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Gagal dekati lokasi Bersih, Baju Merah tinggalkan timbunan sampah

0 Article (English), bersih5.0, Breaking News, 热点新闻 Hot News 5:19:00 PM

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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Sans", Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5 !important; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 0px; user-select: auto !important;">KUALA LUMPUR: Kegagalan peserta Baju Merah menembusi benteng pihak polis ke lokasi peserta Bersih 5 berkumpul, menyebabkan mereka mula bersurai dari Padang Merbok.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Sans", Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5 !important; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 0px; user-select: auto !important;">Kumpulan yang diketuai Exco Ketua Pemuda Umno, Datuk Armand Azhar Abu Hanifah, mula bersurai pada jam 2.50 petang dengan perasaan kecewa dan meninggalkan kawasan itu dengan penuh sampah sarap.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Sans", Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5 !important; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 0px; user-select: auto !important;">Mereka berkumpul di Padang Merbok bermula jam 12.30 tengah hari setelah berarak dari Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putera (PWTC).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Sans", Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5 !important; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 0px; user-select: auto !important;">Tinjauan juga mendapati sepanjang kumpulan Baju Merah berkumpul tiada nama besar daripada parti pemerintah kelihatan selain Armand dan Ketua Umno Bahagian Bukit Mertajam, Datuk Musa Sheikh Fadzir yang hanya muncul pada awal perarakan.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Sans", Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5 !important; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 0px; user-select: auto !important;">Bagaimanapun, keadaan sebaliknya di pihak baju kuning. Suasana masih lagi meriah dengan para peserta begitu bersemangat dengan kehadiran ramai pemimpin pembangkang.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Sans", Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5 !important; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 0px; user-select: auto !important;"><br />
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Gagal dekati lokasi Bersih, Baju Merah tinggalkan timbunan sampah

KUALA LUMPUR: Kegagalan peserta Baju Merah menembusi benteng pihak polis ke lokasi peserta Bersih 5 berkumpul, menyebabkan mereka mula b...

Welcome Dr Mahathir & VVIPs to Bersih5.0 Rally

0 Article (English), asia, bersih5.0 3:06:00 PM

<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 40px; user-select: auto !important;"><span style="user-select: auto !important;">Dr M praises ‘high turnout’, says it is not about race</span></div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;"><strong style="user-select: auto !important;">2.20pm: Dataran Maybank-</strong> Dr Mahathir Mohamad commends the "high turnout" for the Bersih 5 rally.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">"There are so many participants but the government is cowardly, likes to prevent demonstrations which is the right of the people, we have it in the constitution," he points out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">Asked if the rally is Chinese-dominated, Mahathir says there is no question about race.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">"Everyone is concerned about the government we have here now," he adds.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">On the turnout appearing to be poorer than the last rally, he says: "We keep on doing something [...] the government is using the police to prevent people from having a peaceful rally."</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">Commenting on the police blockade, Mahathir admits they are doing their duty.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">"But we are doing this peacefully. There shouldn't be blockades. This is what we say undermining democracy, it's not Bersih who is undermining democracy," he says.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 40px; user-select: auto !important;"><span style="user-select: auto !important;">Kit Siang and Guan Eng hoof it to Dataran</span></div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;"><strong style="user-select: auto !important;">2pm: KL Sentral</strong> - Hundreds of Bersih rally-goers are spotted in the city's public transport hub cum shopping mall in Brickfields.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">They are looking for lunch and taking a break before continuing their trek to Dataran Merdeka.</div><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; user-select: auto !important;">Meanwhile, DAP leaders, including Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng are walking from Jalan Tun Sambathan towards the iconic square.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Swimsuit mural of Hillary Clinton creates a stir in Australia

