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PreventingAfghanistan becoming a sanctuary still a mission: Petraeus WASHINGTON: Preventing Af- ers,” he observed. ghanistan from becoming a terror- A sustained commitment, ist sanctuary still needed to be the he asserted , would reassures mission of the United States, a the Afghans. “Still put the former American general and com- pressure on them to make the mander of US forces in the coun- changes to get this pernicious try told lawmakers Wednesday. corruption out of some of the “The mission, I think is still really critical areas that they're very clear, it is to prevent Afghan- -- in which are causing such istan forever, once again, becom- problems,” he said. Ex-voting cards no more valid in upcoming election: Spokesman ing a sanctuary for transnational “Then also to have rules extremists the way it was when Al of engagement that allow our By Farhad Naibkhel Qaida had the bases there under forces to support our Afghan the Taliban rule in which the 9-11 partners who are fighting and KABUL: Post-election crisis electoral commissions to exert ut- attacks were planned and where dying for their country in a has been surfaced as the Of- most efforts to run parliamentary the initial training of the attackers mission that's important for us fice of the Chief Executive on election free and fair. was conducted,” Gen (rtd) David to be there. But when we Thursday invalided voting Pointing to those electoral bod- Petraeus, the former commander pulled our forces back from the cards issued in the last presi- ies’ commissioners who were in- of US and NATO troops in Af- front lines, we also pulled our dential election. volved in fraud in presidential elec- ghanistan, said. air cover,” Petraeus said. Briefing newsmen here in tion, Rahimi said “those people “The only way that you can “I think there's probably Kabul, Mujib Rahimi, the who alleged or involved with accomplish that mission, without still more of that needs to be spokesman from Chief Exec- frauds, should not be granted im- us doing it ourselves, is obviously done. And keeping in mind that utive Officer (CEO), said that punity.” to enable the Afghans to, over time, it was under the Taliban that voting cards distributed and Impunity culture in the coun- secure themselves and to govern Al Qaida had those bases used in presidential election in try has raised many eyebrows as themselves to a good enough fash- where the 9-11 attacks were 2014 is not valid any more for it bring under question the writ of ion,” Petraeus said in response to planned,” he said. (Pajhwok) the CEO. the government in judicial bodies. a question at the House Armed He said that CEO believes Recently, the New Line Orga- Services Committee. Search that the ex-voting cards are nization (NLO) as an observer of “We're not trying to turn Af- more than the number of eligi- the election process criticized the ghanistan into Switzerland in ten mounted for ble voters, thus the electoral failure of electoral bodies and new- years or less or something like that, 2 doctors bodies must seek another way ly assigned commissioners in the Afghan good enough, was often to get out of this problem. past two months. NLO said that the phrase. We sometimes exceed- kidnapped in “Distribution of extra the commissions did not operate ed that, but I think we have learned voting cards were the main fac- as expectation of people. that is the approach,” he said. Badghis tor behind broader fraud in Hinting to the issue of 20 mil- Sharing lawmakers concerns KABUL: Two doctors have 2014 presidential election,” he lion voting cards, NLO said that if about troop caps and time phased been kidnapped by suspect- added. the previous voting cards were not force draw downs, Petraeus called ed militants in northwestern Based on report only 10 announced invalid, challenges for re- examination of these caps, Badghis province, authorities million people are eligible to would be further take root in the of the effects that they have on said on Thursday. Working for vote in the country, but around upcoming election. units. the Public Health Depart- 20 million voting card has been “As you know, if a command- ment, the doctors were kid- distributed. Issuance of addi- er is given only a certain number napped on their way to a clin- tional voting cards was one of of forces, he's going to fill that num- ic in Qadis district, a state the main factor behind elector- Route survey for TAPI pipeline to begin this month ber, with those who can do what from the provincial govern- al challenge, which made the only those in uniform can do, ment’s media office said. A presidential election scandal PESHAWAR: A route survey and The German firm ILF has been 14 to begin work on the route sur- Pakistan before proceeding to Af- which is to go outside the wire and search operation has been and these crisis lead to estab- detailed engineering and feasibili- granted the project management vey, engineering and feasibility ghanistan. Inter State Gas Systems help partners engage with the pop- mounted for the doctors’ re- lishment of National Unity ty studies for the Turkmenistan- consultant (PMC) contract by the study to implement the project,” Managing Director Mobin Saulat ulation and occasionally, in this covery, according to the state- Government brokered by the Afghanistan-Pakistan-India TAPI Company, which will oper- a government official was quoted told the newspaper that pipeline case, engage with the enemy be- ment, which blamed the Tali- US. (TAPI) gas pipeline will begin in ate the long-awaited pipeline. as saying. construction and gas-field devel- cause we're now much more en- ban for the kidnapping. But The CEO spokesman stat- Pakistan this month, a news re- “A team from Turkmenistan The Express Tribune report- opment was ongoing at a fast clip ablers than we are front line fight- the militants have not yet ed that executive office urged port said on Thursday. will reach Islamabad on February ed the team would initiate work in in Turkmenistan. (Pajhwok) commented. (Pajhwok) FRIDAY .FEBRUARY 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] By Andrew Mitrovica Facts are fast becoming an endan- Service's Twitter account when it unfold in the US, I was reminded to 2100. Email: [email protected] gered species. posted two photographs - one of of the ultimately futile, destruc- But scientists are, by and large, As anyone with functioning Obama's densely populated inau- tive actions of a slightly more pol- a bright, inventive and indepen- www.afghanistantimes.af synapses knows, facts and, more guration adjacent to Trump's rela- ished, but equally paranoid leader dent-minded lot, not prone to sa- particularly, the literate people that tively vacant one. of another western democracy who luting when politicians bark orders Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi produce them, are considered pub- In reply to Trump's diktat, a shared Trump's preference for al- like drill sergeants. lic enemy No 1 by an illiterate pres- brave, subversive soul posted a ternative facts over the objective One by one, Canadian scien- Advisory editorial board ident who watches TV obsessive- series of tweets on the Service's truth - former Canadian Prime tists stepped out of anonymity ly and boasts of not reading books, account which pointed out, in ef- Minister Stephen Harper. into the unwelcomed spotlight to Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, including, presumably, the turgid, fect, that the Earth is well on the Like Trump, Harper was crip- tell the truth about what was hap- self-aggrandising tomes he paid way to committing climate suicide. pled by insecurity and an irratio- pening to them and the fate of their Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal others to pen for him. The tweets were, no doubt, nal conviction that beyond a hand- work at the behest a politician who Donald Trump confirmed long crafted as a factual rebuke of the ful of loyal consiglieri, he was be- thought he could imprison their Graphic-Designers: ago that he prefers to inhabit an climate-change dodos now running sieged by his mortal, political ene- brains and muzzle their mouths. Edriss Akbari and Bilal Yusufi agreeable alternate universe where the US government. Alas, they mies - visible and invisible, bur- Harper miscalculated badly. Marketing & Advertising: Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press The constitution says Article 117 The President shall appoint one of its members as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Members of the Supreme Court, except under circumstances stated in Article One Hundred Twenty Seven of this Constitution, shall not be dismissed till the end of their term. Editorial Nothing burns like cold Vulnerable Afghans are struggling to cope with harsh winter. Heavy snowfall and freezing temperature in northern Afghani- stan claimed more than 40 lives so far. Winter is proved dead- ly for poor people, and especially for the Internal Displace "alternative facts" that defy logic, soon evaporated into the electron- rowed well inside the bureaucra- Eventually, government scientists, rationality and, in many cases, the ic ether. Still, the point was made, cy. Turns out, Harper wasn't supported by their international Persons (IDPs) who were living under mud houses and tents. immutable laws of nature, are per- widely noted and applauded. scared of his shadow, but rather brethren, mobilised and demon- petually manufactured by his Like every other pestilence, scientists and their science. strated against a myopic politician Nothing burns them like the cold and freezing temperature dur- courtiers to comfort and calm the however, this one will, in time, Long before Trump appeared and his corrosive, anti-democratic ing winter. combustible psyche of the Presi- pass. Then, munificent Americans on the political horizon, Harper impulses. dent of the United States. must set to work, together, to re- was not only banning government Last October, millions of oth- Heavy snowfalls have taken the lives of 47 people in Darz- And so it was after Trump's pair and rebuild after the storm as scientists from having any contact er Canadians finally and emphati- sparsely attended inauguration best they can. with the media, but, driven by a cally joined these courageous sci- ab district of northern Jawzjan province. More than 70 centi- where the National Mall and near- As we know, Trump's media crass, petulant ideology, he and his entists to resist and reject an meters snow has fallen in the district, cutting off access for by viewing stands resembled an ban on an innocuous government compliant cabinet also set out to opaquely sinister authoritarian abandoned suburban shopping agency would be the first of many. purge systematically the unfriend- masquerading as a "democrat" who villagers in the area to medical care. mall early on a Monday morning, Next on the hit list were those - lies or, at the minimum, stifle their has quickly and happily disap- he had yet another tantrum. theoretically-speaking - fact- ability to share their work with peared into irrelevance. Moreover, the State Ministry for Disaster Management Af- 'Alternative facts' friendly scientists and bureaucrats anyone outside government. Today, the US is confronting a Reportedly, an apoplectic at the Environmental Protection This translated into a govern- similar, although, arguably, more fairs (SMDMA) has recently informed that at least 21 people Trump ordered his marionette Agency (EPA). ment-wide edict requiring scien- pronounced and vile menace. If have been died in the last few weeks due to a severe blow of turned press secretary, Sean Spic- Their intellectual crime was not tists to endure a vetting process there is an overarching lesson to er, to gather up his alternative facts only to search for, verify and share with more hurdles than a steeple- be learned from the Canadian ex- snowfall and cold weather across the country. Heavy snowfall and humiliate himself by raging at facts with the public, but also to chase simply to respond to even a perience, it may be this: an igno- his blessedly brief maiden "press underwrite other local scientists to routine query from the press that rant regime, led by a singularly ig- and avalanches kill scores of people in Afghanistan in every conference" that the inauguration search for, verify and share facts would inevitably, more often than norant man will use the blunt cud- was the most-watched in alternate with the public about how, among not, go unanswered. gel of retribution to cause deep winter season. universe history. other things, to clean up toxic spills The intent of this sorry, cyni- harm and grievous damage to Amer- Harsh winter will not show mercy, but it is the duty of relat- Everyone laughed, while The and test for nasty, dangerous stuff cal pantomime was clear: scientists ica's social, political, scientific and New York Times rightly dismissed lurking in groundwater. don't serve the public, but the pet- environmental fabric. ed officials to aware people of winter consequences. In Jaw- Spicer's angry, sputtering perfor- Since searching for and shar- ty, parochial interests of a majori- Like every other pestilence, mance as a pack of lies. Infuriated, ing facts with Americans is anath- ty government that had little faith however, this one will, in time, zjan, peopled died of cold because they don’t had access to Trump devoted much of his first ema to the Trump administration's in or time for their science. pass. Then, munificent Americans official day as the "leader of the rule-by-fiat modus operandi, the At first, the attendant "chill" must set to work, together, to re- health services. Provincial officials should have provided free world", pressuring the acting career scientists and bureaucrats at had the desired effect. With nei- pair and rebuild after the storm as health care to the people in the areas. It is a fact that despite head of the National Park Service the EPA were ordered to stop talk- ther access to the scientists, nor best they can. In this endeavour, to produce alternate photographs ing to the "opposition party" … their science, reporters were in- truth and knowledge must be their youngsters, hundreds of children will become sick during win- - that didn't exist - to prove a lie. no, not the Democrats, but those creasingly unable to report on se- north star and citizens who sub- Of course, since that was im- other supposedly fact-friendly rious matters in the public inter- scribe to the transformative neces- ter, and medical facilities is a must. In Darzab people and chil- possible, Trump did the next best degenerates in the press. est, including government-pro- sity and value of facts must be the dren died because the dizzy eyes of the provincial officials thing; his regime retaliated and tem- Canada's science gag order duced studies charting the project- shepherds out of darkness into en- porarily closed the National Park Watching these surreal events ed warming of the globe through lightenment. were not turned to these innocent souls. SMDMA is also responsible for the human losses. The min- istry should have provided healthcare facilities in the areas under threat of snow block. But, still there is time for the relevant officials to take a significant steps to prevent more human losses as winter is yet to over. Emergency winter aid must be provided to the all needy people, especially to IDPs and refugees returned from Paki- stan and Iran. The government must provide food, shelter and healthcare facility to all citizens across the country. If more children, wom- en, elder and youngsters died of cold, the blood will be on the Afghanistan government’s hands, because it had received millions of US dollars in foreign aid in their name. Despite, snow makes the whole Afghanistan beautiful as the streets are wet and muddy and the snow covers the rose garden Wheat and the barbed wire, but it also kills people. At real scene, snow doesn’t kill, it is the negligence of the related officials that result into killing of people due to heavy snowfalls. With Self- flowed of foreign aids, the government failed to delivery hu- sufficiency manitarian assistance to the needy people during harsh winter. 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Facebook Inc. squeezed nearly 30% more revenue per user in the fourth quarter, pumping its adver- tising muscle ahead of an antici- pated slowdown in growth later this year. Users spent more time watch- ing videos on Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram, pro- viding the social media giant with more slots for ads. That built on growth in mobile advertising that Facebook has been taking advan- tage of for several years. Each user generated $4.83 in revenue in the fourth quarter, jump- ing from $3.73 a year earlier, Face- book said Wednesday, helping send the company’s revenue up 51% to $8.81 billion. Facebook’s shares were up 1% at $134.59 in after-hours trading on Nasdaq. In 2016, Facebook added near- ly 270 million users, bringing its monthly user base to 1.86 billion, the strongest increase in the num- projects, including a video-centric ber of users since Facebook went app for set-top boxes. Facebook Global stocks public in 2012. Most of the is promoting longer videos in its growth in users came from outside news feed, and late last year, it slip after Wall the U.S., such as in the Asia-Pacif- rolled out a video-only tab for U.S. ic region. However, the U.S. and users. Canada were the source of its in- Facebook is also paying cre- Street drop crease in revenue. ators directly to make videos for Global stocks retreated in the pen- “In most mature markets, to Facebook and eventually plans to ultimate trading session of the year see people come on the platform share revenue with publishers Japanese electronics and entertain- "Passengers" and "Billy Lynn's pliances, making it hard for it to Sony, known for inventing the as a setback on Wall Street rippled ment company Sony Corp. report- Long Halftime Walk," directed by do well constantly in every sector. Walkman portable player, suffered more often, that’s a very good more broadly in the future. Mr. overseas. ed Thursday an 84 percent profit Ang Lee. Neither were blockbust- In the latest quarter, PlaySta- losses in its once prized TV busi- Japanese stocks posted their trend,” said JMP Securities ana- Zuckerberg hopes the tab will en- courage users to turn to Facebook drop in October-December, as loss- ers. tion 4 game software and machine ness for years. Recent improve- steepest loss since the day after lyst Ron Josey. “And the mature es in its movie division offset Sony said Chief Executive sales and the contribution from its ments highlight the company's re- the U.S. election, while the Stoxx markets are your most profitable.” not only for news and updates healthy results in its video game Kazuo Hirai will take a bigger role Virtual Reality headset called VR newed focus on profitability. It has Europe 600 fell 0.3% Thursday Facebook’s quarterly profit from friends, but also entertain- business. overseeing the movie business, helped boost profits in that divi- also sold some assets, such as its from its highest close in 2016, and leapt to $3.57 billion from $1.56 ment. Tokyo-based Sony, which keeping another office in Califor- sion. Its computer chip sector also Vaio personal computer business. London’s FTSE 100 index dipped billion a year earlier. Today, Facebook’s users open makes the PlayStation 4 game ma- nia, to lead a turnaround. fared well on the growth of image Sony is also enjoying a strong 0.2% after notching an all-time high. Facebook was at the center of the app “when they have a few chine and Bravia TVs, reported a He will also find a successor sensor sales for mobile products. reputation for still and digital vid- The moves followed a pull- political discourse during the minutes” and want to see what’s fiscal third quarter profit of 19.6 to Michael Lynton, who had head- In its music business, best-sell- eo cameras, but the company said back in the U.S. on Wednesday, fourth quarter, as voters, media going on in the world, Mr. Zucker- billion yen ($174 million), down ed Sony's entertainment but re- ers included Pentatonix's "A Pen- an unfavorable exchange rate erod- when the Dow Jones Industrial organizations and presidential can- berg said. “That’s very different from 120.1 billion yen the previ- signed earlier this month to take a tatonix Christmas," Leonard Co- ed such gains. Its smartphone of- Average posted triple-digit de- didates flooded the site with posts. from saying hey, I want to watch ous year. position at Snapchat, it said. hen's "You Want it Darker," and ferings have failed to stack up clines in relatively light trading. Yet political advertising stemming video content now. That’s what I Quarterly sales slipped 7 per- Sony has a sprawling business, "Sayonara no Imi," by Nogiza- against Apple's iPhone or Samsung Futures pointed to a nine-point think we’re going to unlock with cent to 2.4 trillion yen ($21.3 bil- spanning music to household ap- kia46, according to Sony. Electronics Co.'s Galaxy line. opening decline for the blue-chip from the U.S. presidential election lion), mainly because of unfavor- index later Thursday, pushing it had a limited effect on Facebook’s this tab,” he said. Facebook has also been devel- able foreign exchange rates, the further from the closely watched business during the quarter, Chief company said Thursday. 