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In the shadow of the murder of MP Jo Cox, today Britons will vote to shape the future of the United Kingdom and Europe when they decide whether to stay in the European Union following a campaign that has shown the potency of anti-establishment feeling in the West.

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The British people have now cast their votes on whether to remain within the European Union so what happens now?

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LL economic indicators show that if the “Brexit” occurs, it will be a catastrophe. But for many, the main issue is not economics. It is a loss of sovereignty, which the “exiters” believe – or claim to believe – has been taken from them by the EU. They think that Britain can and should stand alone.

In my opinion, they’re wrong. And what’s worse – they are mired in nostalgia for a 19th-century vision of “Greater Britain,” the popular belief that the “mother country” and the colonies – in particular the Dominions – were really a single polity.

WHAT OBAMA SAID In April, President Barack Obama delivered a message to the British people. He said countries that make their presence felt on the world stage “aren’t the nations that go it alone.”

The meaning was clear: the special relationship between the U.S. and Britain depends less on “the blood we spilt together on the battlefield” and our shared “democratic values” than it does on the fact that a close association with Britain has afforded the U.S. considerable advantages in its dealings with the European Union.

On its own, Britain would be little more than a third-rate power. In this respect, the comparison with Norway, which the champions of “Brexit” like to invoke, is

entirely appropriate.

Obama also reaffirmed his belief in the legacy and continuing importance of the European Union, and of the need for a “strong, united, democratic Europe.“ Many in Europe, however, and not just in Britain, fear that “Europe” as conceived in The Treaty of Rome in 1957 is nearing its end.

Some even believe that – threatened by immigration and multiculturalism – European culture, which was conceived at

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least two millennia ago, is now dying.

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TODAY’S MAJOR THREATS Europe today faces four major and obvious threats to its survival: a shaky economy, Islamic terrorism, mass immigration and the rise of a belligerent and aggressively antiEuropean Russia. Of these, terrorism and immigration are the most immediate threats.

The initial response to both included the French declaration of a “state of emergency,” tightening of border controls and the proposed dissolution of Schengen – the passport-free zone to which most EU member states belong.

These responses have proved detrimental in a number of ways, and have done very little, if anything, to hinder “Jihadi” terrorists or immigrants. Almost all of the perpetrators involved in the recent attacks on Paris and Brussels were EU citizens.

What’s more, the Islamic State group is not targeting France or Belgium. It is targeting Europe, or more precisely, “the West.”

In 2015, IS issued a bizarre communiqué tellingly entitled, “How to Survive in the West: A Guide for the Jihad Fighter.“ It declared that the ultimate objective for the self-styled caliphate in Europe was the “conquest of Rome.” This does not mean the modern capital of Italy, which so far has been spared, but the symbolic capital of Christendom and of the ancient Roman Empire.

For IS, Europe is not a place so much as a culture based on the rule of law, freedom of expression, equal rights for all, racial and religious tolerance and a broadly utilitarian social and political order.

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OVER a restaurant in an ethnically diverse district of the city was that these were the places where the irreligious and the “immoral” congregated. What these terrorists were trying to destroy was not so much a political enemy as it was a way of life.

In many cases, it is also a way of life that has rejected them. In this way, they look not unlike the members of the Provisional IRA, the Italian Red Brigades or the German Red Army faction of the 1970s: mostly angry young males seeking revenge upon a society which had failed to deliver what they had expected.

THE UPSIDE OF NEWCOMERS The refugee crisis is often, wrongly, conflated with the threat of IS. The problem is not how to keep terrorists out – they are already here – but how to find a place for so many of the dispossessed and integrate them into their new homes.

The task is daunting. But, unlike the parents of so many of today’s Muslim immigrants who arrived as “guest workers” or economic refugees in France or Germany in the 1950s and ‘60’s, these new refugees have not yet seen their aspirations and those of their parents dashed by poverty.

They have a better chance today as newcomers to an increasingly prosperous Europe – despite the economic crisis. Far from being potential terrorists, the majority are skilled, educated and determined.

Furthermore, the EU has estimated it will need millions of new immigrants in the next

Floral tributes at the site of one of the Paris attacks

40 years to replace its aging population. Yet, only a little more than one million arrived in 2015, and the influx has dropped markedly since the recent pact with Turkey.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE EUROPEAN The European project, in its present form, is

less than 60 years old.

In many respects, it is less than 24 years old.

But aspirations for some kind of European Union go back to at least the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. In 1871 members of the French National Assembly called for the creation of a “United States of Europe,” as did Winston Churchill in 1946 – although

he did not then think that Britain should be a part of it.

The cultural, economic and political changes that have taken place in Europe since the signing of the Treaty of Rome have been monumental and, barring a third world war, irreversible. Despite the fantasies of France’s Marine le Pen or Nigel Farage, all cultures are porous and malleable. The culture of Europe will probably change more radically in the next half-century than it has in the last millennium.

The EU is, arguably, the most innovative economic and political experiment since the creation of the U.S. in the 18th century.

It is a con-federation, as compared to the U.S. federation. It divides up sovereign authority among its member states but – contrary to what the supporters of “Brexit” claim to believe – seeks to preserve the cultural and social traditions, the languages and the distinctive legal orders of each of its member states.

It is neither a “super-state” nor an empire; but it does represent a substantial shift in the way the nation-state has been conceived in the past. It is the future not only for Europe, but possibly also for Africa and parts of Asia.

As it faces what are inescapably the greatest series of crises in its very short history, I believe it needs not less, but greater integration. It needs more political cohesion. Above all, it needs a greater sense of participation on the part of its citizens, a greater understanding of just what it really means to be not British, or Spanish or French or German, but “European.”

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NEWS Continued from front cover Allies such as U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have implored Britain to stay in the bloc, which they say has given Europe decades of prosperity after centuries of bloodshed.

Investors, chief executives and central bankers are bracing for what could be one of the most volatile events for financial markets since, at least, the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Prime Minister David Cameron, who promised the referendum in 2013 under pressure from eurosceptic MPs in his own party, has mixed rhetoric about his island nation’s history with dire warnings about the costs and dangers of a Brexit.

“This referendum has now become a watershed moment for our country,” Cameron said when campaigning resumed after a two-and-a-half-day suspension called as a sign of respect for lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed last week.

“There is no turning back if we leave,” he added, warning this would be “an abject and self-imposed humiliation” that would leave “a permanently poorer country in every sense”.

The murder of Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two young children who was an ardent supporter of EU membership, shocked the country and abruptly changed the tone of the caustic campaigning that has polarised the country.

Both sides have accused their opponents of misleading the public, and critics say the debate had descended into a negative row over the economic dangers of leaving versus the difficulties of limiting immigration if Britain stays.

Tributes in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, are left at Parliament Square in London, Britain June 18, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall

Witnesses to the Cox attack said the accused, 52-year-old Thomas Mair, was heard saying “Britain first, keep Britain independent, Britain always comes first”. Such comments added to speculation the murder was politically-motivated, making it a potentially defining moment in the referendum.

Campaigners said events and leafleting would go ahead as planned this week, but the rhetoric would be scaled back.

“People are thinking carefully about the conduct of this campaign, perhaps taking a more respectful tone towards opponents,” said a “Stronger In” campaign source. Leave officials would not discuss the details of their campaign plans.

Voting begins at 0600 GMT on June 23 and closes at 2100.

Results are due around 0000-0500 GMT the next day.

Opinion polls have painted a contradictory and volatile picture of British public opinion with Remain ahead for much of the campaign but Leave taking a late lead before the Cox murder.

A vote to leave could unleash turmoil on foreign exchange, equity and bond markets, lead to a political crisis in Britain and fragment the post-Cold War European order.

The EU would have to weather the exit of its No.2 economy representing $2.9 trillion of its gross domestic product, the only European financial capital to rival New York and one of its only two nuclear powers, while Britain’s economy could stall.

A vote to remain would trigger a rise in sterling and relief in Western capitals but would still leave Britain - and Cameron’s ruling Conservative Party - deeply divided.

WHAT KIND OF BRITAIN The murder of Cox in the street of her own electoral district in northern England has shocked Britain, which has strict gun controls, and sparked soul-searching about a referendum which both sides admit is about much more than membership

IN or OUT? of the club it joined in 1973.

“The referendum was always about more than Europe; it was always about what kind of Britain we are and what we aspire to be,” former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is pro-membership, said in an article for the Guardian newspaper.

“But some have attempted to A supporter of the “Britain Stronger IN Europe” Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party hijack a decision on the future campaigns in the lead up to the EU referendum Nigel Farage poses during a media launch for an of Britain in Europe and turn at Holborn in London, Britain June 20, 2016.

EU referendum poster in London. REUTERS/Stefan REUTERS/Luke MacGregor Wermuth it into a vote on immigration, and then on immigrants and those who support “The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But immigrants.” fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which It was not clear what impact the killing would have on public is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.” opinion or even if pollsters, who failed to forecast Cameron’s But allies have warned that ditching a 60-year strategy of decisive election victory, were reliable guides. trying to hedge partial European participation with the U.S. In the week before Cox’s murder, the Out campaign had alliance, for an uncertain future outside the world’s biggest developed a strong lead in opinion polls. trading bloc, would be a hammer blow to Britain’s economy But a YouGov poll, for which a third of responses were and would shred what remains of its global clout. gathered before news of the killing, showed support for Beyond British shores, an exit would pose a major threat to staying in the EU had risen 5 percentage points to 44 percent European integration. while support for leaving had fallen 3 points to 43 percent.

While the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Soviet “The underlying figures suggest the movement may be more Union in 1991 spurred integration as the Cold War melted into to do with people worrying about the economic impact of the archives, a Brexit could unravel a union already grappling leaving the European Union,” YouGov said. with differences over migration, the future of the euro zone Gisela Stuart, a Labour lawmaker who is helping to lead the and how to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. main Leave campaign, urged politicians and voters to “reflect “A vote to leave would shake the union,” German Foreign on the hate-filled language that too often scars our debates”.

Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. “It would not just carry “We must take care before assuming that anger turned up on as 28 (members) minus one.” to maximum volume should be the default way to hold a “It would require concerted efforts to ensure that the political discussion,” said Stuart, who added that Britain had union holds together and that a decades-long, successful to take back control of its own laws. integration effort does not end in disintegration,” he said.

Even if a Brexit didn’t unravel the EU, it would ensnare Brussels THREAT TO EUROPE and London in years of complex negotiations that could lead Britain has been divided over its European destiny since it lost to a decade of economic uncertainty while a Brexit would its empire and though it eventually joined the EU, it remained embolden eurosceptics in other member states to press for a reluctant member outside the core euro zone. their own renegotiations and referendums.

Leave campaigners have said Britain would prosper if it broke Pro-Europeans, including former Prime Ministers Tony Blair free from what they say is a doomed German-dominated and John Major, have warned an exit could trigger the breakbloc and a failed project in excessive debt-funded welfare up of the United Kingdom itself by undermining peace in spending that has usurped sovereignty from the people.

Northern Ireland and bolstering the Scottish independence Boris Johnson, seen as a leading contender to replace movement.

Cameron as Conservative leader and prime minister, even Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, told Reuters last contended that the bloc was following the path of Adolf Hitler week that the EU referendum was on a knife edge and that if and Napoleon by trying to create a European superstate.

England backs an exit that drags Scots out of the bloc against “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends their will, Scotland may call a new vote on independence. tragically,” Johnson said in a newspaper interview last month.

AFTER BREXIT DESPITE Britain’s historical reticence concerning Europe, only 13 years ago its leaders were arguing about when to join the single currency and an EU exit was a far-fetched notion entertained only by sceptics on the fringes of major parties.

But the turmoil of the euro zone and migration crises, combined with growing anger at what many voters perceive as arrogant elites in London and Brussels, have driven demands for a Brexit.

Since the referendum was announced, companies from BP to Rolls-Royce, as well as international allies, have

cautioned about the risks of leaving.

Some British leaders have questioned what sort of Britain would remain.

Washington has made clear that Germany would be its first ally of choice in Europe if Britain left. In the biggest intervention in the domestic affairs of a Western European ally since the Cold War, Obama warned in April that Britain would at “the back of the queue” for a U.S. trade deal if it left.

His comments chimed with warnings about the consequences of leaving from Bank of England chief Mark Carney, the City of London, U.S. investment banks and major trade unions.

But opponents of membership say such warnings about Brexit from global corporations and leaders have further fuelled an anti-establishment wind that has grown in strength since the 2008 financial crisis.

“We are capturing that wind and I think it could be the thing which really drives us to victory,” Matthew Elliott, the head of Vote Leave, told Reuters last month.

“I wouldn’t see it as the wind of [presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald] Trump - I think there is a much wider anti-establishment feeling across the world.”

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Googling yourself now leads to personal privacy controls SOON, all you’ll need to do is Google yourself if you’re wondering how deeply Google has been digging into your digital life.

In coming weeks, a shortcut to personal account information will appear at the top of Google’s search results whenever logged-in users enter their own names in the query box.

The feature is part of an update to the “My Account” hub that Google introduced a year ago to make it easier for people to manage the privacy and security controls on the internet company’s services. While Google isn’t making any additional information available, it is making it easier to find.

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The bleak outlook comes after its rival Daily Telegraph cut a number of jobs as media groups struggle to replace declining print and circulation revenue with income from online advertising.

Daily Mail and General Trust, which also publishes the free Metro newspaper, said print advertising revenue in the six months to the end of March fell by 18 million pounds, or 13 percent, with the decline accelerating in the second quarter.

Advertising at MailOnline, whose 14.4 million average daily users make it among the most popular in the English language grew 23 percent, but that was not enough to close the gap.

Paul Zwillenberg, a digital media specialist, will take over as chief executive next month and will have the job of driving up revenue from the group’s websites.

The slump in advertising is not only hitting traditional groups.

New online businesses that have built big followings on social media are also being hit by the shake-out, as more digital advertising money goes to platforms like Facebook.

Ad sales at Britain’s national newspapers have fallen from 1.54 billion pounds in 2008 to 1.02 billion pounds this year, according to Group M estimates reported by industry title Campaign.

Deteriorating advertising markets hits yet another newspaper FORECASTS TRIMMED DMGT, which also has business information and events units, said “given the weak UK print advertising market”, its operating margin for the media division in the year to the end of September would be around 10 percent. That is below the 13 percent it achieved last year and had expected this year.

Its shares fell 8.8 percent to 678.5 pence by 1005 GMT trade, as Numis analysts trimmed their already cautious forecast for full-year profit by 3 percent to 250 million pounds.

Citi said advertising trends remained “stubbornly negative” going into the third quarter.

Daily Mail’s rival Telegraph Media Group announced a round of senior job cuts. The group’s chief executive told staff in an email quoted in the Financial Times that “conditions have continued to markedly deteriorate across the sector” over the past three months.

Guardian Media Group, publisher of The Guardian title, which like the Mail has expanded rapidly online, said in March it would cut 250 roles in an attempt to reverse losses.

The link to personal accounts will appear at the top right of the listings for searches done on personal computers and at the top of requests entered on smartphones.

Google is making the change because it learned that many users doing a “vanity search” under their name wanted a quicker way to find out what the company knew about them, as well as to see how they are depicted on various sites across the internet, said Guemmy Kim, a Google product manager.

A new feature on Google’s mobile app will also quickly take users to their account information with a spoken request. All that will be required are the words: “OK Google, show me my Google account.” This option initially will only be available in English.

People have become more interested in managing their digital profiles as a confluence of search engines, smartphones and online social networks makes it easier to track where they are, what they’re doing and what they’re thinking. Revelations about government agencies’ online surveillance programs also has heightened interest in privacy protection.

Google uses the data collected by its search engine, Gmail and other services to analyse people’s interests and habits to show them ads about products most likely to appeal to them. Those ads generated $67 billion in revenue last year, providing most of the money that fuels Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. In addition to providing quicker ways to get to personal account information, Google also is introducing a “Find Your Phone” tool that’s designed to protect data stored on a device, as well as help locate it if it’s lost or stolen.

The tool will work on Apple’s iPhone, as well as devices running on Google’s Android software. It’s meant to supplement the device-tracking and security features already built into the iPhone and the Android operating system.

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FARMER RACES PIGS TO PREDICT EU VOTE Forget the opinion polls and betting odds, one English farmer has his own way of predicting the outcome of Britain’s looming referendum on whether to stay in the European Union or leave racing his miniature pigs.

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As the latest polls show growing momentum for the “Leave” camp, the farm in southwest England is putting four pigs to the test each afternoon on a 150 yard (137m) long course, with both sides represented.

Racing for the “Remain” camp are ‘David Hameron’ and ‘George Hogsborne’, a play on the name of finance minister George Osborne. For the “Leave” camp the racers are ‘Boar-is Johnson’ and ‘Iain Duncan Sniff’, a reference to leading Eurosceptic and Conservative ex-cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith.

Monday kicked off the farm’s first “referendum race” despite dense fog hanging over the track.

“I think this is most appropriate weather for this occasion,” Pennywell Farm owner Chris Murray said. “It’s a murky question, we are all in the fog about it and I think that these little Pennywell miniature pigs will actually find a way through this fog of confusion and indecisiveness.”

The track features jumps named “Bacon Brook” and “The Trough”, leading to the finish that consists of two Union Jack and EU-themed gates.

Once the starting gate was opened, spectators cheered as David Hameron, George Hogsborne and Iain Duncan Sniff rushed off, easily clearing the hurdles, while Boar-is Johnson trailed behind. The result in the end was decisive. “We’ve had three votes for staying in the EU and just one for leaving,” the race compere announced.

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Brexit campaigner AS EU VOTE Boris Johnson LOOMS, could be next PM MIGRATION TO Former London mayor Boris Johnson could be Britain’s next prime minister despite heading the campaign to leave the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron said.

