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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-08-10 18:01 1 Which CLPs are nominating who in the 2016 Labour leadership contest? Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool (1.15/2) mayor Who is getting the most CLP nominations in the race to be Labour leader? 2016-08-10 16:44 13KB www.newstatesman.com 2 At least 12 newborn babies die in fire in Baghdad hospital — RT News (1.02/2) Twelve newborn babies died in a raging fire at a Baghdad hospital while their parents were desperately trying to find and rescue them. Dozens have gathered outside the hospital in grief and shock. 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.rt.com 3 'Senior' Turkish naval officer seeking asylum in US – officials — RT News (1.02/2) A Turkish military officer is reportedly seeking asylum in the US, in a move that could further strain relations between the two countries. The officer was in the US on a NATO assignment and wanted sanctuary after being recalled to Turkey. 2016-08-10 18:01 5KB www.rt.com 4 Three killed as fires ravage Madeira Three people were killed and around a thousand forced to flee overnight as fires engulfed the Portuguese island of Madeira, (1.02/2) rescuers said Wednesday, as the flames reached the capital Funchal. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 5 Father of Orlando killer spotted among Clinton supporters calling for gun control — RT (1.02/2) America The father of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was spotted at a Hillary Clinton rally in Florida on Monday. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 6 Rio 2016: Gunfire not ruled out as Olympic press bus windows smashed (1.02/2) A bus carrying journalists between Olympic venues in Rio de Janeiro has two windows smashed, with gunfire not ruled out. 2016-08-10 16:43 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 7 Duterte: No apologies for remarks on Goldberg (1.00/2) LABANGAN, Zamboanga del Sur – President Duterte refused to apologize for his tirade against US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg, saying it was not becoming of the envoy to dip his 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB globalnation.inquirer.net 8 Labour must drop its scepticism about metro mayors to deliver change What does entryism mean? (0.07/2) The party’s candidates are clear favourites, yet the national leadership remains sceptical of devolution. 2016-08-10 16:44 7KB www.newstatesman.com 9 Video: Confession of captured LeT man Bahadur Ali exposes Pakistan

(0.01/2) A video of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Bahadur Ali, who was held in Jammu and Kashmir last month, has been released by investigators 2016-08-10 17:25 1KB www.mid-day.com 10 US Women's Gymnastics Wins Gold in Team Final Video (0.01/2) U. S. women's gymnastics team has been dominant since the 2012 win in London. 2016-08-10 17:21 1KB abcnews.go.com 11 Magic spells found next to 2,000-yr-old Serbian skeletons in ancient Roman city (PHOTOS) — RT Viral Archaeologists in Serbia may be about to unlock a doorway to another world as they now possess mysterious magic spells found alongside 2,000 year-old skeletons. 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.rt.com 12 Cameron’s ‘cronyism’ could cost Eton pal top diplomatic job in Paris — RT UK One of David Cameron’s best pals is to be investigated by Westminster officials claims arose that he was attempting to get the top diplomatic job in Paris while accepting a peerage for his work as Number 10’s former chief of staff. 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.rt.com 13 DR Congo refuses to renew HRW researcher's visa The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday refused to renew the visa of a senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher, who was to leave the troubled African country shortly. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

14 'We're all on the Titanic', as old bear says get ready for ugly stock market crash — RT Business Swiss investor Marc Faber is known for his pessimistic view of stock markets, and says the S&P 500 index could soon lose more than half of its value. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 15 Could this be the track that puts Khanyi Mbau's music career on the map? Khanyi Mbau is set to release her hotly-anticipated single this Friday, and it seems fans can barely wait to get their hands on this latest music offering, which will be made available on iTunes. 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 16 Siberian court orders company to compensate gay woman for job rejection — RT Russian politics A district court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has ruled that a private company’s refusal to hire a gay woman as a sales manager was unlawful and ordered that 1,000 rubles (US$15) compensation be paid in moral damages. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 17 CCMA intervenes in Eskom wage dispute The Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) said on Wednesday that all the parties involved in the Eskom strike have accepted its intervention. 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 18 Nandi Mngoma officially goes under Zakes' surname Actress and singer Nandi Mngoma has officially changed her surname, which indicates that she and Zakes Bantwini, whose real name is Zakhele Madida, are a married couple. 2016-08-10 18:01 890Bytes www.timeslive.co.za 19 Pitso Mosimane cools Mamelodi Sundowns interest in Steven Pienaar Pitso Mosimane says he has moved on from trying to sign Steven Pienaar and it is highly unlikely that the player will don the Mamelodi Sundowns shirt in the coming season. 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 20 Sexual harassment rife in British workplace, but women too scared to speak up — RT UK Two thirds of women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment at work, according to a new survey. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.rt.com

21 Fresh clashes erupt in South Sudan Fresh clashes have erupted in South Sudan between government forces and former rebels, a month after deadly violence which threatened a fragile peace accord, local authorities said Tuesday. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 22 10 arrested on suspicion of match-fixing in Wales — RT Sport Police arrested 10 people on Wednesday following allegations of match-fixing in the Welsh Premier League, the country’s top football division. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 23 New German security law to target medical confidentiality, dual citizenship — RT News Following a recent spate of attacks, Germany’s leading coalition parties are readying a set of new security laws to fight extremism which will include measures accelerating deportations, abolishing dual citizenship, and loosening medical confidentiality. 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.rt.com 24 Few public servants enjoy the level of respect Madonsela does: Corruption Watch The person replacing Thuli Madonsela as Public Protector will have to fill big shoes to fill. They will also have many hearts to fill. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 25 ‘Radicalization test’ ridicule: Anti-terrorism proposal by French official sparks Twitter barrage — RT News A high school ‘radicalization detection test’ is the latest proposal to fight terrorism from one French official – with the suggestion causing outrage online, but also spawning a large amount of ridicule. 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.rt.com 26 Police arrest man threatening to blow himself up at Danish asylum center — RT News A man has been arrested after threatening to blow himself up at an asylum center on the Danish island of Funen, according to police. The arrest took place following negotiations with officers. 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.rt.com 27 SA suffers injury blow to Mathoho‚ Mothiba ahead of final group Olympic match The South Africa men’s Olympic team will be without the services of central defender Eric Mathoho and striker Lebo Mothiba when they face Iraq in their crucial last Group A match of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. 2016-08-10 18:01 1015Bytes www.timeslive.co.za

28 Jailed Russian pilot pledges to sue ‘US torture justice’ in international courts — RT Russian politics Family members of Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko say they intend to protest his US sentence with various international authorities, while the pilot himself has branded the US justice system as “totalitarian” and accused its jailers of torture. 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.rt.com 29 Nadia Nakai gets snubbed on ANOTHER all- female remix DJ Switch has dropped an all-female remix of his Now or Never hit but it seems there was no love for rapper Nadia Nakai. 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 30 Hope Zinde murder case postponed again as psychiatric report still not completed The psychiatric evaluation of Warona Mark Zinde‚ nabbed two months ago for allegedly murdering his mother‚ Hope Zinde‚ has once again forced the court to postpone his case. 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 31 Medvedev calls for cheaper loans to Russian farmers — RT Business As Russia shifts its economy from energy exports to agriculture, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wants to ease borrowing costs for the country’s farmers. 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.rt.com 32 PBA: Ginebra extends streak to 3, trumps Blackwater Barangay Ginebra San Miguel rolled to its third straight win after a 107-95 win over Blackwater in the 2016 PBA Governors' Cup Wednesday night at Smart Araneta Coliseum. Import Justin 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB sports.inquirer.net 33 Ex-DOJ chief’s resolutions, rulings put on hold Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the deferment of implementation and execution of resolutions on motions for reconsiderations issued from May 1 to June 30, 2016 following allegations 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 34 V-League: TIP clobbers Perpetual to bolster bid for 2nd round Technological Institute of the Philippines went for another upset and dismantled University of Perpetual Help, 25-16, 25-15, 25-13, in the Shakey’s V-League Collegiate Conference Wednesday at 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB sports.inquirer.net 35 Ill-fated Mahad bridge was to be dismantled in December: Government Maharashtra government said the ill-fated British era bridge on Savitri river at Mahad, which collapsed claiming over 20 lives, was supposed to be dismantled last December 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.mid-day.com 36 Kudankulam n-plant dedicated to nation Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday dedicated to the nation the first 1,000 MW unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.mid- day.com 37 Money, 'murder', mystery: The Pratyusha Banerjee case so far Even since the TV actress allegedly hanged herself to death, numerous theories and allegations surrounding her demise have come to the fore. A look back at some shocking developments in the case 2016-08-10 18:01 4KB www.mid-day.com 38 Duterte: Sereno ‘misunderstood’ my statement after baring drug list President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes-Sereno misunderstood his statement after he publicly named “narcopoliticians,” which include seven 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 39 Pinoy construction worker in Saudi wins P112M lotto jackpot MANILA -- Now, he can finally quit and come back home for good. After working as a construction worker in Saudi Arabia for 10 years, a consistent lotto bettor won the jackpot prize in the Lotto 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 40 ‘Kill Russians and Iranians, threaten Assad,’ says ex-CIA chief backing Clinton — RT America Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who supports Hillary Clinton and insists that Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russians and Iranians in Syria should be killed covertly to “pay the price.” 2016-08-10 18:01 3KB www.rt.com 41 Indian survivor of Emirates crash wins $1M in lottery Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar is thanking his lucky stars after surviving a tragic accident last week, but he never knew he’d strike gold twice. The Indian national was among the survivors of the 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 42 Maharashtra FM directs MHADA to develop water front in Irai river Maharashtra Finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said Maharashtra Housing And Area Development Authority should develop a water front on the banks of Irai river flowing through the North and South border of Chandrapur district 2016-08-10 18:01 2KB www.mid-day.com 43 Infamous Indian bandits who struck terror On Phoolan Devi's birth anniversary, we look back at some of the notorious Indian bandits who once struck terror in their region 2016-08-10 18:01 5KB www.mid-day.com 44 CM Vasundhara Raje conducts aerial survey of rain-hit Rajasthan Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the rain-affected Bhilwara and Chittorgarh districts 2016-08-10 18:01 1KB www.mid-day.com 45 Rest away! When a worker fell asleep at Lord Ganesha's feet A worker takes a break from putting the final touches on a statue of Lord Ganesha in Parel 2016-08-10 18:01 680Bytes www.mid- day.com 46 'Ghostbusters' Sequel Unlikely After Poor Box Office Numbers Despite Sony's optimism upon the release of its rebooted "Ghostbusters" movie back in July, it's looking more and more unlikely that the film will get a sequel. When the all-female reboot hit theat 2016-08-10 17:53 2KB dailycaller.com 47 Cow vigilantism: Bajrang Dal activists thrash four persons In yet another incident of cow vigilantism, Bajrang Dal activists allegedly thrashed four persons whom they suspected of being 'cow thieves' near Jiroli village on the outskirts of the city 2016-08-10 17:51 2KB www.mid-day.com

48 Kumbh Mela to conclude on August 11 The year-long 'Kumbh Mela' which began here and in Trimbakeshwar last year, will conclude on Thursday 2016-08-10 17:44 1KB www.mid-day.com 49 Fu Yuanhui: China's disarming and expressive Olympic swimming star All Olympians can count on the support of their home country, but one Chinese swimmer has found overnight fame with her expressive enthusiasm. 2016-08-10 16:43 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 50 India police investigate 'great train robbery' Police in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are investigating how thieves cut into a high-security train carriage and stole $750,000 (£574,541). 2016-08-10 16:43 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 51 Burkina Faso bans donkey skin exports, affecting Asian trade Burkina Faso bans the export of donkey skins as a sharp increase in sales to Asia is threatening the animal's population. 2016-08-10 16:43 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 52 Man arrested after running across Madrid airport tarmac to catch flight Traveller arrested after jumping out of disconnected jet bridge and running across tarmac to catch his flight at Spanish airport. 2016-08-10 16:43 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 53 In pictures: Weather Photographer of the Year Finalists of this year's competition run by the Royal Meteorological Society and The Royal Photographic Society to find the best weather pictures. 2016-08-10 16:43 9KB www.bbc.co.uk 54 Ravindra Jadeja: Indian cricketer fined over lion selfies Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja is fined $300 after posting photos online of him and his wife posing in front of endangered Asiatic lions. 2016-08-10 16:43 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 55 Laser technology fights unwanted geese in Canada Star Wars-style research project hopes to take battle to birds where scarecrows have failed. 2016-08-10 16:43 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

56 The challenges of being black and upper class in Brazil Noemia Colonna examines for BBC Brasil what it means to be black and among Brazil's 1% richest people. 2016-08-10 16:43 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 57 Finland library installs karaoke booth Soundproofed space allows visitors to sing their hearts out among silent readers. 2016-08-10 16:43 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 58 Australian census attacked by hackers The Australian government believes a series of attacks on its census website was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the national survey. 2016-08-10 16:43 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 59 Nigeria's deadly battle for land: Herdsmen v farmers Farming is threatening the lives of a semi-nomadic community in Nigeria, unleashing violence that has already claimed hundreds of lives this year, writes the BBC's Martin Patience. 2016-08-10 16:43 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 60 What do 'hangars' on disputed islands in the South China Sea tell us? The apparent construction of fighter jet aircraft hangars by China on disputed islands in the South China Sea will stoke tension, analyst Alexander Neill explains. 2016-08-10 16:43 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 61 Armenians challenge age-old links to Russia Russia dominates key parts of Armenia’s economy, but a recent hostage siege revealed an undercurrent of anti-Russian feeling, reports the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie. 2016-08-10 16:43 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 62 Rio Olympics Latest Medal Count Video Team USA is in the lead with 26 medals, including nine gold medals and eight silver medals. 2016-08-10 17:20 1KB abcnews.go.com 63 France terror: Girl, 16, investigated over Telegram 'attack plan' A 16-year-old girl has been placed under investigation for planning an attack on the Telegram messaging app, judicial sources say. 2016-08-10 16:43 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

64 Officials send garbage trucks to Intel offices in India — RT News Employees of US tech giant Intel probably felt they were in the wrong place when they saw garbage trucks lined up at their doorstep in India’s Silicon Valley. City officials threatened to dump the trash if Intel refused to pay its huge property tax bill. 2016-08-10 16:47 2KB www.rt.com 65 Russian FSB foils terrorist attacks plotted by Ukrainian intel agents in Crimea — RT News Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has prevented terrorist attacks in Crimea that were planned by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence agency, the FSB said. 2016-08-10 16:47 2KB www.rt.com 66 Wikileaks offers $20k reward over dead DNC staffer, but won’t confirm he leaked emails — RT America The whistleblowing organization Wikileaks wants to catch those responsible for the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich and are now offering a $20,000 reward for information. 2016-08-10 16:47 2KB www.rt.com 67 New emails show ties between Clinton Foundation and State Dept. A newly released batch of messages focuses on ties between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Nancy Cordes reports on how the Clinton campaign is responding. 2016-08-10 16:47 1KB www.cbsnews.com 68 7 great lease and rebate deals on 2016 cars Hoping to put zip into sales now as 2017s head for showrooms, automakers are rolling out some enticing offers 2016-08-10 16:47 5KB www.cbsnews.com 69 SRSLY #54: Stranger Things / Finding Dory / 8½ The great earth-mover: just how capable was Capability Brown? On the pop culture podcast this week: Netflix's Stranger Things, Pixar's Finding Dory, and Fellini's masterpiece 8½. 2016-08-10 16:44 16KB www.newstatesman.com 70 Paul Ryan Wins GOP Nomination For House Speaker Current House Speaker Paul Ryan was able to retain his position after a longshot Republican primary challenger who had been praised by Trump vied for the position according to The Associated Press. Paul Nehlen gave Ryan a run for the money but Ryan was able to get both the... 2016-08-10 17:12 2KB article.wn.com 71 The New Statesman Cover | From the Somme to Iraq What does entryism mean? A first look at this week's magazine. 2016-08-10 16:44 2KB www.newstatesman.com 72 How Pakistan inspired the Glasgow shopkeeper killer To what extent was the murder of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah inspired by the killing of a politician in Pakistan five years ago? BBC Newsnight's Secunder Kermani reports. 2016-08-10 16:44 7KB www.bbc.co.uk 73 Gay couple's fury at Sainsbury's hand-hold complaint A gay couple who held hands in a supermarket express their anger after a security guard tells them they were acting inappropriately. 2016-08-10 16:44 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 74 Southern rail strike suspended as talks resume A strike on the Southern rail network is called off to allow fresh talks in the row over the role of conductors, Acas says. 2016-08-10 16:44 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 75 East Kentwood sophomores dish on football, Wisconsin offers, fried pickles East Kentwood linemen Logan Brown and Mazi Smith are only sophomores, but they have already received offers from Wisconsin and Akron. 2016-08-10 16:44 4KB highschoolsports.mlive.com 76 Woman Accidentally Shot During Citizen Police Academy Video A Citizen Policy Academy event in Florida ended tragically on Tuesday when a woman was shot with a live round and later died. 2016-08-10 17:03 1KB abcnews.go.com 77 Baltimore Police Ripped in DOJ Report for Rights Violations Video Baltimore police violated the constitutional rights of residents on a routine basis, conducting unlawful stops and using excessive force, according to a Justice Department report obtained by ABC News. 2016-08-10 17:02 1KB abcnews.go.com 78 Shots Fired During Peaceful Protest in Ferguson Video Witnesses said the gunfire broke out after a car sped through the crowd and hit a protester. 2016-08-10 17:02 1013Bytes abcnews.go.com 79 Here's Hillary Clinton Back When She Was Younger [PHOTOS] Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is all of 68 years old now, but she was just 44 years old when she burst on the national scene as the trailing spouse of then-Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinto 2016-08-10 16:47 2KB dailycaller.com 80 Tyler Perry Offers To Pay For Funerals Of Girls Left In Hot Car Tyler Perry has offered to pay for the funerals of twin girls killed after being left in a hot car in Georgia. The 46-year-old actor, writer and director saw news reports of the mother struggling 2016-08-10 04:40 1KB dailycaller.com 81 Irom Sharmila under supervision of JNIMS doctors; on liquid diet Manipur's 'Iron Lady' Irom Sharmila, who broke her 16-year-old hunger strike yesterday, is now under supervision at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and has been put on a special liquid diet 2016-08-10 17:00 2KB www.mid-day.com 82 WH: Number Of Syrian Refugees Escaping Religious Persecution Unknown The Obama administration cannot provide a breakdown of Syrians who have been granted refugee status in the United States as a result of religious persecution. The administration is pushing forward 2016-08-10 04:40 3KB dailycaller.com 83 North Korean athlete selfie: What happens next? A photo of a North Korean gymnast taking a selfie with a South Korean won fans around the world, but will Hong Un-jong really face punishment back home? 2016-08-10 16:44 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 84 Piltdown review points decisive finger at forger Dawson After an eight-year study, researchers conclude that history's most infamous fake fossils were made by one man - the prime suspect, Charles Dawson. 2016-08-10 16:44 5KB www.bbc.co.uk

85 In numbers: Has Britain really become more racist? Hate crime rose after the EU referendum. Will it fall back again, or is a higher rate the new normal? 2016-08-10 16:44 8KB www.bbc.co.uk 86 Who is the new Duke of Westminster? A profile of Hugh Grosvenor, who has become the seventh Duke of Westminster following the sudden death of his father. 2016-08-10 16:44 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 87 'Sister Wives' Appeal To Supreme Court To Allow Plural Marriages "Sister Wives" star is appealing a decision to allow plural marriages without criminalization to the U. S. Supreme Court. According to Fox News, Kody Brown, known for his reality show about polygamy 2016-08-10 04:40 2KB dailycaller.com 88 Eye Opener: Trump deflects claims of inciting violence Donald Trump defends his Second Amendment comments that many say invited violence against Hillary Clinton. Also, why did a Florida officer kill a 73-year-old woman during a citizen training exercise? All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener. Your world in... 2016-08-10 16:47 1KB www.cbsnews.com 89 Crackdown in California as marijuana growing season rolls in Sgt. Ray Framstad talks about Merced County's illegal marijuana cultivation. 2016-08-10 16:47 2KB www.charlotteobserver.com 90 Transgender pension case to be examined by EU judges A transgender woman who was refused the female state pension after she stayed married is to have her case examined by European judges. 2016-08-10 16:44 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 91 Forbes Welcome Forbes Welcome page -- Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle. 2016-08-10 16:45 745Bytes www.forbes.com 92 Patel MLA Jitu Vaghani appointed Gujarat BJP chief Gujarat BJP on Wednesday appointed Jitu Vaghani, an MLA from Bhavnagar West constituency and a Patel, as its state unit president in place of Vijay Rupani who became the Chief Minister recently 2016-08-10 16:55 1KB www.mid-day.com

93 Baby safe after car theft East Point police are looking for three men who stole a car with a baby inside the vehicle. 2016-08-10 16:54 898Bytes www.ajc.com

94 Bloomberg View Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news... 2016-08-10 16:44 1KB www.bloomberg.com 95 Now TV London rooftop pop-up urges you to undress to impress in contract-free bundle promotion Now TV wants viewers to ‘break away from convention and be free,’ underlining this mantra by opening a rooftop nude colony in Westminster. 2016-08-10 16:52 1KB www.thedrum.com 96 Alphabet a year on: Why Google's parent company gets a B for brand strategy A year since Google announced it was restructuring under new parent company Alphabet, FutureBrand's Tom Adams spells out the perception problems it still needs to overcome. 2016-08-10 16:52 4KB www.thedrum.com 97 Social Buzz Show: SEENConnects MD Sedge Beswick on social talent and how brands can nurture it Sitting down on the Social Buzz sofa this week is SEENConnects managing director, Sedge Beswick, formerly of Asos. 2016-08-10 16:52 1KB www.thedrum.com 98 Adblock plus blasts Facebook’s battle against ad blocking as ‘anti-user’ Adblock Plus has described Facebook’s decision to block ad blockers on the desktop version of its site as an “unfortunate move” that “takes a dark path against user choice.” 2016-08-10 16:52 4KB www.thedrum.com 99 Microsoft’s new chatbot Murphy answers 'what if' questions and probably isn't racist Microsoft has bravely unveiled a new chatbot called Murphy as it looks to pick itself up from the PR nightmare ignited by its learning Twitter bot Taybot – that very quickly reflected the worst traits mankind had to offer. 2016-08-10 16:52 2KB www.thedrum.com 100 5 takeaways from #SMBuzzChat with Laurence Hebberd on personal branding What makes a strong personal blog? Is it the fact that you have a logo made that features your initials or is it that you are writing in a unique and personable style? During #SMBuzzChat, Laurence Hebberd explored the who’s and what’s of personal branding. 2016-08-10 16:52 1KB www.thedrum.com Articles

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1 Which CLPs are nominating who in the 2016 Labour leadership contest? Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool mayor (1.15/2) Jeremy Corbyn, the sitting Labour leader, has been challenged by Owen Smith, the MP for Pontypridd. Now that both are on the ballot, constituency Labour parties (CLPs) can give supporting nominations. Although they have no direct consequence on the race, they provide an early indication of how the candidates are doing in the country at large. While CLP meetings are suspended for the duration of the contest, they can meet to plan campaign sessions, prepare for by-elections, and to issue supporting nominations. Scottish local parties are organised around Holyrood constituencies, not Westminster constituencies. Some Westminster parties are amalgamated - where they have nominated as a bloc, we have counted them as their separate constituencies, with the exception of Northern Ireland, where Labour does not stand candidates. To avoid confusion, constitutencies with dual language names are listed in square [] brackets. If the constituency party nominated in last year's leadership race, that preference is indicated in italics. In addition, we have listed the endorsements of trade unions and other affliates alongside the candidates' names. Jeremy Corbyn (153) Arundel & South Downs (did not nominate in 2015) Argyll & Bute (nominated Yvette Cooper ) Ashton-under-Lyme (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Bath (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Berwick-upon-Tweed (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Beverley and Holderness (did not nominate in 2015 ) Bolsover (did not nominate in 2015) Bournemouth East (did not nominate in 2015) Bournemouth West (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Bootle (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Birmingham Hall Green (did not nominate) Brent Central (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Bromley & Chislehurst (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Broxtowe (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Bristol East (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Bristol North West (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Bristol West (did not nominate in 2015 ) Bury North (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Bury-St-Edmunds (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Brent North (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Calder Valley (also nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Camberwell and Peckham (nominated Liz Kendall in 2015 ) Canterbury (did not nominate in 2015 ) Congleton (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Cheltenham (did not nominate in 2015) Chesterfield (did not nominate in 2015) Chesham and Amersham (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Chippenham (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Chingford and Wood Green (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Colchester (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Cunninghame South (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Crewe and Nantwich (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Croydon Central (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Croydon North (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Clwyd West ( did not nominate in 2015 ) Dagenham & Rainham (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Doncaster Central (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Delyn (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Devizes (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Dwyfor Meirionnydd (did not nominate in 2015 ) East Devon (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) East Surrey (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) East Worthing and Shoreham (did not nominate in 2015) Eastleigh (did not nominate in 2015) Easington (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Edinburgh North and Leith (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Enfield Southgate (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Erith and Thamesmead (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Folkestone & Hythe (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Gainsborough (did not nominate in 2015 ) Gateshead (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Glasgow Kelvin (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 ) Glasgow Shettleston (nominated Jeremy Corbyn ) Grantham and Stamford (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Great Yarmouth (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Gower (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Hackney North and Stoke Newington (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Hackney South and Shoreditch (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 ) Hampstead and Kilburn (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Harborough (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Harlow (nominated Andy Burnahm in 2015 ) Harrow East (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Harrogate and Knaresborough (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Harwich and North Essex (did not nominate in 2015) Hastings & Rye (did not nominate in 2015) Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Halton (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Havant (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Hayes & Harlington (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Hereford and South Herefordshire (did not nominate in 2015) Horsham (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Islington South (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Ilford South (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Jarrow (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Kensington & Chelsea (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Kirkcaldy (did not nominate in 2015) Kingswood (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Knowsley (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Lancaster & Fleetwood (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Liverpool West Derby ( nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Liverpool Walton (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Leeds East (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Leeds North West (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Lewes (did not nominate in 2015) Lincoln (did not nominate in 2015 ) Luton North (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Maidenhead (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Macclesfield (nominated Yvette Cooper) Monmouth (did not nominate in 2015 ) Montgomeryshire (did not nominate in 2015) Morecambe and Lunesdale (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Mid Derbyshire (did not nominate in 2015 ) Mid Sussex (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Middlesbrough (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Milton Keynes North ( did not nominate in 2015) Milton Keynes South (did not nominate in 2015 ) New Forest East (did not nominate in 2015) Old Bexley and Sidcup (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Newbury (didn't make a supporting nomination in 2015) Newcastle Central (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Newcastle-under-Lyme (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Newton Abbott (nominated Liz Kendall in 2015) Newark (did not nominate in 2015) North Somerset (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) North Norfolk (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) North Wiltshire (did not nominate in 2015 ) Penrith and Borders (did not nominate in 2015) Peterborough (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Preseli Pembrokeshire (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Poplar and Limehouse (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Poole (did not nominate in 2015 ) Pudsey (nominated Andy Bunrnham in 2015) Reading West (did not nominate in 2015) ​ Reigate (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Rochester & Strood (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Rochford and Southend East (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 ) Romford (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) Romsey and Southampton North (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 ) Salford & Eccles (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Salisbury (did not nominate in 2015) Scarborough & Whitby (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Scunthorpe (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Shipley (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 ) St Helens South & Whiston (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Stoke-on-Trent South (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Southampton Itchen (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Southampton Test (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) South Cambridgeshire (did not nominate in 2015) South East Cornwall (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) South Dorset (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) South Thanet (did not nominate in 2015) South West Bedfordshire (did not nominate in 2015) South West Devon (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015) South West Norfolk (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Sutton & Cheam (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Sutton Coldfield (did not nominate in 2015) Stretford & Urmston (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 ) Swansea West (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) The Cotswolds (did not nominate in 2015 ) Thurrock (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Totnes (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Truro & Falmouth (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Tewkesbury (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Uxbridge & South Ruislip (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Vale of Clwyd (did not nominate in 2015) Ynys Môn (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Wakefield (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Warwick & Leamington (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Westmoreland and Lonsdale (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) West Suffolk (nominated Jeremy Corbyn) Wirral South (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Worthing West (did not nominate in 2015 ) ​ Wokingham (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Wyre Forest (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Trade union nominations: Aslef BFAWU CWU FBU UCATT TSSA Affliate nominations: Young Labour Owen Smith (25) Aberdeenshire West (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Altrincham and Sale West (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Battersea (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Blaneau Gwent (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Bermondsey & Old Southwark (nominated Liz Kendall in 2015) Bow and Bethnal Green (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Charnwood (did not nominate in 2015) East Lothian (did not nominate in 2015) Finchley and Golders Green (nominated Andy Burnham in 2015 ) Great Grimsby (nominated Yvette Cooper ) Reading East (did not nominate in 2015) Richmond Park (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) Runnymede and Weybridge (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Leceister East (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Moray (nominated Liz Kendall in 2015 ) Morley and Outwood (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Nottingham South (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Newcastle North (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 ) Streatham (nominated Liz Kendall in 2015) South Swindon (did not nominate in 2015 ) Vauxhall (nominated Liz Kendall in 2015) Warrington South (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) West Ham (nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015) ​ Westminster North (nominated Yvette Coooper in 2015) ​ Wimbledon (nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015) Trade unions Community The Musicians' Union Usdaw Affliated organisations Socialist Health Association Steve Rotheram, a former Liverpool mayor and an MP (pictured left), will be Labour's candidate in the 2017 mayoral elections. It is the first time voters will choose a metro mayor, who will have sweeping powers to change policy across the Liverpool region. Rotheram is the parliamentary private secretary of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Rotheram beat off fellow MP, Luciana Berger, and the current Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson. Jon Lansman, the brains behind Corbyn's grassroots operation Momentum, tweeted: "Really delighted at the news that Steve Rotheram is to be Labour's mayoral candidate in Liverpool. A victory for democracy! " Rotheram's selection comes one day after Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary, clinched Labour's nomination for Manchester. Labour's support in urban areas means this could be the best chance for the party to gain power in the coming year, following Sadiq Khan's victory in the London mayoral elections. It also bolsters the Corbyn camp's power, as both Burnham and Rotheram have remained at least publicly loyal to the Labour leader. The two men campaigned together to uncover the truth about the Hillsborough tragedy, with Rotheram stating : "I was there and saw the horror unfold before my very eyes. " The spotlight will now be on Liverpool Walton, as Rotheram will be expected to stand down as an MP, which in turn will trigger a by-election. Speculation is already growing about who will contest Burnham's seat in Leigh.

