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SUPPLEMENTS PROPERTY Bodies are seen on the ground after dozens were killed in Nice, France. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

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HE brutal and senseless attack in Nice last week, where a lone attacker at the wheel of a heavy truck which ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day a day of equality, liberty and fraternity in the French city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring scores more is just the latest in a series of terror attacks carried out on European soil in recent years.

Once again the civilized world mourns the devastating loss of innocent lives at the hands of terrorism.

Islamic State yet again claimed responsibility with its supporters barbarically celebrating across social media with messages of hate proclaiming “We are promising the Crusader nations which have aligned themselves against the Islamic State that

dark days are coming.” It is believed the attack was in retaliation for the death of Abu Omar al-Shishani - the terror group’s so-called “minister of war - who was killed earlier this year by coalition forces while fighting in Iraq.

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Forensic experts work outside Turkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, following a deadly terrorist attack. | REUTERS

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Meet Theresa May, Britain’s new Prime Minister Author: Victoria Honeyman

Britain has a new prime minister in the form of Theresa May, previously the home secretary. May who took office last Wednesday after the contest to become Conservative leader was unexpectedly cut short by her rival Andrea Leadsom.

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AY was always seen as the more likely of the two candidates to prevail but it had been thought that she wouldn’t emerge as the victor until September.

Then, after facing a backlash for comments she made implying that being a mother made her the best woman for the job, Leadsom quit the race.

So, who is the new prime minster? Some newspapers obsessed over May’s quirky shoe choices. But she also hit headlines with her admission in 2002 that the Conservatives were often seen as the “nasty party”.

After graduating from Oxford, May spent her early career on a London council and at the Bank of England. She was elected to the House of Commons in 1997 as MP for Maidenhead in Berkshire. Her star rose quickly and she became shadow Secretary of State for Education in June 1999, when the Conservative Party was the party of opposition.

When then leader William Hague departed, his successor Iain Duncan Smith appointed May as shadow Secretary of State for transport. Then in 2002, she became chairman of the Conservative Party.

Her style was calm, collected and, as the “nasty party” reference suggests, not afraid to point out uncomfortable truths in order to help her party win power. Under Duncan Smith’s successor, Michael Howard, May returned to the transport portfolio, before moving to culture, finally becoming shadow leader of the House of Commons in 2005 when David Cameron rose to the leadership.

After a short stint as shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions, May took up her more permanent position as Home Secretary after the Conservative Party came to power as the lead partner in the 2010-2015 coalition government. She held that position right up until now – an exceptionally long stint in one of the g o v e r n m e n t ’s toughest jobs.

Traditionally in British politics, it was anticipated that Prime Ministers would occupy two of the three large governmental positions before becoming Prime Minister, those positions being Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

However, many Prime Ministers have not held more than one of those positions, and some have held none.

Tony Blair had famously never held a government position before becoming Prime Minister, as the Labour Party had been out of power for the entire duration of his career as an MP. Cameron, too, had never held a Cabinet position before becoming Prime Minister, although he had been a special adviser to Norman Lamont while he had been Chancellor. In modern times, only Jim Callaghan (1976-1979) and John Major (19901997) had fulfilled the traditional apprenticeship of government.

Waiting for the vision For May, there will be no “third way” or “Liberal Conservatism”. She is seen as being to the right of Cameron, who represents the more centre-right element of the party.

We can expect May’s leadership to be defined by the Brexit talks. May has cast herself, not just since the referendum vote, but since her arrival in parliament, as a steady pair of hands. She will need to live up to that reputation in a political environment which is unpredictable and tumultuous.

The lack of a longer leadership campaign means that May has not been pressured on any of her policies, nor has she had the opportunity to explain and justify them to the party and the public.

It seems likely that Britain’s new PM will attempt to “steady the ship”, securing Britain’s relationship with the EU. She said as much in a speech outside parliament when her leadership was confirmed. Brexit, she said, means Brexit, and securing a good deal must be the top priority.

But she will also have to heal her party’s nasty wounds. And even if she didn’t say as much, this problem will have to come first – at least chronologically. The Conservatives have been bitterly divided over the European issue for many years and the referendum has only deepened the rift.

So, before starting protracted negotiations with the EU and various other key trading nations, May will need to bring peace to her own team. And while her first cabinet may give us a hint as to her intentions, it may be some time before her vision for Britain becomes clear.

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Continued from page 1 Over the past two years France has been the recipient of three separate attacks in which a total of 231 innocent men, women and children have been killed. Below we detail some of the most heinous attacks carried out by militants across Europe.

May 24, 2014 - Four people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels. The attacker was French national Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who was subsequently arrested in Marseille, France.

Extradited, he is awaiting trial in Belgium.

January 7-9, 2015 - Two Islamist militants break into an editorial meeting of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7 and rake it with bullets, killing 17. Another militant kills a policewoman the next day and takes hostages at a supermarket on Jan. 9, killing four before police shoot him dead.

The attacks prompt a worldwide solidarity movement with the slogan “Je Suis Charlie” (I am Charlie).

Oct0ber 10, 2015 - Two bombs explode seconds apart at a rally of pro-Kurdish activists and civic groups near Ankara’s main train station, killing 102 people. Turkey blames suicide bombers who belong to an Islamic State cell from the southeast.

Istanbul, killing 12 Germans and seriously wounding several other foreigners.

March 19, 2016 - A suicide bomber blows himself up on Istiklal Street, Istanbul’s most popular shopping district, killing three Israeli tourists and an Iranian. The interior minister says the bomber was a Turkish member of Islamic State.

June 28, 2016 - Forty-five people are killed and hundreds wounded when three militants open fire outside the international terminal at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport.

Two of them enter the building and blow themselves up, and the third detonates explosives at the entrance. Turkey blames Islamic State militants from the ex-Soviet Union for masterminding the attack.

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BRITISH students enrolled in universities of European Union countries may be granted EU citizenship under a plan discussed by EU leaders after Britain’s vote to leave the EU, Italy’s prime minister has announced.

“If a British student decides to spend two, three, four years in a European university, we are studying now if it is possible to give him a European passport (..),” Matteo Renzi (pictured above) told reporters in Brussels after a meeting of European socialist leaders where the initiative was discussed.

Renzi said the plan was also on the table at a meeting he attended in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande early last week.

The move could be welcomed by British students on the continent who are uncertain about their future rights in EU countries after Britain’s June 23 EU referendum.

An opinion poll taken shortly before the referendum found 73 percent of eligible voters under age 25 in favour of remaining in the EU. The eventual national margin on June 23 was 52 to 48 percent in favour of leaving.

Renzi said that no decision has been made yet on whether the plan can be carried out. “For the moment nothing is sure.”

Legal hurdles might make the plan impossible, though.

Granting EU citizenship to British students may force EU countries to do the same with students from other non-EU countries to avoid illegal discrimination.

Renzi said the plan was under discussion because Brexit could disadvantage Britain’s younger generation. “We are really sad for the new generation, particularly the new generation who lives and studies in the UK, but this is democracy.”

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BONKERS BORIS IS BACK! Known for jokes and insults, Boris Johnson takes helm of British diplomacy

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ORIS Johnson, Britain’s most colourful politician with a long record of gaffes and scandals, has appointed as foreign secretary in a surprise move by new Prime Minister Theresa May that could shake up world diplomacy.

The former London mayor, who has never previously held a cabinet post and is known for his undiplomatic language, was the most prominent figure in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union that culminated in a vote for ‘Brexit’ on June 23.

The appointment of a man who in the run-up to the referendum compared the goals of the EU with those of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon is likely to cause consternation in European capitals.

Johnson also drew accusations of racism during the campaign by suggesting in a newspaper article that U.S. President Barack Obama, whom he described as “part-Kenyan”, was biased against Britain because of an “ancestral dislike of the British empire”.

The U.S. State Department was quick to say it looked forward to working with Johnson. But he may face awkward moments in Washington over the Obama comments, as well as a 2007 article in which he likened Hillary Clinton to “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital” and a more recent quip that he feared going to New York because of “the real risk of meeting Donald Trump”.

The rise to one of the four great offices of state was the latest twist in an eventful career for the man invariably referred to simply as “Boris”, known in Britain and beyond for his clownish persona and dishevelled mop of platinum hair.

Johnson originally made his name as an EU-bashing journalist in Brussels, before entering politics within the Conservative Party while also raising his profile through a series of appearances on a hit comedy TV show.

DOWNING STREET AMBITION THWARTED His ability to charm people with his quick wit and eccentric style helped him shrug off a series of scandals, including getting sacked from the party’s policy team while in opposition for lying about an extra-marital affair.

That and other episodes earned him the tabloid nickname “Bonking Boris”. But where others would have floundered, Johnson became increasingly popular, culminating in his two victories in usually left-leaning London’s mayoral contests in 2008 and 2012.

His decision to defy then-Prime Minister David Cameron, who was campaigning for Britain to remain in the European Union, by leading the push for Brexit, was widely seen as a

May made fun of Johnson by contrasting her own experience of negotiating with European counterparts with his.

“Last time he did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly-new water cannon,” she said to laughter.

With May having also appointed David Davis to the newly created post of secretary of state for exiting the European Union, Johnson’s role in detailed negotiations over the terms of Brexit is likely to be limited.

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bold gamble to replace Cameron should the “Leave” side win the referendum.

After that came to pass, he was seen as the favourite for the top job, but in his hour of triumph his ambition was thwarted in dramatic fashion when his close ally Michael Gove abruptly deserted him and announced his own candidacy.

The betrayal by Gove, whose parting shot was to say that “Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead”, stopped Johnson’s march on Downing Street before it had even started.

His prospects appeared bleak as he was widely ridiculed for playing a major role in pushing Britain towards Brexit, only to duck out of the daunting task of actually steering that process. A joke that circulated widely on social media was “Cometh the hour, run awayeth the man”.

His appointment as foreign secretary was unexpected. In her previous role as interior minister, May had humiliated Johnson by refusing to allow the use of water cannons in England after, as mayor of London, he had bought three of the devices second-hand from Germany.

In a speech launching her own leadership bid on June 30,

However, he will have to handle some of the most complex and explosive diplomatic crises around the world, from Syria to Ukraine.

“At this incredibly important time ... it is extraordinary that the new prime minister has chosen someone whose career is built on making jokes,” said Tim Farron, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats.

Despite recent efforts to project a more serious image, Johnson may well find that old and not-so-old jokes come back to haunt him in his new job.

It could be hard for him to work his charm in Turkey, a NATO member and key player in the Middle East as well as in the refugee crisis on Europe’s borders, after he was declared the winner of The Spectator magazine’s “President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition” in May. The magazine ran the contest to protest against what it described as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s abuse of blasphemy laws to block criticism of himself.

Johnson’s winning entry was as follows: “There was a young fellow from Ankara, Who was a terrific wankerer, Till he sowed his wild oats with the help of a goat, But he didn’t even stop to thankera”.

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WHAT IS ARTICLE 50 –

the law that governs exiting the EU – and how does it work?

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RITAIN is to leave the EU, this we know, but the process of withdrawing is something that none of us had thought much about prior to last weeks results; it was only during the Prime Ministers David Cameron’s resignation statement on Friday 24th June that the term “Article 50” was mentioned. But what is this and how does it work.

Simply put, Article 50 is a little-known provision of The Lisbon Treaty which governs a countries withdrawal from the EU setting out; trading deals, financial terms and its ongoing relationship with the EU. Upon revision you can see that when initially drafted no one actually believed that a member state would wish to leave the EU which is why at only 250 words it is indeed very vague. Britain has been the first country to invoke this article.

The only real provision of the article is that once implemented there is a two-year negotiation period to address the exit plan but surprisingly there is actually no timescale of when Article 50 must be triggered by the departing government, which in the case of Brexit has caused many politicians around the world to demand the start of immediate negotiations following David Cameron’s announcement that he will not begin proceedings during the remainder of his term but will instead leave it up to his successor.

EXPECT MESSINESS Once activated, Article 50 is very far from a simple case of the UK and its neighbours engaging in individual mutual negotiations. The negotiations will see Great Britain sat on its own on the one side, with all the remaining member states collectively on the other. As we are the first member state to vote to leave the EU, one can only assume hard bargaining, messy compromises and trade-offs. Individual states will block agreement in one area unless they gain concessions in others.

Some things are clear about the Article 50 negotiations,

restrain EU members in favour of a more generous approach than would otherwise be the case.

6.Throughout the two years or more of the talks, the UK will remain an EU member – but a rather lame duck one, with little influence on its partners.

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however.

1. The UK will be the weaker side in the negotiations because it needs access to the EU’s colossal single market.

2.If Britain wants access to the single market, it will have to pay with sovereignty: the more sovereignty the UK is prepared to sacrifice, the greater its access will be to the market (and vice versa).

3.Single market access will also involve allowing continued access to the UK market, including for migrants.

4.From the moment the Article 50 process starts, uncertainty – and the prospect that a good deal cannot be reached – is likely to hang over the UK and the EU alike like a toxic cloud.

This will impact on financial markets. It will hit investment. It will hit the value of the pound.

5.The need to deter other moves to leave within the EU will toughen the EU’s collective stance against Britain – as will elections in France and Germany in 2017 – although enlightened commercial self-interest might simultaneously

But Article 50 is only part of the story. Future relations will likely involve an entirely separate parallel agreement – requiring tortuous negotiations which could last years. Furthermore the UK will also have to negotiate trade deals with states outside the EU (meaning agreements with all non-EU WTO member states) – something of a daunting undertaking in terms of the time, the effort and the persuasive skills it will take.

After the UK leaves, the remaining member states will probably have to negotiate the revision of their internal institutional arrangements, which might involve treaty change.

And could a change-of-mind referendum by the UK be legally permissible, enabling it to back out of Brexit? The Irish electorate, after all, changed its mind twice, having voted down EU treaties in referendums.

The point is not absolutely clear, but there is arguably no legal bar on the UK government rescinding its withdrawal notice under Article 50, should the UK change its mind, once it sees just how bad the final deal offered to it by the other member states in 2018 or later would be.

Article 50 envisages another intriguing possibility – that of Great Britain eventually applying to rejoin the EU. The idea that having left, might ever seek re-entry may now seem farfetched. However, the disadvantages of non-membership are, if expert opinion is anything to go by, likely to be considerable. If such unpleasant predictions prove true, who knows if everlasting exile might not one day be abandoned in favour of re-engaging with “ever closer union” once again?

This article in its full was provided courtesy of The Conversation

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POLISH MIGRANTS FEARFUL OVER FUTURE AFTER BREXIT VOTE BUT after its residents overwhelmingly voted to leave the European Union, the 45-year old mother of two says she no longer feels welcome.

“We’ve started to hear of Polish people being told by locals to go home,” she said, too anxious to give her surname. “Some were sworn at, even by children. Many people are scared.”

The town in the rural county of Lincolnshire saw the arrival of thousands of eastern European migrants in the last decade, drawn to jobs picking vegetables and packaging food.

According to the Office for National Statistics, Boston had Britain’s fastest increase in the percentage of people who described themselves as white but not British in the last census. A place with virtually no foreigners at all in 2001, it was more than 15 percent foreign-born by 2011, with many of the newcomers from the EU’s poor, former Communist east.

The recent referendum gave the natives their response. More than 75 percent voted to leave the EU, the biggest margin of victory for “Brexit” in the country, after a campaign focused on calls to curtail immigration.

Now the local Polish community is worried the anti-EU feeling stirred up in the tense campaign is translating into open aggression.

Police in neighbouring Cambridgeshire have said offensive leaflets towards Poles were distributed in the town of Huntingdon. In London, graffiti was sprayed on a Polish cultural centre at the weekend. Islamic groups have also noted a rise in incidents against Muslims since Friday.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council noted a 57 percent increase in reports of hate crime incidents to the police online hate crime reporting site, True Vision, in the days following the referendum compared to the same period last month.

In Boston, many of more than a dozen Poles interviewed by Reuters said they had heard of instances of verbal abuse. The

Polish migrant Sylwia has lived with her family for six years working various jobs in the small English town of Boston which she now calls home.

A pedestrian walks past the Polish Social and Cultural Association after graffiti was painted on the side of the building calling on Poles to leave the United Kingdom, in Hammersmith, London.

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front gate of a Polish restaurant had been knocked down on referendum night, though its owners were wary of linking the incident to anti-Polish sentiment.

“People are worried attitudes will change and English people may show more aggression towards Poles,” said Patrycja Walentynowicz, whose Lincs PL business offers translation and other services to Poles.

“One of my friends heard very unpleasant comments when she spoke in Polish outside a school,” she said, although she

Welsh nationalists intensify push for independence after Brexit Fast on the heels of the SNP in Scotland, the nationalist party of Wales will have announced their plans to intensify its push for independence in response to the shocking result by British voters to leave the European Union, the head of the party said.

The statement from the Plaid Cymru party, which does not govern Wales, comes as Scotland’s pro-independence government has said it might hold another referendum on Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom in order to stay in the EU. And in Northern Ireland, some Republican politicians have called for a vote to unite Ireland with the British-run province.

Plaid Cymru Leader Leanne Wood said the result for Britain to leave the EU had “changed everything” for the party.In all likelihood, with Scotland voting to remain, the UK will cease to exist in the near future. Northern Ireland will be considering its future too,” she said in a statement.

“Wales cannot afford to become a forgotten part of an

‘England-and-Wales’ entity,” Wood said.

Plaid Cymru will hold a special conference soon to discuss the party’s stance further, she said.

Support for independence remains lower in Wales than in Scotland and the regional parliament is run by the centreleft Labour Party. In Britain’s EU membership referendum, voters narrowly backed leaving the bloc.

said she was also reassured by expressions of support from residents.

Her co-founder at the company, Iga Paczkowska, said she had already noticed a change.

“I don’t know why but people...have been expecting that if they voted out, day by day we’re just going to disappear,” she said. “When they woke up on 24 June and realised we are still here, they became a little bit more open about their feelings.”

In a joint statement, Boston Borough council and police said they would take action if any hate crime was reported.

“All law-abiding residents of Boston borough who are here legally should be treated the same – with dignity and respect – whether indigenous or from other parts of the world,” they said.

