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(PCH) and a university cam-pus, and reaching a US Navyfacility on the coast, reportssaid.

By yesterday morning 15homes had been damaged butnone destroyed, the VCFD saidon its Twitter feed, putting thenumber of homes threatened at4,000. The blaze has been 10percent contained, it added.

VCFD spokeswoman LoriRoss said the fire was headingsouth towards the LA Countyline, adding that firefighterswere concerned that windscould turn onshore, posing anew threat.

and payroll services, proces -sing facilities, administrativesupport, and headquarters.

Before getting down tobusiness, teams from eightcountries will participate in acongenial Beach Soccer Tour-nament on the shorefront of theDivi Phoenix Resort in PalmBeach, beginning at 2:00 PM,as delegates arrive to check in.

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in the areas of infrastructure,food, clean energy, and con-struction. "Logistics," in par-ticular regional and naturaldistribution centers for retai -lers, green products, etc., toserve the Caribbean and Latinmarkets and "Business andProfessional Services Indus-try," including back-office sup-port operations (niche markets)customer support and telemar-keting call centers, accounting

Beginning tomorrow, the Mi -nistry of Economic & SocialAffairs and Culture will bewelcoming delegates from 21countries for the inauguralEurope Meets the AmericasConference, taking place atthe Westin Aruba Resort inPalm Beach.

Organized by the ArubaInvestment Association,ARINA, the conference is agiant step towards the realiza-tion of a diversifying Aruba'seconomy: establishing the is-land as a commercial and cul-tural hub between the eco no-mically developing and surg-ing econo mies of Latin Amer-ica and the region, and Euro-pean nations seeking fiscal op-portunities.

The focus areas for the Eu-rope Meets the Americas Busi-ness Conference will be:

Sustainability", specifically

Europe Meets Americas conferencebegins this Sunday

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Some4,000 homes were threa tenedby a growing wildfire north-west of Los Angeles that hasforced the closure of Califor-nia's scenic coastal highway,firefighters said yesterday.

Nearly 1,000 firefighters arebattling wind-fanned flamesthat have ripped through tinder-dry brush near Malibu, burningmore than 10,000 acres (40square kilometers), said theVentura County Fire Depart-ment (VCFD).

The fire started Thursday,forcing the closure of an eight-mile (13-kilometer) section ofthe Pacific Coast Highway

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Growing wildfire nearLA threatens homes

Going green at EMA

Aruba flag waving proudly inthe Netherlands

Photo above shows the Aruban flag among the multitude of people in the ‘Dam’ in theNetherlands during the installation of King Willem-Alexander on April 30. The flag wasso big and so high it could be spotted from every corner of the ‘Dam.’ Certainly a veryemotive sight for all Arubans and all those who love our island. The Flag was hoistedby a few Aruban students who wanted to show the world their love for Aruba, theNetherlands and the Royal House of Orange. No doubt, a tremendous initiative.

Fire burns along the Pacific Coast Highway close toNaval Base Ventura County (NBVC) near Point Mugu,California. (AFP PHOTO)

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Jan Peter BalkenendeLaurens Jan Brinkhorst

Last week during a pleasant afternoon, Minister of EducationArthur Dowers met with the different schools that participated ina special recycling project. The Minister presented the prizes tothe winners of the recycling art competition organized by the en-vironment committee of AHATA. Various kindergarten schools,secondary schools and other schools participated in the com-petion. All the art products were put on display for two monthsat the Cas di Cultura. The Minister expressed how proud he wasto see the different creations of the school children and those ofother members of the community.

Children highlighted in their creations how we are to treat theenvironment so as to guarantee sustainability of our flora andfauna and of the community in which we live. The children madegood use of such materials as plastic, cartons, cork and muchother material to create their works of art.

According to the Minister, we need to continue stimula ting ouryoung people to contribute to the sustainability of our nature. Muchpraise went to AHATA for their initiative in organizing this event.

Because the school also suc-cessfully prepare students forthe Dutch landsexamen(Mavo, Havo and VWO), stu-dents have the opportunity toattend college or universityanywhere in the world. ISAsupport the professional andbusiness communities ofAruba through their services,and enhance the capabilitiesof Aruba to draw key expatri-ate families to the island.

ISA works hard to supportAruban initiatives and sees it-self as a partner in the devel-opment of Aruba throughedu cation of its youth: 77 ofthe 205 students are Dutch/Aruban. ISA actively sup-ports the Aruban communitythrough a wide of range ac-tions such as donating com-puters to a school in SanNicolas, lending buses to theRed Cross and others, volun-teering at the Special Olym -pics, facilitating student tutorsat the YMCA, numerousbeach clean-ups, and more.

The possibilities! With theaddition of this building, ISAteachers and staff will be ableto create programs that will in-spire students to grow andlearn in all dimensions – phys-ical, academic and spiritual.The Arts fill a niche and fosterthe human spirit in ways unat-tainable through academic orathletic activities.

With your support, ISA canbecome a true partner in thedevelopment of strong educa-tional programs around the is-land. So, come Rock for theArts this weekend at the HardRock Café!