Liverpool City Region: Steve Rotheram named as Labour's mayoral candidate bbc.co.uk What does entryism mean? Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool mayor newstatesman.com

Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool mayor What does entryism mean? newstatesman.com ​Globalisation has divided the North, but culture can unite it Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool mayor newstatesman.com 2016-08-10 16:44 Stephen Bush www.newstatesman.com

2 At least 12 newborn babies die in fire in Baghdad hospital — RT News (1.02/2) Fathers searched for their missing newborns and wives at the scene, as relatives gathered outside the hospital putting the blame for the blaze on the Iraqi government. Forensic investigators were looking through the charred debris at the maternity ward itself. The head of the hospital, Saad Hatem Ahmed, said that the initial cause of the fire had been faulty electrical wiring, adding that 29 female patients and eight babies had to be sent to another hospital. Local authorities blocked the hospital area at first, barring access to the press, but they later opened the facility to journalists. A 30-year-old construction worker identified as Hussein Omar lost his newborn twins in the blaze, a baby boy and a baby girl. The hospital authorities sent him to other hospitals to look for his children, but all he saw was burnt pieces of human flesh. “I want my baby boy and girl back. The government must give them back to me,” Omar told AP, while crying. Another woman called Shaima Hassan was left in shock after losing her two-day-old son in the fire. She is 36 and had spent the last year trying to conceive. Hassan described the situation inside the hospital when the blaze broke out to AP. “People started screaming, ‘Fire, fire’ and running,” said Hassan. She and her husband tried to run to the room for newborns, but were stopped by a thick wall of smoke. “Then someone broke a window and threw me out,” she said. 11 newborns dead in Baghdad hospital blaze timeslive.co.za 2016-08-10 18:01 www.rt.com

3 'Senior' Turkish naval officer seeking asylum in US – officials — RT News (1.02/2) An official at the Turkish embassy in Washington told Reuters that Turkish Navy Rear Admiral Mustafa Ugurlu is missing after he failed to report to the authorities. Turkey issued a detention order against him last month. "On July 22, on that day he left his badges and his ID at the base and after that no one has heard anything from him," the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity. The Turkish official added that he was unaware that Ugurlu had requested asylum in the US, while mentioning that two other low-level naval officers had been recalled to Turkey from the US. The Turkish officer was working at the headquarters of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, which is located in Norfolk, Virginia, according to information obtained by Reuters. However, according to two US officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, the officer in question is seeking asylum in the US after being recalled to Turkey by Ankara, following the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "But there's no detention order for them," the official told Reuters. "One of them has gone back, and the other will go back shortly. " A spokeswoman at the Norfolk naval base said that a total of 26 Turkish military personnel had been assigned to the NATO command, which is the only one of its kind in North America. "We want to state that Turkey is a valued NATO ally that continues to make important contributions to the fight against ISIL [Islamic State/IS, also known as ISIS]," US Navy Lieutenant Commander Karen Eifert said, according to Reuters. However, she did not comment on the alleged asylum case regarding the Turkish officer. The move is likely to further strain relations between Ankara and Washington, with Turkey adamant that the US hand over cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in North America since 1999. President Erdogan believes that Gulen was responsible for organizing a failed coup attempt against him on July 15 and wants the cleric to be extradited to Turkey. Washington has repeatedly responded by saying it needs clear evidence of a link between Gulen and the attempted coup before it will consider complying with Turkey’s request. Speaking to RT, Ibrahim Dogus, the founder of the Center for Turkey Studies in London, said he does not believe that the Turkish government has any hard evidence to prove that Gulen is linked to the coup, but accepts that the Gulen movement has been “infiltrating the state for a very long time.” “They are using political pressure - and they even [accused] a retired US army general [of] being behind the military coup - rather than legal means which is very difficult. It may take years before they could actually get him extradited even if they could. “Right now, President Erdogan needs a victory so that he could prove to his public and supporters that Fethullah Gulen was behind this and he has got him back to Turkey and he will [put him on] trial,” he said. The failed coup has led to the Turkish government launching a crackdown against all sections of Turkish society. More than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and education have been detained, suspended or placed under investigation due to having perceived links to Gulen. Of that total, 16,000 people have been formally arrested and detained, while the cases of another 6,000 are still being processed, the Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters. Turkey’s relations with Greece have also been soured after eight Turkish military personnel sought asylum there following the failed coup. Three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors flew a military helicopter to the northern Greek border town of Alexandroupolis on July 16, a day after the coup took place and were subsequently arrested. They denied they were involved in the uprising and have since sought asylum. "They are afraid to go to Turkey," one of their lawyers, Vasiliki Ilia Marinaki, told Reuters. "They told me that they will definitely be tortured. They told me exactly, 'We are going to beg for death, we are going to be dead anyway.'" Meanwhile on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that fugitive soldiers were a security risk and could organize attacks against the Turkish state in the future. "We need to be on the alert from now on. The state is on the alert with its all departments. It is cautious to get rid of all kind of possible threats in future," Kurtulmus told the Haberturk television channel, as cited by the Anadolu news agency. The deputy PM added that there are currently 216 fugitive soldiers.

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4 Three killed as fires ravage Madeira (1.02/2) The three victims died in their homes close to Funchal's historic centre while local media reported that two others were seriously injured by the raging inferno that has gripped Madeira, a popular tourist destination in the eastern Atlantic. A vast ball of smoke was seen above Funchal on Tuesday with the evening sky turned orange by the flames, prompting locals to photograph the scene from surrounding hills. Fires began in the hills around Funchal on Monday night with the situation worsening dramatically on Tuesday evening as strong winds fanned the flames, spreading the blaze to other parts of the city. Some evacuees have been forced to sleep in military bases since the blaze started, said Rubina Leal, the head of Madeira's Civil Protection office. Others have been moved to a football stadium to wait for the fire to be tackled, according to Funchal mayor Paulo Cafofo, quoted by the Lusa news agency. "Roughly a thousand people had to be evacuated from homes and hotels," among them both residents and tourists, he said. At least one hotel in the city, a popular tourist destination and cruise ship port, was damaged by the blaze but Cafofo said it was "impossible" to estimate how many buildings might have been affected. On Tuesday, hospitals and old people's homes were evacuated as flames advanced on built-up areas. Overnight, Portugal dispatched a team of 110 specialists including firefighters, police and doctors to help bolster the island's response to the blaze while the Azores, another Portuguese territory in the Atlantic ocean, deployed 30 men to assist. Mainland Portugal has also been struck by a spate of forest fires since Friday with the north of the country, where temperatures have surged to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), particularly badly affected. On Wednesday about half of the north was on alert for fires with the risk assessed as between "heightened" and "maximum". More than 3,000 people have been battling to contain roughly 100 fires across the country with 12 major blazes leading to the evacuation of local residents overnight. Prime Minister Antonio Costa said Tuesday he would request assistance from other European countries and Russia if the blazes do not abate by August 15.

Madeira wildfires: Three dead as flames reach Funchal bbc.co.uk 2016-08-10 18:01 Olivier DEVOS www.timeslive.co.za

5 Father of Orlando killer spotted among Clinton supporters calling for gun control — RT America (1.02/2) Seddique Mateen, whose son was responsible for the massacre which claimed 49 lives, was seen standing behind Clinton as she addressed the Kissimmee crowd. "I know how many people, families, loved ones, and friends are still grieving, and we will be with you as you rebuild your lives," Clinton said. When asked about his attendance, Mateen told WPTV: “Clinton is good for the United States, versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions.” Mateen showed reporters a sign he had brought to the event, which read, “Hillary Clinton: Makes the biggest investment since WWII. Good for national security. Ex-CIA chief Morrell ‘Hillary told the truth about Benghazi.’ Gun control laws.” A Clinton campaign denied accusations that they were aware of his presence. "The rally was a 3,000-person, open-door event for the public. This individual wasn't invited as a guest and the campaign was unaware of his attendance until after the event. " Trump called on his presidential rival to denounce the presence of Marteen at her campaign. Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, he said: "If that were me, this would be a headline all over the world about Trump. But she did not, as I understand it, disavow this man. He's got some pretty harsh views. " When asked about the reaction to his attendance, Mateen said, “Why should they be surprised? I love the United States, and I’ve been living here a long time.” Mateen expressed his wish that his son had “joined the Army and fought IS. That would be much better,” he said. Mateen also said he has been “cooperating with the federal government” in its investigation of the nightclub shooting. Mateen is an outspoken critic of Pakistan and Afghanistan and expressed support for the Taliban in the past. He visited Congress and the State Department to lobby for a harder stance on Pakistan in April.

Hillary Clinton's campaign disavows support from Seddique Mateen, Orlando shooter's father washingtontimes.com 2016-08-10 18:01 www.rt.com

6 Rio 2016: Gunfire not ruled out as Olympic press bus windows smashed (1.02/2) Security officials in Rio de Janeiro are investigating whether a bus carrying journalists between Olympic venues was shot at on Tuesday evening. Two windows were smashed and three of the 12 people on board suffered cuts. Mario Andrada, chief spokesman for Rio 2016's organising committee, said: "We don't know yet if the bus was shot, or it was a stone. " The bus was travelling between the Deodoro hockey venue and the main press centre at Barra da Tijuca. Lee Michaelson, a reporter on women's basketball and a former US Air Force captain, said: "I know what a gun sounds like. With my background and training, I got down on the floor as much as I could and I hollered to the others to get down. "The others were just beginning to respond. I started yelling at them, 'Get down, get down, we are taking fire'. " The International Olympic Committee said security forces are investigating the incident. "There was a popping, cracking noise," added an unnamed photographer from the UK's Press Association. "There were pierced holes in the glass when it happened. Everyone was on the floor so I got on the floor as well. " "The two windows did not shatter immediately but one of them shattered as we drove along the motorway," the photographer added. A police escort quickly arrived and accompanied the bus back to the press centre. A statement from the Games organising committee said military patrols would be "increased" in response. On Saturday a bullet pierced the roof of the media tent at the Olympic Equestrian Centre - which is located near a military compound. The competition was not disrupted and nobody was hurt.

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7 Duterte: No apologies for remarks on Goldberg (1.00/2) LABANGAN, Zamboanga del Sur – President Duterte refused to apologize for his tirade against US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg, saying it was not becoming of the envoy to dip his fingers in internal issues such as the May 2016 elections. “Just leave me with my broadsides (with him), they were true anyway,” the President said on Wednesday . Duterte called Goldberg “gay” (bakla) during his visit to a military camp in Cebu last week. But Mr. Duterte said those remarks should not at all affect the Philippines’ relationship with the United States as he would turn to the US for the country’s defense needs. “I reiterate our strong alliance with America,” he said. The President said it would be logical to turn to the US for defense commodities because of its long-standing military cooperation with the country. The two countries inked the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which has been heavily criticized by left-wing groups. “I will not compromise the weaponry of the Armed Forces,” Duterte said. The President’s spat with the US Ambassador started during the campaign period when Goldberg commented on the then candidate Duterte’s “joke” about the rape-slay of an Australian missionary in Davao City in 1989. But beyond the joke, Goldberg suggested that the Filipino public elect for consistency and continuity of policies, which implied he was rooting for the candidates of the then incumbent president Benigno Aquino III. In response, the then presidential candidate challenged the US to cut its diplomatic ties with the Philippines, its former colony and a strategic ally in the Asia-Pacific region. “You’re not a Filipino. Shut up. Do not interfere because it’s election time,” Mr. Duterte had told Goldberg then. The President said Goldberg should have not dipped his fingers in Philippine politics. “It’s simply the truth. Why did he give those statements while the election is going on? That’s our business. It doesn’t concern him … It was during the campaign,” Duterte said in a mix of Bisaya and English in his speech before soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division here on Wednesday. The President’s latest statements prompted the American government to summon Philippine Charge d’Affaires to Washington D. C. Patrick Chuasoto regarding the Chief Executive’s “inappropriate comments” against its ambassador to the Philippines. “We’ve seen those inappropriate comments made about Ambassador Goldberg. He’s a multi-time ambassador, one of our most senior diplomats,” US State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau said. SFM

Duterte: US best supplier of arms, defense equipment to PH globalnation.inquirer.net 2016-08-10 18:01 Marlon Ramos globalnation.inquirer.net

8 Labour must drop its scepticism about metro mayors to deliver change What does entryism mean? (0.07/2) While polls suggest that Labour faces an uphill battle to win the next General Election, the party took an important step this week in its bid to secure power in some of the UK’s biggest city regions, with yesterday’s announcement of Andy Burnham and Siôn Simon as its candidates for metro mayor in Greater Manchester and West Midlands, and Steve Rotheram securing the Liverpool nomination today. Given the travails of the national party, these elections (due to take place in May 2017) may represent Labour’s best opportunity of governing, certainly in the short-term. But despite being clear favourites to win in their respective cities next year, Burnham and Simon both face a significant challenge in raising the national profile of these jobs and overcoming lingering scepticism about the new mayoral roles they are running for. A common criticism we hear at the Centre for Cities is that the new metro- mayors are unwanted, top-down impositions by the Government – a view shared by some senior figures in the Labour Party , who often point to the failed local authority mayoral referenda of 2012 (on proposals for less powerful mayors, covering different geographies) as evidence for the lack of support for mayors. Recent ComRes polling of over 2,500 people in the biggest city-regions introducing metro mayors suggest that those criticisms are misplaced, with a clear majority backing the new mayors to have greater powers than local councillors. But despite that public support, and the resounding victories of Burnham and Simon yesterday, it’s clear that both candidates (along with the nomination for Liverpool metro-mayor, due to be announced later today) have work to do to convince party colleagues, voters and many in Whitehall and Westminster that they can make a success of the new mayoral offices. Burnham has the advantage of devolution being more advanced in Greater Manchester than other cities. His high profile will help in raising awareness of the role and offering a voice for Manchester on the national stage, and his cabinet experience may help convince voters that he can turn his vision of the area as a “beacon for social justice” into reality. While this vision remains (understandably) somewhat vague as yet, the ComRes polling offers Burnham some pointers on what people in Greater Manchester want the new mayor to focus on – with integrating healthcare and social care (an idea Burnham has strongly backed) highlighted as a top concern for the new mayor, along with affordable housing. Offering a clear plan to tackle those issues will be critical for Burnham as the campaigning gets under way in the coming months For Siôn Simon in the West Midlands, the battle to win hearts and minds may be tougher, with local councillors less convinced of the value of the new mayoral role, and West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson recently blasting the new mayoral powers as ‘totally inadequate’. Again, however, local people are more enthusiastic, with the ComRes polling showing a majority of West Midlands residents back the idea of a powerful mayor of the city-region, and want the new mayor to concentrate on affordable housing and planning as priorities. In Liverpool, Steve Rotheram, who is Jeremy Corbyn’s parliamentary private secretary, overcame stiff opposition to win the nomination ahead of Joe Anderson, the current mayor for Liverpool City Council (different to the metro-mayor, which covers the wider city-region), and his fellow MP Luciana Berger. Rotheram’s success can in part be attributed to his high-profile work on behalf of the Hillsborough families since becoming MP for Walton in 2015. He has said his priority is to develop more affordable housing in the city region, an issue highlighted as a key concern by local voters in the ComRes poll, along with the need to improve local transport links. In the coming months, the main focus of national media will continue to be on Labour’s ongoing leadership contest and its subsequent fall-out. But the party cannot afford to lose sight of the opportunities that the new metro mayor roles offer. Securing power in the UK’s biggest city-regions may offer one of the best chances of affecting real political change – and making a genuine difference to the lives of people in those places – in the years to come. Entryism (n) Entryism re-entered Labour’s lexicon in the summer of 2015 as thousands of members and supporters of other parties (among them Greens, Trotskyists and Tories) sought to vote in the leadership election. But the term historically refers to a far greater degree of strategy and organisation. Origin The founding example of entryism was provided by Leon Trotsky and the “French turn”. In 1934, the Russian revolutionary persuaded his supporters to dissolve the Communist League into the Socialist Party in order to maximise their influence. The term has since been applied to any group that enters a larger organisation with the intention of subverting its policies and objectives. Labour’s most notable experience of entryism came with the Trotskyist Militant, which won control of the party’s youth wing (Labour Party Young Socialists) and a number of constituency parties. After its proscription by the National Executive Committee in 1982, hundreds of the group’s members were expelled during Neil Kinnock’s leadership, including two MPs (Terry Fields and Dave Nellist). Len McCluskey, the Unite general secretary, was a Militant supporter though never formally joined. “Operation Ice Pick” was the name given to Labour’s efforts to prevent entryists from voting in the 2015 leadership election, after the means of assassination used against Trotsky. Those barred included members of the Socialist Party, the successor group to Militant. The pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum has similarly banned outsiders from joining after MPs warned that it could become a vehicle for entryism. Usage Responding to charges of infiltration, Jeremy Corbyn said: "The entryism I see is lots of young people who were hitherto not very excited by politics, coming in for the first time. "

Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool mayor What does entryism mean? newstatesman.com What does entryism mean? Corbyn ally Steve Rotheram wins Labour nomination for Liverpool mayor newstatesman.com

Jeremy Corbyn is the real winner of Labour's mayoral elections What does entryism mean? newstatesman.com 2016-08-10 16:44 Stephen Bush www.newstatesman.com

9 Video: Confession of captured LeT man Bahadur Ali exposes Pakistan (0.01/2) A video of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Bahadur Ali, who was held in Jammu and Kashmir last month, has been released by investigators. In the video, he is said to have admitted that he was trained by Lashkar-e- Taiba to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir, and mix with locals to create trouble Ali was arrested on July 25 with weapons including an AK-47 rifle and grenades apart from other weapons. Watch Video

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10 US Women's Gymnastics Wins Gold in Team Final Video (0.01/2) According to the Olympics now where's forever Michael Phelps picked up two more gold medals last night. First he won the 200 meter butterfly re claiming the top spot after stunning loss in 2012 they. Less than an hour earlier later rather he anchored the men's four by 200 freestyle relay. Although the US was well on its way to victory by the time he got into the pool that 31 year old Phelps. Has now won three golds at 303. More races to go 21 gold so far in his lifetime. And fellow American swimmer came to Becky picked up her second gold in Rio on her way. To what could be a historic run for her she held on to win the 200 meter freestyle. That actually is normally her weakest event live Becky crush the world record in the 400 on Sunday. The US women's gymnastics team is also dominating the team's score last night of just under 185 was more than eight points ahead of silver medalist Russia. That's the biggest margin of victory since 1960. The Americans had the highest team score on every event and many are saying this is the best gymnastics team ever. Yeah well we're killing it right now in Rio take a look at the medal count in the US in first place. With 26 including nine gold medals China is in second place with seventeen. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

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11 Magic spells found next to 2,000-yr-old Serbian skeletons in ancient Roman city (PHOTOS) — RT Viral "They were often love charms, ordering someone to fall in love, but there were also dark, malignant curses, to the tune of: ‘May your body turn dead, as cold and heavy as this lead’,” archaeologist Ilija Dankovic told Reuters. Let's hope it's a love charm or we may need to battle dark spirits from the other side. The discovery was made in Kostolac in eastern Serbia at the foot of a coal- fired power station where construction was due to take place. The site was once home to the ancient Roman city Viminacium in the province of Moesia. Dankovic said the team of archaeologists suspect the scrolls, which are written in Aramaic, are magic as they mention demons “that are connected to the territory of modern-day Syria.” When unrolled, the scrolls look like rectangles of foil similar to a sweet wrapper, according to Dankovic. They were usually buried with the bodies of those who had suffered a violent death as people at the time believed that "souls of such people took longer to find rest and had a better chance of finding demons and deities and pass the wishes to them so they could do their magic," Dankovic said. The team of archaeologists are trying to decipher the spells. We can only hope that they do not read them aloud. Please, for the sake of humankind, use them wisely.

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12 Cameron’s ‘cronyism’ could cost Eton pal top diplomatic job in Paris — RT UK Ed Llewellyn, one of Cameron’s Eton mates who was later his senior aide when the former prime minister became the Tory’s leader in 2005, aims to become Britain’s ambassador to France. Sir Julian King, who currently holds the job, is moving to Brussels in October to become the EU’s commissioner for the security union. Llewellyn was on Cameron’s resignation honors list, which prompted many to accuse the one-time Conservative leader of “cronyism.” Despite reports the appointment was to be cancelled, Llewellyn accepted the life peerage last month. Political appointments to senior ambassadorial jobs are never well looked upon by the diplomatic community, but the real points of contention are Cameron’s award handouts. On Tuesday, the chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Bernard Jenkin, asked fellow MPs to examine the fallen Tory leader’s nominations list. Llewellyn is one of 13 new peers proposed by Cameron, who also include one of his former communication aides Gabrielle Bertin and Tory special advisor Jonathan Caine. The inquiry, Jenkins said, should consider “the size and composition of the House of Lords, but also the way in which new peers are appointed.” A 2012 report recommended that a higher proportion of honors be awarded to “people who devote their time to the local community, instead of to politicians, civil servants, and celebrities.” Speaking to members on Tuesday, Jenkins added: “I think reform of the House of Lords is by far the most important issue arising from this month’s controversy. I hope the new Government will consider this and our previous report seriously, and I hope the committee will agree terms of reference and to launch our inquiry as soon as the House returns in September.” Cameron is expected to be dragged in for interrogation by the Committee. His friend Llewellyn is also under the scrutiny of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee for his cold-blooded ambition to become “our man in Paris.” Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, who serves as chairman for the foreign affairs committee said: “The appointment of Ed Llewellyn is exactly the kind of territory the committee will want to look at.” Prime Minister Theresa May is rumored to also want a different person for the job, seeing how Llewellyn’s management of Cameron’s anti-Brexit campaign ended in failure. The Scottish National Party’s (SNP’s) European spokesman, Stephen Gethins, commented on the inquiry, saying: “There could not be a more important time to have a positive relationship with France. I hope this is not just a case of jobs for the boys.”

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13 DR Congo refuses to renew HRW researcher's visa Kinshasa did not give a reason for the decision to effectively expel Ida Sawyer, who has worked for the US rights group in DR Congo since 2008. The government's immigration service "did not want to renew the visa... That is all," government spokesman Lambert Mende told AFP. "Some governments never give justifications" when they refuse visas. "We will not justify ourselves. It's the principle of reciprocity between states," he added. Sawyer, who has been based in DR Congo since January 2008 -- first in Goma, capital of the eastern North Kivu province, then in Kinshasa since 2011 -- was due to leave Kinshasa later Tuesday. She has carried out research across the country as well as in parts of neighbouring countries occupied by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. Her work has served as the basis for numerous HRW reports, the group said on its website. Ken Roth, the executive director of HRW -- which regularly condemns human rights violations in DR Congo -- slammed the move as "a brazen attempt to muzzle reporting on the government's brutal repression of those supporting presidential term limits". Political tensions have risen as President Joseph Kabila nears the end of his term in office on December 20. The constitution bars him from standing for re-election. Kabila has been in office since 2001. Opposition leaders suspect he is manoeuvring to cling to power, possibly by delaying presidential polls which appear unlikely to take place as anticipated at the end of the year.

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14 'We're all on the Titanic', as old bear says get ready for ugly stock market crash — RT Business A rally since late June has the S&P 500 up nearly seven percent in 2016, setting new record-highs almost every day. Faber predicts the index could first grow to 2,300 points from the current 2,182 before the nosedive. “Maybe we go first to 2,300, then we would have a perfect topping formation. A widening-top formation is about the most bearish technical formation you can have,” Faber said in an interview with MarketWatch. The investor is referring to the so-called megaphone pattern that resembles a reverse version of a symmetrical triangle, which is a bearish signal indicating the current uptrend may be followed by a steeper downtrend. “When it unravels, we are going to go to 1,100 on the S&P 500,” Faber said. Faber, 70, is known for his criticism of central bank policies and the US economy. According to him, printing money may result in markets coughing up the “five years of capital gains”. “We’re all on the Titanic. When things unravel a colossal asset inflation will burst,” he said. Faber is often criticized by other analysts, as he has been unsuccessfully predicting the stock market collapse each year since 2012. To this, Faber replied: “There are lots of people who always criticize me. First of all, they have no money. And I always tell them to send me their audited performance over the last 10 to 20 years and we’ll compare.” “Everyone has good calls and negative calls,” he said. Faber is known for advising his clients to rush from the stock market before the October 1987 collapse, dubbed as the Wall Street's Black Monday. In the 2000s, he also correctly predicted the rise in oil prices, precious metals and other commodities, as well as emerging markets growth, led by China. His most obvious failures are predicting a "100 percent chance" of a global economic recession in 2012 or 2013 that were followed by global growth. Last year, he predicted gold prices to skyrocket 30 percent in 2015. While they stumbled 14 percent last year, gold has gained 30 percent this year.