20000 milestone. Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg oping virtual reality capabilities, Sony also lowered its full year “You’re in the holidays, vol- said during a conference call. Po- which Mr. Zuckerberg has predict- fiscal profit forecast because of a ume is low, and we’ve had a good litical spending—even in the ed will be the next major comput- $962 million write-down in its film run here,” said Ernie Cecilia, chief U.S.—didn’t crack the top 10 ad- ing platform. However, its main division, stemming from its acqui- investment officer at Bryn Mawr vertising categories for Facebook VR unit, Oculus, barely registers sition of Columbia Pictures in Trust, “But our view would be during the fourth quarter, she said. in the parent company’s growth, 1989. that stocks still look like the place “No one event is that big for and sales of its first headset, Sony announced what's called to be, at least in 2017.” our business,” she said. She also launched last year, have been low- "goodwill impairment," lowering With few catalysts left to guide said Facebook was increasingly er than anticipated. the profitability projection from trading this year, some investors drawing revenue from a broader Separately, a court in Dallas its movie division, earlier this are waiting for more clarity on fis- week. cal policy from the new U.S. ad- pool of advertisers. on Wednesday found Oculus guilty of unfairly using the code of a The company now expects a ministration in early 2017 to set The promotion of video 26 billion yen ($231 million) prof- videogame publisher, ZeniMax the tone. across Facebook and its apps re- it for the fiscal year ending March “Valuations are high, so we flects what Chief Executive Mark Media Inc., to build its headset. 2017. It had earlier projected a 60 may be in for a little bit of a bumpy Zuckerberg calls a “video-first” The court awarded ZeniMax $500 billion yen ($532 million) profit. road if some expected things like strategy. Mr. Zuckerberg has di- million. The parade of strong It posted a 147.8 billion yen prof- infrastructure spending, corporate rected the company to weave vid- growth—the fourth quarter was it the previous fiscal year. tax reform, and deregulation don’t eo across all its products in recent the fifth straight quarter of reve- Sony said its movie business occur or have early momentum,” months, an initiative resembling nue increases of at least 50%—will was expected to improve, stress- said Tom Manning, chief executive Facebook’s big push on mobile slow this year, Facebook has cau- ing the decrease in quarterly profit at F.L. Putnam Investment Man- around its public offering in 2012. tioned. Executives on Wednesday was partly because of the huge agement. “I see video as a mega trend on reiterated warnings from Novem- success of "Spectre," a James In Europe, the export-heavy the same order as mobile,” Mr. ber that it will stop jamming more Bond film, and "Hotel Transylva- auto sector was the worst perform- nia," an animation about Dracula, er Thursday as the euro strength- Zuckerberg said Wednesday. ads into the news feed, and expects advertising revenue growth to drop the same period last year. ened, while bank shares fell 0.6%. Nearly every product team at Sony Pictures works released “meaningfully” later this year. In currencies, the WSJ Dollar Facebook is working on video during the third quarter included Index dropped 0.4% on Thursday after settling at a 14-year high, in a decline some analysts attributed to weak U.S. home sales data. The Dollar falls after Fed; earnings weigh euro was last up 0.3% against the Shell profit falls short dollar at $1.0456, while the dollar was down 0.3% against the yen. Deutsche Bank The stronger yen and weak on stocks: Markets wrap as rising crude costs close on Wall Street contributed to a 1.3% decline on Japan’s Nikkei The dollar slumped against all its Inc.’s sales topped forecasts, Sony declined 0.5 percent. The bench- misses estimates Stock Average on Thursday. Toshi- major peers after the Federal Re- Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. cut mark measure jumped 0.9 percent sap refining ba’s shares also continued to tum- serve gave investors little fodder their profit outlooks. In Europe, on Wednesday, buoyed by results as client jitters ble amid concern about a write- to change their views on the pace Deutsche Bank and Shell missed from Siemens AG and Volvo AB. Royal Dutch Shell Plc reported fourth-quarter profit that missed ana- down at its nuclear business. of U.S. interest-rate hikes. Glo- estimates. Due later on Thursday Futures on the S&P 500 lost hit trading lyst estimates after crude’s recovery drove up costs for refining while The moves came even as a bal equities retreated as investors are earnings from Amazon.com Inc. 0.4 percent, after the underlying earnings from production did little more than break even. summary of opinions released scrutinized mixed earnings from Bank of England Governor gauge rose less than one point to Deutsche Bank AG reported Profit adjusted for one-time items and inventory changes totaled Thursday showed a majority of the corporate heavyweights. Mark Carney faces a delicate bal- close at 2,279.42 on Wednesday. fourth-quarter trading revenue that $1.8 billion, a billion dollars short of analyst estimates. The upstream, board members at the Bank of Ja- The U.S. currency dropped ancing act when policy makers That halted a four-day slide that missed analysts’ estimates as con- downstream and integrated-gas business units all missed company fore- pan want to maintain ultra-easy toward the lowest close since No- meet to decide interest rates on was the longest since the Novem- cerns about the company’s financ- casts. Shell barely made any money from refining and trading: just $77 monetary policy, with one policy vember, resuming declines after Thursday. The BOE is expected ber election. es weighed on clients. million, down 90 percent. maker calling for interest rates to gaining for the first time in three to raise predictions while keeping The MSCI Asia Pacific Index Revenue from debt trading, the Major oil companies are facing a complicated time. Crude prices be kept at zero for a “consider- days on Wednesday. European the key interest rate at a record slipped 0.1 percent, with more bank’s biggest source of income, have recovered, but only enough to push Shell’s exploration and pro- able” time. stocks dropped with S&P 500 fu- low and bond purchases un- than two stocks declining for ev- rose 11 percent from a year earlier duction business back into the black, compared with a billion-dollar loss Elsewhere, Hong Kong’s Hang tures as Deutsche Bank AG and changed. ery one that advanced. Japan’s to 1.38 billion euros ($1.49 billion), a year ago. At the same time, the rising cost of oil has hurt profit from Seng Index inched up 0.2%, while Daimler AG fell after reporting Economists expect a 175,000 Topix index fell 1.1 percent while falling short of the 1.68 billion-euro processing crude. stocks in Australia added 0.3% as results. Oil halted its gains above increase in U.S. nonfarm payrolls Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.6 average estimate of 10 analysts in “They missed estimates in all three business segments, which is a a weaker dollar helped lift metals $53 a barrel while gold advanced. for January, in line with the recent percent. Singapore’s Straits Times a Bloomberg News survey. Equi- bit disappointing,” Brendan Warn, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets prices. Gold was last up 0.7% at Japan’s 10-year yield rose to the trend, when the Labor Department Index retreated 0.8 percent from ty trading revenue fell 23 percent in London, said Thursday by phone. “They are building momentum on $1,148 an ounce, on track for a highest in a year. releases jobs data on Friday. With the highest level since October to 428 million euros, Deutsche asset sales and cash flow and that is the encouraging part.” fourth straight day of gains. The Fed reiterated its inten- both hiring and unemployment 2015. Bank said Thursday, while ana- Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden this week announced the In government bond markets, tion to lift rates gradually as the likely to remain relatively stable, China markets were closed for lysts had expected revenue to be sale of fields in the North Sea and Thailand for as much as $4.7 billion, the 10-year German bund yield labor market tightens, acknowl- the focus on the jobs report will the final day of Lunar New Year flat. and said Thursday that Shell’s $30 billion divestment program is on fell to 0.166% Thursday from edging rising confidence among center on wage pressures. holidays. Chief Executive Officer John track. He also said the company generated enough cash last quarter to 0.195%, while 10-year Treasury U.S. consumers and businesses. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot West Texas Intermediate crude Cryan is shrinking the trading op- pay for capital spending and dividends without borrowing more. yields fell to 2.472% from 2.510% Investors will now be looking to- Index lost 0.4 percent as of 8:07 Van Beurden has made debt reduction a top priority since Shell futures slipped 0.2 percent to erations, built by his predecessor, previously. Yields move inversely ward Friday’s jobs report after a.m. in London. The South Kore- and raising capital levels eroded by piled up borrowings following its $54 billion purchase of BG Group Plc to prices. the uncertainty created during an won and Taiwanese dollar gained $53.75 a barrel, after jumping 2 misconduct costs. While the bank last year. And he’s making progress. Gearing -- a measure of indebted- Donald Trump’s first two weeks the most among major peers, ad- percent on Wednesday. The big- has settled some of its biggest le- ness -- was 28 percent at the end of the year, down from 29.2 percent at in office brought equity indexes vancing more than 0.9 percent. The gest expansion of U.S. stockpiles gal cases in the past two months, the end of the third quarter. Cash flow jumped 69 percent from a year down from record highs. dollar has dropped 3.7 percent in three months countered output an initial request that it pay $14 earlier to more than $9 billion. “The dollar continues to be since Jan. 3. cuts by Russia, the largest non- billion to settle a U.S. Justice De- “In the last two quarters our strategy is starting to pay off,” Van on the backfoot,” said Mitul Ko- The euro added 0.2 percent to OPEC member that’s joined the partment investigation of mort- Beurden said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. techa, head of Asia currency and $1.0792 while the British pound group in cutting production. gage-backed bonds spooked some “Free cash flow is well above requirements, we have started to pay rates strategy at Barclays Plc in was flat. Gold added 0.4 percent to investors in the quarter. down our debt in the fourth quarter. I do think we are on track. But we Singapore. “You have U.S. offi- The yen climbed 0.4 percent still have a long way to go.” $1,214.67 an ounce, resuming “There was a clear impact from cials effectively trying to talk the to 112.77 per dollar, after drop- the negative news flow around The company’s B shares, the most widely traded, rose 1.8 percent dollar down at the same time the ping Wednesday for the first time gains after halting a three-day ral- Deutsche Bank in the fall, espe- to 2,262.5 pence at 8:19 a.m. in London. The stock advanced 53 percent consensus long positions in the in three days. The Japanese cur- ly on Wednesday. cially on the global markets unit,” in London last year, the first annual gain in three. dollar continue to be pared back rency last month had its best per- Japanese 10-year yields rose said Daniel Regli, an analyst with Shell’s U.S. peers Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. also an- and U.S. yields are struggling to formance since June, gaining 3.7 two basis points to 0.12 percent. MainFirst whose recommendation nounced earnings well short of estimates. In a sign of how tough 2016 push much higher. There’s also percent. That’s the highest level since the on the stock is under review. “It was for Big Oil, Shell said it delivered returns on the capital it employed some uncertainty over Trump’s The Aussie rose 0.9 percent Bank of Japan introduced negative remains to be seen whether this of just 2.9 percent, only fractionally higher than the record low of 2.8 policies, around the exact path of to 76.51 U.S. cents as the govern- interest rates a year ago. effect will be reversed in 2017.” percent in 1998, according to an analysis by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. U.S. policy.” ment’s trade surplus unexpected- The yield on the 10-year U.S. The bank’s net loss narrowed But in a sign that Shell may have put the worst behind it, the Earnings are coming thick and ly climbed to a record. The curren- company has maintained its forecast for capital spending in 2017 at $25 Treasury note was little changed to 1.89 billion euros in the three fast, with mixed results clouding cy has rallied 1.5 percent over the months through December, from a billion. It also boosted oil and gas production last quarter, reporting a 28 the picture on the state of the glo- past five sessions. at 2.47 percent, after adding two loss of 2.12 billion euros a year percent increase from a year earlier to 3.91 million barrels of oil equiva- bal economy. While Facebook The Stoxx Europe 600 Index basis points on Wednesday. earlier. lent a day. FRIDAY .FEBRUARY 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Air pollution may cause more than ease, the researchers said. of time, appear to exacerbate and just lung disease: New research They also analyzed data on promote Alzheimer's disease." suggests that if tiny particles in more than 3,600 3U.S. women be- Jiu-Chiuan Chen, co-senior the air from power plants and cars tween the ages of 65 and 79 years author of the study, said, "Our are inhaled, they might also invade from 48 states. None of the wom- study -- the first of its kind con- the brain, increasing the risk for en had dementia when the study ducted in the U.S. -- provides the dementia. began. inaugural scientific evidence of a "Although the link between air After considering certain vari- critical Alzheimer's risk gene pos- pollution and Alzheimer's disease ables -- such as race, ethnicity, lif- sibly interacting with air particles is a new scientific frontier, we now estyle and health -- the research- to accelerate brain aging." have evidence that air pollution, ers found older women living in "The experimental data like tobacco, is dangerous to the areas where miniscule air pollution showed that exposure of mice to aging brain," said study co-senior particles exceed federal safety stan- air particles collected on the edge author Caleb Finch. He's with the dards may be at 81 percent higher of [the] USC damaged neurons in University of Southern California's risk for cognitive decline. They the hippocampus, the memory (USC) Leonard Davis School of may also face a 92 percent greater center that is vulnerable to both Gerontology. likelihood of developing dementia, brain aging and Alzheimer's dis- For the study, the USC scien- including Alzheimer's disease. ease," added Chen, who is an as- tists collected samples of air par- The negative effects of air pol- sociate professor of preventive ticles with technology designed by lution on the brain were particu- medicine at USC's Keck School of university engineers. The research- larly notable among the women Medicine. ers used the technology to expose who the APOE4 gene, the study Less than one-third of all U.S. female mice to air pollution. authors added. counties have ozone or particle "Our state-of-the-art aerosol The research was published pollution monitors, according to the American Lung Association. technologies, called particle con- Jan. 31 in the journal Translation- The group notes that six of the 10 centrators, essentially take the air al Psychiatry. most polluted U.S. cities are in of a typical urban area and convert If their findings were extended California. The USC researchers it to the air of a freeway or a heavi- to include the general population, said the findings could have global ly polluted city like Beijing," study the study's authors calculate that implications because pollution has co-author Constantinos Sioutas, a air pollution might be to blame for no borders. professor of civil and environmen- about 21 percent of all cases of tal engineering, explained in a uni- dementia. versity news release. The research comes with sev- "We then use these samples to eral caveats. First, it did not prove test exposure and assess adverse that air pollution causes the risk neuro-developmental or neuro-de- of dementia to rise. Second, stud- generative health effects," he add- ies involving animals frequently ed. fail to produce similar results in The mice carried a certain ge- humans. netic variation, called the APOE4 Finch said: "Microscopic par- gene, which increases the risk for ticles generated by fossil fuels get Alzheimer's. After being exposed into our body directly through the to air pollution for 15 weeks, the nose into the brain. Cells in the mice had 60 percent more amyloid brain treat these particles as invad- Paralyzed patients plaque, the clusters of protein as- ers and react with inflammatory communicate thoughts via sociated with the degenerative dis- responses, which over the course brain-computer interface Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface that reads the Hormone blockers can brain's blood oxygen levels and enables communication by deci- phering the thoughts of patients who are totally paralyzed and unable to talk. prolong life if prostate In a trial of the system in four patients with complete locked- in syndrome - incapable of moving even their eyes to communicate cancer recurs - it helped them use their thought waves to respond yes or no to Men whose prostate cancer comes study was finding its way into spoken questions. back after surgery are more likely medical practice. People who are paralyzed except for up and down eye move- to survive if, along with the usual About 161,360 new cases of ments and blinking are classified as having locked-in syndrome. If radiation, they also take drugs to prostate cancer and 26,730 deaths all eye movements are lost, the condition is referred to as complete block male hormones. are expected in the United States locked-in syndrome. The finding, published in 2017, according to the Ameri- Researchers leading this trial said the brain-computer interface Wednesday in The New England can Cancer Society. (BCI), which is non-invasive, could transform the lives of such Journal of Medicine, comes from The average age at diagnosis is patients, allowing them to express feelings and opinion to their a long-running study that experts 66. Globally, there were 1.1 mil- loved ones and carers. say will help clarify treatment for lion cases and 307,000 deaths in Counter to expectations, the researchers said, the patients re- many patients. 