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There will also be an af-fordable raffle with lots ofprizes include an electric gui-tar, dinners at local restau-rants, resort stays, personallytailored shirts, local cruisesand more!

Guest musician from off-island is Durban Laverde whohas played with Led Zeppelinguitarist Jimmy Page, formerTina Turner pianist/singerJohn Miles, and the son of theLed Zeppelin drummer JasonBonham. Alexis Pena is themain vocalist for this specialevent. They will be joined bylocal musicians Ernesto Ferroand Carole Ford.


Will youRock...?

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Congratulations to participating schools in recycling project

KHARTOUM (AFP) -Around 100 miners are esti-mated to have died inside acollapsed gold mine inSudan's Darfur region andnine rescuers trying to freethem are now trapped, a minersaid yesterday.

"Nine of the rescue teamdisappeared when the landcollapsed around them onThursday," said the miner,who had visited the scene andasked to remain anonymous.

On Monday the unlicenseddesert gold mine began to col-lapse in Jebel Amir district,more than 200 kilometres(125 miles) northwest of theNorth Darfur state capital ElFasher. The stench of death isnow seeping out of the bakedearth, the miner said.

"Yesterday eight bodieshave been found and still theyare looking for the others," hesaid.

line.The leaflets in Kyrgyzstan

called the charges against Tsar-naev baseless and said that hisrelatives were being slandered.They urged people to "givehim help and support."

Similar leaflets appeared inGrozny, the capital of Chech-nya, Kavkaz Uzel (CaucasianKnot) online news site re-ported, although this was de-nied by the authorities.

The text of a picture of aleaflet published by the web-site said: "This charge is base-less, there is not one piece ofevidence against him."

It also asked people to do-nate money online to help hisparents and included a link toa Russian-language social net-working page titled "Dzhokharis innocent."

The spokesman of Chech-nya's strongman leaderRamzan Kadyrov, Alvi Kari-mov, told Russia's Echo ofMoscow radio station: "This isan absolute lie. There are noleaflets here."

Russian radio stationRusskaya Sluzhba Novosteireported that at least one callerhad seen a similar leaflet on aMoscow street.

BISHKEK (AFP) - Kyrgyzs-tan special services said yester-day they were looking forpeople who pasted up leafletsproclaiming the innocence ofalleged Boston bomberDzhokhar Tsarnaev, who spenthis early childhood in the ex-Soviet state.

Black-and-white leafletswere pasted in central Bishkekin underpasses and outside thecentral department store withimages of Tsarnaev at variousages and the caption"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is inno-cent, pray for Dzhokhar," localmedia reported.

The Kyrgyz special ser -vices "are trying to find thedistributors of these leaflets,"their press office told AFP.

Tsarnaev, who has beencharged over the deadly bomb-ings after his brother Tamerlanwas shot dead, spent his earlyyears in a town outsideBishkek before his familymoved to Dagestan in Russiaand later to the United States.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hasbeen charged with federal ter-ror offences over the twinblasts on April 15 that killedthree and wounded 264 peopleat the Boston Marathon's finish

Abdel Rahman of the SyrianObservatory for Human Rightstold AFP.

The official SANA newsagency said troops killed "ter-rorists" -- the regime term forinsurgents -- and seized armsin an operation targetingrebels.

Regular forces were sup-ported by pro-regime"shabiha" militiamen, said theObservatory, which relies on anetwork of sources on theground for its information.

The Banias region is pre-dominantly Alawite, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam and thesect of President Bashar al-Assad, while the insurgentsbattling to topple his regimeare mainly Sunni Muslims.

Yesterday, the army bom-barded Sunni areas of Baniasas heavy gunfire rocked south-ern parts of the city, the Obser-vatory said.

Abdel Rahman said troopswere raiding homes and ma -king arrests.

DAMASCUS(AFP) - Syriantroops yesterday bombardedSunni areas of the Mediter-ranean city of Banias, a moni-toring group said, warning of anew "massacre," as Washing-ton said for the first time it waslooking at arming rebels.

The opposition NationalCoalition denounced a "large-scale massacre" by troops andmilitiamen on Thursday in aSunni village near Banias, anew front in Syria's war, citingwitness reports of civiliansbeing stabbed to death.

"The Coalition calls on theArab League and the UnitedNations to act rapidly to savethe civilians of Bayda, Baniasand other villages acrossSyria," it said in a statement,accusing the regime of "warcrimes and genocide".

"Several sources in the vil-lage say at least 50 peoplewere killed in summary execu-tions and shelling in Bayda vil-lage," a southern suburb of theAlawite-majority city, Rami

'Massacre' feared as Syria

war comes to port city


INTERNATIONAL NEWS 100 dead,

rescuers trapped

in collapsed

Darfur mine

Tegucigalpa -- aFp photo shows people from Morazan neighborhood between rub-ble after heavy rains hit Tegucigalpa yesterday. Two people are missing and streetsand homes were destroyed after heavy rain pound Honduras.

'Tsarnaev innocent' leafletspasted in Kyrgyzstan

tun northwest. A party leadersaid he had previously re-ceived threats.

