Tradisional Sabah Borneo

SYDNEY:

The Australian mother in-low of a notorious
Islamic State group fighter said Monday she
was "devastated " that police had refused to
help bring her five grandchildren home from
Syria,

Karen Nettleton 's daughter Tara is married
to Khaled Sharrouf ,who gained global infamy
last year when he posted pictures of himself
and his seven years old son on Twitter holding
up the severed heads of soldiers,

News emerged last week  that Sharrouf may
have died in the same drone attack believed
to have killed fellow Australian jihadist
Mohamed Elomar,raising concerns about
what would happen to his children who were
taken to Syria last year

"My advice to the family is to engage with
the proper legal authorities and not to conduct
this discussion through the media,Immigration
Minister Peter Dutton said on Wednesday.

"I think that the Australian Federal Police (AFP)
is the natural touch point for the family,I think
they need to engage with the AFP and talk about
what options there might be"

But Sydney grandmother Karen Nettleton said
she had been in contact with the police over a
period of months beginning last year about
bringing home the children now age four and
14

They were saying they would look into helping
us getTara and the children out of Syria "she told
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,

But she added that they suddenly changed their
attitude ,and concluded they were unable to help
her ,

"I was talking to one  of the agencies and I was
told that they wouldn't be able to help us Nettleton
said,I was  "devastated",because ,who else do you
go to get your children out of a place like that,
I certainly can't go there and get them
AFP

JERUSALEM;
A Palestinian woman stabbed a female
Israel soldier in the neck at a checkpoint
between Jerusalem and West Bank city
Bethlehem on Monday ,police said ,in
the latest such attack in recent days

The Palestinian had arrived at the check
point,which has separate lines for men
and women and pulled out a knife and
stabbed  a military police woman"a
police statement said,adding she had id
been detained at the scene.

Israel's emergency medical service Magen
David  Adom said the soldier was in
moderate condition,

The attack came in the Muslim holy month
of Ramadan ,during which Israel has eased
some restrictions on Palestinian movement
from the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem.

There has been sporadic Palestinian violence
during Ramadan',On Friday a Palestinian
open fire at Israeli soldiers at a West Bank
checkpoint before being shot dead,
AFP

ABU DHABI'

A United Arab Emirates court sentenced
an Emirati woman to death on Monday
after convicting her of the jihadist inspired
murder of an American teacher ,Abu Dhabi
news paper The National reported said,

Alaa Bader al Hashemi 30 was found guilty
of stabbing to death school teacher Ibolya
Ryan 47,in shopping mall toilet,the paper
said,

She was also convicted "creating a handmade
bomb"she placed in front of an Egyptian-
American doctor's home,it added,

The attacks took pace within hours of  each
other in the UAE capital on December 1'

Tracked down using CCTV footage of her
going into and out of the restroom where
the teacher 's murder took place and near the
doctor's building ,Hashemi was arrested  48
hours later,

She was dressed in black from head to toe
as she carried out both attacks
Hashemi was arrested at her home where
her car was found with blood on the steering
wheel and bomb making materials inside,
AFP

ISTANBUL,
Riot police in Istanbul used teargas and
fired rubber pellets to disperse thousands
of participants in the city 's gay Pride march
after some began chanting slogans against
the president,an AFP reporter said,

The scene turned violent when participants ,
many brandishing rainbow flags,denounced
"the fascism"of the conservative President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

Police then began to forcefully break up
the crowd ,with some officers firing
rubber pellets into the crowd,

On a fraught day ,pro-government attacked
a group of journalists covering the event,
including an AFP photographer,causing
minor injuries,

According to witnesses and the media ,
police did nothing to stop the attack ,
Another AFP journalist said she was
assaulted by officers when she tired  to
film the police intervention,

Before the march ,police closed off access
to Taksim Square ,the scene of ant goverenmet
protests in 2013 since which all demonstration
in the area have been banned'
AFP

BANJUL;

 Gambia's hardline President Yahya Jammeh
dismissed two judges in the Supreme Court
after criticising the court's move to commute
several death sentence to life sentences in
prison,a leading lawyer told AFP on Sunday,

The lawyer, who spoke on condition of
anonymity said Raymond Sock and Gibou
Janneh were sacked on Thursday without
any explanation from the government,

The sacking followed the dismissal of
Gambia's former chief justice ,the Pakistani
Ali Nawaz Chowhan,ni May he was ordered
to leave Gambia within 72 hours following
his dismissal,No reason was given by the
authorities for his sacking.

The lawyer said ,it was widely assumed that
it would be only  a matter of time"before
Justice Sock and Janneh were removed
from the office,.

But he said  their dismissal was "unlawful
and unconstitutional,and is not in line with
standard practice,

"There were laid down procedures for the
removal of judges from the office and this
is clearly spelt out in the Gambian constitution.
The presidency should not depart from this
practice "Shortly after a failed coup attempt
in January,Jammeh vowed to teach the
attackers a lesson,
AFP

MEXICO  CITY
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto
was released from a military hospital
Sunday after undergoing surgery to
remove his gall bladder,

"I feel very good ,both physically
and in spirits ,although with discomfort
natural to all surgical intervention,he
said in a televised message on leaving
the Central Military Hospital,

Pena Nieto 47,underwent laparoscopic
surgery to remove his gall bladder Friday
after suffering a sudden inflammation.

"He said his doctors had cleared  him
to resume normal activity,

On Monday he will welcome Spain's King
Felipe Vl  and his wife Letizia on their
first Latin America visit since he succeeded
to the throne in June 2014

In 2013 doctors operated on  Pena Nieto
to remove a thyroid nodule that had been
detected years earlier,
AFP

SINGAPORE;
Singapore's Azreen Sairudin has quit
sepaktakraw after he was seriously
injured and lost his younger brother
in a motorbike crash during the South
east Sea Games a report said on Monday,

The 25 year-old told The News Paper
it was too painful to continue in the
volleyball-style sorp after the crash
on June 7,a day before Singapore's
first match at the multi-sport Sea Games

Azreen was giving his brother Aqil
21 a lift when they were both flung
from his motoerbike in the early hours
accident on one of the city state's highway,

"I can still hear  my brother's voice
in my head" Azreen told the news
paper."We were both lying on the ground
and he told me,:Azreen I'm in somuch
pain"Those were his last words"

AFP

MENJELANG HARI BAHAGIA;

Amalan tradisi mandi bunga yang dilakukan
sebelum menjelang hari bahagia dianggap
sebagai persiapan terakhir bakal pengantin
untuk mengembalikan kesergaran badan,
menghilangkan tekanan,mencantikkan
kulit ,menyahkan bau badan  Dan juga
membangkitkan aura dalam badan agar
penampilan kelihatan lebih sergas,ceria
dengan wajah lebih berseri di hari bahagia

Jika anda mempunyai kesempatan ,anda
boleh melakukan sendiri amalan ini di rumah
Pasti kan anda memilih bunga-bungaan
yang segar dan berbau harum,,

Anda disyor menggunakan bunga yang
berwarna menarik kerana secara saittifiknya
,aura warna dan bauan bunga mempunyai
tenaga sendiri yang akan bertindak balas
dengan tenaga dalam tubuh seperti
kuasa magnet,

Bagi mereka yang sibuk menguruskan hal
perkahwinan dan komitment di tempat
kerja membawa kepada kekangan masa,
bakal mempelai masih boleh melakukan
amalan tradisi ini dengan berkunjung ke
spa atau pusat rawatan,

Kini ,amalan mandi bunga sahaja mendapat
tempat di kalangan bakal pengantin,malah
wanita berumah tangga dan bekerjaya turut
mengamalkan  mandi bunga kerana aura
tenaga bunga-bungaan yang digunakan bukan
sahaja dapat merihatkan badan tetapi  juga
dapat mengekalkan wajah agar sentiasa
bermaya dan menawan,
SELAMAT MENCUBA.

