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By Hanan Al-Saadoun Ramadan Kareem KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior’s Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Passports Affairs Keeping holy Major General Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah said yesterday that expatriates will only be allowed to issue dependency month ‘alive’ visas for their wives and children from henceforth. “Expatriates’ dependency visas for parents will be ave you ever seen a person who retreats inten- stopped. Dependency visas will be restricted to wife and tionally from a right path to a wrong one? Why children,” he said. Hdo many of us suffer and lapse into oblivion Meanwhile, a new mechanism for family visit visas has and carelessness once Ramadan is over? Why do we been announced. From now on, the duration of a visit fall from the spiritual apexes so quickly to the mun- visa issued for a wife or child will be limited to three dane course of daily life? Is Ramadan meant to be a months only, while visit visas for relatives will be restrict- short fleeting memory or a transitional turning point in ed for one month, Jarrah announced yesterday. Also, a the Muslim’s life? The sole reason is that we haven’t ful- visitor must now enter Kuwait within a month after the ly absorbed the messages of Ramadan. It is unfortu- issuance of the visit visa - or it will be canceled. Before nate to find that many Muslims perform righteous now, a visit visa would be valid after three months of deeds only during Ramadan. They keep their prayers, issuance. recite Quran, and give charity. In another development, Jarrah announced that expa- But once Ramadan is over, they grow lazy in their triates will no longer be required to leave the country if worship or even abandon some obligations entirely. In an absconding case was filed against them, saying that essence, Ramadan’s most important lesson is to steer a the General Investigations Department will be assigned course towards a profound transformation in which to examine his appeal and decide whether to allow him we change our actions, habits and manners {“Verily, to stay in Kuwait. Jarrah added that Interior Minister Allah does not change the condition of a people until Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah is likely to review they change what is in themselves.”} - Quran, 13:11 a study on increasing expats’ fees to the parliament dur- In fact, a sure sign of accepting one’s good deeds is ing the next parliamentary term. the steadfastness after Ramadan and pursuing the same path. If you are from those who benefited from Ramadan and fulfilled the requirements of taqwa, you KARZAKAN: A Bahraini community police officer searches a worshiper outside a Shiite Muslim mosque Bomber’s driver opens should maintain closeness with Allah you have felt. ahead of mid-day prayers during the holy month of Ramadan in the western village of Karzakan, Bahrain. After spending days in fasting and nights in prayers, Bahraini government and religious authorities are taking extra precautions in the wake of suicide bombing up; connects the dots Muslims should solidify their steps in this spiritual jour- attacks on Shiite mosques in neighboring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that were claimed by the Islamic State ney. We should build on our success to advance fur- group and killed dozens of people. — AP KUWAIT: The driver who carried the suicide bomber to ther and remain upon this obedience to Allah at all Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City was in contact times. Be not like one who has sewn a shirt and then with the Islamic State four days before the attack, a destroyed it by pulling a thread by thread for no rea- Saudi jail - home to new wave of jihadis security source said. Abdulrahman Sabah was told in a son. conversation through a smartphone app to go to Al- A true believer knows that the Lord of Ramadan is Anger at region’s wars propels new wave of jihadism Zour and meet two people at the Nuwaiseeb Road. When he went to the location, he received an icebox also the Lord of other months and that He is the Lord RIYADH: The man visible on the block’s control room according to the Saudi Interior Ministry. of all times and places. We worship Allah, not from the two persons, containing the explosive belt monitor, pacing his small cell in uniform grey robe, is one In recent months, fear has grown of attacks at home that was used in the attack. Ramadan. A true Muslim remains steadfast upon the of a rising number of security prisoners in Saudi Arabia, by Sunni militants on Saudi Arabia’s own Shi’ite minority, They trained him on the bombing mission, and reas- way of Allah until he meets Him. Allah ‘azzawajallsaid: where the wars in Syria and Iraq have led to a surge in found mainly in Eastern Province where much of the sured him by saying that they were monitoring the {“So remain on a right course as you have been com- domestic jihadist activity. Until last year, the population country’s oil wealth is found. Islamic State has claimed mosque, said the sources who spoke to Al-Rai daily on manded, [you] and those who have turned back with of inmates at security prisons like Ha’er, just south of responsibility for two attacks on Shiite mosques in east- you [to Allah].”} (Quran, 11:112), {“So take a straight Riyadh, had been dropping as those detained during an ern Saudi Arabia in May that killed 25 people. In the secu- the condition of anonymity. Following the deadly attack course to Him and seek His forgiveness.”} (Quran, 41:6), Al-Qaeda uprising a decade ago were gradually released. rity prisons, the number of inmates had fallen by nearly which took place on June 26, 2015 that left 26 people and the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: {“Say ‘I But as anger has grown in the kingdom over what many 60 percent to just 2,289 in November 2013 from a high of dead and 227 injured, police arrested Sabah (bedoon), believe in Allah’, then be steadfast.”} Saudis see as oppression of their fellow Sunnis in Iraq and 5,501 in December 2010. Today, there are 4,209 security Jarrah Nimr (bedoon) as well as the owner of a house What follows is a simple plan for sincere people Syria by Shiite Muslims, an increasing number of young prisoners, said Ha’er Prison’s director, Colonel used as a hideout by the driver, who was later identified who are eager to keep the spirit of Ramadan through- Saudis have sworn to help by taking up arms themselves. Mohammed “Abu Salman”, who for security reasons pre- as Fahad Shukhayyer (Kuwaiti). out the year. As of March, nearly 2,300 Saudis had travelled to Syria to ferred to give his nickname instead of a family name. The icebox containing the explosive belt was placed Continued on Page 13 join jihadist groups like Islamic State and Nusra Front, Continued on Page 13 in the car that the driver had borrowed from Nimr. Continued on Page 13 Saleh’s party HQ bombed; 46 die

SANAA: Saudi-led warplanes bombed impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation. the Sanaa headquarters of the Yemeni “As we were conducting consultations bombers force party headed by rebel-allied former pres- with the UN envoy to find solutions to ident Ali Abdullah Saleh overnight, the the political crisis gripping the country... soul-searching party said as officials reported 46 killed Saudi forces bombed the party head- in other strikes. The attack on the offices quarters, killing employees and guards in British town of the General People’s Congress (GPC) and destroying the building,” Sayed was caused “some deaths” among employees quoted as saying by the GPC’s news site, DEWSBURY: Ten years after the ringleader of the and guards of the building in the south Almotamar.net. London bombings set out from his Dewsbury home of the capital, party official Faeqa Al- Farther south in Lahj province, coali- to blow up a train, the small English town is again Sayed said. tion warplanes struck a market in an grasping for answers after a local teen-turned-suicide It came as some GPC members were attack that a provincial official said was bomber staged a deadly attack in Iraq. As Britain meeting the UN’s Yemen envoy Ismail “accidental” and killed 41 people, marks the anniversary today of the attacks which Ould Cheikh Ahmed in another part of believed to be mostly civilians. Another killed 52 people, many in Dewsbury’s tight-knit the city. Sayed called the attack “an 34 people were wounded in the strike, Muslim community blame the Internet for radicaliza- attempt to derail the UN envoy’s mis- the official said, adding that rebels QALUBIYAH: An Egyptian woman mourns over the death of 1st Lt Mohammed tion, and eye government anti-extremism projects sion”. Cheikh Ahmed arrived in Yemen on sometimes station military convoys in Adel Abdel Azeem who was killed in an attack by Islamic State-affiliated mili- with suspicion. Sunday and called for a humanitarian the market. tants in the Sinai. — AP A recent speech by Prime Minister David Cameron ceasefire after months of conflict in the Continued on Page 13 in which he accused some British Muslims of “quietly condoning” jihadist actions has sparked outrage in the town. “What Cameron said has angered people,” Egypt kills 241 Madiha Ansari, a local resident who has set up a litera- ture club for vulnerable youths said. “It’s like asking middle-aged white males to apologize for pedophilia,” Sinai militants interrupted her younger brother Bilal. “No, no, no,” she responded. “This is how the community is reacting, they are reacting negatively to a negative comment, CAIRO: Egypt’s military killed 241 militants in those attacks, after several media outlets we should be positive.” in the Sinai from July 1-5, the army said yes- reported higher tolls from security officials. Dewsbury’s problems are a microcosm of those terday, including jihadists from the Islamic In figures released yesterday by the army faced across the country, said Ansari, with cities from State group who launched spectacular spokesman on his Facebook page, the mili- Portsmouth to Coventry asking how hundreds of their attacks last week. The military has poured tary said its forces killed 241 militants citizens ended up dying on foreign jihadist battle- troops and armor into the peninsula where between July 1 and 5. Four wanted mili- fields. Despite a decade of soul-searching over how security forces have been fighting an tants and 29 suspected militants were also local man Mohammad Sidique Khan became the Islamist insurgency since then army chief arrested. Sixteen crude bombs were deto- leader of a foursome of suicide bombers that attacked and now President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi nated, while 26 cars and 28 motorbikes London on July 7, 2005, the town seems no closer to ousted president Mohamed Morsi in July belonging to militants were destroyed over agreeing on how to combat homegrown extremism. 2013. On July 1, jihadists from IS launched the same period, the army said. On The debate has intensified in recent days following blistering attacks in the North Sinai town of Facebook, the army also posted photo- reports last month that a 17-year-old from Dewsbury, Sheikh Zuweid — the scene of regular mili- graphs of dead militants, some even dis- Talha Asmal, had become Britain’s youngest suicide tant attacks — in which dozens were killed. played on military tanks. bomber, killing 11 people near an Iraqi oil works. SANAA: Shiite rebels known as Houthis hold up their weapons as they chant slo- The military said 21 soldiers were killed Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 gans during a rally against Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 LOCAL Ramadan soap operas’ review

By Nawara Fattahova pricks her finger. She starts crying and they don’t understand why, as this makes her KUWAIT: Kuwait Times is publishing daily find out he is in a relationship with Ghada. reviews of three Kuwaiti soap operas aired Futuh hears Fayza talking on phone on Al Rai TV. Here are the reviews of the about money. She asks her about it, so 18th episodes: Fayza tells her she took a loan of KD 70,000 and gave it to Hamad. Futuh yells ‘Qabil lil Kaser’ at her that Hamad doesn’t have debts Hadeel asks Ali about what he said and that this was a deal between Fahd about Zahra and whether it is true. He says and Hamad to play this game on her so it’s true that she told him she loves him but she signs the papers. Fahd is surprised he rebuffed such a relationship and that Hamad took the money from Fayza showed her messages on his phone, but and blames her for taking out the loan. Hadeel says it’s not Zahra’s number. She Fayza goes to Hamad and starts shout- tells him to call Zahra and turn on speaker, ing in front of his house and hits his car. but when he calls, Zahra gives the phone to She demands her money back, but he a random woman, telling her its someone said he used it to pay his debts, so she annoying and she wants him to forget this fights with him and he goes to the police number when he hears a different voice. station, but then drops the case. Hadeel tells him Zahra is a good girl, and Farouq goes to Ghada and suspects when he told her he loves somebody else, why Taiba didn’t call him, so he calls his she forgot him and helped them both daughter, who tellls him her mom left. He when they needed her, so Ali regrets what runs to his flat and sees Taiba, asking her he did. what she was doing, so she says she took Wed tells Rakan that it’s too early to get some things for her daughters. The married as they only know each other for a Egyptian nurse admits that Futuh hired few months and that she is still in school. her to spy on Fatma and not just take But he is afraid that something will happen care of her. But she said she loves Fatma KUWAIT: Vehicles drive through a dust storm at a highway in Kuwait City yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat to his mother before getting married and and will not be a spy and will take care of he wants her to see his kids. her. Fahd meets Zahra and apologizes after he saw his mother talking to Ali about this ‘Thakira min Waraq’ Low visibility halts navigation issue. When he comes home, he tells his Ali’s mother can’t find him and is father he wants to marry Zahra, and when searching for him with her brother. In the his mother starts protesting, he threatens morning, Ali comes back home tired and at Shuaiba, Shuwaikh ports her he will reveal the secret, so she amiably tells his mother that he was trying to sat- agrees, and Hadeel and her father are sur- isfy her by marrying the woman she has KUWAIT: Maritime traffic at Shuwaikh and Qahtani, head of marine operations at the port Acting Deputy Director of Navigation Operations prised. chosen for him, but he couldn’t as he only Shuaiba ports were halted yesterday due to bad told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). at Shuaiba port Captain Shuaib Al-Ali meanwhile Sulaiman prepares the table in his room loves Najd. Ghanim gives Fajer a CD con- weather conditions, Kuwait Ports Authority Visibility went below 1.5 nautical miles and said that wind speed reached 21 knots and visibility in the hotel as if two persons are dining, taining contacts and names of persons announced. wind speed was recorded at 28 to 31 knots, said was recorded at 1.5 nautical miles in the port. “There smear s lipstick on the cup and on his neck trading in illegal businesses such as “Navigation will resume at Shuwaikh port once Qahtani, adding that several vessels are waiting to are three vessels waiting to exit the port at the to look like he was with a woman and takes weapons, human organs, money launder- visibility is back to normal, as the country is seeing enter the port while another ship is ready to leave moment, while three others would leave when visi- selfies to post on social media. Then he pre- ing and others. When she delivers it, some heavy dust and fast winds,” Captain Marzouq Al- as soon as weather improves. bility goes back to normal,” he added. —KUNA tends being drunk and comes to Hiba and guards run after her, but she loses them. Yousef’s room looking for Jinan. Shouq tells Nawaf she doesn’t want to lose him, but at the same time she is ‘Ummina Rwehit Al Jannah’ afraid of Fawaz and wants to continue her Alghanim Industries donates $100,000 to Nouriya cleans the villa for Fatma, who studies, which is her main goal. Fajer’s comes with her grandchildren. Shortly, all father calls Fajer and tells her that Ghanim support fight against addiction in Lebanon her children come to live with her in her was arrested in Kuwait for a major crime house except Fawzi, who comes to drop and he got him out of prison. Ghanim Faisal. Fatma welcomes them to live there grabs the phone and cuts the line, telling Donation part of ongoing program to support Arab youth but apologizes not being able to take care Fajer not to believe him, but she leaves. of Faisal as she is impaired legally as they Mashael tells Nawaf that Shouq had KUWAIT: Alghanim Industries, one are addicted, and it affects the lives Responsibility program which pays said and is not responsible for her behavior. relations in Kuwait in the past and warns of the region’s largest private com- of families and loved ones. We attention to the youth. It continues While Farouq is leaving, the child spreads him. Nawaf asks Noora if she knows any- panies, today announced a dona- need to give our young people the the longstanding close relationship sweets on his clothes, so Taiba tries to clean thing about Shouq’s relationships, but she tion of KD30,000 ($100,000) towards best chance possible to thrive and if of support and partnership between it, and the pin she previously put in his denies any knowledge and screams at the setting up of a permanent reha- they fall into the abyss of drug mis- Kuwait and Lebanon on both gov- dress when she was in Ghada’s apartment him to not spoil the reputation of Shouq. bilitation centre in Saida, Lebanon, use and addiction we need to ernment and business levels. to assist in the treatment of people ensure that there is support to help In Kuwait, Alghanim Industries is with drug addiction. them out. committed to its strategy of giving The new center, which has been “I believe that this growing back to the community by empow- commissioned following a donation problem can only be fought and ering underprivileged people, sup- of KD330,000 ($1.1 million) from the resolved by governments and busi- porting education and encouraging Arab Fund for Economic nesses working hand-in-hand entrepreneurship. The company Development, will be run by the together. And I would like to take was recently named ‘Diamond Lebanese Civil Council Against this chance to encourage other Partner’ by Kuwait Red Crescent Addiction. business leaders in Kuwait and the Society (KCRS) in recognition of its It will be a base from which 123 Kutayba Alghanim Middle East to do all they can to efforts to support KRCS by facilitat- addicts from different age groups prevent our youth from falling into ing treatment for needy patients in and backgrounds, including a num- Alghanim Industries, said: “In the this slippery road, especially in the Kuwait, and by helping Nurture and ber of refugees from Syria, can Arab world where youth unemploy- areas with high number of addicts Educate Students Today (NEST), embark on rehabilitation programs ment reaches 25 percent, drug and inadequate rehabilitation insti- which aims to raise awareness and to assist them away from their addiction is a scourge which mod- tutions.” support education of underprivi- addiction. ern society cannot afford to ignore. The donation is part of Alghanim leged children, both locally and Kutayba Alghanim, Chairman of It ruins the lives of the people who Industries’ Corporate Social internationally.

MILAN: Mazen Al-Ansari is pictured with the 500,000th visitor to Kuwait’s pavilion at Expo Milano 2015. —KUNA photos Half million have visited Al Sayer Group celebrates Kuwait pavilion at Expo MILAN: Number of people who have Ansari expressed pride of the man- visited the Kuwaiti pavilion at the Expo aging team’s efforts in luring such a Milano 2015 has exceeded half a million, large number of visitors. Kuwait has World Environment Day said the deputy manager of the section, established a large pavilion at the Mazen Al-Ansari. The management team international showcasing event, pro- celebrated the visitor number 500,000; a moting its success in building a mod- Biggest day for positive environmental action married Belgian man with two children, ern state in an arid region in the Ansari said. The visitor expressed satis- northern Gulf. Visitors are also educat- faction for visiting the pavilion, examin- ed about diverse issues about Kuwait KUWAIT: On the occasion of World impact in the whole society. The responsibility to care for the Earth widely celebrated by stakeholders Environment Day, Al Sayer Group program was appreciated and and to become agents of change. in over 100 countries. It also serves ing Kuwait’s experience of survival and its history, such as the story of Holding held a ceremony to honor earned great level of acceptance by World Environment Day (WED) is as the ‘people’s day’ for doing despite harsh environmental and climat- succeeding in securing drinkable distinguished members who super- the students and parents. the United Nations’ principal vehi- something positive for the environ- ic conditions in the Gulf. water. —KUNA vised the implementation of Kids Explaining the importance of cle for encouraging worldwide ment, transforming individual ISO 14000 Program in eight schools World Environment Day, Nehad Ali awareness and action for the envi- actions into a collective power that across Kuwait. CSR Manager Al Sayer Group ronment. Over the years it has generates a positive impact on the Faisal Bader Al Sayer, Vice Holding said “WED is the opportu- grown to be a broad, global plat- planet.” Chairman handed over the trophies nity for everyone to realize the form for public outreach that is Additionally, Faisal Al Sayer was and mementos to all participants as awarded by Ahlam Behbahani - a token of gratitude for their valu- Senior Director-Science as she able contribution. Ahlam thanked him for the initiative, seek- Behbahani, Senior Director, ing more support towards imple- Science, Lulwa Naser Al Sayer, menting the KIDS ISO 14000 pro- Manager, Treasury, Jassem Al gram in all schools around Kuwait. Maraghi, Group Manager, Al Sayer Group Holding is Administration, Abdullah Al focused on promoting activities Shuwaie Senior Manager, Customer reflecting its social and environ- Relations and Legal Representative mental commitment every year were present during the event. through such initiatives aimed to Faisal Bader Al Sayer extended awareness and nurture the new his gratitude for the efforts made to generation who will be able promote the environmental aware- tomake a change in the future. ness through their outstanding ini- The Sustainability Champions of tiatives. Around 400 kids from mid- the Group for the month of June dle school participated in the Kids Dalia Hassan - Senior Executive, ISO 14000 Program that educated Service Division and Wessam Matar them, their parents as well as - Executive Secretary, domestic employees about the Administration were also awarded basics of environment manage- for their effective roles in the imple- ment at home and its positive mentation of the program. The visitor and his family take a picture with staff at Kuwait’s pavilion. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 LOCAL

wIn my vie Unity prayer

By Labeed Abdal

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or the first time in Kuwait’s history, both Sunni and Shiite Kuwaitis prayed together behind Fone Imam in the aftermath of the Imam Al- Sadiq Mosque explosion. It was a prayer that expressed a national Kuwaiti epic image following a treacherous tragic incident that claimed the lives of young and old citizens as well as two Indians. I will not take any sides towards Sunnis or Shiites. Today, I beg my dear readers to take the side of Kuwait and His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah who truly succeeded in steering Kuwait’s ship through the wildest waves and chal- lenges. KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah recently visited the Saad Al-Abdullah Academy I am talking about this unique Kuwaiti mix of fine for Security Sciences, where he checked the new cadets’ registration committee. Assistant Undersecretary for Education and Training Major General Sheikh aromas that has never known sectarianism or arro- gance. This mix was always based on agreement, tol- Faisal Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah accompanied the minister during the tour. erance and love between fellow citizens under one flag. Kuwait has been known for this unique mixture and both Arab and foreign decision makers should Man in niqab arrested KUWAIT VOICES follow in its steps and make use of it in facing similar difficulties, because they have been suffering from ‘I wanted my kids to the same terrorism and extremism, from the same near Jleeb mosque misleading ideas and the brainwashing of youths’ have a better future’ minds with false promises claiming that such terror- ist acts are doorways to heaven. Such shameful bar- By Hanan Al-Saadoun July 4 which resulted in the deportation of cases were impounded. By Ben Garcia baric acts have only increased Islam antagonism eight expatriates for driving without a dri- because it is becoming a threat to some other reli- KUWAIT: A Pakistani man was recently ver’s license, the arrest of 33 drivers for seri- One dead after drowning his Ramadan, Kuwait Times wants to shift the conversa- gions. arrested while dressed in niqab (face cover- ous traffic violations, the handing out of A Filipino man died after drowning in a tion to the ordinary folks that make up the majority of this Yes, indeed. Other countries that suffer from sec- ing) and a woman’s attire. The ‘woman’ was 45,964 tickets and the detention of 1,927 swimming pool at a famous building in Tcountry. By listening to their stories and recognizing their tarian or religious differences should encourage talking on a cellphone near a mosque in vehicles. Fintas. Security sources noted that the man humanity, we can remind ourselves and hopefully our readers of the ties that bind us all together as a species. more tolerance and accept diversity without exclud- Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh, said security sources, not- could not swim and drowned on the deep Recently, Kuwait Times visited some ing or alienating others. Shiites and Sunnis are ing that the whole situation was suspicious. Multiple arrests side of the pool. However, on stopping the suspect, detec- Ministry of Interior’s public security former housemaids who sought refuge at brothers and followers of the same religion. The the Philippine Embassy in Faiha to hear same applies to Muslims and other fellow human tives found out he was a man, so they recently launched several inspection cam- Drug arrests searched him but found nothing on him. paigns in various areas which resulted in the A Jordanian man was arrested at Kuwait their story. Kuwait Times purposely beings following other religions because Islam com- changed their names for their safety. pels Muslims to respect other great prophets and The suspect was referred to relevant authori- arrest of 284 people for various reasons Airport on arrival from Istanbul with the pos- ties for further investigations. including violation of residency visas, session of 12 Lyrica pills, a banned drug, In search of greener pastures, Erlinda their religions. from the Philippines went to the Kingdom We should stop listening to war propagandists Eight drivers deported expired residency visas, not holding of civil which he hid on his body. A case was filed. In The traffic department recently launched IDs, absconding and possession of drugs. a similar story, a citizen who was under the of Saudi Arabia to work as a domestic and those promoting proxy wars all through the last several search campaigns from June 28 until Moreover, 32 vehicles wanted for several influence was also arrested at Kuwait Airport helper, but after working for five years, she century. Some people have been planning for hun- on arrival from a European country. Security went home broke. “I am the bread winner of my family,” she said. dreds of years to destroy Muslim and Arab identities sources noted that on searching the passen- All of her salaries were sent home and all of her money was just in order to achieve long term destruction and ger, customs inspectors found marijuana passing through her hands. regional control. Some people are paying billions joint and some cocaine hidden inside his Her husband’s work was irregular; moreover, all of his purchasing weapons and bombed vehicles to help luggage. income was just enough to satisfy his own vices, which was realize dreadful dreams of changing the map. gambling and getting drunk. “I only have myself to blame for A final word must be said about the two Indians Fake detectives marrying him. I thought I had somebody who could help me, killed in the explosion while performing the Friday An Iranian man recently reported that but he was a complete waste of time.” Erlinda then relayed that prayers. This only reflects how deep Kuwaiti-Indian two unknown suspects in uniform stopped when she realized that she could not get any support from him relations have been and will be. It is indeed that and searched him claiming to be police and wanting for her kids to have a better future, she left for Kuwaiti mixture, and your Highness... the Humanity detectives. The man added that after leav- Saudi Arabia in 2009. “It was hard, but I endured the pain away from my home and my two kids,” she said. Amir, we are very proudly your people and children. ing, he realized that the fake detectives stole KD 250 from him. The man provided the After just a few months after returning from Saudi Arabia, police with the suspects’ vehicle license Erlinda left for Kuwait. “I sent every fils I earned in Saudi, so I had The suspect pictured in this handout photo. plate numbers. to accept another job abroad, this time in Kuwait,” Erlinda admitted. “I could not bear the hardship and I do not want to Four released on bail see my kids without milk and enough food to eat,” she said. after unlicensed According to Erlinda there were many openings for domes- Zour refinery offers tic jobs in other countries, but Kuwait, in particular, was one of weapons arrest her choices because Kuwait does not charge fees for its appli- cants. “There is a no-placement fee policy for Kuwait. For me, it was okay, since I did not have any money for placement fee, By Meshaal Al-Enezi to be announced today that’s why I accepted the job offer in Kuwait,” she said. KUWAIT: A court yesterday ordered the release of two citi- Five employers zens and two police officers who had recently been arrest- By A Saleh deficit and warned that political inquiry awaits any viola- Erlinda arrived in Kuwait on February 12, 2015. “When I ed with possession of unlicensed weapons. They were tions. Omar stressed that the government was responsible arrived in Kuwait, I was positive that I could get better opportu- released on a KD 500 bail each. for the deficit and that any attempts to cover it at the nity here, but I was wrong. In just a few months, I already landed KUWAIT: The Central Tenders Committee is due to expense of citizens will not be tolerated. “Deficits are usual- in the hands of five employers,” she said. Blackout announce today the best offers made by international ly financed from the state’s general reserves,” he said not- With her first employer, Erlinda stayed for only four days. A blackout was reported in some parts of Jahra, Daiya, companies applying to execute the fourth stage of Al-Zour ing that the annual 10 percent deducted from the general “She did not want me to answer her, when she called, but she Qadisiya and Sabahiya around 10:30 pm Sunday night. The refinery project. Notably, Kuwait National Petroleum reserves should be enough to handle the deficit. would also get mad if I did not answer,” she shared. power outage alerted Ministry of Electricity and Water Company had formed a technical, commercial and legal For Erlinda, the ultimate hit was when her employer claimed emergency services teams who immediately rushed to the team to study the tender and get the best price offers, but Syria donations she hurt her infant baby. “It was not true. I told her,” Erlinda said. affected areas and placed emergency generators to pro- cancelled the tender before reoffering it to get even lower MP Saleh Ashour pointed the attention of Minister of She then told her employer that if this was the case in her vide power until the problem was fixed. prices because the lowest one offered by the Italian Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih to some social house, then they should just return her to her agency. Erlinda’s Saipem Company costs KD 407 million. media and street advertisements urging people to donate employer went to her agency alone and returned with her Sixth Ring Road for Syria through ‘Wa Thakker’ center, Mohammed Hayef replacement. An agency car later took her from her employer’s During its meeting yesterday, the Municipal Council Female tennis referee Al-Mutairi and others. “What has the ministry done con- house. “I was not able to explain my side to my agency, so they approved changing the Sixth Ring Road’s name into Kuwaiti International Female tennis referee Aseel cerning those illegal unlicensed calls?” he inquired. were upset,” she recalled and in the night, her agency ‘sold’ her Jassem Al-Khorafi Road. The cabinet had approved a Shahin was recently selected as the first Arab female tennis to another employer. decree to rename the key expressway behind the late fig- referee to take part in a major tennis championship such as Blackouts Erlinda worked as a sauce maker for her second employer ure who passed away last May. the Grand Slam. Commenting on her performance, the MP Majed Moussa recently urged the minister of elec- for at least one month. “I learned the job quickly, but I did not British Independent said that she attracted attention with tricity and water to immediately deal with blackouts and like my colleague watching every mistake I have committed,” her blue jacket, hijab (veil) and white trousers and that water supply cuts in various residential areas. “It is unac- she said. Erlinda shared one incident were her co-worker want- everybody was talking about her. ceptable that citizens repeatedly suffer from power and Health office in ed her to work and help in doing other chores. “I followed my water cuts, especially in Ramadan when temperatures are colleague’s instructions, but my sauce was spoiled, so my boss Budget deficit too high,” Moussa said. He then urged the minister to hold Germany boosts was furious,” she said. Erlinda insisted to be returned to her MP Jamal Al-Omar said that lawmakers will closely those responsible accountable or else he will not keep agency so she was sent back. watch how the government will finance the state budget silent about the matter. ties with Vivantes Erlinda’s third employer was also very unpredictable. She stayed for only three days. “I remember she will not allow me to BERLIN: The Kuwaiti Health Office in Germany yester- Cabinet approves comm. agency, seat. She would only shout and tell me to work,” Erlinda said. day signed an agreement with Vivantes International “On the third day, it rained, so I thought of waiting till the competition protection amendments rain stopped; but my employer said I have to work and she Medicine, Germany’s largest state-owned healthcare wants me to clean the veranda when it was raining. I was group, to promote cooperation and partnership. KUWAIT: The cabinet yesterday for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad outcomes of the extraordinary shocked and I asked her, ‘if I got sick, what would happen?’ My The signing ceremony was attended by head of the reviewed the recommendations of the Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah told meeting of the GCC interior minis- employer said, ‘kefi’ (I could not care less), so, I told her to return health office Sulaiman Al-Harbash, Kuwaiti Charge legal affairs committee on the draft reporters following the meeting. ters, held recently in Kuwait. me to my agency instead,” Erlinda remembered. d’Affaires Meshari Al-Muzaini, Director of Vivantes amendments to the executive statutes “At the beginning of the meeting, The GCC ministers renewed con- With her fourth employer, Erlinda stayed with them for one International Medicine Dr Andreas Schmitt and his of Act No. 37 for 2014 and Act No. 15 the cabinet members were apprised demnation of the terrorist bomb month and described them as a relatively quiet family. “I liked it deputy Nezar Maarouf, in addition to German officials. for 2007. of the message to His Highness the attack on Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque as there, but the employer told me after a month that I failed to During their weekly meeting at Seif Amir from Prime Minister of New well as any act of violence against meet their expectations. So I was returned to my agency,” Yesterday’s agreement, which renews an old one Erlinda said. signed in 2013, aims at improving conditions for Kuwaiti Palace under the chairmanship of His Zealand John Phillip Key who innocent lives, deeming such acts as Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh expressed gratitude for the hospitality immoral violation of the values of Erlinda confided that during her relentless coming in and patients who receive medical treatment in Germany, going out of the agency, the owner hurled bad words at her. Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, he and his party received during their noble Islam. Harbash said. It aims at making utmost benefit from That night, after being returned from her fourth employer, the cabinet members okayed the recent visit to Kuwait. Prime Minister They praised the great efforts Vivantes experience, he added, noting that hospitals of Erlinda asked her agency owner to spare her for deployment amendments to the statute of Act No. Key invited His Highness the Amir to made by the Kuwaiti security servic- since she was really very tired from jumping from one employer the group provided medical care to about 250 Kuwaiti 37 for 2014 regarding the initiation of visit New Zealand,” Sheikh es to track down the perpetrators of patients over past years. to another. “I said, ‘Please spare me at least for one day or two, so an information and communications Mohammad pointed out. the attack, and lauded the senti- I could rest a bit and keep my sanity,’ but they would not listen. Meanwhile, Charge d’Affaires Muzaini, on behalf of technology agency, and the statute of “The First Deputy Prime Minister ments of unity and solidarity Instead, they sold me to my fifth employer,” she said. Ambassador to Germany Munther Al-Issa thanked the the Act No. 15 for 2007 relating to the and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah expressed by all walks of life in The fifth employer was an elderly lady who would throw German government and Vivantes for the medical care protection of competition. Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Kuwait in the wake of the attack. diapers and dirty stuff on her. “She did not want me to use offered to Kuwaitis. He said that cooperation has pro- The meeting also approved a briefed the meeting on the out- The GCC interior ministers high- gloves. She cursed me from morning till evening; 15 days was gressed between the two sides for the good of Kuwaiti memorandum of understanding on comes of the recent visit to Kuwait lighted the need of joint action, infor- like one year to me,” she said. patients treated in Germany. industrial cooperation between by UN special envoy to Yemen mation sharing and coordination Erlinda went back to the agency, but this time, she insisted Head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Kuwait and Sudan, a draft agreement Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed,” he among the security services of all to the agency owner to leave her alone, but the agency owner locked her inside the office room. She got the chance to run out (GACIC) Abdul-Aziz Al-Mekhlafi, who was present at on commercial and industrial cooper- revealed. GCC member states to protect the ation with Egypt and a MoU on exhibi- safety of the GCC communities in the of the agency, but unfortunately tripped her foot on the stairs the signing ceremony, lauded bilateral ties between tion coordination with Egypt. Extraordinary meeting face of terrorist menace. The cabinet and broke her left foot. “Thank God, I met a Filipino couple and Germany and Kuwait. Kuwait is a major investor in the “The documents have been ten- Deputy Prime Minister and also discussed a range of regional they helped me. They sent me to the hospital and let me stay at German markets, Mekhlafi added, referring to the dered to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Minister of Interior Sheikh and international issues, and their house for nine days, before sending me here at the country’s investments in Daimler automotive compa- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Al- denounced the recent terrorist embassy,” Erlinda said. ny. —KUNA final endorsement,” Minister of State Sabah briefed the meeting on the attacks in North Sinai, Egypt. —KUNA TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

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A photograph from the book ‘Faces of Kuwait’ by Jack Wozniak (researched by Mahmoud Zakariya) shows a man inside a dates’ shop.

KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) recently visited the Kuwait Down Syndrome Society where they distributed ‘gergean’ to children.

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KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health finished preparations to provide medical services during the ‘Qiyam’ late night prayers at the Grand Mosque in Kuwait City, Jaber Al-Ali Mosque in Shuhadaa and Belal bin Rabah Mosque in Siddiq. — KUNA TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

Zain continues to distribute iftar meals during Ramadan Distributed daily through three halls

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, announced the continuation of its annual ‘Iftar Al Saem’ initiative that comes as part of its extensive Corporate Social Responsibility campaign and serves more than 50,000 individuals during the holy month of Ramadan through three different iftar halls in Jleeb Al Shuyoukh, Hawalli, and Farwaniya. Zain prepares its ‘Iftar Saem’ initiative before the coming of the Holy Month every year to assure the quality of the meals being served. The company stressed that the meals are available daily at three different locations until the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan. This initiative comes for the tenth consecutive time this year, and is considered a main pillar of Zain’s comprehensive CSR campaign during the holy month. The iftar meal banquets that are supervised by Zain’s staff are spread in different locations in Kuwait as part of a strategy to cover the most populated areas of Kuwait in order to assure the maximum amount of individuals’ iftar needs are covered. Zain explained that Ramadan presents a special occa- sion for the company to communicate and interact with the community it operates in through its extensive CSR campaign. This campaign is part of the organization’s growing support for charitable and social oriented pro- grams, and is a reflection of its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. One such program Zain organized before the start of the holy month featured the distribution of ‘Machla Boxes’ to underprivileged families.

Super Cars Q8 hosts ghabqa at Costa Del Sol hotel

By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: The Super Cars Q8 held its first ghabqa for its members at the Costa Del Sol Hotel. This ghabqa is one of the Group’s activities, and more activities will be held dur- ing the next season. The Super Cars Q8 was founded on May 5, 2015 with 22 members. “There are no special conditions for member- ship,” Abdulaziz Al-Milam, Deputy Director of Super Cars Q8 told the Kuwait Times. “The member should be above 21 years old and should have a supercar either; a sports car or a classic car that is older than 25 years. The members are popular personalities or have leading positions in different institutions. The season is over now and the membership will be opened again next September.” The group is holding different activities during the upcoming season. “We held five activities this season as it was a short period, and we have many ideas to hold more useful activities,” Milam said. “We focus on the traffic issues so we will hold courses and workshops on the safety and security and other subjects. We held a course in coopera- tion with the Kuwait Fire Services Directorate on the basics of protects against vehicles fire, and other courses.” Members get more benefits, according to Milam. “A member will be offered discounts in various stores and garages,” said Ali Ismail, President of the Group. “Members get tickets to car shows, discounts on spare parts, and oth- er services related to cars such as window shading, car pol- ishing. The group will also held charity events.” “Before signing the membership, the applicant can read the benefits and advantages and decide whether he wants to become a member. We will also include the schedule of various activities that we plan to hold during the season including the legal car racing, and car shows inside and outside Kuwait,” he further said. “The Super Cars Q8 was not registered officially yet at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, as the ministry has a condition that each society should hold activities for at least 6 months, and we just gathered less two months ago. Through this group we aim to encourage national unity in our community,” noted Ismail. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Qabas Al-Jarida So that we Kuwait’s tears never forget By Dr Hassan Jouhar By Moudhi Al-Humoud artyrs’ convoys have always been divine inspiration making people feel very proud, uwait is dealing with the results of the painful Mdignified and determined to carry on with attack on Imam Al-Sadeq mosque with wisdom, certain principles. With its sick-minded thinking, Kand Kuwaiti people are wiping away with their criminal acts and stupidity, IS gave Kuwaitis this hon- cohesiveness the traces of the barbaric attack on wor- or which only made them grow stronger and more shippers in the house of Allah and present to the world a united than ever. At the same time, IS only gave itself distinguished example of humane dealing, despite their more shame and disgrace. hurt feelings and the sadness instilled in the hearts, while calling to be united behind their humanitarian leader, Yes, indeed. Our hearts are heavy and eyes are who was at the site of the bombing minutes after it weeping for losing a group of believers whose pure occurred to reassure the injured and check on the vic- bodies were torn to pieces while their souls were tims. The security apparatus and its men did very well purely cleansed by ablution, prayer and fasting. They and made us feel secure when they arrested the criminals were even killed in one of the worship houses while within a short period after the attack. in a position when man is nearest to Allah - during But the issue should not stop there, and the book of prostration. Losing them, we lost fellow Muslims, fel- “our way in dealing with events” should not be closed on low citizens, colleagues, neighbors, friends, fathers, the scenes of sadness, emotions and solidarity. Rather we sons, husbands or even grandfathers, which leaves should look hard into its closed pages hat were opened deep incurable wounds until we have joined them. by events and its accumulated papers that were moved Their innocent blood and souls rocked Kuwait by the ordeal, and read its neglected messages that were with waves of love loyalty, consolidation, union and renewed clearly by the martyrs’ blood. We should answer Al-Jarida compassion. Those ‘sacrifices’ have put an end to the most important of them, which is: What’s next? years of promoting sectarianism and we hope that Security alone is not enough, and the required and the Kuwaiti people would keep this state of beautiful deserved efforts to deter any future danger should be in Al-Jarida national unity, which helped so much in making the all sites and by all workers in the country. tragedy less severe and painful. And so that we do not forget, and to benefit from past The criminal who blew himself up committing experience, I find it necessary to mention through my this crime is but a cheap tool and a result of accumu- personal experience as education minister - and I think What’s after condemnation? lating misled thinking, fanaticism schools, the spread this applies to all former education ministers or most of of the culture of hatred as well as negligence of them - what we suffered of threats, defamation and By Ghanim Al-Najjar grilling by politicians in previous national assemblies, and some governmental establishments such as security, educational and media ones until the head of the by several columnists and officials in some newspapers, ow after the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque crime, will a chariot pulled by two horses going to opposite direc- terrorism snake appeared in Kuwait. media and bodies that belong to or support extremist we ever learn the lesson or will we do the same tions. That is why succeeding governments after the Islamist factions, when the issue of developing the curric- as we did after the Iraqi invasion and thus repro- invasion have failed in restoring social balance; they The cowardly terrorist act that happened at Al- N Sadeq mosque was but the tail of this snake, ula comes up for discussion on the agenda of any minis- duce the speech of hatred? Current regional circum- turned the whole society into a bloodless crime scene. ter, stances are more complicated and the infrastructure of The enemy was so clear during the invasion but now, because the presence of this terrorist inside a And how churlish was the interference to influence hate is more deep-rooted. So, will we manage to free we can no longer identify who the real enemy is. mosque with an explosives belt equipped with mod- our decisions to ban music and sports classes even for our abducted society this time? Will we ever manage to Shapes and colors have changed the way a chameleon ern technology means that a long queue of other our young children, and how fatwas extended, until they start building a balanced, open society upon principles does - the shameless faces striving for power have been mercenary terrorists is readily awaiting to commit included prohibiting standing for the national anthem of justice, tolerance, equality, liberty, law sovereignty destroying the nation. more terrorist acts. They surely have more explosives and saluting the flag! We should not forget that we were and most of all upon human dignity? With this in mind, the terrorist came from the south and detonators and more strategic targets. fighting our battles as ministers mostly alone without the The 25th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion is only one this time. He came from a similar environment where The Kuwaiti people were up to the responsibly support of others, be them officials or society individuals month away with very slight difference as this recent those who are supposed to be scholars have become and showed the best forms of solidarity during dis- out of their fear from the influence of those factions. crime tastes, smells and looks like the invasion ordeal. I leaders of hatred and the government is but one of the tress. They are required to do nothing more. The rest We also should not forget how the state kept silent have experienced both and can tell how similar they are. dancers in this hateful dance ritual. of the government’s responsibility to be up to its towards the training camps of children and youth during At that time, we suffered from severe sectarian ten- This crime might have awakened us and made us responsibilities and invest this natural spontaneous winter, spring and summer that are managed under the sion with absolute individual authority and a back- remove some of the dust and blood covering our faces public reaction to uproot terrorism, its icons, sym- control of those groups, and how the influence of ground of a terrible war during which Kuwait was sub- just the same way we did during the invasion. This bols, tools and ideas from Kuwait. This particular sheikhs, of whom we do not the source of their knowl- ject to all kinds of terrorist acts such as the bombing of experience might have pulled us by the ears to see our- government has been given an opportunity no pre- edge, to give us fatwas in all affairs of our life, as well as in public cafes, blowing up of embassies, plane highjack- selves in a mirror and realize how changed they have vious government has ever received because it has science, medicine and trade, and how the audio-video ing and then, an attempt to assassinate the late Amir become. media doors were open for them, and how we as citizens no opposition to impede its work, no troublemaking Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Nonetheless, we do still have hope to make a fresh parliament, no development plans, no corruption or kept silent when the society was divided and its groups The solidarity, devotion, sacrifices and national unity new start. We have no other option. Either we live dispersed and its daughters and sons were quarantined services to be developed. Let it at least be responsi- shown during the invasion were amazing and made us together in a state of law sovereignty, equality, justice, ble for security of the people who are now being in learning homes and patronage dominated all features so optimistic of the future. We dreamed of a new coun- security, human dignity, liberty and happiness, or we all of our lives. killed in broad daylight. try having learned the lesson; yet, we ended up worse vanish. The choice is clear. His Highness the Amir’s ini- Sectarian calls have all died out now and those So, how can we after all this we ask: How did extrem- than we ever used to be. We only had doctrinal tension tiative in this regard might practically or symbolically ism reach our youth, and how treachery reached our peo- behind them are back in their caves now, while all then but now, it is becoming sectarian, regional and be a turning point towards achieving this. I say ‘might’ ple in their mosques, which may also reach us in our devoted Kuwaitis are standing united, backing any racial amid the unrestrained corruption prevailing because the gap is too wide and ‘demolition’ establish- homes, may Allah forbid, if we do not move at the right everywhere. ments are mightier than we have ever imagined. My national effort to eradicate terror and terrorists. So, time! There is no doubt that the issue needs a deep look The speech of hatred is rapidly spreading and is worst fear is that by the time we finished repairing Al- for the sake of our martyrs’ blood, wipe the tears of and determination on education, information, religious used by government-supported figures, and things are Sadiq Mosque, we might go back to our sub-identities Kuwait before more of them fall. Terror has no reli- address, social behavior and official policies, so all that the same with the opposition. Hate speech is becoming and affiliations that hate all others. gion or school. The cowardly IS will spare no one and more must be subjected to testing, review, change everyday common rule. It is not an exception anymore. People do not get so many chances to self-reconstruct; even though it started its crimes with Shiites. It has and development, and that we open the dialogue hori- People calling for balance like us are starting to seem while we had the chance twice, we are wasting them as if been killing both Muslims and Christians in many zons and participation for all without exception and mar- so naive. Media and social media have turned into paid we have a strong desire to slowly commit suicide. Arab and Muslim countries the very same way! ginalization of any party. The country is for all, and the — Translated by Kuwait Times — Translated by Kuwait Times coming danger is greater than what we think, if we do channels to promote such beliefs. It is as if the society is not change what we have inside ourselves and the socie- ty. The move must be well thought of and continuous, not as a reaction, and with the cooperation of all, headed by the government and officials to reach our goals. — Translated by Kuwait Times

Crime Report Homosexual starts fight in prison

KUWAIT: A homosexual female inmate at the central prison started a fight with a mother and her daughter after the mother protested the inmate’s harassment of her daughter. A security source said the mother was surprised that the homosexual inmate was repeatedly harassing her 29-year-old daughter. The mother and her daughter then confronted the inmate, but she instead started a fight in which other inmates participated by splitting into two sides. The fight ended with the inmate threatening to burn them and everyone who sided with her. The security source added the inmate is serving a five-year jail sentence for sexually molesting a female citizen and burning her with boiling water, while the 29-year-old daughter is there on a theft case.