“The police will not tolerate hate crime and will robustly investigate and prosecute. This is a tolerant community, reflected by no incidents of hate crime reported so far. We appeal for continued calm and understanding.”

“MESSAGE OF REASSURANCE” Boston, dotted with Polish shops selling pickled cabbage and smoked sausages and restaurants serving pierogi dumplings alongside Lithuanian stores offering their specialities, was named “the least integrated place” in Britain in a January report by right-leaning Policy Exchange.

Last week, Jonathan Noble, local councillor for the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), said those working and settled “had nothing to fear” after the Brexit vote.

“Our message to them is one of reassurance,” he said. “The people who have come here, most have come here to work and you can understand they want to make a better life for themselves and their families...All it (Brexit) means in the future is that we will be able to control immigration from the EU.” Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned harassment of foreigners and spoke to Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo to reassure her Poles in Britain would be protected. Most Poles are Catholic, and the leader of Catholics in England and Wales has also spoken out.

“This upsurge of racism, of hatred towards others is something we must not tolerate,” Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols said in a statement. “We have to say this is simply not acceptable in a humane society and it should never be provoked or promoted.”

According to 2014 official figures, there are some 790,000 Poles living in the UK, making it the second-largest overseasborn population in Britain after those from India. Polish is Britain’s most common native language after English, beating Welsh.

“I think that by leaving the European Union, Britain has made a big mistake,” said 31-year-old Pole Slawomir, who works in fields and plants around Boston.

“They are going to be curbing immigration ...it’s not clear what it is going to be like, what the rules of the new prime minister are going to be? Are they going to deport people and leave residents? Will those who are already here stay and those who want to come in face problems? Only time will tell.”

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Pro-independence leader Sturgeon who throughout the Brexit campaign said that Scotland, must not be dragged out of the EU against its will.

So attended the meeting to negotiate directly with Brussels to protect the membership rights of Scots.

But Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, struggling to prevent the autonomous region of Catalonia from breaking away, said Madrid would oppose any EU negotiation with Scotland.

“If the United Kingdom leaves, Scotland leaves,” he said after the first meeting of the 27 EU partners without Britain.

Sturgeon, pointedly referring to Rajoy as “acting” premier following the unclear outcome of Span’s latest election, saying she

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“We are very early in this process,” she told reporters, stressing that her priority was to have Scotland’s voice heard. “I have been heartened today to hear a willingness to listen.”

A spokesman for Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU Commission chief who irked some European diplomats by meeting Sturgeon at such a critical time in EU relations with London, stressed that he had listened but would not interfere in British domestic politics.

EUROPE VS LONDON The 27 EU leaders sent a firm message to London that there would be “no negotiations of any kind” on future trade relations until the UK officially triggers the EU treaty’s exit clause.

“This should be done as quickly as possible,” they said in a joint statement.

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Sturgeon’s plea to stay in Europe rebuffed in Brussels Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon got a “sympathetic” hearing in Brussels last week as she pleaded her case for Scots to stay in the EU, showing how Britain’s vote to leave the bloc could splinter the United Kingdom. But she drew a rebuff from Spain and a mixed response from European officials. chair at the European Council table.

Sturgeon has raised the prospect of the Scottish parliament trying to block Brexit legislation to keep the entire United Kingdom in the EU, but has also said she believes a new referendum on Scottish independence is now highly likely.

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“Scotland has won the right to be heard in Brussels,” said Juncker

27 also said that access to Europe’s prized single market “requires acceptance of all four freedoms” of movement for goods, capital, persons and services.

SYMPATHY FOR SCOTLAND There has been a surge in sympathy in many parts of Europe for the 5.5 million Scots, whose strong vote to stay in the EU was overridden by the English, who outnumber them 10 to one. Britain as a whole voted 5248 percent to leave.

But countries like Spain that have dealt with regional separatism are strongly opposed to any direct EU talks with Scotland. Back in London, Cameron told Parliament negotiations had to be carried out by the United Kingdom as a whole.

European Council President Donald Tusk, the chairman of the summit of EU leaders, pointedly declined Sturgeon’s request for a meeting. Nonetheless, Sturgeon prevailed upon Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, another part of the British isles facing

serious Brexit problems, to remind leaders of Scotland’s wishes.

Officials from some EU states called Juncker’s decision to meet Sturgeon a provocation designed to raise pressure on London to give formal notice to quit. He rejected such suggestions.

“Scotland has won the right to be heard in Brussels,” Juncker told a news conference. A spokesman said after the two met that he had listened to Sturgeon but stressed the issue must be dealt with in the context of U.K. constitutional affairs.

Officials briefed on talks Sturgeon held with senior figures in the European Parliament said she discussed whether there was any legal way that a breakaway Scotland might somehow remain in the EU once the United Kingdom completed its so-called Brexit.

EU officials stressed, as they did before Scots voted against independence in a 2014 referendum, that Scotland could not apply to join the Union until it was a sovereign state.

Senior officials dismissed the notion that Scotland could take over the empty British

With the EU facing years of uncertainty in negotiating the withdrawal of its secondbiggest economy, the Scottish factor is a complication most governments would rather avoid.

“This is a way of putting pressure on London to trigger the exit clause,” a senior official in one EU government said of EU efforts to bounce London to the negotiating table, while Cameron has insisted only his successor will set the clock ticking on a twoyear deadline to withdrawal.

The leaders launched a period of political reflection, with their next informal meeting set for September in Bratislava, culminating in a set of reform proposals to get a better grip on migration, bolstering security and

creating jobs and growth.

“Europeans expect us to do better when it comes to providing security, prosperity as well as hope for a better future. We need to deliver on this, in a way that unites us, not least in the interest of the young,” a joint statement of the 27 said.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called the British vote a wake-up call for Europe and said: “It’s important to have this meeting of 27 because it will show the unity of the 27.”

But officials said that facade of unity was punctured in the meeting by calls from Poland and the Czech Republic for the EU to do less and return more powers to national capitals. Both countries’ foreign ministers have called for Juncker to step aside after the Brexit vote - a suggestion he brushed aside.

Juncker earlier challenged Cameron’s explanation of the referendum defeat, saying successive British leaders had engaged in “Brussels bashing” and should not be surprised if their citizens had believed them.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel doused any hopes that Britain might yet reverse its decision, warning after the dinner with Cameron against “wishful thinking”.

While she persuaded fellow leaders to give London more time to hand in its formal notice to quit, Merkel said Britain could not drag out the process endlessly. She made clear that a new government would not be allowed to “cherry-pick” the parts of EU membership benefits that it liked

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called the British vote a wakeup call for Europe and said: “It’s important to have this meeting of 27 because it will show the unity of the 27.”

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A balloon is tied to the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square during a ‘March for Europe’ demonstration against Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. REUTERS/Neil Hall

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ARLIAMENTARY attempts to revoke the Brexit vote in favour of leaving the EU have no chance of succeeding and would run into a solid Conservative Party opposition, the chair of Britain’s foreign affairs committee has confirmed.

Britain’s parliament will debate in September a petition signed by more than 4 million members of the public calling for a second referendum on European Union membership, although it will not take a decision on whether to re-run last month’s vote.

However, with a large number of lawmakers opposed to the referendum result, some of them see a slender chance of being able to overturn the vote through parliament.

“Down that road will lie disaster because 52 percent of electorate voted for this and the implications of that would be catastrophic,” Crispin Blunt, chairman of Britain’s foreign affairs committee, told reporters in Paris.

SUPPORT “It would run into a brick wall of a solid conservative majority of parliament that will support the decision of the electorate.

In that sense, parliamentary opposition is going nowhere,”

said Blunt, who backed the campaign to leave the EU. Blunt was in Paris with four other members of the foreign affairs committee, including opposition Labour Party and Scottish National Party members, to discuss with French counterparts how Britain’s breakaway from the EU would pan out.

In a heated news conference demonstrating how deep feelings are running over the shock result last month, Labour MP Mike Gapes, who campaigned to stay in the bloc, said the government could not bypass the views of parliament.

“Parliament has a responsibility to mitigate the damage and make clear what we wish the government to achieve before it triggers Article 50. We live in a parliamentary democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy.”

Invoking Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty will formally launch the process of separation and start the clock ticking on a two-year countdown to Britain’s actual departure.

Blunt said he did not expect that process to be triggered until the end of the year.

Elisabeth Guigou, head of France’s foreign affairs committee, underlined France’s official stand on the issue, saying the process should begin quickly.

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Blunt and fellow conservative lawmaker Daniel Kawczynski, who also supported the campaign to quit the EU, said Brexit could ultimately create closer ties with France.

“The relationship has been neglected for far too long on a bilateral perspective,” Kawczynski said. “There will be a renaissance as a result of this referendum.”

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DAY after replacing David Cameron, May moved to impose her authority with one of the most sweeping government reshuffles for decades.

One of her most contentious appointments is Boris Johnson as foreign secretary, who compared the aims of the EU to those of Hitler and Napoleon during the referendum campaign.

SURPRISE The surprise choice drew a withering response from French Foreign Minister JeanMarc Ayrault, who described the former London mayor as a liar.

Three weeks after the shock vote for ‘Brexit’, May’s government faces the complex task of extricating Britain from the 28-nation EU while trying to protect the economy from feared disruption to confidence, trade and investment.

New chancellor of exchequer Philip Hammond signalled he would take a less

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Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May showed a ruthless streak after taking office last week in building her cabinet to lead Britain’s exit from the European Union. aggressive approach to cutting the budget deficit than his predecessor George Osborne, who was also sacked.

“Markets do need signals of reassurance, they need to know that we will do whatever is necessary to keep the economy on track,” Hammond said.

CIRCUMSTANCES “Of course we’ve got to reduce the deficit further but looking at how and when and at what pace we do that ... is something that we now need to consider in the light of the new circumstances that the economy is facing,” he said.

May, who had favoured a vote to stay in the EU, must now decide when and how to start official divorce proceedings from the other 27 countries, who are pressing her to move quickly to lift the uncertainty now hanging over them all.

In her first words to the nation after taking her position as Prime Minister, she promised to champion social justice and to help ordinary Britons in their struggle to make ends meet.

“The government I lead will be driven not be the interests of the privileged few, but by yours. We will do everything we can to give you more control over your lives,” she said.

Britons chose Brexit despite a barrage of warnings that severing ties would create huge uncertainty and plunge the economy into recession. The winning ‘Leave’ campaign dismissed what it called ‘Project Fear’, saying Britain would prosper if it regained independence from Brussels.

In one of her first acts, May dismissed Chancellor Osborne, a figure synonymous with austerity policies and a leading voice among those who had warned that leaving the EU would spell economic doom.

She then followed up by removing the justice, education, culture and cabinet office ministers, while the Northern Ireland minister also quit.

Veteran right-wingers David Davis and Liam Fox have been named, respectively, as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and head of a new international trade department, both key positions in the arduous negotiations ahead.

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Both are pastors’ daughters who excelled as academics before rising to the top of their conservative parties. Now Theresa May and Angela Merkel, equally firm but pragmatic, will go head to head to determine Britain’s future relationship with Europe.

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WO years the German chancellor’s junior, May is highly regarded among European officials who largely welcomed news that she is Britain’s new prime minister.

“Very disciplined” is how one senior German official who has worked closely with May described the Oxford University-educated daughter of a Church of England vicar. She has “excellent” relations with French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, a source in Paris said.

Described by one veteran British conservative as a “bloody difficult woman”, 59-yearold May will need to muster all the goodwill she can in Europe.

Her task is to deal with the negotiating clout and stamina of Merkel, who in 10 years as chancellor has regularly outlasted other European Union leaders at late night Brussels meetings.

CRUCIAL Under the Lisbon Treaty, a deal on Britain’s departure from the EU must be concluded with the European Council, which groups leaders of the 27 other member states.

Merkel’s role, however, is crucial. After Britons voted for Brexit on June 23, she met the leaders of France and Italy to plan the way ahead for the EU, showing that its biggest member states - rather than its institutions - want to determine this.

Both women, who have been married for decades, saw off male challengers on their way to the top.

Merkel defeated her more flamboyant predecessor, the Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder, at the ballot box in 2005.

May, who has been British interior minister for the past six years, will become prime minister simply because Conservative members of parliament elected her leader of the ruling party.

But the woman who has declared “I’m not a

showy politician”, is also replacing a less cautious politician in the pro-EU Cameron, whose gamble in calling the referendum failed.

Merkel and May agree on one thing: in the Briton’s words “Brexit means Brexit”. Merkel has insisted the result of what was officially an advisory referendum must be respected.

Beyond that, battle lines are already being drawn. May says Britain will not rush to trigger the formal divorce proceedings under the Lisbon Treaty. Merkel, however, wants Britain to make its intentions clear more quickly.

Last week, Merkel put the ball in May’s court.

“We must now wait until Britain says what relationship it envisages with the European Union and then we will lead, in our interests, the best negotiations for our citizens in the 27 member states,” she said.

The chancellor wants to retain strong links with Britain, Germany’s fifth-biggest trading partner for goods, but her bigger priority is to hold together the remaining EU members.

“VERY PERSISTENT” British diplomats who have worked with May in Brussels rate her highly, saying she is one of the best prepared and best informed ministers to negotiate with their EU partners.

Their European counterparts agree.

“She knows Brussels well, she knows the people and how things work here,” said one EU official who deals with justice and home

affairs. “She has always been prepared for the meetings, active in intervening, she knows the file.”

Another senior EU official familiar with negotiations in which May has taken part described her as “very professional, very well respected”.

All the indications are May will prove a tough negotiator. “She won’t be an easy partner for the EU,” said the senior EU official, adding that May does not change her tune easily.

“She’s been extremely consistent, very persistent.”

A quiet ‘remain’ campaigner, May must now get the best terms she can. Her biggest task is to retain British access to the EU’s single market while restricting immigration from the bloc.

EU leaders say market access can come only with a commitment to the free movement of people - just what British voters rejected.

Yet May has a record of negotiating compromises with the EU in such apparently black or white situations.

As interior minister, she opted back into a European arrest warrant system and cross-border information sharing despite Britain’s ‘opt out’ on EU justice and home affairs policy.

In brokering those ‘opt-ins’, the senior EU official said: “She took a great part in the negotiations herself, she didn’t rely on officials ...

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Spain records first case of sexually transmitted Zika virus SPAIN has recorded its first known case of the Zika virus being sexually transmitted, after a woman contracted it from her partner after he returned from a Latin American country, health authorities in Madrid confirm.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been linked to thousands of cases of the microcephaly birth defect in countries such as Brazil, which has declared a public health emergency over the disease. The birth defect is marked by babies born with brain abnormalities and undersized heads.

The woman’s partner had been diagnosed with Zika shortly after returning from an unspecified country in Latin America in either late April or early May, a spokesman for Madrid’s health authorities said.

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contracted it just after he returned, the spokesman said. Spanish media reported that the woman is not pregnant.

Before the announcement of the new case, Spain had 158 known cases of Zika infections at last count, all of which resulted from traveling overseas.

SPANISH police have issued guidelines on how to safely use augmented-reality video games after the release of the application Pokemon Go. The police advice included reminders that users are they are in “the real world” and must aware of real-world obstacles such as traffic lights and cars.

Players of the game from Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd walk around real-life neighbourhoods to hunt down virtual cartoon characters on their smartphone screens.

The police issued their guidelines after two Japanese tourists were rescued from a motorway tunnel in Barcelona last week after they had wandered in search of Pokemon characters, according to Spanish media. The mobile game has become an instant hit just one week after launch. Police warned players

that the use of GPS technology for the game means users’ location is visible to others, potentially making them vulnerable to muggings or theft, as well as signaling when they are not at home.

Across the United States, players have been drawn down dark alleys and into dangerous neighborhoods in search of the imaginary creatures, only to be targeted by criminals.

The police manual warns players not be distracted by the excitement of catching rare Pokémon characters and to remember their safety is paramount.

Pokemon Go became available in Spain on July 15, following its release in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom the previous week. The game has been a runaway success, boosting Nintendo’s market share by $17 billion in just over a week.

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HE leader of an association representing owners of illegal homes in Andalucia has been appointed an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), for services to the British community in Spain.

The award to Mrs Maura Hillen, an Irish national, reflects her work as President and spokesperson of Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No! (AUAN), which campaigns for the legalisation of homes in the Almanzora Valley, where thousands of properties – mostly British owned - have lacked a final habitation certificate since they were built some 10 to 15 years ago.

LEGISLATION Under Maura Hillen’s leadership, AUAN – which in English translates to ‘No to Urban Planning Abuse in Almanzora’ – lobbies the Spanish authorities at local, regional and national level for the legalisation of homes, to get them properly connected to water and electricity, with mitigation of the costs of doing so, and information and support for affected home owners. AUAN has some 500 members, mostly British but also Belgian and Irish nationals.

The British Ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley, said: “Since 2008, Maura Hillen MBE has made a tireless contribution towards resolving the property problems that affect thousands of British homeowners in Spain. I am very pleased that Her Majesty The Queen has approved this honour, which recognises her

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“Under her leadership, AUAN is a professionally-run, well-respected organisation that has secured expert legal advice and in turn proposed realistic solutions to the Spanish regional and national authorities.

“In March last year, the Criminal Code was modified following proposals from AUAN that judges take into account that most owners purchased in good faith, and that compensation should be paid prior to any demolition.

That was a significant step forward in reforming a legal system that AUAN argued had failed adequately to recognise the rights of homeowners or compensate for their losses.

“I know Maura intends to keep campaigning for more action to resolve outstanding cases and to increase the legal security for future

buyers.”

Maura Hillen MBE, president of AUAN, said: “I am very pleased and delighted to accept this award not only for myself but on behalf of every member of AUAN who has also played no small part in defending the rights of homeowners in Spain, most especially committee members, past and present, and those that came before me as president of AUAN. “This award is a recognition and vindication of their efforts and perseverance as much as it is of mine.”

Mrs Hillen is also Councillor for Tourism & International Relations in Albox, Almeria, and a deputy mayor.

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PANISH police raided town halls and businesses across the country last week, arresting 12 people as part of a sweeping investigation into the suspected infiltration of local governments by organised crime.