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15 Could this be the track that puts Khanyi Mbau's music career on the map? Titled, Shake, the single boasts an infectious and upbeat reggae sound, judging from the teaser of the song shared online. Here you are! A taste of my offering. Out this Friday #khanyimbaushake #MabalaNoise iTunes this Friday pic.twitter.com/aaBKhyvwwh — MBAU (@MbauReloaded) August 8, 2016 A slew of fans have since taken to Twitter to share their excitement and eagerness to have a listen at the full track, which, subsequently, landed on the trends list. It's not even out yet but the song is already a hit on twitter. #KhanyiMbauShake — V U Y O Z W A N E (@Mangethestud_SA) August 10, 2016 Shake comes in as Khanyi's second single this year, after Play Play Freestyle - which she dropped in April. Speaking to TMG Entertainment previously, she revealed that the freestyle was originally recorded during a “play play studio session” “I was in studio with Oskido’s son when the guys played a beat and I decided to‚ jokingly‚ jump onto it and freestyle. I was just playing around but they mixed it up a bit and played it whenever they performed and apparently the crowds loved it‚” she said.

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16 Siberian court orders company to compensate gay woman for job rejection — RT Russian politics The Russian LGBT Network NGO reported that the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Novosibirsk had satisfied the lawsuit filed by Anna Balash against the Sib-Alliance wood trading company. Balash claimed that she had twice applied for a sales manager position in the company, which specializes in wood products, but both times had been rejected because of her sexual orientation. The head of the company specified that this was the reason in the second letter of refusal, saying that the firm wanted the candidate to directly communicate with customers, and that as most of them adhered to “ traditional family values ,” a gay representative could have a negative influence on the company’s image and even profits. READ MORE: Russian police chase away anti-gay crusader from Labor Day pride march The court recognized the company’s decision as illegal and ordered Sib- Alliance to sign a contract with Balash and also to pay her 1,000 rubles (about $15) in compensation for moral damages. Balash’s defense lawyer said in press comments that the number of similar cases in Russia was relatively small, but it was important set a precedent for further court practices. She also said the defense team expected the company to file an appeal against the court decision, but added they were ready to take the process to the highest levels. In June 2013, Russia introduced a law ordering punishment for propagating homosexuality and other “non-traditional sexual relations” among minors, dubbed by the mass media as a “gay propaganda ban.” Critics of the law have blasted that line of reasoning, saying young people will not become gay by hearing about homosexuality. They further argue the law does not specify which activities constitute “propaganda of non- traditional sexual relations,” leaving the loose legal interpretation open to abuse. The law’s sponsors emphasized that it was not about punishing people for being homosexual, but rather intends to keep young people from being dragged into same-sex relationships. READ MORE: Moscow court upholds 100-year ban on gay pride events Public opinion polls conducted in 2013 showed that around 85 percent of adult Russians were strongly against legalizing same-sex marriage and 87 percent said they opposed the idea of holding regular gay pride events in their cities. Only about 5 percent of people supported same-sex marriage.

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17 CCMA intervenes in Eskom wage dispute “Eskom‚ National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)‚ National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and Solidarity have all accepted the CCMA offer to assist in the Eskom wage dispute‚” it said in a statement. “The CCMA offer of assistance was made in terms of section 150 of the Labour Relations Act. The director of the CCMA‚ Cameron Sello Morajane‚ confirmed that a senior commissioner has been appointed to facilitate the talks scheduled for Thursday‚ 11th August 2016.” On Tuesday‚ Eskom obtained a court order prohibiting unions from going on a protected strike. Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe told SABC News on Wednesday that the power utility was expecting everyone back at their posts today as the court order prohibits workers from picketing‚ marking or protesting. “Any sort of action that they are planning to is illegal and therefore law enforcement agencies will be ready to deal with the situation as it arrives.” This comes as a third of Eskom’s workforce were expected to down tools on Wednesday in a nationwide strike over wages — a move that may effect electricity output at the utility’s power plants. BDlive reported that all members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) at Eskom power stations across the country will go on strike‚ joining workers who went on strike at three power stations on Monday. David Sipunzi‚ general secretary of the union‚ said that while they were concerned about the effect the strike would have as Eskom is a strategic entity‚ those managing the company were not taking the union seriously. He said the NUM was in talks with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) over wage negotiations with the utility. Numsa is also involved in labour action elsewhere‚ and on Tuesday warned “bosses who represent garage employers” to come up with an offer or face strike action in the petroleum sector. Numsa said that it would be watching developments in Wednesday’s resumption of negotiations between the Chemical Energy Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) and employers. Numsa members in petrol filing stations across the country “have been having protracted negotiations with employers in the Motor Bargaining Council and being frustrated by employers who are refusing to make an offer that must settle this round of negotiations”‚ Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim said. “We have mediation resuming tomorrow‚” Jim said. “If the bosses who represent garage employers fail to make an offer‚ Numsa will embark on a strike action in pursuit of our members’ demands and in full support of fuel refineries; so workers must remain strong and united‚ because united we stand divided we fall.”

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18 Nandi Mngoma officially goes under Zakes' surname Following up on its pledge to bring serious performance to all customers across as many vehicle ranges and price points as possible, Ford has given its compact crossover the ST treatment.

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19 Pitso Mosimane cools Mamelodi Sundowns interest in Steven Pienaar Mosimane said he had hoped to get the former Everton player to move to Chloorkop until he heard that the 34-year-old was on trial at English club Sunderland. Pienaar has been a free agent since he was released by Everton in June and he is now trying to convince Sunderland manager David Moyes to sign him. ‘‘It was always about what he wanted to do next before we jumped the gun (and tried to sign him) because now we hear he is in Sunderland. Do you want to compete (with that kind of money)? Obviously not‚” Mosimane said. ‘‘If he is there (in Sunderland) it means he still wants to play one more year in Europe. So really‚ I understand why he always said in interviews that he wanted to make up his mind (before committing himself to his next destination). He didn't want to answer quickly and put himself in a difficult position. Probably he knew there was a chance to go back (to Europe).” Pienaar and Moyes have a relationship that dates back to their years together at Everton and the South African is reportedly close to signing a deal at Sunderland. Mosimane said Pienaar’s next career move will not be motivated by money as he has made enough in the 15 years he spent in Europe playing for Everton‚ Tottenham Hotspur‚ Borussia Dortmund and Ajax Amsterdam. ‘‘Pienaar does not have to play football. He’s a good boy and he has looked after his finances. I know that very well because I know him very well. He doesn't have to play football unless it is for fun.” Mosimane also shed light on the availability another free agent‚ May Mahlangu‚ who is reportedly twiddling his thumbs in Johannesburg at the moment. Times Media Digital reported last week that the 27-year-old Mahlangu is sitting in limbo after turning down a move to Germany. He has been without a club since his short-term contract at Belgium club St Truiden came to an end in May. But he turned down an offer from lower tier German side Dynamo Dresden‚ a decision that seemingly did not impress his agent Rob Moore. Few clubs would be able to afford him in SA but Mosimane said Sundowns‚ who would be among those who could‚ said the days of rushing to sign players were over. ‘‘I like May and he’s a good boy‚ a good player. He was with me at Bafana Bafana (when Mosimane was national team coach) but I have not seen him play in a long time. ‘‘But there is footage in Belgium and most of the games there are televised. If you want footage of the Belgian league you will be able to get it. ‘‘But first there must be interest. Why must I go to the trouble of getting footage when I don’t know if he wants to come to us or not. And also can I afford him? All those things play a role. "Also where is he going to play? Are we not duplicating in that position? But he’s a good player.” - TMG Digital

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20 Sexual harassment rife in British workplace, but women too scared to speak up — RT UK A quarter said they had been touched inappropriately and one in eight said someone had tried to kiss them. The survey of 1,500 women also found that a third complained about unwelcome jokes, and 25 percent said they had been on the receiving end of sex- related comments about their bodies or clothes. The research was carried out by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in conjunction with the Everyday Sexism Project, founded by Laura Bates. In nine out of 10 incidents, the perpetrator was male, with 17 percent of respondents saying their line manager or someone with direct authority over them was to blame. Most women (79 percent) who said they had experienced sexual harassment did not tell their employer for reasons that included fear of damaging their work relationships (28 percent) or career prospects (15 percent). Nearly a quarter (24 percent) said they did not report the abuse because they felt it would not be believed or taken seriously, and a fifth said they were too embarrassed. Young women reported higher rates of harassment, with nearly two thirds (63 percent) of the 138 women surveyed who were aged between 18 and 24 saying they had been sexually harassed. TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said sexual harassment is “undermining, humiliating and can have a huge effect on mental health .” “ Victims are often left feeling ashamed and frightened and it has no place in a modern workplace or in wider society ,” she said. “ Employers must be clear they have a zero tolerance attitude to sexual harassment and treat any complaint seriously . “ It’s a scandal that so few women feel their bosses are dealing with the issue properly .” Bates of Everyday Sexism said employers need to take “ urgent action ” to tackle the problem. “ Many people would like to think that workplace sexual harassment is a thing of the past. In reality, it is alive and well and having a huge impact on tens of thousands of women’s lives. “ These findings reveal the shameful extent of the problem and the reality of the touching, unwanted advances and inappropriate comments women find themselves confronted with while simply trying to do their jobs ,” she said.

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21 Fresh clashes erupt in South Sudan The new fighting broke out between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and supporters of former vice- president Riek Machar near the town of Yei, more than 150 kilometres (93 miles) southwest of the capital Juba. It began two days ago in Mugwo, south of Yei on the Kaya Highway, a key road link for supplies en route to Uganda, a local official said. "There is insecurity on the road," Stephen Ladu, information minister for Yei River state, told AFP. "Clashes started this morning in Kimba," southwest of Yei along a road leading to the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added. The Kaya Highway is one of the main routes linking Juba to the outside world. The other key route, which leaves Juba to the south leading to Uganda, is also not entirely safe, according to refugees and drivers who have taken it recently. Several days of fighting in Juba in early July killed at least 300 people, prompted over 60,000 to flee as refugees and threatened a fragile peace deal. The accord was signed in August last year to end a civil war which started in December 2013 and had already killed tens of thousands and displaced some 2.5 million. In recent weeks, after the deadly fighting in Juba, other clashes were reported between government forces and former rebels not far from the capital and in the northern town of Leer, although details have been scarce because of the security situation. Former rebel chief Machar fled Juba after last month's clashes there, and President Kiir named as his successor the minister for mines Taban Deng. Last Friday the East African bloc IGAD announced that South Sudan's government had unexpectedly accepted the principle of a regional intervention force to support some 12,000 UN peacekeepers already in the country. Discussions are under way with Juba on the mandate of the new force, the deployment of which must be approved by the UN Security Council in a vote expected before the end of next week.

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22 10 arrested on suspicion of match-fixing in Wales — RT Sport South Wales Police made the arrests following investigations on suspicious betting patterns on a game between Port Talbot Town and Rhyl on April 9. Port Talbot lost the match 5- 0 to already-relegated Rhyl – who had not won in their previous 17 games. Football Association of Wales chief executive Jonathan Ford said: "These arrests are as result of a thorough process of evidence gathering and close co-operation between the FAW [Football Association of Wales], South Wales Police and the Gambling Commission,” reports walesonline.co.uk . "The FAW remains committed to our Integrity Education Programme which began in 2014, as well as the monitoring and reporting systems we have in place which have contributed to these arrests. "The FAW will not bring any sporting sanctions against any individuals while the police investigation is ongoing. " Richard Watson, Gambling Commission program director, added: "The Gambling Commission Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU) provided information to South Wales Police concerning betting patterns seen on a Welsh Premier League fixture between Rhyl and Port Talbot Town. "The SBIU will continue to support all sports governing bodies, law enforcement agencies, betting operators and other regulators in a collaborative effort to address issues of betting integrity. " South Wales Police said seven men and three women from Port Talbot, Swansea and Neath had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and were all currently in custody. The arrests are the latest betting-related incident to hit the British game. Norwich City striker Kyle Lafferty was recently fined £23,000 ($30,000) and warned over his future conduct after being found guilty of breaking Football Association rules by betting on a match in February. Norwich did not have a game on the date in question, which featured a handful of FA Cup fifth-round games along with Football League fixtures.

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23 New German security law to target medical confidentiality, dual citizenship — RT News German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has put together proposals from several political parties to create an updated catalogue of counterterrorism measures and legislation aimed at curbing domestic extremism that will be presented on Thursday, Bild reports. As Interior Minister De Maizière reportedly wants to deal with foreign troublemakers and offenders in an effective manner, deporting undesired migrants will become a quick and unhindered procedure, and asylum applications will be considered much more quickly as well. The new laws will also change some long-standing policies, such as respecting doctor-patient confidentiality. In fact, under the new legislation, health professionals will be obliged to report on their patients if they suspect them of having committed a crime or think they might be planning one. The Interior Minister reportedly plans to make his EU colleagues sign a Berlin Declaration on security, that is believed to include a ban on financing of mosques by extremist organizations, the abolition of dual citizenship, and a ban on full-face veils that are widely worn in some Muslim countries. A further ramping up of internal security is planned to be discussed at a ministerial meeting on August 18. According to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger media outlet quoting leading coalition parties, the package to be presented by de Maizière is likely to be adopted during this term, as it does not require the Bundesrat’s consent. The Union (the coalition of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union in Bavaria) wants to beef up internal security by adding 15,000 new police officers on both the local and federal levels from 2015 to 2020, who should be armed with rifles and wear body cameras. In addition, more CCTV cameras will be installed in public places and transport hubs, the Union said in a statement. “Given the assassination of Würzburg, we need more presence of federal police in trains, train stations, and airports,” the statement reads, pointing out at the dangers presented by internet crimes and illicit activities in the Darknet. It has been proposed that “ non-German hate preachers” be expelled from the country immediately and that the German citizenship of citizens who have joined terrorist organizations to fight abroad be revoked if they have a passport from any other country. In addition, the Union Home Secretary is demanding the creation of a Cyber Defense Centre at the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), justifying data retention by arguing that sometimes 14-year-old suspects need to be investigated. According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ministers representing the Union in the German government also would like the law permitting dual citizenship to be rescinded, citing it as “a major obstacle to integration” for newcomers. The debate surrounding dual citizenship flared up with renewed force following a mass rally in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Cologne, which prompted the Union to suggest that those who want to get involved in the politics of foreign governments should leave Germany.

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24 Few public servants enjoy the level of respect Madonsela does: Corruption Watch On Wednesday - a day ahead of the marathon session that will see all 14 shortlisted Public Protector candidates interviewed in just over 16 hours - Corruption Watch released the results of a persona survey. “Arguably the most important‚ though perhaps least surprising‚ result of the survey evidences the esteem accorded the present incumbent‚” said Corruption Watch executive director David Lewis. “Fully 87% of the respondents’ rate advocate Madonsela’s performance as excellent. Few‚ if any‚ public servants or institutions enjoy this level of respect.” Corruption Watch said the persona survey - conducted with staff in Madonsela’s office‚ members of Parliament and the general public - “will assist Parliament’s ad hoc committee‚ as well as candidates in their understanding of the roles and responsibilities which they could assume”. “It will also serve as notice to the next public protector‚ that his or her performance will come under the close and active scrutiny of the South African people.” That Madonsela raised the profile of the Office of the Public Protector is evident in the 44% of people who responded that they hadn’t heard of it until after she was appointed in 2009. The popularity of Madonsela – whose non-renewable seven-year tenure ends in October – was highlighted on Tuesday‚ with many taking to social media to dedicate their Women’s Day wishes to her. Mzu@bucleod was one of them: “@ThuliMadonsela3 One Special Lady‚ wish you a blessed‚ peaceful & a Happy Women's Day. We indebted to you for what contribution to Mzansi”. The full persona survey can be viewed here.

2016-08-10 18:01 TMG Digital www.timeslive.co.za

25 ‘Radicalization test’ ridicule: Anti-terrorism proposal by French official sparks Twitter barrage — RT News Geoffroy Didier, vice president of the council of the Paris region and member of the Republican party, first announced the suggestion on France 1, before using his Facebook page to expand on the idea. “I offer to detect radicalization of young people as early as possible to stop this process, and to be able to protect the teenager, the family and society. In particular, I suggest creating a ‘radicalization test’ for any youth enrolled in a college or high school whose behavior has been identified as a concern by the educational community.” The test would be in the form of an interview between the student and a psychologist to estimate the ‘radicalization risk’, and would include questions “to confirm or contradict the existence of an Islamic radicalization process,” Didier added in his Facebook message. The questions could include the following: “Do you refuse sports activities on the pretext that they are mixed?” “How would you describe the recent attacks in France?” “What do you think of jihad?” and “Have you ever viewed videos or websites calling for Jihad? " Should the test prove ‘positive’, the teenager’s parents “will be informed, and psychological as well as educational support will be implemented immediately, to halt the radicalization process.” Didier said the student will then have to be tested to assess the progress of the ‘de-radicalization’. If the process doesn’t go as planned, the school will have to inform law enforcement authorities. After the French official’s comments emerged online, hundreds of users took to Twitter, mainly to express their outrage over the suggestion, and mostly with a liberal sprinkling of humor. “Do you regard your classmates as ‘unfaithful dogs’? [Answers]: A lot / Average / Not really,” one user joked about the possible questions for the test. “I’m eating merguez [a North African sausage dish] and going to Hammam this afternoon. Should I take the radicalization test?” another user said. “Those who take couscous at the canteen will automatically be flagged under the ‘file S’ [dangerous for national security],” a user posted. Some users even came up with their own questions for the test, complete with answer options. “When you can’t fall asleep, you like: a) counting sheep b) to strangle sheep.” "When you need to get somewhere 2 kilometers away, you: a) walk there b) go by bike c) rent a 19-ton truck. " Many wondered if ‘Islamization’ could be found by taking a blood or urine test, too. Others posted the ‘test-related’ pictures. “Geoffroy Didier proposes a radicalization test. The first question: which photo do you prefer?” “Jihad: do you find it cool?” Didier’s suggestion comes about two weeks after an attack on a church in northern France in which two attackers slit an 86-year-old priest’s throat, also taking people hostage during a mass. Both turned out to be French citizens, with one of them raised in the town of Sainte-Etienne-du-Rouvray, where the attack happened, and the other having grown up just outside the town.

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26 Police arrest man threatening to blow himself up at Danish asylum center — RT News “The person is on the asylum centre’s roof. Police and emergency workers are on location and the residents of the centre are being evacuated,” police wrote in a press release. According to Fyens.dk, the 22-year-old Iranian national was holding something in his hand and seemed to be talking to another man, who was wearing a helmet and standing on a flat roof a few meters away. Police have confirmed the man's identity, but have not released his name. Authorities say he lived at a different asylum center in Faaborg. Officers cordoned off a several hundred meter-long stretch of the road, Fyens.dk reported, adding that a fire brigade was also at the scene. A flight ban was issued above the asylum center, which applied to all aircraft and drones. It has since been lifted. The incident took place at Asylcentre Nyborg, an asylum center with a capacity of 500 occupants. Denmark registered 21,000 asylum applications in 2015, making it one of the main EU destinations for refugees per capita, after Finland, Austria, Germany, and Sweden.

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27 SA suffers injury blow to Mathoho‚ Mothiba ahead of final group Olympic match The grandson of the late former president Nelson Mandela was among five people shot by Eastern Cape police in violent protests that have broken out in the past few days near the statesman’s home in Qunu.

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28 28 Jailed Russian pilot pledges to sue ‘US torture justice’ in international courts — RT Russian politics “ The issue cannot be solved by diplomacy alone, we need harsh measures; we need to file lawsuits in Strasbourg and Geneva. There are a lot of structures that could make Barack Obama stop this ,” Lyubov Yaroshenko, the mother of the Russian pilot, told reporters. “ There is a Council of Europe convention on prisoner handover, but the United States does not recognize this convention. But they will have to exchange him for someone ,” she added. Konstantin Yaroshenko himself said in a video message played to reporters that there were at least three fundamental laws signed by the United States that could allow for his transfer to Russia. These were the Vienna Convention, the International Covenant on Civil Rights, and the United Nations Convention against Torture. “ It is useless to try to take to court with this criminal system that has tortured me. I am a small pawn in a big game, a small link in a huge chain. There is no democracy or human rights in the totalitarian regime of the United States, all it has is propaganda ,” Yaroshenko said in his address. READ MORE: Jailed Russian pilot Yaroshenko ‘abandons faith’ in US justice Russia’s Foreign Ministry said earlier that it had proposed an exchange that would see Konstantin Yaroshenko swapped for US citizens serving sentences in Russia. Yaroshenko was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States in 2011 for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to smuggle drugs into the country. The charges were based on the testimony of US agents who had launched a sting operation against him. He was arrested in Liberia and flown to the US without any official extradition procedure, despite protests from Russia and violations of the diplomatic code. The pilot himself has always maintained his innocence, and insisted from the very beginning that his case was not about drug trafficking. He says his poor command of English prevented him from understanding the nature of the propositions made to him by undercover DEA agents. Yaroshenko’s defense team has repeatedly stated that the whole scheme was organized by US special services in an attempt to extract evidence from the pilot that could be used against Viktor Bout, another Russian citizen who was also illegally extradited to the US and sentenced after a DEA sting operation. In May of this year, Yaroshenko said in an interview with the Russian press that he would no longer appeal to American courts, as he considers them biased and politicized and does not expect justice. READ MORE: ‘There is no justice here’ – Russian pilot jailed in US tells of kidnap, torture & lies Russia launched a criminal case against 11 US agents and four Liberian police officers in 2015 over suspicions that they had taken part in the sting operation that ended in Yaroshenko’s detention. The suspects were charged in absentia with kidnapping, threats of violence, and forcing a person to testify in a criminal trial by using intimidation or torture – crimes that are punishable by up to 12 years imprisonment in Russia.

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29 Nadia Nakai gets snubbed on ANOTHER all- female remix The track, which dropped on Women's Day, features some of the biggest female emcees in the country, including Fifi Cooper, Ms Cosmo, Rouge and Gigi Lamayne. And while it reads like the who's who of the current and future local female rap game, fans have noticed that popular female emcee Nadia Nakai did not make the list. Nadia, of course, made headlines late last year when she was snubbed from the all-female remix of AKA's Baddest. She responded to that snub by releasing her own remix of the track, taking shots at the industry and venting her frustration at not being featured on the song. She soon after signed to Cassper Nyovest's Family Tree record label and in an interview with Slikour lashed out angrily at AKA and the ladies featured on his track for the exclusion. Talking about the snub, Nadia said that she was no longer friends with any of the women featured on the track. "Now it's like 'Nadia. OMG. We all Kumbaya.' Not now. None of them are my friends. None of them," Nadia said. Speaking to TMG Entertainment on Wednesday, DJ Switch refused to comment on Nadia's exclusion, referring us to Nadia's management. When contacted, the rapper's management suggested that they had been keen on the collaboration but refused to comment any further on the matter.

2016-08-10 18:01 TMG Entertainment www.timeslive.co.za

30 Hope Zinde murder case postponed again as psychiatric report still not completed Zinde is now expected at the Brits Regional Court on September 12‚ journalists learned on Wednesday morning. He did not arrive at court as scheduled. A court official said Zinde‚ 23‚ was still undergoing psychiatric evaluation at the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Tshwane. A report on his mental state still needs to be completed and submitted to court. This report would inform the court whether or not he is fit to stand trial. A bail application would be heard before the trial begins. This is the third time Magistrate Lourens Mattiah has had to postpone the case for the same reason. He first set it down on June 18‚ following a submission by Zinde's lawyer‚ Mogorosi Molusi‚ to have him admitted at Weskoppies. The Zinde family supported his admission‚ and he has been at the institution since then. Mattiah postponed the case again on July 18‚ as Zinde was still undergoing mental evaluation. Hope Zinde‚ who was 50 years old‚ was laid to rest in Pretoria East two months ago. She was found dead in the boot of her car at the Pecanwood Estate‚ near Hartbeespoort Dam. Warona‚ a student at a Pretoria college‚ was arrested upon the discovery of her body. Police charged him with one count of murder and another of possession of illegal drugs. Hope started off as a broadcast journalist at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 1991. A broadcaster at the SABC until 2006‚ Parliament appointed her to the board in 2013. Communications Minister Faith Muthambi fired her along with colleagues Rachel Kalidass and Ronnie Lubisi for allegedly not supporting the controversial Hlaudi Motsoeneng's appointment as chief operations officer.

2016-08-10 18:01 Bongani Nkosi www.timeslive.co.za

31 Medvedev calls for cheaper loans to Russian farmers — RT Business On Wednesday, he met with farmers from Russia's southern Krasnodar region. They said they currently take out loans with 14 percent annual interest, but with government subsidies the rate is six percent. “Six is OK, but it’s better the rate was cut to five percent,” Medvedev said. He also backed the idea of giving out unused land to farmers without red tape. "Speaking about the possibility of giving out unused land to farmers without a bid process, I believe that it would be a good idea," said the prime minister. According to Medvedev, legislation changes have made things easier, but not to the extent the government would like. He added that the government should continue to subsidize farmers. "The most important thing now is not to slow down. That is why the program will continue in full,” he said. After oil prices fell from $114 per barrel two years ago to around $45 currently, Russia has been trying to diversify its economy, which is heavily dependent on energy exports. The country has become the world’s biggest wheat exporter, overtaking the US and Canada. According to Agriculture Minister Aleksandr Tkachev, the country wants to sell 25 million tons of wheat abroad this year. READ MORE: Russia dominates global wheat market In 2015, Russia harvested 13.2 million tons of corn, 1.1 million tons of rice, 2.7 million tons of soybeans and 900,000 tons of buckwheat, the minister said. Last year’s grain harvest was about 104.8 million tons.

2016-08-10 18:01 www.rt.com

32 PBA: Ginebra extends streak to 3, trumps Blackwater Barangay Ginebra San Miguel rolled to its third straight win after a 107-95 win over Blackwater in the 2016 PBA Governors’ Cup Wednesday night at Smart Araneta Coliseum. Import Justin Brownlee and LA Tenorio combined for 50 points for the Kings, who upped their mark to 4-1. “This was a really danger game for us coming from a long break and most of our guys in the All-Star stuff,” said Ginebra head coach Tim Cone. “The rest of the guys worked really hard. Justin really worked hard in the break to get into better shape,” Cone added. “But all day today I was worried about this game. Really worried. Worried about Dawson, worried about Lastimosa.” Japeth Aguilar added a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds for Ginebra, which pulled away early in the fourth quarter. Back-to-back triples by Brownlee and Tenorio put the game out of reach, 103-87, with 3:10 left. Eric Dawson and Carlo Lastimosa led the Elite, who slid to 1-3, with 26 and 21 points, respectively. Dawson also ripped down 18 rebounds and had seven assists.