Girl fight Ooredoo renovates Waha A fight between two women, a citizen and a Saudi woman, ended with them going to Riqqa police sta- tion, where both women were charged for fighting Family Park in Mishref and exchanging insults in Eqaila. Meanwhile, a citizen and an Egyptian woman fought over who among their children had priority over a playground in Jahra, which evolved to them exchanging blows and verbal insults. ‘Built with high standards to ensure residents’ comfort’ Both were taken to Jahra police station and were charged accordingly. KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, a member of guarantee the comfort and pleasurable the international Ooredoo Group, experience of visitors.” announced the completion of the reno- He also noted that the park is one of Arrested for prostitution vation of Waha Family Park in Mishref. the most vibrant parks in comparison to Residency department detectives arrested a Filipino man The park is one of the most-frequented its rivals. “We are happy that it can pro- who works for a health center and practiced indecent acts in the area and its sur- vide families with an there. A security source said the Filipino promoted his rounding suburbs, opportunity to have activity through social media and charged customers KD providing facilities for fun outdoors and 15 per hour and was later found in violation of the residen- all age groups. encourage them to cy law for a year. Detectives arrested him along with three Commenting on enjoy sports activities.” persons including a woman who work for the same center the renovation, Chairman of Mishref and were sent to the department of residency affairs. Ooredoo Corporate Cooperative Society Communications Abdulrahman Al-Qadiri Director Mijbil Alayoub expressed his apprecia- Beaten for talking too much said: “We’re always tion towards Ooredoo’s An Indian man justified his beating of his Egyptian seeking opportunities initiative to sponsor the neighbor because he talked too much. A security to give back to the renovation of the park, source said the Egyptian went to Fintas police station community, and this noting that the new with a medical report and told them he was attacked was one of the places park provides a space by his Indian neighbor. The Indian was charged with that we sponsored Mijbil Alayoub for residents to enjoy assault and is being questioned. since 2012. For the exercise and outdoor renovation, we worked with the activities for the entire family. The park Harassment Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of includes soccer fields, volleyball fields, Public Works and the Mishref tennis fields, and children playground A citizen was taken to Jleeb police station for harassing Cooperative Society to ensure all facili- areas. Additionally, there are shaded car another citizen in a Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh mall. A case was ties are built with high standards to parking areas and cold water fountains. filed for investigations. — Al-Rai TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

Gaza block still Congress back to work with looming deadline trying to recover from war Page 9 Page 8 Nuke talks enter knife-edge final act Few issues blocking historic accord VIENNA: The last act of high-stakes Iran nuclear atomic bomb all but impossible, in return for sanc- talks began yesterday with foreign ministers seek- tions relief. Iran denies wanting nuclear weapons, ing to resolve a few remaining issues blocking a saying its activities are purely for peaceful purposes historic accord on the eve of a final deadline. With such as generating electricity and treating cancer ministers back in Vienna on a 10th day of talks, patients. both sides warned however that success in their The deal, capping almost two years of roller- quest to nail down an agreement ending a 13- coaster talks following the 2013 election of Iranian year-old standoff was far from guaranteed. President Hassan Rouhani, would build on a frame- On Sunday, US Secretary of State John Kerry, in work accord reached in April in Switzerland. A final Vienna since July 27 facing off against his Iranian deal could also put Iran and the United States on counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, said “it is now the road to normalized relations-much to the time” to seal the deal. “While I completely agree... alarm of Iran’s regional rivals-after 35 years of enmi- that we have never been closer, at this point this ty and mistrust. Zarif said in an English YouTube negotiation could go either way,” he said, with talks message that an accord could “open new horizons “not yet where we need to be on several of the to address important common challenges”. He most difficult issues”. denounced the “growing menace of violent The point was rammed home by France’s extremism and outright barbarism” in an reference Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Germany’s Frank- to the Islamic State (IS) militant group-a common Walter Steinmeier and EU foreign policy chief enemy for Tehran and Washington. Federica Mogherini as they returned to Vienna late Sunday. “The main question is to know whether Tough issues the Iranians will accept making clear commitments Signs have emerged that some of the outstand- on what until now has not been clarified,” Fabius ing issues have been resolved by teams of experts, said, adding that “all the cards” were “now on the who are now waiting for the ministers to sign off table”. on their months of behind-the-scenes work. But the same tough issues that remain have bedeviled ‘Within reach’ the talks since the start. These include investigating Yesterday, an Iranian official said that Tehran allegations that in the past Iran sought nuclear has “made a number of concessions and “shown a weapons, finding a mechanism to lift the sanc- good amount of flexibility” and that “only a few tions, and ensuring Iran can continue to have a items.. need to be tackled by the ministers”. The modest, peaceful nuclear program. official, asking not to be identified, said however On Sunday, senior officials from the that “there are tough issues ... which were not International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flew to resolved at expert level or the deputy minister lev- Tehran for talks, following on the heels of the UN el, those are not easy issues.” watchdog’s chief Yukiya Amano on Thursday. Also present were Russian Foreign Minister Amano said on his return that the agency could Sergei Lavrov and China’s Wang Yi, who said yester- complete by the end of the year a stalled probe day that a “comprehensive agreement is within into allegations that before 2003, and possibly reach.” “What is important is that today and tomor- since, Iran had sought to develop nuclear arms. “I row all parties, especially the United States and think it would be very difficult to imagine Secretary Iran, should make their final decisions as quickly as Kerry at this point walking away, this close to the VIENNA: German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier (left), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (third left), China’s Foreign possible,” Wang said. The US, Russia, China, Britain, finish line,” Iran expert Suzanne Maloney from the Minister Wang Yi (fifth left), Federica Mogherini (center), High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, US France and Germany want Iran to sharply curb its Brookings Institution told AFP. “I just don’t think Secretary of State John Kerry (third right), British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (second right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov nuclear program to make any push to acquire the there’s any real likelihood that this collapses.” —AFP (right) sit around the table at the Palais Coburg Hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 Iraqi fighter jet accidentally bombs Baghdad

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi fighter jet acci- withdrawal of US troops. The Islamic dentally dropped a bomb over a State group controls large swaths of Baghdad neighborhood yesterday, the country’s north and west follow- killing at least 12 people on the ing a blitz last year when the militants ground, Iraqi officials said. The plane - captured Iraq’s second-largest city of one of several Russian-made Sukhois Mosul and the majority of the western used by Iraq in the fight against the Anbar province. Islamic State group - was returning to Also yesterday, separate attacks in base when the accident happened. and around Baghdad killed at least Military spokesman Brig Gen Saad seven people. The deadliest took Maan Ibrahim told The Associated place in Baghdad’s southern suburb of Press that a technical failure caused Arab Jabour when a booby-trapped the Sukhoi jet to drop the bomb, house exploded, killing three mem- which hit a number of houses in the bers of security forces and wounding Iraqi capital’s eastern neighborhood nine, a police officer said. In another of New Baghdad. Three children and attack, two soldiers were killed and two women were among the 12 killed, five hurt when mortar rounds hit their a police officer at the scene and a base in medical official at a nearby hospital Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, the said. At least 25 people were wound- officer said. And two civilians were ed, the two officials added. killed and six wounded in a bomb AP footage showed rescue teams in explosion at an outdoor market in orange jumpsuits and blue helmets the western Ghazaliyah neighbor- searching through the rubble for vic- hood. Medical officials confirmed tims. At least one victim was seen casualty figures. All officials spoke wrapped with a blanket and being on condition of anonymity as they rushed to an ambulance. Iraq is going were not authorized to release infor- through its worst crisis since the 2011 mation. —AP BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces search for survivors after a bombing in the eastern neighborhood. — AP Nuke deal could sharpen political tensions in Iran Gaza block still trying

VIENNA: A final deal to resolve the Iranian reform election candidates and so on,” said nuclear dispute could heighten domestic the former diplomat, who spoke on condi- to recover from war political tensions with two major elections tion of anonymity. looming in the Islamic Republic, analysts and officials said. Easing economic sanc- Rouhani in jeopardy? Caught in a living nightmare tions if a deal is reached will bolster Iran’s top post wields immense power, President Hassan Rouhani’s position with- controlling the judiciary, the security SHIJAIYAH, Gaza Strip: After weeks of sharing cramped in Iran’s complex power structure bringing forces, the Guardian Council which vets quarters with relatives during last year’s war between a political boost for liberal candidates in laws and election candidates, public Hamas and Israel, 39-year-old Mohammed Al-Selek 2016 elections for parliament and for the broadcasters and foundations that own thought nothing of it when he heard the incoming roar Assembly of Experts, a clerical body with much of the economy. If the pro-Rouhani of two mortar shells. But once a suffocating cloud of acrid nominal power over the supreme leader. camp wins the elections, it will be the first smoke filled the stairwell, his heart sank - the family’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali time in the history of the Islamic state that home had been struck by Israeli fire. Khamenei, who has the final say on all one faction controls all the key institu- Moments before, he had been enjoying a rare break, matters of state, has backed Rouhani’s tions. “It might even jeopardise Rouhani’s relaxing with a cup of tea and cookies as he marked the efforts to pursue a nuclear settlement and position. It might be the end of Rouhani’s end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The house his dealings with the United States so as honeymoon with Khamenei,” said analyst was filled with his children, nieces and nephews, and Al- to improve the parlous state of Iran’s econ- Mansour Marvi. Selek’s father had taken the restless kids to play up on the omy. But Khamenei, who took over in Iran has suffered under economic sanc- rooftop, where the family kept rabbits and chickens. 1989 from the founder of the Islamic tions for decades, and especially over the After the explosion, Al-Selek and his wife ran up the Republic late Ayatollah Ruhollah last three years, when much tighter US five flights of stairs to the roof and found a sight he still Khomeini, has also worked to ensure that and European measures drastically cut the struggles to comprehend. “We found an unbelievable no group, including among his own hard- oil exports that are the engine of its econ- scene - my children along with my father lying on the line allies, gains enough power to chal- omy. While a deal may improve the econo- ground,” said Al-Selek, recounting the horror to an lenge him. Khamenei will not want prag- my, many Iranians who supported Associated Press crew that revisited the neighborhood matist President Rouhani to gain too Rouhani’s 2013 election remain frustrated, recently. Caught in a living nightmare, he saw the blood- much power and influence ahead of the fearing that his diplomatic triumph is like- ied, mangled bodies of all three of his children, his 71- important elections, an Iranian official ly to put him on a shorter leash on internal year-old father, Abdul-Kareem, and six other relatives said. reforms and improvements in human lying next to the chicken coup and rabbit cages. Feathers “The leader has always made sure not rights. “Giving carte-blanche to Rouhani to and fur from the animals the children had begged their to give too much authority to any official carry out cultural and political reforms is grandfather to see shortly before were strewn every- because it will damage the political estab- not on the leader’s agenda,” said analyst where. lishment,” said the official, who asked not Hamid Farahvashian. to be named. “He is above all political fac- Deadliest incident tions and only acts based on Iran’s inter- Allies under pressure Al-Selek’s life changed forever that July 30. The Israeli ests.” Iran, the United States, Russia, China, There are already signs that the pen- strike on his home in Gaza’s Shijaiyah neighborhood, just GAZA CITY: In this Saturday, June 27, 2015 photo, Mohammed Al-Selek, 39, gives an interview to France, Britain and Germany are trying to dulum is swinging against Rouhani’s along the border with Israel, came at the height of the The Associated Press at his family house in the Shijaiyah neighborhood.— AP end a more than 12-year standoff over allies. Since February, Iran’s judiciary has fighting and was one of the deadliest single incidents Tehran’s nuclear program by striking an banned media from publishing the pic- during the entire conflict. Two AP reporters arrived in and outside to an ambulance, then he ran back to the based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. In a recent agreement to halt Iranian nuclear work in tures of reformist former president Shijaiyah after the final barrage of mortar strikes sub- roof and repeated the grim task, carrying the lifeless report on the war, the U.N. Human Rights Council return for sanctions relief. The West says Mohammad Khatami, whose support sided, leaving a scene of carnage and bloodshed. body of his youngest son, Abdul-Aziz. Grief overcame accused both Israel and Hamas of possible war crimes, Iran is seeking to build weapons but Iran was crucial to Rouhani’s election win. During the 50 days of war, which started July 8, more him when he saw the remains of his 8-year-old daugh- claiming attacks by both sides had endangered civilians. says its nuclear program is to produce Khatami ran foul of the establishment by than 2,200 Palestinians, including more than 1,400 civil- ter, Omeneya, but he could not carry her down. As he power. Negotiators from all sides are gath- supporting opposition leaders ians, were killed, according to UN figures. Seventy-three stepped out of the ambulance for a second time to get Picking up the pieces ering in Vienna in the hopes of striking a Mirhossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karoubi, people, including six civilians, were killed on the Israeli back to the roof, a white flash signaled a new barrage Nearly a year later, the people of Shijaiyah, one of deal by a self-imposed deadline of key figures in anti-regime street protests side. Because of the heavy casualty toll, Israel’s Military of shelling. He was knocked down and the explosion Gaza’s most densely populated and impoverished neigh- Tuesday. after the disputed 2009 presidential elec- Advocate General launched an investigation into the severed his right leg below the knee. He thought he borhoods, are still trying to pick up the pieces of their Rouhani, who represented Khamenei tion. The two men remain under house Shijaiyah incident. would die and he professed his faith before he cried lives, especially in hard-hit areas near the Israeli border. on the Supreme National Security Council arrest. The son of former president The report found that Israeli forces had come under out for help. Families like the Al-Seleks had thought they would be for over two decades, will continue to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, mortar fire from Palestinian militants in the area. Without By the time the shelling stopped, at least 30 people spared from the fighting - and even sheltered relatives enjoy Khamenei’s blessing as long as his another supporter of Rouhani, was given air surveillance available, they responded to the source of were dead, including 10 members of al-Selek’s extended from across Gaza because their block’s narrow alleyways growing prestige at home and abroad jail sentences in March on corruption fire, launching a total of 15 mortar shells over an 18- family - eight of them children. There is strong evidence were far from the front lines. does not threaten Khamenei’s authority, and security charges. A recent US gov- minute period, according to the report. The probe Hamas had used residential areas like Shijaiyah for cover “Nobody ever thought this neighborhood would be analysts say. An economic dividend could ernment report harshly criticized Iran’s cleared the military personnel of any wrongdoing, find- throughout the fighting, and AP reporters witnessed hit and I just don’t know how it happened,” said Bilal tip the balance of power in favour of human rights record, citing severe ing no evidence of criminal misconduct. rockets flying out of populated neighborhoods at times. Hmaid, who lost his 55-year-old father, Rajab, in the Rouhani, whose allies could well be restrictions on freedom of expression, Amid the chaos on that Shijaiyah rooftop, al-Selek The Israeli army says six militants were among those Shijaiyah shelling. Bilal, 22, chokes up, remembering that rewarded at the ballot box, to the detri- religion and the media as well as the said he first found his 5-year-old son, Abdul-Haleem, still killed in that airstrike, a claim denied by local residents. day. Once his father heard the shells hit, he rushed out to ment of other groups, including security country’s having the second-highest breathing among what he described as “piles of flesh “This is one of the most horrible crimes in Gaza,” said help his neighbors, only to be wounded himself by hawks close to Khamenei. “The deal will number of executions. with open skulls.” He rushed Abdul-Haleem downstairs Mohammed Al-Alami, a lawyer at the independent Gaza- another incoming shell, minutes later. —AP fuel domestic tension and pressure will Members of the Iranian opposition increase inside the country,” said Iran- abroad are losing hope for change based analyst Saeed Leylaz. because Rouhani has not met his promis- “There will be two powerful minorities es to create a freer society, including in the next parliament, reformists and con- loosening Internet restrictions. Access to IS courts Sunni tribes servatives. And one weak minority of social media remains officially blocked, hardline conservatives,” said Leylaz. “No though Rouhani and Khamenei have group will have the final say.” Inflation, their own Twitter accounts. “More inter- with carrot and stick unemployment and other economic hard- national recognition means more ships persuaded Khamenei to support domestic pressure inside Iran,” said Reza, Rouhani on the nuclear question, but suc- who has been living in exile in Europe BEIRUT: Wearing a white headscarf and a traditional bination of promises and threats, IS is working hard to Protection, grievances, fear cess in the early 2016 elections could be since 2010, when he was released from black cloak, the Iraqi tribal sheikh addressed his peers: win over the tribes, analysts say, but so far with mixed Haian Dukhan and Sinan Hawat, authors of a study on seen as a challenge to the leader’s authori- prison in Tehran for participating at 2009 “We’re all in the same boat, the (Islamic) State is our state.” results. Both countries are home to tribes from various IS’s relations with eastern Syria’s tribes, said three main ty, said a former senior Iranian diplomat. demonstrations. “I have no hope of “We say to our families that our swords and those of our sects and ethnicities, but IS considers non-Sunnis to be factors were at play. Those include “economic benefits “In order to clip his wings, pressure will returning,” said Reza, who would not give brothers, the soldiers of the (Islamic) State are directed heretics and has confined its outreach to fellow Sunnis. and protection... the fear factor, skillfully exploited and mount on Rouhani’s government in other his surname. “Rouhani will not or cannot against the same enemy,” he said in a video released by IS, In Syria, the country’s approximately 15 Sunni tribes mastered by IS,” and grievances “which make the tribes fields like human rights, disqualifying pro- change the situation.”—Reuters addressing some 30 tribal figures, some clutching account for some 15 percent of the population, though accept or tolerate IS in the face of a common enemy.” Kalashnikovs. many Syrian Sunnis are not affiliated with a tribe. In Iraq, IS’s focus on winning over tribal support follows in The sheikh from the Iraqi city of Ramadi which fell to there are no official numbers, but tribal allegiances are the footsteps of Syria’s former president Hafez al-Assad, IS on May 15 was one of several tribal leaders in Syria and important in many of the country’s provinces, particularly father and predecessor of President Bashar Al-Assad. Jordan says it has stopped Iraq who have pledged their support for the jihadist in the west and centre, as well as in northern Mosul. Under his rule, tribes were “co-opted” with official posts group. IS appears to have recognized the importance of Experts say IS has used a carrot-and-stick approach with and subsidies and “were part of the formidable populist Syria and Iraq’s Sunni Arab tribes early on as it seized con- Sunni Arab tribes in both countries, playing on local powers that shored up the regime,” Dukhan and Hawat Iran-backed bomb attack trol of large parts of both countries last year. Using a com- grievances but also exploiting fear. wrote. In exchange, they backed the government in confrontations with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood AMMAN: Jordanian authorities have Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign oper- movement and Kurds seeking autonomous rule. But the foiled a “terrorist” attack and arrested ations arm of its Revolutionary relationship withered with the economic opening over- an Iraqi man in possession of explo- Guards, is charged with carrying out seen by Bashar Al-Assad, which meant fewer state jobs sives said to have come from Iran’s missions abroad. Tehran is a key and rising resentment. “IS attempted to fill the gap cre- Revolutionary Guards, a judicial backer of Syrian President Bashar Al- ated by the withdrawal of the state. It provided an alter- source said yesterday. “Security serv- Assad, who has accused Jordan of aid- native structure of clientelism and patronage,” Dukhan ices thwarted a terrorist plan at the ing rebel groups fighting his forces in and Hawat wrote. The extremist group has also made last minute which was going to be Syria. Jordan is hosting a US-run pro- the cost of defiance high. In 2014, when the Sunni carried out by an Iraqi on behalf of gram to train Syrian rebels to fight Shaitat tribe rose up against the group, IS slaughtered Iran’s Quds Force,” the source told AFP, against the Islamic State group and more than 900 of its members in Deir Ezzor province. “It without providing further details. has said it is training some tribal subtly invites recruits either to choose the winning The suspect, whose name was not groups in Syria. horse or die,” the study said. Despite the incentives to given, was arrested in possession of There are fears that the normally join, and the consequences of failing to, Syria’s tribes 45 kilos of explosives in the northern peaceful kingdom could become have been divided in response to the group. “I challenge town of Jerash. The source did not say embroiled in the conflicts raging in you to find a clan or a tribe that has pledged allegiance when he was detained. He was due to neighboring Iraq and Syria. The last in its entirety to Daesh (IS) or (Al-Qaeda affiliate) Al- appear before the state security court major attack on Jordanian soil was in Nusra Front or the rebels,” Sheikh Nawaf Al-Mulhem, a later Monday, accused of “possessing 2005 when suicide bombers blasted PALMYRA: An image grab taken from a video made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat tribal leader and member of parliament from Syria’s cen- explosive material and planning ter- three hotels in Amman, killing and Homs on July 4, 2015 allegedly shows 25 Syrian government soldiers kneeling as, what tral Homs province, told AFP. “There are individuals who rorist acts”, the judicial source said. wounding dozens of people. — AFP appears to be children or teenagers, wearing desert camouflage walk beneath them in the support them, but they do not represent the whole ancient amphitheatre. — AFP tribe,” he said.—AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 GOP hopefuls compete for evangelical votes

MILNER, Georgia: Republican presidential candidates of the wedding chapel business after denying their Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee went head-to-head for services to two men who wanted to get married. The evangelical votes this weekend, telling a megachurch case, Cruz said, “is emblematic of the persecution that congregation in Georgia that God favors the United religious liberty and believers across this country.” He States but warning that the nation is on a perilous spiri- continued: “I will always, always, always stand and tual path because of actions like the Supreme Court defend the religious liberty of every American.” decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Huckabee, who enjoyed evangelical support on his ‘The revisionists’ way to winning eight states in his 2008 White House Huckabee said the Independence Day observances bid, called the ruling “radical” and “illegal.” “I want to were an opportunity to reject “the revisionists” who say serve notice that the Supreme Court is just the supreme of the American founders: “They really were not believ- of the court system that is one of the three equal ers.” The ordained Baptist minister argued: “There is sim- branches of government,” Huckabee told hundreds of ply no other explanation ... God had to bless America or members of Rock Springs Church in a rural area outside we would not exist. The question is will God continue to metro Atlanta. “It is not the supreme branch, and it bless America without our repentance.” most certainly is not the supreme being.” Rev Benny Tate, pastor of the 6,000-member Rock Cruz, the Texas senator, said a five-justice majority Springs congregation, joked about the attention. “Our “ignored the text of the Constitution” and said the cas- zip code is E-I-E-I-O,” he said, “and we’ve got two presi- cade of judicial and public support for same-sex mar- dential candidates. How about that?” But the minister is riage threatens religious liberty in America. He said he also a serious player in Republican politics, with many hopes the ruling “serves as a spark, to start a fire that Georgia politicians, and now national ones, courting his becomes a raging inferno as the body of Christ stands public approval, if not his explicit endorsement. up to defend the values that have built America.” Tate told the assembly that Huckabee, as Arkansas governor, signed “a ban on partial-birth abortion,” Important bloc referring to the termination of late-term pregnancies. Their appearance on Sunday at the megachurch He hailed Cruz for “standing against the Democratic about 50 miles south of downtown Atlanta is part of Party ... and even against the Republican Party.” the early, concerted scramble for the conservative IOWA: In this file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Sen Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a Despite the emphasis on faith, Huckabee’s loudest evangelicals who remain an important bloc of the GOP “Celebrate the 2nd Amendment Event”.— AP applause came when he lauded his “fair tax” proposal presidential electorate. Christian conservatives have that he said “would allow us to, once and for all, abol- long held considerable influence in Iowa, which hosts March 1, 2016, vote falls after the traditional first four The Sunday event was a belated Independence Day ish the IRS.” Cruz, meanwhile, drew some of his most the first caucus of the primary season, and in South states and ahead of the usual “Super Tuesday” states. observance that also featured The Charlie Daniels Band enthusiastic reactions when he declared, “I’m con- Carolina, home of the South’s first primary a few weeks Huckabee, whose 2008 wins included Iowa and and Jep Robertson, one of the members of the cable vinced 2016 will be a referendum on repealing later. Georgia, has called the Southern-dominated primary television “Duck Dynasty” family. For Cruz and Obamacare,” President Barack Obama’s signature Now, Georgia and several other Southern states get date “manna from heaven.” But Cruz and others - Rick Huckabee, it might as well have been a county fair in health care law. A few minutes earlier, the assembly more frequent visits from presidential hopefuls ahead Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, retired neuro- Iowa, with an added opportunity to speak openly and passed offering plates for the church’s clinics, which of the planned “SEC primary,” named for the surgeon Ben Carson - are making hard runs for the passionately in their preferred evangelical tones. Cruz Tate said provide “free health care” to residents in Southeastern Conference of college athletics. The same bloc of support. told the story of an Iowa couple he said were driven out dozens of surrounding counties. —AP

Blacks emotionally torn for Charleston shooter

CHARLESTON: Under an outdoor tent a few Americans identify as Christians more than any blocks from Emanuel African Methodist other group in the United States. According to Episcopal Church, Sharon Simmons paused the Pew Research Center, nearly 80 percent of while cleaning up from the previous night’s blacks identified as Christian in 2014, compared revival to ponder the idea of forgiving the white with 77 percent of Hispanics and 70 percent of man accused of killing nine of the historic black non-Hispanic whites. A smaller number of church’s members, including the pastor. blacks, 18 percent, identified as agnostic, atheist A churchgoer herself, Simmons admits feel- or “nothing in particular,” compared with 24 per- ing torn between her anger and her Christian cent of whites and 20 percent of Hispanics. inclination to forgive. She also adds that she’s a Beyond religious purposes, experts say, firm believer in capital punishment. “Too many immediate forgiveness probably helped to fore- lives are gone,” the 57-year-old former New stall reactionary violence in Charleston, denying Yorker says. Roof the race war that police said he told them Many African-Americans are struggling with he wanted to start. Charleston remained peace- those same feelings as the nation begins to ful after the killings at Emanuel, a stark contrast move past the tragedy in Charleston. Although to the violence that broke out in Ferguson, many say their religious faith requires them to Missouri, and Baltimore after the deaths of black forgive, there is a question of whether a public men in encounters with police. narrative of quick forgiveness actually provides cover for whites to avoid facing racism. Evil acts The Rev Norvel Goff, interim pastor succeed- ‘Forget the past’ ing the late Rev Clementa Pinckney at Emanuel, “It’s almost like white America is telling us, said self-preservation is also a motive - forgiving ‘Help us to forget the past by telling us that you does more for the person who is hurting than forgive us,’ “said Raymond Winbush, director of the one who caused the pain. “We’re not in con- the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State trol of those who may commit evil acts, but we University in Baltimore. Just one day after the are in control of how we respond to it,” Goff said. June 17 massacre at Emanuel, Chris Singleton, Such was the sentiment of Martin Luther the college student son of victim Sharonda King Jr’s father and sister as they forgave King’s Coleman-Singleton, said he forgave his mother’s killer James Earl Ray, and Marcus Chenault, who killer. The following day, family members of the shot and killed King’s mother, Alberta Williams dead joined the first court hearing for the sus- King, in 1974 as she played the organ during pected killer, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, and told Sunday services at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist him via videoconference that they, too, forgave Church. “Hate won’t bring my mother or brother WASHINGTON: In this June 29, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama smiles after the signing ceremony for HR 2146 Defending Public Safety him - even as some acknowledged also feeling back. It would only destroy me,” Christine King Employees Retirement Act and HR 1295 Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 in the East Room of the White House. — AP angry and hurt. Farris told JET magazine in 1984. “Everyone’s plea for your soul is proof that Myrlie Evers-Williams, former NAACP national they lived in love, and their legacies will live in chairwoman, said she was moved to tears to see Congress back to work love. So hate won’t win,” said Alana Simmons, the Emanuel families speak immediately of for- granddaughter of Emanuel victim, the Rev. giveness. She said forgiveness was a lengthy Daniel Simmons. Similarly, forgiveness was process for her. Harboring thoughts of extended in recent days after several Southern vengeance for the 1963 murder of her husband, black churches burned down in a spate of fires, NAACP leader Medgar Evers, motivated her with looming deadline some of which were deemed suspicious. activism, but for her own peace she eventually “We’ve already forgiven them, and we want let it go. “The hatred has ended up as a motiva- Funding fight to be major partisan brawl to move forward,” the Rev. Mannix Kinsey, pastor tional tool, and the forgiveness has been a salva- of Briar Creek Road Baptist Church in Charlotte, tion for me,” said Evers-Williams. Historically, WASHINGTON: Members of Congress return today from “We’re seven years overdue” for a rewrite, said Sen. ing for the military but not domestic agencies, have so far North Carolina, told WBTV. “And we are hoping Winbush said, African-Americans have been July Fourth fireworks and parades facing a daunting sum- Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, the bill’s chief sponsor. The refused. this is an opportunity for Christ to show himself expected to forgive for slavery, discrimination, mer workload and an impending deadline to fund the House also is moving forward with its own, Republican- in their hearts.” Those who extend forgiveness Jim Crow segregation, attacks by the Ku Klux government or risk a shutdown in the fall. The funding written education overhaul bill, revived after leadership Forcing negotiations say they are not naive in doing so. Some say they Klan and police violence. By meeting that expec- fight is shaping up as a major partisan brawl against the had to pull it earlier this year when conservatives revolt- If there’s no resolution by Sept 30, the government are still a working at it, and they make clear that tation, he said, “in one sense we aid and abet backdrop of an intensifying campaign season, with ed. Even if both bills pass, though, it’s uncertain whether will enter a partial shutdown. It’s an outcome all involved forgiveness is not the only emotion they have those who would commit those crimes.” Republicans eager to avoid another Capitol Hill mess as Congress will be able to agree on a combined version to say they want to avoid. Yet Democrats who watched about the racial events that are unfolding. Ansley M LaMar, a professor at New Jersey they struggle to hang onto control of Congress and take send to President Barack Obama. Indeed the prospects Republicans pay a steep political price for forcing a partial “It makes us angry. It makes some of us want City University, pointed out that the civil rights back the White House next year. for any major legislative accomplishments arriving on shutdown over Obama’s health care law in 2013 - and to explode,” the Rev Jonathan V Newton said movement was born out of anger, but the non- Already they are deep into the blame game with Obama’s desk in the remainder of the year look slim, come within hours of partially shutting down the Wednesday during midweek services at violence and forgiveness it espoused is what Democrats over who would be responsible if a shutdown though there’s talk of the Senate following the House and Department of Homeland Security this year - claim confi- Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, which people remember about it most. “There was an does happen, with House Speaker John Boehner moving forward on cybersecurity legislation. dence they have the upper hand in forcing negotiations. has increased security at its historic sanctuary understanding that there was a community of denouncing Democrats’ “dangerously misguided strate- That means that even though Obama was so buoyed “Given that a Democratic president needs to sign any- since the Charleston killings. But forgiveness is black people who were not going to take it if it gy” and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi accusing when Congress sent him a major trade bill last month thing and you need Democratic votes in both chambers, “not about that person, it’s about you,” Newton kept on happening,” LaMar said. “So being for- Boehner and his Republicans of pursuing “manufactured that he declared “This is so much fun, we should do it the writing is on the wall here,” said Pelosi spokesman said. “In order for you to be free, you’ve got to let giving doesn’t mean being a wimp. It doesn’t crises.” The funding deadline does not even arrive until again,” he may not get his wish. But all issues are likely to Drew Hammill. Republicans insist Democrats are running it out.” mean, white folks, you can walk all over me. It Sept 30, but lawmakers face more immediate tests, too. be overshadowed by the government funding fight and a risk by opposing spending bills for priorities like troop One factor at play is that forgiveness is a means I forgive you, but I’m not going to let this Near the top of the list is renewing highway funding suspense over how - or if - a shutdown can be avoided. funding - but are not yet discussing how they will pro- strong Christian tradition, and African- happen again.” —AP before the government loses authority July 31 to send Democrats are pledging to oppose the annual spending ceed if Democrats don’t back down. As a result it looks much-needed transportation money to the states right in bills to fund government agencies unless Republicans sit likely current funding levels could be temporarily extend- the middle of summer driving season. down with them to negotiate higher spending levels for ed beyond Sept 30 to allow more time to negotiate a Legislative maneuvering over the highway bill may domestic agencies. Republicans, who want more spend- solution. — AP also create an opening to renew the disputed federal Export-Import Bank, which makes and underwrites loans to help foreign companies buy US products. The bank’s Protesters warn Obama against charter expired June 30 due to congressional inaction, a defeat for business and a victory for conservative activists supporting gay rights in Kenya who turned killing the obscure agency into an anti-gov- ernment cause celebre. NAIROBI: Kenyan anti-gay protesters marched in Nairobi Kenya, we will stand for our faith and our country.” Ruto yesterday warning US President Barack Obama not to made similar comments in May when US Secretary of Reject any deal speak about gay rights when he visits the country of his State John Kerry visited Kenya. Depending on the progress of the Obama administra- ancestors later this month. “We do not want Obama and Homophobia is prevalent in many African countries tion’s nuclear negotiations with Iran, lawmakers could Obama, we do not want Michelle and Michelle,” they and gay sex remains illegal in several nations, including face debate on that issue, too. Leading Republicans have chanted. “We want Obama and Michelle and we want a Kenya where it was outlawed under British colonial legis- made clear that they are prepared to reject any deal the child!” “It is important for us as Kenyans to know that the lation. The march yesterday was organized by the administration comes up with. Sen Bob Corker, chairman US is not God,” said protest organizer and evangelical Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, a coalition of several of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday: “Well, Christian pastor Bishop Mark Kariuki. churches. Obama’s visit later this month will be his fourth we have gone from dismantling their program to manag- Kariuki said Obama was welcome to visit “his father’s to Africa since becoming US president, but his first to ing proliferation. That’s the biggest concern. That’s home” but should not “talk about the gay issue.” The Kenya since taking office in 2009. He will also travel to already done.” Corker, R-Tennsaid on CBS’s “Face the demonstration drew around 100 people, wearing T-shirts Ethiopia. Pro-gay rights activists warned of rising intoler- Nation” that he has told Secretary of State John Kerry: and waving posters with the slogan “Protect The Family”. ance in Kenya, including attacks on homosexuals and “‘Look, you create just as much of a legacy walking away It came a day after Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto, alleged cases of lesbians being raped to “cure” them. “The from a bad deal as you do headlong rushing into bad who is on trial at the International Criminal Court in The anti gay movement is spreading to Kenya... cases of dis- deal.’” On a less partisan note, the Senate opens its legisla- Hague accused of crimes against humanity, told worship- crimination and violence are increasing because of the tive session this week with consideration of a major pers at a church service that homosexuality was “against very homophobic speeches,” said lawyer Erik Gitari, from bipartisan education overhaul bill that rewrites the the plan” of God. “We have heard that in the US they have the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. CHARLESTON: In this June 21, 2015, file photo, Rev. Norvel Goff prays at the empty much-maligned No Child Left Behind law by shifting allowed gay relations and other dirty things,” Ruto said, “Obama has been associated with equality and liberation, seat of the Rev Clementa Pinckney at the Emanuel AME Church four days after a responsibility from the federal government to the states according to the Daily Nation newspaper. “I want to say being the first black US president. They are afraid that he mass shooting that claimed the lives of Pinckney and eight others. — AP for public school standards. as a Christian leader that we will defend our country will preach equality here,” said Gitari. INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

Pope wraps up first day of South American trip

QUITO: Pope Francis wrapped up the first day Before leaving the airport, the pope reported- Francis, the first Jesuit pope, will give a of a grueling three-nation South American ly allowed fans to take selfies with him. Then Holy Mass to be broadcast in eight lan- trip Sunday after greeting tens of thousands after nightfall, he made a surprise appearance guages in the southwestern city of of jubilant people who lined the streets of to bless the faithful crowded outside the Holy Guayaquil. “I love the pope’s sermons. I am Quito. The journey, which will also see Francis See’s diplomatic mission where he is staying, among those who admire Saint Francis of travel to Bolivia and Paraguay, is the first visit and used a megaphone to implore the crowd Assisi, and I love him because he is authentic,” by a pontiff to Ecuador in three decades. to go home “and let others sleep.” said homemaker Maria Criolla, 44, speaking The pope’s spokesman estimated that The papal visit coincides with a time of in front of a church in Quito. Criollo, whose 500,000 people massed in the capital and political tension in Ecuador, with Correa facing grandson bears the pope’s name, plans to thronged the roadsides to catch a glimpse of growing calls to leave by some of the biggest sleep in the capital’s Bicentennial Park yester- the pontiff as he took his Popemobile into the anti-government demonstrations to shake the day to make sure she misses nothing of a city, waving and smiling to the jubilant country in recent years. Pope Francis, who reg- mass today expected to draw three million crowds. Some threw confetti and danced as ularly wades into political issues, urged Correa faithful. Francis will also meet Bolivian leader he cruised past, others waved the flag of to promote “dialogue and participation with- Evo Morales and Paraguay’s President Argentina, the pope’s home nation. out exclusions.” Turning to the dominant Horacio Cartes. The 78-year-old pontiff had jetted in a theme of his eight-day visit, he added: short while earlier aboard an Alitalia passen- “Progress and development must ensure a Falling numbers ger plane, in a sign of the austere simplicity he better future for all, paying special attention to Since he was elected pope in March 2013, has sought to bring to his office. Still smiling our most vulnerable brothers and the most Francis has become an outspoken advocate despite losing his skull cap just seconds after vulnerable minorities, which are the debt that for the poor and on social and environmental emerging from his plane and as the winds ruf- Latin America still has.” Vatican spokesman issues. Last month, he urged the world to act fled his cassock, he was met on the tarmac by Federico Lombardi meanwhile told reporters quickly to prevent “extraordinary” climate a beaming Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa that Francis has “the spiritual culture and QUITO: Pope Francis greets Ecuadorean natives upon arrival at the Mariscal Sucre change from destroying the planet. Francis and the pair shared a warm embrace. social awareness characteristic of Latin international airport. — AFP also called for “solidarity and peaceful coexis- America.” tence” in Colombia and Venezuela. Bogota is Holy diplomatic mission mass at the end of a Catholic youth festival. seven flights covering a total of 24,000 kilo- seeking to end a decades-old leftist insur- Indigenous children wearing traditional ‘Authentic’ Most of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics hail meters. All three of the countries he is visiting gency, while Caracas is struggling with politi- outfits lined the lengthy red carpet, while an The pope’s last visit to South America was from Latin America, despite the rising popu- are predominantly Catholic and have been cal and economic upheaval. It is his ninth trip orchestra played. Francis shook the children’s a triumphant trip to Brazil in 2013 that culmi- larity of evangelical beliefs and practices in marked by a long history of poverty and abroad but only the second visit to Ecuador hands or kissed each of them, as a consider- nated with three million people gathering in recent years. During the trip, Francis is due to inequality mostly afflicting indigenous popu- by a pope. John Paul II traveled to the coun- able security detail kept at a discreet distance. Rio de Janeiro along Copacabana beach for a deliver no fewer than 22 speeches and catch lations. try in 1985. — AFP