Pakistani Taliban claimedresponsibility for the attackand threatened further attackson the ANP and its outgoingcoalition partners, the PakistanPeople's Party and MQM, themain party in Karachi.

"We have attacked him andwe will continue such attacksin the future. ANP, People'sParty and MQM are our tar-gets," Taliban spokesmanEhsanullah Ehsan told AFP bytelephone from an undisclosedlocation.

Pakistan's interim PrimeMinister Mir Hazar KhanKhoso condemned the assassi-nation and once again orderedsecurity to be strengthened forcandidates.

"Such incidents were aimedat disrupting the electionprocess in the country. Thefederal government will takeall steps necessary to check

KARACHI (AFP) - A candi-date running for parliament innext week's historic Pakistanielection was shot dead on Fri-day along with his three-year-old son after praying in amosque in Karachi, policesaid.

It is the first time that a na-tional assembly candidate hasbeen killed in Pakistan's elec-tion campaign. Campaigninghas been marred by Talibanthreats and attacks, which havekilled 63 people since April 11,according to an AFP tally.

The May 11 polls for the na-tional and regional assembliesmark the first time that a civil-ian government completes afull-term and hands over to an-other at the ballot box, in acountry that has been ruled bythe military for half its life.

Saddiq Zaman Khattak wasa businessman and a candidatefor the Awami National Party(ANP), the leading secularparty in Pakistan's ethnic Pas-


such incidents," his office saidin a statement.

Karachi, a city of 18 millionpeople, contributes 42 percentof Pakistan's GDP but is rifewith politically and ethnicallylinked violence.

Friday's assassination bringsto three the number of con-stituencies where the May 11election will now be delayedbecause candidates have beenkilled.

A man standing for the sec-ular MQM in the Sindhprovincial assembly, of whichKarachi is the capital, was shotdead in the city of Hyderabadon April 11.

An independent candidatefor the Baluchistan provincialassembly was also killed in thesouthwestern town of JhalMagsi on Tuesday.

Karachi has seen a string ofattacks on the election cam-paign.

Pakistan election candidateshot dead: police

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Ceraver, and around 1,000 of itsartificial hips have been confis-cated, the national agency formedicine safety (ANSM) said.

The safety agency is alsostudying claims that newly de-veloped Ceraver metal pins thathad not received official clear-ance were implanted into fourpatients without them knowingthey were effectively takingpart in an experiment.

Ceraver is France's second-biggest manufacturer of artifi-cial joints with an output ofaround 3,000 prosthetic ankles,hips, knees and shoulders ayear.

PARIS (AFP) - French sur-geons have fitted 650 peoplewith replacement hips that hadnot been certified as meetingEuropean standards, it emergedin a case with echoes of a scan-dal over faulty breast implants.

Health officials said therewas no reason to believe thatthe non-certified prostheticsposed any health risk but thesurgeons involved have beenasked to carry out checks, in-cluding scans, on the patientsconcerned.

Pending the outcome ofthose, an investigation has beenlaunched into the manufacturer,

Unauthorised replacementhips fitted to 650 Frenchpatients

HONG KONG (AFP) - Clouds build up over the Victoria harbour before a storm in HongKong yesterday.

found that the yoghurt had beenadulterated with rat poison by afemale kindergarten ownercompeting for village studentswith the owner of a rival estab-lishment, the agency quotedlocal police as saying.

It said the woman had askeda man to place the poisoned yo-ghurt on the roadside alongwith several notebooks. It wasunclear from the report how thepoisoning would have discred-ited the rival kindergarten.

Many children in the coun-tryside are cared for by theirgrandparents because their par-ents have migrated to cities tofind work.

BEIJING (AFP) - Two childrendied in northern China afterdrinking yoghurt which a dis-gruntled kindergarten ownerhad injected with rat poison,state media reported.

The two girls in Hebeiprovince drank the tainted yo-ghurt after their grandmotherfound it by a roadside, Xinhuanews agency said.

The children, whose ageswere not given, were found"foaming at the mouth," shortlyafterwards, the report said. Onedied before reaching hospitalwhile the other died later.

A preliminary investigation

China children killedwith poisoned yoghurt

Court.The public security ministry

said the sting on the toxic meatwas part of a wider probe intofood safety issues, from thediscovery in March of thou-sands of dead pigs floatingdown a Shanghai river to theproblem of "gutter oil".

Cheap recycled cooking oilis available nationwide madeillegally from leftoversscooped out of restaurantdrains.

One of China's worst foodsafety scandals hit in 2008when the industrial chemicalmelamine was found to havebeen illegally added to dairyproducts, killing at least sixbabies and making 300,000people ill.

In another recent incident,US fast food giant KFC washit by controversy after reveal-ing some Chinese suppliersprovided chicken with highlevels of antibiotics, in whatappeared to be an industry-wide practice.

sellers in eastern Jiangsuprovince making fake muttonfrom fox, rat and chemicals,and others in southwesternGuizhou province mixing hy-drogen peroxide solution withchicken claws.