MARIE LANS

MEMILIH  PAKAIAN BERTUDUNG

Kepebagian fesyen bertudung menyerikan
lagi dunia fesyen masa kini terutama  nya
ketika bergear raja sehari,

Apa yang penting busana yang di pakai
selesa dan masih mengekalkan konsep
muslimah sebenar,Butik pengantin yang
memang terkenal dengan kosep bertudung
menampilkan pelbagai rekaan terkini
bagi pengantin bertudung,

Yang menggemari gaya moden dan
kontemporari

MODEN & KONTEMPORARI
BERCIRI  MUSLIMAH,


THANKS FOR WATCHING
MARIE  LANS

SEOUL"
South Korea on Sunday reported it's 32nd
death from Mers as the virus 's mortality
rate continued to rise even as the pace of
the outbreak appeared to slow,

A 55 year old man died Saturday of Middle
East Respiratory Disease, the health ministry
said putting the latest mortality  rate at 17 percent

That is up from 15 percent a week ago and
 percent two weeks ago,though still lower
than the World Health Organization figures
which put the mortality rate for the disease
at around 36 percent,

The man was diagnosed on June 9 after
contracting the virus at Samsung Medical
Centre in Seoul --the epicentre of the out
break where about 90 patients visitors and
medical staff had been infected.

The total number of the infections remained
unchanged at 182 and fifteen patients were
in critical condition ,the health ministry said,

The total of 91 have recovered and have been
released from hospital including one on Sunday
according to the ministry.

The outbreak started on May 20 when a 68
year-old man was diagnosed after returning from
a trip to Soudi Arabia

Since then the potentially deadly virus for which
there is no vaccine-- has spread at an unusually
rapid pace in the Asia's fourth -largest economy
becoming the largest outbreak outside Soudi
Arabia and sparking public alarm at home and
elsewhere in Asia.


The South Korea 's government is facing criticism
for failing to stop the outbreak
AFP

JOHANNESBURG,
A 2012 South African police operation that
left 34 Marikana mine workers dead should
not have taken place "along awaited report
said  Thursday,calling on the officers involved
to face criminal investigation.

Presenting the findings of a commission of
inquiry ,President Jacob Zuma described the
shooting ,the worst violence in South Africa
since the end of apartheid, as a "horrendous
tragedy that has no place in a democracy",

"The commission found that the police operatin
should not have taken place on the 16th
August because of the defect in the plan"
said Zuma in a public broadcast.

He said the commission recommended "a
full investigation under the direction of the
director of public prosecutions..with a view
to ascertaining criminal liability on the part
of all members of the South African Police
Service who were involved in the incidents"

On August 16 2012 after days of violent
protests at Lonmin plantinum mine north
west of Johannesburg,police opened fire on
a group of demonstrating workers,killing
34 people,

In the days leading  to the attack 10 others
had been killed in violence related to the strike
,including non-striking miners security guards
and two polices officers who were hacked to
death,

But the commission found a police operation
to forcefully remove the miners,a few of
whom were armed,should not have been
carried out,


"It would have been impossible to disarm
and disperse the strikers without significant
blooshed "Zuma cited the report as saying
AFP

BANJUL, GAMBIA:

The Gambian government has withdrawn
its expulsion of a powerful business magnate
accused by the United States of founding
the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah,

Lebanese Gambian multi-millionaire Hussein
Tajudeen ,a former close friend of President
Yahya Jammeh ,had been ordered to leave the
country earlier this month for 'unacceptable
business practices that are detrimental Gambia
economy"according to the presidency

But he government Saturday that the decision
to expel the businessmen and his associates
has been "rescinded.
Mr Hussein and his associates arehereby
allowed to continue to live and do business
in Gambia"the government said in a statement,

"The expulsion order was lifted after Tajudeen
agreed to carry out his activities legally,the
statement added
Tajudeen ,owner of the nationwide Kairaba
supermarket chain and a Gambian resident
for 16 years was the country's main importer
of rice and flour as owner of the parent
company ,Tajco,

The business is alleged by the US to be
part of the militinational network that has
generated millions of dollars for Hezbollah
designated  by the White House as among
the most dangerous terrorist groups in the
world,

US sanctions imposed in December 2010
targeted network of businesses owned or
controlled by Tajudeen and his brothers in
the Gambia,Lebanon,Sierra Leone,the
Democrartic Republic of Congo and the
British Virgin Island.

The Gambia has expelled Tajudeen
before,in June 2013,for stocking groceries
months past their sell by dates,
He was given a presidential pardon and
permitted to return four months later,
AFP

KANO";
At least five people have  been killed
and 10 others wounded after a suicide
bomber blew himself up near a leprosy
hospital on the outskirts of the northeast
Nigerian city os Maiduguri,emergency
services said.

The bast occurred  at around 5.30pm (16.30GMT)
on Saturday when the bomber ,who tired
to gain access to the hospital, detonated
his explosives outside the building,

"Five people were killed  and 10 others
injured  near the Molai leprosy hospital
when a male bomber blew himself up
said Mohammed Kanar ,regional
coordinator for the National Emergency
Management Agency<
.AFP

SAO PAULO
Sao Paulo has banned production and sale
of foie gras ,and chefs to Brazil's largest
city are fuming

Mayor Fernando Haddad said to like the
delicacy himself signed a decree instituting
the ban,disappointing cooks who had hoped
he would veto the bill passed in May by the
city hall

The dish was banned on grounds of cruelty
to geese that are fattened up to provide
the liver that is the stuff of foie gras,

The law calls for a fine equivalent to as
much as$1,900 for the restaurants that
flout the ban ,which  takes effect in 45days

The law was published Friday  in an official
gazette that records the doings of town hall
,Animal rights activists praised the prohibition,

"This is not an isolated event,There is a
global trend toward greater fairness to
animals,:""Ricardo Laurino of the Brazilian
Society  of Vegetarian told the newspaper
O Globo

But Renato  Carioni ,chef at a restaurant
caled Cosi, called the ban "rediculous
and  hypocritical,

Carioni said he had thought Haddad would
veto the bill because,he said ,Haddad
loves  foie gras,

A month ago the Brazillian Association
of Culinary Professionals stated circulating
a petition to press the mayor to nix
the bill,The text of the petition defended
foie gras as a "cultural tool  of world
gastronomy" AFP

WASHINGTON:

One man died and eight other people
rescued Saturday after their boat went
over a dam in the sate of Maryland US
media reported,

The incident on Lake Linganore left
four people desperately hanging onto
the dam for their life,NBC news said
 citing Frederick County Fire and Rescue
services Captain Kevin Fox,

The four were rescued along with three
more who were pulled  from the dam
spillway by helicopter and another who
was pulled out by boat,

Maryland Department of Natural
Resources Police said  the 62 year old
victim's body had been recovered after
becoming trapped underwater by the
force of the dam,according to NBC
AFP

STOCKHOLM:
A Stockholm rape clinic  will  open its doors
in October to male and transgender victims
in addition to the women it already treats as
sexologist at the clinic said Wednesday;

"What's new is that the clinic will now be opens
to any person ,regardless of what gender they
are,needing help conerning  sexual abuse and
or rape"sexologist and project manager Karl
Norwald at the Sodersjukhuset hospital where
the clinic is located ,told AFP

He said he hoped the clinic's new policy would
help destigmatise male rape and encourage more
male victims to seek both physical and psycholoical
help.

"We hope and will work for all the major hospital
to treat sexual abuse regardless of gender-- men
and women should be treated equally ",said Suzanna
Boman ,a psychotherrapist at the Swedish Association
for Sexuality Education

The subject of male rape remains taboo in society
she lamented,It is very hard  for men to speak to
be  believed, In the past three  or four years RFSU
has helped provide treatment for around 40 male
victims of sexal abuse'

According to Boman and Norwald ,studies show
that men are more traumatised than women by
sexual abuse ,

That image has deep roots in our culture ,If you
are a man you are strong, a fighter and you can't
be raped",

But the fact that we begin to talk about it is one
way to kill the myth"she said,According to the
Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
around 370 of the 6,700 victims of reported rape
in Sweden in 2014 were men or boys,

The organisation said the data was probably only
the tip of the iceberg ,estimating that only 10 to 20
percent of sexual assaults were actually reported
to police--
AFP

NEW  YORK
Beyonce will play  her first full show
in a year as the pop star headlines a
festival in Philadephia founded by
her husband,rap mogul Jay-Z

R&B singer The Weeknd and alter
native  rockbands Death Cab for Cutie
and Modest Mouse will also play the
Budweiser Made in America festival
on September 5-6,

Jay-Z founded the festival in 2012 with
the support of Budweiser --the popular
American beer whose parent company
is now Belgian --and last year expanded
to a second venue in Los Angeles on the
same week.

