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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-06-20 00:01 1 Turkey border guards 'shot Syrian children' Turkish border guards have shot dead at least eight Syrians, (2.06/3) including four children, who were trying to cross into Turkey, activists say. 2016-06-19 19:37 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 2 Ministers must deny publicly they were never approached by Guptas‚ says COPE

(1.02/3) Congress of the People (COPE) is demanding that every minister and deputy minister make public a sworn affidavit denying ever having been approached by someone from the Gupta family or the Zuma family‚ “together or separately‚ to lend support for any kind of an egregious business deal or... 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 3 Army colonel shot dead in Zamboanga City ZAMBOANGA CITY -- An Army colonel was shot and killed here on Sunday night. Lieutenant Colonel Cristobal Julian Paolo "Tiny"

(1.02/3) Perez, 46, was shot around 9:20 p.m. Sunday, in his 2016-06-20 00:00 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 4 Texts of shooter's police exchanges to be released US authorities will release "limited transcripts" of Orlando gunman (1.02/3) Omar Mateen and police negotiators' telephone conversations. 2016-06-19 19:24 2KB www.news24.com 5 Rosberg wins first European GP in Baku Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led from start to finish and won Sunday's European Grand Prix on the Baku street circuit, (1.02/3) extending his lead in the Formula 1 championship from nine points to 24. 2016-06-19 17:05 3KB www.wheels24.co.za 6 Indian cricketers not involved in Zim rape Two Indian nationals have been arrested in Harare after being accused of rape, but reports that they are members of the Indian (1.02/3) cricket team are incorrect, officials say. 2016-06-19 15:42 1KB www.news24.com 7 Remain or Leave? Watch the numbers below the headlines How the free market of T20 is reshaping world cricket (0.05/3) The lesson of the 2015 general election is to look for the clues underneath the surface. 2016-06-19 19:42 13KB www.newstatesman.com

8 Row over Indian official's alleged role in Zimbabwe rape case

(0.03/3) The second-string Indian cricket team's tour of Zimbabwe was today struck by a controversy after an official associated with one of the sponsors of the series was arrested on charges of rape even though he denied involvement in the incident 2016-06-19 21:20 3KB www.mid-day.com 9 'Fart-in' planned for Hillary convention

(0.01/3) speech Contact WND (TRUTHDIG) Philadelphia: Cheri Honkala, the leader of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, announced that her group was organizing the world’s largest “fart-in” to be held on July 28 at the Wells Fargo Center during Hillary Clinton’s anticipated acceptance speech for the Democratic... 2016-06-19 16:48 1KB www.wnd.com 10 Government committed to land restitution The government says it is committed to reversing the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Act‚ the implementation of which instigated a long and devastating history of forced removals and evictions of Africans from their ancestral lands. 2016-06-20 00:00 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 11 Adapt quickly or lose‚ says Morris After six matches in the triseries‚ and with the seventh - between Australia and SA - starting at 7pm (SA time) on Sunday‚ Chris Morris has figured out what it takes to succeed. 2016-06-20 00:00 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 12 Bafana have to step up a gear ahead of Wednesday's Cosafa Cup semifinal South Africa will need to ramp up their combination play significantly from Saturday’s rusty penalties victory against Lesotho if they are to progress past the Cosafa Cup semifinals. 2016-06-20 00:00 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 13 Alleged Ponzi firm uses new name, fails to fool SEC THE SECURITIES and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed in the Department of Justice another criminal complaint against the directors and incorporators of One Lightning Corp., a direct selling and 2016-06-20 00:00 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 14 Bishops: Pray ‘Oratio’ for new leaders THE ARCHDIOCESE of Manila has issued an “Oratio Imperata,” or obligatory prayer, to be recited for nine days before the newly elected officials of the country take the reins of office on June 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

15 Longer, stricter prison terms better than hanging, says Atienza HOW ABOUT a 40-year minimum prison term for hardened criminals instead of death by hanging? A prolife representative who is against the death penalty has proposed longer life sentences for 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 16 Risa: Rody can’t stop Senate probes CEBU CITY—Senator-elect Risa Hontiveros said on Sunday she would push for a “strong and independent” Senate to maintain the checks and balances among the three branches of 2016-06-20 00:00 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 17 12 barong choices for Rody DAVAO CITY—What to wear to his inauguration on June 30 is the last thing on President-elect Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte’s mind: He has at least a dozen barong Tagalog to choose from. But his 2016-06-20 00:00 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 18 Brillantes: Allowing late filing bad for next polls A FORMER chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sunday said the poll body’s decision to grant the request of the Liberal Party and its standard-bearer Mar Roxas for an extension of 2016-06-20 00:00 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 19 Museum, e-library to take House into cyber world THE HOUSE of Representatives inaugurates this week its digitized library and museum which will hold its historical records and other information about the lower chamber. Outgoing Speaker 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 20 Paje: DENR building demolition a mistake OUTGOING Environment Secretary Ramon Paje admitted the “error” in demolishing an old two-story Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) building in Quezon City when it was only 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 21 [VIDEO]: Second EgyptAir 804 Flight Data Recorder Recovered From Ocean Bottom Investigators told AFP Friday the second black box from Paris to Cairo EgyptAir Flight 804 has been recovered by search teams, The Indian Express reported. On Thursday, search teams were able to retreive the first black box in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused... 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB article.wn.com 22 Trey Parker and Matt Stone Discuss “South Park” Game at E3 2016 [VIDEO] South Park: The Fractured But Whole does not only showcase a clever, albeit cheeky, pun. The infamous potty-mouthed children also return to fight crime as well as try to establish what it truly means to be a superhero. Despite maintaining its turn-based combat... 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB article.wn.com 23 GOP Wants to Declare War On Islamic Ideology In Wake Of Orlando Shooting Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Republicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” By faulting and condemning President Barack Obama and other Democrats for not issuing a declaration of war on the... 2016-06-20 00:00 2KB article.wn.com 24 Pakistan has not declined NIA team's visit to probe P'kot attack: SushmaSwaraj India today said Pakistan has not refused to allow an NIA team to visit that country to probe the Pathankot airbase attack case and just sought 2016-06-19 21:17 5KB www.mid-day.com 25 Speculation rife on Raghuram Rajan's successor with over a dozen names Speculation was rife today on who will succeed Raghuram Rajan as RBI Governor with over a dozen names doing the rounds, including that of Deputy Governor Urjit Patel, former CAG Vinod Rai and SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya 2016-06-19 21:08 4KB www.mid-day.com 26 106-year-old woman becomes oldest Olympic torch bearer Three years after becoming the world's oldest skydiver, Aida Gemanque became the oldest Olympic torch bearer on Saturday when she carried the flame in the Amazonian city of Macapa, aged 106 2016-06-19 20:11 1KB www.mid-day.com 27 Woman gives birth to 'Siamese twins' in Maharashtra In a rare case, a 22-year-old woman has given birth to 'Siamese twins' at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Latur district of Maharashtra, doctors said on Sunday 2016-06-19 20:01 1KB www.mid-day.com 28 Woman doctor alleges 'harassment' by Maharashtra health minister's PS A woman doctor from Jalgaon district has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis alleging she was 'harassed' by the state Health Minister Deepak Sawant's Personal Secretary, a charge denied by the official 2016-06-19 19:58 2KB www.mid-day.com 29 International Day of Yoga celebrated in France The second International Day of Yoga was celebrated on Saturday at the Parc de La Villette -- the largest urban cultural park in Paris 2016-06-19 19:49 2KB www.mid-day.com 30 Woman with baby carjacked outside OK Cafe A woman carjacked outside the OK Cafe in Buckhead said she was about to strap her 1-year-old in the car at the time. 2016-06-19 19:46 928Bytes www.ajc.com 31 Swipe right for like: can non-arthouse foreign films succeed in Britain? The Raleigh Ringers and the joy of handbells A look at Polish romcom Planeta Singli, plus Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetary of Splendour. 2016-06-19 19:42 9KB www.newstatesman.com 32 Zim troops, cops will have to wait for money The cash-strapped Zimbabwean government has delayed paying military and police salaries by two weeks because of "severe revenue under-performance", it says. 2016-06-19 19:28 2KB www.news24.com 33 To Russia with Bugs 500 million insects will head to Russia as part of the country's effort to help them improve their local agriculture markets. 2016-06-19 19:26 2KB www.jpost.com 34 Sumit Sangwan enters last-16 of AIBA Olympic Qualifiers Indian boxer Sumit Sangwan (81kg) on Sunday advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the AIBA World Olympic Qualification tournament after notching up a hard-fought win over eighth seed Juan Carlos Carrillo of Colombia in Baku, Azerbaijan 2016-06-19 19:24 2KB www.mid-day.com

35 Netanyahu spent NIS 2 million on residences The vast majority of the money (close to NIS 1.7 million) was spent on the Jerusalem residence, while just under NIS 300,000 was spent on his private residence residence. 2016-06-19 19:10 2KB www.jpost.com 36 Chautauqua History Alive! Festival Continues in Asheville KMorgan 1290 posts 2016-06-19 18:40 3KB www.thetribunepapers.com 37 Shiv Sena to bear medical expenses of woman pushed out of train Maharashtra Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde said the party will bear medical expenses of the woman, who was pushed out of a moving train by a man 2016-06-19 19:01 1KB www.mid-day.com 38 Raghuram Rajan acted as Congress agent: Subramanian Swamy Continuing his tirade against Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, BJP's Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said Rajan has been acting as a 2016-06-19 18:59 1KB www.mid-day.com 39 IDF officer slammed as 'traitor' for testifying against soldier in Hebron shooting case IDF chief and politicians from Right and Left come out in support of officer. 2016-06-19 18:53 3KB www.jpost.com 40 MLB Baseball Box Scores MINNEAPOLIS -- For six innings on Saturday, the New York Yankees' offense could get nothing going against Minnesota Twins starting pitcher... 2016-06-19 18:39 4KB scoresandstats.newyork.cbslocal.com 41 Turkey LGBT: Scuffles at banned Istanbul transgender event Turkish riot police fire tear gas and plastic bullets after transgender rights activists gather in Istanbul in defiance of a ban on marching. 2016-06-19 19:37 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

42 Former Vanderbilt college football player convicted of rape A former college football player is convicted after a jury found that he encouraged teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating. 2016-06-19 19:37 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 43 Mexico 'Voice' singer Alejandro Fuentes shot in Chicago A former contestant on Mexico's version of The Voice TV talent show is shot dead in Chicago. 2016-06-19 19:37 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 44 IS conflict: Falluja 'humanitarian disaster' warning A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Falluja, aid workers say, with civilians fleeing as Iraqi government forces drive back Islamic State fighters. 2016-06-19 19:37 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 45 Russia Lake Syamozero: Children die after storm catches boating group At least 11 children and an adult die after a storm catches a boating party on Lake Syamozero in northern Russia's Karelia region. 2016-06-19 19:37 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 46 Algeria blocks social media to beat exam cheats Algeria temporarily blocks access to social media in an attempt to combat cheating in the main secondary school exam, the baccalaureat. 2016-06-19 19:37 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 47 Violence outside venue where ANC was to brief structures on mayoral candidate Violence broke out near the Tshwane Showground on Sunday where the ANC was set to hold a briefing session regarding the mayoral candidate for the metro. 2016-06-19 18:39 2KB www.news24.com 48 Girl impressively catches a massive catfish with her bare hands While some people opt to use a line, hook, rod and reel when fishing, this girl did away with it all and impressively caught a massive catfish by using just her bare hands. 2016-06-19 17:27 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 49 Black box recorders from doomed Egyptair flight are so severely damaged they will take 'lots of time and effort' to fix before they reveal what caused it to crash Air crash investigators in Egypt say they fear the two black boxes from the flight which crashed over the Mediterranean, are too damaged and may have to be repaired before they can be analysed. 2016-06-19 17:23 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

56 Oregon DA is gunning for justice in review of convictions BEND, Oregon (AP) — At first, authorities in Oregon believed the lab tech had been stealing drugs from just one batch of evidence. Then they saw drugs were m... 2016-06-19 16:39 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 57 As 10-year war anniversary nears, Israel to receive new stealth fighter jets Ten years after Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah is armed with surface to air missiles and a vast rocket arsenal, and the fifth- generation aircraft will be key in helping the IAF tackle these threats. 2016-06-19 17:38 2KB www.jpost.com 58 24 dead, 26 missing in Indonesian floods, landslides: Official Flash flooding and landslides in Indonesia have killed 24 and left more than two dozen missing, an official said, with mud avalanches burying people inside their homes 2016-06-19 17:37 2KB www.mid- day.com 59 Chief Rabbinate says new Hashgacha Pratit certificates illegal, ready to issue fines In a decision earlier this month, the High Court of Justice ruled that a legal loophole allowing restaurants to present themselves as being kosher without using the word “kosher” was unlawful. 2016-06-19 17:37 3KB www.jpost.com 60 When elections get tricky Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) deputy chairperson Terry Tselane’s job to deliver a free and fair election has proven a little more demanding for this year’s local government elections than in any other prior year. 2016-06-19 17:35 5KB www.news24.com 61 Keys captures second career title in Birmingham American Madison Keys celebrated moving into the world's top 10 for the first time by winning the grass title in Birmingham in emphatic style on Sunday. The... 2016-06-19 16:32 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 62 Prince William urges fathers to discuss mental health issues with their children The Duke of Cambridge, 33, met with families including Mark Conneely and his five-year-old triplets to discuss the importance of mental well-being for the Heads Together campaign. 2016-06-19 16:29 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

63 DA invites social development minister on shopping trip to see what R753 can buy With nearly a quarter of South Africa's children experiencing stunted growth, the Democratic Alliance has challenged Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to go shopping to see if an entire family could eat healthily for an entire month on R753. 2016-06-19 17:26 2KB www.news24.com 64 Will Chelsea Clinton raise her second child Jewish? Clinton and Jewish husband Marc Mezvinsky welcome baby boy. 2016-06-19 17:25 2KB www.jpost.com 65 3-year-old twins die after being found in truck in Louisiana BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say 3-year-old twins have died after being found unresponsive in a pickup truck outside their home. Autopsies wi... 2016-06-19 16:20 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 66 I am not a gatecrasher, retorts Vijay Mallya after book event row Vijay Mallya, declared a proclaimed offender in a money laundering case, today said he was not a 'gate crasher', suggesting that he was invited to the book launch event here which was also attended by the Indian High Commissioner 2016-06-19 17:18 2KB www.mid-day.com 67 Monsoon enters Maharashtra from Vidarbha The much-awaited monsoon changed its course to enter Maharashtra through Vidarbha instead of Konkan - its usual entry point on Saturday. This is due to the impact of West Bengal wind branch activeness 2016-06-19 17:12 2KB www.mid-day.com 68 Cycling-Road-Tour de Suisse stage 9 results June 19 (Gracenote) - Results from Tour de Suisse (La Punt - Davos, 57 km) on Sunday 1. Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia / IAM Cycling) 1:23:55" 2. Sergey Chernet... 2016-06-19 16:03 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 69 Social media slams the new campaign advert for the Australian Liberal Party The hashtag #FakeTradie trended on Twitter users slammed the new campaign advert for the Australian Liberal Party just hours after its first broadcast on Sunday night. 2016-06-19 16:03 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 70 Miranda Tapsell believes Love Child helped her gain recognition She often talks about the lack of racial diversity on Australian TV screens. And in a new interview, the star has revealed she believes her role in Love Child has introduced her to mainstream Australia. 2016-06-19 16:02 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 71 Murray beats Raonic to claim 5th Queen's Club title LONDON (AP) — Britain's Andy Murray claimed a record fifth title at Queen's Club on Sunday as the top-seeded defending champion recovered from a set and 3-0... 2016-06-19 16:02 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 72 Herzog rejects spokesman’s statement that settlers ‘destroying our future’ Herzog's spokesman Ofer Newman wrote the Facebook post on Friday, after seeing the controversial documentary film The Settlers. 2016-06-19 17:01 4KB www.jpost.com 73 Keeping the drugs out: Jails, prisons find a steep challenge CONCORD, N. H. (AP) — As the nation stares down a heroin and opioid crisis, corrections officials and lawmakers are seeking new ways to keep drugs out of jail... 2016-06-19 15:52 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 74 5 added to drug probe at Air Force nuke base Contact WND (AIR FORCE TIMES) WASHINGTON — Five more airmen are under investigation for illegal drug activity at a nuclear missile base in Wyoming, bringing the total to 19 and expanding the probe beyond the security forces group initially implicated, the Air Force said Wednesday. An Air... 2016-06-19 16:49 1KB www.wnd.com 75 Feminist: Toddler's gator death 'social justice' Contact WND (DAILY WIRE) Tuesday night outside a Walt Disney World hotel, a 2-year-old boy was snatched by an alligator and dragged into a lagoon in front of his vacationing parents. The father, attempting to rescue his baby boy, wrestled the alligator in vain... 2016-06-19 16:48 1KB www.wnd.com 76 Hacktivists: ISIS recruiters in U. S., hunting teen girls Contact WND ISIS recruiters inside and outside of the U. S. are hunting young American teenagers – mostly non-Muslim girls between 13 and 15 – and trying to convince them to conduct terror attacks on the nation, warns a “hacktivist” group. BinarySec, a group of self... 2016-06-19 16:48 5KB www.wnd.com 77 Big brouhaha over 'Best Butt' award for waitress Contact WND (INDIANAPOLIS STAR) Scotty’s Brewhouse has fired at least one member of management after a Southport waitress received an unwanted “award” for having the “best butt” on staff. Scotty’s owner Scott Wise in a statement issued to IndyStar called Monday’s incident at his Southport restaurant “unsanctioned and unapproved... 2016-06-19 16:48 1KB www.wnd.com 78 'Rape-culture' protest at all-girls school Contact WND (STAR TRIBUNE) St. Catherine University has cut ties with an event organizer, Heartland Inc., after protesters accused both the school and the company’s owners of being insensitive to rape survivors. On Monday, student demonstrators denounced what they called a “toxic rape culture”... 2016-06-19 16:47 1KB www.wnd.com 79 Video shows moment plane passengers fight because a woman 'wouldn't stop complaining' Hainan Airlines flight HU7737 was scheduled to depart Beijing Airport at 9.50pm and land in Xi'an at 11.55pm local time on Saturday. It didn't get there until almost 5am on Sunday. 2016-06-19 15:46 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 80 Crews make progress against Western fires, brace for winds LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters battling home-threatening wildfires in the West are bracing for gusty winds and scorching heat on Sunday. They made progress... 2016-06-19 15:42 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 81 WXYZ staff earns 10 awards at the 38th Michigan Emmy Awards The 38th Michigan Emmy Awards were held on Saturday night at the MotorCity Casino Sound Board Theater. 2016-06-19 12:30 772Bytes www.wxyz.com

82 Are you struggling to pay back your car loan? If you are under financial strain and battling to finance your vehicle repayments then credit providers will definitely take action against you. But there is help at hand. 2016-06-19 16:24 3KB www.fin24.com 83 ANC list war imperils Nelson Mandela Bay win Provincial ANC leaders in the Eastern Cape are having to put out fires after disgruntled members in Nelson Mandela Bay declared war when told the party list submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) could not be changed. 2016-06-19 16:23 6KB www.news24.com 84 Dozens protest rising fuel prices in Syria capital Dozens of protesters gathered in Damascus on Sunday for a rare demonstration in front of Syria's parliament against a 40 percent hike in fuel prices announce... 2016-06-19 15:22 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 85 Max Dupain’s classics sell for over $1million at auction A collection of 500 pictures from the family collection of Australia's most famous photographer, Max Dupain, have sold for more than $1million breaking Australian auction records. 2016-06-19 15:21 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 86 Dads find inventive ways to entertain their children (and themselves) in hilarious photos The snaps shared online show dads who have found how to keep their children entertained, while amusing themselves in the process. One father feeds his baby while drinking a bottle of beer. 2016-06-19 15:16 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 87 Gisele shares beach shot with Tom Brady while Kelly Rowland celebrates as celebs mark Father’s Day The 35-year-old model kicked off a series of heartwarming Father's Day posts on Sunday with an adorable shot of her husband playing on the beach with his sons. 2016-06-19 15:15 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk

88 CCTV video shows a man walking his dog in Melbourne seconds before he was stabbed to death Chilling CCTV footage shows the moment before a mechanic was stabbed to death in a gruesome attack while he was walking his pet husky to relieve itself near his shop in Melbourne's south-east. 2016-06-19 15:14 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 89 Event celebrating whistleblowers marks Assange embassy milestone A global event celebrating whistleblowers and freedom of expression will be held to mark the fourth anniversary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in... 2016-06-19 15:06 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 90 ‘Beyond the Gates’ Review This fun if unmemorable occult thriller sports — all too faithfully at times — both the typical pleasures and shortcomings of the grade- B ’80s movies it pays homage to. 2016-06-19 09:05 5KB variety.com 91 Florida man Angelo Ruth charged in cold case murder of Mattie Henry after TNT show Angelo Ruth, 60, of Fort Myers, Florida, is charged with killing Mattie Henry, 40, in 1993 for her life insurance policy, police said. He was arrested TNT's Cold Justice revealed key evidence. 2016-06-19 14:58 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 92 Rebels in Turkish nationalist party move closer to ousting leader ISTANBUL, June 19 (Reuters) - Dissidents in Turkey's nationalist MHP opposition party took a step closer on Sunday to ousting their veteran leader, a move wh... 2016-06-19 14:58 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 93 April Rose Pengilly reveals she enjoyed a kiss with Matthew Le Nevez in Brock The former model telling Daily Mail Australia on Sunday she enjoyed an onscreen 'pash' with her 'crush' Matthew Le Nevez. 2016-06-19 14:52 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 94 Parents overwhelmed by support after gator kills toddler The parents of a Nebraska toddler killed by an alligator at Disney World say they are overwhelmed by the support they have received since their son's death. 2016-06-19 15:51 1KB www.news24.com 95 Suspected drug dealer nabbed in Benoni A 20-year-old Nigerian, suspected of being an alleged drug dealer, was arrested in Benoni after being found in possession of CAT valued at R100 000, the Ekhurhuleni Metro Police Department has reported. 2016-06-19 15:51 1018Bytes www.news24.com 96 ANC member's son shot dead in Elsies River The 17-year-old son of a Western Cape ANC member, Caroline Witbooi, has been shot dead in Elsies River, close to where the party was conducting door-to-door campaigns. 2016-06-19 15:51 1KB www.news24.com 97 Record heat sparks warnings, boosts fires in western United States By Ian Simpson June 19 (Reuters) - Fire warnings were in place across three western U. S. states on Sunday as record-breaking heat threatened to feed wildfire... 2016-06-19 14:46 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 98 Government okays NIS 74 million allocation to West Bank settlements Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz criticized the allocation, saying that he wishes the communities in the country's periphery would get similar funds. 2016-06-19 15:38 3KB www.jpost.com 99 Box Office: ‘Finding Dory’ Scores Record $136.2 Million Opening Family audiences turned out in droves over the weekend, propelling “Finding Dory” to a massive $136.2 million debut and establishing a new record for an animated film opening. The seque… 2016-06-19 08:18 1KB variety.com 100 Mia Wasikowska keeps it chic in blue polka dot dress and brown loafers in Japan The 26-year-old looked truly flawless as she stepped out at Narita International Airport in Japan on Sunday, without a scrap of makeup on her face. 2016-06-19 14:14 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles

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1 Turkey border guards 'shot Syrian children' (2.06/3) Turkish border guards have shot dead at least eight Syrians, including four children, who were trying to cross into Turkey, activists say. A further eight people were injured, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group. It happened at a border crossing north of the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shugour, which is controlled by jihadist groups. The Turkish military insists guards fired only warning shots and that the Syrians dispersed. Syria: The story of the conflict Syria's displaced struggle to survive Turkey says it is being unjustly accused, and is under immense pressure from the EU to stop Syrians trying to travel to Europe. More than 2.7 million people who fled the war in Syria have taken refuge in Turkey. Turkey closed its borders to Syrians several months ago. The Associated Press news agency quoted a senior Turkish official as saying: "We are unable to independently verify the claims" regarding the shooting, but said authorities were investigating. As well as four children, three women and a man were also killed, the Observatory said. Other Syrian opposition groups put the death toll at 11. Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 60 civilians have been shot while trying to flee across the border from Syria into Turkey, the Observatory says.