In the latest chapter of corruption scandals that have engulfed much of Spain’s political class, police staged 48 raids, mostly in Madrid and the Catalonia region, including on eight town halls, according to the Spanish interior ministry.

The inquiry, involving 340 police from 10 regions, followed the detection of a possible organised crime network hidden behind local state-owned enterprises that acted as a front, a ministry statement said.

“Those under investigation constructed a parallel structure in the town halls in order to

Civil guards cordon off the town hall during a raid as part of a corruption probe in Torrejon de Ardoz near Madrid. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

avoid oversight,” said a statement by Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, which led the inquiry.

“The creation of local state-owned companies that lacked any business activity was detected. These formed a fraudulent network through which local public funds were siphoned off first to another public firm, then to a private commercial company.”

EMBEZZLEMENT The ministry said much of the embezzled money had been sent to the tiny nation of Andorra, a tax haven sandwiched between Spain and France, where four police raids also took place.

The prosecutor’s office said it was looking into suspected money laundering, embezzlement of public funds, bribery, influence peddling, rigging of public auctions and tax fraud.

At the town hall of Torrejon de Ardoz, a district in the east of Madrid controlled by the ruling conservative People’s Party (PP), police sealed off the entrance and remained inside for several hours collecting documents, a Reuters witness said.

Graft was one of the main concerns of voters in Spain’s national election last month which, like one in December, was inconclusive with no party attaining a governing majority, underlining widening mistrust in mainstream politics.

Scandals linked to the misuse of public funds have forced several PP politicians to resign.

The PP, which won the most votes in the June 26 election, has denied having a corruption problem, saying the cases are isolated and it is tackling them.

The investigation was sparked by complaints from councillors in the town halls affected, the prosecutor’s office said.

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HE small, liberal Ciudadanos party will neither back nor block a government led by Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP), leader Albert Rivera confirmed, his most flexible stance yet after months of political deadlock and a repeat election.

The PP won a general election in June, the second in six months, but did not secure a majority. Its leader, acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, must therefore convince other parties to join a coalition government or to at least abstain from a vote of confidence that could block it.

Spain’s political scene has fragmented in recent years as upstart parties, including Ciudadanos, formed in the wake of Europe-imposed austerity measures during an economic crisis.

“We are not going to be in the government, nor are we going to support it,” said Rivera, whose market-friendly party lost seats in the second vote. He said his party still had to decide how to vote on any investiture vote for Rajoy on Wednesday.

However, Rivera said there should be no repeat of the

long-winded negotiations to form a government of the last six months and said he was ready to doing his part to solve the deadlock.

“We all have to give in on something. Given the election results, we cannot still be going on like this 18 days afterwards. We have to change and form a government as soon as possible,” Rivera said.

His stance was more conciliatory than previous statements from Ciudadanos, which last week also dropped its veto of a PP-led administration if Rajoy was at its head.

Ciudadanos came fourth in June’s election, grabbing 32 seats. This is not enough to enable on its own any majority or minority PP government, but an abstention would increase pressure on the Socialists, who came second with 85 seats, to follow suit.

The Socialist party has so far said it would not support a PP government or abstain from a vote of confidence, but analysts believe they could change their mind in order to avoid a third election.

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13 suspected of fraud at high-speed rail project SPANISH investigators arrested 13 people over suspected fraud related to work on a highspeed rail connection between Madrid and Barcelona.

The court, from the north-eastern region of Catalonia, said in a statement it was investigating allegations of embezzlement.

The investigation stemmed from a complaint related to three building sites around La Sagrera, a Barcelona station, according to the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office. Overcharging worth 82 million euros (£68 million) may have taken place, the prosecutors said.

The complaint was filed by the head of ADIF, the state-run high-speed rail administration company, the prosecutors said.

The prosecutors had earlier put the number of arrests at 14.

The 621-kilometre high speed train line cost around 9 billion euros.

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A total of 15 business locations and homes were searched in raids on Tuesday. Neither the court or the anti-corruption office named any of the companies involved.

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LOCAL AND REST OF SPAIN NEWS A Spanish court has recommended that Catalonia’s former leader be tried for staging a mock independence referendum in 2014 in breach of a legal order, potentially fuelling separatist discontent in the wealthy northeastern region.

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ATALONIA is home to a strong separatist movement, and in November 2014 pro-independence campaigners held a non-binding vote on whether to break away from Spain while Artur Mas (pictured right) was regional governor.

Strongly opposed to Catalonian secession, the central government in Madrid had earlier lodged an appeal against the referendum at the constitutional court. The court ruled that Mas’s government could play no part in the vote, even though he supported it.

Held two months after Scotland voted to remain part of

Spanish court urges trial of ex-Catalan leader over referendum the United Kingdom, the symbolic ballot was manned by volunteers to get around the restrictions.

However, a court in Catalonia ruled there was evidence that Mas had failed to stop his administration from hiring third parties to manage the vote and had overstepped his authority.

It recommended that Mas and two other former ministers stand trial. Under Spanish law prosecutors and claimants now have the last word on whether the trial should proceed, though it is rare for cases to be withdrawn at this stage.

Mas stepped down earlier this year and was replaced by

another pro-independence leader, Carles Puigdemont.

The case could stoke tensions between Barcelona and Madrid, where the conservative People’s Party, which strongly opposes Catalan independence, is running a caretaker government following two inconclusive general elections.

A spokeswoman for the Catalan government told a news conference on Tuesday that the case against Mas and the former ministers was politically motivated.

Accidental road deaths rise FROM January to June 11 deaths were recorded along the highways of Malaga more than the same period last year. To date there have been 13 deaths as sadly last weekend two further deaths were added to the list.

Eleven people have died on the roads of Malaga, during the first six months of the year an increase of one compared to that of 2015. The deaths recorded by the Provincial Traffic Department noted that once again the A-7, the busiest in the province, has accumulated the more accidents resulting in four deaths with the remaining six deaths occurring on four secondary roads (A-357, A-397, A-356 and A-402).

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RUSSIANS AND UKRAINE’S ACCUSED OF CRIME SYNDICATE LINKS ARRESTED ELEVEN people of primarily Ukrainian and Russian origin were arrested last week in Barcelona accused of connections with organised crime and money laundering, the Spanish anticorruption prosecutor’s office said.

The investigation found instances of organised crime, money laundering, forgery of official documents and tax avoidance, the prosecutor said in a statement.

SYNDICATES The arrests were the second large case involving alleged activity by Russian criminal syndicates since May, when Spanish authorities issued warrants for 12 Russians, including senior officials,

said to be operating out of the country.

Those arrested used capital from companies, mostly based in Cyprus or the British Virgin Islands, to acquire, or form, Spanish companies which were used to buy Spanish property, the statement said.

The prosecutor’s office said it had discovered more than 10 million euros ($11 million) of laundered money which had been invested in Spanish property.

Spanish authorities also authorised 16 search warrants, blocked numerous bank accounts and seized property associated with the organisation, including a luxury Japanese restaurant in Barcelona, the prosecutor said.

Spain’s Air Europa pilots call strike for July 30 - August 2 Pilots at Spanish airline Air Europa have called a strike for July 30 to Aug. 2 over grievances including the outsourcing of part of their fleet to another airline, Aernova, pilots union Sepla said.

The union said pilots would run minimum services for the duration of the strike.

Other complaints include alleged discrimination against pilots who have called for their rights to be respected, as well as “arbitrarily” adjusted work schedules, the union said.

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European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos in Brussels. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

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N an unprecedented wave of migration last year, 1.3 million people reached the EU and most ignored legal restrictions, trekking from the Mediterranean coast to apply for asylum in wealthy Germany, prompting some EU countries to suspend the Schengen system that allows free passage between most EU states.

“The changes will create a genuine common asylum procedure,” said EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos. “At the same time, we set clear obligations and duties for asylum seekers to prevent secondary movements and abuse of procedures.”

The proposal would standardise refugee reception facilities across the bloc and unify the level of state support they can get, setting common rules on residence permits, travel papers, access to jobs, schools, social welfare and healthcare.

It would grant prospective refugees swifter rights to work but also put more obligations on them, meaning if they do not cooperate with the authorities or head to an EU state of their choice rather than staying put, their asylum application could be jeopardised.

EU proposes new asylum rules to stop migrants crossing Europe

SANCTUARY The five-year waiting period after which refugees are eligible for long-term residence would be restarted if they move from their designated country, the Commission said.

The proposal also spells out more cases in which asylumseekers could be detained, something Jean Lambert, a British Green Party member of the European Parliament, said showed the EU was taking the wrong attitude to people seeking sanctuary.

“The EU has justifiably come under fire for its response to the refugee crisis but today’s proposals ... will do nothing to allay this,” she said, accusing the Commission of seeking to curb the rights of asylum seekers and “an obsession with punitive measures”.

“People are fleeing because their lives are threatened and homes being destroyed, not because the EU’s asylum system is gold plated - it’s not!”

Migrants who will be returned to Turkey demonstrate inside the Moria registration centre on the Greek island of Lesbos. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis/File Photo

The plan, which will be reviewed by EU governments and the European Parliament, comes after Brussels proposed in May a system for distributing asylum seekers, an idea opposed by eastern EU states which refuse to accept refugees.

Only 3,056 people have so far been relocated under the scheme that was meant for 160,000 people, the Commission said.

Hungary and Slovakia have challenged the system in the courts.

Asked whether Brussels would punish countries, that also

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The European Commission has proposed more unified EU asylum, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone. include Poland and the Czech Republic, for not complying, Avramopoulos said: “Were not here to punish, we are here to persuade. But if this persuasion doesn’t succeed, then yes, we’re thinking of doing that. But we’re not there yet.”

SAFE LIST Last year’s record arrivals triggered bitter political disputes in the EU, where the wealthier states that ended up hosting most of the people accused the newer members in the east of showing no solidarity.

A deal with Turkey in March has since cut the arrivals to Greece to a trickle but has prompted concerns about human rights.

Unlike the Turkey route, however, which mainly brought Syrians and other people with a strong cases for asylum into Europe, the bloc is now worried over a rise in arrivals from Africa through Libya. Most people on that route do not qualify for asylum and, under the EU rules, should be sent back.

The Commission wants to draw up lists of “safe countries” outside the bloc, which would help EU states return people, after Athens’ refusal to recognise Turkey as such a place hindered deportations from the Greek islands back to Turkey.

To discourage chaotic flows by facilitating legal migration, the Commission also proposed an EU-wide system for resettlement directly from refugee camps. It said Brussels would pay 10,000 euros for each person EU states bring in.

But Slovakia, the current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency, was sceptical on chances for unified asylum system.

“We can only talk about real burden-sharing when the quality of life is the same in all EU states,” said Bernard Priecel, head of Slovakia’s migration service. “Otherwise we will always have secondary movements. How can you force them to stay?”

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HE European Union should avoid any moves towards political “centralisation” or else Austria could hold a referendum on membership of the bloc within a year, a far-right candidate who almost won the country’s presidential election said.

Norbert Hofer (pictured right) of the antiimmigration Freedom Party narrowly failed to become the European Union’s first farright head of state in Austria’s presidential run-off last month. His party has, however, challenged that result and a ruling is pending.

Britain’s Brexit vote last week to leave the European Union has emboldened populist, anti-EU parties across the continent, including the Freedom Party (FPO) and France’s National Front, which has also called for a “Frexit” referendum.

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FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache has taken a more cautious view, saying only that an Austrian referendum on the issue might become a party objective in the future.

However in local newspaper Oesterreich ha said “If a course is set within a year further towards centralisation instead of taking (the EU’s) core values into account, then we must ask Austrians whether they want to be members.”

Hofer and his allies believe the bloc should be based on economic rather than political union.

“The founding fathers (of the EU) wanted to ensure closer economic cooperation because states that cooperate economically do not wage war against each other,” he said. “That

Austrian far-right figure warns of ‘Auxit’ vote within a year worked very well until the political union was founded.”

Austria’s Constitutional Court is examining FPO allegations of irregularities in the counting of postal ballots during the election.

It is already clear that rules on when those ballots should be counted and processed were often broken.

But even if the FPO’s challenge is successful and the court orders a re-run, which is one possible outcome, the president alone does not have the power to order a referendum.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern has said Austria will not hold a referendum on EU membership, which the country’s media have dubbed an “Auxit” or “Oexit” vote, a reference to Oesterreich, which means Austria in German.

But the two parties in his often-divided centrist coalition government must find a way to work together until 2018 and win over voters or face a snap parliamentary election that polls suggest the FPO would win.

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USTRIA’S government will seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it becoming a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, with the country’s Interior Minister claiming “he wanted to tear it down”.

Hitler’s family lived in the house in Braunau on the Inn for only three years around his birth on April 20, 1889; but the fate of the threestorey building coated in pale yellow paint has long been the subject of controversy.

A spokesman for the interior ministry said the government had agreed a law to take ownership after the building’s landlord, a local woman, had refused to sell it to the state.

The bill would now go before parliament.

SLOGANS “The decision is necessary because the Republic would like to prevent this house from becoming a ‘cult site’ for neo-Nazis in any way, which it has been repeatedly in the past, when people gathered there to shout slogans,” Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka told reporters before the cabinet meeting.

“It is my vision to tear down the house,” he added. A commission consisting of 12 members from the fields of politics, administration, academia and civic society will ultimately decide the fate of the building.

A retired local woman owns the property, which Austria’s interior ministry has been renting since 1972 and has sublet to Braunau.

The ministry pays around 4,800 euros ($5,332) a month in rent.

The building has housed workshops for disabled people, but has been empty since 2011, because the owner repeatedly rejected ideas for the future use of the house and

Austria seizes Hitler’s birthplace to prevent Nazi pilgrimage site purchase offers from the state, according to the interior ministry spokesman.

Once the law has passed parliament, the owner has no right to appeal the decision or negotiate her compensation, which will be in line with the sum paid to home owners evicted in the course of railway line construction, he said.

Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938.

Debate still smoulders over whether Austrians were willing accomplices, many having cheered his return to his country of birth at the time, or the first victims of a dictatorship that ultimately reduced much of Europe to ruins and cost tens of millions of lives.

A stone outside the house in which Adolf Hitler was born, with the inscription ‘For peace, freedom and democracy, never again fascism, millions of dead are a warning’, is pictured in the northern Austrian city of Braunau.

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RUMORS OF JAPAN’S EMPEROR INTENTIONS TO ABDICATE CAUSE PANIC

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EPORTS that Japanese Emperor Akihito intends to abdicate within a few years have shocked the nation. The 82-yearold monarch, who has had heart surgery and been treated for prostate cancer in recent years, expressed his intention to abdicate in a few years to the Imperial Household Agency, public broadcaster NHK last week.

No reason was cited and agency officials later denied the earlier reports.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other officials declined to comment, but Akihito who has been on the throne for over 28 years has been cutting back on official duties recently.

During his time as head of the state Akihito has aimed to modernise the 2600 year- old monarchy. He is the first monarch to marry a commoner, Michiko Shoda, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and in 1992 he became the first Japanese monarch to visit China where he acknowledged the “great pain and suffering” his country had inflicted “during the tragedy of war”.

At time of going to press The Royal household dismissed the shock reports as ‘untrue’ but should Akihito decide to abdicate it would open national debate over the countries succession laws. Akihito has one son, crown prince Naruhito, but the 56-year old Oxford educated prince has only one daughter, so since only males can inherit the Chrysanthemum Throne, the throne after Naruhito would pass to nine-year-old nephew Hisahito.

Crisis-hit Greece to recruit man’s best friend to sniff out tax dodgers

GREECE will be recruiting dogs to sniff out potential tax dodgers trying to take cash out of the crisis hit country, where mass bank withdrawals prompted capital controls last year.

In a posting on a government web portal last week, the Finance Ministry said it would be putting together a team to assess tenders for the provision of dogs tasked with detecting cash.

More than 50 billion euros left banks from November 2014 to July last year on fears the country could crash out of the euro, a crisis which culminated in capital controls and a new international bailout for the country.

Banking sources estimate that anything between 15 and 20 billion euros is still being hoarded by Greeks outside the banking system. Tax evasion is still thought to be rampant.

Authorities prefer German Shepherds, Labradors or Belgian Melinois, the government document said, reported on Greece’s Star Channel TV. A pedigree was not necessary.

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HE report, based on 70 interviews with former detainees, families of detainees, lawyers and others, said enforced disappearances had spiked since the appointment of Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar in early 2015, with an average of three or four people reported disappeared every day.

“Enforced disappearance has become a key instrument of state policy in Egypt. Anyone who dares to speak out is at risk, with counter-terrorism being used as an excuse to abduct, interrogate and torture people who challenge the authorities,” Philip Luther, director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, said in a statement that accompanied the report.

Amnesty said the nature of the enforced disappearances made it difficult to give a precise number, but that reports by Egyptian non-governmental organisations and rights groups indicated there had been “at least several hundred cases” since the beginning of 2015.

It counted cases where individuals were arrested by state agents and held for at least 48 hours without referral to the prosecution and where authorities denied they were in custody when asked by families.

BIASED The foreign ministry said in a statement that Amnesty reports on Egypt were biased, politically-motivated and aimed to harm its image. It declined to comment on specific accusations.

An interior ministry official who declined to be named said there was “no such thing as enforced disappearances” in Egypt. He said the ministry had looked into all suspected cases and in each instance had proven that the individual in question was remanded in custody on the orders of a prosecutor.

The report features the detailed cases of 17 people subjected to enforced disappearance, held incommunicado for periods ranging from several days to seven months without access to their lawyers or families.

Amnesty said many of those forcibly disappeared were held at Lazoughly, a compound run by Egypt’s Homeland Security.

There, detainees are subjected to electric shocks, violence and sexual abuse to extract confessions, the report said, citing testimonies from at least seven named victims or their families.

Amnesty said it found similarities between wounds sustained

by Guilio Regeni, an Italian student who disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25 and whose body was found nine days later showing signs of extensive torture, and those that result from the methods of torture it said Egyptian security forces use when interrogating suspects.

Hundreds face torture and enforced disappearance in Egypt Egyptian security agents have abducted and tortured “at least several hundred people”, some as young as 14, in an unprecedented spike in enforced disappearances aimed at silencing opponents, Amnesty International asserted in a report published last week.

