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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-06-06 00:06 1 French Open at double fault The last time the French Open suffered a washout like Monday's, this year's women's semifinalist Garbine Muguruza was not even (1.02/2) ready for primary school. 2016-06-06 00:06 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 2 Reuters: World News - powered by FeedBurner

(1.02/2) AMMAN (Reuters) - Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday in... 2016-06-05 11:29 591Bytes feeds.reuters.com 3 Texas will rise again! Contact WND My heart broke with the rest of the nation when I heard that Fort Hood, Texas, had experienced another tragedy this week: an Army (0.05/2) vehicle – full of soldiers – overturned on the military post, which is roughly 15 times the size of Manhattan, after... 2016-06-05 20:44 4KB www.wnd.com 4 Novak Djokovic wins first French Open, completes career Grand Slam

(0.04/2) Serbia's Novak Djokovic won his first French Open title on Sunday by defeating Britain's Andy Murray to become just the third man in history to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time 2016-06-05 22:48 2KB www.mid-day.com 5 God bless Bernie for making America better Contact WND

(0.03/2) When we were teenagers about to embark on adulthood, we could not vote. Citizens weren’t allowed to vote in national elections until they turned 21. But that didn’t stop us from wanting to participate in the democratic process. In 1968, Eugene McCarthy was running for... 2016-06-05 20:44 4KB www.wnd.com 6 Copa America 2016: Brazil held to a goalless draw by Ecuador

(0.01/2) Brazil played out a frustrating goalless draw with Ecuador in Copa America centennial football tournament night in both teams’ Group B opener here on Saturday 2016-06-05 21:01 2KB www.mid-day.com 7 Unique gift leaves girl in tears Contact WND A 10-year-old Texas girl received a special gift recently: a doll with (0.01/2) a prosthetic leg – just like her. Emma Bennett was born with a birth defect that has required her to wear a prosthetic leg most of her life. She’s active in sports and... 2016-06-05 20:43 2KB www.wnd.com

8 Michelle O's inexplicable, vile bitterness Contact WND (0.01/2) This was the administration that was going to bring America together – the one headed by America’s first black president. Instead, it has been the administration that has polarized America more than any since the Civil War. And it has not just been Barack Obama responsible... 2016-06-05 20:43 4KB www.wnd.com 9 Dear Christians: Your heaven doesn't exist Contact WND

(0.01/2) Sincerely, get a life, WND readers. There is no proven God, so you are simply going to rot like everyone else when you die. Your spirit is not going to be enriched by your idiotic understanding of the Bible. I am addressing this to... 2016-06-05 19:36 1002Bytes www.wnd.com 10 Of the People Americans share their hopes, fears and frustrations in interviews from the campaign trail. 2016-06-06 00:06 1KB www.nytimes.com 11 The wheels of change continue to move in the Springbok camp Lions coach C‚ who is also coach of the SA ‘A’ side to play against the England Saxons‚ believes that Springbok coach Allister Coetzee’s desire to change the way the Boks play is the right one. 2016-06-06 00:06 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 12 Food vendors cashing in at ANC manifesto launch Food vendors are cashing in as thousands of ANC supporters quench their thirst and kill their hunger at Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium where the ANC in Gauteng is holding its provincial local government election manifesto launch. 2016-06-06 00:06 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 13 Marcel van der Merwe latest to leave Bulls kraal Marcel van der Merwe is the latest South African player to go in search of greener pastures overseas. 2016-06-06 00:06 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 14 Film-maker Anant Singh gets nod for influential role at the Olympics South African film producer Anant Singh is among eight new names proposed for membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 2016-06-06 00:06 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

15 Whiteley turned down Olympic chance for Lions Warren Whiteley admits that turning down a chance to play for the Blitzboks at the Rio Olympic Games in August was the hardest decision he has ever had to make. 2016-06-06 00:06 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 16 There's no place to hide in Sevens rugby There will not be a more tightly contested, open medal at those Games. 2016-06-06 00:06 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 17 Team SA gets pot of gold South African medal winners at the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro will receive cash rewards that could total as much as R10-million. 2016-06-06 00:06 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 18 Extremely poor show SA Cricketers' Association chief executive Tony Irish is dismayed at the abandonment of the independent review tasked with looking into the performance of the Proteas. 2016-06-06 00:06 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 19 Likud ready to wait for Herzog after Labor race Talks between Netanyahu and Herzog broke down after Herzog did not succeed in persuading enough of his party's MKs to join the coalition. 2016-06-05 21:35 2KB www.jpost.com 20 AG orders review of millions allegedly transferred from French billionaire to PM The confirming Justice Ministry statement was vague and gave no indication of whether the review could pose any kind of serious legal threat to the prime minister. 2016-06-05 21:23 1KB www.jpost.com 21 Leviathan partners refute government claim of smaller gas reserve Texas-based Noble Energy Delek Group subsidiaries Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration (each with 22.6 percent) and Ratio Oil Exploration (15%) refuted the Ministry's latest estimate. 2016-06-05 21:08 2KB www.jpost.com 22 Streetcars en vogue, but study urges use beyond tourists As Oklahoma City prepares to break ground on its first streetcar line in seven decades, and as other cities adjust to having them again, authors of a federally backed study suggest their routes move people with a purpose - not just target the tourist trade. 2016-06-05 19:22 4KB www.washingtontimes.com

23 German authorities pull plug on rock fest amid storm warning Authorities in western Germany have pulled the plug on one of the country’s most popular open-air rock festivals because of a storm warning. 2016-06-05 14:22 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 24 4 killed in 2-vehicle crash in Kansas Four people have died after a two-vehicle accident in Greenwood County. 2016-06-05 22:55 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 25 Patrol investigating after Durham deputy involved in wreck Authorities are investigating a crash that sent a Durham County Sheriff’s deputy and another driver to the hospital. 2016-06-05 16:49 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 26 The Latest: Art exhibit on Lampedusa tackles migrant crisis The Latest on incidents of migrant boats sinking in the Mediterranean Sea (all times local): 2016-06-05 23:50 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 27 Seine still rising in Paris as streets flood, French landmarks close The swollen Seine River kept rising Friday, spilling into Paris streets and forcing one landmark after another to shut on Friday. Across the city, parks and cemeteries were being closed as the city braced for flooding that could take weeks to fully clear. 2016-06-05 14:06 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 28 Bank helping home buyers reduce student loan debt The Bank of North Dakota is partnering with real estate brokers to help potential buyers refinance their student loan debt. 2016-06-05 16:49 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 29 American consortium completes Swansea takeover The takeover of Swansea by an American investment group has been completed. The American consortium - fronted by Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan - has been in... 2016-06-05 20:45 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

30 Muhammad Ali's heart kept beating for 30 minutes even as body shut down: Daughter Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali's heart kept beating for a full 30 minutes even after the rest of his body shut down, his daughter has said 2016-06-05 20:43 1KB www.mid-day.com 31 Malfunctioning air conditioning forces penguin evacuation Malfunctioning air conditioning units forced the evacuation of visitors and an exhibit full of penguins at an aquarium in northern Utah. 2016-06-05 21:43 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 32 Larry Elder's story of reconciliation with his father inspires others Contact WND Growing up, Larry Elder hated his father, whom he viewed as cold, ill-tempered and thin-skinned. When he was 15 he and his father got into a fight and avoided speaking to each other for 10 years. Then, at the age of 25... 2016-06-05 20:41 5KB www.wnd.com 33 Pope approves measure for removing bishops found negligent with abuse allegations Pope Francis has just put into place a new set of procedures “to sack bishops who mishandle child sexual abuse cases,” BBC News reported Saturday morning. 2016-06-05 14:06 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 34 Ricky Martin visits Syrian refugees in Lebanon Ricky Martin, the world-renowned singer and UNICEF goodwill ambassador, said that the word “refugee” had lost its value but that the international community should “open its heart.” 2016-06-05 14:06 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 35 Raul Castro spends 85th birthday preparing for summit Cuban President Raul Castro spent his 85th birthday preparing to host leaders of Caribbean countries who are meeting in Havana, although he did take a congratulatory phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin. 2016-06-05 23:50 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 36 Convicted spot-fixer Mohammad Amir named in Pakistan Test team for England Convicted spot-fixer Mohammad Amir was today selected in the Pakistan cricket team that will tour England for a four-Test series for the first time since the spot-fixing scandal broke in 2010 2016-06-05 20:35 2KB www.mid-day.com 37 Flood victim: 'It smells of sewage and death' For Sharai Poteet, the prospect of more rain means it's time to move her chickens back up to the second floor of her Kingwood- area home. 2016-06-05 15:30 1KB www.chron.com 38 Woman injured, dog killed at Clear Lake Park An elderly woman was taken to the hospital and her dog was killed when she drove her car into the water off the Clear Lake... 2016-06-05 15:30 988Bytes www.chron.com 39 Ryan Blasts Trump Less Than 24 Hours After Endorsement | The American Spectator When Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump yesterday, it came with this caveat: It’s no secret that he and I have our differences... 2016-06-05 14:10 1KB spectator.org 40 Internet fondly looks back at failed 'The Apprentice' pitch More than a decade ago, when Donald Trump was best known as a business magnate and reality TV star, he floated the idea of a race war on live television. 2016-06-05 21:29 1KB www.chron.com 41 Almanac: The Marshall Plan On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced an economic assistance plan that would help Western Europe rise out of the ashes of World War II. Charles Osgood reports. 2016-06-05 21:23 872Bytes www.cbsnews.com 42 Meet the Republican Texas grandmother trying to end marijuana prohibition Ann Lee, 76, only tried marijuana once, but she's made ending pot prohibition her cause. And she's trying to do it through an unorthodox outlet: the Republican Party. 2016-06-05 08:54 1KB www.chron.com 43 Emma Watson joins list of celebrities, politicians named in Panama Papers The list of celebrities and major political figures mentioned in the Panama Papers grew again this week. They captured a wizard last night, with the addition of "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson to the leaks. 2016-06-05 21:29 2KB www.chron.com

44 Donald Trump's Cinco de Mayo taco tweet has us asking a lot of questions Donald Trump spent his first full day as the presumptive Republican nominee for president promoting taco bowls. 2016-06-05 20:28 1KB www.chron.com 45 Top Syrian Kurdish commander killed in Raqqa campaign A top Syrian Kurdish commander died Sunday, several days after sustaining injuries during a U. S.-backed campaign to unseat the Islamic State group from its de-facto Syrian capital, Raqqa. 2016-06-05 21:26 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 46 Saudis team with US university on security degree program A university in Connecticut will help shape the instruction of some security officers in Saudi Arabia under an agreement announced Friday that the school describes as bringing American-style police training to the kingdom. 2016-06-05 14:06 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 47 Cop killed, 2 hurt in Masbate ambush LEGAZPI CITY - A policeman died while two of his companions were wounded after they were ambushed by a group of armed men in Baleno town in Masbate province on Sunday morning. Senior Police Officer 2016-06-05 20:22 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 48 Olympic refugee team to be ‘symbol of hope’ in Rio Ten refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East were selected Friday to compete under the Olympic flag at the Rio de Janeiro Games in what the IOC said represents a “symbol of hope” for migrants and refugees around the world. 2016-06-05 23:50 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 49 Japan praises Yamato Tanooka, boy who survived after abandonment in forest Nearly a week after he was abandoned in the forest by his parents, the boy did not shed a tear when he was found safe Friday. The soldier who discovered him by chance in a military hut gave him two rice balls, which 7-year-old Yamato... 2016-06-05 14:06 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 50 Planned auction of items from reservations raises questions Tribal leaders are questioning the ethical and legal implications of an auction featuring more than 100 items collected on two Native American reservations, including guns from the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre and a ceremonial pipe that belonged to one of the most respected tribal chiefs. 2016-06-05 14:06 4KB www.washingtontimes.com

51 Saudi reform plan approved by top economic council By Angus McDowall RIYADH, June 5 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's National Transformation Plan, a pivotal element of the "Vision 2030" reforms announced in April b... 2016-06-05 20:18 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 52 Peace order The shake-up in the Middle East in the wake of the “Arab Spring” has created new opportunities for cooperation between Israel and some of its neighbors. 2016-06-05 20:18 4KB www.jpost.com 53 Ali became world citizen but never forgot his hometown roots Muhammad Ali traveled the world as a fighter and humanitarian, but he always came home to Louisville. 2016-06-05 14:03 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 54 Journalist killed in Somalia; a dangerous country for media MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a female journalist in Somalia's capital Sunday, a radio producer at state-run Radio Mogadishu said. ... 2016-06-05 20:17 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 55 Pakistani hackers masquerade as media in anti-India cyber campaign: Report Pakistani hackers posed as members of the press in an effort to compromise the computers of government officials in India, an American cybersecurity firm said Friday. 2016-06-05 14:06 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 56 3 missing as flashflood hits Laguna resort LOS BAÑOS, Laguna - Three people, one them a six-year-old child, went missing after a flash flood swept them into a river in Majayjay town in Laguna province on Sunday afternoon, police 2016-06-05 20:13 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 57 Global experts assess Poland's threatened pristine forest WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Environment Ministry says that global forestry experts are checking the condition of the ancient Bialowieza Forest where the m... 2016-06-05 20:11 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

58 China says it will ignore South China Sea lawsuit decision China said Saturday that it will ignore the decision of an international arbitration panel in the Philippines’ lawsuit against Beijing’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea. 2016-06-05 23:50 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 59 Officials: Rain a factor in fatal Montgomery County wreck A 22-year-old woman was killed in a car crash on FM 1485 in New Caney early Saturday morning. Amy Durant was reportedly... 2016-06-05 20:11 1KB www.chron.com 60 Some evacuations lifted as crews fight California brush fire Authorities cautiously lifted some evacuation orders but warned serious challenges remained Sunday as crews in jagged terrain protected homes and worked to stop the progress of a brush fire that torched the populated hills northwest of Los Angeles. 2016-06-05 18:54 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 61 US sailor arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Japan An American sailor was arrested Sunday on suspicion of drunken driving causing an accident on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, where public anger has run high over crimes by U. S. military personnel. 2016-06-05 23:50 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 62 ISRAEL FESTIVAL REVIEW: Duo pianists Kanazawa – Admoni Eden-Tamir Music Center, May 27. 2016-06-05 20:02 2KB www.jpost.com 63 US-backed fighters close in on IS Syria bastion US-backed fighters advanced Sunday to within five kilometres (three miles) of the Islamic State group's stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, threatening a... 2016-06-05 20:02 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk 64 PA textbooks support violence and demonization of Israel, Jews, report finds The curricula convey a message rejecting negotiations with Israel and promote a strategy combining violence and international pressure against Israel. 2016-06-05 20:02 5KB www.jpost.com

65 Ex-Air Force colonel held hostage in Iran dies in Arizona Thomas E. Schaefer, a retired Air Force colonel who was the ranking military officer among the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days before being released in 1981, has died in Arizona. He was 85. 2016-06-05 23:50 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 66 US Pentagon chief proposes Asia-Pacific ‘security network’ U. S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is proposing to accelerate and deepen defense cooperation in the Asia-Pacific by expanding a “security network” of countries whose militaries would train together and eventually operate together. 2016-06-05 14:06 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 67 Bach won’t ‘speculate’ on chances of Russians going to Rio IOC President Thomas Bach refused to be drawn on whether it could allow some Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games even if the country’s track and field team remains banned over state-sponsored doping allegations. 2016-06-05 14:06 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 68 Devil’s Bowl Speedway bedeviled by succession of rainy days Vermont’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway has been bedeviled by a succession of rainy weekends that has prompted cancellation of the dirt track opener and practice sessions for five weeks in a row. 2016-06-05 22:55 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 69 Portland fire: Neighbor pulled child from burning home Portland fire officials say a neighbor pulled a child from a burning home early Sunday. 2016-06-05 22:55 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 70 Sheriff's deputies looking for cemetery vandals The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office is looking for those who vandalized the San Gabriel Cemetery. 2016-06-05 18:48 1023Bytes www.chron.com 71 India and Qatar sign 7 agreements India and Qatar on Sunday signed seven agreements, including on investment and tourism promotion, following delegation level talks headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Qatar Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha 2016-06-05 19:55 3KB www.mid-day.com 72 Justin Gatlin prepares to shut out distractions at Rio Games RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justin Gatlin admits a few years ago he would have found it difficult with the Olympics being in a place like Rio de Janeiro — with its... 2016-06-05 19:55 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 73 'Several' people taken to hospital after street altercation A number of people have been taken to hospital after a street in a Glasgow suburb descended into a "war zone". Witnesses reported a towering fire, and one bo... 2016-06-05 18:35 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 74 Lottery scholarships to fund about 90 percent of tuition Despite rising tuition rates at more than a dozen colleges and universities in New Mexico, state higher education officials say about 90 percent of eligible students’ tuition costs will be covered next year by lottery scholarship funding. 2016-06-05 21:43 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 75 Seven-year-old boy mauled to death during dog attack in Maine Police in the town of Corinna, Maine, were called to a property at 5.15pm on Saturday and found the boy dead inside. The dog has been impounded while an investigation is carried out. 2016-06-05 19:52 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 76 Security tight as Israelis mark 1967 capture of east Jerusalem Israeli police deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem on Sunday for an annual march marking the country's 1967 seizure of the Palestinian-dominated eastern h... 2016-06-05 19:47 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 77 RHONJ's Johnny Karagiorgis 'has died of a heart attack' He was known for owning a hair salon that was often featured on the popular bravo series, and is said to have passed away due to a heart attack. 2016-06-05 19:45 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 78 Murray tastes bittersweet loss in 'unexpected' French Open final By John Stonestreet PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - For Andy Murray, reaching Sunday's French Open final was a bonus, but he was in no mood to look for silver lini... 2016-06-05 19:43 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 79 Djokovic conquers Roland Garros to join tennis pantheon By Pritha Sarkar PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - After years of near misses, Novak Djokovic finally conquered mount Roland Garros on Sunday to win the one trophy h... 2016-06-05 19:39 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 80 Heidi Klum takes it all off while sunbathing topless in a public park The 42-year-old supermodel took to Instagram, exposing her bare back and pert backside in a cheeky selfie captioned: 'Sunday' alongside a smiley face. 2016-06-05 19:33 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 81 Captive whale lies motionless after beaching herself at Tenerife park Morgan was filmed beaching herself at the side of a pool for over ten minutes at Loro Parque in Spain's Canary Islands - weeks after she was captured banging her head against a metal gate. 2016-06-05 19:31 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 82 Andy Murray, the "what if? " man of tennis PARIS (AP) — Andy Murray is the "what if? " man of tennis. What if the 29-year-old Scot hadn't been born just one week earlier than Novak Djokovic? What if Ro... 2016-06-05 19:31 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 83 Romanian leftists lead with 37.5 pct in local election - exit poll BUCHAREST, June 5 (Reuters) - Romania's leftist Social Democrats won countrywide local elections on Sunday with a projected 37.5 percent of the vote, accordi... 2016-06-05 19:28 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 84 US cities see unexplained rise in violent crimes this year CHICAGO (AP) — Violent crimes — from homicides and rapes to robberies — have been on the rise in many major U. S. cities, yet experts can't point to a single ... 2016-06-05 19:25 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk 85 Autocentric Paradigm Squelching Municipal Health, Vibrancy KMorgan 1272 posts 2016-06-05 15:28 6KB www.thetribunepapers.com 86 Police van driver goes on trial for black man's death BALTIMORE (AP) — The stakes are high in the upcoming trial for an officer prosecutors say bears the most responsibility for the death of Freddie Gray, a youn... 2016-06-05 19:19 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk 87 Search continues for bodies of 2 men trapped in landslide CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — A spokeswoman for the Mining Safety and Health Administration says workers are searching for the bodies of two men who were bur... 2016-06-05 19:18 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 88 The Latest: Body found downstream from where boy fell in TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on severe weather across the United States (all times local): 2 p.m. (CDT) Authorities have found a body downstream from ... 2016-06-05 19:18 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk 89 Nordqvist successfully defends ShopRite LPGA Classic title June 5 (Reuters) - Swede Anna Nordqvist became the oldest winner on the youthful LPGA Tour this year when she successfully defended her title at the ShopRite... 2016-06-05 19:18 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 90 Muhammad Ali's funeral to be watched worldwide by billions on TV Muhammad Ali's funeral is set to be one of the biggest events in TV history with a worldwide audience of billions expected to watch the boxing legend's final journey 2016-06-05 19:16 2KB www.mid- day.com 91 Swedish nun Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad canonised for saving Jews A nun who saved Jewish families during World War Two becomes the first Swedish saint in more than 600 years. 2016-06-05 21:16 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 92 Russia's Denisov injured in Serbia draw, set to miss Euros June 5 (Reuters) - Russia holding midfielder Igor Denisov suffered a hamstring injury as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Serbia on Sunday and is likely to mi... 2016-06-05 19:15 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

93 Being part of the Federer/Nadal era a career booster, says Djokovic By Julien Pretot PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - The moment Novak Djokovic accepted that being part of the Roger Federer/Rafael Nadal era was a chance, not a curse... 2016-06-05 19:14 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 94 Yahoo - Yahoo Sports Partners With NHL to Bring Fans Free, Live Out-of-Market Games & On-Demand Premium Content No Cable or Authentication Required, Alliance Offers New Opportunities for Advertisers to Connect with Fans --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ... 2016-06-05 18:07 4KB investor.yahoo.net 95 Praful Patel rubbishes caste angle in Eknath Khadse's ouster Senior NCP leader Praful Patel has said Eknath Khadse's resignation from the post of Maharashtra Revenue Minister has nothing to do with his caste and that the corruption charges against the BJP leader cost him the post 2016-06-05 19:11 2KB www.mid-day.com 96 Man held in missing couple probe Police investigating the murder of an elderly man and the disappearance of his wife have made an arrest. A 61-year-old man from Leicester was arrested on sus... 2016-06-05 19:11 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 97 Yahoo - Yahoo to Participate at the J. P. Morgan Global Technology, Media & Telecom Conference --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) CFO will participate in a question-and-answer session at the J. P... 2016-06-05 18:07 1KB investor.yahoo.net 98 IAAF Diamond League Birmingham GP Results 200 — 1, Andre De Grasse, Canada, 20.16. 2, Alonso Edward, Panama, 20.17. 3, Sean Mclean, United States, 20.24. 4, Churandy Martina, Netherlands, 20.43. 5, A... 2016-06-05 19:08 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk 99 Reports of violence as 12 Mexican states vote for governors XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — Government and political leaders reported scattered incidents of election-related violence in Mexico on Sunday as 12 states voted for n... 2016-06-05 19:02 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

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1 French Open at double fault (1.02/2) Her idol, Serena Williams had only just won the first of her 21 grand slam titles about nine months earlier at the US Open. The US Open became the first major to offer equal prize money for men and women 27 years ago. The Australian Open became only the second grand slam to follow suit in 2011. It would be a further five years before Roland Garros awarded 2006 champions Rafael Nadal and Justine Henin-Hardenne $1.13- million each. The infuriating aspect of this week's delays has not been the scheduling mess it has caused, but the realisation that Roland Garros lags behind the other slams. History lied, we're still to see a French Revolution - as far as tennis is concerned anyway. It remains the only one of four not to have a roof over its centre court. When the 2016 US Open starts later this year, it will do so with the insurance of a roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first time. Philippe-Chatrier Court in Paris has been dogged by delays and is slated for a 2020 launch now. Seventh seed Tomas Berdych busied himself by recommending pop singer Debbi during the delay, later tweeting: "Hey @AustralianOpen can you send us one roof here to paris?! You have 3down there #fedexmakeithappen #now". Berdych would eventually beat David Ferrer 6-3 7-5 6-3, but the latter's rebuke should be taken as more than just sour grapes. "They want to make money, it may look good to some, but I think this is a scam. The conditions were not suitable. "I find it incredible that in such a historic tournament we have not got one or two indoor courts for when there is heavy rain. This seems ridiculous. " Rain and umbrellas are only cute on romantic strolls down the Champs- Élysées, not when we have a grand slam to watch! This is the same tournament that has resisted the use of hawk-eye technology. How often have we witnessed a linesman calling a ball out and a player challenging the call, and the chair umpire jumping off his seat to find the freshest mark left by the ball on the clay? It is archaic. Gilbert Ysern, axed earlier this year as the director-general of the French Open, once suggested that the reluctance to adopt hawk-eye technology was not for fiscal reasons. "We water the court between two matches. Should we water the court between two matches at the US Open? Of course, I'm kidding. Each surface has its own way of working. " Sigh, the French and their romanticism - and stubbornness. Typical.

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2 Reuters: World News - powered by FeedBurner (1.02/2) AMMAN (Reuters) - Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian government aircraft, residents and a monitoring group said.

