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LOS ANGELES - “Maze Runner” star Dylan O’Brien was injured on the set of the latest movie in the young adult franchise, and production on the film has been shut down while he recovers, movie studio 20th Century Fox said on Friday.

O’Brien, 24, was taken to a hospital in Vancouver, Canada, for observation and treatment, Fox said in a statement.

Hollywood trade publication Variety and celebrity website TMZ said O’Brien was hit by a car and suffered multiple injuries on the Vancouver set of the upcoming “Maze Run-ner: The Death Cure.”

Fox declined to comment on the severity of O’Brien’s injuries or how they occurred.

“Production on the film will be shut down while he re-covers. Our thoughts go out to Dylan for a full and speedy recovery,” Fox said in its statement.

James Dashner, the author of the “Maze Runner” young adult novels, said Friday on Twitter that “Dylan was hurt, but that he is going to be okay. Not life threatening in any way.” He added that production on the film was postponed but not canceled.

TMZ said O’Brien, who plays Thomas in the franchise, suffered multiple broken bones in the accident.

“Maze Runner: The Death Cure” is scheduled for release in February 2017 and is the third film in the successful movie franchise set in a dystopian world.

The first two movies, released in 2014 and 2015, made about $660 million at the global box office and established O’Brien as one of the hottest young movie stars.

O’Brien first found fame on YouTube some 10 years ago through posting his original videos. He later starred in the MTV series “Teen Wolf.”

The original “Maze Runner” book was inspired by Wil-liam Golding’s influential 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies” about a group of young boys left to fend for themselves on an uninhabited island. (rtr)

“Batman v Superman,” out in U.S. theaters on March 25, opens with the climax of 2013’s “Man of Steel,” in which Superman’s battle with alien General Zod causes mass-scale de-struction in Metropolis.

In the city’s streets, Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alter ego, sees his company building crumble and blames Super-man for the deaths of civilians, which sets up the clash of superheroes.

“I’m a big advocate of the conse-quences of these movies,” director Zack Snyder told Reuters. “Without the consequences, they’re slightly ir-responsible in that it’s unconditional violence.”

An older, wearier Batman (Ben Affleck) sets out to destroy Superman (Henry Cavill), crossing paths with the psychotic technology entrepreneur Lex

Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) and elusive Diana Prince, the alter ego of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot).

Superman meanwhile battles a growing public discourse against his actions, and a senator is determined to hold him accountable.

“There’s always been that little tete-a-tete with Batman and Superman and there has always been that question by fans - who will win in a fight?” Cavill said.

Fear also permeates the superhero fight, Affleck said.

“The way that we get afraid, how we react, sometimes that turns us into the worst version of ourselves ... there’s no place to go from there but to conflict,” he said.

Warring heroes will also feature in Walt Disney Co’s “Captain America:

Civil War” in May, where Captain America and Iron Man face off. It of-fers a new angle to the superhero en-semble films such as Marvel’s “Aveng-ers,” which have generated billions at the box office in recent years.

Warner Bros’ “Batman v Superman” sets the stage for 2017’s “Wonder Woman” and “The Justice League Part One.”

Superhero stories sometimes hold a mirror to society, with Superman’s 1938 comic book debut often perceived as answering America’s need for a hero during the Great Depression.

Eisenberg said “Batman v Super-man” could be seen as a reflection of current American society, particularly with the Machiavellian Luthor, whom he described as “a classic xenophobe” who instills public fear against the alien Superman.

“I think if you look at some of the more nasty, political discourse in at least our country today, you’d see shades of that,” Eisenberg said. (rtr)

‘Maze Runner’ star Dylan O’Brien injured on set, production shut down

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Cast member Dylan O’Brien poses at a press line for “The Maze Runner” during the 2014 Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, California in this July 25, 2014 file photo.

Israeli actress Gal Gadot poses for photos during a press conference to promote the movie: “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” in which she plays the roles of super heroine Wonder Woman, and secret alter-ego Diana Prince, in Mexico City, Saturday, March 19, 2016.

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Heroes face consequences as ‘Batman v Superman’ clash for justice

LOS ANGELES - Superheroes have long existed in a world of their own, but as two iconic caped heroes battle in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” both are brought crashing down to reality as the ramifications of their actions catch up with them.

CONTINU-OUS crowded vehicles en-ter ing Bal i without the s u p p o r t o f

adequate road infrastructure will

exacerbate the traffic condition of this island. Therefore, traffic congestion can be a threat in the future, particularly in South Denpasar and Badung. From the data obtained at the Directorate of Bali Police Traffic Affairs, the growth rate of motorcycles during the period of January-November 2015 totally reached 32,678,941 units.

“If the number of vehicles con-tinues to grow each month coupled with the old vehicles coming down to road, it can be imagined how crowded the condition of the high-way is,” said the traffic engineering unit of directorate of Bali Police Traffic Affairs Putu Dedi Ujiana, Saturday (Mar. 19). Responding to such condition, if only refers to traffic accident rate, he added, it does not resolve the problem. It requires a solution touching the root of the problems.

“All the parties must think about this problem. Let’s find the solution together. Do not let get more serious as it will make us overwhelmed,” he said.

According to him, people may not to be blamed on this because the conditions force them to purchase a vehicle. “Buy a mo-torcycle is very easy. Thus, their children are bought a motorcycle so as not to bother. Just imagine there is school shuttle bus and the tax of motorcycle is raised then the amount of motorcycle will reduce,” said Dedi.

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However, the demand of the people could not be stopped. After a negotiation with the police, the rally could proceed as plan. The purpose of the rally is to reject the plan of the reclamation of

Benoa Bay. “Approximately 27 customary villages take part in the rally and also many organiza-tions throughout Bali,” said the leader of the rally I Wayan Gendo Suardana.

He said that even the police tried to stop the rally but fortunately, it can go on as plan. “The govern-ment should not be paranoid with this kind of event. We don’t need armies to guard us. We can handle our self perfectly. As you can see, there is no incident during the rally,” Gendo added. Finally, he hopes that the government hear their voices and the reclamation plan is canceled.

However, there is some news

on the social media that the Head of Buduk dan Canggu Customary Villages was taken into custody by the police. When asked about that matter, the Head of Badung Police AKBP Tony Binsat said that both of them was taken to the precinct only to discuss the security on the rally. “We only want to discuss the security during teh rally. That was it. They are not under arrest,” he explained.(win)

Congestion threatens Bali in the future

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The rally in Ngurah Rai to reject the reclamation plan

Tenth of Thousands of Balinese Rally in Ngurah Rai

DENPASAR - Customary villages rejecting the reclamation plan held a rally on Ngurah Rai Statue on Sunday. Tenth of thousands of people joined the rally which is also filled with cultural performances. The police was trying to postpone the rally because they said it would disturb the traffic to and from Ngurah Rai.

School shuttle bus program can be successful if the number of private vehicles can be suppressed. Thus, students will not arrive at school late. “If created special lines but the number of private cars and motorcycles remains a lot on the road, it will also bring in problems. Creating a special line will reduce the width of the road,” he said.

Dedi expected that relevant agencies can sit down together to resolve this problem. Firm policy should be applied to prevent con-gestion and it will be getting more severe if the road infrastructure is inadequate. As a result, it triggers traffic congestion, especially dur-ing rush hours. If this problem is unresolved, the traffic in Denpasar will be paralyzed.

“Within the next few years, the traffic in Denpasar starts stagnating. Jalan Imam Bonjol has been in such condition,” he said.

Traffic issues occurred all this time, he said, due to violation. Vio-lations will result in accidents and congestion. The congestion brings

in adverse effects due to decreased productivity, increased fuel con-sumption, decreased quality of life, increased stress level, increased production cost and declining en-vironmental quality.

The solution is by raising taxes, especially that of motorcycle. Its tax shall be equivalent to the price of a new motorcycle. If there is such policy, people will think twice to buy a motorcycle. Automatically the number of motorcycles on the road can be suppressed. “At least, the tax is two-third of motorcycle price,” he said.

But the government must com-pensate by setting up the infrastruc-ture, particularly with adequate mass transportation. High accident rate is also caused by road crowd-edness, especially during working hours coinciding with school hours so that it is vulnerable for vehicles to spill on the road. Surely such condition is not supportive for Bali as a tourist destination of the world. Moreover, all of them lead to Den-pasar, the Ngurah Rai Airport and many hotels.

“The prominent economic sector of Bali is tourism. Without im-provement from now on, primarily related to community mobilization,

the tourist visit will probably shift to other destinations,” he said.

On the other hand, school should have a program to minimize the number of students riding motorcy-cle. For example, it can be provided with shuttle bus. Thus, students will not compete on riding a motorcycle to school. He can only urge people to switch to public transport.

However, such an effort, said

Dedi, seems impossible because it is not more than just an appeal. Moreover, they are supported by facility to buy cheap motorcycle easily.

On that account, the government should make a policy forcing the public to be able to behave orderly. “The right solution is to raise taxes of motorcycle. Force the riders to act orderly. It is a more constructive

solution than persisting on creating new and expensive road section and difficult to be realized,” he said.

Dedi said if it is not done right now, within the next five years an ambulance will not be able to move due to traffic congestion. The gov-ernment is expected not to be lulled by the income generated by the sales of vehicles, but has to think about the negative effects. (rah)

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

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

the importance of the occasion.The celebration is very colorful.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars,

tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Ho-liness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful at-tire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Headman of Candikuning, I Made Mudita, said that Lake Bera-

tan is the source of his community’s economy. One of them is the tour-

ism sector. The arrival of thousands of visitors every day has made their

economy increase. Many local communities establish restaurant business and tourism services such as speed boat, water bikes and other businesses. In addition to the natural scenery of Lake Beratan, certainly the most sought after object by visitor especially foreign visitor is the Ulun Danu Temple at the edge of Lake Beratan. They love to see the temple.

Moreover, within the complex two temples are lying in the middle of the lake. When high tide season occurs, the area of both temples is submerged so they provide exotic scenery for visi-tors. Definitely, the location be-comes the target of visitors to take pictures, including those riding a speed boat. The more interesting scenery occurs in the afternoon when sunny weather forms a silhouette on the lake. Lake Be-ratan is also the main attraction of religious tourism. The temple is supported by society, especially farmers along with their subak or

irrigation cooperative.Other than becoming a tourist

attraction, Lake Beratan also pro-vides benefits for local residents in the fishery and agricultural sector. Residents around the lake use the land to make fish cages. Some oth-ers are planting vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, peppers and other vegetable crops. Besides, people cultivate strawberries being hunted by visitors or people passing or deliberately come.

Due to such important function of Lake Beratan for society, said Mudita, the sustainability must be maintained. He continued to urge the public to maintain the lake sanitation including the involve-ment of farmers in reducing the use of chemical fertilizer in their plants. Residents are encouraged to care about the lake sanitation especially from plastic waste. Visitors are suggested to care in order to dispose of waste, espe-cially plastic waste or non-organic in place. (kmb24)

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The increasing number of vehicles in Denpasar lead to traffic jam all over the city.

Candikuning tourism village relies on Lake Beratan

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The Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is located in Candikuning.

CaNDIKUNING village is the northernmost village in tabanan directly adjacent to buleleng in the North and badung in the East. as located on highland, the air of the village area is relatively cool. like other regions of bali in general, Candikuning village is not free from tourism potential. One of the attractions having been well known throughout the world is the lake beratan.

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All Cuban hotels are state-owned so the deal puts a major U.S. cor-poration directly in business with the Communist government under a special U.S. license that pushes Washington’s legal dismantling of the Cuban trade embargo further

than ever before. In a once-unimag-inable arrangement, a hotel owned by the tourism arm of the Cuban military will become a Sheraton Four Points.

The deal comes on the eve of President Barack Obama’s historic

visit to Cuba, which will open a new era between the former Cold War foes that has American travelers and businesses eagerly eyeing opportu-nities on the island nation 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Florida.

Starwood’s chief of Latin Amer-ica operations, Jorge Giannattasio, said the company will invest mil-lions to renovate and rebrand the Quinta Avenida, Santa Isabel and Inglaterra hotels, train and hire new

staff and reopen the hotels by the end of the year. The Quinta Avenida is owned by Gaviota, a military-run tourism conglomerate. The Santa Isabel and Inglaterra, which are run by other state agencies, will be operated as part of Starwood’s Luxury Collection brand.

It’s unclear, however, how long Starwood can be called an Ameri-can company. On Friday, Starwood called off a $12.2 billion buyout agreement with Marriott in favor of an offer from a group of inves-tors led by the Chinese insurance company Anbang.

Cuban hotels are notorious for their ramshackle furnishings and poor service. Giannattasio said the Cuban Starwood hotels would be refitted with everything from new mattress to improved kitchen equipment and safety measures and managed by teams of expatriate Starwood employees.

Cuban law prevents widespread direct hiring of Cuban workers by foreign firms. International com-panies complain that their inability to directly hire Cuban employees, and if necessary demote or fire underperforming staff, hinders their ability to provide satisfactory customer service.