Eurasian security summit to discuss spreading IS threat

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian country. President Vladimir Putin and other leaders will Last month the Taleban warned the leader discuss the threat the Islamic State group poses of IS group against waging a parallel insur- in Afghanistan at a Eurasian security summit in gency in Afghanistan, after reported clashes Russia this week, a Chinese official said yester- between militants loyal to the two groups. day. Xi travels to the Russian city of Ufa for a Afghanistan has “observer” status in the SCO, summit on Thursday and Friday of leaders of along with India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), according to the group’s website. which groups China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Security co-operation It will be preceded by a meeting of leaders The summit will begin procedures for India of the BRICS group of emerging economies- and Pakistan to join the group as full members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. after their candidatures were approved last “Due to the spillover effect of the Islamic State year, Cheng said. The acceptance of the terrorist activities, Afghanistan now faces a nuclear-armed rivals-which have fought three grim security situation,” Chinese vice foreign wars since independence from Britain in 1947 minister Cheng Guoping told reporters. SCO and jockey for influence in Afghanistan-would leaders “will certainly have in-depth discussions mark the SCO’s first expansion since its incep- on the Afghan issue”, he added. “And they will tion in 2001. Cheng shrugged off any concerns talk further about how to respond to the securi- over their tense relations, saying membership ty situation there.” “will not only help the organization become China is seeking business interests in better but will also play a productive role in Afghanistan and is sensitive to any spillover of promoting friendly relations between the two Islamic-inspired extremism from the country, countries”. He also said that China remained on which has a short border with its mostly guard against the East Turkestan Islamic Muslim western region of Xinjiang. Movement (ETIM) it says foments unrest in Afghanistan’s militant Taleban are seeking to Xinjiang among the region’s ethnic Uighurs, halt defections to IS after some insurgents though many analysts outside China have adopted its flag to rebrand themselves as a questioned whether any large scale organiza- more lethal force as NATO troops depart the tion of the kind exists.—AFP LONDON: A memorial dedicated to the 52 people that were killed during the 7/7 terror attacks in London is cleaned in London’s Hyde Park. —AFP photos Touched by tragedy: Survivors Butchery in Nigeria’s Jos and siblings recall 7/7 terror adds pressure on Buhari JOS: At least 44 people were killed in twin and injured from the shooting and the explo- bomb blasts in the central Nigerian city of Jos, sion. “It was a miracle I escaped because I can’t Angry, grief stricken and scarred the emergency services said yesterday, after a explain how it happened.” Daybreak showed the wave of mass casualty attacks blamed on Boko mosque pockmarked with bullet holes and LONDON: To lose your sister. Your son. Your legs. Ten Haram militants. Sunday’s bombings took the stained with blood, while footwear, books and years after the suicide bombings that killed 52 people on death toll from raids, explosions and suicide other personal items were strewn on the the London transport network, survivors and the loved attacks to 267 this month alone and to 524 since ground. ones of those who died are still angry, grief stricken and Muhammadu Buhari became president on May scarred. But they share a resolve to move forward, to 29, according to an AFP count. Restaurant attacked deny the extremists victory by getting on with their lives. The former army general has repeatedly The second attack targeted the packed Here are a few of their recollections about the day the vowed to crush the Islamists and is eyeing the Shagalinku restaurant in a shopping complex capital’s morning commute was rocked by bombings deployment of a strengthened regional force at on the Bauchi Road, which is popular with trav- that crippled three Underground trains and ripped the the end of this month to deliver a hammer blow. elers from the northeast. Local resident top off a double-decker bus. But with the death toll rising, attacks increasing Mohammed Shafi’i, who is a regular at the and the military seemingly unable to prevent restaurant, said the whole neighborhood shook My second life attacks on civilians, he will be under pressure to from the blast and he counted 25 bodies, On July 7, 2005, Gill Hicks boarded the Underground act fast. including four waitresses. at King’s Cross and observed etiquette unique to the “The restaurant was badly damaged. Bits of Tube. Commuters stand millimeters from other passen- Mosque hit human flesh, blood stains, plastic tables and gers without really looking at them. She didn’t notice the Sunday’s blasts happened within minutes of chairs and all sorts of personal items litter the bomber. But she knows now she was standing inches each other at a shopping complex and near a place,” he said. The carnage in Jos followed a sui- from him when he detonated his backpack on the mosque in the religiously divided capital of cide attack on a church in the northeastern city Piccadilly Line. “I think there’s a very clear demarcation Plateau state, which the rebels have targeted of Potiskum on Sunday, which left five people line,” said Hicks, who lost both legs below the knee. “So before. “At the moment we have 44 dead bodies dead, including the pastor, a woman and her for me July 7, 2005, was the end of life number one, and and 47 others injured from the scenes of the two two children. everything I knew in life number one, and the beginning attacks,” Mohammed Abdulsalam, from the Last week, Islamist militants fighters raided a of a very fortunate position to have the gift of a second National Emergency Management Agency number of villages around the Lake Chad area, life.” Life number two began when Hicks awoke in the (NEMA) told AFP. killing more than 150 worshippers as they hospital. Chillingly, her arm bracelet labeled her “One Umar Abubakar, who was at the Yantaya prayed in mosques. Buhari said on Sunday that Unknown.” She said it made her see the brilliance of Gill Hicks, (left) a survivor of the 7/7 London terror attacks, embraces police constable Andrew mosque for the “Tafsir” or Quran commentary Boko Haram, which has allied itself to the humanity, as she had been rescued in dangerous condi- Maxwell outside Kings Cross Station. session, said a number of attackers opened fire Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, had tions from wreckage miles underground. from outside at about 9:20 pm (2020 GMT). “declared war on all that we value”. He promised “What those words said to me on my arm bracelet London. Her sister Miriam, 32, who had worked as a pic- will use the program, giving young people an alternative “They fire an RPG (rocket propelled grenade) at to do “everything possible to eradicate Boko was that people risked their lives to come and save one ture researcher in publishing, was on her way to a meet- narrative to extremism. Really, it’s all about choices. And the mosque but it hit a metal bar on the facade Haram, terrorism and mindless extremism from unknown - to come and save as many one unknowns as ing in the capital. She had been evacuated from the making the right ones. “They took away Miriam’s life,” and exploded,” he said. “Many people were killed Nigeria in the shortest possible time”.—- AFP they could.” she said. “And to me that is humanity, underground after one of the explosions. Her father Esther said. “But they cannot take away the time we had because they weren’t selective. It didn’t matter whether I managed to speak with her briefly. She told him she with her and what we choose to do in response to losing had wealth or no wealth. Whether I had a faith or no would stop and take breather before deciding whether her in that way.” faith. What the color of my skin was. Indeed what my to go to the meeting. When they hadn’t heard from her gender was. Nothing mattered other than I was a pre- by that evening, the family became agitated. Soon they It is never over cious human life.” were putting up missing posters and visiting hospitals. Stavros Marangos remembers the silence. One of Hicks, 47, went from being a workaholic designer to a Four days elapsed before they learned the truth - that the first London Fire Brigade members to respond to motivational speaker who also runs the charity M.A.D.P she had jumped on a bus targeted in the attacks. In the the bus attack in Tavistock Square, he was struck by (Making a Difference) for Peace. The organization tries to years that followed, Esther, now 46, considered her how the usual traffic, bustle and chatter had disap- connect people globally and encourage them to think of options. She had to make a decision. peared - replaced only by sirens wailing in the distance. peace as a verb - an act of individual responsibility “Am I going to allow this to beat me? Am I going to “There was just an eerie quiet,” he said. His superiors accomplished daily. Hicks said people have a responsibil- lose my life as well? Am I going to allow them to terrorize warned that there might be secondary explosive ity to unite against global extremism and destructive me, as they wish to do, into submission?” Esther said. “Or devices, and said that anyone who didn’t want to get ideologies. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t angry. She’s am I going to survive, with my sanity intact and do every- off the fire engine was free to stay. No one did. “It was furious in fact. She wonders how the taking of her legs thing within my arms reach to address what happened?” like a scene from a war film,” he said. “There were and the loss of innocent lives has furthered anyone’s Caving in wasn’t really an option. “Mim would not unidentifiable body parts strewn all over the place.” cause. She tries to use the anger as fuel for her projects - approve,” she said. The family established a trust and One person was still alive on the bus, but there were no jet propellant to keep her motivated and moving for- equipped the Miriam Hyman Children’s Eye Care Center more stretchers. Crews used the top of a desk to move ward. She believes she has no choice but to celebrate the in Odisha, India. It seemed fitting to the family, because the survivor into the courtyard of the nearby British fact that she is here - every day. “As I stand here before Miriam got glasses as a teenager and was shocked at Medical Association, where doctors had gathered to you now, I can’t feel the ground,” she said of the sensa- what she had been missing. She was very visual, and was help the injured. tion of hovering on artificial limbs. “I’ve had to learn how fascinated to better see things in nature, such as the intri- Ten years on, he can’t get it out of his head. “Day to to accept that I can’t feel the ground, but I am still cacy of leaves. day, when you are busy, when you are engaged doing upright. And that’s a real ongoing skill, a new skill that Together with the University College London things, it’s way in the background. But every now and I’ve had to learn over the last 10 years.” Institute of Education, the trust has also developed an again, it just creeps up,” he said. “I’d like to give you a educational program that uses Miriam’s story and her quotation I heard from a film about the Detroit Fire ‘Am I going to allow them to terrorize me?’ family’s reaction to her death to prevent young people Department. There was a 32-year veteran who was JOS: The burnt First African Church Mission of Jos is pictured yesterday in the central Nigerian Esther Hyman was at work as a medical secretary in from being drawn into extremism of any kind. Launched retiring and he coined the phrase ‘I wish my head could city of Jos, Plateau State, after a twin bomb blasts killed at least 44 people the day before, fol- Oxford when she heard “something was going on” in this week, the trust hopes educators around the world forget what my eyes have seen.’”— AP lowing a wave of mass casualty attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants. —AFP

INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

China to snub arbitration hearing with Philippines

MANILA: China is standing pat on its case. The days long hearings are crucial start a war with the Philippines over the shoal, at times using water cannons in Vietnam also have territorial claims in decision to reject arbitration by an inter- because the Philippines’ complaint long-contested territories. “I cannot imag- actions that the Philippine government the busy waters, which are among the national tribunal that will begin formal against China could no longer be heard if ine that China would wage a war against has condemned and protested, Filipino world’s busiest. Tensions flared in hearings this week to resolve a long- the tribunal declares it has no jurisdiction the Philippines over what is happening in officials said. recent months after the Philippines and seething feud with the Philippines over over the case. the South China Sea. It is not China’s poli- In its complaint, the Philippines other claimant countries discovered the South China Sea, Beijing’s ambassador Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua cy and will not be China’s policy,” he said. asked the tribunal to declare China’s so- that China had undertaken massive to Manila said yesterday. The five-member told reporters in Manila that his govern- called “nine-dash line” territorial claim island-building in seven reefs and atolls tribunal starts hearings in The Hague on ment would stick to its decision not to Manila’s bold move over much of the South China Sea in a disputed region called the Spratlys. Tuesday to address China’s contention participate in the arbitration and instead The Philippines brought its disagree- invalid under the United Nations Washington and several other govern- that the arbitration body does not have renewed China’s offer to resolve the con- ments with China to international arbitra- Convention on the Law of the Sea. The ments have expressed alarm and asked authority to assume jurisdiction over flict through one-on-one negotiations tion in January 2013, a year after Chinese Philippine government has also asked Beijing to stop the massive off-shore Manila’s complaint against Beijing. with the Philippines. “Our position is con- coast guard ships took effective control of the tribunal to declare the extent of ter- construction. But China has argued that A high-level delegation that includes sistent. We’ll not accept nor participate in the disputed Scarborough Shoal follow- ritorial waters that can be accorded to it has a right to undertake any activity the Philippines’ solicitor-general and the the arbitration,” Zhao said. “Our door for ing a tense standoff with Filipino ships. at least eight islands, reefs and atolls in territories it says it has owned since heads of the foreign, defense and justice bilateral consultation and negotiation is Manila’s bold move has angered Beijing under Chinese control in the disputed ancient times, adding that the artificial departments, along with Washington- still open and will be open forever.” and strained relations. Chinese coast territory in a bid to limit Beijing’s reach islands would benefit fishermen but based lawyers hired by Manila, have flown Responding to a question from a reporter, guard ships have since been driving away in scattered areas of it. would also be used for China’s to The Hague to argue the Philippines’ Zhao reiterated that China would never Filipino and other fishermen from the Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and defense.— AP

UNESCO title for industry sites draws mixed reaction in Japan

TOKYO: Japanese officials yesterday cele- reflected as they are,” he said. Japanese brated the UN cultural body’s approval of officials expressed their delight with the world heritage status for 23 historic sites UNESCO listings, which include showing the country’s transformation Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island,” a for- from feudal isolation into an industrial mer coal mine on a fortress island off power at the end of the 19th century. Japan’s southwest coast. Kenji Kitahayashi, Seoul portrayed the decision as a diplo- the mayor of Kitakyushu, a city where the matic win after Japan also agreed to Yawata steel mill, which used thousands of acknowledge its history of forcing tens of forced laborers, is located, said the value thousands of South Koreans, Chinese and of places that “became the driving force of World War II prisoners of war to work at Japan’s industrial development has gained dozens of factories, mines and other global recognition.” industrial facilities, conscripted to fill labor shortages especially toward the end of the Reflect history war. China called for a better accounting Japan’s foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, from Tokyo on its past forced labor prac- said in a statement that Japan would “sin- tices. cerely address the recommendations by Though the number of survivors is the International Council on Monuments dwindling, some of those who endured and Sites,” which asked that Japan starvation, abuse by their captors and acknowledge that foreign workers were bombardment are still seeking redress, or forced to labor at many of the sites and at least apology. Until recently, Seoul had that its exhibits reflect the entire history of objected to the listing by the UNESCO those places. But Kishida emphasized that World Heritage Committee unless the role Japan had not budged in its stance that of Korean prisoners forced to work at the any issues related to compensation, sites during World War II was formally rec- including forced labor, were settled ognized. The two countries sparred for decades ago. weeks but eventually reached a compro- China’s official Xinhua News Agency cit- mise that finessed the issue. It is unlikely ed Beijing’s UNESCO envoy as questioning to entirely finish it, however. Japan’s recognition of that past. “There “Japan is prepared to take measures still lacks an adequate account from Japan SYDNEY: Indigenous Australian performers hold a smoking ceremony to open NAIDOC Week, a national program that celebrates the National that allow an understanding that there of the whole facts surrounding the use of Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee yesterday which grew from the first political groups seeking rights for Aboriginal and Torres were a large number of Koreans and oth- forced labor,” it cited Zhang Xiuqin, the Strait Island Australians in the 1920s. —AFP ers who were brought against their will UNESCO ambassador, as saying. She urged and forced to work under harsh conditions Japan to ensure that “the sufferings of in the 1940s at some of the sites,” the each and every one of the forced laborers Australia closer to referendum Japanese delegation said in a statement. are remembered, and their dignity South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung- upheld.” China’s Foreign Ministry spokes- se said the country was pleased that the woman Hua Chunying said yesterday at a recognizing Aboriginal people sites were recognized “in the form that regular briefing that “Japan should win takes account of our legitimate concerns.” trust from its Asian neighbors and the “We have achieved our principle and international community with practical ‘The time is right to move down this path’ position that historical truths must be actions.” — AP SYDNEY: Australia moved closer to recognizing discussions, we consider that the referendum could A chance to right a wrong Aboriginal people in its constitution yesterday after not be held before the next term of parliament and Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson called yesterday’s dis- talks with indigenous leaders, Prime Minister Tony should be outside the politics of the election cycle,” cussions “historic and terribly meaningful” while Kirstie Abbott said as he urged an end to the “echoing silence” they said in a joint statement. Parker, from the National Congress of Australia’s First in the founding document. Written more than a centu- “We agree the referendum should be held when Peoples, said the meeting had been constructive. “We ry ago, Australia’s constitution fails to mention there is the best possible chance of success.”Both believe that this process must bring about substantial Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people and a cam- politicians also agreed to a broad national conversa- recognition, we don’t believe that symbolic change is paign has been underway for several years to “recog- tion on the issue, and proposed a series of community enough,” she told reporters after the talks. nize” the continent’s first inhabitants via a referendum. conferences across the country starting as soon as Abbott has prioritized improving the lives of “I am confident that the time is right to move down September. They also plan a referendum council indigenous Australians, who have significantly lower this path,” Abbott said after unprecedented bipartisan broadly reflective of the Australian people to consider life expectancies than others in the country, with many talks in Sydney with some 40 indigenous leaders and the referendum question, timing and constitutional living in remote and poor communities. He said he Labor opposition leader Bill Shorten. “I think that there issues. No timeframe was settled but Abbott said he would spend a week running the country in August is an abundance of good will. I think we are good was hopeful the question’s wording could be framed from an indigenous area, in the Torres Strait Islands and enough, big enough and brave enough to do this, but by mid-2016 with a referendum held as early as 2017. Northern Peninsula in the far north of the country, fol- it is important that we get it right.” Abbott praised “I would be very disappointed, I would feel that we lowing a similar scheme last year. Australia with its indigenous heritage, British founda- have not lived up to our high expectations and we But he acknowledged in the joint statement that tion, and multicultural character but said: “What we haven’t quite been our best selves if we weren’t able to constitutional recognition could not address all the now need to do is to end that echoing silence in our do this in the next term of parliament,” he said. Support issues indigenous people face and this would remain constitution... the omission of indigenous people.” for the “recognize” movement is high, with a Fairfax a task for the government of the day. “However con- Ipsos national poll in The Sydney Morning Herald yes- stitutional recognition provides a chance for our Nothing in or out terday putting it at a record 85 percent. Eleven percent generation to right an old wrong,” they said. Debate on the content of the changes has already were opposed. Australian lawmakers formally recog- Aborigines are believed to have numbered around begun, and Abbott said he was ruling nothing in or nized indigenous people as the country’s first inhabi- one million at the time of British settlement in 1788, KYUSHU ISLAND: Tourists visit the Hashima coal mine, known as “battleship island” out, but that both he and Shorten were committed to tants in 2013, but there has been debate about how but there are now just 470,000 out of a total popula- in Nagasaki prefecture. — AFP holding a recognition referendum. “Based on today’s the constitution should be changed. tion of 23 million. —AFP Teen in anti-Lee video free after sentencing Former S Korean first lady to visit North next month SINGAPORE: The Singaporean teenager behind online son for their decision to withdraw their earlier call for with some attacking Yee for insulting both attacks on former premier Lee Kuan Yew was given a him to be sent to a reform institution, where he would Christianity and the nation’s revered founding father, four-week jail term yesterday but freed in view of time have had to stay for at least 18 months. They noted that who was given a hero’s funeral on March 29. SEOUL: The wife of late South Korean approval for Lee to fly directly from the served since being accused of offending Christians and the teenager had now removed the offending materi- International rights advocates including the United president Kim Dae-Jung will visit North South to the North. posting an obscene image. Amos Yee, 16, was jailed for als which he had reposted online, and that he had told Nations Human Rights Office for Southeast Asia and Korea next month, his foundation said Direct flights between the two three weeks for wounding religious feelings in an a psychiatrist he “would admit to his guilt and promised the US-based Human Rights Watch had called on the yesterday, and possibly meet with countries, who remain technically at expletive-laden YouTube video comparing Lee Kuan not to reoffend”. Yee’s case gained international atten- government to dismiss the case and immediately leader Kim Jong-Un. The Kim Dae-Jung war, are extremely rare. Yew to Jesus, which was posted after the independence tion after critics of the long-ruling People’s Action Party, release Yee. Amnesty International last week said it Peace Centre in Seoul said the agree- “We hope her visit will help South leader’s death in March. co-founded by Lee Kuan Yew, said he was a victim of considered the teenager “a prisoner of conscience, ment on dates for the four-day visit by and North Korea improve relations,” He also received a one-week jail term for posting an censorship and excessive punishment. held solely for exercising his right to freedom of 93-year-old Lee Hee-Ho was reached Yonhap news agency quoted the offi- obscene drawing of Lee and former British Prime It has divided public opinion in the city-state, expression”. — AFP following talks with officials in North cial, Kim Sung-Jae, as saying. Minister Margaret Thatcher. District Court judge Korea. Seoul has already supported her Jasvender Kaur backdated the sentence to June 2, Lee has visited the North three trip as a positive step for cross-border when Yee was already in remand, saying the offences times-the last occasion being to pay exchanges. “were not serious in nature but not trivial either”. her respects following the death of for- “The government’s position is that “We are very happy and delighted that we have mer leader Kim Jong-Il in December it will actively support her planned trip come to this,” Yee’s lawyer Alfred Dodwell told reporters. 2011. to North Korea,” Jeong Joon-Hee, the “He has been accordingly convicted, he has been sen- She is the widow of Kim Dae-Jung, spokesman for the South’s Unification tenced today, it’s been backdated, he’s a free man who instituted the “sunshine policy” of Ministry, told reporters. today,” he said, adding however that Yee wants to engagement with North Korea that led Cross-border tensions have flared at appeal his conviction. Yee had faced an extended peri- to an historic summit with Kim Jong-Il regular intervals this year, with North od behind bars. The maximum penalty for wounding in 2000. Korea conducting a series of ballistic racial or religious feelings is three years and distributing It was not immediately clear if Lee missile tests in anger at annual US- an obscene drawing is punishable by three months in would meet Kim’s son and successor, South Korean military exercises. jail. Kim Jong-Un, who had initially extend- Most recently, Pyongyang was infu- Rights groups have criticized the city-state for arrest- ed Lee an invitation to visit last year, riated by the opening last month of a ing Yee and sympathizers staged rallies in Singapore, after she sent a wreath marking the new UN office in Seoul to monitor Hong Kong and Taiwan to demand the boy’s freedom third anniversary of his father’s death. North Korea’s human rights record. ahead of the sentencing. Jolovan Wham, a rights advo- The trip will ostensibly be a human- The North responded by boycotting cate who attended yesterday’s court session, said itarian one, with Lee planning to visit a the World University Games currently activists were “happy” that Yee has been freed. “But we children’s hospital, a maternity home underway in the southern South Korea still condemn the fact that the judge has convicted him and an orphanage in Pyongyang. city of Gwangju. to four weeks imprisonment,” he added. But an audience with Kim Jong-Un Lee’s visit will come just ahead of would be significant, as the reclusive the 70th anniversary of the August 15, A promise not to reoffend leader has yet to meet with any South 1945 liberation of a single Korea from State prosecutors said that Yee had breached his Korean citizen since formally assuming Japanese colonial rule. bail conditions, rejected probation and spurned sug- power more than three years ago. Both sides have noted the opportu- gestions that he voluntarily undergo psychiatric evalua- An official with the Kim Dae-Jung nity for some sort of joint celebration, tion. “Amos chose a course of action which led to Peace Centre, said the North Korean but no event has been confirmed as remand and then prolonged that remand,” the prosecu- SINGAPORE: Singapore teenage blogger Amos Yee (center), accompanied by his mother Mary Toh side had relayed Kim Jong-Un’s yet.—AFP tors said. They said a shift in Yee’s attitude was a key rea- Ai Buay (front left) and father Alphonsus Yee (back left) walks out from the state court.— AFP NEWS TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 bombers force soul-searching in British... Egypt kills 241 Sinai militants

Continued from Page 1 shoppers searching for a bargain before the day’s end of Continued from Page 1 the constitution,” the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate said in a state- Ramadan fasting, local councilor Masood Ahmed defended ment. “It violates the reporter’s right to seek information from vari- His neighborhood friend Hassan Munshi is still believed the mosques. During a stop-off at a friend’s fabric shop, he On Saturday, Sisi made a surprise visit to North Sinai, where in ous sources... it allows the executive authorities to act as censors, to be fighting alongside Islamic State militants. called on parents and schools to be more vigilant about an address to troops at a camp whose location was not disclosed and the judges of truth,” it said. youngsters’ Internet surfing habits. Home Secretary Theresa he said the region was now “totally stable”. The jihadists say their ‘Places of peace’ May recently asked parents to report “radicalized” children to attacks are in response to the bloody repression launched by the ‘A duty to protect’ Some point the finger at local mosques, with Dewsbury’s police, and new laws now force schools to tackle the prob- authorities after Morsi’s ouster, which has seen at least 1,400 peo- Government officials say the wording of the provision requires Zakaria mosque, where both Munshi and Asmal worshipped, lem. ple killed and thousands more jailed. Most of the attacks on the proof of “intent” and “malice” when reporting figures that contra- coming under the microscope. “If they had a show of hands But many warn such actions risk further polarizing com- security forces are claimed by a group calling itself “Sinai Province”. dict official statements. “The government has a duty to protect cit- in the Zakaria mosque... as to who thought Talha Asmal was a munities and fostering an air of permanent suspicion. A Formerly known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, it changed its name izens from false information,” Justice Minister Ahmed Al-Zind said, martyr... I think I know what way the vote would go,” said source with knowledge of anti-radicalization initiatives said when it pledged allegiance to IS last November. arguing that the law should not be seen as “a restriction on media local journalist Danny Lockwood, author of a book called government programs had “often done as much harm as freedoms”. The new legislation also appears to grant police and “The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury” that angered many in the good”, despite using up large amounts of taxpayer money. Disputed anti-terror law soldiers impunity when carrying out “anti-terrorism” operations, town’s Muslim community. Zaman said change should come from the community. “You Rattled by attacks on its soldiers and the assassination of the saying they cannot be held criminally liable for the use of force. The mosque sits modestly among the sandstone terraced need role models, whether that’s someone doing well in top prosecutor, Egypt is set to pass sweeping legislation critics say Hundreds of soldiers and policemen have been killed in militant houses of Savile Town, the bustling epicenter of Dewsbury’s sport or business,” he said at his home west of the town cen- grants police impunity, censors media and further restricts free- attacks since Morsi’s overthrow, while at least 1,400 people, mostly 20,000-strong Muslim population. Around the corner is the tre. Zaman himself is an example of local leadership as cap- doms. President Sisi is expected to approve the law this week, Islamists, have been killed in a police crackdown on protesters. huge Markazi mosque, the home outside Saudi Arabia of the tain of the Palestine All Stars five-a-side football team, which after pledging tough measures against militants who have bedev- While policemen have largely been cleared of wrongdoing in Tablighi Jamaat movement, where Khan, the eldest of the was set up as part of a local council program and became iled the country since the army’s ouster of his Islamist predecessor the deadly crackdown, the law would grant them further protec- 2005 attackers, worshipped. Between 97 and 99 percent of national champions. Mohamed Morsi in 2013. tion from prosecution over abuses, critics say. Legal expert and Savile Town’s residents are Muslim, most of them descended The town has no shortage of other success stories, having The former army chief has led an extensive crackdown on the lawyer Shaaban Said said police officers were already protected from Indian and Pakistani immigrants who began arriving in produced Conservative lawmaker Sayeeda Warsi, numerous Islamist opposition and militants, vowing to eradicate Morsi’s from prosecution over acts of violence committed in self-defense. the 1950s when it was still a centre for the wool industry. entrepreneurs, cricketers and rugby superstar Sam Burgess. Muslim Brotherhood movement and jihadists. But one year into “The fear is that this law could allow police officers to act exces- Despite teaching conservative strains of Islam, locals “Although you have the fundamentalist side here, you also Sisi’s rule, his government was stunned by the assassination of sively or use disproportionate force against suspects,” he said. The strongly deny the mosques are to blame. “The mosques have have a lot of people who work hard and want their kids to state prosecutor Hisham Barakat on June 29. Barakat’s killing in a draft law stipulates death sentences for the founders and finan- never preached about hatred. They are places of peace achieve,” Lockwood told AFP during a drive past Savile Town’s car bombing was followed by large-scale attacks on soldiers in the ciers of vaguely defined “terrorist” groups, and five-year prison where people go to pray and that’s it,” said worshipper “Millionaire Row”. But for every success there is a shadow. Sinai Peninsula, prompting the cabinet to rush through the law terms for promoting “terrorism” on social media. Rizwan Essat. Law student Adam Zaman added: “There are Lockwood turns a corner and points out a red-brick home. It over the objections of rights groups. “It’s a disaster to see the state Egypt’s courts have already sentenced hundreds of Islamists to bad crowds in terms of violence, drugs. “But bad crowds, in was from here that Khan, a 30-year-old father of one, set off pass such a law in an atmosphere charged with calls for revenge,” death in swift mass trials, although most have won appeals. Seven terms of recruiting and extremist views, it’s just not like that.” on the morning of July 7 to detonate a bomb on an under- said Gamal Eid, a lawyer who heads the Arabic Network for people have been executed. At Barakat’s funeral, Sisi asserted that On a drive around the streets of Savile Town, clogged with ground train, killing six people. — AFP Human Rights Information. “the arm of justice is chained by the law”. “We’re not going to wait Article 33 of the cabinet-approved draft law stipulates a mini- five or 10 years to try the people killing us,” he said, asking judges mum two-year prison sentence for anyone who reports casualty present to speed up the process. The draft law would reduce the Keeping holy month ‘alive’ tolls from militant attacks that stray from government figures. The number of appeals allowed to defendants, and set up special ter- law came partly in response to coverage of militant assaults on rorism courts to expedite their trials. But a judiciary council has Continued from Page 1 are shown (to Allah) on Mondays and Thursdays, and I like soldiers in the Sinai on July 1. The military said 21 soldiers were asked the government to reconsider the proposed use of special my deeds to be shown when I am fasting.” (At-Tirmidhi, 747) killed in the attacks, after several media outlets reported higher courts before Sisi passes the law, saying that criminal courts can We may not keep on with the same pace and zeal of (vii) Fasting the 13th, 14th, and 15th of every lunar month. tolls from security officials. “This is a dangerous article that violates handle such cases. — Agencies Ramadan, but we have to carry on even if we experience 4. Keeping on offering optional night Prayer. fluctuations. We can do this by means of: 5. Keeping on taking care of the poor and the needy. 1. Seeking Allah’s support, beseeching Him Almighty to 6. Keeping on offering additional acts of worship. Saleh’s party HQ bombed; 46 die guide us to the right path and help us remain steadfast in 7. Keeping on performing dhikr a lot and asking Almighty faith. Allah for forgiveness. Continued from Page 1 after the insurgents seized Sanaa and then advanced 2. Reading the Quran and contemplating it is not only for 8. Avoiding the prohibitions and illegal practices. south, forcing the government to flee to Riyadh. More Ramadan, rather it is for all times. “Whoever recites ten vers- In conclusion, the good deeds of a Muslim should contin- AFP could not confirm if the casualties were all than 21.1 million people-over 80 percent of Yemen’s es in qiyam will not be recorded as one of the forgetful.” (Al- ue and extend throughout the year. Allah (SWT) says, “And civilians, and there was no immediate explanation population-need aid, with 13 million facing food Mundhiri) worship your Lord until the certainty (death) comes to you.” from the coalition leadership in Saudi Arabia. shortages. Upwards of 2,800 people have been killed 3. Observing optional fasting after Ramadan. The days in (Al Hijr; 99). We do not know when we’ll meet the Angel of Another air strike targeting a rebel-held government in Yemen since March, according to UN figures. Saleh, which optional fasting is recommended are: Death.”O Allah, Who turns the hearts, keep our hearts stead- building in adjacent Aden also hit a nearby home and who ruled for 33 years before being forced from pow- (i) (Fasting six days during the month of Shawwal. fast upon Your Deen”. I ask Allah to accept from us and you killed five residents, a provincial official there said. er in 2012 after a bloody year-long uprising, threw the Prophet Muhammad said that: “Whoever fasts Ramadan and our fasting, prayers and all righteous actions, that our condi- The Saudi-led coalition began a campaign of air support of his loyalists in the army behind the follows it with six days from Shawwal it is as if they fasted tion after Ramadan be a better one, that the state of our strikes against the Houthis and their allies in March Houthis. — AFP the entire year.” (Muslim, 1164)- (ii) Fasting the day of ‘Arafah, Ummah improves. May Allah (SWT) shower us with bless- 9th of DhulHijjah, provided that the person is not offering ings, forgive our sins and grant us all Paradise. Amen! Hajj. (iii) Fasting the 10th of Muhrram, and if possible the 9th Saudi jail - home to new wave of jihadis and the 11th days of the same month. (iv) Fasting as many Courtesy of the TIES Center: The TIES Center is the social days as possible during the month of Sha’ban. (v) Fasting and educational hub for English Speaking Muslims in Continued from Page 1 from an earlier generation of Saudi militants whose during the months of Ragab, DhulQi’dah, DhulHijjah, and Kuwait. For more information, please call 25231015 or e- motives also included a desire to help fellow Muslims, Muharram. (vi) Fasting on Mondays and Thursdays. Deeds mail [email protected] or visit www.tiescenter.net. Early last year the government, which backs the fight but whose goals were more explicitly anti-Western and against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad but regards rooted in religion. In a psychiatric clinic in the medical some of the jihadist groups in the opposition as a threat, block, a handcuffed prisoner with white skull cap was Bomber’s driver opens up; connects... decreed tough sentences for any citizens who joined the from the same generation. He had spent 11 years in Continued from Page 1 about the operation, and revealed the involvement of the car cause themselves. “I was just one of the young guys who prison, convicted of terrorism, and had two still to serve. owner and house owner and their connection to the Islamic went to fight. My cousin’s mother was Syrian so I wanted When he rose to shake hands, his skin was clammy and Sabah had told the IS leaders that he had to borrow a vehi- State. to help,” said a 25-year old with dark flowing hair and a very cold. cle since he never owned one. Sabah was contacted again the 26 people, including six women have been arrested as cheerful face sitting up in bed in the prison’s hospital day before the attack, and was told to meet someone wearing investigation continues. The driver had confessed that the wing. He was shot in the back by a sniper in Syria’s Idlib New tactics a light brown dishdasha and red ghutra (head dress) at a hotel video footage for the entire operation had been taken using province after spending two years with Nusra Front and Unlike Al-Qaeda a decade ago, Islamic State does not located in Farwaniya governorate at 7:00 am Friday to carry both his and suicide bomber’s phones, according to sources. is paralyzed from the waist down. Like other inmates, he have an elaborate network of members inside Saudi out the attack. After picking him up from the hotel, Sabah Taking the video footage and sending them to IS leaders in was forbidden by the prison authorities from giving his Arabia, said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst with close took the man, identified later as Fahad Al-Gabbaa (Saudi) to Syria and Iraq was a main condition before carrying out the name to visiting reporters. ties to the Saudi Interior Ministry. Instead it plans attacks, his house, then to Sulaibiya Co-op Society and then back to attack, the driver confessed, adding that the video documen- like the two May suicide bombings at Shiite mosques, his house again. tation process began the moment Gabbaa arrived in Kuwait. Young fighters from abroad and then communicates electronically with There, the suicide bomber was equipped with the explo- He was then recorded while wearing the explosive belt. Sabah Many of the prisoners sitting on benches in an exer- sympathizers inside the kingdom who provide logistical sive belt, and wore it under a ‘loose dishdasha’ - then put on a confessed to all charges, but argued that the other suspects cise yard, in the prison hospital, in the library or in help to its few trained, committed operatives. white ghutra and Iqal (head rope), the source explained. The knew nothing about the operation. The female suspects, one shared cells, were young and fresh faced. They said they The technique means attacks are less likely to come duo then drove to the targeted mosque, where Sabah gave an Pakistani and six bedoon, admitted providing assistance and explanation to Gabbaa on the steps he learned from IS on shelter, as well as destroying the devices used in recording the had gone to Syria by themselves after watching news off because they rely on less-skilled people, but also how to detonate the explosive belt. He then told him to go - video. All suspects are still in custody. reports and social media propaganda. One group, enjoy- makes it harder for the authorities to use arrests to roll reassuring him that he would go to Heaven. Gabbaa came out Meanwhile, the suspects’ confessions revealed their con- ing the night air in a courtyard with high walls and astro- up an entire group of militants, Alani said. Several of the of the car that was parked 150 meters away from the mosque, nection with other suspects who funded IS through fundrais- turf floor, included a 17-year old with braces still on his bearded young men in the cell block were there not for and was able to sneak into the mosque and blow himself up. ing campaigns they held in Kuwait. The Public Prosecution teeth and an 18-year old who had started travelling to trying to fight in Syria but for performing just such After that, the driver fled to Sulaibiya, where he called the IS confronted the suspects who said that the Imam Al-Sadiq Syria before changing his mind and turning himself in. menial logistical assistance to fugitives or other suspect- leaders to inform them that the operation was carried out suc- mosque’s operation was ‘Kuwaiti-funded.’ They used funds Sitting with them was a slight, bearded 27-year old ed militants, such as giving them shelter or money. cessfully, the sources said. that were transferred to IS through a merchant that owns cur- from Al-Kharj, just south of Riyadh, who spent six They are now used to the long prison corridors of Meanwhile, the sources said that the driver was ‘terrified’ rency exchange offices in the United Arab Emirates. months fighting with the Muhajirin, a jihadist group for- grey tile and whitewashed walls, the pervasive smell of after the attack. He immediately called his brother and asked Attorney General Dherar Al-As’ousi had told Al-Qabas and merly associated with Islamic State. He chose to return sweat and cleaning fluids and the food delivered in plas- for a place to hide, saying that ‘suppression and raids’ were Al-Jarida dailies that investigations are expected to finish ‘faster because he was worried about his wife and daughters, tic wrappings through a slot in the cell door. After expected to take place in the aftermath. His brother gave him than expected’ to allow the suspects to stand before court as and was arrested on arrival in Jeddah airport, he said. “It release from the prison, they will go through Saudi shelter at an apartment he owns in Salmiya, where the two soon as possible, saying that the Public Prosecution will was news and videos online that convinced me to go to Arabia’s militant rehabilitation program, courses with spent the night with the owner’s four friends. Sabah had left demand ‘maximum punishment’ for the suspects. He pointed Syria. I went from Riyadh airport to Egypt and then, after psychiatrists and religious sheikhs that starts within the the car which contained Gabbaa’s clothes and the icebox in out that suspects outside Kuwait have been identified; while Sulaibiya before heading to the apartment. The following day, some people identified as their relatives have been charged. three days, on to Istanbul. Then I flew to Hatta and the security prison itself. Down another empty corridor a he went to Riqqa where he rented an apartment in a house Reports quoting a security official had stated that Kuwait was smugglers were waiting there at the airport, asking for glimpse into one of the half dozen occupied interroga- owned by Fahad Shukhayyer. State security officials arrested considering charging more than 40 people in connection with money to take us across to Syria,” he said. tion cells showed a stocky, handcuffed man, his blind- him and his wife the moment he entered the house, and the deadly attack. Kuwait has beefed up security at worship Another member of the group, who was older and fold around his neck, waiting to be interviewed. For him, referred him to investigations where he confessed in detail places in the aftermath of the attack. — Agencies smiled less, had spent 10 years in Afghanistan. He was the gates of Ha’er prison are still opening — Reuters TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 ANALYSIS

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Issues An overview of 2014 Gaza war

ne year ago, a new war erupted between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Othe third in six years. In the course of the conflict-the longest, deadliest and most destruc- tive - 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children. More than 10,000 were wounded and 100,000 were left homeless. On the Israeli side 73 people were killed, of whom 67 were soldiers. Up to 1,600 were wounded, according to the United Nations.

How did it start? In June 2014, Palestinians abducted three young Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. The kidnapping sparked a Varoufakis: Scourge of Greece’s creditors massive manhunt in which hundreds of Palestinians were arrested and at least five killed. By Sophie Makris ‘Wearing loathing with pride’ now, Europe has been extending and pretending,” he told the The teens’ bodies were discovered near Hebron Germany’s veteran Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, BBC. By then, his abrasive style had led to him being removed 18 days later. The triple killing also led to the gris- reece’s maverick finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, in particular, made little secret of the fact that he found him from frontline negotiations on the bailout, although his influ- ly revenge slaying of 16-year-old Palestinian who announced his surprise resignation yesterday, particularly difficult to deal with. But many Greeks admired his ence was still clear. Mohammed Abu Khder, who was snatched in east Gachieved near-celebrity status with an urban-cool approach and Varoufakis declared in his resignation Though he prides himself on defending ordinary Greeks, Jerusalem and burned alive by Israelis last July. image and visceral attacks on the country’s international announcement: “I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride.” Varoufakis’ background was anything but common. His father The uptick in violence, and Israel’s arrest of senior creditors. In the culmination of his verbal barbs on the eve He believed that Greece’s shattered economy could only Giorgos Varoufakis, once headed one of Greece’s leading steel West Bank Hamas officials in the hunt for its miss- of the referendum, Varoufakis accused the lenders of “ter- recover once the terms of its bailout are drastically revised- producers, Halyvourgiki. He also attended the Moraitis School, ing teens, triggered a surge in rocket fire from rorism”, by pushing for Greeks to vote “Yes” to bailout terms and that creditors must write off some of its massive 320 bil- whose alumni include prominent Greek leaders and artists. In Gaza, where Hamas is the de facto power. During that would “humiliate” them. The “No” camp won a lion euros ($353 billion) of debt. a public relations blunder, as Greeks were pulling in their belts resounding victory on Sunday, but Varoufakis stepped From the moment that the economics professor-or “acci- even tighter, Varoufakis allowed himself to be pictured in Paris the evening of July 7 at least 80 rockets were fired aside, saying it had become clear his departure would help dental economist” as he calls himself-was appointed follow- Match at a piano and dining in style with his wife on the roof into southern and central Israel, the army said. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the ensuing negotiations ing the radical left Syriza party’s victory in January elections, it terrace of their apartment overlooking the Acropolis, while The military wing of Hamas claimed responsi- with creditors. “Minister No More!” the 54-year-old was clear Varoufakis would refuse to bow to convention. His telling the magazine he abhorred the “star system”. bility. The next day Israel launched “Operation announced on his blog. look immediately set him apart from the pinstriped world of His father said his son’s critics “want to run him down Protective Edge”, with air strikes on what it said “Soon after the announcement of the referendum finance ministers. His jacket collar was turned up to his shaven because he is competent.” “Yanis is a very good boy, and is were “approximately 50” Gaza targets and the results, I was made aware of a certain preference by some head, his shirts were sometimes flowery, and away from always telling the prime minister what to do, which is why stated objectives of halting the rocket fire and Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my... meetings he preferred a motorbike to a chaffeur-driven limo- he adores him,” he told the Greek daily Ethnos. His early aca- destroying attack tunnels into Israel. Israel began ‘absence’ from its meetings.” During five months of fruitless he was quickly dubbed “Greece’s Bruce Willis”. demic career was spent in England at the universities of a ground offensive on July 17. It withdrew its talks between Athens and its creditors, Varoufakis’ blunt He rarely employed the carefully-chosen words of the Essex, East Anglia and Cambridge. In 1998 Varoufakis moved troops on August 5, saying that all the militant negotiating tactics-and lack of previous political experi- financial milieu, and was fond of sharing his thoughts in fre- to Australia, and he is now a dual Greek and Australian citi- tunnels so far located had been destroyed but ence-often angered those across the table. At times, quent blog posts. After the final pre-referendum bailout zen. He moved back to Greece in 2000 to teach at the negotiations broke down last week, Varoufakis slammed University of Athens, and in January 2013 accepted a post at there were still “many other missions to com- Varoufakis seemed more at ease chatting with unem- ployed anarchists than with his fellow European finance Europe’s governance. “This is not the way to run a monetary the University of Texas in Austin before Greece-and its prob- plete”. Air and naval bombardments on the ministers, or International Monetary Fund officials. union. This is a travesty. It’s a comedy of errors for five years lems-called him back. —AFP coastal strip continued until an Egyptian-bro- kered truce was reached in Cairo on August 26. Iran nuclear talks: Brothels, bike rides, Groundhog Day War crimes? Each side has denied allegations it breached By Fedja Grulovic, Louis Charbonneau, the Iranian delegation has taken to bring- shorts and t-shirts and, in an attempt to “You’re an idiot!” he screamed down the international law during the hostilities, while John Irish ing in main courses from a local Persian cool the tempers of grumpy reporters, phone to his editor, “A moron! A moron! accusing each other of abuse. The Palestinians restaurant. has Austrian Foreign Ministry has been A moron!” And then he hung up. have signed up to the International Criminal nyone who says it’s all work and no supplying free ice cream. At least once a One local reporter suggested to his Court to pursue charges against Israel, and last play for the hordes of diplomats, Achtung! Ice cream day, a ministry employee wheels a cart foreign minister that keeping foreign month submitted a first dossier of evidence. On Aofficials, security agents, analysts The talks were supposed to finish by full of lollies and cones into the media correspondents cooped up in a stifling June 22 a United Nations commission of inquiry and reporters who have descended on June 30 but, days before the deadline, tent, calling out “Achtung, attention tent might be encouraging them to send announced it had received “credible allegations” Vienna for what should be the finale of one delegation were already joking in a please!” to get the journalists with their home the wrong message about that both sides had committed war crimes. almost two years of Iran nuclear talks is beer garden in Vienna’s “Stadtpark” about laptops to clear a space - before the pre- Austrian hospitality. The minister, fresh- dead wrong. As the manager of a local “Groundhog Day”, the 1993 film about a dictable scrum empties the cart of all but faced 28-year-old Sebastian Kurz, took Previously several rights groups had accused brothel said, when the Iran talks are in Israel of using indiscriminate force against civil- town, “business is booming”. He declined ians and residential buildings, including UN facili- to say who were his most frequent cus- ties. They also accused Hamas of exploiting the tomers, but made clear that, as far as he fighting to execute Palestinian rivals and alleged was concerned, the longer the negotia- Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes tions between Iran and six world powers with “indiscriminate” rocket fire. drag on, the better. Some journalists are also pleased that What has changed? this round of talks is in Vienna; when the Several rockets have been fired at Israel since last ministerial round, in March, was held the truce and the Jewish state has responded in Lausanne, in notoriously expensive with air strikes. Palestinian militant groups say Switzerland, an Iranian reporter com- they have repaired tunnels, which they used to plained that he was having trouble affording short-term companionship. carry out deadly assaults on Israeli troops and Brothels are legal in Austria - so much so inflict on them the heaviest losses since the 2006 that last month an Austrian night club Lebanon war against Hezbollah. Although both announced it was offering customers free sides speak confidently of their preparedness for sex in a summer-long protest over what a new confrontation, “neither Israel nor Hamas its owner described as punitive tax rates. wants a new war now,” Gazan political scientist Mukhaimer Abu Saada says. Too much ‘third man’? There have been indirect talks with a view to Vienna’s Palais Coburg hotel, a 19th- a long-term Gaza truce in exchange for Israel century palace, has hosted most rounds lifting or easing its blockade on the territory. In of the talks since February 2014, and for previous indirect truce negotiations the all that time rumours have circulated Palestinians demanded construction of a Gaza about a network of underground tunnels seaport, reconstruction of the coastal enclave’s connecting it to brothels and other establishments. One Western diplomat bombed-out airport and an end to the block- said they could be just Iran-talks folklore ade. They failed to achieve those aims, which inspired by Carol Reed’s classic 1949 film were to have been raised at further talks in the noir “The Third Man”, which features a wake of the war. —AFP chase scene through Vienna’s sewer sys- tem. Some negotiators opt for a different VIENNA: US Secretary of State John Kerry(3rd left), flanked by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman kind of leisure activity anyway. One took (left) and US Energy Secretary Dr Ernest Moniz (2nd left), sits with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (fourth left) a day off from haggling over uranium centrifuges and the legal technicalities of and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (2nd right) yesterday, during a plenary session of the P5+1 member countries All articles appearing on these UN inspections to cycle 70 km along the amid negotiations with Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program. —AFP pages are the personal opinion of Danube River - seemingly undeterred by the bicycle crash that put US Secretary of man who relives the same day over and a few unpopular varieties. the warning to heart and invited foreign the writers. Kuwait Times takes no State John Kerry on crutches in May, the over again. Sure enough, the talks were reporters to Sunday brunch at his min- responsibility for views expressed day after a nuclear meeting with Iran’s extended by another week. With energy You’re an idiot! istry, rather improbably making peace therein. Kuwait Times invites read- foreign minister in Geneva. needing to be saved for the long haul, But that’s still not enough to get some among nations in the process. Iranian Other diplomats shed their business the closest local DIY and garden store of the reporters through their day. “I’ve reporters came along - even though ers to voice their opinions. Please attire and enjoyed a splash in the public rapidly sold out of folding picnic chairs, run out of words,” said a French-language some of them were unable to enjoy the send submissions via email to: opin- pools. But their impatience is clear. which have become essential equipment reporter. “I used my last ounce of Viennese pastries because they were [email protected] or via snail “These talks have become obsessional,” for reporters staking out the talks. strength to do a story this morning. How fasting for the holy month of Ramadan - mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. said one. “I’d quite like to do something As daytime temperatures have soared many different ways can you say ‘inched and quickly found themselves rubbing else now. It’s enough to make you go towards 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), towards a deal’?” For an Italian journalist shoulders with Israeli journalists, aban- The editor reserves the right to edit crazy.” Like the food, for instance. Luxury keeping cool can be difficult. Many tele- in the tent, where temperatures soared doning their usual reciprocal frostiness any submission as necessary. hotel or not, after 10 days of the same vision crews and photographers and a above 40 Celsius after the air condition- in the rush to get a “selfie” with the min- lunch buffet, its starts to get repetitive; few correspondents are decked out in ing broke down, it was all too much. ister. —Reuters TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 SPORTS