2016-08-10 18:01 Mark Giongco sports.inquirer.net

33 Ex-DOJ chief’s resolutions, rulings put on hold Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the deferment of implementation and execution of resolutions on motions for reconsiderations issued from May 1 to June 30, 2016 following allegations of “midnight resolution” against former Justice Secretary Emmanuel Caparas. The order was contained in Department Order 524 dated Aug. 3, 2016 addressed to the Prosecutor General, all senior deputy state prosecutors, senior assistant state prosecutors, assistant state prosecutors, prosecution attorneys and all regional, provincial, city prosecutors and their deputies, senior assistants and assistant prosecutors. “In the interest of public service and pursuant to the provisions of existing laws [the said prosecutors] are hereby directed to defer the implementation and/or execution of all resolutions issued by then Secretary of Justice Emmanuel L. Caparas from May 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016 with respect to motions for reconsiderations of resolutions issued on petitions for review pursuant to Section 13 of Department Circular No. 70 (2000 National Prosecution Service Rule on Appeal), if a motion for reconsideration has been filed by the party or parties aggrieved by paid resolutions issued by Secretary Caparas,” stated Aguirre’s DO, a copy of which was obtained by INQUIRER.net. Aside from deferring its implementation, Aguirre also ordered prosecutors to file a motion to suspend proceedings in court if any of Caparas’ resolution has been filed in court. “The OSEC Docket Section is hereby directed to immediately turn-over all case records with motions for reconsideration filed by the party or parties aggrieved by the resolutions issued by Caparas to the Office of the Secretary,” the DO further stated. The order was issued following allegations raised by anti-corruption watchdog, Filipino Alliance for Transparency and Empowerment (FATE), about the alleged “midnight of resolutions and decisions” by Caparas. The group said they received information that Caparas allegedly instructed his subordinates – undersecretaries and state prosecutors – to stop issuing resolutions by June 3. FATE spokesperson Jo Perez said the “re-written rulings” were being “antedated” and being sold for “millions of pesos” to parties in the case, adding that the resolutions are being sold from P5 million to P10 million and P20 million for big cases. Caparas has already denied the allegations, saying he has done his work professionally in pursuance of the mandate of the Justice department. “If this group wishes to put substance in their allegation, please let’s be fair about it. Ako, I’m a very fair person humaharap ako sa tao kung gusto nilang makipag-usap. Ngayon, may sinasabing hindi maganda humarap kayo, humarap kayo sa akin. Show me what you are talking about,” Caparas said. In earlier statement, he said he would welcome an investigation.

2016-08-10 18:01 Tetch Torres newsinfo.inquirer.net

34 V-League: TIP clobbers Perpetual to bolster bid for 2nd round Technological Institute of the Philippines went for another upset and dismantled University of Perpetual Help, 25-16, 25-15, 25-13, in the Shakey’s V-League Collegiate Conference Wednesday at Philsports Arena. The Lady Engineers now hold a 2-1 card good for third place in Group A, while the Lady Altas fell to 0-2. Lady Engineers head coach Achilles Paril knew his team had the killer instinct, which they used against Ateneo in the opening game, and he saw it against the Lady Altas. “Killer instinct? Yeah, actually ganun naman sila pag mahina kalaban,” joked Paril. TIP showed its character scoring on 21 aces, the same number as Perpetual’s scoring spikes. Guest player Mylene Paat led TIP with 13 points while Alyssa Layug added 10. Lourdes Clemente led Perpetual with 12 points.

2016-08-10 18:01 Bong Lozada sports.inquirer.net

35 Ill-fated Mahad bridge was to be dismantled in December: Government

Maharashtra government on Wednesday said the ill-fated British era bridge on Savitri river at Mahad, which collapsed claiming over 20 lives, was supposed to be dismantled last December. So far, 26 bodies have been recovered while nearly 14 are still missing and feared dead after two State Transport buses and some other vehicles fell in the river following the bridge collapse on Mumbai-Goa highway on August 2. The bridge over the Savitri river had been crumbling for quite a few years and had been held up by crash barriers. Pic/ Pradeep Dhivar "This particular bridge was to be brought down last December but on public demand, it was kept in operation," Maharashtra PWD minister Chandrakant Patil told reporters here at Mantralaya. The bridge on the Mumbai-Goa highway comes under the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Union Minister for Surface Transport, Nitin Gadkari soon after the Mahad tragedy had announced that NHAI would reconstruct the bridge within 18 months. Replying to other queries, Patil said there are about 2,300 bridges in the state out of which 100 odd are from the British and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj era. "All these bridges will be inspected twice every year. A three- member committee of experts from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has commenced its study on the bridge. Its report is expected to be received by next cabinet meeting due on August 23," he said, adding that the process of constituting a judicial inquiry has been set in motion. "A workshop will be conducted for the PWD engineers for methodology to be used for inspection of the bridges," Patil said, adding the workshop will dwell on what to do with trees that grow on the bridge structure weakening it later. He said pulling out trees does not solve the issue. Patil said it will have to be decided on whether to repair or reconstruct dilapidated bridges. "A bridge division will be created in each administrative division of the state to take care of the bridges," he said. He informed that the state cabinet has relaxed the norm of seven years waiting period for granting compensation to kith and kin of the deceased in such accidents. The kin of the deceased will now get compensation within two months, he said.

2016-08-10 18:01 By PTI www.mid-day.com

36 Kudankulam n-plant dedicated to nation Chennai : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday dedicated to the nation the first 1,000 MW unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP). The event took place via video conferencing with Modi in New Delhi, Putin in Moscow and Jayalalithaa in Chennai. The KNPP is located in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu, around 650 km from here.

2016-08-10 18:01 By IANS www.mid-day.com

37 Money, 'murder', mystery: The Pratyusha Banerjee case so far Even since TV actress Pratyusha Banerjee allegedly hanged herself to death at her Mumbai apartment on April 1, numerous theories and allegations surrounding her demise have come to the fore. A look back at some shocking developments in the case. The last call: In Pratyusha Banerjee’s last frantic phone call to her boyfriend, Rahul Raj Singh, she accused him of cheating on her and separating her from her parents, revealed the prosecutor to the Bombay High Court on April 25. (Full Story) ‘Murder’ for insurance? Rahul Singh’s father has claimed the only reason Pratyusha’s parents were alleging she was murdered is because they want to claim her Rs 1-crore insurance money. (Full Story) Pregnant Pratyusha? Medical investigations into the case of popular television actress Pratyusha Banerjee, who allegedly committed suicide, have indicated that she may have been pregnant before death. (Full Story) ‘I still feel Pratyusha is alive’: Rahul Raj Singh, who was booked for abetment of suicide of Pratyusha, told police that he is unable to believe that she is dead. (Full Story) Murder she wrote: Pratyusha Banerjee's mother, Shoma, has written to Maharashtra CM, alleging that the 25-year-old did not commit suicide but was murdered by her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh. (Full Story) Money-minded? Adding another twist to the case, a former domestic help of the actress, alleged that Pratyusha's mother and Rahul fought with her frequently to gain control of her finances. (Full Story) The ex-factor: Rahul Raj Singh's former girlfriend Saloni Sharma told cops that Rahul had cheated her and her father of Rs 25 lakh, on the pretext of starting an event management company (Full Story) Like star, life fan: A fan from Chhattisgarh took her own life because she was depressed by the sudden death of her favourite star. (Full Story) Pratyusha tortured? According to cops, they had found old injury marks on Pratyusha Banerjee’s body, which might indicate that she was tortured by Rahul, ultimately pushing her to commit suicide. (Full Story) Laywer and liar: A day after he was booked for allegedly abetting his girlfriend Pratyusha Banerjee’s suicide, Rahul’s advocate Neeraj Gupta withdrew from the case, making a shocking claim. (Full Story) Rahul Raj Singh's dubious past: Not only is he now being investigated for allegedly abetting Pratyusha’s suicide and trying to take control of her money, but four other women have come forward with their own stories of how he charmed them into parting with lakhs. (Full Story) Rakhi Sawant’s bizarre comment: A few days after Pratyusha’s death, Rakhi held a press conference in Mumbai, where she announced, "I want Prime Minster Narendra Modi to ban all ceiling fans and request people to use table fans and air-conditioning units as most people, who commit suicide, end up hanging themselves from fans.” (Full Story) Messy end to TV star's life: Stench and clutter assailed cops as they entered Pratyusha Banerjee’s Mumbai apartment a few days after she committed suicide there. (Full Story) ‘Rahul is a cheater’: Pratyusha was unhappy in her personal life, but wanted to marry and have a family of her own, her friends and colleagues from the industry said. (Full Story) Was Pratyusha exploring legal options against boyfriend? The TV actress was supposedly considering filing a case against Rahul and had met her lawyer on the day of her death. (Full Story)

2016-08-10 18:01 By mid www.mid-day.com

38 Duterte: Sereno ‘misunderstood’ my statement after baring drug list President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes-Sereno misunderstood his statement after he publicly named “narcopoliticians,” which include seven judges allegedly linked to illegal drugs. “Di nakuha ni Sereno gusto ko sabihin (Sereno misunderstood what I said),” Duterte said in a speech at the 1st Infantry Division in Zamboanga del Sur. The President was referring to the statement of Sereno who cautioned judges not to surrender to police without warrants of arrest. READ: Sereno to judges: Don’t surrender to cops sans arrest warrant Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the Chief Justice “misunderstood” Duterte’s statement. “I think CJ Sereno has misconstrued the statement as well as the announcement of President Duterte when he mentioned the list in public,” Panelo told reporters in an interview. “I think there has been a misappreciation of the crisis as well as she misunderstood the statement of the President. The President was not ordering the arrests, or even requiring the surrender of these people involved or appears to have been involved because what he said was for them to report,” he added. In a speech on Tuesday in Cagayan de Oro, Duterte warned Sereno to get out of his way in his war against illegal drugs. READ: Duterte warns Sereno: Get out of my way or it’s martial law “Would you rather that I declare martial law?” the President said. Panelo said Sereno was “misappreciated” the extent of the drug problem in the country. “I think also that the CJ misapreciated the magnitude of the drug problem that has risen to a crisis,” he said. “The eminence of the danger is so apparent that the President has to move and act swiftly and out of the box,” he added. The chief legal counsel said Duterte “can declare martial law when the public safety requires it.” But he added, “I don’t think the President will do that. He is reminding everyone of what the Constitution says.” RAM RELATED VIDEOS

2016-08-10 18:01 Nestor Corrales newsinfo.inquirer.net

39 Pinoy construction worker in Saudi wins P112M lotto jackpot MANILA — Now, he can finally quit and come back home for good. After working as a construction worker in Saudi Arabia for 10 years, a consistent lotto bettor won the jackpot prize in the Lotto 6/42 draw last August 4. The 33-year-old lone winner, won the P111,998,556.00, after betting for nine straight years, mostly through the help of his wife when he was overseas. His standard winning numbers 33-35-13-27-05-12 since 2007 were the combination of his wife’s birthdates, ages and anniversary dates. Last August 4, however, the worker, on leave from his work in Sauidi Arabia, personally placed a P20 bet at a lotto ticket booth in Cavite, while he was on vacation, and won. Claiming his prize at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in Mandaluyong City on Monday , the lucky winner said he has decided to quit his work in Saudi Arabia and open a business here in the Philippines to focus on his wife and son. He vowed to set aside money as savings for his child’s future. “It was really hard working as an overseas Filipino worker, especially as a contractual worker in a construction firm,” he told Rojas. He was still deciding on what kind of business to put up, said PCSO Vice chair and General Manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II. “But it looks like, he will never go back abroad,” he added. Lotto’s previous jackpot winner of P194.6M was a retiree from Novaliches, Quezon City. SFM

2016-08-10 18:01 Jodee A newsinfo.inquirer.net

40 ‘Kill Russians and Iranians, threaten Assad,’ says ex-CIA chief backing Clinton — RT America The top CIA official, who twice served as the acting director of the agency, and worked with Clinton while she was secretary of state, told PBS host Charlie Rose that Iran and Russia should “pay a big price” in Syria – and by that he meant killing them. “When we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia who were killing American soldiers,” Morell said. “The Iranians were making us pay a price.” “We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria, we need to make the Russians pay a price,” he continued. When asked if that meant killing Russians and Iranians, Morell fully agreed, qualifying the answer with “covertly.” “Tell the world about it, right?” he went on. “You don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say ‘we did this,’ but you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.” Referring to the US-backed rebels in Syria, Morell said he wanted Washington to support them in more aggressive actions, not only against Bashar Assad’s government, but against Iranians and Russians. READ MORE: Russia poses ‘existential threat’ to US national security, Air Force secretary says Morrell then went on a diatribe about how the US should “scare” Assad, including going after his national guard and “bombing his offices in the middle of the night.” “I’m not advocating assassinating him, I’m advocating going after what he thinks is his power base and what he needs to survive. I want to put pressure on him, I want to put pressure on the Iranians, I want to put pressure on the Russians to come to that diplomatic settlement.” READ MORE: ‘Didn’t know they watch Fox in Russia’: Defiant ‘kill Russians’ US ex-general insists he told ‘truth’ The former acting director of the CIA publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton last week through an opinion piece in the New York Times, praising her qualifications as commander-in-chief and calling her rival Donald Trump a threat to national security. After he retired from the CIA in August 2013, Morrell took a job at Beacon Global Strategies, a Washington, DC consultancy founded by Clinton aides Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro. There he worked with Leon Panetta, another Clinton aide and his predecessor at the helm of the CIA, who also spoke in support of Clinton at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia last month. READ MORE: Lesser of two evils? The Democrat's dark history of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki 'war crimes' Last year, Morrell apologized to “every American” and finally owned up to the “mistakes” made by the CIA in Iraq, where over 4,000 US soldiers and at least 250,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the 2003 US invasion.

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41 Indian survivor of Emirates crash wins $1M in lottery Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar is thanking his lucky stars after surviving a tragic accident last week, but he never knew he’d strike gold twice. The Indian national was among the survivors of the Emirates flight EK521, which crash-landed in Dubai National Airport. READ: Emirates airliner with 300 onboard crash lands in Dubai Just six days after he faced a threat to his life, his ticket number 0845 was drawn in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium lottery—netting him a total of $1 million (P46.6 million). The 62-year-old grandfather of two, who was on his way to a vacation with his family in Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, made it a habit to buy a raffle ticket whenever he traveled, Gulf News reported. Khadar became a millionaire after his 17th ticket purchase, as he was due to retire as fleet administrator with a car dealer group in Dubai in December. “I have been working in Dubai for 37 years, and I have always felt like this is my country,” the Dubai expatriate was quoted as saying in the report. “I live a simple life, and now that it’s my time to retire, I feel like God gave me a second life when I survived the plane crash, and blessed me with this money to follow all this up by doing good things,” he added. Khadar also described his escape along with other passengers from the Emirates plane as a “miracle”. “I value the escape as a more precious gift from God and I knew God saved me for some specific purpose. Probably this is it,” he told Gulf News. READ: Hero firefighter dies saving passengers in Emirates plane crash Living in Dubai since 1978, the instant millionaire said he plans to return to India after his retirement and find a job that involves helping people in need. “If you ask me about my plans, I obviously want to help the children in Kerala who are less fortunate than others and need some financial help and medical support,” he said. “I don’t want to give it to a charity or build a business, I want to go out and find people who really need help and give them money. I was poor, and I know what people go through,” Khandar added. Khristian Ibarrola

2016-08-10 18:01 newsinfo.inquirer.net

42 Maharashtra FM directs MHADA to develop water front in Irai river Maharashtra Finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Wednesday said Maharashtra Housing And Area Development Authority should develop a water front on the banks of Irai river flowing through the North and South border of Chandrapur district. He also directed the Water Resources department to carry out a process to deepen the river and construct trenches in it. Mungantiwar was speaking at a meeting organised at Vidhan Bhavan regarding the development plan of Irai river. It was attended by MLA Nanabhau Shamkule, Principal Secretary to Urban Development Department Manisha Mhaiskar, District Collector Chandrapur Ashutosh Salil, Commissioner of Chandrapur Corporation Sanjay Kakade and other dignitaries. "Under Irai river revitalisation programme, many tasks are proposed that includes removing slurry from the river, removing the soil of over burden of the mines, remedies to prevent the ash from Chandrapur thermal electricity generation plant from entering the river via the nullahs in the watershed areas," Mungantiwar said. "It also includes construction of cement and gabbien type of trenches in the lower watershed areas of Irai dam, construction of chain trenches on Irai river on the lower side from Irai dam, beautification of both the sides of the river from Padoli bridge near the city to Datala bridge and tree plantation for large trees near the side of the river," he said. Mungantiwar said the tasks should be started by November and encroachment not be made on the river bed. "MHADA should prepare a comprehensive plan for the same, the funds for which would be allotted during the Legislative Session to be held in December 2016," he said.

2016-08-10 18:01 By PTI www.mid-day.com

43 Infamous Indian bandits who struck terror On Phoolan Devi's birth anniversary on October 18, we look back at some of the notorious Indian bandits who once struck terror in their region. Phoolan Devi Phoolan Devi also known as the Bandit Queen was an Indian dacoit turned politician. At the age of 18, she was gang-raped by high-caste outlaws after the gang she belonged to was attacked by rivals. She was locked up in Behmai, and for three weeks, she was gang-raped everyday. As a result of this incident, Phoolan became a gang-leader in her own right and sought revenge. In 1981 Devi and her gang returned to the village where she had been raped. She recognised two men who raped her and sought whereabouts of the others. When they refused to divulgge details, she rounded up 22 Thakur caste villagers, including two of her rapists, and executed them. Phoolan was charged with 48 crimes, including 30 charges of dacoity (banditry) and kidnapping. Her trial was delayed for 11 years, during which time she remained in prison. She was shot dead by three masked gunmen outside of her Delhi bungalow. Also Read: The life and times of India's Bandit Queen - Phoolan Devi Veerappan Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was born in Karnataka's Gopinatham village in a Tamil Vanniyar family of cattle-grazers. He started as an assistant to his relative Sevi Gounder, a notorious poacher and sandalwood smuggler and began his career in crime in 1970. He started off as sandalwood and ivory smuggler, killing elephants for ivory poaching but later started killing those who opposed his activities. His first murder was committed at 17 years of age. Over the years his victims included forest officials, police officers and informers. Veerappan defied the state governments of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the Border Security Force for over a decade. He was wanted for killing approximately 184 people, poaching about 200 elephants and smuggling ivory worth 2,600,000 dollars and about 10,000 tons of sandalwood worth approximately 22,000,000 dollars. A reward of 50 million rupees was offered for his capture, yet he dodged arrest for 20 years until killed by police on 18 October 2004. Also Read: Remembering the notorious forest bandit Veerappan Daku Man Singh Daku Man Singh was a dacoit to some while Robinhood to others. He was born in a royal family of Rajput and lived in the village of Khera Rathore in the Chambal which sheltered generations of outlaws in deep ravines and scrub forests since the 13th century. He is believed to have committed 1,112 robberies and 185 murders, including the killing of 32 police officers. He was shot dead in 1955 while sitting under a banyan tree. For some, he was a people's man and also has a temple in his honour in Khera Rathore. Local inhabitants of Chambal, especially the Rajput Community of Chambal Vally, referred to Singh as 'Chambal Ka Sher'. Also Read: As a youngster, Big B was in awe of dacoit Man Singh Nirbhay Singh Gujjar Nirbhay Singh Gujjar was one of the last much feared dacoit in Chambal. He started from being a petty thief to being a master of a band of dacoits. With as many as 205 criminal cases registered against him, Gujjar carried a cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh on his head announced by Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP) police. He was given the moniker 'WWW' due to his love for wine, women and wealth. So fond he was of women, that his colourful life was always surrounded by them. The story also goes that he was responsible for many women to become bandits. He was almost like the Bollywood villian of the 70s with A. K 47 rifles, armed jackets. One story also goes that so dreaded was his personality that mothers used his name to put their unruly children to sleep. He was once married to Seema Parihar, another bandit then but now reformed. She had even appeared on Bigg Boss Season 4. Nirbhay Singh Gujjar was shot dead by the Special Task Force (STF) in Cheetapur ravines under Ajitmal police station of Etawah. Manya Surve Pic/YouTube Far from the traditional definition of 'dacoit and 'bandit', Mumbai too had a dacoit which was more urban than the rest. Manohar Arhun Surve popularly known as Manya Surve, was an infamous urban dacoit and gangster in the Mumbai underworld. He was also educated and was not forced intto dacoitry unlike others. Manya Surve's criminal activities was not only confined to heists and robberies. He was also involved in narcotics trafficking, as the profits were considerable. His rise in the Mumbai underworld was so prolific in just top years that even Dawood Ibrahim, another underworld don felt threated by him. It is generally believed that it was Dawood who tipped off the police about Mnay's whereabouts after which he was killed in a police encounter. His death in 1982 during an encounter with the Maharashtra police became known as the city's first recorded encounter killing.

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44 CM Vasundhara Raje conducts aerial survey of rain-hit Rajasthan Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the rain- affected Bhilwara and Chittorgarh districts. Raje posted a picture on Twitter. Heavy rains lashed Rajasthan's Bhilwara, Chittorgarh and surrounding districts where normal life has been thrown out of gear due to flood-like situation. Teams of Army, NDRF and SDRF carried out rescue works as several thatched houses collapsed in different parts of Bhilwara district and villages and towns including Mandalgarh have been cut off as the roads are submerged, officials said, adding train services have been affected in the region. Vasundhara Raje. Pic/Twitter Earlier Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria visited Chittorgarh while PHED Minister Kiran Maheshwari and Labour Minister Surendra Pal Singh surveyed Bhilwara to take stock of situation. Heavy rains occurred in Mandalgarh and nearby areas in Bhilwara while places which are located near the catchment area of Banas river are affected due to increase in the water level. The situation is worst in the areas which are connected with the nearby district of Chittorgarh 2016-08-10 18:01 By mid www.mid-day.com

45 Rest away! When a worker fell asleep at Lord Ganesha's feet A worker takes a break from putting the final touches on a statue of Lord Ganesha in Parel. Pic/Rane Ashish The 10-day Ganesh festival begins on September 5.

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46 'Ghostbusters' Sequel Unlikely After Poor Box Office Numbers Despite Sony’s optimism upon the release of its rebooted “Ghostbusters” movie back in July, it’s looking more and more unlikely that the film will get a sequel. When the all-female reboot hit theaters, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution said of a sequel, “While nothing has been officially announced yet, there’s no doubt in my mind it will happen.” However, the financials of the situation make that difficult. “Ghostbusters” has earned south of $180 million at the global box office, including $117 million domestic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While the film has yet to open in a few markets (France, Japan, Mexico), it seems unlikely that it will reach $225 million. Considering the film’s inflated $144 million production budget and significant marketing costs, Sony needed to reach at least $300 million to make a small profit. All told, Sony is looking at a $70 million loss for “Ghostbusters.” While it isn’t the only studio to fall flat in this summer’s weak summer season, that kind of underperformance doesn’t bode well for the future of “Ghostbusters.” “Ghostubsters is on ice until further notice,” box-office analyst Jeff Bock said. “I just can’t fathom the creative talents behind it — [Paul] Feig, [Melissa] McCarthy, [Kristen] Wiig, etc. — slogging out another one when the reception to the first one was so mediocre.” Sony is shrugging off the potential loss in public, claiming that additional revenue streams such as merchandising and theme park rides are helping with the bottom line. “This loss calculation is way off,” Sony’s rep said. “With multiple revenue streams, including consumer products, gaming, location-based entertainment, continued international rollout, and huge third-party promotional partnerships that mitigated costs, the bottom line, even before co-financing, is not remotely close to that number.”

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47 Cow vigilantism: Bajrang Dal activists thrash four persons Aligarh (UP) : In yet another incident of cow vigilantism, Bajrang Dal activists allegedly thrashed four persons whom they suspected of being 'cow thieves' near Jiroli village on the outskirts of the city. The incident occurred when 'gau rakshaks' led by Bajrang Dal district president Kedar Singh tried to intercept a matador carrying a buffalo but the driver refused to stop, police said. The activists raised an alarm and a road block was laid by other members of the group at a short distance ahead. Seeing the road block, the four persons who were in the matador jumped out and tried to escape, they added. However, they were nabbed and beaten up by the crowd which had gathered on the spot before being handed over to the police along with their vehicle. The Bajrang Dal activists alleged that the behaviour of the four persons had been "suspicious" and accused them of being cattle thieves. According to police, the four apprehended persons are being interrogated. The incident came as the Home Ministry issued an advisory last evening asking all states not to tolerate anyone taking law into their hands in the name of protecting cow and take prompt action against such offenders. The advisory came two days after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi denounced cow vigilantes and asked people to beware of its 'fake' protectors trying to divide society and the country and asked the states to severely punish them.

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48 Kumbh Mela to conclude on August 11 Nashik (Maha) : The year- long 'Kumbh Mela' which began here and in Trimbakeshwar last year, will conclude on Thursday. Devotees take a dip during Kumbh Mela at Nashik. File Pic The 'Kumbh Mela' was started on July 14 last year after a grand flag-hoisting ceremony, Satish Shukla of Nashik Purohit Sangh, told PTI. The ceremony was attended among others by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Trimbakeshwar. The mega-religious congregation will conclude tomorrow, Shukla said. He said the flag will be brought down tomorrow in a ceremony at Trimbakeshwar at around 9 PM and in Nashik at around 9.30 PM. The Purohit Sangh has invited Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for the function. Meanwhile, the Nashik Municipal Corporation has made elaborate arrangements for the programme where a large number of devotees are expected to take part. The city and the district police have beefed up the security of the area.

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49 Fu Yuanhui: China's disarming and expressive Olympic swimming star All Olympians can enjoy the support of their home country, but the enthusiasm of one Chinese swimmer after winning a bronze has made her an overnight social media star, and is changing the view of competitive sport in the country, as the BBC's Yashan Zhao reports. "I have used all my prehistoric powers to swim," Fu Yuanhui said in an interview with CCTV5 after she qualified for the women's 100m backstroke final. When asked what her hopes were for the final, she said: "No expectation! I'm very satisfied now! " That's how she began to rock China's internet and social media. Add her exaggerated facial expressions and humour, and she quickly became an online celebrity. She eventually won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke final, not gold. But that hasn't reduced the affection from her fans. In fact, her fans on microblogging platform Sina Weibo have increased from a hundred thousand to four million over the past two days, and are still increasing. Many fans have also been sharing cute cartoons of Fu. Young Chinese social media users have been drawn to her straight-forward character, her sincerity and her attitude towards competition. Joanna Zhan, a fan in Chongqing, said she liked Fu because she is "so cute, and she is as powerful as a mudslide". "Fu interpreted the Olympic spirit of challenging herself and enjoying the game," she added. Chinese athletes traditionally follow a pattern in media interviews after they compete, thanking the country and vowing to do their best in the next competition. But Fu broke with tradition, showing her own happiness at her performance. One fan, Feng Zhu, told the BBC she liked Fu because she always said exactly what was on her mind. JingYing Li, a female entrepreneur in Sichuan province, said she heard about Fu from her friends. "Almost everyone is talking about her," she said. Ms Li said her colleagues had all been sharing videos and articles about Fu, but liked that she had a deep side to her too among the jokes. "I even checked her Weibo posts back to 2015. Although Fu seems to be a funny person on social media, she also had a tough time. And her experience encourages me to be strong when I am down. " But it seems Fu is part of a generational change in attitude towards competing. Chinese athletes traditionally become big names if they win a gold medal. If they fail, they are nobody, and will not be remembered or known by audiences. In 2008, China gained 51 gold medals in Beijing Olympics leading to a peak in national excitement and joy. Gaochao Zhang, a London-based independent sports commentator, predicted that without any major upsets, China will secure a top three spot in the medal table this time around. But he said younger Chinese people were now just happy "enjoying the Olympic Games rather than expecting gold medals". And Fu's satisfaction with her bronze medal embodies exactly this new sentiment.