Giannattasio said he was con-fident that Starwood would have enough flexibility and control to maintain the company’s standards in Cuba, although he declined to comment on details of the firm’s arrangement with the Cuban gov-

ernment. Starwood will receive a fee for its branding and manage-ment services.

The number of visitors to Cuba surged nearly 20 percent last year, with nearly 80 percent more Ameri-cans flying to the island. The surge has overwhelmed Cuba’s decrepit tourism infrastructure and left ho-tels above capacity.

Numbers are expected to rise even more sharply this year with the start of as many as 110 commercial flights a day from the United States, one of dozens of moves the U.S. administration has made to punch holes in the trade embargo as part of a broader normalization of rela-tions with Cuba since Obama and Raul Castro declared detente on Dec. 17, 2014.

On Tuesday, the Obama admin-istration removed the last meaning-ful restrictions on travel to Cuba, announcing that it would allow individuals to visit the island for “people to people” educational trips. While the ban on U.S. tour-ism technically remains in place, it becomes an honor system that is essentially unenforceable.

Americans will have to keep records for five years about what they did in Cuba, but won’t have to submit them unless asked. The Obama administration previously loosened requirements by allowing organized trips without advance U.S. permission and independent travel for specific purposes like religious activities or sports events. (ap)

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Cubans enjoy a weekly rumba dance gathering in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 19, 2016. President Barack Obama will travel to the communist island March 20. During his three-day trip, the first to the country by a sitting president in nearly 90 years he will meet with President Raul Castro at the Palace of the Revolution and attend a baseball exhibition game.

US hotel company Starwood to run 3 Cuban hotels

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Starwood Hotels and Resorts Chief of Latin American Operations Jorge Giannattasio speaks to reporters, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 19, 2016. Starwood says it has signed a deal to renovate and run three Cuban hotels, returning U.S. chains to the island more than 50 years after American hotels were taken over by Fidel Castroís socialist revolution.

HAVANA — Starwood signed a deal on Saturday to renovate and run three Cuban hotels, returning U.S. chains to the island more than 50 years after American hotels were taken over by Fidel Castro’s socialist revolution.

DENPASAR - The dancers of the disability art studio under the aus-pices of the Indonesia Association of Parents of the Disabled Children (Portadin) Bali showed off their capability of dancing in gathering of Mrs. Arsaningsih, Thursday (Mar. 17). The dancers consisting of deaf children are those having a hearing loss since their childhood.

Although hard of hearing, it does not dampen their determination to

enrich their skills in performing a Balinese dance.

As evidence, it was showed by their performance where they could present Pendet Dance well. With hear-ing impairment, they cannot hear the sound of gamelan, so that they danced with the codes given by their dance instructor. “The instructor will provide the codes when it is time to do nanjek movement, when to glance etc.,” said I Wayan Sujana, Chief of the Bali

Portadin Disability Art Studio.He added that teachers must be

patient in transferring information to be presented for the children so that they can understand. From the beginning, the children of the art studio are given the basic of dance movements. “Dance instructor will give example how to make left and right movement. Then, the children just need to follow,” he explained.

The hints of dance movement

can flow and be followed by each child depending on the closeness of teachers to them. “Having got frequent training, they are so easy to understand,” he added.

Considering their vocabulary is limited, before giving information the teachers and students have to understand the same code language first. In essence, communication is the most basic. “Having understood, they can follow,” he added.

Deaf children also have a high tolerance and slightly hard to re-cover when getting down because the language used to recover cannot be understood. “For example, when making a dance performance, one child does not participate, they will feel isolated. Why I am not involved, they feel like this. Actu-ally we’ve informed that we just need six dancers, for example,” he explained.

The disabled dancers consist-ing of the third grade students of elementary school to first grade of senior high school is a combi-nation of students of the school for the disabled children (SLB) B Sidakarya. “So, I gather them to fill in the activities outside formal education,” he said.

It is meant to help the children so as to have additional skills amidst the community. After that, they can be independent without having to depend on others. The art studio of the disabled children inaugurated on November 16, 2015 consists of four art fields, namely Balinese dance, art, pho-tography, painting and fashion show. So far, there are 50 children coalesced into the art studio, where 28 of them take Balinese dance. (kmb42)

According to the Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, he empha-sized on the information technology as a medium of modern promotion. Aside from Pemuteran, the other areas are Lovina Beach, Penim-bangan, Batu Ampar, Menjangan Island, Gitgit Waterfall, and the newest is the Giri Mas Beach. “We have enjoyed the benefits of information technology. People at home can see the tourism potential in Buleleng, tour packages and where to go. Therefore, we should be able to build and strengthen posi-tive branding to stabilize the seven charms of North Bali,” said Suyasa, Saturday (Mar. 19).

He explained that other than nature tourism the government of Buleleng will accommodate the wealth of the arts, cuisines and creativity of younger generation through festival. The development of Buleleng Festival Lovina Fes-

tival, Twin Lakes Festival as well as the Buleleng Bali Dive Festival indicates the seriousness of the government in promoting tourism potential owned.

“We always make social media in each event. For example, the event of Buleleng Festival is up-loaded to website, YouTube and Facebook. Similar promotions are also carried out for other festivals in Buleleng,” he said.

He realized there must be a change in mindset that promo-tion must be carried out based on information technology. Various products of Buleleng such as tour-ist attraction have been uploaded. “This year, we start to create special tour package analysis for Central Buleleng, while the one of West and East Buleleng have been made. Most importantly, if the shortcut can be realized it will be very strategic to promote the tourism of Bule-leng,” he said. (kmb34)

Deaf dancers dance with instructor codes

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The dancers of the disability art studio showed off their capability of dancing.

Buleleng Tourism Agency stabilizes tourism via IT

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Buleleng has the potential of lake, beach, underwater biota, mountains and waterfall. The most well known tourist area is located at Pemuteran village, especially coral reef as the marine biota.

SINGARAJA - The Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency stabilizes the tourist arrival through the implementation of website as a representation of IT development. Buleleng has the potential of lake, beach, underwater biota, mountains and waterfall. The most well known tourist area is located at Pe-muteran village, especially coral reef as the marine biota.

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BEIJING - Facebook’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met China’s propaganda tsar Liu Yunshan in Beijing on Saturday as part of a charm offensive in one of the few markets where the social network cannot be accessed.

The rare meeting, reported by China’s state news agency Xinhua, suggests warming relations between Facebook and the Chinese government, even as Beijing steps up censorship of and control over the Internet.

Liu, who sits on the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Com-mittee which is the apex of power in China, praised Facebook’s technology and management methods, Xinhua said.

Zuckerberg was in Beijing for the China Development Forum, a government-sponsored conference bringing together top business executives and the country’s ruling elite.

China “hopes (Facebook) can strengthen exchanges, share ex-periences and improve mutual understanding with China’s Internet companies”, Xinhua quoted Liu as telling Zuckerberg.

Earlier this year, Beijing introduced new rules on online publica-tion, which analysts say may place further curbs on foreign internet businesses trying to operate in China.

Online content publishers should “promote core socialist values” and spread ideas, morals and knowledge that improve the quality of the nation and promote economic development.

Foreign companies in China, especially in media, face political pressure from a range of regulations. The country’s military news-paper calls the Internet the most important front in an ideological battle against “Western anti-China forces”.

China, the world’s second largest economy, has the biggest Internet population, numbering almost 700 million people.

On Friday, Zuckerberg posted an image of himself running through smog in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, past the portrait of the late Chairman Mao Zedong hanging over the Forbidden City.

The 31-year-old has achieved celebrity status in China, one of the few markets where Facebook and other foreign Internet platforms, including Alphabet Inc’s Google services and Twitter Inc, are not available due to tight government controls.

He has long sought to improve his company’s relationship with the Chinese authorities, and now sits on the advisory board of the School of Economics and Management at China’s elite Tsinghua University.

Zuckerberg began his remarks to the forum in Mandarin, speak-ing about the promise of artificial intelligence, particularly devices such as self-driving cars and medical diagnostics.

He sidestepped sensitive issues, talking instead about technology and his family. (rtr)

The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, crashed on its second attempt to land at Rus-sia’s Rostov-on-Don airport in the early hours of Saturday morn-ing. Most of those on board were Russian.

“The received recorders are badly damaged mechanically,” Russia’s Interstate Aviation Com-mittee (IAC) said in a statement on its website, alongside a photo of a crumpled recorder.

“Specialists ... have started the inspection, opening and removing the memory modules from their protective coverings for further work to restore the cable connec-tions and prepare to copy the data,” the IAC said.

RIA news agency cited an IAC official as saying it could take one month to decode information from the recorders.

Under international aviation rules, the investigation will be led by Russia’s air safety investigation agency with representatives from the United States, where the jet was made, and the United Arab Emir-ates, where the airline is based.

Flydubai’s CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith said at a news conference in Dubai on Sunday: “We have high confidence in the Russian authori-ties who are capable of managing local conditions for flights,” he said. “We fully trust the Russian authori-ties in this.”

Al-Ghaith said: “The airport was open. It was good enough to operate

and good enough to land, as per the authorities.”

“The weather conditions were good enough for the flight.”

In Rostov-on-Don on Sunday, Russian workers continued to search the crash site in temperatures of minus 5 Celsius, sifting through snow-covered debris strewn across the airfield.

After laying flowers next to piles of candles, children’s toys and pho-tos of the dead, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said the airport would reopen on Monday morning.

“We mourn,” read an inscription listing the names of all 55 passen-gers and seven crew who died in the crash.

Al-Ghaith said on Saturday it was too early to determine the cause of the crash, but officials have sug-gested it could have been caused by pilot error, a technical problem or strong winds at the airport. (rtr)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg meets propaganda czar in China charm drive

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Russian Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 20, 2016.

Flight recorders badly damaged in Russia plane crash -regulator

MOSCOW - The flight recorders from a passenger jet which crashed in southern Russia killing all 62 people on board are badly damaged and could take up to a month to decode, Rus-sia’s airline regulator said on Sunday.

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NEGARA - Since the establishment until now, the construction of dozens of passenger shelters in the countryside of Jembrana seems superfluous and starts dormant. The red passenger shelters at a number of villages in Jembrana are also neglected.

Chief of the Unified Jembrana So-ciety Revival Front (FKMJB), Nengah Ridja, said on Friday (Mar. 18) that his organization considered the passenger shelter in the rural areas do not func-tion at all. So, it gives impression if the district government squanders public money because it does not show clear utilization.

He said that since the beginning the development plan of the passenger shel-ter in rural area is actually functioned to drop and board passengers of rural transport and motor taxis. However, since it was built until now has never been stopped in by rural transportation because it has never crossed the shel-ters. Likewise, no motor taxis utilize the shelters. The design is not suitable for the base of motor taxis because it cannot be used to park motorcycle.

The passenger shelters are now even frequently utilized by the youth as a place to get drunk and by wild dogs to sleep. He considered the establishment of the 48 rural passenger shelters was not accompanied with careful planning to avoid remaining budget. “Ideally the budget must be used to improve education and health facilities,” he explained.

He also assessed the function of the legislators in Jembrana is not optimal and they never control the construction of the passenger shelter. If they did not function from the beginning, it should not be continued, so that it would not waste the budget. He asked the local government to make innovations so that the shelters can be utilized and the budget spent is not superfluous.

The Head of the Jembrana Trans-portation Agency, IGN Putra Riyadi, denied if the passenger shelters are mostly not working.

It happened because the economic progress attained by the society of Jembrana. Almost all people have pri-vate vehicles, especially motorcycle. As a result, many people rarely use public transport or motor taxis. To buy motorcycle is now very easy and almost all people in Jembrana have a motorcycle.

His agency will make data collec-tion and evaluation again, including summoning the organization of land transportation or Organda and revive the route to the passenger shelters so that it can be functioned. Besides, it will also be made cooperation with rural transportation service to serve school children. (kmb)

“We have already allocated funds of USD 1 million for hotel waste treatment technol-ogy,” said Operational Director of ITDC, A. A Ngurah Wirawan, Saturday (19/3) in Agendaz Beach Club, during the cycling event that held around the area with state owned enterprises’ (SOEs) directors.

Cycling route starts from Hotel Inaya Putri Bali to Nusa Dua Lagoon sewage treatment then toward the Water Blow and finish at The Agendaz Beach Club. SOEs Ministry working meeting involved about 17 state-owned enter-prises under the Deputy for Energy, Logistics, Industrial and Tourism. The meeting was an at-tempt to build a synergy between state-owned enterprises as well as for the realization of the

target of 20 million tourist arrivals.Wirawan mentioned, waste treatment facili-

ties owned by ITDC hotel is currently located in an area of 30 hectares by the lagoon. The biological wastewater treatment capacity is 10,000 cubic meters per day with waste that’s processed only 6,000 cubic meters per day.

Nevertheless, ITDC will immediately revitalize and improve the quality of the con-ventional sewage treatment. “In this mid-year we will begin the construction of the high-tech sewage treatment filtration. We expected this project to be completed and operational by next year,” he explained.

He stated that SOEs in tourism sector are not only concerned with the processing of the

waste generated from hotel operations, also the cleanliness of the environment, including the beach. “We always clean up the beach every morning to afternoon,” he said.