LAST year, Cameron, who has said he will not stand for a third term at a national election due in 2020, cited Johnson, along with Home Secretary Theresa May and Chancellor George Osborne, as potential successors.

Cameron and Johnson now find themselves rivals on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter debate ahead of Britain’s June 23 referendum on EU membership.

Many believe Johnson took the gamble that campaigning for “Out” would boost his chances of leading a Conservative Party whose membership is largely Eurosceptic.

Asked during a trip to Japan for a G7 summit whether he still believed Johnson could be prime minister, Cameron said he hadn’t changed his view.” The Conservative Party is lucky to have big substantial figures within it and that is certainly the case,” he told reporters. “On this one I think he is on the

wrong side ... but I am not changing anything I have said in the past.”

A poll earlier this month showed Johnson was doing a better job than Cameron at convincing voters, with only 21 percent of respondents saying the prime minister was more likely to tell the truth about the EU. Forty-five percent said Johnson was more believable than Cameron.

But Johnson has come under fire for some of his comments during the campaign, including making a comparison between the EU and Adolf Hitler’s plan to rule the continent.

EU’s chief executives have accused Johnson of distorting the truth in trying to persuade Britons to leave the European Union, while a top EU official called possible victories for Donald Trump and Johnson part of a “horror scenario” for the world.

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ET migration to Britain reached its second highest level on record last year, according to official data which has fed immediately into the increasingly bitter debate over whether the country should stay in the European Union.

The Office for National Statistics, in its last immigration report before the June 23 vote on continued EU membership, said net migration hit 333,000 in 2015, the secondhighest level for a 12-month period since records began in 1975.

Of those, 184,000 net came from the EU, which mandates freedom of movement.

The ONS said that most of the net increase 20,000 - was due to fewer people leaving the country.

ARGUE The numbers were seized upon by those campaigning for Britain to leave the EU. They argue that the country would be better able to control migration flows from outside the bloc.

“We would be able to decide our immigration policy on the needs of the British economy,” Boris Johnson, figurehead of the “Out” camp, told Sky News television.

“Remain” campaigners responded by saying that immigration issues could not be solved by leaving a bloc they believe is a huge boon to Britain’s economy.

In 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron promised to reduce the annual level of net migration - those arriving minus those leaving - to below 100,000 but has failed to keep his pledge, partly due to net migration from the EU, which accounted for half the

year-on-year increase.

Immigration and the economy have consistently ranked as two of the most important issues in the EU referendum, but Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said leaving the bloc was not the solution.

“We need to continue the reforms to reduce net migration from outside of Europe, which still maintains the majority (of new arrivals),” he said.

In February, Cameron negotiated a deal with European partners to curb some welfare payments to new EU migrants which he says addresses public concerns about the level of immigration.

Critics say it will do nothing to reduce the number of people coming to Britain attracted by higher wages than in their home countries, the presence of large communities of migrants, the English language and other factors.

But with four weeks to go before Britons head to the polls, the number of migrants arriving on France’s north coast in Calais has grown in recent months according to official figures released on Thursday, with many seeking to reach Britain.

The total number of people in tents, shanties and a new state-run city of converted shipping containers has reached 3,900 compared to 3,500 at the end of March, according to the Pas de Calais region.

The British government has previously warned that refugees could flock to Britain from France if voters back Brexit and France has said it could end border controls and let thousands cross the Channel in the event of an ‘Out’ vote.

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ORE work to nail the economic arguments is needed if Scotland wants to split from the United Kingdom, regardless of the outcome of next month’s in-out European Union referendum, the head of the pro-independence Scottish Greens said.

Patrick Harvie’s party is the devolved Scottish government’s most likely ally in the event of a drive for a new independence referendum, and backed secession in 2014 when Scotland rejected it by 55 to 45 percent. The Greens’ six seats at Holyrood would complete the 65 seats for a majority that the SNP, with 63, would need to pass legislation.

“Independence would force the Scottish government to be realistic about the finite lifespan of the oil and gas industry. We are squandering the opportunity to do something about it,” Harvie said in an interview.

CURRENCY Scotland should also be laying the groundwork for an independent currency, he added.

“That Scotland determines fiscal policy but the UK determines currency policy just makes no sense” The Scottish National Party has offered the possibility of another referendum on independence if Scotland votes to stick with the EU on June 23 and Britain as a whole votes out, adding to the potential risks associated with the ballot.

All five parties in Scotland’s devolved parliament support EU membership, arguing that important trade and political links need to be preserved.

Harvie said he does not, however, believe that a scenario in which Britain votes to leave the EU, known as a “Brexit”, would in turn boost Scottish support for a split from the UK. “If the UK votes to leave there will be a great deal of appetite for another referendum now, now, now, now,” he said.

“But that (clamour) will be from those who voted ‘yes’ in 2014, and I’m not convinced that would do much to persuade the people who saw some attraction but also

Leader of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie

saw a downside and ended up voting ‘no,’” said 43-year-old Harvie, a former gay rights campaigner.

The Scottish government under Nicola Sturgeon can do more to further the independence cause by applying a new mindset to its enhanced devolved powers, which now include taxes, he said.

“Part of the goal of achieving independence is well served by using the powers we already have in the boldest and most creative way possible, demonstrating by our actions that we are well capable of governing ourselves,” he said.

The idea that Scotland could still use the pound after independence was one of the main flaws in the 2014 campaign, he said, adding that he expects to be consulted when the SNP start a new independence drive this summer.

“We have long argued that Scotland should be laying the groundwork for an independent currency. If you want independence in order to run a different macro-economic policy, you can’t do that if you are part of a currency union that sets restraints on levels of borrowing.”

BRITISH MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO $3M STOCK SCAM A British man has pleaded guilty in a New York court to his role in operating a Spain-based “boiler room” operation that conned about 250 investors out of nearly $3 million.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 52-year-old Martin Rhys-Jones of the United Kingdom pleaded guilty in federal court in Buffalo to laundering money acquired in a wire fraud conspiracy.

Prosecutors say Jones and Arnold Wrobel, a former Buffalo resident, oversaw a boiler room in Barcelona that bilked investors in the U.K. and Canada by getting them to buy nearly worthless shares of restricted stock at highly inflated prices.

Officials say a portion of the proceeds from the criminal operation were funnelled through a bank account in western New York before being sent to numerous overseas accounts controlled by Jones and Wrobel.

Wrobel was convicted in December and is awaiting sentencing.

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INNIE-the Pooh turns 90 this year and the much-loved children’s character returns for a new adventure in which he meets someone else celebrating the same significant birthday -- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth.

“Winnie-the-Pooh and the Royal Birthday” sees the popular bear Left: An employee poses with the first American edition of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh book ‘The House at Pooh from A.A. Milne’s chilCorner’ dated 1928 at Sotheby’s in London December 15, 2008. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor. Right: An illustration dren’s stories travel to from the new Winnie-the-Pooh adventure called Winnie-the-Pooh and the Royal Birthday.

London with friends Christopher Robin, Piglet and Eeyore, where they take in the famous sites and arrive in the style used by E.H. Shepard for Milne’s stories. at Buckingham Palace. The short illustrated and audio story, “There’s such a wit and a style to the stories that adults enjoy which can be downloaded for free, has been released to celreading them to children,” British actor Jim Broadbent, who ebrate both birthdays. Elizabeth turned 90 last month while narrates the audio story, said in a video release.

Milne’s first Winnie-the-Pooh book came out in October 1926. “... The children love them and they then love them and want It was written by Jane Riordan and illustrated by Mark Burgess to pass them on to the next generation and they carry on.”

Fresh UK inquest ordered into 1974 Birmingham pub bombings A CORONER in Britain has ordered a fresh inquest into the pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974 that killed 21 people.

The coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, Louise Hunt, says significant new information has come to light about the double bombings.

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T Saydo Park, a trailer park nestled in the olive tree lined hills of central Andalusia, Britain’s June 23 EU referendum is casting a shadow for many of its 200 retired British residents.

Some 35 percent of British residents officially registered in Spain are over 65 years old.

Among the main concerns for retired expats in case of a Brexit are healthcare and pensions.

British pensioners registered as residents in Spain now have free access to healthcare under a reciprocal EU deal. Without it, some say, they would not be able to stay because they could not afford a private plan. Many also fear they would be unable to afford property if they had to return to Britain.

ALIENS “We’ve been able to migrate here and we’re residents ... If UK comes out of the EU, we may be classed as aliens,” said Peter Harrison, 74, who has lived at Saydo Park since 2007.

Harrison’s fears are echoed by many others who, over the years, have made use of the bloc’s right to free movement to set up a home in Spain and bring over the British way of life.

Along the touristy Costa del Sol, pubs and fish and chip shops stand alongside restaurants serving paella.

With just a few weeks to go, it is not clear what kind of relationship London would negotiate with the bloc should Britons vote

Looming EU referendum casts shadow for British retirees in Spain Lured by warmer weather, cheaper property and a Mediterranean lifestyle, some 800,000 Britons have made Spain their home over the last three decades.

Now, many are wondering what a British exit from the European Union would mean to their way of life. to leave the EU. The UK would have two years to negotiate new terms.

Expats moved to Spain in the 1960s and 1970s, and after Madrid joined the EU in 1986, their numbers increased. By 2014, data showed Spain had become the most popular destination for British migrants in the EU. “I think if we come out it will affect people living out here,” 80-year old Patricia Dennison said.

“There’s a lot of people who live here on a very small pension and should we have to pay for our medical, I think a lot of people will leave here and go back to England and they will just have to find places to put us in England.”at Saydo Park in the outskirts of Mollina, southern Spain, May 18, 2016.

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Cave art trove found in Spain 1,000 feet underground S PANISH archaeologists say they have discovered an exceptional set of Paleolithic-era cave drawings that could rank among the best in a country that already boasts some of the world’s most important cave art.

Chief site archaeologist Diego Garate said Friday that an estimated 70 drawings were found on ledges 300 meters (1,000 feet) underground in the Atxurra cave in the northern Basque region. He described the site as being in “the Champions’ League” of cave art, among the top 10 sites in Europe.

The engravings and paintings feature horses, buffalo, goats and deer, dating back 12,50014,500 years ago.

DANGEROUS But Garate said access to the area is so difficult and dangerous it’s not likely to be open to the public.

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“No one expected a discovery of this magnitude,” said Jose Yravedra, a prehistory professor at Madrid’s Complutense Univesrsity. “There a lot ofcaves with drawings but very few have this much art and this much variety and quality.”

Altamira and other major sites in Spain and France have several hundred cave-art images.

Garate highlighted one buffalo drawing, which he said must have the most hunting lances stuck in it of any such drawing in Europe. He said most hunting drawings have four or five lances but this had almost 20 and it’s not clear why.

Yravedra said given the cave’s hidden location and the number, variety and quality of its drawings, the site was being classified as a “sanctuary,” or special Paleolithic meeting ritual place, like those at Altamira or Lascaux in France.

Regional officials hope to set up a 3-D display of the art so that the public can appreciate it.

Pakistani arrested for spreading extremist propaganda SPAIN’S Interior Ministry says police have arrested a Pakistani man suspected of spreading Islamic extremist propaganda via social media networks.

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Court denies US extradition request for art forger

SPAIN’S national court has ruled that Jose Carlos Bergantiños Díaz, an alleged member of the more than $80-million forgery scheme which sold fake masterworks such as Jackson Pollock’s, Rothko’s and Robert Motherwell through one of New Yorks oldest galleries Knoedler & Company should not be extradited to the United States to face charges, citing health reasons.

The forty-three page ruling states Díaz who along with his brother Jesús Ángel Bergantiños Díaz, who are alleged to have sold fakes created by Chinese artist Pei-Shen Qian through art dealer Glafira Rosales, with who he has a daughter with, could appear “before Spanish courts, with a level of success similar to that which could be reached before an American courts.”

Dealer Glafira Rosales, who has plead guilty to the forgery

scheme is awaiting sentencing whilst Chinese artist Pei-Shen Qian has fled to china claiming he was not aware that the forged artwork he created was being sold as originals Following the scandal Knoedler Gallery, once regarded as the most trusted, oldest gallery in America closed abruptly in 2011 after trading for more than 165 years and since its closure has made a number of out-ofcourt settlements with collectors who purchased the fakes.

A photo released by Spanish police of one of the five Bacons stolen last July. Photograph: Spanish national police/EPA

POLICE NAB 7 SUSPECTS OF LARGE FRANCIS BACON ART HEIST Seven people suspected of involvement in stealing five paintings by the Irish-born painter Francis Bacon worth more than 25 million euros have been arrested, Spanish police confirm.

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HE owner of the artworks reported the theft of the paintings and other valuables to the police in July after he had returned from a visit to London, a statement said.

None of the paintings had been recovered and the investigation was continuing, police said.

A breakthrough came in February when investigators received an email from a British firm specializing in art, which had received a request for it to verify the provenance of some art.

The person who contacted the firm lived in the northern seaside city of Sitges, police said, and had included photographs of canvases purporting to be by Bacon. The person asked the experts if the works were listed as stolen.

Signatures that looked like Bacon’s appeared on the reverse of the paintings, which made the experts suspect they could have been added, the statement said.

UNCOVER An examination of the photographs’ metadata revealed the type of camera used and that it was hired out, clues that enabled police to identify the sender and uncover links to a Madrid-based art dealer and a son of the dealer.

The other suspects also received the photographs and were arrested on suspicion of being accomplices and of conspiring to conceal the facts, police said.

The heist appeared to have been professionally planned. The paintings were part of a collection owned by a close friend of Bacon who lived in an apartment close to Spain’s Senate, a heavily policed neighbourhood, Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais said, citing unidentified sources close to the investigation.

Bacon often visited Madrid, where he spent time studying old master paintings in the Prado Museum, and died in the city in 1992, aged 82.

Saturday’s statement did not say when the arrests were made and did not disclose the names of the suspects.

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OLANDA Yeste lost her flat and two jobs as a hospital security guard during Spain’s five-year economic crisis and its aftermath.

Still unable to find work, the 54-year-old is one of millions of Spaniards who have yet to be touched by an economic recovery and who voted for anti-austerity party Podemos in an election last December.

No clear winner emerged from the ballot and political parties failed to form a coalition government, so voters go back to the polls on June 26 for the second election in six months.

Yeste says she will cast her vote for a new alliance between Podemos and smaller leftwing party. “The fact that the left is united is a great achievement from my point of view,” the mother-of-two said, sitting in a hall in Barcelona before a community activists’ meeting. “There has to be a change, we can’t keep on going as we are.”

The Unidos Podemos (United We Can) alliance may or may not end up joining a coalition government in an election, which the centreright People’s Party (PP) of caretaker Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is forecast to win but again fall short of an absolute majority.

But with opinion polls showing Unidos Podemos could take a quarter of the vote in the election, it is set to assure a strong antiausterity bloc in the next parliament at a time when spending cuts and labour reforms in Europe have led to student protests in Paris and worker riots in Athens.

In a 50-point manifesto, the alliance promises to row back on labour reforms put in place during the euro zone debt crisis that made it easier to hire and fire employees, and says it will increase spending on health and education.

It also wants to increase taxes on companies and the wealthy, create a universal minimum wage of 600 euros a month, and make utilities provide free energy to the poor.

Anti-austerity alliance captures vote of Spain’s crisis-hit poor

‘I’VE RIGHT TO A ROOF’ The leading party among the young and the unemployed, Podemos arose from a surge of street-level political activism, which flourished following Spain’s recession on issues from housing to cutbacks in health and education.

These issues remain pertinent in a country where unemployment is the second highest in the euro zone, with nearly half of young people out of work, and where more than a quarter of the population is at risk of poverty.

“A Podemos-United Left alliance appeals to those who are still suffering the consequences of the economic crisis and who are looking for change,” said Francisco Camas, analyst at pollster Metroscopia.

The community centre in Barcelona hosts meetings for the Mortgage Victims’ Association, an activist movement that was set up in 2009 to help those facing eviction after Spain’s housing crash.

On a recent afternoon, around 50 people sat on white plastic chairs and talked about their housing concerns. On the wall were slogans such as “Don’t trust the banks” and “I’ve a right to a roof”.

Podemos, led by the pony-tailed former academic Pablo Iglesias, has harnessed the power of these social movements, putting forward candidates that represent alliances of different groups. This strategy had great success in regional elections last year when

Podemos (We Can) leader Pablo Iglesias (L) and Izquierda Unida (United Left) leader Alberto Garzon pose before their meeting at the Spanish parliament in Madrid, Spain, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

Podemos-affiliated parties swept to power in cities and regions across Spain.

Opinion polls, show the centre-right Ciudadanos up slighty from December at around 15 per cent and the Socialists dipping to around 20.5 percent.

ANOTHER VENEZUELA? Podemos landed a surprise in the December election. Polls predicted it would come a distant fourth but in the end it came close third, winning 69 of the 350 seats in parliament.

But its alliance with United Left could also deter some voters.

The hook-up potentially brings 1 million voters to Podemos’s base of five million, which it hopes will land 13 extra parliamentary seats to the 71 the two parties gained in December.

But a poll from the Sociological Research Centre and internal party estimates show around 1 million who voted for Podemos in December could cast their ballot for the Socialists or Ciudadanos in June as a result of the move left, thus erasing the potential gains of the alliance.

“United Left would have voted with us anyway in parliament, so this confluence brings no extra upside but it does create a downside,” said a senior Podemos party member, who favoured the two forces running on separate tickets.

By overtaking the 137-year old Socialist party as the main left-wing force and raising fears of a hard-left government, the alliance may even boost support for Rajoy and smooth the way for a PP-led government.

“For us it’s just perfect. We can campaign hard on saying we’re the best option to avoid

a radical government like in Venezuela,” said a senior PP member, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“And if the Socialists come behind Podemos then they’ll have no other choice than to back us,” he said.

