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CAIRO: Egypt’s former leader Hosni Mubarak could conspiracy theories soon be freed from jail, giving a new jolt to a nation in turmoil, after a court ruled yesterday that he could no longer be held in custody on a corruption charge. His A beautiful tool lawyer said he could be released within days, six weeks after the armed forces Mubarak once commanded deposed his elected Islamist successor to spark the bloodiest internal conflict in the modern history of the most populous Arab state. The army detained President Mohammed Morsi on July 3 after huge protests against him. It has since By Badrya Darwish cracked down on his Muslim Brotherhood. Among hun- dreds of casualties, dozens of security personnel have died, including 24 policemen killed by suspected Islamists near the border with Israel yesterday. At 85, Mubarak may have no political future but his [email protected] release could stir emotions and raise new questions on whether the popular uprising that ended his 30-year rule in February 2011 is leading back simply to a new owadays life is like nothing we have ever form of military-backed government. Arrested two imagined it could be. Things have changed years ago as talk of democracy swept the Arab world, Ndrastically in every country thanks to technol- the former strongman appeared in a courtroom cage at ogy. Technology and the way we spread information a trial in which he was convicted of complicity in the has become like a juggernaut. No country can con- murder of protesters. In January, Egypt’s highest court trol and hide information for long any more. No dicta- ordered a retrial. tor can muzzle people. No police can trash secrets After yesterday’s court ruling, the only legal grounds easily. I am talking about the changes that happen in for Mubarak’s continued detention rest on another cor- the East, the West, in the North and the South, on the LONDON: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrived in the UK yesterday ruption case which his lawyer, Fareed Al-Deeb, said sky or underground. It is a global phenomenon. on a private visit accompanied by Deputy Chief of Kuwait National Guard Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al- would be settled swiftly. “All we have left is a simple Look how many whistleblowers have come to the Jaber Al-Sabah. Sheikh Sabah was greeted upon arrival by former Speaker of the National Assembly administrative procedure that should take no more limelight lately giving out secrets of the most power- Jassem Mohammad Al-Khorafi, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Al-Rashidi, Kuwait than 48 hours. He should be freed by the end of the ful organizations in today’s history. Let’s take the Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al-Duwaisan and other officials. — KUNA (See Page 2) week,” Deeb told Reuters. example of Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks. How many Continued on Page 13 secrets and scandals were revealed with the help of WikiLeaks? How many whistleblowers made the headlines such as anti-war activist Susan Lindauer or Arabs to cover cuts John Perkins, the writer of the book ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’, who revealed many secret deals the US had with countries around the developing world. in Egypt aid: Saudi How about Bradley Manning, the US soldier who provided WikiLeaks with all the secrets of the deals allegedly his country has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course, you have heard of Edward Snowden, EU to review ties with Cairo the American operative who revealed NSA classified information and was trapped at the airport in Russia JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia said yesterday that Arab and peace treaty with Israel or compromise US privileges subsequently causing strains in US-Russia diplomatic Islamic countries will step in to help Egypt if Western concerning the Suez Canal. relations. nations cut aid packages to Cairo over its deadly crack- Foreign ministers of the European Union are to hold I am not shocked by any news about the past any down on Islamist protesters. “To those who have emergency talks tomorrow to review the bloc’s rela- more. It has been pouring over us. The latest came in announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or tions with Cairo. At stake is nearly five billion euros yesterday. A report linked the CIA to the coup in Iran threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim ($6.7 billion) in loans and grants promised by the in the 1970s. To me, the most interesting piece of nations are rich... and will not hesitate to help Egypt,” world’s top aid donor to Egypt for 2012-2013. It news to revisit, however, was the digging of the “mur- Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said in a state- includes one billion euros from the EU with the rest der” or the “accident” or the “assassination” of Princess ment carried by the kingdom’s SPA state news agency. from European banks the EIB and EBRD. Diana who died in a car crash in France in 1997. All Prince Saud was speaking upon his return from While Egypt’s Western allies have denounced the conspiracy theories surrounded her death. The new France, where he held talks with President Francois army’s crackdown on the Brotherhood, Riyadh has evidence that resurfaced from an ex-military called Hollande who has strongly condemned the violence in instead said the country is tackling terrorism and sedi- Egypt. Hundreds of people have been killed in the tion. “We see international stances that have taken a soldier N added more to speculations. A letter that North African country since security forces began a strange course... as if the aim is to cover up for the was circulated in the media claimed that SAS was clampdown on Muslim Brotherhood protests last week. crimes, the burning of Egypt and the killing of its peo- behind the murder of the charming princess. US Senator John McCain called on Washington to ple,” he said. Barack Obama last week cancelled annual Bless her soul, in her lifetime Diana was surround- suspend its $1.3 billion in annual aid to Egypt’s military military exercises with Egypt, while European Union ed by a lot of controversies. So has been her death. after it overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi foreign ministers were due to hold an emergency Nothing surprises us anymore.You can’t trust the CAIRO: An Egyptian soldier is seen manning an on July 3. But some US lawmakers have expressed con- meeting news anymore. In five or 10 years, someone might armored personnel carrier (APC) outside the Egyptian cern that cutting off aid could endanger Egypt’s 1979 Continued on Page 13 come out and tell us that it was all a conspiracy. Is this Constitutional Court in Cairo yesterday. —AFP due to the technology advancement that we have PAGE today? Does it make people more open and coura- Senior MoI official in geous and help them come out and share? It is a fatal Some of hardest Gitmo tool. It could be used for good and bad. Still it is a hospital after car chase cases to get new look beautiful tool. 600-kilo Saudi forklifted to hospital Boko Haram chief shot, RIYADH: A Saudi man weighing may have died: Army 610 kilograms (1,344 pounds) was forklifted to hospital yester- KANO, Nigeria: Nigeria’s army said yester- day for medical treatment at the day that the leader of Islamist extremist expense of the monarch to group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may reduce his weight. Khaled have died following a gunshot wound Mohsin Shairi was flown from from a clash with soldiers. Intelligence his southwestern hometown of reports “available to the (military) revealed Jizan to Riyadh on a specially- that Abubakar Shekau, the most dreaded equipped plane ,SPA state news and wanted Boko Haram terrorists leader, agency reported. It posted a may have died,” a statement said. “It is picture of overweight Shairi greatly believed that Shekau might have being lifted on a forklift out of died between 25 July to 3 August 2013.” the plane on arrival in the capi- According to the statement, Shekau, tal. declared a “global terrorist” by the US gov- Acting on orders of King ernment, was shot on June 30 during a Abdullah, the health ministry clash with troops at a Boko Haram camp in had to acquire a specially-made the Sambisa forest in northeastern Nigeria. bed and a crane to transfer It said he was then clandestinely taken Shairi from his second-floor over the border into Cameroon for treat- apartment, SPA said. The bed ment. The army statement was contradic- was specially made for Shairi in tory, first saying that Shekau “may have the United States, Sabq news died” while at other points implying that website said. The ministry did he was indeed dead. It said he had been not specify the nature of treat- taken into the border community of ment that the young man will Abubakar Shekau, the suspected leader of Boko Amitchide in Cameroon and implied RIYADH: Saudi Khaled Mohsen Shairi, who suffers from extreme obesity weighing 610 undergo and his age has not Haram. — AFP Continued on Page 13 kilograms, is transported with a fork-lift track yesterday at the airport in Riyadh. — AFP been disclosed. — AFP TUESVDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 LOCAL

LONDON: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrived in the UK yesterday on a private visit accompanied by Deputy Chief of Kuwait National Guard Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness Sheikh Sabah was greeted upon arrival by former Speaker of the National Assembly Jassem Mohammad Al-Khorafi, Minister fo Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Al-Rashidi, Kuwait Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al-Duwaisan and other officials. Plans to decrease percentage of Kuwaitis in some sectors Cabinet discusses MGRP proposal

By Nawara Fattahova cies don’t work themselves and very realistic, though. Kuwaiti instead, have employees do the sales employees aren’t as efficient as KUWAIT: The Cabinet discussed and marketing job. I know they won’t expats. I don’t expect this proposal to Manpower and Government work in our field,” Ahmad Fawzi, succeed if this issue wasn’t regulated Restructuring Program’s (MGRP) pro- Advertizing Manager at one of the by the principle of demand and sup- posal of changing the percentage of local dailies told the Kuwait Times. ply. I think that increasing the already Kuwaiti employees in the private sec- “Many companies can’t deal with existing percentage won’t encourage tor. The percentage was set in two a Kuwaiti as they are mostly Arab the Kuwait employees to work in the timetables: one according to the expats. The advertising field is not for private sector,” he explained. commercial activity and the other Kuwaitis, it simply doesn’t suit them. Economic analyst Hajaj Bu according to profession. Maybe bedoons can do it, but not Khadour, thinks that these percent- This system of percentage was Kuwaitis. If our institution faced ages shouldn’t be enforced by the created by the government a few problems, we can employ any MGRP on the private sector. years ago to encourage Kuwaitis to Kuwaiti just to avoid legal issues “Manpower and Government work in the private sector as there even if he is not really working,” Restructuring Program (MGRP) is not were no available vacancies in the added Fawzi. performing their original role. It public sector for fresh graduates. The Mohammed Lotfi, a Marketing should be working on increasing the policy was applied to big companies Manager at a medical service compa- qualification of Kuwaiti employees in with a certain number of employees, ny said that Kuwaitis do not continue both the public and private sectors. It and penalties were set for the violat- in the field of sales and marketing. should be rehabilitating the employ- KUWAIT: Deputy Amir and Crown Prince HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receiving Malaysian ing companies which did not respect “For five years, there have been no ees. It should solve the unemploy- prime minister’s envoy and World Islamic Economic Forum Chairman Tun Musa Hitam in his Diwan at Seif the percentage of employment. Kuwaitis working in this field but ment problem, train and develop Palace yesterday. According to the law, the percent- now we can find few Kuwaitis in mar- Kuwaiti employees in both sectors to age should be reviewed every two keting in private hospitals. In most become a good investment,” he said. years, and it can be decreased, hospitals, there are Kuwait doctors, “MGRP is not fulfilling its role as Amir receives invitations to attend WIef increased, or left untouched depend- who prefer to deal with Kuwaitis there are some political groups and ing on the economic situation. The rather than expats. I think that the 10 parties that have monopoly on this KUWAIT: Deputy Amir and Crown The envoy presented HH with a Cameron to HH the Amir Sheikh recent proposed change is decreas- percent quota in sales in hospitals program and manipulate it according Prince HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad letter from the Malaysian Prime Sabah, inviting him to attend the ing some percentages in certain sec- and medical centers is really high,” he to their goals. There is also a problem Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Acting Minister to HH the Amir Sheikh forum as well. tors. Some percentages seem to be said. in the education sector as we have Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, The meeting was attended by impossible to fulfill. “The 10 percent Adel, a recruiting manager in an graduates who don’t meet the mar- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad inviting the Amir to attend WIEF, Advisor at the Amiri Diwan Khaled Kuwaiti manpower in sales and import-export company is not very ket’s criteria. In this case, MGRP can Al-Sabah, Malaysian prime minis- which will be held in London from Yousef Al-Fulaij, HH the Crown advertising in press is impossible. optimistic about applying this high manage their training in certain ter’s envoy and World Islamic Oct 29 to 31 this year. Prince’s Diwan’s Undersecretary for Kuwaitis refuse to do this job. percentage. “Why not if both parties fields that we need like accounting Economic Forum (WIEF) Chairman HH the Deputy Amir also received Media Affairs Sheikh Mubarak Al- Kuwaitis won’t go to a client and agreed to work and if the employee and so on to decrease the cost and Tun Musa Hitam and his accompa- the British Ambassador to the coun- Humoud Al-Salman Al-Sabah and demand an advertising. Some agreed with the salary offered by the spending on Kuwaiti employees and nying delegation in his Diwan at try, Frank Baker who delivered a let- Malaysia’s Ambassador to Kuwait Kuwaitis who open advertising agen- private company? I don’t see this as increase his qualification,” he added. Seif Palace yesterday. ter by the UK’s Prime Minister David Dato’ Adnan Haji Othman. — KUNA News in brief

Civil Service decision KUWAIT: An official source at the Civil Service Commission said that the government’s decision last May to stop transfers and delegation of workers is still in effect, adding that the government is committed to this decision. He expected the decision to continue for more than a year, because the new rules are still not discussed and expects them to be studied shortly because they are not a top priority on the agenda.

New mosque for Shiites Salem Al-Othaina State Minister for Housing Affairs and State Minister for Municipality Affairs is studying the municipal committee’s decision to designate a mosque for Shiites in Saad Al-Abdallah area bloc 8 over an area of 2,000 square meters along with a parking lot. The committee approved the mosque based on a request from Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Minister holds meetings with youth, sport officials Ministry and was sent to the minister’s office for approval. KUWAIT: Minister of Information and port car enthusiasts and educate them to Endurance Team delegation, headed by The minister also met with Chairman of Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh reduce the risk of having car accidents. Reem Al-Dhafiri, who discussed during the the Board of Directors of Talent Group, VIP rooms in hospitals Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- The meeting also tackled the latest meeting, plans, proposals and ideas that Abdulaziz Hajiya who briefed him on the Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah, State Minister for Sabah held several meetings yesterday developments on the land allocated for the can contribute to the activation of their future plans of the group projects, as well Council Affairs and Minister of Health, said that the with a number of youth and sport events’ club on the Seventh Ring Road and Oraifjan role in the future. as the latest developments of the annual proposal to introduce VIP rooms in some hospitals officials where they discussed future plans area, as well as the program of the interna- Meanwhile, the chairman of “Kuwait exhibition, which will be held in April next was not meant to create two classes in healthcare, and programs. tional expert who is to visit Kuwait on says thank you” project, Mazyad Al- year. Sheikh Salman stressed the min- but was meant to deal with scarcity of beds in hospi- Sheikh Salman discussed with the Thursday to learn about the hobby of car Muosherji thanked the minister and offi- istry’s support of all youth projects tals and put an end to “wasting” private rooms. He Kuwait Quarter Mile Club delegation, head- enthusiasts, evaluate it and develop pro- cials at the ministry for their contribution in through studies and research as it is ready said that he proposed to area health directors and ed by Sheikh Ali Al-Fawaz Al-Sabah, the posals that could contribute to its improve- supporting the project’s campaign, which to provide the necessary means to ensure hospital directors to construct a number of private activities proposed by the club as he was ment. has concluded its activities for the current the youngsters’ success and develop their rooms in hospitals which will be accessible at an briefed on the club’s programs, which sup- The minister also received Kuwait year. potentials. — KUNA extra fee to people who are willing to pay more. Cabinet concerned over developments in Egypt ‘Women-only’ days

KUWAIT: Kuwait is deeply concerned over and stability in the country, adding that ministers. Recommendations to Article recent bombings in the southern suburb at Messilah Beach the saddening developments in Egypt and Kuwait was eager to see Egypt come back 37/2010 concerning privatization pro- of the Lebanese capital Beirut which led to hopefully the situation will be resolved for as a strong nation to play an integral role grams and operations were also discussed the death and injury of many people, said KUWAIT: The Touristic the sake of brotherly nation’s future, said at the regional and international arenas. during the Cabinet meeting, said the min- Sheikh Mohammad. Enterprises Company (TEC) State Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Also during the meeting, the cabinet ister, noting that steps to develop national He said that the meeting expressed soli- announced the new sched- Minister of Health Sheikh Mohammad discussed its agenda for the current consti- economy and the state financial system darity with Lebanon against this terrorist ule for Messilah Beach Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah here yester- tutional term, said Sheikh Mohammad, were also touched upon. act. Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti government which includes allocating day. adding that Minister of State for National He indicated that draft laws to develop and people strongly condemn the bomb- three days every week After the cabinet’s weekly session at Assembly Affairs and Minister of State for the privatization law were sent to His ing of the southern suburb of the exclusively for women, Seif Palace chaired by Acting Prime Planning and Development Dr. Rola Dashti Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Lebanese capital Beirut which left many upon their request. Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs briefed the meeting on the government Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for approval. dead and injured, said a statement here “In response to feedback Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al- stance on challenges facing the national The Cabinet, said Sheikh Mohammad, yesterday. requesting a return to the Sabah, the Cabinet affairs’ State Minister economic development. also discussed international draft agree- This statement came during the weekly old schedule for ‘women- Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah said that Sheikh Mohammad also said that the ments in various fields with Azerbaijan, meeting of the cabinet chaired by Acting only days’, TEC decided to Kuwait was following the situation in minister touched on issues pertaining to Bangladesh, Turkey, Bahrain, Bosnia and Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign allocate three days a week Egypt with deep concern. citizens’ needs and priorities. Herzegovina, Tajikistan, Oman, Nigeria, Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad and men will not be He affirmed that Kuwait will always Topics concerning the state’s develop- Burundi, and the Organization for Islamic Al-Sabah. allowed to enter before remember the strong Egyptian stance dur- ment plan were also touched upon during Cooperation’s (OIC) Women Development The cabinet expressed solidarity with 7pm”, said Messilah Beach Abdul-Aziz Al-Ablani ing the Iraqi invasion, noting that the cur- the meeting, stated Sheikh Mohammad. Organization. Lebanon against this terrorist act, affirming Supervisor Abdul-Aziz Al- rent situation there required Kuwait to He added that law 60/86 concerning The draft agreements were forwarded that the people of Lebanon would stand Ablani in a statement yesterday. support Egypt during its darkest hours. economic and social development within to His Highness the Amir for approval said strong against this heinous act. The bomb- He said that starting from Aug 22, women can enjoy Sheikh Mohammad stressed that the the 2013-14 plan, which proceeds the Sheikh Mohammad. ing, which occurred last Thursday, led to privacy on Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays every week cabinet expressed support to the Egyptian midterm development plans for 2014-15 The cabinet also talked about develop- the death of 24 people while over 336 oth- from 7am to 7pm during which no male visitors will be government’s efforts to maintain security and 2018-19, was discussed by the cabinet ments in the region, condemning the ers were injured. —KUNA allowed inside the facility. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Photos show morning assembly procedures at a school in Kuwait. These pictures are used for illustrative purposes. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Some Indian schools to raise school fees School year starts amidst fears of teachers’ shortage

By Ben Garcia the start of the academic year,” the teacher improved amenities,” said Roula Beaini, mous. Most of the Indian schools will start have already decided to send their children said. Community Relations Officer at the their classes from August 25 to compensate back home to save some money on tuition. KUWAIT: Schools in Kuwait employing more Attempts to reach a spokesperson from American International School. “We have for the Christmas break which they observed “Life is getting worse and harder in Kuwait than 20,000 Egyptian teachers might face a the Ministry of Education to confirm or deny been in contact with the administration to but this will bring an additional burden to for expatriates. I think it is high time to serious shortage in the aftermath of the tur- news about possible teachers’ shortage were prepare everyone for the start of the new parents’ pockets. With the re-opening of rethink the bigger picture. My concern is the moil in Egypt. The teachers who are currently in vain yesterday. The clock is ticking. Indian academic year on September 1,” she noted. classes, parents were met with scores of future of my kids, and if we cannot save any- employed by the Ministry of Education are schools are starting classes by August 25, The security threat that closed embassies responsibilities including an increase in thing, why should I stay here?” a Filipino par- on annual leave in the country which is while many will begin their regular classes across the Middle East last week might make tuition fees, textbooks, transportation and a ent told this reporter. affected by ongoing protests and bloodshed. from September 1. Some private schools in western teachers think twice before taking host of other school-related payments. “Yes, “The basic education here costs as much This might hamper their return to Kuwait Kuwait will start mid-September. The up jobs in Kuwait, a teacher from the United we have increased tuition fees by three per- as law school or medical school in Manila. before the school year commences from American International School Kuwait will States said. “There are no such cases in our cent only. The increase is based on what the Let’s face it, it’s expensive, but we have to be September 8, a teacher from Egypt, told the open doors for students on September 1 (pri- school. All our teachers are coming back on Ministry of Education set for private schools,” practical too. I spoke to my wife and we both Kuwait Times. mary) and September 2 (secondary). time for the start of the school year,” Beaini admitted a private school administration offi- took a painful decision to send our children “I heard some of the teachers who went “All the teachers are returning from holi- said. cial. Besides costly tuition fees, parents will back home. We cannot help but take this on vacation this summer are participating in days and an orientation course for newly- Kuwait National English School teachers be greeted with countless additional miscel- decision for our own good. We need to save the pro-Morsi rally back in Cairo. I don’t know hired teaching staff will begin next week. have been called to report for duty from next laneous fees from school projects, PE uni- money for their higher education. We cannot if they are all safe,” he said. “You know what is Everything is ready in our school; there week. “Our teachers will start reporting for forms, field trips and additional books. save if they are around as we need to pay for going on in Egypt right now. Many people are new facilities installed in the compound duty next week, but our regular classes will Education is virtually free in Kuwait in everything here,” he admitted. Expatriate par- died and there have been ongoing protests. to improve our teaching mechanism, the begin only from September 1,” said an public schools, but only for Kuwaitis. ents will have to think of house rentals, nan- Those teachers who are not participating in libraries, the science laboratories, the play- administrator from the Kuwait National Expatriate students are all required to pay nies, food and school-related payments. “We the anti-Morsi demonstrations will return for grounds are all ready with new and English School who wished to remain anony- their school expenses. In fact, some expats cannot afford all this.” Ministry of Electricity and Water hails successful campaign

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity ongoing to hire a security firm to pro- and Water (MEW) celebrated a suc- tect transformers from theft. cessful campaign where they man- Kuwait improved the daily electrici- aged to meet growing demands on ty production to 14,000 MW before energy during summer’s hottest the beginning of summer this year. weeks which saw a new record num- Most electricity generated goes into ber in electricity consumption. powering ACs which translates to an Meanwhile, a senior ministry official overload in consumption with high reiterated earlier statements in which temperatures that usually break the several officials insisted that blackouts 50 degree Celsius many times in July reported over the past few months each year. Annual reinforcement and were caused by thefts targeting high maintenance operations at power voltage cables at main transformers. plants, transformers and distribution “After the end of this demanding networks helped the MEW cope with season, we can say that the MEW has the yearly increase in demand, but been able to meet the demand all senior ministry officials have repeat- over Kuwait to a large extent”, said a edly indicated that a new power plant reliable source. The largest electricity is necessary to avoid shortage crises consumption rate reached 12,060 MW in the future. There are seven power mid-July, while the largest water con- plants in Kuwait that produce electric- sumption was 459 million imperial ity and desalinated water for a total gallons recorded less than a month population of 3.8 million on a daily earlier. The officials reassured that the basis, with plans to fully operate a MEW is prepared to handle a potential new power plant in North Zoor by increase on demand when the school 2015. Energy production costs Kuwait year begins next month, and revealed an annual budget of 3 to 4 billion at the same time that discussions are Kuwaiti dinars.— Al-Rai KUWAIT: Members of the media, journalists and news agencies were invited on a cruise with the ships taking part in the 25th pearl diving expedition organized annually by Kuwait Sea Sports Club’s marine heritage committee. The media delegation was received with a special ceremony at Al-Khairan Sunday evening before they were taken to the diving beds the following morning. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 LOCAL

In my view In my view Useless decisions An inflated of our ministers sense of By Thaar Al-Rashidi US power o you know why most of the ministers’ decisions are temporary or they never react to something that hap- Dpens? Do you know why most of the decisions they By Mohammed Al-Rumaihi take are useless? The answer is very easy, and regardless of the decision which ministers think will be in the favor of public, n the 1960s, Mutiny on the Bounty was screened in everyone discovers that the decision is a complete failure or it was intended to help some VIPs in particular or in favor of cer- Egyptian cinemas. It was jokingly rumored that the tain citizens only. This is because a minister has to never ask Ithen-president, Gamal Abel Nasser, told his PR man- himself ‘how much will they deduct from my salary this ager to send a telegram in support of the rebels. The month?’ or ‘how can I pay water and electricity bills?’ joke is not only cruel, but also bitter. It indirectly mocks Of course he will never ask himself, is it logical to live with Nasser’s readiness to support any “rebellion,” on the my family in a 3-bedroom apartment and pay KD 500 which is assumption that all rebels have experienced injustice. equivalent to half my salary? Does the family fund law cover It appears that history is repeating itself. The political me or not? How can I get ‘wasta’ to speed up my appointment forces in the Arab region have failed to realize that the at the ENT clinic? main catalyst of the events has been internal, not exter- Because the minister does not ask himself any of these questions and has no idea about the answers, he obviously nal, and that outside players offer nothing more than verbal condemnation. I think each minister should be forced It is widely believed in the Arab to live with a normal Kuwaiti family world that the power and determi- for one month. He should stay with nation of the US are invincible and them, eat with them, drink with them that Washington is the main player and go to work with them. Personally I in the region. This belief has been kuwait digest am ready to host one minister for one fostered by Hollywood since the end month. I would take him with me to Sheikh Salem’s mission of the Second World War. Almost all cooperative society and the wholesale of the films that tackled the US war market and in fact any market he By Ahmad Al-Sarraf with Germany depicted Nazis as cru- chooses. I would also take him with el, brutal and naive compared to the me when I have to pay the rent and he appointment of former Central Bank governor items they usually buy are dispensable, and that their Sheikh Salem Abdul-Aziz Al-Sabah as finance minis- standard of living would not be affected if they stopped Americans, whose heroic deeds car installments, and make him stand Tter left me with mixed feelings. On one hand, his buying these items anymore. Others might reduce the always prove to be witty, dynamic in line at outpatient clinics and hospi- return to the government as finance minister after resign- number of days they travel or choose cheaper travel des- and creative-even when they are tals for three hours, only for the doc- ing from his previous long-held post following a political tinations, limit the number of domestic workers in their scandal could perhaps indicate that he returns with an homes to one, buy a less expensive car, smoke less ciga- behind enemy lines. tor to say “Okay, come back after agenda to correct flaws seen in the financial sector. On rettes and so on. three months”. the other hand, he could allow himself to become a pris- The next step would be to increase taxes on many Both sides of the conflict in Egypt claim that the US oner in the ministry’s routine, occupying his time by reply- unnecessary products, followed by lifting subsidies on supports the other side. There is no need to cite exam- ples given that anyone overseeing the media, whether doesn’t understand the simplest needs of the citizens, or their ing to MPs’ questions, doing some reshuffles, signing a electricity and water. These steps can be taken gradually number of staff retirement papers and then walking out starting with people earning high wages. The idea behind written or audiovisual, can hear and see the accusations worries. I think each minister should be forced to live with a both sides exchange. normal Kuwaiti family for one month. He should stay with after the end of his term. But I am going to assume good these steps is not purely economic, but also moral and them, eat with them, drink with them and go to work with intentions and that he will accomplish where his prede- humanitarian. It is time we start taking action to protect The Muslim Brotherhood’s slogans and stances are them. Personally I am ready to host one minister for one cessors failed. the environment and stop wasting natural resources. clear. They not only condemn the US for siding with month. I would take him with me to cooperative society and Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah knows very well that oil prices I also believe that the government should enforce what they call the “Putschists,” they also adopt delusory the wholesale market and in fact any market he chooses. I are under pressure in global markets and they are most income taxes. There is no respected country around the slogans like “Down with America” and “Down with would also take him with me when I have to pay the rent and likely going to be affected by projected shale gas produc- world that does not collect taxes in one way or another Israel.” At the same time, the Brotherhood praises the car installments, and make him stand in line at outpatient clin- tion. As a result, it is safe to assume that the minister from major companies and businessmen - such as myself. stance of Senator John McCain and his colleagues to ics and hospitals for three hours, only for the doctor to say the extent that they claim that US politicians are on the “Okay, come back after three months”. already has in mind the importance of taking swift steps A small-scale taxation system today could become the to correct the terrible imbalance in the state’s budget by foundation of a stronger and more accurate one in the side of Mohamed Morsi. I would also take him to three areas to look for an apart- In contrast, many media outlets and politicians in ment for rent, and give him my car to drive it from my house cutting spending, improving non-oil revenues and ration- future. It is definitely better than waiting for a problem to to my workplace, during the “peak hour”. I would take him to a alizing government expenditure. Since cutting public sec- erupt before introducing harsh taxes. Furthermore, these Egypt accuse the US of supporting and empowering diwaniya so that he can understand the worries of the Kuwaiti tor payrolls is virtually impossible after they were consid- steps must be coupled with efforts to elevate the stan- the Brotherhood in Egypt, while still expecting them to people and how some of them are forced to pay KD 3,000 and ered ‘earned rights’, these steps are required to seek sav- dard of public services - a direct result of administrative establish friendly relations with Israel on the other. enroll in a private university only because the government is ing through rationalizing behaviors of citizens and resi- corruption in the government - which are touching rock Nevertheless, wise viewers will realize that politicians unable to get him a seat in Kuwait’s one and only university. dents alike. bottom each passing day. twist facts in order to win supporters and tarnish the As long as ministers wear their rose-tinted glasses, they will First of all, we need a gradual reduction of the dinar’s I believe that if applied through a swift, strong and reputation of their rivals. come up with useless studies and take decisions which have It is widely believed in the Arab world that the power nothing to do with public worries or their dreams and this exchange rate against other currencies, which would systematic approach, the steps mentioned above can automatically drive people to cut spending. For example, help without directly affecting people with limited and determination of the US are invincible and that government will be similar to the previous government and Washington is the main player in the region. This belief their predecessors. — Al-Anba many Kuwaitis would start realizing that a lot of food income. — Al-Qabas has been fostered by Hollywood since the end of the Second World War. Almost all of the films that tackled the US war with Germany depicted Nazis as cruel, brutal and naive compared to the Americans, whose heroic In my view deeds always prove to be witty, dynamic and creative- even when they are behind enemy lines. Kuwait and Movies about the US’s various wars-Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and elsewhere-always end with the inevitable vic- Brotherhood tory of the American troops, who prove to be heroes even when they are taken as prisoners by their enemy. This image of the invincible American spurred voices By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa from the Arab world to write about the exaggerated role of the US in Arab affairs. esearch and studies centers in advanced countries Such stereotypes propagated by Hollywood, as well move quickly to study new events around the world as the Central Intelligence Agency, led ordinary Arabs to Rso that decision-makers can deal with the events to believe that the US is invincible. Even Al-Qaeda-whose safeguard the countries interests and decide well. Events in power, I believe, has been exaggerated-found inspira- Egypt lead to the dismissal of the Muslim Brotherhood and tion from Hollywood. Years before 9/11, there were sev- their supporters from Rabeah Al-Adaweya and Nahdha eral movies about some terrorist attacks carried out Square, leading to the death of hundreds and injury of against US. thousands. Egypt’s events will have domestic, Arab, region- In reality, in its wars after 1945 the US either failed to al and international effects, as displacement of the Muslim secure victory or did not manage to achieve its declared Brotherhood will have strong reactions in the Arab world goals. To those interested in this subject, I recommend and its neighbors like Turkey and Israel. Richard Lebow’s Why Nations Fight: Past and Future What interests us here in Kuwait is this: Will the bloody Motives for War. The book documents the US’s failuresto events in Egypt, reflect on us here in Kuwait, especially achieve its desired or declared goals in its main five since the Muslim Brotherhood here in Kuwait is among the wars after World War II. best and strongest Brotherhood organizations in the Arab US ability to intervene is much less than what Arabs world? have thought in the past. In fact, the US takes advan- The question is whether Kuwait government has a clear tage of the others’ mistakes in the same way Clark vision on how to deal with the internal changes in Egypt Gable, the handsome protagonist in Mutiny on the after the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Bounty, rebelled against the ship’s captain. Egyptian arena. The government does not have any view in In an article in the Washington Post, “Egypt’s Path to many cases, so what about an important case like remov- a Better Future,” written by John McCain and Lindsey ing the Muslim Brotherhood? If the government was seri- Graham last week after their visit to Egypt, one can see ous, it would invite those concerned with and specialized McCain’s fear over what is happening in Egypt. McCain in political Islam to give a full vision on how to deal with does not sympathize with the Brotherhood. In fact, he is new developments... especially since the Muslim afraid that if the Brotherhood is removed from power, Brotherhood organization in Kuwait controls many of the the group will turn into a “jihadist” organization that will state’s departments such as Awqaf and education min- attack widespread US interests. McCain is evidently also istries. They also control NGOs such as the National Union worried about the huge impact unrest in the region of Kuwait Students, Kuwait Teachers Society and some might have on the US economy, regardless of who will trade unions, and most importantly cooperatives and eventually rule the country. Islamic charity societies. In reality, politicians in Washington are under pres- Reactions of Kuwait government, speaker of the assem- sure take into account the interests of the US. The US bly and some members is limited to how to protect formulates its stances based on its interests, rather than Kuwaitis who are in Egypt whether they are students or the facts on the ground or other peoples’ interests. tourists and how to bring them back to Kuwait, before they The majority of the Arab population is Muslim, and are hurt. as a courageous Tunisian said: “We have been and will What we know is that the government issued several be Muslims before, during and after the Ennahda warnings to citizens asking them not to travel for tourism Movement.” The exact same remark applies to the or on business to some Arab countries like Lebanon, Syria Brotherhood in Egypt. The problem lies in the and Egypt... but citizens did not heed the warnings, as Brotherhood’s attempt to politicize Islam, and in their Lebanon lovers went to Beirut and Egypt without bother- claims to be the exclusive representative of Islam that ing about risks, and some Jihadist youth went to fight in are motivated only by politics. Such measures go Syria despite government warnings. against the zeitgeist, as well as against politics in its The Muslim Brotherhood organization in Kuwait practical sense. What’s more, the US assumption that expressed, through their representatives in the social terrorism and chaos will be the alternative to Islamism is reform society, their rejection of what is going on in Egypt. illogical. It called through its President Hmoud Hamad Al-Roumi, Many independent analysts used to think that talk the government and the National Assembly to reject what about the clash between Islamism and the civil state is happening in Egypt and asked to condemn the mas- was premature. Although I hate to rewrite my ideas, I sacres committed by Egyptian armed forces against peace- will remind the reader of an article I wrote for Asharq Al- ful demonstrators, according to them. The Brotherhood in Awsat on Dec 11, 2012. I wrote: “Governments and Kuwait asked the government to reject the coup in Egypt, empires have fallen only because they did not promote and this stand was supported by former national assembly freedom in its full and modern sense.” I added: “The members. The protests are expected from the Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood, throughout their long history has and is requested from the because they are a part of the not shown care for freedom, whether within the organi- international organization. zation or regarding their view of the other.” My view, like Kuwait is the main financier of the Brotherhood in the others, is that the Brotherhood is based on metaphysi- Arab world. Democratic and liberal powers in Kuwait cal rather than political discourse. Thus, I thought it must support the Egyptian authorities in their fight would fall-and it did fall-in Egypt, and it must fall in oth- against terrorists among the Muslim Brotherhood rem- er countries. The Brotherhood’s failure was fully expect- nants. The removal of the Muslim Brotherhood rule in ed. If the US always takes advantage of the mistakes of Egypt is the start of getting rid of political Islam powers the others and protects its interests, it sides with forever. — Al-Watan nobody but itself. LOCAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 Kuwaiti philanthropists provide Lebanon with three ambulances Able to serve 20,000 people