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A man poses for a photograph in front of a mural of Democrat US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton clad in a swimsuit bearing the colours of the US flag in West Footscray in Melbourne. - AFP</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">An Australian mural of US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a revealing, stars and stripes swimsuit may be taken down, after it has reportedly been deemed offensive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The creator of the painting, the street artist who goes by the name Lushsux and who has also painted murals of the likes of Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian, branded calls to remove it "pathetic".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The provocative mural is on the wall of a small business in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, and reports say the business has been asked by the local Maribyrnong Council to remove it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We believe it is offensive because of the depiction of a near-naked woman, not on the basis of disrespect to Hillary Clinton, in accordance with the Graffiti Prevention Act 2007," the council's chief executive Stephen Wall told Fairfax Media on Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wall said local police had been asked to urgently provide their opinion on the mural, adding that the council intended to issue a notice to the building's owner to remove it within 10 days.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lushsux accused the council of being out of control, telling Fairfax the mural was "on par offence-wise" with a deodorant ad.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Speaking on Melbourne radio, Lushsux said he suspected that his Instagram account, which he said had some 110,000 followers, was deleted due to him posting a photo of the raunchy Hillary image.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"It's hard enough to be an artist... to lose your social media following in this day and age is a big loss," he told 3AW on Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the artist shows no sign of changing his style. Asked what he planned next, Lushsux told listeners: "I might paint a big mural of Trump in similar style." </span><br />
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Swimsuit mural of Hillary Clinton creates a stir in Australia

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Ivanka Trump mixes business with politics at Republican convention

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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As she pressed the case for her father to be elected the next occupant of the White House, Ivanka Trump was also quietly building her own brand. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The real estate mogul’s eldest daughter was poised and polished in a fetching pink sheath late Thursday as she marched to the podium to deliver remarks praising Donald Trump at the Republican convention. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dress, it turns out, was from her eponymous clothing line – and she made sure shoppers knew how and where to purchase it when it goes on sale. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Shop Ivanka’s look from her #RNC speech,” the 34-year-old mother of three wrote on Twitter the day after the speech. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She tweeted a link to another frock, which sells for $138 as part of the Ivanka Trump collection at Macy’s. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Ivanka Trump’s sophisticated sheath dress works wonders at both social and professional occasions with sleek studwork and a fabulous fit,” the store’s website said describing the dress, which quickly sold out. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump – who has marketed a vast array of his own goods from wine and steaks to ties – has a more checkered relationship with Macy’s. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the billionaire businessman characterized Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists last summer, the storied department store stopped selling his menswear line. </span><br />
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The Netherlands has a strange problem: Empty prisons

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soon, you might find it surprisingly empty. Just this week, the Dutch Justice
Ministry announced that the total number of inmates held in Dutch prisons fell
by 27 percent between 2011 and 2015. To put the Dutch situation into an
American context, a 27 percent drop in the U.S. prison population would mean
the release of almost 600,000 people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's roughly the population of Milwaukee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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broader and longer global trend of rising prison populations. In February, the
Institute for Criminal Policy Research published a report that estimated the
world's prison population had grown by almost 20 percent between 2000 and 2015,
a margin above the 18 percent growth in the general population during that
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now has one of the lowest incarceration rates in Europe, with 57 out of 100,000
citizens imprisoned, second only to Finland at 54 per 100,000. England and
Wales had the highest in Europe at 148 per 100,000, the report noted, though
even that lags far behind the rate in United States, which was recently
estimated at 693 per 100,000.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The latest decline in the Dutch prison population can be
attributed to both a changing environment and changing tactics. The country's
crime rate has dipped by about 0.9 percent a year during the past few years. At
the same time, there has also been a switch toward using community service
sentences and ankle-bracelet monitoring systems. These changes have led to an
especially notable drop in the number of under-17-year-olds placed in youth
detention (55 percent) as well as 18- to 22-year-olds placed in the general
prison population (44 percent).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The decline in the use of prisons has led to the closure of
a number of them. In 2013, 19 prisons in the country were shut. In March, De
Telegraaf reported that a further five were likely to close. Meanwhile, prisons
that sit empty have been put to different uses. The country has rented out
unused prisons to the Norwegian and Belgian governments to house their own
prisoners. Some empty prisons have even been used to house refugees and
migrants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The rooms are intended for one or two people, there
are often gyms, a good kitchen," Janet Helder, a board member with the
Dutch government agency responsible for housing asylum seekers, told the
Associated Press earlier this year. "So in that sense, they tick many of
the boxes we are looking at."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, it's not necessarily just good news. If nothing
else, the closure of prisons creates complications for those employed in the
prisons. De Telegraaf reports that the closure of five prisons this year would
make 1,900 people redundant and that a further 700 would be found jobs
elsewhere. There's also considerable debate in the Netherlands about whether
there are truly fewer criminals at work or if policing reforms over the past
few years have led to fewer criminals actually being caught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"If the government truly worked to catch criminals, we
would not have this problem of empty cells," Socialist Party member of
parliament Nine Kooiman said in March.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Netherlands isn't the only country seeing a dip in
prison populations. Sweden's prison population fell from 5,722 in 2004 to 4,500
in 2014, and the country has also had to close some underused prisons. Experts
who spoke to the Guardian in 2013 suggested that the humane and comfortable
nature of Swedish prisons had led to a better chance of rehabilitation for
prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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China's Alibaba puts internet in cars, plans to take drivers out