4 children among 8 fleeing Syrians killed by Turkish border guards: Monitor atimes.com

Turkish border guards fire on fleeing Syrians, 8 dead: monitor dailymail.co.uk 2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

2 Ministers must deny publicly they were never approached by Guptas‚ says COPE (1.02/3) If after that any story should break‚ such as the Sunday Times lead story about the “Guptas’ R51-bn train grab”‚ the minister or deputy minister unmasked should have to resign‚ COPE said on Sunday. “[ANC secretary general Gwede] Mantashe’s conveniently aborted investigation that investigated nothing and buried everything was the farce of the century. More than three quarters of the country no longer believe that the ANC is capable of tackling the issue of state capture. “The ANC elite have stepped into the river of corruption so far that to turn back now‚ as Shakespeare would have said‚ would be as tedious as going over‚” said COPE spokesman Dennis Bloem. “The time has therefore come for the public to demand accountability because the ANC caucus in the legislature has perjured itself by failing to do what it had solemnly sworn to do: subject the executive to scrutiny and hold the cabinet accountable to it. MPs want to hang on to their pay cheques whichever way they can. “Only through sustained public pressure will ministers and deputy ministers whose hands are clean lead in making affidavits that they never ever dealt with Duduzane or the Gupta family in any way. Those who have something or plenty to hide will show themselves by ducking and diving‚” Bloem added. It was also important‚ he said‚ to ask whether Ben Martins had lost his ministerial position because he didn’t play ball with the Guptas or because he moved too slowly for their liking. “Our suspicions have been aroused. It is unfortunate that Ben Martins missed the recent opportunity to disclose what is now being revealed of his own accord. He had a duty to do so but flunked it. “Only intense public pressure will reveal all the moves on the monopoly board that Duduzane and the Gupta family have been making since Duduzane's dad took the chair in the presidency‚” Bloem said. Will ministers make public sworn affidavits about Guptas? fin24.com 2016-06-20 00:00 TMG Digital www.timeslive.co.za

3 Army colonel shot dead in Zamboanga City (1.02/3) ZAMBOANGA CITY — An Army colonel was shot and killed here on Sunday night. Lieutenant Colonel Cristobal Julian Paolo “Tiny” Perez, 46, was shot around 9:20 p.m. Sunday , in his residence in Buenbrazo Drive, Barangay (village) Guiwan here. “He was declared dead at 10:45 p.m. at the Zamboanga Peninsula Hospital,” said Supt. Luisito Magnaye, city police chief. Perez was the G1 commander of the 1st Tabak Infantry Division in Pulacan, Zamboanga del Sur. He came here to celebrate Father’s Day with his wife May. Perez was a graduate of PMA Class 1993. SFM Youth shot dead in Nashik mid-day.com 2016-06-20 00:00 Julie S newsinfo.inquirer.net

4 Texts of shooter's police exchanges to be released (1.02/3) Washington -US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Sunday that the authorities would release "limited transcripts" of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen and police negotiators' telephone conversations during his attack at a gay nightclub that left 49 people dead. "He talked about American policy in some ways," she said. But Lynch said the transcript would cover only portions of the telephone exchanges with police negotiators so as "to avoid revictimising those who went through this horror. " Mateen, a 29-year-old Muslim security guard armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, stormed into the Pulse nightclub on June 12 in Orlando, raking the crowd with gunfire. The attack then turned into a three hour hostage-taking that ended with a police SWAT team retaking the venue by force and shooting Mateen dead. Act of hate Mateen, described by his ex-wife as physically abusive and given to fits of anger, appears to have had mixed motives. His father said Mateen had been upset at the sight of a gay couple kissing, but other witnesses said he had been a repeat patron at Pulse and used gay dating apps. Alongside that was a history of FBI investigations into him for possible Islamic extremism. Lynch called the Orlando massacre "an act of terrorism and an act of hate, targeted against a community, the LGBT community, the Latino community. " However, she said Mateen didn't get into his feelings about gays in his exchanges with police. "So we're still exploring why he chose this particular place to attack," she said.

'Limited transcripts' of Orlando shooters exchanges with police to be released: Lynch dailymail.co.uk 2016-06-19 19:24 www.news24.com

5 Rosberg wins first European GP in Baku (1.02/3) ROSBERG'S GOT HIS GROOVE BACK: Mercedes' Nico Rosberg has extended his lead in the championship by winning the first race in Baku Azerbaijan. Image: AFP / Andrej Isakovic Baku, Azerbaijan — Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led from start to finish and won Sunday's European Grand Prix on the Baku street circuit, extending his lead in the Formula 1 championship from nine points to 24. Incident-free race Despite expectations of crashes and safety-car periods in the narrow circuit, there was little on-track action and the safety car remained in the pits throughout as Rosberg won by 16.6 seconds from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. As it happened: 2016 European GP Force India's Sergio Perez passed Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the penultimate lap and took third. Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton made up several places early after starting tenth, but a problem with the Mercedes hybrid power system — and his team's inability to tell him how to fix it — saw him finish fifth. Rosberg: "For me the weekend went perfectly - everything went to plan "Thanks for welcoming us to Baku" #EuropeGP pic.twitter.com/n1o5b2qA1L After winning the first four races of the season, Rosberg had watched with alarm as Hamilton won the past two to cut his lead to single figures, but the win gives him some breathing room coming into the European heart of the season. "Everything went to plan for me so it was really awesome," Rosberg said. "The weekend went perfectly. " Williams' Valtteri Bottas was sixth, ahead of the Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, who struggled on the soft tires in the first half of the race, and were forced into making two pit stops while those ahead needed just one. Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Williams' Felipe Massa completed the top ten. Results from the Formula 1 European Grand Prix in Baku: 1. Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) 1hr 32min 52.366sec, 2. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Ferrari) at 16.696sec, 3. Sergio Perez (MEX/Force India) 25.241, 4. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) 33.102, 5. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 56.335, 6. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams) 1:00.886, 7. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull) 1:09.229, 8. Max Verstappen (NED/Red Bull) 1:10.696, 9. Nico Hulkenberg (GER/Force India) 1:17.708, 10. Felipe Massa (BRA/Williams) 1:25.375, 11. Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren) 1:44.817, 12. Felipe Nasr (BRA/Sauber) 1 lap, 13. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Haas) 1 lap, 14. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/Renault) 1 lap, 15. Jolyon Palmer (GBR/Renault) 1 lap, 16. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX/Haas) 1 lap, 17. Marcus Ericsson (SWE/Sauber) 1 lap, 18. Rio Haryanto (INA/Manor) 2 laps

Nico Rosberg clinches European Grand Prix win in Baku to extend Formula One championship lead as his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton is hindered by team radio ban dailymail.co.uk 2016-06-19 17:05 www.wheels24.co.za

6 Indian cricketers not involved in Zim rape (1.02/3) Harare - Two Indian nationals,who were arrested in Harare after being accused of rape, were not members of the Indian cricket team, officials confirmed on Sunday. An article in a Zimbabwean publication claimed that an Indian player involved in the ongoing cricket tour to Zimbabwe had been picked up by police following an allegation made by a Zimbabwean woman. However, security officials looking after the team said that none of the players had been involved, which was confirmed by a Zimbabwean police spokesperson and the Indian Foreign Office. The misleading reports appear to have stemmed from the Zimbabwe police's lack of familiarity with the Indian team. One of the two men arrested was part of an Indian company that is contracted by Zimbabwe Cricket to engage with sponsors during incoming tours and was in the country for the current series. The two men appeared in court on Friday and were held in custody over the weekend. They are expected to apply for bail in the High Court on Monday. A young and inexperienced Indian side whitewashed Zimbabwe 3-0 in a one-day series, but were shocked by two runs in the first Twenty20 international on Saturday. The final two Twenty20 games of the tour will take place on Monday and Wednesday.

No Indian cricketer involved in alleged rape in Zimbabwe: Sources mid-day.com 2016-06-19 15:42 www.news24.com

7 Remain or Leave? Watch the numbers below the headlines How the free market of T20 is reshaping world cricket (0.05/3) After a long campaign, we are now only a week away from the vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union. Everyday sees fresh fluctuations in the headline poll numbers for Remain or Leave as the public hears the arguments and counter arguments for and against being part of the EU. There are still ten days until results are declared and, as we saw in the Scottish referendum , a lot could change in that time. But are there any clues in the numbers below the surface to indicate which way voters might lean when deciding Britain's European destiny? To answer this we have to go back to the 2015 general election. Pollsters of all shapes and sizes got the outcome wrong. But had we scratched beneath the surface of our polls the data was there to indicate the coming Conservative victory. How? Well, because while we got the headline voting intention numbers wrong (showing a far closer race between the Conservatives and Labour in terms of voting intention than was actually the case), the non-horserace numbers on leadership, the economy and trust as the top issues of the day gave heavy hints about a Conservative victory. Simply put, if pollsters had asked voters every question except 'who are you going to vote for' we'd have seen a clear preference by voters for David Cameron to stay on as Prime Minister and a belief that Labour could not be trusted with the economy, immigration or welfare. Only on the issue of the NHS did Labour lead the Conservatives and that issue was eclipsed in terms of importance to voters by leadership, the economy and immigration (and sometimes welfare, too). That's why we think it's important now to look beyond the headline figures on Brexit to see past who is ahead or behind by one or two points at the moment to seek out the underlying numbers that may give us a clearer picture as to the public's real thoughts and feelings towards Brexit. To this end we looked at YouGov's data on the major factors and issues that we think are likely to shape the referendum's outcome, namely: the question of risk, the economy, the personal impact of staying or leaving, the idea of control and immigration, and trust in the campaigns' leaders. So let's look at them one by one. Risk Aversion Broadly speaking, voters think that leaving is riskier than remaining and, although there seems to have been a decrease in the “riskiness” of getting out of the EU recently, they still think it is far more risky than staying in. In Scotland, Alex Salmond also successfully “talked up” the risk of remaining (namely, the future risks of a Conservative government) which hasn’t really happened in the EU referendum yet. Count 'Risk' as a win for Remain here. But the problem for Remain is, winning on risk may well be a win in abstract terms only, as our numbers on the economy show. The Economy Voters think that the economy will be worse off if we leave the EU but although this has been the trend during the campaign, it hasn’t yet translated into thinking they will be worse off personally. For as YouGov's Laurence Janta-Lipinski has explained , approaching half of voters still think the outcome will make no difference to them economically. Furthermore, as Professor Phil Cowley’s work with YouGov shows , people say they will vote to remain if they believe they will personally be worse off if Britain leaves the EU (even if it’s just £25)...but despite the Remain campaign throwing everything at this, the 'better off in' argument has not connected with voters. This begs the question as to what those who currently say that leaving or remaining would make “no difference” to their household finances will end up voting. At the moment they say they would vote to Leave. This may be because if the economic argument is evenly balanced for these voters other factors become more important to their decision making, such as the desire to have increased control over the country's borders. Thus on the economy, perhaps the most important determinant in voter decision-making, the picture is truly muddled. This explains in large part why Remain has yet to pull into the lead that many had been expecting. So to win the Remain camp have to either: Convince people that they personally will be worse off or, Win over people who think it will make no difference to them personally. In all likelihood, Remain will now double down on the former and attempt to persuade voters of the economic downside that will personally impact them should Leave win. But should such an approach fail, the other factors in voter decision-making come to the fore. Namely the idea of control and immigration and trust in the leaders of the two campaigns. Control & Immigration We’ve been asking this question “If you HAD to choose one or the other [control of immigration versus the right to trade freely with the EU], which of the following would you prefer?” Here the results show a de facto tie between Remain and Leave - even amongst the all-important swing voters. It should be noted that these numbers have remained broadly unchanged throughout the campaign almost always floating to within a couple of points of 50/50. The Leaders Finally there is the question of trust in the leaders of the two campaigns. Here again the picture is mixed. Of the four Leave leaders and three Remain leaders we regularly ask about, people trust the Leavers more, although this effect disappears entirely if you remove Boris Johnson. The effect also disappears amongst swing voters who distinctly prefer David Cameron to Nigel Farage. Remain's tough challenge So if this were all the information we had, we may well be inclined to say that Leave have the advantage because Remain's risk and economy arguments haven't hit home and voters generally think that controlling immigration is as important as being in the single market. What's more, for all the power and majesty of government, Remain's leaders score similarly on trust as those heading the Leave campaign. But we should also remember that, unlike last year's general election where the top factors and issues polling produced clear leads for the Conservatives over Labour in four out of five measures, the Brexit picture is far more mixed. In essence, a series of ties means Leave have neutralized Remain's chief advantages whilst also elevating their own preferred ground of immigration to the same level of importance as access to the single market. Remain is winning the argument on the likely negative impact leaving would have on the national economy but their argument has not cut through for voters in terms of their own personal situations. So for Leave to win, they need to maintain the status quo of de facto draws across these indicators. For Remain to win, they need to cut through on the personal level with their economic argument and/or make up ground on immigration. Following these numbers over the final ten days is likely to be more illuminating as to the result than just tracking the headline horserace numbers of who's ahead and who's behind. But these figures only tell us what the public are thinking now. As we saw in Scotland, a lot can change in ten days. This post originally appeared on YouGov . Sport is deeply and surprisingly conservative. This explains its susceptibility to sudden landslides: the suppression of gradual evolution makes professional sport vulnerable to significant external interventions. The beneficiaries are entrepreneurial outsiders who are prepared to challenge the existing institutions. This has happened twice to cricket in the modern era. First, in the 1970s, the Australian tycoon Kerry Packer, sensing the frustration of professional players about low pay and dull games, founded a new league called World Series Cricket as an alternative to international matches. “We’re all whores,” Packer liked to say. “Name your price.” The game’s gentlemanly elite howled in horror and the sport was eventually reunited. Packer, however, will be judged kindly by history. Floodlit matches, coloured clothing and white balls have become staples of the modern game. I would go further: they were necessary and positive developments that have helped cricket to survive. Even if Packer’s motives were not quite “half-philanthropic” (as he suggested), his legacy is assured. The second great seismic shock has been the Indian Premier League (IPL), the franchise-based Twenty20 (T20) tournament that has just completed its ninth edition. Christopher Martin-Jenkins, opening the batting for the conservatives, led the chorus of anxiety before its inception in 2008. The IPL, he wrote, marked “the beginning of the end of the epoch when international matches were the main events”. The upside for the players was clear: they could be paid as much as £1m for less than two months’ work. But the game, it was assumed, would collapse over the long term without the steadying hand of the old international structures. Instead, the IPL, for all its flaws and controversies, has brought about a thrilling period of rapid technical and tactical evolution. T20 has become a case study in Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of “creative destruction”. The old guild of Test cricket has been smashed open and cricket’s conventions, jealously guarded by the old high priesthood, have been rewritten. Virat Kohli, A B de Villiers and David Warner are playing a different game from the one I left in 2008. In many respects, it is much better. The mastery of these batsmen is total: power and control, fast scoring and consistency, instinctiveness allied with match awareness, technical assurance and primal athleticism. They are complete players, impossible to categorise using the old labels. All three excel at every format of the game – T20, one- day internationals and Test cricket. But it is T20 that has liberated the full potential of batsmanship. When confronted with a new challenge – to score faster than ever but without getting out – modern players have combined the best elements of classical technique with new daring and determination to master risks. We can now see that cricket’s conservative guild had constrained the game artificially by protecting the consensus that batsmen couldn’t score fast without increasing the risk of dismissal. Under the old conventions, a batsman who hit a six and then took a single was congratulated for his “intelligence” and “sophistication”. The implication is that hitting a six and then immediately following it with another six is suboptimal: absurd, but everyone said it. Caution, artfully masquerading as strategy, dominated the conversation for decades. T20’s new free market – and the prospect of floating to the top of the IPL’s lucrative auction – encouraged batsmen to escape the straitjacket of the coaching manual. Coaches did not anticipate how today’s players would expand the game. The revolution in batsmanship wasn’t planned: it emerged. Evolution, as always, proved cleverer than a single strategic mind. That is why the solution to the travails of Test cricket – which is becoming increasingly marginal – is not yet another round of meetings, hand-wringing and piecemeal legislation. The priority should be the creation of a properly rewarded Test championship. Though my logic may sound uncomfortably materialistic, Test cricket must provide the right opportunities and rewards to encourage evolutionary progress. Instead of telling fans that they are wrong to prefer T20, Test cricket should focus on its own offering. In one respect, the T20 revolution is only half finished. So far, it is batsmen who have evolved the fastest and commanded the highest price. Eventually, bowlers will force their way into the equation. In American football, which has enjoyed a relatively free transfer market for far longer than cricket, one position was discovered to be vastly underpriced. Quarterbacks, the sport’s glamour boys, have always been the highest paid. But what about the players who protect them, who allow the household names to win the game? Eventually, to the amazement of NFL insiders, the market delivered a surprising verdict. By 2006, the highest-paid player at the Super Bowl was still a quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, but the second-highest-paid player was the left tackle Walter Jones, whose job it was to protect Hasselbeck. No one goes to an NFL match to watch the left tackle – most fans couldn’t name him – but the position plays a huge role in determining which team wins, as Michael Lewis demonstrated in his book The Blind Side. So the criticism that T20 has promoted batting and downgraded bowling is premature. Within a few years, a new breed of bowler – probably unflashy but adept at spiking big hitters – will give the game a new equilibrium. Test cricket’s best chance is opening itself up to the same laws of innovation and progress. Over decades as an exclusive members-only club, Test cricket has struggled to grow the game or expand its sphere of influence. Instead of resenting T20, Test cricket should learn from it. Jo Cox represented the best of parliament and the best of Labour How the free market of T20 is reshaping world cricket newstatesman.com

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Jo Cox might be the best foreign secretary Britain never had How the free market of T20 is reshaping world cricket newstatesman.com 2016-06-19 19:42 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

8 Row over Indian official's alleged role in Zimbabwe rape case (0.03/3) New Delhi/Harare : The second-string Indian cricket team's tour of Zimbabwe was today struck by a controversy after an official associated with one of the sponsors of the series was arrested on charges of rape even though he denied involvement in the incident. The storm erupted after the Zimbabwean media reported that an unnamed Indian cricketer had been arrested on charges of rape. The reports stated that India's ambassador to the African nation, R Masakui, had tried to prevent the player's arrest at a Harare hotel. However, Masakui outrightly rejected the media speculation by clarifying that the person arrested was not associated with the Indian squad which is currently engaged in a limited-overs series against Zimbabwe. "This is an unfortunate incident. However, this is to clarify that no cricketer is involved in this. We are seeking Counsellor access to persons and the Indian Embassy in Harare is following up with this case and will inform the government of India of the developments," Masakui said. Official sources in India also denied the reports that set the social media abuzz today. "Regarding media reports of an Indian cricketer being involved in an alleged case of rape in Harare, we have spoken to our Ambassador to Zimbabwe. The report is totally false. No Indian cricketer is involved," the sources said. "An Indian affiliated with one of the sponsors has been arrested. He has also denied the charge and said he is ready for a DNA test to prove his innocence. Our Ambassador is following the matter closely," they added. The BCCI also stepped in to clarify that none of its players or officials were involved in the alleged incident. "There is no truth in these allegations. There is no Indian cricketer or any match official involved in this. They have nothing to do with the incident. And if any individual is involved who is not a part of the BCCI or the team, we can't comment on that," BCCI President Anurag Thakur said. "I just want to make it clear that BCCI employees or the match officials or even the players have nothing to do with this incident," he added. India are currently competing in a three-match Twenty20 series against the hosts after sweeping the ODIs 3-0. The visitors had lost the opening T20 in Harare yesterday and will be playing the second match tomorrow at the same venue. No Indian cricketer involved in alleged rape in Zimbabwe: Sources mid-day.com 2016-06-19 21:20 By PTI www.mid-day.com

9 'Fart-in' planned for Hillary convention speech Contact WND (0.01/3) (TRUTHDIG) Philadelphia: Cheri Honkala, the leader of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, announced that her group was organizing the world’s largest “fart-in” to be held on July 28 at the Wells Fargo Center during Hillary Clinton’s anticipated acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination. “We will be holding a massive bean supper for Bernie Sanders delegates on American Street in my Kensington neighborhood on the afternoon of July 28,” she said. “We are setting up a Clintonville there, modeled on the Hoovervilles of the 1930s where the poor and unemployed built shanty towns. The Sanders delegates, their bellies full of beans, will be able to return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton with the real thing.” Honkala said she would issue an invitation to Sanders to join the bean supper, which she is calling Beans for Hillary. She has asked donors to send cans of beans to 1301-W Porter Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 19148. President Hillary: America's Nurse Ratched Contact WND wnd.com 2016-06-19 16:48 www.wnd.com

10 Government committed to land restitution Sunday marked the 103rd anniversary of the enactment of the act‚ subsequent to which many more laws were passed to enforce policies of separate racial and ethnic development in the country‚ the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform said. In addition to this‚ the act had resulted in a loss of homes and essential resources‚ cultural destruction‚ family/ community dissolution‚ impoverishment and mass unemployment. This legislation left only 13% of the land for black occupation‚ forcing about 80% of the population into the least agriculturally productive areas‚ it said. “Although it was eventually repealed‚ its legacy remains visible in the skewed land ownership patterns that still exist in South Africa. Since the advent of democracy 22 years ago‚ efforts have been made to reverse the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Active and other racially motivated policies and practices. “This Act is also the foundation of the triple challenge of poverty‚ unemployment and the inequality in our country. South Africans who were disposed of their land following the 1913 act have been given a second opportunity to claim for redress until June 2019.‚” the department added. It said the land claims process had been re-opened in 2014 in terms of the Restitution Act‚ to give those who had failed to lodge their claims for restitution during the first lodgement period an opportunity to do so. “Land Restitution‚ which is one of the key elements of the Land Reform Programme of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform‚ is critical to achieving the vision of an integrated inclusive rural economy as set out in Chapter 6 of the National Development Plan. “Government remains committed to reversing the legacy of the Natives Land Act through the Constitution and the law‚” the department stated. Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti said that over the past 22 years‚ significant progress has been made toward this goal. During the first lodgement period from 1995-1998‚ over 79‚000 claims were lodged‚ 78‚750 of which had been settled. Land acquired by the state amounts to 1‚900‚913 million hectares. “A total of R16 billion has been spent on the restitution programme thus far‚ in settling claims‚ while R10 billion has been spent to acquire land‚ and R6 billion has been used toward the settlement of financial compensation claims. “The day (19th June) gives South Africans an opportunity to reflect on the gains that have been made to restore rights in land to those who suffered the indignity of forced removals and other forms of dispossession of land‚” the minister added.

2016-06-20 00:00 TMG Digital www.timeslive.co.za

11 Adapt quickly or lose‚ says Morris “It’s vital to adapt early doors‚” Morris said. “The sooner you adapt the more you can control what’s going on.” In the first three matches of the tournament‚ all in Providence in Guyana‚ that meant coming to terms with a painfully slow surface. The next three games were at Warner Park in Basseterre in St Kitts‚ a ground so small 10-year-olds wouldn’t struggle to hit sixes. Sunday’s game is the first of four at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown in Barbados‚ a slate that includes next Sunday’s final. The pitch is renowned as the fastest and bounciest in the Caribbean and the boundaries are respectably long. But‚ in a region where the opposites of those factors apply more often than not‚ that doesn’t mean Kensington Oval is the Wanderers. It’s just more like the Wanderers than other grounds on the islands. Morris made the connection anyway: “Having a chat to Robin Peterson‚ who has played a bit of cricket here‚ he says Barbados is the Wanderers of the Caribbean. I am looking forward to bowling on it and maybe getting some extra pace and bounce.” After their experience of the past six matches so will every other seamer in action on Sunday. That includes an Australian attack that is likely to bristle with Josh Hazlewood‚ Mitchell Starc‚ James Faulkner and Mitchell Marsh. But an Aussie SA might not have to think about is the captain‚ Steve Smith‚ who is carrying a quadriceps injury that stopped him from training on Thursday or Friday. With David Warner‚ who scored one of only two centuries seen in the triseries against SA in St Kitts last Saturday‚ already out of the tournament with a broken finger‚ Australia need Smith’s presence and experience. That’s even more true with a place in the final on the line for SA‚ who like Australia and West Indies have won two of their four games. SA top the log because of the two bonus points they have earned. “It is quite an open series but in our two games that we’ve won we’ve played quite nicely to get those bonus points‚” Morris said. “It’s an important game but it’s a tough task we’ve got ahead of us. Australia are playing some good cricket at the moment but on the day anyone can beat anyone.” So we’ve seen. Which only adds to Morris’ first point - adapt to the conditions as quickly as possible if you want to be on the right side of that equation. - TMG Digital

2016-06-20 00:00 Telford Vice www.timeslive.co.za

12 12 Bafana have to step up a gear ahead of Wednesday's Cosafa Cup semifinal Southern African heavyweights Zambia and a Swaziland side who have won five of their last six matches meet on Sunday afternoon to decide who will face Bafana Bafana’s in Wednesday’s semifinal. The two roses among the many thorns of the Bafana staff in Namibia‚ media liaison Namhla Mphelo and physical trainer Simone Conley‚ gave out chocolate to the dad’s among the squad for Father’s Day at a cheery breakfast for the South Africans on Sunday morning. Next to them‚ the Namibian technical staff‚ whose team had lost on penalties to Botswana in front of a stadium packed like never before in Windhoek for the Rainbow Warriors in the late match‚ looked on somewhat gloomily. It was important for Bafana to negotiate the tricky quarter-final against a Lesotho side fired up after beating Mauritius‚ Angola and Malawi in the group stages‚ and with match practise under their belts. Vitally so‚ given the context of this being an Olympic shadow team here to iron out some kinks ahead of the big tournament in August. Given the defensive lapses and sluggish combinations in the 4-2 penalties win‚ after normal time ended 1-1‚ SA also know there are plenty of kinks. And what they are. “It came as no surprise to us – we knew that we were going to have it tough‚” Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba said after the game. “I had seen Lesotho twice in the week‚ when they played and when they were training. They are a good side. We knew they would come at us and they did. “But unfortunately we’re still sitting with a problem of scoring goals. We should have scored close to four in the first half. “We missed chances and then they scored what I call a ‘no-chance’‚ chipped over into the back of the net. And that put us under pressure. “But at half time we said‚ ‘Let’s not allow them to play‚ let’s pick them up’. And that’s how we managed to come back into the game. “Lesotho had been in camp longer than us. One other thing with the South African players is that when we are in possession as a coach you don’t worry much. They mesmerise the opposition. “But once we lose possession we struggle to get it back quickly. We allow people to play and come at us. “Instead of pressurising them we allow them to come into the zone. That is how they scored a goal.” South Africa’s rustiness compared the freshness of Lesotho certainly did show. Some experimentation in the line-up disrupted the South Africans’ flow further. Abbubaker Mobara was utilised in defensive midfield rather than defence‚ and there were new faces in Thembela Sikhakhane at right-back‚ Thembonkosi Lorch in left midfield and Judas Moseamedi up-front. The technical staff’s half-time substitutions brought a much better balance to an improved Bafana after the break. Deolin Mekoa replaced Sikhakhane and went into defensive midfield‚ Mobara went to right-back‚ and Menzi Masuku was lively coming on for Moseamedi. “Those three subs changed the complexion of the game‚” Mashaba said. “Going forward we’ll need this time to get combinations working the right way. The sending-off of Gift Motupa [for a second bookable offence in the 85th minute] does set us back. But we’ve got players who can push up a bit. “Masuku did very well by coming in and pulling back deep. He made us play. But we still have two days to go to training and look at one or two replacements for Motupa.” Lesotho’s little 20-year-old winger‚ Jane Thaba-Ntso‚ opened the scoring with a dream chip over Bafana’s debutant goalkeeper Reyaad Pieterse in the 18th minute. Motupa equalised with a 65th-minute header. Pieterse redeemed himself with two penalty saves in the shootout. -TMG Digital

2016-06-20 00:00 Marc Strydom www.timeslive.co.za

13 Alleged Ponzi firm uses new name, fails to fool SEC THE SECURITIES and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed in the Department of Justice another criminal complaint against the directors and incorporators of One Lightning Corp., a direct selling and investment firm earlier shut down for allegedly duping clients of some P500 million. In a new complaint filed on Friday, the SEC enforcement and investor protection department (EIPD) said the same officials of One Lightning continued to publicly offer and sell investment contracts without permit by creating a new firm, FDS Forward Direct Selling Corp. Named respondents for violation of Section 28 of the Securities Regulation Code were One Lightning president Terrence Kenji Ito, board chair Theodore Yuji Ito and incorporators Aldus Renier Tubiera, Joanary Roxas and Jake Ryu Oprecio. In March last year, the SEC issued a cease-and-desist order on the operations of One Lightning and filed a syndicated estafa case against its eight officials in the Pasig City regional trial court, which issued early this year arrest warrants and hold-departure orders for the officials. In the new complaint, SEC-EIPD Director Jose Aquino said the agency filed the latest case after receiving complaints from FDS investors who failed to get their money back. “Under the pretext of being a multilevel marketing company, the respondents offered huge returns to investors who had to purchase of certain cosmetic and health products,” the complaint said. “The ploy employed by the corporation was clearly a Ponzi scheme which they tried to hide by making it appear to be a multilevel networking company engaged in the marketing of cosmetic and health products,” it added. In a Ponzi scheme, investments are solicited by offering huge profits to investors. The profits are usually derived from the investments made by later investors. The scheme is unsustainable as it requires an ever increasing pool of new investors to pay off the earlier investors. In an interview, Aquino explained that investors were enticed by FDS’ offer to pay from 28 to 30 percent plus return of investment after three months. “In some cases, the products were not even delivered… the company was focused on recruiting more and more investors by offering referral fees, unilevel bonuses and maturity rewards,” Aquino said. The first case filed against the respondents earlier this year in the Pasig RTC involved their failure to return as much as P500 million to 100 investors.