BEIRUT: Al-Sayer Group gifted three Organization, Revival of Islamic new ambulances to Lebanese areas Heritage Society, Social Reform in the north and eastern Baqaa valley Society and Kuwait Red Crescent for aiding Syrian refugees and Society have been providing humani- Lebanese residents there. Through tarian aid to the Syrian refugees in the endowment by Al-Othman and Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. Al-Ghanim mosques, Kuwait has giv- Meanwhile, His Highness the en away three ambulances to the vil- Deputy Amir and Crown Prince lages of Mashha and Maniya in the Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- north and Islamic Medical Sabah received a phone call yester- Association of Lebanon in the Baqaa day from Sudanese Deputy President through Abwab Al-Khair Society to Ali Othman Mohammad Taha, who meet the health needs of the nation- thanked HH for the urgent aid dis- als and Syrian refugees, head of the patched by Kuwait for the flood- society, Shaikh Riyadh Obaid said. stricken victims. The keys of the vehicles were Taha wished HH the best of health delivered by Kuwaiti philanthropy and more prosperity for Kuwait delegation, headed by Khaled Al- under the wise leadeship of HH the Subaihi, he noted. Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Shaikh Obaid praised the humani- Jaber Al-Sabah. tarian aid provided by Kuwait to Moreover, he expressed his deep- Lebanon through its official institu- Kuwait was the first to support the Mayor Zakariya Ahmad Al-Zubi said, est condolences to HH over the death tions, associations and charitable needy wherever they are in the expressing his thanks to Kuwait, His of philanthropist Dr Abdulrahman Al- organizations to meet the needs of world, which confirms the humani- Highness the Amir, the people and Sumait. KUWAIT: A report received by Operations Room at 4 am indicated that there was a car on the Syrian refugees. tarian message that it has been institutions of Kuwait. HH expressed his appreciation for fire in Saad Al-Abdullah and another car on Salmi Road. Jahra Fire Center responded to “The State of Kuwait and Kuwaiti meaning to convey. Kuwaiti philanthropists, as well as the kind feelings shown by the the call and a team led by Lt Mohammed Al-Salaili controlled the fire with no report of philanthropists have always helped “The ambulance that we have charitable organizations such as Sudanese government, noting that casualties. Investigations are on to determine the cause of the blaze. — Photos by Hanan the needy in the Arab and Islamic received will able to serve about Zakat House, Rahma Society, the two countries share strong rela- Al-Saadoun worlds,” said Obaid, stressing that 20,000 people, “ Mashha Municipality International Islamic Charity tions. — KUNA

450 students participate in NBK Internship Program

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait program is a demonstration of expression and modern banking (NBK) concluded its 2013 Summer NBK’s long-standing social procedures, in addition to provid- Internship Program for high involvement and commitment ing interns with greater exposure school and college students. More towards providing Kuwait’s to daily banking practices and than 450 students participated in younger generation with appro- norms,” Al-Baqer added. the Summer Internship Program priate opportunities to experi- The 2013 Summer Internship this year. Students participated in ence firsthand the banking pro- Program follows several successful field activities including visits to fession.” years of NBK Summer Internship the NBK Hospital and other public The five hour daily sessions fea- Programs. and private institutions. tured a mixture of theoretical and NBK regularly organizes and Yaqoub Al-Baqer, NBK Public practical training dedicated to designs events and packages for Relations Officer said that NBK providing the interns with valu- the youth of the country to famil- views the Summer Internship able knowledge on a variety of iarize them with the world of Program as an extension of NBK’s subjects including team work, cre- banking and make them respon- education outreach services. “This ative thinking, means of self sible citizens. Yaqoub Al-Baqer UN-Habitat launches ‘Urban Sustainability’ youth campaign

KUWAIT: The United Nations-Habitat announced that is has to solve environmental and urban issues con- developing world. launched a youth program called ‘Urban Sustainability’ cam- cerning world cities with the mission of pro- UN-Habitat has been engaged with Arab paign, a competition open to all university students in Kuwait, moting the aims of the Millennium nations in the region for over 30 years, expand- as part of UN’s “I’m a City Changer” initiative in educating and Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda ing its operation to more than 10 countries. raising awareness of the region’s urban dynamic trends. for more socially and environmentally sustain- Regional offices are located in Cairo, Jordan, The campaign aims to educate students on the environmen- able towns and cities and a common goal of Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Morocco, Libya and the tal issues affecting the region, calling for youngsters to think of providing adequate shelter for everyone in the GCC office is in Kuwait. future strategies to minimize and tackle the implications of today’s dynamic trends. Such trends affecting the region are high unemployment, water scarcity, unaffordable housing and climate change by using eco-friendly solutions which can opti- mize Kuwait. The competition targets both undergraduate and graduate students who are willing to think out of the box by giving them an opportunity to achieve a vision by exploring futuristic or con- temporary designs or ideas that can be implemented to maxi- mize benefits to the region. Dr Tariq El-Sheikh, Chief of Mission at UN-Habitat said “Our cities are our future and we need to work hand-in-hand with our young generation to protect our cities from deterioration, the environment from pollution and its natural resources from degradation.” Recent studies revealed some dynamic trends which have had adverse effects on the environment, stagnating the progress of the country and affecting the future well-being of the youth population, specifically below the age of 25. GCC countries are among the top 10 in the world with the lowest per capita of renewable water supply and the highest level of water consumption in the world. Focusing the need for fresh water will soon be considered, in the same category as oil and energy resources. Further, trends are unemployment and unaffordable hous- ing, in which a majority of young people are unemployed, wait- ing for 2-3 years or maybe more to find a job. If employment opportunities are available, it may not be within their specializa- tion. “UN-Habitat’s campaign objective hopes to kick-start a platform of dialogue that could be shared between the UN and other local counterparts in introducing various solutions, to the region, with the help of the youth,” said Dalal A Al-Radhi, UN- Habitat’s Program Communication & Advocacy Associate. Dr El-Sheikh said “We encourage scholars to participate in the competition and share their ideas to leave an urban heritage that our young generation can be proud off. We call upon youth to share their ideas and designs which can help preserve our cities, improve its quality of life, reduce energy consumption and enhance urban mobility”. It is worth mentioning that the competition launch is part of UN-Habitat’s advocacy program in cooperation with the State Ministry of Youth, Faculty of Architecture Kuwait University, Australian College of Kuwait and Gulf University, to capitalize on youth innovation and collect their architectural, urban, graphic designs or photographic posters that address city challenges and/or provide solution to problematic urban issue. The cam- paign and the associated competition will update them on the latest environmental trends with the aim of benefitting students on a personal and professional level, to help manage urban growth and avoid chaotic informal developments from taking place in the future. UN-Habitat is a United Nations program established in 1978 TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 LOCAL Senior Interior official in hospital after car chase Cop charged for hiding evidence

KUWAIT: Investigations are ongoing in search for his arrest Sunday, and charged him for public eight months ago returned home Sunday. She a driver who left a senior Interior Ministry official intoxication and assaulting police officers on explained to her mother that she had been liv- injured during a car chase on Sunday. According duty. However, the chief police officer on duty ing with her boyfriend in Jahra after she ran to a security source, Public Relations and Security pressed charges of concealing evidence against away from home and recently, he kicked her out Media Department Director Col Adel Al-Hashash his colleague after discovering that the latter after a fight. The woman rushed to the police chased a Japanese-made vehicle which jumped failed to show a liquor bottle confiscated after station with her daughter who told the police a traffic light on a street in front of the Interior the teenager’s arrest during preliminary investi- that the man had sex with her after obtaining a Ministry’s building. After reportedly jumping gations. The officer was referred to the proper customary marriage certificate. Investigations three other lights during the pursuit, the driver authorities to reveal why he tried to cover for the are ongoing. was forced to stop at the fourth because of heavy teenager. KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled traffic. Col Al-Hashash walked towards the sus- Man drowns Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received yesterday a letter from Egyptian Foreign pect’s vehicle, but the driver locked the doors Fight in custody An investigation was opened to probe the Minister Nabil Fahmi tackling bilateral relations and the latest regional and and refused to come out. The senior official tried Hawally detectives arrested four people who death of an Arab man who reportedly drowned international developments. This came during the Kuwaiti minister’s recep- to get into the car through an open window but were involved in a fight more than a week ago at at Salmiya beach on Sunday. Coastguards rushed the driver immediately raised the glass and Col a Salmiya mall which left a two-and-a-half-year- after emergency calls were made about a body tion of Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait Abdulkarim Suleiman. Al-Hashash’s hand got trapped. Moments later, old girl critically wounded. The girl was report- found off the beach adjacent to the Scientific the traffic light turned green and the suspect edly playing in the recreational area inside the Center. The body was recovered and the victim Parliament plans survery drove away, dragging Col Al-Hashash a few mall when a fight between knife-wielding was identified as an Arab man. The body was tak- meters before he was able to free his hand. Col youngsters spilled over. The girl was rushed to en to the forensic department for an autopsy and Al-Hashash, who is in his forties, was rushed to the Mubarak Hospital where she was diagnosed a case was filed. on citizens’ priorities the nearest medical facility and was able to speak with three stab wounds including a deep cut on KUWAIT: Members of the National Al-Ghanem said committees of the parlia- to police officers only after treatment. He her shoulder, and her condition required atten- Physical assault Assembly agreed yesterday to organize a mentary caucus would be visiting other described the suspect and said that he was most tion in the intensive care unit. Investigations A domestic worker was put behind bars at the survey to determine priorities of citizens “to countries and major organizations to convey likely intoxicated. Police were able to identify him intensified after the girl’s ordeal was featured in Subahiya police station where her employer place them before the government and par- Kuwait’s causes. He added he would organ- after looking up his car’s license plate number. an Al-Rai newspaper report last Saturday, lead- pressed battery assault charges against her. liament,” speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said. ize regular meetings with all MPs to deter- ing to the arrest of four runaway suspects the Paramedics and police rushed to a house in the The survery “will be the first in parliamen- mine the priorities of the house, highlight- Policeman charged following day. area after the senior female citizen reported in an tary life in Kuwait and we will organize it at ing important role of media. Al-Ghanem A police officer faces charges after he hid evi- emergency call that her housemaid beat her up. the beginning of every term so the priorities brushed aside as “groundless” reports that dence in a case regarding a teenager who was Missing teen The Ethiopian woman was arrested and taken to of the government and parliament become former MP Adel Al-Saraawi was a candidate arrested for drinking alcohol in public and Search is on for a male suspect who faces the local police station where she is held before close to each other and address needs and for the Audit Bureau top post, yet emphasiz- offending policemen. Jahra police transferred the charges for sexually assaulting a minor. The vic- being eventually referred to the Public problems of citizens,” Al-Ghanem told ing on honesty and professionalism of Al- suspect to the Qairawan police station following tim who was reported missing by her mother Prosecution. reporters after a meeting of the office. Saraawi.— KUNA ‘Zain AlShuhoor’ app competition winners announced

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommuni- with smartphones and tablets as a prize cations company in Kuwait, announced for winning the competition. the winners of the Ramadan-themed “Zain AlShuhoor” allowed customers “Zain AlShuhoor” application competi- to check the daily prayer timings as well tion, which was received with great as locate and browse all the mosques recognition and praise from the partici- that hold Qeyam and Taraweh prayers pants during the holy month of during the holy month. Additionally, cus- Ramadan. The competition featured tomers were able to listen to Holy Quran questions related to the “Rihlat Al-Saada” recitations and ‘dua’ prayers, and watch show that was displayed in the app. the daily Islamic videos and Ramadan- These questions were revealed daily related videos provided exclusively to through Zain’s social media channels dur- Zain by Shaikh Salah Al-Hashem. For ing the holy month. more information about Zain’s ongoing Zain announces that the winners of activities and numerous promotions, cus- the competition are: Ahmad Nassir, Shifa tomers are advised to visit any of Zain’s Al-Harbi, Ahmad Al-Attar, Haneen Al- branches located in more than 76 loca- Amiri, Itidaal Al-Shatti, Abdulrahman Al- tions across Kuwait, visit the company’s Ibrahim and Mohammed Al-Mazidi. The website on www.kw.zain.com, contact its company awarded the winners, with the 24 hour call center at 107, or visit the attendance of Shaikh Salah Al-Hashem, company’s social media channels. 96,000 sick leaves in govt sector during Ramadan Missing children KUWAIT: More than 96,000 sick leaves were Almost 42,231 employees benefited gally, especially as the system cannot iden- taken by public sector employees during from the leaves divided between 13,538 tify when an employee might get a sick found in Fahaheel Ramadan this year, a local daily reported male and 28,693 female staff members. The leave form signed unscrupulously by a doc- yesterday, quoting official statistics which government has tried in recent years to tor. According to recent statistics, the By Hanan Al-Saadoun cord between the children’s parents had further shed light on a challenge the gov- control the issuance of sick leaves in the Health Ministry saw the largest number of anything to do with their disappearance. ernment faces every year during the holy public sector where more than 435,000 sick leaves issued during Ramadan with KUWAIT: Criminal investigators were on A case was filed at Abu Halifa police month. people work. 17,438 (22,762 days worth KD 455,240), fol- the look-out for a nine-year-old Asian station. Fortunately, things ended on a The Civil Service Commission (CSC) sta- The efforts include connecting the CSC lowed by the Interior Ministry with 12,875 girl and her six-year-old brother who happy note after the Ministry of Interior tistical report published by Al-Qabas yes- with state departments and medical facili- (18,750 days worth KD 374,100), and the disappeared suddenly. announced that the two missing kids terday indicates that 96,116 sick leaves ties through a database that tracks an Education Ministry with 11,067 (15,809 days Security sources said that the father were found in Fahaheel. The children were issued to public sector employees employee’s sick leave record for easy refer- worth KD 316,180). Incidentally, the Public of the children reported their disappear- told the police that they were mistreat- between July 7 and August 5, 2013, with a ence. Despite assurances that the system Authority for Housing Welfare and Public ance while they were playing outside ed by their step-mother and they decid- total of 131,673 days, costing the state a has been able to control the issue, allega- Authority of Civil Information each recorded the house. It was not clear if marital dis- ed to leave home because of her. total of KD 2,633,460. tions continue about sick leaves taken ille- the lowest sick leaves with just two. World Islamic Economic Forum chief in town MPs demand ‘multimillion deposits’, K-Dow deal probe KUWAIT: Tun Musa Hitam, Chairman of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) is currently in Kuwait as part of KUWAIT: A lawmaker requested for an lion deposits’ case. Meanwhile, MP series of visits on behalf of the World Islamic Economic investigative committee to be formed to Yaqoub Al-Ghanim made a request to Forum (WIEF), which will be held in London in October to probe a case where 13 members of the allocate a parliamentary session for dis- be attended by heads of the government and individuals 2009 parliament were accused of earning cussing the policies based on which the engaged in different sectors of economy. illegal profits during their tenure. The government signed a multibillion-dollar The visit does not carry or represent any bilateral or case which sparked public outrage after deal with Dow Chemical in 2009, can- multilateral concerns but as special envoy to the Prime it was exposed in 2011 and led to the celed it a month later and subsequently Minister of Malaysia to invite heads of government to par- ticipate in the forum as well as another official from Britain Cabinet’s resignation followed by a par- paid a $2.16 billion fine as per a penalty since the forum will be under the auspices in particular the liamentary dissolution, was shelved by clause mentioned in the contract. Prime Minister David Cameron. the Public Prosecution for lack of evi- In other news, MPs reacted to the The forum is very significant since this is very first time dence. Interior Ministry’s decision to deport nine is will be held outside an Islamic country. In the photo- “When the political aspect of the case Egyptian families for taking part in a graph left show Tan Sri Dato’ Ahmad Fuzi Haji Abdul Razak, is taken into consideration, we must demonstration last week outside the Secretary General of World Islamic Economic Forum know the source of funds paid to the Egyptian consulate to protest crack- Foundation, Dato Adnan Haji Othman, Ambassador of MPs, especially as some of them have downs against Muslim Brotherhood sup- Malaysia to Kuwait, Chairman of the World Islamic been re-elected to the current parlia- porters in their home country. “The Economic Forum (WIEF) Tun Musa Hitam, and Counsellor ment”, MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said in a deportation is understandable given the Malaysian Embassy Yasin Yap. statement on Sunday. risk that the protests pose to national There have been allegations promot- security”, said MP Hamad Al-Harashani on ed mainly by the opposition that the MPs Sunday. Construction boom expected in Kuwait in question received multimillion-dinar Rallies for expatriates in Kuwait is com- payments from the government in pletely banned. “The Interior Ministry’s KUWAIT: Estimates reveal that the tunities for Kuwait’s construction most common challenges one itime transport strategy, and their exchange for their full support, but legal duty is to maintain security and take deci- largest sector to benefit from this and machineries sector, it has also would come across in port con- use of new technologies and mate- investigations found no evidence to sup- sions based on what serves the country investment is likely to be the con- raised questions on overcoming struction projects,” he added. rials for marine construction and port these accusations. Each of the par- best”, MP Madhi Al-Hajri said. On the other struction industry, dominated by challenges in sustainable design Conference participants will learn engineering. The discussion will liament members questioned were sus- hand, MP Dr Husain Quwai’an criticized the newly-sanctioned hospital proj- and construction whilst ensuring about the role of the Kuwaiti Ports also cover past and current port pected over unaccounted millions of deporting Egyptian nationals who they say ects and infrastructure in Kuwait. that the projects are delivered on Authority in administering the mar- projects. dinars deposited into their bank accounts “have the right to express their opinions”, Kuwait is estimated to be award- time and within the allocated in a short period of time and the case calling the Interior Ministry’s behavior as ed $16 billion worth of projects by budget. soon came to be known as the ‘multimil- “siding with one party against the other”. the year-end, marking a 60 per cent The conference, which has NA panel sets out increase from 2012, according to already received great response the knowledge partner of the from industry professionals, will be upcoming The Big 5 Kuwait exhibi- held on the second and third day of financial priorities Awqaf introduces tion. the exhibition, reported the Gulf The Sustainable Design and Daily News, our sister publication. It for next session high-tech curriculum Construction Conference will be will provide a dynamic platform for held at the event running from meaningful discussion and practi- KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s Financial and Economic Affairs KUWAIT: The Ministry of Awqaf and Barrak said. He added that this project will September 16 to 18 at the Kuwait cal guidance on how the design Committee yesterday forwarded to Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim its Islamic Affairs announced yesterday the help elevate the reputation of Al-Siraj Al- International Fair. and construction industries can list of priorities to be discussed in the next session of parliament. introduction of high-tech robotic curricu- Moneer Center, as well as stimulate stu- Meed, a business intelligence best deliver sustainable infrastruc- The committee’s Secretary MP Faisal Al-Kanderi told the press that lum in the departments of Al-Siraj Al- dents in benefiting from this program, not- service provider and official knowl- ture and green buildings in Kuwait. the list of priorities included 10 draft laws concerning the re-organiza- Moneer Center, in collaboration with Sabah ing that paying attention to them is a edge partner of The Big 5 Kuwait Kuwait Ports Authority director tion of state’s property system, public tenders, Kuwait Airways Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and necessity imposed by global circumstances expo, estimates that the largest of marine operations Tawfiq Shwab Corporation, commercial agencies and auditory jobs. Creativity (SACGC), to keep pace with scien- and a key to any educational system. sector to benefit from this invest- will share insights and best prac- The draft laws also focused on Kuwait’s role in the capital increase tific and technological development. The ministry aims at implementing sev- ment is likely to be the construc- tices on Shuwaikh, Shuaiba and of the Islamic Corporation for Development of the Private Sector (ICD), The ministry takes care of people with eral goals, including the implementation of tion industry, dominated by the Doha Ports. “The session will be a Islamic Development Bank (IDB), and the Islamic Corporation for potential and spreads creativity in recogni- the robotic curriculum and technology newly-sanctioned hospital projects hands-on discussion highlighting Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), said the MP. tion of the importance of supporting and education in Al-Siraj Al-Moneer Center and infrastructure in Kuwait. the latest developments taking He added that amendments to the laws governing the Civil service improving such talents, Assistant within the locally and globally-approved While these long-term invest- place today in Kuwait’s ports and Commission (CSC) and the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) were also Undersecretary of the Holy Quran and standards and the development and ments in infrastructure have led to terminals,” he said. included in the list of priorities. — KUNA Islamic Studies Affairs in the Ministry of improvement of teachers’ skills and talents, an increase in new business oppor- “It will identify solutions to the Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Abdullah Mahdi noted Barrak.— KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013

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RAFAH: In this image obtained from an Egyptian emergency service worker which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, bodies of off-duty policemen who were killed near the border town of Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt, lie on the ground yesterday. — AP Benghazi attack impacting US policy in Egypt Obama govt mulls suspending $250m in aid

WASHINGTON: The specter of Benghazi is affecting US US diplomatic facilities in the country have been well pro- policy in an increasingly restless Egypt. tected. But protesters last September marched on the US US officials said last year’s deadly attack on a diplomatic embassy compound in Cairo, climbed the walls and outpost in Libya weighs heavily in the Obama administra- replaced the US flag with the black banner favored by tion’s deliberations on how to respond to the growing vio- Islamists before a belated response from Morsi’s govern- lence across the Arab world’s most populous country. ment. Fighting between Egyptian security forces and recently Many Egyptian citizens and even some in the govern- ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s Islamist supporters ment deride US financial assistance as unnecessary inter- has killed almost 1,000 people in the past week. ference. The Obama administration defends the aid. The fear in Washington is that any significant cut in mili- Obama stressed last week that cutting off the assistance tary aid could prompt Egypt’s ruling generals to scale back “was not in the national security interests” of the United their protection of the US Embassy in Cairo and other States. diplomatic properties. To respond to the growing death The US has outlined the important operations such toll and security crackdown, the Obama administration is money supports - from fighting Al-Qaeda in the heart of considering suspending about $250 million in annual US the Middle East and safeguarding the stability of the Suez economic aid for Egypt, officials said. Congressional notifi- Canal to halting weapons flow to the Hamas-ruled Gaza cation could arrive in the next week, said the officials, who Strip and ensuring Israel’s security. The protection of weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and American diplomatic assets is another major element in US demanded anonymity. policy considerations, officials said. However, officials said President Barack Obama and his Any attack targeting the US overseas would be a politi- national security team are still reluctant to make any simi- cal disaster for Obama, given the continued criticism over lar decision on $1.3 billion in annual military assistance. his administration’s handling of the Sept 11 attack in The administration has refused to declare Morsi’s ouster a Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and “coup d’etat,” which would require the US to suspend mili- three other Americans. Benghazi has weighed so heavily tary and economic funds to Egypt. The US could make on the administration’s perception of threats that it recent- more piecemeal moves like last week’s decision to put off ly closed diplomatic posts across the Muslim world for a the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets and cancel US- week after intelligence suggested an Al-Qaeda strike Egyptian military exercises planned for next month, offi- against Western targets. US officials said they acted out of cials said. Since the army’s overthrow of Morsi in early July, “an overabundance of caution.” — AP Pakistan PM invites extremists for talks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister where we minimize the loss of innocent option. “I want an end to terrorism Nawaz Sharif yesterday called for dialogue lives,” said Sharif. He campaigned for an whether it is through dialogue and recon- with extremists to end bloodshed that historic third term as premier by offering ciliation, or through full use of force,” he has left thousands dead in the country in peace talks to the Pakistani Taleban, the added. He blamed the government, secu- more than a decade of violence. He made leaders of a devastating domestic insur- rity services and the judiciary for failing to the offer in his first televised address to gency that has links to Al-Qaeda. He said crack down on terrorism, but stopped the nation since taking office after win- he was expanding on his original offer short of naming names or of unveiling ning elections in May, a sweeping, hour- after the elections of inviting all political any new policies to check the violence. long speech that focused on Pakistan’s parties to discuss together how best to “The time has come when we should myriad problems. resolve Pakistan’s security and economic admit that our administrative institutions, He stopped short of unveiling specific woes. “This policy of reconciliation is not our agencies and our system of justice policies designed to tackle the nation’s confined just to political parties. I take a have failed to appear competent in deal- enormous budget deficit, solve a crip- step forward and invite for dialogue all ing with the challenge of terrorism,” said pling energy crisis or clamp down on those elements who have unfortunately Sharif. “The nation is justified to know why Islamist extremists and separatist rebels. adopted the path of extremism.” But concrete steps were not taken to stop the “Wisdom demands that we follow a path Sharif said dialogue was not the only bloodshed and destruction.”In addition to Islamist militancy, he said the government would help the southwestern Baluchistan province deal with a separatist insurgency Giant 23-kilo tumor removed waged by ethnic Baluch fighters. Sharif did not address recent violations of the SOFIA: Bulgarian surgeons removed statement. “I have not seen such a ceasefire along the de facto border with a giant tumor that weighed 23 kilo- bad case of neglected health in my India in divided Kashmir, but said that grams (50.7 pounds) from a entire long-time career,” he added. both countries had to work together to woman’s abdomen yesterday, liken- The woman told the doctors she overcome social ills. “The wars they fought ing the curious case to something had known about the tumor for pushed them back to the past. The two out of an old medical textbook. some 20 years now but was afraid to countries should realize they have to The 67-year-old patient was hos- undergo surgery. “We have seen wage a meaningful war against hunger pitalized with complications and similar curious cases described in and poverty instead of indulging in high temperature after a flu. But medicine textbooks from the begin- armed conflict.” doctors from the university obstet- ning of the previous century, and it Earlier on Monday, India’s defense min- rics and gynaecology hospital in is worrying that today there are still ister said the Indian army would take “all Sofia discovered that a giant mass patients who have not had prophy- possible steps” to counter any ceasefire was squeezing a number of vital lactic examinations for 20 years,” violations by Pakistan along the Line of organs. “We removed a 23-kilo another surgeon, Stefan Control. Skirmishes have erupted across tumor, which is the size of a seven- Konstantinov, said. The woman lost the heavily militarized border since five or eight-year-old child,” surgeon one third of her total weight after Indian soldiers were killed earlier this Bozhidar Slavchev said in a hospital the operation. — AFP month in an ambush which India has blamed on the Pakistan army. —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 Mass exodus as 30,000 Syrian refugees enter Iraq

BAGHDAD: In a mass exodus, around 30,000 Syrians this sudden flow is still not clear,” said Youssef News showed. Some men lined up to get blocks of fighting in recent months between Kurdish militias have fled their homeland’s bloody civil war over the Mahmoud, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency ice from a pickup truck. Nearby, children huddled and Islamic extremist rebel factions with links to Al- past five days and streamed across the border into in Iraq’s Kurdish region. around a truck to get watermelon distributed by the Qaeda. Dozens have been killed on both sides. neighboring Iraq’s northern self-ruled Kurdish “Today, some 3,000 Syrian refugees crossed the regional security forces. Following the assassination of a prominent Kurdish region, the UN refugee agency said yesterday. borders and that has brought the number to around UNHCR said it is sending 15 truckloads of sup- leader late last month, a powerful Kurdish militia The huge influx of people, many of whom are 30,000 refugees since Thursday,” he said. The latest plies - 3,100 tents, two pre-fabricated warehouses said it was mobilizing to expel Islamic extremists. Syrian Kurds escaping escalating violence in north- wave has brought the number of Syrian refugees in and thousands of jerry cans to carry water - from its Earlier this month, the president of Iraq’s eastern Syria, has left aid agencies as well as Iraqi the Kurdish region to around 195,000, he added. regional stockpile in Jordan. It said the shipment is autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan’s regional government scrambling to The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has set already on the way and should arrive by the end of vowed to defend Syria’s Kurds. He did not offer accommodate them all. The men, women and chil- up an emergency transit camp in Irbil, the capital of the week. Kurds are Syria’s largest ethnic minority, details on how he would do so, but Iraqi Kurdistan dren who made the trek join some 1.9 million Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region, to house some of making up more than 10 percent of the country’s 23 boasts a powerful and experienced armed force Syrians who already have found refuge abroad in the new arrivals. Some of the refugees were report- million people. They are centered in the poor north- known as the peshmerga. what has become a massive strain on neighboring edly staying in mosques or with family or friends eastern regions of Hassakeh and Qamishli, wedged An armed intervention would carry enormous countries. who live in the area, according to the agency. between the borders of Turkey and Iraq. There are risks, and appears unlikely. Still, the pledge along “Syrian refugees are still pouring into Iraq’s north- At one camp near Irbil, dozens of refugees carry- also several predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods with the fighting shows the potential of Syria’s con- ern Kurdish region in huge numbers and most of ing their bags, belongings and babies roamed in the capital, Damascus, and Syria’s largest city, flict to spread to neighboring countries and shift them are women and children. The reason behind through rows of tents, footage shot by AP Television Aleppo. Those Kurdish areas have been engulfed by into a full-blown regional war. —AP Syria army drives rebels out of Latakia province Mystery shrouds whereabouts of UN inspectors