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3 Texas will rise again! Contact WND (0.05/2) My heart broke with the rest of the nation when I heard that Fort Hood, Texas, had experienced another tragedy this week: an Army vehicle – full of soldiers – overturned on the military post, which is roughly 15 times the size of Manhattan, after torrential rains turned a creek into a raging river. Nine soldiers perished, and three others were rescued and hospitalized. Maj. Gen. John Uberti told reporters on Friday, “This tragedy extends well beyond Fort Hood, and the outpouring of support from around the country is sincerely appreciated.” Fox News reported that Ft. Hood’s tragedy was “the third tragic incident of the day for the U. S. military, after a Blue Angels fighter pilot was killed i n a crash in Tennessee and the pilot of an Air Force jet participating in a Colorado graduation ceremony’s flyover was slightly injured after he ejected before the craft crashed in a field.” My wife, Gena, and I add our deepest condolences to the family and friends of all these military tragedies, and particularly to the soldiers at Fort Hood, which is only a few hours from our Texas ranch. Our hearts and prayers go out not only to the victims but also military officials and other first responders who are even now fighting to save lives. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott was right to say about these fallen soldiers, “The brave men and women stationed at Fort Hood put their life on the line every day, be it through rescue operations or on the battlefield. Texas will forever remain grateful for their sacrifices.” Chuck Norris provides real solutions to our county’s problems and a way to reawaken the American dream in his best-seller, “Black Belt Patriotism.” Over the past couple weeks, at least 16 people have died in Texas floods due to the torrential rains. Beyond those fatalities, hundreds of homes have been lost and damaged. More than half of the state is under flood watches or warnings. In fact, the state has evacuated more than 3,000 inmates from three prison facilities, mostly due to the rising Brazos River. Moreover, hundreds of Houston flights have been canceled due to the weather. Gov. Abbott toured many flooded areas, enacted a state of emergency across a host of counties and the full powers of Texas are even now at work delivering emergency aid. Before the floods, we who live in Texas – particularly ranchers and farmers – have experienced some extreme drought periods over the past years. For example, between July and October of 2015, only 1.19 inches of rain fell in Waco, Texas. The Weather Channel reported, “Forty-one percent of pasture and range land in both Texas and Louisiana were rated in poor or very poor conditions due to the drought, according to the USDA.” NPR reported, “As of June, 2014, 70 percent of Texas is still in drought conditions, while 21 percent is in the worst two stages of drought, either extreme or exceptional drought.” NPR added, “2011 was the driest year ever for Texas, with an average of only 14.8 inches of rain.” Compare that to this year or just in this last month of May. A whopping 30 inches fell upon much of southeastern Texas soil. And during just a three- hour period Thursday night, LaPorte, on the western shore of Galveston Bay, reported a downpour of 4.36 inches of rain! Is it fair to say that we need to quit praying for God to end our drought? From the Texas Revolution and the Alamo to present-day battles on our southern border, Texas has experienced some of the toughest times in the nation’s history. And, mark my words, come hell or high water (or both), we will literally weather these storms and rise again! Sam Houston, whose leadership and courage secured the independence of Texas from Mexico, declared the following words that can also apply to our present storms: “Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. … Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.” Even from the clouds. Chuck Norris provides real solutions to our county’s problems and a way to reawaken the American dream in his best-seller, “Black Belt Patriotism.”

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4 Novak Djokovic wins first French Open, completes career Grand Slam (0.04/2) Novak Djokovic won his first French Open title on Sunday to become just the third man in history to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time. Serbia's Novak Djokovic reacts during his match against Britain's Andy Murray during the men's final match at the Roland Garros 2016 French Tennis Open in Paris on June 5, 2016. Pic/AFP The world number one beat old rival Andy Murray 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 to claim 12th career major. "It's a very special moment, the biggest of my career," said Djokovic, one of only eight men to complete the career Grand Slam and who had lost his previous three finals in Paris. "I felt today something that I never felt before at Roland Garros, I felt the love of the crowd. " Britain's Andy Murray reacts during the men's final match against Serbia's Novak Djokovic at the Roland Garros 2016 French Tennis Open in Paris on June 5, 2016. Pic/AFP This victory also allowed Djokovic to stretch his winning record over Andy Murray to 24-10 overall and 8-2 in Grand Slams. Murray, the world number two and the first British man in the final in Paris since Bunny Austin in 1937, remains with two Grand Slam titles as he failed to become the first winner of the French Open since Fred Perry 81 years ago. French Open 2016: Lopez duo beat Bryan twins to win men's doubles mid-day.com

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5 God bless Bernie for making America better Contact WND (0.03/2) When we were teenagers about to embark on adulthood, we could not vote. Citizens weren’t allowed to vote in national elections until they turned 21. But that didn’t stop us from wanting to participate in the democratic process. In 1968, Eugene McCarthy was running for president. “Clean for Gene” was the expression. Many of my contemporaries were wearing what we would now call “grunge.” People shaved, cut off their long hair and were “presentable” to the older generation. One July 1968 day, we all went to a rally for Gene McCarthy at Fenway Park Stadium in Boston. The place was filled mainly with young people who wanted an end to the Vietnam War. Our contemporaries were being drafted, and they were dying. We saw this as a useless war, one designed by American imperialists who saw the Vietnam War as an extension of what we had learned in grade school about “the domino” theory of Communism. We had grown up with McCarthyism, the House Un-American Activities Committee, stories of the Hollywood Ten as well as the Hollywood blacklist for what we call free speech. It was a heady time, and we thought we young folks could change the world. We did bring an end to the Vietnam War (at least we thought so), but it took Richard Nixon to end it in 1975. We thought we could change political America with sit-ins, the takeover of college campus buildings and massive rallies in Washington and locally. We were able to force the end of the Vietnam War, but not much else. Young folks gradually turned into old folks, had families, got jobs and basically stopped protesting. Now, we have one of our own old folks, Sen. Bernie Sanders, picking up where we left off in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Sanders, like Donald Trump, is an outsider’s candidate. Yes, he is a sitting senator, a long-term politician, but no one could say he represents the mainstream. Although the mainstream candidate, Hillary Clinton, may win the White House, the outsiders will have made their mark on the future of politics in the U. S. This weekend, with the California primary on the near horizon, the Los Angeles Times examined Sanders contributors and where they come from. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders has raised money from small donors, and his contribution average is $27. Although, the reportable amount of money is $200, candidate Sanders has been using a web company called ActBlue, which reports everything. According to the Los Angeles Times, one in every four donors to the Sanders campaign is out of the workforce. Some are retired or unemployed. Sanders donors tend to live in more traditionally liberal parts of the United States. Of the $200 million raised by the Sanders campaign, $36 million came from California. Small-dollar contributors, those who averaged $27 donations, made up a million contributors. With about 240 million adults in the United States, that means one out of every 240 people gave to the Sanders campaign. The Los Angeles Times also looked at the professions of those people who gave to Bernie Sanders. “After the jobless,” wrote the L. A. Times, “people who work in the health care, education and technology fields are the next largest sources of Sanders funds.” These are the people who think Sanders’ message about Wall Street and the upper 1 percent resonates for them. They don’t like the way the Democratic National Committee operates. They are not happy with the large number of super delegates who get the vote in the party. They want change. Bernie Sanders might not be the nominee of the party, but like Eugene McCarthy, who never made it to the nomination in 1968, the Democratic Party will have to change. The party regulars – those who are state chairs and make up the direction of the party – will now have to realize that the Democratic Party is made up of a lot of young people who think the baby boomers and gen X-types are now status-quo types and do not represent their interests. If Sanders does not get the nomination, and if Hillary wins, it is clear that there will be a major change in who the party speaks to in 2020 and what happens with super delegates. Bernie Sanders, like Eugene McCarthy, has excited a new generation, a generation that wants to change how things are done. God bless him. America will be better and stronger because of his message. Media wishing to interview Ellen Ratner, please contact [email protected] .

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6 Copa America 2016: Brazil held to a goalless draw by Ecuador (0.01/2) Pasadena (California) : Brazil played out a frustrating goalless draw with Ecuador in Copa America centennial football tournament night in both teams’ Group B opener here on Saturday. Ecuador's Pedro Larrea(R)vie for the ball with Brazil's Philippe Coutinho. Pic/ AFP Ecuador had an apparent goal disallowed by the referee in the 66th minute. Miler Bolanos’ cross was mishandled by Brazil goalkeeper Alisson at the near post and ended up in the back of the net, but it was ruled that the ball had passed the end line before the cross. Brazil was close to the winner in the 83rd minute, but a header by Lucas went wide of the goal. The final whistle drew boos from the Rose Bowl stadium crowd. Despite feeling like they could have picked up a win, Ecuador can take some solace in the result, as they had never beaten and forced only a single draw against eight-time champions Brazil in 13 previous Copa America matches. Willian, who plays for Chelsea in England’s Premier League, was a catalyst for Brazil early in the match with his pace and crosses into the box. One had to be cleared over the top of the goal by Ecuador goalkeeper Esteban Dreer in the sixth minute. After a yellow card to Brazil’s Elias, Ecuador’s Enner Valencia attempted a free kick in the 36th minute that Alisson saved for Brazil. With superstar team-mate Neymar in attendance though not playing because he is bound to feature at the Olympics -- Brazil had 65 percent of the possession in the first half and completed 91 percent of its passes, yet the match was scoreless at halftime. Group B action continues Wednesday when Ecuador faces Peru in Glendale, Arizona, and Brazil meets Haiti in Orlando.

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7 Unique gift leaves girl in tears Contact WND (0.01/2) A 10-year-old Texas girl received a special gift recently: a doll with a prosthetic leg – just like her. Emma Bennett was born with a birth defect that has required her to wear a prosthetic leg most of her life. She’s active in sports and enjoys collecting American Girl dolls. So her parents decided to surprise their daughter. They contacted a company called Step Ahead Prosthetics , which specializes in helping girls with limb loss by making customized dolls with prosthetic limbs. Emma had no idea what was in the box her excited sister presented to her. She first read the note that came with the doll – then scrambled into the box to see the surprise. “You’ve got to be kidding me!” she exclaims, then bursts into tears. “It’s got a leg like me! I love you!” The video leaves people in tears: The video, posted to the Bennett’s Facebook page, has been viewed over 26 million times since June 1. Because of Emma’s heartwarming reaction, A Step Ahead posted an update on its website: The letter which came with the gift explains how the doll was made: “After she arrived she was given a room to stay while her new leg was being made. She was fitted with a leg in her favorite color, pink, and she started walking on it right away. After a few weeks of training to walk and run in her new prosthetic, she is ready to go home and live her life without limitations with you.” Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND’s Email News Alerts! Emma’s mother, Courtney Fletcher Bennett said “There are no words” to her daughter’s reaction. “Thank you for making a doll like me,” Emma said.

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8 8 Michelle O's inexplicable, vile bitterness Contact WND (0.01/2) This was the administration that was going to bring America together – the one headed by America’s first black president. Instead, it has been the administration that has polarized America more than any since the Civil War. And it has not just been Barack Obama responsible. His wife has been even more vitriolic in her vicious, unwarranted attacks on her country. Remember, it was Michelle O. who told us during the campaign in 2008: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country … not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.” First time? Amazing. She’s been a piece of work ever since. Experience more of Joseph Farah’s no-nonsense truth-telling in his books, audio and video products, featured in the WND Superstore She topped that last weekend during a commencement address at City College in New York when she launched what was perceived by many in the media as an attack on Donald Trump and America’s intolerance of “diversity.” She’s said: “It’s the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful black young women, head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the president of the United States, the son of a man from Kenya, who came here to America for the same reasons as many of you, to get an education and improve his prospects in life.” Watch Michelle Obama’s comments: Thanks for reminding us, Michelle. We all needed to be reminded of America’s history with slavery one more time. That’s just what we needed. Was she correct? Yes, slaves from Virginia and Maryland, two solidly Democratic states at the time (Maryland remains so), I might add, were used to complete the building of the White House, when paid laborers were in short supply. America was short on labor in 1792. There was an effort to import European laborers to complete the project, but that effort fell short. So slaves were used. I might note there was no Republican Party at the time. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president some 68 years later. He ran on an anti-slavery platform and won. It was Republicans who freed the slaves. For another 100 years, however, it was the Democratic Party – Barack and Michelle Obama’s party – that fought integration and civil rights legislation. The Republican Party championed it. The Ku Klux Klan was the armed militia of the Democratic Party – lynching almost as many white Republicans as they did innocent blacks after the War Between the States, in which more Americans died than any other war in which Americans (white and black) have fought. Do we really need another slavery lecture from Michelle Obama – a woman raised in privilege from birth and who has lived like a queen for the last eight years at the expense of white and black Americans? Isn’t it time for her to stop playing the victim card? Isn’t it time to explain why she is so bitter toward her country? Isn’t it time for her to grow up and be thankful for the sacrifice working Americans have made on her behalf? Isn’t it time for to say “thank you” – just once to her country? Isn’t it time for her to stop acting like an oppressed minority? Isn’t it time for her to get off her high horse and say something nice about America? How does a woman who grew up in privilege from the day she was born have the nerve to condescend to the rest of America the way she does? How many tens of millions have we spent on her royal vacations over the last eight years? Media wishing to interview Joseph Farah, please contact [email protected] .

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9 Dear Christians: Your heaven doesn't exist Contact WND (0.01/2) Sincerely, get a life, WND readers. There is no proven God, so you are simply going to rot like everyone else when you die. Your spirit is not going to be enriched by your idiotic understanding of the Bible. I am addressing this to stupid Christians. I could equally do it to Muslims. I really hope you understand that your condemnation of people is not going to get you into a heaven that does not exist. Joseph Farah is P. T. Barnum, not even close to Jesus. David Bretton Challenge to Trump: Speak against 'The Great Jailbreak' Contact WND wnd.com 2016-06-05 19:36 www.wnd.com

10 Of the People Mayor Shirley Franklin started a program in the city of Atlanta in which every single student who graduated from a public school, she’d find a way to pay for their first year of college. And, after hearing my story, she took an interest in me. She gave me a job in her office and she helped me get into college. Summer came, and I didn’t go to work because I didn’t have a suit. I got a call saying, “You need to get to work,” and she had someone take me suit shopping. They took me and bought me like five different suits and said, “This is how you invest in your kids.” I’m the first person in my family to graduate from college. That is the kind of local politics I grew to love in Atlanta. National politics is more messy. But I have hope that is going to change. Photograph by Ryan Stone for The New York Times

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11 The wheels of change continue to move in the Springbok camp But he also cautioned that it would take time. The Lions have been South Africa’s most expansive team in Super Rugby‚ and also its most dominant so far in 2016. But it’s taken the Johannesburg franchise four years of playing together week in and week out to reach the level they are currently playing at. The Boks have only been in camp for five days with a wide mix of players from varied unions. Moulding these 31 players into a version of the All Blacks‚ the yardstick by which all international teams are measured‚ will take time. "The enthusiasm is here‚ the energy is here and the skills are certainly here‚” Ackermann‚ who has been at the Bok training camp in Stellenbosch‚ said. “But at Test level there is additional pressure and you are up against the best of the best‚ so it will take some time to develop the gameplan. "People just have to be patient. Allister’s vision is great and I believe they are on the right track because they also have the right group of players to execute the style they are working towards. “These are exciting times for South African rugby but there will have to be balance. We all know that at Test level the pressure is greater and time to execute is limited.” Lions captain Warren Whiteley‚ who is vying for the Bok No 8 jersey with 2014 SA Player of the Year Duane Vermeulen‚ also cautioned against wild expectations. The Springboks that emerge from the Newlands tunnel for the first of three Tests against Ireland next weekend are not suddenly going to turn their backs on 120 years of rugby tradition. “I can only talk about my experience at the Lions and for us it took a while to develop the game we are playing now‚” Whiteley said. “What you need to have is a belief in the system about the style of rugby you want to play and also the buy-in from all the players. Once you have that‚ the improvements and the decision-making will get better over time‚ even though mistakes will be made. “It's took the Lions time to develop that game and from a Springbok perspective we don’t want to move far from the aspects that have made Bok rugby strong – set piece superiority‚ physical contact and dominating the contact zone. “But we have also have players with fantastic skills and talent that can pass left and right. We need to utilise those skills and the secret is getting the balance between the two approaches right. “I totally believe that we have the players to match New Zealand in terms of skills. You just have to go to a school rugby game in SA‚ even from under- 13‚ and you can see those skills. “What you need to have is the correct mind-set and to believe in what you’re doing. That’s what we did at the Lions and that’s what is beginning to happen at the Boks. “You have to be able to play with freedom‚ but you can’t be scared to make mistakes. You have to express yourself and use your God-giving talent.”

2016-06-06 00:06 Craig Ray www.timeslive.co.za

12 Food vendors cashing in at ANC manifesto launch The unity of the ruling ANC alliance is essential to ensure that local government in the country’s economic hub does not fall into the hands of neo-liberal forces bent on preserving “apartheid-era privileges and segregations”‚ the South African Communist Party says.

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13 Marcel van der Merwe latest to leave Bulls kraal The Bulls this week confirmed that the Springbok tighthead prop will be leaving the Pretoria side at the end of the current Super Rugby season to join French club Toulon. The burly 128kg‚ 1.88m prop‚ who has seven Bok caps since 2014 and five SA under-20 games under his belt from 2010‚ will add to the already existent South African influence at the club in southern France. Already in the clubs’ books is their captain Juan Smith‚ Bryan Habana and Duan Vermeulen. “I’m very happy to start a new adventure in Toulon‚” Van der Merwe was quoted on the club’s website. “Before coming I spoke to Bakkies (Botha)‚ Duane) Vermeulen) and Juan (Smith). They told me good things about the club‚ supporters and life over there. Toulon is a very attractive club that plays a lot like the Bulls.” It remains to be seen whether the 25-year-old‚ who is currently among the players selected for the South Africa A side that will play the England Saxons over two weeks‚ will remain in the Bok fold. New Bok coach Allister Coetzee has leaned towards a stance whereby the selection of overseas-based players will become increasingly unlikely in future. Van der Merwe is the second player in as many days to leave the Bulls’ kraal. On Wednesday the Pretoria side announced the departure of another former Bok prop‚ Dean Greyling‚ who was given an immediate release to join French Top 14 side Oyonnax. Greyling has played 67 Super Rugby matches and 50 Currie Cup games for the Bulls‚ as well as three caps for the Boks. The Bulls also announced the extension of the contracts of winger Jamba Ulengo and loosehead prop Pierre Schoeman until October 2018.

2016-06-06 00:06 Chumani Bambani www.timeslive.co.za

14 Film-maker Anant Singh gets nod for influential role at the Olympics There are two notable names not on the list: IAAF President Sebastian Coe and FIFA President Gianni Infantino. While they head two of the world's biggest sports‚ their federations have been hit by corruption scandals‚ and Olympic officials said it was too early to bring them onto the IOC‚ CNSNews.com said. Inside The Games.biz reports this leaves football and athletics without an official representative on the IOC following the retirements of Sepp Blatter and Lamine Diack‚ who had both previously been members. The nominations‚ in Switzerland on Friday‚ will be officially voted on during the IOC Session‚ which is due to take place in Rio de Janeiro between August 1 and 4‚ the insidethegames.biz website reports. It will take the total number of members to 99. The recommendation states the board’s intention is to "enable the IOC Session to be composed of Members with different sets of skills and knowledge while ensuring the necessary balance in terms of gender and geography". The 60-year-old Singh is South Africa’s pre-eminent film producer. He produced the 2013 film "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" about former South African President Nelson Mandela as well as Place Of Weeping‚ Sarafina! and Cry‚ the Beloved Country. Luis Moreno‚ president of the Inter-American Development Bank who served as Colombia's ambassador to the U. S. from 1998 to 2005‚ and Nita Ambani‚ founder and chair of the India-based Reliance Foundation‚ are also on the list‚ CNSNews.com reports. The others are Sari Essayah of Finland‚ a former Olympic race walker who chairs the Finnish Christian Democratic Party; Ivo Ferriani of Italy‚ president of International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation; Auvita Rapilla‚ secretary general of the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee; Tricia Smith‚ president of the Canadian Olympic Committee; and Austrian Olympic Committee chief Karl Stoss.

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15 Whiteley turned down Olympic chance for Lions Whiteley, 28, has been in the Blitzbok mix this season and was almost guaranteed one of the 14 places in the squad for the Olympics. But after much soul-searching, it wasn't the desire to play for the Springboks that swayed the Lions No8 against making himself available for the Olympics, but the will to see the Super rugby season through with the Lions. "It was an extremely difficult decision, probably the toughest decision in my career," Whiteley said from the Springbok training camp in Stellenbosch yesterday. "I spoke on numerous occasions to SA Sevens coach Neil Powell about it. It's still difficult when I think about it because it wasn't that I didn't want to play for the Blitzboks at the Olympics. "I just couldn't do both at the same time. Because of the role that I play at my provincial union (he captains the Lions) I felt that I would be turning my back on the team and on teammates that I have been fighting for and with for such a long time. " He added: "It would have been a selfish decision to go to the Olympics, but I can't tell you that I don't want to go to Rio because I would be lying. " Whiteley, who has played three Tests for the Boks, might add to that tally against Ireland in the three-Test series this month, although his old nemesis, Duane Vermeulen, will be standing in his way again. "There isn't a lot of thought about who will play and who won't play at this stage," Whiteley said. "There is just excitement about being in the squad and about the style of rugby we want to play. " - TMG Digital

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16 There's no place to hide in Sevens rugby Five teams have strong hopes of winning the gold medal, and five others could beat them in any match. It will be, in my admittedly biased opinion, the highlight of the Games because the sport is so "volatile", the result so uncertain, often until the very final act of the match. I remember being concerned that Sevens' Olympic inclusion might actually undermine it. I was fortunate enough to work with Paul Treu during the maturation phase of our Sevens strategy from 2008 to 2012, and Rio 2016 was a variable we considered both a threat and an opportunity. The appeal of an Olympic medal meant that superstars from the major rugby nations might have swept in for the week of the Olympics, soaked up the spotlight, and then left again, leaving behind a version of the sport that was, by the arithmetic of casual observers, "lessened" by their transient appearance in it. Were that to happen, it would undermine the efforts made by Sevens teams in the intervening four years - it would be analogous to pulling your luxury sports car out of the garage for a weekend once every four years, then locking it away and hoping your four-door family sedan turned heads the same way. The only way to prevent this, we knew back then, was for Sevens to evolve enough that it became so specialised that the addition of even the best players from XVs would do little to the performance of teams. Sevens had to be too distinct to allow "rugby-hopping" to occur. My strong impression is that this has, in fact, happened. Or is happening. Yes, certain teams, including South Africa, have strengthened their squads with the targeted addition of international players, but anyone who thought they could throw XVs superstars onto a field of Sevens players and dominate has been exposed. The Blitzboks under Neil Powell formulated a calendar that gave them access to certain players in certain "windows" so they could adapt to the speed and technical nuances of the game. But even this process has "failed" more than it succeeded, and of the 10 or so players who came into the Blitzbok training environment, one, perhaps two, will make the final cut. Quade Cooper couldn't make the switch for Australia, and Sonny Bill Williams has been patchy for New Zealand, who have also added the Ioane brothers, and Liam Messam, but still rely heavily on their historical Sevens specialists. I'm now confident that Sevens requires a set of skills specific enough that any team that suddenly picks players, however stellar their reputation in XVs rugby, would be worse off. The transition is so difficult because Sevens is not simply a version of rugby lacking forward packs. Decision-making at rucks is at a premium because so much more space has to be covered per player. Agility and lateral mobility are more forensically examined (something that has affected Williams in particular), as are basic skills like passing to both sides and one-on-one tackling. The lack of space in XVs allows players with limitations to "hide", whereas such inadequacies are exposed in Sevens. This doesn't even consider the physical demands of Sevens - the ratio of sprints and fast running to rest is completely different, and few XVs players can handle it without a period of some adaptation. None of this is to say that Sevens is the finished article - no doubt the best XVs internationals would make exceptional Sevens players, given sufficient cross-over time. But the specialisation of Sevens is an encouraging sign, and the respect and recognition given to the Sevens specialists is growing, rightly, in proportion to the technical and tactical evolution of the sport. That this coincides with the commercial growth of Sevens, the expansion of the Series to 10 tournaments, means that Rio will be a leap forward, and the only threat now, at least to a South African observer, is that the sport evolves so quickly it leaves us behind.

2016-06-06 00:06 Prof Ross www.timeslive.co.za

17 Team SA gets pot of gold Telecommunications giant Telkom announced yesterday it was channelling R4-million to the medal incentive fund and another R4-million to the teams that will compete at the showpiece later this year. The rest of the fund would be topped up by the Sport and Recreation Department and the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, said Sascoc CEO Tubby Reddy. Sascoc paid R10-million in bonuses to Olympic and Paralympic athletes after the London 2012 Games. This time the total prize pool would be split evenly between the Olympics and Paralympics before being divided between their medallists, said Reddy. Team SA is expected to deliver its best Olympic performance since readmission into international sport. The Paralympic squad, however, might not reproduce its past glories now that swimmer Natalie du Toit has retired and sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who is awaiting sentencing for murder, is not allowed to compete. The occasion at the Telkom head office in Centurion, near Pretoria, could not escape references to the parastatal's Boltspeed branding campaign for its fibre-optic product, which was launched soon after Wayde van Niekerk won the 400m crown at the World Championships last year. With Anaso Jobodwana also taking bronze in the men's 200m in China, behind Usain Bolt and American Justin Gatlin, there had been some criticism of Telkom. Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula was tongue in cheek as he chastised Telkom yesterday. "I'm happy we don't talk Boltspeed, we talk Caster Semenya speed and Wayde van Niekerk speed, Anaso Jobodwana speed and we're going to defeat Usain Bolt very soon so that we can be on those billboards of Telkom," he said. A Telkom official said the Boltspeed campaign had been planned long before the World Championships, and that the decision to sponsor the South African team to Rio was made before the campaign was launched. It has been nearly four years since SA's rowers won their Olympic gold medal, but the federation has its first major corporate sponsor. Rand Merchant Bank is launching three television adverts using the same foursome who stunned the world at London 2012. Matthew Brittain came out of retirement to temporarily rejoin forces with James Thompson, Sizwe Ndlovu and John Smith for the filming in March, at the team's base at Roodeplaat Dam, north of Pretoria, and at their high- altitude camp at Katse Dam in Lesotho.