The festival this year reverts to one location
in Philadelphia  ,with part of the proceeds
to go to United  Ways charities in and
around the fifth -most   populous US city.

Beyonce played the festival in2013 during
a 132 date world tour ,She went on-more
selective tour last year with Jay-Z  which
closed in Paris on September 13,

She has since  played short performances

including at the Grammys and at the Stellar,
wards for Gospel music ,where she reunited
her  former band Destiny's child
AFP

NOSTALGIA MALAM PENGANTIN

Dulu dulu pasangan yang baru dijab kabul
malu malu  kucing memasuki kamar pengantin
Makumlah masing masing tidak pernah bersua
muka sebelum ini,

Pembuka bicara biasanya dengan berpantun
seloka,sambil memuji muji kenindahan bulan
dan bintang desir angin,dan sebagainya,
Keadaan sekarang jauh berbeza.....

Ketika menikmati bubur durian di pasar malam
seorang rakan sekerja bertanya,Apa kah yang
menjadi kenangan yang paling manis di malam
pertama pengantin?Hampir sahaja tersembur
bubur durian didalam mulut!Setelah suku abad
berkahwin ,apakah soalan tersebut masih releven?

Katanya ,malam pengatin ada lah detik paling
istemewa,paling mendebarkan ,Walau seribu
tahun berlalu nostalgia itu tetap melekat di hati
dan tidak salah untuk sekali sekala di kenang
kembali,fuhhii,

Tidak kira mains  atau pun pahit--mungkin
juga pahit pahit manis---nostalgia tetap ada,
Saya percaya setiap orang mempunyai kenangan
tersendiri  menganai malam pertama setelah
menggangam erat tangan jurunikah and melafazkan
"Aku terima nikanya"

Cinta yang penuh duri dan berliku telah dilalui
,Rindu semusim hendak ditamatkan malam ini
Meski pun di luar orang masih sibuk berkumpul
d penaggah ,di kamar yang dihias indah ini keadaan
amat mendebarkan.,

Untuk pertama kali  si dara berada di sisi ,masih
dengan inai merah di jari jemari ,Setelah sekian
lama memadu asmara,malam ini di kamar indah ini
uda dan dara hanya berdua,Aduhai,
 dendam berahi mesti dicurahkan malam ini
Cinta sejati mesti dibutikan sekarang!

Sekian Selamat membaca;
MARIE LANS,

MASAKAN RENDANG  AYAM

Orang tua pernah berkata,untuk menambat
hatisuami ialah melalui perutnya,
Apatah lagi sekiranya mendapat suami
yang agak cerewet tentang makanan nya
'
Bagaimana pun ,sebagai isteri,pastinya
menyediakan hidangan menjadi salah
satu tanggungjawab yang perlu dilaksnakan
Biarpun tidak begitu enak ,namun usaha untuk memasak
makanan buat suami tercinta pasti dihargai,

Malah sebagai isteri pengalaman kali
pertama menhidangkan masakan sendiri
buat suami tercinta pastinya meninggalkan
kenangan yang tidak dapat dilupakan
sehingga kini

Salam  mencuba MARIE LANS

MALAY  WEDDING

Menjadi naluri semulajadi insan ingin memiliki
dan dimiliki,Tidak kiralah sama ada wanita
mahu pun lelaki,Masing masing membayang
kan memiliki pasangan yang mempunyai ciri
ciri yang baik seperti peganagan agama,yang
kukuh ,bertangungjawab,paras rupa yang menarik
berharta penyayang dan sebaigainya Malah
jika di disenaraikan ciri ciri idaman pastinya
berjela panang,

Apa bila saat saat yang di nantikan tiba ,itu lah
hari yang paling bermakna dalam hidup sesrorang
,Namun selapas medirikan rumah tangga,banyak
lah perkara yang tidak diduga timbul satu persatu,
Jika waktu bercinta dulu ,semua yang dipamerkan
cantik dan indah belaka,tetapi setelah berumah
tangga,sifat sifat menyenagkan itu mula hilang
satu persatu,Kehidupan mula menjadi bosan
dan hambar,

Apabila diuji dengan dugaan barulah kita sedar
bahawa perkahwinan sebenarnya bukan sahaja
menuntut banyak pengorbanan tetapi juga kesabaran
dan kematangan dalam menangani apa jua kemelut
yang melanda,Kebahagiaan dalam perkahwinan
tidak datang sendiri sebaliknya memerlukan usaha
yang bertrusan ,Kata pepatah,yang bulat tidak
datang bergolek,dan yang pipih tidakdatang melayang

Perkahwinan yang bahagia boleh dibaratkan seperti
menanam benih,ia perlu di baja,disiram dan dijaga
 seperti menatang minyak yang penuh
Sekirnya dijaga berterusan ,akhirnya ai akan
mengeluarkan buah yang baik dan manis serta
dapat di nikmati dengan enak

SALAM  PENUH KEMANISAN
MARIE LANS,

HARARE:

Hundreds of street vendors protested in Zimbabwe' s
capital Wednesday against plans to drive them off
pavements in the city ,where increasing numbers of
unemployed are trying to make a living.

Zimbabwe 's collapsing economy has forced many
companies to close ,leaving redundant workers school
leavers and collage graduates turning to petty trading
on the streets

Local authorities gave the vendors until  June the 26
to remove their stalls in the city centres and set up
elsewhere,with a warning that force could be used
if they resist,

Protesting vendors brandished to parliaments and
sang as they marched to parliament to present a
petition against their eviction,

"The petition is imploring the government to come
to terms with the fact that our economy is ailing
and since our economy is ailing ,removing the symptoms
will not solve the problem"said Justice Manavi secretary
of National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe,

No one choose to be a vendor in Zimbabwe,We have
got graduates on the streets,All they want is employment
The vendors were unfazed by the heavy presence
of police forming a human barricade to prevent
the traders from getting too close to the parliament
building as their leaders handed in the petitionAFP

KARACHI;
A leading Pakistani political party Wednesday denied
claimed made in  a BBC report that it had received
money and military training from Islamabads's archrival
India.

The BBC citing an authoritative Pakistani source " said
members of Pakistan's Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
party which has its power base in the southern city of
Karachi ,had received military training at camps in northern
and north-eastern India over the past 10 years,

The party vehemently denied the allegations Claims of
collusion with India .Which is regarded with deep suspicion
and hostility by many Pakistani,can be highly damaging

"The MQM has rejected all the allegations levelled in
the BBC report ,and is a patriotic party that believes
in unified and stable Pakistan",the party said in a message
on its website,

Indian foreign  ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup also
dismissed the claims as "completely baseless "in a
message posted on Twitter,
AFP

MOSCOW;
Under fire Russia coach Fabio Capello
will remain in his job "for the moment
"his bosses said Wednesday although
his fate could be sealed within the next
two weeks.

The former England ,Real Madrid and
ACMian coach took over the Russian
national team in July2012  but he has come
under pressure after a series of poor results
left their qualification for Euro 2016 in
trouble,

"Fabio Capello has not been sacked For
the moment ,he remains in charge "said
Russia Football Union RFU president
Nikita Simonian.

"We are going to talk to Mr Capello to
see whether he leaves or stays in charge
of the team"
These talks are expected to take place within
the next two weeks.

Sergey Anokhin ,a member of  the  RFU
executive committee,said  it was vital that
a less expensive compensation package  be
negotiate with Capello who is believed to
be entitled to 214million euros if his contract
is cancelled .

"Very soon this farce is going end ,We will
find a agreement with Mr Capello for a
reduction in the amount"said Anokhin.

On Monday ,billionaire Alisher Usmanov
announced that he had lent the RFU 300
million rubles to pay Capello's salary

With just  eight points from their six
qualifying matches so far ,Russia face a
battle to make it to Euro 2016 as they
trial second -placed Sweden by four points
with only the top two going  through
automatically.