Egyptian intelligence officials and police claim that on the day Regeni vanished, he was detained by police and then transferred to a compound run by Homeland Security. The police and Interior Ministry deny they were involved and say they never held Regeni.

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The Interior Ministry has also said cases of police abuse were isolated and promised to investigate any allegations.

The report also accused Egypt’s public prosecution of failing to properly investigate torture allegations and charging defendants based on confessions extracted under duress.

A judicial official who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media said prosecutors conducted random inspections of police compounds to ensure detainees were being held lawfully and this was not reflected in the report.

“All complaints received by the public prosecution are investigated,” the official said.

Egypt’s Interior Minister General Magdi Abdel Ghaffar speaks during a news conference in Cairo. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

I GOT YOU BABE THE plight of a lonely elephant in a Pakistani zoo has inspired help from pop icon Cher, who has sent a representative to oversee improvements in his living conditions.

Cher first became aware of 29-year-old Kavaan’s plight when pictures of the elephant in chains with only a dilapidated shed for shelter and a small, dirty pond to play in spread on social media.

Cher sent her representative, Mark Cowne, to Islamabad to check up on Kavaan, who has been kept chained for 27 of his 29 years at the Maraghazar Zoo in Islamabad.

“Mark got Kaavan Water, Shade & Unchained. MARK IS TRYING EVERYTHING TO FREE HIM,” Cher tweeted after Cowne visited the zoo.

Cowne told Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper that Cher would soon launch an international campaign to help elephants in captivity.

Kavaan’s caretakers last week said they had never heard of Cher or her music but were grateful for her help.

“We hope this will change things for him,” said Kavaan’s caretaker, Muhammad Jalal, as another caretaker sprayed

the animal with a high-pressure hose while he bathed in a pond of muddy water.

Zoo management did not respond to calls seeking comment but told reporters last month that they were trying to get a new mate for Kavaan from Sri Lanka.

Kavaan was given to Pakistan by Sri Lanka in the 1980s.

His only companion died in 2012.

Above: Kavaan, a 29-year-old male elephant, is seen inside its enclosure at a zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood and right: Cher

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Has Brexit opened Pandora’s Box? BREXIT seems to have triggered a chain reaction across the EU. A poll conducted by IPSOS-MORI shows that there are a handful of countries with about half of their population ready for a U.K like referendum.

A survey of between 500 and 1,000 online adults aged under 65 in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden (plus Britain and five non-European countries), found that almost half (45%) of Europeans in the researched countries think their own country should hold a referendum on its EU membership.

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Fox News commentator sentenced to prison for faking CIA ties A man who has appeared on Fox News as a guest “terrorism analyst” has been sentenced to 33 months in prison on charges that he fraudulently claimed to have been a CIA agent for decades, U.S. prosecutors said.

Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

“Wayne Simmons is a fraud. Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained through his fraud,” said Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also sentenced Simmons to serve three years of supervised release, to forfeit two firearms and $176,000 in criminal proceeds, and to pay restitution.

Simmons had appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox and the top-ranked U.S. cable television news network, as an unpaid guest analyst on terrorism since 2002.

A grand jury indicted him in October for portraying himself as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000.

Instead of working for the CIA, Simmons’ jobs during that period included nightclub doorman, bookie, manager of a rent-by-the-hour hot tub business, mortgage broker and defensive back for the National Football League’s New Orleans Saints, the statement said.

Fox News declined to comment. Simmons’ lawyer, William Cummings, said he and his client had hoped for a lighter sentence.

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PARIS ATTACK VICTIMS TO SUE FRENCH STATE OVER SURVEILLANCE LAPSES

ARLIER in the day a court in a separate case found the French state partly at fault over the killing of a French soldier in 2012 by Mohamed Merah, a militant whose activities had also been tracked for some time by police and security services.

Merah was killed in a shootout with police that year.

Samia Maktouf, a lawyer representing 17 victims of the Paris attacks, said she would take legal action against the state on the grounds that some of the assailants were also people the police and judicial authorities had Victims of last November’s Islamic State assault on Paris plan to sue the French been keeping tabs on.

“We will do all we can to get the French state for failing to avert a killing spree by militants who had drawn scrutiny state convicted for failing to prevent from police and intelligence services, a lawyer for the group said on Tuesday. terrorists, some of whom were under judicial surveillance, from carrying out their act,” Maktouf told BFM TV. In a ruling sure to encourage victims of the November attacks Nine militants killed 130 people and wounded hundreds and others, a court in the southern city of Nimes on Monday more on Nov. 13, 2015. Some assailants blew themselves judged the French state to have been partially at fault for the up near the Stade de France stadium, others opened fire on killing of soldier Abel Chennouf in 2012. downtown cafe terraces and a third group armed with guns He was one of three soldiers killed that year by Merah, a and suicide vests killed 90 music fans at the Bataclan rock 23-year-old who said he was inspired by al Qaeda and went concert hall. on to kill four Jews, three of them school children, before

SURVEILLANCE A parliamentary investigation into the attack ended with the publication of a report last week that highlighted, among other possible failings of the state, the fact that one of the Bataclan attackers had gone to Syria a month earlier despite being under surveillance over a 2012 trip to Yemen.

France has since cracked down on people suspected of going to war zones like Syria to train as jihadist combatants.

A French court last week sentenced several people who returned from one such sortie to between eight and 10 years in jail - including the brother of one of the Bataclan attackers.

being cornered in a flat and dying in a hail of police bullets.

The judge faulted the French state on the grounds that the police and intelligence services had decided at one point to stop tracking Merah.

“The decision to halt all surveillance of Mohamed Merah ... constitutes a mistake for which the state is liable, given the profile of Mohamed Merah and his highly suspect behaviour, notably after recent trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Monday’s verdict stated.

The judge ruled that the state should as a result provide financial compensation to the wife, child and parents-in-law of the murdered soldier.

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French cardinal suspends four paedophile priests THE Roman Catholic cardinal-archbishop of Lyon has confirmed that he has suspended four priests accused of paedophile activities and said their cases had been passed to French judicial authorities.

Cardinal Philippe Barbarin (pictured right) said in a statement that the four had been working in the Lyon region in central France but gave no further details about them.

He also said other priests were the “object of special measures” without elaborating or saying how many were involved.

The Roman Catholic Church has been rocked in the past two decades by sexual abuse scandals involving its priests in a number of countries worldwide, including France.

Earlier this month police questioned Cardinal Barbarin

for more than 10 hours over the activities of a paedophile priest, Father Bernard Preynat, in the early 1990s questioning why they had not been reported to the civil authorities.

Authorities placed Preynat under judicial investigation in January for his alleged sexual abuse of Catholic boy scouts in 1991. Preynat’s lawyer said he had admitted to sexually abusing the boys. He has been released from custody on bail.

Several victims of alleged paedophile abuse have filed complaints against Cardinal Barbarin for failing to report incidents to the authorities and for leaving accused priests in place.

Barbarin has denied any wrongdoing, but in a statement in April he acknowledged “errors in the management and appointment of some priests”.

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STEENKAMP FAMILY REACTION Steenkamp’s father Barry, who in an emotional statement to the sentencing hearings said Pistorius must pay for his crime, declined to comment on the prospects for an appeal.

“We’ll leave that to the state,” he told reporters without showing any emotion.

In her ruling on Wednesday, Masipa said that

Surprise as Pistorius jailed for six years over girlfriend’s murder South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius was sent back to jail for six years for murdering Reeva Steenkamp earlier this month but the sentence is less than half the 15 year minimum term sought by prosecutors. mental stress that occurred in the aftermath of the killing should be considered as mitigating circumstances to reduce his sentence.

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Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius reacts with a family member at his sentence hearing at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. REUTERS/Marco Longari/Pool

although the Steenkamps had suffered a great loss, Pistorius’ life and career were also in ruins.

“The life of the accused shall also never be the same. He is a fallen hero and can never be at peace,” she said.

The judge agreed with defence that the Pistorius who shot Steenkamp in the early hours of St Valentine’s Day was not the gold medal winning athlete but a vulnerable 1.5m tall man.

She said that there was no indication at all that the deceased was in an abusive relationship with Pistorius. She also said there was no evidence there had been a row between Pistorius and Steenkamp before her death, as suggested by the prosecution.

Pistorius says he fired four shots into the toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home in the mistaken belief that an intruder was hiding behind it.

His defence argued that his disability and

Outside the court, a group of supporters held up placards backing the athlete. One read: “Give Oscar his freedom back please”.

Legal analysts were divided by the ruling in a country beset by high levels of violent crime against women.

“To reduce from 15 to 6 years in the circumstances of the case seems to me to be unduly generous to Oscar,” Paul Hoffman, a lawyer and director of rights group Accountability Now, said.

“It’s quite possible that having invested so much effort in the prosecution ... that (state prosecutor) Gerrie Nel will saddle up again and ride out in an effort to get a bigger sentence,” he said.

Johannesburg-based lawyer Ulrich Roux doubted the state would appeal, saying the judge had delivered a “just sentence, considering that he was convicted with murder with indirect intent.”

But the Women’s League of the ruling African National Congress (ANCWL), said the sentence was too soft.

“First five years, now six years? She is an embarrassment to the justice system,” ANCWL spokeswoman Jacqueline Mofokeng said of Masipa. “It is an insult to women in this country.”

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ISTORIUS,, who fatally shot his girlfriend four times through a toilet door, has already served 12 months in prison for her death. But the original manslaughter conviction was increased to murder by the Supreme Court of Appeal in December.

Judge Thokozile Masipa, whose sentence at the initial manslaughter trial was criticised by women’s groups as too lenient, said she had accepted the defence argument that a lesser punishment was appropriate.

“Public opinion may be loud and persistent but it can play no role in the decision of this court,” Masipa said. “I am of the view that a long term in prison will not serve justice.”

Pistorius, who stood impassively as the sentence was read out, hugged members of his legal team and chatted briefly with his sister Aimee before being led away by police.

Women’s rights groups say Pistorius has received preferential treatment by the justice system compared to non-whites and those without his wealth or international celebrity status. His backers say he did not intend to kill Steenkamp.

The state and large sections of the South African public had demanded a 15 year jail term, the prescribed minimum term for murder, saying he had shown no remorse for the 2013 killing.

It was unclear whether the state, which has two weeks to appeal, would accept Wednesday’s sentence.

Pistorius’ defence team said he would not appeal and that their client would be able to apply for parole after serving half to twothirds of the sentence.

The track star, who had the lower part of his legs amputated when he was a baby, was freed from prison last October after almost a year behind bars. He was to serve the remainder of his five-year term under house arrest at his uncle’s house in a wealthy suburb of the capital. Pistorius has been living with his uncle since.

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Eurotunnel migrant fears THE head of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon, has warned that Britain’s decision to leave the European Union could lead to an increase in the number of migrants trying to enter Britain via Calais on the French coast.

“There could be increased migrant pressure during the summer and because of Brexit as migrants will try to cross at any cost before it (Brexit) is implemented.

Gounon said whils tspeaking at a news conference in Calais, the main entry and exit point between Britain and France via road, sea and the Eurotunnel rail link.

‘THE JUNGLE’ A migrant camp that became known as ‘the jungle’ grew up there last year, becoming home to thousands hoping to head for Britain and causing transport disruption until tighter security made leaping on lorries and walking through the tunnel more difficult.

Gounon was presenting extra security arrangements which include the deployment of two drones equipped with cameras to fly around its Coquelles terminal in northern France.

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ORMER U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden has failed in a legal bid to win guarantees from Norway that it would not extradite him to the United States if he went there to receive a free speech award, a Norwegian court has confirmed.

Snowden’s law firm said in April he would take the state to court to secure free passage to the Nordic country. The United States has filed espionage charges against him for leaking details of extensive U.S. surveillance programmes.

“Oslo District Court has decided that the lawsuit from Edward Snowden against the State regarding extradition, should be dismissed,” the court said in a statement.

Snowden was granted asylum in Russia, which borders Norway, in 2013. He had been invited to Norway to receive a freedom of speech award from the local branch of

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NATO member Norway has close diplomatic ties with the United States. The Justice Ministry has declined to comment on the case leaving it to the court to decide.

The Oslo court said the country’s extradition laws only apply to people who are already in the country, and that the justice ministry could not be compelled to issue a decision on whether or not to extradite someone who lives abroad.

The decision is expected to be appealed within days, one of the lawyers involved in the case said.

“We believe the court is being too formalistic,” said Jon Wessel-Aas, representing three Norwegian press organisations acting as third-party interveners supporting

Snowden’s lawsuit. He acknowledged that there was no U.S. extradition request right now, but argued Washington was sure to make one if Snowden visited the country.

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France has identified leader of November 13 attacks FRENCH authorities say they have identified the commander of the Nov. 13 Islamist militant attacks on Paris and know that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, cornered and killed days later by police, played a lesser role.

Newly published official documents cite testimony by Bernard Bajolet, France’s head of external security, to a closed-door parliamentary inquiry into France’s antiterrorism activities held on May 24.

Bajolet did not identify who authorities now think was commander, or whether the person is alive or dead.

Abaaoud was initially described as the leader of the machinegun and suicide bomb attacks on the Bataclan music hall, Paris bars and restaurants, and the Stade de France football stadium, in which 130 people died.

“It is true that Abaaoud was a

coordinator, but he was not the commander,” Bajolet was quoted as saying. “We know who the commander is, but I will stay discreet on that point.

“We now have a good knowledge of the organogram ... We have made progress on these subjects, we therefore have an idea of the identity of the commander.”

Parliament published recommendations of the inquiry last week and released its full report on Tuesday.

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Kidnapped Pakistani judge’s son found bound in chains PAKISTANI soldiers rescued the kidnapped son of a senior judge from his Taliban captors on Tuesday, after finding him bound in chains with his mouth taped shut and wearing an all-enveloping burqa to hide his identity, the army spokesman said.

Awais Shah, the son of Sindh provincial Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was kidnapped from outside a supermarket in the southern port city of Karachi on June 21.

Shah was found in the backseat of a car in a town bordering the northwestern tribal areas.

Army spokesman General Asim Bajwa said three “terrorists” were killed during the rescue, adding that the kidnappers belonged to a splinter faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Tank, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the border with the South Waziristan tribal area, is approximately 885 km (550 miles) north of Karachi.

Television footage showed Shah reunited with his family at their Karachi home.

Shah’s father said he did not know which group kidnapped his son.

“I don’t know anything other than that my child has been returned to me,” he said.

At the time of his kidnap, police suspected

the group involved intended to use him as a bargaining chip in negotiations to free imprisoned Islamist militants.

Kidnappings by criminal gangs or militants are common in Pakistan, and particularly in Karachi, a teeming metropolis of 20 million people plagued by political, ethnic and religious violence.

OVERTHROW Pakistan has also been fighting an Islamist insurgency led by the TTP, an umbrella group of militant organisations seeking the overthrow of the government, since 2007.

Violence has dropped significantly countrywide since 2014, when the military launched an operation in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, but attacks against both civilians and security forces are common.

In March, Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, escaped captivity four years after being kidnapped by militants in the eastern city of Lahore.

Two months ago, U.S. and Afghan forces rescued Ali Haider Gilani, the kidnapped son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who was kidnapped ahead of the country’s 2013 general election.

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OVERNMENT has engaged with every Operator in Gibraltar as well as with the Gibraltar Gaming and Betting Association (GBGA) to assure them of our support and vision for this sector in the short, medium and long term. This has been universally welcomed and operators have made it clear to us that they remain fully committed to Gibraltar and business continues as usual.

HM Government of Gibraltar will continue to work with HM Government UK to ensure the best possible outcome from the ongoing discussions in the expectation that there will be little or no change to the current arrangements for those who live and work in or travel to Gibraltar, and all the indications are that it really will be ‘business as usual’.

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HM Government of Gibraltar has been working closely with the remote gambling industry in Gibraltar following the Brexit vote last week and is pleased to confirm that the sector remains strongly committed to its Gibraltar operations.

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PAIN will seek to jointly govern Gibraltar with Britain following the British vote to leave the European Union, acting foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo (pictured right) said. “It’s a complete change of outlook that opens up new possibilities on Gibraltar not seen for a very long time. I hope the formula of cosovereignty - to be clear, the Spanish flag on the Rock - is much closer than before,” GarciaMargallo said.

Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo told the territory’s parliament there would be no talks on such a deal. Co-sovereignty with Spain was rejected by around 99 percent of Gibraltarians in a referendum in 2002.

“Let others make irrelevant noises about flying flags over our Rock if they want to waste their breath. Such ideas will never prosper,” he said.

The majority of people living in Gibraltar designated as a British Overseas Territory - are British citizens with British passports, although thousands of Spaniards cross from mainland Spain every day for work.

Gibraltarians voted overwhelmingly in favor of Britain remaining in the European Union but were outnumbered in Thursday’s referendum and must now face the consequences.

Garcia-Margallo said Spain would push to keep Gibraltar out of any general Brexit negotiations between Britain and the European

In the past week, various Operators have confirmed their intention to continue with their expansion plans in Gibraltar including increasing or leasing new office space in Gibraltar, relocating parts of their existing business from other jurisdictions to Gibraltar, and ensuring recruitment continues apace.

The Gambling Act Review published earlier this year and now in the consultation stage will definitely be proceeded with and further expanded to ensure that our regulatory, licensing and tax regimes remain fit for purpose having regard to any new arrangements that Gibraltar may enjoy in the future.

While this Government and others believed that staying in the EU is the better choice for economic development and growth, any move away from the EU will provide new and different opportunities for our economy and we will ensure these are available to all our commercial sectors and Gibraltar remains a great place to locate a business.

Spain seeks to jointly govern Gibraltar after Brexit Union and will aim for bilateral talks to seek co-sovereignty and eventually Spanish control of the peninsula.

Britain rejects any notion of Spanish sovereignty against the wishes of the people of Gibraltar, one of the most prosperous regions in Europe with a thriving economy based on financial services, tourism and Internet gambling.

As one would expect when the vote leave was announced last week, the mood in Gibraltar was subdued, with people apprehensive and confused about what the result may mean for the movement of labour and capital over the border with Spain.