2016-06-06 00:06 DAVID ISAACSON www.timeslive.co.za

18 Extremely poor show The panel - which consisted of sports scientist Ross Tucker, Cricket SA head of human resources Dawn Mokhobo, 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar and former Test batsman Adam Bacher - was reported to have informed CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat last week about the disbandment of the review. It has been reported that this was because of the terms of reference and scope of the review. Irish felt the review could have answered lingering questions in terms of South Africa's non-performance at ICC tournaments. He also felt there was a lack of clarity about the direction of the review. "Whenever you set up these things and they end up not happening, it's disappointing because these are opportunities for people who are involved in or around the national team to express better views on the national team and the issues around them," Irish said. "It would have been beneficial, but it would have been dependent on the scope and willingness of the people who were going to come forward to participate openly. "You can put these reviews up but you need to make sure the participants are able to speak openly about the issues, successes and also getting the right information. " The Schofield and Argus reviews in England and Australia are examples of cricketing introspections that worked out well. The 2007 Schofield report came after England were whitewashed in the 2006-2007 Ashes series alongside their abysmal 2007 World Cup campaign that was headlined by Andrew Flintoff's pedalo incident. Don Argus's review into the state of Australia's cricket after the disastrous 3-1 Ashes hammering against England in the 2010-2011 season reaped handsome rewards . The timing of the review is not an issue with Irish but the panel participants. He felt that a recently retired international player should have been part of the process. "From a sounding board perspective, it's necessary. Experienced ex- internationals know what's right and wrong for a team. The fact that there hasn't been a recent ICC trophy winner doesn't mean they can't talk about what's wrong," Irish said. CSA spokesman Altaaf Kazi said they would only comment once they had the relevant information. 2016-06-06 00:06 KHANYISO TSHWAKU www.timeslive.co.za

19 Likud ready to wait for Herzog after Labor race After failing to bring the entire Zionist Union into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and not succeeding in splitting the faction and taking part of it, Likud officials have a new goal: Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog by himself. Talks between Netanyahu and Herzog broke down after Herzog did not succeed in persuading enough of his party's MKs to join the coalition. The prime minister made a deal with Yisrael Beytenu instead, but he never stopped his effort to lure Herzog into the government. The Israel Hayom newspaper that is considered pro-Netanyahu reported Friday that the Likud was trying to break up the Zionist Union faction by offering portfolios and other posts to the eight MKs required by law to split a 24 MK faction. Those efforts have not succeeded either. Senior Likud officials revealed exclusively to The Jerusalem Post Sunday that the new idea is to seek Herzog to come alone. They said that after Yisrael Beytenu joined the government, there is no longer a shortage of MKs in the coalition. What Netanyahu is seeking now is the international legitimacy that a respected dove of Herzog's caliber could provide. For that, the Likud is willing to be patient. "We can wait," a senior Likud official close to Netanyahu said. "He might come later. Our door is open for him to come when it suits him. " Herzog asked Labor secretary-general Hilik Bar to reach a compromise date for the next Labor leadership primary by the end of this week. Herzog's potential opponents want the race to be held as soon as possible, while he has indicated that he wants it as late as possible. If Herzog will agree to hold the race at the earliest possible date, in August, and he - as expected - loses, Likud officials said he could quit the Knesset and be appointed foreign minister as a professional appointee. Herzog could already be foreign minister in time for the UN General Assembly in September. His father, former president Chaim Herzog, famously ripped a resolution that called Zionism racism when he was ambassador to the UN. He would also be in place for the diplomatic challenges expected during the time between the US election in November and the inauguration of the new president in January. Herzog's associates initially laughed at the idea, but then they called it "very creative" and wished the Likud good luck.

2016-06-05 21:35 GIL HOFFMAN www.jpost.com

20 AG orders review of millions allegedly transferred from French billionaire to PM The Justice Ministry confirmed on Sunday night that Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit has ordered a review of possibly non-reported millions in funds transferred from French billionaire Arno Mimran to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of the 2009 elections. Mimran has been testifying in a fraud case against him in France for failing to report the fund transfers and Mandelblit's order means there will now be an initial review to determine if there should be a criminal investigation into whether any Israeli laws were violated. The confirming Justice Ministry statement was vague and gave no indication of whether the review could pose any kind of serious legal threat to the prime minister.

2016-06-05 21:23 YONAH JEREMY www.jpost.com

21 Leviathan partners refute government claim of smaller gas reserve It's a numbers battle now as members of the Leviathan natural gas consortium responded for the first time to news that the reservoir contains 20% less gas than originally estimated. In joint public statement on Sunday to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Houston, Texas- based Noble Energy (39.66 percent Leviathan ownership), Delek Group subsidiaries Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration (each with 22.6 percent) and Ratio Oil Exploration (15%) refuted the Ministry's latest estimate. They held fast to their original estimates from independent oil and gas consultation company Netherland, Sewell and Associates Inc., and emphasizing that there has been no such change in the amount of resources at Leviathan. They maintain that the reservoir still contains 621 billion cubic meters of gas. The Energy, Infrastructure and Water Resources Ministry said Thursday evening that Leviathan contains an estimated 500 BCM of natural gas, about 20 percent below the previously estimated 621 BCM, based on their own data and analysis from international company RPS Energy. Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said of the new figure that it was “yet another exposure of the shaky foundations upon which the gas outline is based.” She requested a meeting to be held on the issue in the Knesset's Finance Committee. “In these very days, the natural gas partners are signing long-term export contracts that will be almost impossible to get free from in the future,” she said, charging that they are promising to export more than what the reserves have. Yossi Dorfman, head of the Gas Campaign group at student movement Green Course, said of the numbers dispute that the information was “hidden from the ministry for a long period of time, until the updated gas outline could be passed.” He called for the gas outline to be cancelled completely, saying it is not being done in the public's interest. The Ministry's said that estimations are liable to change from time to time and thus, they will continue to measure the Leviathan reserve and provide updates.

2016-06-05 21:08 MICHELLE MALKA www.jpost.com

22 22 Streetcars en vogue, but study urges use beyond tourists LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - As Oklahoma City prepares to break ground on its first streetcar line in seven decades, and as other cities adjust to having them again, authors of a federally backed study suggest their routes move people with a purpose - not just target the tourist trade. In a recent analysis covering five cities, researchers at the Mineta Transportation Institute in San Jose, California, found streetcar systems fare best when used to haul people from Point A to Point B. Routes in Little Rock and Tampa, Florida, which cater to tourists, fared worse in key areas than lines in Memphis, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. “They’re not really going into this thinking of transportation as the primary objective,” said Jeffery Brown, a co-author of the study who directs the master’s program at Florida State University’s Urban and Regional Planning Department. “The streetcar is playing a role for something else, like nostalgia.” Streetcars were a common sight decades ago, but the automobile age led most communities to scrap their lines, as Oklahoma City did after World War II. Of the five cities studied, the researchers found that all wanted to boost economic development, with Little Rock and Tampa also desiring streetcars for tourism. But those two systems are practically impractical for commuters: The study found that Tampa’s “TECO” line passes through high-density areas but doesn’t operate during the morning rush hour, and Little Rock’s 12-year-old streetcar system operates on two tight loops in Little Rock and North Little Rock, with a spur to the Clinton Library, but doesn’t run to where many people live. Oklahoma City intends to break ground this fall on a system that will also operate on two loops - one covering the central business district and the other in the Bricktown entertainment area. In between is the Chesapeake Arena, home to the NBA’s Thunder. “It’s a lot like Little Rock’s,” Brown said. “Now you really have to start asking, ‘Who would really ride this thing?’” Nathaniel Harding, who chaired an Oklahoma City subcommittee that studied potential streetcar use, says the panel believes the system will appeal to downtown workers and out-of-towners. “You can go to lunch in midtown, or go to Bricktown or to a Thunder game and not have to find a place to park again,” he said. Ridership for the Little Rock and Tampa systems dropped by about a third from 2005-2012, according to data from the Federal Transit Administration. While the economic downturn can be blamed for part of the drop, Brown said, the study panel noted both aren’t important parts of an overall transportation system. In Little Rock on Saturday, visitors to the city’s annual Riverfest noted the streetcar line is mainly a novelty. Mike Hinshaw of Cabot and his family traveled by streetcar for the first time since a holiday-themed ride two years ago. “I think it would make more sense if it went more places,” he said, suggesting a line tying in entertainment areas available only by foot, bus or car. Jake Allison didn’t consider the streetcar at all as he and three friends walked toward the festival. Plus, because of high pedestrian traffic, the Little Rock loop was closed all weekend, so he couldn’t have used it anyway. “It’s confined,” said Allison, who added that he hadn’t been on the streetcar since a school field trip several years ago. “It can’t take you from many Point As to Bs.” The manager of the Little Rock system said the lines were built to link entertainment venues, restaurants, museums and parks as a “public service venue” rather than being a “major rail commuter line.” Story Continues →

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23 German authorities pull plug on rock fest amid storm warning BERLIN (AP) - Authorities in western Germany have pulled the plug on one of the country’s most popular open- air rock festivals because of a storm warning. Organizers of Rock am Ring said Sunday that they accepted the decision “out of responsibility for the welfare” of the roughly 90,000 attendants. Scores of people were injured at the site near Mendig, 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Frankfurt, when lightning and heavy rain struck the festival late Friday. The German Red Cross said 72 people were hospitalized. The festival was suspended after the incident but briefly reopened Saturday night, before the final decision to close it Sunday. Germany, France and Belgium have been hit by severe storms that have caused heavy flooding and at least 16 deaths in recent days.

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24 4 killed in 2-vehicle crash in Kansas SEVERY, Kan. (AP) - Four people have died after a two- vehicle accident in Greenwood County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident occurred Saturday afternoon three miles west of Severy when one of the cars went left of the center lane and struck the other vehicle head on before catching fire. The patrol identified the victims as 72-year-old Arden Lee White and 68- year-old Sheryl Elaine White. Both were from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and were in the car that caught fire. The two other victims were identified as 49-year-old Stewart Bell and 46- year-old Ann Marie Bell. They were from Moline and were pronounced dead at the scene.

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25 Patrol investigating after Durham deputy involved in wreck DURHAM, N. C. (AP) - Authorities are investigating a crash that sent a Durham County Sheriff’s deputy and another driver to the hospital. Local media outlets report that the deputy was driving east on US-70 at around 9:45 p.m. Saturday when the driver of another car made a left turn onto the highway, crossing both lanes of traffic. Authorities say the vehicles collided, and both drivers were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The highway was closed for a time so the scene could be cleared. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is investigating.

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26 26 The Latest: Art exhibit on Lampedusa tackles migrant crisis ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The Latest on incidents of migrant boats sinking in the Mediterranean Sea (all times local): 9:05 p.m. Italy’s president has opened a temporary exhibit of artworks on the island of Lampedusa to promote dialogue about the migrant crisis. President Sergio Mattarella said Friday that “culture unites people and improves international relations.” He also honored the people of Lampedusa as “Europe’s best face.” The exhibit features Caravaggio’s 17th Century “Sleeping Cupid,” depicting a cupid in dark repose as a tribute to Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean last year and whose image shocked the world. The painting on loan from the Uffizi Gallery joins works from the Bardo Museum in Tunisia as well as the Correr Museum in Venice and the Mucem Musem of European civilizations in Marseille. The exhibit runs through Oct. 3. ___ 8:35 p.m. Amnesty International says a Syrian refugee whose asylum application in Greece was rejected has been detained on the island of Lesbos pending deportation to Turkey. If deported, he would be the first Syrian to be involuntary sent back to Turkey since March 20, when an agreement between the European Union and Turkey on returning migrants came into effect. Nearly 400 people, including 14 Syrians who asked to be sent back, have since been returned to Turkey from the Greek islands, where they arrived in smugglers’ boats after March 20. The Amnesty International rights group criticized the EU-Turkey agreement as “illegal and reckless,” arguing Friday that Turkey is not a safe country for refugees. ___ 6:30 p.m. Greek authorities say more bodies have been recovered from the site of a migrant boat sinking in the Mediterranean, bringing the total death toll to nine. Story Continues →

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27 Seine still rising in Paris as streets flood, French landmarks close PARIS (AP) — The swollen Seine River kept rising Friday, spilling into Paris streets and forcing one landmark after another to shut on Friday. Across the city, parks and cemeteries were being closed as the city braced for flooding that could take weeks to fully clear. The Seine, which officials said was at its highest level in nearly 35 years, was expected to peak sometime later in the day. Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum, and the Grand Palais, Paris ‘ striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition center. “We evaluate the situation for all the (cultural) buildings nearly hour-by-hour,” said Culture Minister Audrey Azouley, speaking to journalists outside the world-famous Louvre. “We don’t know yet the evolution of the level of the Seine River in Paris .” PHOTOS: Seine still rising in Paris; Louvre scrambles to protect art Nearly a week of heavy rain has led to serious flooding across a swathe of Europe, leaving 15 people dead and others missing. Although the rain has tapered off in some areas, floodwaters are still climbing. Traffic in the French capital was snarled as flooding choked roads and several Paris railway stations were shut. Basements and apartments in the capital’s well-to-do 16th district began to flood Friday afternoon as the river continued to creep upwards. At the Louvre, home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” curators were moving some 250,000 artworks from storage areas at risk of flooding and taking them upstairs to safety. The Orsay museum, on the left bank of the Seine, was also closed Friday to prepare for possible flooding. The Grand Palais, which draws 2.5 million visitors a year, was also being closed. The closures are highly unusual. The Louvre said the museum had not taken such precautions in its modern history - since its 1993 renovation at the very least. Disappointed tourists were being turned away. “I am really sorry, but we’re closed today,” one staffer told visitors. “We have to evacuate masterpieces from the basement.” Elsewhere in Europe, authorities were counting the cost of the floods as they waded through muddy streets and waterlogged homes. German authorities said the body of a 65-year-old man was found overnight in the town of Simbach am Inn, bringing the country’s death toll over recent days to 10. France’s Interior Ministry also reported the death of a 74-year- old man who fell from his horse and drowned in a river in the Seine-et- Marne region east of Paris , the second death in France. In eastern Romania, two people died and 200 people were evacuated from their homes as floods swept the area, including one man who was ripped from his bicycle by a torrent of water in the eastern village of Ruginesti. In Belgium, rescue workers found the body of a beekeeper who was swept away by rising waters while trying to protect his hives. The man had been reported missing in the village of Harsin on Thursday. The foul weather has added to travel disruption in France, which is already dealing with the fallout from weeks of strikes and other industrial actions by workers upset over the government’s proposed labor reforms. French rail company SNCF said the strikes had led to the cancellation of some 40 percent of the country’s high-speed trains. In addition, French energy company Enedis says that more than 20,000 customers are without power to the east and south of Paris . Story Continues →

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28 Bank helping home buyers reduce student loan debt BISMARCK, N. D. (AP) - The Bank of North Dakota is partnering with real estate brokers to help potential buyers refinance their student loan debt. Bank President Eric Hardmeyer tells the Bismarck Tribune (http://bit.ly/1TKcULK ) that national reports show that students are graduating with an average of $27,000 to $30,000 in student loan debt. And housing lenders are seeing the student loans as a barrier to housing loan approval. Hardmeyer says people are delaying major life decisions because of student debt. The realization helped lead to the bank’s DEAL One loan program. A graduate paying 14 percent interest student loan can refinance the loan to less than 2 percent interest with a variable rate. Hardmeyer says that’s a huge savings, and in some cases, it’s a life changer. ___ Information from: Bismarck Tribune, http://www.bismarcktribune.com

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29 American consortium completes Swansea takeover The takeover of Swansea by an American investment group has been completed. The American consortium - fronted by Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan - has been in talks over acquiring control of Swansea since last year, with news of the proposed change of ownership emerging in early April. It is understood that the Americans have acquired around 60 per cent of the Barclays Premier League club, who confirmed the completion of the takeover on Sunday morning. Levien and Kaplan, who both have extensive experience in American sports, must now pass the Football Association's owners' and directors' test before the deal is officially ratified. Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins will remain at the Liberty Stadium in an executive role and be in charge of the daily running of the club. The shareholding of the Swansea Supporters' Trust, who own 21 per cent of the club, remains unchanged. "Swansea City Football Club is delighted to confirm the takeover by Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan subject to the approval of the Premier League," read a statement on the club's official website. "Jason and Steve will lead an investment consortium which has acquired a controlling majority of the shares with several existing shareholders also maintaining a smaller stake in the club. "The agreement concludes a lengthy negotiation process and will see Huw Jenkins remain in an executive role and charged with the day- to-day running of the club. Huw will also maintain an ownership stake in the club. "Jason and Steve have vast experience in running sporting franchises in America. "Jason is managing general owner of MLS side, DC United while Steve is the executive vice-chairman of the Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA. "Both see the takeover of Swansea City as an exciting opportunity for long-term growth in the club in every area. "There is a huge level of respect for and a huge desire to build on the outstanding work of Huw Jenkins and his fellow board members who, alongside the Supporters' Trust, rescued the Swans and transformed them into a highly-respected Premier League club. "All parties expect the takeover to be fully sanctioned by the Premier League in the coming weeks. " It is understood that the deal values the club - who have spent the last five seasons in the top flight of English football - at around £110million. The deal could see the expansion of the 21,000- capacity Liberty Stadium, the second smallest in the Premier League, as well as investment in the club's training facilities and playing staff.

2016-06-05 20:45 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

30 Muhammad Ali's heart kept beating for 30 minutes even as body shut down: Daughter Washington : Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali's heart kept beating for a full 30 minutes even after the rest of his body shut down, his daughter has said. The incredible details of three-time heavyweight champion Ali's final moments were made public by his daughter Hana in an emotional post on Twitter. Muhammad Ali "Our hearts are literally hurting. But we are so happy daddy is free now. We all tried to stay strong and whispered in his ear, you can go now. We will be OK. We love you," said Hana Ali, an author and a freelance writer. "All of his organs failed but his HEART wouldn't stop beating. For 30 minutes... his heart just kept beating. No-one had ever seen anything like it. A true testament to the strength of his Spirit and Will! " Hena wrote. The 74-year-old Ali, known worldwide as "The Greatest", passed away on late Friday at an Arizona hospital due to respiratory problems. His official cause of death was septic shock due to "unspecified natural causes", said the family spokesman Bob Gunnell. The fighter had suffered for 35 years with Parkinson's disease, diagnosed three years after his retirement in 1981. Ali received a bevy of honours during his lifetime, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of the US.

2016-06-05 20:43 By PTI www.mid-day.com

31 Malfunctioning air conditioning forces penguin evacuation DRAPER, Utah (AP) - Malfunctioning air conditioning units forced the evacuation of visitors and an exhibit full of penguins at an aquarium in northern Utah. Firefighters responded to reports of smoke coming from the aquarium in Draper south of Salt Lake City at about 1 p.m. Saturday. United Fire Authority Capt. Dan Brown told The Salt Lake Tribune (http://tinyurl.com/hszde9x) that there was no fire, but authorities found two air conditioning units were malfunctioning at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. All visitors were evacuated and 16 penguins were taken from the exhibit to a refrigerated area. Three workers who helped transport the penguins suffered minor smoke inhalation and were taken to a local hospital as a precaution. Brown said they were reported in good condition. A veterinarian who examined all 16 penguins says they were not harmed. ___ Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com

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32 Larry Elder's story of reconciliation with his father inspires others Contact WND Growing up, Larry Elder hated his father, whom he viewed as cold, ill- tempered and thin-skinned. When he was 15 he and his father got into a fight and avoided speaking to each other for 10 years. Then, at the age of 25, he finally sat down with his old man and over the course of eight hours he discovered his father was not the man he thought he knew. “He might have had an unorthodox way of raising a child, a way that is not as touchy and feely as fathers are today, but he was every bit as in love with his children and every bit as desirous of his children having a good life,” Elder told WND in an interview. Elder, who grew up to become a lawyer and nationally syndicated talk radio host, detailed his tortured relationship with his dad and the eight-hour conversation that changed everything in his emotional memoir “Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives… Eight Hours.” While writing the book he asked his father, by that time in his early 90s, questions about his life. His father kept replying, “Why do you care about my little life?” This question caught the younger Elder off guard. “He didn’t think of his life as being epic,” Elder said. “He didn’t think of his life as being extraordinarily difficult. He just thought of his life as a product of somebody who got up in the morning, worked hard and didn’t make a bunch of excuses, and what’s remarkable about that? To me it was remarkable that my dad didn’t think his life was remarkable.” Elder’s father started out as a janitor but eventually became an entrepreneur, owning and running a snack bar. Although life was hard, he didn’t complain; he just worked harder to try and improve his life and his family’s lives. He brought this attitude with him into old age, once he began to feel aches and pains when he got out of bed in the morning. “Just as he didn’t bitch and moan and whine when he was younger, he didn’t bitch and moan and whine about the kinds of things a lot of people do when they get older,” Larry said of his father, who died just before his 96th birthday. “My dad was grateful that he lived as long as he lived.” On this Father’s Day, Elder hopes people will recognize the sacrifices all parents make. “The parents didn’t have to have you,” he pointed out. “They didn’t have to go to work every day and come home and work at a job they may not have necessarily liked. They did it because they wanted to put food on the table and make sure you had a better future than they had.” For Father’s Day gifts, the WND Superstore is the place to go, with the latest in parenting advice from experts, as well as something for dad himself, in the Preparedness Department. But Elder, a WND columnist, noted fatherhood is under siege today. According to the National Center for Fathering, a third of all American children live without their biological father in the home. This includes nearly 60 percent of black children, 31 percent of Hispanic children and 20 percent of white children. Children in father-absent homes are at greater risk of poverty, behavioral and emotional problems, crime, incarceration, teen pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse. “The family is the foundation of our moral compass and if that gets broken, our society is broken,” Elder concluded. Among those who do have fathers, Elder acknowledged there are many people like him who take a long time to fully appreciate everything their fathers did for them. He said a number of people have approached him at recent speeches to tell him his book moved them deeply. WND managing editor David Kupelian, author of “The Snapping of the American Mind,” said he was moved by the book. “Larry Elder’s ‘Dear Father, Dear Son’ is more than just a wonderful and rewarding read,” Kupelian stated. “There is something transcendent about a father-son relationship, and Larry’s powerful, poignant, deeply honest true story of his long estrangement from his father – and the amazing conversation that healed and restored that relationship – affected me very deeply.” Elder believes people like the book because Elder’s father reminds them of their own fathers. “A lot of people grew up with tough fathers, fathers who were hardened by war, hardened by the Great Depression, and they had difficulty relating to them, didn’t realize the fathers had gone through the hardship they had gone through that made them have such a hard bark,” Elder said. “A number of people have told me the book has inspired them to reach out and reconnect with their fathers,” he added. He said he has heard this from both men and women. Elder is delighted that his book has touched so many kindred spirits who suffered through difficult relationships with their fathers. “I think we are all a product of our family,” he said. “There’s no way of getting around that, and this provides people a prism through which they can reanalyze their own family.” Get your copy of “Dear Father, Dear Son” today from the WND Superstore!

2016-06-05 20:41 Paul Bremmer www.wnd.com

33 Pope approves measure for removing bishops found negligent with abuse allegations Pope Francis has just put into place a new set of procedures “to sack bishops who mishandle child sexual abuse cases,” BBC News reported Saturday morning. “The decree comes in response to long-running demands by abuse victims and their supporters to hold bishops accountable if they fail to protect their flocks from paedophiles,” the British news service said. Announcing the development, the 79-year-old pontiff said the Church “loves all its sons, but cares for and protects with special attention those who are weakest and defenseless.”

2016-06-05 14:06 Pope Francis www.washingtontimes.com

34 Ricky Martin visits Syrian refugees in Lebanon MINNIEH, Lebanon (AP) - Ricky Martin, the world- renowned singer and UNICEF goodwill ambassador, said that the word “refugee” had lost its value but that the international community should “open its heart.” The 44-year-old Puerto Rican spoke during a visit to Lebanon with UNICEF to meet Syrian refugee children. “At this point what we want is to make sure children get their rights. Some children unfortunately are not going to school,” he said Thursday in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Minnieh, north Lebanon. News of the visit was released by UNICEF on Friday because of an embargo. The singer met with Syrian children in Zahleh, in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, and in the Minnieh informal settlement, near the northern city of Tripoli, the following day. In Minnieh, the children performed “Maria,” the singer’s dance-along hit tune, and played a game of soccer with the star. During his visit, Martin also met teenagers attending life-skills training, according to UNICEF. The star, whose charity and advocacy work has focused on combating child labor and human trafficking, said he was moved by a Syrian refugee from Homs he met in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. He says the 11-year-old refugee, named Batoul, is “working in agriculture, 12 hours a day. And she’s getting paid with water.” “This is happening to our kids. This is happening to our future generation,” he said. According to UNICEF, there are 2.8 million children out of school in the region and child refugees are particularly at risk of exploitation and abuse. The U. N. agency says it is addressing child labor by providing free education and economic opportunities for parents and youth of working age.

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35 Raul Castro spends 85th birthday preparing for summit HAVANA (AP) - Cuban President Raul Castro spent his 85th birthday preparing to host leaders of Caribbean countries who are meeting in Havana, although he did take a congratulatory phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Castro generally doesn’t make much of his birthdays and made no comment on his latest milestone Friday. He was looking ahead to a nighttime banquet that welcomes heads of state and government leaders attending the Caribbean summit. The Russian state news agency Sputnik said Castro did take time to talk with Putin. According to a Kremlin statement, “Putin telephoned President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Raul Castro, and congratulated him warmly on his 85th birthday.” Castro assumed Cuba’s presidency nearly 10 years ago, taking over from his ailing brother Fidel.

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36 36 Convicted spot-fixer Mohammad Amir named in Pakistan Test team for England Karachi : Convicted spot- fixer Mohammad Amir was today selected in the Pakistan cricket team that will tour England for a four- Test series for the first time since the spot-fixing scandal broke in 2010. However the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is still awaiting for Amir's visa approval from the UK High Commission. Mohammad Amir 24-year-old Amir has made an impressive comeback in shorter formats and ironically his probable return to Test cricket will happen in the same country where he was arrested for indulging in spot-fixing along with Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif. Chairman of selectors Inzamam ul Haq said that the board had given clearance to pick Aamir in the side as they had been told his visa would arrive on Monday. "We were anxious for him as he can be a key bowler for us in England and I am sure he is strong enough to perform there despite the pressures he will feel on returning to England after the spot fixing scandal six years ago," Inzamam said. Experienced batsman, Muhammad Hafeez was also named in Test squad despite suffering from fitness problems in the past few months. Inzamam told the media in Lahore that the selectors had taken Hafeez's fitness test on Saturday and Sunday to see if he had made a recovery from his knee problem. "He did well over the two days and we are confident he will get better in the coming days. He has been picked because of his experience in this format," Inzamam said. Hafeez has suffered from a knee problem since the Asia Cup in March and had to miss the last two matches of the World T20 in India in April. The former Test captain said the selected squad was a mix of experience and youth and he was confident there was enough experience in the batting line up to counter the conditions in England. Pakistan's new head coach, Mickey Arthur is due to reach Lahore on Monday or Tuesday. Squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (Captain), Muhammad Hafeez, Sami Aslam, Shaan Masood, Younis Khan, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Ifthikar Ahmed, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Muhammad Rizwan, Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar, Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Aamir, Rahat Ali, Imran Khan and Sohail Khan.

