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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-07-05 00:01 1 Five examples of UKIP’s Farage being ‘constrained’

(1.03/2) Nigel Farage is standing down as the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) – saying 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 2 Death toll in Baghdad ISIS bombings surpasses 200 (VIDEO) — RT News (1.02/2) In the deadliest single attack in Baghdad this year, a refrigerator truck bomb in a Shiite district has killed at least 213 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility, while survivors lambasted the Iraqi prime minister for failing to ensure security. 2016-07-05 00:00 3KB www.rt.com 3 Suicide bomber strikes near Prophet’s Mosque in holy Saudi city of Medina (VIDEO) — (1.02/2) RT News A bomb exploded outside the Prophet’s Mosque in the Saudi city of Medina – one of the holiest sites in Islam – on Monday night. The bomber himself, and at least two security officers were killed in the blast. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 4 SABC is like Hlaudi’s ‘home or spaza shop’ The Media Workers Association of SA has described SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng as being a law unto himself at the public (1.00/2) broadcaster. 2016-07-05 00:00 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 5 The intelligence questions for Chilcot What might the Chilcot Report say about British intelligence and (1.00/2) the Iraq War? 2016-07-04 22:01 7KB www.bbc.co.uk

6 Photo of tired Jeremy Corbyn sparks debate on Labour leadership — RT UK (0.01/2) A picture of a tired-looking Jeremy Corbyn standing on a London bus has resurfaced, sparking a passionate online debate about the Labour leader’s future. 2016-07-05 00:00 4KB www.rt.com 7 Those that have resigned from the SABC must go relax at home: ANCYL's Mlondi Mkhize

(0.01/2) The ANC Youth League has weighed in on the debate after former SABC acting chief executive officer Jimi Matthews resigned from the public broadcaster. 2016-07-05 00:00 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

8 Tory leadership favorite May refuses to rule out deporting EU citizens post-Brexit — RT UK (0.01/2) Theresa May, current favorite to be next Conservative leader, has refused to guarantee the status of EU citizens post-Brexit, while her main backer, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, said guaranteeing European migrants the right to stay would be “absurd.” 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.rt.com 9 Eric Tinkler's Cape Town City adventure finally begins

(0.01/2) Eric Tinkler wasted no time in getting down to work with the new Cape Town City on Monday‚ laying on two training sessions for his new charges just hours after arriving from Johannesburg. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 10 Of the People Americans share their hopes, fears and frustrations in interviews from the campaign trail. 2016-07-05 00:00 1KB www.nytimes.com 11 Kuwait foils 3 ISIS terror attacks, arrests suspects in raids — RT News Three terror plots planned by Islamic State terror group have been foiled in Kuwait, the country’s Interior Ministry said. Several pre- emptive raids inside and outside Kuwait ended in the arrests of militants. 2016-07-05 00:00 3KB www.rt.com 12 After FBI grilling, Hillary Clinton calls husband's chat with Attorney General 'chance meeting' — RT America Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said her husband Bill’s meeting with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch at Phoenix, Arizona’s Sky Harbor Airport was not related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's email probe and was nothing more than a “chance meeting at an airport tarmac.” 2016-07-05 00:00 4KB www.rt.com 13 Iceland hearts broken as France wins 5-2 to reach Euro 2016 semi-final — RT Sport Iceland’s remarkable Euro 2016 campaign came to an end as they fell to a 5-2 defeat to host-nation France in an entertaining quarter-final match in Saint-Denis. 2016-07-05 00:00 3KB www.rt.com 14 Turkish aid ship reaches Gaza following reconciliation deal with Israel — RT News The first Turkish ship with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip arrived in Israel a week after Turkey and Israel reached an agreement normalizing their diplomatic relations that were suspended in 2010 after a deadly IDF raid against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. 2016-07-05 00:00 2KB www.rt.com 15 Mark Cavendish's Tour de France win thrusts the spotlight on South African team Mark Cavendish won the third stage of the Tour de France from Granville to Angers on Monday to again thrust the South African Team Dimension Data back into the limelight. 2016-07-05 00:00 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 16 German vice chancellor calls for dual citizenship for young Brits living in Europe — RT News Germany and other EU countries should consider the idea of offering citizenship to young British expats, most of whom voted to remain in the bloc in the Brexit referendum, the German economy minister has said. 2016-07-05 00:00 2KB www.rt.com 17 ‘Sex with celebrities & flying on dragons’: How tech industry re-imagines lucid dreams — RT Viral The lucid dreaming industry is wide awake - new apps, masks and supplements are continuously being developed, adding to the already-substantial array of products available to enhance dream awareness and control. 2016-07-05 00:00 10KB www.rt.com 18 Zimbabwe police fire teargas as protests turn violent Zimbabwe police on Monday fired teargas and water cannons and beat up protesting public transport drivers, amid rising unrest against economic woes as well as President Robert Mugabe's long rule. 2016-07-05 00:00 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 19 Jaws-dropping invention: Electric ‘shield’ can scare away maneating — RT Viral Scientists believe an electric ‘shield’ is the “most effective” protection against shark attacks for swimmers, with the animals’ sensitive sensory system apparently proving key. 2016-07-05 00:00 2KB www.rt.com 20 ‘Biggest NATO reinforcement since Cold War’ to be focus of Warsaw summit – Stoltenberg — RT News NATO members will agree to “further enhance military presence in the eastern part of the alliance” at the upcoming summit in Warsaw, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said, adding the alliance will see its “biggest reinforcement since the Cold War.” 2016-07-05 00:00 3KB www.rt.com 21 Caustic fracking chemical spills in San Antonio train derailment — RT America A derailed train has spilled approximately 1,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide in San Antonio, Texas, according to reports. The train was carrying 60,000 gallons of the poisonous, highly-corrosive chemical. A nearby area was temporarily evacuated. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 22 ‘My brother slapped me because of who I love’ South African javelin champion Sunette Viljoen on Monday accused her brother of slapping her through the face. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 23 Supersize Iranian ‘Hulk’ signs up to help crush ISIS in Syria (PHOTOS) — RT Viral Iran could be set to unleash a weapon of mass destruction on Islamic State fighters - in the form of 24-stone super soldier Sajad Gharibi. His monster physique has seen him compared to comic book hero, ‘The Hulk’. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.rt.com 24 Claims that Ntlemeza a former member of apartheid security branch ‘utter garbage’ The Hawks have rubbished as “ridiculous and utter garbage” claims that their boss‚ Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza‚ is a former member of the apartheid security branch. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 25 Fury v Klitschko rematch date set — RT Sport The date for the heavyweight boxing rematch between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko has been set, according the Ukrainian fighter’s manager Bernd Boente. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 26 Russia prepares to launch upgraded spacecraft (VIDEO, PHOTOS) — RT News A new version of the Soyuz spacecraft is set to be launched by Russia's space agency Roscosmos this week. The Soyuz rocket will carry a crew of Russian, American and Japanese to the International Space Station, where they will spend four months. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.rt.com 27 'Mama is very well' Gauteng MEC allays fears over Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's health Chairman of the ANC in Gauteng and the province’s MEC for Human Settlements and Co-operative Governance‚ Paul Mashatile‚ has allayed concerns about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's health. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 28 'Welcome to Hell,' protesting Rio police tell tourists Brazilian police protesting unpaid salaries with just one month to go before the Olympics surprised arriving travellers at Rio de Janeiro's main airport Monday with banners reading 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 29 Leicester to land sought-after CSKA Moscow striker Musa for club-record fee – reports — RT Sport English Premier League champions Leicester City have agreed a fee for CSKA Moscow’s Nigerian striker Ahmed Musa, according to reports. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 30 Foes become friends as back Cheetahs against Sharks this week On any other day the Bulls would regard the Cheetahs as arch enemies. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 31 People smuggling prosecutions up 50% in one year, but only ‘tip of iceberg’ — RT UK The number of prosecutions for smuggling illegal migrants into the UK has risen by more than 50 percent in the last year, according to fresh Home Office figures. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 32 Russia mourns crew of firefighter plane that crashed in Siberia — RT News Russia has paid tribute to 10 rescuers who died when their plane crashed while battling forest fires in Siberia. The crew have been proclaimed “heroes of Russia” who “risked their lives to save thousands.” 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.rt.com 33 PSL clubs return back to work while promoted Highlands get more time off Free State Stars and Orlando Pirates went back to work on Monday‚ Ajax Cape Town begin on Tuesday and Bidvest Wits‚ Maritzburg United and Platinum Stars all start their pre-season preparations on Wednesday‚ leaving only Premier Soccer League newcomers Highlands Park on vacation. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 34 'Tell SABC it must cover important news' The Helen Suzman Foundation wants a legal ruling against the SABC’s policy and practice to not cover protest action‚ particularly violent demonstrations‚ which it sees as an infringement of the public's right to be informed. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 35 Enraged UK veterans blast ‘war of aggression’ ahead of Chilcot’s Iraq war report (RT EXCLUSIVE) — RT UK A UK veterans’ group has blasted the 2003 Iraq conflict as a “war of aggression” waged on the Iraqi people ahead of the publication of the Chilcot report on Wednesday. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 36 Brave Zoleka Mandela 'not bothered' by cancer scar Zoleka Mandela continues to share her journey of beating cancer with fans in the hope to inspire others. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 37 Three former Barclays’ traders convicted in Libor case — RT Business A court in Britain has found three former Barclays traders guilty of Libor manipulation between 2005 and 2007. The men are expected to be sentenced on Thursday. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.rt.com 38 Real-life counter-strike: Watch Russian commandos training in exclusive 360 video — RT Viral With the help of a helmet-mounted 360 camera it feels like you are watching an FPS – but instead it’s a real elite anti-terrorist unit running through a hostage-rescue scenario. 2016-07-05 00:01 951Bytes www.rt.com 39 Italy arrests 38 suspected migrant smugglers who ‘sold organs’ for $15,000 — RT News At least 38 suspected migrant smugglers have been arrested in Italy who are thought to belong to an international trafficking network involved in organ trafficking. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.rt.com 40 Stormers reaping the rewards of Pieter de Villiers input in the scrum It’s a sign of the mature approach of the Stormers’ youthful coaching staff that they weren’t afraid to seek help during the June international break in an effort to continue to improve. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 41 Deadly 'First Kiss' road safety ad gets the green light The Western Cape government's shocking First Kiss road safety ad‚ showing the deadly consequences of not buckling up‚ has been given the green light by advertising authorities. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 42 Shape-shifting cylinders: Epic optical illusion mystifies the internet (VIDEO) — RT Viral A mind boggling video of an optical illusion involving, apparently, shape shifting objects has been watched more than 2 million times on YouTube as internet users have struggled to solve the puzzle. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.rt.com 43 Secrecy policy over SAS ops backwards & damaging – report — RT UK Britain’s policy of not commenting on Special Forces operations is years behind other Western nations and could harm the UK’s democracy and foreign policy, a new study claims. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 44 Lions now target trophy After securing a Super Rugby playoff spot‚ the next focus for the Lions is winning their first title in the southern hemisphere competition. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 45 iFani insists that he's chosen to embrace happiness Over the past few months iFani has been hard at work on changing his outlook to life. And some great hits of course. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 46 Liberals Yabloko announce ‘alternative patriotism’ program for State Duma polls — RT Russian politics Veteran Russian liberal party Yabloko has announced its candidates and program for the parliamentary elections, prioritizing the ‘demilitarization’ of Russia along with ‘alternative patriotism’ and concessions to the EU in exchange for visa-free travel. 2016-07-05 00:01 4KB www.rt.com

47 Families of Bangladesh cafe victims take bodies home Relatives of foreign hostages murdered in a Bangladeshi restaurant were in Dhaka Monday to take their loved ones' bodies home as authorities made the first arrests over the killings. 2016-07-05 00:01 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 48 Amla‚ Shamsi lead Saffer charge in Caribbean Premier League Who is the most successful South African with the bat in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL)? 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 49 Ukraine to limit transit of Russian goods in response to Kremlin — RT Business The Ukrainian government is planning to introduce a bill restricting the movement of Russian goods through the country. The step is seen as retaliation for a Russian bill toughening the rules on the transit of Ukrainian goods through its territory. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 50 Lesufi put the children at alleged racist crèche 'in danger' says FF Plus The has opened a case against Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi and demanded that he be fired for the manner in which he handled a matter of alleged racism at Koeitjies En Kalfies pre-school. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 51 Billionaire Prokhorov's company denies Russian assets sale — RT Business One of Russia's major private investment funds ONEXIM group, which is owned by tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov, has dismissed reports the fund is selling all of its Russian assets. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 52 With football dreams dashed, Iceland's Pirate Party gets down to transforming its economy — RT Viral With the distraction of a major European sports tournament out of the way, the tiny island nation of Iceland and its fewer than 325,000 citizens can now get back to the main business at hand - rebuilding its economy. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.rt.com 53 Zuma’s pals can’t stop corruption: Msimanga President Jacob Zuma’s pals can’t stop corruption because the ANC cannot operate without it‚ the Democratic Alliance’s mayoral candidate for Tshwane‚ Solly Msimanga‚ charged on Saturday. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 54 Right mix helps France turn on style ahead of German test After tweaking his formation and starting lineup at Euro 2016, France coach Didier Deschamps seems to have found the perfect formula at just the right time. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 55 Simphiwe Dana defends Hlaudi’s 90% quota Outspoken musician Simphiwe Dana may not be willing to defend all that SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has done but she has praised him for implementing local quotas that 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 56 Two senior NFP leaders resign President Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi has accepted the resignation of two senior leaders. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 57 ‘Celebrity’ Kruger National Park eagle killed by hunters in Mozambique A 'celebrity' eagle from the Kruger National Park that starred in a British wildlife television series‚ Fierce‚ has been killed by subsistence hunters in Mozambique‚ researchers from the University of Cape Town have confirmed. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 58 Is Messi reconsidering decision on international retirement? — RT Sport Lionel Messi has had second thoughts about retiring from international football and could make his return for Argentina in November, according to reports. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 59 Farage’s ‘annual’ resignation met with social media frenzy — RT UK Reactions on social media to Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s resignation announcement from the UKIP leadership ranged from glee and mockery to anger and scorn. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 60 Michael Gove a ‘gossiping drunk’ – Boris ally attacks Tory leadership hopeful — RT UK Tory leadership hopeful Michael Gove “did the dirty” on Boris Johnson and has an “emotional need” to gossip when drunk, according to key Boris Johnson ally Tory MP Ben Wallace. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 61 #Texit #Calexit? Brexit vote inspires long- forgotten movements for independence in US — RT America As America celebrates its 240th anniversary of independence from Britain, Texas' and California's campaigns to secede from the US have been given a kiss of life. But are they really ready to follow #Brexit and revive their bids to break away from Washington. 2016-07-05 00:01 5KB www.rt.com 62 Russia officially appeals Olympic ban — RT Sport Russia has officially launched action against the doping ban imposed on its athletics team, filing a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a bid to have the suspension revoked in time for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio next month. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 63 Pitso pours cold water on Nigerian journalist’s allegations of cheating Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane came out on top of a verbal sparring match against a Nigerian journalist apparently suffering from a bout of sour grapes after Enyimba's 2-1 Caf Champions League defeat to Downs on Wednesday night. 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 64 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s response to Rivers Church pastor It is to be appreciated that Pastor Olivier apologised for the statements he made in a sermon on Sunday‚ 26 June 2016. 2016-07-05 00:01 7KB www.timeslive.co.za 65 Drugs hero joins ANC The Eldorado Park mother who wrote a letter to President Jacob Zuma complaining about rampant drug use in the area in 2013 will stand as an ANC councillor. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 66 Sanef takes SABC to MPs The SA National Editors' Forum will approach parliament regarding the 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 67 Trump tweets ‘Clinton corrupted’ with six- pointed star, drawing accusations of anti- Semitism — RT America US Republican candidate has been forced to delete a tweet showing an image of Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and a six-pointed star after a barrage of accusations of anti-Semitism. 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB www.rt.com 68 Driver reverses new car off of blazing transporter (VIDEO) — RT Viral There are things you should not really do if a car transporter catches fire – perhaps, number one would be: don’t reverse any of the cars to safety, like the driver in the video that has emerged online did. 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB www.rt.com 69 ‘I would shoot’ Russian jets buzzing past US ships – Poland’s ex-president Walesa — RT News Poland’s former president and democracy icon Lech Walesa said he would not hesitate to “knock off the wing” of Russian jets if he were in charge of the US destroyer Donald Cook. 2016-07-05 00:01 4KB www.rt.com 70 Corruption watchdog says sentence increases fears for whistleblowers — RT News The sentence handed out in the LuxLeaks trial has made whistleblowers more frightened of coming forward, a Transparency International official told RT. That’s after two men who revealed tax avoidance deals in Luxemburg were found guilty and given suspended jail time. 2016-07-05 00:01 4KB www.rt.com 71 Surigao Norte police chief relieved after shooting of radio anchor, son SURIGAO CITY – Barely six months on the job, the top provincial police official here has been relieved following the shooting of a radio broadcaster and his son. Supt. James Mejia, police 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 72 Students to be taught how to spot drug pushers UNDER the Duterte administration, students as young as 10 will not only learn the consequences of drug abuse and addiction but also get practical lessons on how to spot a drug pusher, how to say 2016-07-05 00:01 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 73 No more DAR barricade: Welded gates now open CHANGE has come to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and it is more than symbolic. 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74 Tugade: ‘A self-made, leader’ THE MAN whom President Duterte has chosen to run the transportation department is an informal settler-turned-millionaire, who combined honesty and astute management in his first government job 2016-07-05 00:01 7KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 75 12 agencies to lead gov’t antipoverty programs PRESIDENT Duterte’s first executive order may have just shut out Vice President Leni Robredo from leading the government’s antipoverty programs. Mr. Duterte issued Executive Order No. 1, 2016-07-05 00:01 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 76 Palace: Con-con is top Duterte priority PRESIDENT Duterte wants the Constitution amended but only through a constitutional convention (Con-con) as the vehicle for Charter change (Cha-cha), Palace spokesperson Ernesto Abella said on 2016-07-05 00:01 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 77 July 6 declared holiday for Eid al-Fitr PRESIDENT Duterte on Monday declared July 6 a regular holiday in observance of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The President signed Proclamation No. 6 to 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 78 New lawmakers take 4-day crash course to learn ropes Rep. Vilma Santos-Recto led the third batch of 47 first-time lawmakers who attended a crash course on legislative work. In an interview with reporters during a break in the 2016-07-05 00:01 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 79 BI nabs wanted Pakistani in Subic THE BUREAU of Immigration arrested over the weekend a Pakistani wanted for various crimes in his country, including terrorism, rioting and murder. New Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente 2016-07-05 00:01 1KB globalnation.inquirer.net 80 Jason Day to miss Rio Olympics over Zika virus scare He's the best golfer on the planet -- but Jason Day won't be winning Olympic gold anytime soon. 2016-07-04 22:30 3KB rss.cnn.com

81 Obama seeks to reassure , Mexico on Trump, trade President Barack Obama bids "adieu" and "adios" to his counterparts in Canada and Mexico Wednesday, convening a final North American leaders summit. 2016-07-04 22:25 8KB rss.cnn.com 82 Kenya's school arson attacks lead to national debate School arson attacks carried out by students appear to have become a trend in Kenya, which has left people speculating about the causes, but no-one seems to agree. 2016-07-04 22:01 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 83 Release your inner child How Canadian entrepreneur Adam Tichauer set up Camp No Counselors, one of a growing number of summer camps for adults. 2016-07-04 22:01 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 84 Juno mission: Jupiter probe on course for orbit manoeuvre The US space agency says its Juno probe is in good shape as it prepares to orbit Jupiter and begin a survey of what lies beneath the giant planet's obscuring clouds. 2016-07-04 22:01 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 85 Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary Rajendra Kumar arrested The CBI on Monday arrested Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for allegedly misusing his official position and facilitating tenders worth Rs 9.5 crore to a particular company 2016-07-04 22:00 4KB www.mid-day.com 86 Requests for abortions up as Zika spreads In Latin American countries, where abortion is highly restricted, if not illegal, pregnant women are seeking abortions at significantly higher rates, a new study shows. 2016-07-04 21:45 5KB rss.cnn.com 87 Remembering a Grimly Prophetic July 4 On July 4, 1826, America awaited a special moment. It was the young nation’s Jubilee... 2016-07-04 20:52 10KB spectator.org 88 Wisconsin College Student Reported Missing in Italy Video Beau Solomon, 19, was last seen on Thursday night at a pub in Rome. 2016-07-04 21:35 1KB abcnews.go.com 89 Wimbledon: Sania-Martina enter quarters, Bopanna knocked out India’s tennis star Sania Mirza stormed into the women’s doubles quarter-finals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament while Rohan Bopanna was knocked out in the men’s doubles third round here on Monday 2016-07-04 21:33 3KB www.mid-day.com 90 Why Trump is right about Judge Jeffrey T. Kuhner KMorgan 1312 posts 2016-07-04 20:53 8KB www.thetribunepapers.com 91 Cub Scout Camp Sponsored by Hooters Has Parents Upset Video Children attending the day camp were photographed with some of the restaurant chain's female employees. 2016-07-04 21:29 1KB abcnews.go.com 92 California Man in Coma After Police Altercation, Family Says Video Authorities are investigating the Anaheim Police Department's use of force against Vincent Valenzuela. 2016-07-04 21:29 2KB abcnews.go.com 93 Court seeks CBI's reply on Peter Mukerjea's plea about secret witness A special court here today asked CBI to file its reply by July 7 on the plea of Peter Mukerjea, former media baron and a co-accused in Sheena Bora murder case, seeking the statement of a secret witness submitted to the court by the central agency 2016-07-04 21:25 2KB www.mid-day.com 94 Yavatmal molestation case: School management committee head held The Secretary of the Jawaharlal Darda Education Society was on Monday arrested in connection with a case of molestation of girls in kindergarten and primary classes by two teachers here 2016-07-04 21:24 1KB www.mid-day.com 95 Will never curb Virat's aggression but there's a line: Kumble He will be the 2016-07-04 21:23 2KB www.mid-day.com 96 Double Bonanza: Praneeth, Manu-Sumeeth win titles at Canada It was double bonanza for India at the as B Sai Praneeth and Rio-bound men's doubles pair of and B Sumeeth Reddy clinched twin crowns after winning their respective title clash at the USD 55,000 Grand Prix tournament here 2016-07-04 21:22 2KB www.mid-day.com

97 English Conversation Questions / Debates 14,020 discussion and conversation questions for speaking practice. 701 FREE ESL lesson plans, handouts, worksheets and downloads. Controversial and mainstream topics. 2016-07-04 20:52 826Bytes www.esldiscussions.com 98 Breaking News English Lesson English News Lessons: Free 26-Page lesson plan / 2-page mini- lesson - Tech Support - Handouts, online activities, speed reading, dictation, mp3... current events. 2016-07-04 20:52 1KB www.breakingnewsenglish.com 99 How Libor came to be fiddled Few of us may have known about Libor before it hit the news in 2012 when Barclays was fined and its chief executive resigned - but it has affected most of our financial lives. 2016-07-04 19:51 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 100 Does it help disabled people to let them win? A video has gone viral of schoolchildren slowing down to let a disabled classmate win a race. Laurence Clark, a comedian with cerebral palsy, is not sure he wouldn't rather lose. 2016-07-04 19:51 4KB www.bbc.co.uk Articles

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1 Five examples of UKIP’s Farage being ‘constrained’ (1.03/2) These are five statements from Farage‚ when he was “constrained”. 1: He told the president of the EU‚ Herman Van Rumpuy‚ “You have the charisma of a damp rag‚ and the appearance of a low- grade bank clerk.” 2: “Godfrey’s [Bloom‚ former UKIP MEP] comment that ‘no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young‚ single‚ free woman’ has been proved so right. With this lunacy‚ that if you have children you get three months paid leave off work‚ or six months paid leave off work – he absolutely got it spot on” - Farage said in an old interview according to Huffington Post. 3: On the Paris attacks: "There is a very strong argument that says that what happened in Paris is a result - and we've seen it in London too - is a result I'm afraid of now having a fifth column living within these countries.” 4: "The good news for us who are smokers is that we are far better off here than if we had been at Michael Barrymore’s house. Because there they removed all the ashtrays on the basis that now they chuck all the fags in the pool. " Pro-Leave campaigner Nigel Farage resigns as UKIP leader Eagle threatens challenge against Corbyn bignewsnetwork.com

Leading Brexit campaigner Farage quits as UKIP leader timeslive.co.za 2016-07-05 00:01 Bruce Gorton www.timeslive.co.za

2 Death toll in Baghdad ISIS bombings surpasses 200 (VIDEO) — RT News (1.02/2) Late on Saturday night, the suicide bomber drove the vehicle into a busy shopping intersection in the affluent Karrada district of the Iraqi capital. The holy month of Ramadan meant the street was busy with residents breaking their fast after nightfall, with many also gathered to watch the Euro 2016 football championship on public TV screens, and shop ahead of next week’s Eid festival. Then the explosion rang out. "It was like an earthquake. I wrapped up my goods and was heading home when I saw a fireball with a thunderous bombing," eyewitness Karim Sami told AP. "I was so scared to go back and started to make phone calls to my friends, but none answered. " A host of buildings – including a shopping center and a gym – were damaged, with charred cars smoking in the street. At least 25 children were killed, and the death toll mounted throughout Sunday, as a fire took 12 hours to contain, and rescue services attempted to extract bodies from under the rubble. Almost immediately, the Islamic State terror group boasted that it was behind the attack on its sectarian rivals, calling it a “security operation.” In another Baghdad district, a roadside bomb exploded in a busy market, killing five and injuring 16, in a consistent pattern with Islamic State’s favored tactic of launching multiple near-simultaneous attacks to create a sense of terror. No one has yet claimed responsibility for that attack, however. READ MORE: ‘US uses sectarian violence as weapon to unthread and destabilize Middle East’ One person has been arrested in connection with the explosions. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, a politician from Iraq’s Shia community, raced to Karrada, vowing revenge. "The terrorist groups carried out such desperate deadly attacks as a result of being crushed in the battlefield," said al-Abadi, in reference to the government’s recapture of Fallujah from ISIS over the past month. But few were contented with al-Abadi’s rhetoric, and videos uploaded on the internet showed his cortege being jeered by Karrada residents, with many throwing cans and stones at the armored vehicles. According to Iraq Body Count, more than 1,000 civilians have died violently each month this year, continuing a resurgence in violence in the country, which has been concurrent with the rise of Islamic State. Condolences and statements of solidarity poured in from the the UN, the US government and Iraq's allies in the anti-ISIS coalition. “These acts of mass murder are yet another example of Da’esh’s [ISIS's] contempt for human life. From Baghdad to Istanbul, Brussels, Dhaka, and Paris, Da'esh terrorists murder the innocent to attract attention and recruits. They will not succeed,” said a statement from the White House, which has endorsed and supported the latest counter-offensive against the Islamists. But despite reassurances from the coalition that control of Fallujah would deprive extremists of their launch pad for such attacks, the setbacks may only force ISIS to employ even more desperate and savage tactics.

Death toll in Baghdad bombing rises to 213 newsinfo.inquirer.net 2016-07-05 00:00 www.rt.com

3 Suicide bomber strikes near Prophet’s Mosque in holy Saudi city of Medina (VIDEO) — RT News (1.02/2) Saudi TV news network Al- Arabiya reported that the two men were breaking their Ramadan fast, when they spotted the attacker. Monday is the last night of the holy month of Ramadan, and marks the beginning of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar. Multiple videos flooding social media showed charred corpses lying next to the burning husk of a car in the mosque’s car park, as police and ambulance sirens blared, and hundreds of onlookers filmed footage on their smartphones. Also known as Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophet’s Mosque is one of the holiest sites in Islam. It was the second mosque ever built, with the aid of Mohammed himself, who lived in a house next door. His tomb is still located there – sealed off from worshippers – and an iconic green-painted dome has been built over it. Other explosions took place Monday in the port of Jeddah, and Qatif, an eastern city populated by the predominantly-Sunni country’s embattled Shia minority. The Jeddah blast occurred outside the US consulate - the attack on a foreign target in years - and resulted in wounds to two security officers, as well as the death of the bomber. In Qatif, the explosion was next to a mosque, where people had gathered to evening prayers. So far, only body parts, presumably belonging to the bomber, have been identified. Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, Islamic State has previously targeted both, Shia worshippers and security forces, in a series of suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia, starting in 2014.

Explosion takes place in Medina, Saudi Arabia, near one of Islam's holiest sites: report washingtontimes.com 2016-07-05 00:01 www.rt.com

4 SABC is like Hlaudi’s ‘home or spaza shop’ (1.00/2) Daniel Malatji‚ national organiser of Mwasa‚ told a meeting which is planning a series of protests against the SABC that Motsoeneng had to be brought down to earth. “It is like SABC is his home or spaza shop. He is everything...the CEO‚ board‚ minister‚ he is everything. We had a strike certificate last month. He intimidated our members saying whoever goes on strike must not come back to the building. We have over 120 members who have been fired without any disciplinary hearings. We are at CCMA trying to get them reinstated‚” said Malatji. On Monday‚ ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said the party wanted Communications Minister to investigate if Motsoeneng was abusing his power. This follows a string of protests by the public‚ the suspension of SABC journalists and the resignation of the broadcaster's acting CEO Jimi Matthews. Mwasa represents about 700 workers at the SABC. Malatji said Motsoeneng was scheduled to meet the union at noon on Monday but cancelled just 15 minutes beforehand without giving any reason. “So long as Hlaudi is still in that building‚ whatever you are doing will be fruitless. He even boasts to say that it is only the president that can remove him. He says there is no court in this world that can remove him‚” said Malatji.