Russia's next qualifier is a potentially
decisive fixture at home to Sweden on
September 's with a trip to Liechtenstein
following just three days later
AFP

SANTIAGO:

Chilean football star Arturo Vidal ,who was
arrested last week for crashing his Ferrari
while driving drunk ,will face a new charge
of threatening a policeman,a judicial source
said Wednesday,

The source told AFP the Juentus midfielder
would be arraigned on July  on an additional
charge of threatening Deputy Sergeant Osvaldo
Pezoa ,the officer who booked him after he crashed
his bright red sport car last week on the outskirts
of Santiago driving home from a night out
at a casino

,Vidal,who is currently home playing in the
Copa America,the South American Champion
ship,was caught on tape after the accident
swearing at the arresting officer in a confrontational
exchange,

 "Go ahead and handcuff me"but you're going to,,s
all over Chile"he can be heard saying in the
amateur video ,which was posted online by
Santiago radio station Bio Bio,

Vila's license was suspended for a 120 day
investigation period after the crash,which injured
his wife,After sending the night in jail he was
released on condition he report to the Chilean consulate
in Milan every month,

He could have his license suspended  for up
to two years if convicted  of drunk driving
and faces a 61 day suspended jail sentence if
convicted of threatening an officer.

Vidal who made a tearful apology the day after
the accident ,was allowed to keep his spot on the
Chile squad ,and played in the host 5-0 rout of
Bolivia Friday to reach the quarter -final
AFP

BUENOS  AIRES

Carlos Tevez is set to return to his first club,
Boca Juniors,after the Argentina reached
agreement with Italian champions Juventus
,a cub official announced ,

Boca general secretary Cesar Martucci told
the radio station AM1050 the Tevez transfer
was done deal ,even though there was no official
confirmation either in Buenos Aires or Turin

"We are very happy ,after having put in so much
work,to clinch the return of our star Carlos Tevez,
to Buenos Aires he said,

Martucci gave no details of the deal,but said Tevez
would be paraded before the fans at the club's
Bambonera stadium on July 7,

Tevez 31 known as "Apache "after the Buenos Aires
slum district where he was brought up ,played
for his beloved Boca from 2001 to 2004  before
moving to Corinthians in Brazil,

From there he joined West Ham in England in 2006
and then played for Manchester United before
moving to rivals  Manchester City for more then
40 million pounds ($60 million) in 2009.

He joined Juventus in 2013 after four seasons at
City and last season was the Italian league's second
top scorer with 20 goals as Juventus won the league
and reached the champions league final where
they lost to Barcelona.
AFP

WASHINGTON:

US President Barak Obama would normally
expect a warm welcome from gay  rights
activists ,partiuarly in his own home at the
white house ,but that was not the case
Wednesday

Hosting a reception to observe LGBT Pride
month  in the East RoomObama was repeatedly
interrupted by persistent shouts from a member
of the audience prompting a few awkward
minutes before the president instructed
the individual be ejected,

"Listen you are in my house" said a finger-
waging Obama as the person could be heard
to shout about deportations in English
and Spanish

"You know what ,it is not respectful"Obama
added,"You 're not going to get a good response
from me by interrupting me like this"

When it became clear the protester would
not stop,Obama said ,Shame on you"adding
"You shouldn't be doing this" before asking
security to escort this person out,"

A visibly angry Obama joked  with the
crowd "As a general rule I am just fine with
a few hecklers,But not when I'm up
in the house,"
--sAFP

SEOUL<

North Korea issued a call to arms against
gangster US imperialists" in statement
released Thursday to mark the 65 anniversary
of the outbreak of the Koean War',

The Stalinist state's powerful National Defence
Commission NDCmade the appeal on the
anniversary of the devastating conflict which
the North maintains was started by the United
States,

"We appeal to the world to turn out  in the world
wide anti US struggle to dismember the gangster
US imperialists"said the statement carried by
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News
Agency,

In a tirade typical of the North's state media,it
continued"Asia should turn out to cut off the US
right hand,Africa should rise up to cut off the
left land ,the Mideast has to cut off the US ankles
and Europe has to cut off the US neck

The only way for the US to take is to make apology
before  the army and people of the DPRK and hoist
a white flag"it said ,

In South Korea the Anniversary was low-key ,but
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo -Ahn presided over
state ceremony where he called for vigilance,

We should strengthen our security preparedness
and military poower -as the situation on the Korean
peninsula  remain unstable six decade after the war
ended "he said,

"The government will deal sternly with any provocations
from the North Korean
AFP

TOKYO
Japan on Thursday executed  a man who robbed
and killed a woman after plotting the crime with
accomplices he met online,

The execution brings to 12 the total number of
death sentences carried out since Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe took power in 2012
Tsukasa Kanda 44 was hanged for killing 32 year
old Rie Lsogai in Nagoya,central Japan in 2007;

He met his two accomplices  via a mobile phone
based web service and the three of  them together
devised a plan to target a random woman victim.

The man kidnapped Isogai  from a Nagoya street
and suffocated  her  by wrapping her head and
neck with a plastic bag,adhesive tape and rope
before battering her head with a hammer,according
to Justice Ministry record,

This was an extremely brutal case that brought
unimaginable suffering to the victim and her family
,Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a press
briefing after the execution, the first since she
came to office in October last year,

"After a series  of careful reviews ,I ordered the
execution "she said'
Kanda did not appeal his death sentence after the
original district court ruling .

Japan and the United State are the only major advance
industrial nations that continue to have capital
punishment,
Surveys have shown the death penalty has overwhelming
public support despite repeated protests from European
governments and human rights groups,

International advocacy groups say Japan's system is
cruel because inmates can wait  for their executions
for many years in solitary confinement and are only told
of their impending death a few hours ahead of time,
AFP

SAANA;
Wraplanes from the Soudi-ed Arab coalition
have launched heavy raids against rebel
positions inseven Yemeni province,witnesses
and military sources said Wednesday

The attacks that began overnight and continued
Wednesday were the most  intensive since
the beginning of the Muslim fasting month
of Ramadan last week witnesses said,

Positions were targeted in the northern region
of Saada ,which is the main strong hold for
the Shiite Huthi rebels ,as well as Hajja on the
border with Saudi Arabia,residents said,

Thewraplanes also raided  positions in the
western province of Hodeida,and the province
of Baida,Daleh Lahj and Aden in the  south.

The targets included the Iran-backed Huthis
as well as troops loyal to former president
Ali Abdullah Saleh,who has allied himself
with the rebels against  the government of
exiled  President  Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi,

The wraplanes hit rebels near the airport of Aden
where heavy fighting continues between rebels
and southern figthers allied with Hadi,military
officials loyal to Hadi said,

The rebels who overran the capital Sanaa in
September have since expanded their control
to several other regions,In March they advanced
on Aden where Hadi had taken refuge before
fleeing to Soudi Arabia,

AFP

WASHINTON:

The US Treasury on Wednesday named senior
Taliban official Maulawi Abdul Rashid Baluch
arrested by Afghan authorities a year ago as a
Specially Designated Global Terrorist "The
Treasury said Rashid  had been the Taliban's
shadow governor of Nimroz province in the
country 's southwest ,where he helped arrange
bombs and deployed suicide bombers aimed
at coalition forces and Afghan officials,

Rashid was behind one improvised explosive
device that killed a US soldier in mid -2013
the Treasury said

He also allegedly raised money for the Taliban
by offering protection of the narcotics trade in
the region,

The "Gobal Terrorist" designation freezes any a
assets he might have in US jurisdiction and forbid
Americans from any dealings with him,
AFP

KUNDASANG  (SABAH)

Mount Kinabalu is expected to be re-opened
to climbers in early September said Sabah
Minister for Tourism,Culture and Enviroment
Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun,

The mountain ,which stands at 4,095 metre
was closed to climbers following an earth
quake in the state onJune 5 that claimed the
lives of 18 people comprising climbers and
mountain guides,

Masidi said however ,the number of people
on the mountain at any one time would be
reduced by about  half from 192 to about
90,in the early stage of its reopening to climbers

"The safety of clumbers is of most priority
,We do not want to take a risk by mountaining
the number as in the past "he told reporters
after handing over contibution to the victims
of the June 5 earthquake

The earthquake ,of magnitude 5.9 caused rocks
and boulders to tumble  from the mountain
killing the 18 people and damaged property
in the district of Ranau and surrounding areas.

Sabah state secretary TanSri  Sukarti Wakiman
and Sabah NSC Secretary Mohd Rodzi Md Saad
were also present at the  function,

Masidi also said that the work ,with the aid  of
teghnical expertise ,was going on to restore the
climbing routes and any delay would be due to
the aftershocks,

Meanwhile ,Masidi also said the 2015 Mount
Kinabalu International Climbathon scheduled
for Oct 17 and 18 has been cancelled,
Climbing routes damaged by an earthquake have
rendered it impossible to hold the annual event
he said

"We are most concerned about the safety of the
participants "he said,People who have registered
for the event could seek a refund of their registration
fee from the organiser,he said
The 28th series of the event last year drew 741
participants from 31 countries,

DAILY EXPRESS.