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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jack Ma, Alibaba's founder and chairman, tries the company's
internet-connected car during a launch event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province,
July 6, 2016. China Daily/via<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">REUTERS</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chinese tech firm Alibaba's internet-connected car will set
the Chinese e-commerce giant up to quickly introduce driverless vehicle
technology, Chief Technology Officer Wang Jian told Reuters on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alibaba and the country's largest automaker SAIC Motor Corp
demonstrated their jointly developed car equipped with the YunOS operating
system, which can link up with smart phones, at an event in eastern China's
Hangzhou on Wednesday. The car is slated to go on sale later this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"You'll quickly see driverless car technology resulting
from this platform," Wang said on the sidelines of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Among major tech companies, Alibaba is relatively late to
offer a platform that can link a smart phone to a car, trailing platforms
already launched by Alphabet's Google, Apple and Baidu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the race to commercialize driverless cars is far from
over with experts predicting that a fully autonomous car will not hit the
market until 2020 or later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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World’s biggest uncut diamond fails to sell at auction

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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A model shows off the 1109-carat ‘Lesedi La Rona’, rough
diamond during a media event at Sotheby’s in London Britain June 14, 2016. —
Reuters </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The world’s largest uncut diamond failed to sell at auction
in London yesterday after the bids fell short of the reserve price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Lesedi La Rona, a 1,109-carat, tennis ball-sized gem
found in Botswana, had been predicted to sell for over US$70 million (RM281
million).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the Sotheby’s auctioneer failed to persuade bidders to
go above US$61 million for the jewel, which was discovered in 2015 by the
Lucara Diamond Corp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Though widely admired in the months preceding this
evening’s auction, and despite having seen bidding in the salesroom, the Lesedi
la Rona failed to reach its reserve price and consequently did not find a buyer
tonight,” Sotheby’s said in a later statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sotheby’s chairman of jewellery David Bennett had called the
diamond “the find of a lifetime.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“No rough even remotely of this scale has ever been offered
before at public auction,” Bennett said ahead of the auction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Precious stones have been fetching ever-higher prices at
auction lately, as the world’s ultra-rich invest in hard assets as a safeguard
against stock market volatility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reacting to the failed sale, Tobias Kormind of 77 Diamonds
online retailer said the bullish gem market “may have reached a tipping point
and demand for large rare stones might just be saturated”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alternatively, he said, “the market instability with Brexit
may have just caused this to be a case of bad luck or bad timing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lesedi La Rona means “our light” in Botswana’s Tswana
language. It could be cut into smaller gems for jewellery or left whole in a
private collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the same day as the stone was discovered, another
830-carat diamond was found in Botswana, the third-largest in the world,
William Lamb, Lucara’s president and chief executive, told AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The record for the biggest diamond in the world is still
held by the “Cullinan Diamond”, a legendary gem found in South Africa in 1905
boasting 3,016.75 carats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Cullinan Diamond was cut into nine diamonds for the
British crown jewels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They include the Cullinan I in the Queen’s Sceptre and the
Cullinan II, which is lodged in the crown that the British monarch wears to the
opening of parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A blue diamond from the same South African mine sold for
over £25 million (RM134 million) in New York this month.</span></div>
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World’s biggest uncut diamond fails to sell at auction