Back in the community centre, unemployed former warehouse worker Dario Suarez talks of how the experience of losing his job and then his flat gave him a new political consciousness.

Suarez, who has lived with his parents since losing his home, voted for Podemos in December and said he was likely to vote for the Podemos alliance in June due to their social policies.

“I had never voted before, I didn’t believe in any political party, I thought they were all the same,” said the 33-year-old. “It is fantastic to me that there are new parties trying to change things.”

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CATS OR COPS? Spain police seek fine for lettering on bag A

WOMAN in Spain may be fined under the country’s public security law for carrying a bag bearing the initials A.C.A.B., which police interpreted to stand for “All Cops Are Bastards” and not “All Cats Are Beautiful,” as was written on the bag.

A spokesman said Tuesday the type and colouring of the lettering are traditionally associated with the insult to police. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with police regulations.

The police department later issued a statement saying it had decided to further investigate the matter given the circumstances of the incident and the possible “ambivalence” of the initials.

The fine of between 100 and 600 euros ($112-

672) was proposed under the 2015 Public Security Law nicknamed the “gag law,” which has been criticized by opposition parties, United Nations experts and journalists’ and rights groups, who say it curtails free assembly and expression. Opposition parties say they will ditch the law if they get into government.

The woman told several Spanish news outlets that police stopped her Sunday in Madrid. She said she explained to them that the bag made no mention of police.

The online newspaper Eldiario.es and others showed photographs of the bag and the police complaint reportedly posted on the woman’s Twitter account.

It was not immediately possible to obtain

comment from the woman.

The A.C.A.B. slogan has long been used to insult police on T-shirts and graffiti, while the cat wording is seen by some as a way of concealing it.

The “gag law” allows the expulsion of migrants illegally entering Spain’s two North African enclaves, sets stiff fines for protests outside Parliament or strategic installations and allows authorities to fine journalists and media organizations who distribute unauthorized images of police. In this case, the alleged offense was a lack of respect for police.

The measure was drawn up following a wave of anti-government protests in 2012 as Spain was in the throes of the financial crisis.

French court OKs the transfer of dead man’s sperm to Spain FRANCE’S top administrative court has ordered that a dead man’s frozen sperm be transferred to Spain so that his widow can be inseminated.

The couple, who used to live in France, wanted to have a child but the husband died last year. His widow, who then returned to Spain, her home country, asked the French administration to allow her to use the sperm.

Using a dead man’s sperm for insemination is illegal in France, but in Spain the procedure is authorized within 12 months following the death.

The French Council of State ruled Tuesday that in this “very particular situation,” applying French law would have “disproportionate consequences.”

The husband had explicitly given his consent before his death to allow his sperm to be used.

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HREE journalists held by Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels have been freed after going missing for six days in the restive Norte de Santander province. Spanish journalist Salud Hernandez, who was the first to go missing in El Tarra municipality, was freed first and called into various radio and television stations to confirm her release. Colombian reporter Diego D’Pablos and cameraman Carlos Melo, who were subsequently kidnapped whilst reporting on the disappearance of Salud Hernandez in the largely lawless north-eastern area, were freed shorty after.

Hernandez, who had been last seen climbing aboard a motorcycle taxi while reporting a story on the illegal drug trade, thanked the Catholic Church for its help with her release.

“Thank you to the Catholic Church, to all my colleagues,” Hernandez said by telephone to Caracol television news. “I’m perfectly fine.”

Hernandez said at a press conference that leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels had treated her well and told her they would hold her for several days. The government had previously claimed that the ELN Rebels, who operates in the area alongside other

Colombia’s ELN rebels free kidnapped journalists rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC was holding the three journalists. In a printed statement given to Hernandez, the ELN said it was responding to what it perceived as a security threat.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS The release of the reporters could help move the ELN and the government toward beginning the peace talks they announced in March. The negotiations have been delayed by the rebels’ continued kidnappings and infrastructure attacks. Hernandez, 59, who writes for Spain’s El Mundo and local newspapers, is known for opinion columns

highly critical of Colombia’s insurgents, the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos and its more than three-year-old peace talks with the FARC. Santos reiterated to reporters Friday afternoon that no official talks would begin until the group frees all hostages.

“We celebrate the liberation of Diego D’Pablos and Carlos Melo. We expect them to reunite with their families,” the president said on his Twitter account. Norte de Santander is a hub for cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, and for the smuggling of goods from neighbouring Venezuela. Rebels groups and criminal gangs, many of whom include former paramilitary fighters, sometimes fight for control of trafficking routes and drug crops.

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SPANISH court has overruled Madrid legislation that banned renting tourist accommodation for fewer than five days in a victory for the “sharing economy” which allows people to stay in ordinary people’s homes through sites like Airbnb.

The measure, brought in two years ago, allowed the hotel sector to dominate short-term lets for visitors to the capital at a time of record Spanish tourist numbers, although it was not strictly enforced.

Airbnb’s critics say short-term rentals drive up property rents.

Last week, the European Union executive gave its support to companies like Airbnb and ride-hailing app Uber [UBER.UL], saying governments should only ban such services as a last resort.

The ruling was in response to an appeal by a local homesharing association Madrid Aloja (‘Madrid Accommodates’).

However, a Berlin court upheld a city ban on short-term home rentals in the German capital earlier on Wednesday, illustrating the patchwork response to the fast-growing sector adopted by European cities.

Although not legally binding, the guidelines are an attempt to set a Europe-wide approach to the sector which challenges traditional industries such as taxi services and hotels.

Apart from the criticism of Airbnb, taxi drivers have staged high-profile protests against Uber in many European countries.

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ITH sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism. But while most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, the crowds of tourists have exasperated some locals.

In the first two months of this year, the number of holiday makers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015. Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year.

ABTA, the United Kingdom’s largest travel association and Iberia’s main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.

That’s broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe’s recent financial crisis. But not everyone is cheering.

With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula’s centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.

In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, “tourist you are the terrorist” and “tourist go home.” In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.

Meanwhile, on the opposite coast, residents in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon grumble about packed sidewalks and heavy traffic.

Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive

As tourism boom fires Iberian economies, some are left feeling cold business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans’ other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.

“The threats from terror have come into play,” says Rochelle Turner, director of research at the World Travel and Tourism Council in London, a forum for industry businesses.

Turkey’s visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.

NEW JOBS Spain, Europe’s most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year — almost 5 percent up on the previous year — with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors. The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros ($75.3 billion) in 2015, the national statistics agency says.

In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs. In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that’s a welcome development. But some say the surge has to be better managed.

“We cannot just keep growing at breakneck speed in terms of volume, filling or exceeding the capacity of some destinations,”

Valencia bans bull runs featuring flaming horns THE southern Mediterranean city of Valencia has banned a long-time tradition in which bulls are set loose on neighbourhood streets with flaming balls of wax or fireworks affixed to their horns.

Mayor Joan Ribo cited cruelty to animals for the ban approved last week.

The city council also cut funding for bull runs and bullfighting schools but did not move to ban bullfighting.

The ban comes a year after Ribo and his alliance including the far-left Podemos party took power and two days after lawmakers in the central Castile and Leon region prohibited spearing bulls to death at one of Spain’s goriest spectacles held for centuries in the town of Tordesillas.

Valencia politicians with the conservative Popular Party called the ban on flaming bulls a violation of the city’s cultural heritage.

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Exceltur, a non-profit group formed by the chairmen of the 25 leading Spanish tourist groups, has warned.

The people of Barcelona may agree. The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.

“I’m all for a concept of sensible tourism ... but the truth is we have been invaded, and Barcelona’s own success is its own worst enemy,” said retiree Rosa Maria Miguel, 65, from the Barceloneta district — a historic fishermen’s quarter that nowadays boasts an exclusive marina for glamorous megayachts.

Aime Bwakira, a 41-year-old financial analyst from Toronto, likes Barcelona so much that he recently made his third visit, though he acknowledges the influx of tourists like him can be “overwhelming.”

“I can certainly sympathize with local frustrations because, while we bring money to the local economy, we also crowd the streets, push prices up and bring noise and rowdiness,” he said. “I don’t know what the right balance is, but it’s not an easy one.”

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find that balance.

“Barcelona has consolidated itself as one of the world’s prime destinations, which has its obvious benefits, but also entails high-impact risk that unregulated growth could eventually make the bubble burst,” she said recently. Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a “tourist tax” on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.

While Barcelona seeks to slow things down, in Lisbon there’s a dash to keep up with surging demand. More than 50 new hotels opened in 2015.

Portugal last year received more than 17 million tourists — a 9 percent increase on 2014 and a record — and in the first quarter of this year, the number of guests increased by almost 15 percent. The visitors are seen as a tonic for Portugal’s feeble economy.

But as the novelty of being in fashion wears off, grumbles are being heard. One downtown Lisbon parish council official has described the city’s residents as “collateral damage” in the boom, as they are squeezed off busy sidewalks and out of popular restaurants.

In the medieval Lisbon neighbourhood of Alfama, a constant stream of tourists in tour buses, taxis and motorized rickshaws called “tuk-tuks” thread their way through narrow, cobbled streets up to St. George’s castle. The picturesque neighbourhood is increasingly handing over its homes to lucrative tourist accommodations.

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Spain court orders Operation Puerto blood bags released A SPANISH court has ruled that blood bags which are key evidence in one of Spain’s worst doping scandals should be handed over to authorities for investigation. The Madrid Provincial Court said bags containing blood samples and plasma should be handed over to the Spanish Cycling Federation, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Cycling Union and Italy’s Olympic Committee.

The announcement came 10 years after Operation Puerto revealed a doping network involving some of the world’s top cyclists when police seized coded blood bags from the Madrid clinic of sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

The decision backed an appeal by lawyers for prosecuting parties against a 2013 court ruling that the bags should be destroyed for privacy reasons.

The court’s ruling “took into account that the goal is to fight against doping, which goes against sport’s ethical values.”

Not ordering the bags to be made available would have “generalized the danger of other sports people being tempted to dope themselves and sent a negative social message that the end justifies the means,” the court said.

The 2013 order to destroy the blood bags outraged the sports community. Spain’s antidoping agency, the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-Doping Agency were among the entities that appealed.

It was not immediately clear how WADA’s statute of limitations would apply in the case.

An eight-year statute was in place in 2006 when the scandal first broke, and the period was recently extended to 10 years.

“WADA is very pleased with the decision of the court to release the blood bags,” WADA President Craig Reedie said. “We will now be speaking to the other parties who appealed in the case to decide how to proceed.

We have to see what the implications are regarding the statute of limitations.”

OVER 50 PARTICIPANTS More than 50 cyclists were originally linked to the case. Among those eventually suspended were former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, Spanish Vuelta champion Alejandro Valverde and Ivan Basso, who later confirmed that his blood was among the frozen samples found.

Fuentes said during a 2013 trial that he also worked with athletes from other sports, but the judge back then said he didn’t have to

name anyone who was not implicated in the cycling case.

Speculation has been rife that the release of the bags, which were being kept at a lab in Barcelona, could stir up another scandal if identities of new athletes are revealed.

The court’s latest ruling also absolved Fuentes and a former cycling team director who were given suspended sentences in the 2013 trial for endangering public health. The court said the blood samples could not be considered medication.

Spanish athletes and officials also complained that the lack of closure on the case has further damaged the country’s image in the fighting doping.

“Operation Puerto caused horror to our sport and to the image of the country,” Spanish Olympic committee chief Alejandro Blanco said recently. “We’ve been dealing with this for 10 years, and it feels like it could be other 20.”

WADA this year declared Spain “noncompliant” with it global code because it failed to make required law changes on doping. The country was not able to form a government following elections last year, so parliament has not been able to update the country’s anti-doping legislation to match the revised WADA regulations.

WADA followed this up by this month by suspending the accreditation of the Madrid drug-testing lab.

Spain faces fresh elections June 26 but the signs are a new government may not be formed for several months.

Spanish anti-doping agency director Enrique Gomez Bastida welcomed the court ruling after meeting with the country’s top government sports official, Miguel Cardenal.

“We express satisfaction with the decision,” he said. “We are examining it thoroughly in order to evaluate possible joint future actions with the anti-doping organizations involved in the judicial process.”

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IN a bid to lure visitors from India, Madrid will next weekend host the annual International Indian Film Academy awards (IIFA) dubbed the ‘Bollywood Oscars’. With its colourful fiestas and historic monuments Madrid is hoping that it can entice Bollywood directors to use Spain as a backdrop for its films.

Among the Bollywood stars who will attend the awards ceremony is actor Hrithik Roshan, the star of the 2011 coming-of-age movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which was produced in close collaboration with the Spanish tourism promotion agency, Turespana. The film about three friends on a premarriage road trip across Spain includes scenes at the ‘La Tomatina’ festival in the town of Bunol as well as at Pamplona’s San Fermin bull running festival.

With scenes also set in Barcelona, Seville and the beaches of the Costa Brava, the movie was the first major Indian production to shoot extensively in various locations in Spain.

It was also the highest grossing Bollywood film of 2011.

In terms of global tourism, Spain which is currently ranked the third most visited country in the world with over 6.5million tourists last year only saw 85,000 Indians visit Spain.

The UN World Tourism Organisation predicts that 50 million Indian tourists a year will travel abroad by 2020, up from 18 million in 2014.

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WHO rejects call for Olympics to be moved due to Zika THE World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected a call for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved or postponed due to the threat posed by large outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil.

Responding to a call from more than 100 leading scientists, who said it would be unethical for the Games to go ahead as scheduled, the United Nations health agency said having the Games in Rio as planned would “not significantly alter” the spread of Zika, which is linked to serious birth defects. “Based on the current assessment of Zika virus circulating in almost 60 countries globally and 39 in the Americas, there is no public health justification for postponing or cancelling the games,” the WHO said in a statement.

In a public letter posted online last week, around 150 leading public health experts, many of them bioethicists, said the risk of infection from the Zika virus is too high for the Games to go ahead safely. The letter was sent to Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, and said that the Games, due to be held in Rio de Janeiro in August, should be moved to another location or delayed. “An unnecessary risk is posed when 500,000 foreign tourists from all countries attend the Games, potentially acquire that strain, and return home to places where it can become endemic,” the letter said. But the WHO rejected the call, saying Brazil “is one of almost 60 countries and territories” where Zika has been detected and that people continued to travel between these countries and territories for a variety of reasons. “The best way to reduce risk of disease is to follow public health travel advice,” it said.

The WHO’s advice is that pregnant women should not travel to areas with on-going Zika virus transmission, including Rio de Janeiro. It also advises everyone to make all efforts to protect against mosquito bites and to practice safe sex. Zika infection in pregnant women has been shown to be a cause of the birth defect microcephaly and other serious brain abnormalities in babies. The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last fall in Brazil, which has confirmed more than 1,400 cases of microcephaly.

Putin WARNS Romania and Poland they could be in Russia’s cross hairs with USA

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UTIN issued his starkest warning yet over the missile shield, saying that Moscow had stated repeatedly that it would have to take retaliatory steps but that Washington and its allies had ignored the warnings. Earlier this month the U.S. military that says the shield is needed to protect from Iran, not threaten Russia switched on the Romanian part of the shield.

Work is going ahead on another part of the shield, in Poland. “If yesterday in those areas of Romania people simply did not know what it means to be in the cross-hairs, then today we will be forced to carry out certain measures to ensure our security,” Putin told a joint news conference in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. “It will be the same case with Poland,” he said.

Putin did not specify what actions Russia would take, but he insisted that it was not making the first step, only responding to moves by Washington. “We won’t take any action until we see rockets in areas that neighbour us.” He said the argument that the project was needed to defend against Iran made no sense because an international deal had been reached to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme. The missiles that will form the shield can easily reach Russian cities, he said. “How can that not create a threat for us?” Putin asked. He voiced frustration that Russia’s complaints about the missile shield had not been heeded. “We’ve been repeating like a mantra that we will be forced to respond... Nobody wants to hear us. Nobody wants to conduct negotiations with us.”

CRIMEA ISSUE CLOSED Putin sounded a defiant note over Crimea, the Ukrainian region which Russia annexed in 2014. Moscow said it was acting on the will of the Crimean people, who voted to join Russia, but Western governments say it was an illegal land grab.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Romania and Poland they could find themselves in the sights of Russian rockets because they are hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield that Moscow considers a threat to its security.

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this question is closed forever,” Putin said.

“Russia will not conduct any discussions with anyone on this subject.”

The Russian leader also touched on relations with Turkey, which have been toxic since the Turkish military shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkish border last November. Ankara said the plane strayed into Turkish airspace, an allegation Moscow denies. Putin said he was ready to consider restoring relations with Ankara, but that would require a first step from Turkey, and so far there was no sign of that.

Putin was asked about the South Stream project, a planned gas pipeline from Russia that would have gone under the Black Sea to Bulgaria and onwards to southern Europe.

Russia shelved the project after Bulgaria backed out.

He blamed the U.S. government and the European Commission, saying they had pressured Sofia to withdraw. But he said Russia was going ahead with an extension of its Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic, and he hoped no one would try to hinder that project.

AMAZON TO DELIVER FRESH FOOD IN BERLIN SOON AMAZON plans to start deliveries of fresh food in Berlin in coming months, as the ecommerce giant extends its foray into groceries beyond its home market.

Manager Magazi has announced that Amazon plans to work with 15 partners to start delivery of fresh food in the German capital this autumn - however when questioned Amazon declined to comment.

Germany is already Amazon’s second-biggest market outside the United States, but grocery ecommerce has been slow to

take off as the country has a high density of food stores and the dominant discounters Aldi and Lidl have been slow to go online.

However, the country’s second-biggest supermarket chain REWE has been investing heavily in ecommerce in anticipation of Amazon’s move into food.