“MASSIVE SHOCK” Gibraltar has complained in the past about excessive border controls on the Spanish side. Disputes have also broken out between

Spain and Britain over fishing in waters around the Rock.

“We’re very worried now about what may happen with the border,” said Clive, a 54-year-old tax consultant who declined to give his surname, sitting outside a bar in a central square.

“Many companies set up here because it’s part of the European Union. We think this result will have a negative effect on the economy.”

Aaron Payas, a 31-year-old lawyer, said: “There is a lot of concern within the financial services sector given the outcome. The result is a massive shock.”

Spain’s acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Britain’s vote to leave the EU would not affect the rights of Spanish workers who he said would be able to continue to move freely between the two territories.

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HM GOVERNMENT of Gibraltar has announced that work is about to start on the new £60 million development on Quay 29, the second phase of King’s Wharf waterfront residences. The start of this work will be enabled by the full opening of the Midtown Coach and Car Park on Monday 4 July and the subsequent closure of the Queensway Car Park.

At the same time, the full length of Reclamation Road will be re-opened and the bus stop reinstated at the foot of the steps by the British War Memorial.

The Midtown facility will provide 40 covered parking spaces for large coaches as well as additional spaces for smaller coaches and taxis. It will also provide around 700 public car parking spaces – this is double the number of spaces that were previously available where the Commonwealth Park now stands and 100 more than the combined total of that car park and that of the Naval Ground.

An additional 326 car parking spaces have been sold and others let out on a monthly basis, thus reducing the number of motorists searching for car parking spaces each day.

Midtown has nineteen parking bays designated for disabled drivers and thirty bays fitted with electric car charging equipment. Energy-efficient lighting has been installed throughout and occupancy sensors will assist drivers to find available spaces.

For the first few weeks the Midtown Car Park will be free 24 hours a day but some charges, including overnight charges, will be introduced shortly. During the day, parking will still be free for anyone with a Gibraltar ID Card but charges will be imposed for nonGibraltar residents.

The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC, said: “I am delighted that the Midtown Coach and Car Park is now complete thus providing so much extra car parking right in the middle of town – car parking that is covered and secure. In addition, this new facility will provide town-centre parking for coaches and taxis. The result of all this is that work can now begin on the £60million development at Kings Wharf, a development which will bring a huge injection of finance into Gibraltar at a significant time.’

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International Franchises, who manage the unit, had previously announced that a major UK brand will be replacing the British favourite but as yet no announcement has been made. Well sources close to the WEEKEND WORLD have divulged that TK Max is the brand being spoken in hushed tones.

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Encompassing the delightful Spanish tradition of relaxed alfresco dining and socialising, El Mercado de Levante is a concept born from a fresh approach to the traditional seasonal market.

This summer brings back an abundance of gourmet food trucks with a fine selection of last year’s bestsellers. These add colour and provide fantastic outdoor dining experiences showcasing the latest food trends, throughout July and August. Open every day from 17.30 to 00.30 and Fridays & Sundays from 10.00 to 00.30.

El Mercado de Levante is one of the best entertainment and shopping areas of Andalucía, easily recognisable from its unique outdoor location within La Marina.

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Gibraltar Puts its Views Directly to Cabinet Office THE Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia met in Downing Street last week with the UK Government team that is leading on mapping the way forward following the result of the Referendum of 23rd June.

They were accompanied by the Attorney General Michael Llamas and UK Representative Dominique Searle.

The meeting was with the UK Government team leader Cabinet Office Minister Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, the Minister for Europe David Lidington and a number of officials from different departments including the constitutional section. The political situation in UK isvery fluid and there is a possibility that these Ministers may change, but it was nonetheless important that Gibraltar has an input into the process at very the outset.

The Government has already made clear that it will leave no stone unturned to protect the wider interests of Gibraltar and this meeting in Downing Street is part of a series of meetings which are designed to pursue this.

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HE Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia this afternoon met with the new Prime Minister Rt Hon Theresa May MP. The meeting took place in the Prime Minister’s Rooms in the House of Commons, which Mrs May had taken possession of a few moments before. This was ahead of her audience with Her Majesty the Queen to be invited to become Prime Minister and form a Government. It came straight after David Cameron’s last Prime Minister’s Question Time which Mr Picardo and Dr Garcia were able to witness from the Commonwealth Gallery inside the actual Chamber.

CHALLENGES AGEAD The Chief Minister reminded Mrs May that 96% of Gibraltar wanted to remain in the European Union and he explained the challenges ahead. It was agreed that, in the process of being “fully involved” in the process of the Brexit negotiations, Gibraltar would have an input into the discussions through the new unit in the Cabinet Office.

The meeting between the new Prime Minister, the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister lasted approximately twenty minutes. The Government is very grateful that Mrs May agreed to the meeting and maintained it despite the important events that have been happening today.

In attendance with the Gibraltar side were the Attorney General, Michael Llamas QC, and the UK Representative, Dominique Searle.

The Chief Minister said: “We have had an excellent early opportunity to meet the new Prime Minister and to put to her Gibraltar’s concerns and the economic issues that arise after the EU Referendum. We also discussed some of the rhetoric we are hearing coming from the care-taker Foreign Minister of Spain and the free movement issues that can arise at our frontier. I am very grateful to the Prime Minister that she allowed us time today on the very day of her appointment, demonstrating her understanding of the importance of the Brexit issue to Gibraltar and the depth of our concerns.

Theresa May will no doubt be someone we can work with effectively as we seek to shape our future relationship with the EU in the manner that is most beneficial to Gibraltar and the wishes of the Gibraltarians as expressed so clearly in the Referendum result.”

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The traditional auction will this year include: a jewellery box donated by Gómez & Molina Jewellers a week’s stay and treatment in the Hotel Health Las Dunas, valued at 10,000 euros, two first class tickets on Air Europa to New York, Miami and Bogota and several paintings with prices between 8,000 and 12,000 euros.

Mayor, Jose Bernal, said this event “is a reference point for summer and combines glamor and solidarity reflecting the people of Marbella giving to such a great cause.”

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The event, which allows collectors, artists, curators and art lovers to appreciate, enjoy, educate themselves, and acquire art works of exceptional quality. This year 47 art galleries will be participating with special projects presented by Nomochrome Project (London), Antonio Dominguez de Haro (Miami) and Mr. Brainwash’s solo show ( Mexico) Ticket Price - 1 DAY 15 € 5 DAYS 30 €

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n La Cala Mijas Feria, 21-25 July Mijas Feria held in honour of its patron St. James, offers five days of cultural musical and festive activities.

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n Summer Gala in Aid of World Vision, 11 August, Sea grill restaurant, Punte Romano Beach Resort The fourth year of the spectacular World Vision Gala Dinner will take place on Thursday, 11th August in the Sea Grill restaurant of the Puente Romano Beach Resort & Spa, a breathtaking location with guest tables located over the pool with direct views of the Mediterranean. A non stop extravaganza of entertainment, live music, international gastronomy & fantastic raffle prizes, set under a twinkling summer sky.

World Vision is the charity specifically chosen by Daniel Shamoon, owner of Puente Romano, it is the world’s largest international children’s charity, working to bring real hope to millions of children in the world’s hardest places. ‘I wanted to create an unforgettable

experience for the guests of the gala, whilst helping a very worthwhile charity. Every year through the gala we help fund a different project, of which we can actually see the results first hand.’ quoted Mr Shamoon upon his decision to support World Vision.

This year’s project is to tackle malaria and provide thousands of families and children in Myanmar (Burma) with a safer, healthier future. The goal at the Summer Gala on 11th August is to raise the funds needed to ensure this vital work continues in Myanmar, rated as one of the poorest countries in our world.

The summer gala begins at 8.30pm on the terrace of Sea Grill with cocktails and canapés prepared by Michelin starred chef Dani Garcia. Once guests are seated around the pool area the gala dinner commences, the four-course meal is prepared by Puente Romano`s award winning chef Thomas Stork and served with a selection of wines from the

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There will be a welcome drink from the Bodega Villa Tondonia, then the Kempinski’s team of talented chefs will prepare the tuna, explaining the different cuts of the fish, demonstrating how to cut, slice and fillet the fish and answering questions.

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Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax

Spanish officials raided Google’s Madrid offices on late last week in a tax probe, authorities said, barely a month after the internet company had its headquarters in France searched on suspicion of tax evasion.

A spokeswoman for Google said in a statement the company Most Active Stocks complied with fiscal legislation in Spain just as it did in all countries where it operated. The company was working with Name Last Prev.

High Low Chg. % Vol. authorities to answer all questions, the spokeswoman added. t Lloyds Banking 55.1750 55.5900 55.6400 54.5950 -0.75% 44.39M Google is under pressure across Europe from politicians and t Glencore 180.9250 186.4000 185.4750 177.0750 -2.94% 26.89M the public upset at how multinationals exploit their presence t ARM Holdings 1,667.50 1,675.00 1,675.00 1,667.00 -0.42% 18.16M around the world to minimise their tax bills. t Barclays 149.4250 150.9500 152.2000 147.3750 -1.01% 17.11M Thursday’s raid was approved by a court in the capital and followed a request by the Spanish tax authorities, according t Vodafone Group PLC 225.5750 225.7000 225.8750 223.6500 -0.06% 14.99M to a brief statement by the Madrid High Court. s Taylor Wimpey 148.70 147.70 149.40 144.50 +0.68% 10.13M Google, part of Alphabet Inc, pays little tax in most of Europe t RBS PLC 189.650 189.800 191.400 187.000 -0.08% 9.30M because it reports almost all sales in Ireland. This is possible t Legal & General 190.557 191.200 193.100 189.200 -0.37% 8.72M thanks to a loophole in international tax law and hinges on s HSBC Holdings 486.600 484.800 487.400 482.250 +0.37% 8.62M staff in Dublin concluding all sales contracts.

The Paris raid aimed to establish whether Google Ireland has t BT Group 393.050 395.000 395.100 388.800 -0.49% 8.46M a permanent base there, and whether the firm was meeting its tax obligations. It was part of a probe into aggravated tax Top Gainers Top Losers fraud and organised laundering of the proceeds.

Name Last Chg. Chg. % Name Last Chg. Chg. % s Royal Dutch Shell 2,124.50 +53.00 +2.56% t Weir Group 1,500.00 -48.00 -3.10% s Land Securities 1,059.00 +17.00 +1.63% t Rio Tinto 2,378.750 -83.750 -3.40% s Sports Direct Int 259.750 +3.650 +1.43% t Glencore 180.8750 -5.5250 -2.96% s Carnival 3,544.00 +51.00 +1.46% t EasyJet 1,108.500 -29.500 -2.59% s Randgold Resources 8,915.00 +115.00 +1.31% t Antofagasta 489.90 -13.10 -2.60%

Madrid considering tax breaks to attract UK-based firms

Madrid’s regional government is considering granting tax breaks to attract banks and international firms looking to move operations away from Britain after its vote to leave the European Union, a spokesman has announced.

Madrid has joined other EU cities in a scramble for businesses located in London, including Frankfurt and Paris, the continent’s two biggest financial centres.

The regional government is looking at introducing a more generous tax scheme for the purchase and sale of land and on capital gains on properties, the spokesman said.

“We will be looking at the tax scheme in order to bring in investments from the City (of London), always with the ultimate aim of job creation,” he said, without giving more details.

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High Low Chg. % Vol. EU’s London-based bank regulator and the London-based t Santander 3.760 3.806 3.845 3.715 -1.21% 23.78M European Medicines Agency, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya t Bankia 0.664 0.670 0.681 0.660 -0.90% 13.86M Sáenz de Santamaria told a news conference on Friday.

Madrid, where most of Spain’s banks have large operations, t Banco Popular 1.219 1.252 1.267 1.207 -2.64% 12.44M has used tax incentives to stimulate t BBVA 5.154 5.195 5.263 5.104 -0.79% 12.43M investment before. It offered a 95 percent tax break in 2014 to t B. Sabadell 1.261 1.263 1.284 1.245 -0.16% 10.19M firms moving to the “Corredor del Henares” industrial area in t Caixabank 2.174 2.186 2.228 2.153 -0.55% 5.61M the north of the city. t Iberdrola 5.989 6.010 6.013 5.952 -0.35% 4.97M “There are investors right now in Britain looking for another t Mapfre 2.032 2.099 2.108 2.025 -3.19% 4.60M city to establish themselves: that city is Madrid,” the head of t Int.Airl.Grp 5.068 5.163 5.188 5.025 -1.84% 3.53M the regional government, Cristina Cifuentes, said on Twitter. t Telefonica 8.703 8.800 8.799 8.640 -1.10% 3.21M

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Last Chg. Chg. % 5.079 -0.157 -3.00% 2.035 -0.064 -3.05% 1.220 -0.032 -2.56% 5.073 -0.090 -1.74% 11.832 -0.208 -1.73%

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Spanish court drops fraud investigation against Neymar Spain’s High Court said on Friday it had dropped a fraud and corruption investigation intoBrazilian soccer captain and Barcelona player Neymar saying no crime had been committed.

Charges were also dropped against his father and agent Neymar Da Silva Santos, former Barcelona president Sandro Rossell and ex-Santos president Odilio Rodrigues, according to a written ruling.

The charges related to Neymar’s transfer to Barcelona from Brazilian football club Santos three years ago.

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Government puts sale of RBS, Lloyds stakes on hold after Brexit vote

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RITAIN’S government has scrapped plans to sell stakes in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group this year in the wake of the Brexit vote, sources claim, a decision set to leave a multi-billion pound hole in its finances. The Treasury had planned to further reduce its exposure to the banks it took over during the financial crisis, by raising 9 billion pounds via sales of stock to fund managers and a discounted offer to the public.

However, the market upheaval and economic uncertainty triggered by Britons’ vote last Thursday to leave the European Union has forced policymakers to shelve disposal plans until 2017 at the earliest, sources close to the Treasury told Reuters.

The finance ministry is braced for a prolonged period of market volatility which it said would make it hard to judge if any sale would achieve value for taxpayers, according to the sources.

“It is going to take quite a while for us to understand the implications for the banks before we could even consider starting to sell,” one of the sources said.

PRAGMATIC While decisions to put financial asset sales on ice will be seen as pragmatic by many, the delays have serious consequences for government coffers. The political and economic uncertainty also risks delaying government plans to sell a portfolio of $15.65 billion of loans held by Bradford & Bingley, a mortgage bank also nationalized during the financial crisis, one of the sources said. Many of those loans were buy-to-let mortgages.

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taxpayers must shell out about 200 million pounds in additional interest on the debt used to buy the holdings at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, according to data from the Office for Budget Responsibility.

UK Financial Investments, which manages the government’s stakes in the banks, and the Treasury declined to comment.

Lloyds said the timing of any share sale was a matter for the government and RBS declined to comment.

SHARES The treasury currently owns 73 percent of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and 9 percent of Lloyds.

Shares in both banks have fallen over the past two trading days by the most since the global financial crisis as Britain’s vote to

leave the EU sent shockwaves through financial markets.The British government has so far only managed to recoup just over half of the 133 billion pounds it spent rescuing the banks.

A six-month programme to drip feed Lloyds’ shares into the market is due to expire on June 30 and there are currently no immediate plans to extend it, the sources said.

British Finance Minister George Osborne had planned to sell about 2 billion pounds of Lloyds shares to private retail investors later this year and sell some shares to institutional investors in a sale aimed at returning the bank to full private ownership.

He had also planned to sell 5.4 billion pounds’ worth of RBS shares by the end of this year.

Engulfed by doubt, top UK firms shelve spending plans after EU vote SOME 82 percent of chief financial officers from FTSE 350 and large private companies expect to cut capital spending in the next year, the biggest proportion on record and up from 34 percent in the first quarter, accountancy firm Deloitte said.

Its survey is one of the first clear signs the vote to leave the EU has battered business confidence, and corroborates the Bank of England’s view that the economy is set to weaken soon.

While the British central bank unexpectedly left interest rates on hold last week, its chief economist Andy Haldane said a “material easing” of policy would be needed next month to help cushion the expected slowdown.

The Deloitte survey was conducted between June 28 and July 11, after the referendum and just before Theresa May emerged as Britain’s new prime minister.

Almost all the CFOs surveyed said the level of

Britain’s biggest companies are beset by doubts about the future after last month’s vote to leave the European Union and have slashed their investment plans, according to a survey released on Monday that bodes poorly for the economy. uncertainty facing their businesses is above normal.

“Perceptions of uncertainty have soared to levels last associated with the euro crisis five years ago,” said Ian Stewart, Deloitte’s chief economist.

“The spike in uncertainty has had a toxic effect on business sentiment, with optimism dropping to the lowest level since our survey started in 2007 -- lower, even, than in the wake of the failure of Lehman in late 2008.”

More than two-thirds of CFOs in the Deloitte survey said they believed leaving the EU will

hurt the British business environment in the long-term.

The BoE’s Haldane said last week he detected no sense of “slash and burn” around company boardrooms, but a strong sense of “trim and singe”.

In the next three years, 58 percent of CFOs surveyed said they expected capital spending to be “somewhat” or “significantly” lower.

Seventy-three percent of respondents said they were less optimistic about their company’s financial prospects, a record high, and 83 percent expected to slow the pace of

hiring.

“CFOs do not seem to be waiting for growth to slow before adjusting direction. There has been a marked shift to more defensive balance sheet strategies in the wake of the referendum,” said Stewart.

The Deloitte survey adds to signs of a tumble in business and consumer confidence since the EU vote, after warnings that Brexitinduced uncertainty and a sharp fall in sterling would leave many firms struggling to meet full-year profit targets.

A first concrete gauge of business activity will be published on Friday, when Markit publishes a one-off preview version of its monthly purchasing managers’ index (PMI).

A separate survey from the British Retail Consortium showed the number of shoppers heading to high streets and retail centres fell at the fastest pace in more than two years in June, with the weeks around the referendum particularly hard hit.

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Banks have cancelled more than one million accounts due to lack of ID LAST year there were more than 71 million current accounts in Spain, but following the new ID rules required to hold an account which came into force in May last year, it has been estimated that over one million accounts have been cancelled or blocked.

Although this estimate is widely viewed as being undervalued with many experts believing the figures is more like two million The elderly, immigrants and clients who have changed their place of residence are the most effected. But what happens to the funds?