Hlaudi to feel the heat as protests hot up timeslive.co.za 2016-07-05 00:00 Penwell Dlamini www.timeslive.co.za

5 The intelligence questions for Chilcot (1.00/2) In September 2002 President Saddam Hussein summoned his Revolutionary Command Council in Baghdad. He looked "stiff" and "under pressure" as he demanded answers from those round the table. He had just read a new dossier published in the name of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) in London. It contained detailed information about his own regime's capabilities. There was even a claim that weapons of mass destruction could be fired in 45 minutes. This puzzled him, according to accounts gathered later, including from Saddam himself. Was there anyone in the room who was aware of any capabilities that the president himself did not know about? By turn, each member of the Revolutionary Command Council hurriedly said no, they did not. So what explained the judgement of British intelligence? Answering that question is one of the central planks of the Chilcot Inquiry due to report on Wednesday. There was an intelligence failure. The extent and who was to blame has proved controversial and the inquiry may give us the most conclusive answers yet. The issue can be divided into three areas: the reliance by those collecting intelligence on sources who were wrong, a failure of analysis in not challenging the assumption that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and finally, failings in the way intelligence was presented to the public, not least in the dossier that left Saddam himself confused. Graham Greene's novel Our Man in remains perhaps the funniest - but also the most perceptive - critique of the intelligence world. A vacuum-cleaner salesman manages to pass off designs of the latest model "the atomic pile" as a weapon of mass destruction hidden in the hills, thanks to MI6 officers being a little too keen to provide the goods. The technical experts who might challenge the veracity of the intelligence were never shown the details. That is pretty much what happened after the hunt for sources on Iraq's WMD picked up pace in 2002. Agents in the field knew what was wanted and delivered but it was never properly checked nor always shown to technical experts in the Defence Intelligence Staff (when one document allegedly showing Iraq purchasing uranium from Niger was seen by international experts they dismissed it as a fake within a day). There was none of the supporting evidence you would expect to see around a claim like 45 minutes such as where the weapons were stored and manufactured or what the time frame even referred to. That was true of much of the intelligence. "There didn't seem to be any intellectual rigour in reviewing the information. One can only assume that was because there was a desire for the information to be correct," argues Garth Whitty, who had been a chemical weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s. After the war, MI6 went looking for its sources. A "new source" - much heralded at the time - denied ever having said anything about accelerated production of chemical and biological weapons. The military officer who supposedly had talked about 45 minutes also denied any knowledge. When they found the intermediary who passed on that officer's report, there was a lot of umming and aahing, one official told me a few years later. Regarding the sources, Sir Richard Dearlove, the then chief of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, may be in the firing line from Chilcot. His critics argued he got too close to power and was too eager to please Downing Street. This is something he has vehemently denied. There was, though, disquiet among some officers in MI6. Two of them asked to be moved (and some even found a refuge over at MI5). With the dossier out, inspections began in Iraq. But when the United Nations inspectors visited sites whose locations had been passed onto them by British and American intelligence they found nothing. Secret production facilities hidden in chicken farms turned out to be just chicken farms. Some 700 inspections took place at 500 different sites and found nothing, including at locations suggested by British and American intelligence. "We assumed that they gave us the best sites they had but in none of those cases did we find weapons of mass destruction," Hans Blix, who ran the inspections, told me as he reflected on events. This spoke to a second intelligence failure: one of analysis. A stubborn belief that Iraq had WMD had persisted from the 1990s across the intelligence community and there was an unwillingness to reassess this assumption even as inspectors drew a blank. What was Saddam up to? In the 1990s he had destroyed his programmes and thought that when inspectors found nothing, sanctions would be lifted. But his fatal mistake was destroying the programmes secretly, most likely to avoid appearing weak at home and to neighbours like Iran. What that meant was that when inspectors pointed to past known stocks of chemical weapons, for instance, the Iraqis were unable to prove they had destroyed, rather than just hidden, what became known as "unaccounted for materials". Just days before the war began, the Iraqis were still desperately trying to find new ways to verify that they had poured chemicals into the ground, rather than hidden them. For critics, the failure to reassess assumptions about Iraq was because the train to war had already left the station. They argue the intelligence was ultimately a pretext, a public justification and a tool for persuading the public to support a cause that had already been decided upon: - that cause was regime change. The final crucial area Chilcot is likely to examine is the presentation of the intelligence to the public. Secret intelligence assessments in March 2002 described the intelligence on Iraq's weapons as "sporadic and patchy" and yet the foreword to the famous dossier that September had the then prime minister, Tony Blair, claiming it was "beyond doubt" and leaning heavily on the experts of the JIC and their credibility. Part of this hardening was down to the ability of MI6 to find "new sources" in the summer of 2002, just as the dossier was being drawn up. But blame may also fall on a process which allowed the caveats and qualifications to be lost and the intelligence to be portrayed as stronger than it really was. Any criticism here may fall on the JIC and its then chair Sir John Scarlett. Much of the detail on intelligence has been raked over already, most significantly in the Butler Inquiry (which led to reforms in the way MI6 checked its sources). But beyond the already well-told story of the weapons of mass destruction, there may be other questions for the spies: did they do enough to predict what might happen in Iraq after the fall of Saddam or provide enough information to military policymakers and the military on the insurgency that then emerged? Whatever the final verdict, the experience of Iraq is one that casts a long shadow over Britain's spies.

Iraq Inquiry: What is the Chilcot report and why does it matter? bbc.co.uk 2016-07-04 22:01 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

6 Photo of tired Jeremy Corbyn sparks debate on Labour leadership — RT UK (0.01/2) The photograph was taken in August last year, long before the Labour leader faced a motion of no confidence and two thirds of his party launched a coup against him. It was uploaded to Facebook again on Saturday evening by Amar Alam and has since gone viral for a second time. “This is Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, not in a Rolls Royce or another fancy car, but rather on a public bus home after a long day of campaigning,” Alam wrote. “He has the lowest expenses of any Parliamentarian and lives by the very principles he talks about, unlike most politicians, including the 172 MPs that stabbed him in the back,” he added. More than 50 of the Labour Shadow Cabinet and front bench MPs have so far resigned, and 172 MPs said they had no confidence in Corbyn in a secret ballot. But the fight continues, with Corbyn ignoring the motion and some Labour councilors signing a letter pledging their continued support. Corbyn’s aides are refusing to let Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, hold a one-on-one meeting with him, claiming Watson will try to “bully” the leader into resigning. The aides say they have have a “duty of care” to block Corbyn from being alone with Watson. “We are not going to let that happen. He’s a 70-year-old [sic] man. We have a duty of care … This is not a one-off. There is a culture of bullying. Maybe it’s a Blairite/Brownite thing,” a senior Labour source told the Guardian. Many have taken to social media to comment on Corbyn’s ability to lead. “ Everybody knows he's a man of deep principles and integrity. That doesn't however tell us whether he has the management ability to run a national government ,” wrote Guy Gratton, a point that was echoed by some other Facebook users. “ I don't doubt for one minute that Jeremy Corbin is an honest and highly principled man, I believe too that he[’s] sincere in his beliefs, but it's a tough world out there, often dishonest and unprincipled I wonder could he be capable as leader of the opposition ,” commented Leonard Capaldi. “ He is a decent man but he can't win and he certainly can't lead. No amount of London left bluster changes that ,” wrote Ash Boothright. Of course many supporters of Corbyn came out in force against the naysayers. “ To all the ‘he's alright but not a leader’ comments – Corbyn is principled, hardworking, trustworthy, but NOT a psychopath who wants power at any cost – sounds great to me! Look at what all these amazing ‘leaders’ of recent years have achieved – mostly misery and inequality ,” wrote Nicola Pollinger. “ In Finland, our current PM welcomed refugees in his home, and our Ex-PM (a woman) took the tube every day to work! It is completely normal and brings our leaders to a same level with their people - can't believe the UK has become so right wing they portray Corbyn as some revolutionary communist when in fact he is fighting for progress that is already put into action AND WORKS in Scandinavian countries, for instance ,” argued Rtia Rasheed. READ MORE: To the rescue? 60,000 join Labour in 1 week as party’s MPs launch anti-Corbyn coup Last week, Labour officials said 60,000 new members had joined the party since the EU referendum results were announced last Friday. The surge marked one of the fastest rises in membership of any political party in British history and puts Labour’s member total at 450,000, which is 10,000 higher than its previous peak under former Prime Minister Tony Blair. READ MORE: Prisoner of circumstance? Labour chief Corbyn wants to quit, but sources say allies won’t let him Should Corbyn keep fighting for Labour leadership? He still thinks so… — RT UK rt.com 2016-07-05 00:00 www.rt.com

7 Those that have resigned from the SABC must go relax at home: ANCYL's Mlondi Mkhize (0.01/2) Matthews resigned from the public broadcaster last week and posted his resignation letter on Twitter‚ citing as his reason for leaving the “corrosive atmosphere” at the state broadcaster following widespread changes under SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. "We as the ANCYL want to pass a message to the likes of those who have resigned from the SABC management to stop using SABC as means of seeking further employment. "We want to call the quitters to stop complaining about decisions they were part of but could not win the debate inside structures of SABC but now decide to use other platforms to vent their inability to provide leadership‚" said the league’s national spokesperson Mlondi Mkhize in a statement. As if that was not enough‚ Mkhize spared no jabs at Matthews. "Those that have resigned must go relax at home. Keeping in line with what they do best quitting they must quit speaking about the SABC they have been tried and have failed unfortunately they are not tried and tested. " However‚ Mkhize's comment did not sit well with social media commentators. Selby Bokaba tweeted: "The #ANCYL in defending #Cloudy is effectively telling concerned SAns & oppressed Sabc employees they don't need their votes @ThabisoTema" Thabo Seroke said: "There seems to be a contest between ANCYL & ANCWL. Each league determined to prove to be more ridiculous than the other with each statement! " In the letter addressed to SABC board chairman Mbulayeni Maghuve‚ Matthews apologised for his complicity in ‘unpopular’ decisions made under his leadership and that of Motsoeneng. Meanwhile on Friday‚ hundreds of people comprising of journalists from various media houses and civil organisations picketed outside the SABC offices in Auckland Park‚ protesting against censorship and political meddling at the institution. The SABC recently banned the showing of violent protests and destruction to state property claiming this would encourage copycat behaviour.

SABC banned coverage of EFF – Jimi Matthews timeslive.co.za 2016-07-05 00:00 Neo Goba www.timeslive.co.za

8 Tory leadership favorite May refuses to rule out deporting EU citizens post-Brexit — RT UK (0.01/2) However, according to a survey conducted by the British Future think tank, nearly 85 percent of Britons actually support allowing EU nationals already living the UK to stay – including most Leave voters. Home Secretary May has done nothing to calm the anxieties of Europeans who fear they will be forced to leave once the Brexit deal is done, saying that making promises “could just see a huge influx” of more migrants trying to make it into the UK before the deadline. May, a reluctant Remainer, said she would like to “guarantee the position” of the 3.3 million EU citizens living in Britain, but could not make any promises as to their future status. British newspaper The Independent reported a May source who insisted that “she was saying it’s unwise to promise right now that all EU nationals living in Britain should be able to stay indefinitely. The reason for that is, if we did, the same rights would have to apply to any EU national who comes to Britain before we leave the EU. “If we made that promise, you could just see a huge influx of EU nationals, who would all want to come here while they have that chance. “It would just be a bad negotiating position, because we shouldn’t guarantee the rights of EU nationals without having any guarantees the other way about British nationals living in EU member states.” Hammond in turn, also expressed sympathy for the citizens of the 27 EU member states residing in Britain and Britons living in the EU, but warned he “couldn’t assume” their status would remain the same after the UK’s exit from the bloc. He said all decisions would hang on negotiations with Europe, “When you go into a negotiation all the parts are moving, all the parts are on the table, and it would be absurd to make a unilateral commitment about EU nationals living in the UK without at the very least getting a similar commitment from the European Union about British nationals living in the EU.” Michael Gove and Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, who are May’s opponents, have been more comforting, with Crabb tweeting: “I would allow EU citizens already in UK to continue their lives here, and expect the same for Brits in the EU. People are not bargaining chips.” May’s work in Westminster has largely consisted of tightening immigration controls and refusing to welcome larger numbers of refugees into Britain. Under her tenure, hundreds of asylum seeking women and children have been kept in detention centers across Britain before being deported on secret charter flights. May also is a supporter of withdrawing Britain from the European Convention of Human Rights and voted in favor of the Iraq War.

German & French olive branches offered to post-Brexit Britain — RT UK rt.com 2016-07-05 00:01 www.rt.com

9 Eric Tinkler's Cape Town City adventure finally begins (0.01/2) The new coach flew into the Mother City on Sunday afternoon‚ had dinner with new owner John Comitis and at 9.30am on Monday morning was on the training field‚ going back for a second session in the afternoon. “We’ll keep up this intensity for the next two weeks‚” he promised as the new franchise try to sort out their squad for the new season. “I’m very confident we can do something‚” he told TimesLive in between the two training sessions. “We tried to keep the core of the Aces team that did so well last season and now we have to add on to fill out the rest of the squad.” Comitis bought Mpumalanga Black Aces just last month and has had to rush to put things in place before the new campaign begins. “We only have 14 players signed right now and we have another 14 trialists. They’ve been there for a week already. I’ve got to start making decisions on them right now to try and put together a stronger squad‚” added Tinkler‚ who had spent several weeks on holiday in Portugal after the end of the last season at Orlando Pirates. Cape Town City will be participating in the MTN8 in late August as they embark on their new adventure with a game first up against Kaizer Chiefs‚ renewing for Tinkler the rivalry he enjoyed during his time as coach of the Buccaneers.

City of Cape Town taken to court over toilets timeslive.co.za 2016-07-05 00:01 Mark Gleeson www.timeslive.co.za

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

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11 Kuwait foils 3 ISIS terror attacks, arrests suspects in raids — RT News " The Interior Ministry said on Sunday it foiled three terrorist plots targeting the country's security by directing three pre-emptive raids inside and outside Kuwait against terrorist elements of the so-called Daesh, " said a statement published by KUNA news agency. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The statement did not offer any further details, so the nationality, identity and number of those arrested remains unclear. Some reports say up to 6 arrests were made. According to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida, one of the suspects, a Kuwaiti national, had been plotting to blow up a mosque and a ministerial building during Ramadan or Eid Al-Fitr. Another man and his mother are accused of joining ISIS in Syria and getting involved in their oil and gas affairs as well as educating the terrorists’ wives and children, Al Jarida reports. The third case relates to two more men who were found to have munitions belonging to or meant for the terror group. The suspects were taken to the competent authorities, the daily said. In July 2015, the Gulf country, home to several US military bases, suffered its first ever ISIS-claimed attack, when a blast targeting a Shia mosque killed 27 people and injured over 200. Kuwaiti Shiites make up around one- third of the country's native population of 1.3 million people. READ MORE: 27 dead, 227 injured in Shiite mosque blast in Kuwait, ISIS claims responsibility Kuwait is also part of a 34-nation alliance led by Saudi Arabia fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria, Iraq, Libya and other Middle East countries. Recently, a wave of large-scale terror attacks claimed by or attributed to the Islamic State militants struck Turkey, Iraq and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, a triple suicide bombing rocked Turkish capital’s Ataturk Airport, killing 44 people and injuring hundreds. Although, nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, at least some of the suspects detained by the Turkish police are believed to have links to the terror group. The alleged mastermind behind the attack is said to be Ahmed Chatayev, an Islamic State fighter wanted in Russia. READ MORE: Wanted in Russia - EU court blocked suspected Istanbul attack mastermind from extradition in 2010 On Friday, 22 people lost their lives in Islamic State's attack on the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, when six gunmen took hostage in a restaurant popular with foreigners. READ MORE: 13 hostages freed from Dhaka cafe after overnight attack saw 20 victims killed On Saturday night, two bombs were set off at shopping areas in Baghdad. At least 125 people were killed as result of the explosions. Soon afterwards, the attack was claimed by ISIS, which branded it a “ security operation.”

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12 After FBI grilling, Hillary Clinton calls husband's chat with Attorney General 'chance meeting' — RT America READ MORE: Hillary Clinton interviewed by FBI over classified email scandal Clinton made the comments during her first media interview since being interrogated by the FBI for more than three hours on Saturday. The former secretary of state spoke with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press over the phone, telling him firstly she had been “eager” for the FBI interrogation and was "pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a conclusion. " The FBI grilling came more than a year after Clinton admitted using a private email server for official emails, hundreds of which were classified, during her time as America’s top diplomat. Clinton refused to comment, however, on news reports that a decision not to file charges against her would be announced in the coming weeks: “I am not going to comment… I have no knowledge of any timeline – this is entirely up to the department.” Lynch, who was nominated to her current position by President Barack Obama in 2014, declared earlier this week she would accept recommendations from career prosecutors and the bureau she oversees in response to backlash for her 'Sky Harbor summit' with the former president on Monday. READ MORE: 'I don't know': US AG Lynch claims ignorance on Clinton email probe timeline Lynch said the meeting was purely “social” with grandchildren as the main topic. The two go way back after ' Grandpa Bill' appointed her as a US attorney in 1999 during his presidency. Hillary Clinton echoed Lynch’s words during her Meet the Press interview, telling Todd she first heard about the incident from the news and described it as “a short, chance meeting at an airport tarmac.” She laughed off the idea that her husband and the Attorney General discussed the Department of Justice’s review of her email probe. “Both of their planes, as I understand it, were landing on the same tarmac at about the same time, and the Attorney General's husband was there, they said hello, they talked about grandkids, which is very much on our minds these days, golf, their mutual friend, former Attorney General Janet Reno, it was purely social,” the former New York Senator said. When asked if she thought her husband should have known better, she replied, “Well, I think hindsight's 20/20. Both the attorney general and my husband have said that they wouldn't do it again even though it was, from all accounts that I have heard and seen, an exchange of pleasantries. But obviously, no one wants to see any untoward conclusions drawn, and they said they would not do it again.” An all-white, all-female panel of political commentators speaking with Todd after he aired his Clinton interview slammed the Phoenix meeting. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein appeared on CNN's Sunday talk show "Reliable Sources," but was not asked about the email probe, instead talking about her Green New Deal, which would " create millions of jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030. " Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson weighed in on the controversy over Trump's controversial tweet about Clinton. READ MORE: Trump tweets ‘Clinton corrupted’ with six-pointed star, drawing accusations of anti-Semitism The former New Mexico governor told CNN's program "State of the Union" that Trump “has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president but it doesn’t seem to affect him. The stuff he’s saying is just incendiary. It’s racist.”

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13 Iceland hearts broken as France wins 5-2 to reach Euro 2016 semi-final — RT Sport France controlled large parts of the game and put in a superb first-half performance that saw them go in 4-0 up at the break. Iceland came into the game more in the second half and scored twice, but France also scored again to ensure they ran out comfortable 5-2 winners. The result sends France through to a semi-final clash against Germany at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Thursday. For Iceland, it brings to an end a wonderful run at a tournament in which they defied expectations. Appearing for the first time in a major tournament finals, the Icelanders have captured headlines and hearts around the world through their determined style of play and the vociferous support of their fans. The nation with a population of just 330,000 had progressed to the quarter- final stage following an unbeaten three matches in the group stage and a historic win against England in the first knockout round. This time, however, Iceland came up against a France team which, roared on by a partisan home crowd, proved too full of attacking verve for the Icelandic defense. Striker Olivier Giroud gave France the lead on 12 minutes after latching on to a through ball and firing between the legs of Iceland goalkeeper Hannes Halldórsson from 8 yards out. France doubled the lead eight minutes later when midfielder Paul Pogba powered in a header at the back post from an Antoine Griezmann corner. Dimitri Payet made it 3-0 on 43 minutes with a left-footed strike from outside the box, and Griezmann added a fourth just moments later when he ran through to chip the ball over advancing Iceland ‘keeper Halldórsson. Iceland was more of a threat in the second half and got the goal their efforts deserved on 56 minutes when Kolbeinn Sigthórsson poked in a cross. Although the French lead was restored to four goals just three minutes later when Giroud connected with a free-kick to head past Halldórsson, Iceland refused to give up, and grabbed another goal on 84 minutes through midfielder Birkir Bjarnason to make it 5-2. It was a hugely entertaining game in which Iceland more than played their part, and their fans, as always, gave a fantastic account of themselves with numerous performances of their famous Viking hand clap. Ultimately though it proved a step too far for Iceland, as they came up against a France team that is starting to look like the side that so many have tipped to win the tournament. The French have clicked into gear at the right time and Didier Deschamps’ men will be in confident mood when they face Germany in Marseille on Thursday – with the winners of that game surely being favorites for victory in Sunday’s final at the Stade de France. The other semi-final sees Wales take on Portugal in Lyon on Wednesday, with the Welsh now flying the flag as the tournament’s underdogs. Iceland, despite the heavy defeat, can hold their heads up high after a superb tournament that will live long in the memory for the country, its fans, and millions of others around the world.

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14 14 Turkish aid ship reaches Gaza following reconciliation deal with Israel — RT News The Lady Leyla container vessel, carrying more than 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, reached the Israeli port of Ashod after departing on Friday from the Turkish city Mersin, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported Sunday. It took Lady Leyla 35 hours to reach its destination, the agency added. The delivery, which comes days ahead of the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, includes food packages, toys, clothes and shoes to the people in Gaza, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority. Diplomatic ties between the two countries suffered a setback after an incident in 2010 when Israeli troops attacked the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara aid ship in international waters, killing eight Turkish and one Turkish-American activists. The six ships sent by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH) were carrying humanitarian and construction supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his regret for the attack as long ago as 2013, but it has taken three years to normalize diplomatic relations. The agreement was brokered with the help of the US. Under the deal, Israel will agree to Turkey's humanitarian presence in Gaza, which among other things involves the completion of a hospital in the Palestinian enclave and the construction of a new power station as well as a plant for desalination of water, local media reported. Israel rendered an apology and will also pay $20 million in compensation to a special fund dedicated to the families of the victims killed by the IDF soldiers. Turkey agreed to pass a law that would put an end to lawsuits from the families of the victims killed in the raid. It also demanded that Israel lift the Gaza blockade, but Israel refused to fulfill this condition. 2016-07-05 00:00 www.rt.com

15 Mark Cavendish's Tour de France win thrusts the spotlight on South African team Eric Tinkler wasted no time in getting down to work with the new Cape Town City on Monday‚ laying on two training sessions for his new charges just hours after arriving from Johannesburg.

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16 German vice chancellor calls for dual citizenship for young Brits living in Europe — RT News “Let us offer this to young Brits who live in Germany, Italy or France, so that they could remain European Union citizens,” German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said at a meeting with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Berlin on Saturday, according to local media. Brexit is yet another reason to make the process of obtaining dual citizenship easier, Gabriel said, also stressing that the SDP supported the idea long before Britain’s decision to leave the EU. Under current nationality law, non-EU and non-Swiss citizens applying for German citizenship usually have to renounce their old citizenship. “[Young British people] knew better than those snobs from the British elite that their future was at stake,” Gabriel said, adding that the German government “shouldn’t just pull up the drawbridge in front of them” and must think of what else it can offer. Meanwhile, more and more Britons are applying for German citizenship these days, not waiting for an official proposal from the EU governments, Hesse Minister-President Volker Bouffier told Die Welt newspaper on Sunday. Last week, the president of the Greens-European Free Alliance group in the European parliament, Rebecca Harms also voiced concern over the future of the younger British generation, calling on the EU countries to immediately give them certainty regarding their legal status on the continent. “People should be given as much certainty over their future as possible during these very uncertain times,” Harms told Reuters on Wednesday. The options include offering British citizens the right of residency or dual citizenship, Harms added. Voters aged 18 to 24 years old feel “angry” about the outcome of the referendum vote, recent opinion polls show. More than 70 percent of young people voted to remain. Tens of thousands of people have recently taken to the streets of London to protest the Brexit vote, demanding to nullify the results of the vote or to hold a second referendum. Britons voted by 52 percent to 48 percent to quit the EU in the referendum that took place on June 23.

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17 ‘Sex with celebrities & flying on dragons’: How tech industry re-imagines lucid dreams — RT Viral Some credit the boost in interest to the 2010 blockbuster Inception which created a fantasy vision of dream engineering where people could hack the dreams of others and steal secrets from their subconscious. Others believe the rise in popularity of the nocturnal ‘hobby’ is in line with the on-demand Netflix loving-culture we inhabit. Not content with merely sleeping, we now want to also control the dream process to live out our greatest desires. So what exactly is lucid dreaming and why are startups flooding to Kickstarter in a bid to launch their latest aid to enhance the experience? A lucid history The practice of achieving this hybrid state of consciousness dates back more than 1,000 years in the teachings of Tibetan Buddhist monks seeking enlightenment. Lucid dreaming is considered one of the core principles of Dream Yoga - a spiritual practice considered by its practitioners as an important part of the preparation for death. The term ‘lucid dreaming’ describes the dissociated state of the dreamer who is aware they are dreaming and can therefore exert control over the process. It was coined in 1913 by Dutch psychiatrist Frederik Willems van Eeden. He classed lucid dreams as the seventh and ‘most interesting’ type of dream and highlighted the importance of finding a “scientific order” to explain the phenomenon. In the late 1970s scientific research determined that lucid dreaming was like all dreaming which occurs during REM sleep, but it was Stanford University psychophysiologist Stephen La Berge who brought the idea of conscious dreaming into the mainstream with his ongoing research in the area. He developed an eye signaling method in the 1980s in which trained sleeping subjects could alert researchers when they were experiencing a lucid dream. From this, he determined that flashing lights into a subject's eyes during REM sleep could induce a lucid dream state and produced the, now-defunct, NovaDreamer mask i n 1992. A lucid dreaming industry emerges - through Kickstarter La Berge’s work provided the basis for the ‘Remee Mask’ launched amidst much hype thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 by entrepreneurs Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan. The crowdfunding campaign easily surpassed its target of $35,000, raising a whopping $572,891. The overwhelming reaction to its launch no doubt gave others confidence that there was a market for such devices and contributed to the rise of similar Kickstarter campaigns. Some proved controversial and none was quite able to emulate Remee’s success. In 2013, a kickstarter campaign for a LUCI Advanced Dream Inducer was canceled just days from its deadline, with the company behind the project, GXP Technologies accused of fraud. It had, by that point, greatly surpassed its target of $40,000, raising over $360,000. GXP halted the crowdfunding campaign, saying it had secured alternative funding for their device. They subsequently issued a statement accusing a competitor of starting the rumor and apologised to backers for canceling the project. GPX also said their lucid dreaming product would still be launched thanks to the support of a single investor, however at the time of writing it doesn’t appear to have reached the market. Another, somewhat more niche, lucid dreaming aid, the nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) lucid dreamer, failed to reach its $50,000 funding goal last year. The novel premise for the device was that it would detect a man’s erection and send an audio cue to trigger a lucid dream. The project raised $7,000. Newcomers to the market The makers of Remee, however, don’t seem threatened by new developments in the industry. “We have heard of a few things being worked on, but they've been in development for years and don't seem to be much closer to actually entering the market than they were when they were announced,” Remee co- founder McGuigan told RT. He believes though that there is huge potential for the lucid dreaming industry as the related tech improves. “The sky’s the limit! Computers and sensors are getting smaller and more powerful. It's not unrealistic to think that we will be able to decode dream data in our lifetimes,” he said, referencing pioneering research at UC Berkeley on vision reconstruction. New products are changing tack and adding the use of sound, brainwave measurement and even minor electrical shock to help induce lucid dreaming. Thomas Peisel, co-author of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, says two of the most exciting products coming on stream are iWinks’ headband and Luciding’s LucidCatcher . “These technologies are using more advanced methods for achieving lucidity,” he says. Peisel doesn’t believe, however, that these devices are necessary: “I think it can be great to use technology to help someone get lucid in their dreams, but it’s not necessary. Every single person can have lucid dreams on their own without supplements or products. What these new emerging technologies can do is just open the door.” “My only concern is being dependent on anything outside of yourself in order to be lucid. We can be lucid tonight, we can do it with only a blanket and a pillow,” he added. “Well, even that is not necessary.” US startup iWinks raised over $290,000 on Kickstarter for its aurora dreamband and has recently announced the arrival of the first batch of mass produced devices. The ‘dreamband’ is designed as a wearable device which uses EEG (electroencephalogram) sensors to measure your brainwaves for REM detection during sleep, and combines sound and light stimulus to induce lucidity. Research carried out in 2014 established a link between the administration of a mild electric shock and the occurrence of lucid dreaming. A Ukrainian company, Luciding, is now putting that to the test with their headband LucidCatcher. It uses low electrical pulses, or ‘transcranial electrical stimulation’ , to provoke lucid dreams while the user is in deep REM sleep. The technology was developed alongside researchers from Russia’s Novosibirsk State University. They have recently released results of their tests, converting them into a ‘lucidity scale'. Manufacturing of the LucidCatchers is now underway. The user puts the band on their head before going to bed, checking the positioning of the electrodes is correct via a related mobile app. The band is designed to detect REM as the wearer sleeps, and apply light stimulation to alert the user to the fact they are asleep. A short documentary, Kiev Dreamers, was produced by MEL films about the new device and highlights the growing industry around escapism in Ukraine. Chief Technology Officer at Luciding, Michael Skrychevsky, describes lucid dreaming as akin to Netflix and says many people’s wildest dreams include having sex with a celebrity and flying a dragon. Dr Rory MacSweeney, a London-based dentist and lucid dreaming expert , told RT that while he understands the natural apprehension around using electrodes on the head for this purpose, he believes it’s a likely avenue for the industry to explore and may prove effective. He classes the current technology as basic and limited, and doesn’t believe masks or similar “cueing” devices are a solution. “The eye mask sends a signal into the dream to disrupt the scene so as to prompt one to the fact that they are dreaming. However, since the dreamscape is ordinarily quite a disordered field of operation, any disruption tends to go relatively unnoticed,” he pointed out. “So the mask for me is not a great solution.” MacSweeney believes that currently the most effective aid to inducing lucidity is dietary supplements , but notes these can have side effects. Among the most popular supplements taken for this purpose is galantamine, often referred to as the ‘lucid dreaming pill.’ It’s an alkaloid synthesized from plants, including the red spider lily and common daffodil bulbs, and is prescribed for treating dementia and Alzheimer's. Stephen LaBerge first tested galanthamine on lucid dreamers in 2004 and established that galantamine treatments are more effective than placebos for lucid dreaming induction. These results were verified by Thomas Yushak in 2007. Further research carried out in 2012 by LaBerge and Kristen LaMarca found that the likelihood of having a lucid dream with 8 milligrams of galantamine was almost six-times greater compared to taking a placebo. The booming sleep industry and the potential of the lucid dreaming market So what does the future hold for the lucid dreaming market? The sleep industry, generally, is booming as sleep and quality of sleep seems to be more difficult for the average person to obtain. The multi-billion dollar industry is thriving, with the US the single largest market, and predictions point to continued growth. In 2015, an estimated $7.1 billion was raked in from the 2,800 sleep disorder clinics across the US. This is expected to rise to the $10 billion mark by 2020, according to a report from industry researchers at IBISWorld. A report by bccResearch published in 2014 predicted the global market for sleep-aid products would grow to $76.7 billion by 2019, with the sleep apnea products and diagnostics market expected to do particularly well, jumping from $11.8 billion in 2013 to $23.6 billion by 2019. So will the growing lucid dreaming market get their piece of this profitable pie? “Where there is desire, there are dollars and people are becoming increasingly more curious about this state of consciousness suffice to say there is a gradual swelling of demand.” MacSweeney said. “This is another dimension of reality that we want to explore and industry wants to pave the way,” he added. MacSweeney believes the answer to truly enhancing this natural state of virtual reality lies in the prefrontal cortex. “The problem is essentially that our prefrontal cortex is offline and this is where the opportunity lies. One needs to stimulate the prefrontal cortex suffice to trigger intellectual insight to recognise that one is dreaming whilst not triggering a waking response.” “The prefrontal cortex is the key. Whoever can hack that and switch it on wins the game.”