He emphasized the cleanliness of the beach is the responsibility of the hotel or the industry in front of the beach and nearly 90 percent of the beach at ITDC is dealing directly with the hotel or tourist facilities. However, if the hotel in question is not able to clean up the beach, it will be assisted by Badung government.

On the occasion Wirawan also explain to the Deputy Minister of State-Owned Enter-prises for Energy, Logistics, Industrial and Tourism, Edwin Hidayat Abdullah and SOE officials regarding the construction of concrete retaining pounder to anticipate abrasion in Nusa Dua. “As a manager of an international tourist area, we have a strong commitment to preserve the region, including the handling of abrasion,” he added. (kmb18)

Rural passenger shelter in Jembrana abandoned

ITDC to invest USD 1 million for waste treatment

NUSA DUA - In 2016, Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) will invest USD 1 million or IDR 14 billion for waste treatment. This investment is to build high technology sewage treatment filtration. Construction will begin in mid-year and expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

IBP/Courtesy of ITDC

Participants of cycling event around ITDC gathered in the beach.

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The Dow rose 120.81 points Friday, or 0.7 percent, to 17,602.30. It is up 1 percent for the year. The S&P 500 gained 8.99 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,049.58, and is now up 0.3 percent for 2016. The Nasdaq composite picked up 20.6 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,795.65, though the Nasdaq remains down 4 percent for the year.

Stocks had plunged early this year as investors feared that Chi-nese economy, which has been the engine of global growth, was slowing faster than expected and that China’s slide would be enough to pull the U.S. economy into re-cession.

“The market tended to focus on the negative and ignore the good” at the start of this year, said Lowell Yura, head of Multi-Asset Solutions for BMO Global Asset Management.

But over the course of the five-week rally, reports on hiring, manu-facturing and construction spending showed the U.S. economy is doing fairly well. Industrial, consumer and technology stocks benefited from the more positive outlook in the U.S. Energy and materials

stocks climbed as oil and precious metals prices rose.

And this week the Federal Reserve said it expects to slow the pace of interest rate increases this year. Lower rates make stocks look more attractive to investors, and they help boost economic growth by reducing borrowing costs and reducing the risk asso-ciated with starting or expanding businesses.

The biggest gainers Friday were health care stocks and banks, the worst-performing parts of the mar-ket this year. Companies that make aircraft, machinery and chemicals also rose as the dollar fell against other currencies on hopes that the weaker dollar will boost their sales outside of the U.S.

Starwood Hotels climbed $4.18, or 5.5 percent, to $80.57 after the hotel chain said it accepted a new buyout offer from a group led by Anbang Insurance Group of China. The bid is worth more than $14 billion. Competitor Marriott, which agreed to buy Starwood last year, said it is considering its options and noted it has the right to make another offer.(ap)

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Trader Joseph Chirico, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, March 18, 2016. U.S. stocks opened higher again, setting the market up to extend its winning streak to a fifth week and erasing most of the year’s early losses.

Market finishes 5th week of gains, turning S&P 500 positive

“Due to the increasing population globally men would compete for two things which are energy and food,” he said when inaugurat-ing the Nipah dam in Montor village in the district of Sampang on the island of Madura in East Java here Saturday.

The governments plan to build dozens of dams across the country is part of the countrys preparation to meet the situation so that In-donesia could be self-reliant in food, he said. The government would continue building dams and within five years it is expected tens of them will have been finished, he said.

“This year we will finish eight and next

year nine. The key to progress is water sup-ply,” he said.

The condition in East Nusa Tenggara is the same as in Sampang and seven dams will be built there, President Joko Widodo said. “That is what we are going to do. Production will increase and later it will be other countries that will ask for our excess production and not us that will import from them,” he added.

Regarding Nipah dam, he said, it had been studied since 1973, followed by land clear-ing in 1982, but in 1993 it was discontinued because people did not like it. It was restarted again in 2008 but later stopped again.

“Last year I saw a solution. We cut the dam, so that it could contain water deeper,” he said.

The case is the same as the Jatigede dam project in West Java, which was started in 1961 but then stopped due to peoples rejec-tion despite the fact that the government had paid them compensation while construction had started, he said.

“Almost 55 years it was neglected, and so people started resettling there again forcing the government to clear them out again,” he said. The President expressed his thanks to clerics and district heads who gave the right explanation to the people so that the Nipah dam could be inaugurated that day. President Joko Widodo has recently also dedicated the Jatigede dam that has been completed.(ant)

PEKANBARU - The Riau Nar-cotic Agency (BNN Riau) seized three kilograms of crystal metham-phetamine and 1,560 ecstasy pills in Kampar District and Pekanbaru City, Riau Province, on Saturday.

“Yes, thats right, three kilograms of methamphetamine and over 1,500 ecstasy pills,” Adjunct Senior Com-missioner Haldun of the BNN Riau said here, Sunday. During the op-

erations, three women and two men were arrested for drugs trafficking, he added. They were suspected of being members of an international drug syndicate, he noted. “We are still hunting suppliers of the illicit drugs,” he remarked.

Drug abuse, which is spiraling out control, has put Indonesia in a state of emergency, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has repeatedly

said. Some 30 to 50 people die daily from drug abuses, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pan-djaitan revealed in Bandung, West Java March 18.

“Drug abuse in Indonesia is worse than terrorism,” the minister said, adding that the number of drug users has reached 5.9 million in the country.

The country has 4.5 million drug addicts who need rehabilitation. Some 1.2 million drug addicts are in such dire straits that even reha-bilitation is no longer an option for them. Nearly 75 percent of those convicted for drug trafficking still manage their businesses from jails, he affirmed. Indonesia is one of the few countries that have the harshest drug laws in the world.

In 2015, the Attorney Generals Office had executed 14 death row inmates, mostly foreigners. On Janu-ary 18, 2015, six death row inmates were executed in Nusakamangan and the Mobile Brigade Headquar-ters in Boyolali, Central Java.

On April 29, eight death row in-mates were executed. They included two Australians, two Nigerians, and one Indonesian.(ant)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that no Indonesian was aboard Dubais flydubai airlines flight that crashed in the Russian port city of Rostov-on-Don midnight Saturday.

A total of 62 people, including 55 pas-sengers and seven crew members, were killed in the crash.

“Of the 55 passengers who have been identified, there were five foreigners but none was found to be Indonesian,” Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, Director General of Indonesians Protection and Legal Enti-ties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a message received by ANTARA on Saturday.

Based on the latest information re-leased by the airlines, 55 passengers hailed from four nationalities -- 44 Rus-sians, eight Ukrainians, two Indians and one Uzbek national.

Russias emergencies ministry said the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai, crashed at 03:50am (0030 GMT) at the airport in Rostov-on-Don. Officials said there were 55 passengers and six crew members on board the plane.

“Unfortunately, they all died,” Viktor Yanutsenko, an emergencies ministry official who was helping in coordinating the emergency response, was quoted as saying by Russias RIA news agency.

Zhanna Terekohova, an advisor to the Russian transport minister, told the state television that possible cause of crash could be pilot error and poor weather conditions.

Local officials said at the time of the crash, there were strong, gusting winds in the Rostov area.

Flydubai said in a statement: “We are doing all we can to gather information as quickly as possible. At this moment, our thoughts and prayers are with our pas-sengers and our crew who were on board the aircraft.”

“We will do everything we can to help those who have been affected by this ac-cident,” said the carrier, which is owned by the Dubai government.(ant)

REUTERS/Garry Lotulun

A view of a traffic roundabout in the central business district after the lights were turned for Earth Hour in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 19, 2016.

No Indonesian was on board crashed Flydubai flight: Foreign ministry

Narcotic Agency Seizes 3 kg of Methamphetamine, 1,560 Ecstasy Pills in Riau

People to compete for food and energy: President

SAMPANG - People around the world will later compete for two basic needs which are energy and food as the global population increases, President Joko Widodo has predicted.

BAGHDAD — A government spokesman says Iraq has exported the first shipment of natural gas condensate in its history, a key development for the OPEC member strug-gling to feed a cash-strapped economy amid an expensive fight against the Islamic State group.

Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad says a gas carrier sailed Sunday from the southern port of Umm Qasr with a cargo

of about 10,000 standard cubic feet of gas in the form of condensates. Jihad wouldn’t reveal how much the cargo is worth or the buyer.

The gas was produced by the Basra Gas Company, a joint venture between Iraq’s state-run South Gas Company, Royal Dutch Shell and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. Iraq has estimated natural gas reserves of 112 trillion cubic meters.(ap)

NEW YORK — Another strong gain for stocks Friday ex-tended the market’s recovery from a dismal start to the year to a fifth week in a row. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index closed up for the year for the first time. The Dow Jones industrial aver-age turned positive Thursday. Both had been down more than 10 percent for the year a little more than a month ago.

Iraq exports first natural gas shipment in its history

Men collect water from the Euphrates river in Najaf, south of Bagh-dad, Iraq March 7, 2016. Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world’s population, have no access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

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Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto-glu said the blast was “inhumane” and would not stop Turkey, which has been targeted by Kurdish and Islamic State militants, from fight-ing “centres of terrorism”.

Israel said two of its citizens died in the attack, Washington said two Americans had been killed and a Turkish official said one victim was Iranian, suggesting that some of the dead may have had dual nationality.

The blast, which also wounded at least 36 people, was a few hun-dred metres from an area where police buses are often stationed. It sent panicked shoppers scurry-ing into alleys off Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian avenue lined with international stores and foreign consulates.

“There is information that it is an attack carried out by an ISIS member, but this is preliminary information, we are still checking it,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters, using another name for Islamic State.

He said a third Israeli may have died. Israel also said 11 of its citizens had been wounded while Ireland said “a number” of Irish were hurt.

The attack will raise further questions about the ability of NATO member Turkey to protect itself against a spillover of violence from the war in neighbouring Syria.

Turkey is battling a widening Kurdish insurgency in its southeast, which it sees as fuelled by the ter-ritorial gains of Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria, and has

also blamed some of the recent bombings on Islamic State mili-tants who crossed from its southern neighbour.

“No centre of terrorism will reach its aim with such monstrous attacks,” Davutoglu said in a writ-ten statement. “Our struggle will continue with the same resolution and determination until terrorism ends completely.”

Germany had shut its diplomatic missions and schools on Thursday, citing a specific threat. U.S. and other European embassies had warned their citizens to be vigilant ahead of Newroz celebrations this weekend, a spring festival largely marked by Kurds that has turned violent in the past.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Two senior officials said the attack could have been car-ried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), fighting for Kurdish autonomy in the southeast, or by an Islamic State militant. (rtr)

ARIZONA - Demonstrators briefly shut down an Arizona high-way leading to a campaign rally for Donald Trump on Saturday while protesters rallied outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan to voice their opposition to the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomi-nation.

Television news footage of the demonstration outside Phoenix showed dozens of protesters block-ing traffic while holding signs that read “Dump Trump” and “Shut Down Trump.”

The demonstrators eventually started marching down the high-way. Later, some were seen nearing the rally at Fountain Hills, Arizona, before Trump arrived.

Three people were arrested, according to police in Maricopa County, where Joe Arpaio, a well-known critic of U.S. immigration policy and an ardent Trump sup-porter, serves as sheriff.

Video posted on news website Arizona Central’s Facebook page showed a truck driving through a large group of protesters. Officers from the county police department

worked to clear demonstrators from the motorist’s path.

A woman is seen crying and shouting for officers to take re-sponsibility to stop the vehicle, while a deputy sheriff shrugs at the suggestion.

Later at a rally in Tucson, Ari-zona, Trump said the protests were “disgraceful,” and thanked police.

“They arrested three people and everybody else left... They left!” Trump said to roaring cheers from the audience.

“I love our police, but we should do a little bit more of that, you’d have a lot less protesters, you’d have a lot less agitators,” said Trump, who is favored to win his party’s nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Several demonstrations also broke out during the later rally, prompting police to escort out a number of people.

Footage of the Tucson rally shows an attendee punching and kicking one demonstrator who is being escorted out. The clip also shows police removing the attacker. (rtr)

Anti-Trump protesters block Arizona road; march in New York

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A supporter wears a mask depicting Republican U.S. presi-dential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally by Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Phoenix, Arizona March 19, 2016.

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Police forensic experts inspect the area after a suicide bombing in a major shopping and tourist district in central Istanbul, Turkey March 19, 2016.

Suicide bomber kills four, wounds

36 in Istanbul shopping districtISTANBUL - A suicide bomber killed four people on Saturday

in a busy shopping district in the heart of Istanbul, pushing the death toll from four separate suicide attacks in Turkey this year to more than 80.

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OREGON - Fast-starting Barbara Pierre is ready for a run at the Rio Olympics.

The American sprinter rocketed her way to victory in the women’s 60 metres at the world indoor championships on Saturday, surprising Dutch world 200m champion Dafne Schippers and adding her name to potential candidates for the U.S. Olympic team.

The Haitian-born sprinter never let up after bursting out of the blocks, winning in 7.02 seconds, two-hundredths of a second faster than Schippers, the world 100m silver medallist.