2012, the most recent data avail- ported being "happy" despite their condition. After surgery to remove the able from the World Health Orga- "The striking results overturn my own theory that people with prostate, more than 30 percent of nization. complete locked-in syndrome are not capable of communication," men have a recurrence, and until The study, begun in 1998 and said Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at Switzerland's Wyss Cen- now there has not been clear evi- led by Dr. William U. Shipley, a ter for Bio and Neuroengineering, who co-led the study. dence about the best way to stop radiation oncologist at the Massa- The trial, published in the journal PLOS Biology on Tuesday, the disease from killing them. Most chusetts General Hospital, had an involved four patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - a are given radiation, but prescrib- ambitious goal: to follow the pa- progressive motor neuron disease that destroys the part of the ing drugs to counter the effects of tients long enough to find out nervous system responsible for movement. The researchers asked male hormones has been inconsis- whether hormone-blocking treat- personal questions with known answers, such as: "Your husband's tent. ment would affect their survival. name is Joachim?", and open questions that needed yes or no an- The study, paid for by the Get the best of Well, with the swers, such as "Are you happy?". The BCI technique used tech- National Cancer Institute, showed latest on health, fitness and nutri- nologies called near-infrared spectroscopy and electroencephalog- that among men who received ra- tion, plus exclusive commentary raphy (EEG) to measure blood oxygenation and electrical activity diation and hormonal treatment, by Tara Parker-Pope, delivered to in the brain. "The machine records the blood flow... and calculates 76.3 percent were still alive after your inbox every week. how (it) changes during "yes" and during "no", and the computer 12 years, compared to 71.3 per- Prostate cancer grows slowly, develops an idea, a pattern," Birbaumer told Reuters. "And after a cent who had radiation alone. so it took well over a decade for while, we know what the patient is thinking, when he thinks "yes", At 12 years, the men who had answers to emerge. Researchers and or when he thinks "no", and from that we calculate the answer." The both treatments were also much patients from 150 sites in North "known" questions elicited correct responses seven times out of less likely to have died from their America participated. The patients 10, and the question "Are you happy?" resulted in a consistent yes prostate cancer — 5.8 percent ver- were 760 men who had their pros- response from the four people, repeated over weeks of questioning. sus 13.4 percent — or to have the tates removed for cancer that had cancer spread around their bodies not spread, but who then had a Women who took fish oil during whether pregnant women could would help doctors develop a “pre- About a quarter of the moth- percentage points, and a risk re- — 14.5 percent versus 23 percent. sign of recurrence — a rise in their the last three months of pregnan- benefit from simply eating more cision medicine” approach in ers and a fifth of the fathers had duction of about 54 percent. “This is a big deal,” said Dr. blood levels of prostate-specific cy significantly lowered the risk fish. Pregnant women are general- which fish-oil treatment could be asthma, and they were evenly dis- Low levels of EPA and DHA that their children would develop ly advised to limit their consump- tailored to women who are most tributed between the fish-oil and in the blood can be related to diet asthma, a study in Denmark has tion of certain types of fish like likely to benefit. placebo groups. but also to genetics. The body nor- found. swordfish and tuna because they But Dr. Ramsden also said it The capsules were an over-the- mally converts another fatty acid, Among children whose moth- contain mercury. But many other was too soon to put the new find- counter product called Incromega found in plant-based foods, to EPA ers took fish-oil capsules, 16.9 types are considered safe, espe- ings into practice, and he recom- TG33/22, a fish extract made by and DHA. But some people — percent had asthma by age 3, com- cially smaller fish like sardines that mended further study. the British chemical company about 13 percent in the study — pared with 23.7 percent whose are not at the top of the food chain Previous research had suggest- Croda Health Care. The extract carry a genetic variant that impairs mothers were given placebos. The and therefore not likely to accu- ed that fish oil might help prevent contained the fatty acids eicosap- their ability to make the conver- difference, nearly 7 percentage mulate mercury and other contam- asthma. The idea is plausible, be- entaenoic acid (EPA) and docosa- sion. The researchers found that points, translates to a risk reduc- inants from eating other fish. cause inflammation in the airways hexaenoic acid (DHA). children born to women with little tion of about 31 percent. The results were published in and lungs plays a major role in The researchers tracked the EPA and DHA in their diets, and But in the study released on The New England Journal of Med- asthma, and fatty acids in fish oil children’s health, finding asthma to women with the genetic vari- Wednesday, the researchers say icine. The scientists bought fish oil are thought to prevent inflamma- less common in those whose moth- ant, were among those most likely they are not ready to recommend from a company that makes it, but tion. The richest sources in food ers had taken the fish oil, with the to benefit from exposure to fish that pregnant women routinely they said the company had no role include fish like herring, sardines, effect lasting at least through age oil in pregnancy. take fish oil. Although the study in the study. The research was paid mackerel, eel and salmon. 7, the longest follow-up. Dr. Bisgaard said that, pend- found no adverse effects in the for by the Danish government and Because the earlier studies sug- By age 3, the biggest differ- ing further study, the best way to mothers or babies, the doses were private foundations. gesting a benefit from fish oil were ence had emerged from data on apply the findings would proba- high, 2.4 grams per day — 15 to An editorial in the same jour- not conclusive, the Danish re- mothers who, before treatment, bly be to test women for the fat- 20 times what most Americans nal by an expert who was not part searchers decided to test the idea. had the lowest levels of EPA and ty-acid levels in their blood, and consume from foods. of the study praised the research, They recruited 736 women. DHA in their blood. In that group, for the genetic variant, to deter- Ian M. Thompson Jr., of the antigen, or PSA, a protein associ- Before doctors can make any saying it was well designed and Starting in their third trimester, half only 17.5 percent of the children mine who might benefit from fish Christus Santa Rosa Health Sys- ated with prostate cancer. The men recommendations, the study carefully performed. The author of the women took 2.4 grams of fish whose mothers took fish oil de- oil. He said that genetics could dif- tem in San Antonio, who was not in the study had PSAs of 0.2 to 4 should be replicated, and fish oil that editorial, Dr. Christopher E. oil a day and half took placebo veloped asthma, compared with fer among different populations part of the study but wrote an ed- nanograms per milliliter. should be tested earlier in pregnan- Ramsden, from the National Insti- capsules of olive oil, continuing 34.1 percent whose mothers took and that there might be ethnic vari- itorial accompanying it. “That’s just like the first wisp cy and at different doses, Dr. Hans tutes of Health, said the findings until one week after birth. the placebo — a difference of 16.6 ations in risk. “There are so many things we of smoke,” said Dr. Zietman, who Bisgaard, the leading author of the do in prostate cancer that we don’t is a professor of radiation oncolo- study, said in an email. He is a pro- know if they make a big difference gy at Massachusetts General Hos- fessor of pediatrics at the Univer- in survival. This is one of the things pital and Harvard Medical School. sity of Copenhagen and the head where now we can say for sure.” “There’ll be fire someday.” of research at the Copenhagen Pro- Tooth infection leads to He added that he hoped the The fire might take five, 10 or spective Studies on Asthma in findings would change medical 15 years to break out, but Dr. Zi- Childhood, an independent re- practice. etman said, “Many are in their 50s search unit. The medical term for blocking or 60s, and will live long enough to Doctors are eager to find ways 26-year-old California dad's death male hormones is chemical castra- get into trouble.” to prevent asthma, a chronic dis- tion, and the treatments can cause The traditional practice for a ease that causes wheezing, cough- A California long-haul trucker went out to meet him because he A GoFundMe set up on behalf of the family described Anatoliyevich hot flashes, sexual problems and rising PSA after surgery has been ing and breathing trouble, and that died early Monday after a tooth was too weak to drive back, and as a "humble and calm person." A post on the fundraising website said other side effects. So to put a man to give radiation, which targets only sends many families to the emer- infection spread to his lungs, Fox they checked in to a hospital in all proceeds will help the family cover medical expenses and the cost through it, said Dr. Anthony L. the pelvis. gency room again and again. 40 reported. Utah. His wife, Nataliya, told the of transporting his body back to California. Zietman, an author of the study, The idea of the study was to The incidence has more than Vadim Kondratyuk Ana- station she received a call from doc- “you’d better have some decent add hormonal treatment, which doubled in developed countries in toliyevich, 26, was the father of tors. justification.” might stop minute clumps of can- recent decades. More than six mil- two small children. He started to They “said tonight is the night Dr. David F. Penson, the chair- lion children in the United States complain of a toothache a few he’s going to die,” she said. They cer that had spread to other parts weeks ago, before a drive to New told her that they were unable to man of urologic surgery at Vander- of the body. have asthma, according to the Cen- bilt University Medical Center, ters for Disease Control and Pre- York. He visited a dentist in stop the infection. All the men in the study had Oklahoma and had his tooth "I know he's in heaven. He's a said the study “gives more cre- radiation for six and a half weeks. vention, as do more than 330 mil- dence to the concept that you have lion children and adults worldwide, cleaned and was prescribed anti- happy person right now. He's gon- to treat the whole patient,” rather For two years, half also received a biotics. na be my angel for the rest of my hormone-blocking drug, bicaluta- according to the Global Asthma than just irradiating the area where Network. The medication reportedly life and he's gonna help me through the cancer used to be. mide, and the other half were giv- did little to help the man, and his this whole time without a dad and en placebos. They were followed, Dr. Bisgaard said it was not He said the idea of blocking possible to tell from the study face began to swell. His brother without a husband," Nataliya said. hormones in men like those in the on average, for about 13 years. FRIDAY .FEBRUARY 03, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Massive lava stream exploding

Scientists found the root of the into ocean in vertebrate family tree by identify- ing the earliest ancestor of modern species including the humans. This Hawaii prehistoric "Bag like Sea" creature lived for about 540 million years In this photo provided by Shane ago. Turpin, a "firehose" lava stream This microscopic fossil was from Kilauea Volcano shoots out found in China. The study was from a sea cliff on Hawaii's Big Island, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, carried out by the international as seen from a tour boat off the scientists from China, Germany, coast. The massive Kilauea flow and the UK. Scientists named it as is coming from a lava tube at the “Saccorhytus”, the most primitive Kamokuna ocean entry on the example of “deuterostome”. It was southeast side of the Big Island. known as the common ancestor of The lava is gushing from a tube a vast range of species including that was exposed when a huge, 26- vertebrates. Scientists published acre lava delta collapsed into the their latest discoveries in the jour- ocean at the site on New Year's nal of Nature. Eve. The collapse of the newly Saccorhytus was about one formed land triggered massive ex- millimeter in size and the grains of plosions and giant waves in the sand at the seabed was its main area. This Jan. 28, 2017 photo pro- habitat. According to the report by vided by the U.S. Geological Sur- BBC News, researchers didn’t vey shows a closeup view of a lava find any anus in this primitive spe- stream pouring out of a lava tube cies that clearly denotes, it has only on the sea cliff at the Kamokuna one orifice which they used for ocean entry at the Hawaii Volca- food consumption and to eject noes National Park on the Big Is- metabolic bi-products. land of Hawaii. A dramatic "fire- Professor Morris from the hose" stream of lava is shooting University of Cambridge said in a out of a sea cliff on Hawaii Island, splashing into the Pacific Ocean statement,”To the naked eye, the below and exploding upon impact. fossils we studied look like tiny A USGS geologist with the Hawaii black grains, but under the micro- Volcano Observatory said Wednes- scope, the level of detail was jaw day, Feb. 1, 2017 that one of the dropping”. He also added that ear- biggest concerns is a large "hot ly deuterostome may represent the crack" above the lava tube, run- prehistoric beginnings of a very ning parallel to the sea cliff and distinct variety of species, includ- makes the land susceptible to col- ing Homo Sapiens sp. lapse. This Jan. 25, 2017 photo Discovered Deuterostomes provided by the U.S. Geological were almost 510 to 520 million Survey shows a lava stream, up to years old, later it was diversified 2 yards This Jan. 28, 2017 photo into several species. Not only ver- provided by the U.S. Geological tebrates, even Starfishes and sea Survey shows a lava stream pour- urchins were also originated from ing out of a tube on the sea cliff at this specimen. At the first phase the Kamokuna ocean entry at the of the experiment, researchers Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on faced some difficulties because the the Big Island of Hawaii. A dra- successors are uncommon by look, matic "firehose" stream of lava is size, and nature. A Japanese Space shooting out of a sea cliff on Ha- Morris explained that the Space archaeologist wants citizen scientists waii Island, splashing into the Pa- body of this species was symmet- cific Ocean below and exploding junk removal upon impact. A USGS geologist rical, that means if their body was with the Hawaii Volcano Observa- cut in half then the right half will experiment has to identify archaeological looting An archaeologist has launched a tory said Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 just be the mirrored version of the that one of the biggest concerns is left half or vice versa. Later this citizen science project that invites failed in Orbit anyone with an Internet connec- a large "hot crack" above the lava symmetrical characteristic was in- tube, running parallel to the sea herited by many invertebrates and An experimental space junk "col- tion to help look for evidence of cliff and makes the land suscepti- vertebrates, including humans. lector" has glitched during its first archaeological site looting. ble to collapse. This Jan. 29, 2017 They also have some extraor- orbital test. The platform, called GlobalX- photo provided by the U.S. Geo- dinary features in their body which The system, designed by the plorer, presents users with satel- logical Survey shows a lava stream can be visible in their modern de- Japanese space agency (JAXA) lite images of Earth's surface. pouring out of a tube on the sea scendants. The study suggests that and a fishing net company, should "Looting is one of the most com- cliff at the Kamokuna ocean entry their body was covered with a thin have unfurled a 700-meter (2,300 mon ways archaeological sites at the Hawaii Volcanoes National and flexible skin and muscles. They ft) tether from a space station re- around the world are destroyed," Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. didn’t have any legs, they used to supply vehicle that was returning explains the archaeologist behind A dramatic "firehose" stream of move around by wriggling their to Earth. According to JAXA sci- the project, Sarah Parcak of the lava is shooting out of a sea cliff muscles. One of the most interest- University of Alabama at Birming- on Hawaii Island, splashing into entists, however, the system ap- the Pacific Ocean below and ex- ing things about their body was its pears to have faltered. ham. large mouth which they used for "By marking satellites where ploding upon impact. A USGS ge- Space junk is a growing prob- ologist with the Hawaii Volcano swallowing food and eject their lem in low-Earth orbit. Since the you think you see looting, you're body wastes. helping to protect sites and save Observatory said Wednesday, Feb. beginning of the space age, debris 1, 2017 that one of the biggest con- as small as flecks of paint and as our common cultural heritage." Parcak is a space archaeologist, cerns is a large "hot crack" above large as whole satellites and parts the lava tube, running parallel to Scientists go of rocket boosters have been accu- meaning she specializes in what the sea cliff and makes the land mulating and it is estimated that satellite images can tell us about susceptible to collapse. This Jan. batty for new over 100 million individual pieces past civilizations. The GlobalX- 28, 2017 photo, left, provided by of junk (tens of thousands of piec- plorer project is funded with the the U.S. Geological Survey shows type of drone es that are over 10 centimeters in $1 million TED Prize that Parcak a crack that has developed near the WASHINGTON — Holy drone, size) are whizzing around our plan- won last year. site of a lava stream pouring out of Batman! Mechanical masterminds et. She explained early plans for a lava tube on the sea cliff at the have spawned the Bat Bot, a soar- Although space is big, and the the project to NPR's Ari Shapiro Kamokuna ocean entry at the Ha- ing, sweeping and diving robot that likelihood of an astronaut and/or last year. waii Volcanoes National Park on may eventually fly circles around spacecraft being hit at any one time People who log on to the site the Big Island of Hawaii. The ther- other drones. by a piece of debris is currently are shown square satellite images mal image and graphic on the right Because it mimics the unique low, concerns are growing that we of the Earth's surface — the cur- shows the varying temperature of and more flexible way bats fly, this are reaching a critical point where, rent area they are crowdsourcing lava and rock within the crack, 3-ounce prototype could do a bet- in the future, collisions with space is in Peru — and are asked to de- reaching as high as 428 degrees ter and safer job getting into disas- junk could become so common that cide whether there is or is not evi- Fahrenheit This Jan. 29, 2017 pho- ter sites and scoping out construc- it might prevent us from launching dence of looting pits on the ground. to provided by the U.S. Geologi- tion zones than bulky drones with A portion of the site of the pre- cal Survey shows a lava stream anything into space. pouring out of a lava tube on the spinning rotors, said the three au- Lives may not have been lost Columbian Peruvian city of Chan thors of a study released yester- Jury awards ZeniMax $500m in sea cliff at the Kamokuna ocean through a space junk collision Chan that shows evidence of heavy entry at the Hawaii Volcanoes Na- day in the journal Science Robot- (yet), but satellites have been hit looting activity. ics. tional Park on the Big Island of and small pieces travelling many Looters find an area of inter- Hawaii. A dramatic "firehose" For example, it would have times faster than a bullet on Earth est and then dig numerous large been ideal for going inside the dam- Oculus