Anderson gives up ‘sledging’ Vermeulen goes under knife Kyrgios to play Davis Cup LONDON: James Anderson has insisted he no longer feels the need to CAPE TOWN: South Africa confirmed their key number eight Duane Vermeulen is in SYDNEY: Australian world number 29 Nick Kyrgios will definitely play in ‘sledge’ opponents as he prepared to lead England’s attack in another a race against time to be fit for the Rugby World Cup in England after deciding to the Davis Cup quarter-final against Kazakhstan in Darwin later this Ashes series against Australia. undergo a surgery on his injured neck tomorrow. South Africa’s reigning Player of the month, if selected. Much of the build-up to tomorrow’s first Test in Cardiff has been Year missed the end of the Super Rugby season with the injury and, after consulting Kyrgios made the statement on his Facebook page after Bernard about how much ‘sledging’ or verbal abuse of opposition players will a new specialist last week, will have a surgery still hoping to play in the World Cup. Tomic suggested the 20-year-old might consider a boycott in sympathy take place during the five-match series. “This is a huge setback for us, but as with any injury in the game it’s something that with his friend and fellow player. Players and fans alike enjoyed the sporting atmosphere in which we simply have to overcome,” Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said on Monday. Tomic was dropped from the team for the July 17-19 tie at the week- England’s preceding series against New Zealand took place, with the “Duane is world class, which was underlined last year when he was named the SA end after launching a tirade at Tennis Australia officials in the wake of his Kiwis long having given up on ‘sledging’. Rugby Player of the Year and nominated for the World Rugby Player of the Year Lancashire paceman Anderson-who was told to Award. “He is one of the leaders in our squad and since making his debut in 2012, has third round defeat to champion Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon. “As a “get ready for a broken arm” by Australia captain become an integral member of the team. “We’ve properly discussed the situation proud Australian it’s a pleasure and privilege to be Michael Clarke during the last Ashes, which with him and our medical team, and the decision was taken to have the surgery now able to represent my country in Davis Cup,” Kyrgios Australia won 5-0 on home soil in 2013/14 — as it will be the best for him in the long run. posted. called last month for an end to Ashes ‘sledging’. “We do have a number of great loose forwards available for selection, but with “As long as I’m able, fit and healthy, It’s an This was met with ridicule by Australia’s Brad Willem Alberts also not available, this will be a good test of our depth.” opportunity I will never pass up.” Kyrgios faces Haddin and Mitchell Johnson, who both pointed Even if Vermeulen’s chances of playing in the World Cup diminishes, team doctor Frenchman Richard Gasquet in a last 16 tie at out that Anderson had rarely been shy of delivering a Craig Roberts said the surgery was necessary for the player’s future beyond the tour- Wimbledon late yesterday. Tomic has accused few verbals himself. nament starting on Sept. 18. “It’s the best option for his medium to long term career Tennis Australia of neglecting him and his sister “The pre-Ashes phoney war has been in full options,” Roberts said. “Duane will be put on an intensive post-operation rehabilita- Sara, whose funding was cut by the national body swing for a while now — and I’ve already been called tion programme within the Springbok setup and we will work tirelessly to get him because of an uncooperative attitude of their con- a hypocrite,” said Anderson, England’s leading Test ready for the World Cup.” South Africa are in Pool B at the Word Cup along with troversial father and coach John. —Reuters wicket-taker, in yesterday’s edition of the Sun. —AFP Japan, Samoa, Scotland and United States. — Reuters Brewers extend winning streak

CINCINNATI: Rookie Taylor Jungmann Greg Holland (2-0) earned the win with a only damage against Ramirez (7-3) in six allowed four hits in eight innings and the scoreless ninth inning. innings. Yankees hitters entered 2 for 27 (.074) Milwaukee Brewers extended their winning against the right-hander this year and didn’t streak to eight games with a 6-1 victory over BLUE JAYS 10, TIGERS 5 fare much better. the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Justin Verlander remained winless in four Ivan Nova (1-2) gave up four runs - three Gerardo Parra and Adam Lind hit seventh- starts since his return from injury, allowing earned - and six hits in five innings, the short- inning home runs for the Brewers, who fin- seven runs as his ERA ballooned to 6.75 ERA est of his three starts since returning from ished off their second undefeated road trip of during Detroit’s loss to Toronto. Tommy John surgery. at least seven games in club history. Jose Bautista and Justin Smoak homered in It’s the Brewers’ longest winning streak a six-run fifth inning against the 2011 PIRATES 5, INDIANS 3 since they won nine in a row from April 4-13 of American League Cy Young Award winner and Gerrit Cole overcame a rocky start for his last season. Cincinnati starter Mike Leake (5-5) Most Valuable Player. MLB-best 12th win and Andrew McCutchen’s lost for the first time since May 27. Leake, who Verlander (0-4) gave up seven hits and two two-run double capped a five-run fifth inning was 3-0 in six June starts, allowed eight hits walks in five innings, striking out five. He as Pittsburgh rallied past Cleveland. and three runs with three walks and four needed 94 pitches to get 15 outs. Detroit Cole (12-3) set down his last 16 batters strikeouts in six innings. reached the midpoint of the season at 41-40, after the Indians scored twice in the second Jungmann (3-1) made his major league its poorest record since a 39-42 mark for the inning and once in the third to take a 3-0 lead. debut on June 9. He retired the first 12 batters first half in 2012. Cole threw 106 pitches while allowing he faced before Jay Bruce led off the fifth with Marco Estrada (6-4) improved to 5-1 in his three runs and five hits in eight innings. He a double into the right-field corner. last seven starts, allowing two runs and five struck out five and walked one after going hits in five innings. Roberto Osuna got four winless in his previous two starts while pitch- ROYALS 3, TWINS 2 outs for his third save. ing a combined 11 1-3 innings. Eric Hosmer drove in Lorenzo Cain with Mark Melancon posted his National nobody out in the ninth inning, helping RAYS 8, YANKEES 1 League-leading 27th save as the Pirates won Kansas City beat Minnesota for a split of their Erasmo Ramirez pitched out of early trou- for the fifth time in six games. McCutchen’s tiebreaking double off the top of the center- field fence was the last of six Pirates’ hits in the MLB results/standings inning off Danny Salazar (7-4). RED SOX 5, ASTROS 4 Tampa Bay 8, NY Yankees 1; Toronto 10, Detroit 5; Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 1; Philadelphia 4, Hanley Ramirez hit a go-ahead, two-run Atlanta 0 (10 innings); Boston 5, Houston 4; Pittsburgh 5, Cleveland 3; Baltimore 9, Chicago homer in the seventh inning and Boston beat White Sox 1; Kansas City 3, Minnesota 2; St. Louis 3, San Diego 1; Chicago Cubs 2, Miami 0; Seattle 2, Oakland 1; NY Mets 8, LA Dodgers 0; Colorado 6, Arizona 4; LA Angels 12, Texas 6; Houston. Ryan Hanigan and Pablo Sandoval Washington 3, San Francisco 1. each had three hits as the Red Sox won their third straight series. They hadn’t done that American League National League since taking their first three of the season. Eastern Division Eastern Division Rookie Carlos Correa and Evan Gattis hit W L PCT GB Washington 46 36 .561 - consecutive homers for AL West-leading NY Yankees 44 38 .537 - NY Mets 42 41 .506 4.5 Houston, which lost its second in a row after a Baltimore 43 39 .524 1 Atlanta 40 42 .488 6 five-game winning streak. Matt Barnes (3-2) Tampa Bay 43 41 .512 2 Miami 35 48 .422 11.5 got the victory, striking out the only batter he Toronto 43 41 .512 2 Philadelphia 28 56 .333 19 faced. Koji Uehara worked the ninth for his Boston 39 45 .464 6 Central Division 19th save. Central Division St. Louis 53 28 .654 - Kansas City 46 33 .582 - Pittsburgh 47 34 .580 6 ORIOLES 9, WHITE SOX 1 Minnesota 43 39 .524 4.5 Chicago Cubs 44 36 .550 8.5 Jonathan Schoop homered in his first at- Detroit 41 40 .506 6 bat since returning from injury and Miguel Cleveland 38 43 .469 9 Cincinnati 36 44 .450 16.5 Milwaukee 36 48 .429 18.5 Gonzalez threw six solid innings as Baltimore Chicago White Sox 36 43 .456 10 routed the White Sox. Western Division Western Division LA Dodgers 46 37 .554 - Adam Jones had two doubles and Steve Houston 48 36 .571 - Pearce had three hits as the Orioles ended a LA Angels 44 38 .537 3 San Francisco 42 41 .506 4 three-game losing streak. Baltimore had Texas 41 42 .494 6.5 Arizona 40 42 .488 5.5 Seattle 38 44 .463 9 San Diego 39 45 .464 7.5 scored six runs in their previous four games Oakland 38 47 .447 10.5 Colorado 35 47 .427 10.5 combined. The White Sox committed four errors and saw their four-game winning streak end. four-game series. Cain drew a leadoff walk ble in his latest effective outing against New Chicago was trying to sweep the Orioles for against Twins reliever Blaine Boyer (2-4) to York, and Tampa Bay took advantage of some the first time since 2005. Schoop, who had start the ninth after Ervin Santana had nearly shoddy defense to end its longest losing been sidelined by a sprained right knee, hit a shut Kansas City down in his return from a streak of the season at seven games. James solo homer in the second inning off Carlos drug suspension. Loney and Logan Forsythe each had a two-run Rodon (3-2), his first home run since April 15. Twins manager Paul Molitor called upon single for the Rays, who had dropped 11 of 13 Gonzalez (7-5) allowed four hits, struck out Aaron Thompson to face Hosmer, who ripped while falling out of first place in the AL East three and walked one. a pitch down the right-field line. Cain sprint- division. They salvaged the finale of a frustrat- ed around third base at full speed, and a ing series at Yankee Stadium that included MARINERS 2, ATHLETICS 1 CINCINNATI: Reds starting pitcher Mike Leake throws against the Milwaukee Brewers dur- throw from Torii Hunter in right field was walk-off defeats in the first two games. Rookie Mike Montgomery put together ing the first inning of their baseball game. — AP nowhere close to getting him at the plate. Alex Rodriguez hit his 670th home run, the another fine start, pitching Seattle past Oakland. Coming off two straight shutouts, for his first career multi-hit game and Jorge De La Rosa (6-3) had six strikeouts to Montgomery (4-2) gave up one run and six hits scored twice. surpass 1,000 (1,005) for his career and John in 5 2-3 innings. He walked one and struck out Axford struck out Paul Goldschmidt with two two. Montgomery was trying to join Randy METS 8, DODGERS 0 on in the ninth for his 14th save. Yasmany Johnson as the only players in team history to Steven Matz scattered two hits over six Tomas had a homer among his three hits and pitch three consecutive shutouts. Sam Fuld scoreless innings and Wilmer Flores went 4 for drove in three runs for Arizona. homered in the third for the A’s. Fernando 5 as the Mets beat Los Angeles to take two out Rodney pitched the ninth for his 16th save. of three from the NL West leaders. NATIONALS 3, GIANTS 1 Seth Smith drove in both Seattle runs with a Matz (2-0) struck out eight and walked two Wilson Ramos ended a tie with a sixth- two-out single in the sixth off Chris Bassitt (0-2). in strongly following up a victory in his MLB inning homer, Jordan Zimmermann pitched debut a week ago against Cincinnati. The left- seven solid innings and Washington complet- PHILLIES 4, BRAVES 0 hander had a run-scoring groundout in a ed a three-game sweep of struggling San Ryan Howard hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly three-run fourth that made it 4-0, giving him Francisco. with the bases loaded in the 10th inning as five RBIs in two games. Ramos added an RBI single in the eighth Philadelphia beat Atlanta to stop a six-game Mike Bolsinger (4-3) gave up four runs and and Bryce Harper had a double and single. losing streak. nine hits in five innings, having made it past Zimmermann (7-5) has allowed one run over Odubel Herrera singled off Nick Masset (2- five innings just once in his last four starts. The 22 2/3 innings in his last three starts. Drew 2) leading off the 10th and broke for second right-hander struck out four and walked two. Storen pitched the ninth, picking up his 25th when Cesar Hernandez lined a single into left save for Washington, which has won nine field for his third hit. Masset walked Mikael CUBS 2, MARLINS 0 straight at home. Franco, loading the bases, and Howard’s fly Kyle Hendricks threw 7 1-3 strong innings Brandon Crawford hit his 12th homer of the ball to right field off left-hander Dana Eveland and Chris Coghlan added an RBI single as season for the Giants, who lost manager Bruce scored Herrera. Chicago beat Miami. Hendricks (4-4) allowed Bochy and starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong to Carlos Ruiz hit a two-run double off rookie five hits, walked one and struck out six. ejections and finished 0-6 on their road trip. Jake Brigham and scored on a single by Marlins starter Mat Latos (3-6) pitched well in Reliever George Kontos (2-1) allowed Ramos’ Freddy Galvis. Luis Garcia (3-3) pitched out of the loss. He allowed one run, one hit and two homer. a first-and-third, one-out jam in the ninth. walks in seven innings. ANGELS 12, RANGERS 6 CARDINALS 3, PADRES 1 ROCKIES 6, DIAMONDBACKS 4 Albert Pujols hit his American League-lead- Rookie outfielder Tommy Pham homered, Troy Tulowitzki had a three-run homer to ing 25th home run, Kole Calhoun homered doubled and drove in three runs, leading extend his hitting streak to 18 games, Jorge and drove in four runs and Los Angeles fin- Lance Lynn and St. Louis over San Diego. De La Rosa pitched six effective innings and ished a dominant three-game sweep of Texas. The Cardinals improved to an MLB-best 31- Colorado avoided a four-game sweep. Calhoun’s three-run shot, his ninth, gave 11 at home with their second successive win Tulowitzki homered in the Rockies’ four-run Los Angeles a 12-1 lead in the fifth, and a 25-1 following a four-game losing streak. San first inning against Rubby De La Rosa (6-4) and advantage combined in the first five innings of Diego has lost five of seven. Carlos Gonzalez added a two-run homer off the three games. CJ Wilson (7-6) allowed three Pham hit his first MLB homer, a two-run the right-hander in the sixth. runs in six innings, and the Los Angeles left- drive off Ian Kennedy (4-8) in the third, and Gonzalez had three of Colorado’s 11 hits hander beat his former team for the second doubled home Lynn in the fifth. Lynn (6-4) and made a diving catch in right field with the time in 10 starts. Texas righty Colby Lewis (8-4) KANSAS CITY: Royals left fielder Alex Gordon catches a fly ball for the out on Minnesota gave up three hits and one unearned run in tying run on in the ninth to help the Rockies allowed 12 hits and 10 earned runs in four Twins’ Trevor Plouffe during the ninth inning of a baseball game. — AP seven innings. He also doubled and singled end a four-game losing streak. innings. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 SPORTS Rice still waiting for another shot at the NFL

WASHINGTON: Former Baltimore Ravens star Ray fiancee, he showed he was a great guy in the com- team has yet offered Rice a roster spot. nature of the game, where running backs are not Rice is waging an unrelenting crusade to get back munity... On the field, his body of work will have to Rice, a six-year NFL veteran who possesses a the hot commodity they used to be. Also, Rice sat on the field nearly a year after being booted from command some attention.” combination of speed, quickness and strength, con- out last season and his 2013 campaign was the least the National Football League — along with his $35 Rice became the poster boy for the NFL’s domes- tinues to sit by the phone with training camps set productive of his career. million contract — over a heinous case of domestic tic abuse problems when he delivered a one-punch to begin next month. His agent, Todd France, has Sally Jenkins, a Washington Post columnist who abuse. knockout to his fiancee during a fight in an Atlantic been contacting teams looking to get Rice a tryout. writes on women’s issues, said Rice “deserves the Videos of the 28-year-old, two-time Pro Bowler’s City casino elevator in February 2014. Rita Smith, a former executive director of the same chance that any other working person does.” workouts have been sent to NFL teams, as Rice NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and “We give people second chances all the time, if crosses his fingers that executives will give him a Rice for two games but when video of the punch now a consultant to the NFL, said Rice deserves a they’ve completed programs and therapies, second chance. went viral, he suspended the running back indefi- second chance - with conditions. whether you’re a Hollywood executive, an NFL play- General managers are wringing their hands con- nitely and the Ravens released him. “He’s paid a pretty huge price just because his er or a hedge-funder ... I don’t think you can deprive templating whether Rice can still deliver on the After the public saw the video, Goodell was particular case was so much more public than any- someone of their entire career and their livelihood gridiron and, if he were signed, would he be an excoriated by the public for the light penalties he one else’s,” she said. based on a one-off.” Six-time Pro Bowler Adrian unwanted distraction off the field, NFL analysts say. customarily gave to players who committed domes- “This is probably his last chance, if he gets one. Peterson, the 2012 NFL MVP, was welcomed back to “Ray Rice deserves a chance to prove he’s a quali- tic violence. The sharp criticism led to a strengthen- It’s up to him whether or not he makes the best of the Minnesota Vikings last month after sitting out ty individual,” said Rick “Doc” Walker, a retired nine- ing of the sanctions and an overhaul of the league’s this. He needs to show that he’s learned something all but one game last year over legal issues for year NFL veteran and member of the 1983 Super Personal Conduct Policy. about the actions that he took that night.” whipping his son with a tree switch as a form of dis- Bowl champion Washington Redskins. Although Rice took the case to federal court and Former NFL player Walker said Rice’s chance to cipline. “The better player always gets the benefit of “I say that because prior to the incident with his had his suspension overturned in November, no re-enter the league could be hurt by the changing the doubt,” said Walker. — Reuters Wiesberger bags French Open

VERSAILLES: Bernd Wiesberger won the last month’s US Open. “Well, I just hit a great biggest title of his career at the French Open shot down the fourth before the (thunderstorm on Sunday, producing a mid-round birdie bar- suspension) horns were blowing and they took rage that blew apart a top-class field. us off the course,” he said. The 29-year-old Austrian started the last 18 “I liked my yardage and had a good shot in at Le Golf National alone in third, three shots there and had some momentum building, adrift of leader Jaco van Zyl. chipped in, held a long putt. “I felt really com- A quiet start by him was followed by an fortable out there. Had a great weekend, only hour’s suspension of play due to thunderstorm one bogey, 66, 65, that’s not a bad score.” activity and when Wiesberger resumed, sparks Morrison, who won the Spanish Open earli- began to fly. Five birdies in six holes from the er this year, said that all credit was due to fourth propelled him into a four-hole lead over Wiesberger for not allowing any of the chasing the field going around the turn and he never pack to really challenge him down the closing looked like being caught after that. stretch. “Bernd played too perfect today. He He punched the air in triumph when a 15- won the golf tournament today, simple as that. foot birdie putt went in at the last to give him a He played fantastic,” he said. Kaymer, the 2009 13-under total of 271, three strokes clear of French Open champion, got to within three England’s James Morrison, who took second shots of Wiesberger going down the back nine, after a 67. It was the third European Tour title of but he left himself with too much to do over his career, the two others both coming in 2012, the tough four-hole closing stretch and ended and it sets him up nicely for a crack at the with a double-bogey six. “My plan was really British Open in St Andrews in two weeks time. not to play (the tournament) at the beginning Two shots further back in third came South because I thought I needed to practise a little African van Zyl, who had taken a two-stroke bit more to get ready for The Open, but that lead into the final round but could only man- was the best preparation I could have had, age a 73. Former world number one Martin especially playing in the last few groups today,” Kaymer of Germany placed fourth after a 70 the two-time major winner said. left him six shots adrift of Wiesberger, with It was a disappointing day for Victor WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS: Danny Lee poses with the trophy after winning the Greenbrier Classic golf tournament. — AP Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello in fifth two further Dubuisson, seeking to become the first home shots back. winner of the French Open since Thomas Levet Wiesberger’s win came as no huge surprise in 2011. Starting the day level with Kaymer at Lee clinches Greenbrier to many on the circuit as he has been one of four shots off the pace, he had stressed the the most consistent performers on the need for a strong start, but got just the oppo- European Tour over the last year and had four site by dropping a shot at the first and then top-five finishes this season to his name. taking a triple-bogey seven at the seventh He played in the Masters earlier this year which ended his hopes. He eventually had a 75 Classic in 4-man playoff and tied for 22nd, but failed to make the cut at to place in a tie for 12th. — AFP WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS: A week ago at the South Korean-born New Zealander earned $1.2 in the playoff with a 6-foot birdie at No. 18. Streb Travelers Championship, Danny Lee became so dis- million and became the ninth first-time winner on was allowed a replacement putter for the playoff, appointed with his driver that he gave it to a young the tour this season. He jumped from 57th to 15th but he never got to use it after missing the green. fan in the middle of the final round and walked in this week’s FedEx Cup points race. Lee and Hearn made birdie putts on the first away. On Sunday, his new one worked pretty well. Lee, Hearn, James Hahn and Greg Owen earned playoff hole, also eliminating Kisner, who lost in a Nearly eight years after becoming a U.S. spots in next week’s British Open at St. Andrews. playoff for the third time this season. Amateur champion at age 18, Lee earned his first There also were four spots handed out a week ago On the second playoff hole, Hearn drove behind PGA Tour win at The Greenbrier Classic in a four- at the Travelers Championship and one more is a tree on No. 17th and made bogey. “That was man playoff. available this week at the John Deere Classic. probably the only bad tee shot I hit all day,” said Lee won in his 98th tour event when he parred Lee was competing in his 27th event this sea- Hearn, still looking for his first PGA Tour win in 164 the second hole of Sunday’s sudden-death playoff, son, including his eighth in nine weeks. He is trying events. “I’ve just got to keep giving myself chances eliminating David Hearn after Kevin Kisner and to qualify for the international team for the like this, and it’s going to happen soon.” Robert Streb faltered on the first playoff hole. Presidents Cup in October in South Korea. He was Lee also missed the fairway, but reached the “I kind of felt like I was playing good but not 47th in the standings after The Greenbrier Classic. green in three shots and two-putted from across good enough to win a golf tournament,” Lee said. “I never get tired of playing golf,” Lee said. “I the green for par. “All I can say is wow,” Lee said. “I “But this week for some reason I just felt right. I was mean, it’s my job, and I just love doing it, and I’m finally did it.” It marked the third playoff in the tour- hitting my driver really good, my irons really good.” just happy to be out here every week.” nament’s six-year history and was the 14th on the Lee, Hearn, Kisner and Streb were tied at 13 Kisner shot a 6-under 64 to get to the club- PGA Tour this season. Russell Henley shot 63 and after four rounds on the Old White TPC course. And house first at 13 under. Hearn (67) and Lee (67) finished fifth at 12 under. Lee admits he suddenly became nervous. birdied the par-5 17th to join the playoff. Tiger Woods started the day seven shots behind “My head was blank, and I was just trying to Streb shot 65 by making five birdie putts on the the leaders, shot a bogey-free 67 and said he made breathe,” he said. For good measure, Lee said his back nine with a 56-degree wedge after breaking some “nice strides” heading into the British Open. caddie, Kurt Kowaluk, put the piece of paper indi- his putter on the ninth hole when he tossed it at “Best I’ve hit it in a long, long, long time,” Woods cating his playoff starting position into a mock his bag next to the green. “It hit the bottom of the said. “I had full control over all clubs. This could have wishing well on the par-3 18th tee. “He put it in bag and the (putter) head went flying,” Streb said. been one of those special rounds.” Woods broke a PARIS: Bernd Wiesberger of Austria kisses the trophy after he won the French Open there so I can win it,” Lee said. “It was not my intent, but that was what happened. streak of 55 consecutive rounds with at least one Golf tournament at Paris National course. — AP By then, Lee had his focus back. “I felt ready,” he And so I said, well, let’s see what we can do with a bogey. It was his first time under par in a final round said. “I felt like I could really win this thing.” The wedge.” He three-putted No. 17 for bogey, but got since the 2013 Tour Championship. — AP Beijing favorite for McIlroy suffers ankle injury 2022 Winter Games LONDON: Rory McIlroy’s defence of golf’s British Open BEIJING: Poorly attended news confer- should be something I’ve thought of. But and a keenly-anticipated contest with American Jordan ences, a meagre global social media foot- I’ve not,” bid spokeswoman Wang Hui Spieth was thrown into doubt yesterday when he print and lack of much obvious enthusi- told reporters last week when asked if revealed he had ruptured an ankle ligament while play- asm on the ground; Beijing looks like an public celebrations, or watching the deci- ing football with friends. improbable front-runner to win the right sion on big screens around the city, were “Total rupture of left ATFL (ankle ligament) and asso- to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. being considered. ciated joint capsule damage in a soccer kickabout,” With Oslo dropping out of the race Whipping up popular and media McIlroy wrote on his Instagram account. last year, citing worries over costs and interest in the immediate run-up to the “Continuing to asses extent of injury and treatment the lack of popular support, Beijing, decision has proved a tough task. At that plan day by day. Rehab already started...working hard which hosted the 2008 Summer Games same news conference with Wang, only a to get back as soon as I can,” he said, alongside a pho- to wide acclaim, is left facing the Kazakh handful of international media attended. tograph showing him standing on crutches with his left city of Almaty. Almaty previously bid for Another briefing last month similarly fea- ankle in a heavy surgical boot. the 2014 Winter Olympics, but did not tured few foreign reporters. McIlory’s showdown with double major winner make the final shortlist of three cities. The official Twitter account for Beijing Jordan Spieth was expected to be the highlight of the Those Games were eventually awarded 2022 has 872 followers. Its Facebook Open, which takes place at St Andrews on July 16-19. to Sochi in Russia. page has just 502 “likes”. Both sites are McIlroy, who won last year’s Open at the Royal Unlike in the weeks ahead of the 2001 blocked in China, underscoring another Liverpool course, Hoylake, may also be doubtful for his decision to award the 2008 Olympics to challenge; whether Beijing will, or can, scheduled defence of the US PGA Championship title China when Beijing buzzed with excite- really unblock the Internet for the ment, just weeks ahead of the July 31 Games, as they have promised. next month. decision on 2022 there is little sign of The government says more than 90 The 26-year-old Northern Irishman is the current Olympic ardor, aside from a few posters percent of the population supports the world number one and has won four major titles, the in the subway. Winter Games, news that has drawn deri- 2011 US Open, the 2012 PGA Championship and, in Despite its sporting prowess at the sion on Chinese social media sites. 2014, the British Open and the PGA Championship. Summer Games, China is not a winter “I strongly oppose this. It will all be He is one of only three men, along with Jack sports power, and won only nine medals man-made snow, it won’t be environ- Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to have won three majors by at the 2014 Sochi Games, ranking 12th mentally friendly and it is a waste of our the age of 25. overall. Summer Games are also general- taxpayers’ money,” wrote one user on After a strong start to the 2015 season, he showed ly considered a bigger event than the Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter. signs of fatigue when he missed the cut at two succes- winter equivalent. Even so, the govern- The issue of human rights hangs over sive events in May and said that, after five successive ment appears to be setting expectations the bid too. Tibetan groups have written tournaments, he needed to take a break. McIlroy has low for the public reaction should Beijing to the International Olympic Committee injured his ankle playing football before. He suffered a win the decision. (IOC) saying Beijing has no right to host similar, but less severe, problem in December 2013 In 2001, crowds thronged Tiananmen the Games due to its poor rights record. after which he revealed: “I was off my ankle for about a Square and city streets in an outpouring Last month Tibetan protesters shout- week over New Year.” of joy, following a win seen by many ing “No more bloody Games again” burst He was due to play in the Scottish Open this week as Chinese as a sign that their country was into a Chinese presentation to the IOC in part of his preparations for the Open. McIlroy was out finally getting the respect it deserved on Switzerland. The government con- of contention to win at the two majors won by Spieth the global stage as a rising power. demned them and said the incident this year. At the Masters, in April, he was four strokes “I’ve really not thought about this. I’m would not shake its resolve to host the in charge of news and publicity, so it Games. — Reuters adrift and at the US Open he was five shots back and WASHINGTON: Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, watching his tee shot on the fifth finished tied ninth. — Reuters hole in this file photo. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 SPORTS

DAYTONA BEACH: Austin Dillon (3) goes airborne and hits the catch fence as he was involved in a multi-car crash on the final lap of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Daytona International Speedway. — AP Earnhardt wins rain-delayed Daytona race

DAYTONA BEACH: A horrific last-lap accident is in that window, if he’s OK, do not touch him. except figuring out who was OK. “The racing that injured 28 fans. Larson’s car was activities: Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano that left drivers fearing for Austin Dillon’s safe- Tell him to stay in there,” Ives said. Earnhardt doesn’t matter anymore.” destroyed as it ricocheted back onto the track. went into the stands to thank fans for sticking ty muted Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s victory in the continued to inquire about Dillon, who earned The outcome was never in doubt as Jimmie Johnson, who finished second to around, while Ricky Stenhouse Jr. used social rain-delayed race at Daytona International his first career win at Daytona in Friday’s Earnhardt dominated the entire race. But as Hendrick Motorsports teammate Earnhardt, media to prove he can do a headstand. Speedway. Xfinity Series race and is close with Earnhardt’s the pack of cars chased him on a two-lap over- said Dillon’s wreck was one of the worst he’s When the race finally began, and the field Earnhardt crossed the finish line at 2:41 family. The late Dale Earnhardt won 34 races at time sprint to the finish, contact in the train ever seen. circled the track waiting for the green flag, a.m. local time yesterday, filled with dread Daytona and Dillon was present for many of sent Dillon’s car sailing upside down into the “I’m shocked that Austin Dillon is even reigning NASCAR champion Kevin Harvick after Dillon’s car sailed upside down into the them as he grew up watching him drive for his fence. Daytona President Joie Chitwood said alive,” said Johnson. “I expected the worst made note of the unusual start time by wish- fence then shot back onto the track. The car grandfather, Richard Childress. four fans were treated by medical staff in the when I came back around.” The accident over- ing his crew a good evening before correcting was on its roof and mangled when it was hit Earnhardt was killed in a 2001 crash on the grandstands and one was taken to a hospital shadowed Earnhardt’s second win of the sea- himself to morning. It then took just three laps hard by Brad Keselowski. The car tore down a final lap of the Daytona 500. Earnhardt Jr. said in stable condition. son - his first was in May at Talladega - and his for the action to begin as David Gilliland sliced section of fencing, debris scattered into the after the race he had no idea who was in the Dillon was evaluated and released in first in this race since 2001. It was his fourth across the front of Clint Bowyer to trigger a grandstands, and crew members from several car - it was torn nearly in half, its engine ripped Daytona’s infield care center and said he had a Sprint Cup Series win at Daytona. nine-car accident that collected Logano and teams raced to check on Dillon. from under the hood - but acknowledged bruised arm and tailbone. “I am just going to The wreck was also the main focus at the Danica Patrick, among others. A stunned Earnhardt seemed speechless as being genuinely scared after the wreck. be really sore; it got my tailbone pretty good end of a day that began early Sunday but Tony Stewart, winner of the 2005 race that he crossed the finish line. “Oh my God. That “You are just on the verge of tears,” and my arm,” he said. quickly fell off schedule because of weather. ended at 1:42 a.m., sliced his way through the looked awful,” Earnhardt yelled into his radio. Earnhardt said. “I saw everything in the mirror The accident was similar to a 2013 crash in The race began at 11:42 p.m. after a delay carnage, then grumbled on his radio about early- Crew chief Greg Ives immediately radioed his pretty clearly ... I just was very scared for who- the Xfinity Series when Kyle Larson’s car sailed of 3 hours, 34 minutes due to rain. Drivers race aggressiveness. “Somebody please remind team not to pull Dillon from the car. “Whoever ever that car was. I didn’t care about anything into the fence, sending debris into the stands spent the time doing an array of different me how much Lap 2 pays again?” he said. — AP Alonso ends miserable British thriller gives F1 run with a point at last response to the critics SILVERSTONE: Fernando Alonso scored a morale- boosting first point of the Formula One season at the LONDON: An unexpected start, a dramatic also admitted to some relief after the team’s ninth attempt on Sunday but neither the double world opening lap and two late rain showers strategic blunder at the Monaco Grand Prix champion nor his McLaren team were about to cele- enabled Formula One to answer its critics in when they called Hamilton in unnecessarily brate. emphatic fashion as Lewis Hamilton tri- for a pit stop that deprived him of victory. “I hope there are many more to come,” the Spaniard umphed on home soil in Sunday’s British “We cock-up together and we win said after finishing 10th at the British Grand Prix and Grand Prix. One dazzling day in the English together,” he explained. “When the rain hit ending a nightmare run of four successive retirements. sunshine, punctuated with rain and a series us, he was so calm on the radio about the “It’s not the best of results, but 10th position helps of incidents, may have thrilled the crowd of options. It was Lewis’s call. He made that pit to motivate everyone.” Only 13 cars finished the race 140,000 at Silverstone and a worldwide tel- call at the right time, using the right infor- and Alonso, who moved from Ferrari at the end of last evision audience, but it remains to be seen mation. “In Monaco, we had a problem in year, crossed the line a lap down on Mercedes winner if it can silence the sport’s detractors. our system. Here we were concentrated, Lewis Hamilton. “Is that it? Crisis called off now?” said calm and focused on the priorities and that He had started the afternoon by spearing into team Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff after the 52- was part of getting it all right.” mate Jenson Button, ending the Briton’s race on the lap thriller in changeable conditions had Although Sunday’s incident-filled drama opening lap, after a collision between the two Lotus seen his drivers deliver another convincing boosted morale, it was not enough to con- drivers left him nowhere to go. one-two finish. vince Wolff that the sport was without need The Spaniard had to pit for a new front wing but “If that’s boring, I would like some of it,” for any running repairs. took the final point on offer thanks to a tyre change said Ferrari team chief Maurizio Arrivabene. “We still need to ask how we can make it gamble that worked in his favor when the rain came. “I’d love to be as boring as Mercedes and better so we can convince the critics that “The whole team is incredibly focused, they’ve always be first and second. this is a great sport,” he said. been working day and night to improve the car, and “They deserve to be where they are, but Wolff admitted that the way in which we all know this is a long-term project, and there are we are working hard so that the podium both Williams cars, driven by Brazilian Felipe no magic solutions,” added Alonso. looks less boring in the future....” Two-time Massa and Finn Valtteri Bottas, had pow- “To get a decent result, and to put some points on champion Hamilton’s win extended his lead ered past his pair to take first and second SILVERSTONE: British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium the table, is always important.” McLaren, who started a in this year’s title race to 17 points ahead of places off the grid was confirmation that after winning the British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone circuit in this file new partnership with Honda this season, stayed ninth his Mercedes team-mate German Nico Mercedes have much work still to do. photo. — AP overall with just five points from nine races. Rosberg and lifted spirits in the paddock “They were very fast and we were helped were great crowds and it was a relief from the possible introduction of a sprint race Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel’s third place finish at the after weeks of negative publicity resulted by the rain,” he said, before heaping praise the talking down of the sport we have had. next year on Saturdays. British Grand Prix on Sunday was met with more pes- last week in a raft of proposals to overhaul on Hamilton. “If you are a double World We also had the fastest ever pit stop - 2.4 “I have been here for nine years now and simism than optimism by his Ferrari Formula One prin- the sport. Champion and win so many races, you are a seconds... including reaction time.” Looking it’s always the same,” he said. “It would be cipal Maurizio Arrivabene. “Sometimes these things just happen at complete racing driver,” he said. “You can’t beyond the upcoming Hungarian Grand cool and I would be happy if they freshened “I think the glass is half empty, not half full,” the the right moment as there was a race with put him in a box and say he has only God- Prix later this month, Hamilton welcomed things up a bit.” Given his form on Sunday, Italian told reporters. “We were doing a very good job all the ingredients necessary for excitement given talent. He has to have a view of the the prospect of changes in the sport start- Hamilton is ready to prove himself as a man in terms of strategy, the rain was helping us. But if the this time,” said Wolff, who praised Hamilton whole picture and that was clear here. ing from next month’s Belgian race - where for all seasons as he heads towards a likely race was dry instead of being wet, the result was com- for his decision-making and his speed. He “This was Lewis’s home Grand Prix, there drivers will have fewer electronic aids - and third drivers’ world title. — AFP pletely different,” added Arrivabene gloomily. “So if we want to be serious, we need to start from there and to work on the problems that we have.” After Triple Crown, a new world greets Espinoza Ferrari had started the race with both their cars on the third row of the grid, behind the two Mercedes at the front and the Williams pair on the second row. HALLANDALE BEACH: This is the new reality even his sport’s biggest one. Espinoza, American Pharoah and (the horse’s journey was over, and is now working back to With the race starting in sunshine, the first four cars for Victor Espinoza. A half-filled white Styrofoam “Sometimes it’s fun. Sometimes it’s a little trainer) Bob Baffert are why I think racing is what would be a regular schedule. He’ll return fought their own battle with Brazilian Felipe Massa cup of espresso is to his left, a black Sharpie pen bit overwhelming,” Espinoza said. “I started to going to become bigger than it’s ever been.” to ride in California this week and focus on the leading the first 20 laps for Williams and looking com- is in his right hand and a 3-inch-high stack of think about it and it’s all for the fans. They real- It’s not like the Triple Crown made meet at Del Mar for most of the summer. fortably faster than Ferrari. Triple Crown commemorative posters is in front ly want a little attention and to talk about my Espinoza a racing star. He won the first two American Pharoah’s next start is set for the Only when it rained, and after Vettel pitted earlier of him. He signs one, then someone whisks it off experience to the Triple Crown and for them, legs of the Triple Crown twice before, first Haskell at Monmouth on Aug. 2, and the than others for intermediate tyres, did the podium the top of the pile. Sign another, whisk another. too. Sometimes it’s overwhelming. You can’t aboard War Emblem in 2002 and then with Travers next month at Saratoga Race Course become within reach-although not for Kimi Raikkonen Sign, whisk. Sign, whisk. go anywhere. But it’s OK.” California Chrome last year. could possibly be in play. Espinoza said it still who finished a disappointing eighth. “It never ends,” he said without looking up. He appeared and spoke at Gulfstream Park But it took his level of celebrity and shot it doesn’t seem real. “Over time, it will,” he said. It was the first time since Monaco in May that a He’s not complaining. For the rest of his life, on Sunday, his first visit to that track since the into the stratosphere. He raced a motorized “It’s just right now, I think because I have a lot Ferrari driver had finished in the top three-even if Espinoza will be introduced as a Triple Crown Breeders’ Cup was there in 1999. Espinoza minibike against Jimmy Fallon, and won. He’s of things that I’m doing right now - go here, Vettel won in Malaysia in March and the team have winner. He rode American Pharoah to wins in rode in Gulfstream’s Summit of Speed races, been to the CMT Music Awards, which he nev- go there - I don’t have the chance.” been the closest challengers to champions Mercedes. the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and plus signed autographs for fans who waited in er figured would be on his to-do list. And on He’s also writing a book, detailing his life Asked what the problem was, Arrivabene replied: “We Belmont Stakes, and the month since that line on a scorching afternoon to get a Saturday, Espinoza was seated on the back of from its meager beginnings growing up on a have to discuss it in-house. We were quite slow on the grind ended has been a nonstop cavalcade of moment or two with thoroughbred racing’s a gray Porsche as a guest of honor in the Mexican farm to driving a bus in Mexico City straights without gaining anything on the high-speed opportunity for the 43-year-old who couldn’t brightest current star - at least of the non- Independence Day parade at his home in to becoming a jockey and now as its first curves. This is the problem.” speak English when he came to the United equine variety. “They say racing is dead, or Sierra Madre, California. Triple Crown winner in 37 years. Vettel, the four times champion who switched from States from Mexico two decades ago and used they say racing is dying,” said John Anderson, Then came the cross-country flight to “It’ll be the real life of a jockey,” Espinoza Red Bull at the end of last year, acknowledged that the to sleep at racetracks because he couldn’t 44, who drove nearly two hours from Port St. South Florida. “That explains that,” he said, said. “A few times, I was ready to quit.” With result could have been very different. —Reuters afford anything better. Those days are gone. Lucie, Florida just to get his moment with pointing at the coffee cup. He took a couple that, he went back to his pile. There were plen- He’s a celebrity, an unlikely one and maybe Espinoza. “It’s not. It’s alive and well and Victor weeks off from riding after the Triple Crown ty more posters to sign. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 SPORTS Starc promises ‘no respite’ for England