“It was amazing,” the 29-year-old Pierre said. “The crowd just gave me that extra bit. I said, ‘I’m at home I need to win this, nobody else.’”

Ranked third behind Tori Bowie and English Gardner among American 100m sprinters last year, she had run a lifetime best 7.00 seconds for 60m at the U.S. cham-pionships a week ago to equal Schippers’ 2016 world-leading mark from February.

But even after backing up that quick time with rounds of 7.07 and 7.06 seconds at the world championships, she needed a

quick start to defeat the favoured Schip-pers.

“I didn’t see anybody,” said Pierre of her rapid release in the final. “That’s why I didn’t know if I won or not. I was zoned out. I couldn’t see anything.”

She probably would not have won with-out the quick start, she said.

“It is such a short race so you kind of have to get out,” Pierre said. “And that is like my strongest point.”

Schippers was clearly beaten at the start and could not overcome Pierre.

“It was not a good race,” the Dutch run-ner said. “My start was not so good but my speed was very good. So I am just going to go for the outdoor season and go for the 100 and 200m.”

She no doubt will be a top challenger to Jamaican Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m and likely the co-favourite with American Allyson Felix in the 200m at Rio.

Pierre has never been to the Games as an American, representing Haiti in the 2008 Beijing Olympics before becoming a U.S. citizen. (rtr)

Rosberg’s 15th Formula One victory was also his fourth in suc-cession after the German Mercedes driver won the final three races of last season.

Pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton battled back to secure a Mercedes one-two after the defending world champion recovered from a chaotic start that pushed him back to sixth at the first turn to finish eight sec-onds behind his team mate.

Four-times world champion Vettel came third for Ferrari after leading for much of the race, but the German’s victory hopes faded with an aggressive tyre strategy that fell flat after the race was halted due to Alonso’s crash.

“The strategy was crucial today, so I’m really thankful the team did a good job on that,” ecstatic German Rosberg told reporters.

“The car’s just been unreal to-day... We’ve got to keep an eye on the red guys (Ferrari), they are very close as you saw today.”

Ferrari enjoyed a brilliant start, with Vettel able to carve through the front-row occupying Mercedes duo on the run to the first turn.

His Finnish team mate Kimi Raikkonen also got off to a flyer and he darted up the side to claim

second place as Rosberg’s rear left tyre made contact with Hamilton’s front wing.

Vettel appeared poised for an unlikely win but the race turned on its head when Alonso crashed into Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez at high speed going into turn three of the 18th lap.

The Spaniard’s car careened into a barrier and was smashed to pieces before it flipped, rolled and flew end-over-end into another barrier.

Alonso walked away from the wreckage but the red flag came out to halt the race for around 10 minutes as track staff swept away debris and repaired the barriers.

During the break, Mercedes opted to run both cars on medium compound tyres and rode them to the finish, while Ferrari took the more aggressive route, sticking with their super-softs, which were quicker but ultimately required another stop.

The mistake proved costly and was compounded when Vettel’s next tyre change was botched, while Raikkonen’s race was over on lap 23 when an engine failure forced him out and he reached the pits with flames shooting out of the top of his car. (rtr)

Rosberg wins dramatic season-opener in Melbourne

MELBOURNE - Nico Rosberg won a dramatic Australian Grand Prix on Sunday after a bungled tyre strategy dashed Sebastian Vettel’s chances of a season-opening triumph and Fernando Alonso survived a spectacular crash that left his McLaren wrecked.

REUTERS/Brandon Malone

Formula One - Australia Grand Prix - Melbourne, Australia - 20/03/16 - Mercedes F1 driver Nico Rosberg (L) celebrates after winning the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Pierre targets Olympics after world indoor victory

REUTERS/Mike Blake

Barbara Pierre of the U.S. (2nd from L) wins the women’s 60 meters final past Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands (C),Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd from R) and Elaine Thompson of Jamaica (R) during the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland, Oregon March 19, 2016.

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Third-placed Arsenal, 11 points behind with a game in hand, made a timely return to form with a 2-0 win at Everton and Tottenham Hotspur can reduce the gap to five on Sunday. But any hopes that the two London rivals and fourth-placed Manchester City harbour of Leicester imploding are fading fast.

Leicester’s 3,000 fans were

chanting “We’re gonna win the league” long after their side’s 1-0 win at Selhurst Park and while manager Claudio Ranieri refuses stubbornly to acknowledge his side are favourites, few would bet against the Foxes completing the job now.

“I think now we are close to achieving the Champions League,” was as far as Ranieri was prepared

to venture when addressing report-ers afterwards. “That is a great achievement, but it is step by step,” the Italian, whose side need 18 points to be guaranteed the most unlikely of titles, added.

“It sounds good, our fans are singing a very good song about that, but we need to stay calm.”

Leicester’s 13th league victory this season by a single-goal margin came courtesy of the outstanding Algerian Mahrez. With 34 min-utes on the clock, England call-up Danny Drinkwater fed Jamie Vardy and his precise cross was an open

invitation for Mahrez which he ac-cepted with glee.

Palace did hit the bar late on through Damien Delaney but Le-icester hung on for a fourth win in five league games.

“You can see they play with con-fidence, they have momentum, a great balance to the team. They will be difficult to catch,” Palace boss Alan Pardew said. “They would be worthy champions.”

West Ham United’s hope of barging into the top four suffered a late setback at Chelsea where they were denied victory by Cesc

Fabregas’s dubious late penalty.Substitute Andy Carroll had put

West Ham 2-1 ahead and had it stayed that way, they would have moved above Manchester City into a Champions League berth.

But Fabregas, who also scored Chelsea’s first equaliser with a free kick, left them frustrated and angry after converting from the spot af-ter Ruben Loftus-Cheek tumbled in the area despite being clipped outside it.

BILIC GUTTED“We should have two points

more. We are gutted. Proud, but gutted,” West Ham manager Slaven Bilic told reporters, describing ref-eree Robert Madley’s decision to award the penalty “unacceptable”.

The Hammers stayed in fifth place with 50 points, one behind Manchester City who play sixth-placed Manchester United (47) in Sunday’s derby. Chelsea remained unbeaten in the league under in-terim manager Guus Hiddink, but an 11th draw of the season for last season’s champions left them 10th.

Some Arsenal fans displayed banners at Goodison Park urging manager Arsene Wenger to step down, but his side produced a vibrant display to at least end a depressing week on a high.

First-half goals by Danny Wel-beck and Alex Iwobi secured a first win in four league games and lifted some of the gloom after exits from the FA Cup and Champions League.

“Mathematically, we have a chance,” Wenger told a news conference. “We are not flavour of the week, but if we don’t believe, no-one will do it for us.”

Norwich City’s survival hopes received a boost as they won 1-0 at West Bromwich Albion to move three points above the relegation zone while Swansea City also edged closer to safety with a 1-0 win over bottom club Aston Villa who are all but gone after a 21st league defeat. Stoke City retained their hopes of European football as a 2-1 victory at Watford lifted them to seventh. (rtr)

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ROME — Italy coach Antonio Conte has given first call-ups to Jorginho and Federico Bernarde-schi for European Championship warm-up friendlies against Spain and Germany. Conte, who con-firmed this week he will leave the job after Euro 2016, left out forward Mario Balotelli, who has failed to impress on loan at Milan from Liverpool.

Brazil-born midfielder Jorginho is rewarded for good form with title-chasing Napoli, and 22-year-old Federico Bernardeschi is picked

despite scoring only one goal in Serie A this season.

Another Brazil-born midfielder, Thiago Motta of Paris Saint-Ger-man, returns for the first time since the 2014 World Cup.

Italy hosts Spain, the two-time defending European champion, in Udine on Thursday and travels to Munich to face World Cup winner Germany five days later.

At Euro 2016 in France, Italy is in arguably the toughest group with top-ranked Belgium, Ireland and Sweden. (rtr)

BARCELONA — Atletico Madrid stumbled in its pursuit of Barcelona for the Spanish league title after conceding two late goals to lose at relegation-threatened Sporting Gijon 2-1 on Saturday.

Atletico looked set to maintain its title challenge after Antoine Griezmann scored from a free kick in the first half. The visitors’ defense resisted Sporting’s attack until a late push produced a free kick that Antonio Sanabria blasted in with 11 minutes to play.

Sporting’s Carlos Castro com-pleted the turnaround with a goal in the 89th with Atletico playing with 10 men after defender Jose Gimenez went down injured after coach Diego Simeone made all three substitutions.

Barcelona leads second-place Atletico by eight points before visiting fourth-place Villarreal on Sunday.

“We always kept clear the objec-tive of this club, which is to finish in third place. The loss goes against any aspirations of finishing as cham-pions,” said Simeone, who insists Atletico overachieves by even com-peting with Barcelona and Real Ma-drid. Atletico remained four points above Real, which was third.

“We controlled the game until they equalized,” Simeone said.

“There is no need to look for excus-es. We don’t have anything else.” Atletico can also chase silverware in the Champions League, with Fri-day’s draw pitting the club against Barcelona in the quarterfinals.

Atletico conceded a league-low 12 goals in the previous 29 rounds this season, and only one of those in the last six matches. The game at El Molinon Stadium was following that exact script until Sporting’s revival.

After Griezmann curled his free kick over the barrier and just inside the post, the 2014 champions were content to allow Sporting posses-sion and lock down their defense, despite playing without leading defender Diego Godin due to a leg injury. And the strategy that Sim-eone has perfected was working just fine until the last 12 minutes.

Sanabria hit the post, and mo-ments later the striker finally beat goalkeeper Jan Oblak with a pow-erful free kick struck through the wall that Atletico midfielder Mat-ias Kranevitter deflected, leaving Oblak out of position.

Shortly after, Gimenez pulled up clutching his leg during a sprint to keep up with Sanabria on a coun-terattack, leaving the latter clear to draw Oblak off his line and pass to Castro with the net open.

Castro struck the ball off the bar to the disbelief of home fans but he made up for it in another attack down the left flank that left him needing only to tap home a pass from Jony Rodriguez.

Elsewhere, Malaga continued its rise up the standings into eighth place after midfielder Ignacio Ca-macho headed in an 82nd-minute winner to down home side Real Betis 1-0. At the bottom of the table, Rayo Vallecano defender Ze Castro scored late to earn a 2-2 draw at Granada, which got two goals from Youssef El Arabi be-fore having Isaac Success sent off with a second yellow card midway through the second half. The result left both teams on the edge of the drop zone.

Las Palmas striker Willian Jose also scored for a 1-0 victory at Real Sociedad that moved the Canary Island club away from danger. An own goal by goalkeeper Diego Marino with five minutes remain-ing sunk bottom side Levante at Deportivo La Coruna, which ended a 13-round winless streak with a 2-1 victory.

Real Madrid hosts fifth-place Sevilla on Sunday, a round before Zinedine Zidane’s side travels to Barcelona for the second “clasico” match of the season. (ap)

JOsE MOuRiNhO signed a pre-contract in February to take over as manager of Manchester United in place of Louis van Gaal at the end of the season, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the Portuguese.

Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan coach Mourinho has been persistently linked in the media with the Old Trafford job since departing Stamford Bridge for the second time in December.

Under the terms of the agreement,

the report said, United would have to pay Mourinho five million pounds ($7.24 million) if they did not offer him a full contract by May 1 and an-other 10 million pounds if they failed to give him the job by June 1.

Van Gaal signed a three-year

contract in May 2014 but is not expected to see out the deal with fans unhappy with the style of play and the club in sixth place in the Premier League going into Sunday’s Manchester derby.

The report, which cited a source

with links to the company run by Mourinho’s agent Jorge Mendes, said United wanted a flexible deal because of a split in the Old Traf-ford board as to whether the 53-year-old was the right choice for the club. (rtr)

Crystal clear as leaders Leicester march on

Action Images via Reuters / Tony O’Brien

Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy in action with Crystal Palace’s Damien Delaney

Mourinho signed Man Utd pre-contract in February - report

LONDON - indomitable Leicester City stayed bang on course for the Premier League title as Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal at Crystal Palace on saturday to open up an eight-point lead with seven games left.

REUTERS/Eloy Alonso

Sporting’s Carlos Castro scores winning goal past Atletico Madrid’s goalkeeper Jan Oblak.

Atletico loses at Sporting to stumble in Spanish title race

Italy calls up 2 newcomers in squad to

face Spain, Germany

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s Casemiro and AS Roma’s Stephan El Shaarawy in action.

italy :

Goalkeepers : Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Mattia Perin (Genoa), Salvatore Sirigu (Paris Saint-Germain)

Defenders : Francesco Acerbi (Sassuolo), Luca Antonelli (Milan), Davide Astori (Fiorentina), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Manchester United), Lorenzo de Silvestri (Sampdoria), Andrea Ranocchia (Inter Milan)

Midfielders : Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Emanuele Giaccheri-ni (Bologna), Jorginho (Napoli), Riccardo Montolivo (Milan), Thiago Motta (Paris Saint-Germain), Marco Parolo (Lazio), Roberto Soriano (Sampdoria), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)

strikers : Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina), Giacomo Bo-naventura (Milan), Antonio Candreva (Lazio), Eder (Inter Milan), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Ciro Immobile (Torino), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Graziano Pelle (Southampton), Simone Zaza (Juventus).