DAMASCUS: Troops loyal to President Bashar Al- Assad drove rebels out of his Latakia home province yesterday as UN inspectors began probing the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syria war. As the UN team left their Damascus hotel for an undisclosed destination, Jordan said it was receiving US technical assistance to prepare for any possible chemical warfare in neighboring Syria. State news agency SANA said the Syrian army recaptured a swathe of territory in north- Refugees cross the border toward Iraq at Peshkhabour border point at Dahuk, 260 ern Latakia, including a remote mountainous miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. — AP region where rebels launched operations earlier this month. “The army retook control of the Nabi Ashia mountain range and adjoining areas in the north Hezbollah commander of Latakia province,” SANA quoted a military source as saying. Rebels positioned in remote killed near Damascus enclaves in Latakia’s mountains launched the “battle for the liberation of the Syrian coast” TYRE, Lebanon: A military commander of near the Lebanese border. The report of about two weeks ago. Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah Nisr’s killing comes after Hezbollah chief Latakia is the ancestral land of the Assad clan was killed in fighting near the Syrian capi- Hassan Nasrallah said he was ready to go and the hinterland of his minority Alawite com- tal and has been buried in his southern to Syria to fight extremists he accused of munity-an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Over the past Lebanese hometown of Kfar Sir, residents staging a deadly car bomb attack last two weeks rebels had seized several Alawite vil- said yesterday. Thursday in the southern suburbs of lages near HOMS: A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) yesterday shows “Hezbollah military commander Beirut, a bastion of his movement. Qardaha, home town of Assad’s late father Syrian demonstrators waving their national flag and a picture of President Bashar Al-Assad Hossam Ali Nisr, aged 33, was buried on According to a final count, 27 people and long-time president Hafez al-Assad who is during a march near the central city of Homs, in support of the country’s army. — AFP Saturday. He was defending Sayyida were killed in the attack. “I will go myself to also buried there. The Syrian Observatory for Zeinab,” which houses a Shiite shrine Syria if it is so necessary in the battle Human Rights confirmed that the army retook gered a new exodus of refugees with at least chemical weapons but said it will never turn southeast of Damascus, “when his group against the takfiris (radical Sunni Muslims), nine villages and military checkpoints that had 15,000 Syrians pouring into Iraq in recent days, them against its own people. The UN mission was attacked and he was killed,” one resi- Hezbollah and I will go to Syria” to fight been set up by the rebels in the area. the UN says. was cautiously welcomed by the opposition dent told AFP, without giving a date. rebels trying to oust the Damascus regime, “The army has made progress,” in Latakia, said A team of more than 10 inspectors arrived in National Coalition, which stressed that inspec- Hezbollah is a key Damascus backer and Nasrallah said in an angry reaction to the the Britain-based watchdog which relies on a Damascus on Sunday to begin their hard-won tors “must go to all areas where there have been has sent fighters into Syria to support car bombing. Tensions have soared in frag- wide network of medics and activists on the mission which UN officials have said will last two (chemical) attacks”. President Bashar Al-Assad in his regime’s ile Lebanon over the conflict in neighbor- ground. But a Syrian security force told AFP the weeks. They were not in their hotel yesterday, an “Although the Coalition trusts the mission’s bid to crush a 29-month rebellion. Fighters ing Syria. Though Lebanon is officially neu- army still had to recapture the Salma region, a AFP journalist at the scene said. Both UN impartiality, it will be difficult for it to reach real of Hezbollah played a key role in the gov- tral, the country is deeply divided between strategic area along the border with Turkey that spokesman in Syria, Khaled Al-Masri, and securi- results, because the regime is known for manip- ernment’s recapture in those backing Assad’s regime and those has been in rebel hands since the end of last ty officials refused to elaborate on where they ulating evidence,” a statement said. Meanwhile June of the rebel bastion of Qusayr, who oppose it. — AFP year. The Observatory said rebel fighters on had gone. The inspectors are expected to travel across the border in Jordan, Prime Minister Sunday shot down a military plane over Salma. to Khan Al-Assal in the northern province of Abdullah Nsur said the United States was help- “The pilot bailed out but was later captured, Aleppo, where regime and rebels accuse each ing Amman to prepare for any chemical warfare. most likely by insurgents,” it added. other of using chemical weapons on March 19. “We are ready for the possibilities of chemical The frontlines in Syria’s deadly war have stabi- They are also expected to investigate Ataybeh wars. UN investigators are in Syria now, so appar- lized in recent months, with Assad’s troops con- near Damascus, where an attack was reported in ently there are chemical weapons,” Nsur told trolling the centre and the west, while rebels March, and Homs, where chemical weapons are reporters. deployed in swathes of the north and east. suspected to have been used on December 23. “US teams are helping Jordan with this. Southern Syria remains disputed, while parts The mission had been repeatedly delayed They provide training and other things should of the north have witnessed the opening of a over differences with Assad’s regime concerning something happens, God forbids,” he said giv- new front as Kurdish fighters seek to establish an the scope of the probe into the alleged use of ing details on the exact nature of the US assis- autonomous area. Fighting in the north trig- chemical arms. Syria last year admitted having tance. — AFP Egypt on ‘right path’, says foreign minister

KHARTOUM: Egypt is on the “right path”, foreign the Egyptian military toppled the country’s the situation for its neighbors “especially Sudan”, minister Nabil Fahmy said yesterday in Sudan on Islamist president Mohammed Morsi on July 3. which Egypt and Britain jointly ruled until 1956. his first trip abroad, after hundreds died in clash- The ouster of Morsi, a former Muslim “We came here with a clear political message: es between Egyptian Islamists and security Brotherhood leader who became his country’s We want cooperation for the interests of the forces. “Yes there is a crisis but we are on the first elected president, followed popular mass countries.” Fahmy left Sudan immediately after TEHRAN: Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali right path and I believe in the future,” he said protests calling for his resignation. But almost his talks with Karti. Khalid Tijani, a Sudanese ana- Khamenei, walks in a garden, at the conclusion of an interview with AP in Tehran. — AP after talks with his Sudanese counterpart Ali 800 people have died in Egypt since last lyst, said he understood the visit had been Karti. Fahmy said Egypt would push ahead with Wednesday when security forces moved to dis- planned ahead of the Egyptian crackdown, as Iran may be limiting nuke its “roadmap”, an army-drafted plan providing for perse two Cairo protest camps of Morsi’s sup- part of efforts to reassure Sudan’s neighbors elections in 2014. “Our top priority is the nation- porters, drawing global condemnation including after the change of regime. “Unfortunately now, al security of Egypt,” the minister said. “The com- from Sudan whose government calls itself the scene is different” because of the violence, stockpile, say diplomats ing Egyptian political system will be a democrat- Islamist. Egypt’s military chief Abdel Fattah Al- said Tijani, chief editor of the weekly economic ic, open regime and open to all according to Sisi pledged a “forceful” response to further newspaper Elaff. But he said he thinks both VIENNA: Iran appears to be holding back suggested the stockpile may show little or constitutional rules that will be written soon.” attacks on police and government buildings. countries want to maintain good relations growth of its most sensitive nuclear stock- even no growth during the last three Fahmy warned, however, that anyone resorting Such attacks, said Fahmy, “confirmed that there because they have many mutual interests. pile by continuing to convert some of it months, saying: “Everyone expects there to to violence would be held to account “under the is a plan to spread fear among Egyptian citizens There are close links between the peoples of into reactor fuel, diplomats said yesterday, be as much or more conversion.” law”, and would be left out of Egypt’s future. A and to shake Egypt. the neighboring countries, which have exten- potentially giving more time for negotia- But he and others cautioned against former ambassador to Washington, Fahmy was “We will not allow anyone to make Egyptians sive economic ties and depend upon the waters tion with world powers. seeing it as a signal by the new Iranian sworn in as part of an interim government after fearful.” Fahmy said his regime wants to clarify of the Nile river. — AFP The stock of medium-enriched uranium president as the uranium conversion began gas is closely watched in the West; Israel in late 2011. Iran’s stockpile of 20 percent has threatened to attack if diplomacy fails uranium gas amounted to 182 kg in May, Italian priest missing in to curb Iran’s program and it amasses according to the IAEA’s last report, an Iraq hangs 17, mostly enough of the material - a short technical increase of 9 percent since February but Syria may be alive: Group step from weapons-grade - to make a still well below the “red line” set by Israel, for ‘terrorism’ bomb. The Islamic state says its program is believed to be the region’s only nuclear BAGHDAD: Iraq executed 17 prisoners executioners in the world in 2011, after for power generation and medical purpos- weapons power. While the conversion BEIRUT: An Italian Jesuit priest who disappeared last month in yesterday, all but one convicted for “terror- China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US es only, but the election of the relative activity may help to push back any Israeli eastern Syria may still be alive, the Syrian Observatory for Human ism,” shrugging off calls from international Human rights groups have questioned moderate Hassan Rouhani as president has decision on whether to attack Iranian Rights said yesterday, almost a week after it said he had been human rights organizations to reconsider whether defendants receive a fair trial. raised hopes that talks to address the nuclear sites, Western diplomats say Iran killed by al Qaeda-linked rebels. the use of capital punishment. Meanwhile, violence continued in the decade-old nuclear dispute could be needs to do much more to allay suspicions The British-based monitoring group cited sources close to the In a statement posted on its website, country yesterday. Seven people were unblocked. about its atomic program. They note that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) disputing assertions by the Justice Ministry said authorities had killed in different attacks in and outside local activists - and reported by the observatory - that Father Since Iran in 2010 began enriching ura- uranium oxide powder can be converted executed 15 Iraqis and an Egyptian con- the northern city of Mosul, 360 kilometers Paolo Dall’Oglio had been killed while in the custody of the nium to a 20 percent concentration of the back into gas form relatively quickly. The six victed of terrorism for “carrying out crimes (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, a fissile isotope, it has produced more than powers negotiating with Iran - the United Islamist ISIL rebels. against the Iraqi people.” The other prison- police officer said. Six of them were civil- the 240-250 kg that would be needed for States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Dall’Oglio, who supports the uprising against Syrian President er was convicted of another unspecified ians who were killed in shootings and one weapon. Russia - want it to stop enriching uranium Bashar al-Assad, disappeared in the rebel-held city of Raqqa on criminal offense. Two of those hanged bomb attacks, while the seventh was a But it has kept the stockpile below the to 20 percent and suspend work at the July 29. Activists initially said he was kidnapped by ISIL fighters, were women, it added, without saying policeman killed when a bomb hit his stated Israeli “red line” by converting part of underground Fordow site where most of although some later said he had met them to negotiate a truce when the executions were carried out. convoy, he added. the uranium gas into oxide powder in this activity is pursued. with Kurdish brigades. This year, a total of 67 people have been A medical official confirmed the order, it says, to yield fuel for a medical Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator It was not immediately possible to confirm yesterday’s report. executed in the country. After the 2003 causality figures. Both officials spoke on research reactor. who oversaw a previous deal to suspend The Observatory called on those holding Dall’Oglio to produce US-led invasion that topped longtime dic- condition of anonymity as they were not The diplomats, accredited to the United Iran’s uranium enrichment, has pledged to evidence that he is alive. Dall’Oglio served for three decades at tator Saddam Hussein, occupation author- authorized to release information. Mosul Nations’ International Atomic Energy improve ties with the outside world and the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, or Deir Mar Musa, ities suspended Iraq’s death penalty. It has been a major flashpoint in a recent Agency (IAEA), said Iran might even have secure an easing of international sanctions. before being expelled from the country in 2012. A Western diplo- was reinstated in 2004 by the country’s surge of violence nationwide that has left stepped up this conversion in recent But he insists on Iran’s right to refine urani- mat said Dall’Oglio crossed into Syria from Turkey last month. transitional government. Since then, Iraqi more than 3,000 people dead over the months. If this is confirmed in the IAEA’s um, and the government has made clear He has been an advocate of reconciliation for Syria’s myriad governments have shown increasing past few months. The killings have raised quarterly report, due around Aug. 27-28, that it would expect a major easing of sanc- religious and ethnic sects, especially between Kurds and Arabs. enthusiasm for its use as a law-and-order fears Iraq could see a new round of wide- the inventory of 20 percent gas will rise by tions, which are hurting its oil-dependent Dall’Oglio blamed Assad for provoking sectarian mayhem and tool to deter insurgents. According to spread sectarian bloodshed similar to that less than the output, which has been about economy, in exchange for any agreement called his forces “thugs.” — Reuters London-based Amnesty International, Iraq which brought the country to the brink of 15 kg per month. One of the diplomats to curb enrichment. — Reuters was ranked fourth among the top five civil war in 2006 and 2007. — AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL FBI agent defends 9/11 questioning at Gitmo Some of hardest cases to get new look GUANTANAMO BAY: A veteran FBI agent is nearly 50 men who a government task force government agencies” would begin reviewing continue to detain people after the rationale has government often opted not to prosecute men defending his Guantanamo Bay interrogation of a decided were too dangerous to release but who the detention of their clients to determine expired,” said Morris “Moe” Davis, a retired Air on the indefinite list was because their capture suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Special can’t be prosecuted, in some cases, because pro- whether it was still necessary to hold them. A Force colonel who served two years as the chief involved aid from foreign governments that did Agent James Fitzgerald says in a pretrial hearing ceedings could reveal sensitive information. Defense Department spokesman, Army Lt. Col. prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commis- not want their assistance disclosed or because US that Saudi prisoner Mustafa Al-Hawsawi was told While the rest of the prisoners have been cleared Joseph Todd Breasseale, said the date for the first sions. The men in the indefinite detention catego- authorities used technological capabilities they the questioning was voluntary. He says the pris- for eventual release, transfer or prosecution, Al- hearing hasn’t been set. ry include three Saudis, Al-Shimrani among them, did not want to publicize, said Davis, the former oner had a “friendly, reserved demeanor” when Shimrani and the others can only guess at their Details of how the panels will be conducted, who were held back as dozens of fellow citizens chief prosecutor. “It wasn’t that there wasn’t he was questioned back in 2007. Fitzgerald was fate. “The allegations against my client are no whether, for example, lawyers for the men will be were sent to a rehabilitation program in their good evidence; it was an inability to use that evi- part of a counter-terrorism team brought to more serious than many, many Saudis who have allowed to be present or can only appear by country. It also includes two Kuwaitis, Faez Al- dence,” he said. Air Force Lt Col Barry Wingard, a Guantanamo to get statements from Al-Hawsawi been sent home,” New York-based attorney videoconference, have not been disclosed. Kandari and Fawzi Al-Odah, who have been military lawyer for Al-Kandari, who is accused of and other prisoners suspected of involvement in Martha Rayner said of al-Shimrani. “It just baffles Rayner, a professor at Fordham University School accused of being part of a terrorist group and are producing Al-Qaeda propaganda, insists there is the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. me.” of Law in New York, said she is hopeful because being held even though Kuwait has built a reha- a lack of evidence. “If the government could suc- But a defense lawyers is raising questions The Pentagon says the men in the indefinite her client has family to receive him back in Saudi bilitation center for them that sits idle. Also on cessfully prosecute these guys they would,” he about those interrogations, including whether it detention category are held under international Arabia, and a government capable of providing the list are several Afghans, who officials have said. “But they can’t and they won’t.” was appropriate to question Al-Hawsawi in laws of war until the “end of hostilities,” whenever any security assurances the US might need. “I am said are possible candidates for a prisoner swap The US began using Guantanamo to hold English when Arabic is his first language. that may be. As a group, they are one of the chief going into this with an open mind,” she said. with the Taleban involving an American POW, “enemy combatants” in the chaotic early days of Fitzgerald was the first witness yesterday in a hurdles to President Barack Obama’s attempts to Many who have long pushed for the closure of Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho. the war in Afghanistan. Al-Shimrani, captured in weeklong pretrial hearing for five prisoners close the detention center on the US base in the prison say the US needs to act fast because Al-Shimrani worked as a teacher in Saudi Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan, was among charged in the attacks. Cuba. the legal premise for their indefinite detention Arabia and was accused of training with Al-Qaeda the first arrivals, a core group who it was thought As the US renews its effort to close the For the most part, they have been accused of will evaporate when the US pulls its troops out of and fighting against the Northern Alliance and would yield valuable intelligence about Al- Guantanamo Bay prison, it will soon begin recon- being al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, couriers and Afghanistan in 2014, effectively ending the war possibly being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. Qaeda. He was eventually interrogated at least 88 sidering the fate of prisoners such as Mohammed recruiters. After more than a decade, their lawyers that prompted the opening of Guantanamo in Rayner argues there is no longer any legal or times, according to court documents. The prison, Al-Shimrani. say it’s time to let them go. January 2002. security justification for holding him. meanwhile, grew to a peak of about 680, with The 38-year-old Saudi is in a special category Their lawyers recently began receiving notifi- “Our credibility is strained to begin with, but Most of the government’s court filings on him Afghans and Saudis the two largest groups by among the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo - one of cations that intelligence officials from “various US whatever is left is going to be sorely harmed if we are sealed. In general, however, the reason the nationality.—AP

MASSACHUSETTS: Malia Obama (center) walks with an unidentified girl and sister Sasha Obama (right) toward Air Force One as their father President Barack Obama (far left) waves at a waiting crowd before boarding Air Force One at Cape Cod Coast Guard Air Station, Massachusetts on Sunday.—AP Obama back at White House after vacation WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama was back home at the White House late Sunday, ending his eight-day summer vacation at exclusive Martha’s Vineyard off the US east coast. The president, his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia left their rental home on the island under steady rain and took a helicopter to a Coast Guard air station at Cape Cod, where they boarded their flight to Andrews Air Force Base outside the US capital. Earlier in the day Obama played golf-his sixth round of the vacation-with partners who included World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Obama interrupted his rest last week to denounce the bloody crackdown in Cairo by Egypt’s military. The president received regular intelligence briefings, and both National Security Advisor Susan Rice and Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors were on the trip, White House spokesman Jay Carney earlier told reporters. A favorite summer spot for the well-heeled, Martha’s Vineyard is located off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has hosted the likes of ex-presi- dent Bill Clinton and late first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis. From 2009 to 2011, Obama spent about 10 days there each August, enjoying golf, picnics on the beach and eating out locally. He skipped a visit last year as he campaigned for re- election. Obama’s last vacation, over Christmas, was compromised by the so-called fiscal cliff fight with Congress, which forced the president to cut short his stay in Hawaii and head back to Washington. The coming weeks for Obama are expected to be dominat- ed by showdowns with opposition Republicans in the US Congress. Turmoil in Egypt and the upcoming G20 summit in Russia are likely to take a backseat to the domestic agenda, as Republican legislators are threatening a government shut- down in October over the budget and debt ceiling. — AFP Arizona fugitive faces capital murder trial

ALBUQUERQUE: Prosecutors and defense attorneys will deliver their opening statements in the capital murder tri- al of an Arizona inmate who escaped from prison and is accused of killing an Oklahoma couple who were travel- ing through New Mexico. John McCluskey is facing 20 counts in the 2010 car- jacking and slaying of Gary and Linda Haas, of Tecumseh, Okla. He’s the last of three defendants to be tried in the case. The other two pleaded guilty and will likely testify during the trial. Despite admissions made to authorities following his arrest, McCluskey’s defense team says he didn’t kill the Haases and didn’t intend for them to die that August day in eastern New Mexico. Prosecutors are ready to prove otherwise. They have indicated in court documents that as many as 100 wit- nesses could be called and they have more than 1,000 exhibits to show the jury, including photographs, and hours of audio and video. The trial is expected to last up to four months. It took nearly three weeks for attorneys to settle on a jury of nine women and three men. Dozens of prospective jurors were questioned about everything from their understanding of the justice system to their opinions about the death penalty. McCluskey’s attorneys filed a motion hours before the final panel was to be selected in hopes of delaying the case with claims that minorities were underrepresented in the jury pool. US District Judge Judith Herrera cleared the way for opening statements to begin with an order issued last week. McCluskey has made no secret of his desire to steer clear of a trial and the death penalty. He agreed to plea negotiations earlier this year, but federal prosecutors said they were intent on moving toward trial. Prosecutors have said the Haases, both 61, were targeted for their pickup truck and travel trailer when they stopped at a rest area near the Texas-New Mexico state line. According to court documents, they were forced at gunpoint to drive to a desolate spot off of Interstate 40, where they were then ordered into their trailer and shot. The truck and trailer were then driven miles down a series of dirt roads to a more remote location. The trailer was unhitched and torched, with the Haases’ bodies inside. A plume of black smoke is what led a rancher to the crime scene. The authorities were then called in.—AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL British warship docks in Gibraltar amid dispute EU warns Spain not to slap Gibraltar tax

GIBRALTAR: British warship HMS Westminster entry tax suggested by Spanish Foreign Minister described the border checks as “politically moti- docked in Gibraltar yesterday in a naval exercise Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo was not official but vated” and has pressed European Commission coinciding with a furious diplomatic row with that “any tax or fees imposed at the border of a President Jose Manuel Barroso to send observers Spain over sovereignty and fishing rights in the member state will be illegal under EU law. Illegal. to the border as soon as possible. With Madrid’s surrounding waters. The Type 23 frigate, Not in line with EU law.” prior agreement, British helicopter and com- equipped with a weapons system including a Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso mando carrier HMS Illustrious on Sunday docked magazine torpedo launcher, Harpoon anti-ship discussed the spat with Spanish Prime Minister at a naval base in Rota in southern Spain for a missiles, Sea Wolf surface-to-air missiles and hel- Mariano Rajoy by telephone Monday and agreed technical stop of several hours before leading icopter, arrived at the British outpost in the that a commission fact finding mission should naval exercises in the Mediterranean. morning. go to the Gibraltar border area as soon as possi- The HMS Westminster and the two support Though long-planned, the naval visit came at ble and examine the border control and move- vessels are due to stay in Gibraltar for three days. a time of high tension, a day after dozens of ment of people and goods questions, the com- They are all taking part in annual naval exercises, Spanish fishing boats sailed to waters around mission said in a statement. Barroso expressed codenamed Cougar ‘13, planned long before the INGOLSTADT: A poster for an election campaign of German Chancellor Gibraltar to demand it remove 70 concrete hope that Spain and Britain would address the latest row broke out. The British ships will visit Angela Merkel hangs in the city center of Ingolstadt yesterday. The cam- blocks it has dropped in their fishing grounds. A issues in line with their EU membership. several ports, carrying out an exercise with the paign of Merkel and the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer at the Town cordon of British naval and Gibraltar police Last week, Barroso talked with British Prime Albanian armed forces before heading through Hall Square had to be canceled due to a hostage-taking in the city hall of patrols blocked about 40 Spanish fishing boats Minister David Cameron. The row stems from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Gulf for exer- Ingolstadt. — AP from entering far into the disputed waters in Gibraltar’s construction of an artificial reef, which cises with other British allies. Sunday’s protest. No incident was reported Spain says affects its fishermen. In apparent Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity beyond an exchange of insults between the two retaliation, Spanish police enforced border con- in 1713 but has long argued that it should be Hostage drama forces sides. trol checks on cars entering Gibraltar, creating returned to Spanish sovereignty. London says it The Gibraltar government says the concrete massive tailbacks. will not do so against the wishes of Gibraltarians, Merkel to scrap rally reef will regenerate marine life and argues that British Prime Minister David Cameron who are staunchly pro-British. — Agencies the Spanish raked for shellfish there illegally. The BERLIN: A man claiming to be carrying a Sepp Misslbeck, who was later freed, as Spaniards say they have been cut off from rich gun took three hostages yesterday in the well as Misslbeck’s secretary-thought to be fishing grounds, hurting their livelihoods. town hall of a German city where the victim of his stalking-and the city gov- It is the latest in a string of diplomatic rows Chancellor Angela Merkel had been due to ernment’s complaints manager, local over the self-governing British overseas territory give a campaign rally later in the day. media reported. Police declined to speak bordering the tip of Spain, which measures just While the Merkel event was cancelled, about the hostage-taker’s motives or 6.8 square kilometres (2.6 square miles) and is police negotiated with the hostage-taker, demands. home to about 30,000 people. HMS Westminster who after five hours freed one of the cap- A police tactical response unit arrived sailed in along the boundary of the territorial tives, a deputy mayor of the town of shortly after the hostage drama started waters claimed by Britain as it entered port, a so- Ingolstadt north of Munich. The hostage- around 9:00 am (0700 GMT) and stood by, called sovereignty patrol which is standard prac- taker was believed to be a 24-year-old man while some 200 officers cordoned off the tice for visiting British warships. who had been stalking a female town hall town centre. Merkel had been due to speak A handful of Gibraltarians watched from employee, and who had been committed at a rally of her conservative party outside shore as the grey frigate arrived with two auxil- to a psychiatric institution. the town hall ahead of September 22 elec- iary support vessels, the Lyme Bay and Mounts He was carrying a real or imitation tions, along with political ally, Bavarian Bay. handgun, police said. The perpetrator had state premier Horst Seehofer, who is also “It is a routine deployment but it couldn’t previously been barred from the town hall running for re-election next month. The have come at a better time,” said one local, Tony premises, said the Bavarian interior minis- hostage drama was not thought to be Evans, as he stood watching the ships dock at ter Joachim Herrmann. Mayor Alfred related to the political event, said a police the nearby naval base. Both Britain and Spain Lehmann said the man had a history of spokesman, as Merkel’s conservative party say the naval visits are unrelated to their dis- violent assault and intimidation. and its Bavarian sister party cancelled yes- agreement over the concrete reef. Amid the row, The man took hostage deputy mayor terday’s appearance.—AFP Spain has imposed intense customs checks at the land border to Gibraltar, leading to daily hours-long queues of cars. The European Commission said yesterday it hopes Britain and Spain will be able to resolve their latest dispute over Gibraltar by themselves, GIBRALTAR: British Royal Fleet Auxiliary Lyme Bay arriving in Gibraltar. British war- but warned that Spanish threats to impose a ship HMS Westminster and two support vessels docked in Gibraltar yesterday in a border tax would be illegal. European naval exercise coinciding with a furious diplomatic row with Spain over sovereignty Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly said the and fishing rights in the surrounding waters. — AFP Zimbabwe court to rule Russia and Japan on election challenge launch territorial HARARE: Zimbabwe’s highest court said inauguration Thursday for another five- row talks it will rule today on a legal battle over year term in office after holding power disputed elections that gave President for 33 years since independence in 1980. MOSCOW: Russian and Japanese diplomats held talks Robert Mugabe a landslide victory, even Today’s court ruling is not expected in Moscow yesterday in a bid to restart stalled negotia- though the opposition dropped its chal- to change the timing. The constitution tions over a territorial row that has kept the two neigh- lenge in protest to the state’s refusal to sets a presidential inauguration for 48 bors from signing a World War II peace treaty and reju- hand over polling data. Zimbabwe’s hours after disputes are either thrown venating economic ties. The talks between Russian Constitutional Court yesterday heard out or declared invalid. Mugabe’s ZANU- Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and his demands by Mugabe’s attorneys for a PF party won 158 seats in the 210-seat Japanese counterpart Singuke Sugiyama follow an hearing to go ahead despite the opposi- legislature. April trip to Moscow by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo tion’s withdrawal, apparently reflecting The opposition garnered 50 seats and Abe. the president’s confidence that the court two were won by independent candi- The first high-level visit by a Japanese premier in a will throw out the case and strengthen dates. Mugabe returned from Malawi on decade ended with Abe and Russian President In this undated photo released by Janine Gibson of The Guardian, Guardian his assertions that the vote was legiti- Sunday after a summit of the 15-nation Vladimir Putin agreeing to try to find a solution to the journalist Glenn Greenwald (right) and his partner David Miranda, are mate. Southern African Development status of the Kuril Islands-claimed by Tokyo despite shown together at an unknown location.— AP Mugabe, who has been in power Community, or SADC, a political and eco- being taken by the Soviet Red Army in 1945. since 1980, appoints the nation’s judges nomic bloc. He said at the main Harare “As our leaders agreed, we are assuming the discus- Use of UK terror law and they have frequently ruled in his airport he had received “unanimous sup- sion of the main parameters and modalities for favor in the past decade of political and port” for his election victory from region- upcoming peace agreement negotiations,” Russian economic turmoil. Terrence Hussein, an al leaders, state radio reported. It said a news agencies quoted Morgulov as saying at the start to detain reporter’s attorney for Mugabe, said a challenge to jubilant Mugabe, 89, was appointed the of the meeting. “We hope to move our joint work for- the presidential vote cannot be with- vice chair of SADC at the summit and will ward for the purpose of ... developing our partnership partner ‘a disgrace’ drawn under the constitution. The party take over as chairman in early 2014, in the most varied fields.” of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai replacing President Joyce Banda of Sugiyama replied that he hoped to “speed up the fears participation in the legal process Malawi. search for mutually-acceptable solutions”. LONDON: British authorities came under chairs parliament’s powerful interior “There is a feeling that we are close friends,” Russia’s pressure yesterday to explain why anti- affairs committee, told the BBC he had would now give a stamp of credibility to Regional election observers and mon- the election. itors from the continent-wide African state-run RIA Novosti news agency quoted Japan’s vice terrorism powers were used to detain for written to the head of London’s minister for foreign affairs as saying. “It would be good nine hours the partner of a journalist Metropolitan Police to ask for clarifica- “We can’t be forced to go ahead,” said Union commended the vote in Douglas Mwonzora, a spokesman for the Zimbabwe for being free of violence that if we could conduct these consultations while sharing who has written articles about US and tion of what he labelled an “extraordi- this new sentiment in our relations,” Sugiyama said. It British surveillance programs based on nary” case. main opposition party, the Movement has plagued previous elections. Western for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai nations, barred by Mugabe from observ- is not clear when full peace negotiations might start. leaks from Edward Snowden. Miranda was detained for the maxi- “Holding hands, we should solve our problems togeth- Brazilian David Miranda, the partner mum nine hours allowed by the legisla- alleged widespread vote-rigging but ing the vote, have criticized African withdrew the legal challenge on Friday monitors who swiftly endorsed er.” Relations between Moscow and Tokyo have been of American journalist Glenn Greenwald, tion, which is extremely rare. According strained for decades because of the status of south- was detained on Sunday at London’s to Home Office statistics, fewer than after the state election commission Mugabe’s new term in office. Tsvangirai’s declined to hand over voters’ lists and party insists up to one million eligible ernmost four of the Pacific islands known as the Heathrow Airport where he was in transit three out of every 10,000 people passing Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories on his way from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. through British borders are stopped poll tallies needed for evidence. voters were denied the right to cast bal- Opposition leaders said the proposed lots and that voters’ lists were inaccurate, in Japan. The Soviets claimed the Kuril chain that He was released without charge. “The under Schedule 7. Of those, more than extends from Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula south to detention of David Miranda is a disgrace 97 percent are examined for less than hearing also did not allow trial-style showing names of dead people and oth- cross examination of witnesses and that ers who left the country as economic or the tip of Japan in the dying days of World War II as and reinforces the undoubted complicity one hour, while 0.06 percent are held for Joseph Stalin pushed his counter-offensive on Tokyo. of the UK in US indiscriminate surveil- six hours or more. they did not expect to receive a fair political fugitives. His party lost by wide hearing on an appeal for fresh elections margins in urban strongholds it has The region’s status as a symbol of Moscow’s contin- lance of law-abiding citizens,” Michael Brazil has said Miranda’s treatment ued desire for post-Soviet influence was underscored Mansfield, one of Britain’s leading human “has no justification”. Greenwald, who is within 60 days. Mugabe’s office said dominated since elections it fought in arrangements are being made for his 2002 and 2008.—AP in 2010 by a highly-controversial visit to one of the rights lawyers, told Reuters. based in Brazil and writes for Britain’s contested island by then-president Dmitry Medvedev. “The fact that Snowden, and now any- Guardian newspaper, said the detention A string of Russian officials and generals have since fol- one remotely associated with him, are of his partner was a “despotic” attempt to lowed with the promise of infusing the region with being harassed as potential spies and intimidate him and others involved in money and updating the dilapidated armed forces terrorists is sheer unadulterated state reporting on British and U.S. surveillance whose positions are close enough to be visible from oppression,” he wrote in an email. programs. “They completely abused their Japan. Miranda was detained under own terrorism law for reasons having Each of the visits and flyovers was met with loud Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, nothing whatsoever to do with terror- protests from Tokyo and appeared to push back any which allows police to stop and question ism,” he wrote in a column in the talk of a reconciliation that could help spur on trade. people travelling through ports and air- Guardian, adding that Miranda was given But some analysts believe that Abe-who has experi- ports to determine whether they are no access to a lawyer. enced tensions with both China and South Korea-is involved in planning terrorist acts. The “If the UK and US governments seeking to help break the chill in relations with opposition Labor Party urged the author- believe that tactics like this are going to Russia. Japan is particularly interested in increasing ities to explain how they could justify deter or intimidate us in any way from its imports of Russian energy as it seeks to diversify using Schedule 7 to detain Miranda, continuing to report aggressively ... they supplies in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disas- arguing any suggestion that anti-terror- are beyond deluded.” ter in 2011. ism powers had been misused could He has published a series of articles Moscow’s trade with Tokyo reached $32 billion (24 undermine public support for those based on documents leaked by billion euros) last year. But Russia-despite its size and powers. The Home Office, or interior min- Snowden, the former US National proximity-was only Japan’s 15th most important trad- istry, said the detention was an opera- Security Agency contractor who faces ing partner. tional police matter. The police declined criminal charges in the United States but One solution mooted in the past could involve to provide any details beyond confirm- has been granted temporary asylum in Russia ceding control of the two smallest islands of ing the detention. Russia. Schedule 7 has been under offi- Shikotan and Khabomai and keeping the much larger “Schedule 7 forms an essential part of cial review, with a public consultation Kunashir and Iturup (known as Kunishiri and Etorofu in the UK’s security arrangements. It is for published in July showing that 71 per- Japan). But analysts believe such a compromise may the police to decide when it is necessary cent of respondents thought the deten- be a tough sell to some nationalists in Tokyo and even and proportionate to use these powers,” tion time-limit of nine hours was exces- HARARE: Opposition Movement For Democtratic Change (MDC) spokesper- in Russia, which under Putin’s rule has always sought a Home Office spokesman said. sive. The government plans to reduce it son Dougals Mwonzora talks to the media after they were summoned to the to present itself as a great world power.— AFP Keith Vaz, a Labour lawmaker who to six hours. —Reuters Constitutional Court in Harare yesterday. — AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL India: Pakistan testing restraint in Kashmir