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18 Zimbabwe police fire teargas as protests turn violent The drivers were striking over police roadblocks they say have fuelled corruption as the economy weakens further with banks running out of cash and widespread food shortages caused by a harsh drought. The protesters closed roads and burned tyres in the eastern part of the capital Harare, as local youths engaged in running battles against armed police wearing riot gear. Officers responded with tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds, and some school children caught up in the violence. Police also used batons to hit protesters, as angry locals retaliated by throwing stones and rocks, AFP reporters said. "The Zimbabwe republic police is quite aware that some people would like to engage in social unrest," police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told a news conference. "Police officers have been heavily deployed to deal with any public disorder. "The security roadblocks on our roads are there to monitor the situation," she said, adding that at least 30 people had been arrested. Public dissent against Mugabe's 36-year authoritarian regime is rare and the security forces maintain strict control, but protests have recently surged. Last week hundreds blocked the Beitbridge border post, which links Zimbabwe with its southern neighbour , to demonstrate against a government ban on importing many basic foodstuffs. At least 71 people were arrested. Last month police briefly arrested 15 people, including a journalist and the brother of a missing political activist, during a public protest against Mugabe, who has long been accused of repression and human rights abuses. In April the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), staged a large rally in Harare demanding that Mugabe step down over the deepening economic troubles. "The crisis is worsening every day and the deteriorating situation demands nothing less than the resignation of President Robert Mugabe," MDC spokesman Obert Gutu told reporters Monday. "The situation in the cities, towns and in the villages points to a failed government. "Zimbabweans are putting this regime on notice. " The southern African country is facing a cash crunch resulting in banks running out of notes, and the government has failed to pay the majority of its workers June salaries. Without public transport, many residents in Harare were forced to walk to work on Monday, and more protests are scheduled on Wednesday. Zimbabwe has suffered years of economic decline and mass emigration since Mugabe took power in 1980, when the country won independence from Britain.

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19 Jaws-dropping invention: Electric ‘shield’ can scare away maneating sharks — RT Viral Academics from the University of Western Australia (UWA), tasked by the government to find out the best way to stop people from becoming shark bait, tested a range of novel deterrents such as strobe lights, loud underwater audio and bubble barriers , used to cloak swimmers from nearby prey. But it seems that a commercially available device called Shark Shield is the best option when it comes to avoiding a toothy face-to-face meeting with ‘Jaws’. The device can be strapped to a person’s ankle or surfboard and gives out a three-dimensional electric field from two electrodes. “This does not harm the shark in any way, but merely causes it to experience a high level of discomfort,” the Shark Shield website explains. “From testing, the closer the shark is to the Shark Shield field, the more spasms occur in the sharks’ snout, which results in it turning away… thereby protecting the user.” Independent UWA tests, led by professor Shaun Collin, Nathan Hart and Dr Ryan Kempster, underwater cameras showed the Shark Shield in action, preventing a 4-meter (13ft) long great white from chomping on a baited rod. “They’re coming within about 1.3 meters (4ft) or so but they’re always changing their behavior away from the strong electric field emanating from the Shark Shield,” professor Collin said. However, the group’s analysis - which involved 300 shark encounters - has stopped short of providing any 100 per cent defence guarantee, with Collin explaining that the sea creature is often unpredictable. Interestingly, sharks were found to adapt to the electric currents with the deterrent rate dropping after the first approach. “[After the initial encounter] the sharks would actually approach slightly closer each time so they would habituate to the device over time and so there was an overall deterrent effect from the device. “However, it’s important to note that this is not a hundred percent [defence],” Dr Kempster said. The Western Australian State government has provided AU$220,000 (€148,000) funding towards shark attack prevention, WA Today.

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20 ‘Biggest NATO reinforcement since Cold War’ to be focus of Warsaw summit – Stoltenberg — RT News “We will deploy four robust, multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. I welcome Canada’s recent announcement that it will lead one of these four battalions,” Stoltenberg said at a pre-summit press event. “We will also agree to develop a tailored presence in the southeast, based on a multinational brigade in Romania,” he added. NATO’s collective defense will be enhanced further through the recognition of cyberspace “as an operational domain, alongside air, land and sea,” Stoltenberg said, adding that the ‘Cyber Defense Pledge’ will increase the alliance’s resilience. A new Intelligence Division within NATO Headquarters will help to make the “right decisions at the right time” and will counter modern challenges including meeting “hybrid and terrorist threats,” Stoltenberg said. NATO is also preparing to boost spending on defense. “We expect a real increase of 3 percent in defense spending by European allies and Canada. This amounts to $US8 billion,” Stoltenberg said, specifying that 22 allies will increase military expenditure in real terms. Another topic of the NATO summit will be “stability beyond our borders,” the secretary general said. “When our neighbors are more stable, we are more secure,” he said, including Iraq as a NATO “neighbor” that is in need of help against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), and identifying Afghanistan as the alliance’s “largest operation” until at least 2020. An independent and stable Ukraine will remain the “key to Euro-Atlantic security,” and NATO has resolved to make sure that a law-abiding Kiev is “committed to democracy,” Stoltenberg said. Assistance will also be provided to Georgia and Moldova “to resist outside pressure and to advance reforms.” The alliance’s secretary general stressed that NATO remains open to dialogue with Russia. “The NATO-Russia Council has an important role to play as a forum for dialogue and information exchange, to reduce tensions and increase predictability,” Stoltenberg said, revealing that the alliance is discussing with Moscow another meeting of the Council “shortly after” the Warsaw summit. NATO’s strengthening of its “eastern flank” will be on the agenda of the Russia-NATO Council meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Meshkov said in a statement. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu recently pointed at the fact that NATO activity on Russia’s doorstep has “more than doubled” lately, forcing Russia to take retaliatory measures. “Such moves of our Western colleagues lead to erosion of the strategic stability in Europe and force us to take counter measures, primarily in the western theater of operations,” Shoigu said, adding that Russia is taking action aimed at strategic deterrence in the western military district to “neutralize potential threats.” Russian President Vladimir Putin recently promised to take countermeasures against NATO’s “aggressive rhetoric” and called for the creation of an international security system open to all countries.

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21 Caustic fracking chemical spills in San Antonio train derailment — RT America Five train cars overturned on Sunday afternoon, according to the San Antonio Express-News, near the intersection of Loop 410 and Interstate 35. As many as 6,000 people were evacuated from Traders Village, a large flea market and carnival area just south of Lackland Air Force Base. The Bexar County Sheriff's Department said the spill did not result in fumes or residue in the area. In addition to the sheriff's office, first responders, fire crews, and Union Pacific railroad were on the scene, KSAT reported. "Once the team on sight realized the spill was very minimal and that the substance itself did not pose any immediate threat, that evacuation was cancelled," sheriff's department spokesperson Monica Ramos said. Sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda or lye, is a common ingredient in household products such as drain cleaners. It is also used in oil refining and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The substance is harmful if ingested, inhaled, or touches skin. Contact with sodium hydroxide can result in sever burns, as well as vomiting, diarrhea, chest pain, and difficulty swallowing. The train and the land at Fischer and Quintana Roads on which it derailed is owned by “Schumberger,” according to the Express-News, likely referring to Sclumberger Limited , a major oil services and drilling company in the area. A photo tweeted by KENS reporter Alicia Neaves indicated that Schlumberger was responsible for the chemical spill. Two men in the tugger train car were injured and treated at the scene, Ramos added. The derailment remains under investigation, according to the sheriff's department. An "environmental group" is in charge of cleaning the spill, according to authorities. "Currently we have an environmental group on scene, is remediating it and taking care of the spill itself," Ramos said. "At no time was there any danger or anything like that. "

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22 ‘My brother slapped me because of who I love’ “God help me‚” Viljoen pleads in a Facebook post on Monday. She said that she was speaking out‚ although it was a difficult and upsetting decision‚ because of other people who may be going through the same “hell”. “My brother has just lifted his hands to me again and also my father four years ago. My brother has slapped me through the face. “It is a month before the Olympic Games and I know the devil is trying to work through other people to make me take my eye off God and the finish line‚” she wrote. Viljoen‚ who last month won her fifth continental javelin crown at the African champs ahead of the Rio Olympics in August‚ spoke out a couple of years ago about how her family had ostracised her after she came out as a lesbian. She came a disappointing fourth at the 2012 London Olympics but has been improving her performances lately. A year ago‚ she paid tribute to her partner for strengthening her mentally. "LiMari (Louw) knows me inside out and she knows exactly what to say and when to say it‚ how to handle and how to see situations. She’s literally my psychologist…” she told TMG Sport. In her Facebook post on Monday‚ Viljoen said: “I’m speaking out for every person out there who is being broken emotionally or physically over who they love.” “I will fight for you till my hands are stubs and dedicate my Olympic year to you.”

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23 Supersize Iranian ‘Hulk’ signs up to help crush ISIS in Syria (PHOTOS) — RT Viral Gharibi can reportedly lift loads of up to 175kg (386lb) and in recent months amassed a huge following via social media, posting pictures of himself lifting large iron weights. The 24-year-old giant has now announced his intention to fight terrorism by stepping in to help Bashar Assad’s forces crush Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria, report BBC Persian . Also referred to as the ‘Persian Hercules’, Gharibi reportedly revealed his decision to join his nation’s military support for the Assad regime on Instagram. While little is known about the man mountain, his Instagram reveals he has Hulk-like 64cm (25 inch) biceps and regularly powerlifts. If Gharibi’s formidable, scowling presence on social media is anything to go by, IS won’t like him when he’s angry.

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24 Claims that Ntlemeza a former member of apartheid security branch ‘utter garbage’ Hawks spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said Ntlemeza had learnt “with shock and disgust the continued reckless utterances levelled against him by the Young Communist League (YCL)”. The YCL has alleged that the National Head of the Hawks was an apartheid security branch member and should be sacked from the position. “It is ridiculous and utter garbage to even suggest that Lieutenant General Ntlemeza was in one point of his professional life associated with the so called special branch or security branch. We are also aware that these irresponsible statements are not attributed to the National Head only but also senior members of the South African Police Service (SAPS)‚” said Mulaudzi. “The YCL as a progressive youth organisation should be assisting the HAWKS but instead they are clearly forming part of the pessimists who continue to fuel untruths to the South African public‚” he added. “To put it on record‚ Lieutenant General Ntlemeza was never a member of the security branch in the former Transkei‚ Gauteng and Limpopo where he worked or participated in any activities of the illegal activities of the apartheid police. “As far as he is concerned‚ Lieutenant General Ntlemeza is very proud of his career and also content of what he has achieved in his long career in the SAPS. His accomplishments and credentials speak for themselves‚” Mulaudzi asserted. He said the statements by the YCL were very dangerous taking into consideration the sensitivity of South Africa’s history where many innocent people had lost their lives while others were still searching for their long lost loved ones. “The YCL should be ashamed of themselves and should apologise for their insensitivity to the Lieutenant General Ntlemeza and the South African public for their fabrications and bringing the security of this beautiful country into disrepute. “The Hawks will not be deterred by cheap politicking and Lieutenant General Ntlemeza has thanked the South African public for their ongoing support in reporting crime daily. “Members of the HAWKS should not be intimidated by power or influence. The HAWKS independence of ought not to be compromised by ill-advised remarks. Instead‚ members of the HAWKS should continue to work vigorously without fear or favour to investigate any case reported against any person in this country no matter how influential his or her position‚” Mutlaudzi said.

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25 Fury v Klitschko rematch date set — RT Sport Boente named the date of October 29 for the bout. The original rematch, scheduled for July 9, was postponed due to Fury injuring his ankle while running during training in the Lake District in England. There is some doubt as to the nature of Fury’s injury, however, with some reports claiming he was seen at a rave in Anglesey, Wales, and that he sustained the injury there. READ MORE: Tyson Fury postpones rematch against Wladimir Klitschko (PHOTOS, VIDEO) The heavyweight champion has denied the allegations. After announcing his injury through his social media accounts, Fury was advised by doctors to rest his ankle for six to seven weeks. Fury has also been dogged by doping allegations in recent weeks, with a UK tabloid newspaper reporting that the boxer had failed a drug test in 2015. Boente has expressed his desire for a full investigation of Fury by the UK Anti-Doping agency. Boente seems certain of the date of the rematch, regardless of Fury’s potential investigation. “Namely, [Fury versus Klitschko 2 is] on October 29 in Manchester Arena. The rest [the drug investigation] is not in our hands," Boente told Sport Bild. Fury’s motives have been questioned after rumors of jumping with football fans at Euro 2016, hours after cancelling the initial rematch. It is the second time the rematch has been postponed, after Klitschko had previously withdrawn with a training injury. Meanwhile, the 40-year-old Ukrainian was said to have been training at full tilt in preparation for the fight as he seeks to win back his titles. Fury defeated Klitschko by a unanimous points decision in November to claim the WBA (Super), WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles. He was later stripped of his IBF title after agreeing to a re-match with Klitschko, rather than facing the IBF mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov.

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26 Russia prepares to launch upgraded Soyuz spacecraft (VIDEO, PHOTOS) — RT News Roscosmos announced that rocket carrier Soyuz-FG with manned spacecraft Soyuz MS had been set at Gagarin's Start (launch pad) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday. The vehicle will carry Kate Rubins of NASA, of Roscosmos, and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The backup crew members include Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the . Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi will start their mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the morning of July 7, Kazakh time (July 6 Eastern time). All three will spend approximately four months on board the ISS, returning to Earth in October. Soyuz MS is the final planned upgrade of the fourth generation Soyuz TMA- M spacecraft which has been used for ISS expeditions since 2010. After arriving at the ISS, the team will join NASA Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and . The trio left for the ISS on March 18.

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27 'Mama is very well' Gauteng MEC allays fears over Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's health Mashatile paid a courtesy visit to the African National Congress stalwart's home in Soweto on Monday. “Mama is very well. She is very happy that we came. I thought seeing as that I had a break from campaigning I'd come see her‚” Mashatile said. Mashatile said Madikizela- Mandela was a source of strength and the mother of the movement. “After this visit I will feel stronger on the ground as I continue with the campaigning‚” Mashatile said. Although the media had been invited for a photo opportunity of Madikizela- Mandela‚ due to her health she was unable to come outside and meet the press. The photo opportunity was delayed by and hour and half as the media had to wait for the MEC. Security was tight at the homestead‚ with officials from the MEC's office being the only ones allowed to enter the premises. Madikizela-Mandela‚ was rushed to a Johannesburg hospital in April this year after falling ill and requiring surgery for what the Nelson Mandela Foundation described as “spinal stenosis”. Her first surgery‚ for compression of the spinal nerve and pain relief‚ took place in March. It was followed by a second procedure in April to assist with her recovery‚ the foundation said. Even the presence of Mashatile and his two-car convoy did not disturb the sleepy neighbourhood. The only buzz outside Madikizela-Mandela's house came from passing tourists and journalists. Colin Mtilani‚ one of the security guards‚ said the house was usually busy with visits from ANC officials. Mashatile said Madikizela-Mandela was sad she could not be part of the campaign process for the upcoming local government elections.

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28 'Welcome to Hell,' protesting Rio police tell tourists The protest by more than 100 emergency services workers, including firefighters, took place in the arrival hall at Galeao International Airport, which will be a key entry point for the expected half million tourists to the Games starting August 5. Officers held up a banner reading: "Welcome to hell. Police and firefighters don't get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe. " Mannequins dressed in uniform were laid out on the floor to represent the more than 50 officers killed in Rio de Janeiro so far this year. A female officer with fake blood smeared on her face and hands clutched a mannequin dressed in a T-shirt reading "SOS policia. " Rio police began staging street protests, including another at the airport, last week, saying that they have not been fully paid for months as Rio state hovers on the edge of bankruptcy. An emergency federal bailout received last week means late salary payments are expected to be made this week, according to Brazilian news reports. Rio is the first South American city in history to host the Olympics. However, there are growing fears about the ability of police to control crime during the event. Murders in the first quarter of 2016 are up 15 percent on the same period last year. Non-lethal crimes like street robberies are also on the rise, highlighted by the hijacking on Friday of a truck carrying some $445,000 worth of television equipment to be used for Olympic news coverage. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes told CNN that the blame for security problems lies with the state government. "This is the most serious issue in Rio and the state is doing a terrible, horrible job," he said.

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29 Leicester to land sought-after CSKA Moscow striker Musa for club-record fee – reports — RT Sport The player's agent, Tony Harris, has said that the player will join Leicester this week, BBC Sport reports. "Everything has been finalised and Musa will be in England for his medical on Wednesday," Harris said. The move has long been discussed, but the clubs are now believed to have agreed a fee in the region of around £16 million (US$ 21 million), which would be a club-record for Leicester, according to ESPN FC . CSKA manager Leonid Slutsky told Russian media on the weekend that Musa will head to England on Tuesday to finalize the deal. Slutsky predicted that Musa would do well with his new club: "If you look at the way things are done over there, you'll see he is a player just made for English football. " Musa has reportedly rejected advances from Southampton, Everton and West Ham in favor of joining the Foxes as they seek to retain the Premier League title they won in remarkable fashion last season. Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri has moved quickly to bolster his squad during the summer transfer window, signing French midfielder Nampalys Mendy, striker Raul Uche Rubio, centre-back Luis Hernandez, and goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler. Star striker Jamie Vardy has also agreed a new deal to stay at the club after rejecting a move to rivals Arsenal. Leicester will make their debut in the UEFA Champions League next season – something which is sure to have been a big draw for Musa, who knows the competition well from his time at CSKA. The 23-year-old Nigerian forward joined the Moscow club in 2012, and last season scored 18 goals in 44 appearances, TASS reports. READ MORE: Rostov falls short as CSKA wins Russian Premier League He has played 58 times for the Nigerian national team, scoring 11 times.

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30 Foes become friends as Bulls back Cheetahs against Sharks this week But things will be very different this week as the men in blue from will be backing their rivals from the Free State. The Bulls’ Super Rugby playoffs fate does not just lie in their own hands with two pool stage matches remaining‚ but the Pretoria side also relies on the misfortune of the Sharks ahead of the knockout stages of the competition. It is for this reason that the side from Loftus Versfeld will be backing the Cheetahs to beat the Sharks in Durban on Saturday. To keep their playoff hopes alive this season‚ the Bulls will need nothing short of back-to-back victories in their remaining matches against the Sunwolves on Saturday in Pretoria and then against the same Cheetahs in Bloemfontein next week. The Bulls suffered a setback when they were defeated 29-11 by the Jaguares in Buenos Aires on Saturday. “We honestly thought after Saturday we would be in a better position‚” Bulls coach admitted soon after touching down in SA from Argentina on Monday afternoon. “We now have to rely on the Cheetahs to beat the Sharks while we have no choice but to win against the Sunwolves and then against the Cheetahs next week. “There are now too many permutations while we have to win both of our games. It could very well be over for us by Saturday if the Sharks beat the Cheetahs this weekend and that last game could end up not meaning anything.” Be that as it may‚ the Bulls have punched above their weight this season after not being considered at all as possible contenders for the playoff stages of the competition at the start of the season. It was a new era for the side from Pretoria with Marais taking charge of his first season as Super Rugby coach with an inexperienced coaching staff and youthful playing personnel. Despite the side surprising many by remaining within reach of a playoff berth throughout the season‚ the coach remains utterly disappointed with his side’s performance against the Jaguares on Saturday. “We never expected it‚” said the coach. “Losing three players to injury in the first half against a strong opponent did little to work in our favour. “We must also remember that we had a young side playing against an Argentinian side that has just come back from playing three tests in a row. “We can’t make any excuses. We also made too many mistakes.” The Bulls will be without flanker ‚ who was one of the injury casualties on Saturday night‚ when the side takes on the Sunwolves. A final assessment is also to be made on centre Burger Odendaal ahead of the weekend’s match. Marais will name his side for the weekend’s match on Wednesday.

2016-07-05 00:01 Chumani Bambani www.timeslive.co.za

31 People smuggling prosecutions up 50% in one year, but only ‘tip of iceberg’ — RT UK The statistics, which were revealed during a parliamentary session in response to a question by Labour MP Gareth Thomas, indicated that 88 people had been taken to court for people smuggling in 2015/2016 compared to just 52 the previous year. The chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz, said that while the government welcomes the increase in prosecutions, many people smugglers are still managing to fly under the radar. “ Based on the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the country, this is only the tip of the iceberg and we need to be tougher on enforcement rather than what we have done before, which is to send vans around telling people to leave the country,” he told the Press Association. “And it’s vital that we send out a strong message to those who are smuggling people into this country that we will not tolerate such criminality,” Vaz stressed. Last month, it was revealed that Home Secretary Theresa May had scrapped round-the-clock aerial surveillance of the Channel costing £4 million out of budgetary concerns, despite being advised against it by Baroness Neville-Jones, a former security minister and chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. READ MORE: People smugglers offer fishermen ‘25 times’ regular pay to carry migrants across Channel Last week, two British citizens admitted to trying to illegally bring eighteen Albanians into the UK. The smugglers, British judo champion Robert Stilwell, 33, and Mark Stribling, 35, were rescued along with the migrants they were trafficking when their small boat began to sink off the coast of Kent in late May. According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), trafficking gangs are charging desperate migrants upwards of £10,000 to come to Britain. It is believed that traffickers are increasingly using the rural Kent coastline to bring in migrants in order to get around increased security at the major ports. European policing agency Europol has identified twelve migrant smuggling hotspots along the UK’s coast that are targeted by people smuggling gangs.

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32 Russia mourns crew of firefighter plane that crashed in Siberia — RT News The Russian IL-76 with 10 people on board went missing on June 1 while battling a blaze near the city of Irkutsk in Siberia. A massive search operation was launched to find the missing plane – which had been flying at an altitude of 3,000 meters – with nearly 450 people involved in the rescue effort. Rescuers discovered the plane and the bodies of the crew on Sunday after almost two days of searching. The rescue operation was carried out in heavy smoke from forest fires in the area. “Our IL-76 crew perished while battling fire. I think we should have mourning not only in [Irkutsk but across Russia]. These are our heroes and we are all mourning,” one Twitter user wrote. “They risked their lives for our country,” “The sky is theirs now,” and “They accepted new challenges every time,” read other messages left on Russian social media network Vkontakte. The Russian Emergency Ministry (EMERCOM) said the aircraft, which was equipped with water tanks, was almost completely burnt-out apart from its tail. The rescue center confirmed that the search party had found one of the plane’s black boxes. It is believed that the aircraft crashed into a mountain amid highly concentrated smoke coming from the fires below. EMERCOM later published a tribute to the crew members. The oldest of them, IL-76 captain Leonid Filin, was 64 years old, while the youngest, second pilot Aleksey Lebedev, was 41. All of the crew members were said to have been experienced rescuers. The IL-76 crew had made 33 sorties and dropped more than 1,000 tons of water, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the crew had managed to extinguish “seven major fires in the Irkutsk region, protected 30 towns and villages, which are home to more than 50,000 people.” “The crew were working daily in conditions of strong smoke, heat and difficult terrain.” Russian philanthropist Elizaveta Glinka, who is widely known in Russia as Dr. Liza for her humanitarian and charity work, wrote an emotional post to the crew. “Filin and his crew saved hundreds of Donbass [eastern Ukraine] children. And thousands around the world. They died heroes,” she wrote on Twitter. Filin had over 11,000 hours of flight experience and the crew in total had flown more than 71,000 hours, EMERCOM told TASS. “This [IL-76 tragedy] is our collective pain, it’s a huge loss for EMERCOM,” Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said . “They went into battle [with the forest fires] to protect people and communities from fire till their end.” READ MORE: Russian IL-76 plane with 10 on board disappears while putting out forest fire in Siberia Russia’s IL-76, nicknamed the “water bomber,” is the world’s largest firefighting aircraft. It is capable of dumping 42 tons of water at a time.

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33 33 PSL clubs return back to work while promoted Highlands get more time off Highlands only just ended their elongated season after clinching success in the promotion-relegation play- offs and will be off until July 18 – long after the rest of the top flight pack. “It’ll give my players a month’s worth of holiday and then we’ll have six weeks to prepare before the new league season starts‚” explained coach Allan Freese. “I think it will be enough time to get them properly ready.” Six weeks is the nominal time that experts say is needed for a proper pre- season. But with the PSL kick off delayed this coming season – because of South Africa’s participation at the men’s football tournament at the Rio Olympic Games – most clubs will have much longer than usual preparation time. Free State Stars’ new coach Denis Lavagne met his new players in Bethlehem on Monday as did Muhsin Ertugral‚ who was also out on the training pitch at the Rand Stadium for the first time in his new job as Pirates coach. Ajax will have a host of untested juniors‚ promoted up from the academy ranks‚ in their first team squad when they step out on the Ikamva training complex on Tuesday. Baroka FC‚ Bloemfontein Celtic‚ the new Cape Town City‚ Chippa United‚ Kaizer Chiefs‚ Lamontville Golden Arrows and Polokwane City have all begun their pre-season preparations.

2016-07-05 00:01 Mark Gleeson www.timeslive.co.za

34 'Tell SABC it must cover important news' The organisation said on Monday it had launched an urgent application against the SABC‚ its board of directors‚ its chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng and the Minister of Communications . This included suspending the implementation of the SABC's policy not to cover violent protests and preventing the SABC from adopting or implementing any censorship policy. The organisation said as the public broadcaster‚ the SABC was obliged to comprehensively cover events of national and public importance‚ including political protests and news which might portray the presidency or any political party in a negative light. “It is impermissible for the SABC to distort or refuse to cover important news‚ as a result of political partisanship or otherwise. Very worryingly‚ it appears that this censorship is politically motivated‚” the organisation said. The SABC denied last week that there was revolt within the organisation following the resignation of Acting SABC CEO Jimi Matthews. His resignation follows the suspension of economics editor Thandeka Gqubule‚ executive editor at Radio Sonder Grense Foeta Krige‚ and senior journalist Suna Venter two weeks ago. They were suspended week for defying Motsoeneng's orders not to cover an anti-censorship march at its offices in Auckland Park. The Helen Suzman Foundation said it believed in an open and democratic society‚ which included the protection of the rights to freedom of expression‚ a free press‚ and the ability‚ freely‚ to receive information. “Censorship‚ by the public broadcaster no less‚ strikes at the very heart of these rights‚ and undermines and erodes our constitutional democracy.”