Sources of a large bank explain that “the amounts remaining in accounts which have not completed the process of providing evidence to identify the holders of the original of the accounts will have the accounts confiscated and the funds held for up to a period of 20-years, if the account cannot be verified thereafter then the funds will be sent to the Treasury “.

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Henderson property fund manager puts London HQ of Coutts bank up for sale

THE manager of fund firm Henderson Global Investors’ frozen UK property fund has put the London headquarters of British private bank Coutts up for sale, a source familiar with the matter confirms.

The Henderson 3.9 billion pound UK PAIF Property and PAIF Feeder Fund is one of seven UK property funds that have suspended

trading in order to control redemptions by retail investors following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.

Managers in these commercial real estate funds need to sell assets to meet those redemption requests.

TH Real Estate, which manages the Henderson fund, is selling the building on

the Strand in central London for 220 million pounds, the source said.

Coutts is owned by Royal Bank of Scotland.

A spokeswoman from Henderson Global Investors, which is wholly owned by Henderson Group, declined to comment.

Trade publication Estates Gazette reported the news early last week.

Euro zone banks FITCH REAFFIRMS CATALONIA TRADING see continued lending growth STATUS AS JUNK in third quarter EURO zone banks expect lending to continue rising at a moderate pace in the third quarter, helped by a new round of ultra-cheap European Central Bank loans amid easing credit standards, the ECB’s quarterly lending survey showed on Tuesday.

Banks also said they did not expect credit shocks from Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and that they would continue to participate in the European Central Bank’s cheap loan scheme to bolster their profitability, according to the survey of 141 lenders.

UPBEAT The relatively upbeat survey is likely to be welcomed by the ECB, which has provided several rounds of stimulus to boost bank lending, support growth and ultimately revive inflation.

Last month the ECB reintroduced its programme of targeted longer term refinancing operations, providing zero interest-rate loans to banks.

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earning them a rebate as the deposit rate stands at -0.4 percent.

A net 24 percent of surveyed banks said they expected corporate lending to rise, driven by loans to small and medium-size firms, while a net 17 percent expected a further rise in housing loans, the ECB said.

The ECB meets this week, when it is tipped to leave interest rates on hold and keep its focus on implementing already approved stimulus measures and highlighting the success of past efforts, even as negative risks to inflation and growth remain abundant.

“Among the largest euro area countries, credit standards on loans to enterprises eased in France, Italy and Germany, while remaining unchanged in Spain and the Netherlands,” the ECB said about lending in the second quarter.

“For housing loans, banks in France, Italy and Spain reported a net easing of credit standards, whereas banks in Germany reported a net tightening.”

In the third quarter, corporate credit standards are seen broadly unchanged while mortgage and consumer credit standards will ease, the ECB added.

THE ratings agency Fitch has affirmed the debt of Catalonia, in terms of long-term foreign currency issuer at ‘BB’ (junk) with a negative outlook.

The confirmation reflects the political uncertainty in the region, notably regarding relations with the central government. “The Negative Outlook reflects the potential outcome either from an abrupt separation from Spain or the withdrawal of the state liquidity support, the growing liquidity risk, as well as Catalonia’s weak performance and growing debt” said Fitch.

Fitch has also affirmed the Short-term foreign currency IDR at ‘B’. The ratings on the senior unsecured outstanding bonds have been affirmed at ‘BB’ By contrast, the agency explains that if the political environment normalizes, Fitch could return to Catalonia rating of ‘BBB-’

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They were key points in Boris Johnsons reasoning on why Brexit would not impact upon the UK’s financial markets yet ten London start-ups have made inquiries about moving to Berlin since Britain voted to leave the European Union, business development group Berlin Partner said on Monday.

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LONG with other European cities, Berlin is jostling for a piece of London’s financial technology industry and has stepped up efforts to promote the German capital as an affordable and creative alternative to other centres.

The fintech start-ups that have made inquiries employ between 10 and 18 people each and have expressed interest in matters such as commercial property prices, the local labour market and accommodation availability, Berlin Partner Director Stefan Franzke said.

“The most concrete inquiries are coming from London fintechs. They are considering a move to Berlin so as not to lose access to the European single market,” Franzke told a news conference.

Berlin’s Senator for Economics, Technology and Research, Cornelia Yzer, has sent hundreds of letters to British businesses and has travelled to London Fintech Week to lobby start-up founders.

“There is no doubt these companies will be interested in being in the European Union,” Yzer told Reuters at Fintech Week.

More than a hundred companies have been in touch with Berlin since the Brexit vote, though not all fintech, and the German capital will open a London office in September, she said.

“Berlin is a boom town for companies focusing on fintech. Every 20 hours a new start-up is created ... There is no need to speak German,” Yzer said.

PASSPORTING PROTECTION? Rajesh Agrawal, Deputy Mayor of London responsible for business, told Fintech Week

that the UK capital is a thriving fintech sector but acknowledged the challenge posed by Britain’s Brexit vote.

“The outcome of the EU referendum is bad news for London and for fintech, it’s not what we wanted,” Agrawal said. “We are very clear about what we need. We need access to the EU single market and protection of our passporting rights,” Agrawal said.

Maintaining passporting rights for British firms to offer services across the EU must go hand in hand with allowing EU citizens to work unhindered in Britain, EU leaders have said.

Eileen Burbidge, Britain’s fintech envoy, said the UK government will re-evaluate its fintech support programmes but she expects passporting rights to be maintained.

“Even in the worst case, where people have to get a second licence to operate in other European countries ... it’s not a deal breaker, it’s not going to stop momentum,” Burbidge said.

Berlin attracted almost 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) in venture capital investment in startups in 2014, outpacing London, Ernst and Young said in a report last year.

The German capital has about 100 fintech start-ups, including German mobile financial services firm Number26. Affordable living costs, access to talent and the widespread use of English are among its advantages, Berlin Partner’s Franzke said.

Berlin Partner has launched a website in English and will open a pop-up lab in London in October to try to woo more companies, but Franz said he also expects interest from further afield as start-ups that were interested in London now look elsewhere.

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Sony requested approval on June 24, according to a filing on the European Commission website.

The EU competition enforcer can clear the deal unconditionally or demand concessions.

It can also open a five-month long investigation if it has serious concerns the deal may harm consumers and rivals.

Sony signed a deal in March to acquire the stake that the deceased pop star held in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the world’s largest music publisher, which owns copyrights to most of the Beatles’ songs and songs by the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West.

Warner Music Group has conveyed its concerns to the Commission, while lobbying group Impala which represents independent labels and national trade associations, has also done the same.

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South African retailer Steinhoff has agreed to pay nearly £600 million for Britishbased discount chain Poundland after two previous attempts to expand in Europe fell through this year.

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Steinhoff already owns the Bensons Beds and Harvey’s furniture chains in Britain. The Poundland deal is third time lucky after it failed to secure Britain’s Home Retail which owns Argos, and was also unsuccessful in a bid for Darty in France.

It is the biggest takeover of a listed British company since a vote on June 23 to leave the European Union, a decision which has prompted concern that Britain may fall into recession.

The fall in the value of the pound is making British assets cheaper for foreign buyers.

Steinhoff, in which South African billionaire Christo Wiese is the largest shareholder, has a reputation for buying underperforming companies that can benefit from its wide global network to source goods at lower

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Steinhoff gets its European deal with 597 million pound Poundland buy prices.

It will pay 220 pence per share plus 2 pence in dividends, valuing the Poundland at 597 million pounds.

Momentum Wealth head Wayne McCurrie questioned the price the Johannesburgbased company plans to pay for Poundland, which as its name suggests sells every item at a single price of a pound at its UK stores.

“Steinhoff is paying quite a big premium,” McCurrie said. “This might be a bit negative for Steinhoff in the next year or two as the British economy tries to find its new home.”

Poundland listed at 300 pence in 2014. But its shares have lost 42 percent of their value

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It has also faced pressure as British supermarkets fight a price war spurred by the growth of German discounters Aldi and Lidl.

COMPLEMENTARY FIT Buying Poundland would give Steinhoff more than 900 shops in Britain, Ireland and Spain.

“Steinhoff is developing a fast-growing, price-led retail business across the UK and the rest of Europe. Poundland would be a complementary fit to this growth story,” said Steinhoff Chief Executive Markus Jooste.

The deal gives Poundland shareholders a return on their investment without having to await the benefits of a turnaround strategy.

“The Poundland Board believes that (Steinhoff’s) all-cash offer presents Poundland shareholders with an opportunity

to realise their shareholding at a certain and attractive price,” Chairman Darren Shapland said.

Jim McCarthy, who stepped down this month after 10 years as chief executive, is in line for a 22 million pound payment for his stake.

Steinhoff’s further expansion in Europe, where it already makes more than 70 percent of its sales, would reduce its reliance on a shaky home market where its furniture unit JD Group is cutting jobs and closing branches because of weak demand.

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GERMAN industrial group Siemens plans to invest 1 billion euros (821.45 million pound) over the next five years in a new startups unit to help it develop businesses in areas such as artificial intelligence and decentralised electrification.

The funds will be available to employees, external startups and established companies if they want to pursue business ideas in fields that are strategic to Siemens’ future, the trains-toturbines group said.

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Siemens, which was founded in 1847 on the then-new telegraph technology, is expanding its core strengths in automation and electrification in new directions to stay at the cutting edge of the digitisation of industry.

It said the first project of its new unit, named “next47” after the year of the group’s founding, would be the previously announced joint development with Airbus <AIR.PA> of electrically powered planes.

Other important fields will include autonomous machines, networked mobility and blockchain applications for the secure transfer of data in industry and energy trading, the technology on which cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are based, it said.

The new unit will come into being on Oct. 1 and will initially be headed by Siegfried Russwurm, Siemens’ chief technology officer. It will have offices in Berkeley, California, Shanghai, China and Munich, Germany.

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THE VAPOUR EFFECT Electronic cigarettes could have a huge effect on public health

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OBACCO still kills 6m people around the world every year. Despite huge public health efforts to help people quit and prevent young people starting, smoking remains the single greatest cause of ill health and premature death. And even with restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public places, many young people continue to take up smoking. The situation is even worse in poorer countries, where support to stop smoking is limited, and tobacco control policies weaker.

So in light of this, how should we view the increasing popularity of electronic cigarettes?

The gadgets deliver a nicotine hit by heating a nicotine-containing propylene glycol (e-liquid) to create an aerosol (usually called “vapour”), which is inhaled. Put simply, they deliver nicotine almost as effectively as a conventional cigarette, but without the vast majority of other chemicals present in tobacco smoke (either from the tobacco itself, or as a result of the burning process).

Because of this a whole culture is emerging around “vaping”. Many devices offer a range of power settings, and a vast array of e-liquids are on offer, with varying nicotine contents and flavours. Enthusiasts often apply modifications to their devices, and engage in “cloud chasing” – competing to produce the largest and most interesting clouds of vapour.

And yes, young people are experimenting with e-cigarettes (in the same way that they have always experimented with pretty much everything), although at the moment there is no strong evidence this is leading to subsequent cigarette use, or even long-term e-cigarette use.

The rapid growth in use of e-cigarettes, especially among smokers trying to cut down or quit, has taken the public health community and the tobacco industry by surprise.

Both are struggling to catch up. Health professionals are hurrying to carry out research to develop evidence-based guidelines and policies. Meanwhile, the tobacco industry is buying up e-cigarette companies and introducing its own products onto the market.

some control over their health, without being medicalised in the process.

But a problem remains in the lack of information on the possible harm of e-cigarettes. This is unlikely to change any time soon, since the health effects of tobacco use can take several decades to emerge, and it’s probable the same will be true for e-cigarettes. Nothing is entirely risk-free, but the vastly reduced number of chemicals present in e-cigarette vapour compared to tobacco smoke means we can be confident that vaping will be much, much less harmful than smoking.

So how concerned should we be about this emerging and disruptive technology?

Should we encourage existing smokers to use e-cigarettes to help them stop smoking, even if this means they continue using nicotine long-term? In the United Kingdom there is some consensus that smokers should be encouraged to use e-cigarettes if they feel they might help, and the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training is supportive of their use. Part of the reason many vapers feel so passionately about the subject (and react strongly when they feel that vaping is being unfairly attacked) is that for the first time, through the use of e-cigarettes, they have felt able to take control of their nicotine habit, stop smoking, and reassert

This article was original published on The Conversation.

Heartening evidence As part of the investigation into the effects of e-cigarettes, investigations were conducted on how the cells found in the arteries of the heart, known as human coronary artery endothelial cells, responded when they were exposed to both e-cigarette vapour and conventional cigarette smoke. The evidence found that the cells showed a clear stress response from the cigarette smoke, but not from the electronic cigarette. This suggests tobacco smokers may be able to reduce immediate tobacco-related harm by switching from conventional cigarettes to e-cigarettes.

Many people find it difficult to function without their first caffeine hit of the day. But no one is seriously calling for coffee shops to be dismantled or regulated. Nicotine is addictive, but much less so on its own than in tobacco, where other chemicals enhance its effect. At the doses consumed by vapers the harm is likely to be very low (although we need to continue to research this), and many vapers actually gradually move to zero nicotine content e-liquids, even while continuing to vape.

Of course, we may end up with a large population of longterm nicotine users who use e-cigarettes to deliver nicotine rather than cigarettes, but all of the evidence at the moment suggests that this population will almost entirely comprise ex-smokers. This would produce a vast public health gain.

We must be careful not to restrict smokers’ access to e-cigarettes, or over-state the potential harm of their use, if this will put people off making the transition from smoking to vaping. To do so would deny us one of the greatest public health improving opportunities of the last 50 years.

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The SPF Lie WITH summer in full swing leading consumer group Which? have claimed consumer who are placing their trust in sun creams for protection against the sun’s harmless rays are being misled by the “BIG BRANDS” and not getting the protection they believe from their sun cream.

Leading international brands such as Piz Buin, Malibu, and Hawaiian Tropic sun creams are reported to be providing protection significantly lower than the levels they claimed on their products. In each case, the creams although claiming to offer protection of SPF 30 only managed to provide SPF 25 providing insufficient protection again skin cancer.

“With thousands of cases of skin cancer diagnosed every year, it’s vital you can trust a sun cream to provide the protection it claims,” warned Richard Lloyd, executive director at Which?.

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The taste of summer This succulent, fragrant fruit is as beautiful as it is flavourful.

Sweet, succulent and plump, not only are strawberries delicious, they are also an excellent source of Vitamin C. Enjoy them raw, grilled or baked in cakes, dipped in chocolate or in a cocktail. The possibilities are endless!

Spring Fruit and Nut Tabouli Ingredients 3/4 cup sliced almonds 1 cup coarse-grind bulgur 1 1/2 cups water 1 cup thinly-sliced strawberries, stemmed, hulled and washed 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint 1/4 cup chopped basil 2 ounces crumbled goat cheese 1/4 cup dried currants 3 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, or more to taste Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lay the almonds out onto a small rimmed baking sheet and toast until fragrant, 5 to 7 minutes. After they’re done toasting, allow to cool.

Place bulgur in a medium heat-proof bowl.

Bring the water to a boil and then pour over the bulgur. Let stand until the bulgur has absorbed most of the water and has become tender, about 25 to 30 minutes. If there’s any remaining water, simply drain and fluff the grains with a fork. Set aside to cool.

In the meantime, in a large bowl combine the strawberries, mint, basil, goat cheese, and currants. Fold in the bulgur wheat, toasted almonds, lemon juice, olive oil and salt. Stir to combine. Serve at room temperature or cover and refrigerate to serve cold.

No-Bake Strawberry Icebox Cake Ingredients 2 pounds fresh strawberries, washed and patted dry 3 3/4 cups heavy cream, divided 1/3 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon rosewater, optional 4 sleeves (about 19 ounces, or 24 to 28 whole crackers) graham crackers 2 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped This is such an easy dessert. It looks a little fancy, but don’t be put off. It only takes a few ingredients, and it doesn’t even involve turning on the oven.

Take out a few of the best-looking strawberries and set them aside for the garnish. Hull the remainder of the strawberries and cut each berry into thin slices.

With a hand mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer, whip 3 1/2 cups of cream until it just holds stiff peaks. Add the confectioners sugar, vanilla, and rosewater (if using) and

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Strawberry Dessert Pizza For the crust: 2 1/4 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 5 tablespoons sugar 3/4 cup vegetable oil 3 tablespoons milk For the filling: 12 ounces (1 1/2 block sized packages) cream cheese 3/4 cups sugar 3 large eggs 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3-4 cups fresh strawberries, washed, dried and sliced 1/4 cup agave syrup

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Spread a small spoonful of whipped cream on the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking pan, or a similarly sized platter. Lay down 6 graham crackers. Lightly cover the top of the graham crackers with more whipped cream, and then a single layer of strawberries. Repeat 3 times, until you have 4 layers of graham crackers.

Spread the last of the whipped cream over the top and swirl it lightly with a spoon. Add a few more strawberries.

To make the ganache, heat the remaining 1/4 cup cream until bubbles form around the edges, then pour over the chopped chocolate. Let it stand for a few minutes, then whisk until the mixture is thick and glossy. Drizzle this over the layered dessert with a spoon, or transfer to a squeeze bottle and use that to drizzle.

Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or until the crackers have softened completely. Garnish with additional berries.

Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix the flour, sugar and salt and set aside. In a small bowl, whisk the oil and milk. Mix the dry and the wet ingredients together until evenly combined.

Pat dough into a 14–inch pizza pan, creating a very thin, even layer. Bake for about 15 minutes.

While the crust is baking, make the filling: Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, whisk the cream cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla until smooth and creamy. When the crust has finished its initial bake, remove and carefully pour custard on top of cookie crust (you may have a little extra). Bake another 20 minutes until the custard is set and golden brown.

Arrange the strawberries on top of the pizza and brush with agave syrup. Chill until ready to serve.

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Floral Retro Cheese THERE is nothing more retro that Parma Violets, an iconic British sweet, often termed as the marmite of the confectionary world, Parma Violets have a sweet yet slightly florally taste which are either loved or lathed.