2016-06-05 20:35 By PTI www.mid-day.com

37 Flood victim: 'It smells of sewage and death' For Sharai Poteet, the prospect of more rain means it's time to move her chickens back up to the second floor of her Kingwood-area home. The whole neighborhood had been flooded for a week, and Poteet said the water is rising. On Friday afternoon, the 46-year-old pulled her Jeep up to a Red Cross distribution center at Foster Elementary. "Can I tell my neighbors about this? " she asked as volunteers loaded a rake, bottles of water, flashlights and other gear into the back of the Wrangler. "They are all flooded. " FORECAST: More rain expected, but chances to diminish over weekend For the most part, Poteet and her family were well prepared. They moved their cars out, and an iron fence kept many belongings, aside from a chainsaw and some other garden equipment, from floating away. But after the rain stopped and the water began to go down, Poteet lost several chickens as water skiers' waves crashed over the back of her yard. She won't let that happen again. And she's worried that there won't be any time to clean up if the water keeps rising. Neighbors' chain-link fences and other property has been washed away, cars lost to floodwaters. "Everything is underwater," she said. "It smells of sewage and death. "

2016-06-05 15:30 Mihir A www.chron.com

38 38 Woman injured, dog killed at Clear Lake Park An elderly woman was taken to the hospital and her dog was killed when she drove her car into the water off the Clear Lake Park boat ramp. A Pasadena Volunteer Firefighter was the first responder at the scene, attempting to break the back window of the car. CPR was started on the woman, who was transported to St. John's Hospital. Her dog did not survive. Authorities don't know what caused her to drive off the boat ramp, but noted that her car was only partially submerged. Her identity and condition were not released.

2016-06-05 15:30 Houston Chronicle www.chron.com

39 Ryan Blasts Trump Less Than 24 Hours After Endorsement | The American Spectator When Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump yesterday, it came with this caveat: It’s no secret that he and I have our differences. I won’t pretend otherwise. And when I feel the need to, I’ll continue to speak my mind. But the reality is, on the issues that make up our agenda, we have more common ground than disagreement. Well, that sure didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after endorsing Trump, Ryan blasted the Republican presidential nominee for attacking Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage. Curiel is the presiding over the Trump University case. In a radio interview, Ryan said, “The comment about the judge the other day was out of left field, for my mind. I completely disagree with the thinking behind that.” I have a very strong feeling that this won’t be the last time Ryan feels the need to speak his mind where it concerns Donald Trump.

2016-06-05 14:10 Aaron Goldstein spectator.org

40 40 Internet fondly looks back at failed 'The Apprentice' pitch More than a decade ago, when Donald Trump was best known as a business magnate and reality TV star, he floated the idea of a race war on television. Now that he's a GOP presidential contender, media outlets have turned attention on some comments Trump made about the upcoming season of "The Apprentice," as proposed in 2005. Here's an excerpt of what he said on July 11 of that year: "... an idea that is fairly controversial – creating a team of successful African-Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world. " In addition, he also discussed the idea on the Howard Stern Show: "On The Apprentice there was a concept, okay, thrown out by some person, nine blacks against nine whites. And it would be nine blacks against nine whites, all highly educated, very smart, strong, beautiful. Do you like it? Do you like it, Robin? " Spoiler alert: The idea never happened. When news agencies caught wind of the comments, they wrote about it, and audiences quickly pounced on the idea as racist. BuzzFeed News contacted Tara Dowdell, one of the contestants on Season 3, who said the idea seemed to foreshadow the spectacle we're seeing today. "Best-case scenario, it was a huge blind spot. Worst-case scenario, it showed [Trump's] willingness to exploit race and be divisive — to do anything to promote himself," Towdell said.

2016-06-05 21:29 By John www.chron.com

41 Almanac: The Marshall Plan |On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced an economic assistance plan that would help Western Europe rise out of the ashes of World War II. Charles Osgood reports.

2016-06-05 21:23 Almanac: www.cbsnews.com

42 Meet the Republican Texas grandmother trying to end marijuana prohibition Ann Lee, 76, only tried marijuana once, but she's made ending pot prohibition her cause. And she's trying to do it through an unorthodox outlet: the Republican Party. She founded Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition in 2012, inspired largely by the benefits that medical marijuana brought to her son after a car wreck left him paraplegic. Now she tries to bring fellow conservatives on board her cause. Lee was one of almost 10,000 delegates to the Texas GOP convention on Thursday, where she hoped to win a spot at the national convention and take her message to Cleveland in July. She's also a prominent Republican activist, and served as precinct chair in the Harris County Republican Party from 1970 to 1992. She said many of her peers at the state convention are receptive to her appeals for legalized weed, and the ones who don't buy it usually cite reverence for he rule of law. "Republicans are usually for law and order," she said. "But when there's a bad law, we need to change it. " Take a closer look at the celebrities involved in the marijuana business in the gallery below.

2016-06-05 08:54 By Dylan www.chron.com

43 Emma Watson joins list of celebrities, politicians named in Panama Papers The list of celebrities and major political figures mentioned in the Panama Papers grew again this week. They captured a wizard last night, with the addition of “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson to the leaks. She joins celebrities from Simon Cowell to Jackie Chan to Lionel Messi who have been tied to the tax fraud leak by Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca. A number of politicians have appeared in the leaks including Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, who stepped down after their release. READ MORE: Law firm in ‘Panama Papers’ raided by local police Donald Trump also has been mentioned in the documents 3,450 times. Although he does not appear to be the owner of any of the companies, his partners and associates do appear throughout the leaks. Watson’s representative said the actress created the company Falling Leaves Ltd. in British Virgin Islands three years ago “for the sole purpose of protecting her anonymity and safety.” The spokesman denied she received any monetary advantages from the company. "UK companies are required to publicly publish details of their shareholders and therefore do not give her the necessary anonymity required to protect her personal safety," the spokesman said. The Panama Papers purport to show how the rich and famous hide their wealth in offshore companies or accounts. The act is not illegal, but can be used to dodge taxes or hide corruption. The files were made public by the International Consortium of Investigation Journalists , a network of more than 190 journalists in more than 65 countries. See celebrities named in the Panama Papers in the gallery above. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

2016-06-05 21:29 Matt Levin www.chron.com

44 Donald Trump's Cinco de Mayo taco tweet has us asking a lot of questions Donald Trump spent his first full day as the presumptive Republican nominee for president promoting taco bowls. The business mogul recognized Cinco de Mayo – a holiday already profoundly misunderstood by Americans (it's not Mexican Independence Day! That's September 16.) – with a tweet that sums up everything uncomfortable about his campaign. He addresses the photo of him and a Trump Tower Grill taco bowl with an ungainly message to Hispanic voters ("I love Hispanics"). But that’s just the beginning of the awkwardness. Here are some questions we have about Trump’s latest tweet : Haven't we seen enough bad holiday tweets from #brands? This we assume is just the beginning from Trump. Lest we forget, one of his campaign promises is to end the War on Christmas.

2016-06-05 20:28 Matt Levin www.chron.com

45 Top Syrian Kurdish commander killed in Raqqa campaign BEIRUT (AP) - A top Syrian Kurdish commander died Sunday, several days after sustaining injuries during a U. S.-backed campaign to unseat the Islamic State group from its de-facto Syrian capital, Raqqa. Abu Layla, who commanded a brigade inside the predominantly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, was hit by IS sniper fire on the outskirts of Manbij, an Islamic State group stronghold that controls the supply route between the Turkish border and Raqqa, the Kurdish website Rudaw said. He was evacuated by U. S. forces to a hospital in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, where he died. The commander fought against IS militants in Kobani in early 2015, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group. Those battles, the first major setback to the IS advance in northern Syria, were seen as instrumental to securing U. S. support for Kurdish forces in the country’s multi-layered conflict. The SDF are now advancing on Manbij, 155 kilometers (72 miles) to the northwest of Raqqa, as Syrian government forces backed by Iranian, Lebanese and Russian firepower, advance on the IS capital from the south. It is unclear whether the twin offensives were coordinated. Pro-government forces reached within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Tabqa Air Base, to the west of Raqqa, according to the Observatory. IS militants captured the base from the government in 2014, killing scores of captured soldiers. The media arm of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, which is fighting alongside government forces, said the Syrian army took a small village 50 kilometers (31 miles) to the southwest of Tabqa air base. The twin offensive on IS-strongholds in Syria coincides with a military operation in neighboring Iraq on Fallujah, one of the most important cities still held by the militant group. Government and Russian airstrikes meanwhile killed at least 23 people in opposition-held parts of Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city and former commercial capital, activists said, and killed or wounded dozens more in Idlib, a rebel-held city in the country’s northwest. The Civil Defense, a first responder group that operates in rebel-held areas, reported 50 airstrikes in Aleppo on Sunday. The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network, said the strikes killed at least 30 people. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the toll at 23. Activists reported that a war plane crashed south of Aleppo. It was not immediately clear whether the plane had malfunctioned or had been shot down, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. The activist Local Coordination Committees network said rebels shot the plane down near Khalasa, where a coalition of opposition fighters and al- Qaida linked insurgents have eroded government control over the past two months. Aleppo has been divided between government and opposition control since 2012.

2016-06-05 21:26 - www.washingtontimes.com

46 Saudis team with US university on security degree program A university in Connecticut will help shape the instruction of some security officers in Saudi Arabia under an agreement announced Friday that the school describes as bringing American-style police training to the kingdom. Under the agreement, signed this week at a Riyadh ceremony, faculty from the University of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences will advise the King Fahd Security College on the creation of a new security studies program. Other American universities have worked with Saudi institutions, but officials at UNH say they believe they are the first to collaborate in the area of criminal justice. The agreement was signed with the Saudi Interior Ministry under a Technical Cooperation Agreement between the two governments that promotes the transfer of security-related knowledge and skills from the U. S. to Saudi Arabia. “We’re very pleased to be developing with the ministry an American-style program,” said Daniel May, the UNH provost. May said the idea for the collaboration grew out of work the college has done in the Middle East and around the world to advance modern policing, led by the famed forensic scientist Henry Lee. The school’s relationship with the Saudis dates back decades and about 400 Saudi students are currently enrolled at the University of New Haven, more than from any other foreign country. It took eight years for the agreement to be reached as the two sides worked through cultural differences, the time difference and concern about human rights issues, May said. The latest U. S. State Department report on human rights practices for Saudi Arabia noted concerns including citizens’ lack of ability to choose their government, pervasive gender discrimination and reports that some members of the security forces and other officials committed abuses with impunity. Experts from the Lee College will help the college in Riyadh to develop curriculum for a four-year bachelor’s degree program with specializations available in criminal justice, homeland security and intelligence studies. Instruction will be in English and under U. S. guidelines for academic freedom, May said. A UNH team will be on site in Riyadh to launch the program, which is expected to enroll about 150 new students each fall. May said he could not share details of the financial terms. UNH President Steven Kaplan, who signed the agreement in Riyadh, said it will put the school’s expertise at the service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s security professionals. “This agreement deepens longstanding bilateral educational cooperation between the U. S. and KSA, and we are honored to support the further development of security expertise upon which so many in the region and beyond depend,” he said. UNH, a private institution founded in 1920 and based in West Haven, Connecticut, enrolls nearly 1,800 graduate students and more than 5,000 undergraduates.

2016-06-05 14:06 - www.washingtontimes.com

47 Cop killed, 2 hurt in Masbate ambush LEGAZPI CITY – A policeman died while two of his companions were wounded after they were ambushed by a group of armed men in Baleno town in Masbate province on Sunday morning. Senior Police Officer 1 Zandro Cabintoy, public information officer of the Masbate provincial police, said a bomb planted by the roadside exploded, causing the policemen’s patrol car to swerve and hit a concrete wall in Sitio Tangad, Barangay (village) Gangao in Baleno at 5:40 a.m. A burst of gunfire followed the blast. Cabintoy said PO2 Jack Brondial died instantly while two other policemen were wounded in a 10-minute firefight. Cabintoy said the eight-member team from Baleno police was on its way back to the town’s police station after checking a report that a corpse was found in the village. Cabintoy said the armed men took an M16 rifle from the policemen before fleeing toward nearby Aroroy town. Meanwhile, soldiers from the Army’s 31st Infantry Battalion recovered 183 rounds of bullets for an M60 machine gun and a generator set after engaging at least 30 communist rebels in a five-minute firefight in Gubat town in Sorsogon province at 5 a.m., also on Sunday. Lt. Col. Angelo Guzman, spokesperson of the military’s Southern Luzon Command, said the soldiers were patrolling the village of Sangat when they chanced upon the New People’s Army rebels. No one was hurt in the clash.

2016-06-05 20:22 Ma. newsinfo.inquirer.net

48 Olympic refugee team to be ‘symbol of hope’ in Rio LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Ten refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East were selected Friday to compete under the Olympic flag at the Rio de Janeiro Games in what the IOC said represents a “symbol of hope” for migrants and refugees around the world. The members of the first ever Olympic refugee team include athletes from South Sudan, Syria, Congo and Ethiopia who will compete in track and field, swimming and judo. The team of six men and four women will march together behind the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony in Rio’s Maracana stadium on Aug. 5. “We’re convinced this refugee Olympic team can send a symbol of hope to all refugees in the world,” IOC President Thomas Bach said at the close of a three-day IOC executive board meeting in Lausanne. “It is also a signal to the international community that refugees are our fellow human beings and are an enrichment to society.” The team, selected from an initial pool of 43 candidates, will be overseen by Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe, the former women’s marathon world record- holder. Five coaches and five other team officials were also named by the IOC. Officially called the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), the athletes will walk into the opening ceremony just ahead of the huge team from Brazil, the host nation that marches last in the parade of athletes from more than 200 countries. “These refugees have no home, no team, no flag, no national anthem,” Bach said. “We will offer them a home in the Olympic Village together with all the athletes of the world. … These refugee athletes will show the world that despite the unimaginable tragedies that they have faced, anyone can contribute to society through their talent, skills and strength of the human spirit.” The plan was first announced by the IOC at the United Nations last October amid the influx of migrants and refugees from armed conflicts in Syria, Africa, South Asia and other regions. “Having had their sporting careers interrupted, these high-level refugee athletes will finally have the chance to pursue their dreams,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said. “Their participation in the Olympics is a tribute to the courage and perseverance of all refugees in overcoming adversity and building a better future for themselves and their families.” The team includes Syrian swimmers Yusra Mardini, now based in Germany, and Rami Anis, living in Belgium; South Sudanese runners Yiech Pur Biel (800 meters), James Nyang Chiengjiek (400), Anjelina Nada Lohalith (1,500), Rose Nathike Lokonyen (800) and Paulo Amotun Lokoro (1,500); Congolese judo athletes Yolande Bukasa Mabika (70-kilogram category) and Popole Misenga (90 kgs), both living and training in Brazil; and Ethiopian marathon runner Yonas Kinde, now based in Luxembourg. The South Sudanese runners had been staying at the sprawling Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya when they were selected as potential Olympic athletes. They were then taken to a training camp near Nairobi run by Loroupe. Mardini, the teenage Syrian swimmer, has generated heavy media attention. She and her sister, Sarah, were on a flimsy inflatable boat with other refugees making the perilous trip from Turkey to Greece when the dinghy started taking on water. While most of the refugees couldn’t swim, the Mardini sisters jumped into the water and helped guide the boat to the Greek island of Lesbos. The sisters eventually made it to Germany, where they began training at a swimming pool in Berlin near their refugee center. Also Friday, the IOC nominated eight new members - including a South Africa film producer, Colombia’s former ambassador to the U. S. and the female founder of an Indian charitable foundation. Formal ratification of the four men and four women will come at the full IOC session in Rio de Janeiro in August on the eve of the games. Story Continues →

2016-06-05 23:50 International Olympic www.washingtontimes.com

49 Japan praises Yamato Tanooka, boy who survived after abandonment in forest TOKYO (AP) — Nearly a week after he was abandoned in the forest by his parents, the boy did not shed a tear when he was found safe Friday. The soldier who discovered him by chance in a military hut gave him two rice balls, which 7-year-old Yamato Tanooka ate ravenously. He looked a bit worn out but was “genki,” the military said, using a Japanese word describing healthy children. The boy’s safe return was welcomed in a nation riveted by his disappearance and undergoing intense soul-searching about how it raises and disciplines its children. Yamato ’s story, as pieced together from comments from the military and police, was admirable in resourcefulness and resilience. His parents, trying to teach him a lesson for misbehaving and throwing rocks, made him get out of the car last Saturday on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido in a forest reputedly ridden with bears. They couldn’t find him when they returned several minutes later. Apparently walking for several kilometers, the boy found the empty hut in a military drill area and entered a door that had been left open. The longhouse-style hut had no heat or power and no food, but Yamato huddled between mattresses on the floor and drank water from the solitary faucet outside the hut for several days, local media reported. A massive manhunt, including 180 people and search dogs, had found no trace of him. The soldier who found him had not been part of the frenzied search effort, but soon the boy identified himself as Yamato Tanooka. Appearing outside the hospital where the boy was flown in by helicopter, his father apologized, bowing deeply, thanked everyone for the rescue and vowed to do a better job as his dad. “We have raised him with love all along,” said the father, Takayuki Tanooka, fighting tears. “I really didn’t think it would come to that. We went too far.” Military officials expressed admiration for the boy’s perseverance, as the building where he was found was far from where he had disappeared and involved a rigorous uphill climb. The boy was dehydrated and had minor scratches on his arms and feet, but no serious health risks were found, a doctor who examined him said on nationally televised news. Although going without water is dangerous even for a few days, people can survive longer without food, such as people who have fasted or gone on hunger strikes for a few weeks. While experts say a water-only diet for so long must have been painful, they boy apparently stayed at the hut for much of the time. More details on his experience were not immediately available. Asked what he had told his son after he was found, the father said, “I told him I was so sorry for causing him such pain.” The nation welcomed the boy’s safe return. Old photos of Yamato , wearing a cowboy hat here, holding up two fingers in a peace sign there, his bangs falling over a proud smile, were flashed across again and again on TV. Daijiro Hashimoto, a former governor appearing on a talk show on TV Asahi, wondered how the boy had endured the loneliness, especially at night, and suggested that perhaps he had imagined he was on some adventure and was hiding in a secret camp. “He had to keep a very positive attitude,” Hashimoto said, reflecting widespread sentiment here. “He is fantastic. He didn’t know how long it might take, and when he would ever be saved.” Story Continues →

2016-06-05 14:06 This undated www.washingtontimes.com

50 Planned auction of items from reservations raises questions SIOUX FALLS, S. D. (AP) - Tribal leaders are questioning the ethical and legal implications of an auction featuring more than 100 items collected on two Native American reservations, including guns from the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre and a ceremonial pipe that belonged to one of the most respected tribal chiefs. Bidding for items gathered from the late 1880s through the early 1900s on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations opens June 11 through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. Similar auctions have spurred condemnation by many Native American tribes whose leaders believe sacred and ceremonial items, such as pipes, should be returned to the tribes, and most recently, prompted the federal government to intervene. Three guns to be auctioned were salvaged from the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, where on Dec. 29, 1890, about 300 Native American men, women and children were killed by the 7th Cavalry in the final battle of the American Indian Wars. And at the center of the collection is a ceremonial pipe once owned by the legendary Lakota Chief Red Cloud. “I find it very insulting,” said Trina Lone Hill, the historic preservation officer for the Oglala Sioux Tribe. “It was a massacre; it wasn’t just a skirmish. It was women and children being killed.” The entire collection belongs to Paul Rathbun, a Colorado resident whose grandfather and great-grandmother gathered the items back when the family owned a general store near Pine Ridge, a sprawling expanse of badlands on southwestern South Dakota and home to the Oglala Sioux. Rathbun said the items have been “sitting in trunks or plastic containers,” and he hopes they will end up in the hands of a group or individual who can properly take care of them. “I’m just a regular person; I don’t have a vault or really I guess I don’t have the means to care for it the way it should be,” Rathbun said. “And there’s, of course, a bit of an economic factor.” He added that the collection “has not been a secret over the years” for the tribe, and added that none of the items “were purchased at a disadvantage or taken” from tribal members. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, enacted in 1990, allows tribes to reclaim human remains and objects that are sacred, funerary or of exceptional cultural or historical importance from federally funded museums and research institutions. On Monday, an auction house in Paris withdrew from sale a ceremonial shield from a Native American community in New Mexico, days after the Department of Interior had asked French authorities to prevent the sale. Rathbun said his grandfather and great-grandmother salvaged the three guns after they arrived at the site of the Wounded Knee massacre and found many of their Native American friends dead. The collection’s description explains that Rathbun’s grandfather, Raymond, as a teen developed a friendship with Chief Red Cloud, an Oglala Lakota who signed the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty peace agreement with the United States. Red Cloud gifted to Raymond the ceremonial pipe heading to auction. However, Lone Hill said, a ceremonial pipe should never be auctioned because it is considered a sacred item. While the auction house’s consultants have concluded that the collection can be auctioned, Lone Hill said the tribe will consult with its own attorneys to try to determine whether federal law could prevent the sale. “I would object to the sale,” Lone Hill said. “It would be like me selling any item of the pope, any possession of his or anything from the church. They would say it is a heresy.” ___ Follow Regina Garcia Cano on Twitter at: https://www.twitter.com/reginagarciakNO

2016-06-05 14:06 This April www.washingtontimes.com

51 Saudi reform plan approved by top economic council By Angus McDowall RIYADH, June 5 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's National Transformation Plan, a pivotal element of the "Vision 2030" reforms announced in April by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will be put before the cabinet for approval on Monday, a senior Saudi source told Reuters. The plan is expected to flesh out sector-by-sector details of the implementation of Prince Mohammed's programme, which is intended to restructure the kingdom's entire economy and make it less dependent on oil revenue. "The Council of Economic and Development Affairs has approved the final draft of the National Transformation Plan, which is one of the plans adopted and part of the 2030 vision, which was launched and adopted by the Saudi deputy crown prince, president of CEDA," the source said. Prince Mohammed was given a central role in decision making after his father, King Salman, became monarch early last year, taking charge of CEDA, a new supercommittee of top ministers charged with overseeing reforms. Saudi Arabia finances now depend on oil revenue and its economic performance closely tracks government spending. But energy prices have plummeted since mid-2014, causing steep declines in income and putting growth at risk. HIGH PROFILE The wider reforms are expected to include subsidy cuts, tax rises, sales of state assets, a government efficiency drive and efforts to spur private sector investment. Last month the International Monetary Fund said the plans were "appropriately bold and far reaching". Details of the plan, a programme of wide-ranging economic reforms, will be disclosed in daily news conferences with government ministers starting Monday evening, the senior source said. Other parts of the Vision 2030, including a partial privatisation of state oil giant Saudi Aramco and transformation of the government's Public Investment Fund into one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds, have yet to be approved. The emphasis placed on the plan by Prince Mohammed is evident in the high- profile nature of its launch, with senior ministers expected to deliver rare briefings on how their departments will implement the programme. The timing is also significant because Monday is the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, when business and government activity in the conservative Islamic kingdom have historically slowed down. Launching the plan despite the start of the holiday signals a more energetic approach. Riyadh has been cutting spending and trying to raise fresh revenues as it grapples with its budget deficit, which totalled $98 billion in 2015. The IMF predicted the deficit would stay very large this year, at about 14 percent of gross domestic product compared to 16 percent last year. (Reporting By Samia Nakhoul and Angus McDowall, editing by William Maclean, Larry King)

2016-06-05 20:18 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

52 Peace order Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first public statement after the swearing in of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and in particular the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. But unlike the Arab Peace Initiative that made normalization with the Arab countries conditional upon a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu proposed normalization first and peace afterward. “We are ready to negotiate with the Arab states on an updated initiative that reflects the dramatic regional changes that have occurred since 2002, but that maintains the agreed-upon goal of two states for two peoples,” the prime minister declared last Monday with Liberman at his side. “The Arab Peace Initiative contains positive elements that can help re- institute constructive negotiations with the Palestinians,” he said. A number of factors came together to trigger Netanyahu’s statements. The addition of Yisrael Beytenu (and not the Zionist Union) to the government coalition has fueled speculation in the world that Israel has become more intransigent vis-a-vis peace initiatives with the Palestinians. Netanyahu seemed to want to counter this impression by making a significant diplomatic statement. The launch Friday of the Paris-led international peace initiative threatens to put pressure on Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians. Thirty countries and international organizations are actively working to seek ways of reaching an agreement that Netanyahu rightly fears could be foisted on his government. And even if the French initiative fails, the next step might be an attempt to get a UN Security Council resolution passed. This time the Obama administration, which is in its final months, might not use its veto to stop such a resolution. In short, Netanyahu understands that Israel needs to position itself to deal with various diplomatic initiatives in the offing. Failing to be proactive creates a vacuum. No conflict that attracts so much international attention goes ignored for long. One way of deflecting these initiatives is by launching one of our own that avoids the pitfalls of previous attempts to reach peace with the Palestinians. The initiative that Netanyahu is pushing seeks to flip the conventional order of peacemaking. The Oslo model, the Arab initiative and the French initiative are predicated on the idea that a negotiated peace with the Palestinians would be a precursor and a necessary precondition for peace and normalization with the whole Arab world; Netanyahu hopes to change the order. First, according to this thinking, an accommodation needs to be reached with the Arab world. Once this happens, the Palestinians will have broad regional support for embarking on nation-building. Only then can fruitful talks between Israelis and Palestinians begin. This approach is based on the idea that today – more than ever – Israel and Sunni states such as Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia share a number of interests, from the battle against Islamic State to the curtailing of Iran’s hegemony in the region. The Arab states also stand to benefit from economic ties with Israel. Once a framework of relations between Israel and the Sunni states is hammered out, the Palestinian component can be added to the equation. The prime minister is right that the Palestinians will need Arab support to overcome the internal conflicts that make Palestinian state-building impossible right now. The split between Hamas and Fatah has created two distinct territories – one in the Gaza Strip and the other in the West Bank – each with its own leadership. Only after this rift is bridged can there be serious talk of a Palestinian state. The involvement of Egypt and Jordan, two countries headed by regimes opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood, might have a moderating impact on Palestinian society, which has in the past decade shown a preference for Hamas over Fatah. The question remains whether the Egyptians, the Jordanians and the Saudis will be willing to cooperate in such an initiative. The shake-up in the Middle East in the wake of the “Arab Spring” has created new opportunities for cooperation between Israel and some of its neighbors. Will the more moderate Sunni states in the region take advantage of these opportunities?