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50 India police investigate 'great train robbery' Police in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are investigating an unusual case of theft. Thieves targeted a train carrying over 200 chests of used and damaged bank notes - cutting a hole in the roof of the train carriage and stealing 57.5m rupees ($860,000; £570,000). Police are unsure whether the thieves had hid in the carriage or cut their way into the train while it was moving. The theft was only discovered when the train reached its destination. The news has been prominently covered by Indian media, with some calling it "the great train robbery". Police say they believe that a group of six to eight robbers may have been involved in the heist, which took place between Monday night and Tuesday morning during the train's 350km-long (270 miles) journey from Salem town to Chennai (Madras). The coach was carrying 3.4bn rupees ($51m) - and security personnel guarding the money were sat nearby, in the neighbouring compartment. The notes belonged to India's central bank, Reserve Bank of India, and were on their way to Chennai to be destroyed. But on arrival, when officials broke the seal on the carriage, they found chests broken open and a hole cut in the train's metal roof. "We are inquiring with the train guard and the police personnel if they heard any unusual noises on the roof," police superintendent P Vijayakumar told the AFP news agency. Inspector General of Police, M Ramasubramani, told the news agency the thieves "created a manhole and then sneaked one after the other and lifted the bundles to the roof before taking them away. " The train is now stationed in Chennai as police continue to investigate the robbery. Correspondents say the case raises questions about how security could have been breached on such a closely guarded train.

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51 Burkina Faso bans donkey skin exports, affecting Asian trade Burkina Faso has banned the export of donkey skins as a sharp increase in sales to Asia is threatening the animal's population. Donkeys have been "over- exploited" and their numbers needed to be kept at a sustainable level, the government said. China is a big importer of donkey skins from Burkina Faso, using them to make traditional medicines. In Burkina Faso, donkeys are commonly used to transport goods, though some communities eat their meat. The surge in exports has put pressure on the local market, with the price of donkeys rising, says BBC Afrique's Abdourahmane Dia. The price of the animal's hide has risen from about $4 (£3) a few years ago to $50, he adds. The ban also covers the hide of horses and camels, Burkina Faso's director for public veterinary health Adama Maiga told the AFP news agency. The government would also be "regulating" the slaughter of the animals, he added. Last month, an abattoir set up by French and Chinese businessmen in a village on the outskirts of the capital, Ouagadougou, was ransacked by residents protesting against the stench coming out of it and the air, water and land pollution it was causing, AFP reports. Burkina Faso, a poor West African state, has about 1.4 million donkeys. Exports of the skin rose from 1,000 in the first quarter of 2015 to more than 18,000 in the last quarter, the Burkinabe authorities say. Nearly 65,000 skins were exported in the first six months of this year, mostly to China. Its donkey population has been dwindling because of low fertility rates and the long rearing period, causing a a shortage of hides used to produce a traditional medicine known as "ejiao", according to a report in January in the China Daily newspaper . The medicine is taken mostly by women who suffer from anaemia, dry coughs or dizziness.

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52 Man arrested after running across Madrid airport tarmac to catch flight A man who jumped out of a disconnected jet bridge and ran across tarmac at an airport in Madrid caught his flight, but was arrested when it landed. He had a boarding pass and had cleared security, but had missed boarding for his flight to Gran Canaria. A video posted on Facebook showed him jumping from 10ft (3.5m) in the air, then shouldering two bags and running. The Associated Press news agency reports that he broke through fire escape doors to get to the tunnel. The man could face a fine of up to €45,000 (£38,400) under airport security laws. The airport worker who posted the mobile phone footage to a union Facebook page wrote: "We're talking level 4 security! You can't even be safe with that... " Spain operates a five-point security alert scale. Last year it moved the alert level from three (middling) to four (high) after a jihadist attack near Lyon in France. A spokesman for Ryanair, the airline whose aeroplanes are visible in the video, said it was a matter for airport security. Local media are reporting that the man is from Bolivia, but beyond that he has not been identified. One newspaper said he broke through a fire door to reach the disconnected passenger boarding bridge, after he saw a plane start to move and panicked.

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53 In pictures: Weather Photographer of the Year The Royal Meteorological Society and The Royal Photographic Society have announced the finalists of the 2016 Weather Photographer of the Year competition. Drawn from more than 800 entries, in two age categories, the judges are now asking the public to pick a winner. Here are the finalists. Early this year, unusually cold Arctic stratospheric air reached down as far as the UK. This triggered sightings of rare and beautiful polar stratospheric (nacreous) clouds. I had to go down to Alloa for a course and took an old compact digital camera with me, just in case any displays were visible from that part of the country. Plynlimon (752m; 2,467ft) is a beautiful hill massif in northern Ceredigion, mid-Wales, north of the A44, between Llangurig and Aberystwyth. I walk this hill regularly in all seasons, and winter is my favourite time of year here. The otherwise benign summit plateau can be transformed into raw Arctic tundra-like conditions, which presents challenges even for well-equipped walkers. Days of blown snow and spindrift from powerful and freezing north- easterly winds had accumulated on every windward vertical surface into bizarrely shaped natural sculptures. This stile and wire fence became a thing of beauty, with the glowing translucent fluting of the ice emphasised by the Sun's backlighting. Based on the forecast from the night before, my son James and I left home at 04:30 to travel up to north Suffolk to Herringfleet Mill, a location we had not visited before. When we arrived at the mill, the temperature was -4C, with freezing fog making for very atmospheric conditions. I particularly like the way this photo captures the Sun burning through the mist, with the reed beds covered in white hoar frost and the mill shrouded in mist. The conditions and location give the image a real sense of an East Anglian winter. The image was taken in Punta Banco, a small village on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, and shows a very rare type of lightning called a sprite. The storm was far out at sea during a new Moon, so there was very little light. And, as a result, the stars were spectacular. I set up the frame to include the pulsing storm and the Milky Way as I liked the contrast. Just after I started the 30-second exposure, this sprite strike illuminated the sky, shooting up into the atmosphere, my jaw dropped, and I assumed that it would have blown out the image, but I was thrilled to witness it. This is a clash between two storm cells in New Mexico, each with its own rotating updraft. It appeared as though one updraft was anti-cyclonic, resulting in a very turbulent scene. It was a fantastic sight to watch, and it's the rarity of such scenes that keep drawing me back to the US plains each year. This low-precipitation super-cell formed late in the day over Broken Bow in south-east Nebraska. The rotation was evident through the striations and twisting updraft referred to as a barber's pole. The storm was particularly striking at this stage due to the eruption of mammatus cloud from the anvil that was constantly being lit up with lightning. A stunning spectacle, which we photographed for over an hour from the same spot due to the slow-moving nature of the storm. The photo was taken from the cable car to Mount Cheget, Kabardino- Balkaria, Russia. The Guanabara is a 240m [787ft] long super-tanker and was loaded with crude oil from the Australian north west offshore oil fields at Barrow Island. I was able to photograph the ship later, when it docked, and I was invited on board to meet the captain and the crew who were "on watch" when the ship was hit. One crewman had been fishing off the port side and had only just returned inside when the ship was hit. Shortly after taking the shot, the lightning cell closed on my position on the beach and I grabbed up my equipment and ran for my life. I had just closed the car door when the lightning hit close by and took out all the lights in the area. My image was taken along the bank of the River Brue in Glastonbury, Somerset. The flat, open, exposed landscape of the Somerset levels is punctuated by drainage channels and waterways which gives it a unique character. Cool evenings when followed by clear mornings tend to give rise to a blanket of mist rising off the water and grassland, creating an ethereal feel to the landscape especially at sunrise before the mist burns away. This picture was taken from the edge of Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire, looking west towards the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank and beyond. The weather was cold, and a north-westerly wind blew this shower of hail to engulf the telescope. I'd headed up towards Kinder Scout in the Peak District from Hope, via Win Hill, crossing Crookstone Out Moor, where this photo was taken. It was difficult to get an exposure which showed both the snow and exposed the scene correctly, but I feel this blurred snowdrop effect captures it perfectly. Having followed this storm up the A1 road, we finally found ourselves following it, with the setting Sun illuminating the mammatus clouds on its back edge. This was taken at the first lay-by we found between Tadcaster and York, away from the A64, with the sweep of the road acting as a perfect guide for the eye towards the centre of the storm. How could you not grab the camera from the boot and photograph this scene? I work for British Antarctic Survey at the Halley Research Station in Antarctica, and I'm a member of the four-people science team. Some of the most important research conducted at Halley is the meteorological and ozone observations programme, and part of my role is to participate in the met observations. On this particular day, I was on met duty and we saw the Sun halo for most of the day. This was caused by diamond dust, a phenomenon where ice particles of specific shape are being carried by the light breeze in the air, causing the light to refract into a halo. The amount of diamond dust varied throughout the day, but at one time, just after lunch, it intensified dramatically, creating one of the most beautiful solar halos I've seen! While on a photographic trip to several national parks in the USA, I visited Mono Lake in Mono County, California. Around sunset, I watched as an impressive storm slowly made its way down from the Sierra Nevada mountains on to the lake. The image I captured shows the inner harbour wall at Whitehaven, Cumbria, being hit by a monstrous wave, dwarfing the surrounding man-made structures. I had travelled from County Durham to the west coast of Cumbria as the UK was being hit by a series of Atlantic storms sending tidal surges and strong gale-force westerly winds, which made for ideal conditions for large swells at Whitehaven. My photograph was taken on a frosty January morning in North Yorkshire, UK. The frost had formed on a car windscreen, looking like large feathers. I was attracted by the colours resulting from the low early morning Sun. Orographic cloud winds around and over the unmistakable profile of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. I have been chasing storms since 1989. I first chased in the USA in 2000, and 2013 was my 12th trip and also my most memorable. This storm in Nebraska was so beautiful, taking on many forms during its life, ending with one of the most spectacular shows I have ever witnessed and had the pleasure to photograph. It shows a barber's-pole structure corkscrew updraft into this super-cell during its end cycle, still spitting lighting and growling in the dark, a truly wonderful sight and experience I will never forget. On the hills, we were shrouded until late morning, when a clear way emerged along the ridge towards Foel Fras in the Carneddau, Snowdonia. This is a classic severe weather set-up in the high plains of Colorado near the town of Wray, which yielded one of the most photogenic tornadoes of the year. We were just ahead of the storm as the tornado started and tracked with it as it grew from a fine funnel to a sizeable cone tornado. At this moment, the twister was at its most photogenic while its parent super-cell continued to be manageable. We were among a number of people, including those you see in the shot, nervously enjoying the epic display nature put on for us. My family and I went for a walk at Covehithe, Suffolk, in an attempt to capture such a photo, as we'd seen the forecast was stormy and had thought Covehithe as being a suitable location to shoot in in such conditions. There were similarly good photos everywhere I looked, but this one really stood out: the rainbow, the hail lines, the storm front, and nice light on the clouds. I decided to take a photo of Snowdon in the first sunrise winter light. It was a lucky shoot, completely unexpected, as I climbed up to [the] Glyders' summit. The photo was taken in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on my iPhone, when on a bus travelling through the town centre. It began to rain, and the lights glared through, causing a blur and blend of colours. You can cast your vote for your favourite image on the Weather Photographer of the Year website . The Weather Photographer of the Year exhibition will go on tour around the UK later this year All photographs courtesy RMet-RPS Weather Photographer of the Year 2016.

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54 Ravindra Jadeja: Indian cricketer fined over lion selfies Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja has been fined 20,000 rupees (£229; $300) after posting photos online of him and his wife posing in front of endangered Asiatic lions. The images appeared to show the pair on foot during a safari in June at the Gir National Park in western Gujarat state. Officials at the park said they imposed a preliminary fine because "the cricketer flouted the rules". Visitors to the park are not allowed to leave their vehicles. Jadeja's photos were posted days after Gujarat forestry officials warned of the dangers involved in taking selfies with lions, following a number of attacks. Wildlife officers say they will submit a final inquiry report to their superiors soon. A. P Singh, chief forest conservator in Gujarat state, told AFP they "had instituted a probe and called Jadeja for a statement... but since he was not available, his father-in-law Hardevsinh Solanki gave a written statement on his behalf" and paid the fine for him. Jadeja, 27, was part of India's team for the recent World T20 tournament. A photo posted on Jadeja's Instagram account showed the cricketer pointing to a pride of lions behind him, with the caption, "Family photo, having good time in Sasan (Gir) #rajputboy #wearelions". A second photo posted to the cricketer's account showed him and his wife, Reeva, with a lion looking on in the background. The national park at Gir is the only place where Asiatic lions remain in the wild. The animals, which are slightly smaller than African lions, were listed as endangered in 2008.

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55 Laser technology fights unwanted geese in Canada A Star Wars-style research project involving lasers is hoping to turn the tide in the battle between farmers and geese where traditional methods have failed. Six students from the University of Victoria on Canada's Vancouver Island are using laser technology as a "hi-tech scarecrow" to rid farmers' fields of the perennial avian pest, CBC News reports. Peter Rashleigh, a fourth year mechanical student, who is also a farmer, tells CBC that geese are "very effectively scared by lasers, especially green lasers, even at very low power levels", and that the prototype device closes a gap in the market for an effective, yet harmless bird-scarer. Mr Rashleigh explains that the beam is no more powerful than a standard laser pointer, so even if a trespasser walks through the field they wouldn't be injured. It also has a safety feature that switches off the laser if it's accidentally aimed above the horizon, so that planes aren't affected. The device is simply programmed to sweep across a farmer's field at night, and the laser does the rest, he says. The most attractive part for farmers, Mr Rashleigh adds, is that it's less tiring than standing in a field at night waving a laser pointer at geese yourself. Canada geese are a major problem for farmers, as they have the potential to destroy large areas of crops like wheat and barley if unchecked. Earlier this year, local politicians on Vancouver Island asked authorities to change firearms laws so farmers could hunt the geese for food. One farmer said at the time: "The population is way out of control - when they are hungry, they are just devastating to many crops. " Next story: Finnish library offers soundproofed karaoke sessions Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.

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56 The challenges of being black and upper class in Brazil Monica Valeria Goncalves, 47, has two university degrees. She works as a legal adviser in Brasilia and is married to a judge. She frequents expensive restaurants and exclusive social events, and lives in one of the Brazilian capital's most privileged neighbourhoods. In short, her life is very similar to that of the rest of her social class - the top 1% of Brazilian society. The only difference is that she is black. That makes her part of the majority of the Brazilian population - 53% are black or mixed-race according to the latest census - but in a minority among the upper class. She is often the only black person at parties, restaurants or any other social or professional events - apart from the waiting staff. When she attends conferences with her husband, people assume she is his secretary. "People make that mistake a lot," she says. But the incident that hit her hardest took place 22 years ago, while she was spending her honeymoon at a beach resort. "A man touched me and openly propositioned me. I was frightened and screamed at him. He apologised, saying that he thought that I was with a white man working as a prostitute. "It didn't occur to him that the man was my husband, who was married to a law graduate with an independent income. "It wasn't possible, in his mind, for a black person to be at that place. " Sociologist Emerson Rocha from Brasilia University says that, contrary to what many believe, racism in Brazil does not vanish once you become wealthier. "It's the opposite. Once black people leave their 'natural space' they are more vulnerable to racism, they become a foreign body in a predominantly white space. " Ms Goncalves was the only person in her family to climb the social ladder. To do that, she had to overcome various hurdles. "All my life, I've had to demonstrate that I was very good at what I do. If I didn't do this, I'd be judged both on the quality of my work and on the colour of my skin," she says. Film-maker Sabrina Fidalgo has a different perspective. She was born rich. "My parents prepared me for war," she says. "Before I started primary school, they warned the nuns that if I was the victim of any racism they would vocally protest. "They insisted that the school was responsible for making everyone aware of racism. They were proactive, not reactive. " But at secondary school, things changed and she remembers one teacher who would openly tell jokes about his racist grandmother. "I told him how bizarre that was. He apologised and stopped," she says, crediting her parents for the courage to fight back. "They told me from a young age about the history of Africa, about our role in society. They told me how beautiful my hair and my skin colour were. "They told me never to feel ashamed and that I could be anything I wanted, a doctor or a ballerina," she says. Ms Fidalgo believes it is important that people talk about racism, but warns that black people should not be constrained by it. "What bothers me about this narrative is that it implies that only oppressive experiences are legitimate. "In a way, it reaffirms racism by suggesting that we black people only deserve something after being subjected to pain and humiliation. " Emerson Rocha agrees. "It's important to denounce racism, but the positive experiences have a role to play. Stories like Julio Santos'. " The son of a domestic worker, Mr Santos, 50, had to work washing cars from the age of 13. Today, he is an engineer who owns a successful recycling company. "I have businesses in New York where I often meet black entrepreneurs. In Brazil, it's a different story. " A story that Ms Goncalves thinks is only slowly changing. She is the mother of an eight-year-old girl and she would like to see a more equal society develop more quickly. Her daughter Leticia studies at a traditional, bilingual private school, where she is also an exception. "There are more than 200 children, but only two are black: my daughter and another girl, who is the daughter of a domestic worker," Ms Goncalves says.

2016-08-10 16:43 Noemia Colonna www.bbc.co.uk

57 Finland library installs karaoke booth A library in southern Finland wants people to sing their hearts out during their next visit - in a soundproofed karaoke booth. Officials in the city of Vantaa, near Helsinki, installed the karaoke zone at Tikkurila library earlier this year as part of a scheme to provide new services at libraries, public broadcaster Yle reports . The idea is that people who don't fancy performing to a packed bar after a tipple or five can instead enjoy a sing-along in relative privacy, regardless of their ability to hold a tune. "Anyone at all can sing karaoke," says manager Villa Karinen. "Everyone can perform with the voice they have and there's no need to fear criticism here. " Locals can reserve up to two hours in the booth using their library cards, and once inside they'll be able to choose from more than 3,000 songs, all listed on the library's website. As well as hundreds of Finnish tunes, there's the option to tackle foreign numbers ranging from Black Sabbath to Engelbert Humperdinck via 50 Cent and - of course - Whitney, Mariah and Celine. The idea has proved popular with all ages, Yle says, including residents of a nearby elderly care home, and those who want to overcome stage fright. The library even ran an adult education course using the booth - called Be Brave, Sing Karaoke - which offered pointers on using a microphone and dealing with nerves. Participant Anniina Rantanen tells the broadcaster that the booth allows people to practise in peace, and means that "you can sing while you're sober". Next story: Novelty Swedish street signs get pedestrians dancing Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter .

2016-08-10 16:43 By News www.bbc.co.uk

58 Australian census attacked by hackers The Australian census website was shut down by what authorities said was a series of deliberate attacks from overseas hackers. Millions of Australians were prevented from taking part in the national survey on Tuesday night. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) had boasted only hours before that its website would not crash. The prime minister assured the public that their personal information was not compromised. Every five years, everyone in Australia is required to fill out forms are compiled to provide a snapshot of the country. Two-thirds of Australians were expected to complete the census online this year, rather than on paper. Debate about privacy concerns has been raised despite assurances from the government that security would not be compromised. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that public's personal information was safe and and stressed the "unblemished record" of the ABS. "The one thing that is absolutely crystal clear is that there was no penetration of the ABS website," Mr Turnbull said. "What you saw was the denial of service attack or a denial of service attempt which, as you know, is designed to prevent access to a website as opposed to getting into the server behind it. Some of those defences failed, frankly. " Assistant Treasurer Michael McCormack, who was responsible for overseeing the census, denied that the national survey was "hacked" or "attacked". "It was an attempt to frustrate the collection of data," he said. "People should feel rest assured their data is safe. " The comments contradict earlier comments issued by the ABS which stated that there were four "attacks". The opposition party called for Mr McCormack to resign over the website crash. "This has been the worst run census in Australian history," said Andrew Leigh, the assistant shadow treasurer. "If we don't get an accurate snapshot on census night, we can't allocate resources properly. " The ABS is now working with authorities to determine the source of the "denial of service" attacks. "The Australian Signals Directorate are investigating, but they did note that it was very difficult to source the attack," chief statistician David Kalisch told the ABC. "The scale of the attack, it was quite clear it was malicious. "Steps have been taken during the night to remedy these issues and I can certainly reassure Australians that the data they provided is safe. " In the lead-up to the census, crossbench Senator Nick Xenophon's concerns about privacy were dismissed by the government as "tinfoil hat" politics. He said it wasn't clear who should be wearing the hat now. "Look, there are real concerns," Mr Xenophon said. "The census, the ABS, has had five years to get this right. " After weeks of reminders to "get online August 9", millions of Australians were frustrated to find they could not complete the survey. Thousands of people poked fun at the situation on social media with references to the popular television shows including The IT Crowd, The Simpsons and Monty Python.

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59 Nigeria's deadly battle for land: Herdsmen v farmers Farms have been built on ancient routes of a semi- nomadic community in Nigeria, causing violence that has already claimed hundreds of lives this year. Cradling her baby son, Benjamin, Joy Abuh stares intently when she talks about the moment her life changed forever. "The herdsmen shot my husband as he was riding his motorbike," she told me matter-of-factly. "They then used a machete to hack him to death. " She says his body was found in the bush several days later. It was so badly decomposed that villagers buried it before Mrs Abuh had the chance to see her husband for the last time. Locals in Agatu district in Nigeria's central Benue state say Fulani herdsmen killed dozens of people during a string of attacks this spring. Many homes were set on fire and reduced to piles of bricks. Some of the villagers are still recovering from their injuries: I saw one man hobbling along on crutches as a result of a gunshot wound. The attack in Agatu was one of the most serious in Nigeria this year. These types of clashes between herdsmen and farmers are increasingly common in some parts of the country as the struggle over grazing rights and access to water becomes more acute. The violence is largely blamed on Fulani herdsmen, a semi-nomadic group who roam areas in West and Central Africa. During the dry season in Nigeria, herdsmen begin the long migration from the northern states to the country's central region in search of grazing pastures for their cattle. It is a journey the herdsmen, often young boys, have been making for centuries. Following well-established routes, they often return to the same areas. But land that was once unclaimed and, therefore, free to graze on is now being farmed, frequently triggering clashes. Hundreds of people have been killed in the violence in 2016. Nigeria's Fulani herdsmen Farmers accuse the Fulani of failing to control their cattle and of damaging crops. In turn, the Fulani accuse farmers of stealing their cattle. The Fulani insist they are only trying to defend themselves and preserve their traditional way of life. "In the past you graze anywhere, you didn't come into contact with farms. But now you're forced to herd cattle along the road," says Isa Mosham Sarkin, a local Fulani leader in neighbouring Nasarawa state. "People are saying that Fulani are a threat to the nation. But we're not the ones causing the problems - it is some farmers. " Some observers fear that unless the issues are addressed the clashes could become more violent. Growing insecurity and the effects of climate change are making a bad situation even worse, says Israel Okpe, from Pastoral Resolve, an organisation that promotes conflict resolution between farmers and the Fulani. "Both sides are becoming more armed, they are preparing for anything," says Mr Okpe. "We don't know where the weapons are coming from but they are sophisticated. " Behind the competition for land: The violence is also playing into the country's politics, which frequently breaks down along ethnic lines. President Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani, has been accused of turning a blind eye to the problem, sparking a public outcry. In response, the government ordered security forces to crack down on cattle rustlers. The government is also discussing plans to station security guards on farms and open up special cattle ranches where the herdsmen's cattle would be allowed to graze. But critics say that will mean forcing farmers to give up land they already control, sparking further resistance. For rice farmer, Rotimi Williams, there is only one solution: Farmers and the Fulani will need to find a way to share the land. When 20 hectares (49 acres) of his rice paddies were ruined in February, he admits he was furious. Some of his labourers were ready to take up arms. But he decided on a different approach. Instead of lashing out, he hired the Fulani herdsman who caused the damage to provide security. He then employed dozens of women from the nearby Fulani village to work in the fields. "We need a pragmatic approach where we learn to resolve conflicts with our neighbours," he says. "The situation is spinning out of control. Everyone is scared of herdsmen. But if you give them respect then you get respect in turn. " Respect and resolutions, however, are rare on the ground between farmers and the herdsmen. And with the demand for land growing the violence may only intensify. 2016-08-10 16:43 By Martin www.bbc.co.uk

60 What do 'hangars' on disputed islands in the South China Sea tell us? Satellite images appear to show China has built aircraft hangars on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The images, from late July, were released by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and appear to confirm that Chinese military fighter jets could, at some point, be based on Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs. The revelation is likely to stoke tension with neighbours and the US, all of whom have raised concerns over what they call "the militarisation of the South China Sea", says analyst Alexander Neill from the International Institute for Strategic Studies - Asia. Read more: These images show three new air bases built on artificial islands nearing completion in the Spratly islands at the heart of the South China Sea. They demonstrate the remarkable pace and scale of China's island-building campaign in the South China Sea, where only two years ago coral reefs and atolls existed. The pictures focus in particular on the construction of reinforced hangars designed to shelter an array of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft. Apart from accommodation blocks and administrative buildings, the images also show a selection of unidentified hexagonal structures facing towards the sea on the three islands. Each island has four of these structures forming a trapezoid shape. In addition, each island also hosts a mysterious group of three towers. There is speculation that such structures are in fact reinforced air defence facilities which could house surface-to-air missile batteries. Beyond the hangars and air defence systems, we can also see three naval bases readying for operation, including large berthing facilities and harbours for the PLA Navy, the coast guard and other maritime law enforcement agencies. China has embarked on a power projection drive in the region which will considerably extend the range of its naval and air capabilities. This military construction on the islands indicates that within a few months China will be in a position to deploy fighter regiments on the islands totalling nearly 80 aircraft - a formidable addition to its existing capabilities in the South China Sea. In addition, the bases will be able to host Chinese strategic bombers such as the H6-K, early warning and surveillance aircraft and long range transport and tanker jets. Because such airbases are inherently vulnerable to attack, China appears to be deploying a sophisticated air defence network and the command and control infrastructure to protect its new island bases. In his state visit to the US in September 2015, Xi Jinping stated that China did not intend to pursue militarisation of the Spratly islands. However, from China's perspective, the islands it claims and the sea space within the nine-dash line are China's sovereign territory requiring necessary defence measures. US officials quickly sought more specific reassurance from Mr Xi to include all of the South China Sea. Chinese senior figures later qualified Mr Xi's statement by suggesting that defence measures should be commensurate to perceived threat to China's territorial integrity. Beijing has now blamed US Navy Freedom of navigation operations (FONOPS) for triggering military escalation in the South China Sea, allowing justification in Beijing's narrative for defensive measures on the new artificial islands. In the wake of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's ruling overwhelmingly in favour of the Philippines , President Rodrigo Duterte has yet to react to the appearance of three advanced Chinese airbases within his nation's exclusive economic zone. Perhaps there may be little reaction at all. The Philippines' navy is almost non-existent, so its only recourse may be to rely on its defence treaty with the US, but Mr Duterte seems to have been reticent towards too cosy a relationship with Washington. Vietnam on the other hand - another claimant in the South China Sea - apparently has little tolerance for Beijing's activities. Recent news reports suggest that Vietnam has deployed advanced mobile rocket launchers to some of the islands it occupies in the region, putting China's new island garrisons within range of bombardment. The timing of Beijing's deployment of fighter jets, bombers and air defence missiles on the islands is uncertain, but Vietnam's military deployments will also offer Beijing further justification for its future arms build-up in the South China Sea. Alexander Neill is a Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow at IISS-Asia (International Institute for Strategic Studies - Asia).