Management consulting firm A.T. Kearney expects ecommerce will account for 3 percent of Germany’s grocery market by 2020 - up from just 1 percent now. Online already

accounts for 5 percent of the grocery market in Britain, which has been a global trailblazer in food ecommerce.

Amazon launched a fresh food offering in Seattle in 2007 and has moved to a handful of other U.S. cities since then, but has been slow to roll it out further due to the logistical challenges of sourcing and handling chilled and frozen goods.

In February, it struck a supply deal with British supermarket Morrisons and this month began testing fresh food deliveries in London, according to media reports.

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POPE GIVES AWARDS TO RICHARD GERE, GEORGE CLOONEY AND SALMA HAYEK

Pope Francis meets U.S. actor George Clooney and his wife Amal during a meeting of the Scholas Occurrentes at the Vatican. Osservatore Romano/ Handout via REUTERS

POPE Francis has awarded medals to American actors Richard Gere and George Clooney and actress Salma Hayek at an event held at the Vatican to promote the work of a foundation inspired by the pontiff, Scholas Occurrentes.

Clooney attended the event with his wife Amal, a lawyer.

The foundation, whose name means “schools that meet” in Spanish, links technology with the arts, aiming at social integration and a cultural of peace.

Francis had created a similar organization when he was Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, but Scholas has now become an international foundation working out of the Vatican.

“Important values can be transmitted by celebrities,” said one of the organizers, Lorena Bianchetti, adding that the actors had agreed to be ambassadors for one of the foundation’s arts projects.

U.N. rights boss deplores detention of migrants in Europe THE United Nations human rights boss described a “worrying rise” in detention of migrants in so-called “hotspots” in Greece and Italy and urged authorities to find alternatives to confining children while their asylum requests are processed.

“Even unaccompanied children are frequently placed in prison cells or centres ringed with barbed-wire. Detention is never in the best interests of the child – which must take primacy over immigration objectives,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (pictured) said in a speech.

“Alternatives to the detention of children must be developed.”

Zeid told the U.N. Human Rights Council that he deplored “the widespread anti-migrant rhetoric that we have heard, spanning the length and breadth of the European continent”.

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FTER years of austerity demanded by Greece’s international creditors - the latest passed by parliament - Greeks wonder whether the sacrifices they made to stay in the euro zone were worth the pain.

“We are done, we can’t even leave our homes anymore to have a coffee,” said Panagiotis Zabetakis, 50, a carpenter who, like one in every four Greeks, is unemployed. Playing with traditional komboloi worry beads at a cheap cafe in an Athens suburb, Zabetakis paid 1 euro (0.75 pounds) for his morning coffee, half what it would cost in the city centre. But prices everywhere will rise on June 1 when the measures passed to secure Greece’s latest deal start coming into force.

By next year Greeks will pay an extra 20-30 cents for their coffee and the price of just about everything else will rise too as added tax will (VAT) goes up to 24 percent from 23 percent.

Greeks’ spending power, meanwhile, is in sharp decline. “We are running after the Europeans, hoping they throw us a bone which would suffice for a few months. I’m very disappointed,” Zabetakis said, criticising the deal, which opens the way for debt relief from 2018, but does not include any firm promise

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to reduce the payments Greece has to make.

Greece has been hit with waves of pension cuts and tax increases since it was forced to seek its first bailout in 2010.

French PM says he will not bow to labour reform protestors FRENCH Prime Minister Manuel Valls (pictured right) is determined not to join a long list of politicians who have conceded defeat to protesters, he told the Journal Du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, as the government prepares to dig in its heels on labour reform.

The hard-line CGT union has organised street protests, train strikes and refinery blockades to pressure the government to scrap plans that would make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.

“If we gave in to the street and to CGT because we were obsessed over the short term by 2017 (presidential elections), we would lose everything,” Valls was quoted as saying by the French newspaper.

UNREST In the mid-1990s Prime Minister Alain Juppe triggered France’s worst unrest in decades because he would not budge on pension reform but he eventually backed down after weeks of industrial action and protests.

The government is under pressure to find a solution to the latest standoff before the June 10 start of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France, which the CGT has threatened to disrupt. Finance Minister Michel Sapin emphasised the government’s stance.

“First and foremost we must be firm,” Sapin said in an interview with Reuters and three European newspapers.

“Doing otherwise would be wrong with respect to (other) labour unions, most of whom support the text.”

The more moderate CFDT union backs proposed reform

that will allow businesses to lay off staff more easily in hard times but also give unions more power to negotiate unilateral deals with companies rather than national collective agreement.

Sapin said he agreed with the tough stance taken by Valls and that he had been misunderstood when he told LCP television last week that it might be possible to tweak the part of the draft bill that would let companies opt out of national obligations on labour protection if they adopt in-house deals on pay and conditions with the consent of a majority of employees.

For all the tough talk, however, another minister said that the government could not let the Euro 2016 tournament be disrupted because it would be bad for France’s image.

One option could be for lawmakers to tweak the bill when it returns to the lower house of parliament for a second reading, the minister said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The government pushed the bill through the lower house with a decree, bypassing the first reading. The final vote is expected in July.

Greece’s government trumpeted a debt relief deal with other euro zone countries last week as the beginning of the end of its bruising six-year financial crisis but Greeks remained sceptical and markets were cautious.

Leaving the meeting in Brussels where he secured 10.3 billion euros (£8 billion) in new funds, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said he hoped the deal marked “the beginning of turning Greece’s vicious circle of recession-measuresrecession into one where investors have a clear runway to invest in Greece.”

CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM Markets reacted with cautious optimism. Greek government bond yields fell to six-month lows and the Athens stock exchange rose by 1.5 percent.

Analysts say that to regain investor confidence Greece still needs to show it can implement the promised reforms, even though much of the hard work - pushing the measures through a fractious parliament - has already been done.

Ratings agency Moody’s said the “implementation risks” of the deal remained high because of the government’s thin majority and the backdrop of political and social discontent.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, elected in early 2015 promising to end austerity only to row back and accept a new bailout, managed to scrape together a narrow majority of 153 members in the 300 seat parliament on Sunday and one of his lawmakers quit after the vote.

“We are adopting measures and policies which run counter to the core of our values and policies,” the resigned member of parliament, Vassiliki Katrivanou, said on her Facebook page.

“But I cannot think of any credible alternative.”

Carsten Hesse, a strategist at Berenberg Bank, said “the ups and downs of uncertainty will not go away until Greece can finance itself via markets again.”

“A vigorous implementation of reforms should provide the base for a swift stabilization of investor and business confidence,” said Platon Monokroussos, economist at Athensbased Eurobank.

DEAL The deal won a provisional commitment from the IMF to return to the bailout process, despite its doubts that Greece will miss its targets.

But with Germany opposed to cutting the debt pile, euro zone ministers made any relief measures such as extending maturities on loans contingent on Athens respecting strict criteria, something Greeks fear means more austerity.

On the streets of Athens, a 33-year-old chartered accountant, who declined to give his name fearing repercussions at work, said he was tired of scraping by.

“I feel we are just living in this vortex of austerity measures,” he said. “It’s a constant of just sacrifices.”

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BDELAZIZ, 68, the Polisario Front’s secretary general and president of its self-declared Sahrawi Republic, had suffered from a long illness, the movement’s Sahara Press Service and Algeria’s state news agency declared.

His death came at a sensitive time for the Western Sahara dispute. Morocco earlier this year expelled part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission from the territory following a disagreement with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Ban’s press office issued a statement expressing his sadness at the death of Abdelaziz, whom he met earlier this year during a visit to the region.

“Mr. Abdelaziz was a central figure in the search for a resolution of the Western Sahara conflict,” the statement said.

Morocco took over most of the territory in 1975 from colonial power Spain, but the Polisario Front began a guerrilla war for Abdelaziz’s Sahrawi people, saying the desert region in northwest Africa belonged to them.

Polisario has been based in Algeria since a U.N. ceasefire in 1991 halted the conflict. But a dispute over a referendum on the area’s future has left it in a deadlock for years.

Algeria’s government declared eight days

of mourning after Abdelaziz’s death was announced. Polisario rules state that the movement’s assembly president takes over for 40 days after which an extraordinary session will be held to choose a new leader.

Abdelaziz, who lived in the Sahrawi refugee camp in southern Algeria, had led the Polisario though a period of struggle and into the U.N.-backed truce. Since 1991, the dispute has been frozen over how to hold the referendum.

Many younger Sahrawi are demanding progress after years in the camps in the Tindouf region of Algeria, exerting a pressure that the Polisario’s new leadership will have to manage.

Polisario representatives say Morocco put the ceasefire at risk by expelling U.N. staffers and trying to scuttle the referendum, including on the question of independence. Morocco has offered an autonomy plan as the only way forward.

The U.N. statement said Ban wanted to help the parties “to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution, which will provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.”

During his recent visit to the region, Ban infuriated Morocco by referring publicly to the “occupation” of Western Sahara.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS Zimbabwe is seeking support from its neighbours to be allowed to engage in international trade in ivory because it will not burn its 70 tonnes of ivory stocks as Kenya did last month- environment minister declares.

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IMBABWE and Namibia are bidding to open up international trade in elephant ivory, against initiatives led by Kenya for a complete global ban.

Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told diplomats from the Southern African Development Community that Zimbabwe was counting on their support at the next U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in September.

Muchinguri said banning trade in ivory would not stop poaching and gave the example of how the rhino population remained under threat 40 years after trading in the rhino horn was outlawed by CITES. “There is no tangible evidence that trade bans have ever saved a species from extinction,” Muchinguri said. “It is imperative for our regional economy that SADC countries unite in defending our right to sustainably use our natural resources.”

Muchinguri said plans by the European Union to ban hunting trophies from Africa, as the United States did after the killing of Cecil the lion last year, would cause hunting revenues to fall and push people living near wildlife to resort to poaching.

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe says trade is the only way to pay for the costs of protecting its 83,000 elephants. Zimbabwe says it has 70 tonnes of raw ivory in government storage estimated to be worth $35 million.

“To us, burning is not an option, we need the resources for sustainable wildlife conservation,” Muchinguri said.

‘BLADE RUNNER’ PISTORIUS TO BE SENTENCED FOR MURDERING GIRLFRIEND SOUTH African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is awaiting sentancing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ending years of legal twists and turns.

Pistorius, 29, known as “Blade Runner” for the carbon-fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence and cannot appeal after the country’s top court ruled in March that he had exhausted all his legal options.

The track star, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, initially received a five-year sentence for culpable homicide, South Africa’s equivalent of manslaughter. The conviction was later upgraded to murder after an appeal heard by the Supreme Court.

Original trial judge Thokozile Masipa will begin hearing presentencing arguments at Pretoria High Court on Monday, with Pistorius expected to discover his fate by the end of the week.

The athlete’s legal team is expected to call witnesses who will argue that Masipa should be lenient because of the athlete’s mental fragility, physical disability and good behaviour during almost a year behind bars for the original manslaughter conviction.

State prosecutor Gerrie Nel will cross-examine and call his own witnesses as he seeks to convince Masipa that Pistorius is not remorseful -- a key consideration in sentencing -- and that it is in the interest of South African justice that the athlete receives a lengthy jail term.

Pistorius’s final days in court will mark the end of a dramatic fall from grace for an athlete who was once considered a heroic example of triumph over adversity.

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He was released from prison last October after almost a year behind bars and allowed to serve out his term under house arrest on his uncle’s property in a suburb of Pretoria.

But in December, the Supreme Court upgraded the conviction on appeal and Pistorius was allowed to stay at his uncle’s mansion pending the final decisions on appeals and sentencing.

Pistorius denies deliberately killing model and law graduate Steenkamp, saying he mistook her for an intruder when he fired four shots through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home.

On May 3, Zimbabwe put the wild animals in its national parks up for sale, saying it needed buyers to step in and save the beasts from a devastating drought.

Democratic Republic of Congo ambassador Mwampanga Mwana Nanga said his country supported Harare’s proposals and was talking to Zimbabwe on the possibility of importing wildlife, including elephants.

At a meeting of African countries in Uganda on Wednesday on protecting lions, delegates agreed that carefully controlled hunting could help keep the species from extinction.

The final communique from the meeting of 28 states convened by CITES said: “the benefits that trophy hunting, where it is based on scientifically established quotas ... contributed to the conservation of lion populations.”

Trophy hunting has been in the global media since an American dentist killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe after it strayed outside Hwange National Park.

Lion numbers in Africa fell 43 percent between 1993 and 2014. But in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, which have regulated hunting industries, the lion populations have grown, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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EXPONENTIAL GROWTH Scaling Everest is far from the world’s most treacherous climb from a technical perspective. Mountaineering expert Alan Arnette estimates deaths at about 3 percent of attempts, against one in four on Annapurna, a Nepalese massif with its main peak surpassing 8,000 metres.

But less skilled climbers keen to conquer the highest points on each of the world’s continents often fail to appreciate how much more difficult Everest is than the other six, people in the climbing community say.

Competition among low-cost local companies chasing a business that has boomed in recent years and is no longer dominated by international outfits has meanwhile undermined safety standards, they say.

Paying the ultimate price on Mount Everest On his way down from the top of Mount Everest, Indian mountaineer Nava Kumar Phukon saw the woman sway from side to side - a classic sign of severe mountain sickness - as snow and fog reduced visibility to less than 10 feet (3 metres).

Some companies, charging around $30,000 a climb, or half that of high-end firms, are known to have sent relatively inexperienced climbers up the mountain without medically trained guides.

“There is this exponential growth in organisations offering guiding services on Everest and because there are so few internationally qualified guides in Nepal, it means the companies are engaging less and less in skilled workers,” said veteran climber Andrew Lock, the first Australian to lead a commercial expedition up Everest.

Climbing is big business in Nepal, earning the government $3.1 million from 289 Everest permit fees this year.

Critics accuse Kathmandu of failing to enforce rules requiring past experience of high climbs, but Tourism Department official Bishnu Regmi said the government was committed to safety.

Arnold Coster, who led the expedition for Seven Summit Treks, said his agency was as prepared as any. He said he

had personally selected climbers, and that Strydom and her husband Robert Gropel had three experienced sherpas between them.

His team tried their best to evacuate Strydom when she got into difficulty, he said, but her condition deteriorated fatally before she reached a helicopter evacuation point.

An extra sherpa was sent up to help Dutchman Eric Ary Arnold when he complained of weakness but he died later that day.

“As far as I am concerned, we were one of the stronger teams on the mountain. It proves how unpredictable this sport is,” Coster said by telephone from Base Camp.

He acknowledged that the industry needed better regulation.

“People can just sign up like it’s tourism,” he said. “There are a lot of people who still have a valid permit from 2015 and didn’t show up this year. I think next year is going to be extremely busy.”

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HUKON’S sherpa guide later told him the woman was 34-year old Australian Maria Strydom, who died two weeks ago on the high slopes of Everest after making a failed push for the summit.

“The Sherpa who was trying to help her told me: ‘She is going to die’,” Phukon said after returning to Kathmandu from his own exhausting but successful summit bid.

“I did not have any extra oxygen, clothes or food, not even water to offer to her,” Phukon said. “I was so weak myself.”

News sources could not independently confirm that it was the same woman, although both the sherpa guides worked for the same agency Seven Summit Treks and knew each other.

Three deaths in as many days on the world’s tallest mountain have renewed safety concerns after eager climbers flocked to the 8,850-metre (29,035-foot) summit for the first time since last year when an avalanche triggered by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Base Camp, and all expeditions ground to a halt.

A Dutch national, also with Seven Summit Treks, has died in the notorious ‘death zone’ where the air is so thin that only the fittest can survive without bottled oxygen, while an Indian perished due to exhaustion. Two other Indian climbers have been missing, and are feared dead.

Officials from Seven Summit Treks said 13 sherpas bringing Strydom’s body down the mountain had encountered heavy snowfall at about 7,700 metres on Tuesday. When the weather improves they will resume the rescue, and her body will be flown to Kathmandu later this week, before the spring climbing season shuts with the onset of the monsoon.

Deaths are not uncommon on Everest and the number of fatalities this year is close to average. But experts say the lure of reaching the highest point on Earth is increasingly attracting less experienced climbers served by agencies hungry for business.

“Climbers are careless and confused about their strength and preparedness,” said 30-year old Indian Ratnesh Pandey after summiting Everest, without naming anyone.

He said temperatures plummeted to minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit) near the top, while fierce winds closed many of the “weather windows” in the upper reaches, making this year’s journey particularly tough.

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Irish airline takes delivery of Russia’s first post-soviet passenger jet

WHO under attack Nearly 1,000 killed in attacks on health workers in 2014-15

N IRELAND’S CityJet has became the first western European airline to take delivery of the Russian-designed passenger jet that Vladimir Putin hopes will compete internationally with planes made by the likes of Brazil’s Embraer and Canada’s Bombardier.

The first of 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft leased by CityJet was delivered in Venice, the airline said, with the option for 16 more in a deal worth more than $1 billion including servicing.

The 98-seat Superjet 100 is the first Russian-designed passenger jet to be built since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union in a project championed by Russian President Putin.

The project is led by Sukhoi -- part of state-owned United Aircraft Corporation <UNAC.MM>, which Putin created in 2006 to reorganise and revive the country’s aircraft industry - in partnership with Italy’s Finmeccanica.

Sukhoi announced the deal with CityJet last year, describing it as a “significant milestone” for the project.

CityJet, which operates eight routes into the small London City Airport and a service linking to Air France’s hub at Paris Charles de Gaulle, said it expects to take delivery of three Superjets this year, with the remainder arriving from 2017.

The Superjet programme had to overcome a problematic 2012 after one of its planes crashed in Indonesia during a promotional flight, which investigators said was a result of pilot error and Jakarta air traffic control’s lack of a minimum safe altitude system.

Russia’s Aeroflot was the first airline to operate the Superjet 100.