2016-07-05 00:01 Ernest Mabuza www.timeslive.co.za

35 Enraged UK veterans blast ‘war of aggression’ ahead of Chilcot’s Iraq war report (RT EXCLUSIVE) — RT UK Veterans for Peace UK (VFPUK), which is reported to contain up to 400 armed forces veterans from Britain’s recent conflicts, has criticized the country’s establishment over the war. It is the first public intervention by an ex-services organization on the issue. “ Whatever Chilcot says, this country and its armed forces executed a war of aggression on the people of Iraq, ” the group claimed in a statement seen in advance by RT and due for release Monday evening. The group also called for legal action against those who led the war. “ In a joint enterprise with the USA, we prosecuted an occupation of Iraq that defied the Geneva Conventions. Under the Nuremberg principles, those ultimately responsible should face trial ,” the press release said. While the ex-services group acknowledged and criticized the role of former Prime Minister Tony Blair in the war, they said that the issue was much broader. “ Whilst Tony Blair is the obvious villain and in our opinion should face a criminal investigation, it is the UK as a whole that needs to change. ” VFP also linked the Iraq war with other conflicts in which the UK had engaged over the last decade and a half. “ Since Iraq, our forces have attacked Helmand [in Afghanistan], Libya, Iraq and Syria. We are playing a key role in the Saudi Arabian attack on the Yemen, ” they said. The toll of the wars, the group argued, included huge casualties, damage to infrastructure and the environment, a “ significant rise in terrorism globally ” and a “ huge ” refugee crisis. VFP called for a deeper analysis of Britain’s role in the world and said that war was “ not the solution to the problems the world faces in the 21st century. ”

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36 Brave Zoleka Mandela 'not bothered' by cancer scar Taking to social media Zoleka gave fans a glimpse of the scar she's been left with, after a 19 gram cancerous tumour was removed. The scar itself is 18mm long. But this doesn't bother or deter Zoleka from her mission to win this war. "Listen! I'm not dying from Cancer and that's not how it's going to end, if anything ... The fact that I have it for the 2nd time is another reason why I proudly live my life creating more of an awareness about it so that it no longer silences women and instead forces them to speak out and educate others," she said. Zoleka explained that even though her cancer is more aggressive than the first time round, she feels positive about beating it again. "I've beaten it once and I will beat it again! There's nothing they can do about the massive scar it's left on my chest but I'm honestly not bothered by it ... I'm too focused on the twins I'm going to conceive naturally after this!!! " Zoleka has since dubbed the scar her 'warrior scar.'

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37 Three former Barclays’ traders convicted in Libor case — RT Business Jay Merchant, 45, Jonathan Mathew, 35, and Alex Pabon, 38, were found guilty of trying to rig the benchmark interest rate known as Libor. READ MORE: $5trn-a-day Forex rigging probe dropped despite evidence of criminality Libor is the interbank offered rate, and is fundamental in global finance affecting trillions of dollars of contracts and loans worldwide, including mortgages and bonds. READ MORE:Ex-Barclays banker charged for leaking insider info to plumber The verdicts come four years after Barclays received a hefty fine over rate- fixing. The case evoked political and public reaction forcing the bank's CEO Bob Diamond to resign. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) got its first Libor conviction when former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes was found guilty by a jury for his role in the scandal last August. The broker was sentenced to 11 years in prison. READ MORE: Ex-Deutsche, Barclays bankers appear in court over ‘Euribor rigging’ Earlier this year, the SFO case suffered a blow after prosecutors failed to prove six former brokers conspired with Hayes to rig Libor.

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38 Real-life counter-strike: Watch Russian commandos training in exclusive 360 video — RT Viral The video was shot by RT in Moscow, where the police Special Rapid Response Unit – known as SOBR – train at their dedicated base. For this scenario, the drone- aided unit had to surround a building where ‘hostages’ are being held, climb to the roof, rappel down and then neutralize the ‘terrorists’ without civilian ‘casualties’. See what epic Crimean Bridge will look like in RT’s breakthrough 360 video

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39 Italy arrests 38 suspected migrant smugglers who ‘sold organs’ for $15,000 — RT News Palermo’s anti-mafia unit launched an investigation after receiving testimony from Nuredin Weharabi Atta, a people smuggler sentenced to five years in prison by an Italian court this year. According La Repubblica , apart from the flourishing illegal immigration racket operating in the Strait of Sicily, there has been evidence of organ trafficking too. Traffickers reportedly sold the organs of hundreds of migrants that had not survived the journey to Italy. Worse still, some of those unable to pay the fee were killed for their organs, which the smugglers then sold for up to $15,000, including those of children. Atta said he had decided to cooperate with the justice system because “there had been too many deaths, especially those at Lampedusa in October 2013... and too many others,” Il Tempo reported , referring to a shipwreck in which 359 people perished. The criminal network had its financial headquarters in a perfume shop near the Termini station in Rome. Police managed to track the money flow and seize €526,000 and $25,000 in cash last month, along with documents from hundreds of bank accounts containing the names of foreign citizens. Many migrants make the journey to Italy by sea, according to La Repubblica. Those with more cash avoid putting their lives at risk in shabby boats by buying fake marriage certificates for €10,000 or €15,000 that allow them to come to Europe by land, or even plane, on the grounds of alleged family reunion. Once in Italy, newly arrived migrants receive phone calls from their family members, who send them additional money so that they can continue to their final destinations. The Netherlands and Sweden appear to be the two most popular countries of choice, La Repubblica reported. Money transfers were documented thanks to bugs and cameras that police planted in rooms used by the criminal network in Italy. Money made from trafficking migrants is thought to have been reinvested in illegal trade importing drugs from Ethiopia. Europe is currently facing its worst refugee crisis since World War II. Last year alone some 1.8 million asylum-seekers entered the European Union fleeing war and poverty across the Middle East and North Africa, according to data from the EU border agency Frontex. According to a report from Europol and Interpol, criminal networks generated $5-6 billion trafficking asylum seekers and economic migrants to the EU in 2015. The report describes migrant smuggling as a multinational business, with participants from over 100 countries, representing one of the main profit-generating activities of organized crime in Europe. At least nine out of ten child refugees arriving in Europe via Italy this year have been unaccompanied, UNICEF says in a new report. UNICEF spokesperson Sarah Crowe told RT last month that minors are often forced to rely on human smugglers and go through “various forms of abuse and exploitation” on their perilous journey to Europe, which sometimes takes them “months and even years.” “If you try to run they shoot you and you die. If you stop working, they beat you. It was just like the slave trade,” Aimamo, 16, told UNICEF, describing the farm in Libya where he and his twin brother worked for two months to pay the smugglers. The brothers said that when they arrived in Libya after a risky journey through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, they were arrested and beaten before one of the smugglers secured their release

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40 Stormers reaping the rewards of Pieter de Villiers input in the scrum While the Springboks were labouring to a series win over Ireland‚ interim head coach Robbie Fleck and his forward’s coach Russell Winter agreed that the Stormers scrum could be better‚ so they called in former Bok scrum coach Pieter de Villiers. The French Test veteran is highly regarded as a technical master of the scrum and his input has shown dividends already after the Stormers pack punished the Melbourne Rebels’ eight this past weekend. The Stormers posted a record 57-31 victory‚ built extensively around the pack’s set piece dominance. Winter could have taken it as an affront to his coaching when Fleck called in De Villiers‚ but instead he embraced the input and the net result is a positive one for the Stormers. "We worked incredibly hard on our scrumming in June‚” Fleck said. "We brought in Pieter de Villiers and over the last couple of weeks we have been working incredibly hard with both Oli [Kebble] and Vince [Koch]. "It certainly clicked‚ but by no means are the Rebels a poor scrummaging pack. Our scrum was really effective and we were certainly up for it. "It was an area that we wanted to target and we certainly focussed on it. "We were not happy with the way our scrum ended off in the last phase of the tournament. "We were conceding too many penalties - we certainly pride ourselves on our scrummaging and it was not good enough in the last three games‚ so it was something that was a big focus for us.”

2016-07-05 00:01 Craig Ray www.timeslive.co.za

41 Deadly 'First Kiss' road safety ad gets the green light The TV ad‚ launched in March‚ won two awards within weeks of its release‚ but not all joined in praising the road safety campaign. Comments in heated public discussions suggested that the ad's graphic content was nothing short of a horror movie‚ flagging exposure to children as a concern. But the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) last week found that the ad‚ graphic as it may be‚ promotes a matter of social concern and safety‚ dismissing complaints that it exposed children to violent scenes. Izak Minnaar‚ Carol McDonald and Amy Richardson had complained that the commercial is “graphic and disturbing”. The ad‚ which is no longer being flighted on TV and in cinemas‚ follows a young couple on a night of partying. Seated in the backseat of a car‚ their first kiss is interrupted by a collision‚ in which an unbuckled passenger is flung about‚ killing all the car's occupants. The ad then shows the four bodies lying covered on the road. Though the tale was too tragic for some‚ the ASA said it found no reason to order the government to pull the campaign: “... The Directorate is not convinced that the commercial was flighted in a manner that would cause harm to children‚” it said. On Monday Hector Eliott of Safely Home‚ the Western Cape government's road safety campaign‚ said that the ad had always strictly followed international best practice in protecting children from its graphic content. The provincial department of transport and public works recently attributed a 27.5% increase in overall seatbelt compliance and a 161% rise in rear seat-belt compliance in the Western Cape to the ad's success. It also said that in May passenger fatalities were down 30% compared with numbers in 2014 and 2015. Eliott said these results justified the use of shock tactics in the campaign. “Budget permitting‚ it is our intention to do a digital activation [of the campaign] in September‚ when the road safety calendar theme is seatbelts. We will definitely flight the commercial again in future‚” he said. In the meantime‚ the government's campaign continues on billboards and online. On Friday the department said in a statement that 670 people died as a result of a road traffic injury in the Western Cape so far this year.

2016-07-05 00:01 Roxanne Henderson www.timeslive.co.za

42 Shape-shifting cylinders: Epic optical illusion mystifies the internet (VIDEO) — RT Viral The ‘ambiguous cylinder illusion’ was created by artist Kokichi Sugihara from Meiji University in Japan, who was also named as a finalist in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2016 for the installation. The video begins by showing six rectangular prisms, standing upright in front of a mirror but the reflection looking back reveals six cylinders. It continues to gradually add objects to the puzzle, baffling the viewer as the mirror images generate contrasting interpretations of the 3D shapes. The internet has been left amazed by the optical magical trick. One YouTube commenter wrote: “The only plausible scientific explanation is voodoo magic,” while others claimed their “brain was hurting” just watching the illusion unfold. However, it wasn’t long until some 3D puzzle enthusiasts came to the rescue to enlighten the confused 2.3 million viewers, who were questioning the reliability of their senses and perception, on how exactly the illusion works. A video posted by the 3D Printing Channel uses a 3D printer and reverse engineering to reveal the hybrid object is in fact a ‘squircle’. It explains that the true shape is the point where the circle blends into a square, this is because the sides of the object are different - two are arching upwards while the other two are dipping downwards. READ MORE:Braintease or clickbait? How being 'smart' is the new dumb online

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43 Secrecy policy over SAS ops backwards & damaging – report — RT UK The study by the Sustainable Security think-tank examines the British policy of ‘ no comment ’ on covert military operations and compares it to the practice of other Western nations. Author Emily Knowles warns that the long-standing UK policy is badly out of date and has the triple impact of diminishing the accountability, effectiveness and legitimacy of UK Special Forces operations. On the issue of accountability, Knowles says that it is self-evidently “ impossible to hold the government to account over actions it won’t disclose. ” She argues that effectiveness may also be damaged by the fact that, in Libya for example, UK troops appear to be secretly aiding anti-jihadist militias which themselves oppose the UN- and UK-backed unity government. Blanket secrecy means such operations have received inadequate debate and attention. Legitimacy can be undermined by the assumption that unreported operations are carried out in legal grey areas. There is little public understanding of, or clarity over, how SOF are supposed to operate when they are deployed,” Knowles claims. “ This feeds an assumption that they are specifically used for illegal and otherwise illegitimate operations. ” Knowles also compares UK blanket secrecy to the relative openness of Western allies on the issue of elite troops. “ In contrast to the UK’s blanket refusal to comment on the deployment of its SOF, it is not unusual for official spokespeople from the American, Australian and Canadian administrations to publicly announce details of SOF deployments, ” she says. She cites repeated occasions when figures like US President Barack Obama announced details of such operations, arguing that while there is “ still a high degree of institutional opacity surrounding allies’ use of SOF ” there is no official “ blanket refusal to engage the public over all SOF activities that characterizes the UK’s approach. ” She concludes that reflexive secrecy has very damaging implications at a time when warfare is shifting increasingly towards the clandestine. Government and MoD policy has long been that no comment is made on Special Forces activities on a number of grounds. One reason is a fear that the effectiveness of Special Forces operations could be compromised by publicity. Concerns over the identity and safety of troops and their families have also been cited in the past.

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44 Lions now target Super Rugby trophy Johan Ackermann’s charges are winding down the pool stages of the Super Rugby competition with two matches remaining – against the Southern Kings at home at Ellis Park and away to the Jaguares in Buenos Aires. The Lions’ 37-10 win against the Sharks on Saturday ticked the first box in the Johannesburg side’s to-do list for the season. Their next target now is to bring the Super Rugby trophy to sit alongside their silverware in the cabinet at Ellis Park. “We want to win it‚” Lions coach Ackermann said. “I think every team that will be in the playoffs wants to win it. “But there are tough games still ahead‚ especially when you get to those knockout games.” The Lions have made great strides in the Super Rugby competition since Ackermann took over the coaching reins in 2013. In his first season at the helm the side had been sidelined from the competition after they finished at the bottom of the log the previous season and were forced to make way for the Kings’ first taste of Super Rugby action. In 2014 the side returned to the competition and finished in 12th place in a 15-team tournament. There was an improvement in 2015 when the side narrowly missed out on a playoff spot as they finished in eighth place. The current season has been the best the side has had in the history of Super Rugby. “It was a process‚ where we started in 2014 and where we are now. A lot of close games we lost because of a lack of composure. What I saw [on Saturday] was a team really maturing – that is a good sign‚” said Ackermann. “In all areas we have grown in the past two to three years and there were some good performances where we saw that growth. But we are still not there yet and we have not achieved anything. "So the decision-making and growth can still improve. The confidence is there‚ the experience is getting there.” The Lions coach cautions though that the side‚ despite being at the summit of the combined Super Rugby log currently‚ there is no reason to celebrate. “In 2014 we were 12th‚ last season we missed the playoffs and now we are in the playoffs‚ so our growth has definitely been upwards‚” said Ackermann. “But we will not have achieved anything if we do not get to that final.” The Lions’ next match will be on Friday night when they take on the Kings in Johannesburg. Ackermann will name his team for the clash on Tuesday.

2016-07-05 00:01 Chumani Bambani www.timeslive.co.za

45 iFani insists that he's chosen to embrace happiness The rapper has been sharing a string of tips and advice with fans on how changing his mindset has helped him become a better person. Just last week iFani publicly apologised to Sony Music for a feud that brewed between them two years ago. In his latest motivational post iFani spoke out about choosing to embrace happiness. The rapper revealed that in the past he always worried about failing, about not achieving his dreams, about material possessions and not being able to love himself. "I've let go of chasing success coz it made me only appreciate the future successful me and dislike the hard working new me. The chase made me love tomorrow and sacrifice today," iFani said. The rapper added that it was only when he decided to change that things started to fall into place. "I decided to change. Now, I' m embracing happiness. Happiness with myself NOW. With ALL that I have now And all that I am NOW. So even if I fail I will always know that I was truly happy on my way to that fail. I can still choose to be happy with myself after that fail. I'm happy I changed my views about chasing success. "

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46 46 Liberals Yabloko announce ‘alternative patriotism’ program for State Duma polls — RT Russian politics “ Someone who lives in Russia remains the pinnacle of our proposals ,” Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and one of the party’s leaders, told reporters as he presented the election platform. According to Yavlinsky, the key elements of the program were the further development of democracy and anti-corruption laws that would allow Russia to join the “European community” as soon as possible. READ MORE: Veteran Russian liberal vows to beat Putin in 2018 presidential race Other factors that would supposedly benefit this goal are the demilitarization of the country, offering society “ an alternative concept of patriotism ,” and changing the way the state interacts with mass media. The document elaborates that alternative patriotism should be based on security, prosperity and respect for its citizens. One of the Yabloko candidates for the elections, rights activist Lev Schlosberg, said the party also wants to press for an international conference on Crimea, the lifting of the Russian countersanctions on Western countries, and the initiation of a dialogue on a visa-free regime with the European Union. “ We don’t want today’s graduates to go to war, our country needs them alive. We are going to stop the war – the war inside Russia and the war against the whole world ,” Kommersant daily quoted Schlosberg as saying. The party chose not to draw up a separate election list for Crimea and Sevastopol, but included these federal regions in a joint constituency with South Russia Krasnodar Region. Yabloko’s controversial proposals almost immediately drew criticism from rival Russian politicians. The head of the group ‘Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia People’s Front’, Valery Podyachy, even asked Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to check the document for possible violation of the law that forbids public calls for destruction of the country’s territorial integrity. “ The question of the Russian Federation’s territorial integrity is not a discussion issue, from the legal point of view it cannot be questioned. When investigators invite the participants of this party congress for questioning they will get their opportunity to discuss things ,” Podyachy said in comments with TASS. Deputy governor of Sevastopol, Aleksandr Reshetnikov, also said that in his view law enforcers should check Yabloko’s program for possible calls to break up Russia’s territorial integrity. Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Ruslan Balbek suggested that Yabloko apologize to all Russians for doubting their country’s unity. Yabloko is one of Russia’s oldest political parties to have always had a liberal and pacifist agenda. Despite losing many of its supporters and failing to claim any parliamentary seats for many years, the party has rejected proposals to cooperate with other groups. In particular, in February this year Yabloko said it will not participate in the Open Elections project launched and sponsored by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or any of the former oligarch’s other projects. Yabloko emphasized that the party considered Khodorkovsky’s political views unacceptable, especially with respect to the ‘oligarchic’ system of a merger between big business and state power. However, the liberals also dismissed Khodorkovsky’s recent attempts to discuss revolution and a leftist turn in Russia as unacceptable. READ MORE: Anti-Maidan activists blast Yabloko party over US-funded protests Parliamentary elections in Russia are scheduled for September 18 this year. The polls will be conducted under new rules – half of the 450 lower house MPs will be running on party lists and the other half from single- mandate independent constituencies, instead of the previous system in which all deputies were elected on party tickets. In addition, the election threshold for parties has been lowered from 7 to 5 percent and party registration rules have been simplified, which has resulted in a sharp increase in political competition.

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47 Families of Bangladesh cafe victims take bodies home Many were in tears as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid wreaths on the coffins of those killed in the siege at an upmarket cafe in the capital, by far the deadliest in a spate of recent attacks that have caused international alarm. They included nine Italians, seven Japanese, a US citizen and a 19-year-old Indian student, whose body was flown home on Monday morning. Witnesses say the perpetrators of the attack, which the Islamic State group has claimed, spared the lives of Muslims while herding foreigners to their deaths, killing many with machete-style weapons. Among the mourners at the ceremony in a Dhaka stadium was Muksedur Rahman who described slain Italian textile trader Nadia Benedetti as a "great human being" who had worked to help Bangladeshi survivors of acid attacks. "Nadia Benedetti had been working in Bangladesh for more than 20 years," Rahman, a colleague of the Italian, told AFP. "I can't believe she had to die like this. We have to stand against such terrorism right now. " The government said the bodies of the Italian and Japanese victims would be handed over to diplomats before being flown home. Italy's ambassador Mario Palma said Friday night's attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe was "unprecedented" and promised his country's full support in tackling a rise in Islamist militancy in Bangladesh. Commandos killed six suspected jihadists in the final stages of the siege, but one was taken alive. On Monday police formally arrested him and one other suspect. "Two suspects are in our custody. One of them is injured and is hospitalised," said police inspector general Shahidul Hoque. Survivors told police all the victims were killed within the first 20 minutes of the attack, he added. Police also raided the home of a survivor after images showed him walking around the restaurant compound during the siege, but found no evidence against him, local media reported. US Secretary of State John Kerry offered Washington's support in a telephone call to Hasina, whose government has been unable to stop a wave of Islamist attacks on foreigners and religious minorities in officially secular but mostly Muslim Bangladesh. "(Kerry) encouraged the government of Bangladesh to conduct its investigation in accordance with the highest international standards and offered immediate assistance from US law enforcement, including the FBI," said his spokesman John Kirby. The government has repeatedly denied international jihadist networks have a presence in Bangladesh, though the IS-linked news agency Amaq published extensive details of Friday's attack, including photos from inside the cafe. Analysts say the government is wary of acknowledging such groups are operating in Bangladesh for fear it could frighten off foreign investors. But it has been criticised for failing to tackle a rise in Islamist attacks. Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan told AFP on Sunday the attackers were members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh (JMB), a local Islamist group banned by the government. He said there were cases against all of them, but denied any intelligence failures ahead of the assault on the cafe, which came after a major crackdown that saw around 11,000 people arrested, some of them known Islamist extremists. Critics allege the arrests were arbitrary or designed to silence political opponents. Earlier the transport minister Obaidul Quader said six of the Japanese killed were consultants for Bangladesh capital's first metro rail, and expressed hope Tokyo's foreign aid agency would continue its support for the three billion dollar project. "Japan knows that this attack was part of the global terrorist activities. I hope they'll understand the reality," he said. "There is no question of stopping this project. "

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48 Amla‚ Shamsi lead Saffer charge in Caribbean Premier League It’s not AB de Villiers. Nor is it David Miller or Faf du Plessis‚ or wild cards like Wayne Parnell and David Wiese. Instead‚ it is Hashim Amla‚ who has scored 113 runs in three innings for the Trinbago Knight Riders. Which might prompt questions about the financial nous of those running the CPL: Amla’s services were acquired for the equivalent of R1.3-million‚ De Villiers and Du Plessis for almost R1.9-million each‚ and Miller’s for R2.3-million. Amla’s 81 against the Barbados Tridents in Port of Spain on Friday is the second-highest score of the tournament. Part of that innings was a stand of 150 Amla shared with Dwayne Bravo - a T20 world record for the fifth wicket. Amla’s runs flowed off 54 balls‚ featured five fours and four sixes‚ and were taken off an attack that included Parnell and Wiese. Parnell was drilled for 25 runs off the 11 balls he bowled to Amla‚ 20 of which were smashed in boundaries. Wiese got off more lightly‚ conceding 11 runs off his dozen deliveries to Amla. The triseries between West Indies‚ Australia and SA in the Caribbean last month served as Amla’s warm-up for the CPL. He was the only SA batsman to score a century and top 200 runs in the tournament. “I’m very fortunate starting the CPL to have had the last three weeks already here playing at most of the venues‚” Amla told the Trinidad Guardian before the start of the CPL. “So to have some sort of experience of the different conditions is gold‚ but T20 cricket is a completely different format to ODIs.” Du Plessis has scored 66 runs in three trips to the crease for the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. Miller’s two innings for the St Lucia Zouks have produced 37 runs. De Villiers has played just one game for Barbados‚ in which he made 12. The leading SA bowler in the tournament is left-arm wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi‚ who is joint third among the wicket-takers with three scalps in four games for St Kitts and Nevis. Shamsi is also ahead of his compatriots in terms of average and economy rate. They include Dale Steyn‚ who took 1/21 in his only game for the Jamaica Tallawahs‚ and Morne Morkel‚ who has had two matches for St Lucia and taken 2/71.

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49 Ukraine to limit transit of Russian goods in response to Kremlin — RT Business "We will respond to Moscow's actions regarding the transit of Ukrainian goods across Russia,” said Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv during a parliamentary session on Monday. Kubiv added that Kiev would increase the customs duty on Russian goods imported into Ukraine. READ MORE: Ukraine to file complaint with WTO over Russia’s trade embargo “This is a clear-cut sta nd that meets international laws,” said Kubiv, adding that the measures would come into force after a presidential decree is issued. On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree prolonging and toughening restrictions on Ukrainian goods until the end of 2017. The document broadens the current rules imposed on Ukrainian goods transported to Kazakhstan through Russia. It now applies to the transit of goods to neighboring Kyrgyzstan. Ukrainian exports to Central Asia must now be through specific check points, routes and be accompanied by a special customs convoy. The current restrictions force Ukraine to transport goods via Belarus in sealed containers with all the freight equipped with GLONASS navigation system when they enter Russia. Moscow suspended the free trade deal with Ukraine on January 1, 2016. The Kremlin said Ukraine’s open borders with the EU could compromise the country's interests and economic security. Russia expressed concern, that without such a barrier, Ukraine could illegally supply embargoed European goods to Russia.

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50 Lesufi put the children at alleged racist crèche 'in danger' says FF Plus “We have opened the case this morning and we have a case number. The charge is three-fold. Mr Lesufi’s actions on the matter constitute incitement to cause harm or violence‚ intimidation and assault with word and not physical assault‚” said Anton Alberts‚ FF Plus leader in Gauteng. Last month‚ a picture showing what appeared to be a little black girl being segregated from the rest of the class went viral. It showed her sitting alone at a different table to the white children. The 19-month-old has since been removed from the school. After visiting the school‚ Lesufi said he was disgusted to find that all teachers at the school were white and that the medium language of instruction was Afrikaans. Alberts said the FF Plus did not have a problem with him intervening at the school but with how he had behaved when he was headed there. “He basically tweeted his own views. He said he was going there to face-off with racists. This means he had already decided that the school was wrong without proper investigation. Then he invited all his 26‚900 Twitter followers to join him and confront the school. He also re-circulated photos of the toddlers‚ which enabled the public to identify them. “Within a very highly racially polarised and charged environment he calls people to come with him and face off with a crèche. He put the children at the crèche in danger.” FF Plus said‚ calling Lesufi’s conduct “very irresponsible”. "We feel that he must be fired from his job because he is not capable of doing his job‚" Alberts added. The case was open at Wierdabrug police station in Centurion.

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51 Billionaire Prokhorov's company denies Russian assets sale — RT Business “We have made no decisions on this matter. The group has always been and will continue to be an important player in the Russian market, maintaining a strategic interest in investments in the country," ONEXIM Group CEO Dmitry Razumov said in a statement. According to Razumov, the company is always negotiating purchases and sale of assets, as well as attracting new partners in respect of certain assets – which are a common business activity. Some of those processes continue for years, and it is “incorrect to make statements on the sale of all the company’s assets based on the fact of such talks,” he said. On Monday business daily Vedomosti reported the ONEXIM Group is selling all of its assets following raids by Russia's Federal Security Service on the company’s offices in April. According to Vedomosti, the decision to sell the assets may be linked to the searches. One of its sources said rumors about the company’s intention to sell the assets could be linked to a “strong recommendation from the Kremlin” but there was no evidence of that. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed reports of the administration’s involvement in the potential sale of ONEXIM assets, calling them “total nonsense.” READ MORE: Tycoon Prokhorov denies sanctions link to US basketball club ownership move to Russia The ONEXIM Group is one of Russia’s major private investment funds with a diversified investment portfolio in mining (Russian Aluminum Rusal, Uralkali potash company), financial services (Soglasie Insurance Company, Renaissance Capital and Renaissance Credit, International Financial Club), real estate (OPIN), media (RBC media holding, Snob), energy sector (Quadra power generator), utilities and technology. Forbes magazine estimates Mikhail Prokhorov’s fortune at $10.3 billion. The businessman is the sole owner of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team.

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52 With football dreams dashed, Iceland's Pirate Party gets down to transforming its economy — RT Viral What was a sinking ship, caused mostly by a few ' banksters ' who have since ‘walked the plank’ right into prison, could soon be ‘captained’ by the Pirate Party, which is leading in the polls going into its upcoming election. READ MORE: Jailed bankers, gender equality & majestic fjords - 6 reasons to love Iceland The direct democracy, anti-establishment party co-founded by former Wikileaks spokesperson Birgitta Jónsdóttir currently holds just three of the 63 seats in the world’s oldest national parliament, the Alþingi, which used to convene at Þingvellir, an awesome outdoor site straight out of Game of Thrones . These days, working from the not-too-shabby capital of Reykjavík , the Pirate Party’s core policies to protect privacy and give “the powerless the power to monitor the powerful” have captured the electorate, putting them in first place at 28.3 percent, based on an average of five polls since May. According to news outlet Kjarninn and Boston University researcher Baldur Hedinsson, this is potentially bad news for the current center-right coalition government in power since 2013. Part of a global Pirate movement which originally ‘appeared on the horizon’ of Swedish politics back in 2006, Iceland’s party is currently outpacing coalition members Independence Party (24 percent) and the Progressive Party (10 percent), as well as the Left Greens (16.8 percent), which could team up with the frontrunners for their own alliance after the election. While a date has yet to be set for the general election, it is expected to take place in the coming months, reports Icelandic national broadcaster RUV . Pirate jokes aside, party leaders are pragmatic about their popularity and admitted that they do not expect election results to reflect the polls exactly. “We definitely don’t anticipate that the next election will bring about the same results that the polls have been showing,” Jónsdóttir told the Australian Financial Review . “That’s too optimistic. But our support has forced other parties to take a closer look at themselves.” According to the English language magazine Reykjavik Grapevine , the party has been top of the polls for most of the year, which “spells trouble” for the current political leaders. Following mass protests, ‘Oxbridge’ alumnus Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson from the Progressive Party stepped aside as Prime Minister in April when his name was linked to an offshore account in the #PanamaPapers leak. READ MORE: Panama Papers leak leads to ‘largest protest’ in Iceland’s history While the economy remains as the top agenda item for any Icelandic political party, the Pirates are also pushing for the decriminalization of drugs , similar to Portugal’s new policy, as well as copyright reform and government transparency.

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53 Zuma’s pals can’t stop corruption: Msimanga Speaking at the launch of the DA’s plan for corruption-free cities‚ Msimanga said the ANC had allowed corruption to become part and parcel of the party’s very fabric by its sheer unwillingness and inability to deal decisively with corruption. “From President Zuma‚ who still faces 783 charges of corruption‚ fraud and racketeering‚ to outgoing mayor of Tshwane‚ Sputla Ramokgopa‚ whose corrupt and unlawful PEU smart-meter contract‚ has cost our City (Tshwane) in excess of R2 billion. “We cannot sit by and watch scarce resources squandered by a selfish and uncaring ANC government that places political patronage above the needs of the people‚” Msimanga asserted. He said that corruption was more than stolen money and favours for friends. It was a disease that had infected every aspect and every level of the ANC government. This disease now stood in the way of making progress towards a better life for all. “The only way that we‚ as a City and a country‚ can start moving forward again is if we cut this disease out like the cancer that it is.” Msimanga added that the first step toward combating corruption was to create an environment that encouraged people to report corruption when they see it. “This requires the establishment of an effective system that allows individuals to report fraud and corruption easily‚ confidentially and without the fear. “This will allow whistle-blowers to provide tip-offs anonymously by telephone‚ e-mail‚ social media or any other platform that makes individuals feel secure and protected‚” he stated. Among other measures to curb corruption‚ Msimanga said the DA advocated that lists for housing opportunities‚ including serviced sites‚ must be managed in a transparent and credible way that is free from manipulation. People should be able to see their position on the housing list and their progress. “Queue jumping” and advantage based on “who you know” should not be tolerated. Public servants should also be prohibited from doing business with government. A zero-tolerance policy should be adopted countrywide and offenders should be forced to vacate their posts. Tender processes should be opened up to the public at the adjudication stage to ensure that they were awarded fairly to companies which offered the most value for money‚ he added.