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61 Armenians challenge age-old links to Russia Armenia has maintained a special relationship with Russia since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but a recent hostage siege revealed an undercurrent of anti-Russian feeling. For two weeks last month gunmen held hostages at a police compound in the capital Yerevan. Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied every night in support of the gunmen and many accused Russia of meddling in Armenia's affairs. "Today all the processes in our country are governed from outside. I am speaking about Russia," said Tigran Khzmalyan, addressing a crowd on the steps of Yerevan's Opera House on 31 July. With a loudspeaker in one hand, and his smartphone in the other, he was reading a message published online by the armed group known as the Daredevils of Sassoun. Armenia hosts a Russian military base and considers itself Russia's strategic ally in the Caucasus. Armenian-Russian friendship, based on common Orthodox Christian roots, dates back centuries. Much of the Armenian economy is Russian-owned or controlled, including the energy sector and railways. Daredevils of Sassoun - named after a medieval Armenian epic poem - seized a police compound on 17 July, killing one policeman and barricading themselves inside with hostages. "We want the people, and the international community, to realise that this is a national liberation movement against Russian colonialism," their message said. Soon after that Mr Khzmalyan told the crowd that the group had surrendered. "Heroes, heroes! " people cheered. Many of the Daredevils are veterans of Armenia's 1990s war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. The disputed mountainous territory is officially part of Azerbaijan, but held by Armenian separatists. Nagorno-Karabakh profile Fighting mood grips Armenians BBC visits Azerbaijan's side of frontline Now in custody, the war veterans can expect long jail sentences. But their supporters continue daily demonstrations. Many Armenians sympathise with their cause, including a call for President Serge Sarkisian to resign. He was rumoured to be willing to surrender some Armenian-controlled territory to Azerbaijan in exchange for a peace deal. For Tigran Khzmalyan, the group's call to fight against "Russian colonialism" was the most important message to emerge from this crisis. He said many Armenians "realised that the real enemy is not the local administration, which is manipulated by Moscow - the real target is the Kremlin, it's the KGB [Soviet-era secret police]". There was renewed fighting in April between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in which an estimated 200 people - soldiers and civilians - died. It was the worst outbreak of violence in more than 20 years. The Kremlin helped to broker a ceasefire on 5 April, but Russia's supply of arms to both Armenia and Azerbaijan has reignited a debate about Armenia's relationship with Russia. On 14 April demonstrators marched on the Russian embassy in Yerevan and threw eggs at it, angered by what they considered Russian duplicity. Russia has sold more than $4bn (£3bn) worth of weapons to Azerbaijan in recent years. But Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has argued that supplying arms to both sides acts as a deterrent, creating a "balance of forces" in the region. In a deal earlier this year Russia agreed to provide a $200m loan to Armenia to buy Russian weapons, including multiple-launch rocket systems and anti-tank missiles. Political analyst Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan says the Armenia-Russia relationship continues to yield benefits. "Russia sells gas to Armenia far below market prices, and we buy arms from Russia at their internal market prices, which is very important for us. " President Sarkisian is expected in Moscow for talks on Wednesday. He may come under pressure to do a peace deal with Azerbaijan. But wary of growing unease at home he has publicly stated that there is no room for compromise. "Nagorno-Karabakh will never be part of Azerbaijan. Never. I repeat again - it is out of the question," he said recently.

2016-08-10 16:43 By Rayhan www.bbc.co.uk

62 Rio Olympics Latest Medal Count Video Now Playing: Olympic Dream Realized: Ryan Murphy's Letter to His Parents About Being an Olympic Gold Medal Winner Now Playing: US Women's Gymnastics Team Aims for Gold in Rio Now Playing: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Criticizes Some 'Fast 8' Co-Stars Now Playing: Bonnie Raitt Performs 'Need You Tonight' Live on 'GMA' Now Playing: Behind the Scenes of How 'Pete's Dragon' Movie Was Made Now Playing: Baz Luhrmann and Grandmaster Flash Dish Talk 'The Get Down' Now Playing: Simone Biles' Top 4 Ways to Stay Cool Under Olympics Pressure Now Playing: US Swimmer Katie Ledecky Called 'World's Best Athlete' Now Playing: Meryl Streep Recalls Meeting Al Pacino When 'I Was Nobody' Now Playing: Tap Dancing Brothers Teach 'The View' Co-Hosts Some Moves Now Playing: Phil Collins to Play at US Open

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63 France terror: Girl, 16, investigated over Telegram 'attack plan' A 16-year-old French girl has been placed under investigation, accused of planning a jihadist attack using the Telegram messaging app, judicial officials say. The girl, who has no criminal record, was detained at her home on Thursday, after an anti-terror raid near Paris. She was an administrator of a group on the encrypted app, and is alleged to have been calling for attacks. The app had been used by the men who killed a priest in Normandy last month. Thursday's raid was the result of monitoring by security services of suspicious behaviour on social networks, Le Parisien newspaper reports . They noticed the thread where a few dozen members discussed so-called Islamic State propaganda, including calls to carry out attacks and videos, the newspaper said. Investigations revealed the group administrator to be a 16-year-old secondary-school pupil. "She relayed numerous Islamic State group propaganda messages calling for attacks, and she also expressed her own intention of taking action," a source close to the investigation told AFP news agency. The security forces raided her family home in Melun, south-west of Paris, but found no explosives or firearms there, and took her in custody. The investigators said the girl was "extremely radicalised" and was the administrator of the chat group dedicated to so-called Islamic State (IS) propaganda on the app, deputy prosecutor Laure Vermeersch said late on Monday. The girl - whose name has not been released - did not mention any specific targets, Ms Vermeersch said. She is being investigated for "criminal terrorist enterprise" and "provocation to commit terrorist acts using online communication". On 26 July, two 19-year-olds stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, during Mass and slit the throat of an elderly priest before being killed by police. One of them is said to have sent out encrypted audio messages on Telegram, proclaiming his intention of carrying out an attack, days before the pair struck. France has lived under a state of emergency since Jihadist attackers killed 130 people last November in Paris. Parliament extended the measure for an additional six months after the lorry attack in the southern city of Nice that killed 85 people on Bastille Day last month.

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64 Officials send garbage trucks to Intel offices in India — RT News Officials from Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), an administrative body responsible for civic and infrastructural assets, said a committee on taxation and finance found that Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd had defaulted on tax payments between 2007 and 2008 amounting to Rs 34 crores ($5.1 million), India Today reported. Repeated notices to Intel appeared to have fallen on deaf ears, so creative BBMP officials decided to send the garbage trucks to its premises with a crystal clear message: pay up now or smell the stink. “The standoff was resolved and the garbage trucks were taken back after Intel authorities gave a written undertaking that they would pay half of the dues claimed by BBMP, by August 28, as per an interim order of Karnataka High Court, ” Joint Commissioner Muniveerappa, who led the drive, said, according to The Hindu. Intel has been paying property taxes on the basis that its facility was not air conditioned, while BBMP says its office is centrally air-conditioned. Last month, the US firm appealed its tax bill in India’s Karnataka High Court, but the judiciary insisted that Intel deposit half of the taxes owed with BBMP. An Intel spokesperson told The Hindu that he could not comment on the issue since it was an ongoing legal matter, but confirmed that the company would abide by the court’s interim order. As might be expected, Twitterers have rushed to applaud the effective tax- recovery method used by India’s local authorities.

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65 Russian FSB foils terrorist attacks plotted by Ukrainian intel agents in Crimea — RT News The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR MOU) was preparing to target the Russian peninsula’s critical infrastructure, the FSB announced on Wednesday. A group of infiltrators was discovered near the town of Armyansk in northern Crimea near the Ukrainian border in a special FSB operation over the weekend, the agency said, adding that fire was exchanged as the terrorists were being apprehended. One FSB officer was killed. Twenty home-made explosive devices equivalent to more than 40 kilos of TNT, as well as ammunition, shells, and other weapons used by the Ukrainian Army’s special forces were discovered at the scene. Two more attempts by Ukrainian raiding and terrorist groups to breakthrough were prevented by Russian forces on Monday. Kiev’s armored vehicles provided covering fire for the groups from the Ukrainian side, the FSB said, adding that one Russian serviceman had been killed in that operation. A network of agents from Ukraine’s chief intelligence directorate has been uncovered in Crimea, according to the FSB, which said it included both Ukrainian and Russian citizens that provided assistance in preparing terrorist acts. Those suspects employed by Ukrainian intelligence are now giving their confessions, the FSB reported, adding that the captured group includes one of the organizers. A criminal case has been opened and additional covert and investigative activities are being conducted in the region. The thwarted acts of sabotage and terrorism were aimed at destabilizing the social and political situation on the peninsula ahead of both local and federal elections, the FSB said in its statement. Ukraine’s General Staff has said the reports of groups raiding Crimea are provocations. A Ukrainian defense intelligence spokesman refuted the FSB report, telling Reuters that the information was “ fake .” Meanwhile, security in the region has been tightened due to the discovery, the FSB announced, saying that additional security arrangements have been made near major infrastructure objects, in crowded places, and on the Russian-Ukrainian border.

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66 Wikileaks offers $20k reward over dead DNC staffer, but won’t confirm he leaked emails — RT America The group’s co-founder Julian Assange suggested on Dutch television that if Rich is the source of the 20,000 emails exposing the party’s sabotage of the Bernie Sanders campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton, he may have been killed over it. However, when asked if Rich was a Wikileaks source, Assange refused to comment, merely saying they were investigating the circumstances surrounding his murder. Wikileaks tweeted about the reward on Tuesday for information leading to the “conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.” Rich worked as voter expansion data director at the DNC before he was shot twice on his way home on July 10. He died later in hospital. “If it was a robbery — it failed because he still has his watch, he still has his money — he still has his credit cards, still had his phone so it was a wasted effort except we lost a life,” his father Joel Rich told local TV station KMTV . Assange made his comments on Dutch television show Nieuwsuur. When asked why he was commenting on Rich’s murder, he said, “Because we have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States.” Wikileaks offers a secure upload submission option in which no identifying data about a source is recorded, according to the whistleblowing website. Under these circumstances, Assange and Wikileaks staff would not know who sent them the DNC emails. Last month's leaks revealed a fractured Democratic party with a pro-Hillary Clinton agenda, while her progressive opponent Bernie Sanders was still in the race for the party's nomination. Wikileaks also claimed on Tuesday that Ecuador were being pressured to end Assange’s asylum in their London embassy over fears the leak could damage the country’s reputation with the US. Social media ignited in reaction to the Wikileaks tweet with a range of jokes and conspiracy theories.

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67 New emails show ties between Clinton Foundation and State Dept. |A newly released batch of messages focuses on ties between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Nancy Cordes reports on how the Clinton campaign is responding.

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68 68 7 great lease and rebate deals on 2016 cars With July auto sales flat and dealers hoping to clear their lots for the 2017 models, automakers are boosting financial incentives with rebates, lease deals and zero percent financing. Ford ( F ) and General Motors ( GM ) both saw declining sales last month from July a year earlier, and Fiat Chrysler ( FCAU ) was just barely positive. This came despite the highest promotional incentives of the year in July -- $3,410 per vehicle sold, according to Kelley Blue Book. That's $339 more than a year earlier. After the flat July sales, a Ford executive predicted higher incentives in August and September. "Automakers are going to want to protect their share, and you get some escalation of incentives," Mark LaNeve, Ford sales and marketing vice president, told reporters. Against that backdrop, we went looking for some of the best lease and cash-back deals at dealerships now. In addition to the seven deals we examine, various manufacturers are offering zero percent financing for up to six years for buyers with strong credit ratings. We selected the most interesting deals from lists published by U. S. News and Kelley Blue Book. Two of our lease deals have the unusually good feature of requiring no down payment at signing. And two other deals combine cash back with zero percent financing, which is typically an either- or choice. Read on to learn about seven great lease and rebate deals you can get now on 2016 cars. Dodge is offering a Charger lease with no money down and payments of $309 per month for 36 months. Reviewers surveyed by U. S. News praised the Charger for combining a comfortable ride with crisp handling and above-average power for a large sedan. The base engine, a 3.6-liter V-6 is rated for 19 MPG in city driving and 31 on the highway. The styling is also edgier than competitors like Toyota's ( TM ) Avalon. List price for the car offered with this lease is $30,990. Another no-down-payment lease is available for the Mazda CX-5, with payments of $269 per month for 36 months. In this increasingly popular small SUV category, the CX-5 ranks among the top three with reviewers surveyed by U. S. News. Those test drivers praise the CX-5 for being fun to drive with athletic handling and precise steering. The base four-cylinder engine is rated at a thrifty 26 MPG in city driving and 35 on the highway. List price for the crossover offered with this lease is about $22,000. This promotional lease for Honda's ( HMC ) Civic calls for $179 per month for 36 months with a $1,999 down payment. Among compact cars, the Civic is No. 1 both in sales and in rankings by reviewers surveyed by U. S. News. Test drivers said the redesigned 2016 Civic is much improved in its handling on winding roads and also offers extra room interior room. The four-cylinder turbocharged engine in the Civic coupe (shown here) is rated for 31 MPG in city driving and 41 on the highway. The list price for this Civic is about $19,885. The lease deal in most of the country for the Grand Cherokee is for $329 a month for 36 months with $2,999 due at signing. In the Southeast, where this SUV presumably is less popular, the same deal goes for $279 per month. Test drivers praise the Grand Cherokee for a well-designed interior, comfortable seating and a smooth ride. The base 3-liter V-6 engine is rated for 22 MPG in city driving, 30 on the highway with the two-wheel drive model. List price for the midsize SUV in this lease is about $30,000. The Cadillac ATS comes with the unusual combination for buyers of a $3,000 rebate plus zero percent financing, General Motors has aimed the ATS to compete with longtime small-car luxury leaders like the BMW 3- series. Indeed, reviewers say the ATS is nimble through corners and has responsive steering. The standard four-cylinder engine is rated for 22 MPG in city driving and 32 on the highway. List price of the ATS is $34,210. Buick Enclave buyers have a choice of deals. You can take $1,500 cash back, or you can choose a $750 rebate plus zero percent financing for five years. Test drivers like the Enclave's spacious interior and smooth ride, as well as a wide array of tech features. It also has a capacious cargo area. The standard six-cylinder engine in this midsize SUV is rated for 15 MPG in city driving, 22 on the highway. List price on the Enclave starts at about $39,100. In a summer when compact cars have sold poorly, the Ford Focus is this month's rebate champ with cash back of $3,450. Reviewers say the Focus has responsive steering and some of the crispest handling in this class. Inside, they like the attractive styling and quality materials. The unusual three-cylinder turbocharged engine in the Focus is rated for a parsimonious 30 MPG in city driving and 42 on the highway. List prices start at $17,225. View all articles by Jerry Edgerton on CBS MoneyWatch» Jerry Edgerton, author of Car Shopping Made Easy , has been covering the car beat since Detroit companies dominated the U. S. market. The former car columnist for Money magazine and Washington correspondent for Business Week, Edgerton specializes in finding the best deals on wheels and offering advice on making your car last.

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69 SRSLY #54: Stranger Things / Finding Dory / 8½ The great earth-mover: just how capable was Capability Brown? This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we talk about in the show as well as a bit more detail about who we are and where else you can find us online. Listen using the player below...... or subscribe in iTunes. We’re also on Stitcher , RSS and SoundCloud – but if you use a podcast app that we’re not appearing in, let us know. SRSLY is usually hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS ’s web editor and editorial assistant. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie , where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer. The Links Elizabeth Minkel's piece on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Stranger Things Anna on Stranger Things and reboot culture. Winona, Forever by Soraya Roberts. 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This year, somewhat overshadowed by the quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death, marks the tercentenary of the birth of the landscape designer Lancelot Brown, whose supposedly naturalistic confections around more than 130 country houses earned him the popular tag of “Capability”. The conjunction with Shakespeare has pleased Brown’s supporters, who believe he should be similarly regarded as one of the “curators of English identity”. “He stands behind our vision, and fantasy,” one biographer’s blurb reads, “of rural England.” Fantasy for sure. It’s hard to see what connection the classic Brownian prospect – artificial lake, vast lawns, mansion framed by trees – has to do with the real rural England. But hyperbolic praise for the great earth-mover is nothing new. In 2011 the Financial Times carried a series of articles that suggested Brown should be “canonised”. The historian Norman Scarfe wrote: “England’s most original contribution to the whole history of art lies in the landscape, and was an affair of creating harmonious pictures with the land itself.” Back in the 18th century Horace Walpole suggested: “Such . . . was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken.” Brown’s champions have always claimed that his supposed ability to imitate nature was his special gift. But the plaudits open up the contradictions at the heart of Brownism. He is praised as a uniquely original artist and a faithful copyist; as a minimalist and a land engineer on the epic scale; even as a rustic Marcel Duchamp, reimagining nature by dragging it into the gallery of the garden. In the end these aesthetic arguments are a matter of personal taste: anyone is entitled to make their garden into an installation. The more serious objection to Brown – or more properly to his cult – is that he is implicated in a powerful but false creation myth, of the kind the great historical ecologist Oliver Rackham called “pseudo- history”. This origin story posits Brown as Promethean, creating the style that, by a kind of trickle-down, remodelled the entire landscape of lowland England. The claims made on his behalf, when you step back, are of breathtaking hubris: “creating harmonious pictures with the land itself”. Whose harmony? Whose land? The ethos of “landskipping” has had corrosive effects on our understanding of the natural, and of the millennia of landscape-making that preceded Brown, and offers dangerous models for the future. The roots of Brown’s designs lay not in nature but in the philosophy of “Improvement” that pervaded public affairs in the 18th century. Improvement – in farming, industry, colonial adventure – lay at the heart of Whig philosophy and was an economic project cloaked in moral justifications. In landscape it involved presenting a clear view of a landlord’s benevolence and entrepreneurial spirit together with a physical structure that dramatised the social hierarchy of the estate. The so-called “English style” is supposed to have been a reaction against the contrived topiary and symmetrical parterres of French and Italian gardens, which represented the stiff intellectualism of the Continent, and was to be countered by buxom curves and the indigenous “emblem of pure legal liberty”. In truth both were domineering idioms, and the “naturalisation” in Brown’s and others’ designs has always been just spin. Rich men with access to the new technologies of surveying and drainage could now produce their own “nature”. Alexander Pope’s celebrated injunction to “Consult the genius of the place” turns out in his Epistle to Burlington to be the programme for an inquisition, where if the genius loci is found to be supplying short measures of elegance and order, the real genius, the landowner, must step in. His apologists agreed (Brown wrote little about his own work): “the living landscape”, Walpole instructed, must be “chastened or polished”. Nature must be “rescued and improved”, the damage of the Fall repaired. The overriding aim of English 18th-century landscaping was to demonstrate the standing of the Big House. A crucial device was the ha-ha, a sunken, walled ditch that excluded grazing animals while allowing the working countryside beyond to be seen unobstructed – “taken in” as part of the view. These agricultural acres were in turn being transformed by the forces of Improvement, so that the landowner had, in the same field of view, both his aesthetic playground and his commercial workplace, though reminders of the less pretty realities of farming, such as pigsties and workers’ hovels, were screened off by strategically placed tree belts. On the other side of the ditch, ordinary folk, excluded along with the cows and deer, could see the seat of rural power in plain and unambiguous sight, often on a slight rise in the ground. Humphry Repton, Brown’s successor, spoke approvingly of “that charm which only belongs to ownership, the exclusive right of enjoyment, with the power of refusing that others should share our pleasure”. Inside this overall structure were a series of pick-and-mix motifs – perfect parabolas of gravel, vast acres of lawn, water features where water had no business to be, follies inspired by neoclassical painting – assembled without reference to site or historical context. Cumulatively they built up an entire grammar of exclusion and control. Brown himself was no high-born elitist. He grew up in Northumberland and served six years of apprenticeship in the gardens of Sir William Loraine at Kirkharle. Although he did develop a personal style, he is best understood as a factor, a man adept at giving physical expression to his patrons’ ambitions. He worked on several commissions at once, sometimes simply modifying earlier layouts by designers such as William Kent and Charles Bridgeman. But despite the legend of harmoniously absorbing the local countryside, his projects were often brutally destructive. At Croome Court in Worcestershire, he drained a huge “morass” in the floodplain of the Avon (today it would be a protected marshland) into an excavated lake via artificial rivers. At Moor Park in Hertfordshire he created clusters of obtrusive hillocks, topped by groves of trees: “a dullish piece of Hertfordshire”, one of the owner’s family remarked, “[transformed] into a very fair imitation of Italy”. The Grecian Valley at Stowe, an estate where Lord Cobham had previously cleared three villages that spoiled his view, was made by moving earth in the opposite direction – 24,000 cubic yards of it, dug out and carted by hand. At Milton in Dorset, Lord Milton had the whole town razed to the ground while Brown was working for him between 1763 and 1770, replacing it with ten miles of dead straight carriage drives and plantations of pines. Tree planting was a significant ingredient of Brown’s improvements. Trees were territorial markers, visible demonstrations of status, emblems of continuity. They could conjure up a mythic pleasure ground or a valuable investment. Different species had different symbolic values. Oaks and elms were icons of patriotism. Imported evergreens such as cedars of Lebanon and Douglas firs were favoured because they added an aura of Britain’s imperial power and boundless capacity to import new wonders from across the globe. Saplings were used, but many patrons wanted mature trees, to achieve “the Immediate Effect of Wood”. Brown designed a “planting engine” for this purpose, a flat bed mounted on two large iron wheels. I have an engraving of a six-man machine carrying a huge beech tree. It looks like the triumphant parading of a captured gun. Brown’s favourite tree motif was “the clump”, a woodland canapé, suggestive of nature’s mysteries when viewed from the terrace, but purged of any credible suggestion of wildness, such as the undergrowth that forms the natural transition between wood and grass. Uvedale Price, Brown’s most articulate contemporary critic, wrote of it: “the clump – a name, which if the first letter were taken away would most accurately describe its form and effect. . . [they] are like so many puddings turned out of one common mould”. Planting amenity trees seems so self-evidently a force for good that it is hard for us to understand what a novel practice it was before the 18th century. Why bother when trees appeared so magnanimously of their own accord? We’ve become blinkered to the fact that it’s yet another expression of human power over nature. Trees cannot exist, we believe, unless we thrust them into the ground. That they have perfectly adequate reproductive systems of their own has vanished from popular understanding. Brown’s gardens can of course be captivating, in a hypnotic way. A couple of years ago at a literary festival at Petworth House, Sussex (Brown, 1753 onwards), I had the rare perk of dining in the great hall, looking out over continents of lawn that seemed to extend unbroken all the way to the Midsummer Eve’s sunset, and with J M W Turner’s watercolours of the burnished scene just behind my chair. I was thoroughly enchanted. But in the colder light of the following morning I realised I might as well have been gazing out over a suburban playing field. Half a lifetime further back, I lived close to the great wastes of Ashridge and Berkhamsted Commons in the Chilterns, a shape-shifting, storytelling prospect of heath and ancient beechwoods which had been evolving under common usage for more than a thousand years. All that spoiled it were the remnants of Brown’s tinkerings in the 1760s – weird triangular glades, cut into the woods, and tightly mown rides forced through the gorse and beech for no reason other than to reveal the ghastly prospect of Ashridge House. What they said to me – as they said to Brown’s contemporaries such as Uvedale Price, William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith – was that his designs are meaningless; they are decorative ornaments. Out in the real countryside, landscape emerges as it has always done since at least the Iron Age, by constant negotiation between natural and human ingenuity. Alas, the heirs of Improvement haven’t wised up to benign natural processes; neither have they developed any respect for millennia of vernacular landscaping. In 1979, in the wake of Dutch elm disease, a group of designers published an influential manifesto called After the Elm. After praising the example set by Brown and his ilk, and the “informal, apparently almost casual. .. English style” created in the 18th century, they set out a Soviet-style plan for a national “grand design” by way of reparation for the blight. “It is therefore more important than ever,” they wrote, “that the initial plan is prepared by professional landscape designers, and is strong, cohesive and convincing, not a collation of haphazard suggestions by many people” – ignoring that it is unplanned, communal enterprise that gives the English countryside its variety and character. The nearest large-scale Brown landscape to my home in East Anglia is at Heveningham Hall in Suffolk, which he began to lay out for Sir Gerald Vanneck in 1783. Driving to it from the west, you pass through the upper Blyth Valley, an intimate pocket of twisting medieval lanes arched over by ancient hornbeams and bordered by tiny meadows that really does feel like an English rural archetype. To come upon the estate after this is like being teleported to a different continent. Beyond the iron railings, immense acres of grass and countless sheep sweep up to the hall in a grand statement of authority. Brown created a dramatic lake over a mile long and preserved a few of the pre-emparkment oaks, but they stand abruptly in shorn grass, like municipal statues. Heveningham Hall was bought in 1994 by the property magnate Jon Hunt, who commissioned the landscaper Kim Wilkie to complete Brown’s design. Wilkie simultaneously worked on what is called “the Wilderness Reserve” – a well- meaning project, but a long way from the “rewilding” it claims to be. Echoing Brown at Croome, he drowned a wet alderwood under a lake. He planted 800,000 trees in regimented lines and hard-edged plantations, devoid of wild undergrowth. Seventy-two thousand were ash, which Wilkie, fearing ash dieback, removed and replaced with oak and hornbeam – “an £850,000 mistake”, he judged. Indeed it was. Thirty-five miles to the south-west, next to the wild cherry and hazel wood known as Arger Fen, the Suffolk Wildlife Trust let a large arable field go feral ten years ago. It turned spontaneously into an ash wood and then, when many of the ash seedlings died, into a natural wood with ten different species of tree distributed across the site – all with no cost or planting contortions whatsoever. Arger Fen is a good place to see a real English landscape. So, on a larger scale, are the Yorkshire Dales, where the awesome U-shaped valleys were sculpted by glaciers in the last Ice Age, and the New Forest, whose elvish woods were designated “Ancient and Ornamental” in 1877 without having had even the merest touch by a designer. Richard Mabey’s “The Cabaret of Plants” is published by Profile Books

2016-08-10 16:44 Stephen Bush www.newstatesman.com

70 Paul Ryan Wins GOP Nomination For House Speaker House Speaker Paul Ryan rejected the idea that his easy win Tuesday over a longshot Republican primary challenger praised by Donald Trump spells danger for Trump's... The Latest on the primary election in Wisconsin (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Two of Wisconsin's biggest political names, Paul Ryan and Russ Feingold, had an early and easy... The Latest on the primary election in Wisconsin (all times local): 9:55 p.m. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's not surprised by his large primary win and it doesn't mean... US House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was officially endorsed by GOP nominee Donald Trump, has been criticized by his primary challenger businessman Paul Nehlen. “It’s people ... House Speaker Paul Ryan was able to overcome Donald Trump’s late meddling in his primary race, beating overmatched businessman Paul Nehlen in the Republican primary Tuesday ... Following a roller coaster week which included an endorsement from controversial GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan easily won a Republican ... i Speaker of the House Paul Ryan speaks at the Republican National Convention in July near Cleveland. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Speaker of the... MADISON, Wis. — House Speaker Paul Ryan had nearly $10 million in the bank and a primary opponent no one had heard of. Then Donald Trump got involved. An expected walkover... MADISON, Wis. (AP) - House Speaker Paul Ryan had nearly $10 million in the bank and a primary opponent no one had heard of. Then Donald Trump got involved. An expected... JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan has defeated a longshot Republican primary challenger who had been praised by Donald Trump. Ryan beat businessman Paul...