EARLY 1,000 people were killed in attacks on health centres worldwide over the past two years, almost 40 percent of them in Syria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced in its first report on the issue.

The United Nations agency documented 594 attacks resulting in 959 deaths and 1,561 injuries in 19 countries with emergencies between January 2014 and December 2015.

Syria, torn by civil war since 2011, had the most attacks on hospitals, ambulances, patients and medical workers, accounting for 352 deaths. The Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Iraq, Pakistan and Libya, followed.

DISRUPTION Some 62 percent of all attacks were deemed intentional and many led to disruption of public health services.

“This is not an isolated issue, it is not limited to war zones, it is not accidental. The majority of these are intentional,” Dr. Bruce Aylward, executive director of WHO’s emergency programme, told a news briefing.

“It is getting more and more difficult to deploy people into these places, it is getting more and more difficult to keep them safe when they are there and it is getting more and more difficult to ensure they survive, let alone recover in crises.”

Aylward, speaking later at an event at the WHO’s annual ministerial assembly, said: “It is not stopping, two days ago a suicide bomber blew himself up and took 40 people with him at least in one of the main hospitals in Latakia (Syria).”

The casualty figures include 42 killed and 37 wounded in a U.S. air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last October.

A U.S. military report last month said the incident did not

Dr. Joanne Liu, president of MSF International and Dr. Bruce Aylward, executive director of WHO’s emergency programme

amount to a war crime but was caused by human error, equipment failure and other factors. MSF has called for an independent inquiry.

“Last year, 75 hospitals managed or supported by MSF were bombed,” Dr. Joanne Liu, president of MSF International, told the WHO event.

“From Yemen to Syria, from Central African Republic to Niger, health facilities are looted, burnt and bombed. Patients are slaughtered in their beds. Health care workers are abducted, assaulted or killed,” she said.

WHO said 53 percent of the attacks were perpetrated by states, 30 by armed groups and 17 percent remain unknown.

“One of the most important rules of war is that you don’t attack health care facilities, health care providers, the sick, the disabled. So these attacks do represent gross violations of international humanitarian law,” said Rick Brennan, WHO director of emergency risk management and humanitarian response.

“Violations of international humanitarian law, if proven, can be considered war crimes and the perpetrators can be taken to the International Criminal Court,” he said.

ZIMBABWE’S MUGABE FINALLY FEEDS FOODSTARVED FEMALE PRISONERS ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe (left) has granted amnesty to all female prisoners except those on death row or serving life sentences, as prisons struggle to feed inmates due to lack of funding from the government.

Five prisoners died last year after being shot by police in a protest over food shortages, which turned violent as some of them attempted to break out of jail.

Mugabe announced the pardon through a government notice on Monday, without stating a reason for the move, and the release of prisoners started on Wednesday.

Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services spokeswoman Priscilla Mthembo said on Thursday there were 580 female inmates across the country’s 46 prisons, and those eligible would be set free. At the country’s top security

jail in Harare, two female prisoners serving life sentences remained after the amnesty, while vetting was on-going at other prisons.

In all, Mthembo said more than 2,000 prisoners would benefit from Mugabe’s pardon. These included all juveniles, irrespective of their crimes, as well as some men not serving time for serious crimes like murder, armed robbery, treason, rape or carjacking.

Zimbabwe’s prisons hold 20,000 inmates, more than their capacity of 17,000, causing congestion and shortages of everything from food to uniforms.

Under the constitution of the Southern African nation, Mugabe, who routinely pardons prisoners, is required to consult his cabinet on all amnesties.

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IBRALTAR could find its access to the single European market blocked by a hostile Spanish government if the United Kingdom were to vote to leave the European Union in a referendum next month, the chief minister of the tiny British territory on Spain’s southwestern tip said.

Fabian Picardo told Press that Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo had warned that if Britain exits the EU, the Popular Party government currently in power would “require that we accept joint sovereignty with Spain to have access to the market.”

Picardo said British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond had acknowledged that the European mechanisms in place to keep the frontier between Spain and Gibraltar flowing “will not be available to us if we are not

members of the EU.” Gibraltarians were overwhelmingly “on the ‘remain’ side” in the EU debate, he said.

“But, it’s important to send a message to those in the U.K. who think that there would

be no adverse consequences for Gibraltar in the event that the U.K. were to leave the EU, that Garcia-Margallo made his point very clearly,” Picardo said.

Gibraltar would find its trade adversely

affected if Spain took such action, but nevertheless, “we will never pay any sovereignty price either for access to the single market or for any other reason,” Picardo said.

Spain’s main opposition Socialist Party wasn’t against keeping Gibraltar’s borders open because it acknowledged it is “an important actor on the economic front,” creating 10,000 jobs in the southwest region, Picardo said.

Spain’s June 26 general election was hence almost as important to Gibraltar as the U.K.’s referendum on June 23 because a political divide exists over a free-flowing border, Picardo said.

Spain ceded Gibraltar’s sovereignty to Britain by treaty in 1713 but has persistently sought its return ever since.

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OLLOWING the sad circumstances of the murder of Jo Cox the Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo, welcomed the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron, to Gibraltar.

As a show of respect a decision was made to cancel all political campaigning and Mr Picardo and Mr Cameron proceeded directly to the Rock Hotel to meet in private.

The Prime Minister, Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister were able to conduct lengthy private meetings, during which they discussed Mr Cameron’s long history of active support for Gibraltar, the strengthening relationship between the UK and Gibraltar and the ways in which self-determination for Gibraltarians must always be protected.

Given the very difficult and regretful situation in which they found themselves, throughout their hour-long meeting Prime Minister and Chief Minister also took time to closely follow the sad news emerging from the UK. On behalf of the people of Gibraltar, the Chief Minister expressed his sincere condolences to the Prime Minister at the death of such a young, bright and determined Member of Parliament. The loss of Jo Cox MP is felt as deeply in Gibraltar as in the rest of the United Kingdom.

The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC, said: “It was in extremely difficult circumstances that I met with the Prime Minister yesterday. His visit was a historic one, albeit not a public one. I firmly believe that cancelling the public rally out of respect to Jo Cox and her family was absolutely the right decision. Although we felt it was inappropriate to make a public appearance, I was able to meet with the Prime Minister in private and we engaged in lengthy discussions both as diplomats and also on a personal level.

“David Cameron has always been a strong supporter of British Gibraltar and of the Gibraltarians as a people. It is clear to both of us that the relationship between the UK and Gibraltar is stronger, closer and more resolute now than ever before.

We share a history, a culture and a steadfast commitment to our democratic values: these are the essential components that make up the British family. “ In these turbulent times, I am entirely confident that Gibraltar

The Annual Sotogrande Gala IN support of The Josep Carreras Leukaemia Foundation which works tirelessly at raising funds for research into Leukaemia, Patricia Darch will be hosting, the Annual Sotogrande Summer Gala “A Magical Night of Opera”.

Leukaemia knows no boundaries and sadly in 2012, Patricia Darch lost her darling grandson Arturo to the terrible disease after a hard fought eight-year battle, and for this reason with support from a committee of friends and family she will be staging regular events raising funds in Arturo’s memory, to help others afflicted with this terrible life threatening cancer.

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Drug haul discovered in exclusive Sotogrande Marina TWO Bulgarian men have been arrested and further arrests are pending following the discovery of 1,570 kilos of hashish aboard a luxury boat moored in the exclusive marina of Sotogrande.

Guardia Civil officers claim they were alerted to the boat which was travelling under a Gibraltar flag from Morocco at high speed via the SIVE (Service Integrated Surveillance Strait).

Upon arriving at Sotogrande Marina, Guardia Civil officers discovered a double bottom and the hidden stash. Two members of the crew were arrested on the scene. Investigations continue.

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The Barras are a simple and stylish way to add ambience to an evening.

The Luna Gel Firepit, much like the Fuoco, is made from frost-proof ceramic and high quality stainless steel to bring sophisticated style to your outdoor setting. Similarly, the Luna is sure to add some real atmosphere by bringing both warmth and ambience to your garden.

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The 57th International Festival of Music and Dance takes place between June 24th and July 16th 2016 and will feature concerts by Ainhoa Arteta, Jorge Pardo, Los Vivancos and the Ballet Nacional de España.

June 24th 2016: Ainhoa Arteta. Takes place inside the Nerja Caves.

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Spain’s Prado unveils major exhibition of Dutch master Bosch

T may not be the most suitable exhibit for the squeamish but the Prado Museum’s 500th anniversary display of the most and best of Dutch Renaissance master Hieronymus Bosch is definitely a must for art lovers, and maybe gore freaks too.

Bosch’s work, with its monstrous, apocalyptic scenes depicting man’s struggle against temptation juxtaposed with idyllic scenes of paradise, has long fascinated art lovers. But rarely has so much of his work been brought together under one roof. The Prado says the show is unique and most likely unrepeatable.

The exhibition centres on his triptychs, most notably “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” ‘’The Haywain,” (pictured right) both from the Prado and “The Temptations of Saint Anthony” from Lisbon’s Ancient Art National Museum. In all, it features about 50 works, including 29 Bosch paintings and drawings that the Prado said constitutes 75 percent of his surviving works. Around 20 museums in Europe and the U.S. contributed to the show.

King Felipe VI opened the exhibition with former Dutch queen, Princess Beatrix.

Religious themes dominate Bosch’s work but his fame stems mainly from the fantastically bizarre landscapes and scenes he painted that are populated with surreal flying demons, fish-headed human figures, walking heads in all sorts of grotesque and indecipherable activities.

Dazzling in detail and slightly unnerving, they leave few spectators unmoved.

Prado conservation specialist, Miguel Falomir said evidence of this was that the Bosch rooms were the museum’s most visited and where most people stayed longest.

Bosch, or “El Bosco” as he is known in Spain was born Hieronymus van Aken in 1450 in the town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, from which he takes his name. The Prado show follows a similar one in the Dutch town earlier this year, but which lacked several key works.

Spain, and in particular the Prado, possess the lion’s share of Bosch’s existing works owing chiefly to Felipe’s medieval predecessor King Felipe II, who was an avid art collector.

The show runs until Sept. 11. Opening hours : Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 20.00h. Sundays and holidays from 10.00 to 19.00h.

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Spain receives EU consent to spend €2.1BN on shutting coal mines

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Spain has won approval from European authorities to spend 2.13 billion euros on the closure of 26 coalmines by 2018.

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High Low Chg. % Vol. The government expenditure includes covering production s Lloyds Banking 70.3050 70.0000 70.6850 69.5150 +0.44% 59.95M losses as the uncompetitive mines wind down, providing s Barclays 180.4250 176.8500 180.8750 175.3500 +2.02% 18.24M financial support to laid-off workers through severance t Vodafone Group PLC 214.4500 216.1500 215.7250 213.6250 -0.79% 15.40M payments and social security benefits, and financing safety t Glencore 145.1500 146.3500 145.6500 143.8000 -0.82% 14.44M and other works after the mines close. s HSBC Holdings 440.100 437.350 440.500 432.550 +0.63% 12.42M The European Commission, which approves state aid as long as it doesn’t distort competition, gave the go-ahead after s Tesco 164.2500 161.4500 164.8500 159.8000 +1.73% 8.79M agreeing to Spain’s closure plan, which has brought protests t BP 378.7750 378.9500 378.9750 374.6500 -0.05% 8.43M from some miners. t Taylor Wimpey 187.98 188.00 189.10 185.90 -0.05% 6.79M Coal accounts for about a quarter of the European Union’s t Centrica 212.70 215.50 215.70 212.30 -1.30% 5.72M electricity production, according to the Commission, which is trying to drastically reduce the bloc’s carbon emissions, t BT Group 425.600 429.100 429.500 421.250 -0.82% 5.65M including from coal-fired power plants.

Top Gainers Name Last s Whitbread 4,156.00 s Capita 1,068.00 s Barclays 180.3500 s RBS PLC 241.800 s Aberdeen Asset Mana. 288.20

Top Losers Chg. +115.00 +22.00 +3.5000 +4.100 +4.60

Chg. % +2.85% +2.10% +1.98% +1.72% +1.62%

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Spain preliminary consumer prices drop 1.1 percent in May after -1.2 percent in April Spanish EU-harmonised consumer prices fell by 1.1 percent year-on-year in May, flash data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) has shown, after a previous reading of a 1.2 percent decline.

INE data also showed Spain’s national consumer price index fell by 1.0 percent in May on an annual basis, slightly less than a 1.1 percent decrease in April.

May’s consumer inflation was affected by a rise in electricity prices after a fall in the same month last year, while the price of package holidays fell less than in 2015, INE said.

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Name Last Chg. Chg. % Name Last Chg. Chg. % Spain’s Supreme Court recently ruled a tax imposed by s Merlin Properties S. 9.46 +0.15 +1.67% t Gamesa 17.508 -0.492 -2.73% Madrid’s city council on telecoms companies for their use of s Santander 4.008 +0.052 +1.31% t Acerinox 10.010 -0.150 -1.48% land was legal, potentially opening the door to more taxes of s Acciona 67.850 +0.660 +0.98% t Gas Natural 17.515 -0.250 -1.41% this kind. s Telefonica 8.898 +0.082 +0.93% t Tecnicas Reunidas 26.150 -0.360 -1.36% Vodafone will not fully merge its Spanish business with Ono s Bankinter 6.294 +0.047 +0.75% t Cellnex Telecom 14.09 -0.14 -0.95% as a result, although it will keep control of the company.

“Following a recent ruling, the tax burden the integrated company would have to contend with would be a lot higher Euro exchange rates than if the two companies remained separate,” the spokesman said.

9.38 Norwegian Krone 7.44 Danish Krone 1.51 Australian Dollars The spokesman added that the new structure of the deal 9.34 Swedish Krona 8.78 Hong Kong Dollar 0.75 British Pounds would have no impact on the group’s close to 18 million 4.16 UAE Dirham 118.57 Japanese Yen 1.45 Canadian Dollars clients in Spain as of the end of last year.

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UK pensions ‘lifeboat’ flagged concern about BHS fund in 2012

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RITAIN’S Pension Protection Fund (PPF) first flagged concern about department store BHS’s pension scheme in 2012, the fund’s chief executive told a joint parliamentary committee on Monday.

The 164-store BHS was placed into administration, a form of creditor protection, by owner Retail Acquisitions last month, putting the 88-year-old retailer at risk of disappearing from British shopping streets and jeopardising 11,000 jobs.

BHS’s pension scheme, which has 20,000 members and a deficit of 571 million pounds, was taken on by the PPF, a socalled lifeboat scheme paid for by a compulsory annual levy on all British pension schemes.

PPF CEO Alan Rubenstein told a joint session of parliament’s Work and Pensions and Business, Innovation and Skills committees that in March 2012 he passed on intelligence about the BHS scheme to The Pensions Regulator.

At that time BHS was owned by retail tycoon Philip Green.

GUARANTEE “The company (BHS) had been looking at using one of the Arcadia group companies to guarantee the pension fund and had in the end withdrawn that guarantee,” Rubenstein said.

Arcadia is Green’s company that owns several brands, including Topshop. Green owned BHS for 15 years then sold it in March last year to Retail Acquisitions, a group of investors, for a nominal sum of one pound.

Rubenstein said the cost to the PPF of closing the BHS pension scheme deficit would be about 270 million pounds based on its 2012 valuation. The 571 million pound deficit figure is based on what an insurance company would pay if it were to buy out the fund.

The Pensions Regulator is investigating whether BHS’s previous owners sought to avoid their obligations and should be pursued for a contribution to make good the deficit.

Lesley Titcomb, CEO of the Pensions Regulator, told the committees it had not accepted a 23-year recovery plan for the BHS scheme it received in August 2013 and was in dialogue with the scheme when it learned of Retail Acquisition’s purchase of BHS through the media. It then immediately launched a formal “anti-avoidance” inquiry.

The PPF’s Rubenstein said a 23-year plan was over twice the normal length of recovery programmes.

Titcomb said the regulator was investigating “whether any of the parties connected with all of this, of which there are a large number, have walked away from their responsibilities.”

She said she expected the investigation to have made significant progress by the end of 2016.

“A contribution notice can be enforced through the courts in the same way as any other debt can be enforced,” Nicola Parish, the regulator’s director of case management, told the committees.

“The PPF would be able to pursue that as a debt to the pension scheme.”

The collapse of BHS is also being investigated by Britain’s Insolvency Service.

NIGERIA SAYS IT HAS RECOVERED $9.1 BILLION IN STOLEN MONEY AND ASSETS

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IGERIA’S government has recovered $9.1 billion (6 billion pounds) in stolen money and assets, its information and culture minister said as its corruption crackdown continues against the backdrop of the country’s worst economic crisis in years.

President Muhammadu Buhari (pictured right), elected last year largely on his vow to fight corruption, has vowed to recover “mindboggling” sums of money stolen from the oil sector and said public coffers were “virtually empty” when he took office last May. Since then the country has endured an economic crisis caused by the sharp fall in global oil prices, making the need to recoup lost money more acute. Crude sales account for around 70 percent of national income.

In a statement, Information Minister Lai

Mohammed said cash and assets recovered between May 29 last year, when Buhari took office, and May 25 this year totalled $9.1 billion.

The government has said it plans to generate 3.38 trillion naira ($17 billion) this year from non-oil sources to help fund the $30.6 billion budget signed into law by Buhari last month.

It was not immediately clear how much outstanding money in total is still being sought by the government.

“All these are monies recovered from individuals and entities who had either hidden, stolen, diverted or were in possession of monies belonging to the nation,” the minister’s special adviser, Segun Adeyemi.

“These recovered funds include monies withheld by past government officials,

monies kept in private accounts, monies diverted to private pockets and monies in possession of government officials not disclosed after leaving government.”

The information minister told Reuters he could not name any individuals from whom money had been recovered for legal reasons.

