2014.

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NUSA DUA - Personnel from regional military and police commands have been jointly deployed to strengthen security arrangements ahead of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) meeting in Bali on August 28-30.

“A multi-tier security arrangement is in place, including Ring 1 zone covered by military personnel and outside the zone secured by the joint teams of military and police personnel,” Chief of Bali Regional Police Inspector General Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu as deputy commander of UNAOC VVIP Security Operations stated on Wednesday.

He emphasized that heightened security will be provided to the heads of states, ministers, and officials, venues of activities, routes

to be taken by delegates, and hotels where the guests will stay.

“It has all been arranged based on standard operating procedures,” he noted.

Warship Deployed Five warships of the Indonesian Navy have been sent to secure the 6th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) meeting in Bali on August 27-30, 2014, Lieutenant Colonel Marine Abdul Kadir reported.

“The five ships are already in

Bali waters. They will remain until the end of the meeting,” said Lt. Col. Abdul, spokesman for the Navy in East Indonesia.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to officially open the Sixth Global Forum of UNAOC at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center, Bali, on August 29.

The objective of the Global Forum is to bridge inter-civilization communication across the world, Teuku Faizasyah, a presidential special staff in charge of international relations, said in a statement.

“UNAOC is aimed at promoting ‘Harmony among Civilizations’ and bridging the gap between Islam and the West. Furthermore, UNAOC endorses the common political will and aims to mobilize common actions against prejudice and misper-

ception, and to eliminate extremism in societies,” he emphasized.

The UNAOC was initiated by the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on July 14, 2005, and was co-sponsored by the former prime minister of Spain Jose Luis Rodreguez Zapatero and Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The forum will be attended by UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon, UN High Representative of the UNAOC Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, and prominent speakers from government and non-government organizations.

The meeting will be preceded by the UNAOC Youth Forum, bringing together around 200 young delegates from across the world, on August 28.

On the sidelines of the Global

Forum, President Yudhoyono is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with Ban Ki-moon, OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani, and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, according to Faizasyah.

The Global Forum themed “Unity in Diversity” has focus on four pillars: Education, Youth, Media, and Migration. The theme is based on Indonesia’s national motto “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” or “Unity in Diversity.” The motto reflects the outlook of Indonesia’s founding fathers and embraces the wealth of Indonesia’s cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity.

The Sixth UNAOC Global Forum will be attended by 114 members of UNAOC’s Group of Friends and 20 ministerial-level officials.