JAKARTA<
As many as 300 child and  teenage refugees
in Aceh are without parents according to
Thomas Vargas ,the representative of the
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) to Indonesia

"Many are not accompanied by their parents
and so one of our missions is to reunite them
with their parents"Indonesia 's Antara news
agency quoted him as saying after attending
the signing of an agreement with the Indonesian
red cross here on Friday,

He remarked that the refugees in Aceh belonging
to different backgrounds have various stories
to share ,Most of them are asylum seekers from
the Rohingya ethnic group,Many of the are also
looking for their closet relatives he added,

According to data ,most of the refugees planned
to go t Malaysia to find their closest relatives,
but they were  clubbed along with the other groups
heading to Aceh in Indonseia

The UNHCR and PMI will make an inventory
of the refugees and help them reunite with their
closest reatvives and if possible with their families
he said ,

The UNHCR  for Indonesia will provide training in
vocational skills to the refugees who decide to stay
for the long term in other counties,

He was optimistic that by imparting such skills,
they would become more  confident and would
help in offering them a psychological boost,

This will offer them a new ray of hope,and they
would not become a burden on the recipient
country"he added
BERNAMA

YANGON
Myanmar opposition leader Aung  San Suu Kyi
called on her party Sunday to push for a land
slide victory at crucial elections expected later
this year as she celebrated her birthday with
supporters,,

The comments came  after the Nobel Peace
Prize winner who turned 70 on Friday cut
birthday cake alongside fellow National league
for Democracy Iuminaries during an official
celebration at a restaurant famed for being a
dissident meeting place,

Mynamar is expected to hold its first nation
vote in a quarter of a  century sometime in
October  or November with many expecting
Suu Kyi 's NLD sweep the board if the poll
are free and fair,

Her comments underscore the long rad to
electoral success the NLD still faces even
though military rule   has given way to a
quasi-reformist  government promising clean
polls,

Under Myanmar 's current constitution
a quarter of parliamentary seats are still
served for unelected soldiers ,

Meanwhile Suu Kyi is barred from becoming
president under a rule that exclude those with
foreign spouses and children ,a provision seen
as aimed directly at Suu Kyi,whose two sons
are British,

Technically Suu KYi has yet t decide whether
the ND will even contest the polls On Saturday
she said  a decision would be made shortly

The NLD are currently holding a two day annual
conference ,which has been dominated by
discussion on the election,

Around 300 supporters gathered outside the Royal
Rose restaurant,a popular NLD meeting pace close
to the city's towering  Show Dagon pagoda.

Khin Win 77 left her home at 3 am for a chane to see
Suu Kyi ,who arrived for the celebration dressed
in a traditional blue sarong
AFP

MANILA,

The Philippines ha stockpiled food supplies
in case of evacuations after a volcano emitted
ash and smoke six times in recent weeks officials
said Sunday,

In addition to the emergency food packs authorities
are closely watching communities near Bulusan
volcano 390 kilometers south east of Manila,
said presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma,

The latest emissions came on Friday with two
other eruption earlier last week,

"The government continues to monitor the
behaviour of Mount Bulusan ..so we can safe-
guard the welfare of about 24,000 affected resident
in 22 villages and five towns said Coloma,

The government volcano monitoring institute
said that so far, the emissions have been caused
by groundwater mixing with hot rock inside the
1565 metre (5,134foot) volcano

These "phreatic eruptions" have sent ash and
smoke into the air covering the volcano's slopes
and nearby town said Winchelle lan Sevilla,
the officer heading a team monitoring Bulusan,

He said that as long as people out of the four
kilometre"danger zone "around Bulusan ,they
would not be hurt by any falling rocks,

Aircraft have also warned to avoid  Bulusan in
case of sudden ejection of ash,Despite the
activity Sevilla said there was no sign magma
was rising inside the volcano indicating there
was no impending eruption of lava,

Bulusan's last  destructive eruptions were  from
November 2010 February 2011 eventually forcing
hundreds of villagers  to evacuate,There were
no reports of casualties or damage

The Philippines is located in the seimially
-active Pacific Ring of fire"and has ocer 20
active volcanoes--AFP

LONDON:

The family of British singer Amy Winehouse
,who died aged 27 from alcohol poisoning
condemned a forth-coming decumentary about
her life as misleading.

Due to premiere at the Cannes film festival ,
"Amy "traces Winehouese's story from her
early career to the fame she won with hits
such as "REHAB'until her death aged 27 in2011
 
A spokesman for the Winehouse family said they
"would like to disassociate themselves from the
forthcoming film about their much missed and
beloved Amy"

They feel that the film is a missed opportunity
to celebrate her life and talent and that it is both
misleading and contains some basic untruths"
the spokesman said in a statement,

"There are specific allegations made against
family and management that are unfounded
and unbalanced,The family did not make clear
what allegations they objected to.

The documentary is directed by Brit Asif Kapadia
whose film"Senna"about the Brazilian Formula
1 drive won a British Academy Film Award for
best documentary ni 2011.

In a statement ,the team behind the Amy"defended
their work."When we were approached to make
the film ,we came on board with the full backing
of the Winehouse  family and we approached the
project with total objectivity ,as with "Senna "the
fimmakers said,

"We conducted in the region of 100 interviews
with people that knew Amy Winehouse ;friends
family former partners and members of the music
industry that worked with her,

"The story that the film tells is a reflection of our
findings from these interviews" AFP

SPIELBERG (AUSTRIA)
Fernando Alonso admitted he was scared and
then relieved on Sunday when he collided
 with KimiRaikkonen on the opening lap of
the Austria Grand Prix.

The two time champion in his McLaren said
he could not avoid hitting the Finn's Ferrari
as he approached him at the approach to the
high speed second corner at the Red Bull Ring
in the Styrian Alps'

It was very strange incident because he lost
the car in fifth gear or something like that said
Alonso,"Obviously ,it was quite scary foe me'

The car was moving  left ,right left right with
a lot of wheel-spin,We were overtaking him
left and right -all the cars and then he lost l
the car on the car on the left,and I was on the
left at that point,and we crashed,

"I could not see anything because with the seat
position I was looking only at the sky and then
I looked in the mirror and when I  stopped I
saw the car under my car.

"I jumped out quickly  and checked that he was
ok--tried to do it as quickly as possible to see
he was okey,Then I saw relieved ,I knew he was
ok,

Raikkonen ,the 2007 champion ,said I don't
know what happened'...I got some wheel spin
and it was a bit unusual ,It's hard to say
It is what it is--a pretty poor weekend ,but
that 's how it goes,Both drivers escaped injury
and walked away from the wreckage
AFP

ROUEN  (FRANCE)

A 25 year old jokey died Sunday from
injuries sustained in a fall during a
trotting race according to the sport's
organising body in France (Le,Trot)

Christelle Zimmer fell in the first race
of Saturday's meeting at the Chartre
racetack,anding heavily on her neck
and back,

Zimmer received first aid at the track
,with medical staff giving her CPR
after she suffered a heart attack.

She was evacuated by helicopter to
Rouen Hospital ,but also suffered a
cerebral hemorrhage  and was
pronounced dead on Sunday morning
,Le.Trot said It is the first trotting fatality
since Yvonnick Bodin 16 died after falling
at Cabourg in 2001
AFP

SANTIAGO:
Brazil said Monday it will not appeal
against a four match ban on captain
Neymar which will rule him out of
the rest  of the Copa America tourn
ament .

The Brazilian Fooball Confederation
CBF said the Barcelona superstar would
eave the team base in Santiago on Monday

"During a meeting on Saturday night
between Neymar and the technical
management it was decided that CBF
would respect Conmebol's decision"
said CBF statement,

Neymar was sent off at the end of Brazil's
Copa game against Colombia last
Wednesday when he appeared to
headbutt an opposing player--
AFP

SANTIAGO,

NEW DELHI;
Indian police said Monday they have
arrested the Bollywood director Mahmood
Farooqui after an American woman
accused him of rape.

Farooqui ,best known for co-directing the
2010 satire "Peepli live" about farmers
 suicides ,was taken to custody in New
Delhi on Saturday after the alleged victim
went to the police

Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said
the woman ,a US citizen aged 30 was
visiting India at the time of the alleged
attack at Farooqui's home in the capital.