2016-06-05 20:18 JPOST EDITORIAL www.jpost.com

53 Ali became world citizen but never forgot his hometown roots LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Muhammad Ali traveled the world as a fighter and humanitarian, but he always came home to Louisville. His Kentucky hometown was where Ali, as a gangly teenager, began to develop his boxing skills - the dazzling footwork and rapid-fire punching prowess. The three-time world heavyweight boxing champion never forgot his roots, returning to his old West End neighborhood and visiting high school classmates even after becoming one of the world’s most recognizable men. Now the focus shifts back to Ali’s hometown as the world says goodbye to the man who emerged from humble beginnings to rub elbows with heads of state. Ali, slowed for years by Parkinson’s disease, died Friday at age 74 in an Arizona hospital. His funeral is scheduled for Friday afternoon in Louisville. Ali chose his hometown as the place for one of his lasting legacies: the Muhammad Ali Center, which promotes his humanitarian ideals and showcases his remarkable career. Ali and his wife, Lonnie, had multiple residences around the U. S., but always maintained a Louisville home. The city embraced its favorite son right back. A downtown street bears his name. A banner showcasing his face - and proclaiming him “Louisville’s Ali” - towers over motorists near the city’s riverfront. Lifelong friend Victor Bender knew Ali ever since they were boyhood sparring partners. Bender remembered Ali - then known as Cassius Clay - as a dedicated athlete who worked tirelessly to hone his boxing skills. He also remembered Ali’s human touch - his willingness to reach out to others. “Only health changed him,” Bender said in a September 2014 interview. “When he was healthy enough, he could talk with anybody. He loved children. He’d reach out and touch anybody, because he loved people. “Sometimes his handlers would say, ‘Look, we’ve got to go. We’ve got to meet the schedule.’ And he’d say, ‘The schedule will have to wait.’” Ruby Hyde remembered the heavyweight champ cruising into her neighborhood in a Cadillac with the top down. “All the kids jumped in and he rode them around the block,” she remembered. Ali’s boyhood home - a small, single-story frame house - still stands in the working-class neighborhood where he grew up. The bright pink home on Grand Avenue was renovated by its current owners and opened for Ali’s fans to get a glimpse into his life before the world came to know him. Ali’s storybook boxing career - highlighted by epic bouts with Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Sonny Liston - began with a theft. His bicycle was stolen when he was 12. Wanting to report the crime, the shaken boy was introduced to Joe Martin, a police officer who doubled as a boxing coach at a local gym. Ali told Martin he wanted to whip the culprit. The thief was never found, nor was the bike, but soon the feisty Ali was a regular in Martin’s gym. “He always had a good left-hand punch,” Bender recalled. “He could follow up. The fundamentals were always there.” Story Continues →

2016-06-05 14:03 Boxing gloves www.washingtontimes.com

54 Journalist killed in Somalia; a dangerous country for media MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a female journalist in Somalia's capital Sunday, a radio producer at state-run Radio Mogadishu said. Sagal Salad Osman, a producer for the station, was shot outside a university in the west of Mogadishu on and later died at a hospital in the city, Mustafa Hussein said. Attacks on journalists are common in war-ravaged Somalia and media rights group say both Islamic extremists and the government have reason to target media. Osman is the first journalist killed in Somalia this year. Last year, three journalists were killed, including Hindia Haji Mohamed, who worked for the state-run broadcaster and was the widow of a murdered journalist. She was killed in December when a bomb blew up her car, an attack claimed by the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for media workers, 59 journalists have been killed since 1992, soon after a civil war began in the Horn of Africa nation, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The deadliest year was 2012 when 18 were killed. It's not entirely clear who has been killing journalists. Al-Shabab rebels, warlords, criminals, and even government agents all could have reasons. Somali journalists frequently receive threats. But police rarely investigate them or adequately protect reporters. The deadliest country for journalists in 2015 was Syria, where 14 were killed, followed by France with nine, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Around the world, 72 journalists were killed in 2015 and 10 have been killed so far this year.

2016-06-05 20:17 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

55 Pakistani hackers masquerade as media in anti-India cyber campaign: Report Pakistani hackers posed as members of the press in an effort to compromise the computers of government officials in India , an American cybersecurity firm said Friday. After creating a fake news website, suspected Pakistani hackers emailed various Indian officials in mid-May with messages containing a malicious Microsoft Word document that had been crafted to exploit a 4-year-old vulnerability affecting Windows computers, researchers at FireEye wrote on the security firm’s blog this week. The emails were sent so that they would appear to come from the “News Desk” at the Times of India, and recipients were advised to download an attachment to read a report purportedly concerning the 7th Pay Commission, a financial advisory group intermittently established by the Indian government . “These Commissions periodically review the pay structure for Indian government and military personnel, a topic that would be of interest to government employees,” wrote Yin Hong Chang and Sudeep Singh of FireEye. Instead of containing legitimate information, however, the malformed attachments were designed in a manner that put anyone who opened the file at risk of being hacked. By exploiting a Microsoft vulnerability that was first publicized in 2012, the malicious Word file aimed to create a backdoor on the infected computers that could be used later on by hackers to remotely and surreptitiously run commands on the compromised machines. FireEye said that an analysis of the malware revealed that communications to those potentially infected computers were routed through a previously known Internet address associated with a Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat (APT) group, and that those hackers have been targeting south Asian political and military targets for several years. Cyber campaigns in which specific individuals are targeted with custom, often innocuous-seeming emails are referred to as “spear-phishing.” The U. S Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT, said in April that nearly 100 attacks against the critical manufacturing sector in 2015 involved the tactic. “Being relatively easy to execute and demonstrably effective, spear- phishing continues to be a common method of initial access against critical infrastructure targets,” ICS-CERT said at the time. Indeed, the U. S. government used a similar tactic in 2007 to narrow in on an individual accused of sending bomb threats to a Washington state high school. Court documents related to the case later revealed that an FBI agent forwarded a link to the suspect’s MySpace account, which appeared to link to an Associated Press article published by the Seattle Times website, but actually contained malware that was loaded onto the recipient’s computer and subsequently allowed authorities to identify the individual’s location. “We are outraged that the FBI, with the apparent assistance of the U. S. Attorney’s Office, misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect. … Not only does that cross a line, it erases it,” Seattle Times editor Kathy Best said when details about the operation were revealed in 2014. A representative with FireEye told The Washington Times on Friday that a confidentiality agreement prevented the company from saying which government agencies in India were targeted, as well as how many officials received the email and if any of them were compromised as a result of the campaign. In a blog post, however, its researchers said they were hardly surprised by the tactics relied upon in launching last month’s assault. “As with previous spear-phishing attacks seen conducted by this group, topics related to Indian Government and Military Affairs are still being used as the lure theme in these attacks and we observed that this group is still actively expanding their toolkit,” the researchers wrote. “It comes as no surprise that cyber attacks against the Indian government continue, given the historically tense relations in the region.”

2016-06-05 14:06 (Associated www.washingtontimes.com

56 3 missing as flashflood hits Laguna resort LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Three people, one them a six- year-old child, went missing after a flash flood swept them into a river in Majayjay town in Laguna province on Sunday afternoon, police said. Senior Insp. Marcelino Marcial, Majayjay police chief, said the victims were guests at the Dalitiwan Resort, a mountainside destination in Barangay Ilayang Banga, some 104 kilometers from Metro Manila. Marcial said a sudden downpour at 4:30 p.m. caused a flash flood, with water gushing from the mountain sweeping away four people. One of the victims, whose name was not immediately available, was rescued but the three others remained missing as of 7:30 p.m. One of them was identified as Vanessa Carillo, 33, from Dasmariñas City in Cavite province while the others were a child and a 33-year-old man, police said. “The rains have stopped but the [river] current was still strong,” Marcial said in telephone interview. He said other guests had been warned by the resort’s personnel that the water may rise suddenly. “We’re wondering why these victims did not stay away [from the river],” he said.

2016-06-05 20:13 Maricar Cinco newsinfo.inquirer.net

57 Global experts assess Poland's threatened pristine forest WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Environment Ministry says that global forestry experts are checking the condition of the ancient Bialowieza Forest where the ministry has begun extensive logging to stop the spread of a harmful beetle. Environmentalists have protested the logging to the European Commission, saying it threatens the forest's existence while giving no guarantee of success in fighting the bark beetle. The ministry said on its website that it has invited experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature who started inspecting the forest on Sunday and will give an opinion on the ministry's plans to protect it. TVN24 showed the experts examining parts of the forest, which is on the UNESCO world heritage list. Critics say Environment Minister Jan Szyszko wants to take the forest off the UNESCO list to facilitate the logging. The ministry statement said that contrary to media reports, there are no plans to seek the removal of the forest from the list.

2016-06-05 20:11 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

58 China says it will ignore South China Sea lawsuit decision SINGAPORE (AP) - China said Saturday that it will ignore the decision of an international arbitration panel in the Philippines’ lawsuit against Beijing’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea. “To put it simply, the arbitration case actually has gone beyond the jurisdiction” of a U. N. arbitration panel, said Rear Adm. Guan Youfei, director of the foreign affairs office of China’s National Defense Ministry. The Philippines has filed a case in the United Nations under the U. N. Convention on Law of the Sea, questioning China’s territorial claim in the South China Sea. An arbitration panel is expected to rule on the case soon. The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled last year that it has jurisdiction over the case despite China’s rejection. “Because the territorial and sovereignty disputes have not been subjected to the arbitration, we think the arbitration is illegal,” Guan told reporters on the sidelines of an international security conference here. “Therefore, we do not participate in it nor accept it.” Guan’s statement is a reiteration of China’s longstanding position that it wants to settle its disputes with various countries on a bilateral basis and that it will not accept international mediation. Still, it gains significance because of the overtures made by Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, who said recently that he is open to bilateral negotiations with China. This has given Beijing an opening that it hopes to leverage in the event the panel rules in favor of the Philippines. China also has conflicting claims in the sea with Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Brunei, who all are looking for U. S. help, much to Beijing’s chagrin. “The new Philippine leader also said that the Philippines hopes to conduct a dialogue with China,” Guan said. “We hope the Philippines could get back on to the track of dialogue. The door to dialogue is always open.” Earlier Saturday, India’s defense minister told the conference, known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, that it is in China’s economic interest to reduce tensions in the South China Sea. “It is ultimately economics,” Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar said. “If you have an unstable region like what we have in the Middle East, I don’t think economics and prosperity will really (be) enhanced.” Although India is not a party to the South China Sea disputes, China is its traditional adversary. They fought a war in 1962, in which India lost land to China. Parrikar said that however small or “however powerful” a country may be, “no commerce or commercial activity takes place in a highly tense (region). And I think it is in the interest of everyone, including China, to ensure that the peace remains in this region.” Separately, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said it was “getting increasingly important for all nations in the region to establish the order based on the rule of the law.” Indirectly referring to China, he said that “powerful nations are required to act with self-restraint so as to avoid contingency.” China claims virtually the entire South China Sea as its own, overlapping with territory claimed by other Southeast Asian governments. It has also started building airstrips on artificial islands it built on once-submerged reefs, much to the chagrin of the United States, which worries the buildup will impede freedom of navigation in the busy area. The three-day Shangri-La Dialogue, which is being attended by defense ministers and experts from 25 countries, ends Sunday and covers topics that also include terrorism, cybercrime and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. Story Continues →

2016-06-05 23:50 Thailand’s Prime www.washingtontimes.com

59 Officials: Rain a factor in fatal Montgomery County wreck A 22-year-old woman was killed in a car crash on FM 1485 in New Caney early Saturday morning. Amy Durant was reportedly driving her Ford F150 pickup truck westbound on FM 1485 around 4 a.m. in the rain when she started to drift off the road to the right, according to a report from the Texas Department of Public Safety. She then overcorrected to the left and began to spin before hitting an oncoming vehicle. Joshua Martinez, 36, was driving eastbound in a Chevrolet Silverado pickup and pulling a trailer when Durant's right passenger side struck the front of his truck, the report said. Durant's truck came to rest in a ditch filled with water. Durant died at the scene and Martinez was brought to Conroe Regional Hospital in stable condition.

2016-06-05 20:11 By Bridget www.chron.com

60 Some evacuations lifted as crews fight California brush fire LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities cautiously lifted some evacuation orders but warned serious challenges remained Sunday as crews in jagged terrain protected homes and worked to stop the progress of a brush fire that torched the populated hills northwest of Los Angeles. Firefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures and calmer winds as aircraft made water drops along the eastern and southern edges of the blaze, which was held to just over 500 acres, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said. He said it was “our number one priority to get those two flanks contained,” adding that the fire was hung up on the mid-slope of steep canyons, making a direct attack difficult. “The fire is on the side of a mountain, it’s not on any road, and we are trying to get firefighters up there,” Tripp said at a morning news conference. The fire was 30 percent contained and residents of the prosperous and semi-rural area of Calabasas were being allowed back into their homes, many of which were without electricity. Evacuation orders remained in the hilly enclave of Topanga along the fire’s southeast side. Sheriff’s officials said some 3,000 homes were threatened and about 5,000 residents were evacuated at the height of the fire, which was sparked by a car crash that downed power lines. Three homes were damaged, but the extent of the damage wasn’t clear, Los Angeles County fire Capt. Keith Mora said. Other buildings, including some at a city park, also were damaged. Fifty-foot-high flames erupted on ridges and embers turned trees into torches Saturday afternoon. The fire flared as Southern California sweltered under temperatures that hit the 90s in many places. Hot, dry conditions led to spot fires that had crews scrambling, but officials were encouraged by more favorable weather conditions Sunday, Tripp said. Sunday’s high in Calabasas was expected to be in the mid-80s. Flames raced through drought-dry brush and came within yards of million- dollar homes. The smoke could be seen across the region and a dusting of ash rained down on neighborhoods more than 30 miles away. Some horse owners in the area put the animals in trailers and hauled them away. Authorities set up an evacuation center for people with large animals at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. More than 500 firefighters, aided by bulldozers and water-dropping helicopters were on the scene. Three firefighters sustained minor injuries, officials said. To the southeast, a smoky wildfire burning in Riverside County was 30 percent contained Sunday. The blaze that broke out a day earlier along Interstate 15 in Temecula charred about 130 acres of dry brush. No structures were threatened. ___ Associated Press writer Robert Jablon and photographer Richard Vogel contributed to this report.

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61 US sailor arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Japan TOKYO (AP) - An American sailor was arrested Sunday on suspicion of drunken driving causing an accident on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, where public anger has run high over crimes by U. S. military personnel. Petty Officer 2nd Class Aimee Mejia, 21, assigned to Kadena base in Okinawa, was arrested after driving the wrong way on a freeway and smashing head-on into two vehicles late Saturday, said police spokesman Takashi Shirado. Mejia was not hurt, but two people in the other cars were injured, one in the arm and the other in the chest, he said. The U. S. military said it was cooperating fully with the Japanese investigation. “We deeply regret this incident and express our heartfelt sympathies for the accident victims and their families. We wish them a fast recovery,” Lt. Gen. John Dolan, the commander of U. S. Forces in Japan, said in a statement. Dolan spoke with U. S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and U. S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris, and held an emergency meeting with commanders of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines, the statement said. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida also spoke with Kennedy, and asked the U. S. to do more to prevent a recurrence of the incident, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Kennedy offered her regrets to the families of those injured, the ministry said. Okinawa is home to more than half of about 50,000 American troops based in Japan. Protests are common on the island, where residents feel they are being forced with an unfair burden of housing the U. S. troops under a bilateral security agreement. American military personnel are under a midnight curfew and off-base drinking is banned through later this month in Okinawa after a former U. S. Marine who worked on an American military base was arrested after he led police to a woman’s body. He is being held on suspicion of abandoning the body, while police investigate. The suspected murder of the woman was such a critical issue it came up during President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Japan. Obama offered his condolences and promised that the U. S. would fully cooperate to have the man prosecuted under Japanese law. Japan and the U. S. have been working together to relocate a U. S. Marine Corps air station from a densely populated neighborhood in central Okinawa to another part of the island, but the project has repeatedly been delayed. Protesters are demanding that the facility be moved off Okinawa. ___ Follow Yuri Kageyama on Twitter at twitter.com/yurikageyama Her work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/yuri-kageyama

2016-06-05 23:50 Japanese Defense www.washingtontimes.com

62 ISRAEL FESTIVAL REVIEW: Duo pianists There was nothing festival- like in the Israel Festival’s opening of its classical music events at the Eden- Tamir Music Center in Ein Kerem. Chamber music is more than welcome, of course, every day of the year. In fact, it is performed every Friday and Saturday throughout the year at the Eden-Tamir Center – festival or not. All the Israel Festival did was swallow up the regular programs of Eden-Tamir and adopt them into its own. This procedure seems to be a sort of alibi, to divert attention from the almost total absence of real classical music in this year’s Festival program, due to its narrow-minded obsession with contemporary or modernist music. Consequently, the glorious heritage of classical music – the raison d’etre of the Israel Festival, founded by Aron Tsvi Propes, whose name is not even mentioned anymore among the festival’s present-day dignitaries – seems now to be looked down on as passé. Nevertheless, the appearance of the duo pianists Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admoni in this first program deserves to be applauded with enthusiasm. The Japanese pianist Kanazawa and the Israeli Admoni are a model of conjugal-musical collaboration and mutual attentiveness, without diluting the personal characteristics of each. Their off-the-beaten- track program featured mainly well-known orchestral works in their not-so-well- known two-piano arrangements by the composers themselves, such as Liszt and Dukas. The twosome admirably succeeded in making the two pianos sound like a full-fledged orchestra, but paradoxically also revealed subtle nuances that often remain lost in the orchestral turbulence. Brilliant virtuosity, perfect coordination, forceful expression and delicate passages made their performance an uncommonly impressive experience. A two-piano version of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, authorized by the composer, brought the performance to its stunning conclusion.

2016-06-05 20:02 Ury Eppstein www.jpost.com

63 US-backed fighters close in on IS Syria bastion US-backed fighters advanced Sunday to within five kilometres (three miles) of the Islamic State group's stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, threatening a crucial jihadist supply line. The assault by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) adds to the pressure on IS as it faces another offensive by Russian-backed regime troops in its bastion province of Raqa and in Iraq. Supported by air strikes by the US-led coalition, the SDF alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias has made steady gains since launching the operation against Manbij last week. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Sunday the SDF was "now within about five kilometres" of Manbij. The town is on a route connecting Raqa to the Turkish border, a vital conduit for supplies and foreign fighters. US Central Command spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said Saturday SDF fighters had seized more than 100 square kilometres (40 square miles) of territory during the advance. More than 55 air strikes have been carried out since the start of the offensive meant to hamper IS's ability "to move fighters, weapons, finances (and) supplies into and out of Syria and Iraq", he said. A top SDF commander known as Abu Layla has died of wounds sustained on Friday in the battle for Manbij, the Observatory said. Brett McGurk, US President Barack Obama's special envoy to the international coalition fighting IS, tweeted his "prayers" for Abu Layla who he said died in the operation "to liberate his hometown" Manbij. Some 3,000 Arab fighters were taking part, backed by around 500 Kurdish militia members, while US special forces were working "at the command and control level" in the operation, he added. - Yazidi captives freed - In the village of Halula just east of Manbij, an AFP correspondent saw several US soldiers in jeeps as they assisted SDF fighters. Washington has said US forces are advising the SDF on the ground but not taking direct part in combat. In Halula, the AFP reporter saw dozens of civilians who had fled areas around Manbij, including many children, most with few belongings. "They lived near us and we had to do what they said or they would kill our children or take our homes," mother of nine Jawaher said of IS. The United Nations says that at least 20,000 civilians have fled the fighting around Manbij. At least 74 people have died in fighting since the offensive began last Monday, including 32 civilians mainly killed in coalition air strikes, said the Observatory. Thirty jihadists were also killed along with 12 SDF fighters, said the monitor which relies on sources on the ground for its reports. After taking the village of Khirbet al- Rus, southeast of Manbij, the SDF rescued six women and 16 children, all of them Yazidis who were being held captive by IS, it added. IS abducted hundreds of Yazidis in mid-2014 as it carried out a brutal campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape against the minority. - Regime raids rock Aleppo - On Saturday, forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al- Assad thrust into Raqa with Russian air support. They pushed into the province from the southwest, moving to within 40 kilometres (25 miles) of the Euphrates Valley town of Tabqa, site of the country's biggest dam. Since starting with a 2011 crackdown on anti-government protests, Syria's conflict has evolved into a complex, multi-front civil war that has left more than 280,000 dead and forced millions from their homes. IS emerged from the chaos of the war in mid-2014, seizing control of large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq, declaring a fundamentalist Islamic "caliphate" and committing widespread atrocities. Iraqi forces have also been steadily regaining ground against the jihadists, and late last month began a major offensive to retake the city of Fallujah, just 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad. Diplomatic efforts to get Syria's regime and non-jihadist rebels to move towards peace have been thwarted by a lack of trust and continued fighting, especially around second city Aleppo, which is divided between government and rebel control. Dozens of regime strikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Sunday killed at least 32 civilians, the Observatory said. while eight others died in rebel rocket attacks on regime-held neighbourhoods. The violence also left more than 200 people wounded on both sides, the monitor said. The rebel-held neighbourhood of Qaterji was devastated by a crude barrel bomb attack. An AFP journalist saw a street strewn with rubble as residents scrambled for safety and a rescuer rushed a bloodied child into an ambulance.