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54 54 Right mix helps France turn on style ahead of German test Thanks to his shrewd tactics, his team turned on the style to outplay Iceland 5-2 on Sunday and advance to an appetising semi-final battle with Germany. The fact that France, who had never got past the last eight at the finals since their 2000 triumph, managed to get almost everything right, has a lot to do with Deschamps' methods. The grey-haired winning machine, who has kept tinkering with his squad since the start of the tournament, seems to have found what he was looking for. Deschamps had experimented in earlier games, alternating between different systems and dropping key players, such as Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann, to the bench. The coach's masterstroke came at halftime in the 2-1 win over Ireland in the last 16 when he pushed Dimitri Payet wider and Griezmann closer to Olivier Giroud up front, switching from a 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1 formation. The result was that Griezmann scored twice to secure a place in the quarter-finals. Former European Championship and World Cup-winning captain Deschamps opted for the same system against Iceland, surprising many by preferring the powerful Moussa Sissoko to the speedy Kingsley Coman on the right flank. With a showdown against world champions Germany already in mind, Deschamps chose to make substitutions in the second half and his team looked more vulnerable, dropping their guard twice to allow Iceland to limit the damage. France, who had struggled on their path to the last eight, needing late rallies and scoring all their six goals before Sunday's match in the second half, followed Deschamps' orders by taking the game to their surprise opponents straight away. As a result, Iceland were left running after the ball and chasing down the score, finding themselves 2-0 down less than 20 minutes into the game. France got plenty of goals, some simple and some beautiful. Payet and Griezmann again showed their class, each scoring fine goals. Man-of-the-match Olivier Giroud also played his part. The old-fashioned but efficient centre forward scored twice and was involved in two other goals. Pogba, too, rose to the occasion. The gifted but erratic midfielder, who had been criticised for below-par performances, crowned a convincing display with a superb headed goal. France, who know all about losing to Germany in the semi-finals, having done it twice -- at the 1982 and 1986 World Cups -- are not yet where they want to be. They have shown signs of weakness at the back, visible again on Sunday when Patrice Evra looked his age as they conceded a second goal, and the defence faces a stern test against Germany. But at least by making Iceland look ordinary, and England even worse since the islanders made them appear clueless in their 2-1 last 16 loss, France finally look like the favourites many expected when the tournament started.

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55 Simphiwe Dana defends Hlaudi’s 90% quota Taking to Instagram on Monday, Simphiwe responded to comments made by journalist Stephen Grootes in an opinion piece appearing in the Daily Maverick recently. The piece analysed Hlaudi and the several policies he has introduced at the SABC. Describing how the local music and TV industry has suffered in recent years and how artists have been fighting for 22 years to transform the industry, Simphiwe said that the situation threatened to shut down nearly the entire entertainment industry, "with only a few exceptions remaining. " While acknowledging that she "will not defend the COO of the SABC in the accusations levelled against him," Simphiwe called for people to acknowledge the good he has done for the local industry by implement increased local quotas. "I will not go into the importance of culture. You either understand it or you don't. But, in the interest of growing local economies, let us not ridicule attempts to empower our people.... I plead with you that we protect the new quotas, for the benefit of all of us, as many South Africans are part of the value chain that benefits from monetizing our cultures," she wrote. Her comments came only hours before music veteran and activist Don Laka told a press briefing that the industry's fight for more local content continues and, if necessary, will be taken to the streets.

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56 Two senior NFP leaders resign National Chairperson Maliyakhe Shelembe and former Secretary-General Prof Nhlanhla Khubisa tendered their resignation from the party on Saturday and Sunday respectively. "Their resignations were not surprising as the NWC of our party held a meeting on Saturday afternoon‚ which ran until very late where they deliberated extensively on various issues affecting the NFP which had brought our party into disrepute‚ including the non-compliance to the IEC processes resulting in a court case currently before the Electoral Court‚" kaMagwaza-Msibi said. She added: "I wish them well in their future endeavours and at the same time I urge our members and supporters not to panic and not do anything that could jeopardise our party in any way. " The NFP leader maintained that her party "is stable and will come out of this situation even more stronger than before". "I also want to emphasise that the NFP is not a two-men party and it is for this reason that I call upon our members and supporters to unite even more so that we can contest the forthcoming elections vigorously‚ as they are the embodiment of our strength" said kaMagwaza-Msibi. 2016-07-05 00:01 Julia Madibogo www.timeslive.co.za

57 ‘Celebrity’ Kruger National Park eagle killed by hunters in Mozambique The 4.6 kg female martial eagle debuted on British television earlier this month in a nature documentary narrated by well-known TV presenter Steve Backshall. The bird was fitted with an electronic tag under the watchful eye of the British film crew‚ who were documenting scientists' efforts to stem the decline of these rare predatory birds. But just a few weeks later‚ the feathered star of the show has been found dead in a hunter’s snare in rural Mozambique‚ the UCT researchers said. “We detected that the bird was no longer moving about in a normal fashion‚” said Rowen van Eeden from the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology Centre of Excellence at the University of Cape Town. Van Eeden and a colleague then set off to the bird's last-known location‚ 160 km away from where it was tagged‚ in a remote corner of neighbouring Mozambique which is currently in the midst of renewed civil unrest. The team had to battle through inhospitable terrain where access by vehicles is limited and the dense bushveld makes travelling difficult‚ Van Eeden said. “We followed the Cahora Bassa power line as far as possible‚ which was meant to help us get to the location faster but we still had to dig our 4x4 out of thick river sand twice‚” he added. After an hour walk into the bush‚ they found the eagle in some long grass with its neck firmly trapped in a snare likely set to catch small antelope. Van Eeden said the killing of the large bird of prey illustrated the risks that these birds faced and highlighted a potential factor contributing to the species’ decline. This is the third adult eagle out of eight fitted with GPS tags to die outside of Kruger since the start of Martial Eagle research in the world-famous Park three years ago. Two have now died at the hands of hunters in Mozambique and one was electrocuted after flying into power lines in another neighbouring country‚ Swaziland.

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58 Is Messi reconsidering decision on international retirement? — RT Sport Argentine newspaper La Nacion cites an unnamed former teammate of Messi as saying that the star will sit out the games against Uruguay and Venezuela in September, but will then make a return with the ultimate aim of claiming World Cup glory in Russia in 2018. The Barcelona superstar missed a penalty in the Copa America final shootout defeat to Chile at the end of June – Argentina’s fourth Copa America final defeat in the past 12 years, and the third on penalties. READ MORE: Chile beats Argentina on penalties to win Copa America again That prompted Messi to announce he was hanging up his boots from the international game, a decision that was expected to trigger several others to follow suit. But Messi – a five-time Ballon d’Or winner – has reportedly had a change of heart and could return to lead his country at the next World Cup. Hundreds of football fans gathered in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, on Saturday to demonstrate their appreciation for the playmaker, pleading with him to continue with the national team. Assembling in the rain near the Obelisco de Buenos Aires, supporters reportedly cried out for Messi to remain in the squad, cheering "lead us Messiah. " The rally for his return appears to have begun on social media, where the hashtag #NoTeVayasLio , or #Don't go, Lio, featured alongside images of the player. The rally seems to have had the desired effect with Messi allegedly expected to return in time for Russia 2018 qualifying after taking a break during September's international fixtures. For all his club and personal accolades, international success has so far evaded Messi, with Argentina losing the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and then consecutive Copa America finals to Chile in 2015 and 2016. The only medal the 29-year-old has to show for his international career is the 2008 Olympic Gold he won with Argentina's Under-23 side. READ MORE: Messi-mania: Even Barack Obama’s daughters want to meet Argentine legend Messi became his country's all-time leading goalscorer during the Copa America, scoring his 55th career international goal to surpass Gabriel Batistuta's record.

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59 Farage’s ‘annual’ resignation met with social media frenzy — RT UK The anti-EU Farage, who will stay on as an MEP in in Brussels, announced his decision to step down on Monday morning, saying that he “couldn’t possibly achieve more than we managed to achieve in the referendum.” The news was met by many with pointed ridicule, as many joked that Farage, who had resigned from the leadership last year after failing to win a parliamentary seat only to retake his post days later, would once again return. “Farage becomes UKIP leader again,” comedian David Schneider tweeted. “Sorry, that's tomorrow's tweet,” came the punchline. Satirical news site, NewsThump, joked that the move was merely Farage’s “annual resignation.” Farage’s longtime nemesis and parliament’s only UKIP MP, Douglas Carswell, seemed pleased with the announcement, tweeting a lone smiling emoji in sunglasses. On hearing of Carswell’s reaction, Farage quipped, "I'm pleased that he is smiling because that's not something I have seen very often from him. " Others attacked the 52-year-old for jumping ship, comparing his decision to resign with Boris Johnson’s decision not to stand for the Conservative party leadership, accusing the two of leaving “the mess” for someone else to “clean up.” “First Johnson and now Farage, what a mess, they lead campaign to exit EU then walk away leaving the country in a state of uncertainty,” Labour MP Angela Rayner tweeted. Meanwhile other politicians welcomed the decision, with a number of MPs speaking out against Farage’s “toxic legacy.” "Farage resigns. Good. British politics takes a small step on the road to making Britain a less divided intolerant + disillusioned country," Mid Norfolk MP and Remain campaigner George Freeman said. Some expressed concern over what the leadership vacuum may mean for the Labour Party. Guardian columnist Owen Jones suggested that UKIP may become an even greater threat in Northern England post-Farage.

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60 Michael Gove a ‘gossiping drunk’ – Boris ally attacks Tory leadership hopeful — RT UK Wallace, who previously served as Johnson’s campaign manager, made the withering attack on Tuesday, writing in the Telegraph newspaper. Wallace claimed that, on Thursday morning, ahead of Johnson’s eventual shock withdrawal from the leadership race sparked by David Cameron’s resignation, “ I got a call from a journalist asking me if it was true Michael Gove was deserting Boris, I denied it. ” Minutes later, Wallace writes, he saw Tory spin doctor Lynton Crosby looking “ ashen white ” while “ taking a call from someone who turned out to be Michael Gove. ” “ He has done the dirty on us, mate,” were the words I remember most afterwards, ” Wallace says. He also appeared to accuse Gove of being a serial leaker. “ From the minute Michael Gove came on board with Boris’s leadership campaign, things started to go wrong. “ There was a leak a day in the press, starting with the camera crews at Boris’s house in Oxfordshire on the first day and ending with the infamous email from Sarah Vine, Michael’s wife, ‘accidentally’ finding its way to the papers, ” Wallace raged. The Gove issue is by no means a new one, Wallace notes, claiming that during his time as a Tory whip the office “ leaked like a sieve. ” “ Important policy and personnel details made their way to the papers. Michael seems to have an emotional need to gossip, particularly when drink is taken, as it all too often seemed to be, ” the former army officer said. Since withdrawing his support, Gove has maintained that he did so in the best interests of the country. He told the Telegraph at the time that, to his “ deep regret ” his confidence in Johnson had “ evaporated. ” “ That led me to make the difficult decision, at no little cost, to put friendships aside and act in the national interest, ” he said. His actions have attracted hostility from the Johnson camp. On Sunday, the former mayor’s sister, Rachel Johnson, called Gove “ a sort of Westminster suicide bomber, whose deadly belt of explosives has been detonated not by his own hand, but by his own wife. ” Gove acted like “ a political psychopath, ” she said.

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61 #Texit #Calexit? Brexit vote inspires long- forgotten movements for independence in US — RT America Right after the Brexit success, people in Texas began pushing for a ‘Texit’– a Texas split from the USA – on social media. To explain why Texas should secede from the Union, Twitter users showed the map of EU and outlined the area of the Lone Star State. And it looks rather impressive. Others even suggested a better hashtag for a Texas exit: #Texodus, a portmanteau of ‘Texas’ plus ‘exodus’, the migration of Jews from Egypt. Texas was the 28th state to join the Union in 1845, following nine years as an independent republic. According to speculation from the Texas Nationalist Movement, the state could exit the US as early as 2018. “In the Brexit vote, the people of UK felt that they were paying more into EU than were getting out of it. And it’s exactly as it is here in Texas,” Daniel Miller, President of the TNM, told RT. According to Miller, there is a sense locally that the best people to govern Texas are Texans. READ MORE: From Brexit to Texit: Texas secession movement targets 2018 ballot Boasting 261,231 supporters on its website, TNM is calling for more Texans to join and bring pressure on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to allow a vote on independence from the US and its “sprawling Federal bureaucracy.” And based on its present day $1.6 trillion economy, if it did become a separate nation, it would be among the 10 top economies in the world, Miller said. The group has more likes on Facebook than the Texas Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties in Texas, with 211,000 ‘likes’ compared to 133,000. And Texas is not alone when it comes to following the Brexit example – some in California, the most populous US state, are ready to split, too. The ‘Yes, California’ Twitter community, which leads the campaign for the Golden State to secede from the United States, already compared the size of California to the EU. “We are here in California subsidizing the other states of this union,” Louis J. Marinelli, president of the Yes, California independence campaign, told RT. “As a result we are losing tens, sometimes hundreds of billions of dollars every year” to other states. Thus, Californians don’t have enough to improve healthcare or education, he added. “We did an informal poll. We asked 9,000 Californians: ‘Should California become an independent country?’ And our response at that time was 41 percent said ‘Yes’. That’s why we take so much encouragement after what happened in the Brexit vote,” he added. Some 7,000 users ‘like’ Yes California on Facebook. The group is organizing a California Independence Rally on the 166th Anniversary of Californian ‘Statehood’ September 9. California officially joined US back in 1850, becoming its 31st state. READ MORE: Brexit changes nothing Yet California and Texas are not the only US states eager to exit the union. READ MORE: Washington fears Brexit will unravel its anti-Russia policy Native Americans, who have long struggled for independence status in the US, proposed their own Republic of Lakotah back in 2007. It is, in fact, a virtual state which covers some 200,000 sq km and includes territories of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. In the meantime, the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) has been calling to quit the US since 1980s. There is also the so-called Cascadian movement in the US and Canada, which calls to form a country consisting of Washington, Oregon and portions of other US states, as well as British Columbia, Canada. Hawaii, the most recent state of the US, which received statehood back in 1959, has also had its own independence movements since the 1960s. One of them, the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, says that the archipelago’s annexation was illegal. However, according to Eugene Volokh, a law professor at University of California, the exit of states from the US, and Texit in particular, won’t happen. "A state couldn’t legally force the US to let it secede, if the US refused. But if the state and the US agreed, that would be doable. At worst, it would require a constitutional amendment, but most likely an act of Congress, coupled with a majority referendum that the state government views as binding, would suffice," Volokh told the Dallas Observer He added that “most Texans ….are proud to be Americans, whether or not they like what the federal government is doing, and they can see the benefits of remaining part of a powerful country that can defend their interests.”

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62 Russia officially appeals Olympic ban — RT Sport Konstantin Vybornov, a spokesman for the Russian Olympic Committee, confirmed that the appeal has been filed with the court in Lausanne, Switzerland, and will be heard on July 19. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), track and field’s world governing body, suspended Russia in November 2015 after a report detailed widespread doping. A small number of Russians are still able to compete if they can show they have been based outside the country and are subject to testing from a respected anti-doping agency. However, it is believed only two Russians would currently fit that criteria out of 80 that have applied, according to Alexandra Brilliantova of the Russian Olympic Committee’s legal department. IAAF informant Yulia Stepanova, a former drug cheat whose statements have been used in the case which led to Russia’s ban, has already been cleared to compete at the Olympics under a neutral flag. The 800m runner was handed a two-year ban in 2013 and with husband Vitaly Stepanov, a drug-testing official, made allegations about the level of cheating among Russian athletes. President Vladimir Putin has criticized the suspension, saying that the entire body and its athletes cannot be held responsible if someone tests positive. If the Russian Olympic Committee is successful in its appeal, then the Olympic application deadline will be extended to enable Russian athletes to apply. READ MORE: Legislation around doping abuse must be tightened - Putin The 2016 Olympic Games start in Rio on August 5. At the last Olympic Games, in London 2012, the Russian athletics team won 16 medals, seven of which were gold.

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63 Pitso pours cold water on Nigerian journalist’s allegations of cheating There was a touch of entertainment to the post- match interviews for the game at Lucas Moripe Stadium in Atteridgeville. A Nigerian journalist‚ introducing himself as being from “NigeriaFM”‚ angrily asked Mosimane why Sundowns had “watered the pitch” before the game‚ effectively accusing Downs of gamesmanship. The accusation was quickly rebuffed by the Sundowns' coach. The defeat for the 2015 Nigerian champions has left Enyimba pointless after two Group B matches and facing exit from the Champions League‚ and Sundowns on the verge of the semifinals. “Your team was here – Nigeria – in the [2013] Africa Cup of Nations. Before their matches we sprinkled the pitch‚” Mosimane replied to the accusation. “Your team [Nigeria] was here in the World Cup – before their matches we sprinkled the pitch. “In the Euro [2016 European Championships] now‚ switch on the TV and watch tonight – they sprinkle the pitch before the game. You know why? Because you want the ball to flow. “So my friend‚ what are you talking about? And you [Enyimba] played on a swimming pool last week against Zamalek. Waterlogged. And you’re complaining about this water? It’s international football.” Mosimane ended with a retort that South African teams are tired of the dominance Nigerian teams have had against them. “You’ve got to understand – Nigerian teams will start losing to South African teams. It’s about time we started to win against Nigerian teams‚” he said. Sundowns and Egyptian giants Zamalek have three points each from one game in Group B. Enyimba have zero from two games in the group reduced to three teams because ES Setif were expelled for fan violence that caused their 2-0 defeat against Sundowns to be abandoned. Downs and Zamalek are firmly in the driving seat in the group – from which two teams reach the semifinals – with Enyimba unable to afford dropping any more points. “At this point in time you’re happy to be away from bottom of the log‚ and I think the Egyptians will be happy with the result too‚” Mosimane said. “Because obviously the two teams have to team up now against Enyimba. That’s business now – we have to keep Enyimba there. And both of us [Sundowns and Zamalek] should be happy. “I think the group will be decided‚ in my opinion‚ here [at Lucas Moripe]‚ when we play against Zamalek. That’s the match where one of us will say who tops the group‚ and will try to avoid the big boys. “But you have to be very careful of the other group. I know everyone is looking at [Egyptians] Al Ahly‚ but you must watch [Zambian club] Zesco United – they are unbelievable. It’s a different Zesco – I’ve never seen them like that. “But to us‚ it’s about consistency on the pitch in Champions League games. We have scored two goals a game in all our home games‚ and we have won them all. So that’s the spirit.” Sundowns’ remaining group stage games are against five-time Champions League winners Zamalek at Lucas Moripe on July 17‚ Zamalek in Cairo on July 27‚ and Enyimba in Atteridgeville on August 23.

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64 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s response to Rivers Church pastor It is important‚ though‚ not simply to forgive him and move on‚ since his words were not only “poorly chosen” (as he says in his Twitter apology)‚ but reveal deep-seated attitudes and approaches that keep on bedevilling relationships between black and white people in this country. Let us start with the fact that the short clip from his sermon‚ which was circulated by News24‚ was clearly an “aside” during the course of his sermon‚ in which he digressed from his prepared text and “spoke from his heart”. This is clear when at the end of the clip he says: “Back to the message.” This incident reveals something typical about the life of many white people in South Africa: we have learnt to be “politically correct” most of the time‚ particularly when we are speaking in public or in the presence of black people. We do this to “avoid trouble” or to prevent being accused of racism. But sometimes‚ when our guard drops‚ we reveal what we really think and who we really are. And then our untransformed mind-sets emerge into the open. This usually happens when we are angry or disgusted at a specific incident‚ like Penny Sparrow’s experience on a Durban beach‚ or Vicki Momberg’s tirade after the smash-and-grab incident. It also happens around the braaivleis fire‚ when we let our inhibitions go and say what we really think about black people (and about ourselves). Pastor Olivier lowered his guard during his sermon on Sunday and revealed his real feelings and thinking about the history of South Africa and the nature of the relationship between black and white people. That is what we need to address; not his unfortunate choice of words. There are six basic assumptions or thinking patterns evident in Pastor Olivier’s personal aside during his sermon: - God uses people who are different from us to “speak into our lives;” we should therefore not “drive them away”‚ but listen to them and let them be “God’s voice” to us; - White people took nothing from black people; whoever says that is lying; - White people have the right to get annoyed when such lies are repeated in public; - White people have money because they work; black people are poor because they are lazy; - Because white people worked (and are still working) for their wealth‚ thereby earning it rightfully‚ there is no need for them to share it with anyone or to “give away some of it”; and - White people are not “the problem” in South Africa; perhaps the law favoured them‚ but they worked hard to “build this nation”. Some time ago‚ I suggested that white people who want to overcome racism need to bid farewell to innocence‚ ignorance‚ and to arrogance – in order to embrace and be embraced by black South Africans and to join the movement to overcome racism. Let me show how that applies to Pastor Olivier. Pastor Olivier’s denial of responsibility for anything that is wrong in South Africa is baffling. When he says‚ “Maybe the law favoured us‚” he is revealing a false innocence as well as dishonesty‚ because the apartheid laws definitely favoured white people (there is no maybe about that). But he is also unhistorical: where did “the law” come from? Did it drop from the sky? Who made those laws that favoured white people and humiliated black people? Who passed the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 that determined that white people would own 87% of the land? Who passed the Group Areas Act‚ which forced millions of black people into homelands or racially exclusive townships with matchbox houses‚ outside the cities and towns of South Africa? One could go on like this for a long time‚ since there are more than 150 laws that were passed by an all-white parliament between 1948 and 1990 that deliberately “favoured us” and thereby harmed and oppressed black people. And there are even more laws and policies that Dutch and British colonial authorities enacted on this soil since 1652 to give shape to the particular kind of racialised and divided society that we are today. How can any white South African honestly say: “We took nothing from no one”? In a way this has already been addressed in the previous section. Perhaps Pastor Olivier really does not know South African history. Perhaps his only sources are the history textbooks of the apartheid schooling that he underwent or possibly the ideological indoctrination he underwent as a military conscript in the old SADF. But as the “senior pastor” of an obviously successful church in upmarket Sandton‚ he owes his congregation (and South Africans as a whole) more than that. His view that wealth is produced by hard work and (by implication) that poverty is caused by laziness is something he will begin to qualify when he understands more about South African economic history. There is too much evidence of successful black farmers who lost their land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to various taxes that were imposed on them‚ forcing them to become underpaid workers in white-owned farms‚ mines and factories. The destruction of African family life through the migrant labour system‚ with its humiliating pass laws‚ is well documented for anyone willing to read. Pastor Olivier needs to turn away from his pseudo-innocence about the role of white people in South African history‚ by allowing black South Africans to be God’s instruments to speak into his life the truth about the things that white people have done. And then to admit complicity in all that‚ acknowledging all the benefits that he has enjoyed since birth‚ which has given white people a huge head start economically‚ academically and in every other way. Following on directly from the previous section‚ if Pastor Olivier can acknowledge complicity in the racist policies and practices that have divided our nation and oppressed the majority of its citizens for more than 360 years‚ then he may be able to find the humility not to be annoyed when black fellow South Africans keep on pointing out just how broken and unhealed our society still is. It is therefore not merely a question of an unfortunate choice of words; but of the underlying political‚ economic and cultural assumptions that are revealed in his words. While everyone appreciates his public apology‚ he can only be forgiven if he admits that he was wrong in his fundamental assumptions‚ not only in his choice of words. That is the only way to genuine reconciliation and transformation. And then the discussion can begin about how he‚ along with other white Christians who benefitted from 360 years of colonial rule and 46 years of apartheid‚ can follow the example of the early church in the Book of Acts by sharing their possessions with the poor. If we follow this way‚ we will stop identifying anybody or any group as “the problem”. We will be able to identify the problems that we have as a society‚ analyse them‚ and commit ourselves to addressing them together. We do not want to shame or humiliate Pastor Olivier; we invite him into this shared journey. We trust that he will receive this intervention – from people who are different from him – as the way that God is “speaking into his life” at this point in time. - This piece was written at the request of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation‚ and the views expressed herein are endorsed by the Foundation.

2016-07-05 00:01 Prof Jnj www.timeslive.co.za

65 Drugs hero joins ANC Dereleen James has been officially unveiled as the party's candidate to contest local government elections in ward 18 on August 3. She rose to prominence when she wrote a letter to Zuma asking him to intervene to end the drugs scourge plaguing Eldorado Park youths, including her son. James was flanked yesterday by ANC Greater Johannesburg chairman mayor , Zuma and ANC Gauteng secretary Hope Papo as she was officially introduced to the community. James's first address was welcomed with rapturous applause as she told supporters of her passion for the youth and especially of ridding Eldorado Park of drugs. In her letter to Zuma, she wrote about the critical state of the area. "A wave of drugs has swept over our community and has taken over our lives," she wrote. James is known throughout the community for taking on druglords in the area. She must help wrest control of the ward from the DA and yesterday's door- to-door campaign in ward 18 appears to have been a perfectly timed charm offensive. Speaking to reporters at the Andries Meyer Old Age Home, Zuma heaped praise on James, arguing that her efforts had helped bring changes to Eldorado Park. "I must say today there is now an organisation that is working against the use of drugs. I appreciate the resilience of that lady ," said Zuma. But what was also visible yesterday was Zuma's out of character door-to- door campaign. The president made several promises to residents and vowed to make good on them. Daniel Louw, a teacher in Eldorado Park, asked the president to intervene in the refurbishing of Eldrige Primary School, which he claimed was a health hazard.

2016-07-05 00:01 OLEBOGENG MOLATLHWA www.timeslive.co.za

66 Sanef takes SABC to MPs Sanef chairman Mpumelelo Mkhabela said presentations would be made to MPs in light of allegations of censorship and disciplinary action taken against six SABC employees. "Parliament has a statutory duty to do something from an oversight point of view. It's about time. "The SABC should not be allowed to drift further into crisis," Mkhabela said. Journalists and rights groups will gather today outside the broadcaster's Auckland Park offices in Johannesburg and the Sea Point offices in Cape Town wearing black in support of the journalists , now dubbed the "SABC Six". The Johannesburg group will march to Constitution Hill. Organisations such as Sanef, Solidarity and the SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition have said they will support the march. This follows the resignation of SABC acting CEO Jimi Matthews on Monday and the suspension of three staff members last week who disagreed with editorial policy changes. The most recent incident involves the disciplinary action launched against Special Assignment executive producer Busisiwe Ntuli, SAfm current affairs executive producer Krivani Pillay and senior investigative reporter Jacques Steenkamp, who sent a letter to SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng raising their "displeasure and increasing concern" over recent developments at the public broadcaster. The letter to Motsoeneng followed the suspension of economics editor Thandeka Gqubule, RSG executive producer Foeta Krige and senior journalist Suna Venter last week. Trade union Solidarity said it would represent all six SABC employees, some of whom are scheduled to attend a disciplinary hearing today . Solidarity CE Dirk Hermann said the union had requested that the disciplinary hearings be postponed to afford the six an opportunity to consult legal representatives.

2016-07-05 00:01 LEONIE WAGNER www.timeslive.co.za

67 Trump tweets ‘Clinton corrupted’ with six- pointed star, drawing accusations of anti- Semitism — RT America The original tweet showed Democratic presumptive presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with the words “History Made” and “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The second phrase was placed in within a six-pointed star text box. Immediately after the publication of the tweet, social media users bombarded Trump with criticism. READ MORE: Clinton tells Trump to delete his Twitter account Trump was accused for using what looked like a Star of David along with Clinton’s image in front of a pile of cash. “THIS is textbook anti-Semitic imagery,” said one of the Twitter users. Clinton’s national spokesman Josh Schwerin responded to tweet by asking: “Why is there a Star of David?” Clinton’s economic policy adviser Michael Shapiro was more direct, and tweeted out: “This new divisive dogwhistle isn’t [a] surprise.” Soon after, Trump reacted by deleting the original tweet and publishing something similar. The new tweet had all the similar characteristics, but it substituted the six-pointed star with a circle. However, the new tweet included Trump’s constant repetition of the phrase, “America first” – making things worse, as it echoed anti-Semitic rhetoric dating back to WWII. READ MORE: Trump Unhinged: Satirical series shows ‘sheer ridiculousness’ of The Donald (VIDEOS) Trump’s controversial campaign has been making headlines since it started. Some of his foreign policy pledges include dismantling NATO and completely banning Muslim immigration into America. In the past he also stated that more countries, such as Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, should have nuclear weapons. READ MORE: 'This is not a reality show': Obama urges MSM to scrutinize Trump (VIDEO) In May, US President Barack Obama called on the mainstream media to hold Donald Trump to account by reporting seriously on the candidate without being distracted by “the circus and the spectacle.”