Based on her complaint, the accused
has been arrested and sent to judicial
custody he said."Peepli live"which
explores the divide between urban and
rural India ,was produced by Bollywood
superstar Amir Khan.

Farooqui co-directed with his wife Anusha
Rizwi ,who on Sunday dismissed the
complaint against her husband as manipulated
and false,

"We are determined to fight this till the
reality is presented before the people ",
she said in a statement,

The alleged attack occurred in March but
the woman returned to the US shortly
afterwards and only reported it n Friday
,news reports and a police source said.

No one at the US embassy was immediately
available for comment,India introduced
tough laws against sex offenders in the
wake of the fatal gang -rape of a Delhi
student in the capital in December 2012
that sparked mass street protests
But high levels of sexual violence against
women continued,AFP

WALTERBORO (SOUTH CAROLINA)

A former child actor who starred in one
of the Star Wars"movie sequels faces
charges after leading South Carolina
deputies on a high speed chase,

Colleton Country Sheriff's deputies on
Wednesday arrested  26 year old man they
confirmed through a former talent agent
was Jake Lloyd ,who played a young
Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 movie
The Star Wars"Episode 1-The Phantom
Menace"Sgt Kyle Strickland said Sunday,

The man gave his name as Jake Broadbent
Strickland said ,The man's birthdate matched
the actors listed by movie database IMDB
.com and a hometown of fort Collins,
Colorado,where Lloyd was born.

 The man was charged with failing to stop
for officers and reckless driving after
hitting speeds over 100 miles an hour
Strickland said,

Deputies in coastal Charleston Country
initially tried to stop the fleeing vehicle
early Wednesday afternoon ,but quit chasing
after the man drove into neighbouring
Colleton county Sheriff's office Major
Eric Watson said Sunday

The chase lasted more than 25 miles before
Lloyd drove off Interstate 95, plowed
through a fence and continued speeding
along parallel frontage road ,authorities
said,The ended at a dead end ,but the vehicle
kept going into a wooded area before it
hit several small trees and stopped.

The man had not posted bond and remained
in jail Sunday evening Strickland said,

Lloyd said in 2012 interview that the role
he performed when he was 10 years old
made his youth hellish because he was
bullied by other children His last acting
credit was  in 2005 according to IMDB
com
AP

 TIRANA:
The Albanian opposition condemned
what it called voting irregularities in
local election Sunday seen as a test of
the Balkan country's fragile democracy
as it pushes to join the European Union

The first official results from the vote
to elect mayors and councillors in 61
municipalities were nt expected  until
Monday ,but the main opposition
Democratic Party was quick to cry foul
after polling stations closed at 17 GMT.

"They have been irregularities manipulation
as well as pressure and threats against
voters from the right",senior law maker
Edi Paloka  said in a statement, while
also claiming a clear win for his party.

Since the fall of communism in the early
1990's Albanian election have been often
marred violence and accusations of fraud
from all sides,

Prime Minister Edi Rama from the ruling
Socialists for his part said the election were
"the most free and the most honest" that
had ever been held in the country.

Some 3.3 million Albanians were eligible
to cast their votes on Sunday and turnout
stood at around 45 percent ,according to
party estimates,The ruling coalition,which
has whittled down the number of municipalities
from 373 to 61 as part of a reform of local
government ,had also said it was confident
of victory "More than the results ,the real
importance of these elections are the values
of democracy which must triumph "
 parliamentary speaker IIir Meta told AFP
ahead of the ballotAFP

MONTERREY: MEXICO<

Authorities found five bodies in Mexico's
northern state of Nuevo Leon on Sunday
adding to three days  of violence that left
22 people dead in the region,

The half naked bodies of the three people
aged 18 to 30 were discovered in various
streets of San Pedro,a suburb of the industrial
hub of Monterrey ,the town government
said,

There were no bullet shells near the bodies ,
suggesting that the victims were killed else
where and then dumped on the street,
They were executed ,It was a reprisal with
out a doubt "said a state investigator on
the condition of anonymity adding that
each body had a head wound,

Authorities are investigating whether the
killings are linked tothe recent firing of
20 municipal officers as one body was left
near the house of a relative of the police
chief, the city government said in  a state
ment,

Two other bodies were found elsewhere
around Monterrey, At least 17 other people
were killed in Nuevo Lean since Friday,
The bodies of the four people including  a
pregnant woman,were  found in a house
in Monterrey on Saturday,

On Friday 10 men were killed when gun
men stormed a beer distribution centre in
broad daylight in Garcia ,another  Monterrey
suburb--AFP

COLUMBIA:
Several thousand protesters  gathered Saturday
under the controversial Confederate flag at
South Carolina's state legislature ,demanding
it to be taken down in response to the Charleston
church massare,

Waving placards,chanting "take it down" and
singing "We Shall Over come" the  youthful
crowd black and white ,condemned the civil
War saltire as  a symbol of lingering racist
sentiment in the American South,

"We can no longer afford to et that flag stand
there "and be a beacon for those who harbor
"bad opinions"said one of the speakers,
95 year old lawyer and activist Sarah Leverette
prompting loud cheers.

Organizers called the event a warms-up" for
what they hope will be an even bigger ant flag
protest,also in front of the colonaded State House
on the fourth of July Holiday,

Online more than 370,000 people as of late
Saturday had put their name to a petition,
Launched by the left -leaning MoveOn-org
activist group,calling for the flag to go.

"Symbol of hate have no place in our government
The Confedarete flag is not a symbol of Southern
pride but rather a symbol of rebellion and racism
it said ..

On the heels of the Charleston shooting 'it's time
to put that symbol of rebellion and racism  behind
us and move toward healing and a better United
Sates of America!"

The flag's 24/7 presence,along side a memorial
to Confederate war dead on the lush green Stae
House lawn ,has been a point of friction  in
South Carolina for years
AFP

VIENNA
Three people including a four year-old boy
were killed and 34 others injured Saturday
when a mentally unbalanced man drove a
4x4 into a pedestrian streets thronging
with shoppers in the southern Austrian city
of Graz police said.

Witnesses said the green SUV was travelling
at over  100 kilometres (60mies) per hours
when it hurttled onto Herrengasse,one of
the main shopping streets in the Alpin
country's second largest city ,the local
APA news agency reported..

The 26 year old Austrian driver has been
detained and described as a"mentally un-
baabnced  man ,according to governor
Hermann Schuetzenhoefer.,

The other victims who died were 24 year
old  woman and a man ,28 and among the
injured ,six have been hospitalised in a
critical condition officials said,

Regional police chief Josef Klammiger
ruled out a terrorist motive
"We can say clearly  and without  doubt
that it is isolated  incident without political
or extremist motivation he said .

During his rampage, the driver briefly got
out of the vehicle weilding a knife and
wounded two people before continuing
on his course,the head of the investigation
Kurt Kemeter said.
 AFP

LONDON
Australian cricket great Shane Warne
has woman on the dating app Tinder
believe he is impersonating himself,

The 45 year old Warne engaged to British
actress Elizabeth Hurley from September
2011 until the couple split up in December
2013 told Saturday edition of The Times
Magazine that he had on a couple of dates
after downloading Tinder,

Legendary leg spinner  Warne,who describes
himself as currently very,very very single
was quoted as saying of his Tinder  dates,
"One horrific,One was ok"He added "People
say "Why are trying to impersonate Shane
Warne?"I go OK yeah,I am And then they go,
NO,! It's really you!" and you,go OK it is,
And then they go ,NO its not! So I'm on there
for the fun value,

Warne who had three children with his former
wife Simone before the couple divorced in
2007 said he was relaxed about the prospect
of falling in love  again,I'm not looking for
it But it happens,it happens "said Warne,

I've three wonderful kids I'm having fun:
I don't feel like I need it he added
"But it gets quite lonely at times ,when you travel
all the time said Warne,who since retiring  from
cricket has become a globe trotting television pundit,

"There one or two nights a week ,when you
haven 't got your kids and you haven't got your
mates ,and just want to chill,
Its nice to share things with someone'
"Say how you are feeling  about things ,how
their days was,Cuddling up on the couch ,
I like that stuff
AFP

MODADISHU:

Shebab militants launched a major suicide
attack on Sunday against a military intelligence
base in the capital Mogadishu setting off  a
car bomb before storming inside ,security
official said,

Somalia 's interior ministry said the three
attackers were all killed in the raid and that
Somali security forces,The violent elements
used a car bomb to get inside the compound
There was a heavy exchange of gunfire,"said
Adan Mohamed ,a Somali security official.