2016-06-05 20:02 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

64 PA textbooks support violence and demonization of Israel, Jews, report finds PA textbooks continue to promote violence and demonization of Israel and Jews according to a new study. "We hope to be able to discuss with those who influence the curriculum of the Palestinian Authority that education is both the most efficient method of promulgating extremist narrative and influences - and by far the most powerful tool to puncture them,” Marcus Sheff, CEO of Impact-SE, which carried out the study, told The Jerusalem Post. “We would very much want them to choose the latter and educate for peace and tolerance". "There was a moment after Arafat died and before Hamas won the parliamentary elections in 2006 that the curriculum improved. Change then is clearly possible,” he added. "In curricula it is, of course, important to refrain from inciting to hatred and to promote standards for peace, tolerance and mutual respect. This is also necessary for the wellbeing of children in the Palestinian Authority," he said. The study found positive results relating to gender issues, civil-society, environmental issues, respect for the “other” Muslim or Arab, and respect for people with disabilities or the elderly. However, the curricula convey a message rejecting negotiations with Israel and promote a strategy combining violence and international pressure against Israel. It also promoted the “demonization of Israel and Jews, including the characterization of Israel as an evil entity that should be annihilated,” said the report. Impact-SE, founded in 1998 and based in Jerusalem, is a research center that monitors and analyzes education around the world and determines compliance according to UNESCO standards for tolerance. The report compares the current situation with a 2011 survey of PA school curricula. The study was carried out by Dr. Eldad Pardo of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and focuses on 78 textbooks in a variety of subjects for grades 1 to 12. Examples of positive developments include a picture of a boy and a girl sitting together on a bench and studying. The picture, in a sixth grade science textbook is notable because while the girl is dressed modestly, she is not wearing a hijab hair covering. While the textbooks do promote protecting the environment, they ignore cooperation with Israel in this area and even blame the Jewish state for environmental damage. One improvement in the curriculum from 2001 to 2009 was the removal of images such as that of a shahid, or martyr, on his way to burial and covered by a Palestinian flag. Another was the removal of an inciting sentence from a 2013 edition of an Arabic language textbook for grade 12: "The Messenger of God [The Prophet Muhammad] instructed Zayd ibn Thabit to learn the language of the Jews so that he would be safe from their deception. " However, problematic sentences remain, such as this from a sixth grade textbook, History of the Arabs and Muslims: "The brave warrior prefers death to humiliation and capitulation. " Impact-SE CEO Sheff commented, “In recent years we have seen a tendency on the part of Palestinian leaders and the international community to declare that they are promoting a two- state solution, in addition, of course, to the Oslo Accords. Yet the same Palestinian government's Ministry of Education appears to be promoting exactly the opposite.” Israel still does not appear on textbook maps (with one exception), however Palestine is designated in the entire area from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, the Israeli “occupation” is mentioned in reference to the pre-1967 borders. A seventh-grade textbook, Our Beautiful Language, refers to pre-1967 Israel as “occupied” and is referred to as “The Return,” where Palestinians will settle in the future. In a problematic image appearing in the National Education textbook for second grade, the Hebrew letters are removed from a trilingual stamp from the British Mandate Period. And an example from a PA eighth grade textbook, Reading and Texts, encourages students to wage jihad: "Oh brother, the oppressors have exceeded all bounds and jihad and sacrifice are necessary. " Religious hatred and violence is promoted in Sharia studies such as a passage also found in the Hamas Covenant, calling for the murder of Jews: “The End of Days will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them…”

2016-06-05 20:02 ARIEL BEN www.jpost.com

65 Ex-Air Force colonel held hostage in Iran dies in Arizona SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Thomas E. Schaefer, a retired Air Force colonel who was the ranking military officer among the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days before being released in 1981, has died in Arizona. He was 85. David Schaefer said Friday that his father died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at a hospice in Scottsdale. Schaefer was a military attache at the U. S. embassy in Tehran when militants seized the compound on Nov. 4, 1979, and 66 people were taken hostage. From the first day of the takeover, Schaefer was singled out for special attention. As the ranking U. S. military officer in the embassy, he was accused of running a “nest of spies.” His captors paraded him blindfolded in front of television cameras and threatened repeatedly to put him on trial and execute him. He spent 150 days in solitary confinement and began his captivity enduring 14 days of relentless interrogation in a freezing prison cell with damp floors and only a thin blanket for warmth. “I could see my breath the entire time,” Schaefer said in a 2004 interview. “They were breaking me down both physically and mentally. I could feel myself losing it.” He said he used a pin to punch a code into his Bible daily to get through the hostage ordeal. Schaefer was among the last hostages who were released on Jan. 20, 1981. Just before the aircraft bringing the hostages home entered U. S. airspace, the co-pilot invited Schaefer to take his seat in the cockpit. Schaefer retired from the Air Force less than two years later and was a professional speaker for decades. His family said he spoke to more than a quarter-million students and adults about facing adversity. “Really, he was a positive guy,” David Schaefer said Friday. “He tried to educate and help people deal with really bad situations in their lives.” In 1998, Schaefer said the United States should re-establish relations with Iran for strategic reasons. But in 2013 he denounced the Iran nuclear deal as “foolishness,” saying he didn’t know of any Iranian leaders who could be trusted. Born in Rochester, N. Y., Schaefer was a bomber pilot for the Air Force - first flying B-47s and then B-52s before he switched to administrative positions. In retirement, Schaefer and his wife lived in Arizona for the last 30 years, first in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria and then in Scottsdale since 2013. Story Continues →

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66 US Pentagon chief proposes Asia-Pacific ‘security network’ SINGAPORE (AP) - U. S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is proposing to accelerate and deepen defense cooperation in the Asia-Pacific by expanding a “security network” of countries whose militaries would train together and eventually operate together. Speaking to an international security conference in Singapore on Saturday, Carter said China would be welcomed in this network. But he also cited frequent American complaints about China unnerving its neighbors with expansive moves to build up reefs, islets and other land features in the disputed South China Sea. Carter said this security network would represent “the next wave” in Asia- Pacific security. “It is inclusive, since any nation and any military - no matter its capability, budget, or experience - can contribute. Everyone gets a voice, no one is excluded, and hopefully, no one excludes themselves,” he said, alluding to China. A Chinese official reacted skeptically. Rear Adm. Guan Youfei, director of the foreign affairs office of China’s National Defense Ministry, said Beijing welcomes the U. S. establishing close relations with Asian countries. But he urged Washington to scale back its military exercises in the region and to reduce “provocations” such as operating military aircraft and ships in close proximity to other countries. “I believe this will help the U. S. play a better role in the region,” he said, speaking through an interpreter. Carter emphasized possibilities for cooperating with China while stating that the U. S. will remain the pre-eminent power. “America wants to expand military-to-military agreements with China to focus not only on risk reduction, but also on practical cooperation. Our two militaries can also work together,” he said, bilaterally or as part of a broader security network to combat global threats like terrorism and piracy. Tom Mahnken, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank, praised Carter’s emphasis on developing partnerships. “Secretary Carter was right to emphasize multilateral approaches in the Asia-Pacific region. Indeed, America’s alliances and partnerships in the region give us an enduring competitive advantage,” Mahnken said by email from Washington. “By contrast, China’s actions have increasingly isolated it.” At a news conference later, Adm. Harry Harris, head of U. S. Pacific Command, said that while his forces are ready to confront China if necessary, there have been few significant issues with China lately in the South China Sea. “We’ve seen positive behavior in the last several months by China,” Harris said, adding, “I’m encouraged by the activities” between the U. S. and Chinese militaries. He noted that China plans to attend the Rim of the Pacific exercise this year, with U. S. and Chinese warships operating together from Guam to Hawaii. Adm. John Richardson, the Navy’s top admiral, said “more and more” interactions at sea with the Chinese navy are safe and professional. In proposing a “principled security network” across Asia, Carter said it would include “nations building connections for a common cause, planning and training together, and eventually operating in a coordinated way.” He said that in September he will co-host, with his Laotian counterpart, a meeting of defense ministers from across the Asia-Pacific, to find new ways to broaden and deepen a regional security network. In raising the prospect of conflict in the South China Sea, Carter said China is isolating itself by building up man-made islands there. The Chinese in some cases are erecting airfields that will extend Beijing’s military reach. He said for the second time in a week that China’s actions could erect a “great wall of self-isolation.” Story Continues →

2016-06-05 14:06 Thailand’s Prime www.washingtontimes.com

67 Bach won’t ‘speculate’ on chances of Russians going to Rio LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - IOC President Thomas Bach refused to be drawn on whether it could allow some Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games even if the country’s track and field team remains banned over state-sponsored doping allegations. The International Olympic Committee has scheduled a summit of sports leaders on June 21 to harmonize policy on eligibility for the games. The meeting will come four days after the IAAF decides whether to maintain or lift its suspension of Russia’s track and field athletes from global competition. “I cannot speculate,” Bach said on Friday. “This meeting on the 21st will be to protect the clean athletes and ensure a level playing field for all the athletes participating in Rio de Janeiro. “We know whatever decision we will take there may be one or the other who will not like it,” Bach added. “But we have to take our responsibility to protect the clean athletes, and we are ready to take this responsibility.” The IAAF suspended Russia’s athletics federation in November after a World Anti-Doping Commission panel alleged state-backed doping, corruption, and cover-ups in its program. Calls to keep the Russians out of Rio have grown following further allegations, including claims by the former director of Moscow’s drug- testing lab that he doped Russian athletes and helped to switch tainted samples for clean ones at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. WADA has launched an independent probe into those allegations, which were published in the New York Times. Several Olympic officials have said it would be wrong to ban all the Russians, contending that clean athletes who have done nothing wrong would be unfairly punished. Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has said she would go to a human rights court if she is barred from the games. Asked whether he hoped the Russians would be in Rio, Bach said: “I’m not living in the world of hopes.” Bach said the IOC must act quickly because qualifying for the Olympics is coming to a close, and nominations for the games are due by July 12. “We cannot just sit and wait,” he said. “We will take our responsibility.” Meanwhile, the IOC continues to retest stored doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. So far, 55 positive tests have been recorded from Beijing and London, including 22 from Russian athletes. The tests are targeted on athletes who could be competing in Rio.

2016-06-05 14:06 International Olympic www.washingtontimes.com

68 Devil’s Bowl Speedway bedeviled by succession of rainy days WEST HAVEN, Vt. (AP) - Vermont’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway has been bedeviled by a succession of rainy weekends that has prompted cancellation of the dirt track opener and practice sessions for five weeks in a row. The season opener at the West Haven track is now scheduled for June 12 at 6 p.m. Faced with a 100 percent chance of rain on Sunday, June 5, track officials once again pulled the plug on the opener on the race. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service at Gray, Maine, has issued a flood warning for coastal communities in York and Cumberland counties in Maine and Rockingham County in New Hampshire. The warning is in effect from Sunday night until 2 a.m. Monday.

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69 Portland fire: Neighbor pulled child from burning home PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland fire officials say a neighbor pulled a child from a burning home early Sunday. A second child was found in a bedroom by firefighters and carried to safety. Three people were taken to the hospital after being treated for burns and smoke inhalation at the scene. Further details about the medical condition of the people injured in the fire was not immediately known. Fire officials say there were no functioning smoke detectors in the home. KOIN-TV reports (https://is.gd/iv0zXu ) three adults and two children live at the home. Fire officials are still investigating the cause of the blaze. ___ Information from: KOIN-TV, http://www.koin.com/ 2016-06-05 22:55 - www.washingtontimes.com

70 Sheriff's deputies looking for cemetery vandals The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office is looking for those who vandalized the San Gabriel Cemetery. The cemetery's manager told deputies that vandals entered the cemetery, at 9201 U. S. 90A, between 9 p.m. on May 25 and 9 a.m. May 26 and damaged multiple plots. Markers were reportedly either stolen or moved to an adjacent field, and several family members' crosses were moved or damaged. Anyone with information about the vandals can contact Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS, or the Sheriff's Office at 281-341-4704. Descriptions of the vandals are unknown at this time.

2016-06-05 18:48 Will Axford www.chron.com

71 India and Qatar sign 7 agreements Doha : India and Qatar on Sunday signed seven agreements, including on investment and tourism promotion, following delegation level talks headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Qatar Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani here. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani during signing of agreements. Pic/ PTI “From investments to skills, health to tourism, leaders witness signing of agreements to strengthen India-Qatar ties,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted. According to one memorandum of understanding (MoU), Qatar will invest in India's National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF). The government had set set up the Rs 40,000-crore NIIF last year for enhancing infrastructure financing in India. Another MoU was signed between India's Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Qatar's National Qualifications Authority/Supreme Educational Council, on cooperation in skill development and recognition of qualifications. A third MoU calls for Cooperation in tourism between the two countries. Another MoU was signed on cooperation between India and Qatar in the field of health. A fifth MoU was signed between Finance Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) and the Qatar Financial Information Unit (QFIU). An agreement was signed on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters. A first executive programme for MoU in the field of youth and sports between the two countries was also signed. Ahead of Sunday's delegation level talks, Modi was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the Emiri Diwan here. Modi's is the first prime ministerial visit from India to energy-rich Qatar since the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's in 2008. This is Modi's third visit to a GCC country. He visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia earlier. Earlier on Sunday, Modi attended a meeting of Qatari business leaders and invited them to invest in India. Modi will also interact with the Indian community here later in the day. Qatar is home to around 630,000 expatriate Indians -- comprising the single largest group of migrants in Qatar. The Prime Minister, who arrived here on Saturday from Afghanistan on the second leg of his five-nation tour, visited a health camp organised for Indian workers here soon after his arrival. He was later hosted for dinner by Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah Biv Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. On Sunday evening, Modi will depart for Switzerland on the third leg of his tour that will also take him to the US and Mexico.

2016-06-05 19:55 By IANS www.mid-day.com

72 72 Justin Gatlin prepares to shut out distractions at Rio Games RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justin Gatlin admits a few years ago he would have found it difficult with the Olympics being in a place like Rio de Janeiro — with its beaches, nightlife and myriad diversions. "When the Olympics come around, you can be distracted by the glitz, the glam," Gatlin said. "Especially with the Olympics being in a place like Brazil, which is known to have big festivals, have festive parties and to have a great time. " Gatlin was focused on Sunday in Rio and won an exhibition 100-meter race ahead of the Olympics opening in two months. The promotional race was run "on water," a sprint across a 100-meter runway built over a small pond on the grounds of Brazil's former imperial palace — known as Quinta da Boa Vista. Gatlin ran 10.19 seconds in a light rain, off his top time this season of 9.93. After three races in about a week Gatlin, heads back to the United States for training before the American trials in early July in Eugene, Oregon. Gatlin won 100- meter gold in 2004 in Athens and is expected to challenge Usain Bolt, who has won the 100 in the last two Olympics. "I want to go out with a bang," said Gatlin, who has been banned twice for doping violations. "I want it to be one of the most exciting races in track and field history. And I want not just the fans here (in Brazil), but all around the world to stand still for nine seconds and be able to watch the fastest race ever. " Asked about running nine seconds, he laughed and repeated: "Yeah, nine-flat. " Bolt has the world record of 9.58 set in 2009. Gatlin was asked about the Zika virus, which has its epicenter in Brazil and has been shown to cause birth defects in babies. He said he hoped to show that "Brazil is safe, it's a great place to come. " He said few athletes would be deterred. "This is an Olympic dream," he said. "It comes every four years, and sometimes as an athlete you don't get that opportunity again. " The World Health Organization has told pregnant women to stay away from Zika areas, although it says the games should not be postponed, as some medical experts have urged. Gatlin must qualify for Rio in the American trials in early July in Eugene, Oregon. Nothing is guaranteed for any American — former gold-medal winner or not. "I don't have that ticket yet," he said. "My family has that ticket. They already have their tickets to Rio. The pressure is on me to be able to make sure I make the team. " ___ Stephen Wade on Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-wade

2016-06-05 19:55 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

73 'Several' people taken to hospital after street altercation A number of people have been taken to hospital after a street in a Glasgow suburb descended into a "war zone". Witnesses reported a towering fire, and one boy was seen "covered in blood" on Frankfield Road, in the Cardowan area on Sunday afternoon. Two vans were also burnt out in the street. Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed "several patients" had been transported to hospital. A police spokesman said he thought the disorder was "more likely to be rival gangs fighting" than anything related to terrorism. It is understood the incident was the result of an altercation between groups of males. One passer-by posted a picture on social media of a road gridlocked by emergency vehicles, adding that it was "like a war zone". Local resident Frank Kerr, 59, a banksman slinger, also saw the aftermath and said: "I saw a boy sitting in a paramedic's van. He was covered in blood, but I didn't see what happened to him. "It's very rare for this neck of the woods. "There was a fire at the end of the street, and I heard tyres blowing up. There were police, fire brigade, ambulances, tow trucks, you name it, everything was here. " He said he couldn't confirm speculation on social media that people had been stabbed or shot during the incident. "I didn't hear any gunshots, just tyres blowing up with the heat," he added. An eyewitness, who did not wish to be named, said he saw two vans on fire with flames "as high as a house". He said: "I was washing my car and I saw high flames and smoke, then the fire brigade came. " Police said inquiries were still at an early stage and they could not comment on the nature or the cause of the victims' injuries. A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: "We got called out to a van on fire. The incident has been handed over to the police. "

2016-06-05 18:35 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

74 74 Lottery scholarships to fund about 90 percent of tuition ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (AP) - Despite rising tuition rates at more than a dozen colleges and universities in New Mexico, state higher education officials say about 90 percent of eligible students’ tuition costs will be covered next year by lottery scholarship funding. Still, officials are warning that without reforms, the scholarship program will be affected. “It’s important that lawmakers find a long-term solution to ensure that the Legislative Lottery Scholarship continues to support New Mexico students for many years to come,” said Joe Cueto, a spokesman with the state Higher Education Department. “We continue to encourage lawmakers to find a balanced fix to the scholarship that has a minimal effect on students.” Participation in the program has grown exponentially since it began two decades ago. Now, more than 30,000 students receive the scholarships. Higher Education Secretary Barbara Damron recently wrote to university officials to outline the funding amount that will be available for recipients for the upcoming fall and spring semesters. It’s based on calculations of historical and projected revenue estimates from tax officials and the New Mexico Lottery Authority. Annual revenue from ticket sales has plateaued at about $40 million, while tuition costs for eligible students are closer to $60 million a year, according to state higher education and lottery officials. While enrollment at higher education institutions has dropped by about 5 percent statewide, Damron said 15 colleges and universities have boosted tuition rates for the next school year. That affects the tuition average and thus the percentage of the award. At the University of New Mexico, one of the state’s largest institutions, officials say 93 percent of tuition will be covered for eligible students - or up to an estimated $2,465 per semester for main campus students. Nearly half of the university’s 17,000 full-time undergraduate students get the lottery scholarship. Several other states with lottery-funded scholarships have been forced to tighten eligibility or reduce the amount of the awards in recent years because of funding problems. New Mexico is no exception. In 2014, additional funds were allocated to the program, eligibility requirements were altered and the method changed for calculating the full dollar award for each student. While the program saw some initial benefits from the changes, Damron said in her letter the demand for the financial assistance continues to outpace lottery funding. If nothing is done, officials have warned that students could face a 30 percent reduction in their scholarships starting in fall 2017. Lawmakers are expected to weigh options during the next several months before proposing another round of measures aimed at addressing the scholarship program’s solvency during the next legislative session in January. Proposals that have been floated include everything from raising the grade- point average to qualify for scholarships to shifting the merit-based system to one that focuses more on lower-income students.

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75 Seven-year-old boy mauled to death during dog attack in Maine A seven-year-old boy has been mauled to death during a dog attack in Maine, police said. Officers in the town of Corinna, around 30 miles west of Bangor, were called to a property at 5.15pm on Saturday and found the boy dead inside. Detectives at the Penobscot Sheriff's Office have yet to release the boy's name, the breed of dog involved, and any details of the attack itself. It is not known whether the boy lived at the home where the attack took place, or whether the dog belonged to the homeowner. Officials did reveal that the dog has been impounded pending the outcome of the investigation. There were 34 deaths from dog attacks in 2015, according to Dogsbite.com, with more than 80 per cent of those carried out by pit bulls, despite them making up just 6.6 per cent of dogs in America. In 2015, nearly one third of all people killed by dogs were either visiting or living temporarily with the dog's owner when the fatal attack occurred. Children aged less than nine years old accounted for 82 per cent of those deaths. Children and the elderly are the most at-risk from being killed in a dog attack. 2016-06-05 19:52 Chris Pleasance www.dailymail.co.uk

76 Security tight as Israelis mark 1967 capture of east Jerusalem Israeli police deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem on Sunday for an annual march marking the country's 1967 seizure of the Palestinian-dominated eastern half of the city. This year's march came as Muslims prepare to begin observing the fasting month of Ramadan, when many Palestinians visit the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City. The Israeli march for "Jerusalem Day" passed through the Muslim quarter of the Old City before arriving at the Western Wall, directly below the Al-Aqsa compound. Tens of thousands of people joined the march, which began at around 5:15 pm (1415 GMT). "We have more than 2,000 police just for the Jerusalem Day events," Israeli police spokesman Asi Aharoni said ahead of the march. Tight police supervision helped ensure the march went ahead in a relatively orderly fashion. Police said two participants were arrested for making racist remarks to Arabs. Israeli rights group Ir Amim had asked the supreme court to bar marchers from entering the Old City through the Damascus Gate, the main entry used by Palestinians. The court rejected the appeal, but required the marchers to complete their passage through the Damascus Gate by 6:15 pm and through the Muslim quarter by 7:00 pm. The time restrictions were originally imposed in case the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan began on Sunday night. Young Jewish demonstrators gathered in the city centre near the Old City ahead of the march, including religious students with separate processions for males and females. At Damascus Gate, heavy security measures included barricades and nearby cafes catering to tourists were closed. Small groups of young Jews waving Israeli flags and chanting nationalist slogans filed through the Muslim quarter. Some shopkeepers closed their stores as a precaution. "Last year they put glue to destroy my lock," said shopkeeper Rimon Himo as he wrapped tape around his lock. "I learned my lesson. " David Haim, 24, said it was important for him to take part in the march since there were "still obstacles to our sovereignty". "Every year, this pilgrimage reminds us the city is ours, the most natural and obvious place as Jews," he told AFP. While Israelis see the day as celebrating the "reunification" of Jerusalem, Palestinians view the 1967 war as resulting in the seizure of their land. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech on Sunday that "for 49 years Jerusalem is free of its shackles. We won't return to a reality of a divided and wounded city. " Israeli media also quoted him as saying that "we will continue to build Jerusalem for all its residents". Israel occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community. Palestinians see east Jerusalem as the capital of their future independent state, whereas Israelis see all of Jerusalem as their capital. The future status of Jerusalem is among the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

2016-06-05 19:47 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

77 RHONJ's Johnny Karagiorgis 'has died of a heart attack' The Real Housewives' Johnny 'The Greek' Karagiorgis has passed away due to a heart attack. Friends paid tribute to the reality star online, calling his loss 'devastating'. According to RHONJ fansite AllAboutTRH , Johnny passed away from a heart attack. On Saturday, Johnny's friend Dave Paladino shared his condolences on Instagram writing: 'Devastating!! Lost a good friend tonight! Johny The Greek @johnnythegrk rest well my friend #RIP #friend' The Greek, as he was known on RHONJ, owned a New Jersey hair salon that series regulars Kim DePaola and Teresa Giudice visited on the show back in 2013. Johnny was infamously involved in a bloody brawl with Joe Gorga after the angry reality star approached him at Kim D's Posche 2 store opening following remarks he had allegedly made about his wife Melissa. The brutal group fight was never aired by Bravo, and resulted in Johnny filing a lawsuit against Joe, as well as Chris and Jacqueline Laurita. Joe and the Lauritas later testified that the salon owner was 'obsessed' with the stars of the reality series. As a result of the lawsuit, both Johnny and his wife Penny did not return to the show. Johnny had maintained a relatively low profile since appearing on the show, most recently posting on Twitter about his fervent support for presidential wannabe Donald Trump. Back in April he had also shared an invitation with his followers to the grand opening of a new salon - Medusa's Hair Loft - in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. In September he spoke with theRealMRHouswife.com about a new reality project he was working on. He was planning a show called Legend's Road that would document 'young athletes of different ages, ranging from middle school to high school, training for their upcoming season in different strength and conditioning schools.' Johnny had called the planned series 'a cross between your local sports channels, ESPN, and reality television.' Johnny is survived by his son Niko as well as his wife Penny.

2016-06-05 19:45 Kayla Caldwell www.dailymail.co.uk

78 Murray tastes bittersweet loss in 'unexpected' French Open final By John Stonestreet PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - For Andy Murray, reaching Sunday's French Open final was a bonus, but he was in no mood to look for silver linings in the aftermath of yet another grand slam reverse at the hands of Novak Djokovic. The second-seeded Briton's 3- 6 6-1 6-2 6-4 defeat on Court Philippe Chatrier was his fifth loss in seven blue riband finals against the Serbian world number one, and his eighth out of 10 finals in all. "I was struggling. I was a couple of points from going out of the tournament in the first round," he told reporters. "But then when you get there (to the final) obviously you want to win. You know, I didn't do that today. Right now I'm very disappointed. " Had he turned the tables on a player he has beaten just twice in the past 14 meetings, Murray would have become the first British man to win the French Open since Fred Perry in 1935. The last of those rare Murray victories came in May's Italian Open final, also played on clay -- a surface the Scot once mistrusted but now looks increasingly at ease on -- and in the same damp conditions that dominated this year's Roland Garros fortnight. Facing a Paris crowd heavily favouring his opponent in a stadium dotted on all sides with Serbian flags, the Scot managed to carry that momentum into the early part of Sunday's match -- one he said after his semi-final win over Stan Wawrinka that he had "never expected to reach". Murray won 16 of 20 points at one stage of the first set. But after failing to convert a break point in the first game of the second set, Murray lost the initiative and Djokovic kicked into a higher gear. The Serbian faltered only at the sharp end of the match, nervously dropping serve at 5-2 as the prospect of winning his fourth major in a row began to sink in, but sealing the match two games later. GRACIOUS AND WITTY When it was all over, Murray crossed the net to embrace his rival, well aware of the immensity of an achievement he paid tribute to in a gracious, witty courtside speech. "Winning all four of the grand slams in one year is an amazing achievement. This is something that is so rare in tennis," he said. "... So everyone here who came to watch is obviously extremely lucky to see it. Me personally being on the opposite side, it sucks to lose the match. But I am proud to have been part of today. " Murray acknowledged that same sense of perspective might help him view his achievements in a kinder light at the end of his career, having shared top-four billing over many years with Djokovic and two other all-time greats of the game in Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Federer missed this year's tournament with a back problem and Nadal had to pull out with a wrist injury after the second round. "Obviously the guys I have been around the last few years have made things difficult for me," he said. "But I guess I've got a few more years to try and (win more slams). I think when I finish I will be more proud of my achievements maybe. " Meanwhile next month's Wimbledon beckons, and another chance to set the record straight -- this time on a surface on which the Serbian has never beaten him. (Editing by Clare Lovell)

2016-06-05 19:43 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

79 Djokovic conquers Roland Garros to join tennis pantheon By Pritha Sarkar PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - After years of near misses, Novak Djokovic finally conquered mount Roland Garros on Sunday to win the one trophy he craved like no other -- a maiden French Open title that elevated him into the pantheon of tennis greats. It was a trophy he had failed to hoist in 11 previous visits to Paris. It was a trophy that was flaunted in front of his face in 2012, 2014 and 2015, when he finished runner-up and could look but not touch. On Sunday, the Musketeers' Cup was his at last as he broke Andy Murray's resistance with a 3-6 6-1 6-2 6-4 victory that not only completed his grand slam collection but also made him the first man in nearly half a century to hold all four majors at once. After such an emotional win, the world number one thanked the fans who had serenaded him with chants of "No-le, No-le, No-le, No-le" throughout the three-hour battle by recreating one of the most famous celebrations seen at Roland Garros. A la Gustavo Kuerten in 2001, Djokovic drew a giant love- heart into the red clay with his racket before collapsing into the middle of it -- an x-shaped emblem of triumph. "It's a very special moment, the biggest of my career," Djokovic told the crowd, which included the much-loved Brazilian champion, after capturing his 12th grand slam title. "I felt today something that I never felt before at Roland Garros, I felt the love of the crowd, I drew the heart on the court, like Guga which he gave me permission to do. My heart will always be with you on this court. " Winning the four majors -- Wimbledon, U. S. Open, Australian Open and the French - - in a row is a feat that had not been achieved by a man since Rod Laver won the second of his calendar Grand Slams in 1969. Hence, after Djokovic joined an exclusive club, which previously boasted only Laver and Don Budge as members, Murray was quick to applaud the Serb's monumental achievement. 'THIS IS NOVAK'S DAY' "Novak, this is his day. What he has achieved the last 12 months is phenomenal," said Murray, who had been hoping to become the first British man in 81 years to win the claycourt major. "Winning all four in one year is amazing. This is something that is so rare in tennis. It has not happened in a long time. "Everyone who was here was lucky to see it. It sucks to lose the match, but I am proud to be part of today. " It certainly "sucked" for Murray when he was broken in the very first game to love. It "sucked" again when was almost wiped out 6-0 by Djokovic in the second set. And it "sucked" big time when he ended a 20-shot rally by smacking a backhand into the net on Djokovic's third match point. But while Murray's day ended in dejection as he reflected on an eighth defeat in 10 grand slam finals, Djokovic's coach Marian Vajda was relieved the Serb had avoided the dubious distinction of becoming the first man to lose their first four Roland Garros finals. "Novak is 29 and when you get older your nerves are not that great and it was maybe the last year he could have won here," Vajda said. The nerves were certainly on show in the opening set when Djokovic, despite breaking Murray for a 1-0 lead, failed to hold serve till the sixth game -- prompting one spectator to shout "Wake up Djoko, wake up! " He had his army of hollering fans on tenterhooks again when he was broken by Murray the first time he went to serve for the title at 5-2 in the fourth set. Two games later, he was thumping his chest and waving both arms skywards as he urged the 15,000 crowd to pump up the volume. Minutes later the deafening roars rocked the Philippe Chatrier arena as Djokovic finally cradled the trophy that meant so much to him. (Additional reporting by Julien Pretot, editing by John Stonestreet)

2016-06-05 19:39 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

80 Heidi Klum takes it all off while sunbathing topless in a public park She's back in Los Angeles serving as a judge for the newest season of America's Got Talent. But Heidi Klum took a well-deserved break from her demanding schedule to soak in the sun in a rather cheeky display over the weekend. The 42- year-old supermodel took to Instagram, exposing her bare back and pert backside in a cheeky selfie captioned: 'Sunday' alongside a smiley face. Though the bombshell's face is mostly covered by her golden blonde tresses, a closer look reveals Heidi is offering coy smile to the camera as the topless model lays face down on an orange-colored blanket. Her bronzed skin takes the spotlight as her toned arms and shoulders glisten in the sunlight while her famous derierre peaks out from the left side of the image. The mother-of- four appears to have spread out on an expansive grassy field - perhaps her back yard. Prior to the show's premiere last week, the German beauty was counting down the days to the new season of reality show America's Got Talent. She posted a playful photo of herself covered in shaving foam on her Instagram on Friday with the caption: '2+2=4! That’s how many days are left till the new season of @nbcagt premieres! #AGT.' For the talent competition's eleventh season she'll share judging duties with former Spice Girl Mel B, comedian Howie Mandel and former American Idol judge Simon Cowell.