VR lawsuit stream of lava is shooting out of a aged Fukushima nuclear plant in have smashed into the space sta- holes or even bulldoze whole ar- Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus a few other aspects of today’s ver- company you’ve heard of, but if sea cliff on Hawaii Island, splash- Japan, said study co-author Seth tion's solar panels. On numerous eas, the website explains. In so just became a half billion more ex- dict, but we are undeterred. Ocu- you follow the video game indus- ing into the Pacific Ocean below Hutchinson, an engineering profes- occasions during its 16 years of doing, looters in search of valuable pensive. lus products are built with Oculus try at all, some of the titles the and exploding upon impact. A sor at the University of Illinois. operation has the outpost had to artifacts destroy the context that A jury in Dallas, Texas has technology. Our commitment to company’s subsidiary studios USGS geologist with the Hawaii The bat robot flaps its wings modify its orbit about Earth to helps archaeologists understand awarded ZeniMax Media $500 the long-term success of VR re- have released will immediately Volcano Observatory said Wednes- for better aerial maneuvers, glides avoid debris being tracked by past cultures. million after finding that Palmer mains the same, and the entire team stick out. ZeniMax owns Bethes- day, Feb. 1, 2017 that one of the to save energy and dive bombs ground-based radar. A training video explains how Luckey (and by extension Oculus will continue the work they’ve da Softworks, which has published biggest concerns is a large "hot when needed. Eventually, the re- So, in an effort to counter this to tell man-made looting pits from crack" above the lava tube, run- VR) violated the terms of a non- done since day one – developing games like Skyrim (one of the best- ning parallel to the sea cliff and searchers hope to have it perch growing threat, JAXA hoped to other holes in the ground: disclosure agreement. The jury also VR technology that will transform selling video games of all time) and upside down like the real thing, but test a electrodynamic tether that Pits generally have a round or makes the land susceptible to col- found Oculus guilty on charges the way people interact and com- the Fallout series. The popular lapse. In this photo provided by that will have to wait for the ro- is attached to the H-II Transfer rounded square shape related to false designation and municate. We look forward to fil- franchises carried by its several bot’s sequel. Vehicle (HTV) — called "Kouno- Pits contrast with the land- Shane Turpin, a "firehose" lava copyright infringement. Oculus ing our appeal and eventually put- subsidiaries have earned ZeniMax stream from Kilauea Volcano Like the fictional crime fighter tori-6." The Kounotori Integrated scape around them and sometimes was notably found not guilty on ting this litigation behind us.” a reported valuation of as much as Batman, the researchers turned to Tether Experiments (KITE) aim is shoots out from a sea cliff on Ha- cast a shadow, depending on the charges related to claims by Zeni- For its part, a spokesperson $2.5 billion. waii's Big Island, Wednesday, Feb. the flying mammal for inspiration. to test the technology behind pro- light in the image “Whenever I see bats make Max that the company stole trade for ZeniMax Media said the com- ZeniMax Media filed suit 1, 2017, as seen from a tour boat pelling the cable into space. Once "Although it may seem like an secrets to create the Rift headset, pany was “pleased” with the de- against Palmer Luckey and Ocu- off the coast. The massive Kilauea sharp turns and perform upside deployed, a fully operational easy distinction between a large down, perching with such elegant Polygon reports. cision and is furthermore looking lus VR on the following 7 counts; flow is coming from a lava tube at space junk mitigation system in- deep hole in the ground and bush, Luckey must personally pay “to ensure there will be no ongo- here’s the gist of the claims: the Kamokuna ocean entry on the wing movements and deforma- corporating KITE would send the tions, I get mesmerized,” said an- you can actually sometimes be $50 million in the suit, while former ing use of our misappropriated The big one: ZeniMax claims southeast side of the Big Island. tether out to large pieces of debris, hard to tell them apart," the train- Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe will be technology, including by seeking that its trade secrets revealed to The lava is gushing from a tube other author, Soon-Jo Chung, a grab onto them and the spacecraft professor of aerospace at the Cal- ing video warns. forced to pay $150 million. an injunction to restrain Oculus Luckey under NDA and known to that was exposed when a huge, 26- ifornia Institute of Technology. would then pull them down to Parcak also reminds people Facebook is now telling Tech- and Facebook from their ongoing a handful of ex-ZeniMax employ- acre lava delta collapsed into the The Bat Bot has nine joints Earth to be incinerated by our at- who join the project that it's good Crunch that ZeniMax Media was use of computer code that the jury ees now at Oculus have been used ocean at the site on New Year's and measures slightly less than 8 mosphere. to be skeptical. actually seeking a reported $6 bil- found infringed ZeniMax’s copy- to build the Rift headset’s core tech- Eve. The collapse of the newly inches from head to tail. Its super- The robotic cargo space vehi- "It's just as valuable to mark a lion in this case, not the $4 billion rights.” nologies. formed land triggered massive ex- thin membrane wings span about cle arrived at the International tile as negative for looting as it is that was previously reported. Giv- Robert Altman, ZeniMax’s Oculus and its team utilized plosions and giant waves in the a foot and a half. The flexible flap- Space Station in December and, to identify potential looting be- en the maximum possible penalty, Chairman and CEO, said in a state- ZeniMax’s “DOOM 3: BFG Edi- area. In this photo provided by ping — as much as 10 times per after unloading supplies and exper- cause it helps us narrow the Shane Turpin, a "firehose" lava this obviously isn’t the worst pos- ment, “Technology is the founda- tion” as a title to showcase the Rift stream from Kilauea Volcano second — acts “like a big power iments for the crew, it was reload- search," she explains. The project sible outcome for Facebook, a com- tion of our business and we con- to investors which ZeniMax claims amplifier,” Hutchinson said. ed with trash from the orbiting shoots out from a sea cliff on Ha- is set up such that dozens of peo- pany that is likely able to view a sider the theft of our intellectual was done without its permission. waii's Big Island, Wednesday, Feb. The researchers still need to outpost. The vehicle was released ple will typically look at each im- $500 million judgment as a slap on property to be a serious matter. More salacious is the claim that add cameras, build more drones from the space station on Friday 1, 2017 as seen from a tour boat age, mitigating the effects of each the wrist, especially given the re- We appreciate the jury’s finding some of the SDKs which Oculus off the coast. The massive Kilauea and get permission from federal (Jan. 27) and and is expected to layperson's impressions. sources they have been devoting against the defendants, and the VR distributed utilized ZeniMax agencies to fly them, but Hutchin- burn up safely in the Earth's up- flow is coming from a lava tube at Peruvian archaeologist Luís to their virtual reality efforts. award of half a billion dollars in code. the Kamokuna ocean entry on the son said these bat robots could be per atmosphere in early February. Jaime Castillo is coordinating with flying around work sites and di- Facebook is set to release its damages for those serious viola- Here, ZeniMax claims that southeast side of the Big Island. But before its fiery reentry, the the Peruvian government about quarterly earnings in just a few tions.” Luckey violated the terms of a non- saster zones within five years. It’s HTV was supposed to extend the The lava is gushing from a tube already taken three years and cost potential findings from the minutes; we’ll see if Facebook At the heart of this case was disclosure agreement which he that was exposed when a huge, 26- tether to see if the space junk re- project, should it turn up action- CEO Mark Zuckerberg has any- ZeniMax Media’s assertion that signed on May 24, 2012. acre lava delta collapsed into the $1.5 million, including a team of moval technique is at least feasi- experts from Brown University able evidence of archaeological loot- thing to say on the investor call VR technology they had created Basically, by using ZeniMax’s ocean at the site on New Year's ble. Alas, it would appear the stain- ing in the country, according to about this court decision and how was used illegally by Oculus trade secrets to build the Rift, the Eve. The collapse of the newly who studied bat flight, Hutchin- less steel and aluminum cable didn't son said. National Geographic, which is it will impact the company. founder Palmer Luckey to create company claims Oculus has taken formed land triggered massive ex- even get off the starting blocks and supporting the project Update: Facebook has sent the Rift headset, the core product away their ability to release a VR plosions and giant waves in the Smaller fixed-wing drones have wasn't released from the resupply problems with maneuverability "Most people don't get to TechCrunch its official comment of Oculus VR, which sold to Face- product based on their own unique area. A "firehose" lava stream from and four rotors are not efficient, ship. make scientific contributions or on the ruling. book for $2 billion in March of technologies. Kilauea Volcano shoots out from a so a bat-inspired design is “a very JAXA scientists have said that discoveries in their everyday “The heart of this case was 2014. The company filed suit ZeniMax suggests here that sea cliff on Hawaii's Big Island, intriguing line of research,” Uni- they will continue to attempt to lives," Parcak told National Geo- about whether Oculus stole Zeni- against Oculus asking for $6 bil- Oculus VR and its employees have Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. The versity of Pennsylvania engineer- send commands to the mechanism, graphic. "But we're all born explor- Max’s trade secrets, and the jury lion in compensation and punitive unjustly profited off ZeniMax massive Kilauea flow is coming from a lava tube at the Kamokuna ing professor Vijay Kumar said in but they have very little time left ers, curious and intrinsically inter- found decisively in our favor. damages from the court. technologies to the tune of billions an email. to troubleshoot. We’re obviously disappointed by ZeniMax Media is likely not a of dollars. ocean entry on the southeast side ested in other humans." of the Big Island. FRIDAY .FEBRUARY 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES Michelle Dockery, Yara LOS ANGELES: Johnny Depp’s lavish spending — including $3 Shahidi million to blast author Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes from a cannon — led him to the brink of financial ruin, according to an explosive law- step out in suit filed Tuesday. Over the best part of two de- cades, the 53-year-old actor has stylish been spending $2 million a month, according to The Management Group (TMG), which is suing the stripes star in Los Angeles for an unpaid loan. It’s only been a month since we Johnny Depp, Will Smith, entered 2017, and we have already George Clooney referred to as witnessed a horde of new-fangled ‘overpaid’ on Forbes list trends taking over. This time The Pirates of the Caribbean around, we spotted Hollywood A- actor is alleged to have forked out $75 million on 14 homes, includ- listers incorporating stylish stripes ing a 45-acre (18-hectare) French into floor-length ensembles. What castle, a chain of Bahaman islands, made their bold sartorial choices several Hollywood homes, pent- even more eye-catching was the house lofts in downtown LA and a fact that the stripes were not done horse farm in Kentucky. Since 2000, the Oscar-nomi- in dull hues, but rather loud and nated actor has spent $18 million vibrant colours. The two starlets on a yacht, bought 45 luxury cars that have left us floored with their and shelled out almost $700,000 a fashion picks are actors Michelle month on wine, private planes and Dockery and Yara Shahidi. Here’s a staff of 40 people, according to the lawsuit. how they brought some playful Beverly Hills-based TMG lines to the red carpet of the Screen says Depp has accrued more than Actors Guild Awards last week- 200 artworks by Warhol, Klimt end. and other masters, 70 collectible Diane Kruger, Lily Rose Depp guitars and a Hollywood memora- ace the style game at Paris Fash- bilia collection so extensive it is stored in 12 locations. ion Week Depp filed his own $25 mil- The 35-yer-old actor was a risk lion suit on January 13 accusing taker in a multi-coloured Elie Saab TMG of mismanaging his financ- high-necked dress featuring verti- es, taking out loans without his cal lines. She pulled off the daring approval, and concealing his ruin- ous finances. outfit with such ease, that we now Johnny Depp, Amber Heard know this Downton Abbey star- finalise bitter divorce let cannot make a fashion faux pas. “Over 17 years, The Manage- Michelle paired her gown with ment Group did everything possi- black Jimmy Choo heels, provid- ble to protect the actor from him- self,” TMG attorney Michael ing the perfect contrast to her vi- Kump said in a statement. brant ensemble. Even though she “In fact, when Depp’s bank wore a red pout, she did not look demanded repayment of a multi- over-the-top even one bit. million-dollar loan and Depp The fashion icon opted for a didn’t have the money, the com- Naeem Khan creation on the occa- pany loaned it to him so that he would avoid a humiliating finan- sion. The voluminous gown fea- cial crisis.” tured multi-coloured sequinned TMG says it repeatedly stripes that ran horizontal across warned Depp over his “wanton” the sheer black organza skirt and overspending, but he responded by in an arrow pattern on the dress’s rebuking his business managers, in- creasing his spending and demand- high-necked top. Yara accessorised ing they find some way to pay for the halter number with garnet and it. ruby earrings by Jane Taylor jew- The firm, fired by Depp last ellery, along with a black-woven year, says it is owed $4.2 million Ona Ehrilch clutch. She kept the and was forced to launch foreclo- sure proceedings on Depp’s prop- rest of her look simple wearing her erty. hair slicked back and keeping the “The only reason Depp filed focus on her clothes. this lawsuit was to interfere with TMG’s ongoing efforts to be re- paid on the loan they had made to bail him out,” TMG said. Depp and actress Amber Heard, 30, reached an out-of-court settlement in August to end their 18-month marriage, agreeing that he would pay her $7 million.

Neelum Muneer literally dances like nobody is watching in 'leaked' video Known for her acting stints in TV serials Thoda Sa Aasmaan and A Srinagar woman has become a Aankh Macholi, Pakistani star social media star after being cap- Neelam Muneer has been captured tured in Bollywood superstar Shah living the ultimate Bollywood Rukh Khan’s selfie. Kaabil hits cinemas moment … in the backseat of a The king of Bollywood was car. recently in Pune for promotions Dancing on Malaika Arora’s fa- of his latest film Raees. The actor mous item number, Mahi Ve, from drew crowds of thousands and as Indian film ban the movie, Kaante, Neelam is seen shared pictures with his excited jazzing to sultry moves, making fans on his social media accounts. regular folk wonder what com- One such selfie of the actor lifted in Pakistan pelled to make the video. went viral on social media and not because of SRK himself but be- The long awaited, self-imposed ban on Bollywood films ended on cause of a woman (pictured below) Wednesday as Karachi’s Atrium Cinemas screened Hrithik Roshan’s standing in the front row. Kaabil at 11pm. The woman in a green t-shirt Excited about the screening of his film, Hrithik took to Twitter, ended up becoming the talk of so- hoping the film would receive the same amount of love it did in India. cial media with many going gaga Meanwhile, the film will be screened at Nueplex Cinemas starting over her good looks. today at 3:15pm. Comments underneath the Produced by Rakesh Roshan, Kaabil is a love story of a blind cou- picture had people wanting to ple, and was released in India on January 25. know more about the girl, so Buzz- Feed did everyone a favour and On Wednesday, the information ministry and Central Board of Film Beyonce is pregnant — and this an unfaithful man that “you’re am pregnant,” the popular You- tracked her down. Certification (CBFC) have cleared Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil time, she’s expecting twins with gonna lose your wife” if his be- Tube comedian Tre Melvin wrote The girl was identified as 21- for screening in Pakistan. her husband, rap mogul Jay Z. havior doesn’t change. on Twitter, calling the news a “mar- year-old Saima Hussain, a third- The superhit romantic drama – which stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anush- The pop superstar — who al- A sullen Jay Z appears at the velous start” to February, marked year Symbiosis Institute of Design. ka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Pakistani actor Fawad Khan – ready has a five-year-old daugh- end of the film to embrace her, sug- in the United States as Black His- Originally from Srinagar, Hussain was issued an NOC sometime back and was submitted to the censor ter, Blue Ivy, with Jay Z — an- gesting reconciliation. tory Month. is currently in Pune for the dura- boards in the country, three months after being pulled into a political nounced the news to her more than “Lemonade” is in the running Some fans imagined the pros- tion of her course. struggle between India and Pakistan. However, the censor boards of 92 million followers on Instagram for Album of the Year at the Gram- pect of a new Jackson-style musi- Speaking to Buzzfeed, Hus- Karachi and Lahore are yet to issue an NOC. sain spoke about the overwhelm- on Wednesday. my Awards on February 12, where cal family, with Blue Ivy as the big ing nature of viral fame and how Clad in panties and a bra un- Beyonce leads the nominations. sister and guide to the twins. she was alerted by her best friend der a flowing veil, Beyonce post- Her baby bump will presum- Beyonce was a music prodigy that she had become “internet fa- ed a picture of herself kneeling be- ably be even more evident two herself when she was growing up mous”. “I thought she was joking side a human-size floral arrange- months later, when she is set to in Houston. Then known as Be- at first but then I started getting ment, her hands cradling her round- headline Coachella, the two-week- yonce Knowles, she started her calls and messages from everyone. ed belly. end festival in southern California career as the teenage lead singer of The moment I checked for myself, “We would like to share our that is among the world’s premier Destiny’s Child. it felt so surreal,” she added. love and happiness. We have been live music events. She and Jay Z are among the Hussain said her social media blessed two times over,” the 35- Typically reserved, Beyonce most commercially successful fig- fame was sheer luck further as she year-old singer wrote. has openly spoken about the pain ures in music, with a combined net was helping manage the festival that SRK attended in Pune. “I “We are incredibly grateful of a miscarriage before she gave worth estimated at $1 billion. didn’t expect to be in the front row that our family will be growing by birth to Blue Ivy, saying the heart- While enjoying a wide follow- because of the insane number of two, and we thank you for all your beat she had heard during her first ing, Beyonce has increasingly felt people present. My friend helped well wishes,” she added, signing pregnancy was “the most beauti- comfortable showing her political me get through the crowd and I with Jay Z. ful music I ever heard in my life.” side. She and Jay Z hit the trail for was lucky that the heads for the In a timeline sure to