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71 The New Statesman Cover | From the Somme to Iraq What does entryism mean? From the Somme to Iraq 12 - 18 August issue Entryism (n) Entryism re-entered Labour’s lexicon in the summer of 2015 as thousands of members and supporters of other parties (among them Greens, Trotskyists and Tories) sought to vote in the leadership election. But the term historically refers to a far greater degree of strategy and organisation. Origin The founding example of entryism was provided by Leon Trotsky and the “French turn”. In 1934, the Russian revolutionary persuaded his supporters to dissolve the Communist League into the Socialist Party in order to maximise their influence. The term has since been applied to any group that enters a larger organisation with the intention of subverting its policies and objectives. Labour’s most notable experience of entryism came with the Trotskyist Militant, which won control of the party’s youth wing (Labour Party Young Socialists) and a number of constituency parties. After its proscription by the National Executive Committee in 1982, hundreds of the group’s members were expelled during Neil Kinnock’s leadership, including two MPs (Terry Fields and Dave Nellist). Len McCluskey, the Unite general secretary, was a Militant supporter though never formally joined. “Operation Ice Pick” was the name given to Labour’s efforts to prevent entryists from voting in the 2015 leadership election, after the means of assassination used against Trotsky. Those barred included members of the Socialist Party, the successor group to Militant. The pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum has similarly banned outsiders from joining after MPs warned that it could become a vehicle for entryism. Usage Responding to charges of infiltration, Jeremy Corbyn said: "The entryism I see is lots of young people who were hitherto not very excited by politics, coming in for the first time. "

2016-08-10 16:44 Stephen Bush www.newstatesman.com

72 How Pakistan inspired the Glasgow shopkeeper killer To what extent was the murder of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah inspired by the killing of a politician in Pakistan five years ago? And what does this mean for the UK? CCTV images of the moments just before the murder of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah show his killer, Tanveer Ahmed, angrily remonstrating with him. Ahmed was incensed by YouTube videos Shah had made in which he claimed to be a prophet. Ahmed saw this as blasphemy that needed to be punished. He travelled to Scotland from his home in Bradford, then stabbed and beat his victim to death. Ahmed was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in jail - but appears completely unrepentant. In statements released in court Ahmed makes it clear he sees himself as defending the "honour" of the prophet Muhammad. I met friends of his in Bradford who told me they sympathised with his motivation even if they didn't completely agree with his actions. In carrying out the killing Ahmed was emulating the actions of another murderer whom he idolised - Mumtaz Qadri. Qadri killed a prominent Pakistani politician called Salman Taseer in January 2011 for trying to reform the country's controversial blasphemy laws. Qadri was executed in February 2016 , but was seen by many in Pakistan as a kind of hero for - in their view - defending Islam. Qadri also had numerous supporters in Britain - including Ahmed. Qadri's brother in Pakistan told me that Ahmed used to write letters to Qadri whilst Qadri was awaiting execution. And Ahmed even called Qadri's brother after committing the murder in Glasgow to boast about it. Ahmed's close links to Mumtaz Qadri have shone a light on support for the Pakistani killer in Britain. Few are willing to openly praise Ahmed and the killing in Glasgow - but after Mumtaz Qadri was executed in February a number of British mosques held ceremonies in honour of Qadri - and some imams praised him as a "martyr" and a "warrior". For Shaan Taseer, the son of Mumtaz Qadri's victim, hearing not only that some in Britain were praising his father's killer, but that one of his admirers had murdered someone - emulating his example - is a bitter blow. "When my father was murdered, to see his murderer garlanded with flowers was shocking," he told BBC Newsnight. "But somehow it wasn't so surprising knowing that Pakistan has since the 1980s been undergoing a state-sponsored radicalisation. To see something similar in Britain which is the birthplace of the Magna Carta, the crucible of parliamentary politics, was a very depressing sight, a very unhappy sight and extremely sobering. " We're used to small minorities within the British Muslim community holding extreme views, but what's different this time is that many of the most vocal supporters of Mumtaz Qadri in the UK completely oppose groups like the Taliban and so-called Islamic State. That includes Pirzada Muhammad Masood Qadiri, an Islamic scholar from Bolton. When Mumtaz Qadri was executed in Pakistan, he flew out to attend the funeral and express his support for him. "The views of ISIS - these views are completely against Islam. In fact, we are the victims of their attacks," he said. "Our leaders and scholars have tolerated a lot and behaved peacefully throughout history - but when our prophet is insulted then we Muslims cannot tolerate that. We can tolerate everything but not an insult to his honour. " Masood Qadiri refers to Mumtaz Qadri as both a "martyr" and a "warrior" - but says that he doesn't condone the fact Mumtaz Qadri took the law into his own hands in committing murder. He argues Mumtaz Qadri didn't have a fair trial - and effectively blames the victim for provoking the attack with his statements on the blasphemy law. "If a very decent person has his wife or mother insulted then he cannot control his feelings and so he will put his decency and proper thinking to the side and get very angry and out of control. "And that's what has happened. In this case he [Mumtaz Qadri] lost all control over his feelings and could not control his anger. " As a result he says Mumtaz Qadri should have been freed on grounds of diminished responsibility - something that seems incredible, but is a view articulated by other British Muslim clerics too. Given his views on the killing in Pakistan, I ask Masood Qadiri about his views on the killing in Glasgow. He claims that it would be wrong to draw an analogy between the two - and support for Mumtaz Qadri doesn't necessarily mean support for Tanveer Ahmed. "You cannot compare this country with Pakistan. Pakistan was created in the name of Islam. [The UK] was not created as a Muslim country and the Quran and Sunnah are not the law here. " But, I press him, aren't those like himself - who are supportive of Mumtaz Qadri - actually also supportive of Tanveer Ahmed too, but just worried about getting in trouble with the authorities? He says "no". But for Shaan Taseer, son of Mumtaz Qadri's victim, there is a clear correlation between the two murders. He wants the British authorities to do more to take on those praising his father's killer. "To glorify a murderer is not to glorify the individual but to glorify his actions and to call on someone to emulate them. It is essentially a call to action. "So when a man like Mumtaz Qadri is glorified then sooner or later a man like Tanveer Ahmed will commit murder. This is therefore a very dangerous idea. It is an idea that will lead to murder in the society. It is therefore an idea that must be addressed. " Tanveer Ahmed and Mumtaz Qadri both come from the Barelwi sect of Islam - normally associated with peaceful and spiritual interpretations of Islam - although both claim to have acted as individuals rather than on behalf of any group. Many of those supportive of Mumtaz Qadri are also Barelwi. Masood Qadiri says the particular emphasis this school of thought places on the Prophet means they react more strongly to any perceived insult. "We preserve all the traditions of the Prophet - how he lived his life - and we try and present the perfect picture of him. Because of that when someone insults him anywhere in the world the emotional feeling it creates in us is more than in any other group. " Some of those speaking out most strongly against the support shown in Britain for Mumtaz Qadri are other Barelwi scholars. They worry that open support for his actions is entrenching regressive views on blasphemy. But blasphemy remains a deeply emotive subject. A spokesman for the Council of Mosques in Bradford - where Tanveer Ahmed lived - told me that while he completely condemned all acts of violence, one solution would be to introduce a blasphemy law in Britain. It shows how the execution of Mumtaz Qadri and murder of Asad Shah are breathing new life into debates that many hoped we had left behind. Secunder Kermani was reporting for BBC Newsnight. You can watch his report here

2016-08-10 16:44 By Secunder www.bbc.co.uk

73 Gay couple's fury at Sainsbury's hand-hold complaint A gay couple who held hands in a supermarket have expressed their anger after a security guard told them they were acting inappropriately. Thomas Rees and Joshua Bradwell were in a Sainsbury's store in Hackney when the guard told them a woman had complained about their behaviour. "It's really knocked me for six and I've spent the last day or so analysing how I'm perceived," said Mr Rees. Sainsbury's apologised and offered them a £10 voucher. The 32-year-old said they were holding hands, and that he may have put his arm around his partner's waist as they were buying their food on Monday evening. "We weren't celebrating good news, we weren't all over each other, we weren't in the throes of passion - it was essentially just holding my boyfriend's hand as I do every day. I'm very much in love and that's how I express my love," he said. After they paid, a security guard told them about the complaint after he beckoned them outside so they would not be embarrassed, which "aggravated it more". "I have nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed about. I shouldn't be removed from the store," said Mr Rees. "All it's done is strengthen the importance that if you love someone, irrelevant of their gender, that is love and you should express that love in whatever way you desire or wish to. " Mr Rees tweeted the supermarket giant and got a message back apologising and offering the voucher. But he said he would like a phone call from them instead explaining how they train staff members to deal with diversity. He added: "I do feel for the security guard because he was clearly unable or poorly equipped to handle these situations. "He explained that he was brought up to believe 'live and let live' but he had to let us know that a complaint has been made and he kept repeating this complaint which was infuriating. " A spokesperson for Sainsbury's said: "We sincerely apologise to Thomas and Josh. "We are an inclusive retailer and employer and do not tolerate discrimination in our stores. "We will take appropriate action once we've concluded our investigation with our security contractor. " Two years ago, a "big kiss" protest was held at a Sainsbury's store in Brighton after a lesbian couple was asked to leave when one gave her partner a kiss on the cheek.

2016-08-10 16:44 www.bbc.co.uk

74 Southern rail strike suspended as talks resume A strike on the Southern rail network has been suspended to allow fresh talks in the row over the role of conductors, Acas said. Industrial action on Thursday and Friday has been called off for negotiations to resume. RMT members began a five- day walk out on Monday but Southern said it was encouraged its offer of talks had been accepted. Union chief Mick Cash said he had contacted Southern with a way forward. A spokesman for Southern said: "For our passengers' sake, we truly hope these talks will be productive and bring this long-running dispute to an end. " The rail operator said the strike timetable - which is running 60% of normal services - remained in the train-planning systems for the next two days. "Regrettably, this means tomorrow's service will be based upon the present strike timetable but we will do our very best to add services in and extend the hours of operation wherever possible," a spokesman said. The company said on Friday it planned to revert to the revised timetable that had been operating before the strike and its website would be updated as further information became available. The RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into "on-board supervisors" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors. The union's general secretary Mr Cash said in a message to members he had heard from Acas that Southern would enter into negotiations "without any preconditions". He said: "The National Executive Committee (NEC) has had time to consider this matter and have acknowledged that some progress is being made. "As the company have now agreed to meet with our union officials without the caveat of any preconditions, the NEC has therefore instructed me to inform you and your colleagues that the strike action has now been suspended with immediate effect until further notice. " He told members they were instructed to return to work for all shifts starting from 22:00 BST on Wednesday.

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75 East Kentwood sophomores dish on football, Wisconsin offers, fried pickles Editor’s note : MLive reporters have spent the last month catching up with key football recruits in Michigan, and we'll have daily stories on them all summer long. See all of the MLive recruiting news. EAST KENTWOOD – Logan Brown and Mazi Smith have plenty in common. The two sophomores are busy spending their summer preparing for their first full season of varsity football with East Kentwood. They are big, strong, talented linemen who have both received Division I scholarship offers from Wisconsin and Akron, and Illinois is big-time interested. And do they ever like to eat, too, which is no surprise, since Brown is 6-foot- 6, 270 pounds, while Smith is 6-3, 293. When it comes to who can eat more, though, it’s no contest. “Mazi,” said Brown, quickly giving Smith the nod. Get this – the two went down to the University of Alabama for a visit over Spring Break and stopped at a restaurant near campus. Smith has a peanut allergy and ended up in the hospital because they cooked the food in peanut oil. Big mistake? Well, maybe not. “I have no regrets,” Smith said. “Those were the best fried pickles that I’ve ever had in my life. It was worth it.” Smith is hoping to gobble up quarterbacks and running backs this year since he is expected to start at defensive tackle for the Falcons after playing in five varsity games a year ago. Meanwhile, Brown played on the junior varsity and was called up to the varsity for East Kentwood’s opening-round playoff loss to Hudsonville. Look for Brown to help anchor East Kentwood’s offensive line. True, Smith and Brown have limited varsity playing experience, but that hasn’t prevented them from landing on the radar of Division I schools. “It’s very rare,” East Kentwood coach Tony Kimbrough said of the offers Brown and Smith have received. “I don’t know how comfortable I am with it. But these kids are very level-headed and are putting in the work in the weight room and doing all the things we have asked of them. “They realize this is just the beginning for them. I’m a little bit surprised because they were freshmen. I’m glad they got some this year so they aren’t overwhelmed next year. I expect them to have really good sophomore years so next summer could be a big year for them.” Akron was the first school to offer both players. The two then attended a camp at Wisconsin, and the Badgers were quick to offer as well. “Both were in the top 20 out of over 100-something linemen, and they were the only freshmen there,” Kimbrough said. “They saw some really good things for Wisconsin to put out formal offers.” Neither Brown nor Smith said they are close to making a decision about their future. All they care about now is helping East Kentwood contend for the OK Red Conference championship and help them get back to the postseason for the fourth consecutive season. Athletes run in both players’ families. Smith is the second cousin of Tico Duckett, who starred at Michigan State University and later played in the National Football League. Brown’s sister, Jessica Brown, played Division I volleyball at Western Michigan University. “Mazi has tremendous ability,” Kimbrough said. “He started for us the last four or five games last year for us on varsity on defense. He did some great things, and we look forward to him doing some of the same things for us this year. He plans to be more of a dominant force on the defensive line. He also plays some on the offensive line. “Logan is interesting. When you look at his measurable, 6-6 270, he is very athletic and very flexible. He is a left tackle and he will play some defense. He will be one of the main guys.” While they said it’s probably unlikely they will end up at the same college together, Smith and Brown agree that it has been helpful to have a friend and teammate experience the recruiting process. Plus, they complement each other well on the field. “I’ll be honest, Mazi has made me a better overall player,” Brown said. “He is a very aggressive player. He gets on the field and is just zoned in. “I think what has made us stronger is that we try to outdo each other. My legs are stronger than his, and his upper body is stronger than mine. We compete a lot.” See More Sports News »

2016-08-10 16:44 Steve Kaminski highschoolsports.mlive.com

76 Woman Accidentally Shot During Citizen Police Academy Video Breaking news overnight in southwest Florida where police say an officer accidentally shot and killed a woman during a training exercise. Authorities including Puerto say 73 year old Mary Nelson was among a group of residents taking a class in community policing. She was involved in a row playing with scenario with an officer which was supposed to simulate a shooting. But something went very wrong. During the first scenario in a horrible accident. Participant Mary gnome was mistakenly struck with a live round. She was Trent Burton we memorial hospital where she was pronounced deceased. Hilton had moved to Florida from Minnesota the police officer involved has been placed on leave. As an investigation is now under way. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

2016-08-10 17:03 ABC News abcnews.go.com

77 77 Baltimore Police Ripped in DOJ Report for Rights Violations Video The DOJ it's releasing its report today on the department on the Baltimore police department a year long investigation found a pattern of racial discrimination. That includes illegal stops searches. And arrests of African Americans investigation was prompted by the death of Freddie gray and black man fatally injured in police custody last year. The report calls relationship between the police and community broken. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

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78 Shots Fired During Peaceful Protest in Ferguson Video On fire broke out in Ferguson Missouri during a demonstration for Michael Brown. Protesters had gathered to mark the second anniversary of Brown's death witnesses say the shots are fired after car sped through the crowd hitting a protestor. Police say there's no evidence anyone was actually shot round shooting by what police officer sparked national protest but a grand jury and the Justice Department cleared the officer and that she. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

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79 79 Here's Hillary Clinton Back When She Was Younger [PHOTOS] Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is all of 68 years old now, but she was just 44 years old when she burst on the national scene as the trailing spouse of then- Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton. She attended public schools in Park Ridge, Illinois and then went off to Wellesley College. Hillary Clinton as a youngster (YouTube screenshot) She married Bill Clinton in 1975. A few years later, in 1978, Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas. Here’s what Hillary — age 32 — looked like when she became the first lady of Arkansas: The charming first lady of Arkansas (YouTube screenshot) In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected president and Hillary Clinton became first lady. Here is Hillary in 1993 — waving very, very vigorously: Hale and hearty Hillary (Reuters) And here is the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate when she was robust enough to hold Kermit the Frog on her shoulder: Strong, burly shoulders (Reuters) Another photo from 1993 shows Clinton rosy-cheeked, if perhaps a bit maniacal: Rosy, stout cheeks (Reuters) In 1994, Hillary looked fresh and potent in bright, cheery-colored dresses: Pink, potent and very bejeweled (Getty Images) In fine, yellow feather with Bible-bearing Bill (Getty Images) In 1995, Hillary made a lively, feisty appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show: Flashing a physically fit smile (Getty Images) And in 1998 she was spryly dancing on the beach with her devoted husband: Almost a bikini body (Getty Images) “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Hillary said in 2014 . “We had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education, you know. It was not easy.” Follow Eric on Twitter. Like Eric on Facebook. Send story tips to [email protected]. (Photo credits: YouTube screenshot/Michael McCrudden, YouTube screenshot/AlphaX News, Reuters, Reuters/Win McNamee, Reuters/Gary Hershorn, Getty Images/Joshua Roberts, Getty Images/Joyce Naltchayan, Getty Images, Getty Images/Paul J. Richards)

2016-08-10 16:47 Education Editor dailycaller.com

80 Tyler Perry Offers To Pay For Funerals Of Girls Left In Hot Car Tyler Perry has offered to pay for the funerals of twin girls killed after being left in a hot car in Georgia. The 46-year-old actor, writer and director saw news reports of the mother struggling financially with the costs of burying her 15-month old twin daughters, and called his local news station at WSB-TV in Atlanta and offered to cover the expenses, according to ABC News. (RELATED: Tyler Perry Is Speechless After Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Death) (photo: REUTERS/Phil McCarten) Authorities said the twin girls, Ariel and Alaynah North, died after reportedly being left alone in a their father’s hot car on August 4th. The girl’s mother, Breal Ellis, was visiting in Atlanta at the time to see her sister who was involved in a car accident the day before. Ellis said she had been with them everyday of their lives, except that one day. “I was with them every day and the one day I left…I just want to tell them I’m sorry,” Ellis said. “They didn’t deserve to die like that or to die, period, but I know they’re in heaven.” The father, Asa North, faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct. North has yet to enter a plea.

2016-08-10 04:40 dailycaller.com

81 Irom Sharmila under supervision of JNIMS doctors; on liquid diet Imphal : Manipur's 'Iron Lady' Irom Sharmila, who broke her 16-year-old hunger strike yesterday, is now under supervision at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and has been put on a special liquid diet. Indian rights activist Irom Sharmila. Pic/ AFP A senior JNIMS doctor told PTI that Sharmila was under supervision of their doctors since she had been on fast for so many years and was not in a position to shift to solid food immediately. She is being administered liquid diet and perhaps would have to stay in the hospital room for some more days for medical back-up support until she is in a situation to take solid food and recover physically, the doctor said. Meanwhile, armed police personnel were posted in the hospital compound in the wake of security threat to the activist with some groups opposing her decision to end the fast, a police officer said. Outside a government hospital, a room of which was turned into a jail for her, the 44-year-old iconic rights activist turned emotional as she licked honey from her palm yesterday to end the fast that she undertook in protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act(AFSPA). "I want to be the chief minister of Manipur to make positive changes..... If I become chief minister, the first thing I will do is to remove the AFSPA," she had told reporters. Imphal West district's chief judicial magistrate Lamkhanpau Tonsing had yesterday in his order said as the offence under section 309 (attempt to suicide) was a bailable offence, he was inclined to allow Sharmila on bail on her furnishing a personal bond of Rs 10,000. After the bond was furnished, it was accepted by the court and a release order issued. Sharmila would appear before the court again on August 23.

2016-08-10 17:00 By PTI www.mid-day.com

82 WH: Number Of Syrian Refugees Escaping Religious Persecution Unknown The Obama administration cannot provide a breakdown of Syrians who have been granted refugee status in the United States as a result of religious persecution. The administration is pushing forward to exceed its goal of 10,000 Syrian refugees by September 30, and will need to admit about 3,200 refugees between now and their target date to reach 10k. President Obama pledged last year to increase the annual number of refugees the U. S. will accept globally to 85,000 from 70,000. During a conference call with reporters Tuesday, administration officials discussed the refugee program and the administration’s efforts to bring in more refugees in the coming months. “We believe this goal benefits not only refugees and their families, but strengthens communities and our nation as a whole and refugee resettlement is a reflection of our core value of who we are as a country, providing protection to individuals fleeing persecution on the basis of their race, religion, political opinions or membership in a social group,” said Robert Carey, Health and Human Services Director of Refugee Resettlement. “Most are Muslims — over 99% are Muslims,” said Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration Anne Richard when asked about the religious breakdown of the refugees. When Sec. Richard was asked what percent “are fleeing (because they) say religious persecution,” Richard responded that she did “not have that breakdown.” “In Iraq we began processing refugee resettlement cases in Erbil in December 2015. Thanks to these efforts and through the coordinated efforts of the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, we can now say that we have 8,000 Syrian refugees so far this year and that we are very confident that we will welcome at least 10,000 refugees from Syria by the end of this fiscal year,” Richard told reporters. She added, “Monthly totals have climbed from low numbers of refugees admitted in the first half of the year to higher numbers recently.” Prior to USICS’s announcement of how many Syrian refugees had been admitted, as of late July, 6,726 Syrian refugees were admitted into the United States for fiscal year 2016, but only 23 of these refugees are Christians, CNS News reported. Among the refugees who arrived in July, 1,501 (99.0 percent) were Sunnis, and three (0.19 percent) were Christians. The other 11 (0.72 percent) were other Muslims. Of the 6,726 Syrian refugee who arrived at the beginning of FY 2016, 6,625 (98.4 percent) were Sunnis and 23 (0.3 percent) were Christians – including 15 described simply as “Christian,” five Catholics, two Orthodox and one Greek Orthodox adherent. The rest of the 78 Syrian arrivals (1.1 percent) are 49 refugees who were described as “Moslem,” 17 Shi’a Muslims, 10 Yazidis, one described as having “no religion” and one “other religion.” Follow Kerry on Twitter

2016-08-10 04:40 dailycaller.com

83 North Korean athlete selfie: What happens next? Pictures of a North and South Korean gymnast taking a selfie at the Olympics prompted many of you on the BBC's social media sites to ask whether Hong Un-jong would face punishment for fraternising with the enemy. But as North Korea analyst and sports fan Michael Madden explains, that is unlikely to be the case. North Korea has pursued "sports diplomacy" as a matter of national policy since the 1980s. It is one - distinctly non-politicised - way for the politically isolated North to interact with the outside world and benefit from intercultural contact and exchanges. Some cynical and sanctimonious observers label this "propaganda," when in fact, North Korea is pursuing one of the few avenues of public affairs diplomacy available to it. The North even negotiated with Seoul to send a joint Korean team to the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, though it has never panned out. For athletes from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), it is an opportunity to represent the country in front of an international audience in spite of the intense pressure of expectations from home. Claiming that Hong will face the firing squad or a life of hard labour for her selfie with Lee Eun-ju ignores the fact that she was also photographed in 2014 hugging American gymnast Simone Biles at an international competition. You might think that by embracing an athlete of a country described as a "sworn enemy", Hong Un Jong would have incurred censure and not be permitted to participate in the Rio games. But that didn't happen. Sport is a fast track to becoming one of the elite in North Korea. Successful athletes are greeted upon their return home and it's reported all over state media. They are given state titles and awards by the North Korean government. In 2013, "merited" athletes were ceremoniously moved into their own designated, fully furnished apartment housing with members of their families. State media said that "all sportspersons of the country, inspired by the loving care of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), are unanimously resolved to achieve more successful results at international games. " Those who perform well are given heavy exposure, both in North Korea's internal state media and its public affairs publications for foreign audiences. Documentary films, and even feature-length dramatic films, are produced about successful athletes. Since assuming power in 2011, Kim Jong-un has strongly prioritised sport and sports diplomacy. He has initiated the construction and renovation of competition venues and practice facilities for athletes, mobilising a significant amount of personnel and financial resources in the process. He has also hosted numerous banquets, receptions and personal interactions with numerous DPRK athletes and sports teams. The last credible report of North Korean athletes facing very harsh penalties, such as incarceration or execution, for failing to win or perform well at international competitions is 25 years old. In 2010 when the DPRK men's football team failed to win the World Cup a series of media reports conveyed conjecture and unconfirmed reports that the team would be sent to a labour camp. What really happened illustrates how North Korean athletes who fail to win or perform well are treated. North Korean athletes are either members of the ruling WPK or still serving their mandatory military service term. As such they would be subject to the disciplinary process of a party or military member. For athletes this would involve, as it did for the 2010 World Cup Team, the criticism sessions which are part of party life. During a session, members of a small party group critique one's performance, with several people upbraiding the individual for their substantive performance (or lack thereof) and their perceived ideological failures. At the end, the person being critiqued then engages in self-criticism and resolves to do better in the future. The World Cup team members were brought to a meeting of athletes, coaches and sports officials where they were severely criticised for their failure to win. The coach, like any other DPRK senior official, was sent away to do construction for a few months before returning to a lower level position in the DPRK Football Association. The team and the coach were treated like any other group of DPRK officials who didn't perform well. While certainly uncomfortable and jarring to one's self-esteem, these penalties are certainly preferable to being sent away to a prison or being executed. This was an isolated recent case of what happens to DPRK athletes who don't succeed during competition. The reality is, the worst that usually happens to athletes who fail to place or win at competitions is that North Korean state media doesn't mention them. Michael Madden is a Visiting Scholar at the US Korea Institute at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University

2016-08-10 16:44 www.bbc.co.uk

84 Piltdown review points decisive finger at forger Dawson Researchers have finished an eight-year study of one of the most infamous forgeries in the history of science - the fake human ancestor Piltdown Man. They conclude that the forged fossils were made by one man: the prime suspect and "discoverer" Charles Dawson. The human-like skull fragments and an ape-like jaw, complete with two teeth, shook the scientific world in 1912 but were exposed as a hoax in 1953. New tests show the bones came from two or three humans and one orangutan. The research, published in Royal Society Open Science , was a multi- disciplinary collaboration including palaeobiologists, historians, dental experts and ancient DNA specialists. Comparing the methods used on multiple forged specimens dug up near the Sussex village of Piltdown from 1912 to 1916, the team found what they describe as a highly consistent modus operandi : Such a fixed strategy for fooling the scientific establishment points to a single person conducting the operation, said Isabelle De Groote from Liverpool John Moores University. Critically, it also links two separate locations: "Piltdown I" where the original jawbone and skull fragments were planted and excavated in 1912, and "Piltdown II" 3km away where Dawson claimed to find a matching tooth and skull pieces in 1915. "What we've been able to demonstrate is a signature, a fingerprint throughout all of these specimens, even including the second molar from the second Piltdown site," said Dr De Groote, first author of the study. "Dawson is the only one who ever said there was a Piltdown II site; he's the only one who was ever associated with it and we can clearly link that molar to the original specimens. " That case is clinched by detailed analysis of the various teeth. The exact shape of molars from the two sites, as well as traces of DNA found in teeth at both Piltdown I and Piltdown II, suggest they all came from the jawbone of a single orangutan - probably belonging to a rare subspecies from Borneo. Remarkably, Dawson appears to have removed the teeth, breaking the jaw in the process, then ground them down to make them appear more human and stuck two molars back in the jaw with putty and gravel. But planting a third tooth at Piltdown II, a century before ancient DNA analysis became possible, was his undoing. "That has to be Dawson, there's no doubt about that. He's the only person uniquely linked with both those sites," said co-author Chris Stringer from London's Natural History Museum. It is still possible that someone else supplied the specimens for Dawson to "discover", Prof Stringer added. But the amateur collector, anxious for scientific acclaim, was certainly "the central figure". As a consequence, several other suspects are now off the hook, Dr De Groote said, including the French priest Teilhard de Chardin who excavated an isolated canine tooth at the Piltdown I site in 1913. The new findings place that tooth firmly in the same orangutan jaw as the molars, which are now tied to Dawson. "It exonerates a number of people who have been accused," Dr De Groote told BBC News. She and her colleagues' fresh insights into the forger's methods - such as the precisely matching gravel embedded in the bones - also point to Dawson. "It was very carefully done," she said. "That's another thing that exonerates some others - for example, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the suspects. "Obviously he could write a good story, but he probably would never have had the skill or the scientific knowledge to prepare a forgery like this one. " Dawson, on the other hand, had a long-standing interest in antiquity and fossil collecting. He knew that scientists were expecting the earliest human ancestor to have a big brain but an ape-like jaw. "He listened very carefully," said Dr De Groote, adding that he even tailored subsequent forgeries to the reaction of the scientific community. "When a jaw and the skull bones were announced, there was a big discussion at the Geological Society about what the canine in such an animal would look like. And, ta-da - six or seven months later, a canine shows up and it looks exactly like what they had predicted. " She says her sleuthing on the Piltdown saga has made her think no evidence should be taken for granted, and scientists must beware their preconceptions. "If something fits a hypothesis maybe too well, question it again. " The scandal also makes a clear argument for not locking up fossils, Dr De Groote said; for decades after the discovery, scientists were only rarely given access to the Piltdown specimens themselves. She said even today, her PhD students often face difficulties getting hold of samples. "The field of palaeoanthropology is still very much a field of fossil hoarding. " By contrast, the recent example of the Homo naledi skeletons being quickly made available as printable 3D files is extremely positive. "In the last four or five years, this has started to change," Dr De Groote said. "Open access should include making fossils accessible to people. Now they can be scanned and shared very easily - it would just make for better science. " Follow Jonathan on Twitter