NEW DELHI: India said yesterday it was that the government’s posture toward late July. Also the same month, police in areas - exchanged fire along the Kargil unit includes members of Pakistan’s com- running out of patience with Pakistan the neighbor had been too soft. Antony Pakistan-controlled Kashmir said four stretch of the mountains where the mando Special Services Group and irreg- army-backed transgressions across dis- demanded that Pakistan act against its civilians who had gone to collect herbs ceasefire has held since November 2003. ular forces, including members of puted Kashmir as cross-border firing troops involved in the latest incident as near the Line of Control had gone miss- “The firing continued for half an hour, Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based mili- spread further north for the first time well as the killing of two soldiers back in ing and their families believed they had however, there was no loss of life or dam- tant group. “Pakistan is making a serious since the two armies agreed a ceasefire January, one of whom was decapitated. been arrested by the Indian army. age”, said a police officer in the Indian mistake with regard to ceasefire and BAT in 2003. “Naturally, this incident will have con- The rhetoric in India has been steadily side of Kashmir. attacks. It should not do it. Tension has been running high along sequences on our behavior on the Line mounting as the Congress-led coalition The two armies fought an undeclared It is not going to deter us. The army is one of the world’s most militarized bor- of Control and for our relations with government faces a difficult election less war in Kargil in 1999 after Pakistani army- here to respond in each and every act of ders in Kashmir since Aug. 6 when five Pakistan,” he told parliament, referring to than a year away, with Prime Minister backed irregulars crossed the Line of Pakistan,” said Indian army Major-General Indian soldiers were ambushed and the de facto border between the two Manmohan Singh being criticized by Control, prompting Indian air and V P Singh, a division commander in the killed while on a patrol. Indian Defense countries in the disputed Kashmir region. opposition hardliners and even from ground operations to evict them. They Rajouri sector along the border. So far, Minister A K Antony said it was clear that “Our restraint should not be taken for within his party for trying to quietly have fought three wars since 1947. the two armies have exchanged small- specialist troops of the Pakistani army granted.” Pakistan has denied involve- relaunch peace talks with Pakistan. Indian army officials say the latest arms firing, refraining from the artillery were involved in the attack on the sol- ment and instead accused India of open- On Sunday night, the two armies - attack on its soldiers was carried out by duels they engaged in before the cease- diers whose deaths triggered criticism ing fire and killing one of its soldiers in which are in close proximity in many Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT). The fire in 2003. — Reuters Amid graft probe, India coal ministry loses files

NEW DELHI: India’s opposition angri- tracts were valid,” Lekhi said. “This dominated by the left-leaning ly denounced the government yester- should not derail the investigation. It Congress party, has been beset by a day after the coal ministry admitted it must go on,” she added. string of corruption cases in recent had lost some files and was unable to Parliament was adjourned tem- years. The latest allegations of mis- turn them over to a high-profile cor- porarily yesterday amid the uproar management have piled pressure on ruption enquiry. questioning the disappearance of the him ahead of elections due by next The federal Central Bureau of files. Singh’s coalition government, year. —AFP Investigation is investigating how the coal ministry, which was headed by current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2004-2009, allocated min- ing licenses. The national auditor alleged last year that the ministry had given away tens of billions of dollars in windfall gains to 100 private and some state-run firms-sparking a police investigation into whether kickbacks were paid in exchange. Coal PATNA: Indians walk on railroad tracks as train coaches of the Rajya Rani Express, set on fire by an angry Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal admitted mob, burns after the train ploughed into a crowd of Hindu pilgrims at the Dhamara Ghat railway station in Saturday that some files from 1993 to Khagaria district, some 248 kilometers (154 miles) from Bihar state capital Patna, yesterday.—AFP 2004 were missing and that a commit- tee headed by a senior ministry offi- cial was investigating the matter. The Indian train runs into main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, which called for Singh to step down when the scandal erupted, said pilgrims, killing 37 the government bore responsibility for the vanished files. “Obviously we hold the govern- Mishap triggers riots, driver killed ment responsible for the disappear- PATNA: An Indian express train metres (154 miles) from the state capital India. Some of the pilgrims are ance of evidence... if something in my ploughed into a crowd of Hindu pil- Patna, local railway chief Arun Malik told Kanwarias who are devoted to Lord custody goes missing, I am culpable grims in the country’s east yesterday, AFP. “Six carriages have been set on fire Shiva, the god of destruction. There are since it was my responsibility to begin killing 37 and triggering a riot that left and the station has been ransacked by hundreds of accidents on the railways with,” Meenakshi Lekhi, BJP spokes- one of the drivers dead, an official said. the mob. Our staff have fled the station annually. In 2012, a government report woman, told AFP. “Now that these files The Hindu pilgrims were crossing the fearing attacks,” Malik said. said that almost 15,000 people were have vanished, no one knows what tracks at a station in the state of Bihar Prime Minister Manmohan Singh killed every year crossing India’s rail transpired. In these circumstances, BANGALORE: Indian school children watch from behind a barricade when the high-speed passenger train appealed for calm “so that the relief and which it described as an annual “mas- the least the government must do is near an under construction building, which collapsed partially in struck them, injuring dozens, a senior rescue operations can be carried out sacre” due to poor safety standards. to cancel all the licences, now that we Bangalore yesterday. At least four laborers were injured and few police officer said. without any hindrance.” “The Prime Pedestrians guilty of “unlawful trespass- have no evidence to show if the con- others are feared trapped under debris, authorities said. — AP “The death toll is now 37,” S K Minister has expressed deep sorrow and ing” walk across the tracks at many Bharadwaj, an additional director gener- shock at the loss of lives of pilgrims unofficial crossing points, the report al of police, who is overseeing security caused by the accident,” the statement said, adding that about 6,000 of the at the crash site, said. “Dozens of people from Singh’s office also said. deaths occur in the congested and fre- have been injured. We do not have A senior railways official said it netic city of Mumbai alone. exact figures of those injured because appeared the pilgrims were not aware Attempts to stop people riding on they were taken away to various hospi- of the incoming express train on the the roofs of trains have largely failed, tals,” he said. middle of the station’s three tracks. vehicles routinely drive around barriers Angry crowds went on the rampage, “Two trains were already stationary on at crossings and passengers are often converging on the Rajya Rani Express other tracks and the Rajya Rani Express seen hanging out of open doors in the which stopped after the accident, was given permission to pass,” carriages. attacking its drivers and leaving one Arunendra Kumar, chairman of the The data is not broken down, but a dead with another seriously injured, national railway board, told reporters in vast majority of these deaths are people Bharadwaj said. “One of the drivers of New Delhi. “The accident occurred falling from the open doors of carriages the train who was beaten up by the agi- because some people left the platform or being hit on the tracks, which are tators has died. The other driver is strug- of the station and came on the tracks,” mostly unsecured. gling for his life in the hospital,” he said. Kumar said. One of India’s worst rail accidents The crowds also set carriages on fire Large numbers of pilgrims had been was in 1981 when a train plunged into a and ransacked the station in the small gathering at a nearby temple to offer river also in Bihar, killing an estimated town of Dhamara Ghat, some 248 kilo- prayers, according to the Press Trust of 800 people.— AFP Karachi’s plague of violence brings armored car boom

KARACHI, Sindh: As an unprecedented Commission of Pakistan. Khan recently armored two of his wave of killings and kidnappings hits In 2012, nearly 130 people were kid- 4x4s and is waiting for two more to be Karachi, the Pakistani city’s elite are napped in Karachi-another record- completed for his father and brother. “I splashing out to have their luxury cars according to the Citizens-Police Liaison got threats many times. I am the head of made bomb and bulletproof. The Committee. Like many successful busi- the law and order committee of the sprawling metropolis of 18 million peo- nessmen in the city, Nadeem Khan, who Korangi Industrial Area and there are so ple on the Arabian Sea is Pakistan’s eco- owns pharmaceutical labs and marble many dacoits (bandits) and robbers nomic heart, with ranks of factories, workshops, feels threatened and has no there,” he said. import-export wheeler-dealers and slick faith in the ability of the authorities to “There are bhatta (extortion) groups- bankers. protect him. they always hurl threats on the phone.” But it is also the crucible of the coun- “Karachi is more dangerous than These are worrying times for Karachi’s try’s worst excesses of violence, crimi- Kabul. We have police here and we have rich but boom times for companies such nality and inequality. Rangers (paramilitary) here but they as Streit, which armors vehicles. Bloody gang wars fed by ethnic and won’t lay a hand on the criminals,” he Khalid Yousaf, head of Streit Pakistan, political bitterness, drugs and the told AFP. “So the people are compelled says business has doubled since they Taleban, and a steady drum beat of to have themselves secured by having started work in December. gangsterism have created a culture of their own personal bodyguards and In a spotless workshop with a pol- impunity under the stunned gaze of armored vehicles.” ished concrete floor set amid the city’s police. The past two years have seen The epidemic of killings and kidnap- carpet of dust and dirt, a team of Streit record death tolls. In the first six months pings shows no sign of slowing, so mechanics work on a dozen stripped- of 2013, 1,726 people were killed in those who can afford it are kitting their down 4x4s. The hulking Toyota Land Karachi compared with a previous high cars out with windows that can stop an Cruisers are no more than skeletons: an of 1,215 in the same period last year, AK-47 bullet and chassis that will sur- engine, wheels and chassis with no according to the Human Rights vive a bomb attack. bodywork, doors or seats. The mechanics insert thick metal plates, laser-cut for a precise fit, into the doors, reinforce the floor, fit bulletproof windows, protect the battery with a metal cage and beef up the suspension to cope with the extra tonne of steel and glass that has been added. All this costs anything between $30,000 and $45,000, said Yousaf-an incomprehensibly huge sum for most Pakistanis. But the rich are happy to pay for peace of mind, and the armourers’ business is booming. “We were expect- ing at the beginning to armour three to four cars per month, but initially in the first months and onward we had seven cars, then 10,” he told AFP. “Now we are around 15 cars per month. Maybe it is going to increase even more.” Discretion is a valued commodity in KARACHI: Pakistani automobile workers preparing a bullet and the armored car business and other bombproof vehicle at a workshop in Karachi. As an unprecedented firms were reluctant to discuss business wave of killings and kidnappings hits Karachi, the vast city’s elite on the record, but several spoken to by are splashing out to have their luxury cars made bomb and bullet- AFP confirmed that orders were on the proof.— AFP rise.—AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 Philippine floods kill three, paralyze capital China death toll passes 100

MANILA: At least three people have died in the Philippines after torrential rain engulfed parts of the main island of Luzon including Manila where neck-deep water swept through homes forcing thousands into emergency shelters. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said mountainous areas to the north of the island were experiencing floods of 1.8 meters (six feet), following persistent rain that began at the weekend. One person was killed in SEOUL: South Korean soldiers put on gas masks during an anti-terror drill on the a storm-related car accident in the northern sidelines of South Korea-US joint military exercise, called Ulchi Freedom Guardian, at Apayao mountain region while a child was a subway station in Seoul yesterday. — AFP crushed by a collapsing wall and a man drowned in towns just outside the capital. Four other people are missing including three South Korea, US begin washed away by floods and overflowing rivers and a local female tourist who got lost while annual military drills exploring a cave in the northern resort town of Sagada. In the capital Manila, a megacity of 12 SEOUL: South Korean and US militaries Pyongyang on Sunday accepted South million people, schools, government offices and began annual drills yesterday amid signs of Korea’s offer for talks on reuniting families the stock exchange were closed as a red alert easing tension on the divided peninsula, separated by war. was raised in the morning-the highest level of a with Pyongyang’s state media shunning Yesterday, South Korea approved a visit warning system in which widespread floods are typical rhetoric against what they call a this week by four North Koreans to attend a predicted. rehearsal for an invasion. Earlier this year, UN-organized youth leadership program. “We are trying to save whatever we can. But it MANILA: Residents wade through floodwaters in the farming town of Novaleta, some 26 kilo- the Korean Peninsula saw a spike in ten- They will be the second group of North was so sudden,” J R Pascual, a father-of-four, told meters outside Manila yesterday. — AFP sions, with North Korea vowing nuclear Koreans to visit since the new South AFP as he tried to take the most important pos- the same gravity as the rest. I hope this will be in decades” by state news agency Xinhua, while wars during earlier annual springtime US- Korean government of President Park sessions from his home that was flooded up to done by tomorrow,” Executive Secretary Paquito another 33 people died in the south as a result South Korean military exercises. Geun-hye took office in February, accord- his waist. “My neighbor wasn’t even able to get Ochoa told a nationally televised government of the weather, it said citing the ministry of civil Pyongyang has since eased its rhetoric and ing to Park’s Unification Ministry. A his car out.” Pascual lives in a middle-class district disaster briefing. Nevertheless, thousands of affairs. pursued dialogues with Seoul and women’s soccer team was in South Korea of Cavite, a coastal area that is about 15 kilome- people were believed to be sheltering in evacua- Liaoning, the worst-hit province, had 54 fatal- Washington. last month to compete in a regional com- ters (nine miles) from the heart of Manila. Roads tion centres or trapped on rooftops while wait- ities and another 97 people missing, Xinhua said. The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that petition. from Cavite and other southern areas into the ing for the water to subside. The worst-hit province in the south, battered continue until Aug. 30 are computer-simu- Despite the recent conciliatory gestures, city were impassable, while some motorists who It was immediately followed by Tropical by Typhoon Utor last week, was Guangdong lated war games that involve 30,000 some analysts in South Korea are wary of tried to get through the flooded streets were Storm Parma, and more than 1,100 people died where 22 people were dead and eight missing, it American and 50,000 South Korean troops, the North’s intentions, saying Pyongyang forced to abandon their cars. Footage on ABS- in the back-to-back disasters. Chaotic urban added. Transport links were severely crippled, according to South Korea’s Defense often follows provocations and threats with CBN television showed people in nearby shanty planning is widely blamed for exacerbating the affecting tens of thousands of travellers. Some Ministry and the US military command in a charm offensive meant to win aid. North town communities standing on their corrugated impacts of storms in Manila and other parts of services from Guangzhou railway station, Seoul. The allies say the drills are defensive Korea said Sunday it had agreed to South iron roofs, as fast-moving water swept through the country, which has had to deal with massive Guangdong’s most important in nature, but Pyongyang has reacted Korea’s offer for Red Cross talks Friday on the windows of their homes. By early afternoon, population growth over the past generation. transport hub, were suspended due to rain angrily to them in the past, calling the drills the family reunions but proposed another the rain had eased and the red alert was lowered Meanwhile, devastating floods at opposite and landslides. State media said 80,000 passen- a preparation for a pre-emptive attack. But set of talks Thursday on resuming lucrative for the capital.One of President Benigno ends of China have left 105 people dead and gers were stranded over the weekend because in an unusual move, North Korean state tours of Diamond Aquino’s top aides said he did not expect a another 115 missing in recent days, state media of the disruption. Services were beginning to media have not made any major state- Mountain, implying it wants the tourism major disaster. said yesterday. Flooding in the northeast which return to normal from yesterday, the station said ments on this year’s exercises so far. restart in return for allowing the reunions. “Compared to other calamities, this is not of left 72 people dead was described as “the worst in a statement on its website. — AFP “North Korea appears to have deter- South Korea suspended tours to Diamond mined it’s necessary to take a cool-headed Mountain after a South Korean woman was attitude” over the drills to maintain efforts shot dead by a North Korean border guard Malaysian police to resume jointly run economic coopera- there in 2008. The project had provided a tion programs, said analyst Cheong Seong- legitimate source of hard currency to North kill 5, detain 200 in chang at the private Sejong Institute in Korea before its suspension. South Korea’s crime crackdown South Korea. The two Koreas last week Unification Ministry said yesterday it is agreed to work toward reopening a shut- reviewing North Korea’s offer for talks on tered jointly run factory park, and the mountain tours. — AP KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police said they killed five suspected gang members in a shootout early yesterday and arrested 200 people in a crackdown on a spate of violent crime that has shocked the Hunt for escapees after country. Police launched the nationwide anti-crime push Saturday following a growing public outcry new Indonesia jailbreak over lawlessness that for the past month has seen near-daily shootings and other violence. LABUHAN RUKU, Indonesia: Indonesian July, Interpol issued an alert saying it sus- The vast majority of crimes have gone unsolved. security forces yesterday hunted for a pected Al-Qaeda involvement in those The Barisan Nasional (National Front) ruling coali- group of inmates who escaped from an breakouts and other escapes that occurred tion blames a turf war between criminals released overcrowded jail on Sumatra island, in the around the same time in different coun- when a tough security law that allowed preventive latest breakout to hit the country’s decrepit tries. However, Indonesian officials have detention was scrapped in 2011 under pressure KAGOSHIMA: Buildings stand shrouded in ash after the Sakurajima volcano erupted in the prison system. Prisoners rampaged played down the possibility of links from reform advocates. Critics blame the national afternoon in Kagoshima, on the southern Japanese main island of Kyushu. — AP through Labuhan Ruku jail on Sunday, set- between the jailbreaks and the terror net- police force, which is widely viewed as corrupt and ting fire to the building and attacking war- work. unprofessional.National police chief Khalid Abu Clean-up begins after dens, angered at a failure to give them sen- Anti-terror agency head Ansyaad Mbai Bakar told reporters in the northern state of Penang tence reductions and their treatment. said he did not suspect Al-Qaeda involve- where yesterday’s shootout erupted that 200 sus- Thirty prisoners managed to escape but ment in Sunday’s escape. “We see no indi- pects have been rounded up nationwide. “Since Japan volcano eruption authorities had recaptured 23 by 1:30 pm cations of Al-Qaeda links,” he told AFP. Saturday, we set up operations centres and target- TOKYO: Clean-up workers yesterday started services and temporary poor visibility, forcing car (0630 GMT), said national police Around 350 police were guarding the roads ed operations to probe the suspects, secret soci- removing a layer of grey ash that spread across a drivers to use their headlights. Residents turned spokesman Ronny Sompie. “Seven inmates around the prison complex, parts of which eties’ nests and suspected drug traffickers,” he was city in southern Japan after a volcano erupted at to masks and umbrellas to protect themselves have still not returned,” he added. were fire-blackened and badly damaged, quoted by news portal Malaysiakini as saying. the weekend, spewing a plume 5,000 metres into against the ash cloud, but there were no reports Police and soldiers regained control of an AFP reporter at the scene said. Inmates He said five gang suspects were killed in an the air. of injuries or damage, city officials said. “The vol- the prison in Batubara district overnight had been moved to a church and a mosque exchange of fire early yesterday when police moved Kagoshima city mobilised more than 60 street canic activity had been subdued by Monday after firing tear gas and warning shots into within the complex. in on their hideout in Penang. Known for its beach sweepers as well as water-spraying vehicles to morning,” a local meteorological agency official the air, said district chief J P Sinaga. The A prison guard sustained minor facial resorts, multicultural Penang has experienced sev- remove ash that coated the streets, officials said. said. “There is no sign of large scale eruptions in prison had been almost three times over its injuries in the unrest but there were no oth- eral of the recent shootings, some in broad day- The eruption of the 1,117-metre (3,665-foot) the near future, but we have not yet lifted a two- capacity of 300 inmates when the violence er injuries, said Budi Sulaksana, head of the light. The Star newspaper reported the five were Mount Sakurajima overlooking the city hap- kilometre (1.2-mile) no-go zone just in case.” The erupted. government’s justice and human rights suspects in the recent Penang violence. Malaysians pened on Sunday afternoon, spewing the high- eruption also caused a small amount of lava to Officials did not know what offences the office in North Sumatra province. have complained for years about a perceived surge est ash plume from the volcano since an eruption run down the side of the crater. It was the highly escapees had committed although The violence flared when some inmates in burglaries, robberies, and purse-snatching. But in 2000. Television footage showed the mush- active volcano’s 500th eruption this year. Japan is Labuhan Ruku is not a high-security jail and became angry that they were not given concerns have risen over the past month with a room-shaped grey plume shooting upwards a seismically active country with regular earth- was unlikely to be holding serious offend- sentence cuts on Saturday, Indonesian series of killings. They included the shooting of against the backdrop of a clear blue sky. A large quakes and eruptions from volcanoes that dot ers, such as terrorism convicts. Independence Day, when convicts are tra- Bahrain-born Hussain Ahmad Najadi, 75, who amount of volcanic ash fell in the northern and the archipelago. Kagoshima city is about 950 Following two jailbreaks in Indonesia in ditionally given remissions. —AFP founded one of Malaysia’s largest banks in the central parts of the city, causing a delay in train kilometres southwest of Tokyo. — AFP 1970s. —AFP Same-sex couples tie knot in New Zealand

WELLINGTON: Dozens of same-sex couples said “I without a public mandate. “Social engineers includ- do” in New Zealand yesterday, taking to the skies ing politicians and activists are expecting marriage and horse-drawn carriages to exchange their vows supporters to drop their deeply held convictions as the nation became only the 14th in the world to because of the misguided decisions of politicians,” celebrate gay weddings. Nuptials were held in ven- said national director Bob McCoskrie. ues ranging from an airliner flying at 30,000 feet The Anglican Church has also asked its ministers (9,150 metres) to a historic bath house in the hot not to conduct same-sex weddings pending a springs resort of Rotorua, as gay men and women report to its general synod next year. took advantage of the changed law, in a first for the New Zealand decriminalised homosexuality in Asia-Pacific region. 1986 and has allowed same-sex civil unions since The Campaign For Marriage Equality said it end- 2005. ed an historical injustice and meant the love of all At least 31 same-sex couples planned to marry people was recognized as equal in the eyes of the yesterday, while enquiries about staging same-sex law. “A massive congratulations to the happy cou- weddings in New Zealand had been received from ples tying the knot today. Marriage equality has as far afield as Singapore, Guyana and Belgium. finally arrived in New Zealand,” spokesman Conrad Among the first to be married were Australian cou- Reyners said. ple Paul McCarthy and Trent Kandler, who beat 300 The amendment to the Marriage Act was passed other pairs to win a Tourism New Zealand competi- by parliament in April but did not come into effect tion. until yesterday. Since April, France has approved Their wedding will not be legally recognized at gay marriage, and Britain has changed the law for home but McCarthy said he hoped that day would England and Wales although weddings have yet to come, and the ceremony at Wellington’s Te Papa start there. Air New Zealand staged a special flight museum showed “we don’t have two horns, we’re for Lynley Bendall and Ally Wanikau to tie the knot not freaks (and) that there’s nothing to fear from in the air after 14 years together, with American gay marriage equality”. The town of Rotorua, famous for rights campaigner and TV actor Jesse Tyler its boiling mud pools, hosted a double marriage of Ferguson in attendance. two brides, and two grooms, attended by a “flower ROTORUA: Richard Andrew (center right) and Richard Rawstorn (center left) are showered in flower “I’m very honoured to be here witnessing this guy” resplendent in a red cocktail dress as he scat- petals following their same-sex wedding ceremony held at Rotorua yesterday. — AP historic day for New Zealand and for you as well,” tered petals down the aisle. the “Modern Family” star said aboard the flight monies broadcast live during their breakfast pro- trailing a rainbow banner. Tourism New Zealand said the scenic country- between the resort town of Queenstown and grams. In the end the nuptials took place around “It’s history in the making,” Tittle said. “Hopefully which has profited from its association with “The Auckland. “It is so apparent to me when I see you the same time, at 8:30 am Monday (2030 GMT it will help other countries to do the same and help Lord of the Rings” films-would also market itself as a together, that no law or legislation was ever going Sunday), after the government offices that issue New Zealanders to realize that everyone has worth gay-friendly destination. “New Zealanders are to diminish the love you have. But it is so wonderful marriage licenses had opened. Reverend Matt Tittle and dignity no matter who they love.” However, incredibly tolerant of people with different that we can say that you are married legally.” from Auckland’s Unitarian Church married one of conservative lobby group Family First said changing lifestyles, so I’m very confident the industry will Two radio stations competed to host New the couples, Tash Vitali, 37, and Mel Ray, 29, who the Marriage Act was “an arrogant act of cultural embrace this opportunity,” the tourism agency’s Zealand’s first same-sex wedding, with the cere- arrived at the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage vandalism” that politicians had pushed through chief executive Kevin Bowler told TV3. — AFP NEWS TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013

US prosecutors seek 60 years for Manning

FORT MEADE, Maryland: US military prosecutors tury. But Lind is conducting a sentencing at Fort demanded yesterday that Private Bradley Manning Meade, a military base just outside Washington, to spend at least 60 years in jail for handing a vast trove of decide how long the young man, who has apologized, secret files to anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks. Captain Joe should serve. Morrow dismissed the defense argument Morrow urged trial judge Colonel Denise Lind to that Manning was a naive and troubled soldier who impose a tough sentence to “send a message to any believed he was doing good by exposing what he saw soldier contemplating stealing classified information.” as abuses in America’s conduct of the wars in Iraq and The 25-year-old former army intelligence analyst has Afghanistan. Instead, the prosecutor branded the leaks been convicted on a raft of espionage and theft “destructive” and said Manning was a “determined charges that could see him jailed for more than a cen- insider who exploited an imperfect system.” — AFP