trigger in- News of the twins prompted Hillary Clinton in her unsuccess- fest were allowed to stand in the trigue, Beyonce announced the an avalanche of postings on social ful campaign against Trump last front row,” she added. pregnancy a little more than nine media with several of Beyonce’s year. The first single on “Lemon- The 21-year-old added that months after her last album “Lem- fans — presumably critics of new ade,” the bouncy New Orleans-in- she’s still trying to navigate through onade” — in which she strongly US President Donald Trump — spired track “Formation,” was ac- her new found fame, as she now hinted that Jay Z was unfaithful. declaring the announcement the companied by a video that throws has people randomly trying to talk Beyonce released “Lemon- happiest development so far of support behind the Black Lives to her and she is “still pretty over- whelmed”. ade,” an album intertwined with a 2017. Matter campaign against police film, on April 23. One lyric warns “When Beyonce is pregnant I brutality. FRIDAY .FEBRUARY 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Anthony Joshua faces the biggest test of his career when he fights Wladimir Klitschko in a heavy- weight clash of the titans, accord- ing to trainer Peter Fury. IBF champion Joshua meets 68-fight veteran Klitschko, live on Sky Sports Box Office, in front of a record-breaking 90,000 sell-out crowd at Wembley Stadium on April 29. Klitschko has already been in- active for more than 14 months since losing his WBO, WBA 'su- per' and IBF titles after being out- pointed by Tyson Fury in Dus- seldorf in November, 2015. The Ukrainian's response to his first loss in more than 11 years will be key to the outcome of his clash with Joshua, according to Tyson's uncle and trainer Peter, who says Klitschko's experience gives him a slight edge over the 2012 Olympic gold medallist. "I think this is the acid test for Anthony Joshua and if he comes through it he deserves maximum credit," Peter Fury told Sky Sports. "If Klitschko is hungry, on cue, and really wants those belts back it's going to be one hell of a fight. Whether Wladimir is over the hill or not won't be AJ's fault. You can only fight what is put in front of you and Klitschko will be by far the biggest test of his career "I'd have to slightly favour Kl- itschko because he has the experi- ence but the question is whether Klitschko really has the desire to put his body through it all again, especially with the inactivity af- ter being beaten by Tyson. "It all depends on what sort of Klitschko turns up on the night, but if we get a 100 per cent Kl- itschko then I think Joshua will have problems." Klitschko, who turns 41 a month prior to the April show- with Joshua. But Fury insists Klitschko's Joshua's calibre. "We just don't know if ey, for one last pay cheque. Wladimir is over the hill or not down, told Sky Sports News HQ Tyson and Peter Fury beat Kl- ring absence raises serious ques- He added: "Just what is going Wladimir will be hungry. He could "He's almost 41. Is the desire won't be AJ's fault. You can only last month he intends to bring the itschko last time out tions about his psychological and on up there [in Klitschko's head] be more hungry now than ever, or, there anymore? These are ques- fight what is put in front of you frustration accumulated through Tyson and Peter Fury beat Kl- physical capabilities to compete we don't know, because it's all in after being inactive for so long, he tions we won't know the answer and Klitschko will be by far the inactivity to the ring for his clash itschko last time out against a fighter of unbeaten the mind isn't it? could be coming back for the mon- to until that bell goes. "But whether biggest test of his career." Jose Mourinho has pop over Jurgen Tiger Woods struggles to five-over Klopp after Man Utd are held by Hull Jose Mourinho appeared to take the season. They got the feeling and when 77 at Dubai Desert Classic aim at Jurgen Klopp and double "I don't want to speak much. I they got the feeling they took to standards from referees after just want to say I'm not critical of the limit what they were doing on Tiger Woods continued his erratic Woods dropped another shot after he failed to get up-and-down from just off the 12th green and posted Manchester United's goalless home Hull City because a team that is in the pitch. comeback to competitive golf with a third bogey when his third shot on the par-five 18th rolled back into the water. draw with Hull on Wednesday. their position, every point is gold. "It's not their fault. They are a frustrating opening-round 77 at Having reached the turn in 40, Woods produced a poor chip from just off the second green and missed a Mourinho was left frustrated "They tried to see what they fighting for life, they are fighting the Dubai Desert Classic. seven-foot birdie putt at the third. after Hull dug in for a point at Old could do and what they were al- to stay in the Premier League and The world No 666, making Woods previously won the event in 2006 and 2008 Trafford. lowed to do. I'm not critical of them." only his third competitive start Woods previously won the event in 2006 and 2008 The United manager appeared since having 16 months out fol- Things unravelled further with a three-putt bogey at the fifth following a good tee shot, before Woods to be particularly angered by Ou- lowing back problems, failed to missed a five-foot par-save at the next. mar Niasse twice escaping a red register a single birdie on his way Woods then saw a birdie attempt at the seventh brush the edge of the hole and pulled another close-range card, having been booked early in to slipping 12 strokes adrift of ear- chance at the ninth - his final hole - tentatively wide of the target. the game. ly leader Sergio Garcia. And, 24 hours after Klopp was Playing alongside Sheffield duo involved in a confrontation with Danny Willett and Matt Fitz- the fourth official which he said he patrick, Woods again struggled off apologised for, Mourinho com- the tee and also failed to read the plained that he was "told to sit greens in good conditions at Emir- down" while his Liverpool coun- ates Golf Club. terpart was given an easier time. Woods, who made an early exit "I don't want to speak much from his PGA Tour return at last because I pay lots of fines," said week's Farmers Insurance Open, Mourinho, who has been sent off now faces a battle to avoid miss- twice this season, for kicking a ing the cut for a second week run- water bottle and for protesting a ning. penalty decision. Beginning on the back nine, "I pay more than others, much Woods pulled his opening tee shot more than others. For example into the rough and his approach yesterday one manager was told into the sand before two-putting by the fourth official 'I love your from 25 feet for bogey. emotion and because I love your This week is the second of emotion, no problem'. four scheduled appearances in a They don't like my emotion, five-week stretch for Woods but I think what is happening this This week is the second of four season is not for me to speak scheduled appearances in a five- about. week stretch for Woods Jose Mourinho "I was told today 'sit down or you have to go to the stands' and George Kruis ruled on the pitch a bit more of the same. out of England's Six "They don't like my emotion, but I think what is happening this Nations opener with season is not for me to speak France about." George Kruis will miss England's Mourinho later answered just opening match of the Six Nations three questions in his post-match against France due to a knee liga- press conference before standing ment injury. up and leaving. Kruis, who had only been giv- "You do your job and you do a en the all-clear to face France last United Kingdom Champion Tyler Bate public service, I think. Tell the week after recovering from a frac- beat Oney Lorcan with a Tyler Driver '97 truth. It's as simple as that," he tured cheekbone, was forced to on his first appearance in WWE NXT. said to reporters. miss training on Tuesday with the knee injury. Bate, 19, defeated fellow Midlander "If telling the truth is saying Pete Dunne in January to become the in- that Manchester United in the first The Saracens lock will see a specialist on Thursday to deter- augural United Kingdom Champion fol- half didn't play well then so be it, mine further management of the we should play better in the first lowing a two-night competition at Black- injury and head coach Eddie Jones pool's Empress Ballroom. half than we did. is not giving up hope he will be "Don't ask me questions that I available later in the tournament. And the Dudley-born star - who also cannot answer. You know clearly England's injury concerns knocked off England's Danny Burch, Ire- that I am different. The rules for won't derail Six Nations title hopes, land's Jordan Devlin and Scotland's Wolf- me are different. says James Haskell gang in that tournament - continued his "I am different in everything, I "We'll have to wait and see impressive form on Wednesday night. watch my team play in a hotel, I what the specialist's prognosis is, Cameroon to win, BTTS - No and 5+ was forbidden to go to the stadi- but we're not ruling him out of the Six Nations at this stage," said corners each team20 / 1A penalty awarded um, my assistant had a six-match Jones. and a player sent off16 / 17+ Ghana cor- stadium ban and he didn't touch With Kruis ruled out, Court- ners and 40+ Cameroon booking pts11 / 1 anyone." ney Lawes and Joe Launchbury are Bate received a huge reaction from the The draw was United's sixth expected to reform the second row crowd as he performed an airplane spin on in the league at home this season partnership that started against Oney Lorcan and also nailed a running and means they fail to make up South Africa and Fiji during the ground on the top four sides, who autumn, with Maro Itoje starting wheel kick as his opponent attempted a all failed to win on Tuesday. at No 6. running uppercut. United had chances but could Speaking earlier on Wednes- The teenager will now defend his Unit- not find a way past Hull goalkeeper day, assistant coach Paul Gustard ed Kingdom Title against Moustache Eldin Jakupovic, who produced a said he was confident England Mountain tag-team partner Trent Seven could cope if Kruis is absent. on an upcoming edition of NXT. brilliant display to help the visi- "We pride ourselves as a na- tors leave with a point. tion about the quality we have Elsewhere, No Way Jose downed the "We didn't score, we didn't around the country," he said. "As guitar-strumming Elias Samson with a fore- win," said Mourinho. "A lot of a coaching group from day one we arm to the jaw, while Ember Moon con- things that happened today on the were very excited about the talent quered Aliyah with an Eclipse corkscrew pitch, I have a feeling of déjà vu we've got in English rugby at the stunner. and déjà vu a lot of times during moment. FRIDAY . 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Trump to Turnbull: Australia trying to export ‘Boston bombers’ to US US President Donald Trump has cording to senior US officials described his phone conversation briefed on the issue. with Australian Prime Minister He also told the Australian United Nations Secretary General ken down over disagreements on al-Assad’s exit from power. The “Selecting the Syrian opposi- of the opposition High Negotia- Malcolm Turnbull as "the worst prime minister that he was trying Antonio Guterres on Wednesday ensuring a transition in Damascus opposition rejected the envoy’s tion delegation is not the business... tions Committee, wrote on his by far" of a clutch of calls to world to export the "next Boston bomb- backed his peace envoy’s plan to that would lead to President Bashar comments as “unacceptable.” of de Mistura,” Riad Hijab, head Twitter account. AFP leaders, accusing him of seeking to ers" to America, and complained pick representatives from the Syria export the "next Boston bombers" that the agreement would ruin him opposition to the Geneva talks if to the United States. politically. the groups fail to agree on their Senior Australian government He reportedly told Turnbull delegates. UN envoy Staffan de sources confirmed on Wednesday that he doesn’t “want these peo- Mistura came under sharp criticism that Turnbull and Trump had a ple." from the Syria opposition after "robust" and shorter than expect- The phone call was expected giving opposition groups until Feb- ed phone call. to last an hour, but Trump ended ruary 8 to agree on their delegation According to The Washington it suddenly after 25 minutes. The to the talks, scheduled to open on Post, Trump blasted a refugee call was made on Saturday after February 20. “It is clear this is a agreement between the Obama ad- the US president spoke with Shin- possibility that might be used,” ministration and Australia as "the zo Abe of Japan, Angela Merkel Guterres told reporters about the worst deal ever,” before abruptly of Germany, François Hollande of ultimatum. “What we want is the ending the conversation. France and Vladimir Putin of Rus- success of the Geneva conference, Trump reportedly bragged sia on phone. and the success of the Geneva con- ference implies that there is a mean- ingful representation of the Syrian opposition in Geneva,” he said. “We will do everything to make sure that that happens.” De Mis- tura told the Security Council on Tuesday that he was delaying the peace talks, initially scheduled to begin on February 8, to allow both sides to better prepare. He warned that if the opposi- tion fails to agree, he would “se- lect the delegation in order to make sure that it can be as inclusive as possible.” Guterres noted that UN resolutions on Syria give De Mis- tura the prerogative to pick the about the size of his election vic- On Thursday morning, Trump delegation to the peace talks. tory in the 2016 presidential elec- tweeted that he is reviewing the “What is important is to have, tion, as well as the fact that he had agreement with Australia under this time, substantive discussions attended several phone calls from which America would resettle up on the central issues, and I hope world leaders that same day. to 1,250 asylum seekers who trav- that this will be possible,” he said. Trump told Turnbull but this eled to the country by boat and Previous UN-led talks have bro- “was the worst call by far,” ac- were sent to detention facilities.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK TO HAVE NEW ISRAELI SETTLEMENT Israel said on Wednesday it would privately owned Palestinian land. government announced more con- establish a new settlement in the On Wednesday, rightist pro- struction in larger settlements. occupied West Bank, the first testers scuffled with Israeli police With no weapons visible but wearing backpacks, hundreds of British MPs have approved the bill began Tuesday, many said they people from the EU, a demand she $64.5 billion) as part of drawn police walked past burning tyres first stage of a bill empowering would accept the result, however acknowledges is incompatible with out negotiations. and pushed back against scores of Prime Minister Theresa May to reluctantly. maintaining membership of the "This is a humongous nego- nationalist Israeli youths who start pulling Britain out of the Eu- The bill could be delayed in single market. tiation and project," Ivan Rogers flocked to Amona in support of ropean Union. the upper House of Lords, where "Remainers are much more di- told MPs. "I think it will take the settlers. The bill, approved on May's Conservative Party does vided over what to prioritise -- years to get to the other side of Working into the night the forc- Wednesday, would allow the gov- not have a majority -- and where which may well make them less it." es made slow progress, with three ernment to trigger Article 50 of the unelected peers have no fear of able to shape the debate," said In a speech on Tuesday, Ken or four policemen at a time lifting the EU's Lisbon Treaty and for- a public backlash. Anand Menon, director of the UK Clarke, who was the only Con- each of the protesters out of dwell- mally begin two years of exit ne- A new survey revealed that in a Changing Europe research pro- servative MP to vote against the ings in which they had holed up, gotiations. It was approved by a MPs who campaigned to leave the gramme. Brexit bill, accused Leavers of and carrying them away onto bus- margin of 498 to 114. EU are relatively united in what The vast majority of Leavers pursuing a fantasy "wonderland". es. It was the first Brexit-related they want -- whereas those who (86 percent) also believe Britain But May's opponents are By dark police said many of vote in the House of Commons, were on the other side have more will be able to make up for any still trying, and dozens of amend- Amona’s 40 families had left but coming after more than 17 hours diverse views. loss in trade with the EU through ments are scheduled for debate some protesters remained holed up of debate, with a second and final Some 72 percent of Leavers other deals, whereas 71 percent of over three days in the House of in the settlement’s synagogue and vote in the lower house set for favour controlling immigration or Remainers believe it cannot. Commons which begins on Mon- since the late 1990s, to rehouse carrying out a court order to evict negotiations were ongoing to se- next week. not paying into the EU budget over But Britain's former ambassa- day The bill will then move to settlers evicted on the same day the Amona settlers, hours after the cure an orderly eviction. The opposition Labour par- retaining access to Europe's single dor to the EU on Wednesday the Lords for debate from Febru- from an outpost built on private Reuters ty ordered MPs to not block the market. warned that the bloc would likely ary 20, with the government Palestinian land. bill, but 47 rebelled against leader She has said she wants to end take a "hard line", demanding an hoping for their approval by A statement from Prime Min- Jeremy Corbyn. He is yet to an- the free movement into Britain of exit bill of 40-60 billion euros ($43- March 7. Aljazeera ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Trump honors US navy seal nounce how he will respond to said he was making good on a com- frontbenchers and other lawmak- mitment to the settlers of Amona ers who refused to tow the party and had ordered the formation of a killed during Yemen raid line. committee to locate a site where MPs on Wednesday also Bucharest: Thousands protest they could rebuild their homes. President Donald Trump on Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula voted on a Scottish National Par- “As promised a month and a Wednesday made an unannounced (AQAP), which Washington views ty (SNP) amendment seeking to half ago to the settlers, (Netan- visit by helicopter to Delaware to as the global terror network’s most derail the Brexit bill, defeating it decriminalising corruption yahu) has set up a committee that honor the Navy SEAL killed in a dangerous branch. On the AQAP daring raid in Yemen, the first side, 14 fighters, including wom- by 336 votes to 100. More than 100,000 people have critics say is the biggest retreat on told reporters on Tuesday. will promote the establishment of May is under intense pres- taken to the streets in the Roma- reforms since the country joined Two opposition parties, the a new settlement... It will begin American combat death since he en, were killed, according to the became commander-in-chief. Chief Pentagon. Officials said the com- sure to push the bill through nian capital to protest against an the European Union a decade ago. opposition Liberals (PNL) and work immediately to locate a spot quickly, having promised EU lead- emergency government decree de- The decree, unveiled by the the Save Romania Union (USR), and to establish the settlement,” a Special Warfare Operator William mando raid was aimed at gathering “Ryan” Owens of Illinois, who intelligence and seizing computers ers she would trigger Article 50 criminalising a string of corruption Social Democrat-led government of announced they would file a no- statement from the Prime Minis- by the end of March. offences. Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu confidence motion on Wednes- ter’s Office said. reportedly was a member of the and other electronic equipment famed SEAL Team 6, was killed being used by AQAP. The raid She told MPs she would Protesters on Wednesday after it took power earlier this day against the government, The announcement was made Sunday in a rare ground assault in snagged “an unbelievable amount publish a long-awaited Brexit evening in Bucharest shouted month, has drawn sharp criticism which enjoys a comfortable ma- shortly after Israel’s Supreme conflict-torn Yemen. Trump flew of intelligence that will prevent the strategy paper on Thursday, "Rats" and carried banners that and triggered the biggest street pro- jority in parliament. Court rejected a government plan from the White House aboard the potential deaths or attacks on opening it to parliamentary scru- read "The morning shift", sending tests since the fall of communism As parliament opened for its to rehouse some of the Amona set- Marine One presidential helicop- American soil,” White House tiny while the Article 50 legisla- a message that the protests will in Romania in 1989. first regular session of the year, tlers on an adjacent plot because it ter to Dover Air Force Base in spokesman Sean Spicer said. But tion makes its way through par- continue until the government re- If enforced, the decree would, USR lawmakers paraded ban- ruled that homes built there would Delaware for the repatriation of “you never want to call something liament. signs. among other things, decriminalise ners that read "Shame" while also encroach on land owned by Owens’s remains. Trump was ac- a success 100 percent when some- "It will reflect the govern- The marches against the gov- abuse-of-power offences in which other opposition deputies Palestinians. companied by his daughter Ivanka one’s hurt or killed,” he told re- ment's plan for Brexit," May's ernment's move followed similar the sums involved were less than shouted "Resignation" and According to the Israeli human and was due to meet with the porters. Civilians were “likely” spokeswoman told reporters. protests a day earlier. 200,000 lei ($48,000). "Thieves". rights group, B’Tselem, Israel last Owens family. Owens, 36, was killed in a US commando raid in The government had sought Some 130,000 people marched That would put an end to an President Klaus Iohannis established new settlements in the killed during a firefight. Three com- Yemen over the weekend and chil- to exclude parliament, insisting it in Bucharest, while another ongoing trial of Social Democrat took part in an emergency meet- West Bank in 1999, although out- mandos were wounded in the raid dren may have been among the had the power to trigger Article 100,000-150,000 were estimated party leader Liviu Dragnea, who ing of Romania's top magis- posts such as Amona, that settlers and three more were injured when dead, the US military’s Central 50 on its own, but the Supreme by riot police to have joined simi- is accused of using his political in- trates' body, the Superior Mag- set up without official permission, a V-22 Osprey military aircraft Command said Wednesday. The Court last week ruled it must con- lar rallies in 55 other towns and fluence to secure state salaries for istrates' Council (CSM), telling have been built far more recently. made a hard landing, according to January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda sult lawmakers. cities, including Timisoara, Cluj, two people working at his party reporters afterwards: "The prob- Around 330 Israeli settlers live Pentagon spokesman Chris Sher- in the Arabian Peninsula has gar- OPINION: Why a hard Brex- wood. Also read: UK ambassador nered wide attention because a Iasi and Sibiu. headquarters between 2006 and lem is that one cannot act the in Amona, the largest of scores of it will cost the UK more than Eu- Romania's top judicial watch- 2013. Dozens of MPs and may- way the government did in a outposts built in the West Bank. to Yemen: ‘War caused by seizure Navy SEAL was also killed and rope of power by Houthis, Saleh’ US several more wounded in what dog announced a court challenge ors across all parties stand to ben- country with the rule of law, The Supreme Court ruled in No- Most MPs campaigned to on Wednesday against the govern- efit from the decree. which Romania is and wants to vember, after a lengthy legal bat- special operations forces had marked the first operation of its stay in the EU ahead of last June's mounted the raid in the Yakla re- kind authorized by President ment decree decriminalising a num- "I don't understand what pro- remain." tle, that settlers had to leave be- referendum, but as debate on the ber of corruption offences in what testers are upset about," Dragnea Aljazeera cause their homes were built on gion of Baida province against al- Donald Trump. AFP FRIDAY . 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Trump to Turnbull: Australia trying to export ‘Boston bombers’ to US US President Donald Trump has cording to senior US officials described his phone conversation briefed on the issue. with Australian Prime Minister He also told the Australian United Nations Secretary General ken down over disagreements on al-Assad’s exit from power. The “Selecting the Syrian opposi- of the opposition High Negotia- Malcolm Turnbull as "the worst prime minister that he was trying Antonio Guterres on Wednesday ensuring a transition in Damascus opposition rejected the envoy’s tion delegation is not the business... tions Committee, wrote on his by far" of a clutch of calls to world to export the "next Boston bomb- backed his peace envoy’s plan to that would lead to President Bashar comments as “unacceptable.” of de Mistura,” Riad Hijab, head Twitter account. AFP leaders, accusing him of seeking to ers" to America, and complained pick representatives from the Syria export the "next Boston bombers" that the agreement would ruin him opposition to the Geneva talks if to the United States. politically. the groups fail to agree on their Senior Australian government He reportedly told Turnbull delegates. UN envoy Staffan de sources confirmed on Wednesday that he doesn’t “want these peo- Mistura came under sharp criticism that Turnbull and Trump had a ple." from the Syria opposition after "robust" and shorter than expect- The phone call was expected giving opposition groups until Feb- ed phone call. to last an hour, but Trump ended ruary 8 to agree on their delegation According to The Washington it suddenly after 25 minutes. The to the talks, scheduled to open on Post, Trump blasted a refugee call was made on Saturday after February 20. “It is clear this is a agreement between the Obama ad- the US president spoke with Shin- possibility that might be used,” ministration and Australia as "the zo Abe of Japan, Angela Merkel Guterres told reporters about the worst deal ever,” before abruptly of Germany, François Hollande of ultimatum. “What we want is the ending the conversation. France and Vladimir Putin of Rus- success of the Geneva conference, Trump reportedly bragged sia on phone. and the success of the Geneva con- ference implies that there is a mean- ingful representation of the Syrian opposition in Geneva,” he said. “We will do everything to make sure that that happens.” De Mis- tura told the Security Council on Tuesday that he was delaying the peace talks, initially scheduled to begin on February 8, to allow both sides to better prepare. He warned that if the opposi- tion fails to agree, he would “se- lect the delegation in order to make sure that it can be as inclusive as possible.” Guterres noted that UN resolutions on Syria give De Mis- tura the prerogative to pick the about the size of his election vic- On Thursday morning, Trump delegation to the peace talks. tory in the 2016 presidential elec- tweeted that he is reviewing the “What is important is to have, tion, as well as the fact that he had agreement with Australia under this time, substantive discussions attended several phone calls from which America would resettle up on the central issues, and I hope world leaders that same day. to 1,250 asylum seekers who trav- that this will be possible,” he said. Trump told Turnbull but this eled to the country by boat and Previous UN-led talks have bro- “was the worst call by far,” ac- were sent to detention facilities.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK TO HAVE NEW ISRAELI SETTLEMENT Israel said on Wednesday it would privately owned Palestinian land. government announced more con- establish a new settlement in the On Wednesday, rightist pro- struction in larger settlements. occupied West Bank, the first testers scuffled with Israeli police With no weapons visible but wearing backpacks, hundreds of British MPs have approved the bill began Tuesday, many said they people from the EU, a demand she $64.5 billion) as part of drawn police walked past burning tyres first stage of a bill empowering would accept the result, however acknowledges is incompatible with out negotiations. and pushed back against scores of Prime Minister Theresa May to reluctantly. maintaining membership of the "This is a humongous nego- nationalist Israeli youths who start pulling Britain out of the Eu- The bill could be delayed in single market. tiation and project," Ivan Rogers flocked to Amona in support of ropean Union. the upper House of Lords, where "Remainers are much more di- told MPs. "I think it will take the settlers. The bill, approved on May's Conservative Party does vided over what to prioritise -- years to get to the other side of Working into the night the forc- Wednesday, would allow the gov- not have a majority -- and where which may well make them less it." es made slow progress, with three ernment to trigger Article 50 of the unelected peers have no fear of able to shape the debate," said In a speech on Tuesday, Ken or four policemen at a time lifting the EU's Lisbon Treaty and for- a public backlash. Anand Menon, director of the UK Clarke, who was the only Con- each of the protesters out of dwell- mally begin two years of exit ne- A new survey revealed that in a Changing Europe research pro- servative MP to vote against the ings in which they had holed up, gotiations. It was approved by a MPs who campaigned to leave the gramme. Brexit bill, accused Leavers of and carrying them away onto bus- margin of 498 to 114. EU are relatively united in what The vast majority of Leavers pursuing a fantasy "wonderland". es. It was the first Brexit-related they want -- whereas those who (86 percent) also believe Britain But May's opponents are By dark police said many of vote in the House of Commons, were on the other side have more will be able to make up for any still trying, and dozens of amend- Amona’s 40 families had left but coming after more than 17 hours diverse views. loss in trade with the EU through ments are scheduled for debate some protesters remained holed up of debate, with a second and final Some 72 percent of Leavers other deals, whereas 71 percent of over three days in the House of in the settlement’s synagogue and vote in the lower house set for favour controlling immigration or Remainers believe it cannot. Commons which begins on Mon- since the late 1990s, to rehouse carrying out a court order to evict negotiations were ongoing to se- next week. not paying into the EU budget over But Britain's former ambassa- day The bill will then move to settlers evicted on the same day the Amona settlers, hours after the cure an orderly eviction. The opposition Labour par- retaining access to Europe's single dor to the EU on Wednesday the Lords for debate from Febru- from an outpost built on private Reuters ty ordered MPs to not block the market. warned that the bloc would likely ary 20, with the government Palestinian land. bill, but 47 rebelled against leader She has said she wants to end take a "hard line", demanding an hoping for their approval by A statement from Prime Min- Jeremy Corbyn. He is yet to an- the free movement into Britain of exit bill of 40-60 billion euros ($43- March 7. Aljazeera ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Trump honors US navy seal nounce how he will respond to said he was making good on a com- frontbenchers and other lawmak- mitment to the settlers of Amona ers who refused to tow the party and had ordered the formation of a killed during Yemen raid line. committee to locate a site where MPs on Wednesday also Bucharest: Thousands protest they could rebuild their homes. President Donald Trump on Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula voted on a Scottish National Par- “As promised a month and a Wednesday made an unannounced (AQAP), which Washington views ty (SNP) amendment seeking to half ago to the settlers, (Netan- visit by helicopter to Delaware to as the global terror network’s most derail the Brexit bill, defeating it decriminalising corruption yahu) has set up a committee that honor the Navy SEAL killed in a dangerous branch. On the AQAP daring raid in Yemen, the first side, 14 fighters, including wom- by 336 votes to 100. More than 100,000 people have critics say is the biggest retreat on told reporters on Tuesday. will promote the establishment of May is under intense pres- taken to the streets in the Roma- reforms since the country joined Two opposition parties, the a new settlement... It will begin American combat death since he en, were killed, according to the became commander-in-chief. Chief Pentagon. Officials said the com- sure to push the bill through nian capital to protest against an the European Union a decade ago. opposition Liberals (PNL) and work immediately to locate a spot quickly, having promised EU lead- emergency government decree de- The decree, unveiled by the the Save Romania Union (USR), and to establish the settlement,” a Special Warfare Operator William mando raid was aimed at gathering “Ryan” Owens of Illinois, who intelligence and seizing computers ers she would trigger Article 50 criminalising a string of corruption Social Democrat-led government of announced they would file a no- statement from the Prime Minis- by the end of March. offences. Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu confidence motion on Wednes- ter’s Office said. reportedly was a member of the and other electronic equipment famed SEAL Team 6, was killed being used by AQAP. The raid She told MPs she would Protesters on Wednesday after it took power earlier this day against the government, The announcement was made Sunday in a rare ground assault in snagged “an unbelievable amount publish a long-awaited Brexit evening in Bucharest shouted month, has drawn sharp criticism which enjoys a comfortable ma- shortly after Israel’s Supreme conflict-torn Yemen. Trump flew of intelligence that will prevent the strategy paper on Thursday, "Rats" and carried banners that and triggered the biggest street pro- jority in parliament. Court rejected a government plan from the White House aboard the potential deaths or attacks on opening it to parliamentary scru- read "The morning shift", sending tests since the fall of communism As parliament opened for its to rehouse some of the Amona set- Marine One presidential helicop- American soil,” White House tiny while the Article 50 legisla- a message that the protests will in Romania in 1989. first regular session of the year, tlers on an adjacent plot because it ter to Dover Air Force Base in spokesman Sean Spicer said. But tion makes its way through par- continue until the government re- If enforced, the decree would, USR lawmakers paraded ban- ruled that homes built there would Delaware for the repatriation of “you never want to call something liament. signs. among other things, decriminalise ners that read "Shame" while also encroach on land owned by Owens’s remains. Trump was ac- a success 100 percent when some- "It will reflect the govern- The marches against the gov- abuse-of-power offences in which other opposition deputies Palestinians. companied by his daughter Ivanka one’s hurt or killed,” he told re- ment's plan for Brexit," May's ernment's move followed similar the sums involved were less than shouted "Resignation" and According to the Israeli human and was due to meet with the porters. Civilians were “likely” spokeswoman told reporters. protests a day earlier. 200,000 lei ($48,000). "Thieves". rights group, B’Tselem, Israel last Owens family. Owens, 36, was killed in a US commando raid in The government had sought Some 130,000 people marched That would put an end to an President Klaus Iohannis established new settlements in the killed during a firefight. Three com- Yemen over the weekend and chil- to exclude parliament, insisting it in Bucharest, while another ongoing trial of Social Democrat took part in an emergency meet- West Bank in 1999, although out- mandos were wounded in the raid dren may have been among the had the power to trigger Article 100,000-150,000 were estimated party leader Liviu Dragnea, who ing of Romania's top magis- posts such as Amona, that settlers and three more were injured when dead, the US military’s Central 50 on its own, but the Supreme by riot police to have joined simi- is accused of using his political in- trates' body, the Superior Mag- set up without official permission, a V-22 Osprey military aircraft Command said Wednesday. The Court last week ruled it must con- lar rallies in 55 other towns and fluence to secure state salaries for istrates' Council (CSM), telling have been built far more recently. made a hard landing, according to January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda sult lawmakers. cities, including Timisoara, Cluj, two people working at his party reporters afterwards: "The prob- Around 330 Israeli settlers live Pentagon spokesman Chris Sher- in the Arabian Peninsula has gar- OPINION: Why a hard Brex- wood. Also read: UK ambassador nered wide attention because a Iasi and Sibiu. headquarters between 2006 and lem is that one cannot act the in Amona, the largest of scores of it will cost the UK more than Eu- Romania's top judicial watch- 2013. Dozens of MPs and may- way the government did in a outposts built in the West Bank. to Yemen: ‘War caused by seizure Navy SEAL was also killed and rope of power by Houthis, Saleh’ US several more wounded in what dog announced a court challenge ors across all parties stand to ben- country with the rule of law, The Supreme Court ruled in No- Most MPs campaigned to on Wednesday against the govern- efit from the decree. which Romania is and wants to vember, after a lengthy legal bat- special operations forces had marked the first operation of its stay in the EU ahead of last June's mounted the raid in the Yakla re- kind authorized by President ment decree decriminalising a num- "I don't understand what pro- remain." tle, that settlers had to leave be- referendum, but as debate on the ber of corruption offences in what testers are upset about," Dragnea Aljazeera cause their homes were built on gion of Baida province against al- Donald Trump. AFP FRIDAY . 