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15 Secrets Your Flight Attendants Won’t Tell You

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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My sister is a flight attendant, she says after she tells
everyone to turn off all electronics, she goes to the back and pulls out her
phone and starts texting.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Pilot here. Having to turn off electronics on a plane is
totally useless.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Mobile electronic devices won’t really bring an airplane
down but they can be really annoying to pilots. Just imagine sitting in the
flight deck descending to your destination and hearing the interference of a
100+ cellphones picking up a signal. I have missed a clearance or 2 that way.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Whatever you do, do not drink the water in the lav. It is
bad enough to “wash” your hands in it. We sanitize the water tank at selected
maintenance intervals, however parasites build tolerances to these cleaners.
Check the outside of the aircraft when walking in. If the paint is crappy
shape, the plane is in crappy shape. Skydrol (hydraulic fluid) is a nasty fluid
and will dissolve everything. So if the paint is missing, it’s probably from a
Skydrol leak. No one wants a hydraulic leak at 35,000 ft in the air. As you
can’t just pull over and top the reservoir off.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I worked for Southwest as a flight attendant. Those
blankets and pillows? Yeah, those just get refolded and stuffed back in the
bins between flights. Only fresh ones I ever saw were on an originating first
flight in the morning in a provisioning city. Also, if you have ever spread
your peanuts on your tray and eaten, or really just touched your tray at all,
you have more than likely ingested baby poo. I saw more dirty diapers laid out
on those trays than food. And those trays, yeah, never saw them cleaned or sanitized
once.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I used to work for warehouse that supplied a certain
airline with items. The headsets that are given to you are not new, despite
being wrapped up. They are taken off the flight, ‘cleaned’, and then packaged
again.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Arm rests – aisle and window seat: Run your hand along the
underside of the armrest, just shy of the joint you’ll feel a button. Push it,
and it will lift up. Adds a ton of room to the window seat and makes getting
out of the aisle a helluva lot easier.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Also if a passenger
is causing a scene in the jetway he can refuse to let them on and take off
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The captain has almost limitless authority when the doors
are closed. He is allowed to arrest people, write fines and even take the will
of a passenger.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“That if the oxygen masks drop down, you only have about 15
minutes of oxygen from the point of pulling them down. However, that is more
than enough time for the pilot to take us to a lower altitude where you can
breathe normally.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Turns out 15 mins is the minimum set out by the FAA. Bonus:
Most systems generate oxygen through a chemical reaction – this can cause a
burning smell in the cabin, however it is normal and to be expected.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The air you breathe on an airplane is actually compressed
air taken from the engines. A large portion (25% to 50%) is blown in the
flightdeck, the rest is for the passengers. The air leaves the airplane via a
small hole in the back of the fuselage.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I work Revenue Management for an airline. On average, the
cheapest time to BUY a ticket is Tuesday afternoon. The cheapest time to FLY is
Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday. This applies to US flights in my experience.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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full can of pop instead of the tiny little cup filled with mostly ice.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The little roller coaster cars have RFID tags in them.
There are scanners everywhere to hit the baggage tags for updates. With this,
the bags are tracked in real time. It’s not 100% effective but it works pretty
well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My partner worked for Delta for about 4 years as one of the
guys who loads and unloads your luggage and waves wands. Nothing is safe in
those bags. They pop open all the time and your [expletive] just gets
haphazardly shoved back in. They get tossed around like volleyballs. TSA is a
lie. A lot of decisions about boarding or switching flights, etc., are at
employees discretion.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“You know all that preflight time where we’re cramming bags
into overhead bins? None of that shows up in our paychecks. Flight attendants
get paid for “flight hours only.” Translation: The clock doesn’t start until
the craft pushes away from the gate. Flight delays, cancellations, and layovers
affect us just as much as they do passengers—maybe even more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we sign in at the airport until the plane slides back into the gate at our home
base, we get an expense allowance of $1.50 an hour. It’s not much, but it helps
pay the rent.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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discourage tipping, so when you offer a tip it is very likely your flight
attendant will turn you down. But if you offer a second time, or slip a few
bills into his or her hand, it will usually be greatly appreciated–and may earn