2016-06-20 00:00 Jerome Aning newsinfo.inquirer.net

14 Bishops: Pray ‘Oratio’ for new leaders THE ARCHDIOCESE of Manila has issued an “Oratio Imperata,” or obligatory prayer, to be recited for nine days before the newly elected officials of the country take the reins of office on June 30. Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle requested the mandatory prayer by the faithful upon the proposal of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, said Fr. Reginald Malicdem, the Manila Archdiocese’s chancellor, in a circular dated June 14. Malicdem said the special prayer shall be recited beginning June 21 until the eve of the assumption to office of all new public officials throughout the country. It shall be prayed during the Prayer of the Faithful at all the Masses in the Manila Archdiocese starting Tuesday. Recited while kneeling The Oratio Imperata, a powerful mandated prayer, is an old Catholic tradition where the bishop or priest leads the community in prayer during Mass for a special intention besides the ones prescribed by ritual. It is recited while kneeling. There are different types of Oratio Imperata, which may be prayed either in times of civil disturbance or for deliverance from calamities or illness. The prayer dedicated to government officials asks that they be blessed with “true love for the poor and godly humility” and with “sincere generosity and a courageous simplicity of lifestyle.” It cites Pope Francis, who has said that politics “is one of the highest forms of charity.” Against culture of death It also asks God that those in positions of authority would live “peaceful and quiet lives, godly and dignified in every way” and have genuine respect for life and an unyielding opposition to the culture of death. The prayer expresses hope for the attainment of prosperity and progress; for assurance of peace and harmony; the preservation of justice and freedom, and the nation’s healing and protection from harm under the leadership of the newly elected officials. All incoming officials will assume their posts at noon of June 30. President- elect Rodrigo Duterte will have his inauguration in Malacañang, while Vice President-elect Leni Robredo at the so-called Boracay Mansion in New Manila, Quezon City.

2016-06-20 00:00 Jocelyn R newsinfo.inquirer.net

2016-06-20 00:00 DJ Yap newsinfo.inquirer.net

16 Risa: Rody can’t stop Senate probes CEBU CITY—Senator-elect Risa Hontiveros said on Sunday she would push for a “strong and independent” Senate to maintain the checks and balances among the three branches of government. She told reporters after her oath-taking at the provincial capitol here that President- elect Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte could not stop the legislature from conducting inquiries. “That’s part of our mandate. That’s part of the oath that we swore to the people and it is very consistent with my politics as a leader of Akbayan,” she said. The executive, the legislative and the judiciary are coequal branches of government. On June 8, Duterte warned lawmakers during a meeting in Davao City not to make the mistake of conducting congressional inquiries into his anticrime campaign. Senate inquiry into the anticrime campaign would be in aid of legislation in order to create a policy framework for the law’s implementation and to prevent any excesses or abuses by the authorities, Hontiveros said. Remain with LP Hontiveros, the chair of the Akbayan party, said her group’s coalition with the Liberal Party would remain. She said her group would be willing to discuss specific issues with the senators belonging to Duterte’s party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), especially with regard to the need for a “strong and independent” Senate. “We are very open to discussing these issues… [and] we can also agree when we have to disagree,” she said she told PDP-Laban Sen. Koko Pimentel. She said Akbayan had no objection to Pimentel’s assumption of the Senate presidency. Although many LP members had shifted allegiance to PDP-Laban, Hontiveros said she would remain with Akbayan. Hontiveros took her oath of office before Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III on Sunday morning at the Capitol Social Hall. With her were her three children —Kiko, Ianna and Sinta. Some of her relatives and colleagues also witnessed the ceremony. ‘Thank you, Cebu’ Asked why she took her oath in Cebu, she said this was her and her party’s way of thanking the Cebuanos for their support. “Even when I lost twice at the national level, I was always in the top 12 in Cebu,” she said. Hontiveros placed 7th in the senatorial race in Cebu in the May 9 election, receiving 528,865 votes. She said one of her priorities would be to provide at least P6,000 in monthly pay for barangay health workers.

2016-06-20 00:00 Carmel Loise newsinfo.inquirer.net

17 12 barong choices for Rody DAVAO CITY—What to wear to his inauguration on June 30 is the last thing on President-elect Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte’s mind: He has at least a dozen barong Tagalog to choose from. But his son, Sebastian, will make a fashion statement with a barong made of Mindanao silk. The staff at Chardin, a high-end clothes shop in Davao City, said on Saturday that they had sent six barong to Duterte. “We’re finishing six more,” said Bobby Castillo, one of the clothesmakers. “It’s up to the President to choose which one from the 12 barong Tagalog to wear to the inauguration,” said Bonnie Adaza, another clothesmaker at the shop. No order for 12 Castillo said Duterte did not order 12 barong. “We’re just doing it because we know that what to wear to his inauguration is the least of his concerns,” he said. “We can even do duplicates—one for his functions in Malacañang and another for him to wear here,” he added. Hermenigildo Balagon, master cutter at Chardin who has been making clothes for Duterte since 2003, said no changes were made to the design of the barong for the President-elect. “It’s still the same pattern, the same cut. If I were to decide, I would make some changes so that he’d look different from the rest. But the mayor won’t like it, so there won’t be changes,” Balagon said, referring to Duterte, who has been mayor of Davao City for most of the past two decades. All the 12 barong for Duterte will be made of jusi, he said. “It’s piña-looking jusi because the mayor has sensitive skin. He finds piña itchy to the skin,” he added. Helping silk industry Sebastian, or Baste, will wear a barong designed and made by the Davao Fashion and Design Council (DFDC). Aztec Barba, DFDC president, said his group decided to use Mindanao silk to help revive the island’s silk industry. “We hope that Baste, in wearing Mindanao silk, can help the industry,” Barba said. Mindanao silk is woven by members of Ayala Beneficiaries Association Inc., based in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental. Farmers belonging to the Claveria Agricultural Producers Cooperative in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, grow silkworms and process the silk into yarn. In recent years, production of Mindanao silk has declined because of low demand and lack of marketing. “We want to help revive the use of Mindanao silk so that farmers and workers who produce it will have a stable livelihood,” Barba said. “And we are happy that Baste is willing to wear it,” he added. Baste runs a shop in Davao that sells locally made, hand-printed Reefside shirts. Sara’s gown Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of the President-elect and the incoming mayor of Davao, has already gotten the royal blue gown that she will wear to the inauguration from her favorite local designer, Silverio Anglacer. Anglacer also made the baby pink gown for Elizabeth Zimmerman, Duterte’s former wife. Paolo, Duterte’s son and the incoming vice mayor of Davao, will wear a barong made by local designer Erwin Lee Tan.

2016-06-20 00:00 Nico Alconaba newsinfo.inquirer.net

18 Brillantes: Allowing late filing bad for next polls A FORMER chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sunday said the poll body’s decision to grant the request of the Liberal Party and its standard-bearer Mar Roxas for an extension of the deadline to submit their campaign expense report sets a “bad precedent” for succeeding elections. Former Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. warned the poll body would be swamped with requests for extensions for the filing of the statement of contributions and expenditures (SOCE) in the next election, with candidates and political parties invoking the petition granted to Roxas and the LP. “Now who is going to believe in the deadline the Comelec will set in the succeeding elections? Nobody. They will think they can simply ask for an extension,” Brillantes told reporters. Roxas missed the June 8 deadline to submit his SOCE. Days later, he and the LP asked the Comelec for a 14-day extension, or until June 30. The LP submitted its SOCE on June 14 but the documents did not include Roxas’ campaign expense report. On Thursday, the Comelec voted 4-3 in favor of an extension for Roxas and the LP despite opposition from Commissioner Christian Robert Lim, head of the poll body’s campaign finance office which is in charge of receiving and evaluating the SOCEs of all candidates. Lim eventually turned in his resignation. It’s been done before Extending the deadline to submit the campaign expense reports had been done before, according to Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez. Jimenez noted that the poll body, then under Brillantes, extended the reporting deadline following the 2013 elections. “As far as precedents go, the precedent is actually on the side of the extension. There is actually a lot of precedents for the extension,” said the Comelec official. In 2013, the Comelec extended the filing of the SOCE to May 12, 2014, or a year after the election and further extended it to June 30, 2014. 30-day deadline The Synchronized National and Local Elections Act of 1991 states that all candidates and political parties should file their respective campaign expense reports 30 days after Election Day. Brillantes countered that while the Comelec extended the filing of the SOCE in the 2013 election, it still enforced the imposition of penalties on the candidates and political parties that filed beyond the original deadline. “In their decision now, they did not impose any penalty on late filers. It’s like they forgave the late filers altogether,” said the former elections chief. Comelec Chair Andres Bautista had voted against extending the deadline, saying late filing may be allowed but penalties should be enforced.

2016-06-20 00:00 Jocelyn R newsinfo.inquirer.net

19 Museum, e-library to take House into cyber world THE HOUSE of Representatives inaugurates this week its digitized library and museum which will hold its historical records and other information about the lower chamber. Outgoing Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. will lead on Tuesday the inauguration of the newly built House of Representatives Legislative Library, Archives and Museum building at the Batasang Pambansa compound in Quezon City. The museum will house the “first and only electronic legislative library in the country, complete with modern information and communications technology equipment,” House Deputy Secretary General Edgardo Pangilinan said. The facility will offer e-library services necessary for legislation and maintain a specialized collection of information resources—books, e-books, journals and other online resources —on legislation, legislation-related matters and legislatures, he added. The museum will showcase the more than 100-year history of the legislatures of the Philippine, from the First National Assembly in 1907. It will also feature legislative artifacts and memorabilia about all the speakers of the House. A Congressional Wall of Honor will list the complete roster of House members from 1907 to 2016, in “tribute to the men and women who shaped and defined the Philippine legislature as a strong institution of democracy in the country.” DJ Yap 2016-06-20 00:00 Philippine Daily newsinfo.inquirer.net

20 Paje: DENR building demolition a mistake OUTGOING Environment Secretary Ramon Paje admitted the “error” in demolishing an old two-story Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) building in Quezon City when it was only supposed to be renovated. He however cleared of liability the official he had put in charge of the construction of a new Foreign- Assisted and Special Projects Office (Faspo) building, attributing the fiasco to unnamed people “careless in making decisions.” The Commission on Audit (COA) recently demanded that the responsible DENR officials be sanctioned and made to pay P20.4 million for the cost of the Faspo building that was demolished in January 2014. A March 14 audit observation memorandum said Paje had authorized Assistant Secretary Rommel Abesamis to change the original P5 million contract with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) from a renovation to a construction without informing other officials. According to insiders, the new building was to have six stories and include basement parking and a helipad. In an interview, Paje said the project fell through because the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) refused to “realign” funds from maintenance and other operating expenses to capital outlay. Without mentioning Abesamis, he said: “They tried to realign funds. But at the time there was an issue and the DBM was no longer keen on realigning due to the DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program) so it became a problem.” “I think the error was they were careless in making decisions, that the budget was not appropriated. If (the budget) was for repair, it should be repair. You should not have demolished the building. That was the error, maybe due to lack of experience or—I don’t know,” Paje added. He did not say how much they asked for, but insiders said the new building would cost about P200 million. “The DPWH should also be liable because they demolished the building,” Paje said. “I do not want to blame the DPWH. I believe if there is accountability, whoever the officials involved are those have a right to appeal.” “It was not fraud or graft. It was a wrong decision. Anyway no money was lost,” he said. Donna Z. Pazzibugan

2016-06-20 00:00 Philippine Daily newsinfo.inquirer.net

21 [VIDEO]: Second EgyptAir 804 Flight Data Recorder Recovered From Ocean Bottom The vital data recording black box from the ill-fated Egypt Air flight that crashed has finally been found. The information recorded in the box will help authorities to... CAIRO: Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane ... Authorities in Egypt have said one of the black boxes from the EgyptAir flight that crashed in May has been recovered. The Egyptian investigation committee said that the... Air-crash investigators have located the wreck and black box of EgyptAir Flight MS804 in the eastern Mediterranean, four weeks after the jet disappeared from radar screens ... Air-crash investigators have retrieved the flight-data recorder from the EgyptAir jet lost over the Mediterranean four weeks ago with its 66 passengers and crew, advancing ... The cockpit voice recorder of the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed last month has been found and recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, investigators said on Thursday. ... The investigators are tying hard to locate the black box of the plane. They said, “only the black boxes could contribute to a full understanding of the chain of events... CAIRO — The second black box of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, a day ... CAIRO -- The second black box of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, a day ... EgyptAir crash: Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered that the recovered device be handed over to Egyptian air accident investigators for analysis. The second black box from...

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22 Trey Parker and Matt Stone Discuss “South Park” Game at E3 2016 [VIDEO] An interview with South Park series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker hints that games like South Park: The Fractured But Whole could be the future of the franchise. ... E3 2016 was a show filled with reasons to be optimistic about RPGs in the coming years, and Game Rant has assembled a list of the genre’s most exciting upcoming titles. ... E3 Is Nearing Its End; How'd Ubisoft Do? Ubisoft had a big E3 conference this year with a bunch of new and great games, with a couple low points, too. Check out our round... Revealing a video and these screenshots, Ubisoft and South Park Digital Studios announced that South Park: The Fractured but Whole, the sequel to South Park: The Stick of ... South Park: The Fractured But Whole Preview from E3 The world doesn’t need another silent protector or a watchful guardian or Earth’s mightiest heroes, what the world needs ... South Africa launched a ferocious late comeback to beat Ireland 32-26 in the second test on Saturday, scoring 22 points in the last 20 minutes to send the three-match ... (Source: City of St Petersburg, FL ) Baseball fans attending tomorrow night's sellout Rays baseball game dedicated to victims of Sunday's violence in Orlando are encouraged ... (Source: Volkswagen AG ) Summer is garden and holiday time. So there is a lot to transport: from garden waste and building materials, the boat or motorcycle right up to the... With reports suggesting that the future of South Park is in video games not television shows, we wouldn't be averse to an annual release of South ... In this week’s Game Rant Open Discussion, we take a look at all of the major E3 2016 announcements from each major publisher. Who do you think won E3? It’s the holy grail...

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23 GOP Wants to Declare War On Islamic Ideology In Wake Of Orlando Shooting --> At a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump defended his use of the term ‘radical Islamic terrorism ’ A day after United States ... Republican candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. (Source: AP Photo) A day after US President Barack Obama criticised him for using the ... It seems as though after every atrocity carried out by a Muslim, the discussion around violent extremism in the name of Islam comes up. One aspect in that discussion is a... The massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub Sunday in Orlando, Florida, sparked a war of words over how to describe it. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald... Police were calling it a scene of 'mass casualties' in Florida when the thought crossed my mind for the first time: “What if this lone shooter turns out to be a Muslim?” ... DOES anyone think for a moment that if Omar Mateen or Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hassan or the San Bernardino attackers had opened fire while pledging allegiance to Jesus ... President Obama (C) speaks on the Orlando shooting at the Treasury Department while Attorney General Loretta Lynch (L), Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (C-L), Chairman of the ... I believe that good always conquers evil. My heart and my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families. The victims were targeted because they were gay. ... Tuesday, in a remarkable display of arrogance and tone-deaf rhetoric, President Obama, in an angry rant about why he doesn't use the phrase "radical Islam," asked the ... In the wake of Sunday’s attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., that left at least 49 people dead and 53 wounded, President Barack Obama renewed his call for gun ...

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24 Pakistan has not declined NIA team's visit to probe P'kot attack: SushmaSwaraj New Delhi : India today said Pakistan has not refused to allow an NIA team to visit that country to probe the Pathankot airbase attack case and just sought "more time" even as it made it clear that talks and teror cannot go hand-in-hand. Sushma Swaraj External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj also said the "warmth and ease" in relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif can help resolve complex issues between the two neighbours. Asserting that India wants to resolve all vexed issues with Pakistan through talks, Swaraj said the government was pursuing a three-point formula to deal with Islamabad the focus of which is that talks cannot go on if Pakistan does not take action to contain terror. "First, we want to solve every issue thorough talks. Second, talks will be between India and Pakistan and no third country or party will be its part. Third, terror and talks will not go hand-in-hand," Swaraj said addressing a press conference. Swaraj said there have been complex issues between the two countries and it would not be practical to expect their resolution soon. "After Pathankot attack, there were expectations from government and people that there should be some concrete steps from their side. This expectation is not unreasonable. So we are waiting for concrete steps from their side," she said. The External Affairs Minister said Pakistan has not refused to allow a team of NIA to visit that country to carry forward the probe into the Pathankot terror attack case and that it is just seeking "more time" to examine the evidence. A five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from Pakistan had visited India between March 27 and 31 to collect evidence with regard to the attack. India has been maintaining that since JIT's visit was on a reciprocal basis, the NIA team investigating the case would like to visit Pakistan. Swaraj said the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad had met the authorites on the issue twice and "they said they are analysing (the evidence). They have not refused (to allow NIA to visit). They just said they want more time. " The External Affairs Minister said Foreign Secretary level talks between the two countries have not been called off. "Neither from our side it has been called off nor from their side," she said. Insisting that there was a "huge difference" between Pakistan's response to the Pathankot attack and its reaction following terror strikes in the past, Swaraj said the "ease and warmth" of relationship between Modi and Sharif may help find solution to complex problems. At the same time she added, "It is not that because of the warmth in relationship we will take things lightly and will not remain alert. " Swaraj refered to Modi's unannounced visit to lahore in December last year and Sharif's phone call to the Indian Prime Minister a day ahead of the latter's heart surgery in London last month to highlight the warmth in relationship between the two leaders. "It is true that there are difficult issues between the two countries. Issues like the UN resolution on Kashmir as referred by you. "It is impractical to expect their resolution soon or after two-three rounds of talks. But to resolve issues, you need to have relationship. I would like to say there is an ease and warmth in relationshiop between the two prime ministers," she said replying to a question on India's ties with Pakistan. She said Pakistan used to be in a "denial mode" after terror attacks in India but its attitude after Pathankot assault was totally different. "It happened for the first time that their Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called up our Prime Mimnister and said 'you give me evidence, I will definitely act on it. It is a huge difference," said Swaraj. She said there are forces which do not want good relations between the two PMs and better ties between the two neighbours. Talking about terror, Swaraj pressed for an early adoption of the long- pending Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT), noting that it will help tackle the menace of terrorism. She said so many countries including those in the Gulf region have recognised the need for having a uniform approach to dealing with terrorists. She also referred to China recently blocking India's bid for putting Masood Azhar on the UN list of proscribed terrorists and said there should be no distinction between good and bad terrorists.

2016-06-19 21:17 By PTI www.mid-day.com

25 Speculation rife on Raghuram Rajan's successor with over a dozen names New Delhi: Speculation was rife today on who will succeed Raghuram Rajan as RBI Governor with over a dozen names doing the rounds, including that of Deputy Governor Urjit Patel, former CAG Vinod Rai and SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya. Raghuram Rajan Though there was no official word, the rumour mills were agog on who would be the next at the helm of the central bank, a day after Rajan made a surprise announcement that he was not interested in a second term and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said a successor would be announced shortly. Among the speculated names, Patel has been known as 'inflation lieutenant' of Rajan at RBI, while Bhattacharya's tenure as SBI Chairperson also ends in September -- the same month when Rajan would demit office. Rai, the former Comptroller and Auditor General of India who is known to have flagged the 2G scam, is currently heading the newly-constituted Banks Board Bureau, set up to help the government appoint heads of public sector banks and advice on banking reforms. The names doing the rounds also include Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu, Revenue Secretary Shakatikanta Das, former Advisor to Finance Minister Parthsarathi Shome, BRICS Bank head and ICICI Bank veteran K V Kamath and Sebi Chairman U K Sinha. Like Rajan, Sinha was made Sebi Chairman during the previous UPA regime but was given a surprise and rare extension by the NDA government in February days before his already extended tenure of five years was to end. Other names being speculated are former RBI Deputy Governors Rakesh Mohan and Subir Gokarn, former Finance Secretary Vijay Kelkar, former CCI Chairman Ashok Chawla, former CEA Ashok Lahiri and noted economist R Vaidyanathan. While most of these people could not be immediately contacted for their comments, Mohan said it is "premature to discuss" his candidature, while Bhattacharya had yesterday said that "Rajan is a person of very high caliber, who has built ably on the reputation of our central bank and given it a very large measure of credibility". Basu, also a former CEA, tweeted Rajan has been one of the finest central bank governors anywhere. Rajan, who will have the shortest tenure as RBI Governor since liberalisation began in 1991, is also one of the few non- bureaucrats in this post as most of his predecessors had been IAS officers. Traditionally, applications have never been invited for the post of RBI Governor unlike many other regulatory posts. As per the reports, a high-level panel -- the Financial Sector Regulatory Appointment Search Committee -- could have been tasked to shortlist the candidates for the post of the next RBI Governor, after which the final decision would be taken by the government. However, it is not clear as yet whether the shortlisting would be done by this panel, headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, or by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) as has been the case traditionally. Rajan, an on-leave Professor of Finance at Chicago University whose current three-year term as RBI Governor ends on September 4, said last evening that he has decided to return to academia "on due reflection, and after consultation with the government" though his work was "yet to be completed" on containing inflation and cleaning up bank books. Reacting to his decision, a number of industry leaders and economists have said it would be a tough task ahead for the person who succeeds Rajan as the next RBI Governor.

2016-06-19 21:08 By PTI www.mid-day.com

26 106-year-old woman becomes oldest Olympic torch bearer Rio De Janeiro : Three years after becoming the world's oldest skydiver, Aida Gemanque became the oldest Olympic torch bearer on Saturday when she carried the flame in the Amazonian city of Macapa, aged 106. Gemanque broke the record formerly held by Alexander Kaptarenko, who was 101 when he took part in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics relay, Xinhua news agency reported. "I am overjoyed. I have to be grateful for this joy, which I never expected in my life. I am immensely proud," Gemanque said. The 95-day torch relay will pass through 325 Brazilian cities and involve some 12,000 runners before ending at Rio's Maracana Stadium for the lighting of the Olympic cauldron on August 5.