Boko Haram chief shot, may have died: Army Continued from Page 1 of Shekau’s death. The United States in March put a $7 million (5.3 million euros) bounty on Shekau’s head. He he may have died there. Shekau has been considered has often sent out video messages from unknown loca- the leader of the main Islamist extremist faction of Boko tions. In a video message seen by AFP on August 12, a Haram. The group’s insurgency has left at least 3,600 man who appeared to be Shekau insisted that he was in people dead since 2009, including killings by the securi- good health and referred to attacks in early August. The ty forces. military statement said the video was a fake. “The recent Nigeria’s military began a sweeping offensive in the video released on 13 August 2013 by the purported country’s northeast in May aiming to end the insur- sect leader was dramatized by an imposter to hoodwink gency. It has however often exaggerated claims related the sect members to continue with the terrorism and to to the military effort targeting Boko Haram, and the deceive the undiscerning minds,” the statement said. report on Shekau had not been independently verified. Boko Haram has claimed to be fighting for the cre- The statement was issued by Lieutenant Colonel Sagir ation of an Islamic state in Africa’s most populous nation Musa, spokesman for a security joint task force in north- and largest oil producer, though the group is believed CAIRO: Friends and relatives mourn as they carry a coffin which allegedly contains the body of one of the 37 eastern Nigeria. National defence spokesman Brigadier to have a number of factions with varying aims. Islamist prisoners who suffocated on tear gas that was fired after they took an officer hostage on their way General Chris Olukolade seemed to distance himself Nigeria’s 160 million population is roughly divided to a main prison, at the Zeinhom Morgue in Cairo yesterday.— AFP from the statement when contacted by AFP, saying between a mainly Christian south and mostly Muslim security forces were still looking for conclusive evidence north. — AFP Lawyers seek probe into Arabs to cover cuts in Egypt aid: Saudi deaths of 37 Islamists Continued from Page 1 Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries welcomed Egypt’s ouster of Morsi, which infuriated supporters of CAIRO: Egyptian lawyers called yesterday for an inter- on July 3 following mass protests. Egypt’s army-backed in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to press the Muslim Brotherhood’s president and sent them to national investigation into the deaths in police custody government has accused Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood the Egyptian authorities for a compromise. the streets. King Abdullah was the first leader to send a of 37 supporters of Islamist President Mohammed movement of seeking to destabilize Egypt. Hundreds of On Sunday, after meeting French President Francois message of congratulations to caretaker president Adly Morsi. Brotherhood supporters have been arrested in recent Hollande, Prince Saud warned the West against putting Mansour, who was appointed shortly after the army A coroner’s report said the men died from suffoca- days in an effort to end weeks of protests. The detainees pressure on Egypt to end its crackdown, saying it deposed Morsi following nationwide protests. tion after police used teargas to stop a mass escape on who were killed on Sunday were among those held would not achieve anything. Saudi Arabia later announced an aid package of $5 Sunday while a group of more than 600 suspects were after security forces stormed two pro-Mursi camps in Prince Saud accused countries that slammed Egypt’s billion to Egypt. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates being transported to the Abu Zabal prison on the out- Cairo on Wednesday. crackdown of “believing propaganda” and assuming followed suit, bringing the pledges made by the three skirts of Cairo. Photos provided by the lawyers repre- Mustafa Azab, the spokesman for a committee of “hostile positions towards the interests and the stabili- oil-rich Arab states of the Gulf to $12 billion. The Saudi senting the detainees show dead bodies with charred lawyers formed to defend the detainees, said they had ty of Arab and Islamic nations.” “Let those states that are monarch pledged on Friday the kingdom’s support for faces and limbs and others covered in bruises which the complained to the International Criminal Court in the taking negative stances know that the blaze and Egypt’s fight against “terrorism”, and has ordered the lawyers said were signs of torture. Details of the inci- Hague about the killings. “We have submitted to the destruction will not be confined to Egypt, but will dispatch of three fully-equipped field hospitals to dent remain unclear, they said. International Criminal Court reports of all the massacres affect all those who supported trouble,” he said. Cairo. —Agencies “Neutral investigation committees must be formed, and we will submit more ... We will address the United not Egyptian ones ... The real crisis is that the judiciary Nations and all the entities that Egypt is a member of,” body is providing a veil to cover those who violate the he said. “We have a huge problem in the loss of neu- law and sanction bloodshed,” said Ahmed Abu Baraka, trality among state institutions,” said Azab. “They have Mubarak may be freed; 24 police killed in... one of the lawyers representing the 600 detainees. the forensics, the police, the army, the informants and Security officials denied accusations of foul play dur- the intelligence so all the reports that the judiciary Continued from Page 1 world’s most important shipping arteries. ing Sunday’s incident. At least 850 people have died needs are in their hands,” he said, adding that the The attacks underlined the challenges facing since Wednesday in clashes between security forces and lawyers had been denied any communication with the Without confirming that Mubarak would be Egypt’s new rulers, who portray their campaign as supporters of Morsi, who was overthrown by the army detainees. — Reuters released, a judicial source said he would spend anoth- combating terrorism. The Brotherhood renounced er two weeks behind bars before a court ruling on the violence decades ago, denies any links with armed mil- outstanding case against him. itants, including those in Sinai who have gained The former leader is being held at Tora prison on strength since Mubarak’s overthrow, and disavows No reward for hacking the southern outskirts of Cairo, which also hosts senior attacks on churches that have proliferated in the past Brotherhood members detained in a clampdown that week. followed Morsi’s ouster. Pressing an official drive against the Islamist move- Zuckerberg’s FB page Mubarak’s eventual release could generate more ment, a prosecutor ordered that Morsi, held in an political tension in Egypt, where almost 900 people, undisclosed location since his removal, should be SAN FRANCISCO: A researcher who privacy and post to your wall, i had paid out over $1 million to hun- including nearly 100 soldiers and police, have been detained for another 15 days in a new case of inciting hacked into Facebook chief Mark no other choice to make after all dreds of reporters. However, many killed since the authorities forcibly dispersed violence, the state news agency MENA said. Zuckerberg’s profile to expose a the reports i sent to Facebook team. of the reports we get are nonsense security flaw won’t get the custom- My name is KHALIL from Palestine.” or misguided.” Jones added that Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo on Wednesday. The Brotherhood itself has responded with outrage ary reward payment from the social His reward for exposing the flaw “the more important issue here is In the Sinai peninsula, where attacks on security after 37 Islamists died in government custody on network. While Facebook offers was having his Facebook account with how the bug was demonstrat- forces have multiplied since Morsi’s removal, suspect- Sunday in an incident it described as “murder”. The rewards for those who find security disabled. He later got a message ed using the accounts of real peo- ed Islamist militants killed at least 24 policemen yes- authorities said the men died of tear gas suffocation holes, it seems that Palestinian saying, “We are unfortunately not ple without their permission.” “We terday. Three policemen were also wounded in the during a thwarted jailbreak. researcher Khalil Shreateh went too able to pay you for this vulnerabili- welcome and will pay out for grenade and machinegun attack near the north Sinai “The murders show the violations and abuses that far by posting the information on ty because your actions violated future reports from him (and any- town of Rafah on the border with Israel, medical and political detainees who oppose the July 3 coup get Zuckerberg’s own profile page. our Terms of Service. We do hope, one else!) if they’re found and security sources said. Photos circulated on social subjected to,” said the Brotherhood, which has called Shreateh said on his blog he however, that you continue to work demonstrated within these guide- media and purporting to show the aftermath of the for an independent, non-Egyptian investigation into found a way for Facebook users to with us to find vulnerabilities in the lines,” Jones said on the attack showed victims lying with their hands tied the incident. The United States, an ally of Egypt since it circumvent security and modify a site.” Facebook said it appreciates YCombinator hacker news forum. behind them, apparently shot execution-style. They made peace with Israel in 1979, has postponed deliv- user’s timeline. He said he took the help with security but not by hack- Independent security researcher were not in uniform. The photos could not be immedi- ery of four F-16 fighters and scrapped a joint military unusual step of hacking into ing into user accounts. Facebook Graham Cluley said he had “some Zuckerberg’s profile after being security engineer Matt Jones post- sympathy” with Facebook on the ately verified. exercise, but has not halted its $1.55 billion in annual ignored by the Facebook security ed a comment Sunday on a security issue. “Although he was frustrated A sniper also shot dead a policeman in the Sinai city aid, spent mostly on US-made arms supplies. team. “So i did post to Mark forum saying “we fixed this bug on by the response from Facebook’s of El Arish, the state news agency said, quoting a secu- There are increasing calls from US lawmakers for the Zuckerberg’s timeline , as those pic- Thursday,” and admitted that “we security team, Shreateh did the rity source. Mounting insecurity in Sinai worries Egypt aid to be suspended. “For us to sit by and watch this tures shows,” he said, including should have asked for additional... wrong thing by using the flaw to and also the United States because the desert penin- happen is a violation of everything that we stood for,” screen shots of the posting. instructions after his initial report.” post a message on Mark sula lies next to Israel and the Palestinians’ Hamas- Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential “Dear Mark Zuckerberg,” he “We get hundreds of reports Zuckerberg’s wall,” Cluley said on ruled Gaza Strip, as well as the Suez Canal, one of the nominee, said. — Reuters wrote.” First sorry for breaking your every day,” Jones said. “We have his blog. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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n his full-throated cry of support for the Egyptian authorities, Saudi King Abdullah on Friday described street protests by Ithe Muslim Brotherhood as representing “terrorism and sedi- tion”. That stark view of a crisis that has killed hundreds in the past week shows why the world’s top oil exporter will continue to back Egypt’s crackdown on the Brotherhood even while its Western allies try to convince the generals to back down. When the “Arab Spring” revolts blew across the Middle East in 2011 - Focus toppling one authoritarian president after another - the kings and emirs of the rich Gulf monarchies held on to power but were shaken as never before. One of King Abdullah’s nephews, Holy Makkah Governor Al-Qaeda gets a new lease of life Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, decried the uprisings in a poem as a “dust storm sweeping Arab lands” in which traditional rulers By Myra MacDonald and analysts doubt hundreds of jihadis will pile into Egypt from sives. Brian Fishman, a counter-terrorism specialist at the New had been defamed as “backward, reactionary and barbaric”. outside, although more locals may be driven to violence. For America Foundation, said on Twitter: “Only a matter of time Two years later, those same rulers now see a chance to restore ou would probably have to go back a decade to find a outsiders looking to fight, Syria is still a more attractive destina- before a major strike, and it will be Cairo, not Sinai.” the stable order that had held for generations in the region, cause with such potential to mobilize jihadis worldwide in tion with its well-organized operations by Al-Qaeda affiliates Since the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in and are determined to spend their oil billions to bring back Ya short space of time. Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. 2011, Islamist militants, including those from AQIM, have used trusted friends. Nowhere is that more true than Egypt, long With images of dying Islamist protesters in media across the Syria also dovetails easily with Al-Qaeda’s anti-Shiite world Libya either as a base or a source of arms supplies. Over the past Saudi Arabia’s most powerful regional ally and whose army globe, the unrest in Egypt plays into al Qaeda’s narrative of vic- view, projected as a battle between Sunnis and Alawite two years, an unknown number of arms have made it into Egypt chief Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi has close connections to the ruling timization, giving it an ideal opportunity to expand a strategy of President Bashar Al-Assad and his backers in Shiite Iran. from Gaddafi’s stockpiles, adding to fears of instability created family after serving as defense attache in Riyadh. The gulf exploiting instability it has already used in Libya, Syria and Iraq. “It is more complicated in Egypt, though Egypt has long by the escape of hundreds of prisoners from Egyptian jails dur- rulers’ are alarmed by popular Islamist movements, such as the Egypt may not become an open front for jihad - the situation been important for many jihadis, and the unrest and repression ing the 2011 revolution which ousted Mubarak. How quickly any Muslim Brotherhood, which benefited most from the downfall there is too unpredictable to say - but the violence has made it will almost certainly attract jihadist attacks or drive some serious jihadi violence might surface is open to debate given the of entrenched dictators after 2011 and which the princes see as more vulnerable to bomb attacks and a rallying cry for those Egyptians toward more organized violence”, said Andrew speed of the Egyptian crackdown. threatening the principle of hereditary monarchy. “Saudi strate- advocating violence to bring Muslims under sharia, Islamic law. Lebovich, an academic focusing on Al Qaeda in the Islamic In Syria, the first major bombing in the capital Damascus gists might see groups influenced by the Brotherhood as the “If ever there’s a ripe moment 2 support Al-Qaeda, it’s surely Maghreb (AQIM). Apart from the lure of Syria, al Qaeda is no took place in late December 2011, nine months after the upris- only ones that could emerge to challenge their rule,” said a now. Raising the flag in Egypt in now a priority, Insha’Allah!” the longer the kind of organization in which Zawahri, despite his ing against President Bashar Al-Assad had erupted. The Saudi journalist speaking on condition he not be identified. The Kenyan offshoot of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab, said Egyptian roots, could give top-down orders to go to fight in Damascus blast and other attacks were later claimed by Jabhat Saudi stance is shared with the United Arab Emirates, which on its Twitter feed. It is one of numerous posts by Al-Qaeda- Egypt. Since it was founded in the late 1980s by Osama bin Al-Nusra. Beyond Egypt, a shared narrative of Muslims besieged this year put on trial Islamists it suspects of plotting to over- linked jihadi groups calling on Egyptians to abandon democracy Laden, Al- Qaeda has made itself into the most powerful of the by the West - which has grown during the wars which followed throw the state, and on Friday praised Egypt’s army for as a Western import and fight for the implementation of sharia- Salafi jihadi groups, bringing in other groups as affiliates. the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington - is being responding to protests with “maximum self restraint”. based government since an upsurge of violence on Wednesday. But it acts more as an essential link in a chain rather than a fuelled by the perception, right or wrong, that the United States Only days after Egypt’s army ousted the Brotherhood’s At least 850 people have died since then in the crackdown hierarchy, with different jihadi groups focusing on local and was complicit in the Egyptian army’s crackdown by virtue of its Mohammed Morsi from the presidency on July 3, Riyadh and on Muslim Brotherhood protests against the Egyptian army’s regional issues. They cooperate when it suits, are united by a $1.3 billion a year military aid. Abu Dhabi pledged aid of $8 billion. A third Gulf monarchy, intervention to oust Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on July common ideology and some of their leaders have shared experi- Arguably, not since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq has a Kuwait, added another $4 billion, which should cover Egypt’s 3. “The mobilisation of a jihadi front in Egypt serves Al-Qaeda’s ences of war zones including Afghanistan. development had such capacity to energize the Muslim world deficit for months. recent agenda of exploiting local conflicts to further their intent They also have competing demands on their resources, outside Egypt against US policies, in turn helping to provide a Saudi princes regard the Brotherhood as an ideological for a jihadi-led revolution throughout the region,” the SITE moni- whether it be building a presence in North and West Africa or more permissive environment for Al-Qaeda. competitor with an aggressively activist political doctrine that toring service said. providing expertise and an ideological core to the Pakistani The Afghan Taleban has been one of many groups to con- disdains Riyadh’s ties with the West and aims to introduce Morsi’s overthrow was a propaganda boost for jihadis like Al- Taliban waging war against the Pakistani state. Since becoming demn Morsi’s overthrow; while far to the west, AQIM accused democracy. Riyadh accuses the Brotherhood of betraying its Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian who had accused leader of al Qaeda in 2011, Zawahri has had to balance his own foreign agents of colluding with the Egyptian military and por- trust after it gave members shelter from persecution in Egypt in the Brotherhood of treachery by seeking to introduce political interest in Egypt with the need to show he is capable of uniting trayed the crisis as part of a worldwide attack against Muslims. In the 1960s, only to see them agitate for change in Saudi Arabia. Islam through peaceful means rather resorting to violence. In all the different parts of the organization, including its powerful Pakistan, the Egyptian crackdown played into the hands of those “There’s a lot of concern throughout the Gulf that the early August, he called for “the soldiers of the Quran to wage the branch in Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). who blame the United States and its war in Afghanistan for mili- Brotherhood is attempting to infiltrate and to destabilize gov- battle of the Quran” in Egypt. tant attacks in the country, hampering efforts to muster a con- ernments,” said Robert Jordan, former US ambassador to The worry is that some members of the Brotherhood, whose LIBYAN WEAPONS sensus to fight the Al-Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taleban. Riyadh and now based in Dubai. influence was demonstrated in election victories after Hosni Inside Egypt, some fear the jailing of Brotherhood leaders will “Now we have to support Morsi,” said one Pakistani diplomat, Last month Saudi security forces summoned for question- Mubarak fell in 2011, will now be won over to the thinking of make it all the easier for younger members to gravitate towards arguing that Pakistan’s own painful experience of US-backed ing two prominent clerics who had signed a letter condemning Zawahri, who intelligence sources believe is based in Pakistan. Salafi jihadis, just as happened in earlier crackdowns in the late military rule meant it had to speak out for a democratically elect- the Egyptian army’s seizure of power, Saudi media reported. The military, under fire from its ally and main sponsor the United 20th century - among the recruits then was Zawahri. Egypt has a ed president regardless of its views on the Brotherhood. The On Saturday, billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, another States over the crackdown, says Al-Qaeda already has a role and history of Islamist violence: President Anwar Sadat was assassi- crackdown in Egypt coincided with evidence that jihadi groups nephew of the Saudi king, sacked a Kuwaiti preacher from his firm action is the only way to stop it. The Foreign Ministry distrib- nated by Islamists in 1981, and militants killed 58 tourists at continued to have the power to instil fear in the West, despite a top job at a religious television station he owns because of the uted photos on Sunday showing what it said were Muslim Luxor in 1997. Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 24 claim by President Barack Obama in a presidential campaign ral- cleric’s brotherhood ties. The tough Saudi line is shared with Brotherhood members carrying clubs and firearms - and in one Egyptian policemen yesterday in the Sinai peninsula, where ly in 2012 that Al-Qaeda had been “decimated”. Earlier this the Emirates, which has no quarter for the Brotherhood. “I don’t picture a black Al-Qaeda flag. A day earlier, security sources said such attacks have multiplied since the army takeover, while month, the United States closed embassies across the Middle think the UAE will step back from giving help to Egypt accord- Zawahri’s brother Mohamed had been detained. Egypt’s border to the west with Libya is a convenient crossing East and North Africa in response to an unspecified security ing to how many are dying. They are convinced that the gov- The Brotherhood denies links to the global militant network point for weapons or foreign fighters with expertise in explo- threat. —Reuters ernment is doing the right thing and defending the country from a terrorist group,” said Ibtisam Al-Qitbi, a political analyst in Dubai. Kuwait, the other Gulf kingdom to promise billions, is Gibraltar fears ties era of sour with Spain also wary of the Brotherhood and expelled nine Egyptian members of the group on Sunday for protesting, but its posi- By Fiona Ortiz and 11 million tourists last year enjoyed its occasionally causing hours-long waits for leading right-leaning Spanish media to accuse tion is somewhat more nuanced than that of either Riyadh or balmy weather, rare monkeys and hyper- tourists, workers and shoppers while agents Britain of military bullying. Abu Dhabi. Brotherhood politicians serve as opposition mem- he people of tiny Gibraltar - a wealthy British pubs festooned with Union Jacks. meticulously searched cars for contraband. Spanish pride over Gibraltar has in the past bers of Kuwait’s parliament and have long been part of the British enclave perched on a rocky out- Stand-offs with Spain in recent years have Britain, which handles foreign relations been ruffled over far less. British royals now establishment. A Foreign Ministry statement on Friday regret- Tcrop near Spain’s southern tip - have a erupted over the handful of small commercial and defense for the self-governing territory, is avoid visiting after Prince Charles and Princess ted the “large number of Egyptian fatalities”. tradition of griping about their big neighbor, fishing boats from the neighboring Spanish now demanding the European Commission Diana upset Madrid by spending part of their which claims the territory as its own. town of La Linea, which regularly cross into urgently send a team of monitors to see honeymoon on “The Rock”. When Gibraltar Kuwait dilemma But the tetchy relationship has taken a disputed waters that Gibraltar claims it has the whether the controls break European Union was admitted in May into the Union of “There is a dilemma in Kuwait. The Muslim Brothers are well sharp nosedive as an escalating spat over fish- right to manage. Then in July, Gibraltar law. Spain says it will sue Gibraltarian authori- European Football Associations, or UEFA, it entrenched in the political scene and also in the government ing has interrupted a decade of relative calm, dumped concrete blocks into a shallow part of ties for environmental damage from the reef was on condition that Spain and Gibraltar not apparatus,” said Ghanem Al-Najjar, professor of political science igniting concerns that Gibraltar’s tourism and the bay to form an artificial reef. About 30 and has threatened to impose a 50 euro bor- directly play each other. at Kuwait University. The one rich Gulf country that did not port industries could be hurt. From Spanish Spanish fishing boats were circling in protest der fee on tourists, restrict air space or block “It’s astonishing that this type of measure share the Saudi-led consensus was Qatar, which backed Egypt Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia- on Sunday. Spain, despite having built similar the enclave’s lucrative ship-fuelling business. has been taken that is usually reserved for cas- with $7 billion during Morsi’s year in power. Qatar condemned Margallo’s claim that “the party was over” for reefs along its own coastline to renew fish- The diplomatic row has unluckily coincid- es of military tension,” said Dennis Beiso, the both Morsi’s removal and last week’s violence, calling on the Gibraltar, to the enclave’s Chief Minister eries, said it was an environmental disaster, ed with yesterday’s scheduled arrival in Gibraltar team’s liaison to UEFA. The last shot generals to “refrain from the security option” in tackling Fabian Picardo comparing Spain’s govern- and retaliated by implementing a sporadic “go Gibraltar of British warships on their way to fired over Gibraltar was more than 300 years protests. Nevertheless, Qatar has a new ruler after its emir ment to totalitarian North Korea, the rhetoric slow” policy at the narrow border crossing, practice manoeuvres in the Mediterranean, ago when Spain ceded the territory to Britain stepped down this year in favor of his son, and many in the Gulf has turned ugly. in the Treaty of Utrecht, a document written in believe it is stepping back from an ambitious foreign policy that “I cannot remember anything quite so Latin that has proven tough to interpret on saw it lavish funds on Arab Spring revolutionaries. In addition tense and language quite so vitriolic,” said issues such as airspace and that has unen- to cash, which Cairo urgently needs to buy food and fuel, Gulf Bruno Callaghan, owner of Callaghan forced conditions such as that the British friends provide it with diplomatic cover. Saudi Foreign Minister Insurance company in Gibraltar. “They’ve set expel Jews from Gibraltar. Prince Saud Al-Faisal, another nephew of the king, used a visit the clock back 50 years. Whatever happens Gibraltar’s Picardo says Margallo’s rhetoric to France on Sunday to warn Western countries not to pile pres- now, the mistrust is there.” is comparable to the regime of Spanish dicta- sure on Cairo, saying “we will not achieve anything through For Gibraltarians and the thousands of tor Francisco Franco, who shut the border in threats”.— Reuters Spaniards that stream onto the British outpost 1969. It was not completely reopened until every day for work, many of them to build 1985. “We are in a new space where Spain has new homes for this overflowing town of given herself no room for dialogue,” Picardo All articles appearing on these 30,000 people, there is a lot at stake. It has told Reuters. Britain has also alarmed Gibraltar pages are the personal opinion of seen its economy grow steadily since the in the past, especially when former Prime 1990s, fuelled by online gambling operations Minister Tony Blair’s government in 2001 said the writers. Kuwait Times takes no and investment funds drawn to the low 10 it was willing to share sovereignty with Spain. responsibility for views expressed percent tax on corporate earnings. Gibraltar held a referendum, in which 99 per- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Across the border in southern Spain, many cent of residents said they wanted to remain city halls are broke and battling joblessness as British, a desire Britain now pledges to ers to voice their opinions. Please high as 40 percent. In contrast, Gibraltar has 3 respect. send submissions via email to: opin- percent unemployment, a budget surplus, The Spanish Socialist government of 2004- [email protected] or via snail and pays tuition for every youngster that gets 2011 took a softer stance on Gibraltar, for accepted to a university in the United example allowing flights from Madrid to land mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Kingdom. Though Britain maintains a military Backdropped by Gibraltar, a fisherman fixes a Spanish flag on top of a boat at Gibraltar’s airport for the first time. Gibraltar The editor reserves the right to edit base in Gibraltar, the territory is self sufficient. in a port of La Linea de la Concepcion. Spanish fishermen in some 60 fishing is so small that the airport’s runway is crossed any submission as necessary. One in 10 vehicles in Britain are insured by boats protested on Sunday the building of an artificial reef near the disput- by a major road, on which traffic stops several Gibraltar firms, ships line up to fuel at its port, ed British territory of Gibraltar. — AP times a day to let planes land. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 SPORTS

Tremlett eyes Test recall Ireland ban Hawk-Eye United bids for Fellaini

LONDON: England paceman Chris Tremlett is aiming for a recall for this week’s DUBLIN: Ireland’s Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has briefly suspended LONDON: Everton have described as “derisory and insulting” a double bid fifth and final Ashes test against Australia after coming through some “dark and the use of its Hawk-Eye system following an error on Sunday, the same day from Premier League champions Manchester United for Marouane Fellaini tough” times. the goalline technology made its English Premier League soccer debut. and Leighton Baines. The 31-year-old Surrey bowler has been with the squad since the third test In an under-18 hurling match at Dublin’s Croke Park on Sunday, Hawk- According to media reports United, now managed by former Everton in Manchester and, in the absence of Tim Bresnan and Graham Onions through Eye overruled a goalline umpire by adjudging that a ball went wide boss David Moyes, offered a total of 28 million pounds ($43.72 million) for injury, is in the running to play in his first test since January last year. Steven despite its own graphic showing that it had sailed over the bar. The game Belgium midfielder Fellaini and England defender Baines. Finn and the uncapped Chris Woakes are the other quick bowling options avail- finished in a draw and the opposing team won in extra-time. “Everton can confirm it has received bids from Manchester United for able to partner James Anderson and Stuart Broad at The Oval tomorrow. “I’m The GAA suspended the use of the system for the senior hurling semi- two players,” director of communications Alan Myers said in a statement on very hopeful,” Tremlett told a news conference yesterdy. “It’s been a long time final that began directly after and that was watched by more than 60,000 Monday. “Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory coming. “It’s been great to have been back involved in the last two test squads. spectators. It said it had begun a review in conjunction with Hawk-Eye. and insulting. Having injuries over the last two years I’m dying to get “It is expected Hawk-Eye will be in full working order for next Sunday’s “The club did not make public these details as it another opportunity.” Tremlett has only played in 11 tests minor (under-18) and senior football semi-finals,” the organisation said on was vital (manager) Roberto Martinez’s prepara- having suffered frequent injuries throughout his career, its website (www.gaa.ie). Hawk-Eye, which has been successfully imple- tions for the opening game of the season were the latest being a bulging disk in his back. He has proved mented in tennis and cricket, began a two-year trial at Croke Park stadium not disrupted,” Myers added in reference to a reliable bowler at test level when fit, taking 17 wickets in June to help officials rule on contentious scores in hurling and Gaelic Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Norwich City. in Australia during the 2010-11 Ashes series. “The motiva- football. Both games feature rugby-style goalposts and points can be United, who beat Swansea City 4-1 in their tion is the goal of playing for England,” said Tremlett. scored by aiming the ball over the crossbar and between the posts. opening match on Saturday, are yet to make a “It was frustrating to go out of the team when you The ball often flies above the seven-metre height of the goalposts, significant transfer-window signing although are injured rather than lack of form. “I’ve had some Wilfried Zaha, who joined in January and was pretty dark and tough times coming back. Now I’m in making it difficult for officials to decide whether a shot has gone wide. Hawk-Eye, owned by Japanese group Sony, did not immediately respond loaned back to Crystal Palace for the rest of the a pretty good place again.” —Reuters season, has arrived.—Reuters to a request for comment.—Reuters Yankees beat Red Sox

BOSTON: Alex Rodriguez was hit by a fastball his first time up and then homered to start a four-run sixth inning that rallied the New York Yankees to a 9-6 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday. Yankees manager Joe Girardi was ejected after storming out of the dugout to holler at plate umpire Brian O’Nora, who warned both benches immediately after Rodriguez was plunked by Ryan Dempster’s 3-0 pitch leading off the second inning. It struck his left elbow pad and ricocheted off his back. “He should have been thrown out of the game,” Girardi said. “Everyone knows it was intentional.” Players streamed from the dugouts and benches, but no skirmishes developed in the latest testy PITTSBURGH: Wade Miley No. 36 of the Arizona Diamondbacks pitches in the first game between the longtime rivals. inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the game at PNC Park. —AFP The dustup seemed to spark the Yankees, who were trailing 2-0 at the time. Mariano Rivera earned his first save since blowing three Dodgers fall to Phillies chances in a row for the first time in his career. PHILADELPHIA: Carlos Ruiz had four hits, REDS 9, BREWERS 1 Rodriguez, who is appealing his 211-game suspension in the Biogenesis case, went 3 for 4 and the Philadelphia Phillies benefited from In Milwaukee, homer Bailey allowed one with two runs and two RBIs. His homer to deep two ninth-inning errors by shortstop Hanley run and three hits in eight innings as center leading off the sixth pulled the Yankees Ramirez to beat the Dodgers 3-2 on Sunday, Cincinnati routed Milwaukee. Bailey (8-10) within 6-4. New York loaded the bases and went giving interim manager Ryne Sandberg his won his third straight decision and improved ahead when Brett Gardner hit a bases-clearing first victory and ending Los Angeles’ 10-game his career mark against Milwaukee to 2-7 with triple. BOSTON: Ichiro Suzuki No. 31 of the New York Yankees bats against the New York Yankees dur- winning streak. his first win in three starts against the Brewers Boston’s lead in the AL East was cut to one ing the game at Fenway Park in Boston. —AFP Sandberg took over when Charlie Manuel, this season. Scooter Gennett’s double in the game over Tampa Bay. The game took 4 hours, RAYS 2, BLUE JAYS 1 games. After Houston blew an early three-run the most successful manager in club history, second, and Khris Davis’ solo shot in the fifth 12 minutes. CC Sabathia (11-10) got the win and In St. Petersburg, Jose Lobaton hit a solo lead, Dominguez homered one pitch after was fired on Friday. The Phillies, shut out by and infield single in the seventh were the the Yankees took two of three from the first- home run in the 10th inning as Tampa Bay reliever Juan Gutierrez (0-4) intentionally the Dodgers in each of Sandberg’s first two only hits for the Brewers. Bailey walked one place Red Sox. edged Toronto. walked Carlos Corporan. games, snapped a four-game skid and won and struck out eight, including Juan Francisco Lobaton sent a 2-1 pitch from Brad Lincoln Brett Oberholtzer (3-1) pitched six effective for the fifth time in 26 games. three times. Brewers starter Wily Peralta (8-13) TIGERS 6, ROYALS 3 (1-2) into the right-field seats. Lobaton had a innings during Houston’s sixth win in seven Andre Ethier homered for the Dodgers, allowed five runs. Cincinnati sent 10 men to In Detroit, Miguel Cabrera hit his 40th home game-ending triple in the ninth on Friday. games at Angel Stadium. Mike Trout had two who have lost just nine of their last 51. Darin the plate in the fifth and tacked on four more run and had an RBI single to help Max Scherzer Jake McGee (3-3) struck out one during a hits for the Angels before leaving in the sixth become baseball’s first 18-game winner in Ruf hit a home run to begin Philadelphia’s runs. perfect 10th. Tampa Bay took two of three from inning with right hamstring tightness. Josh Detroit’s victory over Kansas City. comeback from a two-run deficit. Jonathan Toronto, which hasn’t won a series at Tropicana Hamilton homered and tripled for Los Angeles, The reigning Triple Crown winner became Field since April 2007. Rays starter Chris Archer and Mark Trumbo drove in three runs and hit his Papelbon (3-1) struck out two in a scoreless BRAVES 2, NATIONALS 1 the third player since 1921 to have at least 40 allowed one run and four hits over seven 28th homer late in the Angels’ sixth loss in eight ninth to earn the win. In Atlanta, Julio Teheran pitched around homers and 120 RBIs while batting .350 or bet- innings. games. Brandon League (6-4), who relieved Paco trouble through six scoreless innings as a ter through 116 games, joining Babe Ruth and Blue Jays right-hander Todd Redmond, a St. Rodriguez in the ninth, took the loss. Los tired Atlanta bullpen held on in a win over Jimmie Foxx, according to STATS. Petersburg native, gave up one run and six hits ATHLETICS 7, INDIANS 3 Angeles was beaten for only the second time Washington. The Braves won two of three in Scherzer (18-1) gave up two runs on five hits over six-plus innings in his first start at Tampa In Oakland, Chris Young and Alberto Callaspo in 21 road games. the series and stretched their NL East lead over eight innings. Scherzer and Roger Clemens Bay. homered in the fifth inning of Oakland’s win over the second-place Nationals to 151/2 are the only pitchers since 1919 to have 18 wins over Cleveland. Jed Lowrie, batting leadoff for DIAMONDBACKS 4, PIRATES 2 games. Four Atlanta relievers made it through in their first 19 decisions, STATS said. MARINERS 4, RANGERS 3 only the third time this season, had two hits and In Pittsburgh, Adam Eaton’s bloop double the final three innings, preserving the win for Cabrera, who has eight homers in 13 games, In Arlington, Kyle Seager hit an RBI double scored twice for Oakland. Josh Donaldson drove in the 16th inning drove in two runs as Teheran (10-6). Craig Kimbrel pitched the leads the majors in batting (.360) and RBIs (120). with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting Seattle in three runs for the A’s, who pulled within a Arizona outlasted Pittsburgh. Eaton’s career- ninth for his 39th save. Both teams exhausted His home run pulled him within five of over Texas. The Mariners took two of three from half-game of AL West-leading Texas. high fourth hit came during his seventh at- their bullpens in the Nationals’ 8-7 win in 15 Baltimore’s Chris Davis. The Royals lost three of AL West-leading Texas. They scored three runs in Young hit his 11th home run of the season bat, with A.J. Pollock and Didi Gregorius on innings on Saturday night. five this weekend and trail the AL Central-lead- 7 1-3 innings against Rangers ace Yu Darvish in off Cleveland starter Scott Kazmir (7-6) to break and two outs. Eaton fought off a 1-0 pitch Freddie Freeman and Chris Johnson hit RBI ing Tigers by 81/2 games. the series finale. a 3-all tie in the fifth. Three pitches later, Texas closer Joe Nathan (3-2) took over to Callaspo followed with his sixth homer and first from Kris Johnson and dunked the ball into singles off Gio Gonzalez (7-6) in the first. Kansas City’s Bruce Chen (5-1) allowed six begin the ninth with the score 3-all, and Endy since being acquired from the Angels in late earned runs - more than he had given up in his shallow left-center. Gonzalez gave up two hits and no runs in the Chavez led off with a single. Humberto Quintero July. last six starts - and eight hits over 5 1-3 innings. Arizona remained five games behind next six innings. sacrificed and Nick Franklin drew a two-out Ryan Raburn homered for Cleveland, which Cincinnati in the race for the second NL wild- walk before Seager’s go-ahead hit. Yoervis has lost six of seven in Oakland. Dan Otero (2-0) card spot. Pittsburgh’s lead in the NL Central MARLINS 6, GIANTS 5 WHITE SOX 5, TWINS 2 Medina (4-3) got the win and Danny Farquhar retired five batters for the win in relief of starter dwindled to one game over St. Louis. In Miami, Jeff Mathis hit an early home In Minneapolis, Alexei Ramirez homered and earned his seventh save in 10 tries. Tommy Milone. Grant Balfour pitched the ninth. The Pirates dropped two of three to run, then lined a tiebreaking double in the had three RBIs, Hector Santiago won for the first The Mariners won for only the eighth time in Arizona, losing their third consecutive series. eighth inning that bounced off center fielder time since June 21, as the Chicago White Sox 21 games. Each team scored single runs in the INTERLEAGUE Wade Miley limited the Pirates to two runs Andres Torres and sent Miami over San beat Minnesota. fifth, sixth and eighth innings before Seattle ORIOLES 7, ROCKIES 2 over eight innings, and Aaron Hill went 4 for 7 Francisco. It was 5-all in a back-and-forth Ramirez finished a triple shy of the cycle. He won it. In Baltimore, Chris Davis went 4 for 5 with his to extend his hitting streak to 11 games for game when Ed Lucas led off the eighth with a homered to lead off the fifth inning, giving Darvish, who had 50 strikeouts in his last five major league-leading 45th home run and Adam Arizona. Arizona’s victory was its 27th in its single against Sandy Rosario (3-1). With one Chicago a 4-2 lead and helping his team win its starts, left after throwing 120 pitches. He walked Jones had a two-run shot among his three hits final at-bat, by far the most in the majors. It out, Mathis hit a liner to left-center and the first road series in more than a month. four after walking a total of four in his previous as Baltimore topped Colorado. also was the Diamondbacks’ 36th comeback ball dropped in front of Torres’ dive and car- Jeff Keppinger’s single scored Avisail Garcia three August starts. Scott Feldman (3-3) pitched into the seventh inning to earn his first win in nearly a month. win - second-most in the majors - and club- omed off him. to make it 5-2 later in the fifth. Brian Dozier had two hits and an RBI for ASTROS 7, ANGELS 5 Davis scored three times and got hits in his final record 13th in extra innings. Six Arizona Chad Qualls (4-1) pitched 1 1-3 scoreless Minnesota, which went 2 for 18 with runners in In Anaheim, Matt Dominguez hit a tiebreak- four at-bats. relievers combined to pitch eight scoreless innings and Steve Cishek worked the ninth scoring position and lost for the fifth time in six ing three-run homer in the seventh inning as After the All-Star slugger’s two-out double innings. Brad Ziegler (7-1) had two strikeouts for his 27th save in 29 chances. Hector games. Houston won back-to-back series for the first off Jhoulys Chacin (11-7) in the third, Jones while pitching perfect 14th and 15th innings, Sanchez singled with one out in the ninth Santiago (4-7) wriggled out of a bases- time in nearly two months with a victory over launched his 25th home run for a 3-0 lead. and J.J. Putz worked around two walks - one before Buster Posey grounded into a game- loaded jam in the fifth. Addison Reed earned his the Los Angeles Angels. Feldman allowed two runs and five hits intentional - in the 16th to earn his sixth save. ending double play. Hunter Pence homered 31st save in 36 chances. Twins starter Samuel Dominguez tied his career high with four hits over 6 1-3 innings for his victory since July 22. Johnson (0-1) threw 82 pitches in six innings and drove in three runs, Brandon Crawford Deduno (7-7) didn’t walk a batter for the second in his native Southern California, and L.J. Hoes Chacin, who entered with a 1.87 road ERA, after being selected from Triple-A also hit a home run, and Gregor Blanco had time this season, but he hit three batters with had his first career homer among three hits in gave up nine hits and three runs over 5 1-3 Indianapolis earlier Sunday. three hits for the Giants.—AP pitches and balked once. the major league-worst Astros’ fourth win in six innings.—AP Witnesses heard woman scream, then Pistorius fired Blade runner goes on trial March 3 PRETORIA: Witnesses heard a woman he shouted at her to call the police, but not conviction of murder without premeditation meditated. Intentional. He wanted to do screaming before gunshots fired by Oscar that she screamed. can bring up to a 15-year prison sentence. that,” prosecution spokesman Medupe Pistorius killed his girlfriend early on The prosecution will attempt to show the Prosecutors said Steenkamp died just Simasiku said. “In as far as a sound case, let Valentine’s Day, South African prosecutors couple argued before she was killed as part after 3 a.m. on Feb. 14 of multiple gunshot the court decide on that. We believe it will said yesterday, contradicting the Paralympic of its case that Pistorius intended to kill wounds, according to the autopsy. go through in our favor.” champion’s version of events as he was Steenkamp. Steenkamp was hit by three bullets. Prosecutors said the second charge of indicted for premeditated murder. Possibly covering their bases, prosecutors Pistorius, 26, appeared in court for possession of illegal ammunition relates to a Pistorius, who was in court for the indict- also said in the indictment papers that Monday’s indictment, crying and holding lack of proper licensing for .38 caliber bullets ment and wept before proceedings began, Pistorius shot “with the intention to kill a per- hands with his siblings before proceedings found at Pistorius’ home. Pistorius shot also will face a charge of illegal possession of son,” and even if the trial judge believes that started. Wearing a dark suit, the athlete Steenkamp with his licensed 9mm handgun. ammunition when he goes on trial March 3 Pistorius didn’t know it was Steenkamp in wiped away tears with a tissue and sat in the This month, the office of South Africa’s in the South African capital, Pretoria. The the locked toilet cubicle when he fired dock with his head bowed. police commissioner said in a statement that much-awaited indictment in the Pretoria through its door, they said he was still guilty Pistorius also stood and spoke twice, first detectives, forensic experts, ballistics Magistrate’s Court yielded new detail about of murder. “Some of the state witnesses responding to the magistrate’s question on experts, psychologists and other profession- how prosecutors will pursue a case that has heard a woman scream, followed by whether he was OK by saying: “Under the cir- als are confident they have the evidence to gripped the world because of the celebrity moments of silence, then heard gunshots cumstances, ja (yes).” He also was asked if he convict Pistorius. status of Pistorius, who overcame the loss of and then more screaming,” the prosecution understood the indictment and he said he The most telling evidence - apart from both his legs as a child to become a global said in the 11-page indictment. The court set did. the witness testimony - may be in records on phenomenon and Olympic competitor. March 3-20 as the trial period. Prosecutors The case will be sent to the North cellphones found at Pistorius’ home and His girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model submitted a list of 107 witnesses, including Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, where a through examination of the toilet cubicle and budding reality TV show star, would Pistorius’ uncle Arnold, sister Aimee and judge will ultimately pronounce the athlete door through which Pistorius shot. The angle have celebrated her 30th birthday yesterday. brother Carl, as well as a number of people innocent or guilty. South Africa does not or trajectory of the bullets could show if Pistorius has said he thought Steenkamp who lived in the same gated community have trial by jury. Pistorius was standing on his stumps when was in bed and he shouted at her to call the where Steenkamp was killed. Although the word “premeditated” was he shot, as he says, or if he was on his pros- JOHANNESBURG: This picture taken on November 4, police, believing there was a dangerous If convicted of premeditated murder, not contained in the indictment, prosecutors thetics, as the prosecution maintains - a 2012 during the Feather Awards held at Melrose Arch intruder in his bathroom, and that he didn’t Pistorius could face a life sentence with a said afterward that it was a case of premedi- marked difference in the two accounts along in Johannesburg shows South Africa’s Olympic sprint know she was in the toilet cubicle when he minimum of 25 years in prison before parole. tated murder. with the alleged fight between him and star Oscar Pistorius and his model girlfriend Reeva fired through its door four times. He has said There is no death penalty in South Africa. A “When you talk of intentional, it’s pre- Steenkamp.—AP Steenkamp.—AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 SPORTS Europe wins Solheim Cup