He said some of the money came after companies that had failed to pay taxes were forced to do so retrospectively.

The ministry also said a total of $321 million was yet to be recovered from Nigerians in Switzerland, the Britain, the United States and the United Arab Emirates or their assets held in those countries.

Last month Buhari urged other countries and the United Nations to speed up the process of repatriating stolen money held abroad, which he said was becoming “tedious”.

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Mcdonald’s French HQ searched in tax probe FRENCH investigators searched McDonald’s French headquarters, targeting the U.S. fast food chain in a tax probe, sources with knowledge of the matter have revealed A preliminary inquiry had been opened early this year after former investigating magistrate and politician Eva Joly filed a lawsuit in December on behalf of an employee committee, a judicial source said. “A search was indeed carried out at McDonald’s headquarters in France on May 18,” the other source said, confirming a report first carried by Les Echos business daily.

The judicial source said that “many documents” had been seized during the raid.

French business magazine L’Expansion reported last month that authorities had sent McDonald’s France a 300 million euro (229 million pounds) bill for unpaid taxes on profits believed to have been funnelled through Luxembourg and Switzerland.

It said tax officials had accused the giant U.S. burger chain of using a Luxembourg-based entity, McD Europe Franchising, to shift profits to lower-tax jurisdictions by billing the French division excessively for use of the company brand and other services.

The judicial source confirmed the investigation was looking into this.

McDonald’s declined to comment on the search, referring back to past comments that it is proud to be one of the biggest tax payers in France.

A spokeswoman for the French budget ministry declined to comment because of the confidentiality of particular tax matters.

News of the search emerged after dozens of French police raided Google’s Paris headquarters on Tuesday as part of a tax evasion investigation.

EU executive targets harmonising marketing fees in 8 trillion euro funds sector

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CTION to lift barriers on cross-border sales of investment funds in the European Union should focus on tackling the extra fees and marketing rules that national regulators impose, the European Commission says in a new document.

The EU is creating a “capital markets union” to channel more money from savings into the economy, such as by making it easier to

tap the bloc’s 8 trillion euro (6 trln pounds) mutual funds sector.

While the EU’s “UCITS” mutual funds law allows authorised asset managers to offer their funds across the 28-country bloc, they often face additional regulatory fees outside their home state.

The result is a fragmented sector that ends up charging higher fees than in the United States.

National regulators also impose extra marketing rules and other administrative requirements on funds from other states, according to the document, which was written by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body.

“One obstacle that has been consistently reported is regulatory barriers to distribution,” the Commission said in the document, which

BRITAIN PROPOSES FEE CAP ON CASHING IN PENSION POTS CHARGES on Britons cashing in their pension early will be capped at 1 percent of the pot’s value from March 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority has proposed.

The FCA also said that insurers will not be able to apply any early exit charge for personal pension contracts entered into after the proposed new rules come into force.

Britain has introduced so-called “pension freedom” reforms in a bid to give people aged 55 years or over more choice in providing for their retirement, but high exit fees have put off some people.

“This is an important step so people feel able to access their pension savings should they wish to,” FCA Director of Strategy and Competition Christopher Woolard said in a statement. If the exit charge in a pension contract is already set at below 1 percent, it cannot be raised, the FCA said.

Just under 750,000 people have pensions that include an exit charge and could therefore potentially benefit from the cap between 2017 and 2020, it added. Separately, the government is consulting on capping early exit charges in occupational pension schemes.

officials from EU member states will discuss next month.

While 80 percent of funds registered in the EU are offered cross-border, a third are only offered in one other state, with another third only sold in up to four countries.

Limited cross-border sales means that the average size of the 30,000 funds in the EU is 200,000 euros, seven times smaller than a typical U.S. fund.

Asset managers find it costly to research all the different marketing and consumer protection rules in each EU country, the document said.

Fees imposed by national regulators vary between 200 euros and 2,000 euros, a funds industry official said.

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“Over 230,000 people took advantage of our pensions freedoms in the first year by accessing 4.3 billion pounds flexibly from their pension pots,” Harriett Baldwin, a junior finance minister, said.

Funds supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown said the 1 percent cap was a “victory for corporate vested interests”, and should have been set at zero percent to benefit a further 150,000 investors.

“Those wishing to transfer old, expensive private pensions to improve their value for money, while they are still building their savings, will not benefit from the cap,” Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of retirement policy, Tom McPhail, said.

The ban will not start until next year and Hargreaves Lansdown said it will ask the FCA if anyone cashing in a pension from Thursday can have a guarantee that they can reclaim any charges.

JPMorgan Cazenove said the 1 percent cap will not have a material financial impact on UK life insurers.

“The FCA is estimating a loss of revenue of 65 million pounds for the industry over four years which, in our view, is negligible for the UK life industry,” JPMorgan Cazenove said in a note to clients.

Such barriers should be tackled as a “matter of priority”, the Commission said in the document. It said it would issue a public consultation on the main barriers to crossborder sales of mutual funds as soon as this month.

The EU executive has powers to propose laws but one of its officials has said there won’t be a major legislative reform in the sector.

Instead, it is looking at practical solutions and raises the possibility of more centralised supervision, such as the bloc’s securities watchdog, ESMA, “developing, implementing and running a more consistent regime for marketing”.

“A harmonised approach across the board would totally make sense. Ideally we want to just deal with one regulator,” the funds industry official said.

However, he said national regulators, who authorise funds which then have a “passport” to market themselves across the EU, would probably resist giving up supervisory powers to ESMA.

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Small business demand helps EU growth fund exceed targets U NEXPECTEDLY strong demand from small business and co-financing from the private sector has seen the European Union’s new growth fund exceed targets in its first year and it may now set aside more money for smaller firms.

“The demand is there,” European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen (right) said in a recent interview.

Overall, he said, the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) has achieved a leverage ratio - how much the EU cash encourages others to invest - of over 50 percent more private cash for every euro from Brussels than was expected.

The EFSI was set up with fanfare under new Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, to kick-start growth by putting up EU risk capital to stimulate some 315 billion euros (239 billion pounds) of new investment over three years.

Despite the scepticism that greeted the Commission’s plan to put up just 21 billion euros of its own cash to achieve that result, investment experts say it has started well.

“The plan seems to be more successful at generating private finance than initially anticipated,” Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) chief executive, Andrew Rose, said.

“The initial indications are encouraging,” he said. Demand is there from both companies and investors.

The very low-yield environment for investors, created by the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, has made the fund a more attractive alternative to government bonds for some and it also defrays risk.

“Investors see the opportunity for a low-risk investment that provides better yields than government bonds,” Rose said. Katainen noted demand for funding from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) had been “much bigger than expected.”

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Increasing loans to SMEs would probably mean reshuffling the EFSI’s structure to set aside more than the initially allotted 24 percent for those businesses, he said.

The total EU funding for the scheme is 63 billion euros once the EU-owned European Investment Bank (EIB) has put in its contribution. Of that, 12.8 billion euros have been disbursed in the first year.

Katainen said the first year’s leverage ratio had been 23.4 times against initial expectations of 15 times.

And though there could be variations as the process goes on, Katainen saw scope for the leverage to rise further still: “We started from scratch when nobody knew about it,” he said.

GIIA’s Rose agreed. “There is a strong interest,” he said.

Katainen said, however, that some investment plans could now be stalled by uncertainty over the June 23 British referendum on whether to leave the European Union: “Investors are asking what is going to happen. It is a source of uncertainty,” he said.

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Snapchat raises $1.81 billion in new funding round MESSAGING app Snapchat Inc has raised $1.81 billion in an equity offering, indicating strong investor interest in the company despite concerns that it is struggling to attract advertisers.

Snapchat did not disclose its valuation in the latest round of funding in its filing on last week however, technology website TechCrunch has reported, citing sources, that the company could be valued at about $20 billion.

Snapchat, which makes a free mobile app that allows users to send videos, photos and messages that vanish in seconds, has faced concerns that the company’s estimated valuation is not justified because of its uneven revenue stream.

Investors in this round included General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price, Lone Pine and Fidelity, among others.

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Summer hiring in Spain may give Rajoy preelection boost

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PAIN has posted its biggest fall in unemployment ever recorded as resorts hired staff ahead of a record influx of tourists, a potential boost for acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in an election re-run in three weeks.

Unemployment has been gradually receding in Spain since a recession ended nearly three years ago, but many jobseekers are still struggling to find work, fuelling frustrations among voters.

INCONCLUSIVE Spain returns to the ballot box on June 26 after an inconclusive December election stripped Rajoy’s centre-right People’s Party (PP) of its absolute majority. Opinions polls show the vote could produce another political stalemate, forcing parties to once again try and form a coalition.

The number of Spaniards registering as unemployed last month fell by 3 percent,

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dipping below the 4 million thresholds for the first time in six years to 3.89 million, data from the Labour Ministry showed.

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AUSTRIA may “significantly” miss budget deficit targets set by the European Union this year and in 2017, the country’s Fiscal Council, an independent body has announced.

Austria’s Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling asked for exemptions for its spending on migrants from Brussels, which demands European countries keep their structural budget deficit, excluding one-offs, smaller than 0.5 percent.

Austria stripped out 1 billion euros (763 million pounds) in spending related to migrants from its structural budget for 2015 and plans to do the same this year, but Schelling has said the EU would not allow him to do the same in 2017.

“For the years 2016 and 2017 there is a possibility that the target of keeping within EU-side fiscal rules could be missed significantly,” the Fiscal Council said in a statement, adding an early warning from Brussels could come in the spring of 2017.

“Even if temporary higher spending due to the refugee migration gets counted as an exceptional burden... this does not change the result,” it said.

The think-tank predicted Austria’s structural deficit would reach 1.5 percent this year and 1.6 percent next year.

Austria, a country of 8.7 million in which 90,000 asylum claims were made last year, had a structural surplus of 0.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015, after stripping out the additional migrant costs.

The Austrian finance ministry predicts a structural deficit - a measure that strips off business cycle effects and one-offs - of 0.5 percent in 2016 and 2017 respectively, although the 2017 figure would only be reached by utilizing a certain financial leeway in accordance with the European Stability Pact.

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BANCO Popular Chairman Angel Ron has announced that Spain’s sixth-biggest lender by assets did not expect to pay a dividend in 2016 after it announced a 2.5-billion-euro rights issue earlier.

Ron said the bank’s losses in 2016 would not exceed the amount to be raised in the capital increase.

He said the rest of the Spanish banking sector should follow Popular’s example given current ultra-low interest rates and more stringent capital requirements.

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Nearly 120,000 fewer people signed on as jobless, the biggest drop on record. Job creation, meanwhile, progressed at a slightly slower pace than a year ago but was still strong, growing by over 1 percent l. One in six jobs was in hotels and restaurants.

Spain’s dysfunctional labour market played a major role in December’s political upset, as support for upstart parties advocating stronger workers’ rights or an overhaul of job contracts fragmented the vote.

According to voters polled so far, the PP will still come in first place but well shy of a parliamentary majority.

Surveys showed that a quarter of voters made up their minds in the very last days of December’s campaign, meaning the undecided could still be swayed at the last minute.

“If the campaign is important, then these (job) numbers are important, especially for the PP as it’s the only issue they can campaign on,” said Teneo Intelligence analyst Antonio Barroso.

Anti-austerity party Podemos (“We Can”), now teaming up with a smaller left-wing force, is expected to place second or third thanks to strong backing from millions of Spaniards who have yet to benefit by the economic recovery.

Mass layoffs during a six year downturn left Spain with the second-highest unemployment rate in Europe. Though it has fallen sharply since 2013 it still stands at 21 percent of the workforce, according to a National Statistics Institute (INE) survey.

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Sports & remedial therapist Oliver Langford makes waves on the Costa del Sol

By Annabel Milnes-Smith

Oliver Langford “Olly” as he is known to all, has recently relocated to Marbella from London and has rapidly become renowned as the go-to-therapist here under the aptly named company SRM Therapy (Sports & Remedial Massage Therapy). In between seeing his many clients, I managed to catch up with him to discover his past history.

Firstly, what made you decide to move to Marbella?

“Having travelled extensively I have experienced the health benefits and attraction of living in a warmer climate. I lived in Tenerife for a year where I was doing sports massage and bodywork there and a friend suggested that I should go to Marbella, where there is a great international community where somebody like me with my skills including a degree in Sports Studies, a massage diploma, other advanced bodywork qualifications and a scenar therapy qualification, would fit in well and also make more money which I was unable to do in Tenerife as the population was largely transient”.

Please give me an insight into the SRM Therapy treatments and the type of problems you treat and cure.

“A large proportion of the people that I treat suffer from shoulder and neck pain, the major cause being that many people spend far too many hours a day hunched over a laptop or smartphone. They generally have forward head posture and internally rotated shoulders. I can release the tight muscles and help to bring their body back into balance, but for long-term resolution they also need to heed my advice on how to correct the lifestyle factors that are the root cause of their pain problem”.

Why and when did you decide this as your chosen career path?

“I was always a good athlete. In my teen years, I won the school cross-country running championships three years in a row.

When leaving school, I decided not to go to University, but straight to an office job.

However, I rapidly became bored as I realised that my passion was in sports and fitness. I also experienced ‘the typical 9-5 desk job backache’ which was very frustrating for me.

I decided to study Sports Studies at University and worked hard to earn a 2:1 degree.

After this I worked for 3 years as a fitness instructor at a corporate gym in South London. During this time, I suffered a hamstring injury that eventually required surgery. I found that making a full recovery from such an operation was not easy and, following a trip to Peru in 2005, I was inspired to enroll in a Sports and Remedial massage course

to learn in depth about injury rehabilitation and posture correction techniques. Over the years I have taken other advanced bodywork courses including active isolated stretching and myofascial release”.

“In 2014 I went to an alternative health conference where I first heard about the Scenar device. I had a demonstration on my knee which was, at the time, suffering from tendonitis. It made such a difference and meant I could run again without any pain. I was impressed enough to buy a device and to sign up for the course to qualify as a Scenar therapist”.

Many of our readers may not have heard of Scenar therapy and I believe there are very few here who can

provide it. Please can you elaborate about the device and what it can treat?

“The Scenar device was originally developed

by Russian scientists in the 1970’s to accompany cosmonauts in Space, where they could not use pharmaceuticals if they became ill.

When the Scenar electrode is placed on the skin, it delivers electrical impulses that mimic how the body’s own neurological signals react when coping with the stress of pain or illness. The brain then triggers the nervous system to produce neuropeptides (the body’s own internal pharmacy of healing biochemicals) directly at the site of the pain/treatment area. In this way, the Scenar stimulates the body to heal itself”.

“Examples of some of the many conditions that can be effectively treated with Scenar in-

clude sports-related injuries, fractures, burns, tendonitis, carpal tunnel, frozen shoulder, skin conditions, allergic reactions, ear, nose and throat diseases and insomnia”.

“Outside of Eastern Europe, Germany and Austria, Scenar is not well known. I want to introduce this incredible technology to the residents of Marbella”.

I have to say that as the author of this article, I am very keen to try this as I used a TENS machine for my back which had absolutely no effect. Olly, why was that?

“Basically, the TENS device turns off the pain signals for the short-term, but does not resolve the root cause of the problem. If anything, it will probably make your condition worse as you will do things because there is no pain and cause further damage. The Scenar is a major evolution of TENS as Scenar is a biofeedback device and varies its electrical signal according to the response from the body. It actually triggers the body to heal itself.

You have also travelled all over the world including America, Australia and Ecuador to learn about other natural healing methods. What was your most notable trip?

“Ecuador. I spent three months there last year and met up with a number of natural health experts who have chosen to live in Ecuador because there is more freedom in the medical system there than in the United States”.

You are a great believer in natural supplements especially magnesium oil. Please give us an insight into this

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product and what ailments it can help with?

“I learnt the correct way to make this health product while I was in Ecuador.

Magnesium is the most important mineral in our bodies – vital for over 300 biochemical and metabolic processes. Unfortunately, it’s also the mineral that people are most deficient in as soils have become depleted by modern farming methods over the last 30 years and there are no foods that are high in magnesium. Magnesium is best supplemented transdermally (through the skin) in the form of magnesium oil. This allows for a full body magnesium experience. The skin absorbs the magnesium which can then be carried around the body by the circulatory system.

Magnesium is particularly good for the heart as it helps to prevent blood vessels from constricting. It also helps to balance calcium and to dissolve excess calcium in the body and eliminate toxins and acid residues. There are many common health conditions caused by excess calcium in the body – arthritis, muscle spasms, fibromyalgia, arteriosclerosis, kidney stones, gout, dental cavities and respiratory problems. It is no coincidence that heart disease and diseases of excess calcium have risen dramatically over the last 50 years as magnesium levels in our soils have fallen.

It’s definitely far better to take magnesium transdermally (through the skin) as an oil, rather than in tablet form. All the research is showing this. That is what I make and promote. It works quicker and more effectively, whereas if you take magnesium tablets you get a laxative effect before you get a therapeutic effect. With magnesium oil you get all the benefits without any negative effects”.

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relax deeply, simply by lying on the mat and enjoying the heat that penetrates your body.

Most people will notice an improvement in their health after only 15-20 minutes of use.

Testimonials have reported that improvements have been seen in the following health conditions following use of the Amethyst BioMat: Heatstroke, back pain, muscle pain, joint pain, arthritis, allergies, rosacea, circulation problems, insomnia, sinus issues, high blood pressure, kidney problems, breast cysts, gout, haemorrhoids, high cholesterol, asthma, stroke, Bell’s palsy, post-surgery recovery, emphysema and varicose veins”.

Please look at my website www.srmtherapy. es for more information about the Amethyst BioMat. How do you see the development of SRM Therapy, here in Marbella, over the next 12 months?