LONDON: Mitchell Starc has told England what I was questioned about for a long there will be no let-up when they face time and tried to find,” he said. Australia’s pace attack in the first Ashes Test “There is that confidence in myself now in Cardiff tomorrow. that in a pretty dead, lifeless wicket I can The left-arm fast bowler took nine wick- produce consistently. ets in Australia’s final warm-up match as “Now over the last six months, it is really they defeated county side Essex over the getting to the point where it needs to be in weekend and Starc is now set to be an terms of being able to swing the ball for a increasingly important figure following the while. “It is all merging into one and I am injury-enforced retirement of fellow-pace- starting to see results.” man Ryan Harris. Amid all the talk of ‘sledging’, Starc said But with Australia’s squad also including he had little time for verbal spats with another left-arm fast bowler in Mitchell opposition players. “I am not one to chirp Johnson, as well as emerging right-arm the batsmen, I am just trying to concen- seamer Josh Hazlewood, the 25-year-old trate on bowling and do my own thing,” he Starc is looking forward to seeing England’s said. “I am not the same all-out aggression top-order batsmen unsettled by pace and like Mitch (Johnson), and am not going to movement. change the way I play cricket just for one “Having some guys who can bowl some series. good heat-and we can swing it-it is always “I am still going to be trying to do the good to see those batsmen jumping same thing I have done over the past 12 around and making life hard for them,” said months, to play some good cricket.” Starc’s Starc, who had a brief spell with reigning time at Yorkshire, delayed by visa problems, English county champions Yorkshire during did allow him to get to know three England 2012. “When you have a few guys who can batsmen in Joe Root, Gary Ballance and consistently bowl over 140kph (87mph), Adam Lyth. that is great to have because there is no “I spent a lot of time with them in those respite. three months when I was here,” Starc “We will have Mitch Johnson coming in, recalled. “They have gone on to bigger who has terrorised England in Australia, things now, playing for England, and done then Josh and I are following on and can well. He added: “I only played one-and-a- SRI LANKA: Pakistan cricketer Younis Khan (left) and teammate Shan Masood leave the ground at close of play on the fourth day of the third hopefully both push it up a decent pace as half (County) Championship games with and final Test cricketmatch against Sri Lanka. — AFP well.” Starc, Australia’s man of the tourna- them, so for us it is more for the way we ment when they won this year’s World Cup, have watched them play in the last (Test) added he had increased his pace and that series against New Zealand. Pakistan rattle Sri Lanka would help him combat the effect of unre- “We will definitely sit down and discuss sponsive pitches. the whole line-up, not just those three, “I have probably gained a yard or two before the first Test, but I will be giving all with Masood-Younis show but for me it is that consistency, which is that I know about them,” Starc said. — AFP

PALLEKELE: Shan Masood and Younis Khan compiled unbeaten centuries to keep Pakistan in SCOREBOARD the hunt for a landmark victory in the series- deciding third and final Test against Sri Lanka yesterday. PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka: Scoreboard at stumps on day four of the third and final Test between Set a challenging target of 377 runs, the Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the Pallekele International Stadium yesterday: tourists recovered from a shaky 13-2 to move to Sri Lanka 1st innings: 278 (D. Karunaratne 130, 3-35 (Thirimanne), 4-80 (Tharanga), 5-161 230 without further loss by stumps on the rain- U. Tharanga 46; Yasir Shah 5-78, Rahat Ali 3-74) (Mubarak), 6-278 (Chandimal), 7-278 (Prasad), free fourth day in Pallekele. Pakistan 1st innings: 215 (Azhar Ali 52, 8-290 (Kaushal), 9-306 (Lakmal), 10-313 Masood, the five-Test old left-hander, was Sarfraz Ahmed 78 not out, D. Prasad 3-78, N. (Mathews). unbeaten on 114, having reached his maiden Pradeep 3-29, T. Kaushal 3-37) Bowling: Rahat 21-3-82-2 (w1), Ehsan 17-4-66- century by lofting off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal Sri Lanka 2nd innings (overnight 228-5): 1 (w1), Imran 20.4-3-58-5 (w1), Yasir 32-7-80-2, for a six over long-on towards the end of play. D. Karunaratne b Rahat 10 Azhar 5-1-14-0 Younis, who made his 100th Test appearance K. Silva c Misbah b Ehsan 3 Pakistan 2nd innings: in the second match of the series, got to his 30th U. Tharanga c Azhar b Yasir 48 Shan Masood not out 114 century in the day’s last over. The pair have put L. Thirimanne b Rahat 0 Ahmed Shehzad b Lakmal 0 on 217 so far for the third wicket with Younis on A. Mathews c Sarfraz b Imran 122 Azhar Ali c Chandimal b Prasad 5 101. Pakistan will enter the final day’s play on J. Mubarak c Azhar b Yasir 35 Younis Khan not out 101 Tuesday needing a further 147 runs with eight D. Chandimal lbw b Imran 67 Extras: (lb6, w1, nb3) 10 1 Mitchell Starc in action in this file photo. wickets in hand on a wearing, but easy-paced D. Prasad c Sarfraz b Imran 0 Total (for two wickets, 63 overs) 230 pitch at the Pallekele International Stadium. T. Kaushal c Sarfraz b Imran 8 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Shehzad), 2-13 (Azhar). If Pakistan win, it will be the first time a visit- S. Lakmal c Sarfraz b Imran 0 Bowling: Prasad 13-2-42-1, Lakmal 12-2-34-1 Plenty at stake for ing team will have scored more than 300 runs in N. Pradeep not out 4 (nb3), Pradeep 10-2-32-0 (w1), Mathews 6-1- the fourth innings to win a Test on Sri Lankan Extras (b4, lb9, w3) 16 15-0, Kaushal 20-1-92-0, Mubarak 2-0-9-0 Ashes captains soil. Pakistan’s highest successful chase is 314 Total (all out, 95.4 overs) 313 Pakistan need 147 runs more to win with eight runs they made against Australia to win the Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Karunaratne), 2-22 (Silva), wickets in hand. Karachi Test way back in 1994. LONDON: Rival skippers Alastair Cook and divisive figure within his own side and even Earlier, Sri Lanka’s captain Angelo Mathews Michael Clarke both have particular reasons the exiled Pietersen, in the midst of his con- was last man out for 122 as the hosts took their for wanting to win the upcoming Ashes series troversial autobiography, said his criticisms of up our minds not to give up and take inspiration Paul Reiffel had turned down the appeal. overnight score of 228-5 to 313 before they were that begins with the first Test in Cardiff start- Cook were not personal. from our performance over the last few years. Replays proved inconclusive whether the ball all out at the stroke of lunch. ing tomorrow. This Ashes campaign will be Cook’s first as “Shan and Younis were really good and I am con- had hit the bat, but with both the Hot Spot and Pakistan’s fast bowler Imran Khan took all the For England skipper Cook, an Ashes series Test skipper since the appointment of fident they will bring us victory tomorrow.” Snicko technologies not available in this series, five wickets that fell in the morning session in win would be the ideal reward for several dif- Australian Trevor Bayliss as England coach. Pakistan, starting their second innings after the TV umpire gave the benefit of doubt to the the space of 33 balls. Mathews, who came in to ficult years which included a 5-0 whitewash Bayliss has said England must “fight fire with lunch, were dealt a blow before a run had been batsman. Chandimal said the Test was not out of bat on Sunday afternoon with his team reduced reversal ‘Down Under’ in 2013/14, the fall-out fire” if they are to regain the Ashes from scored when seamer Suranga Lakmal bowled Sri Lanka’s reach yet. to 35-3, anchored the innings for more than six from the international exile of Kevin Pietersen Australia. This has led to speculation that Ahmed Shehzad to claim his 50th Test wicket. “Look, a few wickets early tomorrow could hours in which he hit 12 boundaries and a six. and a personal loss of form. Cook may find it difficult to work on a tactical Sri Lanka struck again in the seventh over change the game, so I am hopeful,” he said. “All Imran said he was delighted at his maiden Meanwhile an Ashes series win in England level with Bayliss. “I’m not sure if that’s exactly when Azhar Ali was caught down the leg-side by credit to the Pakistani batsmen for the way they five-wicket haul, but stressed it was a team effort is one of the few outstanding achievements in Alastair Cook’s DNA to be really able to put wicket-keeper Dinesh Chandimal off Dhammika have played, but tomorrow is a new day.” that has got Pakistan this far in the match. left for Clarke to fulfil in the course of a bril- a game on the line,” said Australia all-rounder Prasad for five. Masood, on 79, was fortunate to Pakistan won the first Test in Galle by 10 wickets “We believed a turnaround was possible and liant career, with the star batsman’s three pre- Shane Watson. survive a close shout for leg-before by Mathews, and Sri Lanka took the second in Colombo by we showed that today,” he said. “We had made vious Test series in Britain ending in defeat. Cook has shown a return to form this year who asked for a review after on-field umpire seven wickets. — AFP Clarke has a reputation for being a bolder with a hundred against the West Indies in the and more aggressive leader in the field than Caribbean and a fine century against New Cook and Australia great Shane Warne, him- Zealand at Lord’s. Lynx back atop the Western Conference self a renowned cricket tactician, said he This has been heartening for England, as NEW YORK: The Minnesota Lynx were the preseason straight free throws made came to an end against Eva Nemcova during the 1999 and 2000 seasons. so much of Cook’s leadership style is based always detected the makings of a future skip- favorite to win the Western Conference and a third Connecticut on Thursday night. The WNBA’s leading GAME OF THE WEEK: Sun at Sky on Sunday. The per in his compatriot when they played upon his own run-scoring. Often differences WNBA title in five seasons. Until this week, they were scorer missed her first free throw attempt before mak- two teams played an exciting game in Connecticut together at English county side Hampshire in in captaincy style are simply a reflection of looking up in the standings. ing her next six. She finished with the single-season on Thursday with the Sky rallying for a three-point 2004. “We stood alongside each other in the the resources available to a skipper and Now they are back on top of the West ahead of the record passing Lindsay Whalen’s mark of 54 straight win. The Sun were missing star forward Kelsey Bone, slips and chatted all day about captaincy,” Clarke, certainly in respect of fast bowlers, has surprising Tulsa Shock, who won eight of their first set in 2009. Delle Donne, who is 97 for 100 this season who was serving a one-game suspension for a fla- Warne told the Sunday Times. had the stronger hand in recent years. nine games. The Shock have faltered on their current from the line, was 10 short of the league mark set by grant foul 2. She’ll be back for this contest. — AP “He showed a great cricket brain for one But the fact that Clarke eventually set a road trip and Minnesota has moved into first place. with so little big-match experience under his defensive field when off-spinner Nathan Lyon “It’s not that we were playing poorly, just that some belt.” Clarke, however, has not always had the came under fire during Australia’s final warm- other teams were playing well,” Minnesota coach support of his players as was shown by the up match against Essex, was a reminder that Cheryl Reeve said. fall-out from the ‘homework-gate’ affair in even the most innovative captaincy strategies Maya Moore’s numbers are down from last season India, although there appears to be far have their limits. As late Australia great Richie when she was the league’s MVP. She’s averaging 17 greater harmony within the Australia camp Benaud, one of Test cricket’s most celebrated points, almost seven fewer than last season, and she’s since Darren Lehmann replaced Mickey skippers, once famously observed: “Captaincy shooting a career-worst 40 percent from the field. Still, Arthur as coach on the eve of the 2013 Ashes is 90 percent luck and 10 percent skill, but Reeve isn’t concerned. in England. Cook, by contrast, has been a less don’t try it without the 10 percent.” — AFP “She’ll get it going,” the veteran coach said. “Everyone expects her to put up 30 points a night, but she’s doing other things to help us be successful.” The ‘New’ England face Ashes acid test Lynx (8-2) lost early on to Phoenix and then to the Shock. Minnesota also found itself down 18 points at LONDON: England will face the ultimate test attacking manner they displayed during a Seattle before rallying for the three-point victory. of their stated desire to play bold and aggres- recent 3-2 one-day series victory over New “That’s one of those games we’ll look back on later in sive cricket as they bid to regain the Ashes Zealand, a series Cook missed. the season and say how it was a turning point for us.” from Australia in a five-match series that starts Former Sri Lanka and New South Wales Reeve said. in Cardiff tomorrow. coach Bayliss insisted England had to take A look at news from around the WNBA: With their new Australian coach, Trevor their white-ball approach into the Test arena. SIDELINED SKYLAR: Tulsa received the bad news Bayliss, telling them the only way they can “The way the game has been played over this week that guard Skylar Diggins will miss the defeat the Aussies is to “fight fire with fire”, the last five or 10 years you could argue that remainder of the season after tearing her right anteri- England have certainly talked a good game as maybe we haven’t kept up to date as some of or cruciate ligament. they look to turn the tables on an Australia the other teams,” he said. Diggins suffered the injury on June 28 with 44 sec- side who beat their arch-rivals 5-0 during the “Whether you like it or not the T20 format onds left in Tulsa’s four-point win over Seattle. She fin- last Ashes series ‘Down Under’ in 2013/14. and the one-day format do have a bearing on ished the game with a season-high 31 points. The But can England match the aggression of the way the game is played at Test level. It’s Shock (8-4) have dropped all three games without Australia and will they have to if they are to that philosophy of being positive and aggres- their All-Star and finish out a four-game road swing on win the series? sive.” Bayliss, however, said this was not the Tuesday in Atlanta. On paper, at least, Australia-even after same thing as being reckless, a point echoed The Notre Dame graduate is in her third season Ryan Harris’s injury-induced retirement on by England all-rounder Ben Stokes, who said and at the time of her injury led the Shock to wins in Saturday-have quicker bowlers in the likes of Thursday: “It’s not all about hitting fours and eight of their first nine games, averaging 17.8 points. left-armers Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell sixes, it’s about having intent in everything She was the WNBA’s most improved player last season Starc than England’s new-ball duo of James you do.” During England’s 124-run win over and was on the league’s first team. Diggins will under- Anderson and Stuart Broad. New Zealand in the first Test at Lord’s in May, go reconstructive surgery, but a date for the proce- And with their top order boasting the likes contrasting second innings hundreds from dure has not been set. of dynamic opener David Warner, Steven Cook and Stokes laid the platform for victory “I’m focused on getting healthy and stepping on Smith, now the number one ranked batsman with the captain batting in classic opening the court even stronger,” Diggins said in a release from in Test cricket, and captain Michael Clarke, fashion to make 162 off 345 balls while Stokes the team. “For the remainder of this season, I will con- Australia also appear to have a faster scoring blasted 101 off 92. tinue to support my teammates in every way possi- top order than England’s leading quartet of Cook is often portrayed as an inherently ble.” Adam Lyth, skipper Alastair Cook, Gary cautious captain, certainly when compared to STAT OF THE WEEK: Mercury star Brittney Griner Ballance and Ian Bell, who have been accused Clarke, and even faced flak when England had her fifth career dunk and the 11th ever in the reg- of being ‘one-paced’ batsmen. won the 2013 Ashes 3-0. ular season on Sunday against Los Angeles. Griner, Nevertheless number five Joe Root has Australia all-rounder Shane Watson ques- who sat out the first seven games to serve a suspen- often shown he’s comfortable upping the tioned the England skipper’s capacity to be sion for her domestic violence arrest, finished the tempo-something for which England should proactive in the field, saying: “I’m not sure if game with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Phoenix is 3-1 be grateful given Kevin Pietersen’s ongoing that’s exactly in Alastair Cook’s DNA to be real- since Griner returned. exile. England were much praised for the ly able to put a game on the line.” —AFP STREAK BUSTER: Elena Delle Donne’s streak of 58 MINNEAPOLIS: Minnesota Lynx forward Devereaux Peters (14) falls hard after receiving a fla- grant foul from Seattle Storm forward Abby Bishop (5) in this file photo. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 SPORTS US triumph caps truly global Women’s World Cup

VANCOUVER: The United States returned for Lloyd to emerge as the flag bearer for a seeing Lloyd’s brilliance and dreaming that signs of improvement with Colombia Olympic silver medal a year later. to the pinnacle of women’s soccer with a 5- new generation. they too, might one day grace the biggest impressing many by reaching the last 16. The ‘Nadeshiko’ may well have to under- 2 crushing of Japan in Sunday’s Women’s On Sunday, 53,341 fans packed into BC stage in the women’s game and lead their France played some exhilarating football go a change of generation-and perhaps World Cup final at the end of a riveting tour- Place and millions more tuned in around nation to glory. before their quarter-final exit and the look at evolving their tactics further from nament that pushed the sport into new ter- the world to witness an American team While Lloyd fittingly became the symbol Netherlands are also catching up, while the short-passing approach that brought ritory. The Americans last triumphed in annihilate the defending champions by of this tournament, there have been plenty there are signs of African teams such as them so much success under coach Norio 1999 but women’s soccer is a vastly differ- storming to a 4-0 lead inside 16 minutes. of other players from other nations who will Nigeria and Cameroon closing the gap. Sasaki. But globally, all the signs point to ent sport than it was a decade-and-a-half The onslaught was a cue for the over- go home to discover they have become role “Women’s football is a global game now, continued growth for women’s soccer.In ago with new nations forging their way into whelmingly American crowd to start the models. we have seen that at this tournament,” Europe, big clubs from the men’s game- the elite amid an unprecedented level of party early with the Stars and Stripes able to England, which considers itself the tradi- England coach Mark Sampson said. “Who Bayern Munich, Paris St Germain and global interest. fly high and proud for the remaining 74 tional home of soccer, had been slow to would have thought that Colombia would Manchester City-are investing in their As Golden Ball winner Carli Lloyd minutes. warm to the women’s game but the success have produced the performances they have women’s teams and that trend is likely to demonstrated with her astonishing 16 While few doubt that the US deserve to of the Lionesses in securing third place, cat- produced? I have been to France and seen spread further. minute hat-trick in the final, including a be back on top outside the Olympic arena, apulted them to prominence at home and the size of their programme, the game is And while FIFA officials were booed by goal from the half-way line, the women’s where they have won the last three gold abroad. growing.” Television ratings have long been fans before the trophy ceremony, the cor- game is delivering a level of excitement and medals, the growth of the women’s game Australia, beaten by Japan in the quar- strong in North America but, even despite ruption-tainted global body’s women’s quality that was non-existent in the 1990s. should ensure they will take on a strong and ter-finals are growing an impressive late night kick-off times, countries such as development staff must deserve plenty of Prior to the final, all that was missing diverse field in France in 2019. women’s programme and hope to chal- France, Germany and England saw record credit for helping the game reach this stage. from the tournament in Canada was a star There was a time when women’s soccer lenge their Asian rivals for regional domi- numbers tuning in, measured no longer in Whoever takes over from outgoing presi- individual, a player who could symbolise was considered either ‘unladylike’ in socially nance. thousands but in millions. dent Sepp Blatter will have learned after the new status of women’s soccer. conservative circles or a pale imitation of The Matildas showed their growing For Japan, the final was a painful jolt this past month that they will be overseeing Once play had started in Vancouver, it the ‘real thing’ among many soccer fans. promise by beating Brazil in the second back down to earth after their triumph over a sport played, watched, coached and refer- took a little more than a quarter of an hour Now there will be girls around the world round but South America is also displaying the Americans in 2011 and their run to the eed by both genders equally. —Reuters Klinsmann warning as Gold Cup kicks off

LOS ANGELES: Jurgen Klinsmann says the to the Netherlands in the last eight, are in United States will have to defend their Group B with El Salvador, Canada, and CONCACAF Gold Cup crown the hard way Jamaica. as the tournament kicks off today with the Coach Paulo Wanchope admitted that region’s governing body still reeling from ‘Los Ticos’ stunning World Cup performanc- the FIFA corruption scandal. es had increased expectations on his side. The USA, riding high after a thrilling “It will be a big challenge for us,” he said. World Cup campaign last year and recent “Everyone will now expect Costa Rica to friendly wins over Germany and the play great football and win against any Netherlands, start as favourites for the July team.” Mexico coach Miguel Herrera has 7-26 biennial tournament. meanwhile challenged his players to atone But Klinsmann has warned his players to for their dismal first round exit at the Copa expect a rough ride from opponents who America by wresting back the Gold Cup, are likely to defend in numbers, in contrast which it has dominated since its inception to the World Cup, where opponents were in 1991. “We have to accept the failure of more adventurous against a US side the Copa America and go to the Gold Cup regarded as underdogs. with the belief that we are going to win it,” “We are under the expectations of win- said Herrera, whose side face Guatemala, ning this tournament,” Klinsmann said. Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba in Group C. “Even if we know that teams like Honduras, Mexico’s preparations were dealt a ham- Costa Rica and Mexico all are very good mer blow last week after Manchester teams and can also beat us, you’ve got to United striker Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez be on top of things. “It’s not going to be an suffered a fractured collarbone which ruled open game like in a World Cup where you him out of the tournament. have the best teams in the world and they However Herrera’s attacking options just go at you. In most of our games in the have been strengthened by the return from Gold Cup, it’s going to be the opposite. self-imposed exile of Real Sociedad striker “They’re going to defend first of all and Carlos Vela, back in the fold after a three- then hope for a counter break or for a set year spat with Mexican football chiefs. piece to score against us.” While the identity of the side who will Klinsmann has named a strong squad ultimately lift the title in Philadelphia on for the tournament, drawing heavily on July 26 is anyone’s guess, there is also veterans of the World Cup in Brazil, as he uncertainty about who will present the tro- aims to forge a winning mentality. phy for CONCACAF, which has been rocked The Americans open their campaign by the US investigation into football cor- TURKEY: Manchester United’s former Portuguese midfielder Luis Nani (center) gestures as he arrives at the Sabiha Gokcen airport. — AP against Group A opponents Honduras in ruption. CONCACAF President Jefrrey Webb Dallas on Tuesday, with 2013 runners-up might normally be expected to do the hon- Panama playing Haiti in the day’s other ours-but he is currently languishing in a Nani joins Fenerbahce match, which is being played at the same prison cell in Switzerland fighting extradi- venue as part of a double-header. tion to the United States after being arrest- The biggest threat to American hopes is ed in Zurich on May 27. likely to emerge from traditional power- Influential Costa Rican official Eduardo from United for 6m euros houses Mexico and Costa Rica, two teams Li, who had been due to be elected to who also advanced to the knockout rounds FIFA’s executive-committee, was also arrest- ISTANBUL: Portuguese star Nani yesterday been agreed with a transfer fee of six million normal. Turkish press reports have said that van of the World Cup last year. ed during the Swiss swoop which later joined Fenerbahce from Manchester United for euros ($6.6 million/£4.25 million). “Agreement Persie had been encouraged to join Fenerbahce Costa Rica, who stunned Italy and widened to include a raid on CONCACAF’s six million euros as the Istanbul giants seek to has been reached with the player himself and the by its former Dutch stars Dirk Kuyt, who left last Uruguay in Brazil before losing on penalties offices in Miami. — AFP add a glittering array of foreign talent to their club,” Fenerbahce said in a statement. season after becoming a firm crowd favourite, ranks ahead of the new season, the Turkish club A signing ceremony and news conference will and Pierre van Hooijdonk. said. After last month’s signing of Danish centre be held at Fenerbahce’s stadium on the Asian Fenerbahce are looking to create an unbeat- back Simon Kjaer, Fenerbahce are reportedly also side of Istanbul late yesterday. In his eight years able line-up for the new season, after losing the pursuing Manchester United striker Robin van at Manchester United, Nani scored 41 times in Super Lig title to their eternal and bitter Istanbul Persie. 230 appearances. Meanwhile, Nani’s Manchester rivals Galatasaray. Nani, 28, a United player since 2007, spent all United teammate Robin van Persie, 31, whose Galatasaray have themselves been active in of last season on loan at his former club Sporting 2014/2015 season was blighted by an ankle the transfer market, notably signing German Lisbon and was not expected to figure in manag- injury, could arrive in Istanbul as soon as Tuesday international Lukas Podolski from Arsenal on a er Louis van Gaal’s plans for this season. to agree terms with Fenerbahce, the Hurriyet dai- three-year contract with an option for a fourth The Cape Verde-born winger arrived at an ly reported. year. Fenerbahce finished three points behind Istanbul airport to a hero’s welcome from However van Persie’s manager Kees Vos was Galatasaray in the race for the Super Lig title and Fenerbahce fans late on Sunday and underwent quoted as dousing the speculation in Dutch parted company with coach Ismail Kartal, replac- a successful medical yesterday. media, saying the player would be reporting for ing him with former Porto and Olympiacos Fenerbahce said a three-year contract had pre-season training with Manchester United as Portuguese coach Vitor Pereira. — AFP Mineiro defeat Inter to take Brazilian league lead

SAO PAULO: Striker Maicosuel scored twice in 17th place, inside relegation zone. was held to a 0-0 draw by Goias, while Palmeiras the second half to help Atletico Mineiro defeat Also Sunday, third-place Sport stayed near the beat Ponte Preta 2-0 to move into seventh place HUY: William Bonnet of France holds his head after crashing with scores of other rid- 10-man Internacional 3-1 and take the Brazilian top of the table thanks to an injury-time equaliz- on the table with 18 points. Popular Rio de ers during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race. — AP league lead on Sunday. er by striker Andre in a 2-2 draw. With the result, Janeiro club Flamengo conceded a last-minute It was the fourth win in a row for Atletico Sport remained the tournament’s only unbeaten goal in a 2-1 loss to Figueirense, dropping to 15th Rodriguez wins Tour stage Mineiro, which reached the top of the standings team. Fourth-place Fluminense had its three- place. On Saturday, two-time defending champi- with 23 points from 11 matches. Gremio and game winning streak ended with a 0-0 draw at on Cruzeiro defeated Atletico Paranaense 2-0, HUY: Joaquim Rodriguez won the third stage and team officials tended to the injured. Sport also have 23 points, but trail on tiebreakers. Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo had most of the scoring while Chapecoense defeated Vasco da Gama 1-0, of the Tour de France yesterday as Chris Having briefly restarted the race, organisers Maicosuel opened the scoring in the 60th chances but couldn’t capitalize on them, remain- keeping its rival in the relegation zone. Also Froome struck a blow to his overall rivals. then stopped it completely. minute, just before Internacional lost former ing winless in four matches and dropping to Saturday, second-to-last-place Coritiba was held Froome, the 2013 champion, took second Bonnet was forced to abandon the race, as Manchester United midfielder Anderson because eighth in the standings. Fifth-place Corinthians by last-place Joinville to a 0-0 draw. — AP on the crash-marred third stage over 159.5km was Tom Dumoulin, who was third overall at of a red card for dissent. Television cameras from Antwerp to the infamous Mur (wall) de six seconds and the holder of the best young caught him cursing at the linesman after a foul Huy in Belgium that saw four riders abandon. rider’s white jersey. Dumoulin was even call that went against him. Froome gained several seconds on his helped into an ambulance. For Australian Maicosuel scored again in the 78th and striker main rivals, defending champion Vincenzo team Orica GreenEdge’s leader Gerrans it was Thiago Ribeiro added to the lead in the 81st Nibali, Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana. more Tour heartache. before Argentine playmaker Lisandro Lopez net- Tour de France organisers stopped the Two years ago he spent two days in yellow ted Internacional’s lone goal in the 87th. race just over 100km into the third stage yes- but last year was taken out by Mark Internacional, the only Brazilian team still alive terday after leader Fabian Cancellara was Cavendish in the sprint finish on the first in this year’s Copa Libertadores, dropped to 14th caught up in a massive crash. Cancellara gin- stage and had to abandon there and then. in the 20-team standings with 13 points, only gerly got back on his bike and carried on but And now this time the 35-year-old made it three outside the relegation zone. Inter was com- three riders abandoned, including Australian only to the third stage. At the time of the race ing off two straight wins and hadn’t lost at home Simon Gerrans. After just over 10 minutes, the stoppage, four riders from the day’s break- in eight months. race was restarted behind the Tour director’s away-Jan Barta, Martin Elmiger, Bryan Gremio scored two second-half goals to car on the first categorised climb of this year’s Nauleau and Serge Pauwels-were holding a defeat Santos 3-1 for its fifth straight win, jump- race, the fourth category Cote de Bohissau lead of a handful of seconds over the peloton. ing to second place. Santos striker Geuvanio was with 53km left to ride. At the top of the hill, Meanwhile, French soldiers will guard sent off in the 29th after entering the field with- for which no points were awarded, the race every train crossing on the route on the Tour out proper permission from the referee, resulting proper recommenced. de France to stop riders going under the bar- in his second yellow card of the match. Geuvanio On a straight road in clear conditions with rier, the government said yesterday. loudly complained, saying he was authorized by bright sunshine, FDJ rider William Bonnet The measure was ordered to prevent a the assistant referee. clipped the wheel of Warren Barguil in front repeat of an incident in this year’s Paris- Gremio has been thriving under the com- and went down suddenly, causing a ripple Roubaix race when riders crossed a line just mand of former player Roger Machado, who through the peloton that took down scores of seconds before a high speed train hurtled by. replaced former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari riders. Organisers reaffirmed that any rider who just a few rounds into the championship. Amongst them was the yellow jersey breaches safety rules at rail crossings would Santos, which has lost three consecutive wearer, Cancellara. Such was the seriousness be thrown out of the Tour, which started on games, has been struggling without veteran of the crash that organisers immediately neu- Monday in Belgium heading for northern Brazil striker Robinho, who left the team after the tralised the race for a short spell as medics France. —AFP Copa America. The loss dropped the team to Maicosuel of Atletico Mineiro Lee clinches Pakistan rattle Sri Greenbrier Lanka with Classic in Masood-Younis 4-man16 playoff show18 TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

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VANCOUVER: The US team poses for a team photo after defeating Japan to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer championship. — AP US demolish Japan to win World Cup

VANCOUVER: Carli Lloyd became the first woman to the big moments,” she added. “I envisaged us winning Japan coach Norio Sasaki said he had tried to warn his tournament. score a hattrick in a World Cup final as she inspired the the trophy. I think five (goals) is a dream come true.” players of the danger posed by midfielder Lloyd, who Sasaki brought on experienced midfielder Homare United States to a 5-2 demolition of defending champi- It was the third meeting between the two teams in a was playing up front alongside Alex Morgan, but his Sawa, the heroine of Japan’s 2011 campaign, after 33 ons Japan on Sunday. major championship with the Americans winning the shouts were drowned out by the crowd. “I tried to tell minutes in place of tearful Iwashimizu who had to be The United States, winners in 1991 and 1999, became Olympic gold ahead of Japan in 2012, when Lloyd scored them but they couldn’t hear me,” he said. “Miss Lloyd, she comforted on the bench. the first nation to win the crown three times and both goals in a 2-1 win. The stunned ‘Nadeshiko’ were in always does this to us. In London she scored two and Kozue Ando, who broke her ankle in Japan’s opening avenged their loss to Japan on penalties in the 2011 final. disarray just minutes into their title defence. here she scored three. game, and underwent surgery at home was back in Lloyd, 32, scored a 13-minute hattrick opening with “We’re really embarrassed, but we really respect and Vancouver on the sidelines. She was given a piggy back her first after just three minutes on the pitch at GOLDEN BALL admire her, she deserves the golden ball.” Japan captain ride onto the field by reserve goalkeeper Erina Yamane Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium with the second coming Wearing the captain’s armband Lloyd, who was one of Aya Miyama was devastated. “Coming first and coming at halftime. two minutes later, and her third after 16 minutes. “I was three US players to miss a penalty in the 2011 final, got second are very different, so I am very sorry (we didn’t But even her presence could not lift Japan, despite on a mission today,” said Lloyd, whose teammates Lauren her first two goals from set pieces as she delivered a per- win),” she said, as tears streamed down her face. “It was a getting a goal back when Johnston inadvertently headed Holiday (14) and Tobin Heath (54) also found the net. formance that saw her presented with the Golden Ball tough game, but everyone did best for the team.” a cross into the back of her own net. Yuki Ogimi got one back on 27 minutes for the Asian award as the tournament’s best player. But just two minutes later Heath got her first goal of champions with their second coming thanks to a 52nd- The player from New Jersey picked up Megan ‘A LEGEND’ the tournament, as she picked up a cross from Morgan minute own-goal by US defender Julie Johnson, in what Rapinoe’s low cross from the right to tap in. Two minutes Japan’s players huddled together to try and regroup, Brian following a corner. was the highest-scoring final ever in the women’s tour- later the Japanese defence was in meltdown when Lloyd as they struggled to contain the livewire midfielder, who US star Abby Wambach came on for the last ten min- nament. again found her way through following a freekick. netted six goals in the tournament, equal with Germany’s utes, with Lloyd handing her the captain’s armband. “I “It’s unreal, it just hasn’t sunk in yet,” Lloyd said. “I’m To euphoric chanting of ‘USA, USA, USA’ from the Celia Sasic. wanted her to put the armband on because she’s done so mentally fried. “We knew that if we took it to Japan they 53,341 fans in the packed stadium, Holiday got a third But the Houston Dash midfielder raced forward again, much for our team. It’s her last World Cup and she’s a leg- would get nervous on the pitch.” Coach Jill Ellis said her just before the quarter hour mark with a volley after a looking surprised as she missed a chance for a fourth on end,” said Lloyd. only thought after the early goal-fest was: “Pinch me, weak defensive header from Azusa Iwashimizu. And just 17 minutes as she fired just wide. Veteran Christie Rampone, at 40 the oldest player in wake me up!” two minutes later Lloyd completed her hattrick with a Ogimi lifted Japanese spirits in the 27th minute as she the tournament and the only player remaining from the “We’d talked about starting fast, and I just knew that stunning shot from the half-way over the head of a got one past Hope Solo-whose work in the US goal 1999 squad, came on for the last five minutes of the the players could deliver. “These players were born for stunned Ayumi Kaihori in the Japan goal. earned her the Golden Glove award as top keeper of the contest. — AFP Serena wins sister duel, Sharapova grinds through Gasquet, Pospisil into LONDON: Serena Williams sank her sister Venus in a battle of the all-con- Wimbledon last-eight quering Wimbledon titans yesterday as Maria Sharapova dug deep to join the world number one in reaching the quarter-finals. LONDON: Richard Gasquet reached the the incident in the third set. The Williams sisters have won the title five times each out of the last 15 at Wimbledon quarter-finals for the sec- “Sometimes it happens. He’s not the the All England Club but it was Serena who triumphed in their first Grand ond time with a stormy win over only one to do it. Even the best players Slam clash since the 2009 Wimbledon final. volatile Nick Kyrgios yesterday while in the world did it in the past.” Meanwhile, 2004 Wimbledon champion Sharapova, 2012 beaten finalist Vasek Pospisil became only the third Unseeded Pospisil became only the Agnieszka Radwanska and two-time Grand Slam winner Victoria Azarenka Canadian man to make the last-eight. third Canadian man to reach the quar- also booked their places in today’s quarter finals. All eight Wimbledon quar- French 21st seed Gasquet defeated ter-finals with a 4-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 6-3, 6- ter-finalists from last year are out of the tournament, while Serena and Kyrgios 7-5, 6-1, 6-7 (7/9), 7-6 (8/6) in a 3 win over Serbian 22nd seed Viktor Sharapova are the only two from the world’s top 12 who are still standing. controversial clash to avenge a second Troicki. US duo Madison Keys and Coco Vandeweghe, Switzerland’s Timea round loss to the temperamental The world number 56 won his third Bacsinszky and Garbine Muguruza of Spain also made it to the last eight. Australian in 2014. five-set match in four rounds and goes Serena secured her 14th win in 26 clashes with Venus and the sisters The 29-year-old, a semi-finalist in on to face either 2013 champion Andy hugged at the net after the match on Centre Court finished 6-4, 6-3. 2007, will face either third seed Stan Murray or Croatia’s big-serving Ivo Playing each other “definitely doesn’t get easier”, Serena said. “I was out there, I thought, wow, I’m 33 and she just turned 35. I don’t know how many Wawrinka or Belgium’s David Goffin for Karlovic for a place in the semi-finals. more moments like this we’ll have. I plan on playing for years but you never a place in the last-four after winning a Pospisil follows Robert Powell (1908, know if we’ll have the opportunity to face each other.” LONDON: Serena Williams of the United States makes a return to last-16 clash at the majors for just the 1910 and 1912) and Milos Raonic (2014) As for the match, “it was really good for me to get it done in straight sets Venus Williams of the United States, during their singles match third time in 19 attempts. For Kyrgios, as the only Canadian men to have and just put this behind me and move forward”, she said. against at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships. — AP who has delighted and enraged reached the last-eight at the All The 20-time Grand Slam champion remains on course to completing the Wimbledon in equal measure, it was England Club. feat of holding all four majors at the same time, having the US, Australian draw, where 13th seed Radwanska is the highest-ranking player still standing another topsy-turvy encounter. Later yesterday, defending champi- and French Open titles under her belt. after Caroline Wozniacki crashed out. He ‘tanked’ the third game of the on Novak Djokovic will face South Serena faces Azarenka, the 2012 and 2013 Australian Open champion, in The Danish fifth seed, blew her chance to make the quarter-finals with a third set after arguing with umpire African 14th seed Kevin Anderson in the quarter-finals after the Belarusian 23rd seed saw off the in-form Belinda 6-4, 6-4 defeat to 20th seed Muguruza. Wozniacki, who has been the world James Keothavong over a code viola- the fourth round, defending a 4-1 Bencic, on a career-high ranking of 22, 6-2, 6-3. number one despite never having won a Grand Slam, was the only top 12 tion for swearing, a gesture which career lead. Anderson won their first Sharapova endured her toughest test so far but still made it through to the player left in the bottom half of the draw. brought boos from the crowd. meeting in 2008 but since then the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Kazakhstan’s unseeded Zarina Diyas. Wozniacki has now reached the fourth round at the All England Club five If his actions are deemed to be an world number one has been on top, The Russian fourth seed won Wimbledon 11 years ago but has only made times without ever progressing. Muguruza will face Bacsinszky for a place in act of deliberately not trying, then he winning the next four without drop- it past the fourth round once since 2006. “I thought I’ve been doing good but the semi-finals. The Swiss 15th seed, who reached her first Grand Slam semi- could face a heavy fine. The 20-year-old ping a set, including a straight sets win as we all know, it only gets tougher from here,” the Siberian said. “It’s a great final at the French Open, recovered from a terrible start to beat world num- Kyrgios had a set point in the fourth set at Wimbledon in the second round four position to be in. I lost at this stage last year so was extremely happy to go a ber 48 Monica Niculescu of Romania 1-6, 7-5, 6-2. before his 10th double fault of the years ago. Roger Federer, 33, chasing a round further.” She faces Vandeweghe in the quarter-finals after the US world Polish 13th seed Radwanska booked her spot in the quarter-finals with a 7- match handed victory to the record eighth Wimbledon and 18th number 47 edged out Czech sixth seed Lucie Safarova, last month’s beaten 5, 6-4 win over Serbian 28th seed Jelena Jankovic. Former world number one Frenchman. major, faces Spanish 20th seed Roberto French Open finalist, 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (7/4). Vandeweghe had never been Jankovic had knocked out defending champion Petra Kvitova in the third “He was a little bit angry, a little bit beyond the third round of a Grand Slam before this year’s Wimbledon. Bautista Agut, who was voted the most round. Radwanska faces 21st seed Keys in the quarter-finals. The 20-year-old, frustrated, I saw that,” said Gasquet of improved player of 2014. — AFP While Serena, Sharapova and Azarenka have 27 Grand Slam titles an Australian Open semi-finalist earlier this year reached the last eight with a between them, there are no major winners at all in the bottom half of the 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over Belarusian qualifier Olga Govortsova. — AFP Rolls-Royce cuts profit forecasts Page 23

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ATHENS: Outgoing Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis leaves on his motorcycle with his wife Danai after his resignation at the ministry of finance in downtown Athens yesterday. — AFP Greece finance minister out Eurozone weighs cost of ‘No’ vote

ATHENS: Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Monday showing the final tally in the refer- Tsipras yesterday sacrificed his finance min- endum at 61.31 percent “No” and 38.69 per- ister in a gesture aimed at placating euro- cent “Yes”, with turnout at 62.5 percent. China stocks rise after govt steps in zone creditors, which must now decide Tsipras has “torn down the bridges” whether to loan more money to the debt- between Greece and Europe, Merkel’s SHANGHAI: Chinese stocks rose yesterday, as an The rapid decline of China’s previously boom- ket as the Shanghai index rose more than 150 wracked country or prepare for a “Grexit”. A deputy chancellor, German Economy unprecedented series of support measures ing stock market, which by the end of last week percent beginning late last year. Some made big day after the Greeks said a resounding “No” Minister Sigmar Gabriel, told the unleashed by Beijing brought some relief to a had fallen around 30 percent from a mid-June profits but the slump has left many with shares to further austerity measures in return for Tagesspiegel newspaper. Jeroen market whose headlong slide over the past three peak, had become a major headache for worth less than they paid and hoping for a bailout funds in a crunch referendum, Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of weeks had raised fears about the stability of the President Xi Jinping and China’s top leaders, who rebound so they can sell. “I hope I can bow out of finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said he finance ministers, called the Greek “No” world’s second-biggest economy. In an extraordi- were already struggling to avert a sharper eco- the stock market after I break even,” said Liu Yun, was stepping down immediately and at result “very regrettable for the future of nary weekend of policy moves, brokerages and nomic slowdown. In response, China has orches- a Beijing schoolteacher who put 80,000 yuan Tsipras’s request. The flamboyant minister, Greece”. He is due to hold a teleconference fund managers vowed to buy massive amounts of trated a halt to new share issues, with dozens of ($13,000) into the market since last year and now who had openly irritated his European on Monday morning with European stocks, helped by China’s state-backed margin firms scrapping their IPO plans in separate but has shares worth 62,000 yuan ($10,000). counterparts, said on his blog announcing Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker and finance company, which in turn would be aided similarly worded statements over the weekend, in “I am down on the stock market for the com- his resignation that “I shall wear the credi- European Union president Donald Tusk and by a direct line of liquidity from the central bank. a tactic authorities have used before to support ing two years,” said Yu Xing, CEO of a company in tors’ loathing with pride.” the head of the Eurogroup of eurozone The CSI300 index of the largest listed compa- markets. the eastern city of Nanjing that makes streaming The euro had tumbled as much as 1.6 finance ministers. Meanwhile, German and nies in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed up 2.9 per- Traders have also complained that some firms content for websites. He said he has lost one- percent in electronic trading immediately French finance ministers were holding talks cent, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained may be ducking out of the market turmoil by quarter of his 400,000 yuan ($65,000) investment on the 61-percent ‘No’ result from the refer- in Warsaw, while the Euro Working Group 2.4 percent. That represented a significant pull- seeking a trading suspension, as an unusually since late last year. The decline has wiped out endum, but recovered after Varoufakis’ of top treasury officials was to meet in back, however, from an initial burst of euphoria large number of companies - about a quarter of about 15 trillion yuan ($2.4 trillion) in market cap- shock resignation to $1.1086, just 0.25 per- Brussels. More than three quarters of that pushed both indexes up around 8 percent all those listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen - have italization. cent lower. European markets also gave a Greeks want to stay in the eurozone, when trading began, raising questions about filed for a halt. Recent falls in commodity markets, Analysts say one factor driving the downward relatively muted reaction, with losses limit- according to surveys but analysts are now whether the rebound can be sustained. Oliver which are sensitive to expectations of Chinese spiral in prices is that investors who bought ed in mid-morning trade at around 1.5 per- putting the chances of a Grexit at “very Barron, China policy research analyst at NSBO, demand, underline the broader fears among shares with credit from brokers - known as mar- cent. high”. “Did Tsipras celebrate a Pyrrhic ‘No’?” said it wasn’t just faith in the markets at stake global investors about the strength of the econo- gin lending - are being forced to sell to repay German Chancellor Angela Merkel was asked Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at after investors had ignored official measures to my. Shanghai copper posted its steepest daily loans. “There is still no sign the market will turn to meet with French leader Francois ING-DiBa bank. prop up equities as indexes slid around 12 per- drop in 5 months yesterday, Chinese steel prices around, since investors’ confidence has suffered a Hollande in Paris amid a flurry of other There is “lots of bad blood is on the cent last week. “After the market continued to fall are at their lowest level since the depths of the huge blow,” said Hu Huopeng, market strategist meetings to size up the implications of the floors, Greek banks are closed and Greece despite myriad support measures, the govern- global financial crisis and iron ore has fallen 17 for Founder Securities. “The blow to small vote, a victory for Greece’s radical left-wing does not have a bailout programme,” he ment reached peak panic mode and must have percent since mid-June. investors is even harder, since the market dipped Tsipras, who insisted it did not mean a “rup- noted. Holger Schmieding, analyst at worried that investors would not only lose confi- each time regardless of what the government ture” with Europe. Eurozone leaders were Berenberg bank, also warned that the dence in the markets, but in the government Small Investors did,” said Hu. “The hearts of small investors have also due to hold an emergency summit change in finance minister may be “more itself,” he said. Millions of novice investors piled into the mar- become very fragile and they should stay away today, and several of them had described symbolic than a change of substance” as from the market until it is totally stabilized.” the vote as an in-out decision on Greece’s Varoufakis has not been leading the nego- euro membership. tiations since April. “Greece is in limbo until Banks Surge, Small Caps Slump With capital controls shuttering banks further notice, sliding towards Grexit unless Yesterday’s stock market gains were focused and rationing euros from ATMs, Greece Athens changes course,” he said. on blue chips, the explicit target of the stabilisa- urgently needs a cash injection from the tion fund, particularly the big banks, with the European Central Bank (ECB) to prevent Massive Debt likes of Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China its economy grinding to a halt. Failing After a jubilant celebration on Sunday and ICBC all surging nearly 10 percent. In contrast that, it could be forced to print IOUs or night by “No” voters, Athens returned to the the ChiNext growth board, home to some of return to the drachma - effectively reality of queues at ATMS for their daily China’s giddiest small-cap valuations, fell 4.5 per- heralding a Greece exit from the euro, or withdrawals of just €60 ($67) imposed last cent. “Whether the blue chips will calm the small Grexit. Varoufakis’ departure fuelled week as part of capital controls to halt a caps, or the small caps will continue to unsettle hopes that the creditors - the ECB, the haemorrhage of cash. Tsipras, 40, insists the rest of the market remains to be seen,” wrote European Commission and the that instead of Grexit, the creditors will Hong Hao, chief strategist of BOCOM International Monetary Fund (IMF) - finally have to talk about restructuring the International. could be persuaded to return to negotia- massive, €240-billion ($267 billion) debt Hong Kong shares fell, widening the valuation tions. Greece owes them. Last Tuesday, his coun- gap between the domestic “A” and Hong Kong “H” try defaulted on a €1.5-billion repayment listings of Chinese firms, with foreigners net sell- ‘A Pyrrhic ‘No’?’ to the IMF, becoming the first developed ers through the Connect scheme that connects French Finance Minister Michel Sapin country to fall into arrears to the institu- the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges. China said it was now up to the Greek govern- tion. That same day, the last EU-IMF bailout stocks had more than doubled over the past year, ment to make new proposals. “The vote for Greece ran out, despite Tsipras’ appeals despite a cooling economy and weakening cor- itself solves nothing,” he said, adding that for it to be extended. Greece was officially porate earnings, resulting in a market that even the margins for dialogue with Greece were declared in default on Friday by the China’s bullish securities regulators eventually “very thin”. European leaders had reacted European Financial Stability Facility, which admitted had become too frothy. But the slide BEIJING: A man walks past office workers smoking near a statue of a bull in the Central with a mix of dismay and to the figures holds €144.6 billion ($160 billion) of Greek that began in mid-June quickly showed signs of Business District yesterday. — AFP released by the Greek interior ministry early loans. — AFP getting out of hand. —Agencies BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 Ringgit hits 16-year low on political uncertainty