PARKER: Europe never looked more at home at the Solheim Cup. Especially on the greens. From the 45-foot putt that 17-year-old Charley Hull rolled in to re-ignite the momen- tum Sunday to the 4-foot tester Caroline Hedwall sank to end what little drama was left, the Europeans owned Colorado Golf Club. Led by Hull, the youngest player to suit up at the Solheim Cup, and Hedwall, the first player to go 5-0 at this event, Europe romped to a record-setting 18-10 victory over the Americans and won the cup on U.S. soil for the first time since the event began in 1990. “We took it to them,” Europe’s Suzann Pettersen said, “and they couldn’t answer.” This was a wire-to-wire victory, the likes of which very few saw coming. America had more top-20 players (5 to 3), more major-title winners (5 to 3) and more BROOKLINE: Matthew Fitzpatrick, 18, of England, holds the Havemayer Trophy after Solheim Cup experience (25 years to 17) to defeating Oliver Goss, of Australia, in the 36-hole championship match of the US say nothing of more success over the history Amateur golf tournament. —AP of this team event (8 victories to 4). But Europe took the lead Friday, took an Fitzpatrick ends England’s even firmer grasp of it with a sweep in the best-ball matches Saturday, then closed it out US Amateur title drought by winning five of 12 matches Sunday and earning half-points in five more. BROOKLINE: Matt Fitzpatrick has won the Jones, three-time winner Tiger Woods and A lightning delay of about an hour put off US Amateur, beating Oliver Goss 4 and 3 in two-time winners Jack Nicklaus and the inevitable, but when the weather cleared, the 36-hole final on Sunday to become the Ouimet. Hedwall returned to the 17th tee box, tied first English champion of the tournament It’s the first time Englishmen have won with Michelle Wie, and didn’t miss a beat. since 1911. the US Open and US Amateur in the same She halved that hole, then stuck her Fitzpatrick won when Goss missed a par calendar year. And it was a victory 100 approach on 18 using a 9-iron from 150 yards putt on No. 15 at The Country Club. The years in the making. out. She celebrated the putt that gave Europe event came on the 100th anniversary of Vardon was already a five-time British its clinching 14th point with an uppercut into local caddie Francis Ouimet’s landmark US Open champion - and Ray had won in 1912 the air. A handful of her teammates, already Open victory over British pros Harry Vardon - when the 1913 US Open was delayed sev- off the course, ran to congratulate her. PARKER: Caroline Hedwall of Sweden and the European Team, with a perfect record of five and Ted Ray. eral months so they could play in it. A bit later, Catriona Matthew holed a 5-foot points poses with the trophy and her captain Liselotte Neumann after they won the match 18- The 18-year-old is the first foreigner to Ouimet, who lived across the street and par putt to halve her match and give Europe 10 during the final day singles matches in the 2013 Solheim Cup. —AFP win any major USGA event at The Country caddied at the club, was an unheralded the outright win on the seventh try in those holes and unfortunately it was the have any chance at a comeback from five Club, a streak that grew into a legend when amateur whose playoff victory over the America. Within moments, the Europeans Europeans.” European captain Liselotte points down. Lewis lost her lead when Anna Ouimet beat Vardon and Ray here in the British pros became the foundational event were in a full-throated rendition of “We Are Neumann said many of her players headed Nordqvist, who had made a hole-in-one on 1913 US Open. in American golf and turned The Country the Champions.” No. 17 to close out a match a day earlier, hit “It’s fantastic and it’s nice to be the first Club into the Plymouth Rock of putting. back onto the greens after their practice (in) a while,” Fitzpatrick said. “I guess it’s With his 10-year-old caddie - turned life- This is the first time they’ve defended the rounds earlier in the week to soak in the sub- her tee shot to 20 feet and made the putt. great to go down in history. That’s sort of long friend - Eddie Lowery, Ouimet’s victory cup, which they won two years ago in Ireland. tleties of the greens. Lewis salvaged the tie by getting up and what everyone wants in golf, wants to helped spread the sport beyond the realm Their eight-point victory was the largest in the “We did talk a lot about the speed,” she down on 18 after the last of a handful of shaky achieve. ... It’s just fantastic, and I feel great.” of gentlemen and foreigners and turned history of the event. “In sports you just cannot said. “As soon as we got here, we realized they approach shots that marred her week on what Fitzpatrick never trailed in the final match, the historic course into a veritable always predict what’s going to happen,” were super-fast, some of the fastest we’ve Mallon called a “second-shot course.” taking the lead for good on the second Plymouth Rock of putting. American Cristie Kerr said. ever played. It was a matter of reading the While the US veterans were struggling, hole of the afternoon round - the 20th of A century later, Fitzpatrick came to The The course was hand-picked by the greens, reading the speed into the putts.” Neumann got more than she ever could have the day - and going 2 up one hole later. Country Club and became the first English Americans and captain Meg Mallon brought American Paula Creamer went 1-3 for the expected from her six Solheim Cup rookies. Goss cut it to one on No. 9, but fell behind champion of the US Amateur since Harold her team to Colorado a handful of times in the week, including a 5-and-4 loss to Hull, who They combined to go 12-5-2. That included a two again on the 10th hole when he lipped Hilton in 1911. And he did it with his 14- months leading up to the tournament to get took the lead with a 45-foot birdie on No. 6 3-0 effort from Spain’s Carlota Cigunda. out on a 4-foot putt. year-old caddie - an irony that wasn’t lost used to the undulations in the huge greens and never looked back. After Hull closed out It was Cigunda at the center of the week’s Fitzpatrick went 3 up on the 14th hole on the Fitzpatrick brothers or the 5,200 in that are subtly influenced by the Rocky the match on No. 14, she asked Creamer to biggest, and strangest, drama - on Friday, and then on No. 15, where he had won four the gallery that followed them along the Mountains to the West. With wide, almost- autograph a golf ball for a friend back home. when she hit her second shot on No. 15 into a of his previous five matches, he was short 7,188-yard, par-70 course. unmissable fairways, this was a three-day “I’m going to take that as one of the high- hazard, triggering a 25-minute delay while of the green and Goss was off the back. “I also think it’s quite strange that I had chipping and putting contest and the United lights of my career right there,” Creamer said. officials figured out where she should drop. Goss’ chip missed the hole by about 6 my little brother on the bag, and most peo- States lost badly, especially in the closing Kerr, another American veteran, went 1-2-1, Cigunda saved par after that, then went on to inches and rolled 3 feet past, while. ple have been saying we’re a bit like stretches. earning the tie after she and Karine Icher team with Pettersen for a 1-up victory over Fitzpatrick two-putted from the closely Ouimet and Lowery,” said Matt Fitzpatrick, On Sunday alone, the US saw leads turn agreed to halve the day’s final, meaningless Lewis and Lexi Thompson. mown area leading up to the green, hitting who came into the tournament as the No. 2 into ties or losses over the final three holes in match while walking up the 18th fairway in That, it turned out, was the start of a his second from less than 6 feet. When Goss amateur in the world. “We’re both really five matches. “The way we played 16, 17 and European romp that the Americans were missed his par putt, the two shook hands small. I kind of see the resemblance.” fading light. Stacy Lewis, ranked second and and Fitzpatrick hugged his brother, Alex, Goss beat stroke play co-medalist Brady 18 I think is really what made the difference,” fresh off a victory at the Women’s British powerless to stop. “With such a young team, who was caddying for him. Watt in the semifinal and then drafted his Mallon said. “It wasn’t for lack of preparation, Open, finished 1-2-1. with nothing to lose, it just seemed like they “It was nice to win 4 and 3 again today,” fellow Australian as a caddie for the final. because we played this golf course quite a bit. Mallon put her at the top of the lineup were a little bit looser,” Mallon said. “They Fitzpatrick said. “It’s kind of a strange thing. The 19—year-old Goss, who plays college So it wasn’t like it was a surprise for us, it was Sunday, knowing the Americans needed were making more putts and we were not. I did have a feeling that I could close it out.” golf at Tennessee, also gets an exemption just a matter of who dropped the putts on some quick, momentum-building wins to And that’s what it came down to.”—AP Fitzpatrick, who was the low amateur into the US Open and a likely invitation to last month in the British Open, got a gold the Masters. medal for his victory along with exemp- “I’ve definitely got a couple weeks that tions into the 2014 US and British Opens - I’ll keep open in my schedule,” Goss said. Reed claims maiden where he will be paired with defending “If someone told me at the start of the champions Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose - week I was going to have the opportunity PGA play-off victory and a likely invitation to the Masters. His to play the Masters and the US Open next name will be inscribed on the Havemeyer year, I’d be speechless. I wouldn’t be able GREENSBORO: Patrick Reed hit the “best Spieth was certainly impressed: “It was one Trophy alongside five-time winner Bobby to believe it.—AP shot” of his life from a seemingly impossi- of the best shots I’ve ever witnessed,” said ble position to set up a sensational play-off Spieth. “I walked over to his ball (because) I victory over fellow young gun Jordan wanted to see what he had to do and he Spieth at the $5.3 million Wyndham didn’t have much. Luna Rossa beat hobbled Championship on Sunday. “I didn’t think he could hit the ball that The 23-year-old PGA Tour rookie from high and stop it from that lie.” Spieth gave Emirates to level series Texas looked destined for defeat after slic- Reed a sporting thumbs-up, but it still was- ing his drive almost out-of-bounds at the n’t over, because Spieth had a sharply- SAN FRANCISCO: The Louis Vuitton Cup British sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson died in second extra hole, the par-four 10th at breaking 10-foot birdie putt that shaved finals have been more about survival than the capsize of Swedish Team Artemis Racing’s Sedgefield Country Club. the right edge of the hole but didn’t drop. sailing. Emirates Team New Zealand fell out of first boat during a training run May 9. But Reed’s ball stopped barely one yard That opened the door for Reed, who the second race of the series because of a The Kiwis still won the opener because the in bounds and he took advantage of his made no mistake with his birdie putt to mechanical problem Sunday, handing Italy’s Italians dropped out just seconds into the lucky break by conjuring up a piece of capture his first tour victory, worth Luna Rossa a victory that evened the finals at race after struggling to repair a new lifting magic with his second shot, threading a $954,000 and the Sam Snead Cup. one each. After a nosedive sent two men system around their right daggerboard. seven-iron that somehow avoided the trees Reed’s heroics prevented Spieth from tumbling overboard during its opening win, Earlier Sunday morning, the left rudder of and finished within seven feet of the hole. becoming the youngest two-time winner Emirates sailed smoothly at the start of the one Oracle’s boats broke during a practice “It was the best shot of my life, that’s for on tour in more than a century. second day. The Kiwis pushed ahead by about competition between its crews. General man- sure,” said Reed, whose caddie - and wife - Nevertheless, the 20-year-old, who won 400 meters before the electronic system that ager Grant Simmer said the catamaran, skip- Justine measured the shot at 167 yards. last month’s John Deere Classic, continued controls the hydraulics malfunctioned near pered by Ben Ainslie, hooked a ferry demar- “When I got the signal the ball was out his emergence as one of the game’s rising the end of the third leg of the five-leg race on cation buoy trying to avoid a small yacht of bounds my heart sank. I pulled my hat stars. foggy San Francisco Bay. Saturday and the problem resurfaced during down and I was so frustrated and sad. If I The play-off was a rollercoaster of emo- “Devastated,” Emirates tactician Ray Davies a prestart maneuver Sunday. didn’t close that out and win it I would tion for Spieth, who seemed destined for said. “That was one we had in the bank.” For Even Luna Rossa’s win came with collateral have been heartbroken.” defeat at the first extra hole after pulling the second straight day, officials called off the damage. The Italian catamaran had a few But when Reed got word from other his drive into the woods. second race due to strong wind. Two makeup cracks in the rib of its wing. The crew quickly marshals that the ball was safe, his spirits He had no choice but to pitch his sec- races will be held Monday, previously a repaired the cracks, and skipper Max Sirena soared. “I felt I was back playing T-ball. The ond shot back to the fairway and a poor scheduled day off, if conditions permit. said they would’ve raced had there been a ball was so far above my feet that it almost third shot left him 26-feet above the hole, The winner of the best-of-13 series will second competition. felt like I was taking a baseball swing. “The from where he defied the odds and sank face Oracle Team USA in the 34th America’s “I think the main issue here is to do two lie was fine. There was a little bit of dirt, a the par putt. Cup starting Sept. 7. Most of the maneuver- races a day. They’re pretty painful for these couple of pieces of grass, twigs, a couple of Reed still had a chance to win with a ing has been on the mechanical side of these boats,” Sirena said. “They’re pretty fragile spiders, basically anything you’d find in a seven-foot birdie attempt, but his putt was high-performance 72-foot catamarans so far. boats. And probably, at the moment, not built wilderness. poor and the hole was halved, setting up Both teams had to make overnight repairs fol- to do two races a day.” “The problem was the tree I had to go even more drama at the next hole. lowing an opening day of damage and dra- Regatta director Iain Murray expected a under. The tree trunk was right there and I Earlier, Reed (66) and Spieth (65) fin- ma. Emirates tore the trampoline tarp in the slightly calmer wind but a stronger current had to hit the ball dead straight from a ished regulation tied at 14-under-par center of its boat when skipper Dean Barker Sunday, giving the already challenging condi- baseball lie. It’s hard for me to do that, 266. They both made tap-in pars at the put the hulls deep in the water trying to make tions another twist. Members of both teams GREENSBORO: Patrick Reed celebrates with the trophy because I play draws. 72nd hole to finish two strokes ahead of a sharp turn at high speeds and in windy con- insist they still prefer the afternoon start after making a birdie on the second hole of a playoff to “I knew it was going to be do or die. I fellow Americans John Huh, who ditions Saturday. The frightening scene times, when the wind is often stronger and so defeat Jordan Spieth during the final round of the had to make a great golf swing and to pull bogeyed the final two holes, and Brian brought back chilling memories of when is the risk of a wash out.—AP Wyndham Championship. —AFP it off meant everything.” The vanquished Harman.—Reuters Jamie bags slopestyle gold

QUEENSTOWN: American snowboarder fading daylight. Jones was more than seven points behind Jamie Anderson waited out a lengthy weather Anderson scored 94.75 points on her first Anderson after a solid first run. “I was pretty delay before producing a flawless perform- run and clinched the gold medal when none chuffed with my run, especially under the ance to win a women’s world cup slopestyle of her closest competitors could match her conditions,” she said. “I mean, it was foggy, it gold medal at the New Zealand winter games score on the second run. was windy and I managed to land all of my yesterday. “Today has been just wonderful,” she said. tricks.” The four-time X Games gold-medalist bet- “I’m so thankful it worked out and that every- Maas was also pleased with her third plac- tered her World Tour ranking of No. 2 as she one was patient with the earth. ing in difficult conditions and in her first event beat Britain’s Jenny Jones and Cheryl Maas of “It’s just a part of the journey. I just wanted back from injury. “I’m so happy today. I got the Netherlands to take first place. to land a run and do well but I wasn’t totally third place and I couldn’t believe it, especially Poor weather forced the postponement obsessed with winning. All of us had to deal after being out for six months with an ACL of the men’s slopestyle heats and final, and with the weather which was quite challenging and meniscus injury,” she said. “I’m really hap- SAN FRANCISCO: Emirates Team New Zealand skippered by Dean Barker in action delayed the women’s event so that but we all rode really well and I’m so proud of py. There couldn’t be a better start than against Team Luna Rossa Challenge skippered by Massimiliano Sirena during race two of the Louis Vuitton Cup. —AFP Anderson, among eight finalists, finished in all the girls and I’m really happy with myself.” this.”—AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 , 2013 SPORTS Let’s hope athletes take a stand in Sochi

MOSCOW: John Carlos took a stand for many people will stop and listen to Beijing, the IOC is more concerned more of the same nonsense from a top cure was a small step in the right direc- human rights during the Mexico City what these individuals have to say. They about its bottom line than advancing Russian official on the final day of the tion. American figure skater Johnny Olympics that resonates to this day. will stop and recognize what they are the cause of human rights. world championships. Sports minister Weir vowed to do more if he qualifies Almost 45 years ago, Carlos climbed on wearing or which direction they are The Russians insist this is a non-issue Vitaly Mutko said the law would not for the Olympics - even at the risk of the medals podium along with Tommie going.” What would be more powerful being pushed by the West to embarrass infringe on the private lives of athletes getting arrested. Every athlete who Smith. Each thrust a black-gloved fist than every athlete carrying a small rain- the Olympic hosts as they prepare for and spectators at the Sochi Olympics, winds up in Sochi should look deep into toward the sky. Peter Norman stood in bow flag - a symbol of the gay pride their moment on the world stage, that but he seemed to leave open the possi- his or her heart and see if they can sum- front of them, stoically wearing a badge movement - when they walk into stadi- the law is merely designed to protect bility of prosecuting anyone making mon the courage to take a stand. that showed his support for the African- um in Sochi during the opening cere- children and there is no desire to crimi- statements that were judged to be Rest assured, there’s strength in American cause. mony? nalize homosexuality. But every time propaganda. More troubling, he numbers. Putin isn’t likely to fill Russian Let’s hope the athletes of the world What would be more powerful than they addressed the complaints during appeared to indicate that homosexual jails with world-class athletes from are prepared to make a similar state- every athlete who wins a medal climb- the world athletics championships, relations were essentially the same around the world. ment at the Sochi Games. They’re the ing on that podium with a replica of the which wrapped up Sunday in Moscow, scourge on society as substance abuse. At the very least, every athlete best hope of getting through to the OPHR (Olympic Project for Human they stepped in the you-know-what. “We want to protect our children should reflect on the example set by Russians that their anti-gay law is unac- Rights) badge that Smith, Normal and When Swedish high jumper Emma whose psyches have not formed from Smith, Carlos and Norman at the height ceptable. Carlos wore while receiving their Green Tregaro painted her fingernails in the propaganda of drug use, drunken- of another civil rights movement - and “We were willing to sacrifice every- medals at the ‘68 Summer Games? the colors of the rainbow to support ness and nontraditional sexual rela- the price they were willing to pay. Smith thing,” Carlos said. “It was not just a ges- Wonder how that would go over gays and lesbians, Russian pole vault tions,” Mutko said. Maybe his true feel- and Carlos were sent home from the ture for John Carlos and Tommie Smith with Vladimir Putin? Let’s hope we get star Yelena Isinbayeva called it a sign of ings somehow got lost in translation Mexico City Games. Norman was ostra- and Peter Norman. It was for all of soci- to find out. Certainly, there’s no chance disrespect for her homeland. again. If not, that sort of talk is down- cized in his native Australia and never ety.” Carlos, as much as anyone, knows of the International Olympic Committee “If we allow to promote and do all right frightening. got another chance to compete in the that sports can be a potent tool to help taking any meaningful steps after this stuff on the street, we are very “I’m stunned with the passing of Olympics. “I was extraordinarily confi- address society’s ills. Russia’s recent passage of a law that afraid about our nation because we these laws,” said Greg Louganis, proba- dent in my cause,” Carlos said. “I think “I’ll bet there are athletes out there bans so-called gay “propaganda.” consider ourselves like normal, standard bly the greatest diver ever and openly courage is something that everyone that have as much power or recognition Some of that is understandable, giv- people. We just live with boys with gay. “How can anybody call themselves has. It’s just difficult for some people to as the president of the United States,” en we’re only months away from the woman, woman with boys,” Isinbayeva sane and or even educated? That’s my find that courage within themselves. It’s he told The Associated Press. “Now, start of the Winter Games - too short a said in English. Later, she would claim it biggest concern. There are gay kids there. You’ve just to bring it out.” when I say power, I don’t mean they timeframe to pull the mammoth event was all just a misunderstanding born every day in Russia. Where are the Carlos, Smith and Norman found have the political power to dictate from Sochi and award it to another city, because she wasn’t speaking in her voices to protect those children?” that courage and wound up on the things one way or the other. I’m talking at least without delaying the games native language. That’s where the athletes of the right side of history. They’ll be joined by about a power amongst the people. So until 2015. But also, as we saw in We’re not buying it, not after we got world come in. Green Tregaro’s mani- any athlete who finds it in Sochi.—AP Bolt, Fraser-Pryce and Farah light up Moscow

MOSCOW: Toppling Usain Bolt from his sprint throne could take a while yet with the untouchable Jamaican star of track and field still looking down on those who seek to chal- lenge his reign. While his jet engine still roars, oth- ers toil, with the fastest man on earth heading home from the Moscow world championships with another three golds, despite never needing to be at his peerless best. Bolt duly com- pleted a 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay treble to match his feats of the last two Olympics, become the most successful athlete in world champi- BROOKLYN: Joey Logano celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Pure onship history - and left promising Michigan 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway. —AP his goal was more Games glory in Rio in 2016. Jamaican sprinters lauding it over Logano holds off Harvick waning powerhouses the United States was evident again in the for crucial Michigan win Luzhniki stadium, the twinkle-toed MOSCOW: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (center) competes in the men’s 4x100 metres relay final at the 2013 IAAF Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powering to World Championships on August 18, 2013.—AFP BROOKLYN: Joey Logano gave Ford a Sprint Keselowski, the defending champion, is still in her own treble. Cup sweep in Michigan - and enabled team eighth place with 667 points, but Kurt Busch In truth, it was far from a vintage his favorite 200. Anchoring the won easily by LaShawn Merritt. “I was record holder and London champion owner Roger Penske to celebrate a victory in is now only two points behind him after a championships, the buzz of last year’s Jamaican 4-100m relay, he took his hungry. Probably the hungriest per- Ashton Eaton admitted he had strug- his home state. third-place showing Sunday. Olympics long gone, with some tally of world championship golds to son in the field,” said the American gled to lift himself in 2013, but that Now Logano can start to envision a happy Greg Biffle (663) is in 10th place. Kasey notable London champions absent, a eight - level with Carl Lewis, Michael after regaining his 2009 title and did not stop the American winning a finish to what has been an eventful season for Kahne (659) and Truex (653) are currently in doping cloud hanging over the sport Johnson and Allyson Felix but ahead making up for last year’s Olympic dis- first world title after a first-day roast- the 23-year-old driver. “We’re close, we’re line to be the wild cards, but Logano closed a and not a world record in sight. Like of the American trio on silver count- appointment when he suffered ing from his coach kickstarted him to close,” Logano said. “What a great place to win lot of ground. Bolt and Fraser-Pryce, an ever-smiling back. Apart from his false start and injury. the fastest-ever decathlon world - what a great time to win, being in Ford’s Points leader Jimmie Johnson lasted less Mo Farah shone bright. The Briton ignominious disqualification from the Compatriot David Oliver did not championship 400 metres. backyard.” than 60 laps Sunday before engine trouble confirmed his place among the long- world 100 final two years ago, the 26- even make it to London after a An Eaton family double — he Logano boosted his chances of reaching knocked him out. He still has a 41-point lead distance greats by brilliantly repeat- year-old has won every global sprint wretched time but the ever-cheerful married Brianne Theisen-Eaton last the Chase for the Sprint Cup, winning for the over Clint Bowyer. ing his Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 gold since claiming his first Olympic American took his first global title in month — was denied when the first time this season in a fuel-mileage race at Biffle finished ninth after winning the pre- double. 100 metres title in Beijing in 2008. the 110m hurdles, with world record Canadian was pipped to heptathlon Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. vious two Cup races at Michigan. His victory Farah took 10,000 gold on the “My goal is to defend (for a sec- holder Merritt sixth after an injury-hit gold by Ganna Melnichenko, much to Logano and Kevin Harvick both breezed in June was the 1,000th for Ford Motor opening night of the championships ond time) my titles at the next year. In the closest gold medal finish the delight of the vociferous Ukraine past Mark Martin with just over three laps to Company across NASCAR’s three national and made light of a stitch during the Olympics as it hasn’t been done of all, Briton Christine Ohuruogu bril- fans who were a constant presence in go in the 400-mile, 200-lap race. Martin had series - Cup, Nationwide and Truck. 5,000 final six days later with another before by anyone. And this world liantly punished an inexcusable lapse an all-too empty Luzhniki Stadium. been trying to stretch fuel, but when he fal- Biffle drives for Roush Fenway Racing. This supreme final lap. championships is a stepping stone by defending champion Amantle The Ukrainians also celebrated tered, Logano was able to hold off Harvick. time, it was Penske’s turn to celebrate. “I go Russia topped the United States in towards that goal,” he said. Montsho, who failed to dip at the line Bohdan Bondarenko’s impressive The win put Logano in 13th place in the back about 30 years here at the track - this is the medals table, by seven golds to The colorful Fraser-Pryce, half her as the former champion edged her high-jump victory, while women’s standings. He’s seven points behind Martin probably one of the biggest wins,” Penske six, helped by strong performances in long hair dyed pink, also led her rivals out by four thousandths of a second. long jumper American Britney Reese Truex Jr. for the second wild card. said. “I say it’s my home state, it’s my home the field events and walks. a merry dance. Her scintillating 100 “I did not see Christine coming,” landed a third successive world title, It’s been an up-and-down year for Logano. track, and Detroit’s my city.” Popular drama queen Yelena metres triumph, sealed from the the Botswanan said with no hint of going better than greats Heike He and teammate Brad Keselowski were It was the third Cup win of Logano’s career, Isinbayeva was roared to victory by moment she powered out of the irony. While Farah left his African Drechsler, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and docked 25 points each after NASCAR inspec- and it came after he posted the ninth-fastest an ecstatic crowd in the pole vault, blocks, was followed up with another rivals still figuring how to plot his Fiona May who all won two apiece — tors confiscated parts from the rear suspen- pole-winning speed in NASCAR history dur- taking an emotional third world title virtuoso display in a 200 final that left downfall there were no such prob- all after sneaking into the final as the sions of their cars before the April 13 race at ing Friday’s qualifying. after a difficult season then announc- three-time champion Felix prone and lems for Ethiopia’s women. 12th and last qualifier. Texas. Johnson, Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. ing she planned to return to action in in tears after the American tore her Line up against Tirunesh Dibaba Kenyan Edna Kiplagat defied hot More recently, Logano has had to recover were among the big names to have prob- the future once she has had a baby. hamstring in the first 30 metres. in the 10,000 and you can write off and humid conditions to become the from back-to-back 40th-place showings at lems, but the race was a clean one for Logano However, she suffered a backlash New stars emerged in the hurdles gold. The runner known as the “baby- first woman to retain the world Daytona and Loudon, but he’s now right in in his No. 22 Ford. He was battling Kurt Busch for her subsequent anti-gay com- in the shape of American Brianna faced destroyer” powered to her third marathon title and Ugandan Stephen the middle of a wild race for the final Chase for the lead at the very start and needed only ments, convincing nobody when she Rollins and Trinidad and Tobago’s world crown, extending her winning Kiprotich showed his surprise spots. “A roller coaster, to say the least,” to outlast Harvick at the end. said later she had been misunder- Jehue Gordon. run in a distance she has never been Olympic victory was no fluke by hold- Logano said. “We’ve just got to keep that Sunday’s race began with 10 of the first 17 stood. While Isinbayeva and the con- Rollins, 22 on Sunday, belied her beaten to 11. Not to be outdone, ing a trio of Ethiopians at bay. momentum going. It just goes to show, as laps under caution. There were nine cautions troversial Russian law divided opin- inexperience to dethrone Sally compatriot Meseret Defar eased Germany took four field event long as nothing goes wrong - knock on wood in all, and Logano and Kurt Busch led for 94 of ion, the world is united in apprecia- Pearson while in the men’s one-lap home in the 5,000 metres. Kenya’s golds, led by Robert Harting who - we’ve been pretty good. We’ve had some the 200 laps - nearly half the race. tion of Bolt. event, Gordon, 21, pipped a tiring dominance of steeplechasing contin- won his third successive world discus good speed in our cars.” The 54-year-old Martin emerged late, He came to Moscow after a low- Michael Tinsley by one hundredth of ued through the indomitable Ezekiel crown. New Zealand shot putter Everything went pretty much according to making a bid for his first Cup win since 2009, key season but, in the absence of a second to confirm the promise that Kemboi, showing his younger team Valerie Adams described her feat of plan at Michigan. Logano won the pole Friday but his fuel didn’t hold up. He finished 27th. injured Yohan Blake and Tyson Gay, made him world junior champion. Of mate Conseslus Kipruto a clean pair four consecutive world titles “as good and took Sunday’s race by a second over “We saved a bunch of gas but we needed banned after failing a drugs test, the Olympic champions to flop in of heels and equalling the hat-trick for women’s sport”, and on the final Harvick, who is safely in fourth place in the one more yellow,” Martin said. “One more yel- there was nobody able to pressure Moscow, Kirani James was the most feat of his coach Moses Kiptanui. day, Frenchman Teddy Tamgho standings. low and we would have been in good shape.” him. He regained his 100 metres title surprising. Defending world and Milcah Chemos Cheywa also led unleashed the fourth longest triple “I was very pleased with the day,” Harvick Johnson finished 40th and is now winless with a workmanlike win over Justin Olympic champion James trailed home a Kenyan one-two in the jump leap of all time - 18.04 said. “It’s just going to come down to getting in 24 Cup starts at MIS. His lost weekend Gatlin, then sauntered to victory over home seventh in a 400 metres final women’s event. Decathlon world metres.—Reuters on a hot streak over 10 weeks and not mak- began when a practice crash Saturday forced ing any mistakes.” him to use a backup car and start in the back There are three races left before the Chase, of the field. He quickly made his way into con- Wiggins targets track for 2016 Olympics tilt and the jockeying for the final spots is just as tention before the engine problem ended his muddled as it was before Sunday’s race. day.—AP LONDON: Bradley Wiggins will retire from road fine. “If Chris wants to, he could potentially win racing after one more season before returning to five Tours now. So if I want to win another Tour, the velodrome with the goal of adding to his I’d probably have to leave the team. “I love this gold medal haul at the 2016 Olympic Games in team. This is my home, I’m not going to go, ‘I 17 Indians found over-age Rio de Janeiro. “I’m going to continue to the next want to be the leader still, so I’m off’.” Wiggins Olympics and try for a fifth gold,” the 33-year-old won six Olympic track medals, including three at Youth Games in China Briton told The Times newspaper yesterday. golds, before switching to the road after the “That’s the plan. Having lost weight and mus- 2008 Olympics. He won an individual time-trial NEW DELHI: India’s bungling sports offi- India has been suspended from the cle the last few years I wouldn’t be able to walk gold at the London Olympics last year, after his cials were left red-faced yesterday after 17 Olympic movement by the International back into that team pursuit squad, so I’m not Tour de France success. track and field athletes were thrown out of Olympic Committee (IOC) since December taking anything for granted, but I am working Despite that, Sky had thrown its backing for the Asian Youth Games underway in last year for electing corruption-tainted towards that. team leader behind 28-year-old Froome, even Nanjing, China for being overage. officials to its local association. “It would be nice to finish the career with before Wiggins had to withdraw from Tour con- The athletes, who were part of a 27- The country’s young sports stars are tak- another Olympic gold.” The Team Sky rider was tention with a knee injury. member track and field squad, were barred ing part in the Nanjing Games as “indepen- unable to defend his 2012 Tour de France title The pair have had a fraught relationship, with from taking part in the Games because dent” Olympic athletes under the IOC flag. due to injury, with compatriot Chris Froome win- Froome reportedly saying recently Wiggins had they were above the stipulated age of 17, They were selected by the Athletics ning a second title for the British team in his not congratulated him on his Tour victory. an official said. Federation of India (AFI) and approved by absence. Wiggins said there was a simple reason for “It should not have happened. We are the state-run Sports Authority of India Wiggins had previously indicated he may that. “For a start, this is a pathetic excuse — and trying to find out the reason,” the Indian (SAI). Athletics officials would not comment never compete in the Tour again, but he said on it’s not an excuse — but I don’t have his phone Olympic Association’s interim chief Vijay on the over-age problems, but SAI chief Jiji Monday that he would like to ride it one more number. “The second thing is, a lot of stuff hap- Kumar Malhotra told reporters in New Thomson blamed the AFI for the mix-up. time, if selected, and was willing to play second pened with me and him and his girlfriend and it Delhi. Two days ago, four Indian badminton “When a federation gives us a list, we fiddle to Froome. was left in a very bad way and rather than me players were prevented from competing in never question it,” Thomson told the Times “I don’t mind admitting that Chris is probably send him some naff (worthless) little text mes- Nanjing because organisers said their of India. “It’s entirely the responsibility of a better Grand Tour rider than me,” Wiggins said. sage, I would rather wait till I see him, genuinely names had not been entered for the com- the federation to pick a team and ensure “He is a much better climber, he can time-trial put my hand out and say ‘you know what, that Bradley Wiggins (front) in action in this file petition by officials back home. everything is in order.”—AFP well. He has age on his side, he has no kids, that’s was a good ride’.”—Reuters photo. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 SPORTS