Witnesses near the base ,belonging to the
internationally backed government 's National
Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA)
reported a loud explosion followed by intense
gunfire,

"There was a heavy explosion and inseconds
gunfire broke out We cannot go outside the
house because of the shooting "said Abdulah
Yare,a resident who lives near the base ,
In a brief statement ,Nisa said the attack
had failed,

"The attack was successfully thwarted by
our forces,None of our buildings nor base
were entered "it said.

Somali officials displayed three corpses
after the attack,which came at the start of
Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan
a period when the AlQaeda -linked Shebab
,who are fighting to topple the Mogadishu
government ,have in the past intensified
attacks. AFP

LOS ANGELES
;Olympic superstar Michael Phelps said
Thursday that he is sick and tired of just
getting whupped 'as he tries to get his
sputtering comeback on track at the
Santa Clara Pro Swim.

Also the headlining the action will be
Missy Franklin,who will compete as a
professional for the first time,with the
Rio Games next summer.

Phelps may boast 18 Olympic gold medals
but at his last outing in May be finished
outside the top two in all of his events--
something that hadn't happened to him
since he competed at the Sydney Olympic
as a15 year -old,

He is hoping for a solid showing against
elite swimmers before August US Champ-
ionships in Russia at the same time  as
part of the sanction for the drunk driving
incident that saw him suspended six months
by USA Swimming.

Franklin is also gearing up for the global
stage --worlds this year and the Rio Games,
The 20 year old  already has four gold medals
from the 2012 London Olympics but after
graduating from high school she opted to
compete for two years for the University
of California ,before turning pro this year and
inking a deal with Speedo,

The meeting will be her only long course
competition before the world Championship,
In contrast ,American Michael McBroom won
 a close men 's 800m free ,clocking 7;54.21
to edge compatriot Connor Jaeger (7:54,47)
Tuniia 's Ous Mellouli was third.
AFP

WASHINGTON

Barak Obama clearly angry ,but mainly
frustrated ,Once again he was speaking
out after a murderous shooting spree,and
once again he found himself powerless
to act,

This time the pain was personal ,The US
president knew the pastor at the black
church in South Carolina who was cut
down along with eight of his flock in an
apparently racist attack.

But his anger was made all the worse by
the knowledge that none of the previous
series of mass shootings on his watch  have
pushed fellow Washington politicians to act
I"ve  had to make statements like this too
many times " he said in brief remarks from
the White House podium,flanked by an
equally ashen-face Vice President Joe Biden

Once again innocent people were killed in
part because some one who wanted to inflict
harm had no trouble getting their hands on
a gun:"he complained.

Mass shootings  are not a uniquely American
phenomenon but culturally similar countries
like Australia and Britain tightened gun laws
after massacres ,and seem to have saved lives

Many in the United States see the Second
Amendment to the Constitution,which  protests
the right of citizens to bear arms ,as a bar to
any limitation  on gun ownership'

"Now is time for mourning and for healing
,but let's be clear;At some point we as a country
will have to reckon with the fact that this type
of mass violence does not happen in other
advance countries ,Obama said.

"It doesn't happen in other places with this kind
of frequency .And it is our power to do something
about it,It was telling that he used the phrase
"Our power"after seven years and a half a dozen
massacres ,Obama knows that his power alone
will not be enough to change the debate.

In 2013 after December 2012 slaughter of 26
people -including 20 young children --at a
Connecticut school ,Obama took 23 executive'
decisions to tweak gun rules,

The public was briefly in a state of shock and
some commentators thought a turning point
had been  reached ,but an attempt to bring a broad
gun control  bill to Congress failed,
AFP

BERLIN

Top cyclist John Degenkolb ,winner of the
Milan San Remo and the Paris  Roubaix
races this season,said two weeks ahead
of the Tour de France that dope cheats
were still thriving in cycling,

"We should not expect to see cycling liberate
forever from these cheats" said the 26 year
old ,And the same  goes for the sports too
he insisted, Sport 100 per cent without doping
is  an illusion,

Degenkolb insisted that he was totally clean
and had made a zero tolerance pact with team
mate and top sprinter Marcel Kittel who has won
eight Tour de France stages in two editions as
well as German time -trial specialist Tony Martin.

"Anyone who does not believe us should come
and observe us training to be convinced of our
honesty 'he said ,
A draft bill to make doping a criminal offence is
underway in German and was hailed by Martin
Degenkolb and Kittel as the nation takes the fight
to the dopers.

Degenkolb also called upon international authorities
to act swiftly and severely to eliminate cheats.
"In the Astana case things have been going on too
long and the federation needs to act more sweftly
and decisively "he said.

Astana's leader,the Italian climber Vincenzo Nibali
won the Tour de France last year ,Since then the
Kazakh outfit had two first team riders banned
this year but have nevertheless received an invitation
to race in the 2015 edition,
AFP

BELGRADE
Serbia's premier Aleksandar Vuci moving to improve
ties with Bosnia said Friday that he was ready to go
Srebrenica to honour the memory of 8000 Bosnian
Muslims killed by Bosnian Serbs two decades ago.

"As the prime minister of the Serbian government
I'm ready to bow and pay respect to innocent victims
of Serbrenica "who died in July 1995 in the most
gruesome chapter of Bosnia 1992-1995 war Vuci told
reporters.

Nearly 8,000 Muslim boys and men were killed in
Serbrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in just a few days
after they captured the eastern town on July 11,1995
It was the worst massacre to occur on European soil
since World War 11

Vuci said he was extending a hand of reconciliation
to Bosnian Muslims,"We should live in peace"
If you want me and my offered hand I'm ready"
to come to Serbrenica on July 11 for a commemration
 ceremony making the massacre's 20th anniversary
he said.
AFP

LOS ANGELES
A spokesman for Taraji syas the actress
is suffering exhaustion ,
Henson the star of the Fox drama Empire
on Friday posted a photo close up of an IV
connected to her arm.

In a tweet,she offered reassurances that
she will be fine,Spokeswoman  Pamela
Sharp in Los Angeles said Henson had
become exhausted, was resting and will
be OK  She provided no further details
about the actress location or condition,

In twitter and Instagram posts Henson
said "God has a way of saying "You
are doing too much!""

The actress added that she is a "tough cookie
citing  the name of her Empire" charater
Henson said her mother and friends were
coming to check on 'her'
AP

MALI--WAR
ORIGIN OF TAUREG CONFLICT

TOKYO:

Japan on Saturday offered a $3.5 million
to help Rohingya boat people who have
fled Mynmar where they  faced severe
discrimination,

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said
Japan remained committed to helping
national reconcilation efforts on various
fronts in Asia ,including between Mynmar
government and etgnic minority groups

"With regard to non -regular immigrants,
including women and children trying to
cross the Indian Ocean,Japan has decide
to exend $3.5 million through global agencies
such as the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees,he said in a public address,

The money will go to providing food and
shelter as well as to fund data analysis
of their maritime movements the foreign
ministry said

The plight of the persecuted and impoverished
Rohingya has drawn international attention
as thousands of them   and Bangladeshi
migrants cram into boats and struggle desperately
to reach other Southeast Asian countries

The Muslim Rohingya complain of systematic
discrimination and mistreatment by Mynmar
's Buddist-majority governmentwhich refuses
to even recognise them as cetizen
AFP

SPIELBERG  AUSTRIA,

Red Bull face the prospect of an embarrassing
,if not humiliating week end on home soil
at the Austrian Grand Prix where the owner
Dietrich Mateschitz on Thursday lambasted
engine suppliers Renault and threatened to
leave the sport.

The Red Bull owner,usually shy of publicity ,
launched a stinging attack on Renault and
charged them with demotivating the team as
it was announced that both drivers Australian
Daniel Ricciardo and Russian Daniil Kvyat,will
suffer 10 place grid penalties for having two more
new engines installed,

The engines are their fifth each of the season and
exceed the quota of four for the year a limit they
have breached after only eight of the 19 scheduled
Grand Prix,The team confirmed the decision
via Twitter,

Red Bulls disarray with their power units coincided
with Mateschitz 's comments as published by
the Red Bull ownedSpeed Week magazine and
Website ,After their four successive years of
championships and glory a split looks inevitable.