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s ringgit hit a 16- (1MDB). It said the funds ended up in the ister and his failure to respond specifically to year low yesterday on growing political accounts of premier Najib Razak, who chairs the allegations were causing uncertainty. uncertainty following allegations that a the advisory board of 1MDB which he “Weak oil and commodities prices, along probe into a state investment fund found launched in 2009. with an unexpected slowdown in exports of hundreds of millions of dollars were trans- Malaysia’s attorney general said Saturday Southeast Asia’s third largest economy, is also ferred into the prime minister’s personal that a task force would investigate the allega- putting strain on the ringgit,” he told AFP. accounts. The currency dropped 0.8 percent tion, which Najib has dismissed as “political “Investors’ confidence has been shattered. to 3.8088 against the greenback in Kuala sabotage”. 1MDB has said it had never pro- Unless we settle the political issue involving Lumpur, the lowest level since May 1999. The vided any funds to Najib, and the premier has Najib and 1MDB, the ringgit could slide low- currency was fixed at 3.8 to the dollar in 1998 in the past persistently denied any wrongdo- er.” during the Asian financial crisis after it ing. Both Najib and 1MDB have also said that Nicholas Teo, an analyst at CMC Markets slumped 35 percent the previous year. The previous leaked documents had “reportedly” in Singapore, said the Greek “No” vote on aus- peg was dropped in 2005. been tampered with, and that the docu- terity measures had also played a part in the Malaysian stocks were also down 1.3 per- ments cited by the WSJ had not been veri- ringgit’s plunge. “It’s a kneejerk reaction cou- cent, in line with regional markets that have fied. The prime minister, under pressure after pled with the WSJ report,” he said. Malaysia’s been roiled by the Greek debt negotiation being accused of failing to properly address main opposition parties have demanded an saga. The Wall Street Journal reported on allegations that hundreds of millions of dol- emergency sitting of parliament to discuss Friday that government investigators had lars have gone missing from deals involving Najib’s future amid calls for the prime minis- uncovered nearly $700 million that moved 1MDB, earlier this year ordered government ter to step down temporarily until the investi- through government agencies, banks and auditors to examine the fund’s books. gations are completed. Najib is also strug- companies linked to state-controlled invest- Ooi Chin Hock, a dealer with M & A gling to fend off a persistent campaign for his KUALA LUMPUR: This photo illustration shows Malaysian ringgit banknotes yester- ment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd Securities, said the cloud over the prime min- ouster by influential former prime minister day. — AFP Gold falls on dollar

LONDON: Gold fell yesterday as a robust Matthew Turner said. Gold reached an all- dollar outweighed the impact of lower time high of $1,920 in 2011, supported by equity markets and some retail demand euro zone sovereign debt fears and a weak- after Greek voters rejected the terms of a er dollar. “We are now in a bear market, bailout package, potentially setting Athens which is negatively impacting investors’ on a path out of the euro. Official figures sentiment,” Turner added. “People are still from a referendum on Sunday showed 61 not sure they need a safe haven and if they percent of Greeks had said no to a deal that do need one, they are not sure it should be would have imposed more austerity meas- gold.” The Greek vote leaves the country in ures on an already ravaged economy. Spot uncharted waters, risking a banking col- gold was down 0.2 percent at $1,163.50 an lapse. Without more emergency funding ounce by 1028 GMT, while U.S. gold futures from the European Central Bank, Greece’s were down 0.1 percent at $1,164.40 an banks could run out of cash within days. ounce. “Unless (banks’) lending (to Greece) is The metal, typically seen as an alterna- topped up, the banks risk running out of tive investment in times of financial and money, which would mean a new level of economic uncertainties, rallied during escalation in the debt drama and should Asian hours, reaching a near one-week lend support to the gold price,” high of $1,174.70, but failed to hold onto Commerzbank said in a note. gains, as the dollar gained versus the euro. Investors were mostly still focused on The single currency was weighed down by expectations the Federal Reserve will raise the uncertainty over Athens’ financial situa- interest rates from record lows this year, tion and its future in the euro. European which would increase the opportunity leaders called a summit for Tuesday to dis- cost of holding gold. Silver was down 0.5 cuss their next move. percent at $15.59 an ounce, platinum “There isn’t the fear of a pan-European dropped 1.6 percent to $1,062.25 an crisis, as was the case a few years ago, ounce and palladium fell 0.7 percent to when you saw a rush to gold, which was $674.97 an ounce, close to a two-year low already in a bull market,” Macquarie analyst hit last week. —Reuters

SEOUL: A currency dealer walks past a screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index in a trading room at the Korea Exchange Bank yesterday.— AFP Oil falls more than 3%

Stocks, euro fall but no LONDON: Oil prices fell more than 3 iday. Both crudes hit their lowest lev- percent yesterday after Greece reject- els since mid-April. With markets ed debt bailout terms and China already nervous due to the turmoil in rolled out emergency measures to Europe and China, fundamentals were rout after Greek ‘No’ support its stock markets, adding to also bearish. US drilling increased for concerns about demand at a time of the first time after 29 weeks of global oversupply. The result of declines, the strongest sign yet that Asian shares suffer biggest one-day fall in two years Greece’s referendum put in doubt its higher crude prices are coaxing pro- membership in the euro, pulling ducers back to the well pad. LONDON: Shares fell, the euro stumbled and yields on but it has suffered bigger falls on eight previous days dealers’ quotes indicated two-year yields at 51.34 per- down the single currency against the Production in Russia and the weaker euro zone economies’ bonds rose after Greece in 2015. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index, was cent, the highest since the bonds were issued in July dollar. A strong dollar tends to pres- Organization of the Petroleum overwhelmingly voted against conditions for a rescue down just 0.7 percent by 1130 GMT. Germany’s DAX 2014. US 10-year Treasury yields dropped 9 bps to 2.30 sure commodities as it makes fuel Exporting Countries is also at or near package, but there was no rout and contagion was was down 1.4 percent while Italy’s FTSE MIB index percent as investors sought the safety of low-risk debt. more expensive for holders of other records. Analysts say OPEC is now limited. US stock index futures indicated Wall Street dropped 2.8 percent. Italy, Spain and Portugal are seen The euro weakened throughout the European morn- currencies. pumping around 2.5 million barrels would follow European and Asian share markets lower as the economies most vulnerable to contagion from ing and was last down 0.8 to $1.1023 and 0.8 percent Commodities were also sucked per day (bpd) more than demand for but there have been several worse days this year for Greece. against the safe-haven Japanese yen. It has fallen into market turmoil that has seen its crude, filling inventories world- markets vulnerable to events in Greece. Analysts Some bankers said the result made it more likely more than that against the dollar on 22 days this year. Chinese shares fall as much as 30 per- wide. “Demand is good, but supply is attributed the relatively muted reaction to expecta- Greece would leave the euro. But a poll of investors It fell as low as $1.0967 in Asia before rebounding, gar- cent since June due in part to the better,” said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief tions the European Central Bank would act to limit any taken on Sunday by Germany’s Sentix research group nering some support from the resignation of Greece’s economy growing at its slowest pace commodities analyst at SEB in Oslo. damage. The ECB’s governing council is holding a con- showed expectations of a “Grexit” in coming months outspoken finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. The in a generation. “Uncertainty over Putting futher pressure on oil markets ference call on Monday to decide how long to keep unchanged from a week earlier at 50 percent. “Markets euro’s fall helped push the dollar up 0.3 percent Greece is bearish for oil. It adds an was a possible nuclear deal between Greek banks afloat. “The market is, rightly or wrongly, have yet to be convinced in full either that the (Greek) against a basket of currencies. extra negative factor on top of the global powers and Iran, which could taking a great deal of credence of the fact that the ECB exit door will be open or that the extent of any conta- In Asia, the rush from risk took MSCI’s broadest turmoil in Chinese financial markets, add more oil to oversupplied markets has many more defence mechanisms in place than it gion from this could be irreparably damaging to the index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan down 2.8 the recent rise in US drilling rigs, and if sanctions on Iran are eased. did in 2011-12,” said Andrew Milligan, head of global system,” said Neil Williams, chief economist at Hermes percent in the steepest daily drop in two years. a potential increase in Iranian oil sup- “Reports increasingly suggest a strategy at Standard Life Investments. “Some of the Investment Management. Yields on Italian, Spanish Chinese stocks rose, however, after an unprecedented ply,” said Olivier Jakob, senior energy deal is likely before July 9,” Morgan measures we’ve seen already could be seen as a subtle and Portuguese government bonds rose between 9 series of support measures from Beijing to halt a slide analyst at Petromatrix in Zug, Stanley analysts said in a report. “With signal by the ECB that it is ready to step up... This point and 17 basis points. German 10-year yields fell 6.4 bps of around 30 percent since mid-June. The CSI 300 Switzerland. a deal, some supply could creep from ...is very important to the market reaction.” to 0.73 percent. The yield gap between Italian and index of the largest listed companies in Shanghai and Benchmark Brent crude oil fell floating storage. More material Many traders and analysts had expected a closer German 10-year bonds was on track for its widest Shenzhen rose 2.9 percent. Japan’s Nikkei shed 2.1 $2.04 a barrel to a low of $58.28 exports (500,000-700,000 bpd) would result or even a ‘Yes’ in Sunday’s referendum. In the close since the end of October. percent, while US equity futures dropped 0.7 percent. before recovering a little to around likely come in late 2015 or early 2016, event, more than 60 percent of those who voted Brent crude oil futures fell more than $1.50 to $58.77 a $58.75 by 1145 GMT. US light crude which could delay the recovery in oil rejected the conditions demanded by Greece’s credi- Rush From Risk barrel. Gold initially rose after the Greek vote, but fell as low as $53.91, down $3.02 from prices and US production by 6-12 tors. The euro zone blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index fell Greek bond markets have been closed since the gains fizzed out due to the dollar’s relative strength. It its close on July 2. July 3 was a US hol- months.” —Reuters 1.8 percent, led down by a 3.2 percent fall in banks, regulator requested their suspension last week but traded at $1,165.15 an ounce. — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.550 US Dollars Mint 0.299700 0.303700 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. 20 gram 236.700 Jordanian Dinar 427.095 10 gram 121.050 Egyptian Pound 39.609 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES 5 gram 61.210 Bangladesh Taka 0.003555 0.004155 Japanese Yen 2.482 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.262 Indian Rupees 4.749 Chinese Yuan 0.047464 0.050964 Indian Rupees 4.769 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Pakistani Rupees 2.979 Pakistani Rupees 2.976 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037030 0.039780 Srilankan Rupees 2.265 Bangladesh Taka 3.888 Indian Rupee 0.004587 0.004977 Nepali Rupees 2.985 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Philippines Pesso 6.706 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Singapore Dollar 225.500 Australian Dollar 210.48 Cyprus pound 577.300 Japanese Yen 0.002389 0.002569 Hongkong Dollar 39.135 Canadian Dollar 245.93 Japanese Yen 3.470 Kenyan Shilling 0.003023 0.003023 Bangladesh Taka 3.898 Swiss Franc 328.17 Syrian Pound 2.600 Korean Won 0.000259 0.000274 Philippine Peso 6.733 Euro 339.98 Nepalese Rupees 3.015 Malaysian Ringgit 0.076693 0.082693 Thai Baht 8.891 US Dollar 303.25 Malaysian Ringgit 80.925 Nepalese Rupee 0.003042 0.003212 Sterling Pound 478.52 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 49.150 Pakistan Rupee 0.002804 0.003084 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.51 Thai Bhat 9.950 Philippine Peso 0.006609 0.006889 Saudi Riyal 80.923 Bangladesh Taka 3.893 Turkish Lira 112.390 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 Qatari Riyal 83.359 Indian Rupee 4.767 Singapore Dollar 0.221115 0.227115 Omani Riyal 788.000 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.262 Bahrain Exchange Company South African Rand 0.018435 0.026935 Bahraini Dinar 805.900 Nepali Rupee 2.980 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001828 0.002408 CURRENCY BUY SELL UAE Dirham 82.621 Pakistani Rupee 2.980 Taiwan 0.009681 0.009861 Europe UAE Dirhams 82.44 Thai Baht 0.008693 0.0009243 ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 804.90 Belgian Franc 0.007913 0.008913 British Pound 0.464271 0.473271 Egyptian Pound - Cash 42.450 Egyptian Pound 39.63 Arab Czech Korune 0.004352 0.016352 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.649 Jordanian Dinar 430.80 Bahraini Dinar 0.798046 0.806043 Danish Krone 0.040869 0.045869 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.416 Omani Riyal 786.47 Egyptian Pound 0.039711 0.042541 Qatari Riyal 83.51 Euro 0.329736 0.337736 Tunisian Dinar 155.620 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Saudi Riyal 80.78 Norwegian Krone 0.033533 0.038733 Jordanian Dinar 428.150 Iraqi Dinar 0.000189 0.000249 Romanian Leu 0.074642 0.074642 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.036 Jordanian Dinar 0.423482 0.430982 Slovakia 0.009048 0.019048 Syrian Lira 2.163 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 31.430 Swedish Krona 0.031728 0.036728 Lebanese Pound 0.000151 0.000251 Swiss Franc 0.314789 0.324989 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019853 0.043853 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.112557 0.119557 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Nigerian Naira 0.000921 0.001556 US Dollar Transfer 303.300 US Dollar 302.800 Omani Riyal 0.781780 0.787460 Euro 336.970 Australasia Canadian Dollar 246.750 Qatar Riyal 0.082598 0.083811 Sterling Pound 473.750 Australian Dollar 0.219101 0.230601 Sterling Pound 476.810 Saudi Riyal 0.080243 0.080943 Canadian dollar 241.870 Euro 340.205 New Zealand Dollar 0.196439 0.205939 Syrian Pound 0.001285 0.001505 Turkish lira 112.020 Swiss Frank 282.835 Tunisian Dinar 0.151991 0.159991 Swiss Franc 323.000 Bahrain Dinar 804.460 America Turkish Lira 0.112557 0.119557 Australian Dollar 229.450 UAE Dirhams 82.816 Canadian Dollar 0.235560 0.244060 UAE Dirhams 0.081596 0.082745 US Dollar Buying 302.100 Qatari Riyals 90.805 US Dollars 0.299200 0.303700 Yemeni Riyal 0.001371 0.001451 BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 Eurozone’s poorer nations take hard line on Greece

BRATISLAVA: The eurozone’s poorer former commu- raises the spectre of a “Grexit” or exit from the euro told and worse choices left” and reforms “are unavoidable”. Estonia’s leading Postimees daily, told AFP. Maie Mets, a nist nations, having themselves endured painful market reporters: “With the result of the referendum, a possi- “We expect the Greek government to understand the 72-year-old pensioner, said: “As I understand it, the reforms and austerity programs, are taking a hard line ble crisis scenario, the gradual withdrawal of Greece situation and show decisiveness and action within Greek standard of living is higher than ours here in on Greece after its people voted to reject bailout terms. from the eurozone, is unfolding.” Slovakia, an ex-com- hours,” he added. Estonia. It is only normal that people pay their debts.” Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia have long insist- munist nation of 5.4 million people that joined the Having broken free from the crumbling Soviet ed they are too poor to pay for the mistakes made by eurozone in 2009, has suffered stubbornly high job- Union in 1990-91, tiny Estonia and Latvia joined the ‘No Sympathy’ wealthier Greece and that it should have stuck to the lessness despite brisk economic growth in recent years. eurozone in 2011 and 2014 respectively, followed by Latvia was hit hard by the global financial crisis, reforms and austerity measures laid out in its massive Its leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico insists “Slovakia neighbour Lithuania in January this year. All three Baltic suffering the world’s deepest recession when GDP 240 billion euro ($273 billion) bailout. will not be harmed as a result of Greece and its deci- states implemented drastic austerity measures to shrank by nearly a quarter over two years. Yet the “I hear some Greeks have pensions over 1,000 euros sion to stay or leave the single currency union,” as recover from deep recessions triggered by the 2008-09 nation of some two million bounced back after imple- ($1,100) a month. That’s outrageous. I refuse to pay for Bratislava “did not give any cash, only our guarantees” global financial crisis, paving the way to eurozone entry menting austerity cuts under the terms of a 7.5 billion their debt while they are making fortunes compared to as part of previous Greek bailouts. and stable economic growth, now around three per- euro international bailout it secured to avert bankrupt- my salary,” Bratislava waitress Martina Lelovicova told cent in the region. cy. “When we went through the international bailout, AFP yesterday in a country where the average monthly ‘Bad and Worse Choices Left’ Estonia, the eurozone’s smallest member since 2011, did anyone come to rescue us?” asked Zenija Lace, a 61- salary is Ä880. “It’s good news for the eurozone. Greeks But not all poorer eurozone members have nothing approved an initial Greek bailout but has since said ‘No’ year-old Riga office worker. “I have no sympathy for the should leave it, this will only make it healthier,” a to lose: Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves and insists that all eurozone members adopt its strict Greeks. They should have started paying taxes long Bratislava entrepreneur in his thirties who wished to tweeted Monday that “Greece’s creditors (are) not just fiscal discipline. Tallinn boasts the eurozone’s lowest ago. If they want money from Europe, they should have remain anonymous told AFP of Sunday’s Greek referen- banks”. “Eurozone countries poorer than Greece stand debt-to-GDP ratio of 10.6 percent. “Estonians don’t real- started saving!” added 59-year-old Riga business- dum result. Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir - the to lose up to 4.2 percent GDP,” he wrote. Prime Minister ly understand the Greek attitude. We are used to saving woman Brigita Petersone. “How is it that we could first Eurogroup minister to warn that the Greek ‘No’ Taavi Roivas for his part said Greece “now only has bad and living frugally,” Merit Kopli, editor in chief of endure all of it and they can’t?” —AFP

German line hardens after Greek ‘No’ vote

BERLIN: The German government sig- Minister Michel Sapin saying a Greek debt nalled a tough line towards Greece yester- writedown should not be considered day, saying it saw no basis for new bailout taboo. German officials acknowledge pri- negotiations and insisting it was up to vately that Berlin and Paris have sent out Athens to move swiftly if it wanted to pre- conflicting signals in recent days that it is serve its place in the euro zone. With opin- important to get the euro zone’s two ion towards Greece hardening in biggest countries back on the same page. Germany’s ruling coalition following the Seibert played down the impact of the landslide rejection of European bailout resignation of Greek finance minister Yanis terms in a Sunday referendum, Chancellor Varoufakis, whose fiery declarations have Angela Merkel’s spokesman indirectly alienated the Germans and many of their raised the prospect of a Greek exit from the euro partners in recent months. He said currency bloc. that Greek policy positions were more “Greece is a member of the euro. It is up important than personnel. Merkel, who has to Greece and its government to act so that worked hard behind the scenes to avoid a this can remain the case,” Steffen Seibert Greek exit, saying last week that “where told a government news conference. “It there’s a will, there’s a way”, finds herself depends now on what proposals the Greek boxed in following the referendum by the government puts on the table.” Pressed on increasingly hard line of her conservative what concessions Berlin might be willing to allies and coalition partners, the centre-left make to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Social Democrats (SPD). a finance ministry spokesman dismissed Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the SPD, told the idea of a debt restructuring sought by the Tagesspiegel daily after the referendum Athens and favoured by the International that Tsipras had “torn down the last bridges Monetary Fund (IMF). on which Greece and Europe could have German Chancellor Angela Merkel trav- moved towards a compromise”. Reflecting a els to Paris later on Monday to agree a com- shift in the political mood, Finance Minister mon stance towards Greece with French Wolfgang Schaeuble, who has become a President Francois Hollande. The rhetoric hate-figure in Greece for his uncompromis- out of Paris, Madrid and other capitals was ing stance, saw his popularity at home FRANKFURT: Workers take down the stars of the euro logo in front of the former headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) yesterday. — AFP more conciliatory towards Greece on surge to a new high last week, according to Monday morning, with French Finance an opinion poll. — Reuters All eyes on ECB after Greek ‘No’ Difficult for bank to justify keeping lifeline open

FRANKFURT: All eyes turned to the European Central Dijsselbloem and the president of the European Council said. Until now, the Frankfurt-based ECB has pulled out Bank yesterday following the resounding ‘No’ in Greece’s Donald Tusk - was scheduled to chair a meeting of the all the stops in a bid to prevent a so-called “Grexit” - or referendum, as it is seen as the only institution capable of ECB’s governing council to discuss that request. Greek exit from the eurozone. But some of the ECB gov- stemming market panic and preventing the Greek econ- erning council members believe that constantly violating omy from collapsing. In Sunday’s referendum, more than Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ the single currency’s rules, as Greece is perceived to have 61 percent of Greeks rejected creditor demands for fur- “While politicians in the eurozone are preparing for done, is just as destructive. ther austerity in return for more bailout funds, sending possible new talks, it is once again up to the ECB to do Greece’s eurozone partners scrambling to respond. Until the dirty work,” said ING DiBa economist Carsten Brzeski. Bundesbank Hard Line now, the ECB has agreed to keep Greek banks - and, by “The ‘No’ has not made the ECB’s life any easier. With For that reason, the head of the German central bank extension, the debt-wracked Greek economy - on life every step that Greece is moving closer to total default or Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, has consistently voted support via the eurozone’s Emergency Liquidity or even a ‘Grexit’ and Greek banks are losing deposits, it against ELA in recent weeks. And support for his hardline Assistance or ELA facility. But the overwhelming ‘No’ vote will be harder for the ECB to label Greek banks as sol- stance could grow on the ECB governing council. A two- has made it more difficult for the ECB to justify keeping vent, and thereby eligible for ELA,” Brzeski said. ELA is thirds majority would be needed on the 25-seat board to that lifeline open. “The ECB’s hands are tied by rules,” the currently the only source of financing for Greek banks, shut down ELA. Deutsche Bank economist George head of the Austrian central Bank, Ewald Nowotny, told and therefore the Greek economy. But with Greece’s Saravelos predicted that for Greek banks, ELA liquidity the public broadcaster ORF. “We have to assess the situa- bailout program now officially expired and in the was likely to be fully exhausted over the next few days. tion each time anew. And I’m afraid that events in Greece absence of any new program, the conditions for its con- That would leave cash machines empty and Greece have not made it easier for us,” Nowotny said. tinuation are no longer met. would no longer be able to finance imported goods via Analysts agreed. “Without a clear prospect of an But analysts believe the ECB will not want to be the outgoing payments. The ECB’s patience is unlikely to last immediate bailout deal that could prevent a full-scale one to pull the plug on Greece and force the country out forever and could run out later this month, when Greece sovereign default ... it is very hard for the ECB to authorise of the single currency. “The ECB will not be the one is due to repay €3.5 billion ($3.9 billion) in loans to the BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at her office at the chancellery continuing emergency support for Greek banks, let alone pulling the trigger on Greece. As long as eurozone politi- ECB on July 20. If Greece is unable to meet the deadline yesterday. — AP to allow an increase in such support,” said Berenberg cians will signal their willingness to negotiate with and defaults on the payment, “it is very hard to see the Bank economist Holger Schmieding. The Bank of Greece Athens, the ECB will keep ELA at its current levels,” said ECB continuing ELA,” said Brzeski. The head of the French has requested an increase in ELA liquidity. And in the flur- Brzeski. Berenberg Bank’s Schmieding agreed. “We look central bank, Christian Noyer, insisted that the ECB could ry of talks on possible ways forward, ECB president Mario for the ECB to play a holding game today, not cutting not allow a restructuring of the debt Greece owes it. “That Draghi - who earlier talked with EU Commission chief ELAs but possibly telling European leaders that without a would constitute monetary financing,” which is expressly Rolls-Royce cuts Jean-Claude Juncker, Eurogroup head Jeroen clear political signal, ELAs would have to be cut soon,” he forbidden in the ECB’s statutes, Noyer said.— AFP profit forecasts France tries to keep path LONDON: British engineer Rolls-Royce another shock,” he said. cut profit expectations for the third time Downgrades in nine months yesterday, increasing the For 2016, Rolls-Royce said lower open for Greece accord challenge for its new chief executive. demand and pricing for the Trent 700 Shares in the 131-year-old company engines, reduced demand for its business PARIS: France urged Greece yesterday to come back to dropped as much as 10 percent after it jet engines and some weakness in its the negotiating table with new proposals, insisting a also scrapped a plan to buy back £1 bil- after-sales business for smaller jet cash-for-reform deal was possible even as the country’s lion ($1.6 billion) of shares halfway engines would cut profit estimates by resounding ‘No’ vote prompted growing German calls for through the program. Rolls-Royce has about £300 million - reducing analysts’ its exit from the euro zone. President Francois Hollande, been struggling for some time with a consensus forecast by around 20 percent. who welcomes Germany’s Angela Merkel for talks in drop in demand from energy customers For this year, underlying pretax profit Paris yesterday before a euro zone summit on Tuesday, for its marine equipment following a would come in between £1.325 billion has sought in vain to bridge the gap between Greek plunge in oil prices. and £1.475 billion, as much as 5 percent Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and other European leaders. But the firm said yesterday its aircraft lower than its previous guidance, it said. Hollande also has a tough balancing act at home. The engine business was also suffering dur- East, the former boss of chipmaker far-right National Front is calling for the outright dissolu- ing a switch from its Trent 700 engine to ARM Holdings whose appointment in tion of the euro zone and the mainstream right wants the newer Trent 7000, with fewer of the April led to a jump in Rolls-Royce shares, “Grexit” while the left wing of his ruling Socialists want legacy engines being sold than anticipat- said his fundamental confidence in the him to use his EU veto to defy German-led austerity and ed. That turns up the heat on new CEO business was not shaken, adding - in a back the Greeks. “There is a risk of (Greece) leaving the Warren East, who took the helm only four swipe at past management style - that euro but there is no automatic exit, in the same way that days ago. The aerospace business the bad news was announced to the vote doesn’t mean automatically that Greece stays in accounted for almost half of 2014 rev- investors as soon as possible. “We are the euro. What will determine whether it stays or leaves enues and has been riding a surge in bringing this news to the market now is the quality of negotiations that will start,” Finance demand for fuel-efficient engines for pas- perhaps rather earlier than you might Minister Michel Sapin said. WARSAW: Finance ministers of France Michel Sapin (left), Germany Wolfgang Schaeuble (right) senger jets, though it has lagged rival have expected or you might have seen “If having won back their pride they can return to and Poland Mateusz Szczurek (center) begin talks in the Polish capital yesterday. The ministers General Electric on profit margins. from Rolls-Royce in the past,” he said. “I negotiations, so much the better ... “It is up to the Greek met a day after the Greek bailout referendum. — AP Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Keith hope that is part of the tone for the style government to make proposals now,” he told Europe 1 Bowman said that while it was common of communication that we are going to radio. Sapin called on the European Central Bank not to Hollande will try to bridge the gap between France’s Euroscepticism among even mainstream French voters for new CEOs to cut expectations, the expect now I’ve joined the business.” East cut current liquidity to the Greek banking system and more conciliatory line and the tough rhetoric heard makes the Greek crisis all the harder to handle for warning was another blow for investor said he would start an operational review reaffirmed that talks on Greek debt relief should be “no across the political spectrum in Berlin. The two were Hollande, whose advisers fear “Grexit” could have reper- trust in Rolls-Royce. “The company’s prior of the company in the coming months. taboo”. “The debt burden in the months and years ahead expected to make a joint statement but not take cussions for both the euro and wider EU. Conservative push to reduce earnings volatility and Cost-saving programs are already under- is too high on Greece to allow it to get back on its feet questions. ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, looking to run again as surprises looks to have been completely way in both the aero-engine and marine again,” he said. president in 2017, has noisily attacked Hollande’s han- unwound, with investors today suffering businesses. —Reuters Merkel was due to arrive in Paris around 6:00 pm Domestic Pressures dling of the saga and declared that Athens has de facto local time (1600 GMT) for talks in which she and The resurgence of the anti-EU FN and growing suspended its membership of the euro zone.— Reuters TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 BUSINESS Stock markets affected by looming Grexit MARKAZ MONTHLY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: In this report, Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) US shale oil production has also not dropped to the extent and Morocco (-1.4 percent) ending in the red While, Abu S&P GCC index closed the month at 120 points, reg- expects the GDP growth to slow down to 2.7 per- examines and analyzes the performance of equity markets expected by the analysts and industry stakeholders even Dhabi (4.3 percent), Dubai (4.2 percent) and Qatar (1.3 per- istering a 3.4 percent drop in June. cent in 2016. Some of the major notes of the in the MENA region as well as the global equity markets for while the price of crude oil has almost halved. In a meet- cent) ended on a positive note. Performance of Dubai The overall liquidity of the markets in the reports were: the month of June. Performance of Kuwait markets were ing held on June 5, 2015, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum stock market was largely influenced by the re-listing of MENA region dried up in the month of June 2015. l The projected deficit translates to around affected by lack of positive indicators. Both the Kuwait Exporting Countries) decided to keep the oil output signal- Amlak, an Islamic Finance provider. Greek crisis, the cele- The volume fell by 31 percent and the total value $130 billion as the IMF is projecting Saudi nomi- weighted and price index fell by 0.4 percent and 1.4 per- ing a free hand to the members to produce as much crude bration of Ramadan and the associated holidays resulted traded fell by 49 percent. The notable exception to nal GDP to be at $649 billion in 2015. cent, respectively, as value and volume traded dropped by oil as they want. Currently, the OPEC produces 1 million in a huge fall in volume and value traded across the MENA this trend was Dubai and Morocco. Dubai’s total l This shortfall varies significantly from the over 40 percent. Brent crude’s upward momentum from barrels a day in excess of the official limit of 30 million bar- region. Abu Dhabi and Dubai were the star performers in value traded increased by 22.3 percent even while budget shortfall that Saudi Arabia is forecasting at April 2015 has been cut short by the looming Greek exit. rels per day. the region gaining 4.3 percent and 4.2 percent respective- the total trading volume decreased by 5 percent. $39 billion. The Greek government has announced that it won’t be MENA markets had a mixed June with Saudi Arabia (- ly. Dubai was also the only stock market in the region Morocco’s stock volume increased by 116 percent l The IMF attributed the decline in oil prices to able to repay the loan due to IMF on 30th June 2015. The 6.2 percent), Egypt (-5.3 percent), Kuwait (-1.4 percent), whose value trade actually increased in June 2015. The while the value traded fell by 23.5 percent. a substantial decrease in revenues, but its impact Retail investors were behind the improved val- on the rest of the economy has so far been limit- ue traded in the Dubai stock market. Dubai stock ed on account of strong public spending. market heavily traded in Amlak (Amlak Finance l Constant decline in oil revenues has empha- PJSC, an Islamic finance company, provides home sized the need for economic diversification, and real estate financing products and services in boosting spending efficiency and raising non-oil the United Arab Emirates) which re-listed on the revenues. stock exchange after a gap of almost 7 years. l IMF study also expected the Saudi govern- While the analysts have stayed on the sidelines ment to issue bonds this year to ease the pressure citing insufficient information, the retail investors on the country’s foreign reserves. have looked at the share as a proxy play on the l The bond issues would mark a big shift in resurgent Dubai property market. the Saudi economic policy. The public debt is very In terms of valuation, P/E of Oman, Abu Dhabi minimal and accounts for just 1.6 percent of the and Bahrain markets continue to be lower than country’s GDP in 2014. Issuing bonds would actu- 11x, while Morocco (17.7x), Saudi Arabia (16x) and ally increase the public debt as a percent of GDP Kuwait (15x), have relatively higher PE ratios. l Saudi Arabia last issued a development Jordan (1.28x), Kuwait (1.25x) and Bahrain (0.9x) bond in 2007. Bond issues would help in strength- continue to remain undervalued in terms of P/B, ening its reserves which it has been drawing while Morocco (2.2x), Saudi (2.17x), and Qatar down to finance its budget obligations. (1.87x) remain overvalued. l As a result of such withdrawals, the net for- eign assets at the central bank, which acts as a IMF raises it outlook for Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund, has fallen to $679 billion The International Monetary Fund raised its in April 2015 from a record $737 billion in Aug outlook for Saudi Arabia’s economic growth this 2014. year and predicted a much bigger state budget l Government bond issues would also benefit deficit after talks with Saudi officials. Saudi the kingdom by building a benchmark yield curve Arabia’s GDP is projected to grow at 3.5 percent that could be used to develop the corporate debt in 2015, unchanged from previous year but market and by providing investors with new sav- BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 Importance of liquidity

BLACKSTONE COMMENTARY

By Byron Wien

ince the axiom “Don’t fight the Fed” came into common parlance, we have all been Saware that central bank policy is an impor- tant component of market performance. Most of us started out as security or business analysts and believed that fundamental factors like the pace of Kuwait inflation at 3.3% in May the economy, earnings growth and interest rates were the drivers of equity values. As we became more experienced, we began to understand the influence of psychology, which can be quantified NBK ECONOMIC UPDATE by technical analysis. Since the end of the bear market and recession of 2008-9, and the fiscal KUWAIT: Inflation in the consumer price index (CPI) stimulus and monetary easing that followed those inched down from 3.4 percent year-on-year (y/y) in tumultuous years, I have begun to appreciate April to 3.3 percent y/y in May, amid a slowdown or even more the importance of central bank liquidity in determining the direction stabilization across all components, with the exception of equity markets. of healthcare and local food inflation. Local food infla- United States equities have tripled since the March 2009 low. The total capi- tion climbed at a gradual pace for the third consecu- talization of the Standard & Poor’s 500 has increased from about $6 trillion in tive month, but remains relatively low. With interna- March 2009 to $19 trillion today. Obviously this is not the total value of the tional food prices still declining, we expect local food entire US equity market, because it leaves out much of NASDAQ and other inflation to remain soft in the second half of this year peripheral markets, but most of the capitalization of US public companies is and correct lower. The stronger dinar is also projected captured by this index. Earnings have clearly driven a good part of that move; to limit any significant inflationary gains. they have more than doubled from $417 billion in 2009 to $1.042 trillion in Subsequently, we still forecast an average annual infla- 2014. Since 2008, the Federal Reserve balance sheet has more than quadrupled tion rate close to 3.5 percent in 2015. from $1 trillion in 2008 to $4.5 trillion. It took the Fed 95 years to build up a bal- Core inflation (CPI excluding food items) eased for ance sheet of $1 trillion and only six years to go from there to the present level. the second consecutive month in May, from 3.7 per- cent y/y in April to 3.5 percent y/y. Subdued inflation Stimulus across most components has offered core inflation The Federal Reserve was providing this stimulus to improve the growth of some reprieve recently. We expect housing inflation to the economy, but it is my view that three quarters of the money injected into also ease modestly in the near-to-medium term; this the system through the purchase of bonds went into financial assets pushing will help keep core inflation in check. Excluding hous- stock prices up and keeping yields low. If I am right, the Fed contributed almost ing (and food), inflation is off and now under 2 percent $3 trillion (some may have gone into bonds) to the $13 trillion rise in the stock y/y. Inflation in the local food price index edged up market appreciation from the 2009 low to the current level, earnings increases from 2.3 percent y/y in April to 2.6 percent y/y in May, explained $9 trillion (1.5 x $6 trillion) and other factors accounted for $1 trillion. while global food prices declined by 17.5 percent y/y. due in the June report. Housing inflation rose to an segment are imported). Inflation in furnishings & You could argue that the monetary stimulus financed the multiple expansion in The uptick in local food inflation may be attributed to almost six-year high in March on healthy demand lev- household maintenance came in narrowly lower in this cycle. increased demand in the run-up to the holy month of els. We expect it to subside later in 2015. Clothing and May at 3.6 percent y/y. Inflation in the ‘other goods In Europe, a similar condition has taken place. The EURO STOXX index Ramadan in June. With international food prices still footwear costs fell slightly further in May; inflation in and services’ segment slowed down from 2.7 percent reached its low in the fall of 2014 with a total market capitalization of €8.1 tril- declining, we expect local food inflation to remain rel- furnishings & household maintenance remained com- y/y in April to 2.4 percent y/y in May. Inflation in this lion. The current market capitalization is Ä10.5 trillion, an increase of about 30 atively soft in the second half of 2015. fortable. Clothing and footwear inflation declined by segment, which includes prices of personal care prod- percent. The balance sheet of the European Central Bank in October 2014 was a Inflation in housing services was unchanged from almost 1 percent y/y in May. Inflation in this segment ucts and jewelry and certain business charges, little over €2 trillion. It is up about 15 percent from that level today at about April at 6.3 percent y/y. Inflation in this component is has been trending lower for a year mainly due to a rebounded from a low base early in 2014 and appears €2.344 trillion. An improvement in the outlook for earnings and the European updated once every quarter and the next update is high base and stronger dinar (most products in this to have hit a peak in April of this year. economy helped here as well as in the US, but liquidity played an important role in the rise in the market. Like indices for the United States, the EURO STOXX doesn’t capture the full market value of all European equities. In Japan, the balance sheet of the Bank of Japan began to increase sharply after reaching about •132 trillion at the beginning of 2012. It is now •327 trillion, more than doubling the early 2012 level. The market capitalization of the Tokyo Stock Exchange increased from about •254 trillion at the beginning of 2012 to •587 trillion currently, again more than doubling. Earnings played a role here as well, but the monetary liquidity could explain much of the market appreciation.