Marquez wins Indy GP Photo of the day INDIANAPOLIS: Marc Marquez passed believe I could do this race.” two-time world champion Jorge Lorenzo Marquez pulled off another rare feat by midway through Sunday’s race and pulled winning for a third straight time at the his- away for a 3.495-second victory at the toric Brickyard. He won Moto2 titles in 2011 Indianapolis Grand Prix. and 2012 on Indy’s 2.621-mile, 16-turn road The 20-year-old rookie took the lead course. Sunday with a smart inside pass, saved his Not bad for a rider who started the sea- wobbly bike two turns later and then son with aspirations of just trying to make pulled away from the pack for a victory regular appearances on the podium. Now, over Repsol Honda teammate Dani he’s the man everybody is trying to chase. Pedrosa. Marquez came into the race a heavy He became only the third rider in favorite after posting the fastest times in MotoGP history, and the first rookie, to win both practice rounds Friday and Saturday three races in one country in the same sea- and becoming the first MotoGP rider to son. Marquez’s fourth win of the season break the 1 minute, 38-second barrier with also tied Kenny Roberts’ single-season his record pole-winning run Saturday. rookie record, set in 1978, and gave So when Lorenzo and Pedrosa beat Marquez his fifth straight win on U.S. soil. Marquez into the first turn on the first lap, “It will be my second country,” he said Marquez was forced to playing catch-up for after dousing himself with the traditional the first time all weekend. champagne. “We had the perfect weekend.” He didn’t fret. Instead, Marquez bided The only downside is that Marquez his time, saving his tires as Lorenzo’s and won’t be back for about eight months. But Pedrosa’s wore their down. Eventually, for the Spanish star with the increasingly Marquez caught his teammate and the impressive resume, Sunday’s victory was defending race winner with an inside move another major milestone. on the ninth lap. Four laps later, he ran Marquez has now won three straight down the defending world champ, again races, the longest overall streak by a rookie passing on the inside, before hitting the since Roberts. He joined two-time world curbing in the fourth turn. Somehow, champions Jorge Lorenzo, of Spain, and though, Marquez managed to save his Casey Stoner, of Australia, as the only riders bobbly bike without losing track position. in series history to pull off a three-race sea- It was the only chance anyone had of son sweep in one nation. Lorenzo did it in derailing the American sweep.”I feel good his home country during his world-title in the USA, I won the three races here,” he winning season of 2010, while Stoner said. “Now we go back to Europe and try to duplicated the feat in 2011 when he won a do the same thing.” second world title. Pedrosa spent the rest of the race chas- Lorenzo, the 2009 Indy winner who ing Lorenzo, finally passing him with two Adam Malysz performs at Silk Way Rally, Russia. —www.redbull.com competes for Yamaha Factory Racing, fin- laps to go in the 27-lap race. Two injured ished third Sunday, more than 5.7 seconds racers did not compete. Karel Abraham of off the pace. Marquez extended his lead to the Czech Republic is trying to recover 21 points over Pedrosa, who is still trying to from a torn muscle in his shoulder in a recover from a broken collarbone he sus- crash Friday. He’s questionable for next Azarenka defeats Serena tained earlier this season. week’s race in his home nation. American “I’m pleased to be in this chair,” Pedrosa Ben Spies also did not compete Sunday said. “It’s a tough race, but also a tough situ- because of a dislocated left shoulder and ation. If you saw the X-rays, you wouldn’t possibly injured left wrist.—AP to lift Cincinnati crown

CINCINNATI: Victoria Azarenka won a showdown between the world’s two top players by beat- ing number one Serena Williams in a three set 2-6 6-2 7-6 thriller in the final of the Western and Southern Open on Sunday. For two hours and 30 minutes, Azarenka and Williams engaged in a seesaw battle before the Belarusian finally clinched the vic- tory, winning a nervy tiebreak 8-6 to prevent the American from ticking a Cincinnati win off her ‘bucket list’. “Obviously, a big win. It was a great match,” Azarenka told INDIANAPOLIS: (Left to right) Dani Pedrosa of Spain, Marc Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo reporters. “Really, really pleased pose on the podium at the end of the MotoGP race. —AFP with the way I pulled it out. It was a great battle. “There were no giveaways. It Sky rally to down Sun was pure fight.” In a career that has generated 54 singles titles, ROSEMONT: Sylvia Fowles had 20 points streak. The Mystics started fast, taking a 10- including 16 grand slams, and 21 rebounds to help the East-leading point lead on Currie’s 3-pointer 2 minutes Williams had won just about Chicago Sky rally from a 25-point deficit for into in the first, and they didn’t trail until everything there is to win in her an 89-78 victory over the Connecticut Sun Hayes’ 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left in the sport - but not Cincinnati, one of on Sunday. second quarter made it 38-37. the WTA Tour’s most prestigious Connecticut scored the game’s first 15 Hayes scored 10 points in the second tournaments. points, capped by a desperation 3-pointer and nine in the third. She added a 3 with Cincinnati will remain a hole by Renee Montgomery with 4:35 left to 8:14 left in the game to make it 66-48. on her resume for at least another beat the 24-second shot clock. Atlanta (13-9) led the rest of the way to win year after Azarenka answered the Montgomery’s layup with 1:58 remaining in its eighth straight in the series. challenge by claiming just her the first half gave the Sun a 43-18 lead. third win in 15 attempts against The Sky outscored Connecticut 62-35 in LYNX 88, LIBERTY 57 the second half, taking their first lead with In Minneapolis, Maya Moore scored a the 31-year-old American. 2:48 left in the game on Epiphanny Prince’s season-high 28 points, including six 3- Williams came into the contest three-point play. pointers, as Minnesota beat New York to with a chance to pass several career milestones beyond a first CINCINNATI: Azarenka of Belarus poses for photographers at the trophy ceremony after defeating Serena The Sky (17-8) were without Elena Delle end a three-game losing streak. Williams during the final of the Western & Southern Open.—AFP Donne for the second straight game. The Seimone Augustus and Janel McCarville Cincinnati win but failed to rookie star is day to day with a left foot she each had 12 points for the Lynx (18-6), who secure any of them. sists of meeting in the final, which and held just three times, opened best.” In the second set it was sprained Tuesday in Los Angeles. Tan White moved one-half game ahead of Los It was only the second time in makes it even more so exciting. the match with two double faults Azarenka who had Williams talk- scored 16 points for Connecticut (7-17), Angeles atop the Western Conference 10 finals this season that Williams “I personally was thinking it is to hand Williams the early break. ing to herself as she turned the which has lost five of six. standings. had failed to walk away with the a good rivalry and it’s good to Williams continued her assault tables on the muscular American Prince scored 21 for Chicago, which won Katie Smith and Alex Montgomery trophy, while a victory on Sunday have someone out there that can on Azarenka with another break by breaking her three times to for the fourth time in five games and swept scored 11 points each to lead the Liberty would have moved her up a play hard and fight so tough. at 4-1 that left the Belarusian level the match. the four-game season series with (10-15), who were without leading scorer notch on the career wins list into “She’s a great player. There’s a rea- waving her racket in anger. In the third, Azarenka and Connecticut. Cappie Pondexter due to a foot injury. New a tie for seventh place with son why she’s winning grand “I felt like my energy wasn’t Williams finally produced the York lost for the third time in four games Britain’s Virginia Wade and com- slams and doing so well.” maybe there 100 percent at the tennis and edge-of-your-seat DREAM 76, MYSTICS 58 and dropped one game behind fourth- patriot Lindsay Davenport. But A marquee final featuring the beginning but that’s what the drama that fans had come to In Atlanta, Tiffany Hayes tied her career place Indiana for the last playoff position in the day belonged to Azarenka, world’s number one and two match is about,” said Azarenka. “It see, twice trading breaks to high with 23 points and Angel McCoughtry the East. who bagged her third title of the ranked players initially failed to goes up and down, and you bat- send the set into a tiebreak. added 22 as Atlanta beat Washington for its The Lynx used a 16-5 run - including 3- year and 17th of her career. deliver the high-quality spectacle tle against somebody and you With the title on the line, the second straight win. pointers by Moore and Rachel Jarry - to “We go against each other expected from two women who have an edge or then you don’t quality of shots and effort sky- Ivory Latta finished with 12 points and take a 59-39 lead late in the third quarter. really tough, so I think, yeah, it’s a have captured five of the last sev- have an edge. “That’s what is rocketed at both ends of the Moore hit another 3 midway through the Monique Currie had 10 for Washington (12- en grand slams. Azarenka, who exciting about that to try to take court before the contest ended 14), which ended a three-game winning fourth to make it 74-50.—AP good rivalry,” said Williams. “I’m number one, she’s number two so struggled with her serve against your opponent to that place with Williams’ forehand into the we have that rivalry which con- Jelena Jankovic in the semi-finals where they don’t feel at their net.—Reuters King of Clay, Nadal looks to extend reign to hard courts

CINCINNATI: The undisputed match. That’s all. “I think it’s just a the hardest grand slam for Nadal the rest of the year, probably the King of Clay, Rafa Nadal could coincidence, in my opinion, but because of its unforgiving sur- rest is going to be positive,” said soon extend his reign to the hard no doubt I am better player on face and timing. Of his 12 grand Nadal. “For the last eight years court after establishing himself clay than on hard.” Some would slam titles, only one has come at before the injury, I didn’t stop, I as the red-hot favorite for the US debate that assessment based on Flushing Meadows and he only played every year long, very long Open with back-to-back wins in Nadal’s play on the hard courts reached the final on one other seasons with very, very high Montreal and Cincinnati. this season which — based on occasion. intensity. With eight French Open titles, his record — has so far been Nadal usually arrives at the “So mentally and physically, to Nadal may be the best ever on flawless. back end of the tennis schedule have a period of rest and recov- the dirt but the Spaniard has also To be fair, Nadal has already with his knees creaking like two ery, your body is great. “When stood tall this year on the proven himself to be a man for all rusty gates and nursing a moun- you are in tough moments, in American hard courts, where he surfaces with grand slams titles tain of aches and pains that are hard moments, when you are suf- remains unbeaten with a 15-0 on clay, grass and hard court. the payment for his relentless fering, working every day, trying record. With the exception of grass action-packed style. The ongoing to recover, when you are back, “On clay, we only had three and his opening-round slip up at battle with the debilitating ten- the only thing you want to do is (Masters events), I won two, and I Wimbledon, the Spaniard has donitis in his knees continues. try to enjoy every moment, try to played the final,” Nadal told impressed on all surfaces again But this year, after a long be at your 100 percent and play reporters after grinding out a 7-6 this season. injury layoff that bridged the end with the higher intensity and 7-6 win over American John Isner He added to his grand slam of last season and the start of the passion. in the final of the Western and collection at the French Open current campaign along with a “After from the place that I Southern Open. and has captured five of seven six week break following his came, just to be here playing and “The results on clay were Masters Series events, including Wimbledon exit, Nadal has competing is fantastic and that amazing. On hard, I play three, I three-of-four hard court stops. arrived in U.S. ready for action. gives me this extra power, inten- Sylvia Fowles (left) in action in this file photo. won all three. Is only one more The US Open has always been “If I am able to be healthy for sity to compete well.”—Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 SPORTS19 Costa helps Atletico forget about Falcao

MADRID: Brazilian striker Diego Costa proved there was life after Radamel Falcao at Atletico Madrid as he scored twice to help the King’s Cup winners to a 3-1 win at Sevilla in their La Liga opener on Sunday. Colombia for- ward Falcao was sold to Monaco for more than 50 million euros ($66.66 million) in May after scor- ing 28 league goals for Atletico last season. Costa had reportedly also been a multi-million euro target for Liverpool, but last season’s third-placed finishers hung on to the powerful frontman and last week extended his contract to FRANCE: Paris Saint-Germain’s forward Edinson Cavani celebrates after scoring 2018. a goal during the French League football match against Ajaccio. —AFP He returned the faith shown in him with a poacher’s goal on Sunday, volleying in the opener Cavani rescues PSG at a corner in the 35th minute and, after Sevilla had equalised, PARIS: Edinson Cavani’s first Ligue 1 Monaco shone at a sun drenched tore onto a through ball to strike goal salvaged a point for a wasteful Paris Stade Louis II with Riviere finding himself the second low into the corner 11 St Germain as the French champions in the side following injuries to summer minutes from time. drew 1-1 at home against Ajaccio on signings Joao Moutinho and James Cristian Rodriguez scored a Sunday. Rodriguez. wonderful solo effort to make PSG, who drew their opening three Falcao put Monaco ahead in the 18th sure of the points for the visitors games last season, have two points from minute following Siaka Tiene’s foul on SPAIN : Atletico Madrid’s Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (down) vies for the ball against Atletico at the end. “Costa had a very Madridís Brazilian defender Filipe Luis (up) during the Spanish League football match. —AFP two matches, four less than big-spenders winger Lucas Ocampos in the box, but good pre-season, putting in a lot Monaco who thrashed Montpellier 4-1 his fellow Colombian Victor Montano of work, and he knows he has to euros, but the 31-year-old had a 26th-minute leveller in Real’s La 21 championship in Israel in June, thanks to Emmanuel Riviere’s hat-trick levelled for Montpellier six minutes later be physically strong at all times,” relatively quiet competitive Liga opener at the Bernabeu, and and has quickly become a popu- and a Radamel Falcao penalty. with a powerful header. coach Diego Simeone told debut and was substituted in the then rose to power a header lar figure among Madrid fans Uruguay striker Cavani fired PSG’s The hosts then took a decisive advan- reporters after a game that fin- second half. under the crossbar four minutes after some impressive perform- 32nd attempt on goal into the net with tage thanks to Riviere’s first two goals ished at almost one in the morn- “Falcao will be missed because from time for a 2-1 victory. ances during the pre-season. four minutes left to cancel Benoit which came either side of halftime. ing local time. he is a great player but we have The diminutive playmaker is The midfielder is on the fringes Pedretti’s splendid curling ninth minute Montpellier were reduced to 10 men “He is very important for us Villa who is different type of more noted for his ability with his of Vicente del Bosque’s senior opener. after Daniel Congre was dismissed and because of his character which is beast,” Costa told reporters. feet than with his head, but broke Spain squad and is widely tipped PSG had 78 percent of possession and quickly surrendered as 23-year-old contagious for the rest of the “We know he will do just as through from midfield to head to be in the running for a place at were left frustrated infront of a crowd of Riviere, who has never scored more than squad. “Goals are a consequence well as Falcao. His work and com- home from Marcelo’s curling next year’s World Cup finals in 43,000 by their visitors’ heroic defensive eight goals in a league season, complet- of all this. Diego unsettles rivals mitment to the team is impres- cross. Brazil. performance and multiple saves by goal- ed his hat-trick with eight minutes left. and opens up the pitch for us.” sive. He is humble and has a great “It is the first header I have “The centre was superb and keeper Guillermo Ochoa. Monaco are one of four teams to Costa, a player very much cut attitude. I think his quality shows scored in La Liga and I’m delight- Isco’s movement has been that of They also lacked some luck after cap- maintain a perfect start to the new in the same abrasive image as and he will give a lot to Atletico.” ed especially as it turned out to an expert at heading the ball,” tain Thiago Silva saw both a powerful season along with Olympique Lyon, former Argentina captain Villa will get to meet his for- be the winner,” the 21-year-old Real director and former striker 81st minute header and a stoppage-time Olympique Marseille and St Simeone, was the ideal foil for mer team mates on Wednesday told Spanish broadcaster Canal Emilio Butragueno told Canal strike hit the crossbar. Etienne.—Reuters Falcao last season with his physi- when Atletico host the La Liga Plus. “It was important to win the Plus. cal presence and uncanny ability champions at the Calderon in the first game at home. Betis sur- “To give the pass for a goal to get under the skin of his oppo- Spanish Super Cup first leg. prised us a little bit but it is the and to score the winner, isn’t a High stakes for Arsenal nents. Meanwhile, Real Madrid new first game of La Liga and we lack bad way to debut at the He had to be restrained by his boy Isco went some way towards a little match-practice.” Bernabeu. “I hope this is the start colleagues from getting involved justifying his 30 million euro sign- Isco appeared to be on the of a great era for him and Real in Champions League in a dispute with Sevilla players as ing on fee when he set up the point of joining former boss Madrid. He is a different kind of equaliser and then scored the Manuel Pellergini at Manchester player, and when he receives the GENEVA: Even by Champions League allegedly fixed in the 2010-11 Turkish the teams left the pitch at half- winner against Real Betis on his City when he was signed by Real ball everyone thinks something standards, the stakes are dramatically season. time. His new strike partner is competitive debut on Sunday. from Malaga two months ago. magical is going to happen. “I am high for Fenerbahce and Arsenal in a “This is not even proven that we are Spain international David Villa, The Spanish Under 21 interna- He was a central figure as sure he will continue to devel- playoff round first-leg clash tomorrow. guilty” wrote Kuyt, whose club president signed from Barcelona for a fee tional fed Karim Benzema for the Spain won the European Under op.”—Reuters Arsenal seems to be in turmoil after a was among several officials convicted in that could rise to 5.1 million Premier League opening day loss fueled a criminal trial. They deny wrongdoing fans’ fury at the cash-rich club’s failure to and have appealed. sign big-name offseason targets. Injury-hit Arsenal knows it could lose Boca down Rafaela, River Plate held “I believe our season will depend on over two legs and still get a 16th straight how we respond to this defeat,” Arsenal season in the group stage - though BUENOS AIRES: A second half strike from manager Arsene Wenger said Saturday Salzburg, Fenerbahce’s beaten opponent Emanuel Insua handed Boca Juniors a 2-1 after a 3-1 loss to Aston Villa on Saturday in the previous qualifying round, could victory over Rafaela on Sunday, while archri- provoked hostile boos at the Emirates also seek reinstatement. val River Plate drew 0-0 against Godoy Cruz. Stadium. England winger Alex Oxlade- Boca now has six points from its first Fenerbahce hosts Arsenal in Istanbul Chamberlain is the latest Gunners casual- three games of the Argentine league along hours after its lawyers begin a two-day ty, sustaining a serious knee injury with leader Argentinos Juniors, Gimnasia court hearing in Switzerland to challenge Saturday to join defenders Thomas and San Lorenzo. River has four points in expulsion from the Champions League Vermaelen and Nacho Monreal, plus joint third place. by UEFA in a long-running domestic midfielders Mikel Arteta and Abou Diaby In other results Sunday, reigning champi- match-fixing case. UEFA agreed to let on the sidelines. on Newell’s Old Boys drew 0-0 with Fenerbahce play while the appeal pro- Milan, which begins in Serie A at Belgrano and Tigre defeated Racing 3-1. ceeds. Verona on Saturday, has played only The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s friendlies ahead of facing match-fit PSV, Boca’s winner came in the 68th minute, verdict - promised next week after the now coached by former Netherlands when Insua latched onto a back-heeled pass return match in London - could yet midfielder Phillip Cocu. and hit a first time shot into the top left cor- decide which team advances to the Schalke lost Dutch forward Klaas-Jan ner of the net. lucrative group stage, and collects 15-25 Huntelaar to a knee ligament injury in its Argentina great Juan Roman Riquelme million-plus euros ($20-$33 million) in 4-0 loss at Wolfsburg on Saturday. The had given Boca the lead in the 30th when he UEFA prize money. revised fixture with PAOK brings the drilled the ball into the roof of the goal after Like Arsenal, AC Milan regards a place Greek club’s coach Huub Stevens back to a pass was laid off to him from an indirect in the Champions League group stage as Schalke where he won the UEFA Cup in free-kick inside the penalty box, but Luis key to its image and finances. The seven- 1997, and a second spell in charge ended Albertengo struck back for Rafaela 11 min- time European champion begins its sea- last December. utes later. son today away to PSV Eindhoven, the Romanian champion Steaua, the 1986 River struggled in the attacking third of 1988 European Cup winner which European Cup winner, hosts Legia while the pitch and had a number of chances to already reeled off three wins to sit atop club President Gigi Becali serves prison win the game, but couldn’t score. The clos- the Dutch league. time for financial wrongdoing. est opportunity came in the 26th, when Zenit St. Petersburg offers a tricky In June, UEFA weighed allegations Giovanni Simeone’s shot from Carlos debut for Champions League newcomer that Becali tried to pay bribes to influ- Carbonero’s cross forced a close-range save Pacos de Ferreira, which hosts the first ence a 2008 league match, and deferred from Godoy Cruz goalkeeper Jorge leg in Portugal today. Steaua’s one-year suspension for a five- Carranza. Also Tuesday, Celtic has made the six year probation period. Sergio Araujo found the net in the 18th hour-plus flight to face Kazakhstan The 10 playoff winners join 22 elite ARGENTINA : Boca Juniors’ midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme (right) vies for the ball with minute, and again in the 54th of Tigre’s win champion Shakhter Karagandy; Lyon teams that qualified directly for the Atletico Rafaela’s midfielder Adrian Bastia during their Argentine First Division football hosts Real Sociedad and Viktoria Plzen lucrative group stage. The draw is made over Racing. Jose Sand added the third, match. —AFP hosts Maribor. Aug. 29 in Monaco.—AP before Rodrigo de Paul got a consolation for Tomorrow’s five-match lineup Racing in the 71st. defeated San Lorenzo 3-0. On Friday, two matches will be played late yesterday includes: Dinamo Zagreb vs. Austria In Saturday games, Gimnasia won 3-1 Arsenal overcame Olimpo 3-1 and Colon when All Boys take on Velez and Lanus play Vienna, Steaua Bucharest vs. Legia against Rosario and Argentinos Juniors secured a 1-0 victory over Quilmes. The final Estudiantes.—AP Warsaw and Ludogorets Razgrad vs. Matches on TV Basel. Schalke hosts PAOK Thessaloniki, (Local Timings) which was reinstated by UEFA last week. Keeper sent off in Brazil PAOK previously lost to Metalist Kharkiv, UEFA Champions League which was later expelled when a 2008 Shakhter v Celtic 18:00 match-fixing case was resolved this for kicking ball into crowd month. Aljazeera Sport +6 BRAZIL: Atletico Mineiro goal- coach Dunga’s Internacional with provoked. “There are matches points). Three of the 10 playoff pairings have Aljazeera Sport 5 HD been affected by UEFA match-fixing keeper Victor was sent off for 10 men after Fernandinho was where you are spat for the whole Sao Paulo (11 points) PSV v AC Milan 21:45 investigations since current champion angrily kicking a ball into the sent off for elbowing an oppo- match and they throw other liq- remained one place off the bot- Bayern Munich beat German rival Aljazeera Sport +6 crowd after his team’s goalless nent, but still managed to hang uids which you can’t identify.” tom after their 0-0 draw against draw at Internacional in the on for a point. Corinthians fans lost patience Flamengo in which Jadson Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium Aljazeera Sport 5 HD in May. Brazilian championship. After the final whistle went, with former AC Milan forward missed a penalty. Pizen v Maribor 21:45 Fenerbahce’s case has the greatest Corinthians forward Alexandre goalkeeper Victor immediately Alexandre Pato after he missed Jadson stepped up to take the potential for drama. The club, UEFA and Aljazeera Sport +2 Pato was jeered by his own fans collected the ball, turned around two good chances against kick instead of goalkeeper in a 1-0 win over Coritiba and six- and hoofed it into the Coritiba and jeered him off the Rogerio Ceni, the regular penalty CAS could not process its challenge to a Lyon v Sociedad 21:45 two-season ban from European competi- times champions Sao Paulo Internacional fans behind him. field when he was substituted by taker who also missed during the Aljazeera Sport +5 tions before the matches against Arsenal. missed another penalty as they As he left the field, Victor, who Peru forward Paolo Guerrero. 2-1 defeat to Portuguesa one During an offseason legal saga, Aljazeera Sport 4 HD extended their winless run to 12 had already been booked for Guerrero later scored from a week ago. matches in other matches on time-wasting during the game, penalty to take Corinthians up to Botafogo stayed top with 29 Fenerbahce forward Dirk Kuyt wrote to Pacos v Zenit 21:45 UEFA on behalf of the players. Kuyt said Sunday. was given a second yellow card fourth with 25 points from 15 points after winning 3-1 at Aljazeera Sport +7 they had “a lot of questions” about the South American champions and sent off. games while Coritiba, fading Portuguesa while second-placed punishment dating back to matches Aljazeera Sport 3 HD Mineiro played for more than “It wasn’t a big deal,” he told after a good start to the champi- Cruzeiro, one point behind, one hour away to former Brazil reporters, adding he had been onship, dropped to sixth (24 thrashed Vitoria 5-1.—Reuters Logano holds off Azarenka defeats Harvick for Serena to lift Michigan win Cincinnati crown

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ITALY: Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon (center) partially hidden, holds up the trophy as he celebrates with teammates at the end of the Italian Super Cup soccer match against Lazio at the Rome Olympic stadium. — AP Juventus crush Lazio, win Italian Super Cup

ROME: Juventus won the Italian for the second consecutive year the his cross was deflected by Stefan Supercup for a sixth time on Sunday double of the title and the Radu into the path of Pogba, who after humiliating Lazio 4-0 with Supercup,” Conte said. “It was a swivelled and fired into the bottom Carlos Tevez scoring in his first offi- deserved victory. left corner. cial match with the Italian champi- “It’ all credit to these lads. I knew Radu almost leveled 10 minutes ons. they would have the right attitude later but Juventus goalkeeper The match was marred by racist and that’s how it was. It will be a dif- Gianluigi Buffon pulled off a fantas- chanting from the Lazio ultras ficult year, we have to start fully tic save to fingertip the ball away to shortly before fulltime and a warn- charged as we did today, playing safety with his trailing hand. ing had to be made over the loud- with our head and with desire.” Juventus doubled its lead seven speaker. There was also trouble in The hefty defeat will have come minutes after the break, with the buildup as two local Juventus as a shock for Lazio and its fans, still Chiellini tapping in Lichtsteiner’s fans were stabbed in the backside celebrating after beating bitter city cross after a swift counterattack. and had to be taken to hospital. rival Roma to lift the Italian Cup in Having made the two goals, On the pitch, Juventus substitute May. Lichtsteiner - who was signed from Paul Pogba scored in the 23rd “We collapsed after the second Lazio in 2011 - found the net him- minute, less than three minutes goal and we were a bit naive, while self two minutes later, racing after coming on for the injured Juve was clinical,” Lazio coach through the Lazio defense before Claudio Marchisio. Vladimir Petkovic said. “But until the firing into the bottom right corner. Giorgio Chiellini and Stephan second goal, they didn’t create Juventus was running rampant Lichtsteiner extended Juventus’ much. and scored a fourth shortly after as advantage early in the second half “They deserved it, now we have Tevez opened his account following before Tevez’s 56th-minute strike. to return with our feet on the his offseason move from Manchester Juventus is level with AC Milan as ground after winning the final City. Lichtsteiner was again involved. having won the season’s traditional against Roma. We have to examine His effort was acrobatically parried curtain-raiser between the league our conscience, realize our errors by goalkeeper Federico Marchetti, champion and the Italian Cup win- and start again from zero.” who reacted immediately to then ner the most times. There was an early blow for save Pogba’s header. But the ball The ease with which Juventus Juventus as a visibly frustrated rebounded back to the Frenchman, tore Lazio apart in its own stadium Marchisio limped off with a knee who cut it back for Tevez to drill into will be a warning sign to the rest of injury in the 20th minute. It took Serie A. Antonio Conte’s team is replacement Pogba only 2 minutes, the bottom left corner. Lazio went already favorite to win the league 35 seconds to put Juventus in front close to reducing the deficit in the for a third consecutive time. following a well-worked free kick. 75th minute. Miroslav Klose easily “I knew that we would face the Specialist Andrea Pirlo was expect- beat Leonardo Bonucci to race clear match with the right attitude, and I ed to have an attempt on goal but on goal but Buffon did well to parry am happy to have brought home instead rolled it to Lichtsteiner and with his legs.— AP Lazio fans banned over racist chanting