Third-placed Arsenal, 11 points behind with a game in hand, made a timely return to form with a 2-0 win at Everton and Tottenham Hotspur can reduce the gap to five on Sunday. But any hopes that the two London rivals and fourth-placed Manchester City harbour of Leicester imploding are fading fast.

Leicester’s 3,000 fans were

chanting “We’re gonna win the league” long after their side’s 1-0 win at Selhurst Park and while manager Claudio Ranieri refuses stubbornly to acknowledge his side are favourites, few would bet against the Foxes completing the job now.

“I think now we are close to achieving the Champions League,” was as far as Ranieri was prepared

to venture when addressing report-ers afterwards. “That is a great achievement, but it is step by step,” the Italian, whose side need 18 points to be guaranteed the most unlikely of titles, added.

“It sounds good, our fans are singing a very good song about that, but we need to stay calm.”

Leicester’s 13th league victory this season by a single-goal margin came courtesy of the outstanding Algerian Mahrez. With 34 min-utes on the clock, England call-up Danny Drinkwater fed Jamie Vardy and his precise cross was an open

invitation for Mahrez which he ac-cepted with glee.

Palace did hit the bar late on through Damien Delaney but Le-icester hung on for a fourth win in five league games.

“You can see they play with con-fidence, they have momentum, a great balance to the team. They will be difficult to catch,” Palace boss Alan Pardew said. “They would be worthy champions.”

West Ham United’s hope of barging into the top four suffered a late setback at Chelsea where they were denied victory by Cesc

Fabregas’s dubious late penalty.Substitute Andy Carroll had put

West Ham 2-1 ahead and had it stayed that way, they would have moved above Manchester City into a Champions League berth.

But Fabregas, who also scored Chelsea’s first equaliser with a free kick, left them frustrated and angry after converting from the spot af-ter Ruben Loftus-Cheek tumbled in the area despite being clipped outside it.

BILIC GUTTED“We should have two points

more. We are gutted. Proud, but gutted,” West Ham manager Slaven Bilic told reporters, describing ref-eree Robert Madley’s decision to award the penalty “unacceptable”.

The Hammers stayed in fifth place with 50 points, one behind Manchester City who play sixth-placed Manchester United (47) in Sunday’s derby. Chelsea remained unbeaten in the league under in-terim manager Guus Hiddink, but an 11th draw of the season for last season’s champions left them 10th.

Some Arsenal fans displayed banners at Goodison Park urging manager Arsene Wenger to step down, but his side produced a vibrant display to at least end a depressing week on a high.

First-half goals by Danny Wel-beck and Alex Iwobi secured a first win in four league games and lifted some of the gloom after exits from the FA Cup and Champions League.

“Mathematically, we have a chance,” Wenger told a news conference. “We are not flavour of the week, but if we don’t believe, no-one will do it for us.”

Norwich City’s survival hopes received a boost as they won 1-0 at West Bromwich Albion to move three points above the relegation zone while Swansea City also edged closer to safety with a 1-0 win over bottom club Aston Villa who are all but gone after a 21st league defeat. Stoke City retained their hopes of European football as a 2-1 victory at Watford lifted them to seventh. (rtr)

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ROME — Italy coach Antonio Conte has given first call-ups to Jorginho and Federico Bernarde-schi for European Championship warm-up friendlies against Spain and Germany. Conte, who con-firmed this week he will leave the job after Euro 2016, left out forward Mario Balotelli, who has failed to impress on loan at Milan from Liverpool.

Brazil-born midfielder Jorginho is rewarded for good form with title-chasing Napoli, and 22-year-old Federico Bernardeschi is picked

despite scoring only one goal in Serie A this season.

Another Brazil-born midfielder, Thiago Motta of Paris Saint-Ger-man, returns for the first time since the 2014 World Cup.

Italy hosts Spain, the two-time defending European champion, in Udine on Thursday and travels to Munich to face World Cup winner Germany five days later.

At Euro 2016 in France, Italy is in arguably the toughest group with top-ranked Belgium, Ireland and Sweden. (rtr)

BARCELONA — Atletico Madrid stumbled in its pursuit of Barcelona for the Spanish league title after conceding two late goals to lose at relegation-threatened Sporting Gijon 2-1 on Saturday.

Atletico looked set to maintain its title challenge after Antoine Griezmann scored from a free kick in the first half. The visitors’ defense resisted Sporting’s attack until a late push produced a free kick that Antonio Sanabria blasted in with 11 minutes to play.

Sporting’s Carlos Castro com-pleted the turnaround with a goal in the 89th with Atletico playing with 10 men after defender Jose Gimenez went down injured after coach Diego Simeone made all three substitutions.

Barcelona leads second-place Atletico by eight points before visiting fourth-place Villarreal on Sunday.

“We always kept clear the objec-tive of this club, which is to finish in third place. The loss goes against any aspirations of finishing as cham-pions,” said Simeone, who insists Atletico overachieves by even com-peting with Barcelona and Real Ma-drid. Atletico remained four points above Real, which was third.

“We controlled the game until they equalized,” Simeone said.

“There is no need to look for excus-es. We don’t have anything else.” Atletico can also chase silverware in the Champions League, with Fri-day’s draw pitting the club against Barcelona in the quarterfinals.

Atletico conceded a league-low 12 goals in the previous 29 rounds this season, and only one of those in the last six matches. The game at El Molinon Stadium was following that exact script until Sporting’s revival.

After Griezmann curled his free kick over the barrier and just inside the post, the 2014 champions were content to allow Sporting posses-sion and lock down their defense, despite playing without leading defender Diego Godin due to a leg injury. And the strategy that Sim-eone has perfected was working just fine until the last 12 minutes.

Sanabria hit the post, and mo-ments later the striker finally beat goalkeeper Jan Oblak with a pow-erful free kick struck through the wall that Atletico midfielder Mat-ias Kranevitter deflected, leaving Oblak out of position.

Shortly after, Gimenez pulled up clutching his leg during a sprint to keep up with Sanabria on a coun-terattack, leaving the latter clear to draw Oblak off his line and pass to Castro with the net open.

Castro struck the ball off the bar to the disbelief of home fans but he made up for it in another attack down the left flank that left him needing only to tap home a pass from Jony Rodriguez.

Elsewhere, Malaga continued its rise up the standings into eighth place after midfielder Ignacio Ca-macho headed in an 82nd-minute winner to down home side Real Betis 1-0. At the bottom of the table, Rayo Vallecano defender Ze Castro scored late to earn a 2-2 draw at Granada, which got two goals from Youssef El Arabi be-fore having Isaac Success sent off with a second yellow card midway through the second half. The result left both teams on the edge of the drop zone.

Las Palmas striker Willian Jose also scored for a 1-0 victory at Real Sociedad that moved the Canary Island club away from danger. An own goal by goalkeeper Diego Marino with five minutes remain-ing sunk bottom side Levante at Deportivo La Coruna, which ended a 13-round winless streak with a 2-1 victory.

Real Madrid hosts fifth-place Sevilla on Sunday, a round before Zinedine Zidane’s side travels to Barcelona for the second “clasico” match of the season. (ap)

JOsE MOuRiNhO signed a pre-contract in February to take over as manager of Manchester United in place of Louis van Gaal at the end of the season, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the Portuguese.

Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan coach Mourinho has been persistently linked in the media with the Old Trafford job since departing Stamford Bridge for the second time in December.

Under the terms of the agreement,

the report said, United would have to pay Mourinho five million pounds ($7.24 million) if they did not offer him a full contract by May 1 and an-other 10 million pounds if they failed to give him the job by June 1.

Van Gaal signed a three-year

contract in May 2014 but is not expected to see out the deal with fans unhappy with the style of play and the club in sixth place in the Premier League going into Sunday’s Manchester derby.

The report, which cited a source

with links to the company run by Mourinho’s agent Jorge Mendes, said United wanted a flexible deal because of a split in the Old Traf-ford board as to whether the 53-year-old was the right choice for the club. (rtr)

Crystal clear as leaders Leicester march on

Action Images via Reuters / Tony O’Brien

Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy in action with Crystal Palace’s Damien Delaney

Mourinho signed Man Utd pre-contract in February - report

LONDON - indomitable Leicester City stayed bang on course for the Premier League title as Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal at Crystal Palace on saturday to open up an eight-point lead with seven games left.

REUTERS/Eloy Alonso

Sporting’s Carlos Castro scores winning goal past Atletico Madrid’s goalkeeper Jan Oblak.

Atletico loses at Sporting to stumble in Spanish title race

Italy calls up 2 newcomers in squad to

face Spain, Germany

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s Casemiro and AS Roma’s Stephan El Shaarawy in action.

italy :

Goalkeepers : Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Mattia Perin (Genoa), Salvatore Sirigu (Paris Saint-Germain)

Defenders : Francesco Acerbi (Sassuolo), Luca Antonelli (Milan), Davide Astori (Fiorentina), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Manchester United), Lorenzo de Silvestri (Sampdoria), Andrea Ranocchia (Inter Milan)

Midfielders : Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Emanuele Giaccheri-ni (Bologna), Jorginho (Napoli), Riccardo Montolivo (Milan), Thiago Motta (Paris Saint-Germain), Marco Parolo (Lazio), Roberto Soriano (Sampdoria), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)

strikers : Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina), Giacomo Bo-naventura (Milan), Antonio Candreva (Lazio), Eder (Inter Milan), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Ciro Immobile (Torino), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Graziano Pelle (Southampton), Simone Zaza (Juventus).

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OREGON - Fast-starting Barbara Pierre is ready for a run at the Rio Olympics.

The American sprinter rocketed her way to victory in the women’s 60 metres at the world indoor championships on Saturday, surprising Dutch world 200m champion Dafne Schippers and adding her name to potential candidates for the U.S. Olympic team.

The Haitian-born sprinter never let up after bursting out of the blocks, winning in 7.02 seconds, two-hundredths of a second faster than Schippers, the world 100m silver medallist.

“It was amazing,” the 29-year-old Pierre said. “The crowd just gave me that extra bit. I said, ‘I’m at home I need to win this, nobody else.’”

Ranked third behind Tori Bowie and English Gardner among American 100m sprinters last year, she had run a lifetime best 7.00 seconds for 60m at the U.S. cham-pionships a week ago to equal Schippers’ 2016 world-leading mark from February.

But even after backing up that quick time with rounds of 7.07 and 7.06 seconds at the world championships, she needed a

quick start to defeat the favoured Schip-pers.

“I didn’t see anybody,” said Pierre of her rapid release in the final. “That’s why I didn’t know if I won or not. I was zoned out. I couldn’t see anything.”

She probably would not have won with-out the quick start, she said.

“It is such a short race so you kind of have to get out,” Pierre said. “And that is like my strongest point.”

Schippers was clearly beaten at the start and could not overcome Pierre.

“It was not a good race,” the Dutch run-ner said. “My start was not so good but my speed was very good. So I am just going to go for the outdoor season and go for the 100 and 200m.”

She no doubt will be a top challenger to Jamaican Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m and likely the co-favourite with American Allyson Felix in the 200m at Rio.

Pierre has never been to the Games as an American, representing Haiti in the 2008 Beijing Olympics before becoming a U.S. citizen. (rtr)

Rosberg’s 15th Formula One victory was also his fourth in suc-cession after the German Mercedes driver won the final three races of last season.

Pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton battled back to secure a Mercedes one-two after the defending world champion recovered from a chaotic start that pushed him back to sixth at the first turn to finish eight sec-onds behind his team mate.

Four-times world champion Vettel came third for Ferrari after leading for much of the race, but the German’s victory hopes faded with an aggressive tyre strategy that fell flat after the race was halted due to Alonso’s crash.

“The strategy was crucial today, so I’m really thankful the team did a good job on that,” ecstatic German Rosberg told reporters.

“The car’s just been unreal to-day... We’ve got to keep an eye on the red guys (Ferrari), they are very close as you saw today.”

Ferrari enjoyed a brilliant start, with Vettel able to carve through the front-row occupying Mercedes duo on the run to the first turn.

His Finnish team mate Kimi Raikkonen also got off to a flyer and he darted up the side to claim

second place as Rosberg’s rear left tyre made contact with Hamilton’s front wing.

Vettel appeared poised for an unlikely win but the race turned on its head when Alonso crashed into Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez at high speed going into turn three of the 18th lap.

The Spaniard’s car careened into a barrier and was smashed to pieces before it flipped, rolled and flew end-over-end into another barrier.

Alonso walked away from the wreckage but the red flag came out to halt the race for around 10 minutes as track staff swept away debris and repaired the barriers.

During the break, Mercedes opted to run both cars on medium compound tyres and rode them to the finish, while Ferrari took the more aggressive route, sticking with their super-softs, which were quicker but ultimately required another stop.