2016-06-19 20:11 By IANS www.mid-day.com

27 Woman gives birth to 'Siamese twins' in Maharashtra Aurangabad (Maha): In a rare case, a 22-year-old woman has given birth to 'Siamese twins' at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Latur district of Maharashtra, doctors said on Sunday. The woman, Tasleen Masuldar last night gave birth to the 'Siamese twins', doctor Bhaurao Yadav, who performed a Cesarean on her, told PTI. "The two children have two hands, two legs, separate heads each but they posses a common liver and heart," he said. According to Yadav, the patient hails from Sastur village and now her condition is stable. 2016-06-19 20:01 By PTI www.mid-day.com

28 Woman doctor alleges 'harassment' by Maharashtra health minister's PS A woman doctor from Jalgaon district has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis alleging she was 'harassed' by the state Health Minister Deepak Sawant's Personal Secretary, a charge denied by the official. Sawant's Personal Secretary (PS) Sunil Mali has rubbished her charges stating it as a 'conspiracy to defame him'. The 26-year-old doctor had recently claimed to have fully digitised a primary health centre (PHC), in terms of equipment and data, at Patonda village in Jalgaon district of the state. "Mali asked inappropriate and personal questions from me for around two hours in the minister's ante-chamber, when I went to Sawant to give him a presentation on replicating her project across 1,800 PHCs across the state," the doctor alleged. "In March, during the Budget session, I had given a presentation to Sawant to replicate the project across the state's 1,800 PHCs. After the presentation, the minister's PS Sunil Mali kept me in the minister's ante- chamber for about two hours and asked me about my personal life against my wishes," she alleged. "He tried to convince me that everyone needs a godfather in the government to get their projects implemented. I have complained to the Chief Minister and demanded his immediate ouster," she claimed. Asked why she did not raise the issue for three months, the doctor said she feared that she would be transferred from the Patonda PHC. "Now when some people have come forward to complain against him for his alleged involvement in corruption in transfer of officials, I mustered up the courage to speak up," she said. Meanwhile, Mali said, "It is a conspiracy to defame me. All allegations levelled against me are baseless. "

2016-06-19 19:58 By PTI www.mid-day.com

29 International Day of Yoga celebrated in France Paris : The second International Day of Yoga was celebrated on Saturday at the Parc de La Villette -- the largest urban cultural park in Paris. More than 2,000 yoga enthusiasts of all ages participated in the initiative launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and adopted by the UN to promote yoga for a healthy lifestyle, a statement said here on Sunday. Several Indo-French cultural associations, friendship groups, Indian diaspora and yoga schools like Art of Living, Swami Shivananda Yoga Centre, Tapovan, Yoga and Co, Sahaja Yoga, Isha Foundation and others contributed to make the event successful. Giving a brief overview on the origin of yoga, Indian Ambassador Mohan Kumar emphasised the importance of yoga in modern lifestyle. He exhorted the youth to regularly practice yoga for personality development and stress management. The International Day of Yoga event in Paris was endorsed by several French and Indian film actors. The Indian embassy in Paris planned to organise another International Day of Yoga event in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower on Sunday. On June 21, more than 100 people will perform yoga on board a boat in the Seine river sailing from the Eiffel Tower to Cathedral Notre Dame. Besides Paris, the International Day of Yoga was celebrated in several other cities of France, including Strasbourg, Nice, Avignon, Angers, Gretz, Samoens, Toulouse, Nantes, Gouvieux and in French overseas territories like Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Reunion Islands. More than 7,000 people across France joined in these celebrations.

2016-06-19 19:49 By PTI www.mid-day.com

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2016-06-19 19:46 Ellen Eldridge www.ajc.com

31 Swipe right for like: can non-arthouse foreign films succeed in Britain? The Raleigh Ringers and the joy of handbells It’s rare for a foreign-language film to get distribution in Britain unless there is a whiff of the art house about it. The rationale must be that there is already enough genre cinema produced in the UK and US to satisfy demand: releasing a Polish Richard Curtis-style romcom here when the real thing is readily available would surely be a case of bringing coals to Newcastle, or brioche to Notting Hill. The success of Planeta Singli , which happens to be a Polish Richard Curtis-style romcom, suggests otherwise. It opened in Britain last month and became an invisible hit. Like the Bollywood spectaculars that are marketed directly to Asian audiences, the film was sold straight to this country’s Polish community. Enough people turned out to give it an impressive £163,000 gross in its first ten days. I can see why. The picture is idiosyncratic enough to be distinctive but its slickness makes it right at home in the multiplex. It’s Polish with polish. The plot revolves around a dating app, making the film possibly the first fully fledged Tinder romcom. Ania (Agnieszka Wiedlocha), a music teacher, signs up to the “Planet Single” app but when her date fails to show, Tomek (Maciej Stuhr) leaps opportunistically into the breach, having spied her from across the restaurant. Tomek is the obnoxious presenter of a late-night TV show specialising in battle-of-the-sexes comedy performed by puppets. When he turns this faltering date into comic material, complete with an Ania puppet, his boss demands that her dating exploits become a regular fixture. Ania’s school will get a new piano so long as she reports back about every disastrous date she has. But there’s a get-out clause: should she fall in love, she’s off the hook. This represents only a small slice of narrative in a movie that is full of incident, from the mischievous teenager using the app to drive a wedge between her father and stepmother to the brouhaha when Ania’s pupils have to share the gym with the boisterous volleyball class. After a slow start in which the film has trouble liberating the characters from their smartphones, the Slovenian director Mitja Okorn skilfully juggles the mounting plotlines. There’s an inevitable sense of overkill – Planeta Singli has three endings, including an outrageously corny musical number, as it races to find a romantic match for each character from the leads down to the lowliest extra. As Okorn recently pointed out in a Q&A, only the nerdy film critic is left alone at the end. What a cheek. Despite that, I’m swiping right on this one. Even art cinema has its brands and they don’t come much more reliably weird than the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for his last film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. He invites us in Cemetery of Splendour into a rural hospital where cheery, chatty nurses keep vigil over a ward of soldiers suffering from sleeping sickness. A bedside psychic provides relatives with bulletins about what is happening in the unreachable minds of their loved ones; a nurse with insomnia wonders if the patients are getting some of the sleep that is rightfully hers; the dead mingle happily with the living and doubts arise over whether there is really such a state as being awake. At times, the picture resembles a low-tempo Matrix. What distinguishes it is its elegant interlacing of the soothing and the insolubly mysterious. (Why is the ground outside the hospital being endlessly excavated? Nobody knows.) Staff slip into their own trances while guarding the comatose soldiers and what Weerasethakul creates onscreen could be described as a meditative space: he is using film not to dictate his ideas but to stimulate ours. There’s a woozy sequence set in a shopping mall multiplex with Escher-like escalators. Everything is transformed by an air of magical serenity. The moment when the psychic realises that one part of the soldier she is watching has woken up with a “boing” is enchanting, despite sounding on paper like a scene from Carry On Meditating. As a musical instrument, handbells definitely go in the box marked “niche”. Usually, the kind of person who rings a bell is a portly man decked out as a town crier at the village fete. “Hear ye! Hear ye!” he yells, clanking around the stalls, narrowly missing a child’s ear with his gleaming bronze instrument. “The morris dancing display will be starting on the green in 15 minutes!” In the common conception a bell is just for making a noise – it isn’t for making music. The Raleigh Ringers, an ensemble from North Carolina that formed in 1990, exist to convince the world otherwise. In the US, most bells are played in churches but the Ringers are largely secular in their repertoire, playing arrangements of well-known tunes, and they commission composers to write new works for them. Before the players came on to begin their first (and so far only) concert in London, the audience got the chance to ogle the baffling array of kit that this musical discipline requires. A long table running the length of the stage held octave after octave of shiny bronze bells, from vast bass tones that looked impossible to lift with one hand to tiny, egg-cup-sized soprano notes. Everything was arranged in an intricate pattern, with all the handles pointing in the same direction and foam supports under the larger specimens. In the pre-concert hush, I couldn’t help wondering if the table would make it through the entire evening without collapsing. The Ringers were as precisely turned out as their bells. There are 18 in the ensemble and for most pieces 15 people play at any one time. The men wear stiff white shirts with black studs; the women long black tunics a little like cassocks, with sparkling collars. With their black-gloved hands behind their backs, they stand silently to attention behind the laden table, waiting for the conductor David Harris’s signal to grab their bells. What follows is something like a hugely complicated run of dominoes or a surreal ballet. Each bell can only sound a single note, so in order to play tunes that range across octaves and build up the harmonies beneath, the Ringers must constantly pick up and put down different instruments. The logistical precision required for this music is immense, as individual musicians continuously swap bells with their neighbours, or skip up and down the table, weaving between the other Ringers to get the notes they need. To play a theme that spans several octaves, the musicians must know exactly where in that run their two notes fall and play them at the right moment. You might assume that there is little subtlety to be had from a bell, but the Raleigh Ringers deploy a number of techniques to vary tone colour and dynamic levels, dampening the bells against their chests, their hands and the table, or using percussive mallets to strike the outside, rather than using the internal clapper. The Ringers’ repertoire varies from arrangements of popular classical pieces, such as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee and the finale of Stravinsky’s Firebird , to folk tunes and jazz numbers. For this British tour, they added a few pieces of local interest – “Yakety Sax”, best known as the theme from The Benny Hill Show , and a medley of British rock tunes by the likes of Queen, Pink Floyd and the Who. This last section was where the Raleigh Ringers showed the eccentric personality that they had held in check while playing some of their other music. (Apart from a few mariachi hats that were worn for a Spanish- inflected piece and a bumblebee costume for the Rimsky-Korsakov, it was a largely sober affair.) As Harris stalled for time by inviting audience members to ask him questions about handbells, the players disappeared offstage, and then reappeared wearing psychedelic tie-dye T-shirts, brightly coloured wigs and sunglasses over their concert wear. They even returned to the stage through a fog of dry ice. There was no dip in the quality of their music as the complicated strains of “Bohemian Rhapsody” emerged from their bells. Costumes notwithstanding, it was an extraordinary, if esoteric, display of musicianship.

2016-06-19 19:42 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

32 Zim troops, cops will have to wait for money Harare - Zimbabwe's cash-strapped government has announced it will delay paying June salaries for the military and police by up to two weeks. It said other workers on the state payroll would only receive their salaries next month. The military will be paid on June 27 and the police three days later, said the finance ministry in a notice dated June 16. Civil service workers in other departments will only get their June salaries in mid-July, it said. The military, a key pillar of President Robert Mugabe's rule, is usually the first to get paid around mid-month. Zimbabwe has been delaying pay dates for its employees for nearly a year due to revenue problems, but this is the first time the salaries have been delayed so long. "Against the background of severe revenue under-performance and related cash flow challenges the government has been honouring its wage bill obligations, albeit, through the continuous shifting of pay dates," read the notice. Zimbabwe has been under pressure from the International Monetary Fund to cut its wage bill, which consumes more than 80% of government revenue. The government is the country's largest employer with 554 000 on its payroll, according to figures presented to parliament by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. About 40 000 are in the military. Mass factory closures have caused the government's tax revenue to decline. Low foreign direct investment and a ballooning debt have worsened the situation. Zimbabwe is not operating with its own currency, but instead uses the US dollar and other currencies as its legal tender. A shortage of the US currency has caused severe cash shortages. The result has been long bank lines as people struggle to get cash from their savings and salaries.

2016-06-19 19:28 www.news24.com

33 To Russia with Bugs Insects are often viewed as a nuisance but they can actually be good for agriculture in many cases. For that reason, it was announced on Sunday that 500 million little critters from Israel's Bio-bee company will head to Russia. The insects purchased by the Russian government altogether cost over $1 million. The special insects will head to Russia as part of the country's effort to help them improve their local agriculture markets. Ever since conflict broke out between Russia and Ukraine, garnering scorn from the European Union, Russia has banned EU fruit and vegetable import. Aiming to cut dependence on foreign food imports, the country has invested heavily in improving its local agriculture sector by providing farmers with financial help building new greenhouses and subsidizing the cost of natural pest prevention methods, such as through insects. That's where Bio-bee steps in. Though the company already has a 35% marketshare in Russia, according to Ran Gan-El, vice president of sales and marketing, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that this marks the first time their products have been sent to the war-torn Crimea region. So the Bio-bee insects from Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu are off and include several types of predatory mites. Among them is the Phytoseiulus persimilis mite and Amblyseius swirskii mite, which are intended to be a "natural pesticide" for crops of tomatoes, cucumbers and roses. In August 2015, Russia began burning imported flowers, including roses, from the Netherlands and mulling an import ban. When asked how many of each type will be sent, Gan-El was unsure but suggested it may be equal amounts. Along with the mites will an order of Bombus terrestris—commonly known as bumblebee—were sent to help improve the crops' yields. Additionally, the bumblebees are part of a cherry pollination experiments taking place in Crimean cherry orchards. If it proves successful, the company said in a statement that it could open up the worldwide market for Israeli cherries.

2016-06-19 19:26 MICHELLE MALKA www.jpost.com

34 Sumit Sangwan enters last-16 of AIBA Olympic Qualifiers Baku (Azerbaijan): Indian boxer Sumit Sangwan (81kg) on Sunday advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the AIBA World Olympic Qualification tournament after notching up a hard-fought win over eighth seed Juan Carlos Carrillo of Colombia in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 23-year-old triumphed 2-1 in round of 32 contest against the world No.16, who is a former Youth Olympics silver-medallist. "Sumit boxed very intelligently. He tried to keep his opponent at long range and struck some brilliant straight punches to his body and face. As I saw it, he dominated in all the three rounds," national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu told PTI. "His opponent was stout and had a powerful swing which Sumit dodged beautifully with his footwork. It was all the more good to watch because Indians generally struggle against southpaw boxers," he added. Sumit, who is hitting his strides after recovering from a string of injuries last year, will face Mongolia's Erdenebayar Sandagsuren in the pre-quarters on Tuesday. However, it was heartbreak for Satish kumar (+91kg), who had to bow out owing to a cut above his eye during his pre-quarterfinal bout against Ireland's Dean Gardiner. Satish sustained the cut in the first round itself and the bout had to be stopped in the second round owing to the seriousness of his injury. Earlier, Amritpreet Singh (91kg) had also bowed out of the event after losing in the opening round. The tournament has 39 qualifying spots up for grabs -- two in the 49kg category, five each in 52kg, 56kg, 60kg, 64kg, 69kg, 75kg and 81kg, and one each in 91kg and +91kg. Over 400 boxers from more than 100 countries are vying for these slots in the final qualifying tournament for amateur boxers. India have not sent any entry in the 56kg category as Shiva Thapa has already qualified for the Rio Games during the Asian qualifiers in March.

2016-06-19 19:24 By PTI www.mid-day.com

35 Netanyahu spent NIS 2 million on residences In 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent NIS 1,965,373 on his two residences, according to receipts released to Yedioth Aharonot Sunday through a freedom off information request to the government. The vast majority of the money (close to NIS 1.7 million) was spent on the Jerusalem residence, while just under NIS 300,000 was spent on his private residence residence. The figures indicated a decline in spending from NIS 2.44m in 2013 and NIS 3.22m in 2012. In the past, details exposed by the media have caused minor uproars. Just last week, Netanyahu was reported to have spent $1,600 on a hairdresser and $1,750 on a makeup artist during his October trip to New York. In 2013, Calcalist reported a NIS 10,000 price tag for buying ice cream from Netanyahu's favorite ice cream parlor. In 2015, responding to criticism of lavish overspending, Netanyahu's wife Sara invited celebrity interior designer Moshik Galamin for a tour of the Jerusalem residence, to try and demonstrate just what shabby shape it was in. The tour included broken lights, stained curtains, and old, dried up flowers. This year's report had the usual variety of seemingly inexplicable spending price tags. For example, the state paid nearly NIS 9,000 for cleaning costs in the Caesarea residence, NIS 11,000 on fixiing window shutters, and NIS 24,000 on fees for psychological opinions, though it was not specified for whom or under what circumstances. The Prime Minister's Office commented on the reports that "There's nothing new here. " The overall figures, it said, were published before, in line with spending standards for heads of government, and approved by the government technocrats.

2016-06-19 19:10 NIV ELIS www.jpost.com

36 Chautauqua History Alive! Festival Continues in Asheville Shown here is Larry Bounds, from Greer. SC, depicting Winston Churchill in 2012 on stage at the Chautauqua Alive Festival. This year he will portray Dr. Wernher von Braun, a rocket scientist who worked with the USA space program. By Dasha Morgan- From Monday to Thursday next week (June 20-23) historic personalities will become alive by talented actors and actresses at the Ferguson Auditorium at A-B Tech in Asheville. This year the Chautauqua Festival bring to life Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Matthew Henson and Werner von Braun for viewers to discover. Each evening, a nationally acclaimed historical interpreter dressed in costume, will depict one of these individuals to life through a first-person monologue on stage. The presentation will be very real and engaging, revealing fascinating pieces of information about people who impacted this country. After the presentation is over, the audience will have a chance to question the character, delving more deeply into issues that have been raised during the presentation. What a treat to have a chance to interact with a historic personage and discover more details. The replies given by the actor or actress make every effort to be historically authentic, based on research using letters, diaries, journals and published writings. It should be an evening you and your family will remember. In 2000, Buncombe County Chautauqua with the help of the Buncombe County Library System. in cooperation with Greenville Chautauqua, began presenting Chautauqua in Asheville, NC. Over the years the audience has laughed, cried and questioned the likes of Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Harry Truman, Rachel Carson, Malcolm X, Marie Curie, and Winston Churchill. However, with recent massive cutbacks at the Buncombe Library System, Asheville Chautauqua was in danger of disappearing. Between the cost of the performers, lodging, advertising and the venue, the local Chautauqua typically cost $12,000-$14,000 annually. Thanks to the hard work of the Save Our Chautauqua Committee, the 4-day festival will continue this June. The citizens of the area can again explore, dream, and discover engaging American personalities, people who shaped our country. Matthew Henson (Keith Henley) This year you will be able to see, hear and learn more about Mark Twain, Samuel Clements public persona, the author and humorist, portrayed by George Frein of Fort Worth, TX.; Amelia Earhart, who in 1928 became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane, brought to life by Leslie Goddard of Chicago, Ill; Matthew Henson, the African-American who co- discovered the North Pole in 1909 with Robert Peary and four Eskimos, depicted by Keith Henley of Camden, NJ.; and Wernher von Braun, the Germany immigrant and rocket scientist who landed a dozen men on the moon and brought them back, portrayed by Larry Bounds of Greer, SC. The amazing details of their lives will undoubtedly make for a lively, enthralling and entertaining evening. Mark Twain (George Frein) This year’s event, titled “American Adventures. Explore. Dream. Discover,” will be held June 20–23 at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road, Asheville. A musical program will begin each evening at 7 pm followed by the featured speaker at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $5 a night with ample parking available. All ages will certainly enjoy these presentations of these fascinating, adventuresome people who are brought to life on stage by these talented actors and actresses.

2016-06-19 18:40 By Dasha www.thetribunepapers.com

37 Shiv Sena to bear medical expenses of woman pushed out of train Thane: Maharashtra Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Sunday said the party will bear medical expenses of the woman, who was pushed out of a moving train by a man. On June 16, 22-year-old Rekha Navale was pushed out of the Mumbai-bound Gorakhpur Express by a man after she and other women objected to his entering the ladies coach , Railway Police had said. Rekha is admitted to the Fortis Hospital in Kalyan in the district, where she was visited by Shinde, who is the also the guardian Minister for Thane. The accused Dinesh Yadav was arrested and remanded in police custody till June 20, inspector Datta Vable of Dombivli police had said. "The Sena will bear all the medical expenses of Rekha Navale," Shinde was quoted as saying in statement issued here. Shiv Sena, formed on June 19, 1966, is celebrating its 50th foundation day on Sunday. "The (Shiv) Sena was born for lending a helping hand to the needy and it also appreciates those who do good work," the Minister said.

2016-06-19 19:01 By PTI www.mid-day.com

38 Raghuram Rajan acted as Congress agent: Subramanian Swamy New Delhi : Continuing his tirade against Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, BJP's Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said Rajan has been acting as a 'Congress agent' ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in May 2014. Subramanian Swamy Swamy's remarks came after senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said that he was saddened by the way an "upright" RBI Governor was being targetted by BJP parliamentarians. "I am saddened by the way the BJP-led government treated an upright RBI Governor like Raghuram Rajan," Azad told media here. Rajan has announced he would not want a second term after his current tenure as the RBI Governor ends in September. Reacting to Azad's remarks, Swamy told the media here that such remarks only substantiated his suspicion that Rajan acted as a Congress agent. "This only proves what I have always suspected... that he (Rajan) worked as a Congress agent," Swamy said. The BJP leader accused Rajan of "sabotaging the country's economy by trying to put all small, medium industries out of business". Swamy has been bitterly criticising Rajan for some time now, accusing the RBI Governor of derailing the Indian economy by keeping the lending rates high.

2016-06-19 18:59 By IANS www.mid-day.com

39 IDF officer slammed as 'traitor' for testifying against soldier in Hebron shooting case IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot on Sunday came to the defense of the IDF officer who testified in the case of Elor Azaria, the soldier accused of manslaughter for shooting an already neutralized and unarmed Palestinian terrorist. "Maj. Tom Naaman has the full support of the IDF," Eisenkot stated after Naaman recieved hundreds of hate-filled phone calls, as well as text and Facebook messages deriding him as not worthy of being an officer, being a "traitor" and other such comments. "The norm expected of IDF personnel is first and foremost to tell the truth and let the court-system work without external pressures," said the chief of staff. He condemned any pressure on the witnesses involved in the Azaria trial. Naaman, who was Azaria's officer during the time of the incident, testified on Thursday that Azaria told him after the shooting that the "terrorist was alive and needed to die. " Naaman also said in his testimony that he did not feel that there was any danger coming from the terrorist at the time of the incident. Both facts came in direct contrast to Azaria's claims. Politicians from across the political spectrum responded quickly, coming to Naaman's defense. MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) stated that "in the face of such attacks on Maj. Naaman who did his duty and truthfully testified in court, we must all stand with him against these attacks. Silence is not an option. " She also said that "these are times in which Israel has to make a choice between truth and lies, principle or anarchy, between the moral army we send our children to and an army that listens to the growl of the mob. " MK Yoav Kish of the Likud also came out against the attacks on Naaman, stating, "I absolutely condemn the contemptible comments directed at Maj. Naaman. I call on the police and Justice Ministry to deal with the inciters. " Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon also came to Naaman's defense, saying incitement against him "crossed a line. " "Incitement against the company commander Major Tom Naaman, is another example of crossing a line, and it must be fought," Ya'alon wrote on Facebook. "I urge the leadership to stop winking at the extremist minority, and come out loud and clearly against this unacceptable phenomenon, and provide basic management and support for a soldier and commander who has shown courage, not only on the battlefield. " The overwhelming responses prompted Azaria's lawyer Carmit Shchiver to say that "It is forbidden to slander IDF soldiers. "

2016-06-19 18:53 JULIE STEIGERWALD www.jpost.com

40 MLB Baseball Box Scores MINNEAPOLIS -- For six innings on Saturday, the New York Yankees' offense could get nothing going against Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Ricky Nolasco. But New York's veteran bats woke up in the seventh and the Yankees scored all of their runs over the final three innings before holding on late in a 7-6 win at Target Field. The Twins built a 4-0 lead off Yankees starter Michael Pineda before watching their advantage evaporate on two swings of the bat. Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning and Carlos Beltran added a two-run blast in the eighth to tie the game 4-4 before the Yankees tacked on three runs in the ninth. "That was a huge two-run homer right there," Beltran said of Rodriguez's blast. "At that point, we're down four and all of the sudden, Alex hits that ball and we narrow the gap. Alex is a guy that can change the game with one swing of the bat. "Beltran's homer capped a three-hit game by from the veteran outfielder, who has been red-hot since the beginning of the month. Beltran is hitting.364 in 15 games since June 1, with six homers and 17 RBIs. His 18 home runs and 48 RBIs this season both lead the Yankees. "What I'm trying to do is just be consistent and put together good at-bats," Beltran said. "Right now, it seems like I'm getting good results. "When you play 162 games, you gotta be aware that you're gonna have good times and not such good times. You have to grind, you have to make sure you don't give away at-bats. Basically that's the whole mentality right now. "The late explosion spoiled a solid start from Nolasco, who allowed two runs on eight hits and a walk, striking out five over seven innings, but was handed a no-decision after his bullpen couldn't hold the lead. "It was one of those days where I knew it was going to be really important to locate and try to keep them off balance," Nolasco said. "It worked out. "The home runs by Rodriguez and Beltran evened the game into the ninth and the Yankees loaded the bases with nobody out against Twins reliever Fernando Abad. Right-hander Ryan Pressly entered and got pinch hitter Starlin Castro to strike out swinging for the first out before Jacoby Ellsbury ripped a 96-mph fastball to right past a drawn in infield to score two runs and give the Yankees a 6-4 lead. Brett Gardner added a sacrifice fly to left field to give closer Chapman a three-run cushion. Chapman needed all the help he got. The flame-throwing left-hander surrendered back-to-back two-out homers to Eduardo Escobar and Kurt Suzuki, but got pinch hitter Trevor Plouffe to ground out to second to end the game, securing his 13th save. Yankees reliever Andrew Miller (4-0) got the win, pitching an inning of scoreless relief. Abad (1-1) was charged with the loss after allowing three runs on one hit and two walks in one-third of an inning. "It was really difficult (to see it slip away)," Twins manager Paul Molitor said. "Ricky pitched outstanding. They found a way. "Pineda didn't figure into the final decision, but struck out nine and walked nine, allowing four runs -- three earned -- in 5 1/3 innings. "I thought his stuff was really good," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "The big mistake he made was to Park. He left a fastball up. The breaking ball that gave up the double (to Max Kepler in the second), he didn't get that where he wanted to and that led to the first run, but I thought his stuff was really good today. "Escobar got the Twins on the board with an RBI single in the second inning to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead. Park hit a two-run blast in the fourth to give the Twins a 3-0 edge. For Park, who leads American League rookies with 12 home runs, it was only his second homer with men on base. The Twins added an unearned run in the sixth on Park's sacrifice fly to center before New York's late offensive surge. NOTES: Yankees 2B Starlin Castro got the day off after batting.214 in his last 33 games. ... Twins LHP Pat Dean was optioned to Triple-A Rochester following the game on Friday. Dean was 1-3 with a 5.54 ERA in eight games, including six starts. ... Twins LHP Tommy Milone was selected from Rochester. Milone was 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA in five games, including four starts, with the Twins earlier this season. He was 4-0 with a 1.66 ERA in 48 2/3 innings with Rochester. ... New York and Minnesota will conclude their four-game series on Sunday at Target Field. The Yankees will send right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (6-3, 4.90 ERA) to the mound against Twins right-hander Ervin Santana (1-7, 5.10 ERA).