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10 FOODS TO AVOID IF YOU WANT TO LOOK BEACH FIT! Life’s a beach but to ensure your body looks bloat free and perfect make sure you avoid these foods.

Dairy Products, like milk and cheese, are known to cause people to be bloated and gassy, so maybe skip the bowl of ice cream before heading to the beach.

Apples An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but it definitely won’t keep the bloat away. Apples are high in fibre and contain a lot of sugar, which can lead to excess bloating.

Corn This summertime staple finds its way to almost every barbecue during the warm weather, but it can be difficult to digest. Corn contains a type of carbohydrate that is difficult for the body to break down. This can lead to GI bacteria fermentation and trapped air and gas, which causes bloating.

Carbonated Beverages Drinking an iced cold soda can be a great way to cool off in the summer heat, but the air bubbles used to give the drinks their fizz expand your GI tract and lead to increased bloating. Maybe stick to water or fruit juices poolside this summer.

Wheat For some people who experience gluten sensitivity or for people with celiac disease, consuming products that contain wheat can cause bloating, gas, and stomach pain. Luckily, many gluten-free options are available almost everywhere you go.

Yogurt While yogurt is known for its digestive properties, certain types (the ones that contain high levels of lactose) can ferment in your stomach, creating gas bubbles and bloating. Greek yogurt is a safe solution to this problem, as if contains low levels of sugar.

Garlic Used mostly for flavoring, garlic (and onions, as well) contains high levels of fructans, which cause bloating. An easy solution to this problem is to cook the garlic before consuming it; this may reduce the effects.

Broccoli Cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower, contain raffinose, a carbohydrate that can’t be digested by our bodies. This leads to bloating and (particularly smelly) gas. For a day sitting by the pool? No, thanks.

Beans Although beans contain high amounts of protein and fibre, they are also home to alpha-galactosides, carbs that aren’t digested by the body and are fermented in the colon. Individuals with irritable bowel syndrome should definitely avoid beans before heading to the beach.

Watermelon A summer without watermelon would be a sad summer, but because of the high sugar levels in this sweet fruit, it can lead to bloating and gas. Save the watermelon for rehydrating after your day in the sun.

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After red, white and rose there’s now a fourth colour of wine set to hit our supermarkets WE all know that orange is the new black!

But if your a wine connoisseur you´ll also know that orange is the new rose…

Surprisingly this new wine trend which looks a bit like Irn Bru in a glass is not orange in colour and is not made out of oranges but it tastes absolutely delicious and looks set to be this summers most enjoyable trend.

Amber in colour and light on the palette, orange wine is an incredibly versatile and refreshing hybrid of a fruity white, combined with the texture and structure of red. It acquires its colour by applying the same methods as red wine making to white grapes – by leaving the skins on during fermentation, producing tannins.

This fermentation process is called ¨giving the wine skin contact¨.

The resulting taste is sharper, herbier and nuttier than white wine, with an intense aroma and a robust palate that’s more of a summer alternative for red drinkers than a pleasant floral alternative to rose. Traditionally, Orange wines are produced in North East Italy, Slovenia and Georgia however new world wineries are embracing the seasons new trend.

Pheasant’s Tears, Rkatsiteli, 2011 from Georgia This wine macerates in traditional qveri, a unique Georgian vessel used to ferment and store winef or thirty days. This storage gives the wine a good grip with notes of apricots, dried herbs and walnut, but dry and unexpectedly full-bodied in the mouth with notes of walnut and apricot.

Intellego Elementis, Swartland, 2001, from South Africa This young winemaker leaves the skins on South Africa’s most reputed wine variety for three weeks to produce an intense and chewy wine displaying

notes of tangy apple, nuts and dried fruits that draws you in.

Ageno, La Stoppa, 2007 from Italy

This wine is made from a combination of three local white grape varieties with the majority of the wine being Malvasia grown on 36 year- old-vines.

The gorgeous amber- orange colour in the glass frees scents of exotic flowers and orange cream to your nose, enhanced by the surprisingly weighty and velvety texture of the wine. On the palate, creamy notes of orange, honey and saffron.

Lawson’s Dry Hills Orange Wine Marlborough 2013

Don’t be put off by the cloudiness of this wine; it’s just not had any of the fining and filtration than can strip wines of flavour.

It’s a fragrant floral example displaying notes of chrysanthemum infusing its palate of white peach and dried apricot fruit that finishes with an appealing bite.

The Crusher, Wilson Vineyard Big Orange White Wine Blend, 2010

This unique Orange wine was crafted by fermenting the juice of Chardonnay and Viognier grapes. Soft chalky tannins and rich mouth-filling structure on the midpalate make this wine simply delicious.

Warm rich aromas of butterscotch, toasted oak, banana cream pie and dried mango entice the senses. Smooth and succulent flavors of lemon verbena, orange creamcicle, anise and cedar wood take hold of this wine while toasted almond nuances linger through the finish.

Orange wine can be enjoyed with a wide range of foods, including those dishes that one would usually pair with red wine.

This wine would lend itself well to spicy crab cakes with lemon aioli sauce as well as with grilled lamb chops with a baby arugula salad and grilled peaches.

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SUDOKU Sudoku is one of the most popular puzzle games of all time. The goal of Sudoku is to fill a 9×9 grid with numbers so that each row, column and 3×3 section contain all of the digits between 1 and 9. As a logic puzzle, Sudoku is also an excellent brain game. If you play Sudoku regularly, you will soon start to see improvements in your concentration and overall brain power.

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20 Gets ready for surgery 22 Slender cat 24 Fishing pole 25 Reddish dye 26 Statement of religious beliefs 29 Furious 30 Friendlier 34 Blood analysis sites 35 Tavern 36 Medicine chest antiseptic 37 Stomach muscles,

for short 38 Peace 40 Propane or helium 41 Spain’s peninsula 43 Merrymaking 44 Treaty 45 Ore seeker 46 Groove 47 Portions 48 Wild 50 Apple computer 51 Long steps 54 Store window dummy 58 Penny or dime 59 New runner’s complaints 61 Blaze 62 Qualified 63 Lessen the courage of 64 Types; sorts 65 Requirement 66 Toboggans 67 Price

Solution to puzzle from issue 21

DOWN 1 Is inquisitive 2 Wyatt or Curtin 3 Like fine wine 4 Prizes 5 Passé 6 Lamb bearers 7 Pres. Arthur’s monogram 8 Smooched 9 Beer mug 10 Kids’ card game 11 Telegram 12 Large birds that cannot fly 13 Knighted woman’s title 21 In addition 23 Pester 25 Detrimental 26 Have dibs on 27 Jewish leader 28 Actor Buddy 29 Deface

Find and circle all of the words that are hidden in the grid.

The remaining 27 letters spell a Lady Bird Johnson quote.

31 Groucho’s prop 32 __ legislation; make laws 33 Takes a nap 35 Sheep’s cry 36 Hostel 38 Gave work to 39 Umpire’s cry 42 Made pure 44 Largest ocean 46 Scamp 47 Skillet 49 Uses a Kindle 50 Ship poles 51 Read quickly 52 Fit __ tied; irate 53 Irritate 54 Repair 55 Metric unit 56 Angers 57 Robin’s home 60 Color

T P I R C S A V A J L E X I P I G E L I A M E M O R Y M M O U S E N I L C R A B K S A T X I N U Y H S T F G D N D I R E C T O R Y E T A O E O O P O W E R S U P P L Y N I R F R L O U C O A S A E V A S S C R E T N D G K I R O P K T Y P S H R U W W E E L C D D E C P R E E A H Y C A A T R M A N R I M A L L T D R P E R R E A T B O L E N M E I E K E T S E E P H H R C K I P R A F C V R I I R S J L M E E B E I A R R I A B O O T M B O R N S T W R A P R G R T N W B I N G O N O O S G N D L O O D I N T I O I S Solution to puzzle from issue 21 A N G M A K A U L A R A O T E A N R C A E A S P T L T A I P O N R N D U S N F I R E W A L L W R E I K O O C T F D P R D H T O O T E U L B Y T E

The hidden word is: PRECIPITATION

ANNUALS BEANS BEETS BIENNIAL BROCCOLI CARROTS COMPOST CULTIVATE DAISIES DIGGING

FERTILIZER FLOWERS FUCHSIA GARDEN GERANIUMS GLOVES GNOME GREENHOUSE GROW HOES

HORTICULTURE HOSE HYDRANGEA LILACS LILIES MARIGOLDS ORGANIC PEAS PERENNIAL PETUNIAS

PINWHEEL PITCH FORK PLANTING RAIN RAKE RELAXING ROSES ROWS SEEDS SHOVEL

SOIL SPADE SUNSHINE TOMATOES TROWEL TULIPS VEGETABLES WATER WEEDS WHEELBARROW

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Marie Frey celebrated her 86th birthday late last month by meeting her new great-granddaughter, who was born just days before.

While little baby Blakely Grace is a welcome addition to the Frey clan, meeting a greatgrandchild is nothing new for Marie. For the

Ohio native, the birth of her newest greatgrandchild made her a great-grandma for the 86th time!

Marie is no stranger to large families. After marrying her late husband Gerald in 1949, Marie says she knew she always wanted a

big family but thought she wouldn’t surpass 12 children. But, Gerald and Marie went on to have 15 children of their own - 10 daughters and five sons to be exact.

CODEWORD Codewords are like crossword puzzles - but have no clues! Instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number! To start you off, we reveal the codes for two or three letters.

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“I don’t know anything else besides family,” Marie told local paper, The Courier. And it seems all of her children went on to have large families of their own.

Today, Marie is the proud grandma of 68 and a great-grandma to 86 biological grandchildren plus another nine step-great-grandchildren. And she’s expecting two more great-grandbabies in the coming months.

Family members say they’ve counted as many as around 150 people at their Christmas family gatherings.

And if you thought Marie had a lot of grandkids, don’t forget about the Illinois couple that welcomed their 100th grandchild last year. That’s a lot of gifts and a lot of grandkids to spoil.

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It mіght sound lіkе а silly idea, but іt turns оut thаt drawing eyes оn thе rumps оf cattle mіght deter lions frоm attacking аnd prevent human retaliation аgаіnѕt thе mighty predators. It sounds lіkе а strategy tо protect thе poor cattle, but thе idea іѕ асtuаllу tо protect endangered African lions frоm human retaliation. Thе majestic felines аrе оn thе IUCN Red List оf Threatened Species, wіth numbers сurrеntlу іn thе range оf 23,000 tо 39,000 аnd rapidly declining.

“As protected conservation areas bесоmе smaller, lions аrе increasingly coming іntо contact wіth human populations, whісh аrе expanding tо thе boundaries оf thеѕе protected areas,” ѕауѕ Dr Neil Jordan, а conservation biologist frоm UNSW’s Centre fоr Ecosystem Science. Thе lions attack livestock, аnd wіth nо non-lethal wау оf protecting thеіr livelihood farmers оftеn shoot оr poison thе predators іn retaliation. Tо hеlр

humans аnd thеіr cattle coexist wіth lions, Jordan hаѕ соmе uр wіth а low-cost strategy thаt hе hopes wіll prevent attacks аnd retaliatory violence.

Thе idea bеhіnd painting а pair оf intimidating eyes оn thе rumps оf cows іѕ thаt thеу wіll trick thе lions іntо thinking they’ve bееn spotted, causing thеm tо abandon thе hunt.

Scientists knоw thаt bеіng ѕееn саn deter ѕоmе species frоm attacking thеіr prey. Fоr example, Indian woodcutters hаvе long bееn wearing worn masks оn thе bасk оf thеіr heads tо trick man-eating tigers thаt they’ve bееn spotted, аnd butterflies wіth eye-patterns оn thеіr wings ward оff predatory birds.

Solution to Wordblock puzzzle from issue 21 selenious - elusions - elusion - silenus ensoul - ensues - louses - nouses - onuses ousels - unless - ensue - ileus - issue - louis louse - nisus - ousel - sinus - slues - solus souls - lieu - lues - lune - nous - onus - slue soul - sous - sues - suns - unis - uses Solution to CODEWORD from issue 21

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England to name new manager within days England could have anew manager in place by the beginning of next week sources close to The Football Association claim.

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INCE the hasty resignation of Roy Hodgson following England’s early exit from Euros 2016, The Football Association have been searching for a quick replacement.

Over the past few weeks several names have been linked to the top-job such as Gareth Southgate, Steve Bruce, Eddie Howe and Jürgen Klinsmann but the bookies seem to be placing their against “Big Sam” Sam Allardyce. It has reported that the Sunderland Manager has held several meetings with the FA, here he we review why many believe he is the man for the job.

May seem a funny statement but as manager of the national team, many believe the top job should be held by a English manager, why, because he understands the way the English game is played, he will also be able to sympathise with his players having knowledge of the Premiership and the number of games they play within a season meaning he can work his schedule around them .

Big Sam has guided both Bolton and West Ham into the Premier League, he even managed to take Bolton into Europe.

Spanish game salutes retiring national team coach Spanish football paid tribute to departing national team manager Vicente del Bosque following the veteran’s retirement as coach after eight years in charge.

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EL BOSQUE, 65, who steered Spain to their first World Cup title in 2010 and a second consecutive European Championship two years later, was presented with a gold medal and received a standing ovation during the Spanish Football Federation’s (RFEF) general assembly at its headquarters in Las Rozas, Madrid.

Del Bosque’s last game in charge was on June 27 when Spain lost 2-0 to Italy in the last 16 of Euro 2016.

RFEF president Angel Maria Villar praised Del Bosque and said on the Federation’s website: “We have dominated European football for the last eight years. Few national teams have received so much praise and in our case unanimous.

“Vicente del Bosque has won the hearts and the admiration of everyone, he has been the cornerstone on which the best Spain of all-time was

built after taking over from Luis Aragones in 2008.

“We respect his decision not to continue with us. We are grateful to him. Today is the day that we bid farewell to Vicente as coach, but he will continue with us.”

Del Bosque will take on a new role at the federation, although his exact job has yet to be announced.

“In these years we have had defeats and wins,” Del Bosque said. “But I’ve tried to fulfil the big tasks of a national coach: to represent football well on and off the pitch, to choose the best players and to compete and admit defeat when we had to.

“Thanks to everyone, I will always be here for Spanish Football. You can count on me.”

Spain, who begin their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign at home to Liechtenstein on Sept. 5, have yet to appoint Del Bosque’s successor.

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Barry Geraghty will now miss the Galaway Festival following a shocking fall which could leave the winning jockey out of racing for at least two to three months following the fall which saw him sustain a broken arm.

Geraghty, 36 who looked good to challenge for the victory, fell from Cernunnos at the final fence in the Betfred Summer Plate Handicap Chase leaving the way open for Long House Hall.

Aiden O’Brian in Seventh Heaven Seventh Heaven the 14-1 filly ridden

by Seamie Heffernan defied all odds to give trainer Aidan O’Brian his first Irish Classic of the year and his fifth Irish Oaks overall.

The surprise win by Seventh Heaven - daughter to the legendary Galileo saw the filly steam past Architecture ridden by Frankie Dettori and Harlequeen ridden by Silvestre de Sousa to secure the 223,000 euros first place prize money and is now heads-on favourite to win next month’s Yorkshire Oaks.

Fallen Jockey injured by Ambulance Jockey Chris Meehan is being treated in hospital following a fall at the Merano track in Italy.

Initailly the jockey had only suffered superficial wounds with a broken nose and gash to his jaw but whilst being treated on the side of the course in a bizare twist of fate the oncourse ambulance accidententaly reversed onto the jockeys leg breaking it in the process.

The jockey who has achieved 13 career wins so far now faces up to two months on the sidelines.

Record-breaking Stenson lands first major at Troon R

ECORD-breaking Swede Henrik Stenson has become the first Scandinavian male to capture a major when he won the British Open, beating Phil Mickelson in an extraordinary final-round duel.

The world number six produced a swashbuckling eight-under-par 63 to finish 20-under on 264, three ahead of playing partner Mickelson (65).

The 40-year-old Stenson’s round equalled the lowest in any major championship and his winning total was also a record for any of the ‘Big Four’ tournaments.

“Wow, this will take a little while to sink in,” said Stenson as he held aloft the coveted Claret Jug. “I’m still trying to find my bearings here.

“I want to thank Phil for a fantastic battle. We played some great golf and I’m delighted to come out on top.”

Like two prize fighters in a ring, the two men traded blow after stunning blow, reeling off birdie after birdie to turn the last day of golf’s oldest major into a two-way procession.

The rest were nowhere with American JB Holmes (69) taking third spot on 278, 11 behind Mickelson as the leading pair evoked memories of the great ‘Duel in the Sun’ Turnberry Open of 1977 when Tom Watson edged out Jack Nicklaus in another epic head-to-head.

Steve Stricker (69) of the U.S. was in fourth place on 279, one in front of Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, Tyrrell Hatton of England and Spaniard Sergio Garcia.

Mickelson showed he meant business with a first-hole birdie after drilling a majestic approach to tap-in range while overnight leader Stenson took three putts.

BIRDIE BARRAGE The Swede’s response was instant and emphatic as he birdied five of the next seven holes, making a complete nonsense of gusts of up to 25mph on the windswept Ayrshire coastline.

Five-times major champion Mickelson, however, refused to be cowed and an eagle

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is applauded by green keepers as he walks up to collect the Claret Jug after winning the British Open golf championship - Royal Troon, Scotland, Britain - 17/07/2016. REUTERS/Paul Childs

three at the fourth followed by a birdie two holes later meant he was only one behind at the turn.

The putts continued to fall at the 10th as both players birdied yet again.

The 46-year-old American, bidding to become the oldest winner of the Open in the modern era, levelled again at the 11th when his title rival three-putted for the second time.

As the wind died down and the sun made a rare appearance, Stenson delivered the coup de grace with a hat-trick of birdies at the 14th, 15th and 16th giving him a two-shot advantage with two holes to play.

Mickelson’s last chance came and went at the 16th when his eagle putt just missed.

Stenson, full of adrenaline on the 18th tee, hammered his tee shot 310 yards down the fairway and was mightily relieved to see it stop 12 inches short of one of Royal Troon’s

fiendish pot bunkers.