The scandal was widely dis-cussed by users of China'spopular Sina Weibo mi-croblog.

"Anything can be done oncehumanity is gone," said oneuser.

China's top court on Fridayannounced its first ever de-tailed guidelines for the pun-ishment of food-safety relatedcrimes, the state-run ChinaNews Service reported.

The crimes listed includedsupplying meat from animalswhich died of illness, sellingfood with excessive amountsof chemical additives, andfalsely advertising food prod-ucts, the report said, citingChina's Supreme People's

BEIJING (AFP) - China hasdetained 900 people for crimesincluding selling rat and foxmeat as beef and mutton, thepublic security ministry said,in another blow to the nation'sfood safety.

News of the three-monthoperation, which related tomeat products, added to astring of scandals that havegalvanised public concernover food safety in China,from recycled cooking oil todangerous chemicals in babymilk powder.

Altogether there were "382cases of water-injected meat,fake mutton and beef, diseasedmeat, toxic and harmful meatproducts", the ministry said onits website on Thursday.

"Nine hundred and four sus-pects were arrested, more than20,000 tons of various types offake or inferior meat productswere confiscated."

The crimes ranged from

China detains 900 over toxicmeat scandal: official


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they have never been made inNature. They are now sitting ina freezer," virology professorSimon Wain-Hobson ofFrance's Pasteur Institute toldAFP.

He pointed to a laboratoryleak of foot and mouth, a cattledisease, which caused an out-break in Britain six years ago.

It was unclear how the fluhybrid, which is not deadly inguinea pigs, would affect peo-ple -- but Wain-Hobsonwarned: "These could be pan-demic viruses.

Wain-Hobson and others fearthe risk may far outweight thescientific value of the research.

The findings held little valuefor finding a vaccine or treat-ment that would take years todevelop -- probably long afteran outbreak, they argue.

"The record of containmentin the highest containment lab-oratories is not good. Therehave been repeated leaks," saidRobert May, a former presidentof Britain's Royal Society ofscience.

Virologist John Oxford fromthe Queen Mary University ofLondon, however, said the ex-periment was a valuablewakeup call.

It showed that the twoviruses, both still infecting peo-ple around the world, can swapgenes.

In January, scientists in theUnited States and the Nether-lands resumed controversial re-search into their own hybrid fluviruses after taking a year-longbreak to allay fears of the bugescaping the lab or falling intoterrorist hands.

Their creation was able tojump between ferrets, consid-ered a good research model forhuman disease spread.

The US-Dutch teams cited a"public health responsibility" toresume the work, halted after apublic outcry and global safetyprobes.

PARIS (AFP) - Immunologistsexpressed concern Friday aboutthe "dangerous" work of scien-tists in China who created a hy-brid bird flu virus that canspread in the air betweenguinea pigs, and now lives in alab freezer.

The team from the ChineseAcademy of Agricultural Sci-ences and Gansu AgriculturalUniversity wrote in the journalScience they had created a newvirus by mixing genes fromH5N1 "bird flu" and H1N1"swine flu".

H5N1, transmitted to peopleby birds, is fatal in about 60percent of cases, but does nottransmit between humans -- acharacteristic that has pre-vented a pandemic so far.

Some argue that hybrid stud-ies like these shed light on howthe virus could mutate in natureto cause a human epidemic, andmay help us prepare.

Since 2003, H5N1 has in-fected 628 people, killing 374,according to the World HealthOrganisation.

H1N1, which erupted inMexico, is highly transmissibleand infected a fifth of theworld's population in a 2009-10pandemic, but is about as lethalas ordinary flu.

The new mutant virus waseasily transmitted betweenguinea pigs through respiratorydroplets -- which the Chineseteam said proved the deadlyH5N1 virus may need but a sim-ple genetic mutation to "acquiremammalian transmissibility".

Flu hybrids can arise in na-ture when two virus strains in-fect the same cell and exchangegenes in a process known as re-assortment, but there is no evi-dence that H1N1 and H5N1have done so yet.

Some observers fear that sci-ence is putting mankind at riskby preemptively creating suchmutants.

"These are manmade viruses,

Fears for man-madebird flu bug

stops.Solar Impulse was

launched in 2003. The pro-ject's ultimate goal is to flyaround the world, with thatendeavor scheduled for 2015.

room for just one pilot, soeven though the plane couldlikely make the entire USjourney in three days, Piccarddecided it would be easier torest and exchange flight con-trol with Borschberg at rest

Longer trips have alreadybeen successfully completedby the plane, which made theworld's first solar 26-hourday and night trip in 2010.

However, the cockpit has

at a speed of about 43 miles(70 kilometers) per hour, theplane is scheduled to arrivein Phoenix, Arizona, earlySaturday under cover ofdarkness.

A dashboard showing thelive speed, direction, batterystatus, solar generator andengine power, along withcockpit cameras of both Pic-card and his view from theplane, are onlineat live.so-larimpulse.com.

The US itinerary allowsfor up to 10 days at each stopin order to showcase theplane's technology to thepublic. Other stops areplanned for Dallas, Texas,and the US capital Washing-ton, before wrapping up inNew York in early July.