2016-06-19 18:39 The Sports scoresandstats.newyork.cbslocal.com

41 41 Turkey LGBT: Scuffles at banned Istanbul transgender event Turkish riot police have fired tear gas and plastic bullets after transgender rights activists gathered in Istanbul in defiance of a ban on marching. Several dozen activists turned up and were surrounded by police, after which scuffles began, with one man reportedly tearing up a gay rights banner. The march was banned in order to "safeguard security and public order". Istanbul Pride, which has occurred annually since 2003 and was due to be held on 26 June, was also prohibited. Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey - unlike in many Arab countries - but analysts say homophobia remains widespread. It comes after suspected Islamists attacked people listening to a rock album in an Istanbul record store on Friday evening for drinking alcohol and listening to music during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Riot police dispersed a protest against the attack on Saturday evening. At last year's Istanbul Pride, police used water cannon and tear gas to break up the crowd. The order banning this year's marches means anyone taking part in either event risks facing intervention by the security forces. Organisers of Istanbul Pride denounced the ban as a "flagrant violation of the constitution and the law". They said the city authorities were failing in their duty to protect the rights of citizens to exercise their rights, and that they would launch legal action. Security in the city is already tight after bombings in recent months blamed on so-called Islamic State and Kurdish militants. An ultra-nationalist youth group, the Alperen Hearths, called those planning to participate in the gay pride event immoral and said it would "stop the march" if it went ahead. 2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

42 Former Vanderbilt college football player convicted of rape A former US college football player has been convicted after a jury found that he encouraged teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating. Brandon Vandenburg was found guilty on five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery. Vandenburg, 23, was a student at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He was first convicted last year alongside teammate Corey Batey, but the original verdict was thrown out when a juror was found to be a rape victim. In a retrial, the jury took four hours to find Vandenberg guilty. He was also convicted on one count of unlawful photography. Four former players were charged in the case but only two were accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman. Batey was convicted again in April. The two men now face a minimum of 15 years in prison. The verdict comes amid controversy over a six-month sentence given to another college athlete, Brock Turner , for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman at Stanford University. Vandenburg's lawyers argued that he was too drunk to be responsible for his actions. But CCTV footage showed the defendant carrying the victim into a hotel room along with several teammates. The trial also featured graphic videos and photos that were taken by the players with their phones. Vandenburg's lawyers admitted in court that the images were "disturbing". The victim, then a 21-year-old neuroscience student, testified that she had no memory of the event. She said Vandenburg told her when she woke up that she had got drunk and sick and he had taken care of her. Prosecutors suggested in court that she was under the influence of a date- rape drug. Parallels have been drawn between the sentence in the Stanford case and the minimum sentence faced by Vandenburgg and Batey. Dmitry Gorin, a Los Angeles criminal defence lawyer and former prosecutor specializing in sex crimes, told the Associated Press: "It does seem like an extreme disparity, but I would say this. "With these sex crimes, the facts are very important, the details are very important, and the law punishes the conduct differently depending on what conduct can be proven. "In the Stanford case, they did not prove rape. "

2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

43 Mexico 'Voice' singer Alejandro Fuentes shot in Chicago A former contestant on Mexico's version of The Voice TV talent show has been shot dead in Chicago, police say. Alejandro Fuentes, 45, died on Saturday in hospital after an ambush on Thursday night. He was a Voice contestant in 2011. His death comes 10 days after singer Christina Grimmie, who appeared on the US edition of The Voice, was shot and killed in Orlando, Florida. The number of murders in Chicago this year is up 72% from 2015. Mr Fuentes had been celebrating his birthday with friends on Thursday night, the local medical examiner's office said. He was in his car on the street outside Tras Bambalinas, a performing arts school he ran for young people in south-west Chicago. A gunman ordered him out of the car - when he refused, the gunman shot him three times in the head. No arrests have yet been made. Ms Grimmie, 22, was shot by a fan in Orlando as she was signing autographs after a concert. Her attacker then killed himself.

2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

44 IS conflict: Falluja 'humanitarian disaster' warning A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Falluja following a civilian exodus from the Iraqi city, aid workers warn. Some 80,000 people have fled during a four-week government offensive to drive back so-called Islamic State fighters, says the UN. A further 25,000 civilians are likely on the move, the organisation adds. Aid workers are struggling to provide food, water and medicine to people who are sleeping in the open in hopelessly overcrowded camps outside the city. Falluja: Why the embattled city matters IS is under pressure but it thrives on instability Islamic State group: The full story "The overwhelming number of people that have come out of Falluja has actually overwhelmed our ability to respond to the people in need," said Nasr Muflahi from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). "We implore the Iraqi government to take charge of this humanitarian disaster unfolding on our watch," he added. Iraqi government forces have succeeded in retaking most of Falluja, but fighting continues in some parts of the city , which is just 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad. We drove into Falluja on a road that snaked through what was once a wealthy suburb but is now deserted. Many homes have been destroyed. By the side of the road, unexploded shells showed how dangerous these streets remain for civilians if they are allowed to return. Many tell harrowing escape stories. Some have been caught in crossfire, others drowned in the Euphrates as they tried to swim to safety. We heard the sound of artillery and gunfire wherever we went. Read Ahmed Maher's report from Falluja Many of those who fleeing the fighting have been forced to sleep in the open, and spend their days under the sun in temperatures set to reach 47C (117F) in the next few days. Aid supplies are running dangerously low in overcrowded conditions. One newly opened camp, Amriyat al-Falluja, has only one latrine for 1,800 women, the NRC said. The government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is already struggling to meet the needs of more than 3.4 million people across the country who have been displaced by conflict. The IS group's self-styled Amaq news agency reported on Sunday that about 50 Iraqi troops had been killed and four army vehicles destroyed in "fierce fighting" with IS fighters near Falluja General Hospital in the north- east of the city. Several civilians have been killed by militants while attempting to escape, including, on Monday, a two-year-old boy who was being carried by his mother. Some residents were reportedly used as human shields by IS to slow the advance of government forces, who are being backed by air strikes from the US-led coalition. IS militants had captured the northern city in January 2014 and held it for longer than any other city in Iraq or Syria - before the Iraqi army launched an operation to retake it.

2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

45 Russia Lake Syamozero: Children die after storm catches boating group At least 11 children and an adult died when a storm caught a boating party on Lake Syamozero in northern Russia's Karelia region. Ten children on holiday from Moscow were killed, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, quoting preliminary information. Of the group of 51, at least 36 are safe, emergency services said, with reports of survivors washing ashore. An instructor has been arrested on suspicion of safety violations. A team of doctors and psychologists has been dispatched from Moscow, according to Mr Sobyanin. "A great tragedy has occurred in Karelia," he tweeted. "According to preliminary data, 10 children from Moscow have perished on Syamozero. My condolences to their families and friends. " Rescue services said the survivors were being evacuated - 25 survivors from an island in the lake, and 11 from a village on the shore. They said they had received an alert at 11:15 (08:15 GMT) on Sunday that a tour group was missing on Lake Syamozero after a storm. Emergency crews using boats and helicopters were sent to the scene. It appears that the boating party, mostly adolescents on holiday from Moscow and aged between 12 and 15, were staying in a summer camp near the lake, a popular outdoor tourism destination. They had set out in boats on Saturday when the storm rose. Between 49 and 51 people were in the party. One of the survivors, a girl aged 12, raised the alarm after reaching a local village on Sunday, a police source told Russian tabloid Life News (in Russian). Yulia is quoted as saying the group were using two boats and a raft when the storm began, and the craft were scattered across the lake. Washed ashore, she only recovered consciousness on Sunday, after which she walked along the shore to the village of Kudama. Along the way, she met a boy survivor who was covered in blood and could not move. After taking note of the spot where she had found him, she reached the village, where a local resident phoned emergency services. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's state investigative agency SledKom, said an instructor had been arrested on suspicion of violating safety rules. A regional MP, Alexei Gavrilov, reportedly told state TV channel Rossiya 24 there had been repeated warnings in the days before the storm, advising against any boating on the lake. "They didn't have the right to go out boating," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

46 Algeria blocks social media to beat exam cheats Algeria has temporarily blocked access to social media across the country in an attempt to fight cheating in secondary school exams. Almost half of students are being forced to retake the baccalaureat exam, starting on Sunday, after the initial session was marred by online leaking. Many students were able to access questions on Facebook and other social media ahead of the exam in early June. Algeria has struggled with baccalaureate leaks in recent years. The decision to block social media was taken to protect students de la publication of "bogus questions on those networks", officials told Algeria's APS news agency.

2016-06-19 19:37 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

47 Violence outside venue where ANC was to brief structures on mayoral candidate Pretoria - Violence broke out near the Tshwane Showground on Sunday where the ANC was set to hold a briefing session regarding the mayoral candidate for the metro. A shop owner near the show grounds on Sunday evening said they heard a gun shot and then all hell broke loose. "A group rushed to the back of the shop and started breaking down the door. One guy who was part of the group had an axe and ransacked the shop before leaving," said the owner, who asked not to be named. "Police came in and the people left. They were shaking the locked gate trying to get in. Luckily those inside were not hurt," he added. The shop owner added that he thought one person was shot twice during the commotion, but it was not yet clear if the victim was an ANC member. The ANC was scheduled to have engagements with party structures to elect a mayoral candidate for Tshwane. The party announced mayoral candidates for all the other Metros on Saturday, but Tshwane was left out with engagements planned for Sunday. It was indicated on Sunday morning by party insiders that the ANC had decided to rope in former public works minister Thoko Didiza to contest the elections. Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa's spokesperson, Blessing Manale, said the National Executive Committee members, the PEC and the Regional Executive Committee had their meeting at the Centurion constituency office and not the show grounds. "The shooting took place at Tshwane Event Centre before the arrival of the leadership to give the outcome the final candidates decision. One person was injured and taken to hospital and the metro police and SAPS are on site and no arrests have been made," he said.

2016-06-19 18:39 Karabo Ngoepe www.news24.com

48 Girl impressively catches a massive catfish with her bare hands While some people opt to use a line, hook, rod and reel when fishing, this girl did away with it all and impressively caught a massive catfish by using just her bare hands. In video footage of the incredible catch, a girl called Hannah is seen submerging herself into a muddy lake for several seconds. She then comes out with a big smile on her face as she tosses the large catfish over her shoulder with most of her arm inside its mouth while the other is in its gill. 'That's what I'm talkin' 'bout Hannah, hold that big old fish,' the man behind the camera can be heard saying. 'That right there gon' be good in some grease,' he adds. The girl flashes a big grin and is heard cheering after making the catch using the daring method called noodling, which is when flathead catfish are caught by hand. During the process, noodlers wave their arms around in a catfish hole and if all goes according to plan, the fish will latch onto the arm as a defensive measure and the noodler can bring the fish in. The arm-as- bait method means the sport is not for the faint hearted. The video appears to have been filmed in the United States and was posted to YouTube last Sunday where it has already garnered more than 900,000 views.

2016-06-19 17:27 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk

49 Black box recorders from doomed Egyptair flight are so severely damaged they will take 'lots of time and effort' to fix before they reveal what caused it to crash The black box recorders recovered from the doomed Egyptair flight that went down in the Mediterranean are severely damaged and will take 'lots of time and effort' to fix, air crash investigators have revealed. Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources said that the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder may even have to be sent abroad to be repaired before they can be analysed. Search teams recovered the cockpit voice recorder on Thursday and said at the time, they found it damaged but the memory unit was still in tact. When the flight data recorder was discovered the next day, it had broken into pieces, but again still had a memory unit. The two black box recorders are seen as crucial in explaining what went wrong on the Airbus A380, which crashed early on May 19 on its way from Paris to Cairo killing all 66 people on board. The announcement comes after a French research vessel found wreckage from doomed flight 804 which disappeared over the Mediterranean last month. The search has concentrated on an area between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast. Shortly before it vanished, the aircraft had been cruising normally at 38,000 feet when it turned 90 degrees to the left. Moments later, it turned a full 360 degrees to the right and plummeted to 15,000 feet. The jet vanished from radar at 10,000 feet. While speculation initially centred on a terror attack, a technical fault has also not been ruled out, with automated messages sent by the plane shortly before its demise indicating smoke in the cabin and a fault in the flight control unit. The crash took place seven months after the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula in October that killed all 224 people on board. ISIS claimed responsibility for that attack. There has been no such claim over the EgyptAir crash. Leaked flight data indicated a sensor detected smoke in a lavatory and a fault in two of the plane's cockpit windows in the final moments of the flight.

2016-06-19 17:23 Jennifer Newton www.dailymail.co.uk

50 Donald Trump says racial profiling of Muslims is something the country must 'start thinking about' in aftermath of Orlando shooting Donald Trump opened the door to racial profiling as he talked about how the U. S. might prevent terror attacks from happening in the future. 'Well, I think profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country,' Trump told CBS' John Dickerson on Sunday's Face the Nation. Trump talked terror one week to the day after 29-year-old Omar Mateen killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida – the nation's deadliest shooting in history. Scroll down for video Trump, who was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, found himself reluctant to say if a Muslim buying ammunition and weapons should get extra scrutiny, though was open to some degree of racial profiling. 'You know, I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense and we have to use, you know, we have to use our heads,' Trump said. 'And other countries do it, and it's not the worst thing to do,' Trump continued, name-dropping, for one, Israel. 'I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to use common sense. We're not using common sense,' Trump added. Trump talked about recent conversations he's had with the NRA. The Republican slightly bucked the party line, which has essentially been to stand firm against any new gun control measures, and said shortly after Sunday's shooting that he was open to legislation that would ban gun purchases for those on the terror watch list. 'These are people that love their country incredibly and I don't think they get enough credit for it,' he said of the gun lobbying group's leadership. 'I'm talking to them about the whole concept of terror watch list,' the businessman continued. 'You know, should we take somebody directly off? If there is a terror watch list that if somebody's on, should they be allowed to buy a gun?' The counter point has been that sometimes people end up on the list who don't belong on it, 'Now we understand there are problems with that because some people are on the terror watch list that shouldn't be on,' Trump explained. 'Maybe we can reverse it and we work very hard to find out, if they can't get a gun, we work hard and diligently to get them off the list if they indeed shouldn't be on the list,' he said. 'So, you know, I'm working with the NRA, we're discussing it,' Trump added. 'And again, the NRA has the best interest of our country, it just has the absolute best interest of our country. They want to make the best decision. These are great people and these are great Americans.'

2016-06-19 17:16 Nikki Schwab www.dailymail.co.uk

51 CPRF commando killed, 2 injured in IED blast at Bihar Aurangabad (Bihar): A CRPF commando was on Sunday killed and his two other colleagues were injured in an IED blast carried out by Maoists in the jungles of Aurangabad district, police said. The Maoists triggered the blast near Bandhu Bigaha village when three commandos of CRPF's elite 205th Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) unit were riding on two bikes on way to their camp from Bali Pahari locality, Deputy Superintendent of Police P N Sahu said. CRPF personnel were engaged in an encounter with the ultras since last night in Bali Pahari. The blast occurred around noon, officials said. One commando was killed on the spot while his two other colleagues sustained injuries, Sahu said. "The body has been sent for post-mortem at a government hospital, while the two injured have been rushed to the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (in Gaya)," Sahu said. The martyred commando has been identified as A Deka while the injured are A K Yadav and K Kakoti.

2016-06-19 18:05 By PTI www.mid-day.com

52 New Yorkers defend Muslim women being harassed by racist Donald Trump supporter 'A bunch of people began to yell, you need to get off this train,' she told Pix 11 . 'This is New York City. The most diverse place in the world. And in New York, we protect our own and we don't give a f*** what anyone looks like or who they love, or any of those things. It's time for you to leave these women alone, sir,' he told him, according to Hasan. 'I couldn't have said it better,' she added. Eventually the Trump supporter exited the subway - to the applause of everyone on board. 'This royal douche got off the train to the sound of cheering,' Hasan said. 'My racist co-commuter this morning,' he wrote on Facebook. 'Generalized the entire subway car as foreigners. 'Asked people to go back to their countries. Had something to say something about illegal immigrants and their reliance on welfare. 'It was beautiful to see that so many different denominations had a word for this insensitive and misinformed commuter. Don't tolerate hate!! #ftrain #racist #trumpsupporter #nyc #immigration #welfare #discrimination.' Hasan said she previously wore a headscarf so is sadly all too aware of the negativity some Muslims can face. She was particularly cautious of trouble on Monday following the worst mass shooting in recent times after Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, shot dead 49 people at a gay club in Orlando on June 11. Hasan warned that much of the rhetoric following the shooting was was 'erring on the side of nasty' but said that her heart had been warmed by the response of her fellow passengers. 'I say all this to say that in light of all the bad happening around us, remember that there's so much good and so much love.' There are concerns after the Orlando shooting that hate crimes against Muslims could soar - after similar increases following San Bernardino and 9/11. Last year alone saw hate crimes against Muslim individuals, mosques and businesses triple in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks.

2016-06-19 16:43 Hannah Parry www.dailymail.co.uk

53 Migrants turn to flimsy boats to cross Channel Lille - Thwarted at every turn in their efforts to reach Britain, migrants in northern France have once again changed tack...turning to flimsy dinghies to carry them across the Channel. Migrants in Calais have sneaked into trucks or trains and even tried to walk through the undersea tunnel in increasingly risky and sometimes deadly attempts to reach Britain. However tighter security has stymied these efforts and authorities have reported about a dozen operations to rescue migrants drifting in inflatable dinghies in the Channel since the start of the year. There were none in 2015. Migrants drowning The most recent rescue took place on June 11, when three Iranian migrants were saved from their sinking vessel. Three other migrants were rescued in similar circumstances a few days earlier. Pierre-Joachim Antona, spokesperson for the local French maritime authority, said efforts to cross the Channel by boat were "no longer extraordinary or isolated". There have been rare cases in recent years of migrants drowning while trying to swim across the narrow sea and an Afghan once built a raft with a bedsheet in a failed effort to drift to England. But the phenomenon is now a "real and lasting trend", said Antona. Hundreds of thousands of economic migrants and refugees have crossed from Turkey to Greece in overloaded boats since and hundreds have died in the process. While France's migrant crisis is tiny compared to that faced by Greece or Germany, the slum-like Calais camp of about 4 000 migrants desperate to reach Britain is a political hot potato on both sides of the Channel. Many of the migrants have relatives in Britain, or believe they will have a better chance of finding employment there. Curb the trend The migrants' main tactic has been sneaking onto the back of trucks, initially when drivers stopped to rest and later by blocking roads and forcing their way onto the vehicles. The crisis reached a peak in July and August last year when hundreds tried to storm the Eurotunnel site on several consecutive nights to try cross the Channel. Security was stepped up in response to the disturbances,but recent efforts to block traffic flared again last month. At least 26 people have been killed attempting to reach Britain since June 2015. Both France and Britain have stepped up patrols and efforts on land to curb the trend. Patricio Martin, director of the border police in northern France, said a surveillance system had been set up along the coastline to "intercept smuggling networks even before the migrants take to the sea". A police source said that smugglers were demanding "up to €10 000" for the crossing.

2016-06-19 17:43 www.news24.com

54 Attorney general: Silent on Clinton email case with Obama WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday she doesn't believe the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server has been compromised by President Barack Obama's endorsement of Clinton in the 2016 White House race. That endorsement raised eyebrows among conservatives who say it puts pressure on the law enforcement agencies, run by Obama's political appointees, to pull punches when trying to decide whether Clinton should be charged. The FBI is investigating whether Clinton broke any laws relying on a private email server during her four years as Obama's secretary of State instead of using a system owned and protected by the federal government. "The investigation into the State Department email matter is going to be handled like any other matter," Lynch told "Fox News Sunday. " "We've got career agents and lawyers looking at that. They will follow the facts and follow the evidence wherever it leads and come to a conclusion," she said. Lynch said she has never spoken about the investigation with Obama or "really with anyone" at the White House. "That's not the kind of relationship that I have with people there and it would be inappropriate to do so," she said.

2016-06-19 16:42 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

55 China condemns Indonesia’s firing on fishing boats By AT Editor on June 19, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features (From AFP) China accused Indonesia on Sunday of firing on its fishermen and injuring one of them, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the two nations in the South China Sea. An Indonesian Navy officer in April standing before a Chinese trawler that was allegedly operating illegally in Indonesian waters The foreign ministry in Beijing launched a strong protest over what it termed the Indonesian navy’s harassment of Chinese fishermen. It said several Indonesian naval ships opened fire on the boats in a disputed fishing ground on Friday. One crew member was injured, it said without giving details, while another fishing boat and seven crew were detained. Read More Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Share on Skype (Opens in new window) More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Related ‹ 4 children among 8 fleeing Syrians killed by Turkish border guards: Monitor Categories: Asia Times News & Features Tags: 7 Chinese fishermen detained at sea , China slams Indonesia firing on fishing boats , Chinese fisherman hurt in firing , Chinese fishermen accuse Indonesia of harassment , crewman of Chinese boat injured , Indonesia fires on on Chinese fishing boats Related Articles 4 children among 8 fleeing Syrians killed by Turkish border guards: Monitor US aircraft carriers start drills off Philippines Bangladesh: Fresh wave of migration feared as Islamist killers target Hindus Protesters rally against US military on Okinawa IS planning attacks on citizens, US installations in South Korea: NIS China not protesting India’s NSG bid, says Sushma Swaraj

2016-06-19 13:40 By AT atimes.com

56 56 Oregon DA is gunning for justice in review of convictions BEND, Oregon (AP) — At first, authorities in Oregon believed the lab tech had been stealing drugs from just one batch of evidence. Then they saw drugs were missing from other cases she had worked. And then they finally concluded she had also stolen evidence from ones she had not worked on. The number of possibly contaminated convictions grew, from one to now around 1,500 in central Oregon's Deschutes County alone. District Attorney John Hummel is vowing to re-examine each conviction, arguing that revisiting them is critical to ensure that the public has confidence in the justice system. So far, he has recommended 10 convictions be overturned. "I want people to say: 'You know what? When the DA stands up and says he thinks someone is guilty, he is doing that based on solid evidence,'" said Hummel, whose county's natural beauty belies a reputation for misdeeds by its own lawmen. Hummel said he has seen the consequences when people lose faith in their justice system, pointing to his experience in a post-civil war Liberia when he'd find smoldering bodies during morning walks, the victims of mob justice. Nika Larsen, the lab technician from the state police lab in Bend, is suspected of removing drugs and replacing them with over-the-counter medications. Hummel said a joint investigation by his office, the U. S. attorney, the Oregon Department of Justice and the Umatilla County district attorney is wrapping up and an announcement is forthcoming on who will take the lead on prosecution. Meanwhile, his office is reviewing all those convictions. So far, a judge has thrown out at least one conviction for methamphetamine possession. The lawyer for another one of the 10 asked the court on June 8 for his client's conviction to be thrown out. George Burgen had been sentenced to 10 days in jail after a sheriff's deputy stopped his car and found a small plastic bag in his wallet, a thin line of a substance on the bottom. An official document refers to it as "meth (residue). " "Those 10 days in jail, I don't know how I get those back," Burgen said in an interview in his house in the woods near the Deschutes River. "But I was guilty. I did have it in my possession. " Burgen doesn't trust police and cited crimes committed by officers, including a former sheriff who was imprisoned for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars and a deputy convicted of giving drugs to teenage girls and sexually abusing them. "Of those in the justice system, some are criminals themselves, so who are they to be convicting," Burgen wondered over a cup of coffee, a letter from his attorney on the table in front of him. "The hypocrisy is just amazing. " He said he appreciates Hummel's efforts. "People have to have faith in their justice system, which has been so screwed up in this county," Burgen said. "I'm glad we have a DA who is looking at the whole picture in this way. " Burgen said he had quit using meth long before he was busted. "I decided I was getting too old to do this," he said, adding that he had forgotten that he still had the tiny amount in his wallet. Some other counties are also investigating possible tampering of evidence, including Umatilla where Larsen previously worked at a lab in Pendleton. Hummel's office has posted a spreadsheet, tracking all the cases. The Oregon Innocence Project has applauded Hummel's actions and transparency and called on other counties to follow his lead by opening their own files to the public. Kevin Sali, a defense attorney who is on Gov. Kate Brown's work group investigating the Oregon State police forensic laboratory system, said problems go beyond a few analysts tampering with the evidence. Sali said the group needs to try to improve the process "at every level," from eliminating influence and pressure on technicians to come up with results that please police and prosecutors, to making clear to juries when a finding is not purely scientific but is subject to an analyst's interpretation. Hummel said he expects his review to be completed in September. ___ Follow Andrew Selsky on Twitter @andrewselsky.