The mistake proved costly and was compounded when Vettel’s next tyre change was botched, while Raikkonen’s race was over on lap 23 when an engine failure forced him out and he reached the pits with flames shooting out of the top of his car. (rtr)

Rosberg wins dramatic season-opener in Melbourne

MELBOURNE - Nico Rosberg won a dramatic Australian Grand Prix on Sunday after a bungled tyre strategy dashed Sebastian Vettel’s chances of a season-opening triumph and Fernando Alonso survived a spectacular crash that left his McLaren wrecked.

REUTERS/Brandon Malone

Formula One - Australia Grand Prix - Melbourne, Australia - 20/03/16 - Mercedes F1 driver Nico Rosberg (L) celebrates after winning the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Pierre targets Olympics after world indoor victory

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Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto-glu said the blast was “inhumane” and would not stop Turkey, which has been targeted by Kurdish and Islamic State militants, from fight-ing “centres of terrorism”.

Israel said two of its citizens died in the attack, Washington said two Americans had been killed and a Turkish official said one victim was Iranian, suggesting that some of the dead may have had dual nationality.

The blast, which also wounded at least 36 people, was a few hun-dred metres from an area where police buses are often stationed. It sent panicked shoppers scurry-ing into alleys off Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian avenue lined with international stores and foreign consulates.

“There is information that it is an attack carried out by an ISIS member, but this is preliminary information, we are still checking it,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters, using another name for Islamic State.

He said a third Israeli may have died. Israel also said 11 of its citizens had been wounded while Ireland said “a number” of Irish were hurt.

The attack will raise further questions about the ability of NATO member Turkey to protect itself against a spillover of violence from the war in neighbouring Syria.

Turkey is battling a widening Kurdish insurgency in its southeast, which it sees as fuelled by the ter-ritorial gains of Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria, and has

also blamed some of the recent bombings on Islamic State mili-tants who crossed from its southern neighbour.

“No centre of terrorism will reach its aim with such monstrous attacks,” Davutoglu said in a writ-ten statement. “Our struggle will continue with the same resolution and determination until terrorism ends completely.”

Germany had shut its diplomatic missions and schools on Thursday, citing a specific threat. U.S. and other European embassies had warned their citizens to be vigilant ahead of Newroz celebrations this weekend, a spring festival largely marked by Kurds that has turned violent in the past.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Two senior officials said the attack could have been car-ried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), fighting for Kurdish autonomy in the southeast, or by an Islamic State militant. (rtr)

ARIZONA - Demonstrators briefly shut down an Arizona high-way leading to a campaign rally for Donald Trump on Saturday while protesters rallied outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan to voice their opposition to the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomi-nation.

Television news footage of the demonstration outside Phoenix showed dozens of protesters block-ing traffic while holding signs that read “Dump Trump” and “Shut Down Trump.”

The demonstrators eventually started marching down the high-way. Later, some were seen nearing the rally at Fountain Hills, Arizona, before Trump arrived.

Three people were arrested, according to police in Maricopa County, where Joe Arpaio, a well-known critic of U.S. immigration policy and an ardent Trump sup-porter, serves as sheriff.

Video posted on news website Arizona Central’s Facebook page showed a truck driving through a large group of protesters. Officers from the county police department

worked to clear demonstrators from the motorist’s path.

A woman is seen crying and shouting for officers to take re-sponsibility to stop the vehicle, while a deputy sheriff shrugs at the suggestion.

Later at a rally in Tucson, Ari-zona, Trump said the protests were “disgraceful,” and thanked police.

“They arrested three people and everybody else left... They left!” Trump said to roaring cheers from the audience.

“I love our police, but we should do a little bit more of that, you’d have a lot less protesters, you’d have a lot less agitators,” said Trump, who is favored to win his party’s nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Several demonstrations also broke out during the later rally, prompting police to escort out a number of people.

Footage of the Tucson rally shows an attendee punching and kicking one demonstrator who is being escorted out. The clip also shows police removing the attacker. (rtr)

Anti-Trump protesters block Arizona road; march in New York

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A supporter wears a mask depicting Republican U.S. presi-dential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally by Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Phoenix, Arizona March 19, 2016.

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Police forensic experts inspect the area after a suicide bombing in a major shopping and tourist district in central Istanbul, Turkey March 19, 2016.

Suicide bomber kills four, wounds

36 in Istanbul shopping districtISTANBUL - A suicide bomber killed four people on Saturday

in a busy shopping district in the heart of Istanbul, pushing the death toll from four separate suicide attacks in Turkey this year to more than 80.

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The Dow rose 120.81 points Friday, or 0.7 percent, to 17,602.30. It is up 1 percent for the year. The S&P 500 gained 8.99 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,049.58, and is now up 0.3 percent for 2016. The Nasdaq composite picked up 20.6 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,795.65, though the Nasdaq remains down 4 percent for the year.

Stocks had plunged early this year as investors feared that Chi-nese economy, which has been the engine of global growth, was slowing faster than expected and that China’s slide would be enough to pull the U.S. economy into re-cession.

“The market tended to focus on the negative and ignore the good” at the start of this year, said Lowell Yura, head of Multi-Asset Solutions for BMO Global Asset Management.

But over the course of the five-week rally, reports on hiring, manu-facturing and construction spending showed the U.S. economy is doing fairly well. Industrial, consumer and technology stocks benefited from the more positive outlook in the U.S. Energy and materials

stocks climbed as oil and precious metals prices rose.

And this week the Federal Reserve said it expects to slow the pace of interest rate increases this year. Lower rates make stocks look more attractive to investors, and they help boost economic growth by reducing borrowing costs and reducing the risk asso-ciated with starting or expanding businesses.

The biggest gainers Friday were health care stocks and banks, the worst-performing parts of the mar-ket this year. Companies that make aircraft, machinery and chemicals also rose as the dollar fell against other currencies on hopes that the weaker dollar will boost their sales outside of the U.S.

Starwood Hotels climbed $4.18, or 5.5 percent, to $80.57 after the hotel chain said it accepted a new buyout offer from a group led by Anbang Insurance Group of China. The bid is worth more than $14 billion. Competitor Marriott, which agreed to buy Starwood last year, said it is considering its options and noted it has the right to make another offer.(ap)

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Trader Joseph Chirico, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, March 18, 2016. U.S. stocks opened higher again, setting the market up to extend its winning streak to a fifth week and erasing most of the year’s early losses.

Market finishes 5th week of gains, turning S&P 500 positive

“Due to the increasing population globally men would compete for two things which are energy and food,” he said when inaugurat-ing the Nipah dam in Montor village in the district of Sampang on the island of Madura in East Java here Saturday.

The governments plan to build dozens of dams across the country is part of the countrys preparation to meet the situation so that In-donesia could be self-reliant in food, he said. The government would continue building dams and within five years it is expected tens of them will have been finished, he said.

“This year we will finish eight and next

year nine. The key to progress is water sup-ply,” he said.

The condition in East Nusa Tenggara is the same as in Sampang and seven dams will be built there, President Joko Widodo said. “That is what we are going to do. Production will increase and later it will be other countries that will ask for our excess production and not us that will import from them,” he added.

Regarding Nipah dam, he said, it had been studied since 1973, followed by land clear-ing in 1982, but in 1993 it was discontinued because people did not like it. It was restarted again in 2008 but later stopped again.

“Last year I saw a solution. We cut the dam, so that it could contain water deeper,” he said.

The case is the same as the Jatigede dam project in West Java, which was started in 1961 but then stopped due to peoples rejec-tion despite the fact that the government had paid them compensation while construction had started, he said.

“Almost 55 years it was neglected, and so people started resettling there again forcing the government to clear them out again,” he said. The President expressed his thanks to clerics and district heads who gave the right explanation to the people so that the Nipah dam could be inaugurated that day. President Joko Widodo has recently also dedicated the Jatigede dam that has been completed.(ant)

PEKANBARU - The Riau Nar-cotic Agency (BNN Riau) seized three kilograms of crystal metham-phetamine and 1,560 ecstasy pills in Kampar District and Pekanbaru City, Riau Province, on Saturday.

“Yes, thats right, three kilograms of methamphetamine and over 1,500 ecstasy pills,” Adjunct Senior Com-missioner Haldun of the BNN Riau said here, Sunday. During the op-

erations, three women and two men were arrested for drugs trafficking, he added. They were suspected of being members of an international drug syndicate, he noted. “We are still hunting suppliers of the illicit drugs,” he remarked.

Drug abuse, which is spiraling out control, has put Indonesia in a state of emergency, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has repeatedly

said. Some 30 to 50 people die daily from drug abuses, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pan-djaitan revealed in Bandung, West Java March 18.

“Drug abuse in Indonesia is worse than terrorism,” the minister said, adding that the number of drug users has reached 5.9 million in the country.

The country has 4.5 million drug addicts who need rehabilitation. Some 1.2 million drug addicts are in such dire straits that even reha-bilitation is no longer an option for them. Nearly 75 percent of those convicted for drug trafficking still manage their businesses from jails, he affirmed. Indonesia is one of the few countries that have the harshest drug laws in the world.

In 2015, the Attorney Generals Office had executed 14 death row inmates, mostly foreigners. On Janu-ary 18, 2015, six death row inmates were executed in Nusakamangan and the Mobile Brigade Headquar-ters in Boyolali, Central Java.

On April 29, eight death row in-mates were executed. They included two Australians, two Nigerians, and one Indonesian.(ant)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that no Indonesian was aboard Dubais flydubai airlines flight that crashed in the Russian port city of Rostov-on-Don midnight Saturday.

A total of 62 people, including 55 pas-sengers and seven crew members, were killed in the crash.

“Of the 55 passengers who have been identified, there were five foreigners but none was found to be Indonesian,” Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, Director General of Indonesians Protection and Legal Enti-ties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a message received by ANTARA on Saturday.

Based on the latest information re-leased by the airlines, 55 passengers hailed from four nationalities -- 44 Rus-sians, eight Ukrainians, two Indians and one Uzbek national.

Russias emergencies ministry said the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai, crashed at 03:50am (0030 GMT) at the airport in Rostov-on-Don. Officials said there were 55 passengers and six crew members on board the plane.

“Unfortunately, they all died,” Viktor Yanutsenko, an emergencies ministry official who was helping in coordinating the emergency response, was quoted as saying by Russias RIA news agency.

Zhanna Terekohova, an advisor to the Russian transport minister, told the state television that possible cause of crash could be pilot error and poor weather conditions.

Local officials said at the time of the crash, there were strong, gusting winds in the Rostov area.

Flydubai said in a statement: “We are doing all we can to gather information as quickly as possible. At this moment, our thoughts and prayers are with our pas-sengers and our crew who were on board the aircraft.”

“We will do everything we can to help those who have been affected by this ac-cident,” said the carrier, which is owned by the Dubai government.(ant)

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A view of a traffic roundabout in the central business district after the lights were turned for Earth Hour in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 19, 2016.

No Indonesian was on board crashed Flydubai flight: Foreign ministry

Narcotic Agency Seizes 3 kg of Methamphetamine, 1,560 Ecstasy Pills in Riau

People to compete for food and energy: President

SAMPANG - People around the world will later compete for two basic needs which are energy and food as the global population increases, President Joko Widodo has predicted.

BAGHDAD — A government spokesman says Iraq has exported the first shipment of natural gas condensate in its history, a key development for the OPEC member strug-gling to feed a cash-strapped economy amid an expensive fight against the Islamic State group.

Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad says a gas carrier sailed Sunday from the southern port of Umm Qasr with a cargo

of about 10,000 standard cubic feet of gas in the form of condensates. Jihad wouldn’t reveal how much the cargo is worth or the buyer.

The gas was produced by the Basra Gas Company, a joint venture between Iraq’s state-run South Gas Company, Royal Dutch Shell and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. Iraq has estimated natural gas reserves of 112 trillion cubic meters.(ap)

NEW YORK — Another strong gain for stocks Friday ex-tended the market’s recovery from a dismal start to the year to a fifth week in a row. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index closed up for the year for the first time. The Dow Jones industrial aver-age turned positive Thursday. Both had been down more than 10 percent for the year a little more than a month ago.

Iraq exports first natural gas shipment in its history

Men collect water from the Euphrates river in Najaf, south of Bagh-dad, Iraq March 7, 2016. Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world’s population, have no access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

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BEIJING - Facebook’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met China’s propaganda tsar Liu Yunshan in Beijing on Saturday as part of a charm offensive in one of the few markets where the social network cannot be accessed.

The rare meeting, reported by China’s state news agency Xinhua, suggests warming relations between Facebook and the Chinese government, even as Beijing steps up censorship of and control over the Internet.

Liu, who sits on the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Com-mittee which is the apex of power in China, praised Facebook’s technology and management methods, Xinhua said.

Zuckerberg was in Beijing for the China Development Forum, a government-sponsored conference bringing together top business executives and the country’s ruling elite.

China “hopes (Facebook) can strengthen exchanges, share ex-periences and improve mutual understanding with China’s Internet companies”, Xinhua quoted Liu as telling Zuckerberg.

Earlier this year, Beijing introduced new rules on online publica-tion, which analysts say may place further curbs on foreign internet businesses trying to operate in China.

Online content publishers should “promote core socialist values” and spread ideas, morals and knowledge that improve the quality of the nation and promote economic development.