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Trump to Turnbull: Australia trying to export ‘Boston bombers’ to US US President Donald Trump has cording to senior US officials described his phone conversation briefed on the issue. with Australian Prime Minister He also told the Australian United Nations Secretary General ken down over disagreements on al-Assad’s exit from power. The “Selecting the Syrian opposi- of the opposition High Negotia- Malcolm Turnbull as "the worst prime minister that he was trying Antonio Guterres on Wednesday ensuring a transition in Damascus opposition rejected the envoy’s tion delegation is not the business... tions Committee, wrote on his by far" of a clutch of calls to world to export the "next Boston bomb- backed his peace envoy’s plan to that would lead to President Bashar comments as “unacceptable.” of de Mistura,” Riad Hijab, head Twitter account. AFP leaders, accusing him of seeking to ers" to America, and complained pick representatives from the Syria export the "next Boston bombers" that the agreement would ruin him opposition to the Geneva talks if to the United States. politically. the groups fail to agree on their Senior Australian government He reportedly told Turnbull delegates. UN envoy Staffan de sources confirmed on Wednesday that he doesn’t “want these peo- Mistura came under sharp criticism that Turnbull and Trump had a ple." from the Syria opposition after "robust" and shorter than expect- The phone call was expected giving opposition groups until Feb- ed phone call. to last an hour, but Trump ended ruary 8 to agree on their delegation According to The Washington it suddenly after 25 minutes. The to the talks, scheduled to open on Post, Trump blasted a refugee call was made on Saturday after February 20. “It is clear this is a agreement between the Obama ad- the US president spoke with Shin- possibility that might be used,” ministration and Australia as "the zo Abe of Japan, Angela Merkel Guterres told reporters about the worst deal ever,” before abruptly of Germany, François Hollande of ultimatum. “What we want is the ending the conversation. France and Vladimir Putin of Rus- success of the Geneva conference, Trump reportedly bragged sia on phone. and the success of the Geneva con- ference implies that there is a mean- ingful representation of the Syrian opposition in Geneva,” he said. “We will do everything to make sure that that happens.” De Mis- tura told the Security Council on Tuesday that he was delaying the peace talks, initially scheduled to begin on February 8, to allow both sides to better prepare. He warned that if the opposi- tion fails to agree, he would “se- lect the delegation in order to make sure that it can be as inclusive as possible.” Guterres noted that UN resolutions on Syria give De Mis- tura the prerogative to pick the about the size of his election vic- On Thursday morning, Trump delegation to the peace talks. tory in the 2016 presidential elec- tweeted that he is reviewing the “What is important is to have, tion, as well as the fact that he had agreement with Australia under this time, substantive discussions attended several phone calls from which America would resettle up on the central issues, and I hope world leaders that same day. to 1,250 asylum seekers who trav- that this will be possible,” he said. Trump told Turnbull but this eled to the country by boat and Previous UN-led talks have bro- “was the worst call by far,” ac- were sent to detention facilities.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK TO HAVE NEW ISRAELI SETTLEMENT Israel said on Wednesday it would privately owned Palestinian land. government announced more con- establish a new settlement in the On Wednesday, rightist pro- struction in larger settlements. occupied West Bank, the first testers scuffled with Israeli police With no weapons visible but wearing backpacks, hundreds of British MPs have approved the bill began Tuesday, many said they people from the EU, a demand she $64.5 billion) as part of drawn police walked past burning tyres first stage of a bill empowering would accept the result, however acknowledges is incompatible with out negotiations. and pushed back against scores of Prime Minister Theresa May to reluctantly. maintaining membership of the "This is a humongous nego- nationalist Israeli youths who start pulling Britain out of the Eu- The bill could be delayed in single market. tiation and project," Ivan Rogers flocked to Amona in support of ropean Union. the upper House of Lords, where "Remainers are much more di- told MPs. "I think it will take the settlers. The bill, approved on May's Conservative Party does vided over what to prioritise -- years to get to the other side of Working into the night the forc- Wednesday, would allow the gov- not have a majority -- and where which may well make them less it." es made slow progress, with three ernment to trigger Article 50 of the unelected peers have no fear of able to shape the debate," said In a speech on Tuesday, Ken or four policemen at a time lifting the EU's Lisbon Treaty and for- a public backlash. Anand Menon, director of the UK Clarke, who was the only Con- each of the protesters out of dwell- mally begin two years of exit ne- A new survey revealed that in a Changing Europe research pro- servative MP to vote against the ings in which they had holed up, gotiations. It was approved by a MPs who campaigned to leave the gramme. Brexit bill, accused Leavers of and carrying them away onto bus- margin of 498 to 114. EU are relatively united in what The vast majority of Leavers pursuing a fantasy "wonderland". es. It was the first Brexit-related they want -- whereas those who (86 percent) also believe Britain But May's opponents are By dark police said many of vote in the House of Commons, were on the other side have more will be able to make up for any still trying, and dozens of amend- Amona’s 40 families had left but coming after more than 17 hours diverse views. loss in trade with the EU through ments are scheduled for debate some protesters remained holed up of debate, with a second and final Some 72 percent of Leavers other deals, whereas 71 percent of over three days in the House of in the settlement’s synagogue and vote in the lower house set for favour controlling immigration or Remainers believe it cannot. Commons which begins on Mon- since the late 1990s, to rehouse carrying out a court order to evict negotiations were ongoing to se- next week. not paying into the EU budget over But Britain's former ambassa- day The bill will then move to settlers evicted on the same day the Amona settlers, hours after the cure an orderly eviction. The opposition Labour par- retaining access to Europe's single dor to the EU on Wednesday the Lords for debate from Febru- from an outpost built on private Reuters ty ordered MPs to not block the market. warned that the bloc would likely ary 20, with the government Palestinian land. bill, but 47 rebelled against leader She has said she wants to end take a "hard line", demanding an hoping for their approval by A statement from Prime Min- Jeremy Corbyn. He is yet to an- the free movement into Britain of exit bill of 40-60 billion euros ($43- March 7. Aljazeera ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Trump honors US navy seal nounce how he will respond to said he was making good on a com- frontbenchers and other lawmak- mitment to the settlers of Amona ers who refused to tow the party and had ordered the formation of a killed during Yemen raid line. committee to locate a site where MPs on Wednesday also Bucharest: Thousands protest they could rebuild their homes. President Donald Trump on Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula voted on a Scottish National Par- “As promised a month and a Wednesday made an unannounced (AQAP), which Washington views ty (SNP) amendment seeking to half ago to the settlers, (Netan- visit by helicopter to Delaware to as the global terror network’s most derail the Brexit bill, defeating it decriminalising corruption yahu) has set up a committee that honor the Navy SEAL killed in a dangerous branch. On the AQAP daring raid in Yemen, the first side, 14 fighters, including wom- by 336 votes to 100. More than 100,000 people have critics say is the biggest retreat on told reporters on Tuesday. will promote the establishment of May is under intense pres- taken to the streets in the Roma- reforms since the country joined Two opposition parties, the a new settlement... It will begin American combat death since he en, were killed, according to the became commander-in-chief. Chief Pentagon. Officials said the com- sure to push the bill through nian capital to protest against an the European Union a decade ago. opposition Liberals (PNL) and work immediately to locate a spot quickly, having promised EU lead- emergency government decree de- The decree, unveiled by the the Save Romania Union (USR), and to establish the settlement,” a Special Warfare Operator William mando raid was aimed at gathering “Ryan” Owens of Illinois, who intelligence and seizing computers ers she would trigger Article 50 criminalising a string of corruption Social Democrat-led government of announced they would file a no- statement from the Prime Minis- by the end of March. offences. Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu confidence motion on Wednes- ter’s Office said. reportedly was a member of the and other electronic equipment famed SEAL Team 6, was killed being used by AQAP. The raid She told MPs she would Protesters on Wednesday after it took power earlier this day against the government, The announcement was made Sunday in a rare ground assault in snagged “an unbelievable amount publish a long-awaited Brexit evening in Bucharest shouted month, has drawn sharp criticism which enjoys a comfortable ma- shortly after Israel’s Supreme conflict-torn Yemen. Trump flew of intelligence that will prevent the strategy paper on Thursday, "Rats" and carried banners that and triggered the biggest street pro- jority in parliament. Court rejected a government plan from the White House aboard the potential deaths or attacks on opening it to parliamentary scru- read "The morning shift", sending tests since the fall of communism As parliament opened for its to rehouse some of the Amona set- Marine One presidential helicop- American soil,” White House tiny while the Article 50 legisla- a message that the protests will in Romania in 1989. first regular session of the year, tlers on an adjacent plot because it ter to Dover Air Force Base in spokesman Sean Spicer said. But tion makes its way through par- continue until the government re- If enforced, the decree would, USR lawmakers paraded ban- ruled that homes built there would Delaware for the repatriation of “you never want to call something liament. signs. among other things, decriminalise ners that read "Shame" while also encroach on land owned by Owens’s remains. Trump was ac- a success 100 percent when some- "It will reflect the govern- The marches against the gov- abuse-of-power offences in which other opposition deputies Palestinians. companied by his daughter Ivanka one’s hurt or killed,” he told re- ment's plan for Brexit," May's ernment's move followed similar the sums involved were less than shouted "Resignation" and According to the Israeli human and was due to meet with the porters. Civilians were “likely” spokeswoman told reporters. protests a day earlier. 200,000 lei ($48,000). "Thieves". rights group, B’Tselem, Israel last Owens family. Owens, 36, was killed in a US commando raid in The government had sought Some 130,000 people marched That would put an end to an President Klaus Iohannis established new settlements in the killed during a firefight. Three com- Yemen over the weekend and chil- to exclude parliament, insisting it in Bucharest, while another ongoing trial of Social Democrat took part in an emergency meet- West Bank in 1999, although out- mandos were wounded in the raid dren may have been among the had the power to trigger Article 100,000-150,000 were estimated party leader Liviu Dragnea, who ing of Romania's top magis- posts such as Amona, that settlers and three more were injured when dead, the US military’s Central 50 on its own, but the Supreme by riot police to have joined simi- is accused of using his political in- trates' body, the Superior Mag- set up without official permission, a V-22 Osprey military aircraft Command said Wednesday. The Court last week ruled it must con- lar rallies in 55 other towns and fluence to secure state salaries for istrates' Council (CSM), telling have been built far more recently. made a hard landing, according to January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda sult lawmakers. cities, including Timisoara, Cluj, two people working at his party reporters afterwards: "The prob- Around 330 Israeli settlers live Pentagon spokesman Chris Sher- in the Arabian Peninsula has gar- OPINION: Why a hard Brex- wood. Also read: UK ambassador nered wide attention because a Iasi and Sibiu. headquarters between 2006 and lem is that one cannot act the in Amona, the largest of scores of it will cost the UK more than Eu- Romania's top judicial watch- 2013. Dozens of MPs and may- way the government did in a outposts built in the West Bank. to Yemen: ‘War caused by seizure Navy SEAL was also killed and rope of power by Houthis, Saleh’ US several more wounded in what dog announced a court challenge ors across all parties stand to ben- country with the rule of law, The Supreme Court ruled in No- Most MPs campaigned to on Wednesday against the govern- efit from the decree. which Romania is and wants to vember, after a lengthy legal bat- special operations forces had marked the first operation of its stay in the EU ahead of last June's mounted the raid in the Yakla re- kind authorized by President ment decree decriminalising a num- "I don't understand what pro- remain." tle, that settlers had to leave be- referendum, but as debate on the ber of corruption offences in what testers are upset about," Dragnea Aljazeera cause their homes were built on gion of Baida province against al- Donald Trump. AFP FRIDAY . 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Trump to Turnbull: Australia trying to export ‘Boston bombers’ to US US President Donald Trump has cording to senior US officials described his phone conversation briefed on the issue. with Australian Prime Minister He also told the Australian United Nations Secretary General ken down over disagreements on al-Assad’s exit from power. The “Selecting the Syrian opposi- of the opposition High Negotia- Malcolm Turnbull as "the worst prime minister that he was trying Antonio Guterres on Wednesday ensuring a transition in Damascus opposition rejected the envoy’s tion delegation is not the business... tions Committee, wrote on his by far" of a clutch of calls to world to export the "next Boston bomb- backed his peace envoy’s plan to that would lead to President Bashar comments as “unacceptable.” of de Mistura,” Riad Hijab, head Twitter account. AFP leaders, accusing him of seeking to ers" to America, and complained pick representatives from the Syria export the "next Boston bombers" that the agreement would ruin him opposition to the Geneva talks if to the United States. politically. the groups fail to agree on their Senior Australian government He reportedly told Turnbull delegates. UN envoy Staffan de sources confirmed on Wednesday that he doesn’t “want these peo- Mistura came under sharp criticism that Turnbull and Trump had a ple." from the Syria opposition after "robust" and shorter than expect- The phone call was expected giving opposition groups until Feb- ed phone call. to last an hour, but Trump ended ruary 8 to agree on their delegation According to The Washington it suddenly after 25 minutes. The to the talks, scheduled to open on Post, Trump blasted a refugee call was made on Saturday after February 20. “It is clear this is a agreement between the Obama ad- the US president spoke with Shin- possibility that might be used,” ministration and Australia as "the zo Abe of Japan, Angela Merkel Guterres told reporters about the worst deal ever,” before abruptly of Germany, François Hollande of ultimatum. “What we want is the ending the conversation. France and Vladimir Putin of Rus- success of the Geneva conference, Trump reportedly bragged sia on phone. and the success of the Geneva con- ference implies that there is a mean- ingful representation of the Syrian opposition in Geneva,” he said. “We will do everything to make sure that that happens.” De Mis- tura told the Security Council on Tuesday that he was delaying the peace talks, initially scheduled to begin on February 8, to allow both sides to better prepare. He warned that if the opposi- tion fails to agree, he would “se- lect the delegation in order to make sure that it can be as inclusive as possible.” Guterres noted that UN resolutions on Syria give De Mis- tura the prerogative to pick the about the size of his election vic- On Thursday morning, Trump delegation to the peace talks. tory in the 2016 presidential elec- tweeted that he is reviewing the “What is important is to have, tion, as well as the fact that he had agreement with Australia under this time, substantive discussions attended several phone calls from which America would resettle up on the central issues, and I hope world leaders that same day. to 1,250 asylum seekers who trav- that this will be possible,” he said. Trump told Turnbull but this eled to the country by boat and Previous UN-led talks have bro- “was the worst call by far,” ac- were sent to detention facilities.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK TO HAVE NEW ISRAELI SETTLEMENT Israel said on Wednesday it would privately owned Palestinian land. government announced more con- establish a new settlement in the On Wednesday, rightist pro- struction in larger settlements. occupied West Bank, the first testers scuffled with Israeli police With no weapons visible but wearing backpacks, hundreds of British MPs have approved the bill began Tuesday, many said they people from the EU, a demand she $64.5 billion) as part of drawn police walked past burning tyres first stage of a bill empowering would accept the result, however acknowledges is incompatible with out negotiations. and pushed back against scores of Prime Minister Theresa May to reluctantly. maintaining membership of the "This is a humongous nego- nationalist Israeli youths who start pulling Britain out of the Eu- The bill could be delayed in single market. tiation and project," Ivan Rogers flocked to Amona in support of ropean Union. the upper House of Lords, where "Remainers are much more di- told MPs. "I think it will take the settlers. The bill, approved on May's Conservative Party does vided over what to prioritise -- years to get to the other side of Working into the night the forc- Wednesday, would allow the gov- not have a majority -- and where which may well make them less it." es made slow progress, with three ernment to trigger Article 50 of the unelected peers have no fear of able to shape the debate," said In a speech on Tuesday, Ken or four policemen at a time lifting the EU's Lisbon Treaty and for- a public backlash. Anand Menon, director of the UK Clarke, who was the only Con- each of the protesters out of dwell- mally begin two years of exit ne- A new survey revealed that in a Changing Europe research pro- servative MP to vote against the ings in which they had holed up, gotiations. It was approved by a MPs who campaigned to leave the gramme. Brexit bill, accused Leavers of and carrying them away onto bus- margin of 498 to 114. EU are relatively united in what The vast majority of Leavers pursuing a fantasy "wonderland". es. It was the first Brexit-related they want -- whereas those who (86 percent) also believe Britain But May's opponents are By dark police said many of vote in the House of Commons, were on the other side have more will be able to make up for any still trying, and dozens of amend- Amona’s 40 families had left but coming after more than 17 hours diverse views. loss in trade with the EU through ments are scheduled for debate some protesters remained holed up of debate, with a second and final Some 72 percent of Leavers other deals, whereas 71 percent of over three days in the House of in the settlement’s synagogue and vote in the lower house set for favour controlling immigration or Remainers believe it cannot. Commons which begins on Mon- since the late 1990s, to rehouse carrying out a court order to evict negotiations were ongoing to se- next week. not paying into the EU budget over But Britain's former ambassa- day The bill will then move to settlers evicted on the same day the Amona settlers, hours after the cure an orderly eviction. The opposition Labour par- retaining access to Europe's single dor to the EU on Wednesday the Lords for debate from Febru- from an outpost built on private Reuters ty ordered MPs to not block the market. warned that the bloc would likely ary 20, with the government Palestinian land. bill, but 47 rebelled against leader She has said she wants to end take a "hard line", demanding an hoping for their approval by A statement from Prime Min- Jeremy Corbyn. He is yet to an- the free movement into Britain of exit bill of 40-60 billion euros ($43- March 7. Aljazeera ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Trump honors US navy seal nounce how he will respond to said he was making good on a com- frontbenchers and other lawmak- mitment to the settlers of Amona ers who refused to tow the party and had ordered the formation of a killed during Yemen raid line. committee to locate a site where MPs on Wednesday also Bucharest: Thousands protest they could rebuild their homes. President Donald Trump on Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula voted on a Scottish National Par- “As promised a month and a Wednesday made an unannounced (AQAP), which Washington views ty (SNP) amendment seeking to half ago to the settlers, (Netan- visit by helicopter to Delaware to as the global terror network’s most derail the Brexit bill, defeating it decriminalising corruption yahu) has set up a committee that honor the Navy SEAL killed in a dangerous branch. On the AQAP daring raid in Yemen, the first side, 14 fighters, including wom- by 336 votes to 100. More than 100,000 people have critics say is the biggest retreat on told reporters on Tuesday. will promote the establishment of May is under intense pres- taken to the streets in the Roma- reforms since the country joined Two opposition parties, the a new settlement... It will begin American combat death since he en, were killed, according to the became commander-in-chief. Chief Pentagon. Officials said the com- sure to push the bill through nian capital to protest against an the European Union a decade ago. opposition Liberals (PNL) and work immediately to locate a spot quickly, having promised EU lead- emergency government decree de- The decree, unveiled by the the Save Romania Union (USR), and to establish the settlement,” a Special Warfare Operator William mando raid was aimed at gathering “Ryan” Owens of Illinois, who intelligence and seizing computers ers she would trigger Article 50 criminalising a string of corruption Social Democrat-led government of announced they would file a no- statement from the Prime Minis- by the end of March. offences. Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu confidence motion on Wednes- ter’s Office said. reportedly was a member of the and other electronic equipment famed SEAL Team 6, was killed being used by AQAP. The raid She told MPs she would Protesters on Wednesday after it took power earlier this day against the government, The announcement was made Sunday in a rare ground assault in snagged “an unbelievable amount publish a long-awaited Brexit evening in Bucharest shouted month, has drawn sharp criticism which enjoys a comfortable ma- shortly after Israel’s Supreme conflict-torn Yemen. Trump flew of intelligence that will prevent the strategy paper on Thursday, "Rats" and carried banners that and triggered the biggest street pro- jority in parliament. Court rejected a government plan from the White House aboard the potential deaths or attacks on opening it to parliamentary scru- read "The morning shift", sending tests since the fall of communism As parliament opened for its to rehouse some of the Amona set- Marine One presidential helicop- American soil,” White House tiny while the Article 50 legisla- a message that the protests will in Romania in 1989. first regular session of the year, tlers on an adjacent plot because it ter to Dover Air Force Base in spokesman Sean Spicer said. But tion makes its way through par- continue until the government re- If enforced, the decree would, USR lawmakers paraded ban- ruled that homes built there would Delaware for the repatriation of “you never want to call something liament. signs. among other things, decriminalise ners that read "Shame" while also encroach on land owned by Owens’s remains. Trump was ac- a success 100 percent when some- "It will reflect the govern- The marches against the gov- abuse-of-power offences in which other opposition deputies Palestinians. companied by his daughter Ivanka one’s hurt or killed,” he told re- ment's plan for Brexit," May's ernment's move followed similar the sums involved were less than shouted "Resignation" and According to the Israeli human and was due to meet with the porters. Civilians were “likely” spokeswoman told reporters. protests a day earlier. 200,000 lei ($48,000). "Thieves". rights group, B’Tselem, Israel last Owens family. Owens, 36, was killed in a US commando raid in The government had sought Some 130,000 people marched That would put an end to an President Klaus Iohannis established new settlements in the killed during a firefight. Three com- Yemen over the weekend and chil- to exclude parliament, insisting it in Bucharest, while another ongoing trial of Social Democrat took part in an emergency meet- West Bank in 1999, although out- mandos were wounded in the raid dren may have been among the had the power to trigger Article 100,000-150,000 were estimated party leader Liviu Dragnea, who ing of Romania's top magis- posts such as Amona, that settlers and three more were injured when dead, the US military’s Central 50 on its own, but the Supreme by riot police to have joined simi- is accused of using his political in- trates' body, the Superior Mag- set up without official permission, a V-22 Osprey military aircraft Command said Wednesday. The Court last week ruled it must con- lar rallies in 55 other towns and fluence to secure state salaries for istrates' Council (CSM), telling have been built far more recently. made a hard landing, according to January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda sult lawmakers. cities, including Timisoara, Cluj, two people working at his party reporters afterwards: "The prob- Around 330 Israeli settlers live Pentagon spokesman Chris Sher- in the Arabian Peninsula has gar- OPINION: Why a hard Brex- wood. Also read: UK ambassador nered wide attention because a Iasi and Sibiu. headquarters between 2006 and lem is that one cannot act the in Amona, the largest of scores of it will cost the UK more than Eu- Romania's top judicial watch- 2013. Dozens of MPs and may- way the government did in a outposts built in the West Bank. to Yemen: ‘War caused by seizure Navy SEAL was also killed and rope of power by Houthis, Saleh’ US several more wounded in what dog announced a court challenge ors across all parties stand to ben- country with the rule of law, The Supreme Court ruled in No- Most MPs campaigned to on Wednesday against the govern- efit from the decree. which Romania is and wants to vember, after a lengthy legal bat- special operations forces had marked the first operation of its stay in the EU ahead of last June's mounted the raid in the Yakla re- kind authorized by President ment decree decriminalising a num- "I don't understand what pro- remain." tle, that settlers had to leave be- referendum, but as debate on the ber of corruption offences in what testers are upset about," Dragnea Aljazeera cause their homes were built on gion of Baida province against al- Donald Trump. AFP FRIDAY . 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Trump to Turnbull: Australia trying to export ‘Boston bombers’ to US US President Donald Trump has cording to senior US officials described his phone conversation briefed on the issue. with Australian Prime Minister He also told the Australian United Nations Secretary General ken down over disagreements on al-Assad’s exit from power. The “Selecting the Syrian opposi- of the opposition High Negotia- Malcolm Turnbull as "the worst prime minister that he was trying Antonio Guterres on Wednesday ensuring a transition in Damascus opposition rejected the envoy’s tion delegation is not the business... tions Committee, wrote on his by far" of a clutch of calls to world to export the "next Boston bomb- backed his peace envoy’s plan to that would lead to President Bashar comments as “unacceptable.” of de Mistura,” Riad Hijab, head Twitter account. AFP leaders, accusing him of seeking to ers" to America, and complained pick representatives from the Syria export the "next Boston bombers" that the agreement would ruin him opposition to the Geneva talks if to the United States. politically. the groups fail to agree on their Senior Australian government He reportedly told Turnbull delegates. UN envoy Staffan de sources confirmed on Wednesday that he doesn’t “want these peo- Mistura came under sharp criticism that Turnbull and Trump had a ple." from the Syria opposition after "robust" and shorter than expect- The phone call was expected giving opposition groups until Feb- ed phone call. to last an hour, but Trump ended ruary 8 to agree on their delegation According to The Washington it suddenly after 25 minutes. The to the talks, scheduled to open on Post, Trump blasted a refugee call was made on Saturday after February 20. “It is clear this is a agreement between the Obama ad- the US president spoke with Shin- possibility that might be used,” ministration and Australia as "the zo Abe of Japan, Angela Merkel Guterres told reporters about the worst deal ever,” before abruptly of Germany, François Hollande of ultimatum. “What we want is the ending the conversation. France and Vladimir Putin of Rus- success of the Geneva conference, Trump reportedly bragged sia on phone. and the success of the Geneva con- ference implies that there is a mean- ingful representation of the Syrian opposition in Geneva,” he said. “We will do everything to make sure that that happens.” De Mis- tura told the Security Council on Tuesday that he was delaying the peace talks, initially scheduled to begin on February 8, to allow both sides to better prepare. He warned that if the opposi- tion fails to agree, he would “se- lect the delegation in order to make sure that it can be as inclusive as possible.” Guterres noted that UN resolutions on Syria give De Mis- tura the prerogative to pick the about the size of his election vic- On Thursday morning, Trump delegation to the peace talks. tory in the 2016 presidential elec- tweeted that he is reviewing the “What is important is to have, tion, as well as the fact that he had agreement with Australia under this time, substantive discussions attended several phone calls from which America would resettle up on the central issues, and I hope world leaders that same day. to 1,250 asylum seekers who trav- that this will be possible,” he said. Trump told Turnbull but this eled to the country by boat and Previous UN-led talks have bro- “was the worst call by far,” ac- were sent to detention facilities.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK TO HAVE NEW ISRAELI SETTLEMENT Israel said on Wednesday it would privately owned Palestinian land. government announced more con- establish a new settlement in the On Wednesday, rightist pro- struction in larger settlements. occupied West Bank, the first testers scuffled with Israeli police With no weapons visible but wearing backpacks, hundreds of British MPs have approved the bill began Tuesday, many said they people from the EU, a demand she $64.5 billion) as part of drawn police walked past burning tyres first stage of a bill empowering would accept the result, however acknowledges is incompatible with out negotiations. and pushed back against scores of Prime Minister Theresa May to reluctantly. maintaining membership of the "This is a humongous nego- nationalist Israeli youths who start pulling Britain out of the Eu- The bill could be delayed in single market. tiation and project," Ivan Rogers flocked to Amona in support of ropean Union. the upper House of Lords, where "Remainers are much more di- told MPs. "I think it will take the settlers. The bill, approved on May's Conservative Party does vided over what to prioritise -- years to get to the other side of Working into the night the forc- Wednesday, would allow the gov- not have a majority -- and where which may well make them less it." es made slow progress, with three ernment to trigger Article 50 of the unelected peers have no fear of able to shape the debate," said In a speech on Tuesday, Ken or four policemen at a time lifting the EU's Lisbon Treaty and for- a public backlash. Anand Menon, director of the UK Clarke, who was the only Con- each of the protesters out of dwell- mally begin two years of exit ne- A new survey revealed that in a Changing Europe research pro- servative MP to vote against the ings in which they had holed up, gotiations. It was approved by a MPs who campaigned to leave the gramme. Brexit bill, accused Leavers of and carrying them away onto bus- margin of 498 to 114. EU are relatively united in what The vast majority of Leavers pursuing a fantasy "wonderland". es. It was the first Brexit-related they want -- whereas those who (86 percent) also believe Britain But May's opponents are By dark police said many of vote in the House of Commons, were on the other side have more will be able to make up for any still trying, and dozens of amend- Amona’s 40 families had left but coming after more than 17 hours diverse views. loss in trade with the EU through ments are scheduled for debate some protesters remained holed up of debate, with a second and final Some 72 percent of Leavers other deals, whereas 71 percent of over three days in the House of in the settlement’s synagogue and vote in the lower house set for favour controlling immigration or Remainers believe it cannot. Commons which begins on Mon- since the late 1990s, to rehouse carrying out a court order to evict negotiations were ongoing to se- next week. not paying into the EU budget over But Britain's former ambassa- day The bill will then move to settlers evicted on the same day the Amona settlers, hours after the cure an orderly eviction. The opposition Labour par- retaining access to Europe's single dor to the EU on Wednesday the Lords for debate from Febru- from an outpost built on private Reuters ty ordered MPs to not block the market. warned that the bloc would likely ary 20, with the government Palestinian land. bill, but 47 rebelled against leader She has said she wants to end take a "hard line", demanding an hoping for their approval by A statement from Prime Min- Jeremy Corbyn. He is yet to an- the free movement into Britain of exit bill of 40-60 billion euros ($43- March 7. Aljazeera ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Trump honors US navy seal nounce how he will respond to said he was making good on a com- frontbenchers and other lawmak- mitment to the settlers of Amona ers who refused to tow the party and had ordered the formation of a killed during Yemen raid line. committee to locate a site where MPs on Wednesday also Bucharest: Thousands protest they could rebuild their homes. President Donald Trump on Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula voted on a Scottish National Par- “As promised a month and a Wednesday made an unannounced (AQAP), which Washington views ty (SNP) amendment seeking to half ago to the settlers, (Netan- visit by helicopter to Delaware to as the global terror network’s most derail the Brexit bill, defeating it decriminalising corruption yahu) has set up a committee that honor the Navy SEAL killed in a dangerous branch. On the AQAP daring raid in Yemen, the first side, 14 fighters, including wom- by 336 votes to 100. More than 100,000 people have critics say is the biggest retreat on told reporters on Tuesday. will promote the establishment of May is under intense pres- taken to the streets in the Roma- reforms since the country joined Two opposition parties, the a new settlement... It will begin American combat death since he en, were killed, according to the became commander-in-chief. Chief Pentagon. Officials said the com- sure to push the bill through nian capital to protest against an the European Union a decade ago. opposition Liberals (PNL) and work immediately to locate a spot quickly, having promised EU lead- emergency government decree de- The decree, unveiled by the the Save Romania Union (USR), and to establish the settlement,” a Special Warfare Operator William mando raid was aimed at gathering “Ryan” Owens of Illinois, who intelligence and seizing computers ers she would trigger Article 50 criminalising a string of corruption Social Democrat-led government of announced they would file a no- statement from the Prime Minis- by the end of March. offences. Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu confidence motion on Wednes- ter’s Office said. reportedly was a member of the and other electronic equipment famed SEAL Team 6, was killed being used by AQAP. The raid She told MPs she would Protesters on Wednesday after it took power earlier this day against the government, The announcement was made Sunday in a rare ground assault in snagged “an unbelievable amount publish a long-awaited Brexit evening in Bucharest shouted month, has drawn sharp criticism which enjoys a comfortable ma- shortly after Israel’s Supreme conflict-torn Yemen. Trump flew of intelligence that will prevent the strategy paper on Thursday, "Rats" and carried banners that and triggered the biggest street pro- jority in parliament. Court rejected a government plan from the White House aboard the potential deaths or attacks on opening it to parliamentary scru- read "The morning shift", sending tests since the fall of communism As parliament opened for its to rehouse some of the Amona set- Marine One presidential helicop- American soil,” White House tiny while the Article 50 legisla- a message that the protests will in Romania in 1989. first regular session of the year, tlers on an adjacent plot because it ter to Dover Air Force Base in spokesman Sean Spicer said. But tion makes its way through par- continue until the government re- If enforced, the decree would, USR lawmakers paraded ban- ruled that homes built there would Delaware for the repatriation of “you never want to call something liament. signs. among other things, decriminalise ners that read "Shame" while also encroach on land owned by Owens’s remains. Trump was ac- a success 100 percent when some- "It will reflect the govern- The marches against the gov- abuse-of-power offences in which other opposition deputies Palestinians. companied by his daughter Ivanka one’s hurt or killed,” he told re- ment's plan for Brexit," May's ernment's move followed similar the sums involved were less than shouted "Resignation" and According to the Israeli human and was due to meet with the porters. Civilians were “likely” spokeswoman told reporters. protests a day earlier. 200,000 lei ($48,000). "Thieves". rights group, B’Tselem, Israel last Owens family. Owens, 36, was killed in a US commando raid in The government had sought Some 130,000 people marched That would put an end to an President Klaus Iohannis established new settlements in the killed during a firefight. Three com- Yemen over the weekend and chil- to exclude parliament, insisting it in Bucharest, while another ongoing trial of Social Democrat took part in an emergency meet- West Bank in 1999, although out- mandos were wounded in the raid dren may have been among the had the power to trigger Article 100,000-150,000 were estimated party leader Liviu Dragnea, who ing of Romania's top magis- posts such as Amona, that settlers and three more were injured when dead, the US military’s Central 50 on its own, but the Supreme by riot police to have joined simi- is accused of using his political in- trates' body, the Superior Mag- set up without official permission, a V-22 Osprey military aircraft Command said Wednesday. The Court last week ruled it must con- lar rallies in 55 other towns and fluence to secure state salaries for istrates' Council (CSM), telling have been built far more recently. made a hard landing, according to January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda sult lawmakers. cities, including Timisoara, Cluj, two people working at his party reporters afterwards: "The prob- Around 330 Israeli settlers live Pentagon spokesman Chris Sher- in the Arabian Peninsula has gar- OPINION: Why a hard Brex- wood. Also read: UK ambassador nered wide attention because a Iasi and Sibiu. headquarters between 2006 and lem is that one cannot act the in Amona, the largest of scores of it will cost the UK more than Eu- Romania's top judicial watch- 2013. Dozens of MPs and may- way the government did in a outposts built in the West Bank. to Yemen: ‘War caused by seizure Navy SEAL was also killed and rope of power by Houthis, Saleh’ US several more wounded in what dog announced a court challenge ors across all parties stand to ben- country with the rule of law, The Supreme Court ruled in No- Most MPs campaigned to on Wednesday against the govern- efit from the decree. which Romania is and wants to vember, after a lengthy legal bat- special operations forces had marked the first operation of its stay in the EU ahead of last June's mounted the raid in the Yakla re- kind authorized by President ment decree decriminalising a num- "I don't understand what pro- remain." tle, that settlers had to leave be- referendum, but as debate on the ber of corruption offences in what testers are upset about," Dragnea Aljazeera cause their homes were built on gion of Baida province against al- Donald Trump. AFP