2016-06-19 16:39 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

57 As 10-year war anniversary nears, Israel to receive new stealth fighter jets The Israeli defense establishment calls it a game changer, and views it as the plane that will provide Israel with unparalleled aerial capabilities against its enemies. On Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) will move a step closer to receiving the F-35 Lightning II, one of the world’s most- advanced stealth fighter jets, when Israel's fifth generation warplanes will be officially rolled out by their manufacturer, Lockheed Martin. Defense officials say these jets will transform Israel’s combat capabilities, and significantly upgrade the air force’s ability to confront the threats posed to it, particularly from Hezbollah. On Wednesday, Israel’s first F-35 jets will be unveiled in a ceremony - to be attended by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman alongside top IAF officers - at Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The unveiling comes just weeks before Israel marks the 10th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War. The F-35’s stealth features advanced sensors, guided weapons, and the ability to fuse data from various sources, allowing the pilot to focus on tactics, rather than on running the aircraft. The first two jets will arrive in Israel in December. Israel will be the first country outside the United States to receive the platform, Keith O. Tucker, director of the Strategic Studies Group at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said. Its capabilities will be felt clearly during military operations such as a ground offensive, he added, stating that the fifth-generation jet takes combat to new heights. Tucker also made reference to an intriguing and mostly classified capability on board the aircraft: its ability to carry out cyber attacks from the air. The plane will be able to launch cyber attacks and cyber defenses simultaneously during combat, he said. The plane will enable the IAF to see its enemies before they can see it, and to strike them before they realize they are under attack. These advantages are especially pertinent against the IDF’s principal military foe, Hezbollah, which, according to international media reports, has advanced radar-based surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries, and a vast arsenal of 120,000 offensive rockets and missiles. Its stealth radar signature gives the F-35 the ability to attack these SAM batteries before they can be used, and to do so from long-range

2016-06-19 17:38 YAAKOV LAPPIN www.jpost.com

58 24 dead, 26 missing in Indonesian floods, landslides: Official Jakarta : Flash flooding and landslides in Indonesia have killed 24 and left more than two dozen missing, an official said on Sunday, with mud avalanches burying people inside their homes. Torrential rain since Saturday has triggered serious flooding across Central Java, with thousands of homes inundated, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. "Initial data... shows the impact of the floods and landslides in Central Java has caused 24 deaths, with 26 others still missing," Sutopo said in a statement. Footage aired by local broadcasters showed villagers sitting on their roofs to escape the rising water, their cars and homes submerged in brown water. Areas prone to landslides in the densely-populated province were the worst hit, with drivers swept off roads and dozens of homes destroyed by fast- moving walls of mud, rock and water. In one district, five people were buried in their homes as a landslide swept through the village. In another, nine people were killed as they tried to clear rubble from a road. "Suddenly a huge landslide struck the cars and people on the street. Nine bodies were retrieved," Sutopo said in a statement. Search and rescue crews are combing villages for the 26 still missing, Sutopo added. Temporary shelters have been erected to help those evacuated from the disaster zone. Landslides are not uncommon in Indonesia, a vast tropical archipelago prone to natural disasters and torrential downpours. Last month, fifteen students holidaying at a popular tourist spot in western Indonesia were killed when a landslide swept through their camp ground.

2016-06-19 17:37 By PTI www.mid-day.com

59 Chief Rabbinate says new Hashgacha Pratit certificates illegal, ready to issue fines The Chief Rabbinate has said that it considers new supervision certificates issued by the independent kashrut authority Hashgacha Pratit to be illegal. A spokesman for the chief rabbinate told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that restaurants using the new certificate will be issued with fines, although he declined to say when such fines might be imposed. In a decision earlier this month, the High Court of Justice ruled that a legal loophole allowing restaurants to present themselves as being kosher without using the word “kosher” was unlawful, and that the Law Against Kashrut Fraud prohibited this practice. Hashgacha Pratit had used this loophole to issue certificates to restaurants using its kashrut supervision services which did not include the word kosher but instead talked of “Jewish law relating to food ingredients and preparation.” The references to Jewish law have now been removed from the new certificate, as have various references to kashrut and Jewish law in the organization’s logo, while the name Hashgacha Pratit is now absent from the document too, since the word Hashgacha is associated with kashrut. The text of the certificate says that the business owners see the trust placed in them by Hashgacha Pratit founder Rabbi Aharon Leibowitz as something “sacred” and will do everything to fulfil the “conditions” set by the rabbi and his team so that the public can eat at the restaurant with peace of mind. The chief rabbinate rejected the legality of the new document however. “The court has issued its verdict in a very clear manner; any presentation in writing that is designed to give the impression that an establishment is kosher is prohibited by law,” said the chief rabbinate in a statement to the press “Kashrut certificates are used only by the chief rabbinate and local rabbinates which are authorized to do so by law. Wording the certificate in an evasive way by elements who are not authorized will be considered as contravening the law and in contempt of court.” Hashgacha Pratit said in response that it works “in accordance with Jewish law and operates male and female kashrut supervisors who frequently visit the business under supervision, instructing and inspecting them in order to ensure that food preparation and everything connected to is done in accordance with Jewish law, and the public can eat their with peace of mind.” It said however that Hashgacha Pratit does not issue kashrut certificates,” and insisted that the new formulation of its certificates did not contravene the law or the High Court’s ruling. The organization added that it believed the chief rabbinate’s claims that it was breaking the law “stem from a real concern that the jobs factory, the shady practices, and the monopoly which the rabbinate preserves in the field of kashrut is disappearing from the world.” 2016-06-19 17:37 JEREMY SHARON www.jpost.com

60 When elections get tricky Pretoria - Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) deputy chairperson Terry Tselane’s job to deliver a free and fair election has proven a little more demanding for this year’s local government elections than in any other prior year. A number of opposition parties have openly challenged the commission for being biased towards the governing ANC, and at least one political party has threatened to block the elections unless the commission gives in to its demands. In the meantime, almost all parties have submitted requests to correct their candidate lists, but the commission’s hands are tied because the law does not allow it. The most unfortunate case is that of the United Democratic Movement, whose three councillor candidates passed away in a recent car accident but will still be on the ballot paper, says Tselane, the most experienced IEC commissioner. But the most significant dent to the commission’s credibility came from the courts this year over the Tlokwe matter. “For some of us we see it not only as a reflection on the commission, but also on us personally,” says Tselane, adding that it was sad the courts had found against the commission. He says the mood at Election House in Centurion’s Riverside Office Park is predominantly one of introspection. “There is some level of reflection happening within the commission.” Tselane says the commission could not afford to have its integrity called into question and “it is something it must defend”. However, he says optimistically, the responsibility on his shoulders is equally matched by the experience he gained during the struggle days as president of the Black Students’ Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. “In those days you could be killed.” The Constitutional Court last week found against the IEC in the matter relating to the credibility of the voters’ roll in North West’s Tlokwe local municipality. Tselane says the commission found relief in the decision, however, because at least 12 million voters who would have been disenfranchised because of inaccurate residential addresses will still be able to vote in the upcoming municipal elections. However, “privately”, he says, there are views that the commission could have cleaned up the roll a long time ago. He says that in terms of this week’s ruling, voters will not be expected to produce proof of residence when they register to vote. But they must at least provide some basic residential information. He says voters found to have registered fraudulently will open themselves up to prosecution. Tselane emphasises that the window of opportunity for parties to correct their lists has now been closed. “Incidentally, all political parties have approached the IEC with a request to change their lists.” He says changing lists arbitrarily will create confusion because the commission has strict time frames to conclude its work and does not have the resources to deal with disruptions to the process. PAC This week, the PAC declared that the commission had a choice between registering its candidates to contest the municipal elections or see the whole process disrupted. PAC president Luthando Mbinda said on Thursday that “there would be no elections” if the PAC was not allowed to participate. “We believe we cannot be banned … from participating. Who do they think they are?” Mbinda said. The Mbinda faction and another led by former PAC leader Letlapa Mphahlele have been at loggerheads for years about who the real leaders of the party are, with Alton Mphethi also claiming to be the legitimate president. Tselane says there was an appeal in the PAC’s leadership dispute, which meant that the commission would have to take further direction from the court. Only a court can grant permission for the commission to allow any candidate of the PAC to be allowed to contest the elections, he says. Tselane adds that the PAC had sufficient time to give the commission the required documents from the court, but this had not happened. “It will be unfortunate for people to make threats that the elections will not proceed in their absence.” Tselane says the commission is due to meet the Economic Freedom Fighters this week to iron out its allegations that there was an incident of vote rigging during the 2014 national elections in Alexandra in Gauteng. “It is not in the practice of the commission to respond to political parties in the media. We have bilateral platforms where these issues can be properly raised,” he says. Find everything you need to know about the 2016 Local Government Elections at our News24 Elections site , including the latest news and detailed, interactive maps for how South Africa has voted over the past 3 elections, or download the app for iOS and Android . For election maps click here.

2016-06-19 17:35 Setumo Stone www.news24.com

61 Keys captures second career title in Birmingham American Madison Keys celebrated moving into the world's top 10 for the first time by winning the grass title in Birmingham in emphatic style on Sunday. The seventh seed eased to a 6-3, 6-4 win over the unseeded Czech veteran Barbora Strycova, setting her up perfectly for a tilt at the Wimbledon crown in a week's time. Keys, for whom this was a second WTA title, is the first US woman to debut in the top 10 since Serena Williams in 1999. The 21-year- old produced some ferocious hitting, but although she made fewer errors compared with earlier in the week, there remained inconsistencies which allowed Strycova chances to get a grip on the second set. With Wimbledon just eight days away, Chris Evert, three times a Wimbledon champion, tweeted her expectations of her compatriot. "She's no flash in the pan. She's had to do it in her time – but now she's ready," Evert wrote. Keys' performance in the final was her best of the week, with more variations of pace and a much greater variety of direction - but it was almost the first time in a week that has seen some of the worst weather in the tournament's 35- year history that the conditions were half-decent. As a result she often looked like the top 10 player she will become next week, and even finished the first set like a future world number one, something which Serena Williams recently claimed Keys can become. Keys made more errors in the second set, and Strycova, playing her second Birmingham final in three years, had the tenacity and stamina – despite playing her 18th set of the week - to get close to turning the match around. She did that by taking longer pauses, sometimes slowing the rallies down, sometimes varying the pace, and counter-attacking when there was a half-chance to do so. Those tactics earned her three break points early in the second set and a fourth break point in the eighth game. Had the Czech sneaked that she would have been serving to level the match, after which anything might have happened. But when Keys was really required to avoid errors she did, only slightly easing up on the pace and still controlling the placement of her utterly fearsome forehand drive. She duly finished with a flourish, serving out for the match to love, admitting that she felt the pressure that Strycova had created, and announcing that she would drink the champagne she had won along with $146,000. Keys was also handed the Maud Watson trophy, named after the first women's winner at Wimbledon. "I am just going to focus on this – I am really happy," she said. "I will focus on Wimbledon tomorrow. " An hour later though she was already looking forward to the third Grand Slam tournament of the season. "Getting all these matches in a row is a huge opportunity which will definitely help me at Wimbledon," she acknowledged. "I love this surface, so the longer I am on it, the happier I am. "

2016-06-19 16:32 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

62 Prince William urges fathers to discuss mental health issues with their children Prince William has marked his third Father's Day as a parent by encouraging other fathers to discuss mental health issues with their children. The Duke of Cambridge displayed once again that he is a natural with kids as he met with families to discuss the importance of mental well- being. He also encouraged fathers to overcome the common hurdle of struggling to talk about their own feelings. William, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry launched the Heads Together Campaign earlier this year to help tackle unresolved mental health problems. The 33-year-old royal, who is father to George, two, and Charlotte, one, met with a number of fathers and father-figures at a coffee shop in London for breakfast earlier this week. They included Mark Conneely and his five-year-old triplets Ciara, Michael and Tadgh, who wore headbands in support of the campaign. William also challenged them with a quiz, where they had to answer questions about each other. In an article for Heads Together, William spoke of the importance of tackling mental health issues. He said: 'Today I celebrate my third Father's Day as a father. For me it is a day not just to celebrate how fortunate I am for my young family, but to reflect on just how much I've learned about fatherhood and the issues facing fathers in all walks of life. 'In particular, it is a time to reflect on my responsibility to look after not just the physical health of my two children, but to treat their mental needs as just as important a priority.' William said that unresolved challenges from childhood can lead to issues such as addiction, suicide and homelessness in adolescence and adulthood. 'While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had found it easier to talk openly about mental health challenges in the home,' he said. 'It is often said that fathers can often find it hard to talk about their own feelings so there's no wonder they struggle to speak to their son or daughter about the topic. 'But we don't really have a choice. I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.' William said a 'generational shift' had taken place in attitudes to mental health, allowing a better understanding of things that in the past went unacknowledged. He said: 'A fifth of children will have a mental health issue by their 11th birthday. And left unresolved, those mental health issues can alter the course of a child's life forever. 'So on this Father's Day, I encourage all fathers to take a moment to ask their children how they are doing. Take the opportunity to discuss how you are coping with life and fatherhood with your wife, partner or with your friends. 'And know that if your son or daughter ever needs help, they need their father's guidance and support just as much as they need their mother's.' For more information, visit www.headstogether.org.uk/fathersday/ 2016-06-19 16:29 Emily Chan www.dailymail.co.uk

63 DA invites social development minister on shopping trip to see what R753 can buy Cape Town – The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to join it on a shopping trip to test if R753 was enough to sustain an entire family for a month. In a reply to a DA parliamentary question, Dlamini said social grant beneficiaries should be able to live on R753 a month to buy “adequate food as well as additional non-food items”. The minister had not responded to the party’s invitation 10 days ago to go shopping, said DA MP, Bridget Masango. “With rising food prices due to the drought and other factors, the DA contends that the minister’s claim is deeply insensitive and completely untrue,” she said. Masango said it was becoming harder for families to eat healthily. She said child support grants were not adequate to support the growth of children, who were the future of the country. Studies had shown almost a quarter of South Africa's children had stunted growth, Masango said. “We therefore challenge Minister Dlamini to come shopping with us on Wednesday, 22 June, at the Shoprite in Soweto, so that she can see for herself what R753 can buy.” While Dlamini would not be drawn into answering questions about allegations that she stayed at the luxurious Oyster Box in Umhlanga last Sunday at a cost of R11 000, News24 has independently confirmed that she did. "Yes, she did stay there last night [Sunday] and paid R11 000," a well- placed source earlier told News24. This made the DA question how the minister could justify how she expected a family to survive on R753, while she stayed in obvious luxury.

2016-06-19 17:26 www.news24.com

64 Will Chelsea Clinton raise her second child Jewish? Chelsea Clinton gave birth to her second child with Jewish husband Marc Mezvinsky. She announced the birth of their son on Saturday in a post on Twitter. The post said: “Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky.” Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. The grandparents also issued a statement, which said: “We are all over the moon as Chelsea and Marc welcome Charlotte’s little brother to the world and grateful for our many blessings. Chelsea and Aidan are both doing well and enjoying this very special time together.” The couple’s older child, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born in September 2014. Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky. — Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 18, 2016 Chelsea Clinton announced that she was pregnant in December in a Twitter post that showed a photo of Charlotte, reading a book titled “Big Sisters are the Best.” Mezvinsky is the banker son of two ex-Congress members. Clinton serves as the vice chairwoman of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Clinton and Mezvinsky were married in late July 2010 under a traditional huppah, or wedding canopy, and recited the traditional sheva brachot, or seven wedding blessings. A rabbi and a Methodist minister officiated at the wedding. The couple signed a ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract. Ivanka Trump, the daughter of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, gave birth to a son in March. Ivanka Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009 in order to marry her husband, Jared Kushner, with whom she already has two children: Arabella, 4, and Joseph, 2. 2016-06-19 17:25 www.jpost.com

65 3-year-old twins die after being found in truck in Louisiana BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say 3- year-old twins have died after being found unresponsive in a pickup truck outside their home. Autopsies will be conducted on the brother and sister, Oliver and Aria Orr. Police say in a news release that the mother contacted neighbors Saturday to say she was looking for her children. They were found in the truck outside their home in Bossier City, and emergency workers were called. The children were taken to a local hospital, Willis Knighton-Bossier Health Center, where they were pronounced dead. An investigation continues.

2016-06-19 16:20 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

66 I am not a gatecrasher, retorts Vijay Mallya after book event row London : Vijay Mallya, declared a proclaimed offender in a money laundering case, today said he was not a 'gate crasher', suggesting that he was invited to the book launch event in London which was also attended by the Indian High Commissioner. Vijay Mallya Indian High Commissioner Navtej Sarna's presence at the event on Thursday where Mallya was spotted sparked a row following which External Affairs Ministry yesterday issued a clarification that Mallya was not on the list of invitees of the event organiser. "Never gatecrashed in my life... I am not a gatecrasher and would never be one," Mallya tweeted today, responding to the claims that he was not among the invitees. The MEA had said the High Commissioner left the stage and venue immediately after making his comments when he spotted Mallya in the audience. The event was organised by the London School of Economics. The disgraced business tycoon, who had walked in soon after the event started, tweeted, "I went for my friend - the author. Sat quietly with my daughter and listened. Headline news and unfounded speculation followed. " "No evidence, No charge sheet. Before claiming all this should I not be given a chance to pursue my legal remedies? Most unfair," he said. Social media was in a frenzy after it emerged that Sarna, who was one of the special guests at the event to mark the launch of socialite Suhel Seth's new book, attended the function with Mallya in the audience. After the uproar over the issue, the MEA had said there were two clear segments to the June 16 event in question, the book launch by UK Minister Jo Johnson and discussion at LSE and later a reception at the High Commission for select guests. "The list of invitations for the LSE event was determined by LSE. They have written to the High Commissioner that Mallya was not on their list. They have also said that the event was advertised widely through social media and attendees were not required to register in advance. "Mallya was certainly not an invitee to the reception at the High Commission for which the invitations were issued by the High Commission, and was not present," the MEA statement said.

2016-06-19 17:18 By PTI www.mid-day.com

67 Monsoon enters Maharashtra from Vidarbha The much-awaited monsoon changed its course to enter Maharashtra through Vidarbha instead of Konkan - its usual entry point on Saturday. This is due to the impact of West Bengal wind branch activeness. Within 24 hours, the monsoon will be covering Konkan and Goa, and will also hit the south of Maharashtra, and cover some parts of Marathwada. File pic Usually, the monsoon reaches Vidarbha by June 10 after covering most areas of Konkan, Goa and south Maharashtra. But, this year, it entered Maharashtra through Vidharbha. On June 8, monsoon struck Kerala this year and within a span of two days it reached north Karnataka. For the last eight days, however, the monsoon ceased to move ahead. This is because the monsoon Arabian Sea branch was inactive and was not getting favourable conditions. On Saturday, monsoon reached Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) claims that within 24 hours, monsoon will cover Konkan and Goa and will reach south Maharashtra and Marathwada. Conditions are favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon into remaining parts of central Arabian Sea, some parts of central Maharashtra, entire Konkan and Goa and Marathawada, remaining parts of north interior Karnataka, Telangana, Vidarbha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, some parts of east Madhya Pradesh and some parts of Bihar during next 48 hours.

2016-06-19 17:12 By Chaitraly www.mid-day.com

68 Cycling-Road-Tour de Suisse stage 9 results June 19 (Gracenote) - Results from Tour de Suisse (La Punt - Davos, 57 km) on Sunday 1. Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia / IAM Cycling) 1:23:55" 2. Sergey Chernetsky (Russia / Katusha) ST 3. Jon Izagirre (Spain / Movistar) 4. Miguel Angel Lopez (Colombia / Astana) 5. Tejay van Garderen (U. S. / BMC Racing) 6. Rui Costa (Portugal / Lampre) 7. Warren Barguil (France / Giant) 8. Andrew Talansky (U. S. / Cannondale) +56" 9. Victor De la Parte (Spain / CCC) 10. Joe Dombrowski (U. S. / Cannondale) 11. Winner Anacona (Colombia / Movistar) +1:17" 12. Natnael Berhane (Eritrea / Dimension Data) 13. Jan Polanc (Slovenia / Lampre) 14. Sander Armee (Belgium / Lotto) 15. Pawel Cieslik (Poland / Verva) 16. Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands / LottoNL) 17. Jhonatan Restrepo (Colombia / Katusha) 18. Gorka Izagirre (Spain / Movistar) 19. Darwin Atapuma (Colombia / BMC Racing) 20. Hubert Dupont (France / AG2R) 21. Simon Spilak (Slovenia / Katusha) 22. Koen Bouwman (Netherlands / LottoNL) +2:21" 23. Jorge Arcas (Spain / Movistar) 24. Fraenk Schleck (Luxembourg / Trek) 25. David Lopez (Spain / Team Sky) 26. Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain / Movistar) 27. Bruno Pires (Portugal / Roth) +2:59" 28. Peter Stetina (U. S. / Trek) +3:54" 29. Jean-Christophe Peraud (France / AG2R) +4:23" 30. Petr Vakoc (Czech Republic / Etixx - Quick-Step) +4:38"

2016-06-19 16:03 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

69 Social media slams the new campaign advert for the Australian Liberal Party Users on social media have slammed the new campaign advert for the Australian Liberal Party just hours after its first broadcast. The hashtag #FakeTradie trended on Twitter on Sunday night as people responded to Malcolm Turnbull's ad. The advert features an actor dressed as a tradesman saying the Labor leader wants to go war with various groups, including miners, the tradies' bank and even the tradie himself. ‘Bill Shorten even wants to go to war with me. Someone who just wants to get ahead through an investment property.’ One Twitter user wrote: 'I don’t do politics. I just know that’s one of the most cringe worthy pieces of advertising I’ve ever seen.' Another added: 'Why is his work bench in a lane-way nowhere near work site? Where did the shiny new mug come from? Will this ad agency work again?' Many raised health and safety concerns over the tradesman's gold watch and bracelet. 'Be like fake tradie. Lose your arm when your gold bracelet gets caught in your circular saw.' 'Good to see #faketradie risking it all by sitting on a powersaw with a cup of hot coffee and no protective gear while defending the banks,' said one Various Twitter accounts parodying the fake tradie also emerged. 'Labor's declared war on banks, mines and blokes like me, while the Libs have declared war on decent campaign ads.' Others were quick to come up with their own versions of the ad. An image of dog dressed up in a hardhat and protective goggles was posted with the caption: 'I found your dog #FakeTrade.' Another, featuring the tradie cut out and imposed in front of the moon landing was described as 'more believable,' by its author. The Liberal Party has yet to respond to the social media reaction.

2016-06-19 16:03 Sinead Maclaughlin www.dailymail.co.uk

70 70 Miranda Tapsell believes Love Child helped her gain recognition She often talks about the lack of racial diversity on Australian TV screens. And in a new interview, Miranda Tapsell has revealed she believes her role in Love Child has introduced her to mainstream Australia. The 27-year-old believes encouraging diversity in the nation's TV and movie industry will have a more positive effect than berating the same group of people for being so slow to act. Tapsell stars in the hit Nine Network drama, for which she won two prestigious Logies. 'To me, the only way to do it (talk about diversity) is in a positive manner,' she confessed, reports AAP News . 'Negativity can often alienate people. I'm saying, the more encouraging I can be, the more I feel the strides forward are going to happen. 'It's definitely going in the right direction but I don't want us to rest on our laurels now and it can only strengthen from here. The acclaimed actress said it's been her biggest break, even bigger than appearing in acclaimed movie The Sapphires, because it landed her in a major commercial prime-time production. She also claimed the industry in Australia is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, but she hopes it moves at a faster rate in the future. Meanwhile, Miranda is buoyed by the recognition, at least, of black actors on Broadway. Three African-American actors took home major Tony awards for starring roles in Hamilton, which received a record 16 nominations. 'It really excites me what's happening over in America at the moment. I'm seeing how people are loving everything - that is the number one show has an African- American leading the show. 'And you have African-American leads in How To Get Away With Murder and Scandal. I'd love to go over there because of that.' After The Sapphires, Tapsell appeared mainly in productions with indigenous storylines, including Mabo and Redfern Now, until she landed the role of Martha Tennant in Love Child. Now she's gracing the screen in the recently released Aussie dramas Wolf Creek, on Stan, and Secret City on Foxtel. She warned fans of Love Child to keep their 'tissues' close as it's another highly emotionally charged new season. Love Child returns on Monday at 8.30pm on Monday, June 20

2016-06-19 16:02 Sharnaz Shahid www.dailymail.co.uk

71 71 Murray beats Raonic to claim 5th Queen's Club title LONDON (AP) — Britain's Andy Murray claimed a record fifth title at Queen's Club on Sunday as the top-seeded defending champion recovered from a set and 3-0 down to beat Milos Raonic 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3. Neither player faced a break point in the opening set, and after taking the tiebreaker Raonic made an intimidating start to the second by dropping just one point in the first three games. Murray appeared to be overwhelmed, but he responded by winning the next five games en route to leveling the match. Continuing his momentum in the final set Murray broke to lead 1-0, and a further break at 5-3 secured him his second title of the year.

2016-06-19 16:02 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

72 Herzog rejects spokesman’s statement that settlers ‘destroying our future’ Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) distanced himself from spokesman Ofer Newman Sunday, after the latter wrote a Facebook post accusing settlers of “destroying our future” and “trampling Jewish morals.” Herzog took to the social media to explain that he believes in free speech, even when statements are controversial, and he encourages his staff to express their opinions and not be “yes-men.” However, Herzog added, Newman’s post is “very critical, very blunt and very mistaken, because it creates a generalization that I am unwilling to accept and uses imagery that we may never use. “I meet settlers almost every day, the Labor Party encouraged and built part of the settlements, and even if we have criticism of the settlers’ leadership, they will always be our brothers and part of our family,” Herzog wrote. “We have an incisive and difficult ideological dispute with the heads of the settlers, and it will continue, but even at the heart of the dispute, we must maintain the dignity of members of our nation.” Herzog said he had a “difficult talk” with Newman, not about his political opinion, but about the use of generalizations and “inappropriate imagery.” Newman wrote the Facebook post on Friday, after seeing the controversial documentary film The Settlers, and came to the conclusion that “the people who are destroying our future won without a battle. No one stood in their way.” “People thought they were crazy, laughed at them, and they, with a ton of power and determination, committed the atrocity, the blatant brutalization of our chance not to die here. They violently took our homes. They trampled Jewish morals, Zionism that built our revival here. They won, because someone was stupid enough to fear them,” Newman added. Herzog’s aide wondered why settlers, in general, are not rejected like Baruch Goldstein, who killed 25 Palestinians in Hebron in 1994, was, and questioned former Labor prime ministers Shimon Peres and Levi Eshkol’s judgment in allowing the construction of “malignant” settlements. Newman added a disclaimer that this is his opinion and not the Zionist Union’s or Herzog’s. The spokesman later apologized for the post, writing on Facebook that the post was a mistake, and he wrote it out of anger. While he has criticism of the settler movement, his tone was inappropriate, he wrote. MK Nava Boker (Likud) criticized Newman while visiting Hebron Sunday, saying that settlers are “Jews with values who are human shields for Buji [Herzog] and all his bleeding-heart friends on the Left. “The Zionist Union proves once again that it has nothing to do with Zionism,” she added. “They sent the settlers and now they’re turning their backs to them.” MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) called the Facebook post a “blood libel” said that “as long as the left builds its strategy on letting hate flow and trying to cause conflict between the parts of Israeli society, it has no chance to lead the country.” On Saturday night, Channel 10 News anchor Oshrat Kotler came under fire for a statement she made after a news segment about a resident of the settlement Yizhar who makes videos to try to improve the settlements’ image. “No doubt that this is a sane settler, there are certainly ones like that, too, even in Yizhar,” Kotler said. Kotler apologized soon after, saying she meant the subject of the news segment was a moderate, and there others like him, and she did not express herself well. “I certainly do not think that settlers are an insane group, period,” she stated.