2016-08-10 16:44 By Jonathan www.bbc.co.uk

85 In numbers: Has Britain really become more racist? Hate crime rose sharply after the EU referendum, according to police figures. But is heightened racial tension here to stay? "Why are you still here? " a customer asked Lithuanian-born Alma Milaseviciute, 31, as she stood at the counter of the cheese shop where she works in Ludlow, Shropshire. "Good luck on your way back," another sneered. "Get out of my country," yelled a man at Esmat Jeraj, 26, after swearing at her. He'd spotted her wearing a hijab as she walked to work in Whitechapel, east London. Jeraj was born and raised in the UK. "You speak English, don't you? ", a woman in her 60s asked Brazilian-born Danilo Venticinque, 30, at a Southampton bus stop when she overheard him talking to his Mexican wife in Spanish. "Can you understand what I'm saying? This is our country. We are leaving the EU. We will stop having so many people like you over here. " Each of these incidents took place since the referendum on European Union membership. All three victims are at pains to acknowledge the perpetrators represent a minority of Britons and that most people in the UK would be horrified by this behaviour. Prominent Leave campaigners campaign have also strongly condemned abusive and bigoted behaviour of this kind. But there's clear evidence that there's been a spike in hate crime since the 23 June ballot. Reported hate crime rose by 57% in the four days after the referendum, police say. There were more than 6,000 reports of hate crime to police between mid- June and mid-July, according to the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC). Cards containing the words " No more Polish Vermin " were distributed in Huntingdon. In Plymouth, a Polish family were the victims of what police believe was a racially-motivated arson attack. Racist graffiti was scrawled on a Polish centre in west London. The key question is whether the surge in reported incidents is a blip, or whether the bar for what is considered a typical level of hate crime has been raised. Those who have fallen victim hope it's a temporary wave that will soon subside. "I think it will calm down," says Milaseviciute. "It was this big thing and everybody was shocked about Brexit. " Still, she's decided to stay indoors in the evenings for a while. Soon after the result, a man who overheard her accent screamed at her in the street: "You are illegal. Everything you do is illegal. " It's likely he was emboldened by the result, Milaseviciute believes. But she thinks that with the backlash on social media against racist incidents, people like him are increasingly keeping their thoughts to themselves again. Some 3,219 hate crimes and incidents alleged to have taken place between 16-30 June were reported to police forces across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to the NPCC. This represented a 37% increase compared with the same period last year. These figures, published this week, are updates of those previously released - the NPCC says the statistics change over time because of retrospective reporting of crime. The next reporting period, from 1-14, July, resulted in 3,235 reports of hate crimes and incidents (these figures have also been updated by the NPCC). This was only 0.5% up on the previous fortnight - the previously released statistics had shown a drop - but it was still a 29% increase on the same period in 2015. And 15-28 July saw 3,236 reports - virtually unchanged on the previous fortnight and up 40% on the same period the previous year. So has something permanently changed, or will hate crime levels revert to where they were before? It's normal for reports of racist and bigoted behaviour to soar after major news events. "Hate crimes don't occur in a vacuum," says Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, lecturer in hate studies at the University of Leicester. In May 2013, the month that Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered, there were 109 anti-Muslim hate crimes on the streets of London, according to Tell MAMA, a group which monitors Islamophobic attacks. Prior to this, from April 2012 to April 2013, there were 28 anti-Muslim hate crimes per month on average. Likewise, there was a record high of 1,179 anti-Semitic incidents in 2014, which the Community Security Trust (CST) attributed to reactions to the conflict in Gaza in July and August of that year. Anti-Semitic hate crime also spiked in 2009, when conflict in Gaza also took place. So it's possible that reports of hate crimes will return to normal levels, but there's reason to suspect this won't happen straight away, says Supt Paul Giannasi of the NPCC's Hate Crime Group. There are a number of reasons for this, he adds. Firstly, Brexit "isn't really over for most people". It still dominates the headlines and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It's also important to remember that the referendum wasn't the only relevant event during this period, he says. Terror attacks took place in Nice and Munich, and the Orlando shootings happened just before, so blaming Brexit exclusively would be simplistic. There has also been a considerable online backlash against displays of bigotry, which may have helped encourage people to report incidents that might otherwise have gone unrecorded. With the support of the Institute of Race Relations, the websites Post-Ref Racism, Worrying Signs and iStreetWatch compiled a study based on 636 individual reports of incidents of racist and xenophobic hate crime. The reports had been gathered on social media after people were encouraged to share accounts of incidents they had experienced or witnessed. It's likely campaigns like this made people more likely to report hate crimes to the police, Giannasi says: "I think we are seeing a greater commitment by people who are witnessing things. Most decent people in the country are utterly indignant. " It's impossible to tell to what extent the spike was about a rise in reporting and to what extent it was about a rise in actual incidents. What we do know is that most hate crimes typically go unreported. Police recorded 52,528 hate crimes in 2014-15 - but the Crime Survey for England and Wales (based on questioning people about their experiences) suggested there were an estimated 222,000 hate crimes on average per year between 2012-13 to 2014-15. This suggests that only around one in four hate crimes are actually reported. So if the number of reports falls in the weeks ahead, that won't necessarily mean the number of incidents have dropped too, says Hardy. "You are thinking: 'Oh, it's started to subside,' but in reality it might not have," she says. Until the results of the next Crime Survey are released in the autumn, the gap between reporting and levels of victimisation will be unclear. There's no inevitability that reports of hate crimes and incidents actually will fall. The CST says incidents of anti-Semitism were up by 11% in the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period the previous year despite there not having been any obvious "trigger events". The authorities say they are determined to tackle the problem, however. Police handling of hate crime is to be reviewed following the rise, the home secretary has said , and the government has announced a plan to tackle hate crime in England and Wales. Victims are waiting to see what kind of impact this has. "Things seem to have calmed down a little," says Jeraj. "There's been a very strong response to say there's no place for hatred. But I know people who are afraid to leave their house. " When Venticinque posted the story of what happened to him on Facebook, he was overwhelmed by the positive response he received from British people. "They told me that I was welcome, that they were ashamed of what had happened," he says. People like the woman who approached him are, he says, "a minority, but it's a minority that shouldn't feel so confident". Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

2016-08-10 16:44 By Jon www.bbc.co.uk

86 Who is the new Duke of Westminster? The sudden death of billionaire landowner and philanthropist the Duke of Westminster means his 25- year-old son Hugh has now inherited an estate worth £9bn. Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, previously known by the honorary title Earl Grosvenor, has so far kept out of the glare of publicity that once contributed to his father becoming affected by depression. But he attracted headlines after throwing a lavish 21st birthday party for 800 guests - dress code "black tie and neon" - which has been estimated at costing £5m. The seventh Duke of Westminster studied countryside management at Newcastle University. He works as an account manager for Bio-bean - a green technology company which recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels and biochemicals. In 2013 he was the youngest and wealthiest person to be asked by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to be godparent to Prince George in 2013. The duke attended a state primary before going to a private day school close to home in Cheshire. He becomes the new Duke of Westminster as the eldest male descendant of the late duke. He has two older sisters - Lady Tamara Grosvenor and Lady Edwina Grosvenor, who is married to historian and television presenter Dan Snow. His younger sister is Lady Viola Grosvenor. His mother Natalia, Duchess of Westminster, is one of the Duke of Cambridge's godparents. Source: Forbes List Along with his title, the duke inherits the family's country seat, Eaton Hall in Cheshire. The Grosvenor family has called the hall their home since the 15th Century. It was there at his 21st birthday party in January 2012 that comedian Michael McIntyre and the hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks provided the entertainment and Prince Harry was among the guests. It was also reported that guests who wanted to give a present were asked to add to his large wine collection. "The party was simply amazing - a birthday and a party I will never forget. It is the beginning of a new era in my life and I look forward to the challenges that lie ahead," the duke told the Chester Chronicle. shortly afterwards. In 2013 Vanity Fair described him as "baby-faced" and "absurdly rich", while the Tatler List once declared: "Hughie's a Newcastle graduate with his own wine collection who goes wild for girls in neon. " It added that after inheriting his father's estate he would "own half of London".

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87 'Sister Wives' Appeal To Supreme Court To Allow Plural Marriages “Sister Wives” star is appealing a decision to allow plural marriages without criminalization to the U. S. Supreme Court. According to Fox News , Kody Brown, known for his reality show about polygamy, has been granted more time to appeal the highest court in the land after the 10th U. S Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision from 2013 that allowed him to have four wives without facing criminalization. (RELATED: Polygamy Attorney On Gay Marriage Decision: SCOTUS Opinion ‘Resonates With Our Arguments’) (photo: REUTERS/TLC/Handout) Justice Sonia Sotomayor has granted Brown and his family up until September 10, 2016 to file the petition asking them to review the lower courts decision on plural marriages. Brown’s attorney, Jonathan Turley, said in the past the case is not about “recognizing plural marriages” but fighting against the “criminalization of private consensual relations.” He added in that aspect, the case is more closely linked to the one the Supreme Court ruled on 10 years ago. “The important thing though is to recognize that the question in our case is closer to the issue resolved by the Supreme Court ten years ago for gay couples in striking down the criminalization of homosexual relationships,” Turley said in a statement to The Daily Caller . The reality show “Sister Wives” first episode on TLC came out in September of 2010. In 2012, Brown and his family sued the state of Utah after being investigated for bigamy. In 2013 the family won their case when U. S. District Court Judge Clarke Waddoups removed the threat of arrest on polygamy families, and that parts of the law violated their rights to religious freedom. That decision was over turned in April.

2016-08-10 04:40 dailycaller.com

88 Eye Opener: Trump deflects claims of inciting violence |Donald Trump defends his Second Amendment comments that many say invited violence against Hillary Clinton. Also, why did a Florida officer kill a 73-year-old woman during a citizen training exercise? All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Get the Eye Opener delivered straight to your inbox.

2016-08-10 16:47 Eye Opener www.cbsnews.com

89 89 Crackdown in California as marijuana growing season rolls in Caretaker Charles Kinsey is shown lying in the street with a 23-year-old autistic man before being hit by a bullet from an assault rifle fired by a North Miami police officer. Gary Higgins, a resident of Hilton Head Island, talks about his concerns about the logging that is being done across the street from his home and around the island on July 6, 2016 at his home in Port Royal Plantation. President Obama, speaking at a memorial service in Dallas for five officers killed during a protest last week, said we all are deserving of equal treatment and respect, but stressed racial biases in America still exists. Dallas resident Allison Griswold recounts the gripping moments of the ambush-style shooting she captured on camera from her apartment window and shared via Twitter. Days after the tragedy, her life continues, although far from normal, in the midst of an ongoing investigation of the downtown neighborhood. An officer's dash cam shows the pursuit of an alleged hit-and-run driver, Saturday, June 18th, 2016. The crash happened in Yakima County, WA. A group of anti-fascist protesters confronted a KCRA television news crew at the Capitol on June 26, 2016. Beware explicit language. Twelve K-9 comfort dogs from seven states arrived in Orlando, FL to provide much needed smiles and healing to those grieving in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting. A gunman killed at least 49 people inside a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. After holding hostages for hours, the gunman was killed by authorities in a shootout. More than 50 others were injured in the attack. President Obama called the Orlando nightclub shooting an act of terror and hate. In the early hours of Sunday morning, a shooter killed at least 50 people inside a gay nightclub, before authorities shot and killed him in a shootout. Thousands attended Muhammad Ali's Jenazah prayer service at Freedom Hall in Louisville on Thursday, and many described their feelings toward Ali since his passing last week.

2016-08-10 16:47 www.charlotteobserver.com

90 Transgender pension case to be examined by EU judges A transgender woman who was refused the female state pension after she stayed married is to have her case examined by European judges. The move follows a UK Supreme Court hearing in July concerning MB, 68, who transitioned from male to female but chose, as a Christian, to stay married. That decision blocked her entitlement to the pension when she reached 60. Supreme Court judges said they were divided on the issue and would look to the EU Court of Justice for guidance. MB lost her case at the Court of Appeal in 2014 when judges upheld a decision by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to refuse her a female pension on the basis that she remained legally a man. Under the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, trans people acquired the right to formally change their gender by obtaining a full "gender recognition certificate". But a certificate could not be issued to a married person who did not have their marriage annulled on the basis of their gender change. MB, who married in 1974, began to live as a woman in 1991 and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1995, but did not apply for a gender recognition certificate. She says she preferred to stay married to her wife and the mother of their two children "in the sight of God". When she reached her 60th birthday in May 2008, MB applied for a state pension, but was refused on the basis that legally she was still a man, and should therefore wait for the male pension at 65. When the Court of Appeal rejected her attempt to challenge that, Lord Justice Maurice Kay described MB as the victim of "a real misfortune" and said changes in the law had occurred "too late for her to benefit from them". MB had asked the Supreme Court justices in London to overturn the Court of Appeal's decision. Her lawyers argue that the DWP's reliance on domestic UK pensions legislation is in contravention of EU laws. The Supreme Court's deputy president, Lady Hale, said the court was "divided" on the correct answer. "Since there is no CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) authority directly in point, it refers the question for their guidance," she added. Christopher Stothers, a partner at law firm Arnold & Porter, who represents MB, said: "This issue is a matter of principle as well as having financial consequences for pensioners. "Where an individual is physically, socially and psychologically a woman, as recognised by the state in their passport and driving licence, and indeed surgically, why should they be required - before the state will recognise their gender for pension purposes - to get divorced or have their marriage annulled, particularly where they and their spouse do not wish to do so and indeed have religious objections to doing so? "Although we are pleased with the result, the slowness in getting the issue resolved is highly frustrating for the pensioners involved. "

2016-08-10 16:44 www.bbc.co.uk

91 Forbes Welcome "Realize what traditions you will need to carry forward but also question what is also out there that will help make a difference and achieve new things. " Aida Batlle

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92 92 Patel MLA Jitu Vaghani appointed Gujarat BJP chief Ahmedabad: Gujarat BJP on Wednesday appointed Jitu Vaghani, an MLA from Bhavnagar West constituency and a Patel, as its state unit president in place of Vijay Rupani who became the Chief Minister recently. "Jitu Vaghani has been appointed as president of state BJP," party spokesperson Harshad Patel said. Vaghani, 46, a relatively young Patel face of BJP, was earlier state unit's youth wing president. He has also worked as secretary of the party state unit in the past. Vaghani belongs to Leuva Patel community among Patels. His name was finalised by party president Amit Shah today, and central party communicated it to the state unit, which declared it here. Vaghani won the election as an MLA for the first time in 2012. In 2007, he had lost against Congress's Shaktisinh Gohil. Vaghani has apparently been chosen as party state unit president as BJP has made non-Patel leader Vijay Rupani chief minister of the state. Rupani belongs to the Jain community. While the newly-appointed Deputy Chief minister Nitin Patel belongs to Kadva sub-caste of Patels, Vaghani is from Leuva Patel sub-caste. The BJP has chosen Vaghani apparently to give a message to Patel community, who are agitating for reservation in the state for last one year.

2016-08-10 16:55 By PTI www.mid-day.com

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95 Now TV London rooftop pop-up urges you to undress to impress in contract-free bundle promotion Now TV wants viewers to ‘break away from convention and be free,’ underlining this mantra by opening a rooftop nude colony in Westminster. The pop-up relaxation area offers great views of the Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and the London Eye in addition to some less savoury views of the attendees' personal landmarks as they look to make the British summer. The company urges those attending the central London terrace to go ‘clothes free’ and ‘contract free’ looking to snag some customers from Pay TV leaders such as BT, Virgin and Sky by promoting the Now TV Combo, a contract-free TV, broadband and calls bundle. Gidon Katz, managing director of Now TV, said: “As a nation, it seems we’re increasingly avoiding being ‘tied down’ in life – which is exactly what Now TV is all about. “We’re going to keep breaking away from traditional conventions; firstly, contracts, and now clothes, with the Now TV nudist terrace. We think the naked sun deck is a great way to promote our new ‘package’.” The terrace will open sporadically throughout the summer (weather permitting). Those looking to attend can check the scheduled dates here. The activity was organised by Taylor Herring.

2016-08-10 16:52 www.thedrum.com

96 Alphabet a year on: Why Google's parent company gets a B for brand strategy A year since Google announced it was restructuring under new parent company Alphabet, FutureBrand's Tom Adams spells out the perception problems it still needs to overcome. Alphabet’s birth was announced in a blog post by Google co-founder Larry Page on 10 August 2015. The missive makes clear that financial clarity drove the decision to restructure. Nevertheless, Page also wanted people to get “super excited” and for the entity to stand for something new. The markets have since rewarded Alphabet for clarity about how much money Google’s search activity was making against how much the pre- revenue moonshots were burning through: it briefly became the world’s most valuable company. But a year in is a good moment to ask what it has achieved vis a vis these other two objectives. An indicative answer is provided by The FutureBrand Index , an annual exercise where thousands of people worldwide rate the world’s 100 largest listed companies across 18 attributes. The companies are then ranked according to how positively each is perceived. Alphabet had inherited Google’s listing but we threw in Google for good measure, to compare impressions. As an early verdict on Alphabet in brand strategy terms, the results are not encouraging. Whereas Google had topped the Index in previous years and would have done so again in 2016, Alphabet sank to position 21. Apple now moved up to occupy the first position, leading Alphabet even more emphatically in perception than in valuation terms. Further, people are projecting what they know of Google onto Alphabet because the perception profiles of both entities are very similar, ie they are both relatively stronger in the same attributes. However, what is particularly worrying is that Alphabet comes 25th in terms of the innovation attribute in isolation, when innovation is the very thing the restructure was designed to foster. In sum, it appears that people simultaneously struggle to distinguish Alphabet from its predecessor and are not as excited by it. This matters. Research by Weber Shandwick concluded that corporate brand is as important as product brand when it comes to purchase decisions. Buyers, whether businesses or consumers, take account of the reputations of parent companies. Further, our own research has demonstrated a correlation between positive perceptions and stock market out-performance over time. These factors, along with the need to be employers of choice, is why there has been so much effort on the part of ‘house of brands’ corporations such as P&G and Unilever to seek the advantages accruing to strong ‘master brand’ companies such as IBM, Nike and Apple. An enhanced profile resting on a clearly defined purpose that unites its otherwise disparate brands can be the right approach to position a parent company and its subsidiaries for future success. In fact, Google was well placed to pursue the master brand strategy, having accrued enormously positive associations and with several sister companies already sharing the Google name (eg Google X and Google Ideas, now ‘X’ and ‘Jigsaw’ respectively). But its founders opted instead for a new vehicle: a parent that stays out of the limelight to let its subsidiary brands shine. At the same time they willed it to be an enthusiasm-inducing and eminently investable proposition, only in the absence of a public interface and with no discernible push to shape perceptions. Looking ahead, any halo effect Alphabet enjoys as Google’s new incarnation will likely further wane. Moreover, allowing the view to persist that Alphabet is Google by another name surely runs counter to the founders’ intentions. That is why in entering year two it would serve Alphabet well to weave a compelling narrative beyond the financial one, that connects its burgeoning family of companies. A narrowly focused Google, shorn of cutting-edge activities, must for its part guard against becoming perceived as a mundane internet advertising company. The new name and company structure has created challenges when such a move is typically designed to resolve them, because of negative associations with a sector for example (think Philip Morris being reinvented as Altria). Google had no such problems in 2015 so we must wait to see if the move becomes a masterstroke or an unforced error. Because of the early uncertainty however, Alphabet only scores a B for its brand strategy. Tom Adams is global head of strategy at FutureBrand

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97 Social Buzz Show: SEENConnects MD Sedge Beswick on social talent and how brands can nurture it Sitting down on the Social Buzz sofa this week is SEENConnects managing director, Sedge Beswick, formerly of Asos. Beswick spoke to The Drum's head of social Adam Libonatti-Roche on influencer talent and how brands can nurture it. "There's a lot more that brands can be doing to support and educate talent. So when you get someone who's become an overnight Instagram star, they don't know about SEO or how to optimise their videos on YouTube," she said. "If brands want to not become just a badging experience for them, but actually want to develop, support and create those long term relationships then they have experts in house "That’s the stuff that becomes interesting; sit down with those guys, find out what they’re struggling with what they need and help them on their journey and to be as successful as they can be. Because the bigger they get they’ll always bring it back to who went the extra mile to support them in whatever weird and wonderful situation they find themselves in. " You can watch the chat in full above. The series accompanies The Drum’s weekly Social Buzz chat, which takes place every Tuesday between 7-8pm GMT. You can follow and contribute on Twitter using the hashtag #SMBuzzChat. The Drum's Social Buzz Awards are now open for entry, you can find out more on the website .

2016-08-10 16:52 www.thedrum.com

98 Adblock plus blasts Facebook’s battle against ad blocking as ‘anti-user’ Adblock Plus has described Facebook’s decision to block ad blockers on the desktop version of its site as an “unfortunate move” that “takes a dark path against user choice.” The company, which provides one of the most- recognised ad blocking extensions in the market, has penned a blog slamming Facebook’s clampdown on the practice. Facebook announced yesterday (9 August) that it was embarking on a crackdown to overpower the tools for the first time, as well as offering users more control over the ads they want to see. Adblock Plus, however, has taken issue with Facebook’s newly-adopted stance, with Ben Williams, communications manager at the firm’s parent company Eyeo GmbH, writing a response titled: “Oh well, looks like Facebook just got all anti-user.” Pointing to Facebook’s press release revealing the news, in which it said that users were primarily using ad blocking software to stop “annoying, disruptive” ads, Williams wrote: “So if that’s true, Facebook apparently agrees that users have a good reason for using ad-blocking software… but yet those users shouldn’t be given the power to decide what they want to block themselves?” “In any case, it’s hard to imagine Facebook or the brands that are being advertised on its site getting any sort of value for their ad dollar here: publishers (like Facebook) alienate their audience and advertisers (the brands) allow their cherished brand name to be shoved down people’s throats,” he continued, adding: “Yikes.” He ended on a plea to Facebook to stop wasting time on “cat-and-mouse games that are a decade old.” “Wouldn’t it be better to address users (like all of you!) who have chosen to block traditional ads on their own terms? That is to say, don’t you want to be consulted here? “If nothing else, all this attention from Facebook shows that ad blocking has finally made the big time. We’re ready for our close up,” Williams finished. Facebook's decision to block ad blocking has courted mixed response from the industry. The Interactive Advertising Bureau's president Randall Rothenberg said yesterday that the company should be "applauded for its leadership on preserving a vibrant value exchange with its users. " "Its decision to respect advertising as an essential ingredient in connecting users worldwide is spot-on, and should be replicated across the free and open Internet," he added. Meanwhile, MediaCom's joint head of digital investment Amy Lawrence said that in the ongoing game cat and mouse between publishers and ad blockers it was interesting to see Facebook attempt to find a "middle ground. " "The circumventing of blockers is a move which will no doubt infuriate some users - while many users understand the value of content produced by the major news titles, for example, Facebook is not a content producer itself and this is a move towards understanding the value not just of content but of a platform and technology. "In terms of what it means for advertisers; not a lot, at least in the short term. With Facebook only blocking the blockers on desktop, and with the vast majority of their traffic coming from apps, the impact of this move won't be massive, but it is clearly just the beginning. It will be interesting to see what both Facebook, and the ad blockers, do next," she added. Serena Kutchinsky, digital editor at Newsweek that she believes Facebook is now experiencing the same "fear" as publishers over ad blocking tools, which are used by around 200 million people globally. "While traditional media have failed to find an effective solution—either denying the problem or adding pleading anti ad-block pop ups to online articles—Facebook has taken steps to eliminate this threat to its business model. " Kutchinsky thinks Facebook's move to allow users greater control over which ads they are served "is potentially game changing. " "Facebook is firing a warning shot at ad blockers, while demonstrating that they understand how annoying ads and intrusive can be. Let’s hope the rest of the publishing industry takes note," she concluded.

2016-08-10 16:52 www.thedrum.com

99 Microsoft’s new chatbot Murphy answers 'what if' questions and probably isn't racist Microsoft has bravely unveiled a new chatbot called Murphy as it looks to pick itself up from the PR nightmare ignited by its learning Twitter bot Taybot – that very quickly reflected the worst traits mankind had to offer. Murphy is a different beast, boasting integration with Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, and soon Kik and Slack, it creates pictures based upon 'what if' propositions. Murphy builds upon Microsoft’s Azure machine learning capabilities; you may remember the HowOldBot from last year , the company claims that more than 90 million people interacted with that bot. The newly released bot, first spotted by the Next Web, is also capable of machine learning, meaning the accuracy of its work will theoretically increase the more people interact with it. Building upon HowOldBot, which already had picture upload and scanning capabilities, the team assembled Murphy’s 'what if' processes, that are now capable of instantly creating a host of creative and interesting picture alterations such as merging (What if Wayne Rooney was Cyndi Lauper or What if Donald Trump was a shoe) and the adaptation of existing features (what if Barack Obama had a big head). The Murphy team said in a statement: “Murphy was created as an experimental project to showcase new technologies from Microsoft's Cortana Intelligence Suite – mainly Microsoft's Cognitive Services, including Bing Image Search and the Microsoft Bot Framework. It also uses other existing Microsoft technology like Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake and PowerBI. “As bots evolve to become the next generation of applications, we're also thinking about our principles in bringing machine learning and intelligence together with human interaction. Our intention is to make sure we augment human ability with that of machines, that these new apps are trustworthy and that they're inclusive and respectful so they can be used by everyone. We're still learning, and so is our new bot Murphy.” User uploaded images are only stored on the server for ten minutes said the group, looking to quell any privacy concerns too. Have a shot of Murphy here.

2016-08-10 16:52 www.thedrum.com

100 5 takeaways from #SMBuzzChat with Laurence Hebberd on personal branding What makes a strong personal blog? Is it the fact that you have a logo made that features your initials or is it that you are writing in a unique and personable style? During #SMBuzzChat , Laurence Hebberd explored the who’s and what’s of personal branding. If you enjoy #SMBuzzChat and want to get into the professional social media community, then make sure to take part in next week’s chat and these other chats held by friends of The Social Buzz Awards.

2016-08-10 16:52 www.thedrum.com

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