you a free snack or even an extra-stiff Bloody Mary (if you’re into that kind
of thing). When you receive truly extraordinary service, though, a letter or
email to the airline praising the work of a specific flight attendant or crew
is most appreciated and can sincerely help a flight attendant’s career.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is one thing that many airlines do that most
passengers do not know which I learned from a pilot friend. Even if the service
standards are getting lower and lower most airlines will still be nice enough
to let you check the cockpit cabin if you ask politely. The trick to getting
this insider tour is asking to the crew once the airplane has landed and the
pilots are not rushing to get ready for take off. Next time you fly, ask nicely
and you might be surprised!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are certain places you can sit that increases your
chances of survival if the plane were to crash. According to both TIME magazine
and Popular mechanics data, sitting at the back of the airplane, particularly
in the middle seats, will increase your survival rate if the plane were to
crash. Thus I always try to sit in the back, even if it is more inconvenient in
terms of boarding and disembarking from the plane. It also allows for much
easier access to the restroom, if the need arises.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My dad works for a large airline, he told me a few little
things. Pilots are served different meals and cannot share, this is done in
case of food poisoning. Stealing food, even if they are going to throw it out,
can get you fired instantly. You can ask your supervisor, but you cannot take
food. They don’t want people messing with it.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I have a friend who’s a commercial pilot. Around five years
ago he was doing a flight from LA to Tokyo when an anonymous caller phoned in a
bomb threat while they were over the middle of the Pacific. Apparently they
have procedures for this kind of thing, but there was nothing anyone could do
in this situation except stay calm and not alert the passengers (obviously). He
said for the rest of the flight every bump of turbulence made his adrenaline
spike. They took this case especially seriously because there was a group of
foreign dignitaries sitting in the first class cabin.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will leave the wing flaps up that slow the plane down, this is to signal the
airport that there is something happening in the plane.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The thing most people don’t realize about flying on an
airplane is that it’s one of the safest ways to travel. During takeoff, pretty
much everyone I know says a prayer and grips the hand of their loved ones tightly
– which is understandable considering you are on a massive pile of metal which
by some feat of engineering seems to get and stay airborne. Statistically there
is a very low risk of a life threatening situation in a plane because there are
strict standards in place to ensure the safety of air travel. We should be more
worried about who we have to sit next to than a plane crash!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">With a dramatic volcanic landscape of geysers, hot springs,
waterfalls, and glaciers-- plus a burgeoning nightlife and restaurant scene--
Iceland is becoming a popular tourist destination for travelers all over the
world. According to the Global Peace Index, it's also the safest country to
visit. (iStock)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In an increasingly volatile world, travelling abroad can be
a nervy experience for some vacationers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some countries may be best avoided altogether, but there are
some destinations where security is almost guaranteed-- and these countries
stand out as ideal destinations for your next trip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every year, the Global Peace Index ranks countries based on
how dangerous they are, in an attempt to reveal which nations are the safest,
and which countries you should definitely steer clear of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year’s report, published on June 8 by the Institute for
Economics and Peace, assessed 163 nations to rank them in order of how safe
they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The report uses 23 individual indicators which can be
grouped into three categories: the level of safety and security in society,
domestic and international conflict, and militarization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each country’s overall danger rating comes as a score out of
five, with lower scores indicating more peaceful countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Overall, the index found that the world has become less
peaceful since 2015, although 81 nations have become slightly more peaceful
since the last assessment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, the 79 countries which became less peaceful this
year have deteriorated at a more substantial rate, due to the threat of global
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Among the safest vacation spots are many European countries,
including Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Portugal, with Iceland taking the
top spot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, a strong showing from Canada marks it out as a
perfect destination, and travellers looking to head east need to look no
further than Japan or New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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check out this list of the safest places to jet off to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Iceland – 1.192<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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