2016-06-19 17:01 LAHAV HARKOV www.jpost.com

73 Keeping the drugs out: Jails, prisons find a steep challenge CONCORD, N. H. (AP) — As the nation stares down a heroin and opioid crisis, corrections officials and lawmakers are seeking new ways to keep drugs out of jail cells as visitors and inmates continually find ways to smuggle them in. While drugs in jails have always been an issue, the present crisis is bringing new challenges and, at some facilities, a higher volume of drugs, officials say. "There is always an investigation going on into some type of drug activity here," said Dan Hammer, an investigator at the men's prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, a state where the problem of heroin and painkiller overdoses is especially acute. Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan signed legislation Wednesday to put six full-body scanners, in the three state prisons and potentially more in county jails. Anyone entering, including visitors and staff, must go through them. Corrections Commissioner William Wrenn is looking to purchase drug-sniffing dogs, as are some jail superintendents. Other, less expensive policies are also in place. Prison inmates must open mail in front of employees and throw out the envelopes. At the Hillsborough County jail, inmates no longer help clean bathrooms because visitors were leaving drugs inside. Beyond just rooting out the drugs, county jails are looking to help inmates beat their addictions through treatment programs. In the state's prisons, officials say it's the type of drug, not the volume, that's changed. Suboxone, used to treat opioid addiction but also producing a high of its own, in the form of a breath strip is the latest drug of choice, Hammer said. Suboxone is Inmates smuggle it in by sticking it to their bodies or swallowing balloons filled with dozens of strips. On the street, strips or pills of suboxone sell for $10 to $20. Within prison, a strip can sell for hundreds of dollars. "The value once you're in the state prison increases dramatically," Hammer said. Suboxone smuggling has posed problems in county jails in New Mexico and Virginia, where inmates were receiving photographs soaked in a liquid form of suboxone that they could chew on to get high. In 2014, California officials reported a significant increase in drug smuggling in jails and the state prison system brought in drug-sniffing dogs and implementing airport-style hand swabs for visitors and staff. Jail superintendents in several large New Hampshire counties say 80 to 90 percent of inmates are in for drug-related crimes, including the direct sale or use of drugs, or something like a robbery charge to help pay for drugs. "It's becoming more and more prevalent that almost everybody that's coming in has some type of drug problem," said Belknap County jail Superintendent Keith Gray. If an inmate is suspected to have drugs inside them, they can be placed in a "dry cell" without a bathroom, requiring them to notify employees when they need one so the employees can see if any drugs come out. Sometimes inmates are taken to the hospital for monitoring in case the balloon of drugs ruptures, creating the potential for an overdose. Wrenn, the corrections commissioner, said his staff is developing procedures for use of the body scanners. He cautions the new tool is not a panacea, but could be effective in keeping illegal substances out of prison cells. Drug-sniffing dog programs are in place in states like New Mexico and Arizona, he said, and he'd like to follow suit. "The combination of both of those items, I think, provides a very strong strategy with reducing the amount of drugs in the prisons," he said.

2016-06-19 15:52 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

74 5 added to drug probe at Air Force nuke base Contact WND (AIR FORCE TIMES) WASHINGTON — Five more airmen are under investigation for illegal drug activity at a nuclear missile base in Wyoming, bringing the total to 19 and expanding the probe beyond the security forces group initially implicated, the Air Force said Wednesday. An Air Force spokesman, Capt. Mark A. Graff, said that two of the accused have been convicted in courts-martial proceedings held since the investigation was first disclosed in March. The trials were not previously announced. Graff said the two convicted individuals, whose names were not disclosed, have been sentenced and are serving time in confinement. He says that once they have served their sentences they will be considered for removal from the Air Force. Graff did not say when or how the number of airmen under investigation was expanded from 14 airmen to 19. All are members of the 90th Missile Wing at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, which operates 150 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.

2016-06-19 16:49 www.wnd.com

75 Feminist: Toddler's gator death 'social justice' Contact WND (DAILY WIRE) Tuesday night outside a Walt Disney World hotel, a 2-year-old boy was snatched by an alligator and dragged into a lagoon in front of his vacationing parents. The father, attempting to rescue his baby boy, wrestled the alligator in vain. Tragically, the toddler was found dead on Wednesday. Upon the report of the gut-wrenching incident, a disgusting racist feminist known as “Brienne of Snarth” on Twitter felt the need to voice her reprehensible views on the matter. She didn’t care that the 2-year-old was killed in front of his family. After all, the father—suffering through undoubtedly the worst tragedy he will ever face—was a white male. Therefore, the toddler’s death was an act of “social justice,” according to the feminist.

2016-06-19 16:48 www.wnd.com

76 Hacktivists: ISIS recruiters in U. S., hunting teen girls Contact WND ISIS recruiters inside and outside of the U. S. are hunting young American teenagers – mostly non- Muslim girls between 13 and 15 – and trying to convince them to conduct terror attacks on the nation, warns a “hacktivist” group. BinarySec , a group of self-described “hacktivists, activists, security analysts and outlaws” seeking to eradicate ISIS material from the Internet, says the young teens are requesting help as soon as they realize their lives are at risk. WND reported in 2014 when ISIS terrorists recruited women from Western countries to fly to the Middle East, marry jihadists and bear their children in a “cash-for-babies” scheme. Now, BinarySec tells PJ Media the recruiters are using photos of babies or kittens to lure their targets. “The most disturbing thing, other than the usual gore videos, is the targeting of young teen girls,” BinarySec operative AnonyMissy told PJ Media. “The number of 13 to 15-year-old American non-Muslim girls being targeted for recruitment has gone way up.” She continued, “I used to have one girl every three weeks or so contact me in a panic when she realizes she’s in over her head; now it’s every week. They seek out the lonely. Invite them to Skype chat. The recruiters are men and women.” PJ Media also interviewed Binary, the founder and main coder of BinarySec, who said the group has “intel to believe there are recruiters on U. S. soil,” although the majority are “overseas.” “I’ve seen [the girls] recruited to launch attacks on U. S. soil. I’ve seen them recruited for marriage purposes and even sex slave purposes,” Binary told the site. “ISIS members, when targeting out a female, seek the lonely. They start by sending them little cutesy type of stuff, like messages.” The free WND special report “ISIS Rising,” by Middle East expert and former Department of Defense analyst Michael Maloof, will answer your questions about the jihadist enemy threatening the West. AnonyMissy said the ISIS recruiters use “very subtle” tactics in the initial stages of contact. “Depends on the girl, by the time she realizes after a month or so that she has been brought into an ISIS group, she’s been befriended by women and bonds of trust have been built, she has isolated herself from her ‘infidel’ friends and family,” she explained. “Lonely teen girls seeking acceptance, they are easy targets. “Once they realize it’s real, and in exchange for all of that attention, they need to travel or steal – or worse – they end up in my [Twitter direct message] asking for advice.” Binary told PJ Media that the girls soon adopt the gang mentality of having a family, and if they try to leave the situation, it can be dangerous. “The ISIS members start making threats, even death threats.” Binary added, “I’ve had a girl who told me they asked her to blow up a major place in her town, which I won’t specify for her safety. And they even forwarded her bomb instructions.” When the girls suddenly realize they’re in trouble, ISIS jihadis know everything about them. “I’m usually contacted after they cannot get rid of the recruiters,” AnonyMissy explained. “I would be very interested to see how many missing or ‘runaway’ teen girls were chatting, knowingly or not, with ISIS recruiters before they disappeared. And does anyone even know to look? “… I’ve mostly been told about them being taught to steal to get money to travel. Beyond that, because they are children, I put them in touch with law enforcement to protect them.” “House of War: Islam’s Jihad Against the World” conveys what the West needs to know about Islam and the violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures and systems of governments. As WND reported , some Western women are recruited through a magazine called al-Shamikha, known as the “Jihad Cosmo.” “They are selling them this mystical sisterhood of going to the caliphate and being able to be a Muslim in this idealized, utopian society,” warned Mia Bloom , a professor at the center for terrorism and security studies at the University of Massachusetts. “They are targeting these young girls in a very predatory way – the way child sex abusers target young children.” Bloom said female recruits are promised moving expenses and cash for each baby they produce with an ISIS jihadi. But the women are banned from fighting and typically serve the militants, cooking and cleaning for them. Bloom also expressed concern that ISIS will use the women as suicide bombers. She said, while most women would stand out on a military installation, in most other public places, people wouldn’t expect a woman to carry out a suicide attack. “If you change your tactics and target mosques or schools, that’s when women are really quite ideal,” she explained. 2016-06-19 16:48 www.wnd.com

77 Big brouhaha over 'Best Butt' award for waitress Contact WND (INDIANAPOLIS STAR) Scotty’s Brewhouse has fired at least one member of management after a Southport waitress received an unwanted “award” for having the “best butt” on staff. Scotty’s owner Scott Wise in a statement issued to IndyStar called Monday’s incident at his Southport restaurant “unsanctioned and unapproved.” Wise continued: “Our executive team, including myself, were completely unaware of it, we did not condone or sponsor this event. As a result, we took immediate action that included terminating management, and I have instructed our teams to immediately do additional sexual harassment training companywide, beyond the initial training process new managers go through already when they are hired.”

2016-06-19 16:48 www.wnd.com

78 'Rape-culture' protest at all-girls school Contact WND (STAR TRIBUNE) St. Catherine University has cut ties with an event organizer, Heartland Inc., after protesters accused both the school and the company’s owners of being insensitive to rape survivors. On Monday, student demonstrators denounced what they called a “toxic rape culture” at the St. Paul campus, where 97 percent of the undergraduates are women. About two dozen protesters marched on the main gate with signs saying “Rape culture is here” and “We will not be silenced.” They demanded, among other things, that the school distance itself from Heartland and its founders, Craig and Patricia Neal, whose son is in prison for rape.

2016-06-19 16:47 www.wnd.com

79 Video shows moment plane passengers fight because a woman 'wouldn't stop complaining' This is the shocking moment passengers savagely assaulted each other on board a plane in China before being led shame- faced off the aircraft by police. The fight broke out because a female passenger allegedly wouldn't stop complaining about their delayed flight. When another passenger reportedly tried to intervene, the argument turned into a chaotic scuffle. Hainan Airlines flight HU7737 was originally scheduled to depart from Beijing Airport at 9.50pm and land in Xi'an at 11.55pm local time on Saturday. The boarding was delayed until 12.30am on Sunday according to one of the passengers on the flight who goes by the name of JianKe0823 on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter. Local media has not reported the cause of the original delay. A female passenger on board started swearing at the crew about the delay according to Chinese news site Sina , which later caused an argument with a male passenger. More passengers then joined in the argument, which eventually escalated into a physical fight according to the report. Footage captured by Weibo users Kal-EI24 and doo-voo , who were both on board the flight, showed a woman getting elbowed in the face by a man wearing a white t-shirt. She then picked up a bag from the floor and then started to hit him over the head. The camera then panned towards the front of the plane where more passengers were seen fighting each other. A second clip from after the fight showed two police officers the aircraft talking to passengers. Several people were later led off the plane as their fellow passengers looked on. User doo-voo wrote on Weibo: 'They were fighting to 30 minutes. The crew didn't intervene.' Her sentiments were also shared by Kal-EI24 who similar comments saying that 'no one in charge' was 'dealing with the situation'. Five people were later escorted off the flight by local police according to Sina, and several people had minor injuries as a result of the brawl. The plane eventually took off shortly before 3am on Sunday and landed at its final destination at 4.40am. Hainan Airline crew is said to have apologised to passengers on board after the incident. Police are currently investigating the incident. MailOnline Travel has contacted Hainan Airlines for comment.

2016-06-19 15:46 Qin Xie www.dailymail.co.uk

80 Crews make progress against Western fires, brace for winds LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters battling home- threatening wildfires in the West are bracing for gusty winds and scorching heat on Sunday. They made progress by containing 45 percent of a four-day-old fire in California coastal canyons after 40-mph "sundowner" winds failed to materialize. Those evening and night gusts had driven the flames through steep, brushy canyons west of Santa Barbara on previous nights and forced closure of a major highway. However, forecasters warned of extreme fire danger Sunday evening due to hot, dry weather and winds that could gust up to 50 mph. No homes have burned, but about 270 homes and ranches are at risk and campgrounds are evacuated with flames only 2 miles from more densely populated coastal communities. In New Mexico, Gov. Susana Martinez directed the New Mexico National Guard to assist in securing communities affected by a massive wildfire in the central part of the state. Guardsmen will be patrolling and protecting evacuated homes from possible looting. They also will be called on to help with potential flooding. The fire, which erupted in the Manzano Mountains south of Albuquerque, has burned more than 27 square miles about 6 miles northwest of Tajique since Tuesday and spread a pall of smoke as far as Denver. The damage includes 24 homes and nearly as many structures near the small community of Chilili. The blaze is 9 percent contained. In Arizona, a fire southwest of Show Low was 30 percent contained. Firefighters beefed up containment areas on the northern and western sides of the blaze. Evacuation orders remain in effect for the community of Forestdale. The fire has burned nearly 19 square miles since Wednesday. Crews in Utah also made gains against three wildfires in the southern part of the state. A 350-acre wildfire near Cedar City was 30 percent contained, but the blaze still threatened 20 structures including homes and outbuildings. More than 1,200 firefighters attacked the California fire, which has engulfed more than 12 square miles of mountain and agricultural lands. Overnight, crews nailed down lines on the fire's west side, which hadn't moved for days, Santa Barbara County fire Capt. Dave Zaniboni said. However, the eastern side of the blaze was uncontrolled and virtually inaccessible. Crews were relying on aircraft water drops and on cutting firebreaks ahead of the flames. They hoped to set backfires to stop the spread, Zaniboni said. The battle had a deadline because "sundowner" winds gusting to 50 mph were expected to return Saturday evening and that could stir up the fire, Zaniboni said. "We're far from having a handle on it," he said. Weekend fire dangers already were expected to worsen as a heat wave will bring potentially record-shattering temperatures across the Southwest.

2016-06-19 15:42 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

81 WXYZ staff earns 10 awards at the 38th Michigan Emmy Awards (WXYZ) - The 38th Michigan Emmy Awards were held on Saturday night at the MotorCity Casino Sound Board Theater. Awards were handed out in dozens of categories in news, sports, weather and more. WXYZ staff also earned 10 awards at the ceremony. Check out the winners below!

2016-06-19 12:30 WXYZ www.wxyz.com

82 Are you struggling to pay back your car loan? Cape Town - If you are under financial strain and battling to finance your vehicle repayments then you should consider debt counselling, suggests Debt Rescue CEO Neil Roets. “If people struggle to pay back any of their debt whether it is vehicle finance or home loan or even unsecured debt, then it is advisable to contact a debt counsellor as soon as possible,” he said in a studio interview with News24 Live . Commenting on car loans in particular, Roets said if you starting to default on payments then your credit providers will definitely start taking action against you because a vehicle generally depreciates in value. “That vehicle is the security to the bank or the credit provider and now this consumer can't afford to pay the instalments anymore and the value of that vehicle is just decreasing everyday so it is in the best interest of credit provider to take action as soon as possible against the consumer to limit the damage that they are going to suffer,” he explained. Roets said it is therefore critical for consumers in such a situation to seek help as soon as possible. Watch the full interview Debt counselling is an option available to distressed consumers, said Roets. It is a process in terms of the National Credit Act where indebted consumers are granted the opportunity to pay off their debt in an affordable manner. “Your instalments are lowered in order to make it affordable to you so that you have enough money at the end of the month to pay for living expenses.” This process, said Roets, also gives consumers legal protection. “Technically speaking debt counsellors are independent functionaries of court looking after the best interest of consumers and credit providers.” He said this process is supported by credit providers because they are getting their money back, while at the same time it offers relief to consumers because they can make these payments in a manner that is affordable. Roets explained that debt counsellors assess the financial condition of consumers holistically. “We communicate with all your credit providers whereas if you want to approach your credit providers on your own, they are not going to take into account what you owe other credit providers. “So you might strike a deal with them but at the end of the day if you don't make a deal with every credit provider that you have then the whole picture is not going to work out.” Roets added that having an existing relationship with credit providers allows Debt Rescue to negotiate better repayment plans. “If they have to make these arrangements with consumers themselves then chances are they are not going to be as lenient as they are when working with debt counsellors.” * Add your voice by sharing your debt experiences, debt-busting tips and insights. Have a question? Ask our experts. Consumers can't afford the petrol levy amid growing levels of debt and soaring costs of living, according to debt expert Neil Roets. SPONSORED: Debt Rescue CEO Neil Roets speaks to Fin24 about how assisting thousands of people to become debt free helped the firm scoop prizes at the Debt Review Awards.

2016-06-19 16:24 www.fin24.com

83 ANC list war imperils Nelson Mandela Bay win Port Elizabeth - Provincial ANC leaders in the Eastern Cape are having to put out fires after disgruntled members in Nelson Mandela Bay declared war when told the party list submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) could not be changed. At least 19 wards out of 60 have vowed to bring the city to a standstill from tomorrow if their concerns about list manipulation are not addressed. “Fairly speaking, yes, it’s been a very tedious process, fraught with a number of challenges, but I think we have reached the end of it,” said Phumulo Masualle, premier and chairman of the ANC in the Eastern Cape, on Thursday. He said the “glitches” would be dealt with after the elections. But angry ANC members from the affected wards promised not to allow a single ANC campaign poster to be put up ahead of the August 3 local government polls – unless it belonged to one of their preferred candidates. In Ward 40, an uncontested candidate, who is a councillor, was mysteriously removed from the list and replaced with a name “nobody knows”. “They have gone against all [President Jacob] Zuma said at the manifesto launch, and are turning our communities into their ‘kingdoms’ to do with as they please,” said a resident who asked to remain anonymous. ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) member Andile Lungisa said it was only five wards that were involved in the fight. “All the others are just opportunists.” The disgruntled wards from Port Elizabeth met provincial leaders at the party headquarters in Calata House in King William’s Town on Wednesday, where they were locked in meetings for hours with provincial deputy chairperson Sakhumzi Somyo and deputy secretary Helen Sauls-August. Masualle’s comments came after 10 of the 19 disgruntled wards from Nelson Mandela Bay protested at the party’s Florence Matomela House, the ANC’s regional offices, on Tuesday, complaining that the lists had been manipulated. Jay Phillip of Ward 44, which includes KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage, said they were surprised when they found out last weekend that the candidates fielded by the provincial party leaders were not the ones the branches had recommended. He said that in KwaNobuhle’s Ward 43, a candidate who was number three on the list was made number one, while in another instance, a candidate of the ANC also appeared on the list of the United Front for the same ward. “This provincial leadership can even field a dog as a candidate against a human being, as long as the dog will do as they say,” said Phillip. On Thursday, Masualle admitted to City Press he could not rule out the possibility of “ill intentions” in some instances regarding the list process. He attributed most of the problems to the “erroneous capturing” of names into the IEC system. “As the PEC, we received a report from the PLC [provincial list committee] – charged with the coordination of the list processes – [saying] that the IEC has implemented a new system of registering candidates,” he said. Masualle said that, in some cases, people erroneously put their ID numbers against other people’s names and, when the IEC registered captured the information using the ID numbers first instead of the names, the wrong people were “accidentally” registered. He said such errors, unfortunately, were impossible for the ANC to correct, as the IEC had closed the submission date. “We have explained this problem to those who were complaining – that it was not out of malice.” The premier said the party’s leadership was addressing concerned branches in Nelson Mandela Bay and that Somyo was scheduled to meet party members there this weekend to ease tensions. Thembisa Makeleni of Ward 27 in Soweto-On-Sea said it was disingenuous to blame the IEC system when the names were tampered with deliberately by the leadership. Party members raised the alarm from the affected wards weeks before the lists were submitted to the IEC. “There will be no campaigning by the ANC in our areas until we are heard,” vowed Makeleni. Meanwhile, ANC national executive committee member and head of elections Nomvula Mokonyane told City Press that the rapid response team of the ANC – a body made up of party leaders dedicated to dousing fires stemming from list process and other disputes – was on top of things in KwaZulu-Natal, keeping themselves informed of developments. The volatility in KwaZulu-Natal, caused by battles for the candidates’ list, had led to the killings of some prospective candidates. She attributed the conflict to “unresolved disputes following regional and provincial conferences” that took place last year before the nomination and list processes started. “Provincial leaders – and myself, as I have been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal – have been trying to talk to structures to move beyond the issues of who they would have preferred to have in certain positions.” In November last year, Sihle Zikalala beat Senzo Mchunu to the top job as chairperson of KwaZulu-Natal at a dramatic provincial conference. The elective conference was delayed on the day of voting amid allegations of ghost delegates and duplication of accreditation, putting into question the credibility of the outcomes. Speculation was rife for months that Mchunu was on his way out and this was proved correct a few weeks ago. Mchunu resigned and, days later, four members of the executive committee said to be close to him were ditched in a so-called purge of his supporters. But Mokonyane denied that the recent cabinet reshuffle was in any way linked to the ongoing tensions. “I don’t think there is a connection, because nobody has been taken out of the ANC. People still remain leaders of the ANC and, in the ANC, you are deployed and redeployed.” She also dismissed the notion that KwaZulu-Natal was in crisis, saying reports made it appear as if “KwaZulu-Natal is on fire but it is not. It is just a particular area.” She said it was important for all to move beyond their personal interests, but admitted the party was concerned. Find everything you need to know about the 2016 Local Government Elections at our News24 Elections site , including the latest news and detailed, interactive maps for how South Africa has voted over the past 3 elections, or download the app for iOS and Android . For election maps click here.

2016-06-19 16:23 Lubabalo Ngcukana www.news24.com

84 Dozens protest rising fuel prices in Syria capital Dozens of protesters gathered in Damascus on Sunday for a rare demonstration in front of Syria's parliament against a 40 percent hike in fuel prices announced last week. As lawmakers met inside the parliament building, protestors carried signs reading "No to corruption! " and "Parliament -- stand with the people, say no to raising prices! " "No to rising prices, people are starving to death," another read. The demonstration appeared to be tolerated by Syria's authorities, with about a dozen riot police stationed near parliament allowing the protest to go ahead. In a letter to parliament, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, the demonstrators called on lawmakers to "cancel their decision to raise the prices of petroleum products. " "The strike will continue on a daily basis until we get a response and the protest's goal is achieved," the letter said. On Thursday Syria's government ordered the price of a litre of petrol increased from 160 to 225 Syrian pounds (about 90 US cents), state news agency SANA said, with similar increases for cooking gas and diesel. "We called for this strike to protest the rising prices of petroleum products which will in turn negatively affect all other prices," said Firas Nadim, a member of a consumer protection group that organised the demonstration. "The government had been trying to improve the quality of life for the average citizen, but now they are trying to starve him," Nadim told AFP. Lawmakers were meeting for their second session since being elected in April. SANA quoted parliamentarians as stressing "the need to postpone the official decision on amending the prices of oil products and to study the extent of its effect on the quality of life. " Oil production has slumped in Syria since the beginning of the country's five- year civil war, which has killed more than 280,000 people, displaced millions and devastated the economy. While residents of Damascus have remained relatively insulated from the violence, they have suffered from inflation and severe unemployment. Damascus witnessed some anti- government demonstrations in 2011, when Syria's conflict first erupted. But as violence increased throughout the country, street protests in the capital became increasingly rare. Sunday's gathering followed expressions of frustration on social media, in some cases even from supporters of President Bashar al-Assad, over the government's economic policies.

2016-06-19 15:22 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

85 Max Dupain’s classics sell for over $1million at auction A batch of almost 500 pictures from the family collection of Australia's most famous photographer, Max Dupain, have sold for more than $1million, breaking Australian auction records. The collection of photographs sold on Sunday including a signed print of Dupain's iconic image, Sunbaker, and other memorable pictures from the sprouting cityscape to the sun-soaked beaches and sprawling suburbs in between. Dupain, who was born in Sydney in 1911, spent six decades taking pictures of the beloved city dabbling with portrait, landscape, architecture and experimental photography. Sunbaker, taken at Cullburra Beach on the New South Wales south coast in 1937 was estimated to sell for as much as $30,000 and has been dubbed a 'national image'. The black and white photo shows one of Dupain’s friends lying face down on the sand and a 50cm by 56.6cm print of the photograph signed and dated by Dupain sold at the Woollahra auction for $85,000 almost three times the estimate. A print of Bondi sold for $25,000 which were mostly bought by private dealers and collectors with many buying multiple of the hundreds on offer. The works were put to auction by Dupain’s son Rex who is also an acclaimed photographer, who decided to go ahead with the sale because many of them had been lying in storage for eight years and deserved to be seen. Many of Dupain's photographs have been described as iconic Australian images.