Central Banks The concept of the central bank playing a critical role in market performance has been brought home this year with the relatively strong performance of Europe and Japan because of Mario Draghi’s explicit policy of aggressive easing and the accommodative strategy inherent in Abenomics. In contrast, the Federal Reserve is poised to tighten (interpreted as the withdrawal of liquidity) as soon as it becomes comfortable that the economy can handle higher rates. As a result, the US equity market has made little progress this year, while Europe and Japan are up in double digits in local currencies, and Japan is up in double digits in dollars as well. At this point, the prospects for both revenue and income growth for United States companies are not robust. Optimistic earnings projections for the S&P 500 show only a small improvement for the year, and even that would require a fair amount of financial engineering, including share buybacks, mergers and acquisitions and leverage. The current level of buybacks and mergers and acqui- sitions is less than 10 percent off the pre-crisis high, according to Strategas Avaya Scopia helps businesses in Research. The strong dollar and the decline in oil prices are negatives for near- term earnings improvement. In the face of these factors, it is something of a wonder that the US market has risen at all this year. Kuwait with free virtual meetings One concept that may be helping the market is earnings yield. The 10-year US Treasury is yielding 2.2 percent. Even if S&P 500 earnings are flat in 2015, the KUWAIT: To enable businesses in Kuwait to video conferencing, file-sharing and collaborative associates face-to-face to collaborate, review pre- earnings yield (S&P 500 earnings divided by the price of the index) will be 5.5 effortlessly engage and sustain productivity lev- viewing and editing. With seamless access across sentations or discuss important documents, in percent, a healthy differential that is similar to the earnings yield in March 2009 els during the hot summer season in the country, desktop and mobile, business owners and real-time. Participants joining late can even when the market bottomed and the current upward move began. Earnings are Avaya, a leading provider of solutions that enable employees of any company of any size can review previously-shared information without likely to grow over time while the coupon on the 10-year is fixed. Although customer and team engagement across multiple replace face to face meetings with Avaya Scopia, interrupting the rest of the group. there is risk that earnings will fall in a recession, there is no recession currently in channels and devices, has thrown-open its cloud- irrespective of location, device, and operating In places where bandwidth is a challenge, the sight. The attractiveness of a 5 percent+ earnings yield compared to a 2 percent based video conferencing solution to any busi- system. Avaya Scopia advanced audio and video process- Treasury coupon is compelling to some investors. Housing and employee com- ness in Kuwait to “beat the heat”. Users of Avaya Scopia can connect using ing delivers each participant a bandwidth-effi- pensation are also up this year: the former saw a 3 percent growth rate this year, At no charge, businesses can subscribe to mobile devices, desktop or video conferencing cient data stream, enabling everyone to see all and employee cost index, a measure for the latter, was up 2.5 percent in the first quarter. Avaya Scopia, the company’s award-winning room system and easily add additional users as meeting participants simultaneously, while lead- video engagement solution, to host multi-party requirements grow. Participants can connect with ers have full meeting control. Negatives Despite the positives, there are also some serious negatives, and assessing their significance is important. Productivity declined 1.9 percent in the first quarter of 2015 after a smaller drop in the fourth quarter of 2014. Because pro- Tetley Tea launches exciting ductivity is a key component of profitability, this is a reason for concern. Part of this may be attributable to slow revenue growth because of weather and other factors, but productivity improvement is essential to growth. Technology has been a major force in increasing productivity, and we may have reached the new blends for tea lovers point where the incremental benefits of using equipment and processes to increase the output per worker may be taking a rest. Given that revenues going KUWAIT: Tetley, the 2nd biggest tea brand globally taste. This allows health conscious customers to ing to changing the lives of millions to the better. forward are likely to increase slowly, this negative trend in productivity must be and Great Britain’s favorite tea, announced yester- enjoy the perfect cup of tea at any time, without This occurs through the Rain forest alliance organi- reversed. day the launch of its all new products across Kuwait. worrying about caffeine effects. zation that has helped, to date, conserve the water, On the jobs front, if one is to look at the most recent labor report from a The company offers tea lovers four new and differ- Tetley is the only major brand to offer 100% soil and biodiversity of more than 50 million broad perspective, there is reason for concern. According to David Malpass of ent blends; Black tea with Mint, Black Decaf, Black Rainforest Alliance Certified blends in the GCC. hectares of forest and farmland in 70 countries and Encima Global, the labor force only grew 166,000 in April, 1.1 percent year-over- mixed with Green and the all new rebranded; Tetley Tetley Tea’s Strong and Golden blends are both 100 improved the lives of more than 2 million workers year, which was disappointing. The employment to population ratio is 59.3 per- Golden. Tetley Tea has a rich heritage that dates percent certified, not only giving users a unique and their families. Wake up to a cup of Tetley Tea cent, which is 3 percent-4 percent below the 2000-2010 level and 5 percent back to England in 1837 and has been the pioneer and incomparable taste, but doing so by contribut- and get ready to squeeze more out of your day! below the level in the 1990s. What is troubling about this data on the trade bal- of the tea industry for over a century. This interna- ance, productivity and the employment report is that it suggests that there is tional tea company focuses on driving a superior unlikely to be a major increase in capital spending. According to the Commerce and unique customer experience, ensuring a dis- Department, capital investment was down 3.4 percent in the first quarter. The tinctive and consistent taste, through its profession- Burgan Bank announces daily US industrial stock is 22 years old, an all-time high, but operating rates are ally trained taste experts. Accordingly, each blend below the 80 percent where companies begin to plan major capital expendi- offers a unique flavor, catering to the different tures. Much of the money that has been spent has bought labor-saving equip- lucky winners of Yawmi account tastes and preferences available across the market. ment that has enabled companies to deliver goods and services with fewer Tetley presents Tetley Golden black tea, everyday KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced the names of entitle customers to one chance of winning. If workers. luxury from Tetley. Tetley Golden is a high quality the lucky winners of its Yawmi account draw, the account balance is KD 500 and above, the An important driver of recent capital spending has been energy, and the tea blend with Ceylon and other orthodox teas that each taking home a prize of KD 5,000: account holder will be qualified for both the sharp drop in oil prices over the past year has had a major negative impact. Now offers a smooth rounded taste and a bright golden quarterly and daily draws. Burgan Bank that the price of oil has risen from $43 per barrel (West Texas Intermediate) to brew. The result is an aromatic black tea with a love- 1. MANSOUR FADHI ALRASHEEDI encourages everyone to open a Yawmi account over $60, energy capital spending should pick up, assuming current prices will ly rounded flavor that leaves a fresh after taste. For 2. QASIM GHULAMREDHA NUKURANI and/or increase their deposit to maximize their hold. If a nuclear agreement were signed with Iran over the next few months Tetley Black Tea with Mint, its experts mixed the 3. SH: NAWAL MOHD AL-SABAH chances to becoming a winner. The more cus- and sanctions are lifted, one million barrels of incremental oil could come into ever popular Tetley Strong Black Tea with natural 4. MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH ALI tomers deposit, the higher the chances they the world market and crude prices could decline again. Right now, the negotia- mint flavor, creating a convenient and delicious 5. SHAIKHA MOHAMMED ALBAGHLI receive of winning. For more information on tions seem to be running into serious difficulty, so I still expect a pick-up in ener- product for the many tea drinkers in Kuwait who To further add to the anticipation of Yawmi opening a Yawmi account or about the new gy capital expenditures as we move through the year. The US market has been like to add mint to their tea. account customers, Burgan Bank now offers a quarterly draw, customers are urged to visit long overdue for at least a 10 percent correction. It has been three years since Blend of Black & Green tea is a winning combina- Quarterly Draw with more chances to win high- their nearest Burgan Bank branch and receive all the last one. Sentiment among investors is optimistic or complacent, not a con- tion - offering all the benefits of green tea with the er rewards, entitling one lucky customer to win the details, or simply call the bank’s Call Center dition conducive to a sustained upward market move. I still maintain a positive rich taste and aroma of Tetley’s black tea, allowing KD 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi at 1804080 where customer service representa- outlook for the S&P 500 for 2015, but perhaps we have to endure a little pain tea lovers to enjoy the best of both worlds. Tetley Account now offers daily and quarterly draws, tives will be delighted to assist with any ques- first. By the second half of the year, the market mood may be more subdued Decaf is also one of Tetley’s great new products and the quarterly draw requires customers to main- tions on the Yawmi account or any of the bank’s and the fundamentals of the economy may be better, providing a more favor- is quite unique as the blend has been decaffeinated tain a minimum amount of KD 500 in their products and services. Customers can also log able environment for stocks to move higher. I still expect the S&P 500 to rise 10 to 0.2 percent. To achieve this blend, Tetley has account for two months prior to draw date. on to Burgan Bank’s www.burgan.com for fur- percent or more by the end of the year, but it will have to get there on the basis carefully sourced decaffeinated tea leaves from Additionally, every KD 10 in the account, will ther information. of fundamentals without the help of liquidity provided by the Federal Reserve. around the world to create this unique color and BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 Sultan Center opens new Safeway store in Jordan

KUWAIT: The Sultan Center recently store opening, Ayman Sultan-Vice opened a new store under Safeway (TSC Chairman and Group Managing Director at subsidiary) in Shafa Badran, located in close TSC said, “We look forward to fulfilling the proximity to the Applied Science University needs of our new customers’ through the in Amman. The newly opened store, cover- vast range of products that we offer. We are ing 1,000 sq m, includes a full range of pleased to open new doors in Jordan that departments, ranging from groceries and will also lead to opening doors for the local fresh foods to housewares and multimedia community by creating employment that caters to the local community. opportunities for residents in the neighbor- The inauguration of Shafa Badran hood, and creating a long-standing rela- branch took place under the Local tionship with our customers by providing Committee President of Greater Amman them the best shopping experience every Municipality; Manager Faleh Khalaf Al time they shop”. Hajaj, CCO Laith Abu Hilal and was attend- Shafa Badran is conveniently located ed by a large audience of local businesses, next to the Applied Science University customers, suppliers and staff. where students, faculty and customers can Commenting on the occasion of the meet their everyday shopping needs. Hyundai Northern Gulf announces buyback Jazeera Airways reports guarantee, Shoot and Win growth in flown passengers KUWAIT: On the occasion of Ramadan, to launch valuable promotions like this Hyundai Northern Gulf recently launched whenever possible.” KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways released its May Performance Report on a monthly basis. The serving Egypt by 16 percent from May 2014 its Shoot and Win in the Month of Giving, The offer covers all of Hyundai’s lineup, 2015 Operational Performance Report, which Report is based on official figures and statis- despite Jazeera Airways serving five Egyptian where customers purchasing new Hyundai featuring a variety of models that cater to showed an 11 percent increase in total flown tics from Kuwait’s Directorate General for Civil cities during the month, compared to six vehicles are given a chance to aim a mock equally varied requirements and budgets. Ramadan cannon and win a variety of Hyundai is also very proud of its showroom passengers from May 2014. The 11 percent Aviation (DGCA). On routes serving Istanbul, cities in May 2014. The decrease in number of prizes. Additionally, all vehicles sold during services, designed to help customers find increase of flown passengers in May follows Beirut, and Amman, Jazeera Airways saw a 12 served cities follows the temporary closure of Ramadan come with a buyback guarantee. their perfect match, and post-sales servic- consecutive increases in March 2015, and percent increase in flown passengers from Assiut International Airport for renovations Prizes reach up to KD 500, and the buy- es, which ensure trouble-free ownership of April 2015, which were up 3 percent and 14 May 2014. The increase was driven by a since June 2014. On routes serving the Gulf back guarantee ensures that a valuation of these reliable and great value vehicles. percent respectively from same respective strong continued demand for Istanbul and cities of Dubai, Bahrain, Jeddah and Riyadh, 85 percent in the first year, 70 percent in Hyundai’s showrooms are open from 9:30 months last year. Amman. Jazeera Airways saw a 7 percent increase in the second and 50 percent in the third year. am to 3:30 pm and then again from 8:30 Jazeera Airways issues its Operational Flown passengers also increased on routes flown passengers, compared to May 2014. The offer also includes a chance to win free pm to 11:30 pm during Ramadan. comprehensive insurance for the first year, In addition to seasonal offers, Northern free maintenance for the first year or 20,000 Gulf constantly offers a variety of promo- km or Hyundai’s free lifetime warranty. tions to ensure customer satisfaction and On the occasion of this promotion, to make Hyundai’s vehicles accessible to all which runs from the 14th of June to the with competitive and reasonable prices. end of Ramadan, Northern Gulf’s Marketing The company is also keen to reinforce and Promotions Department spokesperson Hyundai’s global brand value as a leading said: “We’re proud to launch this promotion automotive brand that has been able to during the Holy month of Ramadan, and to compete with older legacy brands. The pro- add a new seasonal spirit to our show- motions stand as a tribute to Hyundai’s cus- rooms. The promotion gives our customers tomer-centric philosophy, which places a unique opportunity to win back prizes on customer needs at the top of its priorities, all 2016 vehicles, and we hope to continue whether before or after purchase.

UAE logistics market to be worth $27bn in 2015 KIA earns best-ever rank Materials Handling Middle East 2015 in 2015 JD Power IQS DUBAI: Sustained growth across key equipment to optimize productivity, tribution centres is growing in impor- Dutch company Cascade, and Prestar economic sectors such as FMCG, from the storage, control, movement, tance and is increasingly being used Manufacturing and Storage Systems retail, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, and protection of products, through in the Middle East,” said Zielinski. from Malaysia. KUWAIT: National Agencies Group, the in the quality and reliability of all KIA models,” automotive and logistics is fuelling to their consumption and disposal,” “Market dynamics are changing at an Materials Handling Middle East authorized distributor for KIA Motors in explained Omar Gabr, Brand Manager at KIA said Ahmed Pauwels, CEO of Messe ever increasing rate and complexity, 2015 will feature the inaugural Kuwait and a subsidiary of Abdulaziz Al-Ali Al- Motors Kuwait. “The KIA Motors success story Frankfurt Middle East, organiser of and the trend toward automation has Warehousing and Materials Handling Mutawa Group of Companies, has announced is driven by the trust of our valued customers Materials Handling Middle East. gathered pace, as investment in tech- Conference, a two-day summit that KIA Motors has reached another historic and is reflected in the long-term strategy to “Continued development across nology is viewed as a long-term ben- analysing key growth drivers and milestone when JD Power recognized the focus on quality, brand development and these key sectors of the regional efit.” restraints, emerging trends and their brand as the second-highest scoring name- enhancing the ownership experience.” economy is increasing demand for Among the dozens of big compa- impact on the regional materials han- plate industry-wide in its 2015 Initial Quality JD Power is an American-based global high quality materials handling sys- nies making their debuts at Materials dling industry. Another new highlight Study (IQS). KIA’s IQS score improved by 20 marketing information services firm founded tems and solutions, all of which will Handling Middle East are Bulmor is the 1st Materials Handling Middle points over its previous best-ever perform- in 1968. The firm conducts surveys of cus- share centre-stage this year at Industries, the Austrian manufacturer East Awards, where the industry’s ance in 2014, vaulting the growing automak- tomer satisfaction, product quality, and buyer Materials Handling Middle East 2015.” of sideloaders and warehouse lifting heavy weights will be recognised and er up four positions to second overall among behavior for industries ranging from cars to Now in its eighth edition, equipment; and Spanish company celebrated among industry peers, 33 automotive brands and highest among all marketing and advertising firms. The firm is Materials Handling Middle East 2015 Mecalux, one of Europe’s foremost while returning this year is the highly mass-market nameplates. best known for its customer satisfaction will include prominent market lead- providers of industrial shelving, rack- popular Demonstration Zone, where KIA’s ascension was powered by segment- research on new-car quality and long-term ers in materials handling, warehous- ing and storage solutions. They will forklift manufacturers will reveal the leading performances from two of the com- dependability. ing and lifting equipment, logistics be joined by Belgian-headquartered true capabilities of their machinery pany’s best-selling vehicles - Soul and Now in its 29th year, the annual JD Power and postal service providers. The Alphaplan; Cabka from Germany, action. Sorento - while the Rio, Optima, Cadenza, IQS analyzes responses from vehicle owners dedicated trade show will bring into Sportage and Grand Carnival models all in 26 segments. IQS is determined by vehicle Ahmed Pauwels sharp focus the rapid progress of ranked in the top three of their respective cat- owners evaluating the driving experience, automation across all sectors of the egories. engine and transmission performance, and a demand for high quality materials materials handling industry, and “The latest JD Power report once again broad range of quality-related problems with- handling products and services shine the spotlight on a wide range reinforces the confidence KIA customers have in the first 90 days of ownership. across the Middle East. The UAE logis- of solutions and cutting-edge inno- tics market alone is expected to be vations being presented by partici- worth US$27 billion in 2015, up 15 pating exhibitors. per cent from 2013, thanks to strong Headline names returning in 2015 Double your savings at import and export figures as well as include Japanese company Daifuku; an uptick in local manufacturing, Italian manufacturer of industrial Malabar Gold & Diamonds according to global analysts Frost & floor cleaning machinery Fiorentini; Sullivan. This is reflected in the Gulf Swisslog Middle East, a pioneer in KUWAIT: Malabar Gold & Diamonds, the Customers can also browse through region’s retail sector; according to a automated intralogistics solutions; leading jewellery retailer, is giving cus- the new jewellery assortment added in report by Alpen Capital, retail space and UAE-based SPAN Group, a lead- tomers a great opportunity this summer to the most admired exclusive brands in across the GCC stood at 10 million ing provider of logistics, materials to double their savings while purchasing the jewellery segment that includes sqm in 2013, while regional retail handling, and supply chain solutions. their favorite jewellery from Malabar Ethnix - Handcrafted Designer Jewellery, sales are set to grow 7.3 per cent Walid Daniel, Managing Director Gold & Diamonds. Customers can buy Era - Uncut Diamond Jewellery, Mine - annually to reach US$ 284.5 billion by of SPAN Group, said to remain com- their favorite jewellery by using their Diamonds Unlimited, Divine- Indian 2020. A similar story can be observed petitive, the regional materials han- dling industry must embrace new credit/debit cards without paying any Heritage Jewellery, Precia - Precious in the automotive market in the Middle East and North Africa, where technology: “There are increasing additional charge. Gem Jewellery and Starlet - Kids’ the number of cars on the region’s demands in supply chain solutions as To add more glitter to this occasion, Jewellery. roads will reach 33.9 million, driving businesses seek new ways to stay group announces their exclusive ‘Zero All the stores in GCC & Far East also demand for auto parts, and creating competitive, and be better and faster Deduction Exchange’ offer, where buyers feature masterpieces from India, big opportunities for materials han- with one goal in mind: satisfying con- can exchange 22 K gold ornaments pur- Pakistan, Bahrain, Turkey, Italy and dling providers. sumers’ requirements,” said Daniel. chased from any of the GCC countries Singapore, with unique exchange offers Underlining the market potential “This is encouraging the supply chain and purchase new jewellery by paying and buyback policies. The jewellery is the robust interest from major play- sector to enter the digital and smart only making charges, without any chain also offers lifetime free repair and ers at Materials Handling Middle East age. Utilisation of intelligent systems deduction in gold rate. maintenance service for all its products. 2015, the wider region’s only dedicat- and IT solutions, along with ware- ed trade and networking event for house automation are ways to meet intralogistics, warehousing, supply these challenges. Materials Handling chain management, freight and car- Middle East is a great platform to pro- go. The biennial three-day event mote our solutions and services in takes place from 14-16 September the region and an opportunity to 2015 at the Dubai International maintain our brand awareness,” Convention and Exhibition Centre, added Daniel. and will feature more than 150 Frederic Zielinski, General brands from 17 countries. “FMCG, Manager of Swisslog Middle East, retail, pharmaceuticals, oil & gas, also stressed the importance of automotive and logistics, are all sec- automation in the industry: tors that rely on materials handling “Automation in warehouses and dis- technology TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 NASA briefly lose touch with Pluto mission

MIAMI: NASA briefly lost touch this weekend with an commanded the backup computer to reinitiate communica- unmanned spacecraft on its way to a historic encounter tion with Earth. New Horizons then began to transmit with Pluto, but the US space agency said yesterday the telemetry to help engineers diagnose the problem,” NASA glitch has been fixed. The communications blackout on said. No hardware or software problems were found. Saturday lasted nearly an hour and half, and perplexed sci- Instead, the diagnosis was “a hard-to-detect timing flaw in entists as they tried to figure out what had gone wrong the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an aboard the New Horizons spacecraft nearly three billion operation to prepare for the close flyby,” the US space miles (4.9 billion kilometers) from Earth. agency said yesterday. The mission is being closely watched by millions of space The glitch required the spacecraft to stop collecting sci- enthusiasts because the spacecraft’s flyby of Pluto on July entific data, but those operations are on track to resume 14 will offer the world’s first close look at the distant dwarf Tuesday. “I’m pleased that our mission team quickly iden- planet. “The New Horizons spacecraft experienced an anom- tified the problem and assured the health of the space- aly the afternoon of July 4 that led to a loss of communica- craft,” said Jim Green, NASA’s director of planetary science. tion with Earth,” NASA said on its website. “Communication “Now-with Pluto in our sights-we’re on the verge of MARYLAND: Artist’s concept shows the New Horizons spacecraft as it has since been reestablished and the spacecraft is healthy.” approaches Pluto and its three moons. New Horizons spacecraft returning to normal operations and going for the gold.” The spacecraft was pre-programmed to switch from its launched nine years ago by NASA to unravel the secrets of Pluto is now Pluto was long considered the ninth planet in the solar main to a backup computer in the event of such a problem. “free way” to make a July 14, 2015 historical overview of the distant system, and the farthest from the sun. It was reclassified “The autopilot placed the spacecraft in ‘safe mode,’ and dwarf planet, according to its original trajectory. — AFP as a dwarf planet in 2006.— AFP French renewables power grid pilot shows limits of batteries in Europe Battery storage still too expensive in most of Europe

NICE: A major pilot project by Europe’s largest power Achilles heel storage. “That is one thing we will have to evaluate at network operator to integrate power from rooftop solar In Carros, which has total solar capacity of 2.5 the end of the Nice pilot,” he said. Compared to the cost panels into the grid has shown that battery storage of megawatt/hour, ERDF has connected 20 lithium-ion of solar panels, the cost of batteries has been slow to renewable energy is not yet economically viable in batteries to rooftop solar panels. Residents themselves fall, but as renewables become a greater part of Europe. The conclusion is a sobering one for propo- have no control over the 4 KWh batteries - which are Europe’s energy mix, the need for technologies to over- nents of sun and wind energy because as more of it similar to Tesla’s 7 KWh Powerwall batteries - which are come the intermittency problem will also increase, comes on tap, better storage will be needed to keep run by ERDF. ERDF has also hooked up two 100 KWh which is why Saft has set up a division for utility-scale the power produced when it is sunny and windy so it batteries to soak up solar power of several dozen resi- power storage. can be used at other times. The 30 million euro “Nice dences, two 600 KWh batteries linked to the low-volt- Grid” pilot is one of the biggest in a European Union- age grid and one linked to the high-voltage grid, for a Midday washing backed “Grid4EU” scheme in which France’s EDF, Italy’s total cost of under 2 million euros. Software developed The Nice Grid pilot has also experimented with Enel, Spain’s Iberdrola Czech Republic’s CEZ, Sweden’s by France’s Alstom regulates the flow of power on the “demand response” systems to use discounted tariffs to Vattenfall and Germany’s RWE are testing the power Carros network, and is already widely used in other encourage citizens to use more electricity when sun- grids of tomorrow. cities and countries. But the cost of batteries is the pro- shine is abundant and less during winter evening In the Mediterranean village of Carros on the out- ject’s Achilles Heel. From the Nice pilot, ERDF has demand peaks. Some 200 households signed up to let skirts of Nice, EDF’s power grid unit ERDF has connect- learned that battery storage in Europe costs 500 to ERDF temporarily switch off their heaters or hot water ed compact batteries to solar panels on rooftops and 1,000 euros per kilowatt/hour (KWh), with an extra 30 boilers during winter evening peak consumption using LITHONIA: Photo shows a drone at a Georgia Power training complex during power utility-size batteries to its local power distribution net- percent for installation and the inverters that turn direct the new “Linky” smart meters which France plans to roll line inspection demonstration in Lithonia, Ga. — AP work. The technology works perfectly but the pilot has current solar power into the alternate current used on out nationwide in coming years. Another 70 customers shown it is still too expensive for wider rollout. “The the grid, an ERDF official said. signed up to receive an SMS warning the day before an economic model of the batteries is not mature yet,” At that level, battery storage would already be eco- expected sunny day so that they can benefit from mid- Farm use of drones to take Philippe Monloubou, chief executive of French grid nomically viable in certain parts of Germany and day power prices that are 33 percent lower. “I switch on operator ERDF utility told Reuters. Denmark, where renewable energy use is most my washing machine when the sun shines,” Carros resi- off, feds loosen restrictions A quarter of Europe’s power already comes from advanced and where retail power rates, at around 30 dent Lara Muzzarelli told reporters in her red-stone villa. renewables. This may rise to 50 percent by 2030. But eurocents per kilowatt/hour (KWh), are among the Around Europe, distribution system operators are CORDOVA: Mike Geske wants a drone. Watching those exemptions say business has grown, helped the intermittent nature of solar and wind power highest in Europe, according to Eurostat data. But that running several pilots as part of the Grid4EU scheme, a flying demonstration on Maryland’s Eastern by quick advances in the technology. Bret Chilcott requires flexible grids, the ability to respond to the ups is not the case for France, where residential power rates including Czech Republic’s CEZ Distribuce, which Shore, the Missouri farmer envisions using an of Kansas-based AgEagle, which sells unmanned and downs of demand and, crucially, cheaper power are around 17 cents per KWh, and most of Europe, tests Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation unmanned aerial vehicle to monitor the irrigation aerial vehicles and the software to help operate storage. French company Saft, which sold the batteries where power averages about 21 cents. “Economical and Spain’s Iberdrola which is testing the integration pipes on his farm - a job he now pays three men them, says his company took its first orders last for the Nice pilot, has already installed 80 MW of battery feasibility is usually not a given in most of mainland of electric vehicles into the grid. ERDF has several to do. “The savings on labor and fuel would just be year. Now it has a backlog of several hundred storage around the world, mainly in remote areas in Europe’s grids,” acknowledged Michael Lippert, head of pilots in France, testing the integration of different phenomenal,” Geske says, watching as a small orders. He says the technology has transformed Canada, South America and Africa, or on islands where Saft’s new energy storage unit. kinds of renewable energy in rural and urban areas white drone hovers over a nearby corn field and the market during that short period. “Last year they compete with expensive diesel generators as a Some analysts expect the tipping point for batteries and with different storage technologies. The French transmits detailed pictures of the growing stalks users had to land their aircraft and then take the back-up source of power. But in Europe, they come up in Europe could come around 2020. The ERDF official government will decide in the coming year on a to an iPad. data to the computer,” he says. against cheaper back-up power from gas-fired power said it is hard to forecast by how much more the cost of wider roll-out of some of these technologies in larger Nearby, farmer Chip Bowling tries his hand at plants and large, efficient grids. batteries would have to fall to become viable for grid cities.— Reuters flying one of the drones. Bowling, president of the Cannot legally fly National Corn Growers Association, says he would “Now the data appears on your iPad or hand- like to buy one for his Maryland farm to help him held device a few minutes after flight.” That data scout out which individual fields need extra spray- could be pictures, 3-D images of plants, thermal When a selfie is not enough: ing. Another farmer, Bobby Hutchison, says he is readings of crops or animals or other observations hoping the man he hires weekly to walk his fields that a drone could make while in the air. and observe his crops gets a drone, to make the Information that in the past took days to collect - process more efficient and accurate. “I see it very or could not have been collected at all - can be India abuzz over ‘velfie’ craze similar to how I saw the computer when it first gathered now in minutes or hours and, in some started,” says Hutchison, 64. “It was a no-brainer.” cases, integrated with separate data collected MUMBAI: Move over selfie, India is embracing the from other high-tech farm machinery. Chilcott is “velfie” with Bollywood stars, sporting heroes and even Eager for technology optimistic that the technology to scout out prob- politicians taking and posting videos of themselves The small, relatively inexpensive vehicles could lem spots so precisely will be transformative online using a range of new mobile apps. From lip- replace humans in a variety of ways around large because farmers can limit spraying just to those synching famous movie scenes and quizzing political farms: transmitting detailed information about places. “In five years we won’t have to blanket a leaders to interviewing job candidates, Indian tech firms crops to combines and sprayers, directing them field with chemicals,” he says. are betting on the latest craze to grip social media-the very precisely to problem spots and cutting down Still, most farmers cannot legally fly the vehi- video selfie. on the amount of water and chemicals that a cles yet. The FAA is working on rules that would “2014 was about selfies... 2015 is for #velfies!” farmer needs to use in those areas. The allow the drones to be used regularly for busi- screams the blurb for Velfie, a smartphone app similar to Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems ness while maintaining certain safety and priva- Dubsmash where users mime songs or quotes to pre- International, a trade group, says agriculture could cy standards. An FAA proposal this year would recorded audio before posting the clips on social net- account for 80 percent of all commercial drone allow flight of the vehicles as long as they weigh works. German-developed Dubsmash has rapidly use. Agricultural use of drones is about to take off less than 55 pounds, stay within the operator’s become a global phenomenon since its launch in after being grounded for years by the lack of fed- sight and fly during the daytime, among other November and has been downloaded more than 50 eral guidelines. restrictions. Operators would have to pass an million times across 192 countries, according to its web- The Federal Aviation Administration has FAA test of aeronautical knowledge and a site. The global craze is sweeping the Indian film indus- approved more than 50 exemptions for farm- Transportation Security Administration back- try, with numerous stars entertaining legions of loyal related operations since January. Companies with ground check. — AP fans with dubbed videos which are uploaded to popular sharing platforms Facebook and Instagram. Actors Salman Khan and Ranveer Singh, and actress- es Sonakshi Sinha and Richa Chadda are just some of Philae’s comet may host the Bollywood stars to have embraced it, lip-synching everything from Hindi film dialogue to lyrics from alien ‘life’: astronomers Western songs. A short clip of Khan and Sinha miming lines from a 1971 Indian movie has been liked more NOIDA: Employees of Indian technology company ‘Frankly.me’ use a phone and computer to than 71,000 times on Instagram, while hundreds PARIS: Astronomers proposed a novel explana- boulders, and a covering of organics which test their app at an office in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi.— AFP tion yesterday for the strange appearance of “need to be resupplied”. The observed features approved of Chadda’s turn from controversial American the comet carrying Europe’s robot probe Philae “are all consistent with a mixture of ice and hip-hop song “Baby Got Back”. Rammohan Sundaram, through outer space: alien microscopic life. organic material that consolidate under the co-founder of India’s Velfie, which was launched in April, Many of the frozen dust ball’s features, which Sun’s warming during the comet’s orbiting in said videos were a more entertaining way for Bollywood include a black crust over lakes of ice, flat-bot- space, when active micro-organisms can be royalty and other celebrities to engage with their audi- tomed craters and mega-boulders scattered on supported,” said the statement. Micro-organ- ences. the surface, were “consistent” with the presence isms could use liquid water to colonize the of microbes, they said. comet - infiltrating cracks in the ice and “snow” A Twitter made of ‘velfies’ Observations by the European Space during warmer periods when the cosmic wan- “A selfie is only one picture but a ‘velfie’ can speak of Agency’s Rosetta comet orbiter has shown that derer is nearer the Sun, the duo said. emotions that you just can’t render in a single photo,” 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko “is not to be “Organisms containing anti-freeze salts are Sundaram said. “Selfies will remain because pictures will seen as a deep-frozen inactive body, but sup- particularly good at adapting to these condi- always be there but we’re creating a whole new space ports geological processes,” Max Wallis of the tions and some could be active at temperatures that’s more exciting, more engaging and more social in University of Cardiff said in a statement issued as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 nature,” he added. Film star Akshay Kumar used Velfie by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). In fact, degrees Fahrenheit).” Sunlit areas of the comet recently to promote his film “Gabbar is Back” by asking the comet racing towards the Sun at a speed of already approached this temperature last fans to dub their favourite line from the movie to win a 32.9 kilometers per second, “could be more September, when it was about 500 million kilo- chance to meet him. Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is also hospitable to micro-life than our Arctic and meters (310 million miles) from the Sun, and a fan-his lip-synching of one of Bollywood legend Antarctic regions.” emitting weak jets of gas. Comets follow ellipti- Amitabh Bachchan’s most well-known movie lines has Wallis and his colleague Chandra cal orbits around the Sun, and warm as they been liked 12,000 times on Facebook. Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham Centre for draw closer, causing a process of solid-to-gas The app-which is free and limits videos to ten sec- Astrobiology, presented their theory Monday transformation called sublimation, which is onds in length-has been downloaded 200,000 times to a meeting of the RAS in Llandudno, Wales. what gives them their spectacular tails. and is already operating in around 140 countries, They pointed to Rosetta’s detection of complex As 67P approaches its closest point to the according to Sundaram. He said its pause-and-play fea- organic material, which gave the comet its sur- Sun, about 185 million km on August 13, “the ture and the fact many of the videos are accompanied and iOS is Frankly.me, which allows netizens to pose platform to talk directly to the electorate and people prisingly super-dark and low-reflecting surface, micro-organisms should become increasingly by subtitles differentiates it from Dubsmash. “We’ve also questions to celebrities, sports stars and politicians who voted based on the responses,” Jain told AFP. He said as “evidence for life.” Furthermore, active,” the pair speculated. And hopefully made a lot of enhancement filters that make the videos then answer with video selfies. Users of the app, more than 400,000 questions have been asked and Wickramasinghe said that 67P’s gas ejections Rosetta and Philae will catch some of the action look really good,” the tech developer added. Sundaram launched in January, are also able to vote for certain around 30,000 have been answered so far on started “at distances from the Sun too far away live. Comets are frozen balls of dust and ice left said Velfie plans to expand to become a “video social questions to be answered, increasing the likelihood of a Frankly.me. “Casting directors are also using it to do to trigger surface sublimation”. This implied that over from the Solar System’s formation some network” in the coming months, essentially a Twitter- response, according to co-founder Nikunj Jain who says auditions and companies are using it for hiring,” Jain micro-organisms under the comet’s surface 4.6 billion years ago, and scientists hope that like timeline consisting solely of video selfies. Users will Frankly.me is aiding democracy in India. In Delhi elec- added. He said that while popular video app Vine was had been “building pockets of high pressure unravelling their makeup may provide insights also be able to live-stream on the platform and tions earlier this year, Aam Aadmi Party candidates about “broadcasting” short videos, Frankly.me aimed gases that crack overlying ice and vent organic into Earth’s own creation. One theory is that Sundaram hopes brands will use it to advertise, generat- including leader Arvind Kejriwal fielded thousands of to create “rich, two-way conversation” with people particles,” he said by email. they smashed into our infant planet, providing ing revenue. queries directly from voters and then posted videos of replying to each other when it was convenient for Wickramasinghe also cited a rugged surface it with precious water and the chemical build- themselves replying. them. “We believe that video selfies can be the primary with evidence of re-sealed cracks and displaced ing blocks for life.—AFP Quizzing politicians “For the first time in the history of this country we mode of all non-urgent communication on the inter- Another new Indian-based app available on Android had a state election where candidates were using this net,” Jain stated. —AFP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Philippines confirms second MERS case

MANILA: A foreigner who flew to Garin said. “We can see he is get- said, declining to give more the patient. They include all those department has been on alert in Elsewhere in Asia, Malaysia the Philippines from the Middle ting better,” Garin told a news con- details. A Filipina nurse who who were on the same flight as recent weeks for the possible reported a case before the South East has become the second con- ference, adding the man had a returned from Saudi Arabia in the infected man, Garin said. In entry of the virus that causes the Korean outbreak in May, while firmed case of MERS in the coun- “low viral load” indicating his February became the first person South Korea, which is suffering Middle East Respiratory China reported a person with try, the health department said infection was not extremely seri- in the Philippines to test positive the worst outbreak of MERS out- Syndrome, particularly among the MERS who had travelled there yesterday, as a deadly outbreak in ous. for MERS but she later recovered. side Saudi Arabia, 185 people 88,000 South Koreans living in the after recent exposure in South South Korea spreads alarm across “There is no reason to panic Although Garin stressed that have been diagnosed with the country. Health authorities earlier Korea, according to the World Asia. The 36-year-old male patient, and we appeal to the public to there had been no cases of MERS disease with 33 fatalities, the gov- examined three South Korean Health Organization. A 75-year- whose nationality was not dis- respect the privacy of the patient.” infection through casual contact ernment there said. expatriates who developed respi- old Omani man who became closed, has been put in isolation at The man fell ill on July 2, having in the Philippines, the health Of those infected, 41 remain ratory ailments, but all tested neg- Thailand’s first case of the virus a government facility to contain earlier arrived in the country from department was tracing people hospitalized, with 11 in a critical ative for MERS, department was discharged from hospital on the virus, Health Secretary Janette Saudi Arabia by way of Dubai, she who may have had contact with condition. The Philippine health spokesman Lyndon Lee Suy said. July 3. —AFP Fitness apps data reveals American workout habits, most active states

NEW YORK: Millions of Americans are door cycling that together accounted recording their workout routines and for 19 percent of the activities logged. activities on apps that are giving fit- Walking was by far the most com- ness experts new insights into the mon activity across all the states, but habits of a logged-in population. Data California, Oregon and Washington compiled by fitness and workout track- took the top three slots with about 40 er apps, MyFitnessPal and percent of the data showing it was the MapMyFitness, show that California, favorite form of exercise. Gregory Colorado and Washington are the US Chertok, sports psychology consultant states with the most active residents for the American College of Sports based on the length, frequency and Medicine said the use of apps can type of exercise they recorded. strengthen exercise adherence. He South Carolina, Delaware and North added that unlike self-reporting, which Dakota are at the other end of the tends to be inaccurate with people spectrum in the ranking. “Seven of our overestimating or underestimating top 10 active states were western their competence, data from apps is states,” said Rebecca Silliman of more accurate. “The app, unlike our MyFitnessPal, which analyzed informa- own perceptions, gives us true, objec- tion recorded by its 65 million users. It tive, hard data,” he explained. combined its data with workout infor- Florida-based fitness instructor and mation from MapMyFitness’ 25 million wellness coach Shirley Archer said col- users to rank the states according to lecting data can raise awareness about their diet, sleep and activity habits. eating and activity habits. “Awareness Silliman said the data, logged from is a key step toward changing behav- January to December of 2014, came iors,” said Archer, author of 15 books PARIS: A disabled man takes part in a demonstration to demand more accessibility options for disabled people near the French mostly from people aged 25 to 44. including “Fitness 9 to 5.” “You can’t National Assembly. —AFP About 65 percent were women and 40 change what you don’t know that percent were men. “We also broke you’re doing,” On the down side, she down where people were running, bik- added, too much data can be over- ing and walking,” said Silliman, adding whelming and even discouraging. S Africa reaps more crops they were the most popular fitness “People lose interest after the novelty activities. Texas is the top running has worn off,” she said. But Archer state, according to the data, where the added that the information is useful for in twin farm revolution activity accounted for 47 percent of fitness experts to help improve work- workouts. Idaho led in indoor and out- outs. —Reuters GPS, IT systems lifting yields, shedding jobs

VILJOENSKROON: South African farmer Cobus grids. The field map that emerges is color-coded Conservation farming also calls for cover crops to China using animals to van Coller scans the flashing computer screen in to denote exactly what needs to be applied in be planted in between the planting of cash the cab of his harvester. As the machine mows each square. Van Coller also uses the technology crops, which could actually boost employment. predict earthquakes down corn stalks, numbers instantly update, giv- for planting. “The GPS tells the computer where But many farmers for now are content to till less, ing the precise yield and moisture levels on each you are, and the computer tells the seeder which not plant more. Precision agriculture takes a job BEIJING: Chinese government be eligible. But some animal keep- part of his field. “This shows you if you’re going to product to apply and how much.” toll through efficiencies, and industry sources researchers are using chickens, ers seemed reluctant to become make money,” he said in a demonstration of “pre- say technology is growing fast. “Our precision fish and toads to try to predict involved. cision” farming-the use of technology to target No tillage services in southern Africa have grown 19 per- farm inputs precisely to maximize profit. The other method-conservation farming- cent per year for the last five years,” said Rod earthquakes, media reported. The “Our zoo is not being trans- As precision farmers go hi tech to boost involves trying to preserve South Africa’s erosion- Humphris, managing director of Omnia, which seismological bureau in the east- formed into a monitor station yields, some are also adopting a “conservation” prone soils. “We need to build up our soils again provides fertiliser and farming services. ern city of Nanjing has trans- because the animals will display approach to land management, which involves because they have been so degraded,” said formed seven animal farms into abnormal behavior when they are limiting soil disturbance to build up nutrients in Hendrik Smith of industry group GrainSA. Rich Consolidation seismic stations, the China Daily teased by visitors,” the report the ground and increase production. As a result rewards are being reaped. Grain yields in South Consolidation is another consequence. Van newspaper reported last week. quoted a local zookeeper as say- of these two new methods, which are revolu- Africa have increased 120 percent over the past Coller plants 2,000 hectares and has been buying Breeders on the farms are asked to ing. tionising agriculture globally, South Africa is two decades, according to Nico Groenewald, farms. “Automation almost always leads to con- growing more food with less manpower-a trend head of the South Africa Agribusiness unit of solidation,” said Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, profes- update the bureau about the Using animals predict earth- with profound social and political consequences Standard Bank, in part because of these new sor of agricultural economics at Purdue behavior of the animals twice a quakes is not new in China. State- in the country. Rising yields are welcome but approaches. South Africa’s maize crop this year is University, Indiana. And when it comes to land, day, the report said. run media said last year that the jobs are being shed as farmers use more technol- down one third due to drought-but things being bigger risks opposition from the ANC. Possible abnormal behavior central city of Nanchang was ogy, while automation will lead to bigger farms. would be worse without the new methods. This Earlier this year it said it aimed “to accelerate the which could indicate imminent using dogs to predict tremors. This is at odds with policy proposals by the drive is also shedding jobs in an economy with pace of land redistribution” to blacks from whites earthquakes includes chickens fly- China is regularly hit by seismic ruling African National Congress (ANC), which is an unemployment rate of over 25 percent. by capping ownership at 12,000 hectares or two ing atop trees, fish leaping out of incidents, with hundreds of thou- seeking to limit farm size and create rural jobs. According to government data, the number of farms. Only around 10 percent of land owned by Technology is threatening to uproot such efforts. workers in agriculture fell 31 percent to 670,000 whites has been distributed to blacks since water or toads moving in a group, sands killed in major disasters in Precision agriculture taps Global Positioning in 2014 from 969,000 in 2001. apartheid ended in 1994 - far short of a 30 per- it added. Nanjing plans to recruit the past. Three people died in the System (GPS) technology so farmers can gather Conservation agriculture contributed cent target. Critics say many of the transferred seven more farms into the scheme latest fatal earthquake last week, precise soil data to target exactly what inputs because less ploughing requires fewer workers. farms have failed as newcomers lack capital and this year, it said. Facilities need to in the far western region of they need and where. Samples are scooped from GrainSA’s Smith reckons over half of commercial skills-and South African agriculture is becoming house more than three species to Xinjiang. —AFP each hectare of a field, which is marked off into growers “are doing some kind of reduced tillage”. more capital intensive and high-tech. —Reuters Matcha green tea gives flavorful boost to banana ‘ice cream’

By Melissa D’Arabian puddings, and of course, ice cream. My version of matcha green tea “ice cream” is an easy NEW YORK: Like many Americans, I was first healthy-enough-for-breakfast take on the exposed to the taste of matcha green tea with- Japanese restaurant classic. It requires just four out really any thought on my part: green tea ice ingredients and zero special equipment. And cream was the only dessert offered at our local yet it is dreamy, creamy and just the right Japanese restaurant, and since it was included amount of sweet. in the price of the meal (even the early bird Banana matcha green tea ‘ice cream’ special, which is when we would go), I ate it. Start to finish: 10 minutes, plus freezing And I grew to love matcha’s mildly grassy, Servings: 4 slightly bitter tea flavor. 3 large ripe bananas I had no idea what “matcha” was, so if you 2 tablespoons coconut milk don’t either, you are not alone. Matcha is the 2 teaspoons matcha green tea powder powder made from dried green tea leaves, and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract it is an integral part of Japanese health and culi- Peel, slice and freeze the bananas in an air- nary culture. All the amazing health benefits of tight container or bag for at least 4 hours or green tea - the antioxidants are just the start - overnight. Once the bananas are frozen, place are multiplied with matcha, because rather them in a food processor. Process until the than simply steeping the leaves in water, then bananas have the texture of lumpy oatmeal discarding them, you actually are eating the (about 1 minute). Add the coconut milk, green leaves themselves in powdered form. tea powder and vanilla, then process until very If you’ve never bought matcha before, I’ll smooth and creamy, about another 2 minutes, warn you: it’s not cheap! And quality varies scraping down the sides of the processor as widely. Matcha aficionados will often buy high- needed. end matchas (sometimes call “ceremonial Once the ice cream is completely smooth, grade”) for mixing into hot water and drinking scrape into an airtight container, cover and straight. However, if you are using matcha for freeze for 1 to 2 hours for a soft-serve consis- recipes such as this, then the more affordable tency. For a firmer, more scoop-friendly ice “culinary” grade is a fine option. And since the cream, freeze for over 4 hours and allow to powder is intense, a little bit lasts a long time. temper at room temperature for 10 minutes My priority is sourcing from a supplier I before scooping. trust. I find that buying a lower quality tea Nutrition information per serving: 100 calo- grade from a highly respected supplier gives ries; 15 calories from fat (15 percent of total me the best value for my dollar. You can use calories); 2 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); matcha in lattes, smoothies, baked goods such 0 mg cholesterol; 0 mg sodium; 21 g carbohy- as muffins or pancakes, desserts, chia breakfast drate; 2 g fiber; 11 g sugar; 1 g protein. —AP TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE

AKAGERA: Two lions brought from South Africa are seen at night after being released in the boma, a temporary enclosure where they are going to spend at least two weeks in quarantine, in Akagera National Park. A playful, portable sink to boost handwashing hygiene in Cambodia