I hear that Magnesium oil is also good for the skin and can help with wrinkles - Sounds like it could be a hit in Marbella… With all the sun that we get here, people are very conscious about trying to look after their skin.

“Yes, Magnesium oil has many other benefits. It helps to relax muscles, relieve stress, improves sleep, reduces inflammation and pain and helps to protect cells from oxidative damage.

It also treats skin problems such as psoriasis and eczema. With regular use, it can help to prevent and smooth out wrinkles on the skin. It’s great to use after a day on the beach as it helps to hydrate and nourish the skin and promotes the growth of new skin cells.

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can be found at my website: www.srmtherapy.es You are also a distributor of another alternative health product: the Amethyst BioMat. Please tell us about this and what health conditions it can be used to treat.

“The BioMat is a state-of-the-art medical device that uses quantum energy technology (combining far infrared light, negative ions and amethyst crystals) to raise core body temperature and facilitate cellular regeneration. This process helps you to restore and maintain optimal health, relieve pain and

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“I would like to become the go-to therapist for the Marbella area, with a reputation for getting my clients out of pain and to be able to educate them so that they can take their health to the next level”.

What is your mission statement?

“To help my clients towards pain-free good posture by restoring muscular balance, flexibility, mobility and healthy movement patterns.

To educate my clients on the importance of nutrition and mineral supplementation to restore and maintain health.

To encourage people to take responsibility for their own health. The human body is a self-healing organism. If something goes wrong, it is a sign that they need to change something in their diet or lifestyle. A pill from a doctor may relieve their symptoms, but it does not address the root cause and is not a long-term solution to their health problems”.

On a final note, as many people who are reading this article will know that I had a rather serious accident resulting in smashing my knee cap in fifteen places. Although well on the road to recovery, I still have not achieved full range of motion so will be seeing Olly in the not too distant future for scenar therapy as he suggests and depending on the level of motion I achieve another course of exercises.

However, I departed with the magical magnesium oil which is already starting to take effect. Best of luck Olly and welcome to sunny Marbella.

Contact details for Oliver Langford: To book an appointment either in your home or at his treatment rooms call 616 750 391, email oliver@srmtherapy.es or visit his website www.srmtherapy.es

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VITAMIN SEE Orange is the new carrot!

A new report has revealed that eating vitamin C-rich foods such as oranges, kale or broccoli could help preserve your sight in old age preventing cataracts by at least a third.

CATARACTS are a common condition globally which occurs naturally with age usually between the ages of 60 – 70 years clouding the lens of eye, turning it opaque resulting in extreme cases blindness.

Researchers at King’s College London looked at whether certain nutrients could help prevent cataract progression. To measure this they examined data from more than 1000 UK pairs of female twins who answered a food questionnaire tracking their intake of vitamin C and other nutrients with a follow up study of 324 pairs of 10 years later.

Scientists found that those consuming the highest levels of the vitamin had clearer eyes than those with the lowest intake.

Lead researcher Professor Chris Hammond, from King’s College London, said: “The findings of this study could have significant impact, particularly for the ageing population globally - whilst we cannot totally avoid developing cataracts as we age, we now be able to delay their onset simply by making dietary changes such as increased intake of fruit and vegetables as part of a healthier diet.”

Scientists believe that the reason vitamin C seems to work so effectively against cataracts is its powerful antioxidant properties. The fluid inside the eye which clouds the lens is high in vitamin c so a diet high in vitamin c should increase the amount of fluid around the eye thus preventing clouding.

Sizzling in the Spanish Sun WE all love the sunshine and for ex-pats and tourists alike it’s well worth remembering that as the mercury increases simple tasks such as going for a pleasant stroll, pottering around the garden or simply doing a little shopping will expose your to direct sunshine.

To avoid that lobster feeling – keep it simple.

- We all want a lovely glowing tan but to avoid the risk of sunburn and of course skin cancer try and avoid being out and about in the sun during the hours of 11:00 – 15:00, if you do venture outside make sure you apply a healthy application of sunscreen.

- Protect exposed areas with a wide brimmed hat areas such as your neck, head and bare shoulders are so often forgotten but are prone to excessive burning.

- Drink, drink and drink some more! And we’re not talking the alcoholic variety here. Undertaking even the simplest task during the summer months uses up vast amounts of energy, ensure you rehydrate throughout the day by keeping a bottle of water with you at all times.

If you find all this too hard to remember then follow this simple rule:

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We all know are teeth are precious, and the thought of losing them can be quite distressing but as we age our gums recede and the everyday wear and tear can start to take a toll and it’s not unlikely that a significant number of people will experience sore or bleeding gums due to over brushing or ill care. Whilst this is common if symptoms such as these persist then it could be evidence of something a little more severe and if the first signs of gum irritation and inflammation are ignored and left untreated, it can, in some extreme cases, lead to tooth loss.

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Dr Crooke, do you often find there is very little bone in which to place dental implants?

To answer this question we had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Eduardo Crooke, Head of the Crooke Dental Clinic lmplantology Area Unfortunately, we often encounter difficulties in giving certain patients implants, especially in the back parts of mouth (molar area) and the upper maxillary. When an upper molar is lost, the maxillary sinus (which is the cavity above), pneumatizes little by little. In other words, it becomes larger, which reduces the amount of bone available for implants.

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And what can be done in such cases?

Depending on the patient and the size of the area which needs to be restored (that is, how many teeth are missing), we will choose to do what is known as ‘sinus elevation’ or zigomatic implants.

What is sinus elevation?

It consists in elevating the lower area of the maxillary sinus, filling part of the bone cavity (normally with xenografts, which are bone from another animal species). This way, we obtain greater bone height for the implants.

What about zigomatic implants?

They are implants which are longer than normal and which are put in place with the same technique, but which are fixed higher up in the sinus, in the zigomatic bone. It’s a technique which is carried out under intravenous sedation and does not require hospitalization. It is normally used in patients who need all of their upper teeth replaced. In severe reabsorptions using four zigomatic implants, which can restore all of the upper arch, it also offers the patient the option of having fixed teeth from the day of surgery.

Who is the best kind of professional to place zigomatic implants?

Both odontologists and maxillofacial surgeons as long as they have had specific training for such treatment.

We have Doctor Carlos Aparicio who has set an example in such surgery at an international level.

Are there any alternatives?

Yes, another option would be to use short implants, that is, no longer than 8.5mm. These can be used as

long as there is more than one implant and they are located next to each other.

What about if the problem is with the lower arch?

These cases are more difficult to resolve. If all teeth are missing we can put in four to five implants in the chin area (where there is almost always bone) and place a fixed denture on the implants. If only the molars are missing, which should study the possibility of using short implants to avoid the risk of damaging the nerve.

Another more complex alternative is the use of block grafts, but reabsorption can often occur later, and part of the bone which was put in place is lost. Lastly, there is bone distraction, but it is a process which has to be studied carefully, as it is not always plausible.

Is it possible that there could be sufficient bone depth but not sufficient width?

Of course, that’s why it is important to always carry out an oral scan prior to putting in implants, as panoramic images or conventional x-rays not only have a certain amount of distortion, they never inform us of the available bone volume.

And what can we do in cases of narrow bone?

In these cases, we can either expand the crest to make it wider, or regenerate the crestal volume using bone and collagen or titanium membrane, depending in the bone anatomy.

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SEASONAL FOODS:

Winter, Spring Summer or Autumn - within each issue we will look at what fruits and vegetables are in season

“From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall” Matsuo Basho IN early spring, cherry blossoms signify the coming of spring and are one of this season’s tastiest super -foods. Intensely sweet, juicy and flavourful, cherries are a perfect summer delight.

Add to that there health benefits of anthocyanins, which help reduce inflammation and lower cholesterol. Cherries are nature’s sweets.

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Cherry Compote Over Goat Cheese

Zippy red pepper jelly sends Fresh Cherry Salsa over the top. Serve Fresh Cherry Salsa over chicken, pork, with chips, or with our Pulled Pork Griddle Cakes.

This simple and healthy dessert features a round of goat cheese topped with a tangy sweet cherry compote.

Grilled Camembert with Macerated Cherries and Rosemary Ingredients 1 1/2 cups pitted cherries, halved 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 (5-inch) wheel Camembert cheese (about 8 ounces), at room temperature Cooking spray 32 table water crackers Preparation 1. Combine cherries, rosemary, sugar, salt, and pepper in a small saucepan over medium-high heat; cook 6 minutes or until cherries release their juices and juices are slightly thickened. Cool completely.

2. Preheat grill to low.

3. Coat grill rack and one side of cheese with cooking spray. Place cheese, coated side down, on grill rack; cook, covered, 5 minutes or until the rind is soft. Invert cheese onto a plate. Spoon cherry mixture over top. Serve with crackers.

Ingredients 1/2 cup red pepper jelly 1 tablespoon lime zest 1/4 cup fresh lime juice 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper 2 cups pitted, coarsely chopped fresh cherries 3/4 cup diced fresh nectarines 1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro 1/3 cup chopped fresh chives Preparation Whisk together red pepper jelly, lime zest, lime juice, and dried crushed red pepper in a small bowl. Stir in cherries, nectarines, cilantro, and chives.

Ingredients 1 pound sweet cherries, pitted (about 3 cups), preferably Bing 2 tablespoons light brown sugar 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh thyme 4 ounces goat cheese Preparation 1. Cook cherries and sugar over medium-high heat in a skillet, stirring occasionally, about 4 minutes. Sprinkle in vinegar and thyme; cook 1 minute. Slice goat cheese into 4 rounds; top with warm compote, or refrigerate compote, covered, up to 3 days.

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MOONLIGHT DINING For those looking to add a touch of romance into their lives Nikki Beach Marbella will throughout July and August is offering diners the chance to enjoy a romantic dining experience every Saturday evening under the stars. The venue transforms itself by night into a stunning moonlit environment and a special evening menu is served.

Reservations are essential for more information visit: www. nikkibeach.com

Sushi Donuts the newest food craze FOOD bloggers around the world have been going crazy lately debuting a new trend - The sushi donut.

Created by Instagram user and vegan culinary explorer So Beautifully Raw, the sushi donuts have become an instant hit. While it may sound like a sweet cake covered with raw fish instead of icing, the sushi donut is a far more appetizing affair than its name would have you believe.

Using a ring of sticky rice instead of cake, and topped with various toppings like sliced cucumber, ginger, avocado, wasabi and sesame seeds the results are simply beautiful.

Surprisingly, the sushi donut has actually been around for a few years, Japanese franchise Mister Donut and Psycho Donuts features a bento box-style platter of sushi donuts. And as one would expect California the home of healthy living also offers these creative donuts as an alternative to the typical fast-foods of pizza and French fries.

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THE RIPPLE EFFECT COMMERCIALLY we’ve been offered milk alternatives such as goats milk, almond milk, coconut milk, cashew milk, rice milk, soy milk and grape mile and now US based Ripple foods has announced a pea- based vegan milk.

Made from the wholesome and humble yellow pea, Ripple Milk claims to offer the same amount of protein as that of its dairy alternative but half the sugar content and 9x the fat concentration.

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Aptly, titled “Ripple” because of its environmental benefits the milk has also been linked been linked to a lower risk of developing cancer.

Available in original, original unsweetened, vanilla, and chocolate, each flavour has 32 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids. www.ripplefoods.com

THE Roca brothers, Spain’s culinary heroes and owners of Girona’s legendary El Celler de Can Roca restaurant, have lost their crown as the world’s best restaurant having been relegated to second place

by Italian restaurant Osteria Francescana having regained the title from Denmark’s Noma restaurant last year.

The three brothers, Joan, Josep and Jordi are no strangers to swapping places on the list, having been listed for 11years they have during this time topped it twice once in 2013 and again last year in 2015.

Chef Joan, the eldest of the brothers was able to take solace in winning the Chefs Choice Award 2016, a recognition which was voted for by chefs & peers from the other 50 best restaurants as detailed on the list. Known for his pioneering and culinary techniques Joan has become an inspiration for chefs all around the world.

In August the Roca Brothers will embark on a world tour taking in places such as London, Hong-Kong, Phoenix, San Francisco and Santiago de Chile are offering guests the chance to sample the unique cuisine from their famed El Celler De Can Roca restaurant in Girona, Spain and paying homage to meals that have inspired their famed menus.

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UST like raw tuna is a favourite of foodies everywhere, Robert Nathan Allen co-founder of Little Herds, a nonprofit educational program promoting the use of insects for food and feed foresees a day when crickets will make their way onto consumers’ plates.

With world population growing at an alarming rate the need for more food sources as well as a desire to treat animals more humanely have proponents predicting entomophily, or eating insects, as an eventual food source in western and developed countries. This the vision of Robert Allen who along with 150 others gathered at Wayne State University in Detroit to talk about edible bugs and how to grow the nascent industry.

“Sushi took 30, 40 years to really become a normal thing, and kale took like five years plus it doesn’t even have much taste,” said Allen.

Hoping to overcome what one speaker called the “yuck factor,” a feeling shared by many the event highlighted that today over two billion people dine on almost 2,000 insect species globally from ants and beetle larvae eaten by tribes in Africa to crispyfried locusts enjoyed in Thailand. With the world’s population growth indicating food production will need to almost double by 2050, people need to check their revulsion and give bugs a second look.

Eager to be ahead of the game food scientist Lee Cadesky envisions a huge food sector over time, so he and his brother have founded C-fu Foods, an ingredient company that makes meat, dairy and egg alternatives from insects. Under the brand name One Hop Kitchen, they plan to launch the sale of two kinds of insect Bolognese pasta sauce made with mealworms and crickets as the stand in

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CRICKETS ARE THE NEW KALE Edible bug industry hopes crickets and kin are the next sushi

for the traditional ground beef ingredient.

Cadesky said it fooled most consumers in taste tests at food trade shows.

Although still in its infancy the edible bug industry is gaining traction within niche markets like those wanting a gluten free diet or wanting to better protect the environment because farming insects uses less land, water and feed, and results in lower greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions. Bugs also offer higher protein than other meat alternatives like soy or even some meats.

“The public wants something - They just don’t know it’s us yet.” said Allen

An attendee wears a ‘Crickets are the new kale’ t-shirt during the ‘Eating Insects Detroit: Exploring the Culture of Insects as Food and Feed’ conference at Wayne State University in Detroit. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

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SUDOKU Sudoku is one of the most popular puzzle games of all time. The goal of Sudoku is to fill a 9×9 grid with numbers so that each row, column and 3×3 section contain all of the digits between 1 and 9. As a logic puzzle, Sudoku is also an excellent brain game. If you play Sudoku regularly, you will soon start to see improvements in your concentration and overall brain power.

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WORD SEARCH ACROSS 1 Small jump 4 Play a lute 9 Reach across 13 Eve’s husband 15 “__ Were the Days” 16 Gigantic 17 Fly alone 18 Irritates 19 Singles 20 La-Z-Boy store purchases 22 Benign growth 23 __ back; relax 24 Type; variety 26 “Sesame __” 29 Nice 34 In __; weeping 35 Lock of hair 36 “__ whiz!”

37 Actor Griffith 38 Cut of beef 39 Cry 40 Actress Arthur

41 Dissolves 42 Eye color 43 Wander away from the others 45 Ne’er-do-wells 46 Ms. Thurman 47 Mall event 48 Holbrook and Linden 51 Opposite of loosened 56 Highest cards 57 Sacred scroll 58 Slammer 60 Bangkok fellow 61 Not sleeping 62 “__ tough job, but somebody’s got to do it” 63 Extravagant publicity 64 Curved sword 65 Bashful

Solution to puzzle from issue 20

DOWN 1 “Elvis __ left the building” 2 Underarm concern 3 Lose color 4 No-nonsense 5 __ about; contemplate 6 Acting part 7 Drug addict 8 Sloppiest 9 Flabbergasts 10 Pathetically tiny 11 Ice __; glacial epochs 12 Crow’s home 14 Make a __ of; ridicule 21 Is dishonest 25 __ Cruces, NM 26 Pierces 27 Religious belief 28 Speeder’s nemesis 29 Babble 30 More or __

Find and circle all of the words and names from the book Treasure Island.

The remaining 46 letters spell a secret message.

31 Staring 32 More modern

33 Blabs; spills the beans 35 Fee paid to cross a bridge

38 Boat races 39 Barkless dog 41 “Gone with the Wind” production co.

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Under” 45 Soapsuds

47 Tremble 48 “Hell __ no fury like a woman scorned”

49 Sore 50 __ frog; children’s

jumping game 52 Des Moines, __

53 Snatch 54 Consumes

55 Piece of china

59 __ into; attack verbally

Solution to puzzle from issue 20

The hidden word is: MOTHERBOARD

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A bride who cancelled her wedding because of a row with her fiancé over a pre-nup has done the most selfless thing instead - by throwing a party for children in need.

Yiru Sun’s wedding was all set to take place in a fancy venue.

But when an argument with her intended blew up and the engagement was called off, she decided not to waste the food and the DJ. Using the £5,500 deposit she had paid on the New York Upper East Side location

CODEWORD Codewords are like crossword puzzles - but have no clues! Instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number! To start you off, we reveal the codes for two or three letters.

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where she was intending to tie the knot, she invited teen mothers, kids from low income homes and foster families.

“It was really good. I could have been sitting at home, sad, thinking ‘This was supposed to be my wedding day,’” she told CNN .

“But so many kids and their moms came. I laughed the whole day.”

Yiru, who is corporate vice president and actuary at New York Life Insurance Company, asked her colleagues for their help in making Saturday’s event - held a day before Mother’s Day in the US - a success.

Between them, they paid for a facepainter and balloon artist, brought children’s books as party favours and even worked as event photographer.

Wearing a graceful white gown, Yiru said she was happy she could help: “Although I can’t be the princess of my wedding day, all these kids can have the ‘princess or the prince’ feeling today.”