That will allow two pilots-- Piccard and his co-founder,Swiss engineer and ex-fighter pilot AndreBorschberg -- to share dutiesand rest between flights.

The project aims to show-case what can be accom-plished without fossil fuels,and has set its "ultimate goal"as an around-the-world flightin 2015.

The plane has four electricmotors and runs on energyprovided by 12,000 solarcells.

CALIFORNIA (AFP) - Thefirst-ever manned airplanethat can fly by day or night onthe Sun's power alone tookoff Friday on the first leg of atrip across the United States.

Solar Impulse, piloted bySwiss adventurer BertrandPiccard, left the runway innorthern California againstthe backdrop of a goldenmorning sunrise, in what amission control operatorcalled a "perfect takeoff."

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change their policy, but the de-fendant and plaintiff often havedifferent views on what is rea-sonable, leading to yet anotherhearing.

place, and Washington firstwon its case in June 2012, be-fore a Chinese appeal failed.

Members found to be at faultare granted a period of grace to

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Asolid job creation report forApril and a fall in the joblessrate to 7.5 percent sweetenedthe picture for the US econ-omy Friday, amid worries thatit has tumbled into a "springslump."

The Labor Department saidthe economy added a firm165,000 jobs last month.

But it also revised sharplyupward the job growth num-bers for February and March,adding 114,000 net new posi-tions to the previously reporteddata, all in the private sector,even as taxes rose and govern-ment spending tightened.

Together that pressed theunemployment rate down 0.1percentage point to 7.5 per-cent, underscoring steady ifnot spectacular gains in the jobmarket in the past year. InApril 2012, the jobless ratewas 8.1 percent.

The better-than-expecteddata sparked a surge in USstocks, with the key indicesjumping one percent on thenews, while the dollar, after abrief spike higher, headedlower again.

Around 1503 GMT, theS&P 500 was up 1.3 percent at1,617, while the Dow JonesIndustrial Average smashedthrough the 15,000 barrier forthe first time, gaining 1.2 per-cent to 15,006.

The dollar was at $1.3134 toone euro, down from $1.3063late Thursday.

Alan Krueger, chairman ofthe White House's Council ofEconomic Advisers, said thedata showed the economy'scontinuing pull away from the2008-2009 Great Recession.

But he warned that the pushfor more federal spending re-duction by Republicans inCongress could hurt growth.

The Labor Department re-port sharply revised the overallpicture of employment and theeconomy more broadly fromjust one month ago, when ana-

lysts were shocked by the ini-tial estimate of net jobs gener-ated in March, a paltry 88,000.

Coupled with other data, theMarch report had suggested aspring stall in the economy,believed explainable by higherpayroll and other taxes thattook effect in January, and thesharp "sequester" federalspending cuts initiated onMarch 1.

The big surprise in the re-port was the revision of theMarch jobs growth number to138,000, as well as February's,which gained 64,000 to332,000.

April's gains were all in theprivate sector, as governmentcontinued to shed jobs amidtough budget cuts.

Job creation was strongestin the professional and busi-ness services sector, tourismand entertainment, retail tradeand health care, while indus-trial sector jobs shrank.

Still, there were clear signsof ongoing weakness in thedata.

The number of peoplecounted as officially unem-ployed was little changed at11.7 million.

In addition, the fall in jobsin the industrial sector, withmanufacturing jobs flat,showed that efforts to rebuildUS industry into a larger motorof the economy were sagging.

GENEVA (AFP) - China mustfall into line by July 31 with aWorld Trade Organisationorder to change its restrictivepolicy on certain steel importsfrom the United States, an ar-bitrator said Friday.

A WTO dispute settlementhearing decided that Beijinghad failed to prove why itneeded more time to adapt itsrules in order to respect a deci-sion handed down by globalcommerce's rule-setting bodyin November.

In a ruling issued by theWTO, arbitrator Claus-DieterEhlermann said that he had de-

cided that eight months was areasonable period of time totake corrective action.

The dispute dates back toSeptember 2010, when Wash-ington accused China ofbreaching trade rules by notproviding sufficient evidencethat anti-dumping duties wereneeded on US imports of elec-trical steel used in the powersector.

Anti-dumping duties can bedeployed by any WTO memberif others in the 159-economyorganisation sell cut-price prod-ucts to grab market share.

But the rules are strict onproving that dumping has taken

China must obey ruling on US steel imports: WTO

US adds 165K jobs inApril; unemployment7.5%


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austerity plans when the coun-try's Constitutional Court re-jected several projected cuts itnow has had to find elsewhere.

The government haspledged to avoid new tax hikesand instead plans to reduce ad-ministrative costs and makedeep cuts to the public health,education and social security.

But Coelho is struggling forsupport. Austerity policies tomeet bailout conditions havegrown deeply unpopular andsparked several protests.

Portugal's main Socialist op-position party, which was inpower when Lisbon sought thebailout in 2011, has accusedthe government of applying"excessive austerity" that hasmade recession and unemploy-ment even worse.