2016-06-05 19:33 Mckenna Aiello www.dailymail.co.uk

81 Captive whale lies motionless after beaching herself at Tenerife park A shocking video shows a captive SeaWorld killer whale lying motionless on a concrete slab at a Tenerife tourist park. Morgan was filmed inexplicably beaching herself at the side of a pool for more than ten minutes at Loro Parque in Spain's Canary Islands. It comes as footage appeared to show the orca repeatedly banging her head against a metal gate in a desperate attempt at escape just weeks earlier. The whale, who lives at Loro Parque with five other orcas owned by SeaWorld, had finished a show when she decided to beach herself. A clip shows the young orca lying next to her tank as spectators get up to leave. Most visitors walk by oblivious, although a few reportedly stopped to take selfies with the beached whale in the background. She stayed motionless in that position for at least 10 minutes. Animal rights organisation The Dolphin Project said: 'We cannot explain the reason for her behaviour. 'Sadly, Morgan was still out of the water by the time the videographers had to leave.' Wild orcas remain constantly moving and even swim while sleeping, although a few populations occasionally beach themselves for a short period while hunting. If they are beached for too long the weight of their enormous mass - normally supported by the water's bouyancy - can crush their internal organs and muscles. Back in April, Morgan was recorded banging her head repeatedly into a metal grate. The video, which was given to the Dolphin Project by an anonymous activist, was filmed between orca shows at the popular tourist park. It shows Morgan, held in a small medical pool, battering the gate and trying to get into a larger pool with a male orca called Tekoa. 'The orca is obviously in huge distress and rams its head forcefully against the metal gate in what seems to be an attempt to escape,’ Helene Hesselager O’Barry said about the footage . ‘This video shows the amount of stress and cruelty imposed on orcas as a result of confinement to small, barren tanks.' All six of the whales at the Tenerife park are owned by SeaWorld - which has also come under immense scrutiny for its treatment of whales in captivity. But the park, which has a controversial history with its killer whales, insisted that the video shows a normal interaction between the two animals. 'The video published by the Dolphin Project on its website is a new attempt at manipulation through exaggeration and dramatisation of a completely normal situation in which there is no problem for the animals,' Loro Parque said in a statement. There have been other instances of seemingly bizarre behaviour in SeaWorld's orca whales. Last year a video showed the whale Tilikum floating at the top of his tank, while orcas at SeaWorld San Antonio were said to have severe dental trauma. The captive orcas were said to have 'significant wearing' on their teeth from allegedly chewing their tanks due to boredom. Heather Rally, a wildlife veterinarian with PETA, told The Dodo : 'Every single orca that I observed had significant wearing on their teeth, specifically on the lower mandible,' she said. 'They start chewing on their tanks. There's boredom there as a factor, and there's also stress... as soon as they start doing that they start to traumatize their teeth.'

2016-06-05 19:31 Ekin Karasin www.dailymail.co.uk

82 Andy Murray, the "what if? " man of tennis PARIS (AP) — Andy Murray is the "what if? " man of tennis. What if the 29-year- old Scot hadn't been born just one week earlier than Novak Djokovic? What if Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had found an era other than Murray's to torment? Murray would almost certainly have many Grand Slam titles, that's what. Against Djokovic in the French Open final on Sunday, Murray again showed that he has the game to have been a serial winner had it not been his misfortune to cross paths with three of tennis's greatest players. Instead of becoming Britain's first French Open champion since Fred Perry in 1935, Murray watched his tally of major titles stay stuck on two — the U. S. Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013. This was the eighth time that Murray has come close enough to a Grand Slam trophy to almost sniff it and found himself holding the runner's-up plate instead. Five finals he lost to Djokovic (four at the Australian Open and now one at Roland Garros). His three other finals losses were to Federer — at the U. S. Open in 2008, the Australian Open in 2010 and Wimbledon in 2012. Murray also has lost five Grand Slam semifinals to Nadal. While all three have made tennis history, with Djokovic now joining Federer and Nadal in winning titles at all four majors, Murray's achievement has mostly been to earn himself a courtside seat. Not much of a consolation. "Obviously the guys I have been around the last few years have made things difficult for me," Murray said after Djokovic's 3-6, 6- 1, 6-2, 6-4 victory. "I have been 'close-ish' to winning all of the Slams now and, you know, unfortunately all of them have done it instead. " At 34 and 30, Federer and Nadal are showing signs of wear and tear. Federer missed the French Open with a bad back; Nadal pulled out with an injured left wrist. Murray, fit as a flea at 29, might have stepped into that vacuum if not for Djokovic. His dominance is such that Federer's record total of 17 Grand Slam titles no longer looks unattainable for the top-ranked Serb, who now has 12 and, most impressively, holds all four major titles at the same time. If anyone can slow Djokovic's inexorable progress, it will be likely be No. 2 Murray — the only man, at the moment at least, who looks capable of going toe-to-toe with him for a set or two in best-of-five matches. After all, Murray's lone major championships came at Djokovic's expense in the finals. "I guess I've got a few more years to try and do that," Murray said. "When I finish, I will be more proud of my achievements, maybe. None of the big events I have won have I done it without beating one of those guys, you know, or a couple of them. "

2016-06-05 19:31 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

83 Romanian leftists lead with 37.5 pct in local election - exit poll BUCHAREST, June 5 (Reuters) - Romania's leftist Social Democrats won countrywide local elections on Sunday with a projected 37.5 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll, placing them in a strong position before a parliamentary election later this year. The leftists resigned from government last year after massive street protests in the wake of a deadly night club fire that raised concerns over corruption in public administration. A cabinet of technocrats is in charge until a parliamentary vote in November or December. The exit poll, conducted by Curs- Avangarde for private television station Romania TV, showed the Liberal Party in second place on 28 percent. Several exit polls showed leftist Gabriela Firea won in the capital Bucharest. The party also won at least five of the capital's six districts. (Reporting by Luiza Ilie; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

2016-06-05 19:28 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

84 US cities see unexplained rise in violent crimes this year CHICAGO (AP) — Violent crimes — from homicides and rapes to robberies — have been on the rise in many major U. S. cities, yet experts can't point to a single reason why and the jump isn't enough to suggest there's a trend. Still, it is stumping law enforcement officials, who are seeking a way to combat the problem. "It's being reported on at local levels, but in my view, it's not getting the attention at the national level it deserves," FBI Director James Comey said recently. "I don't know what the answer is, but holy cow, do we have a problem. " Americans have grown accustomed to low crime rates since a peak in the 1990s. But law enforcement started seeing a spike last year that has continued unabated. What's unusual, however, is that it's not happening everywhere. Chicago and Los Angeles are seeing homicides on the rise, but other places like Miami and Oakland are not. Chicago, a city long associated with violent crime that plagues its poorer neighborhoods, saw six people fatally shot over the Memorial Day weekend and 56 wounded, ending a bloody month in a bloody year. May's 66 homicides — 19 more than May 2015 and 25 more than May 2014 — raised the total number for the year past the 240 mark. That's more than 50 percent higher than last year, and puts the city on a pace to easily surpass the 500 homicides it saw in 2012. Perhaps more significant is the number of people who are being shot; well over 1,200 as of Tuesday, which far surpasses the 800 by this time last year. All of it has left the city on edge. "Our kids are afraid to go out of the house," said the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest and activist on the city's South Side. "You have children asking teachers to pray for them before they go home. " Some say the splintering of gangs has created deadly rivalries, others say the disbanding of specialized police units has helped embolden gangs. Guns are pouring into the city — with police saying they've seized more guns this year (3,500) than any city police department in the United States — but courts also have overturned or gutted the city's once-tough gun laws. Add to that concerns, expressed publicly by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and privately by officers, that videos like the one of a white officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was black, are making officers reluctant to combat crime. That video, which led to murder charges against the officer, exposed and deepened the rift between the community and the police force that many say has made the public less likely to offer the kind of cooperation that the department needs to prevent and solve crimes. "Quite frankly, trust has broken down between the community and police," new police superintendent Eddie Johnson said. The Major Cities Chiefs Association, a nonprofit that works with police chiefs in the 50 largest cities in the U. S. as well as the seven largest cities in Canada, began hearing last year that violent crimes were increasing, executive director Darrell Stephens said. In response, the group began collecting data to better document crimes, data that showed an increase in violent crimes in 2015 over 2014. Already, the first quarter of this year showed across-the-board increases in homicides, rape, robbery and aggravated assaults and non-fatal shootings compared to 2015. The reasons vary, Stephens said: Chicago and Los Angeles attribute much of it to gang-related violence, while others chalk it up to significant drug problems that lead to violent crime. Some in law enforcement have speculated that a climate after the 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, has made officers reticent about taking the steps needed to stop crime, but Stephens says that tough scrutiny on policing has always been part of the job, even if it's "more visible, more strident" now. And even with violent crime outpacing past years, it's a far cry from the more notorious early 1990s when there were about 25,000 homicides each year. "We're nowhere near that level," he said. Plus, other cities are seeing a decrease in crimes, including Miami, where there were 25 homicides in the first three months of 2015 but 12 during that same time frame this year, and Oakland, California, where the number of homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults were down in the first three months of this year compared to the same period a year ago. Still, the crime spike has raised alarms among national law enforcement officials, notably the FBI director. "Sometimes people say to me, well, the increases are off of historic lows. How does that many of us feel any better? " Comey said. "A whole lot more people are dying this year than last year, and last year than the year before. And I don't know why for sure. " In Indianapolis, which saw a record 144 homicides last year, the police department launched a new crime-fighting approach last month. Officers now patrol 19 new beats in crime-plagued neighborhoods where 45 percent of last year's homicides occurred. Those neighborhoods were chosen with help from the capitol city's new crime-fighting technology center, which pinpoints areas where beat patrols could have the greatest impact. Police spokesman Sgt. Kendale Adams said last year's record homicides and the continued rise in killings this year is being driven by a multitude of factors, including the proliferation of guns, disputes over drugs and fights that escalate into gunfire. "People want a reason, right? There's got to be a reason, but when we look at the data it's disturbances, it's drugs, it's even simple disputes on Facebook. It's very lifestyle-oriented, that's what the data is telling us," he said Wednesday. "Disputes that normally would have been settled through fighting are being settled through lethal means. " ___ Pane reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Rick Callahan in Indianapolis contributed to this report. Follow Lisa Marie Pane on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lisamariepane. Her work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/lisa-marie-pane

2016-06-05 19:25 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

85 Autocentric Paradigm Squelching Municipal Health, Vibrancy By Leslee Kulba- Have you ever left work to find your car wouldn’t start and set out to walk home, only to find the greenways closed after dark? So you whack your way through sometimes thigh-high weeds and try not to stumble into the road as concerned motorists, including law enforcement officers, offer you the convenience of their warm and dry vehicles. If you’re downtown at 2:00 a.m. on a non-party night, the only other person you might see is that dude wearing one shoe and shouting schizophrenic babble. At their last meeting, Asheville City Council unanimously adopted the Asheville in Motion Plan. Created by Kimley-Horn and Associates, the plan attempted to integrate, while not supplanting, eight other master plans guiding transportation policy in the city. Mark DeVerges commented online, “It feels like this $324,000 AIM plan uses funds and attention that could have been used to actually implement previous (similar) plans. .. It seems there have already been many plans (going back to 1922, eek) – some citing the same issues.” During public comment at council’s meeting, former mayor Ken Michalove established the plan had actually cost $336,000. $200,000 of the total came from the federal government as passthrough funds from the Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Unified Planning Work Program. It has been said that rather than optimizing the fluidity of traffic circulation and helping people get where they need to go; traffic plans are exercises in social engineering. They don’t facilitate demand. AIM was upfront about this. One of its five priorities was “Travel Mode Shift,” transforming autocentric paradigms to favor more vibrant and health-conscious means of moving about. Among the study’s most notable recommendations is travel lane diets for Charlotte Street, Merrimon Avenue, and Broadway. That would divert north- south traffic back onto I-26, which would have been eight lanes long ago had the people not stood up and demanded no more than six lanes. Those having to sit in Malfunction Junction between jobs, with no luxury of adjusting travel times, will understand. Biltmore Avenue, assigned top priority by the plan, would be converted to three lanes. The middle lane would be for turns, motorized vehicles would use one lane to either side, flanked by 5-foot bicycle lanes and then widened sidewalks. Charlotte Street, for starters, would give cyclists equal access to vehicle lanes. Signs would indicate, “Bicycles May Use Full Lane.” The document explains, “A longer-term plan for Charlotte Street could include a road diet with enhanced bicycle facilities. However, this longer-term scenario will need additional feasibility studies.” The plan recommended seriously limited municipal resources be allocated for two phases of rip-up-lay-down upgrades for Broadway. The end result would be two-lane vehicle traffic on one side of a lush median and two lanes of pedway on the other. Also commenting online was Blake Esselstyn, formerly of the city’s Planning Department. He noted there was already a perfectly good greenway near and parallel to the bike/ped path proposed for Broadway. “It seems madness to me to devote so much land to two such facilities so close to each other,” he wrote. “This design does not appear to consider the opportunity cost of devoting so much flat prime land close to downtown to a huge cycle track, redundant sidewalk, and lots of sod.” In the east-west direction, Haywood Road, currently made navigable only by friendly neighbors who courteously cede the right of way, would lose its center turn lanes. Cars and bikes would share a lane going in each direction with “Bicycles May Use Full Lane” signs, while on-street parking interrupted by planted trees would grace either side, and sidewalks would be brought up to 6-foot standards. Overall, the plan assumed a “build it and they will come” philosophy. “In taking a closer look at Asheville’s streets, it was clear that many of them were either overbuilt with great potential of being reimagined into multimodal streets, or were so autocentric that major actions would have to be taken in order to make the streets comfortable for the average cyclist.” It was clear the visioners foresee motorized vehicles falling by the wayside. They were to be a minor component in about half the land-use areas explored by the plan. Other “realms,” like landscaping, medians, parking, and sidewalk pushed into less than half available transportation space the “vehicle realm,” which would be used by bicycles as well as cars, buses, and trucks. Per AIM, a typical street cross-section should allow around 11 feet for automobiles and bikes, 7-8 feet for on-street parking, 16 feet for a median, 8 feet for landscaping, and 5-12 feet for sidewalks. Additional space would be needed for things like curbing and frontage. The Manufacturing, Aerospace, and Logistics districts were unique in that they were allotted 14 feet of travel lanes to “safely accommodate cyclists.” While pedestrians would be king according to the plan, more bus ridership would be encouraged. Recommendations included increasing the geographical extent of the fare-free zone, offering incentives like employer- paid passes, and running buses more frequently and reliably on major routes. Unlike other programs in Asheville, this plan indicated it was more important to look out for those who needed the bus than “choice riders.” Currently, about 5000 people ride Asheville’s buses each day. 50 percent of riders earn less than $10,000 per year, and 75 percent earn less than $25,000. Serving the underserved fell under the “social equity” criterion for identifying “transformative projects,” which would be prioritized. The other categories were “economic vitality,” “community vibrancy,” “public sentiment,” and, of course, “mode shift.” Recommendations were further evaluated in terms of how they promoted other strategic goals of city council, like affordable housing. Another concern of the study was safety. In recent years, on average, 11-12 people have died a year on Asheville roads. While accidents are often traceable to some combination of unforeseen circumstances and distracted driving, the study recommends another kind of shift. “Historically, transportation systems placed the responsibility for safety on users. Vision Zero takes a different approach and puts this responsibility on system design.”

2016-06-05 15:28 By Leslee www.thetribunepapers.com

86 Police van driver goes on trial for black man's death BALTIMORE (AP) — The stakes are high in the upcoming trial for an officer prosecutors say bears the most responsibility for the death of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose spine was snapped in the back of a police transport wagon. The van driver, Officer Caesar Goodson, faces second-degree murder and other charges. He will also face buck-passing from fellow officers who have already testified in two previous trials that if anyone was responsible for ensuring Gray's safety, it was him. The officer faces 30 years in prison if he's convicted of the murder charge. If prosecutors fail to secure a guilty verdict, it will be the third straight trial in which they haven't gotten a favorable decision: The first trial ended in a hung jury and the second finished with an acquitted last month. Prosecutors say Goodson was grossly negligent when he failed to buckle Gray into a seat belt and call for medical aid during Gray's 45-minute ride in the back of Goodson's transport van April 12, 2015. But with no eye witnesses and very little physical evidence, experts say the government could be facing an uphill battle. "It would be devastating for the state to lose Goodson's trial because there's no question that the ultimate responsibility lies with the van driver," said Warren Alperstein, a Baltimore attorney who has been closely following the case. Gray died a week after he was injured in the van. His death prompted protests and civil unrest in the streets of Baltimore, and his name became a national rallying cry for people angry over officers' mistreatment of African Americans. Gray was arrested in West Baltimore after making eye contact with a bicycle officer and running away. Once he was handcuffed and placed inside the van, witnesses have testified that Gray began to scream and kick so violently he shook the wagon. Two blocks from the arrest site, the wagon stopped again, and three officers took Gray out of the van to put him in leg shackles. They then placed him on the floor of the van, head-first and on his belly. He was never buckled into a seat belt, as required by department policy. The van made six stops in total during the trip from the site of his arrest to the Western District station house. Goodson is the only officer present at each of the stops. At one point, Goodson stopped the van to check on Gray without any other officers there. Goodson, 46, faces second-degree "depraved-heart" murder, manslaughter, assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges. Prosecutors say that Goodson was so negligent in his failure to buckle Gray into a seat belt that he disregarded the apparent risk to Gray's life and wellbeing. Officer William Porter, whose trial ended in a hung jury in December, testified during his trial that he told Goodson at one of the stops to take Gray to the hospital, but Goodson didn't. Instead, Goodson made another stop to pick up a second prisoner. Goodson recently filed a motion seeking to block prosecutors from entering into evidence statements Porter made to an investigator. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Monday and jury selection is expected to start Tuesday. Goodson is the only officer who chose not to make a statement to investigators. "This is unlike the other trials, where at least the state had a preview as to what the defense might be or what the defendant might say on the witness stand," said Steve Levin, a Baltimore attorney who is familiar but unaffiliated with the case. "All the stops, it could work in Goodson's favor because it demonstrates that he was concerned about his prisoner," Levin said. "At the same time, it could work in the state's favor because prosecutors could argue that Officer Goodson saw Mr. Gray several times and he saw that he was injured and needed medical aid, and that he was so concerned that he kept checking on Gray. " Another key difference between Goodson's trial and Officer Edward Nero, who was acquitted last month, is who will decide. Nero opted for a bench trial, while Goodson could place his fate in hands of a jury. Court officials have indicated that jury selection will begin Tuesday, however Goodson could still opt for a judge trial. David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor familiar with the case, said if he chooses a jury trial, selecting the panel will be a crucial process. "That's where people's sympathies and experiences come into play," he said. "This will be critical, between pretrial publicity, preconceived notions about law enforcement and people and crime and what an officer's job is. It'll all come into play here. "

2016-06-05 19:19 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

87 Search continues for bodies of 2 men trapped in landslide CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — A spokeswoman for the Mining Safety and Health Administration says workers are searching for the bodies of two men who were buried in mud and slush at a gravel pit in southern Mississippi. Amy Louviere said work resumed Sunday morning at 9 a.m. She said the effort has changed from a rescue to a recovery operation. Approximately 25 people are on site looking for the men. The two men were operating heavy equipment for Green Brothers at a pit in Crystal Springs on Friday when they were completely buried in 10 to 12 feet of mud, slush and sluice. Louviere said mine employees have built a road so a crane can access the area and lift out the buried equipment. The names of the miners have not been released.

2016-06-05 19:18 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

88 The Latest: Body found downstream from where boy fell in TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on severe weather across the United States (all times local): 2 p.m. (CDT) Authorities have found a body downstream from where they'd been searching for a missing 11-year-old boy who fell into a flooded Kansas creek. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/25Hr7UP ) that Wichita police Deputy Chief Hassan Ramzah says the body was found Saturday by a kayaker. Ramzah couldn't confirm the identity of the body, other than to say it was a male. Officials say Devon Dean Cooley fell into Gypsum Creek on May 27. Crews have continued searching for the boy, and say the unidentified body was found about a mile downstream from the search area. Cooley's family issued a statement late Saturday saying they believe the body to be Devon's but also acknowledging the absence of official confirmation. Police say the body likely won't be identified until a coroner's investigation is completed. ___ 2:40 p.m. The last day of a music festival scheduled to include Kanye West and Death Cab for Cutie among the performers is canceled because of weather concerns. The organizers of the Governors Ball said events on Sunday weren't going to be held "due to severe weather and a high likelihood of lightning in the area. " Strong winds and thunderstorms were predicted for the area through Sunday night. The annual event is held on Randall's Island in New York City and usually goes for three days. Among those who performed on Friday and Saturday were Elle King, the Strokes, Beck, Miguel and De La Soul. Organizers said ticket holders would be getting refunds. ___ 1:15 p.m. Southern Arizona could see record high temperatures again. The National Weather Service says if Phoenix hits 114 degrees on Sunday, it will mark the third day in a row setting record high temperatures in Arizona's Urban Heart. Much of Southern Arizona, from Phoenix to Nogales, is under an excessive heat warning. Other western and southwestern U. S. states are experiencing above-normal temperatures in the triple-digits. Officials are warning residents to stay hydrated and avoid the outdoors between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., when temperatures are highest. The Arizona Department of Health also says that neither people nor pets should be left in cars. It takes only 10 minutes for a car to reach deadly temperatures. ___ 11:40 a.m. Fort Hood officials have identified the last of nine soldiers who died in Texas floodwaters during a training exercise as a 25-year-old Army specialist from California. Army officials said Sunday that Spc. Yingming Sun enlisted in 2013 and first arrived at Fort Hood nearly two years ago. He and eight others who were identified Saturday died when fast-moving waters washed a 2 ½-ton vehicle from a low-water crossing Thursday. Three others soldiers survived and have returned to duty. Heavy and persistent storms the past two weeks have dumped more than a foot of rain in parts of Texas. The rain is expected to diminish this week and dry out areas in southeast Texas, where officials gave evacuation order to about 2,000 homes. ___ 11:30 a.m. A tropical storm warning is in effect for a large stretch of Florida's Gulf coast from Indian Pass in the northern Panhandle to Englewood south of Tampa. The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued the warning before noon EDT Sunday. Tropical storm conditions — including heavy rain and strong wind — are expected to reach the area under the warning by Monday afternoon. The storm — moving north at about 8 mph (13 kph) — is expected to become a tropical storm before reaching the Florida coast. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 kph). Isolated tornadoes are possible Monday afternoon in parts of Florida and southern Georgia. ___ Hurricane officials say a storm in the northwestern Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical storm before hitting Florida with flooding rain. The National Hurricane Center said a hurricane hunter plane will investigate the storm near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Sunday afternoon. It already contained thunderstorms and near tropical storm strength winds. There is a 90 percent chance the weather system could develop into a tropical depression or named storm by Sunday night or Monday morning. Regardless of development, heavy rains and flooding are expected in the Yucatan Peninsula, western Cuba, the Florida Keys and Florida's Gulf Coast over the next few days. Florida Gov. Rick Scott planned a briefing with state emergency management officials Sunday afternoon. Sand bags were being distributed to residents in St. Petersburg, Tampa and nearby cities.