BANGKOK: A small plastic box decorated penses up to 15 litres of water through a with smiling frogs and a bright green logo, low-flow spout and can be placed at a Labobo looks like a toy, but it could help height easily reachable for children. It is the prevent thousands of people from getting brainchild of WaterSHED, one of a growing sick with diarrhea and other diseases. The number of charities that focus on selling portable plastic sink aims to encourage reg- appealing sanitation products to con- ular handwashing, in particular after using a sumers, rather than handing out buckets or toilet and before preparing food, which has latrines. “If you give people a bucket and a been proven to prevent the spread of dis- piece of soap, more often than not you will AKAGERA: Cattle farmers stand and sit next to their cows outside Akagera National Park. —AFP photos ease. Labobo has just launched in find the bucket ends up being used for Cambodia, which ranks lowest in Southeast something else,” Revell told the Thomson Asia in terms of access to sanitation. Reuters Foundation. “Handwashing is an enormous opportu- “But if they spend some money on a Roaring success: Lions return nity to improve health because it’s such a product they like and actually want to own, cheap and effective solution,” said Geoff it’s much more likely that they will keep Revell, regional program manager at using it and form a healthy habit of washing to Rwanda, with rhinos next? WaterSHED, a charity working on improving their hands regularly.” Labobo was designed water and sanitation in Southeast Asia. With with the input of families in Vietnam’s 38 deaths per 1,000 live births, Cambodia Mekong Delta, where WaterSHED has ‘It is a beginning of a fantastic chapter for lions in Rwanda’ has the second highest under-five mortality already sold 10,000 units in a year through rate in the region, after Myanmar, according its social business. AKAGERA: Groggy on their paws with electric fencing, and the cats to World Bank data. Regular handwashing Despite awareness-raising campaigns, after waking from tranquillizers, are equipped with satellite collars can help prevent nearly half the world’s cas- regular handwashing is a challenge in lions have returned to Rwanda for to reduce the risk of them entering es of diarrhea, which kills nearly 800,000 Cambodia, where 60 percent of the rural the first time since the endangered inhabited areas. children every year, the World Health population still defecate in the open and animal was wiped out following the Organization (WHO) says. only 44 percent are able to wash their country’s 1994 genocide. Seven Rhinos next? Labobo - a play on the French word for hands with soap and water, according to lions-two males and five females- “Of course, a lion can kill a cow, sink, “lavabo” - sells at $15 per unit and dis- the WHO. —Reuters were transported in a marathon 30- but now that there is the fence there hour journey from South Africa - is less risk,” said cattle herder Phocus first by air, then the final stretch by Rukundo. “The people can no longer road to Rwanda’s eastern Akagera kill the lions because they under- National Park. Schoolgirls sang out- stand the importance of their conser- side the park in Akagera, a 112,000- vation for tourism.” Still, much work hectare (276,800-acre) park border- was needed to persuade people liv- ing Tanzania, welcoming the preda- ing nearby that the return of the top tors as they ended their journey. predator should be welcomed. “I am One by one, they were released sure there are still people nervous into a giant pen - where they will about it,” Sarah Hall said, in charge of stay for initial quarantine of around tourism for Africa Parks, a conserva- two weeks, before being allowed tion group which works in Akagera. out into the wild of the park itself. “It Educational plays were put on for is a huge conservation milestone, it communities bordering the park, as is a beginning of a fantastic chapter well as a football tournament called for lions in Rwanda,” Akagera park “The Lion King”, Hall said, adding that director Jes Gruner said. Lions in five percent of park income in Rwanda were stamped out in the Rwanda was donated to community AKAGERA: Antilopes and zebras stand in the Akagera National years following the 1994 genocide, projects, such as funding schools or Park. which left an estimated 800,000 health centers. people dead. Fleeing refugees and The lion remains listed as vulnera- displaced people occupied part of ble at a global level, the International the park, with the lion being driven Union for the Conservation of Nature out or killed as people tried to pro- (IUCN) said last month in an update tect their livestock. “I still have the to its “Red List” of threatened species. PHILADELPHIA: File photo shows roses during preparations for the pictures of the last three lions that The IUCN warns that trade in bones Philadelphia Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. —AP were poisoned... it was very sad,” and other body parts for traditional said vet Tony Mudakikwa. So the medicine in Africa and in Asia is a return of lions symbolizes more than new and emerging threat to the Heaven scent: Finding may help a conservation success. “We are species. But Akagera offers a safe excited as a nation,” said Yamina space, with plenty of food for the top restore fragrance to roses Karitanyi, head of tourism at the predator, and is home to multiple NEW YORK: Shakespeare said a rose by any to rose varieties that have lost it because of Rwanda Development Board. “We antelope species, buffaloes, giraffes other name would smell as sweet. In fact, breeding for traits like color or longevity. are proud to welcome the lions.” and zebras, as well as leopards and many kinds of roses today have little fra- French scientists identified a gene that’s Some two hours by vehicle from elephants. Park officials are now grance. But a new discovery might change far more active in a heavily scented kind of the capital Kigali, it is an important working to reintroduce rhinos in that. A study of roses that do have a strong rose than in a type with little odor. This tourist destination, with some Akagera. “Without the lions, it was as scent revealed a previously unknown gene, which produces an enzyme, revealed 28,000 visitors in 2014, and the if I had just a hand with three fingers, chemical process in their petals. It’s key to the odor-producing process. Results are return of the lions is hoped to give now I have four,” said park official their alluring odor. Experts said the finding reported in a study released Thursday by an important boost. Much prepara- Eugene Mutangana. “With rhinos, my AKAGERA: Boxes containing lions brought from South Africa might let scientists restore a pleasing scent the journal Science. —AP tion was needed: the park is ringed hand is complete.” —AFP are placed on a truck heading to Akagera National Park. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

Taiba Hospital awarded ‘child-friendly’ certificate

n a first for a Kuwaiti hospital, Taiba World Health Organization (WHO). The cer- breastfeeding. assessment of all hospitals in the ‘breast feed- Deputy CEO Rashed Al-Fadhalah expressed Hospital was awarded the ‘Child-Friendly tificate was given in appreciation of the The hospital was chosen to be the first pri- ing encouragement committee’ program joy and pride in the hospital’s potentials and IHospital’ certificate by the health min- hospital’s role in boosting public awareness vate hospital to get this certificate on June 1, where Taiba Hospital was visited on April 6 the skills of his medical, nursing and adminis- istry and accredited by UNICEF and the on child protection through encouraging 2015. The certificate was given following a full and 7 that resulted in selecting it for the title. trative staff members. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

hmadi governorate recently concluded its first Holy Quran and hadith competition but postponed the ceremony to honor the winners after Eid. The competition was held under the auspices of Governor ASheikh Fawaz Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.

uwait Science Club Chairman Ahmed Al-Manfouhi, Secretary General Adam Al-Mulla, Scientific Center CEO Mejbel Al-Mutawa and KSC board members took part in extracting and categorizing spring Khoney from five beehives including two at KSC and three found in various places around Kuwait. INJAZ Al-Arab appoints new CEO

NJAZ Al-Arab, the regional office of Junior supported the organisation in raising its pro- take the organisation to the next level.” across 14 countries in the Middle East and Achievement Worldwide (JAW), file of what we do among key stakeholders As part of his role, Aqrabawi will provide North Africa, starting 2004, which resulted in Iannounced yesterday the appointment of and the public, and we are confident his fore- both operational and strategic support to the empowering over 2 million Arab youth sup- Akef Al-Aqrabawi as the organization’s Chief sight in his new role as CEO will lead to further organization on core matters including educa- ported by over 22 thousand volunteers and Executive Officer. The appointment follows growth in the future. tional leadership, strategy, business opera- 200 board members. the departure of Soraya Salti, who decided to We would also like to thank Soraya for her tions and fundraising with the overall objec- In his previous roles, Aqrabawi held plan- step down as the leader of INJAZ after many years of dedication as the founder and creator tive of promoting workforce readiness, finan- ning and research positions at Jordan’s years of passionate and dedicated service to of INJAZ Al-Arab. During her tenure she cial literacy and entrepreneurship amongst Ministry of Water and Irrigation and Swiss the organization. worked tirelessly to inspire Arab youth to youth in the Arab World. healthcare intelligence conglomerate IMS Commenting on the leadership changes at realise their potential and truly was the driving Al-Aqrabawi was among the originators of Health. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in INJAZ Al-Arab, Sean Rush, President of JAW force for our growth throughout the region the first JA MENA branch in Jordan in 2000, Archaeology from Mu’tah University, Jordan. said: “Since joining us in 2000, Akef has been over the past decade. As we look to the future, managing public relations, volunteer recruit- Today, INJAZ Al-Arab is recognised as one of instrumental in providing operational support we believe INJAZ will continue to play a pivotal ment and fundraising. His extensive involve- the world’s most influential and prominent to INJAZ member nations, including expan- role in championing opportunities for youth ment establishing INJAZ Jordan as a regional NGOs by The Global Journal. The ranking sion, fundraising, capacity building, and net- and are confident that with more than 17 years role model enabled him to successfully imple- awards dynamic and innovative NGOs across working. His pioneering efforts have actively of experience, Aqrabawi has the right skillset to ment an operational strategy to roll out JA the world for their impact on a social, econom- Akef Al-Aqrabawi

cting manager of Kuwait University’s Distance Learning Center Hussein Al-Saffar said the center was established in 2002 to promote a culture of e-learning at Kuwait University and†is affiliated to the Office of Vice President for Academic Support Services. Its main purpose is to facilitate the learning process through advanced technology that would strengthen the university system and support it Awith electronic means by transmitting universal education programs and providing the feature of distance education for students via means of communication, electronic conferences and multimedia. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

18:30 Running Wild With Bear 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:30 About A Boy Grylls 05:00 Chopped 10:00 The Mindy Project 19:20 Dual Survival 06:00 Heat Seekers 10:30 Community 20:10 Storage Wars Canada 06:30 BBQ Crawl 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 20:35 Auction Hunters 07:00 Man Fire Food Jimmy Fallon 00:00 Doctors 21:00 Walking The Nile 07:30 Man Fire Food 12:00 My Boys 00:30 Eastenders 21:50 Dual Survival 08:00 Chopped 12:30 Hot In Cleveland 01:00 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:40 Dive Wars Australia 09:00 The Big Eat... 13:00 My Name Is Earl 01:50 37 Days 23:30 Street Outlaws 09:30 The Big Eat... 13:30 Community 02:45 37 Days 10:00 The Kitchen 14:00 Mulaney 03:45 My Hero 11:00 The Pioneer Woman 14:30 About A Boy 04:15 The Weakest Link 11:30 The Pioneer Woman 15:00 The Mindy Project 05:00 The Green Balloon Club 12:00 Chopped 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 05:25 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite Stewart 05:45 Show Me Show Me 13:30 Guy’s Big Bite 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 06:10 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Wilmore Roll Teenage Witch 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:30 My Boys 06:30 The Green Balloon Club 01:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 15:00 Man Fire Food 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 06:55 Mr Bloom’s Nursery Teenage Witch 15:30 Man Fire Food 18:00 Galavant 07:15 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n 01:40 Wolfblood 16:00 Chopped 18:30 Mulaney Roll 02:05 Wolfblood 17:00 The Kitchen 19:00 Wilfred 07:35 The Weakest Link 02:30 Violetta 18:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 19:30 The Mindy Project 08:20 2 Point 4 Children 03:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Basics 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 08:50 Doctors Teenage Witch 18:30 Barefoot Contessa - Back To Jimmy Fallon 09:20 Eastenders 03:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Basics 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 09:50 Lark Rise To Candleford Teenage Witch 19:00 Chopped Stewart 10:45 Breaking Pointe 04:10 Wolfblood 20:00 Heat Seekers 21:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 11:30 The Weakest Link 04:35 Wolfblood 20:30 Roadtrip With G. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You may be resigned to defend a position on a matter at work You may experience a dilemma around what is public and what is now, even if it means taking an unpopular stance. Ironically, you gain a private in your life today. But you still could shy away from conflict even if you strange sort of satisfaction when you stand alone. It’s not that you enjoy feel very strongly about your convictions. If you get into an argument, be care- fighting losing battles, but there’s nothing quite like the rush of adrenaline ful not to make revelations about your own personal beliefs or habits that are you experience when you’re in warrior mode. Don’t place too much stock in better kept to yourself. Remember, it’s more prudent to err on the side of saying proving your superiority at the expense of someone else; just revel in the less now because your disclosure can be diluted by too many words. Giving excitement of knowing how very alive you feel in the present moment. your message time to soak in allows the process to unfold organically.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Your attempts to communicate seem to go nowhere today Your passionate nature could draw you into a conflict with a because it seems like you’re only talking to yourself, even if others are in close friend while the Sun opposes provocative Pluto. But your disagreement might proximity. Your sense of well-being could dissipate now and you may even be over a difference of ideas rather than something tangible. Unfortunately, start to dread what’s around the corner. Get a grip; the reality of the situation burying your emotions won’t work, either. The way out of this unstable situa- is really not that bad. Face the emotional intensity head on, since your fear of tion is simply to allow for multiple points of view. Yours is not the only path to the unknown is worse than whatever you might encounter. Bold behavior and the top of the mountain, even if that’s how it seems to you in the moment. an unwavering faith in yourself are the keys to your success. Open your mind and give others the freedom to think for themselves.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Oddly enough, an emotional meltdown may be exactly what you Your words are muddled by the influence of nebulous Neptune need on your journey now, so don’t assume an air of authority by today, and you become less clear the more you ramble on. An unresolved issue playing the role of the holier-than-thou spiritual teacher. Paradoxically, you’ll ACROSS is received on Earth. can quickly come back to haunt you with unexpected vengeance if you 1. A police officer who investigates crimes. 7. Free from liquid or moisture. emerge rejuvenated if you can let loose and express your true feelings. And, attempt to talk your way out of a confrontation now. In fact, the power of the although you might be totally surprised by your outburst, those around you 4. The property characteristic of old age. 8. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic ele- unspoken word might be strong enough to temporarily threaten a close rela- will breathe a sigh of relief since they are tired of you claiming that everything 12. Automatic data processing by electronic ment that is resistant to corrosion. tionship. Pause before you speak and then only say what is absolutely required. is perfect. Drop the pretense and show your true colors if you want others to means without the use of tabulating cards or 9. The square of a body of any size of type. Your message will be well received if you remain considerate of others in the support your dreams. punched tapes. 10. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to process. 15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its make things. edible tubers. 11. Used of locations. 16. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate 12. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effec- Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) forces in the hope of breaking the blockade tive friendly use of the electromagnetic spec- imposed by the North. trum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic You might feel as if you need to act on your new idea immediately An issue previously brought into the light seems to be beyond your 17. The sound made by a pigeon v 1. warfare. or the opportunity to gain support will be lost. But if there are too many signs of control, resurfacing now without your consent. The more you attempt to manage the situation today, the more complex everything grows. On the contrary, if you 18. Sweet spiced porridge made from hulled 13. The capital and chief port of Qatar. difficulty on your path ahead, you may quickly crawl back into your shell, a cave or under a rock. Your vulnerable underbelly has been visible long enough and loosen your grip on the steering wheel, you could be amazed when things begin to wheat. 14. Wood of any poon tree. you’re growing weary of keeping your defenses up. Trust your intuition; be safe fall into place. Luckily, you will have the final say in the matter, even if it appears 20. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again. 19. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of and protect what is yours at all costs. Just keep in mind the current sense of unlikely at the beginning. Not only do you have the chance to reclaim your power 22. A family of languages of the Fula people of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh). urgency could be an illusion of your own making. within the next few days, but you can also make solid progress toward your goals. west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from 21. A dry scab formed on the skin following a Senegal to Chad. burn or cauterization of the skin. 25. A Formosan language. 23. A festival featuring African-American culture. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flow- 24. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth. Leo (July 23-August 22) ers. 26. A radioactive element of the actinide series. A little honest self-reflection may reveal lingering remnants of Although you’re often the one who can quickly dismiss an old experi- 31. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a 27. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you unexpressed anger, although you will likely do your best to dodge this negativ- ence, you’re not so fast to embrace the future today. A nostalgic trip down Memory broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your ity today. These emotions might be subtle enough that you could easily dis- Lane anchors you to your past, making it impossible to see how your habits have folded under the thorax and pincers. retirement. guise them as something else. However, harboring unresolved tension only become obstacles to your happiness. However, it’s far more effective to initiate pre- 32. Soreness and warmth caused by friction. 29. (of a musical instrument) Intermediate leads to playing control games. Suppressed passions can resurface in the emptive behavior than waiting for something catastrophic to happen. Instead of 36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a between alto and baritone or bass. manipulations of someone close to you. Express your hurt without any malice resisting inevitable changes, take a proactive stance. You can forge a new path if you skewer usually with vegetables. 30. Lower in esteem. to avoid inviting unnecessary trouble. grab this opportunity while it lasts. 37. A blue dye obtained from plants or made 33. Moving quickly and lightly. synthetically. 34. Physically weak. 39. A city in northern India. 35. An upright tripod for displaying something Virgo (August 23-September 22) 40. Type genus of the Anatidae. (usually an artist's canvas). Pisces (February 19-March 20) 42. Outstanding United States athlete (1914- 38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by You’re feeling a bit dazed and confused today, suffering from a Taking the time to reassess where you find the most joy in your life 1956). the anterior pituitary. lack of clarity as the moody Moon canoodles with mystical Neptune. However, can be quite eye-opening today. Even if you haven’t already scheduled some 44. Wild and domestic cattle. 41. Relatively small fast-moving sloth. you’re intent on cutting through the fog to get to the bottom of a power strug- quiet time, it’s essential for your sanity to add it into your day. But don’t wait 47. A statement that deviates from or perverts 43. A soft white precious univalent metallic ele- gle with a friend. This interaction can leave you in a state of agitation now, for until you’re so busy that you can’t even hear yourself think. Knowing what the truth. ment having the highest electrical and thermal acquiring more knowledge only seems to contradict the facts. Even if your makes your heart happy now is the first step to achieving true satisfaction, so 48. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm conductivity of any metal. uncertainty is irritating, don’t take your annoyance out on anyone else by pick- clear some room on your calendar for contemplation before it’s too late. trees. 45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in ing a needless fight. Accept your current frustration with a healthy sense of 50. An intensely radioactive metallic element Turkey). humor, knowing that this too shall pass within a few days. that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores. 46. Any of numerous low-growing cushion- 53. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities. forming plants of the genus Draba having WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 57. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia. rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of 60. The blood group whose red cells carry both small flowers with scapose or leafy stems. the A and B antigens. 49. A Dravidian language spoken in south cen- 61. Relating to or having or hearing with two tral India. ears. 51. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads 65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from that explode when mature shedding large quan- the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fer- tities of down. mented molasses. 52. Silence (someone) by uttering "shush!". 67. Difficult to describe. 54. A motley assortment of things. 68. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). 55. Large west African tree having large palmate- 71. An aggressive and violent young criminal. ly lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of 72. Fiddler crabs. small white flowers and one-winged seeds. 73. A member of a North American Plains people 56. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming). 58. Any of several tall tropical palms native to 76. Music in three-four time for dancing a jig. southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts. 77. A guided missile fired from shipboard against 59. A woman of refinement. an airborne target. 62. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of 78. Someone who commits regicide. northern Spain. 79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice. 63. Stay clear from. 64. A projecting ridge on a mountain or sub- DOWN merged under water. 1. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected 66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs manners). northeast into the Rhine. 2. A very light brown. 69. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. 3. part of the peritoneum attached to the stom- 70. British informal term. ach and to the colon and covering the intestines. 74. The ratio of the circumference to the diame- 4. A primeval personification of air and breath. ter of a circle. 5. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible 75. 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Bruce Hornsby, from left, Jeff Chimenti, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Trey Anastasio of The Grateful Dead perform at Grateful Dead Fare Tears flow as Grateful Dead Thee Well Show at Soldier Field on Sunday.—AP photos say farewell in Chicago he Grateful Dead gave what they say will dressed followers, known as “Deadheads,” often Those who couldn’t get tickets to the sold- be their last group performance on attended multiple concerts on a tour. Phish gui- out concerts followed simulcasts on cable televi- TSunday, playing to some 70,000 singing, tarist Trey Anastasio filled in for Garcia at the sion around the country. At a “watch party” on dancing and tearful fans in Chicago’s Soldier Chicago shows, joined by original members Bob Chicago’s northwest side Chris Wainscott, 42, of Field. The four surviving members of the band Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman Milwaukee, said the time was right for the band ended their 50-year-run this weekend with three who have toured, along with other musicians to end its run. “After 50 years, you’ve had your Chicago concerts. The shows come 20 years and under various names, for years. Jeff chance to take what you wanted to take from it,” after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, Chimenti and Bruce Hornsby played keyboards said Wainscott, who had seen dozens of con- who played his last show in the nation’s third- for the Chicago shows. certs since 1994. Heidi Kehler of St Louis said she largest city in 1995. Known for their poetic lyrics The seven musicians started and ended the felt lucky for what the band had brought her, and constant improvisation which can turn a show with group hugs. They started the show including lifelong friends. “This music has given three-minute song into an 18-minute experi- with one of the group’s most psychedelic early me a lot,” she said. Before the last songs, bass ment, the Grateful Dead emerged from the San songs - “China Cat Sunflower,” paired with the player Lesh told the crowd, “Godbless you all, Francisco Bay area to become one of the longest folk blues standard, “I Know You Rider.” The sec- and thank you for listening.” “Be kind,” said drum- lasting and most influential bands of the era. ond half included extended jams on crowd mer Mickey Hart. “Be kind.”—Reuters Inspired by blues, bluegrass, country and favorites “Truckin’” and “Cassidy,” and ended with jazz, the band became the model for groups Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away;” the Dead’s such as Phish, Blues Traveler and others in the biggest popular hit, “Touch of Grey;” and the ele- “jam band” movement. The band’s colorfully- gaic “Attics of my Life.” Trey Anastasio, from left, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead perform on stage. Kendrick Lamar delights Rock opera ‘Deep Love’ London’s ‘Wireless’ festival takes the long road to NYC he sun was out for double-Grammy- straight from Ethiopia / N-E-G-U-S definition: here’s not much to do in eastern Idaho award-winning US rapper Kendrick royalty, king, royalty - wait listen / N-E-G-U-S in the winter. It’s freezing, windy and TLamar this weekend as he performed description: Black emperor, King, ruler,” he depressing. Why not create a musical? an energetic set of his hits to an enraptured raps on “i”. Lamar follows a line of famous hip- T Stay-inside weather - plus a healthy dose of young North London crowd. On stage at the hop artists from the city of Compton in heartache - helped spark the creation in Wireless festival on Saturday, less than a week southern Los Angeles County, notorious for 2009 of “Deep Love: A Ghostly Rock Opera.” after winning “Best Male Hip-Hop Artist” at its gang culture, such as the rap supergroup the BET awards, Lamar performed a stream of N.W.A that spawned Dr Dre and Ice Cube. Six years later it arrives in steamy on 42nd favorites. “We gon’ be alright! We gon’ be Although his lyrics focus on the United Street in New York City, a snowball’s throw alright!” the crowd shouted along with Lamar States and its politics, they seemed to chime from Broadway. as they jumped up and down and pumped with the young, racially mixed London crowd The show is the creation of Garrett their arms in time with his latest single, the who rapped along enthusiastically with Sherwood, Ryan J Hayes and Jon Peter up-tempo “Alright” produced by US hitmaker “Compton”, Lamar’s ode to his hometown. Lewis, three artistic guys with little musical Pharrell Williams. Ella Asiegbu, 17, who spent much of her theater experience who shaped and grew it It has been a good year for Lamar. After childhood in Nigeria before moving to into one of the highlights of the New York winning two Grammy awards in February for London, had come just to see Lamar. “He’s Musical Theatre Festival. The show’s first real Jon Peter Lewis at the Signature Theatre his single “i”, his critically acclaimed album “To changed my life - it’s a very cheesy to thing to production was in Lewis’ living room in 2010 in New York. Lewis is co-director, co- Pimp a Butterfly” reached the top spot on say but it’s true. I’ve actually lost my voice for a handful of friends. He used Christmas book writer and stars in ‘Deep Love: A both the US and British album charts, in a first from screaming so much,” she said. lights to mark off the stage and filled bowls Ghostly Rock Opera’ at the New York for the star. And ask any hip-hop fan who Musically and lyrically Lamar breaks away with dry ice to make fog. Musical Theatre Festival.—AP they reckon is this generation’s most gifted from hip-hop stereotypes: “To Pimp A “I remember the dry ice was hissing and rapper and 28-year-old Lamar’s name is Butterfly” is accompanied by a jazz band. But popping during the performance,” he said. the knockout round on “The Voice” with among them. That is because of his skills as it was Lamar’s older songs that elicited some “It’s been a kind of learn-as-you-go type of Hayes as the folk duo Midas Whale. He an emcee and for his ability to produce of the most rapturous responses. After saying thing.” The show will be among 52 live hopes some of his TV fans will check out his catchy hooks while delivering a strongly goodbye, he returned to perform 2011’s events at the festival, including 22 full musi- new project: “I stayed long enough on both politicized account of life as a black man in “A.D.H.D.”, one of his first songs to get atten- cals. It runs from Tuesday to July 27 at six shows for people to kind of know me - to the United States. tion from the mainstream media. “It was venues in the city and all tickets are below remain a Z-list celebrity,” he said, laughing. “On how the infamous, sensitive N-word amazing,” Levi Laing, 17, said of Lamar. “I’ve control us ... Well this is my explanation never seen anything like it.”—Reuters Kendrick Lamar $30. Since launching in 2004, the festival has premiered more than 300 new musicals, Getting wasted some of which have gone on to a further life The show, featuring some crispy rock and on or off Broadway, such as “Altar Boyz,” “title soulful folk, is about love and loss set in a of show” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1880s graveyard. The audience is encour- Film Review: ‘April and the Extraordinary World’ “Next to Normal.” aged to attend in funeral attire. It stars Amy n the heart of Paris, a repurposed ers. Now think how different that Jacques Tardi imagined in “April and Tardi’s alternate vision of Paris, starkly Whitcomb who was on “The Voice,” too. monastery known as the Musee museum’s treasures might be had all the Extraordinary World,” which has brought to life by co directors Emerging artists Hayes and Sherwood, who both endured Ides Arts et Metiers serves as a tech- the world’s best scientists disappeared now inspired a dynamic animated sci- Christian Desmares et Franck Ekinci, The festival - known by its initials NYMF - difficult breakups in the winter of 2009, nological shrine to human innovation, from the face of the earth at the turn fi adventure that delivers on the lofty, appears choked by a heavy cloud of provides shows with theater space, lights, wrote the songs. “Rather than going out and where school kids marvel at all man- of the previous century, leaving Paris retro-styled promise of coal smog, many of its most famous sound equipment, front-of-house staffing getting wasted, they wrote a rock opera ner of inventions, from Foucault’s pen- mired in the Age of Steam. That’s the “Tomorrowland”-or more aptly, “Sky landmarks repurposed to serve the and marketing - all key to emerging artists about it,” said Lewis. Lewis helped write the dulum to the first robots and comput- alternate reality that graphic novelist Captain and the World of Tomorrow”- bleak world order-one in which nearly trying to mount resource- heavy musicals in story, co-directs and stars in the show. He in a way that stimulates the intellect of all the great thinkers have mysterious- one of the most expensive cities in the even worked as a lighting technician for four all who watch. The visually striking, ly vanished, forcing society to rely on world. The offerings this year are typically months just to learn all the names of the hand-drawn toon should fare great in outdated science and inventions. eclectic. There’s one about a pope, a second theater lights. France, where it opens Oct. 14, with The toon reveals the moment that deals with illegal immigration and one The creative team has spent years work- GKids releasing early next year in the when human progress changed for ing on the show, helping it grow from that US. the worse in its opening scene, as about the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan ice skating fiasco. Dan Markey, executive direc- first living room performance to one in a Known in French as “Avril et le Napoleon III dies not in exile but in a sold-out 1,100-seat abandoned church, to a monde truque,” the film’s tricky title peculiar mad-scientist mishap. Per tor of NYMF, said the number of submissions has gone up every year and this year attract- multi-city tour. Five dancers have been has already been translated several Tardi’s premise, the emperor was toy- added to help tell the story, while the band ways-as “April and the Twisted World,” ing with the laws of science long ed some 245 hopefuls from composers as far has been reduced from 30 to seven. Getting or “A Rigged World”-and could con- before Hitler, employing an otherwise away as Utah and Atlanta. ceivably change again before reach- responsible brainiac named Gustave “The net is wider the pipeline is expand- it shown in New York took a lot of work but ing theaters. Which begs the question: (the great Jean Rochefort) to develop ing,” he said. “More and more people want to now it can shine. “We wanted to get on the How best to christen a film whose an army of invincible soldiers. do it either at the beginning of their career radar of people who are in the business,” downbeat reality never advanced past Gustave’s experiments were a bust, or at the end of their career.” The festival is Lewis said. “We have something that’s work- the Industrial Revolution without but his serum did yield an even more the perfect place for the four-person cast of ing elsewhere but no one really knows undermining its imagination-tickling intriguing side effect: His test animals “Deep Love” to find some love, said Lewis, a about us outside our little region.”—AP Kang Soo-youn dimension of hope and possibility? gained the ability to speak.— Reuters finalist on “American Idol” who also got to lifestyle TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015

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Arab tourism to Egypt continues to experience steady increase in the first five months of 2015

fforts by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism aim to attract more tourists from all over the stay at beach resorts, the campaign hopes to number of Emirati tourists who visited Egypt his enthusiasm about these developments: and the Egyptian Tourism Authority (ETA) world to Egypt. This increase in visitors is in highlight all that Egypt has to offer. increased by 43.5% compared to May 2014. “These positive results reflect that Egypt has Eto revive tourism to the country continue line with the objectives of the Ministry of Statistics reflect an increase in the number Furthermore, the number of Saudi tourists fans from all over the world, particularly from to be reflected in the sustained growth of visi- Tourism’s “Masr Qariba” (“Egypt is close”) cam- of Kuwaiti tourists by 48.6% in the first five increased by 67.2% during the first five our Arab neighbors. The steady increase in tors to Egypt since early 2015. May 2015 statis- paign which specifically targets Arab tourists months of 2015 compared with the same peri- months of 2015 compared with the same peri- Arab tourists demonstrates their trust and tics indicate a steady increase in the number from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait. Both the od last year. In May 2015, the number of od last year. In May 2015, the number of Saudi belief in Egypt’s ability to provide its visitors of tourists compared with the same period last Ministry and the Authority are ramping up Kuwaiti tourists who visited Egypt increased tourists who visited Egypt increased by 58.2% with opportunities to enjoy the most beautiful year. The number of visitors who traveled to efforts prior to the launch of their forthcoming by 74.4% compared to May 2014. Moreover, compared to May 2014. Moreover, Saudi touristic destinations. Specifically, the ‘Masr Egypt in May 2015 increased by 16.5% from global advertising and publicity campaign Kuwait is ranked ninth in terms of the number Arabia has been ranked fourth in terms of the Qariba’ campaign will continue to play a key the number of visitors in May 2014. In a similar which will focus on cultural tourism in the of tourists and nights spent in Egypt during number of tourists and nights spent in Egypt role in attracting tourists and welcome them trend, the number of Arab tourists who visited country. This new campaign aims to promote May 2015. during May 2015. In addition, the Saudi Arabia in their second home, Egypt.” Egypt in May 2015also increased by 23.1% the importance of Egypt’s cultural destinations Statistics also demonstrate an increase in tourists who stayed in Egypt’s hotels increased from the number of Arab tourists in May 2014. among family and youth demographics. By the number of Emirati tourists by 48.3% dur- by 53.7% in May 2015 compared to same peri- These statistics demonstrate the positive creating tourist packages that combine visits ing the first five months of 2015 compared od in 2014. impact of recently launched campaigns that to cultural destinations with opportunities to with the same period in 2014. In May 2015, the ETA Chairman, Sami Mahmoud, expressed

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People are seen atop the tower of a medieval castle in Nuerburg, Germany appreciating the panorama of the wooded area that includes the Nuerburgring car-racing track.—AP photos Nuerburgring main building and tribunes are seen in Nuerburg. Cars compete in a World Touring Car Championship race at Nuerburgring . lifestyle TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 FASHION

Models present creations by Russian fash- ion designer Ulyana Sergeenko during the Fall/Winter 2015-2016 haute couture fash- ion show in Paris on July 5, 2015, as part of the Paris fashion week. — AFP photos Fendi facing haute furore at Paris Fashion Week ith fashionistas baking in a mascara- followers-to “purr in the ear” of her master and entirely made by hand and tailored to each by the shapes of crystals and minerals as well as melting heatwave and Italy’s Fendi save her “furry friends”. client. their colors: azure blue, onyx black and pink Wset to raise hackles with an all-fur col- But not even Choupette, whose every quartz. lection, Paris Fashion Week, which began whim is usually catered to, is likely to stop the Bolshevik chic Today, the glitterati glued to the show by Sunday, may prove a tad too haute to handle. show going ahead. Lagerfeld has often said The Russian designer Sergeenko made her Schiaparelli as French designer Bertrand Guyon Five days of haute couture shows kicked off that while he is very sympathetic to the anti- entrance into the couture club after showing makes his debut as style director for the leg- with Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko’s first fur cause, doing away with the industry would outside of the official fashion week calendar endary label. Founded in 1930 by Elsa ever showing at Paris Fashion Week, with sev- cause a lot of people to lose their jobs. “For since 2012. Her creations were the clothes of a Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel’s biggest rival, the eral of her models decked out in fur bonnets me, as long as people eat meat and wear Russian aristocrat forced to live with peasants in fashion house made its couture comeback in or a fur coat. But the highlight of the week will leather, I don’t get the message,” he told The a communal apartment after the Bolshevik rev- January 2014 after lying dormant for 60 years. be German fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld’s col- New York Times in a recent interview, adding olution in 1917. With her mascara running and On Wednesday, John Galliano will put on his lection celebrating his 50 years with Fendi, however that he preferred not to think about lipstick smudged the Sergeenko woman peps second couture show for Margiela in Paris, after which has hailed the “longest relationship how the animals died. up her full-length dresses in silk, velvet or mesh choosing to present his comeback collection in between a designer and a fashion house.” The indefatigable Lagerfeld, 81, will also be with a fur bonnet or chic hairnet. Sergeenko’s London in January-seen as a snub to the French The show on Wednesday will be entirely presenting his collection for Chanel, the fash- brand, launched in 2011, has become a favorite capital where he fell from grace. Galliano lost “haute fourrure” or couture fur-a material the ion house that is perhaps the most synony- of burlesque model and performer Dita Von his job as Dior’s star designer in 2011 when he luxury fashion brand has never shied away mous with Paris’s reputation for glamour and Teese as well as actress Michelle Rodriguez. was filmed in a Paris bar heaping slurred insults from. French film icon and ardent animal known for spectacular staging. In total, some Many of her clients hail from her home on Jews, and disappeared from the runway for rights activist Brigitte Bardot has already regis- 30 designers will present the Haute Couture country as well as other ex-Soviet nations, the several years. This time it is Valentino who will tered her disapproval by writing a letter to shows, which are unique to the City of Light. Middle East and China. Dutch designer Ilja be missing from the Paris couture diary, having Choupette Lagerfeld, the designer’s pampered The designation is protected by French law Visser was another new name at the Fashion chosen to show his collection on Thursday in feline companion. Bardot appealed to the cat- and attributed exclusively by the ministry of Week. Her collection of oversized, sculpted sil- Rome, where he will celebrate the opening of who has become famous with 48,000 Twitter industry to 14 houses whose clothes are houettes with asymmetric lines were inspired his biggest store to date.—AFP

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The sun sets over a minaret of a mosque during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at Al-Azhar Park, one of the bustling city’s few public parks in Cairo, Egypt.—AP Thai folk music changes tune as coup suffocates dissent lashing a toothless smile, 96-year-old Gaew breaks into the teacher trying to preserve the art form. “You can compare it to a a resistance. But, this time, the Red Shirts have barely flickered in jaunty, staccato verses of “Mo Lam”, a style of folk music that community television station of its time.” defiance. “There is nothing to gain from any movement... it’s bet- Freaches deep into the heritage of northeastern Thailand. ter to wait,” a senior northeastern Red Shirt leader told AFP, For generations, the humour-laden lyrics have covered tales of Shinawatra country requesting anonymity. unrequited love, rural hardship and changing political winds, His village is in Khon Kaen province, a once-vocal bastion of with the travelling Mo Lam the name also refers to the music’s the Red Shirt pro-democracy movement. Their hero and patron, Changing tune expert singers-commissioned to spread campaign messages former premier Thaksin Shinawatra-a billionaire who won the The genre’s political influence stretches much further back across the remote villages of the Isaan region. But the politics has region’s loyalty with policies recognizing their changing aspira- than the current situation, however. Generations of singers have for now been pulled from the playbooks under a military govern- tions-was booted out of office by a coup in 2006, and was then been paid-or inspired-to promote political candidates or compet- ment which brooks no dissent-especially from Isaan, the heart- hit with a graft conviction sending him into self-exile. The fraught ing ideologies in remote areas reared on storytelling traditions. land of the “Red Shirt” movement loyal to the elected govern- years between then and now have curdled a sense of cultural “Mo Lam have sung (about) unhappiness with the centre for cen- ment toppled by the generals in May, 2014. and geographic difference between the centre and the north- turies, especially in the pre-television and radio eras,” says “Mo Lam is our history, our culture,” says the remarkably spry east-home to a third of Thailand’s people and most of its poorest Gridthiya Gaweewong of the Jim Thompson Art Center, who Gaew Sornthunthue. “When I was young we learned Mo Lam provinces. When they are allowed to vote, Isaan people do so in curated a recent exhibition on the art form. “But it has been used under trees in the rice fields while we looked after our buffalo droves for the Shinawatra family. But the clan is hated by a as political tool by both sides. During the Cold War period- and cows,” he adds. The male or female Mo Lam delivers the song Bangkok-centric royalist elite whose parties have proved impo- because of the strong support from the US-the Thai government in the Isaan dialect to the mesmeric tempo of a “kaen”, a bamboo tent at all elections since 2001 and are reliant on the army to promoted ideas of democracy and anti-communism through Mo mouth organ unique to the Thai northeast and neighboring Laos. guarantee their ascendancy. Lam,” she says. For their part, the Communist Party of Thailand, Gaew’s early memories of the music stretch back to the start of Before the most recent coup last year, Mo Lam songs extolling which fought a guerilla war against the Thai state through the the 20th century when Thailand was ruled by an absolute the virtues of Thaksin and lampooning the Thai elite did the mid-60s and 70s, wrote lyrics praising their collective system and monarch, and Isaan’s Laos-origin people were still yet to be fully rounds at Red Shirt rallies and on their radio stations. One, enti- warning Isaan against becoming “servants of Bangkok” under the co-opted by the central state run by Bangkok. To Isaan people, tled “Thaksin was bullied”, laments the putsch that toppled him yoke of “bastards who don’t have farms”. millions of whom now live and work in Bangkok, its sound still and “took away the house of democracy”. But when the military evokes nostalgia for a region which is modernizing at breakneck seized power, it shuttered radio stations and silenced local lead- Dying voice? speed but maintains a proud and distinct culture. “We use Mo ers, tearing down posters of Thaksin and outlawing rallies. In nor- But the genre is under threat. While many village elders can Lam to talk, debate, express ourselves and reflect on our lives and mal times, Mo Lam-and its racier electric guitar-backed offshoot reel off Mo Lam lyrics, youngsters weaned on pop music and 24- traditions,” says Sarawoot Srihakot, a kaen player and music “Mo Lam Sing”-would be expected to provide the soundtrack to hour television often lack the patience to master the complex verses or instruments. Remodeled in the 1980s, the modernized Mo Lam Sing thrusts the original version from its bucolic village setting onto the big stage with drums, electric guitars and lights, winning new legions of fans to its bawdy and boozy shows. A more recent revision, with a kaen backed by a funk bass, is pulling crowds on the world music scene. While the revival is wel- come, purists such as Noochid Punsang, a 54-year-old Mo Lam, fear the original art form faces decline, threatening to take with it a key element of Isaan culture. “There are fewer singers these days... there is a huge notebook of lyrics to memorize,” she said. “But if you have don’t have the passion, you can’t do it. It takes love.”—AFP Thai Mo Lam singers clad in traditional costumes per- forming on stage in Bangkok.—AFP photos Nobel tributes at Dalai Lama 80th birthday bash in US ellow Nobel Peace laureates joined Buddhist monk, who broke down in tears at In 2011 the Dalai Lama delegated his polit- thousands of followers of the Dalai Lama one point in his tribute. Other speakers ical responsibilities to a prime minister elect- FSunday to celebrate the Tibetan spiritual included rapper MC Hammer, veteran CNN ed by Tibetan exiles in an attempt to lessen leader’s 80th birthday, kicking off a three-day talk show host Larry King and online entre- his own totemic status and secure the move- honorary bash in California. A string of minor peneur Arianna Huffington, as well as TV ment’s future after his death. But he remains celebrities also paid tribute to the crimson- actors Josh Radnor and Wilmer Valderrama. the most powerful rallying point for Tibetans, robed 14th Dalai Lama ahead of his birthday, Anti-landmines campaigner Jodi Williams, both in exile and in their homeland. The elder- although protesters also gathered outside the who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1997, sang ly monk’s promotion of non-violence along event south of Los Angeles. “Whenever I get a snippet of Happy Birthday to the aging with his ready laugh have made him a global tired or I lose hope I remember you,” said 2003 monk. “He always says he is just a simple peace icon and kept Tibet firmly in the global Nobel Peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi from Buddhist monk. He may be a simple Buddhist spotlight. Iran. “For 60 years you have been fighting for monk, but he is the most rocking, compas- He has been a unifying force for Tibetans the rights of the people of Tibet without sionate simple Buddhist monk I know,” she inside and outside the mountainous region, becoming tired and without losing hope.” said. even if he has little to show for his decades of The Dalai Lama was guest of honor at the lobbying. Formal negotiations with Beijing Global Compassion Summit at the Honda ‘Liar’ broke down in 2010 after making no head- Center in Anaheim, speaking on “awakening But not everyone is celebrating his birth- way. Last year the Dalai Lama told German compassion” and the “transformative power of day in California: protests were staged outside newspaper Welt am Sonntag that doctors had creativity and art.” About 18,000 followers by Shugden Buddhists, who revere a deity told him he could live to 100, adding, “in my packed into the conference center gave him a denounced since 1996 by the Dalai Lama- dreams I will die at the age of 113 years.” standing ovation during the three-hour event, whom they accuse of religious persecution. Yesterday the Tibetan religious figurehead at which he was presented with an eight-foot- Several hundred demonstrators gathered out- discussed climate change and “wisdom, vision high (2.4 meters) birthday cake. side the Honda Center, with some holding and experience,” including with other Nobel “The Dalai Lama does not want any physi- placards that read “Stop lying!” and laureates, while today he will wrap up with a cal gifts. For him, this birthday is just like any “Hypocrisy.” “The false Dalai Lama... changes session on youth leadership. The Dalai Lama other day,” said Ven Lama Tenzin Dhonden, Buddhism into political gain through lying,” marked his official 80th birthday last month- founder of Friends of the Dalai Lama. said one leaflet handed out by protesters. on June 21 according to the Tibetan lunar cal- The Dalai Lama reacts as his birthday cake is wheeled out on stage following a perform- “However, if we can help to create a more China accuses the Dalai Lama of trying to split endar-in Dharamsala, his hometown in exile ance for him by children at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, where the religious compassionate, kind planet, that would be Tibet from the rest of China and has called in India.—AFP leader celebrated his 80th birthday with a speech on awakening compassion.—AFP the most beautiful gift of all,” added the him a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”