He safely found the green with his approach and rolled in another monster putt to complete victory and post the 29th round of 63 in major championship history.

“I knew he wasn’t going to back down at any point and in a way that makes it easier,” said Stenson. “I knew I had to keep on pushing, keep on giving myself birdie chances.”

Mickelson, who beat Stenson into second place when he won the 2013 Open at Muirfield, was generous in his praise.

“It’s disappointing to come in second but I’m happy for Henrik, he’s really a great champion,” said the left-hander. “We’ve been friends for some time.

“I’ve always thought he is one of the best ball-strikers in the game and major championships are perfectly suited for him. I knew he would ultimately come through and win.”

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Willett and Rose in Team GB golf squad for Rio MASTERS champion Danny Willett and former U.S. Open winner Justin Rose will represent Great Britain in next month’s Rio Games, the British Olympic Association has announced.

World number nine Willett and 11th ranked Rose will compete in the Aug. 11-14 men’s 72hole stroke play event, which has been hit by several high-profile pull-outs citing concerns of the Zika virus. The world’s top four male golfers -- Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy -- have all withdrawn over health concerns from the mosquitoborn virus.

Twenty-year-old Charley Hull, the youngest member of the squad, will compete alongside former Women’s British Open winner Catriona Matthew in the women’s competition from Aug. 17-20.

“I will be so proud to be able to call myself an Olympian,” Hull said an at recent press conference Rio will mark the return of golf into the Olympic fold for the first time since 1904.

The Zika Debate WITH less than two weeks to go before the start of the Rio Olympics Games, it seems that athletes from all fields are announcing their withdrawal from the games citing concerns over the Zika Virus.

Whilst it is easy to condemn the athletes for their withdrawal it is also worth noting that Zika has been shown to cause severe neurological birth defects and may induce neurological illnesses, like Guillain-Barré syndrome, in adults. Pregnant women have the most to fear because of the immediate risk to their unborn babies. Because the virus can be sexually transmitted, and scientists haven’t yet established how long it stays in an individual’s system, all adults who plan on having children should avoid infection which is why it seems so many male athletes have pulled out.

Olympic official claim the virus is under control and that it poses no threat because the main way Zika is spread ( apart from sexual contact) via mosquitoes and august is cooler and dryer and not mosquito season. Because of this the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has said in its most recent Olympics risk assessment that there’s a “very low risk” of travellers and athletes catching Zika in Rio this year — a conclusion echoed by the WHO on June 14.

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“High profile male golfers are using the Zika virus as an excuse for missing the Rio Olympics when really the big-money majors matter more to them”, Britain’s five-times rowing gold medallist Steve Redgrave said in a recent interview.

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EDGRAVE (pictured), who won gold at five separate Games, questioned why so many of the men, and so few women, had decided not to play in golf’s first Olympic tournament in 112 years.

“I think they are just using it (Zika) as an excuse because of their crowded programme.

They like the idea of the Olympics but when it comes down to it, the majors are much more important,” he told the BBC. “Unfortunately it’s a money-oriented sport as well, so they don’t earn any money for going to the Olympics.

EXCUSE TENNIS PLAYERS 1. Australian Nick Kyrgios 2. Austrian Dominic Thiem 3. American John Isner 4. Spanish player Feliciano Lopez 5. Australian Bernard Tomic 6. Australian Lleyton Hewitt 7. Canadian Milos Raonic 8. Romanian Simona Halep 9. Czech Tomas Berdych MARATHONERS 1. Kenyan 2. Kenyan

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“I think Zach Johnson really did sum it up, and I wish they would all come out and say that’s the real reason that they’re not going instead of using another excuse,” added Redgrave.

American Johnson, the British Open champion who will not be playing in Rio, questioned on Monday whether the sport really belonged on the Olympic programme.

Golf fans, he told reporters at Troon, really looked forward to the majors and Ryder Cup and those were his main motivations as a player.

“No offence to the Olympics, but I’d rather be on the Ryder Cup team,” he said.

The world’s top four players -- Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy -- are among those to have pulled out of the Olympics because of fears over the Zika virus.

Spieth said on Tuesday the decision was

probably the hardest of his life, but added it was due to “health concerns as a whole” rather than Zika specifically.

The mosquito-borne virus can cause potentially severe birth defects in babies whose mothers were infected during pregnancy, including microcephaly marked by small head size that can lead to developmental problems.

It has also been linked to Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological syndrome that can cause temporary paralysis in adults.

Redgrave said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and British Olympic Association (BOA) had advised athletes that it was safe to go.

“If you are an Olympic athlete, you’ve trained for four years to go these Games. You’re not going to give it up,” said the Briton. “You’re going to make sure that you’ve got that opportunity.”

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ROONEY LOOKING FORWARD TO MOURINHO ERA Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has admitted the arrival of Jose Mourinho has given him added motivation for the season ahead.

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ORMER Chelsea boss Mourinho has suggested he preferred to play Rooney in a more attacking role, rather than see him pull strings from midfield as he did under predecessor Louis van Gaal.

Rooney will be looking to forge a formidable strike partnership with new signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic, after a dearth of goals under the Dutchman last season.

“I’m really excited to be working with Jose this season,” the 30-year-old told the club’s official magazine. “He’s one of the best managers in the world and it’s

Summer Signings The start of the new season is just around the corner and as always the transfer windows have been busy with the top clubs amassing over 30 new signings so far.

We all know about about the big signing such as Ibrahimovic from Paris St Germain to Manchester United and Sadio Mane from Southampton to Liverpool but what about the the lower profile signings.

LORIS KARIUS, 23, Goalkeeper Transfered from Mainz to to Liverpool for a transfer fee of £4.7 million.

MICHY BATSHUAYI, 22, Striker Transfered from Marseille to Chelsea for a reported trasnfer fee of £33 million.

HAVARD NORDTVEIT, 26, Midfielder Transfered from Borussia Monchengladbach to West Ham on a free transfer.

ERIC BAILLY,22, Defender Transfered from Villarreal to Manchester United for a transfer for £30 million.

LUIS HERNANDEZ, 27, Defender Transfered from Sporting Gijon to Leicester under a free transfer.

NAMPALYS MENDY, 24, Midfielder Transfered from Nice to Leicester for a transfer fee of £13million.

HENRIKH MKHITAR, 27, Midfielder Transfered from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester United for a transfer fee of £26 million.

STEVE MANDANDA, 31, Goalkeeper Transferred from Marsille to Crystal Palace for a reported transfer fee of £1.5 million.

OLEKSANDR ZINCHENKO, 19, Midfielder Transfered from FC UFA to Manchester City for a trasnfer fee of £1.7 million.

ISSAC SUCCESS, 20, Forward Transfered from Granada to Watford FC for a reported transfer fee of £12.5million.

an exciting time for Manchester United.

“I’ve always respected him both as a man and a manager.

“I like to think I’m always motivated as a player but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit more motivated when a new manager comes in.

“He’ll bring all these qualities with him and I’m sure he’ll have his own ideas, but one of the biggest assets will be his experience.”

United begin their Premier League campaign with a trip to Bournemouth on Aug. 14.

China to host the “best football competition in Asia” China, backed by its richest man, has struck a deal with FIFA to host the first China Cup from next year, a competition that will pit its national side against three international “first-class” teams - and hopefully pave the way to football glory.

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HINESE property tycoon Wang Jianlin, whose Dalian Wanda conglomerate is already a high-level FIFA sponsor, confirmed last week that his group and the Chinese Football Association would host the contest in the southern city of Nanning: four games played over a week every January.

European clubs often have a break around that time, potentially allowing national sides to pit their best - as China hopes. Eventually, it wants a total of eight teams to play.

CONTEST “We aim to become the best football competition in Asia,” Wang told reporters in Beijing. “We will use all possible measures to ensure we achieve this.”

China would qualify automatically for a contest that does allow them to earn points for global rankings - an opportunity for a country that wants to climb the FIFA table where it is currently languishing at 81, below Equatorial Guinea and Haiti. China is preparing to compete for a spot in the 2018

World Cup. Football in China has been plagued by poor performances on the field and match-fixing scandals. But President Xi Jinping, a selfprofessed avid football fan, has spoken in the past of “three wishes” for China: to qualify for another World Cup since their first and only appearance at the 2002 finals, to host a World Cup, and to eventually win one.

China has since said it wants to turn its team into one of the world’s best by 2050.

“We are duty-bound as people in the football industry, as members of the Chinese Football Association, to vigorously develop Chinese football,” said Yu Hongchen, vice president of the Chinese Football Association.

“This is our responsibility and it is also the demand of the times.”

Dalian Wanda has been at the forefront of China’s push into the business of sport, building up a sports arm which already owns a 20 percent stake in Spanish football club Atletico Madrid.

Over the last 18 months, Wanda has sealed a series of high-profile sports investments

to build up its sports business arm, from the purchase of the organiser of Ironman Triathlon races, World Triathlon Corp to the purchase of Swiss-based sports marketing firm Infront, in a $1.2 billion deal last year.

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ORMULA One’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone has suggested bonus payments to the sport’s four top teams could be replaced with a Premier League-style system to spread revenues more equally from 2020.

Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Red Bull currently receive special payments worth tens of millions of dollars to reflect past success and their importance to the sport, and will be determined to retain them.

“I am going to have a good look at how things work to see if I can come up with something more equal for all the teams,” Ecclestone, 85, said. “The Premier League has a good way of distributing the prize money, so maybe that could work for us. There will be people who will like it and people who won’t like it, and people who will suffer.”

Ecclestone’s Formula One Management (FOM) has binding commercial deals with the teams until 2020.

Ferrari, the only team to have been in the championship since it started in 1950 and the most successful, receive far more money than others including a special long-standing bonus of around $70 million.

The big four also stand apart as recipients of Constructors Championship Bonus (CCB) payments which have been agreed separately.

The details remain confidential but projected 2016 payments

THE BOOING NEEDS TO STOP, SAYS HAMILTON

published by the autosport.com website in April put Ferrari’s CCB payment at $35 million. Mercedes and Red Bull were both in line for $39 million and McLaren $32 million.

BONUS Former champions Williams receive a ‘heritage’ bonus of $10 million.

Force India and Sauber have complained about the payments, which are paid regardless of performance, and called for a more even distribution to allow smaller teams like them to survive and compete on a more level playing field.

The two teams, one Indian-owned and the other Swiss, filed a joint complaint last September asking European Union competition authorities to investigate the sport’s governance.

Under the Premier League agreement, half of the UK broadcast revenue is split equally between the soccer clubs with 25 percent paid in merit payments and the remainder coming in ‘facility fees’ based on television exposure.

Next season will see clubs share even more television revenue thanks to a record 5.1 billion pound deal with broadcasters Sky and BT that runs from 2016 to 2019.

MERCEDES WILL NOT APPEAL ROSBERG PENALTY MERCEDES have decided to accept a British Grand Prix penalty that leaves Nico Rosberg just one point clear of team mate Lewis Hamilton at the top of the Formula One world championship, the team said.

The champions had given notice at Silverstone that they intended to appeal the 10 second penalty that was imposed after the race and dropped the German from second place to third. The grand prix was won by triple champion Hamilton, his fourth home victory and third in a row.

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium with the trophy after winning the race with second placed Nico Rosberg before he wqas dropped to third. REUTERS/ Matthew Childs Livepic

BREACH The penalty was incurred for a breach of the rules governing what can be said over the radio. Mercedes had advised Rosberg on how to deal with a gearbox problem that had emerged in the closing laps.

“We were able to prove to the Stewards that a car-stopping gearbox failure was imminent and, as such, were permitted within the rules to advise Nico of the required mode change.”

Mercedes said.

“However, the advice to avoid seventh gear was considered to breach...article 27.1 of the

Sporting Regulations. The team accepts the stewards’ interpretation of the regulation, their decision and the associated penalty.”

Mercedes said they would continue to discuss with Formula One stakeholders “the subject of the perceived over-regulation of the sport.”

Article 27.1 states that “the driver must drive the car alone and unaided”.

That has led to a crackdown on radio communications, with a detailed list of what teams can and cannot say to their drivers during a race, and drawn increasing criticism from the teams.

TRIPLE Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has urged fans to be more sporting after boos were heard for the second race in a row at Silverstone.

In Austria only a week before it was Hamilton, now winner of four of the last five races, who was subjected to jeers and whistles after a last lap collision with Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg.

At Silverstone, boos aimed at championship leader Rosberg mingled with the cheers after the German came second to Hamilton in front of a 139,000 strong British crowd.

“Look at these guys, you don’t see this anywhere around the world. And you don’t hear a lot of booing, which means we’ve got good British spirit here,” Hamilton had told the sea of fans from the podium.

However when the microphone was passed to Rosberg, it was evident that Hamilton had spoken too soon, Australia’s former F1 driver turned interviewer Mark Webber interjected: “Come on guys, he fought valiantly.

He did what he could.”

Hamilton said later he had wanted to calm the fans down and would not have behaved that way himself.

PASSIONATE “I feel like we are better than that. I didn’t really hear a lot of boos. But what you just have to understand is they are mad, passionate fans and something wasn’t right in the last one,” said the Briton.

“Maybe when I get to Germany, maybe we will have the same thing. I hope not, because I think in sport in general it’s just not the done thing,” he said.

“If I went to a football game and the other team won, I would never boo the other team because they did a better job and that’s real sportsmanship.”

Rosberg, who attended the post-race fan party, shrugged off what had happened.

“Lewis had it in Austria, that the whole crowd was booing him. The majority of the British were really, really supportive of me this weekend,” he said.

“I don’t want to catch on to those 15, 20 people or more that dislike me.

Much more I should mention how much I appreciate the majority of the people who were supporting me.

That’s pretty awesome to see coming to here.”

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All Exciting changes for sports fans in Fuengirola

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SPORTS Golfers Corner

With the new new management in place and fully operational All Sports will continue to evolve into one of the leading sports bars in the Costa Del Sol. The new Golf simulator is undergoing final updates to the software and we will be the first place in Costa that can boast a 19th hole actually attached to where you swing the club. We will be having an inaugural evening soon with a happy hour to suit all all ages so you can come and swing a golf club at our club.

We cover all sports and ensure we show all of the major sporting events and will continue to cover Rugby league and Union, the Cricket season and football in all countries. We also show major tennis tournaments and with Wimbledon starting soon we will be showing that also for the tennis enthusiasts.

There are exciting times coming up this year in All Sports especially the European international championship football starting on 10th June 2016. We will ensure we do our best to give all our European Nations maximum coverage and with 5 TV’s installed we will continue to attempt to meet all your sporting preferences.

We also have the Olympics in Rio starting on August 5th 2016 and will cover as many of the events as possible and adjust our opening times to suit.

Then we have the glorious Ryder Cup in Hazeltine USA starting on September 30th 2016 so lots of reasons to come and visit us here and spend some quality time enjoying your favourite sport and sipping your favourite Tipple. We have good beers and ciders on Draught and 2 expert Cocktail makers who will entice you to sample some of your favourites and more. We are family friendly and have Smoothies and Mocktails for the children.

Our good pub food now being served will enhance your stay with us.

So Les and the team look forward to see you soon.

GOOD SPORTS PUB GRUB ALL SPORTS Burger €5.00 Served with Chips ALL SPORTS Hot Dog €5.00 Served with Chips Chilli Wings €4.50 Served with Chips Chilli Wings on their own €3.00 Jacket Potato with Salad €5.00 Cheese, Tuna, Baked Beans, with or without Mayo and salad Cheddar Ploughman’s €5,00 with Baguette and pickles

Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 79, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga T: 602527384 www.facebook.com/ALL-Sports-767651993311612

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MURRAY PULLS OUT OF TORONTO EVENT TO FOCUS ON RIO Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has pulled out of next week’s Rogers Cup in Toronto so he can give his body time to rest before he sets out in defence of his Olympic singles title at the Rio Games.

Britain’s Murray won his third Rogers Cup title last year in Montreal but the defending champion said that after reaching the final round in each of his last five events that he needed to take some time off.

“My body needs some recovery time after reaching the latter stages of tournaments over the past few months,” Murray, who is second in the world rankings, said in a statement released

by Tennis Canada. “I’m sorry to my fans in Toronto but I look forward to being back in Canada next year.”

Murray’s decision marks the first time the threetimes grand slam champion has skipped the Canadian event since his first appearance in 2006.

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SYSTEM of state sponsored doping was “beautiful in its simplicity, said Richard McLaren, the Canadian law professor and sports lawyer, who presented findings which proved “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the Russian government was involvement in the doping cover-up.

According to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent commission report led by McLaren, Russian authorities developed a simple system that allowed a Moscow laboratory to routinely alter positive tests results to negative. McLaren described the system as a “failsafe” last line of defence.

STRICT INSTRUCTIONS The method was simple but effective the Deputy Minister of Sport, Yuri Nagornykh, would force the lab to report any positive finding as a negative result and laboratory staff were under strict instructions to report all positive results to the Ministry of Sport whatever the circumstanc-

IT’S DIFFICULT TO BE FRIENDS WITH HIM

They have known each other since their early karting days, but it seems what was once a beautiful friendship between Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg has turned into a fierce competitive rivalry.

Following collisions at the Spanish and Austrian Grands Prix this season, the relationship between Rosberg and Hamilton has become even tenser with Mercedes boss Toto Wolf stating that unless they sort it out he will have to revert to “ giving team orders.”

As we head into the Hungarian GP, Rosberg currently leads the championship by one point after seeing his once 43-point lead chipped away by Hamilton over the last five races. “We’re both very competitive and that makes it difficult to be friends because the competition is so extreme – I have huge respect for him but we’re not friends right now” said Rosberg

es, meaning from late 2011 onwards the Ministry would be informed of every positive analytical finding in the Moscow lab, including the athletes name. This information was then passed up the chain of command regardless with orders to quarantine the sample.

McLaren’s investigation team found a total of 577 positive screening reports and determined that the Ministry of Sport had ordered changes to 312 cases and quarantined 265.

The operation operated in simplicity and developed a plan James Bond would be proud off with clandestine late night swapping of samples through a hole in the lavatory wall to an adjacent room where a method to crack into sealed bottles developed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) or former-KGB allowed the samples to be swapped.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has now recommended that all Russian athletes be barred from competing in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.