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68 Driver reverses new car off of blazing transporter (VIDEO) — RT Viral The footage said to have been shot in China (no details of when and where exactly) takes you right into the thick of the action. A car transporter loaded with at least six sedans caught fire and you could have started the countdown till it all explodes two minutes ago. But the man running around the truck seems to have a better idea of what to do. Instead of leaving the scene with the best speed he could master, he gets into the only car not yet on fire – and actually reverses it back and out of the blaze. While the video does look impressive, it should not be repeated at home, or indeed anywhere.

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69 ‘I would shoot’ Russian jets buzzing past US ships – Poland’s ex-president Walesa — RT News “If I were the commander of this ship, if these [Russian] planes were flying I would shoot them. But not to kill. I would knock off the wing,” the Nobel Peace Prize recipient of 1983 told Radio Free Europe. The interview, published Saturday, comes ahead of a NATO summit in Warsaw scheduled for July 8-9 and right after Moscow mended ties with Ankara after seven months of discord over Russia’s downed jet. Asked if such a hostile gesture could spark a full- fledged military confrontation between NATO and Russia, he dismissed such a possibility, saying: “Not a chance. What conflict?” adding “No one wants conflict, and Russia does not want it.” Walesa argued that actual warfare is too costly an enterprise to be waged by Russia, who he says “cannot afford a conflict” as “ it is terribly expensive.” Moscow’s weapon would rather be “scare and blackmail,” he added. The incident with the USS Donald Cook occurred during the joint US- Poland military drills in the Baltic Sea in mid-April, as the allies were rehearsing the landing of a Polish helicopter on the ship’s deck some 70 kilometers from a Russian naval base. READ MORE: NATO activity on Russian borders ‘doubled,’ provoking Moscow’s response – Russian Defense Ministry Su-24 bombers reportedly flew in close proximity to the vessel, but without munitions, with the Pentagon accusing the squadron of performing “aggressive flight maneuvers.” Russia’s Defense Ministry said all was done “in accordance with all the necessary safety rules.” Relations between US-led NATO and Russia have been strained recently, which has resulted not only in the increased number of drills in Eastern Europe and Russia’s western border, but also led to other incidents. The latest occurred when the US guided-missile destroyer Gravely was sailing just 180 meters (590 feet) from the Russian frigate Yaroslav Mydry in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 17. “The US sailors, in particular, neglected Rule 13, which stipulates that an overtaking vessel must keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. In turn, US European Command issued a counter-statement, arguing that it had been the Russian vessel that had come to close to the navy’s USS San Jacinto, thus performing “aggressive, erratic maneuvers.” Still, the issue of air traffic security over the Baltic sea was raised during a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto. Following the talks, Russia announced it was ready to switch on the identification transponders of its planes flying over the area – but only if NATO reciprocates. READ MORE: Russian warplanes will fly over Baltic with transponders on, if NATO does the same Russia’s president also stressed that the number of NATO planes flying with transponders turned off far exceeds the number of Russian jets doing the same in the area, saying it is twice as high. “The number of NATO planes [with transponders off] is twice as high as that of Russian planes,” Putin said, pledging to raise the issue at the upcoming Russia-NATO Council meeting. Earlier, Putin said Moscow would have to think about “neutralizing developing threats to Russia’s security” stemming from NATO, referring to a radar station that has recently come online in Romania as part of a US anti- missile shield in Europe among other security challenges. “We’ll work very accurately without exceeding the plans to finance the re- equipment of our Army and Navy, which have already been laid out for the next several years,” he said. NATO has repeatedly denied that the new ABM site in Romania could pose threat to Russia, but Moscow considers it to be in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which was signed into force in 1987.

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70 Corruption watchdog says sentence increases fears for whistleblowers — RT News “ Transparency International is very disappointed with the verdict on the LuxLeaks whistleblowers, ” Anja Osterhaus, regional program manager for Transparency International, a global anti- corruption organization, told RT. “ It’s very bad news for whistleblowers, the sentence. We are afraid this can add to the fears these people [have], ” Osterhaus said, adding that while the certain level of danger in exposing illegalities has not stopped people from blowing the whistle up until now, the LuxLeaks verdict and its ilk may increase fears and silence those who have something to say. “ They already knew that it’s risky and potentially even dangerous to speak about wrongdoing or unethical conduct or other problems of public interest. And now unfortunately it has been confirmed that the ones who end up being accused and sentenced are the ones who inform the public about these illegal activities or unethical conduct, not the ones who are [actually guilty] of them.” “ We are afraid this can be a further deterrent for whistleblowing ,” Osterhaus said. The two sentenced whistleblowers, Raphael Halet and Antoine Deltour, are former employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a multinational corporation that provides audit, tax and consulting services. On Wednesday, a court in Luxembourg found them guilty of breaching secrecy laws by stealing confidential tax files that helped launch a global scandal in 2014 over fiscal deals made by Luxembourg banks to hundreds of international companies, including such giants as Pepsi, Apple, Ikea and Walt Disney. The arrangements helped these companies save billions of dollars in taxes, according to the leaked documents. The two got suspended sentences of 9 months and 12 months, respectively, and were ordered to pay €1,000-1,500 fines for their role in the information disclosure. Edouard Perrin, the journalist who reported the findings, was acquitted. Commenting on the ruling, Deltour told reporters it “ puts on guard future whistleblowers ” and “ sends out a message that if you see billions of euros [handled] in a doubtful fiscal manner, the court invites you to close your eyes and above all, not to talk to anyone .” The verdict uncovered a controversy concerning the execution of the EU Trade Secrets Directive, created to stabilize EU laws on industrial espionage, but now in danger of being used to prevent journalists from uncovering illegalities in European companies. Although the directive does state that “ persons acting in good faith that reveal trade secrets for the purpose of protecting the general public interest […] will enjoy adequate protection ,” it also reads that anyone could be prosecuted for “ unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure of trade secrets, ” with the definition of the term “ trade secrets ” quite broad and vague. A United Nations independent human rights expert, along with several members of the European Parliament, condemned the ruling, expressing disdain over the fact that Deltour and Halet were convicted for exposing the truth, while those who managed illegal tax deals escaped any punishment whatsoever. “ We seem to live in an upside-down world in which whistleblowers are convicted and those who loot society are not, ” Alfred de Zayas, UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, told the press on Thursday. “ Whistleblowers are heroes of our time and serve society and human rights. Parliaments should adopt robust legislation not only to protect whistleblowers but also to reward them for contributing to ethics and integrity ,” de Zayas said , adding that the LuxLeaks verdict may increase fears of reporting abuses. “ It is a disgrace that this case has ever come to court; there is something fundamentally wrong with the legal system when those who expose wrongdoing face trial while the perpetrators continue their lives as before ,” Pervenche Beres, Socialists and Democrats spokesperson for economic and monetary affairs, said. Despite the dangers to whistleblowers, the LuxLeaks revelations have had an effect, causing EU regulators to expand tax subsidy probes, propose new laws to fight corporate tax evasion and even create a committee to probe fiscal deals across the European Union.

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71 Surigao Norte police chief relieved after shooting of radio anchor, son SURIGAO CITY – Barely six months on the job, the top provincial police official here has been relieved following the shooting of a radio broadcaster and his son. Supt. James Mejia, police chief for , said he received the relief order from Camp Crame two days after Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) broadcaster Saturnino Estanio Jr. and son Anjover III were shot on Thursday . It was noticeably a short stint for Mejia, who assumed office on January, and the official readily admitted it might have something to do with the failed attempt on the life of Estanio and his 12-year old son. “That (Estanio shooting) could be the reason because media killing is one of the top 10 major incidents that we are required to report to the national headquarters,” Mejia told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, adding he was instructed to report to the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame. Meanwhile, Mejia said the police have been following several leads that might uncover the motive behind the murder attempt against the RMN broadcaster. He believes Estanio’s shooting may not have been job-related, but he declined to enumerate possible motives, saying that would imperil the ongoing investigation. While Estanio did not rule out personal grudge as one of the motives, he said he was more inclined to believe it was related to his commentary against the proliferation of illegal gambling machines and illegal drugs in the city and in the entire province. In an earlier interview, the 41-year old radioman narrated that days before the shooting, he was approached by a man who warned him to go easy on his commentary against illegal gambling machines, locally known as “chololot.” Meanwhile, Fernando Almeda Jr., founding president of the Surigao Press and Radio Club, has called on President Duterte to intervene in the security situation in the city and the province. Almeda noted that despite President Duterte’s stern warning against criminals and drug purveyors, “the killings and other criminal activities continue to go on, showing a pattern of impunity.” He also lambasted local officials for their alleged inaction. “We are at the mercy of criminals. Killers and drug pushers are on the loose like mad dogs. That one of those shot is a mediaman makes the incident more chilling,” Almeda said. SFM

2016-07-05 00:01 Danilo V newsinfo.inquirer.net

72 Students to be taught how to spot drug pushers UNDER the Duterte administration, students as young as 10 will not only learn the consequences of drug abuse and addiction but also get practical lessons on how to spot a drug pusher, how to say no to drugs and avoid being targets as buyers or agents. Education Secretary Leonor Briones on Monday said one of the first undertakings of the Department of Education (DepEd) under her leadership was to review and strengthen the syllabus on drug education and possibly introduce a separate subject for it in line with President Duterte’s policy against illegal drugs. “We are now in the process of reviewing the syllabus as instructed by the President. One of the national priorities of the Duterte administration is to give attention to the drug menace,” Briones told reporters after the turnover ceremony at the DepEd on Monday. Starting in Grade 4 Briones, who replaced Armin Luistro, said Mr. Duterte ordered the teaching of drug literacy starting in Grade 4. While the current curriculum for Grade 4 already includes a drugs syllabus, it is lacking in lessons on the practical side that can help prepare children repel the lure of illegal drugs, Briones said. “The composition is more from the science point of view—its impact on the body but not so much on the practical matters,” she said. “I think what needs to be added are [pointers] on how children would know that they are being drawn in, how they should say no, and how and where to report if they are offered illegal drugs,” she added, noting that drug syndicates target mostly students in urban schools, although they also try to victimize students in rural areas. In her speech during the turnover ceremony, Briones disclosed that Philippine National Police Director General Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa, who attended the event, has offered to help the DepEd fight the intrusion of drugs into the country’s schools. “He has offered to help in further strengthening our curriculum to prepare our Grade 4 kids to be able to withstand the onslaught and the temptation of drug addiction,” she said. Separate subject When asked if she was considering drug education as a stand-alone subject, Briones said it could be done just like religious courses are being taught as separate subjects. She acknowledged, however, that incorporating drug literacy into academic subjects might not be enough. Part of the plan to fortify drug education among schoolchildren is training teachers and making additional educational materials available in schools, she said. Briones underscored the importance of a strengthened drug abuse and prevention syllabus for young students, as many of the drug users and dealers who surrendered to police last week were teenagers. “I just came from a province where there was a mass surrender… there were teenage pushers and users who surrendered and they were kids who should be in school and who were in school really,” she said. Briones on Monday marked the turnover ceremony with music from her Manila Concert Choir, serenading guests with songs like “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” Lucio San Pedro’s “Kayumangging Malaya,” and Ryan Cayabyab’s “Sabihin Mo Ikaw ay Pilipino.” “When there are great celebrations, these are always accompanied by music,” she said. In her speech, she said the DepEd was celebrating not only her assumption into office but also the determination and courage of her predecessor, Luistro, who she said initiated the much needed educational reforms “against all odds, amid concerted opposition and fears about the future of Philippine education.” Briones promised to carry on and finish what Luistro had started, adding her own vision, perspectives and initiatives.

2016-07-05 00:01 Jocelyn R newsinfo.inquirer.net

73 No more DAR barricade: Welded gates now open CHANGE has come to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and it is more than symbolic. In his first week on the job, Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano, who comes from the peasantry, literally broke open the gates of his office. For 18 years, the driveway gates of the DAR on Elliptical Road in City had been chained, locked and even welded and rusted shut to keep protesters at bay. One of those known to stage rallies frequently outside the gates was the peasant group, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), of which Mariano is a founding member and former chair. Mariano was also a president and member of the Anakpawis party-list and chair of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, groups known to be at the forefront of rallies critical of the government. Breaking down walls But now, Mariano seeks to break down any wall between the government and the citizens. “This symbolizes that DAR, on all levels, will maintain open. We will follow a policy of continuing open and productive dialogues between the officials and employees of DAR and other stakeholders of agrarian reform, especially our farmers and agricultural workers, and advocates,” Mariano said on Monday afternoon, after torching and hammering the gate locks open. “This serves to remove all fences, walls between the officials and employees of DAR, and our stakeholders,” Mariano said. Long been unused, the DAR driveway had grown slippery with moss. It had to be cleaned on Monday before the gates were opened. Employees recalled that public utility jeepneys used the driveway as part of their routes when the gates were still open in the early 1990s. Asked about his experience outside the DAR gates as a protester, Mariano said, “Farmers led by the KMP stayed here for more than a week before the Jan. 22, 1987, Mendiola Massacre.” Mariano actually saw this background as his primary credential as President Duterte’s appointee. “What I have to hold onto, as the new secretary of DAR, is that I am truly from a family of farmers. I have been with KMP for more than 30 years and I have almost nine years’ experience as representative of Anakpawis in Congress,’’ he said. “I have experience knowing the pulse, the gripes, the dream of our farmers to own the lands they till.” Protesters welcome Mariano said he would welcome to the DAR all farmers with complaints— even protesters. “If anyone comes to the agency, if there are any rallies, pickets or demonstrations in front of the office, let us not worry. Our farmers come here to the DAR for a reason. Let us welcome them,” Mariano said as a message to the DAR employees. The DAR Employees Association secretary, Gloria Almazan, who has been with the department since 1992, said the closure of the gates started during the Estrada administration. But the office became akin to a “garrison” starting 2010, with consecutive rallies hounding the then Aquino administration. “The management said it was for our safety, for the safety of the building and property … so it would be better if they controlled the entry of people,” Almazan said. It was under the second Aquino administration when grills were added to the glass doors and even windows of the DAR. This explains why Almazan’s coworkers were chanting: “We are free!” when Mariano broke open the gates. Almazan said she did not fear for her safety with the gates opened. “It’s better for the farmers to come in. I understand the farmers are facing a lot of problems so you really have to attend to them.”

2016-07-05 00:01 Jaymee T newsinfo.inquirer.net

74 Tugade: ‘A self-made, good leader’ THE MAN whom President Duterte has chosen to run the transportation department is an informal settler-turned-millionaire, who combined honesty and astute management in his first government job developing the former US Air Force’s Clark Air Base into one of the country’s economic engines. To those closest to Arthur Tugade, he is the “perfect man” for the Department of Transportation that has earned a bad reputation over the past six years because of Metro Manila’s tangled traffic, deteriorating trains, crowded skies and even an embarrassing bullet-planting scandal at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the country’s main gateway. In interviews with colleagues who have known him professionally for many years, a recurring theme emerged: a sensitive family man, a “people person” open to collaboration and at times, a near-tyrant when results are required. Tugade’s first days as president and chief executive officer of Clark Development Corp. (CDC) proceeded with neither pomp nor pageantry in late December 2012. Shocking encounter Only when a CDC employee shared with his friends his “shocking” encounter with Tugade did people learn there was a new man at the helm. Then the mood changed. “P… ina! Sumunod ka sa batas. Mag-ID ka (You son of a bitch! Follow the rules. Wear your ID),” Tugade thundered. That story spread fast. By January 2013, without a memorandum, even the habitual violators started wearing their IDs. In conferences of the board, employees’ assemblies or in small meetings in his office, Tugade was known to curse when he emphasized important points or got excited with brilliant ideas or plans. He was patient when explaining details, targets and processes. Tugade, founder and chair of the family-owned Perry’s Group of Companies before he joined the government, laughed off these stories about his crude behavior. (The group is the holding firm for Tugade’s flagship logistics business Trans-Global Consolidator’s Inc. apart from its ventures in tourism and hospitality, fuel distribution, food and property development.) ‘Just the way I talk’ “I don’t mean harm. If I’ve offended people, I’m sorry. It’s just the way I talk,” he told the Inquirer at the time. Noel Manankil, CDC vice president for finance, didn’t mind the expletives, marveling more at how Tugade led the state agency tasked by law in 1992 with converting the former US air base into civilian use. “At first, we found [the cuss words] unusual but eventually we realized that they were mere expressions or utterances that were unique to him,” Manankil said. Arnel Casanova, Bases Conversion and Development Authority CEO, said Tugade “ran [CDC] like hell but it turned out to be heaven,” referring to Tugade’s zero tolerance for corruption and revenue leaks prevalent at CDC when he entered the scene. Schoolmate in San Beda Tugade was CDC’s 12th president until April 26 when he resigned to help in the election campaign of Mr. Duterte, his schoolmate in San Beda College where they both took up law. Tugade graduated cum laude, a year ahead of the President. Tugade is not a bad choice for transportation secretary, if accomplishments by CDC were to be the gauge. Under his administration, CDC reported achieving financial feats in 2015: P1.554 billion in revenue, P697 million in net income and P2.33 billion in cash—the highest in 23 years. It also remitted to the national government P400 million in cash dividends in 2015, raising to P720 million the agency’s remittances in the last five years. By the end of 2015, employees in the Clark Freeport reached 82,382. CDC also increased its community projects among Aetas and workers in the provinces of and . To secure long-term energy for Clark and surrounding communities, CDC approved a land lease for a $40-million solar power project. In 2015, CDC received the Asia CEO Award for Executive Leadership Team of the Year. FDI Magazine’s Bespoke Awards Asia hailed CDC in 2014 for cutting red tape, and ranked Clark eighth among the Top 50 Freeport Zones of the Future in 2013. Tugade said CDC’s accomplishments were achieved not only by improving efficiency through shorter business processes but also by assisting locators and involving the Clark Investors and Locators Association in making policies. The credit for CDC’s success “largely goes to CDC employees who value honesty, hard work and sacrifices,” he said. Leading by example Tugade led by example. He did not accept gifts, which he returned when these were delivered to his office. When he surrendered some of his mandatory benefits, several CDC officials followed suit, enabling the agency to raise P2 million that went to fund the shuttle services of employees. CDC also runs a day care center for employees’ children. Victor Luciano, board member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, who has known Tugade for at least 40 years, said Tugade should be credited for changing the culture and work ethic at CDC. Luciano said Tugade warned employees against fraternizing with investors and locators. He also cut “long” lunch breaks at CDC and told employees not to abuse the use of government resources, like public vehicles. “It’s really leadership by example,” Luciano said, adding that Tugade was not afraid to sack employees, especially those found to be corrupt. “He also comes in very strong with timetables. So when you commit to something, you have to deliver,” Luciano said. Casanova said Tugade’s will came into full display during last year’s Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit held in the for a task “that seemed impossible.” Casanova said the major criticism for Clark as a venue was its lack of a secure facility to accommodate about 1,000 delegates. “Art told me he could do it,” Casanova said, noting this gave them confidence to back Tugade’s plans. Tugade managed to convince Fontana Leisure Parks and Casino to build a P500-million convention center “on its own cost.” “It’s now the biggest convention center in and it was delivered right in time for the Apec senior officials meeting,” Casanova said. Tugade said he worked hard to repay the kindness of San Beda priests who helped him get educational scholarships and to honor the memory of his son Marc Perry, who died at the age of 12. Tugade was born in Claveria town in province. His parents, both public works employees, moved the family to Sampaloc, Manila, when he was in grade school. When their shanty in Sampaloc was gutted by fire, they transferred to , a part of the community of Tatalon in Quezon City, where there was no running water. The toilet was a hole in the ground where vegetables grew after the floods. Priests in San Beda College helped him get an education through scholarships and jobs in the same school, enabling him to finish law. He took up courses at the National University of Singapore’s Stanford executive program.

2016-07-05 00:01 Miguel R newsinfo.inquirer.net

75 12 agencies to lead gov’t antipoverty programs PRESIDENT Duterte’s first executive order may have just shut out Vice President Leni Robredo from leading the government’s antipoverty programs. Mr. Duterte issued Executive Order No. 1, which placed 12 government agencies primarily tasked with resolving food security and poverty issues under the administrative supervision of his close friend and campaign manager, Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr. The order, titled “Reengineering the Office of the President Toward Greater Responsiveness to the Attainment of Development Goals,” was signed by the President on June 30, the day he took his oath of office. The executive order was released on Monday to journalists covering Malacañang a few hours before Robredo paid a courtesy visit on Mr. Duterte in Malacañang. “With the supervision of the Cabinet secretary, these agencies shall primarily evaluate existing poverty reduction programs and, if deemed necessary, formulate a more responsive set of programs complementing existing ones, channeling resources as necessary to reduce both the incidence and magnitude of poverty,” it read. These are the Cooperative Development Authority, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), National Anti-Poverty Commission, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, National Commission on Muslim , National Food Authority (NFA), National Youth Commission, Presidential Action Center, Philippine Commission on Women, Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor, and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda). Special assistant EO 1 also gave Mr. Duterte’s longtime aide Christopher Go more authority as special assistant to the President. Go will now supervise the Presidential Management Staff and the Office of the Appointments Secretary. Robredo had previously signified her intention to head the government’s programs in combating hunger and poverty. But Mr. Duterte declared that he would not give her a Cabinet post because he did not want to offend his friend, Sen. Ferdinand Marcos, the son and namesake of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos, whom she narrowly defeated in the May 9 elections. Communications Secretary Martin Andanar played down speculations regarding the President’s decision to transfer the control of the agencies to Evasco, saying it was “unfair” to conclude that the order closed the door on Robredo. “I wouldn’t say it’s shutting the door because maybe the Vice President, in the future, will have a project and she can coordinate with [Evasco],” Andanar told the Inquirer. Palace spokesperson Ernesto Abella could not exactly explain why Mr. Duterte wanted to put the agencies under Evasco’s leadership. He said it was part of the “streamlining” in the government. “Apparently, they have some sort of wisdom going on there,” Abella said, eliciting chuckles from journalists attending his first press briefing. “No, basically I’m not trying to be flip. I’m just saying it has been placed together, it has been clustered [as] such and I’ll bring it up,” he said. Not Cabinet-ranked Since the 12 agencies are now under the office of a Cabinet secretary, their heads will no longer be considered a Cabinet-ranked official, Abella said. In 2014, then President Benigno Aquino III transferred the administration of the NFA and the PCA from the Department of Agriculture to the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization, which was then headed by Francis Pangilinan. Some of the agencies, particularly HUDCC and Tesda, were used by their former heads as vehicles to advance their political careers. Mr. Duterte said EO 1 was consistent with the government’s plan to “advance development goals and uplift the quality of life of all Filipinos through a holistic, convergent and participatory approach to leadership and governance.” “The attainment of national development goals requires the efficient, responsive, and just allocation of resources by eliminating duplication or overlapping of common functions, maximizing resource utilization with minimum disruption to operations, coordinating efforts more closely, sharing information and consistently working in a collaborative manner,” the order read.

2016-07-05 00:01 Marlon Ramos newsinfo.inquirer.net

76 Palace: Con-con is top Duterte priority PRESIDENT Duterte wants the Constitution amended but only through a constitutional convention (Con-con) as the vehicle for Charter change (Cha-cha), Palace spokesperson Ernesto Abella said on Monday. According to Abella, amending the Constitution would be among the priority legislative agenda of the Duterte administration. Outgoing Senate President Franklin Drilon has filed a resolution pushing for a Con-con as the mode for amending the country’s basic law. Another vehicle is a constitutional assembly (Con-ass). “As far as we know, President Duterte favors Con-con… not Con-ass,” Abella said in his first press briefing in Malacañang. “It’s more consultative, right? There’s more representation. As far as I know, that has been his preference,” he added. Asked if the President would certify as urgent a bill revisiting the country’s 29-year-old Constitution, he said: “It’s definitely part of his priorities. I don’t know exactly which priority, how high it is.” “But it’s part of the consideration considering that we do have several issues on hand. Right? Fed (federalism) issue, stuff like that,” he added. Mr. Duterte has been openly advocating a shift to federalism from the current presidential form of government since even before he officially announced his bid for the presidency last year. The President, a long-time mayor of Davao City, has said that federalism would help boost the local economies of poor regions and end the country’s decades-old insurgency problem. In his resolution, Drilon said that reviewing the Constitution was necessary “to determine if it is still attuned or responsive to the demands of present- day realities.” Under a Con-con, proposals to amend or revise the Constitution would be made by delegates elected by the people for such purpose. As to whether other contentious issues would be included in revising the Constitution, Abella said: “I suppose people will try to bring new issues, but the centerpiece I believe will be federalism.” Drilon, however, said the Con-con could tackle any and every provision of the Constitution, including political provisions like term limits, since it would have “plenary” powers that allow it to “tackle and decide on anything and everything.” “When you open the Constitution to amendments, you open up everything. You cannot say (to the Con-con) that you cannot talk about term limits. That you cannot do that. Because as I will keep on repeating, the Con-con has plenary powers. Meaning, it can tackle and decide on anything and everything,” Drilon said. But this early, incoming Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said that President Duterte was not interested in extending his term beyond six years. “(Duterte) will only stay six years so let us not talk whether there is a plan or whether he will extend (his term of office),” Pimentel said.

2016-07-05 00:01 Christine O newsinfo.inquirer.net

77 July 6 declared holiday for Eid al-Fitr PRESIDENT Duterte on Monday declared July 6 a regular holiday in observance of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The President signed Proclamation No. 6 to provide the “entire Filipino nation… the full opportunity to join their Muslim brothers and sisters in peace and harmony in the observance and celebration of Eid al-Fitr.” “In order to bring the religious and cultural significance of Eid al-Fitr to the fore of national consciousness, it is necessary to declare (July 6) a regular holiday throughout the country,” Mr. Duterte’s order said. Eid al-Fitr, celebrated during the conclusion of the dawn-to-sunset daily fasting by Muslims, is traditionally set by the moonrise in Sawwal, the 10th of the 12-month lunar calendar. It is also considered one of the most important holidays in the Muslim faith. In the Philippines, worshippers usually wear their native Islamic attire and come together for the morning prayers in mosques. Marlon Ramos

2016-07-05 00:01 Philippine Daily newsinfo.inquirer.net

78 New lawmakers take 4-day crash course to learn ropes BATANGAS Rep. Vilma Santos-Recto led the third batch of 47 first-time lawmakers who attended a crash course on legislative work. In an interview with reporters during a break in the four- day seminar, Santos said: “These are new challenges as a legislator. I’m learning a lot and I’m willing to learn.” Around a quarter of the 17th Congress, or 68 lawmakers, are first-time legislators who want to learn how a bill is crafted, from the committee up to the plenary levels. Some of the 40 returning legislators also decided to brush up on their lawmaking by attending the seminar conducted by the House of Representatives Institute for Legislation and Legislative Governance in partnership with the University of the Philippines’ National College of Public Administration and Governance. Aside from Santos, the neophyte lawmakers who attended the seminar were: Lourdes Aggabao, Marlyn Alonte, Arlene Arcillas, Jennifer Austria- Barzaga, Joseph Bernos, Lianda Bolilia, Gabriel Bordado Jr., Luis Jose Campos, Peter John Calderon; Ma. Theresa Collantes, Luis Cuaresma, Manuel Jose Dalipe, Khalid Dimaporo, Trina Enverga, Richard Eusebio, Juliet Marie Ferrer, Jose Enrique Garcia III, Peter Ruel Gonzaga; Aurelio Gonzales Jr., Alexandria Gonzales, Gloria Labadlabad, Edward Maceda, Dale Gonzalo Malapitan, Eric Martinez, Lucille Nava, Ramon Nolasco, Edwin Ongchuan, Pablo Ortega, Strike Revilla, Florida Robes, Frederick Siao, Vicente Veloso, Rosanna Vergara and Divina Grace Yu. The newbies from the party-list groups who attended the seminar were: Arlene Brosas of Gabriela; Ariel Casilao, Anakpawis; Francisco Cast, ACT-Teacher; Cecilia Chavez, Butil; Salvador Belaro, 1-Ang Edukasyon; Eugenio Michael de Vera, ABS; Benhur Lopez, Yacap; Michael Romero, 1- Pacman, and Allan Jesse Mangaoang, .