LISBON (AFP) - Portugal'sprime minister said late Fridaythat the government aimed toslash 30,000 public sector jobsas part of a sweeping packageof spending cuts to satisfy in-ternational creditors.

In a speech to the nation,Pedro Passos Coelho also saidthat the full pension age wouldbe pushed back to 66 years oldand civil servants would be ex-pected to work 40 hours perweek instead of 35.

The measures were an-nounced in order to keep thesmall debt-hit eurozone mem-ber eligible for another slice ofits much-needed bailout.

Coelho was unveiling thecontents of the centre-rightgovernment's new "medium-term programme", underwhich Portugal is hoping tosave a total of six billion euros

($7.9 billion) to 2016.With the cuts, Portugal's

public deficit is anticipated tonarrow to 5.5 percent of grossdomestic product this year, to4.0 percent in 2014 and finallyto 2.5 percent in 2015, underthe EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent.

The plans will need to getthe green light from its troikaof international lenders -- theEuropean Union, the EuropeanCentral Bank and the Interna-tional Monetary Fund -- whichgranted Portugal a 78-billion-euro bailout loan two yearsago.

The Portuguese economy isexpected to shrink by 2.3 per-cent this year with unemploy-ment poised to breach a record18 percent.

Last month, the governmentwas forced to revise its 2013

Portugal unveils package ofspending cuts

do that both Mexico and theUnited States will prosper," hesaid, one day after talks withPena Nieto.

Obama acknowledged thatdemand for illegal drugs in theUnited States was the rootcause of much of the violencein Mexico, but he reiterated thathe opposed legalizing drugs asa solution.

Amid Mexican concernsabout the illegal flow ofweapons into the hands of drugcartels, Obama vowed to "doeverything in my power" topass gun control reforms to"keep guns out of the hands ofdangerous people."

Turning to another US do-mestic issue of strong interestin Mexico, Obama said he was"absolutely convinced" that theUS Congress would pass com-prehensive immigration reformthis year to bring 11 million un-documented workers out of theshadows.

He said the United Stateswill work with Mexico to"have a well regulated border"-- a deep concern among Re-publicans in the US Congress.


MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Presi-dent Barack Obama told Mexi-cans Friday that it was time tobreak with "old stereotypes,"vowing an equal partnershipand voicing optimism that USimmigration reform will passthis year.

In a speech to young peoplein the Mexican capital's An-thropology Museum, Obamasaid he had come to the south-ern neighbor "because it is timeto put old mindsets aside," ac-knowledging that a "new Mex-ico is emerging."

"Despite all the bonds andthe values that we share, despiteall the people who claim her-itage on both sides, our atti-tudes sometimes are trapped in

old stereo-t y p e s , "O b a m asaid on thesecond andfinal day ofhis visithere.

" S o m eAmericansonly seethe Mexico

that is depicted in sensationalheadlines of violence and bor-der crossings," he said.

"And let's admit it, someMexicans think that Americadisrespects Mexico, or think thatAmerica is trying to impose it-self on Mexican sovereignty, orjust want to wall ourselves off."

Obama, who sought to shiftattention to trade ties despiteyears of drug violence, backedthe reform efforts pushed byMexican President EnriquePena Nieto and vowed tobroaden relations beyond thecommon threats they face.

"We are two equal partners,two sovereign nations. We mustwork together in mutual inter-est, in mutual respect, and if we

Obama says time to break 'oldstereotypes' with Mexico

SEOUL : Young South Korean Buddhists with freshly

shaved heads line up as they take part in a ceremony

called "children becoming Buddhist monks" at Chogye

Temple ahead of Buddha's birthday in central Seoul on

May 3, 2013. Buddha's official birthday in 2013 will be

celebrated on the full moon on May 17 in South Korea.

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on Earth, some 1,000 yearsafter humans are forced toleave an uninhabitable Earthto live on another planet.

Jaden, who was also on siteto greet hundreds of cheeringTaiwanese fans, advised peo-ple to cut down on plastics,use solar panels and takeshorter showers to help pro-tect the earth.

been asking to find a comedy,"Smith said.

The father and son duo firstcollaborated in the drama "ThePursuit of Happyness", inwhich Smith played the role offather to his then eight-year-old son.

"After Earth" tells the storyof how Smith and Jaden fightto survive after they crash land

TAIPEI (AFP) - Hollywoodstar Will Smith said that hewill probably shoot a comedywith his son Jaden when theyteam up for the third time infilm-making.

Smith, who arrived in Tai-wan on Thursday on a promo-tional tour, said it was"fantastic" to work with the15-year-old in their secondmovie together, the sci-fi flick"After Earth", set to hit cine-mas in June.

"Entertainment is our fam-ily business, so I am sure thatif something comes up we'll doit again," Smith said at a redcarpet fan meeting near thelandmark Taipei 101 building,which was lit up with themovie's name.

"He (Jaden) is looking for-ward to a comedy, he's beenhaving to do lots of drama forhis career. Drama has kind ofbeen his signature and he's

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good game. Now we have tosee if he can fight as well ashe talks. He's more like agrappler, a wrestler, than aboxer."