Foreign companies in China, especially in media, face political pressure from a range of regulations. The country’s military news-paper calls the Internet the most important front in an ideological battle against “Western anti-China forces”.

China, the world’s second largest economy, has the biggest Internet population, numbering almost 700 million people.

On Friday, Zuckerberg posted an image of himself running through smog in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, past the portrait of the late Chairman Mao Zedong hanging over the Forbidden City.

The 31-year-old has achieved celebrity status in China, one of the few markets where Facebook and other foreign Internet platforms, including Alphabet Inc’s Google services and Twitter Inc, are not available due to tight government controls.

He has long sought to improve his company’s relationship with the Chinese authorities, and now sits on the advisory board of the School of Economics and Management at China’s elite Tsinghua University.

Zuckerberg began his remarks to the forum in Mandarin, speak-ing about the promise of artificial intelligence, particularly devices such as self-driving cars and medical diagnostics.

He sidestepped sensitive issues, talking instead about technology and his family. (rtr)

The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, crashed on its second attempt to land at Rus-sia’s Rostov-on-Don airport in the early hours of Saturday morn-ing. Most of those on board were Russian.

“The received recorders are badly damaged mechanically,” Russia’s Interstate Aviation Com-mittee (IAC) said in a statement on its website, alongside a photo of a crumpled recorder.

“Specialists ... have started the inspection, opening and removing the memory modules from their protective coverings for further work to restore the cable connec-tions and prepare to copy the data,” the IAC said.

RIA news agency cited an IAC official as saying it could take one month to decode information from the recorders.

Under international aviation rules, the investigation will be led by Russia’s air safety investigation agency with representatives from the United States, where the jet was made, and the United Arab Emir-ates, where the airline is based.

Flydubai’s CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith said at a news conference in Dubai on Sunday: “We have high confidence in the Russian authori-ties who are capable of managing local conditions for flights,” he said. “We fully trust the Russian authori-ties in this.”

Al-Ghaith said: “The airport was open. It was good enough to operate

and good enough to land, as per the authorities.”

“The weather conditions were good enough for the flight.”

In Rostov-on-Don on Sunday, Russian workers continued to search the crash site in temperatures of minus 5 Celsius, sifting through snow-covered debris strewn across the airfield.

After laying flowers next to piles of candles, children’s toys and pho-tos of the dead, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said the airport would reopen on Monday morning.

“We mourn,” read an inscription listing the names of all 55 passen-gers and seven crew who died in the crash.

Al-Ghaith said on Saturday it was too early to determine the cause of the crash, but officials have sug-gested it could have been caused by pilot error, a technical problem or strong winds at the airport. (rtr)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg meets propaganda czar in China charm drive

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Russian Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 20, 2016.

Flight recorders badly damaged in Russia plane crash -regulator

MOSCOW - The flight recorders from a passenger jet which crashed in southern Russia killing all 62 people on board are badly damaged and could take up to a month to decode, Rus-sia’s airline regulator said on Sunday.

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks at Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma as Ma gestures during the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016.

NEGARA - Since the establishment until now, the construction of dozens of passenger shelters in the countryside of Jembrana seems superfluous and starts dormant. The red passenger shelters at a number of villages in Jembrana are also neglected.

Chief of the Unified Jembrana So-ciety Revival Front (FKMJB), Nengah Ridja, said on Friday (Mar. 18) that his organization considered the passenger shelter in the rural areas do not func-tion at all. So, it gives impression if the district government squanders public money because it does not show clear utilization.

He said that since the beginning the development plan of the passenger shel-ter in rural area is actually functioned to drop and board passengers of rural transport and motor taxis. However, since it was built until now has never been stopped in by rural transportation because it has never crossed the shel-ters. Likewise, no motor taxis utilize the shelters. The design is not suitable for the base of motor taxis because it cannot be used to park motorcycle.

The passenger shelters are now even frequently utilized by the youth as a place to get drunk and by wild dogs to sleep. He considered the establishment of the 48 rural passenger shelters was not accompanied with careful planning to avoid remaining budget. “Ideally the budget must be used to improve education and health facilities,” he explained.

He also assessed the function of the legislators in Jembrana is not optimal and they never control the construction of the passenger shelter. If they did not function from the beginning, it should not be continued, so that it would not waste the budget. He asked the local government to make innovations so that the shelters can be utilized and the budget spent is not superfluous.

The Head of the Jembrana Trans-portation Agency, IGN Putra Riyadi, denied if the passenger shelters are mostly not working.

It happened because the economic progress attained by the society of Jembrana. Almost all people have pri-vate vehicles, especially motorcycle. As a result, many people rarely use public transport or motor taxis. To buy motorcycle is now very easy and almost all people in Jembrana have a motorcycle.

His agency will make data collec-tion and evaluation again, including summoning the organization of land transportation or Organda and revive the route to the passenger shelters so that it can be functioned. Besides, it will also be made cooperation with rural transportation service to serve school children. (kmb)

“We have already allocated funds of USD 1 million for hotel waste treatment technol-ogy,” said Operational Director of ITDC, A. A Ngurah Wirawan, Saturday (19/3) in Agendaz Beach Club, during the cycling event that held around the area with state owned enterprises’ (SOEs) directors.

Cycling route starts from Hotel Inaya Putri Bali to Nusa Dua Lagoon sewage treatment then toward the Water Blow and finish at The Agendaz Beach Club. SOEs Ministry working meeting involved about 17 state-owned enter-prises under the Deputy for Energy, Logistics, Industrial and Tourism. The meeting was an at-tempt to build a synergy between state-owned enterprises as well as for the realization of the

target of 20 million tourist arrivals.Wirawan mentioned, waste treatment facili-

ties owned by ITDC hotel is currently located in an area of 30 hectares by the lagoon. The biological wastewater treatment capacity is 10,000 cubic meters per day with waste that’s processed only 6,000 cubic meters per day.

Nevertheless, ITDC will immediately revitalize and improve the quality of the con-ventional sewage treatment. “In this mid-year we will begin the construction of the high-tech sewage treatment filtration. We expected this project to be completed and operational by next year,” he explained.

He stated that SOEs in tourism sector are not only concerned with the processing of the

waste generated from hotel operations, also the cleanliness of the environment, including the beach. “We always clean up the beach every morning to afternoon,” he said.

He emphasized the cleanliness of the beach is the responsibility of the hotel or the industry in front of the beach and nearly 90 percent of the beach at ITDC is dealing directly with the hotel or tourist facilities. However, if the hotel in question is not able to clean up the beach, it will be assisted by Badung government.

On the occasion Wirawan also explain to the Deputy Minister of State-Owned Enter-prises for Energy, Logistics, Industrial and Tourism, Edwin Hidayat Abdullah and SOE officials regarding the construction of concrete retaining pounder to anticipate abrasion in Nusa Dua. “As a manager of an international tourist area, we have a strong commitment to preserve the region, including the handling of abrasion,” he added. (kmb18)

Rural passenger shelter in Jembrana abandoned

ITDC to invest USD 1 million for waste treatment

NUSA DUA - In 2016, Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) will invest USD 1 million or IDR 14 billion for waste treatment. This investment is to build high technology sewage treatment filtration. Construction will begin in mid-year and expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

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Participants of cycling event around ITDC gathered in the beach.

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All Cuban hotels are state-owned so the deal puts a major U.S. cor-poration directly in business with the Communist government under a special U.S. license that pushes Washington’s legal dismantling of the Cuban trade embargo further

than ever before. In a once-unimag-inable arrangement, a hotel owned by the tourism arm of the Cuban military will become a Sheraton Four Points.

The deal comes on the eve of President Barack Obama’s historic

visit to Cuba, which will open a new era between the former Cold War foes that has American travelers and businesses eagerly eyeing opportu-nities on the island nation 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Florida.

Starwood’s chief of Latin Amer-ica operations, Jorge Giannattasio, said the company will invest mil-lions to renovate and rebrand the Quinta Avenida, Santa Isabel and Inglaterra hotels, train and hire new

staff and reopen the hotels by the end of the year. The Quinta Avenida is owned by Gaviota, a military-run tourism conglomerate. The Santa Isabel and Inglaterra, which are run by other state agencies, will be operated as part of Starwood’s Luxury Collection brand.

It’s unclear, however, how long Starwood can be called an Ameri-can company. On Friday, Starwood called off a $12.2 billion buyout agreement with Marriott in favor of an offer from a group of inves-tors led by the Chinese insurance company Anbang.

Cuban hotels are notorious for their ramshackle furnishings and poor service. Giannattasio said the Cuban Starwood hotels would be refitted with everything from new mattress to improved kitchen equipment and safety measures and managed by teams of expatriate Starwood employees.

Cuban law prevents widespread direct hiring of Cuban workers by foreign firms. International com-panies complain that their inability to directly hire Cuban employees, and if necessary demote or fire underperforming staff, hinders their ability to provide satisfactory customer service.

Giannattasio said he was con-fident that Starwood would have enough flexibility and control to maintain the company’s standards in Cuba, although he declined to comment on details of the firm’s arrangement with the Cuban gov-

ernment. Starwood will receive a fee for its branding and manage-ment services.

The number of visitors to Cuba surged nearly 20 percent last year, with nearly 80 percent more Ameri-cans flying to the island. The surge has overwhelmed Cuba’s decrepit tourism infrastructure and left ho-tels above capacity.

Numbers are expected to rise even more sharply this year with the start of as many as 110 commercial flights a day from the United States, one of dozens of moves the U.S. administration has made to punch holes in the trade embargo as part of a broader normalization of rela-tions with Cuba since Obama and Raul Castro declared detente on Dec. 17, 2014.

On Tuesday, the Obama admin-istration removed the last meaning-ful restrictions on travel to Cuba, announcing that it would allow individuals to visit the island for “people to people” educational trips. While the ban on U.S. tour-ism technically remains in place, it becomes an honor system that is essentially unenforceable.

Americans will have to keep records for five years about what they did in Cuba, but won’t have to submit them unless asked. The Obama administration previously loosened requirements by allowing organized trips without advance U.S. permission and independent travel for specific purposes like religious activities or sports events. (ap)

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Cubans enjoy a weekly rumba dance gathering in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 19, 2016. President Barack Obama will travel to the communist island March 20. During his three-day trip, the first to the country by a sitting president in nearly 90 years he will meet with President Raul Castro at the Palace of the Revolution and attend a baseball exhibition game.

US hotel company Starwood to run 3 Cuban hotels

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Starwood Hotels and Resorts Chief of Latin American Operations Jorge Giannattasio speaks to reporters, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 19, 2016. Starwood says it has signed a deal to renovate and run three Cuban hotels, returning U.S. chains to the island more than 50 years after American hotels were taken over by Fidel Castroís socialist revolution.

HAVANA — Starwood signed a deal on Saturday to renovate and run three Cuban hotels, returning U.S. chains to the island more than 50 years after American hotels were taken over by Fidel Castro’s socialist revolution.

DENPASAR - The dancers of the disability art studio under the aus-pices of the Indonesia Association of Parents of the Disabled Children (Portadin) Bali showed off their capability of dancing in gathering of Mrs. Arsaningsih, Thursday (Mar. 17). The dancers consisting of deaf children are those having a hearing loss since their childhood.

Although hard of hearing, it does not dampen their determination to

enrich their skills in performing a Balinese dance.

As evidence, it was showed by their performance where they could present Pendet Dance well. With hear-ing impairment, they cannot hear the sound of gamelan, so that they danced with the codes given by their dance instructor. “The instructor will provide the codes when it is time to do nanjek movement, when to glance etc.,” said I Wayan Sujana, Chief of the Bali

Portadin Disability Art Studio.He added that teachers must be

patient in transferring information to be presented for the children so that they can understand. From the beginning, the children of the art studio are given the basic of dance movements. “Dance instructor will give example how to make left and right movement. Then, the children just need to follow,” he explained.

The hints of dance movement

can flow and be followed by each child depending on the closeness of teachers to them. “Having got frequent training, they are so easy to understand,” he added.

Considering their vocabulary is limited, before giving information the teachers and students have to understand the same code language first. In essence, communication is the most basic. “Having understood, they can follow,” he added.

Deaf children also have a high tolerance and slightly hard to re-cover when getting down because the language used to recover cannot be understood. “For example, when making a dance performance, one child does not participate, they will feel isolated. Why I am not involved, they feel like this. Actu-ally we’ve informed that we just need six dancers, for example,” he explained.

The disabled dancers consist-ing of the third grade students of elementary school to first grade of senior high school is a combi-nation of students of the school for the disabled children (SLB) B Sidakarya. “So, I gather them to fill in the activities outside formal education,” he said.

It is meant to help the children so as to have additional skills amidst the community. After that, they can be independent without having to depend on others. The art studio of the disabled children inaugurated on November 16, 2015 consists of four art fields, namely Balinese dance, art, pho-tography, painting and fashion show. So far, there are 50 children coalesced into the art studio, where 28 of them take Balinese dance. (kmb42)

According to the Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, he empha-sized on the information technology as a medium of modern promotion. Aside from Pemuteran, the other areas are Lovina Beach, Penim-bangan, Batu Ampar, Menjangan Island, Gitgit Waterfall, and the newest is the Giri Mas Beach. “We have enjoyed the benefits of information technology. People at home can see the tourism potential in Buleleng, tour packages and where to go. Therefore, we should be able to build and strengthen posi-tive branding to stabilize the seven charms of North Bali,” said Suyasa, Saturday (Mar. 19).