2016-07-05 00:01 Gil Cabacungan newsinfo.inquirer.net

79 BI nabs wanted Pakistani in Subic THE BUREAU of Immigration arrested over the weekend a Pakistani wanted for various crimes in his country, including terrorism, rioting and murder. New Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said Malik Muhammad Sharif, 39, was arrested Saturday in Subic, , by agents of the bureau and other law enforcement agencies. He said Malik was the subject of an Interpol red notice and went by the alias Sharif Ahmad. “According to Interpol, the suspect faced the death sentence in Pakistan,” Morente said Monday. It was unclear how long Malik had been hiding in the country. Morente said Malik was wanted in his country for double murder, attempted murder, terrorism and rioting. Julie M. Aurelio

2016-07-05 00:01 Philippine Daily globalnation.inquirer.net

80 80 Jason Day to miss Rio Olympics over Zika virus scare The world. No. 1 withdrew from Rio 2016 Tuesday after citing fears over contracting the Zika virus. His move comes after four-time major winner Rory McIlroy pulled out this month for similar reasons, while several other of the sport's big names have also said they won't travel to South America. While the symptoms of the virus -- which include a rash, headaches and joint pain -- aren't severe, Zika has been linked to microcephaly in newborn babies and some cases of the muscle-weakening disease Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults. Read: Tiger - The Olympics deserves the best players "The reason for my decision is my concerns about the possible transmission of the Zika virus and the potential risks that it might present to my wife's future pregnancies and to future members of our family," Day said in a statement published on his Twitter account. "I have always placed my family in front of everything else in my life. Medical experts have confirmed that while perhaps slight, a decision to compete in Rio absolutely comes with health risks to me and my family. My wife Ellie and I have been blessed with two wonderful and healthy children and our plans is to have more. "While it has always been a major goal to compete in the Olympics on behalf of my country, playing golf cannot take precedent over the safety of our family. I will not place them at risk. " Read: McIlroy pulls out of Rio Games The Australian, who won his first major at the 2015 PGA Championship, is the latest no-show for golf's long-awaited returned to the Olympics, having last featured in 1904. Three-time major winner Vijay Singh and and Australia's Marc Leishman both cited Zika, as did former U. S. Open champion Graeme McDowell -- whose wife is pregnant, and who declined the chance to replace McIlroy in Ireland's team. Ireland has also lost Shane Lowry, ranked 25 in the world, after he confirmed he would not be traveling to Brazil on Tuesday. Lowry, who tied for second at the U. S. Open, also cited fears over the Zika virus for his withdrawal. Leading South African players Louis Oosthuizen -- the 2010 British Open winner -- world No. 12 Branden Grace and 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel have also decided not to compete. With former Masters winner Adam Scott also out, Australia would not have an eligible player inside the top 75 if the team was selected on this week's rankings. Former world No. 1 Tiger Woods has questioned the quality of the field that will take part on Rio de Janeiro's new course in August. The qualifying format -- four players per country from the world's top 15, plus two players per country outside that -- also devalues the competition, according to the American. "I know they have to try to have four guys from each country participate, but I just wish they would have had more quality of a field similar to what we face in major championships or the World Golf Championships or the Players," said the 40-year-old, who is still recovering from back surgery and will not take part in Brazil. "I think the Olympics deserve that. " Have your say on golf at the Olympics on our Facebook page Get more golf stories Read more: CNN's Olympics coverage

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81 Obama seeks to reassure Canada, Mexico on Trump, trade Expressing confidence that immigration wouldn't be shut off and trade deals would persist, Obama argued against the type of protectionist policies that Trump has espoused on the campaign trail. And he cast the presumptive GOP nominee as a failed historical archetype. "We've had times throughout our history where anti-immigration sentiment is exploited by demagogues," Obama said. "The language is identical. But guess what? They kept coming, and they kept coming because America offered possibility for their children and grandchildren. " Convening a final North American leaders' summit even as the U. S. presidential contest throws crucial cross-border issues into dispute, Obama and his counterparts discussed trade, security and climate change during a day of talks in the Canadian capital. But during an afternoon press conference, Trump was the topic du jour. Reporters quizzed Obama, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extensively about the candidate's vow to construct a border wall and withdraw from free trade deals. Obama's visit comes just a day after Trump lambasted the agreements that have linked the U. S. and its northern and southern neighbors in tight trade ties, vowing to withdraw from the much-maligned NAFTA agreement while insisting he'd also scuttle Obama's proposed replacement, the Trans- Pacific Partnership. Expected Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton also now opposes TPP. "The prescription of withdrawing from trade deals and focusing solely on your local market, that's the wrong medicine," Obama said Wednesday, acknowledging fears of globalization were well founded. "What we have seen are trend lines of growing inequality and stagnant wages and a smaller share of growth going to workers and a larger portion going to the top," Obama said. "That's a real problem. " Like all of his meetings with foreign leaders in the past year, Obama was ready to face questions about Trump, who kicked off his campaign one year ago accusing Mexicans of being rapists and criminals. Pena Nieto has sharply criticized the presumptive GOP nominee, even comparing his style of politics to dictators like Hitler and Mussolini. He's dismissed outright the suggestion that Mexico would fund Trump's proposed border wall, as the presumptive nominee has called for. On Wednesday, Pena Nieto reiterated his opposition, though he said he was prepared to work with whomever is election U. S. president. "Political actors, by using populism and demagoguery, they choose the easier way to solve the challenges of today's world," he said through a translator. "Things are not that simplistic. " Trudeau has been more circumspect, saying he's ready to work with whoever is elected in the United States. "I look forward to working with whomever the American people elect as their president in November," he said. After an hour of talks with Pena Nieto earlier in the day, Obama used a photo spray to push back on Trump's anti-immigrant language, heralding the contributions of Mexican-Americans. "The United States is not just a friend and neighbor of Mexico but the very character of the United States is shaped by Mexican Americans who have shared our culture, our politics, our business," he said. "All too often we're hearing rhetoric that ignores the enormous contributions that have been made by Mexican Americans and the enormous strengths we draw from the relationship. " Meanwhile, Obama and fellow world leaders continue to size up the ramifications of last week's vote in the United Kingdom to exit to European Union, a topic that's certain to come up in the conversations in Canada. RELATED: Trump slams globalization, promises to upend economic status quo And the President is still assessing Tuesday's terror attack at Istanbul's international airport, yet another incident of global terror that has intruded into planned conversations with world leaders. Recent trips to Asia, South America and Europe have been similarly overshadowed. Obama remarked on the attack Wednesday, saying the U. S. was "heartbroken" at the violence. Beyond the current pressing issues, it's a meaningful visit to Canada for Obama, not only as his last "Three Amigos" summit but also as a final-year return to the site of his maiden presidential foreign trip in 2009, when he flew Air Force One out of the country for the first time for meetings with then- Prime Minister Stephen Harper. For one of the first times, the 54-year-old Obama found himself sharing a stage Wednesday with two leaders younger than him. Fostering ties with the United States' two contiguous neighbors has never been Obama's top agenda item. He's focused instead on pivoting American foreign policy to the Asia-Pacific and managing various crises in the Middle East and Northern Africa. While Wednesday's summit didn't come with the same high stakes Obama faces when he meets with NATO leaders in Warsaw next week, the meeting does carry significance for a president looking to cement his legacy. Nightcap: Trump takes on Clinton — and Big Business — on trade | Sign up To those ends, the leaders announced ambitious new agreements meant to curb climate change, a priority for Obama. That includes setting a target of producing half of the continent's power from renewable energy sources by 2025. Currently, the three countries together generate 37% of their power from clean energy sources like nuclear, wind, solar and hydro power. It's a breakthrough made possible by Trudeau's election a year ago; his successor Harper was a skeptic of global climate deals, and disagreements between Canada and the U. S. over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported Canadian oil through the United States, led to an abrupt cancelation of the "Three Amigos" summit in 2015. After years of delays, Obama finally killed the deal last year. While the burden of reaching the clean power target will fall on Obama's successor, the President's top climate adviser, Brian Deese, said market forces would also drive progress. "I think that the transformation of the American energy sector that's underway is going to continue, and that has been driven by some of the policy choices that this president has made, but it's also being driven by market forces that are bringing down the cost of clean energy at rates that even the smartest analysts weren't predicting only a couple of years ago," Deese said. The leaders also discussed plans to replace the much-maligned North American Free Trade Agreement with Obama's preferred TPP trade deal -- a measure that's faced fierce political opposition and is currently awaiting congressional approval. Obama is likely to attempt to reassure his counterparts the deal will eventually pass, though how and when remain unclear. Both the Republican and Democratic presumptive nominees oppose the TPP, and 2016 candidates frequently have railed against free trade on the campaign trail. Republican Donald Trump has blamed the deals for flat wages and job losses, while Democrat Hillary Clinton reversed her support NAFTA, an agreement her husband secured as president. Anti-trade sentiment helped drive the "Leave" campaign in Britain that backed the Brexit referendum, and even Obama has acknowledged recently that politicians must do more to help workers hurt by globalization. RELATED: How a bill becomes a wall with Mexico Both Mexico and Canada are parties to the massive TPP, which is still awaiting approval from Congress. The Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he'll wait until November's general election to bring the 12-nation trade agreement of Pacific nations up for a vote. Trump on Tuesday said he would withdraw from the plan should it be approved by lawmakers. "Our politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalization -- moving our jobs, our wealth and our factories to Mexico and overseas," he said during a speech in Pennsylvania. "Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very, very wealthy. I used to be one of them. Hate to say it, but I used to be one of them. "

2016-07-04 22:25 Kevin Liptak rss.cnn.com

82 Kenya's school arson attacks lead to national debate School arson attacks carried out by students appear to have become a trend in Kenya, leaving people to speculate about the causes, although no-one seems to agree. Last Saturday's incident, when dormitories were burned down at a boarding school in western Kenya , was one of many this year. But it caught people's attention as it appeared to be the result of anger that students were not allowed to watch a live broadcast of a Euro 2016 football match. Many thought that there must be a more profound reason. This week alone, there have been four other school fires, and media reports say there have been at least 16 fire incidents in schools in western Kenya this year, mostly around Kisii. Kenyans have been debating the issue on social media and radio talk shows. Some suggest that this is a matter of indiscipline, caused by poor parenting, and that caning should be reintroduced. Kenya banned corporal punishment in 2001. The experts and politicians are also looking into the issue and offering their own solutions. Kenya's Standard newspaper reports that education officials have identified several reasons behind the school unrest. These include: There was also the suggestion that some teachers may have been involved in the planning of the attacks. Kenya's Education Minister Fred Matiang'i joined the chorus of people blaming parents for the indiscipline. He said they should take responsibility for "instilling the right values" and prevent students from taking antisocial behaviour into schools. On a visit to the school affected on Saturday, Mr Matiang'i said the parents of those behind the arson should pay for the damage. Deputy President William Ruto proposed his own solutions, calling for student mentoring and more prayers in schools. Meanwhile, some local education officials have blamed politicians for not being good role models. John Mugo, head of education charity Twaweza, believes the problem lies with poorly prepared teachers. He told the BBC that indiscipline was the result of the absence of guidance to teachers on how to manage students' behaviour. "The government banned caning in schools and has failed to introduce alternative ways of dealing with indiscipline," he added. He also thinks that the ministry of education, school management and students are not properly communicating with each other. As if to underline how serious and difficult the problem is, on Monday, hours after the education minister visited a school to talk about arson there was a fire in one of its dormitories. The Nation newspaper reported that school officials blamed an electrical fault rather than student action. Fires were also reported at two other schools on Wednesday but the causes are yet to be established. As Kenyans mull over who or what to blame for the worrying and frequent cases of school fires, a Facebook post which has been widely shared suggests that there is a yawning generation gap that will never be bridged. "The average high school student does not know what [Minister] Matiang'i looks like, and they don't care... They wouldn't listen to authority from Nairobi even if it came with a fire-breathing dragon. " 2016-07-04 22:01 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

83 Release your inner child In the US every summer, millions of children are sent away to camp. Friends are made, games are played, and nights are spent sleeping in dormitory bunk beds. It is very much a rite of passage. By why should children have all the fun? That was the thinking behind Camp No Counselors (CNC), one of a small but growing number of companies that organise adults-only summer camps. The idea is that grown-ups can release their inner child and participate in many of the same adventure activities that kids do at camp. But with two significant improvements - freely available alcohol and late- night partying. Although you do still have to sleep in a dormitory. CNC was founded by Adam Tichauer, a 33-year-old Canadian, and former boss of a New York-based technology start-up. He first came up with the idea for adult summer camps when trying to organise a reunion weekend with old friends back in the spring of 2013. "I was working lots of nights, and needed a fun weekend with my best friends," he says. "I always loved organising events, and I'd gone to summer camp growing up, and I thought - wouldn't it be a tonne of fun to rent out a camp for a weekend with friends? " Adam's mates all loved the idea of taking a trip down memory lane, and so he booked a summer camp venue in upstate New York for three nights. Encouraging his friends to invite others as well, about 90 people attended that first weekend, where activities included water-skiing and dancing to DJs. Adam says it was so successful that six months later he arranged a winter camp, with the number of attendees rising to 120. It was after that second camp that Adam decided that he could turn his idea into a full-time business, buoyed by the encouragement of his friends, who said he was a natural party organiser. "It was the aha moment," he says. "All my friends thought it was so directly in line with who I am, and what I love to do. " So Adam quit his job in May 2014 and formally launched CNC. The company's name is in reference to the fact that unlike kids' summer camps, there are no camp officials spoiling the fun. "I only had a little bit of savings, but I thought I could start with one camp and then two," he says. "Once word got out it moved quickly. " Adam says he had to work hard initially to "explain and justify" the concept to the sometimes perplexed owners of the summer camp venues. What brought them on board was the fact that CNC allows the venues to extend their opening seasons, as it typically hires them out before and after the school holidays. "This is incremental income to the camps as they are typically closed during the spring and fall seasons when we rent them out," says Adam. The Los Angeles-based company quickly grew thanks to word of mouth, and this year will be running 30 camps across 10 locations, including Maine, Tennessee and California in the US, and Ontario in Canada. Typical activities include kayaking, rock climbing, softball and tug-of-war, while cocktails such as Bloody Marys and Mimosas (similar to a Buck's Fizz) can be sipped with breakfast. Each weekend lasts for three nights, and numbers are limited to 200 people. The average age of attendees is 30. All dormitories are unisex, so if you are a women, there could be a man you have never met before in the bed above you, and vice versa. This is not said to put people off. The cost is typically $575 per person (£430) but the events are all-inclusive so you don't have to pay any more for your food or drink. To run the camps CNC employs eight full-time and 15 part-time members of staff. So why is CNC proving to be so popular? Adam pinpoints several reasons. "There's the nostalgia of it all. Wouldn't it be cool to go back to camp with friends, and be able to drink and stay up all night? "The other idea is that a lot of people didn't go to camp [as children], so there is the curiosity about it and now they get to go. " Adam adds that none of the camps have wi-fi, so people are having "to put the phone down, forget about work, and just have fun and meet new people". Daphne Kasriel-Alexander, a consumer trends consultant at research group Euromonitor, agrees with Adam's arguments for the growth of CNC and other companies in its field. She says: "More adults are opting for active summer camps as a way for them to enjoy the perceived carefree times of childhood. "However, the real drivers of this interest in, and success of, adult summer camps are over-connectivity, work-life balance stresses, and sedentary lifestyles. " CNC has, however, come in for criticism over the fact that its camps aren't open to all. Instead anyone wishing to attend has to register, which includes filling out a questionnaire about themselves, and giving the details of your social media accounts. The company then "specially selects" or "curates" the 200 people that can attend each camp. One critic dubbed this "slightly creepy social engineering", but CNC defends its approach. Dave Kushner, CNC's director of community engagement, says: "Because of limited space we make sure the 200 people who are coming to camp are the people that want to be there the most. "We want to make sure that this camp community will respect each other's space, and doesn't demonstrate any hateful or unsafe attitudes. "We're very proud of the fact that we've never had anyone get into a fight at camp, even with people partying with an open bar available. " Looking ahead, Adam is planning further expansion across the US and Canada, as well as looking overseas. He says: "I love making people happy, and enabling adults to forget about the stresses of adult life, while making new life-long friendships. "

2016-07-04 22:01 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

84 Juno mission: Jupiter probe on course for orbit manoeuvre The US space agency (Nasa) says its Juno probe is on course to go into orbit around the Planet Jupiter. The satellite is described as healthy and ready for what scientists concede will be a risky manoeuvre. Juno has to execute a precise rocket firing to slow itself sufficiently to get captured by the giant world's gravity. If it succeeds, researchers should get their best ever view of what lies beneath Jupiter's stormy clouds. The 35-minute orbit insertion burn - timed to to start at 03:18 GMT (04:18 BST) on Tuesday - is sure to jangle the nerves of everyone here in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. If the engine fails to fire at the right time or for an insufficient period, this $1.1bn (£800m) venture will simply fly straight past Jupiter and into the oblivion of deep space. Juno will not have its main dish pointed at Earth during the braking procedure, so the mission team will have to follow events via a series of simple tones sent back through the probe's low-gain antenna. Rick Nybakken, Juno's project manager, said the probe had to thread itself on to a very accurate trajectory to achieve its goal. "What we're targeting is a space that's tens of km wide. We're going to hit that within 1.2 seconds after a journey of [2.8 billion km]. That tells you just how good our navigation team is," he told reporters. "We need to get into orbit tonight and I'm very confident we will. " The scientists must sit on their hands, though. The event is so far away, radio messages take 48 minutes to cross the vastness of space. Juno has to do everything on its own. Assuming everything goes to plan, Juno's mission is to look down on the giant world to work out what it is made from and how it is put together. We should finally discover whether it has a solid core or if its gas merely compresses to an ever denser state all the way to the centre. We should also gain new insights on the famous Great Red Spot - the colossal storm that has raged on Jupiter for hundreds of years. Juno will tell us how deep its roots go. The principal investigator is Scott Bolton from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas. He says he cannot wait to get started: "It is the king of our Solar System. This is it; more massive than all the other planets and everything else in our Solar System combined (other than the Sun)," he said. "Its zones and belts, its Great Red Spot, its incredible turbulent atmosphere - we've known it for many, many years. It's a gorgeous planet but what Juno is about is looking beneath that surface. We've got to go down and look at what's inside. " But as enticing as the science is, what worries team-members is the intense radiation around Jupiter, which could upset Juno's electronics, now or in the coming months. This radiation is a consequence of Jupiter's mighty magnetic field, which whips particles to near light-speed. Experts have designed Juno's orbit such that it avoids dipping into the most hazardous regions that surround the planet. Engineers have also put sensitive electronics for the probe's instruments and control systems inside a thick-walled titanium box. Even so, some equipment, such as the visible camera, is expected to fail before a formal end to the mission is called in early 2018. JPL engineer Heidi Becker said the success of Juno was going to depend absolutely on the protection it receives from its "suit of armour". "[Without it], Juno would be experiencing a radiation dose of over 20 million rads, which is like a human undergoing 100 million dental X-rays in a little over a year," she explained. But it is only by getting in close to Jupiter - a little under 5,000km above the cloudtops on occasions - that Juno can acquire the data it seeks. The satellite is equipped with nine instruments designed to study Jupiter's spectacular auroras and to look through the planet's many obscuring layers. A key quest is to determine the abundance of water in the atmosphere - an indicator of how much oxygen was present in Jupiter's region of the Solar System when it formed, and perhaps a tell-tale of any migration it may have made from its original formation location. The uncertainty over the presence of a solid core should be resolved with the aid of very precise gravity measurements. Scientists have models for how they think the centre of Jupiter behaves, but there is no way they can test the physics in an Earth lab. "The atmospheric pressure at Earth is about one bar; at the centre of Jupiter it is 80 million bar," explained mission team-member Fran Bagenal from the University of Colorado. "That's like a thousand elephants, one on top of the other, with the bottom elephant standing on a stiletto. " The orbit insertion burn on Tuesday will put Juno in a large ellipse around the planet that takes just over 53 days to complete. A second burn in mid- October will tighten the orbit to just 14 days. It is then that the science can really start. Nasa plans to run the mission through to February 2018. Juno will be commanded to end operations by ditching itself in the atmosphere of the planet. This ensures there is no possibility of the probe crashing into and contaminating Jupiter's large moons, at least one of which, Europa, is considered to have the potential to host microbial life. There will be updates on Juno's orbit insertion across BBC News, and the BBC Sky At Night programme will run a special programme dedicated to the mission on Sunday 10 July at 20:30 BST, on BBC Four. Jonathan. [email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

2016-07-04 22:01 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

85 Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary Rajendra Kumar arrested New Delhi: The CBI on Monday arrested Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for allegedly misusing his official position and facilitating tenders worth Rs 9.5 crore to a particular company. Four others, including former assistant director of VAT department Tarun Sharma, were also arrested for alleged corruption. Apart from Rajendra Kumar and Sharma, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two directors of Endeavour Systems Private Limited Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar Gupta, and another person Ashok Kumar, an official said. The CBI had on December 14, 2015 registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Rajendra Kumar for allegedly abusing his official position in awarding contracts from the city government to private firm Endeavour Systems Private Limited. Six others were also named in the FIR by the CBI on a reference by the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government. The others booked in the case include two former managing directors of Intelligent Communication System India Limited (ICSIL) A. K. Duggal and G. K. Nanda, the present managing director of ICSIL R. S. Kaushik and the two arrested directors of Endeavour Systems Private Limited. According to the FIR, Rajendra Kumar promoted a company, Endeavour System Pvt. Ltd. Rajendra Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa- Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre, allegedly facilitated an award of five contracts worth Rs.9.5 crore to ICSIL and Endeavour Systems during 2007-2014. A CBI official said that Kumar has emerged as the kingpin of the scam. Without any government tendering process, Rajendra Kumar, when working as chairman of Delhi Transco Limited, allegedly facilitated an award of contract worth Rs 40.16 lakh to Endeavour Systems for the development of a comprehensive management information system in 2009, the official said. "As a secretary in the health and family welfare department of the Delhi government, Rajendra allegedly awarded a Rs 2.43 crore manpower project in the health ministry to Endeavour Systems through ICSIL in November 2010. This tender was also not passed by the government," the official said. Working as commissioner in trade and taxes department, Rajendra Kumar in May 2012 facilitated a project award of Rs 3.66 crore to Endeavour Systems through ICSIL for the development of software applications, the official said. Rajendra Kumar, as a secretary of information and technology in the Delhi government, allowed a facility management system project worth Rs 45.5 lakh to Endeavour Systems in July 2013 without any government tender. "As a secretary to Delhi CM, Rajendra ensured and allegedly facilitated a project of enterprise resources planning of Delhi Jal Board worth Rs.2.46 crore to Endeavour Systems in June 2014. This project was given to ICSIL by the Delhi Jal Board in February 2014 through a proper tendering process," the official said. The CBI claimed that it had also confirmed the allegations through its own sources before filing a case on charges of criminal conspiracy and under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The CBI said the documents seized from the office of Rajendra Kumar reflected "criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct" and abuse of official position by the accused persons. The CBI had conducted raid on Rajendra Kumar's office on December 15, 2015 at the Delhi Secretariat. The arrest had provoked Kejriwal to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a series of tweets where he called the Prime Minister a psychopath and alleged that the real target of the CBI raid was he himself. "When Modi couldn't handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice. Modi is a coward and psychopath," Kejriwal had tweeted.

2016-07-04 22:00 By IANS www.mid-day.com

86 Requests for abortions up as Zika spreads This development comes in the aftermath of a November alert about the Zika virus issued by the Pan American Health Organization. The alert revealed the potential for the virus to cause serious complications in unborn children, including microcephaly, severe brain abnormalities, and eye and hearing defects. Some governments in turn issued health advisory warnings, including the suggestion that women simply avoid becoming pregnant. This move was unprecedented, said Dr. Catherine Aiken, one of the study's authors. To tell an entire country to simply not get pregnant while not providing access to options -- including, in many cases, contraception -- led her and others to wonder what women were feeling and doing. "We really were not sure how women were going to respond to this health crisis," said Aiken, a lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Cambridge. "The one voice that was missing in the whole conversation was the women themselves. " Seeking online access to abortion medications In the absence of universal abortion availability, women in Latin America have in recent years turned to Women on Web , a nonprofit that provides online access to abortion medications, specifically mifepristone and misoprostol -- which should not be confused with morning-after pills. The new analysis of Women on Web's data between January 1, 2010, and March 2, 2016, provided insight into developments in 19 Latin American countries. What the researchers found was that in places where governments issued health advisories about Zika and pregnancies, requests for abortions through Women on Web jumped by up to 108%. These were not necessarily requests from women who'd even contracted the Zika virus, Aiken said. These were women who feared they might get it. That largest increase came from Brazil and, not far behind, Ecuador, which had a 107.7% increase. Venezuela's requests grew by more than 93%, Honduras by nearly 76%, Colombia by nearly 39% and Costa Rica and El Salvador by about 36%. Only Jamaica, in this group of countries, saw a decrease in abortion requests, by nearly 33%. In countries where health advisories were not issued, the numbers generally went up far less, if at all. Bolivia saw the biggest increase, of about 68%. Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay went up in the range of 21% to 25% and Guatemala by more than 8%. Both Mexico and the Dominican Republic saw decreases in abortion requests by, respectively, about 7% and 20%. Then there was a group of nearby countries where Zika hadn't shown up when the alert was issued in November. Requests there also went up: in the Bahamas by about 43%, Argentina by about 22%, and Peru and Trinidad and Tobago by about 21%. All of these stats were tied to Women on Web numbers, however, and therefore probably underestimate the rate of abortions, "since many women may have used an unsafe method, accessed misoprostol from local pharmacies or the black market, or visited local underground providers," the researchers wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. 'It isn't enough ... just to warn women' The World Health Organization predicts that 3 million to 4 million people across North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean will contract the Zika virus by early next year. "It isn't enough for health officials just to warn women about the risks associated with Zika," Aiken said. "They must also make efforts to ensure that women are offered safe, legal and accessible reproductive services. " To toss out a terrifying warning without offering ways to help women "harms the health of your population rather than improves it," she said. Aiken and her colleagues are not alone in believing it's time for serious discussions about women and reproductive rights in Latin America. Amanda Klasing is a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch who focuses on women in Latin America. Even without seeing this study, she wasn't surprised to hear about the surge in abortion requests. Preventing pregnancy can be impossible for some living in this region, she said. Take into account the prevalence of sexual violence and marital rape in the area, or the limited access to contraception, especially for adolescents and marginalized groups. "Regardless of the fact that you can go to jail for having an abortion in many of these countries, it's not surprising that women and girls would turn to clandestine avenues to procure abortions," Klasing said. "Imagine how scary it must feel to be a girl or woman who becomes pregnant in a Zika- affected country right now. " Those who inevitably suffer most are the poor, who aren't able to work around the system, said Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice. He doesn't hide his frustration with politicians who answer to church bishops rather than the people they serve. It's on them to "step up to end discrimination against the poor," he said, and make sure all women in Latin America have equal access to legal and safe abortions. "Politicians in Latin America need to do the right thing," O'Brien said, or they will "forever be remembered as having locked the exit doors as the fire of Zika raged throughout the building. "

2016-07-04 21:45 Jessica Ravitz rss.cnn.com

87 Remembering a Grimly Prophetic July 4 On July 4, 1826, America awaited a special moment. It was the young nation’s Jubilee. It was the 50th anniversary of its birth, of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a grand triumph in the annals of not merely the new nation but in the much older and longer march of humanity. “The United States celebrated its fiftieth birthday with parades and speeches across the country,” details historian Andrew Burstein in his book, America’s Jubilee. “It was a watershed moment in the nation’s history…. But what ultimately sanctified the national jubilee in the minds of the celebrants was an extraordinary coincidence: the nearly simultaneous deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the last pillars of the original republic, already venerated as legends in their own time.” Americans solemnly awaited impending news of whether the two principal architects of the Declaration, Jefferson and his chief editor, Adams, would survive for the celebration. Jefferson was 83 and Adams was 90. How profound it was that both indispensable founders lived just long enough. Both died that exact date, July 4, 1826, as if by divine doing. But like all moments of glory, the devil lurks in the darkness, biding time in grim hope of destroying what is good. To that end, on that same glorious date, July 4, 1826, an English socialist transplanted to American soil likewise issued a bold declaration. His name was Robert Owen (1771-1858), one of whom my colleague at The American Spectator, Dan Flynn, describes as the 19th century’s “Yankee Utopians.” Owen was one of the first in a long line of leftist property-seizers, nature-redefiners, and God-haters. On July 4, 1826, Owen stood atop his new ideological colony in New Harmony, Indiana, the heart of the American heartland, and delivered his “Declaration of Mental Independence.” It was, in effect, an anti-Declaration of Independence, the opposite of an affirmation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, of the laws of nature and nature’s God. “I now declare to you and to the world,” proclaimed Owen, “that man up to this hour has been in all parts of the earth a slave to a trinity of the most monstrous evils that could be combined to inflict mental and physical evil upon the whole race.” What were these monstrosities? “I refer to private property, absurd and irrational systems of religion and marriage founded upon individual property,” answered Owen. The stoic socialist called for no less than a “revolution” to deliver mankind from “this hydra of evils.” He told his socialist colonists that the Declaration of Independence had been but a precursor on the arduous road to securing their “mental liberty,” their freedom of the mind. He gave a cursory nod to “Washington, Franklin, Henry, and the other worthies.” But unfortunately, “these men, whose minds were in advance of the age in which they lived, were encircled by the prejudices which they and their fathers brought from Europe, and which had descended to the inhabitants of those regions through many ages of despotism, superstition and ignorance.” They might have been enlightened men, but they were not enlightened enough. They were shackled, especially by the false promise of religion, which, said Owen, was the mindset of “superstitious idiots.” The American Founders’ conception of liberty was manacled by the “monstrosity” that was religion. Robert Owen grandiosely explained to his colonists that for “nearly forty years” he had been “employed, heart and soul, day by day, almost without ceasing” in the task before him, which he now generously presented to them. Now, he assured, “the fullness of time” had arrived: “the fullness of time, for the accomplishment of this great event… such has been the extraordinary course of events, that the Declaration of Political Independence, in 1776, has produced its counterpart, the Declaration of Mental Independence in 1826 — the latter just half a century from the former.” Thus, Robert Owen embarked upon his collectivist colony, shaping and defining it in his own image. He and his acolytes began their new civilization by scrapping the Christian Anno Domini calendar, marking 1826 as their new Year One. Owen’s new society was a giant collective that pooled profits and people, replacing the nuclear family with the collective family. Children were separated from parents into distinct parts of the collective for proper group “education.” Predictably, the New Harmony colony floundered. Within just two years, Owens utterly and objectively failed. But to a committed leftist, there is never any such thing as failure. Utopia is always possible in this world. A confident Owen proclaimed: “The social system is now firmly established.” Well, in an ironic way, it was indeed. Even as Robert Owen’s New Harmony commune quickly collapsed, dozens of imitators eagerly sprang up around the country, from the Charles Fourier/Albert Brisbane models to the Oneida colony of “Bible communist” John Humphrey Noyes, all merely in the 19th century. A century later still, in the 1960s, the cultural Marxists and socialists and secular “progressives” of the New Left erected their hippie “commie communes,” such as Tom Hayden’s and Robert Scheer’s Red Family collective in Berkeley. Rarely did any of these collectivist cocoons last more than four years. But again, failure has never deterred the left. The left simply will tell you that it needs more power and it will ultimately get it right. And Robert Owen was one of the first. And so, on July 4, 1826, as Jefferson and Adams, geniuses of a genuinely peerless Declaration, fathers of a lasting revolution, both dramatically breathed their last gasps of life on the 50th anniversary of their eloquent achievement on behalf of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and as Americans celebrated, there was a tiny band of leftist cultural revolutionaries and fundamental transformers already concocting new schemes for a new human nature. And sadly, here in America on July 4, 2016, it is those forces, those “change agents” (to borrow from Barack Obama) that are at long last winning the day. For a good two centuries, the ideas of Jefferson and Adams, of an American understanding of liberty based on timeless Judeo-Christian principles and natural law, prevailed. But alas, that was the old America. Today, in the New America, our nation’s “progressives” and their contemporaries celebrate a new definition of “freedom.” They herald what Justice Anthony Kennedy, legal architect of same-sex “marriage,” proclaimed: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” No. That is absolutely not what the American founders defined as liberty. That is, really, the Robert Owen standard. It is the right to reinvent liberty, to define one’s own concept of existence, meaning, the universe, and human life anew. And in fact, Robert Owen and Anthony Kennedy are much more alike than we might think at a glance. Kennedy, like Owen, gives a cursory nod to the American founders, but haughtily dismisses their allegedly limited and narrow understanding of “liberty.” And in that, and most devastating of all, Kennedy and his progressive allies on the Supreme Court and in the White House have a mass culture behind them. Today’s Americans, awash in a font of secular ignorance provided by a rudderless education system that aggressively undermines everything the founders imagined, blithely reject the timeless Judeo-Christian principles and natural law upon which the founders established a great nation. They merrily redefine everything from marriage to gender to whether or not life itself is even deemed “life” worthy of protection under the Constitution devised by the American founders. In a shrill echo of Robert Owen, the modern spirit that prevails in America today is one where absolutist appeals to private property, religion, and marriage are deemed irrational at best. Ask the bakers or florists or photographers who, in the name of their religion, plead with the state not to be forced to service a same-sex wedding that they believe violates their faith. Ask Melissa and Aaron Klein in Oregon, who lost their business and are being crushed personally and financially for asking a lesbian couple to please go elsewhere for a wedding cake. The left is more than happy to shut them down and destroy their livelihood and lives. Conscientious objectors are cretins in the left’s Brave New World of fundamental transformation. They are bullied by the forces of “tolerance” and “diversity” who deem their views unacceptable and intolerable in the New America. Kim Davis? Come now. What is she to secular progressives but an Owen- esque “superstitious idiot?” To quote one of my atheistic British correspondents, does Davis really believe there exists some giant, invisible “sky fairy” who decides what is and isn’t marriage? Hah! Absurd and irrational! As Dan Flynn has correctly observed, Robert Owen “would feel more at home” today in a world of same-sex marriage, easy divorce, and public squares and courthouses stripped of manger scenes and the Ten Commandments. And that’s just marriage and religion. Remember that Robert Owen was, after all, more broadly a socialist, and socialism is on the rise in America unlike ever before. A major Pew study informs us that 49% of Americans aged 18-29 have a positive view of socialism, exceeding those with a positive view of capitalism. Self-described socialist Bernie Sanders ran a closed second pursuing the Democratic Party presidential nomination. He earned over 12 million votes nationwide. And there’s still more: Today, Robert Owen’s unwitting disciples on the secular left are even following his colony’s lead in attempting to scrap the Christian calendar. If you haven’t noticed, they are hellbent on eradicating the antiquated use of “B. C.” and “A. D.” And why not give it a shot? They have had tremendous success chasing Christ out of Christmas. Why not chase him from the calendar? They are on a roll. This is the New America, the “fundamentally transformed” one, to borrow from our President of Fundamental Transformation. The America of this July 4, 2016 looks increasingly a lot more like Robert Owen’s than that of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. It is chilling to imagine that on July 4, 1826, all eyes in America were fixed on Jefferson and Adams while virtually no one was watching Robert Owen, and yet it is Owen’s ghost that hovers among us. Robert Owen might have been a dangerous, destructive nut in his day, but he was also a prophet, a forerunner, a herald of 21st century America.