They take from us not only time and money ,but
also the will and motivation "Mateschitz told
Speed Week,"There is no driver and no chassis
which is more able to compensate for the lack
of horse-power,What else has to our happen?
That we will lose our motivation cmpletely"?

The row between former champion Red Bull
and their engine suppliers Renault has rumbled
and roared at various  intervals all season,but
this latest attack from Mateschitz is the sharpest
yet Red Bull are contracted compete in Formula
"You can't make people do what they don't
want " he said
AFP

SEOUL:
South Korea Monday reported its 16th death
in an expanding MERS outbreak ,as President
Park Geun Hye called for efforts to shore up
the economy  against what she called "excessive
public alarm

Seoul also declared  five new patients ,bringing
the total number of cases including the deaths
to 150,as fears grew over the impact  of the
outbreak on Asia's fourth largest economy,

Park,whose popularity  has plunged due to the
crisis ,urged efforts to minimise the damage
to the economy,saying consumer spending
had dipped and the number
  of foreign tourists had plunged,

"It is important to prevent the spread of
excessive public anxiety and allow normal
economic activities to resume quickly",
More than 100,000 foreigners have cancelled
trips to Seoul since the beginning  of June and
more are expected to follow suit ,Seoul's vice
tourism minister warned Monday,

About 14.2 million foreigners or about 11
million a month on average visited the country
last year A 58 year old man who had been
suffering from diabates was the latest
victim of middle East Respiratory Syndrome
which broke out in South Korea less than
a month ago,

The country now has the largest outbreak
outside Saudi Arabia and it is spreading
unusually rapidly,The five new patients
age 39 to84 were infected in hospital in cities
including Seoul and Daejeon ,140 kilometres
south of the capital.

Among the was a nures who had performed
CPR on an infected patient in Daejeon and
a man who was infected at Samsung Medical
Centre in Seoul after accompanying his sick
mother,She later died MERS
AFP

SEOUL
A young North Korean soldier walked into
South Korea Monday a rare defection through
one of the world's most fortified frontiers,
saying he deserted his camp because of
habitual beating ,military officials said

The 19 year old soldier surrendered himself
to South Korean border guards around 8 am
(2300 GMT) after crossing  the frontier in
Hwacheon ,northeast of Seoul the South's
defence ministry said,

The North Korean soldier told investigators
that he had decided to defect "because of habitual
beating at his camp while harbouring
complaints about the reality of his homeland
"the spokesman added.

The defection sparked at tense stand -off
between North and South Korean border guards
across the four kilometre wide and 248 kilometre
long demilitarised  zone(DMZ) but there was
no conflict ,the Yonhap news agency reported,,
The man identified himself as a private ,the
lowest rank among the North's enlistees it said.

Hundreds of North Koreans flee their isolated
homeland each year but it is rare for defectors
to cross the land border,marked by barbed  wire
and guarded by tens of thousands of troops on
both sides,

Despite its name ,the DMZ separating the two
Koreas,which remain technically at war,is one
of the world most heavily militarised frontiers
,bristling with watch-towers and landmines,

Most North Koreans who fee repression and
poverty at home cross the porous frontier with
China before travelling through a Southeast Asian
nation and eventually arriving in South Korea,

So far about 28,000 North Koreans have resettled
in the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean
war mostly after the great famine in 1990s

Under Kim ,the isolated  state has tightened
border security ,while China has launched a
crackdown on the North Korean escapees on
its side of the border.

China ,the North 's sole major ally ,typically
considers them illegal economic migrants and
repatriates them despite criticisms  from human
rights groups,

Many face severe punishment including rights
monitors say ,torture and  term in a prison camp
once they are sent back to the North
AFP

MANILA:
The country maritime sovereignty and security
have been compromised many times over due
to decades of neglect and indifference by past
political leadership according to a military paper;

A 40 -page military study a copy of which was
obtained by The Star,noted that because of this
neglect the country's external and territorial
security have been in a woeful and pathetic state
especially in terms maritime capability.

It stressed that the Philippines is a coastal  or
archipelagic nation and the world 's second
largest archipelago ,next to only to Indonesia
It has the fifth longest coastline totaling 36-289
kilometers.

On top of this ,the country is strategically positioned
In East Asia where the world's most important
navigational sea lanes crisscross one another

The nation also sits astride major shipping routes
between the Americas and Southern China and
Southeast Asia ,as well as between northern
Australia and the Lombok Straits and Northeast Asia.

Unfortunately ,the country lacks maritime security
and infrastructure and has failed to check and secure
around 70,000 international vessels traversing year
round the  Luzon Straits and Malaca Straits and the
waterways in the Sulu Sea the paper said

Aside  from the 55 percent of Indian trade to East
Asia 95 percent of Japanese oil requirements from
the Middle East and 90 percent of the world 's trade
pass the country 's waters every year.

Against this backdrop ,it is surprising that the
Philippines has the most inward- looking and
myopic outlook in the region in relation to its
maritime environment

"Internally and externally ,the nation is fraught
with serious maritime issues but government
priorities are clearly misplaced" the paper said,

In spite of its enormous natural wealth there
exists a misunderstood "culture poverity"
This lamentable situation of Philippines
maritime security can easily be traced to the
attitude of its past leaders and policy -makers
in their understanding and appreciation of
geography.

"The leaders are focused on their respective
areas,which means that although they may
embark on improving their respective ports
,hardly any would think of the inter-connectivity
of their areas ,much less think of the entire
national in a maritime context "the paper said

This  attitude keeps legislators entrusted with
"THE POWER of THE  PURSE"from looking
at the national perspective and coming to grips
with the reality"it said.

DAILY EXPRESS

ZAMBOANGA  CITY:
A satellite launched by Nasa in 1997 to
observed rainfallrates on Earth has fallen
backand disintegrated over the sky in
southern Philippines on Sunday air force
and police authorities said.

It said the satellite a joint project by the
National Aeronauties and Space
Administration or Nasa and Japan Aero-
space Exploration Agency or Jaxa called
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ,or
TRMM was launched to observed rainfall
rates over the tropics and subtropics where
two thirds of the world 's rainfall occurs.

The spacecraft operated by Nasa explodes
and disintegrated in the atmosphere the
provincial police said

The Philippines Air Forces 3 Air Division
said it has deployed aircraft to search for
debris over a mountainous area in Sultan
Kudarat,but cut this short due to the weather.

Philippines media ran an unverified report
from villages that an unidentified aircraft
exploded in mid-air before crashing into
the mountains

The TRMM carried the first precipitation
radar flown in space,which returned data
that were made into 3-Dimagery ,enabling
scientists to see the internal structure of
storms for the first time
DAILY EXPRESS.

MANILA:

Pedestrians and traffic enforcers remain
exposed to the lethal amount of cancerous
black carbon in some parts of Edsa highways,

Reynaldo Razalan 64 has been traffic enforcer
for the last 20 years ,He stands under the Shaw
Boulevard  flyover ,with nothing but a make
shift mask to protect him from the elements
 Razalan  said  that he had the mask made for
him using his own money ,Not all traffic
enforcers like to use the  mask,but in his 20
years of service he prefers it.

Smoke belching is common in Edsa,especially
by  public utility vehicles
Some times cars would even pass by they press
the gas and belch smoke into our face,before
driving away.

In addition to rude drivers,Razalan tells the
story of a colleageue whom ,after becoming
a traffic enforcer,developed asthma

The Shaw Boulevard underpass and the Ayala
underpass having alarmingly high rates,based
on data collected by Dr Gerry Bagtasa,an
internationally renowned atmospheric physicist
,who measured black carbon levels along Edsa,

In his studies he found out that back carbon
in other countries range from 1 to 10 micrograms
per cubic meter ,

In the contrast ,measurements in Edsa ,particularly
at the Ayala Station of  the MRT  and the Shaw
Boulevard underpass,can reach 1,000 micrograms
per-cubic meter-well beyond the acceptable standed

Its fr this reason that Bagtasa dosn't allow his
daughter to play outside during peak hours of
traffic in metro Manila He fears for his own daughter
who like many other children is sensitive to
air quality,
Warned about the immanet threat of cancer
Ranzalan was not surprised  to the problem
here,,
DAILY EXPRESS