2016-06-19 15:21 Aneeta Bhole www.dailymail.co.uk

86 Dads find inventive ways to entertain their children (and themselves) in hilarious photos One dad displayed his rather unorthodox parenting skills by carrying his son through an airport by his belt. Another got creative when his daughter's bag for trick or treating broke, giving her a huge cardboard box instead. And one dad proved he will always go to the extra mile for his daughter when he dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood, as she wanted to be the wolf.

2016-06-19 15:16 Emily Chan www.dailymail.co.uk

87 Gisele shares beach shot with Tom Brady while Kelly Rowland celebrates as celebs mark Father’s Day She often shares snap of her dreamy husband on Instagram. But on Sunday Gisele Bundchen specifically called out the 38-year-old with a loving family snap on the beach, as she celebrated Father's Day. And the heartwarming snap of Tom Brady kicked off a series of celebratory Father's Day photos, such as Kelly Rowland celebrating her husband Tim Witherspoon along with their son Titan. Kelly shared a selfie on Sunday, pulling a funny face as husband Tim could be seen planting a kiss on the cheek of their young son. She used the captioned to praise Tim for being a 'great example' and for showing her 'what A REAL DAD/Fatherhood looks like.' Nicole shared a heartwarming photo of her famous father, her husband, and her six-year-old son Sparrow posing together in coordinating black ensembles. 'To my favorite men in the world,' the doting mother-of-two captioned the sweet Instagram snap, with three heart emojis. Joel sweetly held his hand on young Sparrow's shoulder in the picture, while Lionel and Sparrow smiled while holding toys. Kristin Cavallari also gave a shout out to her husband, gushing that 'the boys and Saylor are so lucky to have you as their dad.' Along with the message, the former Laguna Beach star shared an adorable photo of Jay Cutler playing basketball with their seven-month-old daughter Saylor. And Emma Hemming Willis shared a touching snap of husband Bruce Willis cuddling up to their two daughters together: four-year-old Mabel and two-year-old Evelyn. Along with the picture of the smiling star - who also has three children with ex-wife Demi Moore - Emma shared a sweet message. She wrote: 'Not only are you a great man but more importantly, a wonderful father. We love you. Happy #fathersday my sweet. Thank you [heart emoji] oneofakind #childwrangler.' Naomi Watts went for a more artistic take as she took to Instagram for Father's Day on Sunday, sharing a black and white photo collage. She also posted a William Shakespeare quote, writing: 'When a father gives to his son, both laugh, when a son gives to his father, both cry.' The black and white photos depicted Naomi looking dreamily at the camera as she rested on partner Liev Schreiber's back, while a top picture showed a close-up as he cuddled up to one of his sons. Elton John went the artsy route as well, display a drawing that had been done by his two young sons. Alongside the adorable picture, he hitmaker wrote: 'One of the happiest moments of my life. Waking up on Father's Day to this drawing of David and me from our beautiful sons. @davidfurnish #FathersDay #ShareTheLove.' Jeff Goldblum's younger wife Emilie Livingson, 33, shared a peek at the 63-year-old Jurassic Park star cuddling their young son Charlie in a mirror snap. She wrote a heartfelt message, as well, gushing: 'Happy Father's Day to the best dad ever!!!! @jeffgoldblum we are so grateful to have your love and constant devotion!!!! Thank you for always being there for Charlie, me and Woody!!!!' Chrissy Teigen shared a long and heartfelt message for her husband John Legend along with a photo of their two-month-old daughter. After calling John the 'most perfect man Luna and I could ever ask for,' the model joked: '... and thank you to game 7 for providing the real gift here and getting me out of having to plan and overthink the day phew.' Rugby player Tom Burgess took a moment to honor his late father Mark, sharing a side by side comparison of the two of them as he shared the quote: 'The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.' Kate Hudson got silly in a Snapchat video (later posted to Instagram) as she shared her Father's Day wishes. Though she did note that her 'pop' was 'never gonna see this,' adding that he wouldn't even see it if they 'pick it up on the news' because he 'doesn't watch anything.' That didn't stop the How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days star from sharing her love, however, as she munched on a rice cake. On Saturday Bella Hadid got a jump start on the Father's Day celebrations, as she would be out of town, but wanted to make sure she still shared a special moment with her father, Mohamed Hadid. 'Had to have lunch with my papa before Goin backs Europe..:I love you daddy. Happy almost Father's Day to one of my favorite men in the world! I love love love you. [heart emoji] @mohamedhadid,' she wrote alongside a snap of the pair staring at each other at lunch. Pink - real name Alecia Beth Moore - got emotional on Instagram as she shared a throwback picture of her and her father, calling him her 'first love.' 'You taught me what love feels like, what it should be. What it meant to be strong but still allow others to hold you when you need it,' she gushed. Pink added: 'THANKYOU for making my bar so high. I love you more.'

2016-06-19 15:15 Kayla Caldwell www.dailymail.co.uk

88 CCTV video shows a man walking his dog in Melbourne seconds before he was stabbed to death Chilling CCTV footage shows the moment before a mechanic was stabbed to death in a gruesome attack while he was walking his pet husky. Mechanic Paul O'Donnell was captured on video walking his dog to a shop in Keysborough, 27km south-east of Melbourne's city centre on Saturday night. Authorities reached the Olive Grove address where Mr O'Donnell had been attacked at about 7.30 where paramedics attempted to revive him but he died at the scene. Footage shows the man walking in an empty industrial car park to his workshop followed closely by his dog. Emergency services are seen arriving shortly after running through the car park to help Mr O'Donnell but were unable to revive him. Mr O'Donnell was known to take his dog to a nearby easement to relieve itself, reported Fairfax. Loved ones were seen mourning the mechanic's death as they arrived to the scene on Sunday including Jake Hewgill, who described Mr O'Donnell as a father figure. 'I am so broken over this,' he told 9News . 'I loved him like a dad and he always wanted to help other people. 'He was a true friend with intentions to help no matter what, and he deserved a lot better than this.' A neighbouring business owner Zoran Erovic told 9News he was 'shocked'. He said: 'Paul was a very quiet man. He didn't have trouble with anyone around here.' The assailant remains on the run while police continue investigations into the attack. Homicide detectives and forensic officers are examining the CCTV footage at the scene, which shows several cars and people in the area at the time of the attack. A post mortem will also be carried out to determine the cause of death. Mr O'Donnell's murder marks the third stabbing in Melbourne and Geelong in the last 48 hours.

2016-06-19 15:14 Aneeta Bhole www.dailymail.co.uk

89 Event celebrating whistleblowers marks Assange embassy milestone A global event celebrating whistleblowers and freedom of expression will be held to mark the fourth anniversary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorean Embassy. Under the title First They Came For Assange, songs, speeches and readings will be held simultaneously in a number of cities today. Mr Assange has been living inside the embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over a sex allegation, which he denies. He believes he will be taken to the United States to be quizzed over the activities of WikiLeaks if he goes to Sweden, with the FBI pursuing charges including espionage, conspiracy to commit espionage, theft of government property and computer crimes. The simultaneous events at Paris's Centre Pompidou, Berlin's Volksbuhne, Brussels' Theatre Bozar, Madrid's Circulo de Bellas Artes, Milan Fashion Week, Belgrade, Naples and Sarajevo will kick off Assange Week, with additional events in New York, Quito, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Participants include Patti Smith, Brian Eno, PJ Harvey, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ai Weiwei, Vivienne Westwood, Michael Moore and Ken Loach. Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat, a founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement, and one of the organisers of the event, said: "The inspiration for the title of the event comes from the famous Martin Niemoller poem about the cowardice of intellectuals and purging of dissidents. "What we want to stress with these events is that we live in a critical time. We are gathering all around the world on June 19 to speak out for Julian, because he has spoken out for all of us. " Film-maker Loach explained he will join the event because "our legal system is being manipulated to keep a brave man in isolation" and that "all who care about freedom of information should demand that the threats made against Julian should be lifted. "He should be able to leave his place of safety without fear of deportation or being handed over to those who intend him harm. "

2016-06-19 15:06 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

90 ‘Beyond the Gates’ Review The cheesy grade-B horrors of the VHS era may have won little respect at the time, but they’re turning out to be the primary influences of a whole new generation of genre specialists for whom they were formative childhood viewing experiences. Jackson Stewart ’s “Beyond the Gates” is the latest indie feature to make explicit such debts, from its retro title graphic and Goblin-like score to the central conceit of an old board game whose players open the portal to Hell… or, well, some similar kinda bad place. Winner of the audience award in the Los Angeles Film Festival ’s midnight section, this fun if unmemorable occult thriller sports — all too faithfully at times — both the typical pleasures and shortcomings of the movies it pays homage to. And like them, it’s likelier to reach its niche audience primarily on home formats rather than the big screen. The seven-month disappearance of their hard-living father (Henry LeBlanc), now presumed dead, has forced a strained reunion between his two now- adult children. Gordon (Graham Skipper) is the bespectacled, straight- arrow nerd, albeit one apparently in recovery from a history of drinking and anger-management issues. John (Chase Williamson) is the moderate bad boy whose current status re: housing and employment is murky as usual. Not particularly happy to see each other — especially since Gordon turned down ne’er-do-well John’s latest request for a “loan” — they nonetheless settle down to the business of boxing up dad’s long-dormant video store, which stubbornly clung to all-VHS stock well into the DVD era and beyond. Meanwhile, Gordon uncomfortably takes up temporary re-residence in the padre’s abandoned house, where he’s soon joined by supportive, surprisingly hot girlfriend Margot (Brea Grant). While she spends each night knocked out on Ambien, Gordon immediately begins seeing and hearing disturbing, fleeting nocturnal phenomena there. By day two, they’ve got an extra housemate in John, who of course turns out to have already worn out his welcome under whatever roof he was crashing most recently. After locating the key to dad’s hitherto off-limits back office, the sons discover the last thing their widower parent apparently watched was “Beyond the Gates,” a “VCR board game” of the type that represented a primitive early form of “interactive” gaming: You plugged in the videotape, and it guided you through some dumb fantasy scenario otherwise largely controlled by chance (i.e. dice). This one’s glamorously sinister video hostess ( Barbara Crampton , also a producer here) promises players can “step into the ultimate nightmare” if they follow instructions to acquire four keys. Upon further investigation, however, it quickly becomes clear that something is more than a little strange about this particular game. Not only does the on-tape hostess seem impossibly attuned to what the real-world participants say and do, she drops heavy hints that the brothers’ dad is a captive held “beyond the gates,” and only their possibly life-endangering intervention can save his life — or, at least, his soul. You can guess the general gist of what ensues, as playing the “game” brings peril to all. That includes the leads’ two remaining local friends, childhood pal turned cop Derek (Matt Mercer) and John’s much skeevier bud Hank (Justin Wellborn), the type whose profession one might hazard to be “meth lab proprietor.” Naturally, the lone live female here Margot also becomes a pawn in the escalating stakes, particularly once an actual set of creepy cemetery-like gates materializes in the home basement. Like the largely forgotten movies of the 1980s and early ’90s to which this homage tips its hat, “Beyond” isn’t very scary, and its slow, medium- atmospheric buildup is somewhat disappointed by a climax limited in both budgetary means and writerly imagination. (Don’t expect any “Hellraiser”- type horror surrealism when the heroes finally enter the “gates” at the 70- minute mark.) But even these flaws seem good-naturedly deliberate to a degree, like the couple explosions en route of unconvincingly over-the-top, old-school gore effects. Further fodder for diehard genre fans is provided by a cast almost entirely consisting of faces familiar from other B horrors, whether veteran star Crampton (a favorite since 1985’s “Re-Animator”), next-generation regular Mercer (“Contracted” and its sequel), or Jesse Merlin, who has toiled in numerous campy stage and screen horror musicals, and here plays a suitably macabre curiosity-shop owner. (Many of them also appeared in first-time feature director Stewart’s prior shorts.) Pitch-perfect as exercises in nostalgic homage are Wojciech Golczewski’s musical score and Brian Sowell’s widescreen lensing, which pours on the lurid color lighting effects as things grow more supernatural.

2016-06-19 09:05 Dennis Harvey variety.com

91 Florida man Angelo Ruth charged in cold case murder of Mattie Henry after TNT show A Florida man has been charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend after a TV show helped investigators find evidence in the 20 year-old cold case. Angelo Ruth, 60, of Fort Myers, is charged with killing Mattie Henry, 40, in 1993 for her life insurance policy, police said. Fort Myers Police Sgt. Brian O'Reilly told The News-Press that TNT's Cold Justice had helped investigators unearth key evidence in the case. Scroll down for video They discovered that Ruth had forged Henry's signature on a life insurance policy and also found the victim's blood in the trunk of his car, police say. 'I believe the publicity the case received helped us locate key witnesses to put this case over the top,' O'Reilly said. 'This case has gone through a couple different detectives but we continued to be diligent.' Police say that Ruth had been the key suspect in Henry's murder for a long time but they had been unable to gather enough evidence to prosecute - until now. Henry's body was found on September 8, 1993, after it was dumped between a transformer and the Highlands East Recreation Center on Canal Street in Fort Myers, Florida. Detectives found her body had been wrapped up in commercial bed sheets - commonly used in motels - which had traces of gunpowder and bullet holes in. They believe Ruth crumpled up the sheets to catch the blood and shot Henry in the back of the head. Ruth had said in a deposition that he took Henry to a motel to have sex before he left to go home to his fiancee. Ruth, who owns a sandwich shop in Dunbar, Florida, is being held in the Lee County Jail. His bond is set at $200,000. 'She was loved by her family. She was a little down on her luck at the time and was trying to turn her life around,' O'Reilly told Fox News of Henry. 'She was taking steps trying to be a better parent and a better mother. She was taken from her family in her prime.' Henry's daughter Rhonda Henry had been invited onto the episode of Cold Justice which aired last August. 'A lot of the murders here, they go unsolved because everybody's always running their mouths saying what they think, and not what they know. And then, too, they don't talk when they need to talk,' she said as she urged police not to give up on her mother. 'I can't give up on her; I'm her only voice. I can't give up on her,' said Rhonda who had spent decades trying to get justice for her mother. However, investigators told her she would have to be patient a little longer while they gathered more evidence to convict. Rhonda Henry died two days later. 'If we can bring an end to this case, it brings a message to the community that the Fort Myers Police Department will not stop until we get the person responsible for a murder,' said Detective Albert Antonini. 'If we can put that little thought in one murderer's head, it's going to be one less murderer, and one more family saved.' 'Cold Justice' follows former prosecutor Kelly Siegler & former crime scene investigator (CSI) Yolanda McClary as they seek justice for unsolved murders at small towns across the United States.

2016-06-19 14:58 Hannah Parry www.dailymail.co.uk

92 Rebels in Turkish nationalist party move closer to ousting leader ISTANBUL, June 19 (Reuters) - Dissidents in Turkey's nationalist MHP opposition party took a step closer on Sunday to ousting their veteran leader, a move which could potentially derail President Tayyip Erdogan's drive for greater powers under a new constitution. The dissidents are trying to oust Devlet Bahceli, a dour 68-year-old who has led his party since 1997 but has seen support among voters ebb despite growing nationalist sentiment in Turkey. At an extraordinary congress on Sunday attended by 657 delegates, the dissidents managed to amend a party bylaw that will allow them to challenge Bahceli's leadership at a meeting set for July 10. They hope to replace Bahceli with Meral Aksener, a 59-year-old woman seen by pollsters as having the mettle needed to revitalise the MHP and increase its support. That could make Erdogan's ambitions harder to push through parliament. If Bahceli survives the challenge - and many expect him to challenge the bylaw amendment in the courts - pollsters and political analysts say he could lead his party to a crushing defeat at the next election, exiting parliament and freeing Erdogan's hand to rewrite Turkey's constitution. Erdogan and his supporters say Turkey needs a strong executive presidency to help steer the country through its big security and economic challenges. Under the current constitution, Turkey's president is a largely ceremonial post. Critics say Erdogan is behaving in an increasingly authoritarian way, undermining Turkey's constitutional checks and balances and clamping down on media freedoms in the European Union candidate nation. Erdogan rejects the accusations. (Reporting by Ercan Gurses and Seda Sezer; Editing by Gareth Jones)

2016-06-19 14:58 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

93 April Rose Pengilly reveals she enjoyed a kiss with Matthew Le Nevez in Brock April Rose Pengilly is hard at work pursuing her acting career. And it seems the 28- year-old really enjoyed filming the upcoming Brock miniseries, with the former model telling Daily Mail Australia she enjoyed an onscreen 'pash' with her 'crush' Matthew Le Nevez. April attended the closing night of the Sydney Film Festival on Sunday, where she put on a very leggy display in high-waisted shorts and a blazer. Scroll down for video 'All my scenes are with Matt Le Nevez, and I was already a bit of a fan from Offspring,' she said talking about shooting their new show together. 'I got to have a pash with him. Not a bad day at work!,' she said with a laugh. When asked how she prepared for the onscreen kiss, she said the pair just 'got into the moment.' The starlet also revealed she carries mouthwash in her bag and pulled it out ahead of kissing the hunky 37-year-old actor. She confessed, 'I had that on set and he saw me use it and he was like, "oh can I use that as well? " So we were both very fresh.' April added that their scene was easier to film because she had a crush on him already. She said at the time she was seeing someone and talked down the kiss with Matthew. 'I was like, "oh babe, it was the worst day at work, it was so hard. " But really, it was like, "it's not too bad, there are worst jobs you can have," she giggled. The show is set to air later this year on Channel Ten and follows the life of the late Australian race car driver Peter Brock. It also stars Natalie Bassingthwaighte, 40. During the event, the brunette stunner put her toned pins on display in her outfit, which featured a blue and white checkered design. She broke up the printed pieces with a white T-shirt and had her long hair out and over shoulders for the evening. Preened to perfection, April wore simple makeup, including light foundation and a soft pink lip. The actress is the daughter of INXS rocker Kirk Pengilly and Karen Hitchinson. Last year, she appeared in the TV miniseries Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door and in 2014 had a stint on the reality TV show, Dancing With The Stars.

2016-06-19 14:52 Chloe-lee www.dailymail.co.uk

94 Parents overwhelmed by support after gator kills toddler Orlando - The parents of a Nebraska toddler killed by an alligator at Florida's Walt Disney World say they are overwhelmed by the support they have received since the death of their son. Matt and Melissa Graves of Omaha, Nebraska, said in a statement they appreciate the support and love from friends in their community and around the country. The family said: "We understand the public's interest, but as we move forward, we ask for and appreciate the privacy we need to lay our son to rest" Sara Brady, who is serving as a spokesperson for the family, declined to comment on when the funeral has been scheduled. An alligator described as being as long as two metres snatched 2-year-old Lane Graves as he waded in shallow water in a lake at a Disney hotel on Tuesday night. The boy's remains were found after a long search the following day. An autopsy showed that he died from drowning and traumatic injuries, according to the Orlando medical examiner. The beach, located at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa across a lake from the Magic Kingdom, had "no swimming" signs but no warning about alligators. The company added alligator warning signs on Friday. The resort's beaches remain closed. Construction workers have started to put up wooden posts connected with rope along the edge of the lagoon where Graves was snatched. 2016-06-19 15:51 www.news24.com

95 Suspected drug dealer nabbed in Benoni News24 invited several learners from around the country into the newsroom ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising. See our special report. News24 Correspondent (iStock) Multimedia Â· User Galleries Â· News in Pictures Send us your pictures Â· Send us your stories 24.com encourages commentary submitted via MyNews24. Contributions of 200 words or more will be considered for publication.

2016-06-19 15:51 www.news24.com

96 ANC member's son shot dead in Elsies River Cape Town – The 17-year-old son of Western Cape ANC member, Caroline Witbooi, has been shot dead in Elsies River, close to where the party was conducting door-to-door campaigns. “The shooting on Friday happened about two kilometres away from where we were campaigning,” ANC whip in the Western Cape legislature, Siyazi Tyatyam, told News24 on Sunday. He said he heard two to three shots. “Then we got a call to say one of the comrade’s sons was shot," Tyatyam said. Events leading up to the shooting were not immediately clear, but Tyatyam did not think it was related to the upcoming local elections or politics. While there, young residents had told him they believed it was gang-related, he said. Western Cape police confirmed an unknown suspect shot and killed the 17- year-old boy in Bourne Road. No arrests had yet been made. “We will return to the area to continue our campaign,” said Tyatyam. “We must give hope to the people and I think ANC can make a change.”

2016-06-19 15:51 www.news24.com

97 Record heat sparks warnings, boosts fires in western United States By Ian Simpson June 19 (Reuters) - Fire warnings were in place across three western U. S. states on Sunday as record-breaking heat threatened to feed wildfires that have blackened thousands of acres (hectares), especially in California and New Mexico. The National Weather Service said temperatures of 120 Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) were possible in southwestern deserts through Wednesday. "Red flag warnings" for potential fires covered an area stretching across southern California, southern Nevada and southern Arizona. "These extreme temperatures can be life- threatening," the weather service said on its website. The high temperatures have joined with a prolonged dry spell to worsen the fire threat. The agency declared an elevated threat in California's Santa Barbara County from dry conditions and evening winds. More than 2,000 firefighters there are battling the so-called Sherpa Fire, which had burned 7,811 acres (3,161 hectares) in coastal canyons. Firefighters estimated the fire was 45 percent contained. The Sherpa Fire broke out on Wednesday and has forced mandatory evacuations in some areas. Another blaze, the Dog Head Fire, southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has destroyed about two dozen homes and forced evacuations. Almost 1,000 personnel were fighting the blaze that has burned through about 17,615 acres (7,129 hectares) of timber and logging zones. In Alaska, a fire warning was also in place for the eastern part of the Alaska Range, with winds forecast to gust to 60 miles per hour (96 km per hour). Saturday's high temperature was 112F (44C) at Death Valley, California, the weather service said. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Andrew Bolton)

2016-06-19 14:46 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

98 Government okays NIS 74 million allocation to West Bank settlements The government on Sunday approved an allocation of NIS 74 million to the settlements in light of the worsening security situation in Judea and Samaria that has caused increased security challenges and hurt businesses. “Today, the Cabinet will discuss an assistance plan to strengthen communities in Judea and Samaria,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening of the cabinet meeting. “This entails the work of many ministries on behalf of the residents there and will – inter alia – strengthen security, assist small businesses and encourage tourism.” The NIS 74 million will include NIS 15 million from the Interior Ministry, NIS 10 million from the Agriculture Ministry, NIS 12 million from the Health Ministry, NIS 6 million from the Welfare and Social Services Ministry, and NIS 5.5 million from the Tourism Ministry. The rest of the sum will be provided by various other ministries According to the resolution , the NIS 12 million from the Health Ministry will be spent on creating centers to provide psychological support centers in the settlements. According to the cabinet resolution, “Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria face a unique security situation on a daily basis because of their geographic location and the fabric of life in the area. From the beginning of October 2015, there was an escalation in the security situation in Judea and Samaria as a result of the wave of terror.” According to the explanation of the resolution, the worsening security situation had an influence on life in the settlements in a number of areas, including on the psychological well being of the residents and economic damage to business. The additional funds are meant to deal with those issues, the resolution read. Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz criticized the allocation, saying that he wishes the communities in the country's periphery would get similar funds. Saying that he was not advocating being stingy toward the settlements, Perez said that the Defense Ministry already provides sufficiently for their security “You don't have to use security to indirectly channel funds to the settlements,” he said in an Israel Radio interview. “The concept 'security' is being used in vain, because the security establishment will not abandon the settlements.” Perez said that the money would better have been spent providing equal opportunities for children in the periphery. “I think this pours salt on the wounds of the weak, on the wounds of those who need every shekel,” he said.

2016-06-19 15:38 HERB KEINON www.jpost.com

99 Box Office: ‘Finding Dory’ Scores Record $136.2 Million Opening Glad Dory did well because The BFG is going to be another flop for Disney Studios. Up there with, the better than predecessor Alice Through the Looking Glass & The Finest Hour. Disney flops are offset by their hits. It’s not even close. They should pay off that giant flop john carter in about 6 more years. Unless you are a Disney stockholder why do you even care? You’re exactly right.

2016-06-19 08:18 Brent Lang variety.com

100 Mia Wasikowska keeps it chic in blue polka dot dress and brown loafers in Japan If there's a time and a place to go au naturel, it's after disembarking from a flight at the airport. And Mia Wasikowska looked truly flawless as she stepped out at Narita International Airport in Japan on Sunday, without a scrap of make-up on her face. The 26-year-old - who is one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses - also nailed an off-duty chic look with aplomb, keeping it simple in a blue polka dot dress. She styled her low-key ensemble with a pair of brown leather loafers, while a colourful knitted jumper was wrapped around her neck. Although the Australian star looked a touch tired, Mia was still a true beauty, showing off her fine make-up free features with her blonde locks scraped away from her face. Meanwhile, the Jane Eyre actress recently reunited with her co-stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter for the second instalment in the Alice in Wonderland franchise. The sequel, based on the novel by Lewis Carroll, picks up with Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) three years after we last met her. Having returned from sailing the high seas, she re-encounters Absolem, finds a magical looking-glass, and returns to the nonsensical realm of Underland. In a recent interview with Vogue Australia , the starlet admitted she is a total 'homebody' who enjoys her down time privately in Sydney's eastern suburbs. 'I only feel that kind of public persona for very specific moments in the year, when I’m on a press tour or a red carpet, because otherwise I have a completely anonymous life,' she told the magazine. 'I’m super happy and grounded here [in Sydney], and a massive part of keeping grounded is feeling like I have created a life outside of films.' Mia made her on-screen debut in 2004 in the Australian medical drama All Saints.

2016-06-19 14:14 Sharnaz Shahid www.dailymail.co.uk

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