2016-06-05 19:18 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

89 Nordqvist successfully defends ShopRite LPGA Classic title June 5 (Reuters) - Swede Anna Nordqvist became the oldest winner on the youthful LPGA Tour this year when she successfully defended her title at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in New Jersey on Sunday. Nordqvist, who started the final round two strokes behind overnight leader Karine Icher of France, shrugged off strong winds and stormed to victory with a bogey-free seven-under 64 on the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Golf Club in Galloway. She finished at 17-under-par 196, one stroke ahead of Japan's Haru Nomura (66). Icher did not do a lot wrong, but a closing 69 was only good enough to earn her third place, three strokes behind the winner. Nordqvist, who turns 29 on Friday, is not exactly ancient, but it speaks volumes of the youth movement in women's golf that she became the oldest 2016 winner by five years. All previous 14 LPGA events this year had been won by players 23 or younger, with Lydio Ko the youngest winner at the age of 18 years, 11 months when she won consecutive tournaments in late March and early April. "It feels really special because I've been playing pretty good all spring," Nordqvist said after collecting her sixth LPGA victory. "I just haven't really got any results, and it really got frustrating there for a while. "My caddie just told me to stay patient and so did the rest of my team, because they knew how well I was playing, getting really zero out of it. "Sometimes the longer you have to wait and the more patient you have to stay, the sweeter it feels when it finally pays off. " Nordqvist also became the first European winner in almost a year, since Suzann Pettersen of Norway claimed the Manulife LPGA Classic last June. The tour since then has been dominated by players from east Asian countries. South Korean-born players have picked up seven victories, including a pair by Ko, who is now a New Zealand citizen. Lexi Thompson remains the only American winner. Her victory came in Asia at the Honda LPGA Thailand tournament. (Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Larry Fine)

2016-06-05 19:18 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

90 Muhammad Ali's funeral to be watched worldwide by billions on TV Los Angeles : Muhammad Ali's funeral is set to be one of the biggest events in TV history with a worldwide audience of billions expected to watch the boxing legend's final journey. Mourners leave flowers at a memorial outside the Muhammad Ali Center following the boxing legend' death. Pic/ AFP The three-time world heavyweight champion, who battled Parkinson's disease for 32 years, died in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday after being admitted to hospital with a respiratory condition. His funeral will take place later on Friday in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky, where flags have been flying at half-mast in tribute to him since his death was announced. His body will pass the Muhammad Ali Centre, travel along Muhammad Ali Boulevard and through his former neighbourhood. The funeral procession will end at Cave Hill cemetery for a private family ceremony, reports mirror.co.uk. Eulogies will be led by former US president Bill Clinton, actor Billy Crystal and American sportscaster Bryant Gumbel. The service will also be shown online. Family spokesman Bob Gunnell said: "Muhammad Ali was truly the people's champion and the celebration will reflect his devotion to all races, religions, and backgrounds. " "Muhammad Ali's extraordinary boxing career only encompassed half of his life. The other half was committed to sharing a message of people and inclusion with the world. " "Following his wishes, his funeral will reflect those principles and be a celebration open to everyone. "

2016-06-05 19:16 By IANS www.mid-day.com

91 Swedish nun Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad canonised for saving Jews A nun who saved Jewish families during World War Two has been made the first Swedish saint in more than 600 years. Pope Francis canonised Roman Catholic convert Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad at a ceremony in St Peter's Square on Sunday. Ms Hesselblad hid Jewish families in the convent in Rome where she was the mother superior. The Pope also canonised Polish monk Stanislaus Papczynski for supporting the poor in the 17th Century. He founded the first men's religious order dedicated to the Virgin Mary's immaculate conception. How does someone become a saint? Ms Hesselblad, a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism, is only the second Swede to become a saint, following Saint Bridget 625 years ago. A former nurse, she is credited with saving at least 12 Jews during the war, concealing families inside her Rome convent for about six months before the war ended. She also won praise for promoting better relations between Catholics and non-Catholics and for encouraging both Christians and non-Christians towards the church. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre honoured her as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in 2004 , an award given to non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust. Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad died in Rome in 1957, aged 87.

2016-06-05 21:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

92 Russia's Denisov injured in Serbia draw, set to miss Euros June 5 (Reuters) - Russia holding midfielder Igor Denisov suffered a hamstring injury as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Serbia on Sunday and is likely to miss Euro 2016, said coach Leonid Slutskiy. "Denisov has a serious injury and it's likely we will need a replacement," Slutskiy told reporters. "Now we are in touch with another player who plays in the same position. " Russia start their campaign against England on June 11 in Marseille and the Serbia game was their final warm-up. Russia's Artem Dzyuba scored in the 85th minute at the Stade Louis II in Monaco but Alexander Mitrovic equalised three minutes later for Serbia, who failed to qualify for the Euros. Slutskiy kept faith with the attacking trio of Dzyuba, Fedor Smolov and Alexander Kokorin, who all started the 2-1 defeat by the Czech Republic last Wednesday. Igor Akinfeev returned in goal, while 20- year-old Alexander Golovin was also given a chance in the centre of midfield. There were few chances for either side in what was a largely forgettable first half before Russia were hit by a major injury blow when 32- year-old Denisov, who plays for Dynamo Moscow, limped off during the second period. Dzyuba scored after excellent work by Roman Shirokov and Kokorin but they three minutes later Mitrovic sprung the offside trap and found himself one-on-one with Akinfeev. The Newcastle United forward made no mistake as he scored to make it 1-1. Russia and England are in Group B at Euro 2016 alongside Slovakia and Wales. (Reporting by Dmitriy Rogovitskiy; Editing by Clare Lovell and Ken Ferris)

2016-06-05 19:15 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

93 Being part of the Federer/Nadal era a career booster, says Djokovic By Julien Pretot PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - The moment Novak Djokovic accepted that being part of the Roger Federer/Rafael Nadal era was a chance, not a curse, everything improved for him. On Sunday, after winning his first French Open title, he was still behind the Swiss and the Spaniard in terms of major titles but he had achieved something the two have not yet managed -- holding all four grand slams at the same time. When the Serbian won the first of his 12 majors, at the 2008 Australian Open, a 22-year-old Nadal had already won three Roland Garros titles and Federer, then 26, had claimed 12 of his record 17 grand slams. "At the beginning I was not glad to be part of their era," Djokovic said with a smile after beating British second seed Andy Murray in Sunday's Roland Garros final. "Later on I realised that in life everything happens for a reason. You're put in this position with a purpose, a purpose to learn and to grow and to evolve. "Fortunately for me I realised that I needed to get stronger and that I need to accept the fact that I'm competing with these two tremendous champions and then everything was uphill from that moment on. " While he could feel frustrated that Federer, Nadal, with 14, and to a lesser extent Murray, who has won two, deprived him of more grand slam titles, Djokovic believes the rivalries within the 'Big Four' have made him a better player, and tennis a better sport. "These two guys -- and Andy as well -- the rivalries with all three of the guys have definitely, in a big part... helped me to become a better player and helped me achieve all these things," he said. "The rivalries that we have are important for the sport, and in one way or another you try to compare yourself to them and what they have achieved before. "Nadal and Federer were so dominant in the sport when Andy and myself came in the mix. " Djokovic can now turn his sights towards a calendar Grand Slam that was last achieved in 1969 by Laver. Having won the Australian Open and the French Open, he needs to win at Wimbledon and the US Open. "I don't want to sound arrogant, but I think everything is achievable in life," he said. "Whether or not I can reach a calendar slam, that's still a possibility. But I don't think about it right now. Right now I just try to enjoy this experience of winning the trophy that I had never won before. " (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Clare Lovell)

2016-06-05 19:14 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

94 Yahoo - Yahoo Sports Partners With NHL to Bring Fans Free, Live Out-of-Market Games & On-Demand Premium Content No Cable or Authentication Required, Alliance Offers New Opportunities for Advertisers to Connect with Fans --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) and the (NHL®) today announced a strategic alliance to deliver premium sports content to Yahoo Sports' millions of users. Now fans can access live, out-of-market games for free on , throughout the week, no cable subscription or authentication required. will offer unique advertising opportunities for brands to connect with their audiences, alongside and within this live and on-demand sports contents. Beginning , , in collaboration with the , will live stream an "Game of the Day" to hockey fans in the , up to four days a week, along with delivering in-game highlights for each game. This is in addition to the Wednesday and Sunday national games currently promoted by to its fans in partnership with. will also provide condensed games, "Best of the Day" and "Best of the Week" top plays and postgame highlights. also will continue to bring fantasy hockey highlights and our season-long game to fans around the world. "This alliance brings us one step closer to providing fans a live professional sporting event every day, on , completely frictionless and for free - no cable subscription or authentication required," said , VP, Media Partnerships at. "We remain committed to delivering the best digital content to our users and advertisers, and the NHL's premium content nicely complements our offering of live and on-demand partner content, including Yahoo/MLB's Game of the Day, content and our recently announced deal with the TOUR. " Building on the success of the NFL live stream on which drew more than 15 million viewers, is introducing new video advertising opportunities that will run within commercial breaks during the live streams of live sporting events, which includes and MLB games. Brands will have new ways to connect directly with an engaged audience of sports fans around this live video programming on , while using Yahoo's audience insights and retargeting capabilities to engage with viewers after a game concludes. The (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 30 , with players from more than 20 countries represented across team rosters, competing for the most revered trophy in professional sports - the Stanley Cup®. Each year, the entertains hundreds of millions of fans around the world. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including /NBCSN in the , Sportsnet and in , and Viasat in the. The reaches fans worldwide with games available online in every country including via its live and on-demand streaming service NHL. TV™. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free app; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™, and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring an enhanced statistics platform powered by SAP, providing the definitive destination for hockey analytics. A historic media rights partnership between the and MLBAM has transformed the fan experience across the League's digital and broadcast assets, with an emphasis on deeper access into the game and enhanced storytelling. To celebrate the NHL's international diversity, the World Cup of Hockey will return in September, 2016, a best-on-best international tournament featuring eight teams comprised of the world's best hockey players. On Founder's Day in , the League will celebrate its Centennial anniversary, commemorating 100 years of hockey. The is committed to giving back to the community through programs including: Hockey is for Everyone™ which supports nonprofit youth hockey organizations across ; Hockey Fights Cancer™ which raises money and awareness for hockey's most important fight; NHL Green™ which is committed to the pursuit of sustainable business practices; and a partnership with the , which is committed to supporting the LGBT community and fighting homophobia in sports. For more information, visit NHL.com. and the NHL Shield are registered trademarks of the. All Rights Reserved. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

2016-06-05 18:07 investor.yahoo.net

95 Praful Patel rubbishes caste angle in Eknath Khadse's ouster Nagpur : Senior NCP leader Praful Patel has said Eknath Khadse's resignation from the post of Maharashtra Revenue Minister has nothing to do with his caste and that the corruption charges against the BJP leader cost him the post. He also claimed that after Khadse, many others would meet the same fate and alleged that BJP has been quick to point fingers at others "when its own house is unclean". Praful Patel Facing a string of allegations including irregularities in a land deal, Khadse had yesterday resigned, the first casualty in BJP since the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine took over pledging zero-tolerance towards corruption. Yesterday, Congress leader and former Chief Minister Narayan Rane had alleged that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was behind the ouster of Khadse and sought to know as to why only backward class leaders are facing trouble in the ministry. However, countering Rane's claim, Patel told reporters here last night that, "There is no question of Khadse's caste or religion. It is the corruption charges that have been levelled against him, supported by enough evidence that cost him the post. " Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan had also said yesterday that there is no need to bring caste or community angle in the Khadse episode. Patel, meanwhile, made it clear that his party was not satisfied with Khadse's resignation and the BJP leader must face the law. "Our leaders were also facing the same and the court of law would decide their fate. Everybody who faces allegations must face the law and same is the case with Khadse," he said. After resigning yesterday, Khadse had alleged that there was a media trial against him. To this, Patel said there was no media trial but only his misdeeds were exposed by the media. "If Khadse was so clean then there was no need to resign. The fact is that there was no shortage of evidence," the Rajya Sabha member said. Patel also claimed that after Khadse, many others are going to meet the same fate. "Many others are going to follow suit. The whole state knows about peanut candy (chikki) and fire extinguisher scams. BJP had been quick to point fingers at others but its own house is unclean. Swachh Bharat Mission should start from its own home," he quipped.

2016-06-05 19:11 By PTI www.mid-day.com

96 Man held in missing couple probe Police investigating the murder of an elderly man and the disappearance of his wife have made an arrest. A 61-year-old man from Leicester was arrested on suspicion of murdering Peter Stuart, 75, after a body was found in woodland in Weybread, Suffolk, on Friday evening, police said. He was detained at around 8.30am on Sunday. Authorities are still searching for missing Sylvia Stuart, 69, who has not been seen since May 28. Detective chief superintendent Simon Parkes said: "While we have made an arrest, our investigation continues. We are absolutely committed to finding Sylvia and this remains a priority for us. We would ask anyone who may have information that may help to come forward. " Search teams are continuing to comb the area near the couple's home to try to locate Mrs Stuart. Meanwhile the suspect is to be returned to Suffolk from Leicester to face questions from detectives, police said. The couple were reported missing at around 7.15am on Friday after checks with friends, neighbours and hospitals failed to locate them. Police launched a search after their car was found still at their home in Mill Lane. A post- mortem examination will be carried out on the body, believed to be that of Mr Stuart, later on Sunday. Police are asking anyone who may be able to assist to call 01473 782000 or 101, quoting CAD number 49 of Friday June 3.

2016-06-05 19:11 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

97 Yahoo - Yahoo to Participate at the J. P. Morgan Global Technology, Media & Telecom Conference --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) CFO will participate in a question-and-answer session at the J. P. Morgan Global in. The session is scheduled to begin on , at / . A live webcast of the session will be available on the Investor Relations website at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm? CalendarID=5. is a guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining users through its search, communications, and digital content products. By creating highly personalized experiences, helps users discover the information that matters most to them around the world -- on mobile or desktop. connects advertisers with target audiences through a streamlined advertising technology stack that combines the power of data, content, and technology. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com). and Yahoo Finance are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

2016-06-05 18:07 investor.yahoo.net

98 IAAF Diamond League Birmingham GP Results 200 — 1, Andre De Grasse, Canada, 20.16. 2, Alonso Edward, Panama, 20.17. 3, Sean Mclean, United States, 20.24. 4, Churandy Martina, Netherlands, 20.43. 5, Ameer Webb, United States, 20.62. 6, Isiah Young, United States, 20.65. 7, James Ellington, Britain, 20.65. 8, Chijindu Ujah, Britain, 20.70. 400 — 1, Kirani James, Grenada, 44.23. 2, Isaac Makwala, Botswana, 44.97. 3, Vernon Norwood, United States, 45.08. 4, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Britain, 45.13. 5, Bralon Taplin, Grenada, 45.25. 6, Baboloki Thebe, Botswana, 45.54. 7, Rabah Yousif, Britain, 45.59. 8, Jarryd Dunn, Britain, 46.30. 1,500 — 1, Asbel Kiprop, Kenya, 3:29.33. 2, Abdalaati Iguider, Morocco, 3:33.10. 3, Nicholas Willis, New Zealand, 3:34.29. 4, Vincent Kibet, Kenya, 3:34.60. 5, James Kiplagat Magut, Kenya, 3:35.18. 6, Ryan Gregson, Australia, 3:35.50. 7, Silas Kiplagat, Kenya, 3:35.52. 8, Henrik Ingebrigtsen, Norway, 3:36.00. 9, Jake Wightman, Britain, 3:37.53. 10, Dawit Wolde, Ethiopia, 3:37.60. 11, Thomas Lancashire, Britain, 3:37.77. 12, Timo Benitz, Germany, 3:37.77. 13, Pieter-Jan Hannes, Belgium, 3:41.10. Manuel Olmedo, Spain; Elijah Kipchirchir Kiptoo, Kenya; and Andrew Kiptoo Rotich, Kenya, did not finish. 3,000 Steeplechase — 1, Conseslus Kipruto, Kenya, 8:00.12. 2, Paul Kipsiele Koech, Kenya, 8:10.19. 3, Barnabas Kipyego, Kenya, 8:14.74, . 4, Brimin Kiprop Kipruto, Kenya, 8:19.33. 5, Jairus Kipchoge Birech, Kenya, 8:20.31. 6, Clement Kimutai Kemboi, Kenya, 8:21.07. 7, Krystian Zalewski, Poland, 8:29.00. 8, Taylor Milne, Canada, 8:30.42. 9, Chris Winter, Canada, 8:31.06. 10, Rob Mullett, Britain, 8:31.13. 11, Luke Gunn, Britain, 8:52.60. Brahim Taleb, Morocco, and Lawrence Kemboi Kipsang, Kenya, did not finish. High Jump — 1, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar, 7-9¼. 2, Erik Kynard, United States, 7-8½. 3, Zhang Guowei, China, 7-7¼. 4, Robert Grabarz, Britain, 7-6. 5, Jaroslav Baba, Czech Republic, 7-5. 5, Chris Baker, Britain, 7-5. 7, Marco Fassinotti, Italy, 7-5. 8, Gianmarco Tamberi, Italy, 7-2½. Long Jump — 1, Marquise Goodwin, United States, 27-7½. 2, Mike Hartfield, United States, 27-2½. 3, Fabrice Lapierre, Australia, 26- 11¼. 4, Tyrone Smith, Bermuda, 26-10. 5, Greg Rutherford, Britain, 26-9¾. 6, Damar Forbes, Jamaica, 26-5¾. 7, Christian Taylor, United States, 26- 1½. 8, Mauro Vinicius da Silva, Brazil, 25-9¼. Discus — 1, Piotr Malachowski, Poland, 221-5. 2, Robert Harting, Germany, 216-5. 3, Robert Urbanek, Poland, 210-4. 4, Philip Milanov, Belgium, 209-2. 5, Rodney Brown, United States, 208-4. 6, Benn Harradine, Australia, 203-9. 7, Daniel Stahl, Sweden, 203-2. 8, Zoltan Kovago, Hungary, 200-7. 9, Markus Muench, Germany, 194-2. 10, Brett Morse, Britain, 185-3. 100 — 1, English Gardner, United States, 11.02. 2, Dafne Schippers, Netherlands, 11.09. 3, Tianna Bartoletta, United States, 11.11. 4, Dina Asher-Smith, Britain, 11.22. 5, Ashleigh Nelson, Britain, 11.24. 6, Simone Facey, Jamaica, 11.24. 7, Desiree Henry, Britain, 11.32. 8, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Trinidad and Tobago, 11.48. 800 — 1, Francine Niyonsaba, Burundi, 1:56.92. 2, Renelle Lamote, France, 1:58.01. 3, Melissa Bishop, Canada, 1:58.48. 4, Lynsey Sharp, Britain, 1:59.29. 5, Marina Arzamasova, Belarus, 1:59.97. 6, Chanelle Price, United States, 2:00.80. 7, Ajee Wilson, United States, 2:00.81. 8, Joanna Jozwik, Poland, 2:01.24. 9, Laura Roesler, United States, 2:01.54. Rose-Anne Galligan, Ireland, did not finish. 5,000 — 1, Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot, Kenya, 15:12.79. 2, Mercy Cherono, Kenya, 15:12.85. 3, Janet Kisa, Kenya, 15:19.48. 4, Haftamnesh Tesfay, Ethiopia, 15:24.04. 5, Eloise Wellings, Australia, 15:26.19. 6, Genevieve Lacaze, Australia, 15:27.13. 7, Birtukan Fente, Ethiopia, 15:39.55. 8, Dominika Napieraj, Poland, 15:41.47. 9, Jessica Andrews, Britain, 15:46.82. 10, Joanne Pavey, Britain, 15:47.64. 11, Deirdre Byrne, Ireland, 15:58.65. 12, Emma Clayton, Britain, 16:07.47. 13, Camille Buscomb, New Zealand, 16:11.17. Renata Plis, Poland; Sara Louise Treacy, Ireland; and Jessica Coulson, Britain, did not finish. 100 Hurdles — 1, Kendra Harrison, United States, 12.46. 2, Brianna Rollins, United States, 12.57. 3, Kristi Castlin, United States, 12.75. 4, Dawn Harper Nelson, United States, 12.78. 5, Tiffany Porter, Britain, 12.86. 6, Nia Ali, United States, 12.95. 7, Sally Pearson, Australia, 13.25. 8, Lucy Hatton, Britain, 13.36. 400 Hurdles — 1, Cassandra Tate, United States, 54.57. 2, Eilidh Doyle, Britain, 54.57. 3, Georganne Moline, United States, 54.63. 4, Dalilah Muhammad, United States, 54.75. 5, Oluwakemi Adekoya, Bahrain, 55.28. 6, Joanna Linkiewicz, Poland, 55.41. 7, Kaliese Spencer, Jamaica, 55.96. 8, Denisa Rosolova, Czech Republic, 56.50. Pole Vault — 1, Yarisley Silva, Cuba, 15- 10½. 2, Ekaterini Stefanidi, Greece, 15-7¾. 3, Nicole Buchler, Sui Sui, 15- 7¾. 4, Fabiana Murer, Brazil, 15-5. 5, Wilma Murto, Fin Fin, 14-9. 6, Nikoleta KyriakopouLou, Greece, 14-9. 6, Katie Nageotte, United States, 14-9. 8, Holly Bradshaw, Britain, 14-3¼. Triple Jump — 1, Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstan, 47-11¼. 2, Caterine Ibarguen, Colombia, 47-9¼. 3, Olga Saladukha, Ukraine, 47-3. 4, Kimberly Williams, Jamaica, 47-1½. 5, Paraskeví Papahristou, Greece, 46-9½. 6, Liadagmis Povea, Cuba, 45-8. 7, Shanieka Thomas, Jamaica, 45-76½. 8, Laura Samuel, Britain, 43-0½. Shot Put — 1, Tia Brooks, United States, 64-8¾. 2, Valerie Adams, New Zealand, 64-5. 3, Cleopatra Borel, Trinidad and Tobago, 61-7½. 4, Anita Marton, Hungary, 60-4¾. 5, Jillian Camarena-Williams, United States, 58- 2½. 6, Brittany Smith, United States, 55-2¼. 7, Sophie Mckinna, Britain, 54- 1¼. 8, Rachel Wallader, Britain, 53-11¾. Javelin — 1, Madara Palameika, Latvia, 215-6. 2, Kathryn Mitchell, Australia, 209-9. 3, Linda Stahl, Germany, 202-2. 4, Christina Obergfoli, Germany, 201-0. 5, Elizabeth Gleadle, Canada, 200-1. 6, Brittany Borman, United States, 192-9. 7, Sunette Viljoen, South Africa, 192-0. 8, Kathrina Molitor, Germany, 191-7. 9, Goldie Sayers, Britain, 187-3. '

2016-06-05 19:08 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

99 Reports of violence as 12 Mexican states vote for governors XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — Government and political leaders reported scattered incidents of election-related violence in Mexico on Sunday as 12 states voted for new governors. In Veracruz, a two-party alliance backing an opposition candidate complained of attacks against party members in seven municipalities, including vehicles being burned and gasoline bombs thrown at a party office in the state capital of Xalapa. Jose Mancha Alarcon, the state leader of the National Action Party said attackers burst into the home of the mayor of Acajete and set it on fire. In the town of Emiliano Zapata, near Xalapa, a severed human head was left in a park just steps from a polling station. Veracruz state Public Security Secretary Arturo Bermudez confirmed that the driver for a local lawmaker was kidnapped. The lawmaker is part of the opposition alliance's gubernatorial campaign. Meanwhile, threatening text messages warning people not to vote were sent to cellphones in Veracruz. Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that attackers with clubs and stones damaged dozens of buses carrying campaign material in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. It said a mob in the southern state of Oaxaca burned some ballots and threatened to prevent polling stations from opening, while in Zacatecas a gasoline bomb was tossed at the door of the state congress. Veracruz is the biggest prize in Sunday's gubernatorial elections, which could shape the fortunes of the country's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in its bid to hold onto the presidency in 2018. In five of the 12 statehouses up for grabs, including Veracruz, the party has ruled uninterrupted for more than 80 years. Voters are also deciding local races in Baja California. In the campaign for mayor of the border city of Tijuana, controversial former security chief Julian Leyzaola has a chance. Leyzaola has been credited with calming the city's bloodshed before moving on to do the same in Ciudad Juarez, but also criticized for his strong-arm tactics. In Juarez he was shot and can no longer walk. In Mexico City, voters will select 60 members of a constituent assembly who will write a constitution for the capital.

2016-06-05 19:02 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

100 'Ninja Turtles' wrest top box office spot from 'X-Men' The 3-D action sequel "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" debuted on top of the North American box office with relatively modest earnings of $35.3 million, industry estimates showed Sunday. Starring Megan Fox, the latest film in a franchise based on an eighties comic book series and subsequent TV cartoon performed surprisingly well in this sequel-heavy summer. "X- Men: Apocalypse" -- the ninth installment in the series -- fell to number two after making $22.3 million, in a troubling second weekend considering its blockbuster cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence. The romantic tearjerker "Me Before You" nabbed number three in its opening weekend with $18.3 million in ticket sales. The film, based on a best-selling novel of the same name, stars Emilia Clarke of "Game of Thrones. " Big-budget industry disappointment "Alice Through the Looking Glass," starring Johnny Depp, fell to number four, grossing just under $10.7 million in its second weekend. The 3-D animation comedy inspired by a video game "The Angry Birds Movie" fell to fifth place, making $9.8 million. Final industry weekend figures will be released Monday. Rounding out the top 10 films of the weekend were: -- "Captain America: Civil War" ($7.6 million) -- "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising" ($4.7 million) -- "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" ($4.6 million) -- "The Jungle Book" ($4.2 million) -- "The Nice Guys" ($3.5 million)

2016-06-05 19:02 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

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