The Chinese-born bride-that-wasn’t - who has revealed nothing more about her 11th hour break up - said that she believed in doing something for children with difficult upbringings because she had that in common with them.

When she moved to the United States, it was to attend Princeton University where she gained a PhD in electrical engineering.

She added: “I told them if they have similar dreams, you can do it.”

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A Colorado company іѕ lооkіng tо hеlр cat owners enjoy thе experience оf sharing а glass оf wine wіth thеіr pets. Thе non-alcoholic, beet-based cat wine wаѕ developed specifically fоr cats bу Denver-based Apollo Peak. Cats саn enjoy thе company’s products іn twо varieties, including thе red “Pinot Meow” аnd white “Moscato.”

“All оf оur cat wine products hаvе а proprietary blend thаt includes all-natural organically grown catnip, fresh beets аnd natural preservatives tо hеlр hold thе taste аnd color,” thе company ѕауѕ оn іtѕ website.

“We bеlіеvе іn natural ingredients fоr оur раrtісulаrlу classy feline friends.” Whіlе thе lack оf alcohol ensures thаt cats won’t gеt “drunk” frоm drinking Apollo Peak’s wine, thе products dо соntаіn organic catnip, whісh саn produce а kind оf drunken reaction. “Well, depending оn hоw muсh thеу drink – thе effects wіll vary,” thе company

says.

“When cats smell catnip thеу tend tо gеt funny, move аrоund аnd play а lot. Thе exact орроѕіtе occurs whеn thеу ingest catnip. Thеу nоrmаllу wіll bесоmе mоrе “mellowed” оut whеn thеу drink thе wine ѕо іt mіght асtuаllу hеlр fоr thоѕе restless nights.”

Bесаuѕе іt іѕ mаdе frоm natural ingredients, thе wine іѕ аlѕо safe fоr dogs, аnd humans, tо drink. Thе company teased аn upcoming product fоr canines.

Solution to Wordblock puzzzle from issue 20 throttled - throttle - holder - hotted - hotter tother - dhole - helot - holed - horde - hotel other - thole - throe - troth - doth - held herd - herl - hero - hoed - hoer - hold - hole holt - lehr - loth - teth

Solution to CODEWORD from issue 20

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CELEBRATIONS ALL ROUND June is a great month for celebrations, Ascot, Wimbledon, Euro 2016, The Queens Birthday, San Juan and Ibex Estepona Office celebrates its 10th anniversary on 30th June 2016!!!

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VERY year, dogs suffer and die when their guardians make the mistake of leaving them in a parked car—even for “just a minute”—while they run an errand.

Parked cars are death-traps for dogs: On a 78-degree day, the temperature inside a parked car can soar to between 100 and 120 degrees in just minutes, and on a 90-degree day, the interior temperature can reach as high as 160 degrees in less than 10 minutes.

Animals can sustain brain damage or even die from heatstroke in just 15 minutes.

Beating the heat is extra tough for dogs because they can only cool themselves by panting and by sweating through their paw pads.

Watch for heatstroke symptoms such as restlessness, excessive thirst, thick saliva, heavy panting, lethargy, lack of appetite, dark tongue, rapid heartbeat, fever, vomiting, bloody diarrhoea, and lack of coordination.

If a dog shows any of these symptoms, get him or her out of the heat, preferably into an air-conditioned vehicle, and then to a veterinarian immediately.

If you are unable to transport the dog yourself, take him or her into an airconditioned building if possible and call animal control: Tell them it is an emergency.

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We cover all sports and ensure we show all of the major sporting events and will continue to cover Rugby league and Union, the Cricket season and football in all countries. We also show major tennis tournaments and with Wimbledon starting soon we will be showing that also for the tennis enthusiasts.

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We also have the Olympics in Rio starting on August 5th 2016 and will cover as many of the events as possible and adjust our opening times to suit.

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Spanish boxing coach, 84, vows to keep going

WE FEAR NO ONE England huffed and puffed their way to an uninspiring 0-0 draw with Slovakia on Monday but although they finished only second in Group B, their Euro 2016 campaign is still firmly on course.

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GAME against the Group F runners-up, Hungary, Iceland, Portugal or Austria, is the next, not-toodaunting, challenge for Roy Hodgson’s team who have played solidly enough in the tournament without ever hitting top gear.

Hodgson did leave six first-choice players out of his starting side against Slovakia and if they reach the quarter-finals the stuttering displays of the group stage will be forgotten.

“If we had won the game people would say we didn’t miss the players who were left out and when we don’t they say the team selection is wrong, I am used to that one,” Hodgson told reporters.

“We brought players on which was useful. It kept up our domination but I am not certain it would have made a vast difference because we would still be playing against 11 players in defence.”

Although England’s overall position is pretty healthy, concerns do remain after the performances in the group matches.

They conceded a late equaliser to draw with Russia, needed a stoppage-time goal by Daniel Sturridge to beat Wales 2-1 and

dominated possession against Slovakia without ever looking likely to break down their massed defence.

England have scored only three goals in three games as much-vaunted strikers Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy failed to transfer their prolific Premier League exploits to the international arena.

Possibly the biggest concern for Hodgson is the lack of creativity in his midfield.

Captain Wayne Rooney, who impressed in his new deep-lying role against Russia and Wales, was left out of the starting lineup against Slovakia and Jack Wilshere was handed a chance to stake his claims.

Having now made it safely through to the knockout stages without playing particularly well, however, Hodgson has reason to be optimistic about his team’s prospects for the rest of the tournament. “Finishing second is a disappointment but we are still in the last 16 and who is to say the team we will play will be that much stronger?,” he said. “You just don’t know, the way we are playing I am not frightened of anybody.”

AT 84, Manolo del Rio is something of a legend in Spanish boxing, having spent more than 65 years training some of the country’s best fighters and still pledging to keep on until he drops.

Del Rio spends 12- Boxing coach Manolo del Rio, right, talks to 14 hours a day in one of his pupils during a training session the gym in Madrid’s at El Rayo boxing gym in Madrid(AP Photo/ Francisco Seco) working class Vallecas neighbourhood. At weekends, he accompanies boxers to their fights. He got a warning note to slow down last week when he was admitted to a Madrid hospital suffering from exhaustion.

His past pupils include Pedro Carrasco, European champion in 1967 and world lightweight champion in 1971, and Jose Manuel Urtain, European heavyweight champion in 1970 and 1971.

Most recently, he trained Gabriel Campillo, the 2009 world light heavyweight and European Union super middleweight champion.

Del Rio is surprisingly agile and swift with both his feet and fists as he teaches pupils that could be his grandchildren, or great grandchildren. He laments the wane in popularity of boxing in Spain and attributes it to the unchallengeable attraction of soccer and the fact that boxing has almost vanished from the mainstream media.

“Nowadays in Spain there are no boxing idols who are able to move crowds,” he says. “There are more distractions for young people nowadays.” But del Rio admits modern technology has helped boxing too.

“Every boxer can watch on the internet how their idols perform. ... They can see old and modern fights, study them, learn and copy techniques,” he says. “In the old days, we sometimes only saw how our opponent was when we got inside the ring.”

A one-time amateur boxer himself, he gave up competing after he had to face his brother in a regional tournament, choosing to become his coach instead.

These days, he believes technique more than punch strength is paramount.

“Although boxing is a violent sport it is also an art in itself,” he says. “You have to learn how to move. ... A clever movement can avert you being punched, so you can strike and move away without being hurt. This is technique!”

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23 athletes from London 2012 positive in retests

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HE results, part of the IOC’s re-testing of samples from past Games to keep cheats from competing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, involved athletes from six different national teams four years ago.

The IOC, which stores samples for a decade in order to re-test using newer methods or to look for new drugs, will not name the athletes or the sports until the second sample or B tests has been analysed. That process can take several weeks.

Last week the organisation found 31 athletes from six sports who could be banned from Rio for failing doping tests when 454 samples were re-examined from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The IOC, which said one more sample from Beijing had shown “abnormal parameters” and would also be followed up on, added that the re-testing programme was still in progress and could deliver more positive checks in the coming weeks.

Twenty-three athletes from five sports have tested positive for banned drugs in re-check of 265 samples from the 2012 London Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has revealed.

“These re-analyses show, once again, our determination in the fight against doping,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “We want to keep the dopers away from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

“I have already appointed a disciplinary commission which has the full power to take all the decisions on behalf of the IOC.” The targeted re-testing focused mainly on

athletes who could potentially compete in Rio and the IOC said anyone found doping would be banned from those Games.

DOPING SPECULATION While the re-testing is yielding results, it also raises speculation about the extent of doping at the Games some two months before the Olympics.

Doping scandals have plagued the buildup to the world’s biggest multi-sports event with Russia under investigation following a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suggesting systematic doping in that country.

Kenya, famed for its distance runners, is also racing against the clock to amend its antidoping laws in order for WADA to rule the

African nation as compliant again.

In a further blow to its credibility, Russia has confirmed 14 of the positive Beijing Games recheck concerned their athletes, some of who are medallists.

Russian track and field athletes are currently suspended pending an investigation into the scandal, which could leave the nation without a full team at the Games starting on Aug. 5.

The IAAF, the world governing body of athletics, will decide on June 17 whether Moscow has done enough to clean up its act in order to be readmitted to competition.

Russia has pledged to ban all athletes with a doping past from its Olympic squad but calls for a blanket ban of the entire team have grown louder with every twist of the scandal.

Adams claims maiden World Championships gold GREAT Britain’s Nicola Adams won the 51kg gold at the AIBA World Championships on Friday to complete her collection of international medals.

The 33-year-old flyweight boxer beat Thailand’s Peamwilai Laopeam by a split decision to win the final in Astana and add the one crown that had eluded her to her Olympic, Commonwealth and European titles.

Adams, who became the first female boxer to win an Olympic title at the 2012 London Games, had previously won three silver medals at the world championships.

She has already qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics where she has a chance of becoming the first Briton to win two Olympic boxing gold medals since Harry Mallin in 1924.

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MOURINHO AND GUARDIOLA SET FOR FIRST FACEOFF IN BEIJING THE new managers of Manchester United and Manchester City will face an early confrontation when the teams meet in a friendly in Beijing on July 25.

Jose Mourinho, officially confirmed as United boss, and old adversary Pep Guardiola, who is replacing Manuel Pellegrini at City, will renew hostilities in the pre-season International Champions Cup.There was little love lost between the pair when Mourinho was in charge at Real Madrid and Guardiola led Barcelona.

The rivalry is likely to be just as fierce when United attempt to make up ground on their neighbours, who have finished above them in the Premier League for the past three seasons.

This term City were only ahead on goal difference but pipping United to fourth position meant they took the final Champions League qualifying place.

United won the FA Cup last weekend but the final proved to

be manager Louis van Gaal’s swansong, his dismissal coming two days later.

The first game of their pre-season tour to China is against Borussia Dortmund in Shanghai on July 22.

United, as FA Cup holders, take on Premier League champions Leicester City in the annual Community Shield game at Wembley on Aug. 7.

Before that Mourinho will have an early date in the Old Trafford dugout when he takes charge of an England XI in a charity game for Soccer Aid against a Rest of the World XI on June 5.

Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri will be in opposition that day as manager of the World XI that is due to include former Brazilian greats Ronaldinho and Cafu.

Next season’s Premier League fixtures are being announced on June 15.

Forget last three years, Mourinho tells United

CHARISMATIC “I think it comes in the right moment of my career because Man United is one of these clubs where you need really to be prepared for it,” said the charismatic Portuguese.

“Giant clubs must be for the best managers and I think I

am ready for it so I could say I am happy, I am proud, I am honoured. I feel great.”I want to win,” added Mourinho. “I need the supporters and players to feel that. (The fans) know what they can give me and what I can give them. I’ve played so many times at Old Trafford and the feeling was empathy. I remember when I won at Old Trafford with Real Madrid and I said the best team lost, not many people at Real Madrid were very happy with that.”

Mourinho did not offer any hints about whether Ryan Giggs,

who worked as Van Gaal’s assistant, would be staying.There was also no mention of possible transfer targets like Sweden and Paris St Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Mourinho has been given a three-year contract, which British media estimated being worth between 30 million and 45 million pounds ($43.99-$65.98 million).

“Jose is quite simply the best manager in the game today,” United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said in a statement.

“He has won trophies and inspired players in countries across Europe and, of course, he knows the Premier League very well having won three titles here. “His track record of success is ideal to take the club forward.”

United’s fifth-place finish under Van Gaal this season meant they failed to qualify for the Champions League for the second time since Ferguson left. They will play in the Europa League next term.

There are reservations about Mourinho’s preferred style of play with former United striker Eric Cantona saying the club should have opted instead for Pep Guardiola who is taking over at Manchester City.

But other former players, including goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel and former captain Steve Bruce, believe he will revive the fortunes of the Old Trafford team.

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Since Alex Ferguson retired after winning the Premier League in 2013 the club have finished seventh, fourth and fifth, securing their only silverware in that time by winning this season’s FA Cup which was not enough to save Louis van Gaal who was dismissed this week following two years in charge.

“I think I prefer to forget the past three years,” Mourinho told the club’s TV channel. “I prefer to focus on the giant club I have in my hands now and I think what the fans are expecting me to say is that I want to win.”

The former Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid manager, sacked by the London club in December after his second spell there, believes he has the right experience to be successful at United.

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JOHNSON WINS FIRST MAJOR TITLE AMID RULES CONTROVERSY Long-hitting American Dustin Johnson, seeking major redemption after several near-misses in recent years, has won the 116th U.S. Open amid high drama and initial uncertainty over his victory margin.

Dustin Johnson poses with the championship trophy after winning the U.S. Open golf tournament at Oakmont Country Club. Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

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N pursuit of his first grand slam crown, the world number six played clutch golf under intense pressure at brutally difficult Oakmont Country Club, finishing in style as he sank a short birdie putt at the last.

Having negotiated the final seven holes under notice that he might be penalised for a rules infraction on the fifth green, despite being cleared by another official at the time, he was docked a shot after the round’s completion, with his score amended to a closing 69 for a four-under winning total of 276.

DELIGHT After sinking the final putt to clinch his 10th PGA Tour victory, Johnson pumped his right fist in delight, and then lifted his putter to acknowledge the loud roars from the crowd before being embraced by his caddie.

“Feels good, feels really good, feels well deserved,” an emotional Johnson said after finishing three shots in front of fellow Americans Jim Furyk (66) and Scott Piercy (69), and Ireland’s Shane Lowry (76).

Lowry had been four ahead after the weather-delayed third round was completed earlier on Sunday but he struggled in the conditions while piling up seven bogeys.

“I’ve had a lot of opportunities that I didn’t quite get done, so this one’s definitely really sweet,” said Johnson. “I knew I was swinging well, and I just kept thinking, it’s just me and the course.

“I’m playing against the course. I can’t control what anyone else does. So I just tried to hit golfshots, tried to hit it on the correct side of the hole, and two-putt.”

The rules controversy was sparked when

Johnson’s ball moved slightly as the American was preparing to attempt his par putt at the fifth hole, shortly after his birdie attempt there from five feet broke left and slid past the cup.

He denied having caused the movement and the official accompanying the pairing decided not to levy a penalty.

After being informed on the 12th tee by a U.S. Golf Association official that he might be penalised after the round, Johnson ran up a three-putt bogey at the 14th but otherwise displayed nerves of steel as he negotiated the closing stretch.

He rolled in a 10-footer to save par at the 16th and thunderous roars of “DJ, DJ, DJ” rang out as the crowd gave vocal support to the tournament leader in his bid for a first major victory after a series of heartbreaks in the past.

Johnson had previously recorded 11 top-10s in the majors without winning, including two-runner-up spots, and he missed a threefoot putt at the final hole to hand last year’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay to Jordan Spieth.

On Sunday, however, Johnson was remarkably composed in the circumstances and made several clutch putts on a day when the entire field struggled on greens running lightning-fast.

“After last year, to come back and perform like this, I think it shows what kind of golfer I am,” said the 31-year-old. “I’ve knocked on the door a bunch of times. To finally get that major win, it’s huge.”

American world number two Spieth finished a disappointing title defence with a 75 for a nine-over total of 289.

Wheelchair champion Weir breaks threeminute mile mark Briton’s Paralympic champion David Weir has become the first wheelchair athlete to complete a mile in under three minutes.

The six-times London Marathon winner raced to a record of two minutes 57 seconds - breaking his own previous best by six seconds - in the Westminster Mile

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Weir also won the event in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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Vardy to stay at Leicester STRIKER Jamie Vardy has turned down a move to Arsenal and will stay at Premier League Champions Leicester City, the north London club’s manager Arsene Wenger has said.

British media reported earlier this month that Arsenal, Premier League runners-up last season, had triggered a buyout clause in the 29-year-old’s contract with a bid of around 20 million pounds Vardy, the Premier League’s joint second-highest scorer last season with 24 goals, was expected to decide on his future after the Euro 2016 tournament in France, where he is on duty with England, but Wenger indicated the move was now unlikely.

“Jamie Vardy is, at the moment, at Leicester and from what I know, he will stay at Leicester,” the Frenchman said in a recent interview.

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As Anthony Joshua prepares to defend his IBF heavyweight title against American Dominic ‘Trouble’ Breazeale at the O2 Arena this weekend, The American has warned “blood will be spilled”.

The American who is unbeaten in 17 fights and vying for Joshua’s IBF heavyweight title faces stiff competition, Joshua, has won all 16 of his professional fights with knockouts has only gone beyond three rounds once and claims he still has more to give rating himself at only 70% if the finished product “I just think it’s still the beginning. I feel I’m improving all the time. This is just the start for me. I’m probably at 70 per cent. There’s 30 per cent more of me to come, and when I reach 100 per it will be unstoppable! Nothing’s gone wrong so far, and I’m not going to change much at the moment.”

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