Guerrero comes off a 12-round decision over AndreBerto last November and ex-pects Mayweather to be for-midable, ring rust or no.

Mayweather has his father,Floyd Snr, as his trainer for thefight and the elder May-weather has exchanged harshwords with Guerrero's fatherRuben in pre-fight promotions.

"We're going to beat up thewoman beater," Ruben Guer-rero said of his son facing May-weather.

"I don't have to fight his fa-ther," the younger Mayweathersaid. "Like I told my dad, justcarry yourself in a classy way."

Helping boost Mayweather'spay-per-view purchase num-bers on the Mexican "Cinco deMaio" holiday will be a Mexi-can showdown undercard titlebout between unbeaten chal-lenger Abner Mares, 25-0 withone drawn and 13 knockouts,and WBC featherweight cham-pion Daniel Ponce de Leon,44-4 with 35 knockouts.

involving five officials."I don't believe that nobody

saw the foul. It's not possible.Why was nothing said? I wantto know."

Platini did however reiteratehis opposition to using videoevidence, insisting that the im-plication of such technologywould be too expensive.

The France legend alsostated his satisfaction at theprogress being made by thecountry as it prepares to hostEuro 2016.

"For UEFA, things are pro-gressing well. Today therewere plenty of green lights,and some that were moreamber," Platini said.

He was speaking after ameeting of the Euro 2016 or-ganising committee, whichbrings together UEFA, theFrench Football Federation,the French government, andthe 10 designated host cities.

"I was making a reference tofour years ago and where wewere with Poland and Ukrainewhen all the lights were at red.I was very happy that thecolours this time were differ-ent," added Platini, speaking ofthe Euro 2012 finals.

Lille's new 50,000-capacityvenue, opened in August lastyear, is one of two in the farnorth of France that will hostgames in the finals, which willbe the first in the history of theEuropean Championship tofeature 24 teams.

Meanwhile, Lambert an-nounced that the logo for thetournament will be unveiled onJune 26.

LILLE (AFP) - UEFA presi-dent Michel Platini on Fridayrevealed his intention to recorddiscussions between officialsin European matches as of nextseason.

"I understand the error of thereferee who didn't see the foulby (Thomas) Mueller (on JordiAlba in the build-up to BayernMunich's third goal in their 4-0 win against Barcelona in theChampions League semi-finalfirst leg)," Platini said during avisit to the northern Frenchcity of Lille to check on prepa-rations for the Euro 2016 finalson Friday.

"But there were three inter-national standard referees in-volved and none of them sawit. Something is not right.

"If the referee were on hisown, he wouldn't have seen it,and two might not have seen iteither but, between three, theyhave to see it!

"As of next year I haveasked the general secretary (ofUEFA) to record conversationsbetween officials in matches

Football: Platini wantsreferee conversationsrecorded


to have his first loss."And Guerrero thinks the lay-

off will have more of an im-pact on Mayweather that hewill admit.

"Having that year off, youhave that ring rust," Guerrerosaid. "It's going to take a littletime to shake that ring rust off.Being a whole year's layoff,he's going to feel the punchesmore."

Mayweather plans on mak-ing "The Ghost" feel a fewblows as well.

"Everybody always sayswhat they're going to do tome," Mayweather said. "He isa solid opponent. He talks a

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Un-beaten Floyd Mayweather re-turns to the ring after a year'sabsence that included a jailstint today, risking his WorldBoxing Council welterweighttitle against southpaw RobertGuerrero.

Mayweather, 43-0 with 26knockouts, went to jail lastJune for domestic violence andsince his release eight monthsago has been working to regainthe fitness needed to defendhis place atop the list of box-ing's moneymakers.

"I feel unbeatable," May-weather said. "I'm in tip topcondition. I'm in great shape. Ihave been working hard.

But fellow American Guer-rero, 31-1 with 18 knockoutsand a 15-fight win streak dat-ing to 2005, sees himself ashaving been given this oppor-tunity in order to humble May-weather by inflicting the firstloss of his career.

"Not just humble Floyd buthumble the boxing world,"Guerrero says of his mission."Some poeple think Floyd is agod with the way he lives, theway he spends money. Somepeople think he is unbeatable.

"That 0 has to go. He's going

Boxing: Unbeaten Mayweatherrisks title against Guerrero

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Washington said in a state-ment.

"I regret that the situationhas brought this kind of atten-tion to my family and myteam. I look forward to resolv-ing it as soon as possible."

Washington, 26, has made319 tackles, 15 sacks, four in-terceptions and forced threefumbles in three seasons withArizona after being a second-round selection by the Cardi-nals in the 2010 NFL Draft.

Last season, Washingtonmade a career-high 134 tack-les, including nine sacks, andintercepted a pass as well asforcing two fumbles over 16games.

PHOENIX (AFP) - NationalFootball League linebackerDaryl Washington of the Ari-zona Cardinals was arrestedFriday on two counts of aggra-vated assault.