2016-07-04 20:52 Paul Kengor spectator.org

88 Wisconsin College Student Reported Missing in Italy Video Not being able to do anything. So arcing from the waiting to us from Vienna older brother always. Chad do what I can take care is the hardest part for brother call Solomon who is pretty much been on the phone nonstop since Friday afternoon. When he and his family got the news that their beloved son and brother beau is missed seen overseas. Most responsible kid ever so and we see that's happening we know it's. And I think this is just so on characteristic of faux. In incoming UW Madison sophomore who was the star quarterback of his high school football team in spring green. Who took enough advanced placement classes and high school that when combined with this summer in Italy. It would allow him to graduated only three years all of this after battling cancer throughout most of his child. But he had over fifteen to Tony procedures are growing up throughout his life and was able to overcome all that. Cole says his parents left for Italy Sunday afternoon. Using various connections from family and friends to obtain passports and plane ticket so they could join the search efforts overseas. Meanwhile Kohl and his Brothers are back home trying to stay positive as they spread the message through social media hoping someone sees their brother goes picture. And knows where to find. China. Just bring all. So it or back. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

2016-07-04 21:35 ABC News abcnews.go.com

89 Wimbledon: Sania-Martina enter quarters, Bopanna knocked out London : India’s tennis star Sania Mirza stormed into the women’s doubles quarter- finals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament while Rohan Bopanna was knocked out in the men’s doubles third round here on Monday. The top seeded Sania and her partner Switzerland’s Martina Hingis outclassed United States’ Christina McHale and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 6-1, 6-0 in just 46 minutes in the third round played at court 17 to storm into the quarters of the tournament. Sania Mirza with her partner Martina Hingis. (Right) Rohan Bopanna While the sixth seeded pair of Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea went down 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-8 to tenth seeded pairing of Finnish Henri Kontinen and his partner Australia’s John Peers in two hour and 55 minutes played at the court 14. Sania-Martina began the match on an aggressive note by winning 19 out of 28 first serve points and two out of five break points to take the opening set 6-1 at ease in a few minutes time. Christina-Jelena went through some tough times once again in the second set as top seeded Indo-Swiss pair won 13 out of 16 first serve points and three out of five break points to win the set 6-0 and seal a place in the last four. On the other hand, the sixth seeded Indo-Romanian pair of Bopanna and Mergea went down 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-8 to 10th seeded pairing of Finnish Henri Kontinen and his partner Australia’s John Peers in two hours and 55 minutes. The sixth seeded pair started the match on a positive note taking an important 4-0 lead and then eventually won the opening 6-2 to grab the advantage. Bopanna-Mergea won 9 out of 10 first serve points in the set. The pair broke their opponent twice in the set. But Kontinen-Peers made a strong comeback in the second set winning 13 out of 15 first serve points and breaking the sixth seeds once to take the second set 6-3. In the third set, the 10th seeded Finnish and Australian pair carried on the momentum from the second set to win 18 out of 22 first serve points and breaking Bopanna-Mergea once to win the third set 6-4 and take a 2-1 led in the tie at court No.14. Bopanna-Mergea staged a much needed comeback in the fourth set to stay in the match as they won 17 out of 18 first serve points along with three aces to take the game into tri-break. The Indo-Romanian pair prevailed in the tri-break to win it 8-6 and come to 2-2 level terms and take the match to fifth and deciding set. The fifth and final set saw an even tougher battle between the two sides but Kontinen-Peers held their nerves to win 25 out of 31 first serve points and also earn a break point as the 10th seeds stunned the sixth seeds 8-6 in the fifth set to book a place in the quarters

2016-07-04 21:33 By IANS www.mid-day.com

90 Why Trump is right about Judge Jeffrey T. Kuhner Our political and media elites are trying to turn this into Trump’s version of Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” comment — a watershed moment that cripples the GOP candidate’s electoral viability. The mainstream media — including many on FOX News — and Hillary Clinton are calling the maverick billionaire a racist. Beltway Republicans are piling on. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Trump’s words are a “textbook definition of a racist comment.” Newt Gingrich growls they are “inexcusable.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told Trump to “recant.” Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has rescinded his endorsement. Jeb Bush — who says he will not vote for Trump in November — is demanding that he “apologize” and immediately end his “hateful” and “racist rhetoric.” Yet, this begs the question: What did Trump say that is so beyond the pale? Answer: nothing. This is political correctness gone mad — a desperate, pathetic attempt to distort and twist the Republican nominee’s words in order to portray him as a vile anti-Mexican bigot. That liberals are peddling this nonsense is understandable. This is what they do; lying about conservatives is their stock in trade. What is disgraceful, however, is that leading establishment Republicans are joining the lynch mob. The scandal began when Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Judge Gonzalo Curiel might not be fair and objective because of his “Mexican heritage.” The context is everything. Prior to the interview, Judge Curiel had made numerous questionable and unethical decisions regarding the Trump University lawsuit. The suit was blatantly frivolous and should have been thrown out on several occasions. Judge Curiel refused to do so. In fact, he deliberately ruled that documents be released falsely alleging Trump was running a fraudulent operation. The goal was obvious: to humiliate and smear the Republican nominee. The judge’s defenders insist that he was born in Indiana, thereby making him an “American.” According to them, to even question the role played by his ethnic heritage is bigotry of the highest order. It’s “Un-American” shouted Paul Ryan. It isn’t — and Judge Curiel’s defenders are either willfully lying or ignorant. Either way, they should be ashamed of themselves. The fact is Judge Curiel is an anti-American, pro-Mexican radical leftist. His parents were immigrants from Mexico. More importantly, President Obama appointed him to the bench. The reason: Judge Curiel is a staunch supporter of open borders, amnesty and mass illegal immigration — especially, from Mexico. He is a seminal member of La Raza Lawyers, a militant pro-Hispanic legal organization devoted to promoting “the interests of the Latino communities throughout” California (the judge sits on a bench in San Diego). Judge Curiel is a pro-illegal immigration ideologue; he believes that U. S. immigration laws are fundamentally racist, oppressive and unjust. According to him (and La Raza Lawyers), American sovereignty and immigration statutes must be ignored and eventually eradicated. He has even participated in La Raza events where he granted scholarships to illegal aliens from Mexico — students, who could not speak a word of English. He is a rogue judge whose allegiance and political affiliation is not to America, but Mexico. He may be born in Indiana. His heart, however, is in Mexico City. It is not just his ethnic chauvinism and political activism that is deeply troubling. The San Diego law firm behind the Trump University suit also has extensive ties to La Raza Lawyers. Moreover, the firm is a major Hillary Clinton supporter. It paid $675,000 in speeches to Hillary. In other words, the class-action lawsuit is littered with conflicts of interest — the lawyers on behalf of the plaintiffs and the presiding judge belong to the same radical leftist, pro-Hispanic outfit; and the plaintiffs’ legal team and the presiding judge are partisan Democrats who share a common political interest in bringing down Trump. Any judge worth his salt would have recused himself. Judge Curiel hasn’t. The reason he won’t is the same reason that Trump is bravely and courageously insisting lies at the heart of the matter: Judge Curiel’s ethnic- based activism and radical political views precludes him from being fair, unbiased or professional. La Raza in Spanish literally means “the race.” Imagine if a white judge belonged to a legal association called, say, the White Order, which was dedicated entirely to advancing white racial interests and white nationalist causes. That judge would (rightly) be kicked off the bench immediately; the public uproar would be immense; the media and political establishment would be fuming. Yet, when it comes to Hispanics (and blacks) there is a blatant double standard: They can be racist; they can engage in identity politics; and they can see the world — including our legal system — through the distorted lens of race, ethnicity and blood. Whites, however, cannot. If this is not genuine anti-white racism, then I don’t know what is. Judge Curiel’s defenders, such as FOX News’ Megyn Kelly, insist that La Raza Lawyers is completely separate from the National Council of La Raza. It’s a distinction without a difference. They are sister organizations. They share the same militant pro-Hispanic left-wing agenda. They both receive much of their funding from open-borders advocates like George Soros. They both are mouthpieces on behalf of the Mexican government. They both champion uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration. And both assert that their Hispanic identity comes before their loyalty to America. In short, they are Latinos first and Americans — if that — second. The National Council of La Raza is a fifth column. Many of its members call for the “Reconquista” — the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico. They believe — and this is taught in many Mexican schools and espoused in numerous Mexican newspapers — that the United States stole California, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona during the War of 1848. They seek to erect a “Greater Mexico” not by military aggression, but through mass immigration and cultural annexation. This is why they aggressively push for sanctuary cities, open borders, bilingualism, unlimited influx of illegal aliens and Hispanic separatism and Latino racial solidarity. Their goal is to forge a distinct Mexican/Hispanic nation within America. It is treason in the form of Balkanization. This is why La Raza members have been behind many of the violent anti- Trump riots. Take the recent one in San Jose. It’s no accident that Trump supporters were beaten, punched and assaulted, while pro-illegal immigrant rioters burned the American flag and waved the Mexican flag. The logic of Hispanic racial and cultural separatism is clear: Those rampaging thugs may live in America, but they belong to a pan-Mexican homeland. Trump poses a mortal threat to this revanchist project. His America First agenda — the desire to build a wall along the southern border, enforce our immigration laws, deport criminal illegal aliens, restore America’s sovereignty, renegotiate disastrous trade deals such as NAFTA and end the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs — stands against the globalists and corporate interests that have hijacked both political parties. He is the only major leader willing to oppose the gradual dissolution and betrayal of our country. Gonzalo Curiel has no business being a federal judge. Any man who belongs to an organization that is defined by and devoted to advancing the interests of a particular ethnic, national group at the expense of others is a narrow-minded bigot. Trump is completely correct: He is the victim of a political witch-hunt by a militant La Raza leftist whose ultimate allegiance is to Mexico — and not America. The political and media establishment could not defeat Trump during the primary. They are now hoping to crush him before the general election. They have only one strategy left: Smear him as a racist demagogue. This libel is not only false; it must be exposed for the cheap, craven propaganda that it is. They are spinning lies in service to their globalist, corporatist masters. In short, they are traitors, who are willing to sell our country down the river. It’s no wonder they are circling the wagons for Judge Curiel. He’s one of their own — an anti-American zealot who cares nothing for our borders, our culture and our Constitution. Our transnational elites may adore Judge Curiel. I, however, stand with Trump. With whom do you stand?

2016-07-04 20:53 By Jeffrey www.thetribunepapers.com

91 Cub Scout Camp Sponsored by Hooters Has Parents Upset Video While some parents in Denver they're angry after they discovered that their kids attended a boy scout camp. Sponsored by players OK that restaurant chain known for of the super short shorts and low cut top that we say and some face took shots show the boys posing with the hooters employees. And I suspect for a second and they take a lot and then my babe wearing knickers. I meant any of the scouts we think he made it very poor choice in what I what I like and I think we go along way again is sound. Accountability. We'll couldn't what one mom said they. Philosophies of the two groups are polar opposite ends don't belong together the boy scout counted midst of the hooters employees mistakenly. Let's say the wrong retire to that event for the boys yes I'm sure the boys will never forget had a net I think. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. 2016-07-04 21:29 ABC News abcnews.go.com

92 California Man in Coma After Police Altercation, Family Says Video Transcript for California Man in Coma After Police Altercation, Family Says 32 year old Vincent Valenzuela is in a medically induced coma. After an altercation with Anaheim police it happened Saturday morning nearest 7-Eleven on Broadway in magnolia. Police say they received a call of a suspicious man who followed a woman home. Officers confronted Valenzuela who they say was in possession of narcotics paraphernalia. And resisted arrest. While they were trying to take him into custody he could go into medical distress. The officers illegally performed life saving efforts called for Anaheim fire rescue came paramedics also performed. First aid transport in the hospital. Family members say witnesses told them Valenzuela was taser by the officers and went into cardiac arrest Albany. Somebody can come forward where that video. So we can see what really happened because this 7-Eleven and manager was not very cooperative with us he refused because apparently he will only give it to the police. The family and their attorneys believe this was a case of police brutality there always gonna do this and those gonna give these sensational stories of how it went down. I need to see evidence felons Willis family especially his nine year old son hope he'll pull through. We want. To view T Anthony. Basketball. Fans are going meat yeah. Police say they can't comment on whether he was taser to the officers were wearing body cameras. The footage from those cameras has been provided this attorney's office and it has been verified that the cameras are activated to tiny incident occurred. The office of independent review and the district attorney's office are now investigating the use of force. In Anaheim Melissa McBride a BC seven Eyewitness News. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

2016-07-04 21:29 ABC News abcnews.go.com

93 93 Court seeks CBI's reply on Peter Mukerjea's plea about secret witness A special court here today asked CBI to file its reply by July 7 on the plea of Peter Mukerjea, former media baron and a co-accused in Sheena Bora murder case, seeking the statement of a secret witness submitted to the court by the central agency. Special CBI Judge H S Mahajan directed CBI to file its reply by July 7 on Peter's application. The central agency, in its supplementary charge-sheet filed in February, has submitted a statement of an unnamed witness in a sealed cover. CBI had said that they are not revealing the identity or the statement of the witness as investigation was going on. Meanwhile, the court allowed Peter's lawyer to meet him in Central prison at Arthur Road here on July 8. The special court on Friday gave copies of Shyamwar Rai's confession to co-accused Sanjeev Khanna and others on a Bombay High court directive. Rai was the first accused to be arrested in the case in August 2015, taking the lid off the murder, after he was picked up in connection with an arms case. The trial court recently allowed Rai to turn an approver in the case and become a prosecution witness. Indrani Mukerjea, Khanna and Rai had allegedly strangled Sheena (24), Indrani's daughter from an earlier relationship, inside a car in April 2012. Meanwhile, the court extended the judicial custody of Indrani, Khanna and Peter till July 18. Rai was not produced today. The trio were arrested in August last year, while Peter was arrested in November. According to CBI, Peter was part of the murder conspiracy. Sheena's body was found in a forest in Raigad. The crime, which came to light in August last year, is allegedly linked to certain financial dealings.

2016-07-04 21:25 By PTI www.mid-day.com

94 Yavatmal molestation case: School management committee head held Yavatmal : The Secretary of the Jawaharlal Darda Education Society was today arrested in connection with a case of molestation of girls in kindergarten and primary classes by two teachers here. The arrest of Kishor Darda, the Secretary of the education society that runs Yavatmal Public School, comes in the wake of violent protests by parents of a few girl students against alleged molestation of their wards by Yash Borundia and Amol Shirsagar, who were arrested four days earlier in the case. The protesting parents were demanding that Darda, the Chairman of the school's management committee, be also arrested on the charge of "negligence" on the part of authorities. A case was registered against the members of the management committee under Section 21 (failure to report an offence against children) of POCSO Act. The school's principal was held two days ago and Darda wasarrested early this morning in Nagpur, Wadgaon Road police station in-charge Devidas Dhole said. He will be produced in court later in the day, the officer said.

2016-07-04 21:24 By PTI www.mid-day.com

95 Will never curb Virat's aggression but there's a line: Kumble Bengaluru : He will be the "last person to curb" skipper Virat Kohli's on-field aggression but newly appointed chief coach Anil Kumble made it clear that as "ambassadors of India" the players should also be aware that there exists a "thin line" which needs to be respected. India captain Virat Kohli and head coach Anil Kumble "I love his aggression. I was also no different as I was very aggressive. But we were probably very different in terms of how we came across in the field. But you don't want to curb aggression. I will be the last person to curb someone's natural instincts," Kumble said at the pre-departure press conference ahead of India's tour of West Indies. However, he also had a note of caution for all the aggressive players, including Kohli. "But we all know how important it is to be ambassadors of India and part of the Indian cricket team. That everybody understands. We will ensure there is a thin line and I hope everybody knows that. I won't certainly curb anyone's natural instincts," Kumble said with Kohli by his side. Asked about the expectations from the upcoming four-Test series in the Caribbean, India's highest ever wicket-taker said that the idea would always be to try for a victory as no team thinks in any other fashion. "As a coach, you want the team to win and prepare them to the best of their ability. To ensure that all areas are covered. Skill-wise as well as strategy wise so that they are able to assess any situation and find a solution on their own. Good part is that we are playing a lot of Test cricket and we will be able to assess the shortcomings if any and try to plug that. We will be playing 17 Tests, starting with West Indies and then New Zealand, England and Australia at home. "The goal is to remain consistent and win as many matches as you don't go into a match thinking that you cannot win it," the legendary leg-spinner said. Kumble also assured that off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin's injury on his right arm was "not very serious" although it is being monitored by the physio.

2016-07-04 21:23 By PTI www.mid-day.com

96 Double Bonanza: Praneeth, Manu-Sumeeth win titles at Canada (Canada) : It was double bonanza for India at the Canada Open as B Sai Praneeth and Rio-bound men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy clinched twin crowns after winning their respective title clash at the USD 55,000 Grand Prix badminton tournament here. The 23-year-old Praneeth, seeded fourth, dished out a dominating game to defeat Korea's Lee Hyun Il 21-12 21-10 in the men's singles final that lasted less than half an hour yesterday at the Markin MacPhail Centre. Top seed Manu and Sumeeth Reddy, who became the first Indian men's doubles pair to qualify for the Rio Olympics, received a big boost when they defeated local combo of and Toby Ng 21-8 21-14 in a lop-sided final here. Plagued by injuries and indifferent form, Praneeth has been making early exits from tournaments for quite a few years now. Of course, he had occasional burst of brilliance from time to time like when he stunned 2003 All England Champion Muhammad Hafiz Hashim of Malaysia at Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold tournament in June, 2013 or ruining the farewell party of Indonesia's Taufik Hidayat, a former World and Olympic champion, in the first round of Djarum Indonesia Open in 2013. In fact, at the All England Championships this year, Praneeth had defeated two-time Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in the first round. However, despite all these sparks of excellence, a title always eluded him. But yesterday, all that changed as the Andhra Pradesh lad stood at the podium with his maiden Grand Prix crown at his hands.

2016-07-04 21:22 By PTI www.mid-day.com

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98 Breaking News English Lesson Fraudsters are using a new method to trick people into parting with their money. They are pretending to be technical support teams of people's ISP (Internet Service Provider). The new scam is very realistic and can trick even experienced Internet users. The fraudsters are targeting the IP (Internet Protocol) of computers – this is a particular computer's online ID number. Once they have the IP, the victim gets a pop-up window with a message that says the ISP has "detected malware" on the computer. The victim is then advised to call a phone number for help. The Internet security company Malwarebytes said: "The scammers are trying to get people to call them. People are literally paying to be scammed. " Malwarebytes said most of the scams so far have been detected in the USA and UK, but they will spread worldwide. Jerome Segura, a malware expert at Malwarebytes, told the BBC: "It caught me by surprise and I almost thought that it was real. It was a page from my ISP telling me my computer was infected. It was only when I looked in closer detail that I saw it was a scam. " The fraudsters are infecting online adverts. Once an infected ad appears on your screen, the virus works out your IP number. You do not even need to click on the ad for the virus to do this. Malwarebytes' advice is to call the tech support number you received when you signed up for the Internet, and to not trust numbers in pop-up windows.

2016-07-04 20:52 www.breakingnewsenglish.com

99 How Libor came to be fiddled Few outside the City of London knew anything about Libor before it hit the news in 2012, when Barclays was given a huge fine and its chief executive Bob Diamond resigned. But Libor - or the London inter-bank offered rate - is crucial because, flawed as it is, it has affected most of our financial lives. It was treated by every bank for years as the best measure they had of the real cost of borrowing. The interest rate that we journalists report on every month, unchanged now for 87 months, is the official Bank of England rate, which is currently 0.5%. But it is not this official rate that determines the cost of mortgages and other loans. What really counts in determining the interest rates we pay is what it costs the banks and building societies to get hold of the funds to lend to us. Libor was designed to track that cost. The trouble was - it could be fiddled. Every working morning before 11:00, 16 banks would be asked to say publicly what interest rate they thought they would have to pay to borrow funds from another bank. Each bank's Libor submitter would send that information to the financial information company Thomson Reuters, who would strip out the top four and bottom four submissions. The remaining eight would be added up and divided by eight to get an average - Libor. The result is published at 11:30. Libor tracked not only the cost of borrowing pounds, but also US dollars, Swiss francs and Japanese yen. And it measured the cost of borrowing those currencies for different periods of time: one number for borrowing overnight, another over three months, over six months, nine months and 12 months. But here is the key. Libor was not based on actual transactions. The FTSE 100 benchmark is derived from actual prices of shares changing hands. Yet Libor was asking for a submitter's opinion - at what price could you borrow funds were you to do so? And the trouble was that often - and especially during the credit crunch - they hadn't borrowed anything. Many of the banks on the panels did not even deal in the currencies about which they made submissions. So how could they have a clue what to submit? Imagine you are an estate agent asked to value a house in an area where you have never done business before, and where no houses had changed hands for months. How do you know the price? It is hard to discern between an honest opinion and a dishonest one when it is necessarily a guess. In the credit crunch, Libor became the financial equivalent of the game of pin the tail on the donkey. Logically, with no banks borrowing or lending, there were no cash transactions. So there need be no submissions. Yet submit they had to, because so much money was riding on where Libor went. From Libor's birth in 1986 through the 1990s and early 2000s there was an explosion in the use of derivatives - contracts that allowed traders to bet giant sums on which way an underlying investment was heading. In Chicago and London, derivatives traders started betting billions at a time on which way Libor would go. Thousands of US mortgages were set up linked to dollar Libor. There had to be a Libor every day, regardless of whether any funds had actually been borrowed or lent, because the derivatives were linked to it. By 2012, the notional value of all the money riding on Libor was $350 trillion (£265tn). That's about five times as much as everything produced in a year in the entire world. Yet the market on which it was based - the market for banks borrowing cash from each other - was worth more like $10tn. A case, perhaps, of putting the cart before the horse. The incentive - and therefore the temptation - was there. Derivatives traders were betting so much money on Libor that if it moved up or down by one- hundredth of one per cent, you could make or lose a million pounds for the bank. So it was worth a trader's while to make a request for Libor to be shifted up or down or kept the same, for the sake of managing the risks the bank was taking. And here is the crucial question. Was that obviously dishonest and against the rules? Or was it an endemic market practice, simply the way everyone had played the Libor game from the start?

2016-07-04 19:51 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

100 Does it help disabled people to let them win? A video has gone viral of schoolchildren slowing down to let a disabled classmate win a race. Laurence Clark, a comedian with cerebral palsy, is not sure he wouldn't rather lose. You may well have seen this clip - a sports day race begins, but everyone runs slowly to let their 10-year-old classmate with cerebral palsy win. He had been terrified of entering the event, because he'd come last every other year. As a father with cerebral palsy, I'm in two minds as to what to make of it. I'm very familiar with the concept of letting your child think they've won even if they haven't. For example, last week I took my two sons Jamie, five and Tom, 11, to play mini-golf. After each and every hole, Jamie would look up at me expectantly and ask whether he'd won that round. And each and every time, regardless of whether he'd done well or not, I would tell him that he had, causing him to hiss "Yessss! " and punch the air in victory. I do this partly to teach Tom to show generosity towards his younger brother, but more importantly, I don't want to be the father that all the other parents stare at with mild disapproval because his screaming five-year-old is having a total meltdown in the middle of a mini-golf course. However, as someone with cerebral palsy, I'm probably less comfortable with the video than most. Of course, it's much better that this boy's schoolmates are going out of their way to include him, rather than bully him, which may have been the more likely outcome when I went to school. But I cannot help but cringe when I think back to my own school days, and times when I may have been given an easier ride just because I'm disabled. The incident which sticks out most in my mind occurred when I was forced to do a training course to develop my social skills, which it was generally assumed we lacked by virtue of being disabled boarders at a special school. Now if you really want to improve the social skills of a surly teenager, pretty much the worst thing you can do is stick them on a course about it. This is because, speaking from experience, it'll really annoy them and consequently make them even less inclined to act sociably. The first session turned out to be how to ask someone out on a date. Again, sex and relationships was something the Powers That Be assumed we'd have no clue about. Take it from me - this subject has no place in any workshop environment, especially one for a group of 16-year-olds. I remember looking across the room to see the guy opposite take his forefinger and wiggle it round and round his armpit before giving it a surreptitious sniff. You had to hand it to him - as pulling techniques went, it was pretty radical. The course was run by a Canadian occupational therapist called Vicki, who started every sentence with "Hey" and had the kind of boundless positive energy that makes me want to gnaw my own leg off. And no prizes for guessing which lucky young buck she picked to practise chat-up lines with her. Laurence Clark was a guest on the latest Ouch podcast - listen to it here So feeling awkward and incredibly self-conscious, I fell back on the kind of cheesy lines that no-one would ever dream of using in a million years: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a special school like this? " I said. The fact I was spooning on oodles of irony seemed lost on her. But just when I thought things couldn't get more cringeworthy, she responded by pretending to come on to me. Vicki sensed I was struggling with the task in hand and so went easy on me. She let me think I had shown the social skills needed to get a date. She let me win just because of my cerebral palsy, in order to boost my confidence. But funnily enough, being forced to seduce someone twice my age in front of my schoolmates had the opposite effect. It was five more years before I started dating for real. Although this could be down to studying computer science. Undoubtedly, regardless of ability, every young child should have the experience of being a winner, whether it's a round of mini-golf or a school sports day. In fact, as I sit here writing this blog I await the delivery of the game Twister which no doubt my kids will thrash me at later on this evening. I guess this is one of the perks of having a dad with cerebral palsy. But in my hard-won experience, as disabled children grow up, there will come a point where letting them think they've won might do them more harm than good. Laurence Clark's show, Independence , is at Assembly George Square, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe, from 3 to 28 August

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