He explained that other than nature tourism the government of Buleleng will accommodate the wealth of the arts, cuisines and creativity of younger generation through festival. The development of Buleleng Festival Lovina Fes-

tival, Twin Lakes Festival as well as the Buleleng Bali Dive Festival indicates the seriousness of the government in promoting tourism potential owned.

“We always make social media in each event. For example, the event of Buleleng Festival is up-loaded to website, YouTube and Facebook. Similar promotions are also carried out for other festivals in Buleleng,” he said.

He realized there must be a change in mindset that promo-tion must be carried out based on information technology. Various products of Buleleng such as tour-ist attraction have been uploaded. “This year, we start to create special tour package analysis for Central Buleleng, while the one of West and East Buleleng have been made. Most importantly, if the shortcut can be realized it will be very strategic to promote the tourism of Bule-leng,” he said. (kmb34)

Deaf dancers dance with instructor codes

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The dancers of the disability art studio showed off their capability of dancing.

Buleleng Tourism Agency stabilizes tourism via IT

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Buleleng has the potential of lake, beach, underwater biota, mountains and waterfall. The most well known tourist area is located at Pemuteran village, especially coral reef as the marine biota.

SINGARAJA - The Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency stabilizes the tourist arrival through the implementation of website as a representation of IT development. Buleleng has the potential of lake, beach, underwater biota, mountains and waterfall. The most well known tourist area is located at Pe-muteran village, especially coral reef as the marine biota.

School shuttle bus program can be successful if the number of private vehicles can be suppressed. Thus, students will not arrive at school late. “If created special lines but the number of private cars and motorcycles remains a lot on the road, it will also bring in problems. Creating a special line will reduce the width of the road,” he said.

Dedi expected that relevant agencies can sit down together to resolve this problem. Firm policy should be applied to prevent con-gestion and it will be getting more severe if the road infrastructure is inadequate. As a result, it triggers traffic congestion, especially dur-ing rush hours. If this problem is unresolved, the traffic in Denpasar will be paralyzed.

“Within the next few years, the traffic in Denpasar starts stagnating. Jalan Imam Bonjol has been in such condition,” he said.

Traffic issues occurred all this time, he said, due to violation. Vio-lations will result in accidents and congestion. The congestion brings

in adverse effects due to decreased productivity, increased fuel con-sumption, decreased quality of life, increased stress level, increased production cost and declining en-vironmental quality.

The solution is by raising taxes, especially that of motorcycle. Its tax shall be equivalent to the price of a new motorcycle. If there is such policy, people will think twice to buy a motorcycle. Automatically the number of motorcycles on the road can be suppressed. “At least, the tax is two-third of motorcycle price,” he said.

But the government must com-pensate by setting up the infrastruc-ture, particularly with adequate mass transportation. High accident rate is also caused by road crowd-edness, especially during working hours coinciding with school hours so that it is vulnerable for vehicles to spill on the road. Surely such condition is not supportive for Bali as a tourist destination of the world. Moreover, all of them lead to Den-pasar, the Ngurah Rai Airport and many hotels.

“The prominent economic sector of Bali is tourism. Without im-provement from now on, primarily related to community mobilization,

the tourist visit will probably shift to other destinations,” he said.

On the other hand, school should have a program to minimize the number of students riding motorcy-cle. For example, it can be provided with shuttle bus. Thus, students will not compete on riding a motorcycle to school. He can only urge people to switch to public transport.

However, such an effort, said

Dedi, seems impossible because it is not more than just an appeal. Moreover, they are supported by facility to buy cheap motorcycle easily.

On that account, the government should make a policy forcing the public to be able to behave orderly. “The right solution is to raise taxes of motorcycle. Force the riders to act orderly. It is a more constructive

solution than persisting on creating new and expensive road section and difficult to be realized,” he said.

Dedi said if it is not done right now, within the next five years an ambulance will not be able to move due to traffic congestion. The gov-ernment is expected not to be lulled by the income generated by the sales of vehicles, but has to think about the negative effects. (rah)

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

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

the importance of the occasion.The celebration is very colorful.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars,

tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Ho-liness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful at-tire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Headman of Candikuning, I Made Mudita, said that Lake Bera-

tan is the source of his community’s economy. One of them is the tour-

ism sector. The arrival of thousands of visitors every day has made their

economy increase. Many local communities establish restaurant business and tourism services such as speed boat, water bikes and other businesses. In addition to the natural scenery of Lake Beratan, certainly the most sought after object by visitor especially foreign visitor is the Ulun Danu Temple at the edge of Lake Beratan. They love to see the temple.

Moreover, within the complex two temples are lying in the middle of the lake. When high tide season occurs, the area of both temples is submerged so they provide exotic scenery for visi-tors. Definitely, the location be-comes the target of visitors to take pictures, including those riding a speed boat. The more interesting scenery occurs in the afternoon when sunny weather forms a silhouette on the lake. Lake Be-ratan is also the main attraction of religious tourism. The temple is supported by society, especially farmers along with their subak or

irrigation cooperative.Other than becoming a tourist

attraction, Lake Beratan also pro-vides benefits for local residents in the fishery and agricultural sector. Residents around the lake use the land to make fish cages. Some oth-ers are planting vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, peppers and other vegetable crops. Besides, people cultivate strawberries being hunted by visitors or people passing or deliberately come.

Due to such important function of Lake Beratan for society, said Mudita, the sustainability must be maintained. He continued to urge the public to maintain the lake sanitation including the involve-ment of farmers in reducing the use of chemical fertilizer in their plants. Residents are encouraged to care about the lake sanitation especially from plastic waste. Visitors are suggested to care in order to dispose of waste, espe-cially plastic waste or non-organic in place. (kmb24)

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The increasing number of vehicles in Denpasar lead to traffic jam all over the city.

Candikuning tourism village relies on Lake Beratan

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The Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is located in Candikuning.

CaNDIKUNING village is the northernmost village in tabanan directly adjacent to buleleng in the North and badung in the East. as located on highland, the air of the village area is relatively cool. like other regions of bali in general, Candikuning village is not free from tourism potential. One of the attractions having been well known throughout the world is the lake beratan.

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LOS ANGELES - “Maze Runner” star Dylan O’Brien was injured on the set of the latest movie in the young adult franchise, and production on the film has been shut down while he recovers, movie studio 20th Century Fox said on Friday.

O’Brien, 24, was taken to a hospital in Vancouver, Canada, for observation and treatment, Fox said in a statement.

Hollywood trade publication Variety and celebrity website TMZ said O’Brien was hit by a car and suffered multiple injuries on the Vancouver set of the upcoming “Maze Run-ner: The Death Cure.”

Fox declined to comment on the severity of O’Brien’s injuries or how they occurred.

“Production on the film will be shut down while he re-covers. Our thoughts go out to Dylan for a full and speedy recovery,” Fox said in its statement.

James Dashner, the author of the “Maze Runner” young adult novels, said Friday on Twitter that “Dylan was hurt, but that he is going to be okay. Not life threatening in any way.” He added that production on the film was postponed but not canceled.

TMZ said O’Brien, who plays Thomas in the franchise, suffered multiple broken bones in the accident.

“Maze Runner: The Death Cure” is scheduled for release in February 2017 and is the third film in the successful movie franchise set in a dystopian world.

The first two movies, released in 2014 and 2015, made about $660 million at the global box office and established O’Brien as one of the hottest young movie stars.

O’Brien first found fame on YouTube some 10 years ago through posting his original videos. He later starred in the MTV series “Teen Wolf.”

The original “Maze Runner” book was inspired by Wil-liam Golding’s influential 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies” about a group of young boys left to fend for themselves on an uninhabited island. (rtr)

“Batman v Superman,” out in U.S. theaters on March 25, opens with the climax of 2013’s “Man of Steel,” in which Superman’s battle with alien General Zod causes mass-scale de-struction in Metropolis.

In the city’s streets, Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alter ego, sees his company building crumble and blames Super-man for the deaths of civilians, which sets up the clash of superheroes.

“I’m a big advocate of the conse-quences of these movies,” director Zack Snyder told Reuters. “Without the consequences, they’re slightly ir-responsible in that it’s unconditional violence.”

An older, wearier Batman (Ben Affleck) sets out to destroy Superman (Henry Cavill), crossing paths with the psychotic technology entrepreneur Lex

Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) and elusive Diana Prince, the alter ego of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot).

Superman meanwhile battles a growing public discourse against his actions, and a senator is determined to hold him accountable.

“There’s always been that little tete-a-tete with Batman and Superman and there has always been that question by fans - who will win in a fight?” Cavill said.

Fear also permeates the superhero fight, Affleck said.

“The way that we get afraid, how we react, sometimes that turns us into the worst version of ourselves ... there’s no place to go from there but to conflict,” he said.

Warring heroes will also feature in Walt Disney Co’s “Captain America:

Civil War” in May, where Captain America and Iron Man face off. It of-fers a new angle to the superhero en-semble films such as Marvel’s “Aveng-ers,” which have generated billions at the box office in recent years.

Warner Bros’ “Batman v Superman” sets the stage for 2017’s “Wonder Woman” and “The Justice League Part One.”

Superhero stories sometimes hold a mirror to society, with Superman’s 1938 comic book debut often perceived as answering America’s need for a hero during the Great Depression.

Eisenberg said “Batman v Super-man” could be seen as a reflection of current American society, particularly with the Machiavellian Luthor, whom he described as “a classic xenophobe” who instills public fear against the alien Superman.

“I think if you look at some of the more nasty, political discourse in at least our country today, you’d see shades of that,” Eisenberg said. (rtr)

‘Maze Runner’ star Dylan O’Brien injured on set, production shut down

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Cast member Dylan O’Brien poses at a press line for “The Maze Runner” during the 2014 Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, California in this July 25, 2014 file photo.

Israeli actress Gal Gadot poses for photos during a press conference to promote the movie: “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” in which she plays the roles of super heroine Wonder Woman, and secret alter-ego Diana Prince, in Mexico City, Saturday, March 19, 2016.

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Heroes face consequences as ‘Batman v Superman’ clash for justice

LOS ANGELES - Superheroes have long existed in a world of their own, but as two iconic caped heroes battle in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” both are brought crashing down to reality as the ramifications of their actions catch up with them.

CONTINU-OUS crowded vehicles en-ter ing Bal i without the s u p p o r t o f

adequate road infrastructure will

exacerbate the traffic condition of this island. Therefore, traffic congestion can be a threat in the future, particularly in South Denpasar and Badung. From the data obtained at the Directorate of Bali Police Traffic Affairs, the growth rate of motorcycles during the period of January-November 2015 totally reached 32,678,941 units.

“If the number of vehicles con-tinues to grow each month coupled with the old vehicles coming down to road, it can be imagined how crowded the condition of the high-way is,” said the traffic engineering unit of directorate of Bali Police Traffic Affairs Putu Dedi Ujiana, Saturday (Mar. 19). Responding to such condition, if only refers to traffic accident rate, he added, it does not resolve the problem. It requires a solution touching the root of the problems.

“All the parties must think about this problem. Let’s find the solution together. Do not let get more serious as it will make us overwhelmed,” he said.

According to him, people may not to be blamed on this because the conditions force them to purchase a vehicle. “Buy a mo-torcycle is very easy. Thus, their children are bought a motorcycle so as not to bother. Just imagine there is school shuttle bus and the tax of motorcycle is raised then the amount of motorcycle will reduce,” said Dedi.

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However, the demand of the people could not be stopped. After a negotiation with the police, the rally could proceed as plan. The purpose of the rally is to reject the plan of the reclamation of

Benoa Bay. “Approximately 27 customary villages take part in the rally and also many organiza-tions throughout Bali,” said the leader of the rally I Wayan Gendo Suardana.

He said that even the police tried to stop the rally but fortunately, it can go on as plan. “The govern-ment should not be paranoid with this kind of event. We don’t need armies to guard us. We can handle our self perfectly. As you can see, there is no incident during the rally,” Gendo added. Finally, he hopes that the government hear their voices and the reclamation plan is canceled.

However, there is some news

on the social media that the Head of Buduk dan Canggu Customary Villages was taken into custody by the police. When asked about that matter, the Head of Badung Police AKBP Tony Binsat said that both of them was taken to the precinct only to discuss the security on the rally. “We only want to discuss the security during teh rally. That was it. They are not under arrest,” he explained.(win)

Congestion threatens Bali in the future

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The rally in Ngurah Rai to reject the reclamation plan

Tenth of Thousands of Balinese Rally in Ngurah Rai

DENPASAR - Customary villages rejecting the reclamation plan held a rally on Ngurah Rai Statue on Sunday. Tenth of thousands of people joined the rally which is also filled with cultural performances. The police was trying to postpone the rally because they said it would disturb the traffic to and from Ngurah Rai.