Washington, who was sus-pended last month for the firstfour games of the 2013 seasonthat opens in September for vi-olating the NFL's substanceabuse policy, was arrestedafter police answered reportsof domestic violence.

"This is a legal matter and Iam limited in what I can sayother than that my lawyer andI will continue to cooperatewith investigators and wel-come the opportunity for allthe facts to be presented,"

SAO PAOLO (AFP) - : Team Penske's mechanics set up

a a Will Power's car for the upcoming Sao Paulo Indy 300

race on Sunday, at the Anhembi Pavillion in Sao Paulo,

Brazil on May 3, 2013. The Indy 300 race will be held on

May 5.


miss all of the playoffs aftertearing his right hip flexor inthe opening game of the series,made a brief appearance in thefirst quarter.

The victory took the stingout of the $25,000 fine leviedby the NBA against Warriorshead coach Mark Jackson ear-lier Thursday, for commentsthat the league deemed "an at-tempt to influence the officiat-ing" of the series.

After the Warriors fell toDenver in game five on Tues-day -- missing out on a chanceto close out the series -- Jack-son accused the Nuggets ofdeliberately trying to injureCurry.

OAKLAND (AFP) - TheGolden State Warriors squan-dered an 18-point fourth-quar-ter lead but held on to beat theDenver Nuggets 92-88 onThursday to reach the secondround of the NBA playoffs.

Stephen Curry scored 14 ofhis 22 points in a crucial third-quarter surge and Golden Statesurvived some sloppy play inthe final period to win thebest-of-seven Western Confer-ence first-round series four-games-to-two.

Australian NBA veteran An-drew Bogut, who battled anklepain through much of the sea-son, contributed 14 points and21 rebounds for the sixth-seeded Warriors, who nextface the West's second-seeded

San Antonio Spurs.The veteran Spurs ousted

the injury-depleted Los Ange-les Lakers in four games.

The Nuggets, who won 57games in the regular season toearn the third seed in theWestern Conference, lost allthree games of the series inOakland to bow out in the firstround.

Iguodala led the Nuggetswith 24 points, nine reboundsand six assists. Ty Lawsonadded 17 points. Chandlerscored 11 points but con-nected on just 5-of-17 fromthe floor.

Golden State's All-Star for-ward David Lee, expected to

NBA: Warriors hold off Nuggetsto reach second round

position, the first one along therail, will remain vacant and allother horses will depart fromtheir previously assignedgates.

Because the move came afew hours after the deadlinefor other eligible horses to beallowed into the field in theevent of a withdrawal, Fear theKitten -- the only eligiblehorse not to qualify for thefield of 20 -- was not permittedto replace Black Onyz in therace.

LOUISVILLE (AFP) - BlackOnyx was withdrawn on Fri-day from the lineup for today's139th Kentucky Derby, leav-ing only 19 horses in the fieldfor the first event in Americanhorse racing's Triple Crownseries.

No reason was given for thedecision to scratch the 50-1longshot trained by KellyBreen. The horse had won theSpiral Stakes on March 23.

Officials at ChruchillDowns said Black Onyx's post

Horse Racing: Black Onyxpulls out of Kentucky Derby

NFL: Cardinals linebacker arrestedon assault charges

James would join Russell asthe only players to win theNBA MVP award four timesin five years and add yet an-other honor to an incrediblepast 12 months.

In that span, James has wonlast season's MVP award, theNBA Finals Most ValuablePlayer award for leading theHeat over Oklahoma City forthe title last June and anOlympic gold medal last Au-gust with the US squad ofNBA stars at the LondonGames.

Marc Gasol of the MemphisGrizzlies.

He led the heat to the win-ningest season in team historyat 66-16, including a 27-gamewin streak that ranks secondon the all-time NBA winstreak list to the 33-game runby the 1971-72 Los AngelesLakers.

At 28, James would be theyoungest player in NBA historyto win a fourth regular seasonMVP award. Abdul-Jabbar, arecord six-time MVP awardwinner, won five by age 30.


playoffs by sweeping Milwau-kee. Miami will play the win-ner of Saturday'sBrooklyn-Chicago game inround two.

James averaged 26.8 points,8.0 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 1.7steals and 1.0 blocked shots agame in 76 appearances thisseason, his 10th in the NBA.

He shot career bests of 56.5percent from the field and 40.6percent from 3-point rangeand finished second in NBADefensive Player of the Yearvoting to Spanish big man

MIAMI (AFP) - LeBronJames will on Sunday benamed the NBA Most Valu-able Player for the fourth sea-son in his career, the secondyear in a row and the fourthtime in five seasons, ESPN re-ported on Friday.

Citing unnamed leaguesources, the sports TV networksaid the Miami Heat star willjoin legends Michael Jordan,Wilt Chamberlain, KareemAbdul-Jabbar and Bill Russellas MVP award winners at leastfour times in their careers.

A 120-member media panelvotes to determine the MVPaward winner.

"King James" won his firstNBA crown last year with theHeat and Miami advanced tothe second round of this year's

NBA: James to be named MVP on Sunday - report

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