ROME: A section of Lazio’s home ground has been sheet in Juve’s thumping victory, hit out at the fans closed for one match after fans from the notorious but said there was nothing he could do to prevent it. Curva Nord abused black players during the Italian “We heard it, they’re ignorant,” Pogba told AFP. Supercup, Italy’s Sporting Justice Commission said yes- “What can I do? I’m alone against 30,000 fans. They terday. Juventus trio Paul Pogba of France, Ghana mid- do that even though there are blacks in their team. “It’s fielder Kwadwo Asamoah and Angelo Ogbonna, an also a lack of respect towards their own players. Italy defender of Nigerian descent, were subjected to “It’s really not nice to come to a football match and racist chanting during the Serie A champions’ 4-0 hear those sort of things, but I’m a player, I concen- defeat of Lazio at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico on Sunday. trate on my job.” Lazio themselves lined up with But footballing authorities were quick to react Angolan-born Belgian Luis Pedro Cavanda in their side under new anti-racism directives. It means Lazio will while Nigerian midfielder Ogenyi Onazi came on as a face Udinese in their opening Serie A match of the substitute. It was not the only incidence of football ter- new season without fans at one end of the stadium. race-related racism of the weekend as German under- The end that faces the closure is the Curva Nord 21 international Danny da Costa was subjected to (north curve) where Lazio’s hardcore ‘Ultras’, known for racist taunts from an 1860 Munich supporter during their fascist leanings, watch games. his team Ingolstadt’s second-tier match. The supporter France midfielder Pogba, who was on the score- was arrested at the stadium and hit with a ban. — AFP Qatar index makes second rise above 10,000 points Page 22

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NEW YORK: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday in New York City. Having dropped for two consecutive weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average was up slightly in morning trading. —AFP US bond yields hit two-year high Fed meeting could offer clues on policy

NEW YORK: US bond yields hit a two-year high yes- tapering purchases. Those expectations have helped held up fairly well. The 17-country euro zone ended “The foreign investor community wants tangible attractive to investors. But Lee Hardman, a currency terday and emerging market currencies from India push up long-term interest rates, with the U.S. an 18-month recession last quarter, growing 0.3 per- and ambitious reforms that look and feel like a wor- analyst at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, said for now the to Indonesia tumbled as markets braced for the benchmark 10-year Treasury hitting a two-year high cent, and August business surveys this week are like- thy ‘second generation’ to the fundamental meas- view on the currency was split between advanced Federal Reserve to start withdrawing support for the of 2.87 percent on Monday, up more than a percent- ly to show the modest recovery is slowly broadening ures adopted in the early 1990s,” Westpac analysts and more vulnerable emerging economies. US economy. age point since May. out. said in a note. “The rising US yields are making the global US stocks were mixed as trading began but then German 10-year government bond yields rose Major European indexes were down slightly yes- Indonesia’s rupiah shed 1 percent to four-year financing conditions more difficult, especially for edge higher, while European shares slipped. Fear 1.3 basis points to 1.89 percent, having hit their high- terday, pushing the FTSEurofirst 300 down 0.6 per- lows at 10,485 per dollar and the strain also showed countries which have elevated current account that the Fed will scale back stimulus spending next est since March 2012 at 1.924 percent at the open. cent. An index of global stocks slipped 0.3 percent. in MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares out- deficits,” he said. “We think gradually over time the month battered Wall Street last week, with the Dow “What you are seeing at the moment in a way is cen- As rising core debt yields make it harder for side Japan , which fell 0.5 percent. dollar will begin to outperform against the major industrials putting in their worst weekly run of the tral bankers versus the markets,” said ABN Amro developing nations to fund widening current Crucial data later in the week will be an early currencies, but at the moment it is being offset by year. economist Nick Kounis. “The markets are pushing up account deficits, emerging markets - whose reading on Chinese manufacturing from HSBC. higher (bond) yields in Europe, where markets have Minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting will be the rate (increase) expectations and central bankers economies are heavily linked to US fortunes and the Recent data suggested the economy might be stabi- been very much focused on the improving cyclical released tomorrow and could shed light on when have been trying to pour cold water on the moves, dollar - took a spill. lizing and any improvement in the purchasing man- momentum.” the central bank plans to slow its $85 billion-a- but it is proving more difficult against a background The Indian rupee slid as far as 62.73 per dollar, ager index will be welcomed by Asian investors. Hopes for a pick-up in growth globally have also month in bond purchases, a tricky process that has of stronger economic data.” emphatically breaching the previous low of 62.03. In the currency market, the dollar gave up early, supported commodities. Copper slid 0.7 percent to been making markets nervous for months. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 6.84 The country’s share market lost 1.4 percent, on top of modest gains to stand at $1.3355 per euro, little $7,359 a tonne after hitting a 10-week peak of The Fed has said it expects the economy to points, or 0.05 percent, at 15,088.31. The Standard & a 4 percent drubbing on Friday. moved from Friday. Against the yen it pulled up to $7,420 on Friday, while gold and platinum both improve in the second half of this year and in 2014, Poor’s 500 Index was up 1.70 points, or 0.10 percent, The country’s central bank has tried to restrict 97.95. The dollar has been in gradual decline for the edged down from two-month highs. Brent crude and recent signs of firmer growth have bolstered at 1,657.53. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up how much money Indian residents and companies past few weeks, in part on concerns that the inched up toward $111 a barrel as oil markets expectations that it will start winding down stimulus. 17.61 points, or 0.49 percent, at 3,620.39. can send offshore, but that only raised fears of out- prospect of Fed tapering would scare foreign remained focused on the violent unrest in Egypt, However, policymakers have also stressed that any While the notion of less Fed support has rattled right capital controls that would further undermine investors out of US bonds. which has stoked fears for exports from oil produc- sign of weakness could delay the timetable for Wall Street in recent weeks, European shares have the confidence of foreign investors. At some point yields should reach levels that are ers in the Middle East and North Africa. —Reuters India rupee hits new low, WB says gloom overdone

MUMBAI: India’s currency plunged to a new lifetime low economy. Shares, which fell nearly four percent on Friday, But Basu said India should “not try to buck the trend of against the dollar and shares tumbled yesterday even as plunged over two percent before retracing some losses to the exchange rate”. “If you deny the laws of the market, you the World Bank’s chief economist said the country’s prob- close down 1.56 percent at 18,307 points. India’s 10-year will come to grief,” he said. As of yesterMonday, the rupee lems were “overplayed”. benchmark bond hit a five-year peak of 9.17 percent, had fallen over 14 percent against the dollar this year, clos- Kaushik Basu said India was not in danger of a full- reflecting eroding investor appetite for Indian debt as wor- ing at 63.14 against the US unit. blown economic crisis, despite Asia’s third largest economy ries about the economy and potential default mounted. Last week, in the latest of a series of steps to prop up the struggling with a gaping current account deficit that has Basu said India’s economy-even with 4.8 percent annu- currency, the central bank spooked investors when it tight- helped push the rupee to lifetime lows. alised growth in the quarter to March-was among the ened controls on the amount of money Indian firms and “Growth may not have bottomed out. We may have fur- world’s fastest-growing. He urged people not to fall into a individuals can send abroad. ther to go (down), but the situation is not as bad as is being “spiral of pessimism”. The move has been criticised as a disturbing throwback captured by the mood and captured in the headlines,” Basu In the long run the crux of India’s problems lie with to before the country unleashed its economic liberalisation said in New Delhi. issues such as “governance, bureaucratic efficiency, the drive in the early 1990s, when Indians’ access to foreign Basu, himself an Indian and a former chief adviser to the business ethos”, Basu said. “The countries that have done exchange was strictly limited. finance ministry, said things were very different from 1991 well historically... they have managed to clean up their busi- In the past few weeks, policymakers have raised short- when India had to seek a bailout from the International ness ethos” so nobody has to pay bribes to get tasks done, term interest rates, announced plans to let state firms raise Monetary Fund in what was considered a national humilia- he said. foreign funds abroad, and curbed gold imports to narrow tion. Corruption has long been a central issue in India and the deficit and stabilise the rupee. “India is nowhere near the 1991 crisis. The gloom is the Congress-led government has been racked by a string Analysts have dismissed many of the moves as “fire- being overplayed,” he told a business audience. “In 1991 we of graft scandals that have alarmed foreign investors. fighting” that do not address reforms needed to put the had foreign exchange reserves ultimately for 13 days of Basu and analysts urged the central bank to use its for- economy on its feet. MUMBAI: A commuter stands in front of an advertisement for a brokerage imports, we now have enough for seven months.” eign exchange reserves to curb turbulence in the rupee. In its latest initiative, the government announced late firm at a bus stop in Mumbai yesterday. India’s rupee hit a new low and “There is no comparison. I don’t think we are anywhere The central bank has been sparing in its use of reserves to Monday it had decided to “disallow import” of duty-free flat shares slipped another 1.3 percent on growing fears about the country’s near that situation. We are a much stronger economy than defend the currency. screen TVs by airline passengers as part of their personal slowing economy and the government’s ability to stem a deepening eco- in 1991.” The partially convertible rupee, Asia’s worst-per- If India bank indicated its “number one initial priority is luggage. Emerging-market currencies have been hit by nomic crisis. The rupee, now Asia’s worst-performing major currency this forming major currency this year, fell 2.3 percent, the to stabilise the rupee... I suspect it would go a long way to expectations the United States will roll back massive stimu- year, fell to 62.35 rupees to the dollar, past its previous low of 62.03 on sharpest single-day decline in years, to 63.22 rupees to the calming the situation,” said Credit Suisse economist Robert lus measures responsible for huge inflows of foreign invest- August 16. —AFP dollar in trade Monday on concerns about the slowing Prior-Wandesforde. ment into developing countries. —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 BUSINESS Gold hits two-month highs on US data, SPDR inflows

SINGAPORE: Gold hit fresh two-month highs yes- quite bullish,” said Joyce Liu, an investment analyst Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed Shanghai gold futures rose 2 percent yesterday. terday, helped by weak US data that increased the at Phillip Futures in Singapore. on Friday, indicating that investors’ sentiment Demand from China and India is set to soar to a metal’s safe-haven appeal, and further inflows into “The outlook (for gold prices) is slightly better towards gold may be changing. record 1,000 tonnes each in 2013, the World Gold the world’s biggest bullion-backed exchange trad- now as it looks like we have bottomed out on the Spot gold had fallen 0.2 percent to $1,372.91 an Council said last week. US consumer sentiment ed fund (ETF). outflows.” SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold- ounce by 0726 GMT on profit-taking, after hitting a ebbed in August and residential construction rose Gold has gained about 8 percent in the last nine backed ETF, posted a 0.4 percent increase in hold- two-month peak of $1,384.10 earlier. Bullion less than expected last month, potentially dimming sessions on the back of a weaker dollar, short-cover- ings last week to 915.32 tonnes - its first increase climbed the most in five weeks last week, posting a hopes of an acceleration in economic activity in the ing and technical buying. Signs of increasing physi- since November 2012. near 5 percent gain. Silver gained 14 percent - its third quarter and increasing gold’s safe-haven appeal. cal demand, and a turnaround in the outflows from The fund has seen about $19 billion in outflows biggest weekly increase in almost five years. Economic data is being monitored by investors to gold-backed ETFs have also supported prices. this year, and has weighed heavily on gold prices Liu said charts show that the momentum for gauge when the US Federal Reserve would begin “Last quarter what was tugging at gold prices that have lost nearly a fifth of their value in 2013. gold prices is still positive. Spot gold is expected to tapering its commodities-friendly stimulus measures. was the fight between money managers who are Hedge funds and money managers raised net long break a $1,386 per ounce resistance and rise more Minutes of the Fed’s July policy meeting are due to be very bearish on gold and physical buyers who were positions in gold and silver, a report by the to $1,403, Reuters technicals analyst Wang Tao said. released on Wednesday. — Reuters Kuwait’s GDP at $177 billion

MUSCAT: Oman’s Gross Domestic Product One expert, Ali Al-Nemesh, said a review (GDP) reached USD 81 billion in 2012, accord- of market action recently shows good action ing to a freshly-released report by the GCC in terms of value, especially after Ramadan Chambers of Commerce. The sultanate oil and the Eid holiday and in view of the state of sector constituted three percent of the GDP, affairs in some Arab countries. due to hike of oil prices, and the non-oil sec- Al-Nemesh added traders are currently tor, seven percent. reacting to first half profit announcements, As to Kuwait, the GDP, last year, amounted which showed noticeable growth from last to USD 177 billion, Saudi Arabia USD 642 bil- year. He said September would also bring lion, the UAE USD 376 billion, Qatar USD 200 much change in main indices, most specifical- billion and Bahrain USD 27 billion. ly value, which could reach a daily KD 40 mil- GCC states’ economies grew by 5.5 per- lion. This is particularly probable since opera- cent, in 2012, whereas the overall GDP of the tional companies have announced good fig- Council member states reached USD 1.48 tril- ures, which in turn gives them an opportunity lion, the report said, also noting that the GCC for a hike in share price. states’ daily crude oil output stood at 16.1 mil- Meanwhile, expert Mohammad Al-Naqi lion barrels. pointed out that in addition to the Ramadan The GCC countries’ net current account and Eid and summer lull, the market was reached USD 378 billion, Gulf and foreign affected by the political situation. He predict- assets rose to USD 2.2 trillion. Their exports of ed the market would rally and boom now services and commodities amounted to USD with the return of parliament and the new 850 billion while imports stood at USD 578 younger spirit in parliament. The new parlia- billion. ment is expected to speed up review and Majority of the GCC states depend on oil decision on many bills that would bolster the as a source of income. The countries of the economy, which is hoped to restore investors bloc have been seeking to diversify sources of trust with the cooperation of the executive RUSTENBURG: A picture taken on October 5, 2012 shows striking mine workers gathering outside the Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) Mine income and broadening affiliate industries authority. in Rustenburg. World number one platinum producer Anglo American Platinum announced yesterday it will begin firing an estimated 6,900 such as petrochemicals. The GCC, founded in Focusing on absence of blue chips from workers in South Africa on September 1. — AFP the early 80s, comprises Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the action, Nayef Al-Enizi for his part said that Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman. the market is in a period of stability that still Meanwhile, the Kuwait Stock Exchange is requires some caution and reserve. The mar- showing action within a limited horizon in ket must avoid too much risk and the traps of Qatar index makes second August, supported by announcements of first speculation, particularly with both leading half profit by leading companies, and there is shares and banks shares absent from the minor shifting of positions among a few small scene, more or less. shares. “What we are seeing now is shuffling of rise above 10,000 points In interviews with KUNA, economic positions among smaller companies. This experts said small and medium shares are requires us to come up with incentives and directing the market at present amid absence measures to sustain the tempo of the action, of big players and due to the customary sum- so as to protect the capital of investors who Property stocks traded heavily in Dubai mer holiday lull. Traders tend to prefer to wait focused on the stock market for lack of satis- for the more active periods with the start of factory opportunities in other sectors,” he DUBAI: Qatar’s bourse rose back above the psycho- run, however, by deepening the market and attract- cent. September. noted. — KUNA logically important level of 10,000 points yesterday, ing more foreign investment. Construction firm Arabtec led trading volumes, buoyed by second-quarter corporate earnings and “We’re heading in the right direction. If we add rising 4.1 percent. Blue chip bank Emirates NBD, heav- government budget plans, while Egypt stabilised two to four new companies, it will add huge interest ily exposed to the property sector, climbed 2.7 per- after big losses due to political violence. in the market,” Mckee said. cent. The Qatari index rose 1.3 percent to 10,038 points, In Egypt, the index slipped 0.1 percent after a Union Properties, which soared 11 percent on extending its 2013 gains to 20.1 percent. Trading vol- choppy trading session. It had tumbled 5.5 percent Sunday in massive trading volume, pulled back 0.4 ume jumped to its highest this month. The index over the previous two trading days in response to the percent on Monday and was the second most active broke 10,000 points last week for the first time since army-backed government’s bloody crackdown on the stock. September 2008. Muslim Brotherhood. In Saudi Arabia, the index climbed 0.6 percent to “Second-quarter earnings created a momentum Foreign investors were net sellers on Monday hit a fresh 59-month high. Banking and cement in the market,” said Yassir Mckee, wealth manager at while locals were buyers, according to exchange data, shares supported gains with their indexes up 1.0 and Al Rayan Financial Brokerage. and many traders said the market remained vulnera- 2.1 percent. Government spending plans are also buoying the ble to more losses if the political crisis continued. market; state spending rose only 2.2 percent to 178.2 “People are pretty cautious - foreigners have their MONDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS billion riyals ($48.9 billion) in the fiscal year to March own concerns regarding repatriation,” said Amr Reda, QATAR because of delays in pushing forward infrastructure assistant vice-president on the foreign sales desk at The index rose 1.3 percent to 10,038 points. plans, but the government aims to raise spending to Pharos Securities in Cairo. Foreign investors have had EGYPT 210.6 billion riyals this year as projects get underway. trouble remitting profits out of the country because The index slipped 0.1 percent to 5,329 points. Some investors are still looking out for the of foreign exchange shortages. DUBAI planned listing of Doha Global Investment Co, a $12 “Some locals are optimistic the army will take con- The index advanced 1.5 percent to 2,666 points. billion investment company backed by assets from trol of the situation on the ground. The main concern ABU DHABI the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund. The listing was is of more violence on the street and uncertainty The index gained 0.6 percent to 3,899 points. initially planned for late April but summer and about when it will end,” Reda added. SAUDI ARABIA Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, have slowed Daily trading sessions were shortened to three The index climbed 0.6 percent to 8,203 points. down the listing process; authorities have not said hours from four in the past two trading days to give KUWAIT NEW YORK: People wait in line for a chance to enroll for one of 750 spots for jobs when the share offer may proceed. State-run Qatar employees more time to obey a curfew; normal trad- The index eased 0.03 percent to 8,132 points. being offered by the New York District Council of Carpenters at its lower Manhattan Petroleum is also expected to list some units eventu- ing hours will resume on Tuesday, the bourse said. In OMAN office on Sunday in New York City. An estimated 500 people waited in line for days to ally. If the Doha Global offer does go ahead, it could the United Arab Emirates, Dubai’s bourse resumed ris- The index climbed 0.8 percent to 6,899 points. be the first through the door at 9am yesterday to apply. While there is no guarantee have a short-term dampening effect on the market as ing after three sessions of declines as buyers returned BAHRAIN of immediate placement and many will get apprentice jobs first, a fully trained union investors withdraw money to buy the new shares. in property-related shares. The main index rose 1.5 The index ticked up 0.1 percent to 1,203 points. member can earn $99 an hour with benefits. — AFP Some analysts believe it could help Qatar in the long percent, extending year-to-date gains to 64.3 per- — Reuters

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Thai Bhat 9.270 Singapore Dollar 0.2193189 0.2253189 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 4.060 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0021177 0.0021597 Nepalese Rupees 3.980 Thai Baht 0.0087010 0.0093010 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Malaysian Ringgit 89.575 Japanese Yen 2.919 Australian Dollar 265.69 263.000 Arab Canadian Dollar 279.62 282.000 Indian Rupees 4.561 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.7480832 0.7565832 Pakistani Rupees 2.766 Swiss Franc 311.92 311.000 Egyptian Pound 0.0386287 0.0406437 Srilankan Rupees 2.158 Euro 382.96 384.000 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0126525 0.0191525 Nepali Rupees 2.860 US Dollar 284.05 287.400 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Ghanaian Cedi 0.1446254 0.1464154 Singapore Dollar 223.960 Sterling Pound 448.40 443.000 Europe Iranian Riyal 0.0000791 0.0000796 Hongkong Dollar 36.710 Japanese Yen 2.97 3.000 British Pound 0.4369558 0.4459558 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001837 0.0002437 Bangladesh Taka 3.654 Bangladesh Taka 3.668 3.800 Czech Korune 0.0065515 0.0185615 Jordanian Dinar 0.3956266 0.4031266 Philippine Peso 6.518 Indian Rupee 4.606 5.150 Danish Krone 0.0467961 0.0517961 Thai Baht 9.088 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.159 2.700 Euro 0.3737893 0.3812893 Lebanese Pound 0.0001744 0.0001944 Irani Riyal 0.271 Nepali Rupee 2.901 3.600 Norwegian Krone 0.0441271 0.0493271 Moroccan Dirhams 0.0222364 0.0462364 Irani Riyal 0.273 Pakistani Rupee 2.771 2.920 Scottish Pound 0.4351225 0.4426225 Nigerian Naira 0.0012076 0.0018426 UAE Dirhams 77.40 78.000 Swedish Krona 0.0396846 0.0446846 Omani Riyal 0.7278199 0.7388199 GCC COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 756.02 759.500 Swiss Franc 0.3023052 0.3093052 Qatar Riyal 0.0774761 0.0782591 Saudi Riyal 76.937 Egyptian Pound 40.63 41.100 Saudi Riyal 0.0753200 0.0759600 Qatari Riyal 78.244 Jordanian Dinar 404.27 416.200 Australasia Sudanese Pounds 0.0462492 0.0467992 Omani Riyal 739.640 Omani Riyal 738.71 746.400 Australian Dollar 0.2522278 0.2642278 Syrian Pound 0.0019382 0.0021582 Bahraini Dinar 756.340 Qatari Riyal 78.44 79.000 New Zealand Dollar 0.2232773 0.2332773 Tunisian Dinar 0.1712025 0.1772025 UAE Dirham 77.551 Saudi Riyal 75.88 76.300 Uganda Shilling 0.0001127 0.0001127 UAE Dirhams 0.0760179 0.0774679 ARAB COUNTRIES Yemeni Riyal 0.0012831 0.0013831 Egyptian Pound - Cash 42.450 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd America Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.642 Canadian Dollar 0.2685459 0.2775459 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.328 Colombian Peso 0.0001447 0.0001627 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Tunisian Dinar 173.570 US Dollars 0.2823000 0.2844500 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 402.130 US Dollar 284.350 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.910 Canadian Dollar 279.560 Asia Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Syrian Lier 3.094 Sterling Pound 441.895 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036121 0.0036671 Morocco Dirham 34.503 Euro 379.800 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031552 0.0033852 US Dollar 284.100 Swiss Frank 308.900 Chinese Yuan 0.0454730 0.0504730 Euro 381.400 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 752.820 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0164300 0.0195300 Pound Sterling 445.750 US Dollar Transfer 284.650 UAE Dirhams 77.395 Guinea Franc 0.0000441 0.0000501 Canadian Dollar 280.000 Euro 380.720 Qatari Riyals 78.050 Hg Kong Dollar 0.0341269 0.0372269 Indian Rupee 4.605 Sterling Pound 446.190 Saudi Riyals 76.690 Indian Rupee 0.0045235 0.0045885 Egyptian Pound 40.635 Canadian dollar 276.360 Jordanian Dinar 400.835 Indonesian Rupiah 0.0000223 0.0000274 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.160 Turkish lira 147.070 Egyptian Pound 40.329 Jamaican Dollars 0.0028406 0.0038406 Bangladesh Taka 3.653 Swiss Franc 308.400 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.157 Japanese Yen 0.0028323 0.0030123 Australian Dollar 263.590 Philippines Peso 6.500 Indian Rupees 4.687 Kenyan Shilling 0.0031863 0.0034163 US Dollar Buying 283.450 Pakistani Rupees 2.775 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0818349 0.0888349 Pakistan Rupee 2.766 Bangladesh Taka 3.651 Nepalese Rupee 0.0027015 0.0029015 Bahraini Dinar 756.400 GOLD UAE Dirham 77.400 20 Gram 260.000 Philippines Pesso 6.508 Pakistan Rupee 0.0027349 0.0027749 10 Gram 131.000 Cyprus pound 697.520 Philippine Peso 0.0060701 0.0065401 Saudi Riyal 75.900 5 Gram 68.000 Japanese Yen 3.945 Sierra Leone 0.0000727 0.0000757 *Rates are subject to change TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 BUSINESS Spirit of boom-time mortgages lives on in Europe

ATHENS/BERLIN: Remember the days percent of the house price compared work ... You’d tell the bank what your prized, for example.” diligence from the banks, and the aver- when you could take a mortgage big with 100 percent before the crash, put- salary was and they wouldn’t check up on Where once, loans were made for 50 age deposit has also risen to around 17 to enough to buy the house and furnish it, a ting home purchase beyond the reach of it,” said one Dublin-based broker. “Now it’s or 60 years, terms are now capped at 40 20 percent, according to the Council of car to park outside and a holiday to cele- most after six years of recession. all about the paperwork. You should see years, Javaloyes said, while loan-to-value Mortgage Lenders. brate - all on a repayment schedule that With an unemployment rate of nearly our files. It is like ‘Lord of the Rings’.” ratios have fallen from 110 percent to 70 Attitudes to savings and deposits are only Methuselah could honour? 27 percent, twice the euro zone average, Bailed-out Permanent TSB, once percent, or 80 percent “on rare occasions”. markedly different. While some southern Those days have never gone away in young Greeks have to rent, if they can, or Ireland’s biggest mortgage lender, has In Italy, where 72 percent of people Europeans would gasp at being asked to pockets of Europe. While countries like lean upon the hospitality of their parents been leading the paperwork charge by own their homes, mortgage lending fell stump up a 10 percent deposit, it is rou- Spain and Ireland battle to reform the - an uncomfortable compromise in a getting all borrowers to fill out a house- by 37 percent in 2012, according to the tine to the Germans and French. boom-era mortgage lending that has left country that traditionally has had one of hold expenditure form to see if they can Italian statistics office, as the country Fixed-rate mortgages are also popular millions of borrowers at risk of losing the highest home ownership rates in really afford the repayments. reels from its longest recession since in the core, with around 90 percent of their homes, corners of the continent bet- Europe. Red flags for all the banks include pre- World War Two. mortgages structured that way in ter known for their sturdy finances seem “You have dreams and plans of start- school kids - monthly creche fees can top Borrowers in Italy now borrow an aver- Germany and over 95 percent in France. to be still lending as if the financial crisis ing a life together, and then reality hits 800 euros a month in parts of Dublin - age of just 50 percent of their property’s Terms of 20 years or more are common. never happened. you,” said Vasiliki Dimitriadou, who lives and any hint of online gambling, said the price, though some banks continue to In many other European countries, In the AAA-rated Netherlands, home with her husband in her parents’ small, broker. “The buzzword now is ‘forensic offer 40-year mortgages. fixed mortgages that long simply aren’t to one of the earliest and biggest bailouts three-bedroom apartment in Athens. lending’. Back during the boom it was, That might sound like a long time, but available, though in the UK a niche lender of the crisis - ABN Amro’s 2008 rescue ulti- Vasiliki, 32, lost her job at a nursery a ‘How much do you want?’,” he said. in Sweden, where there were no direct Manchester last year introduced a 25-year mately cost 30 billion euros - first-time year ago, and her husband, who works at bank bailouts after the 2008 crisis, it takes fixed mortgage. buyers can still borrow up to 105 percent a small construction company, fears for CIVIL SERVANTS SOUGHT an average of 140 years to pay down Oliver Thoben, a market researcher of the value of their new home and can his job, too. Without cash, they can’t In Europe’s periphery, home owner- home loans. Children or next of kin and gallery owner, borrowed 200,000 get up to five and a half times their gross afford to rent, let alone buy. ship is more culturally ingrained, with assume the debt when the mortgage out- euros to build his house in Berlin. He paid salary. “There were things we took for grant- around 80 percent of people in Greece lives the original buyer, though policy- all the other costs, including buying the A deflating housing bubble means the ed, like having your own house, that are and Spain owning their home, compared makers there are considering changes to land, from savings, so his loan came to Dutch government is now cutting back now a luxury,” she said. “I don’t see any with a 70 percent EU average, according encourage speedier repayment, and a around 75 or 80 percent of the property on some of the riskier mortgage products light, our generation has been destroyed.” to the European Mortgage Federation. maximum loan to value of 85 percent was value. so the maximum amount lent will fall by In Ireland, where the housing collapse With lending standards tightening and introduced in 2010. The 41-year old had to disclose all 2018, but still only to 100 percent. all but took the country with it, lenders unemployment stubbornly high in both financial receipts for the past three years - And in AAA-rated Sweden, a mortgage are taking a much tougher line. countries, that looks certain to drop. A DIFFERENT WORLD bills, invoices, his profit and loss account, will outlast the youngest buyer, and their Where once a borrower could take up “We’ve gone from a world in which In Europe’s ‘core’, home ownership is as well as proof of income. His wife, a grandchildren. to five times gross salary, banks are now mortgages were dispatched as easily as less significant. Just 46 percent of salaried employee, had to show proof of Such disparities show the lack of offering two to three times net income. someone going into a bakery to buy a Germans own their homes, 59 percent of income for the last six months as well as coherence in the 28 lending markets that The maximum loan is capped at 92 per- loaf of bread, to the complete opposite,” the Dutch and 63 percent of the French. her open-ended job contract. will become part of the region’s grand cent of the price of the house, down from said Pedro Javaloyes, director of family In Britain, nearly two thirds of people “I realise they aren’t doing this to frus- banking union, which is designed to cre- pre-crisis peaks of 120 percent. financing research at Madrid-based mort- own their own home, and lending stan- trate me, but only to be certain that I can ate a more harmonised financial system, Transactions that used to be complet- gage broker Agencia Negociadora. dards have been tightened as capital- pay off the loan,” he said. A point that though it is unlikely to have a direct ed in four weeks now take three times as “Banks are now focused on your mini- conscious banks think long and hard only needs making because for five or six impact on access to credit for citizens. long. mum income. They want people in cer- about who they trust with their precious years before disaster struck, banks barely In Greece, banks will now only fund 70 “In the boom time there was no paper- tain jobs; civil servants are very highly cash. Borrowers have reported higher due seemed to care.—Reuters Oil above $110 on Libya, Egypt unrest Goldman Sachs sees Brent rising to around $115 LONDON: Brent crude oil strengthened above Egypt is home to the Suez Canal and the Suez- Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, Iraqi oil $110 a barrel yesterday as the loss of Libyan oil Mediterranean (Sumed) pipeline, which together officials said on Sunday. exports tightened supply and violent unrest in carry around 4.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil Investors remained cautious as they awaited Egypt stoked fears for exports from other oil pro- from the Red Sea. more clues on when the United States, the world’s ducers in the Middle East and North Africa. The Egyptian army has said it will guarantee the largest oil consumer, will start to trim a monetary Libya’s oil production and exports have been safety of the Suez Canal and the Sumed pipeline, stimulus programme that has helped bolster asset crippled by violence and strikes, pushing exports but any disruption to supplies could have a dra- prices such as oil over the last three years. to the lowest level since the 2011 civil war, matic impact on the oil market. Egypt’s Muslim Minutes on Wednesday of the US Federal although the country’s largest refinery has reinstat- Brotherhood said security forces killed dozens of Reserve’s last policy meeting will provide some ed some oil product exports. detained Islamists, upping the pressure in a crisis clues to when it will start scaling back stimulus, Brent crude oil futures for October were up 10 that has rocked the Arab world’s most populous which could boost the dollar. Nissan maintains top rank in cents at $110.50 a barrel by 0930 GMT. Brent hit a state. At least 850 people have died since “Since the timing and magnitude of the Fed’s four-month high of $111.53 on Aug. 15 on concern Wednesday in clashes pitting the followers of tapering to its QE program (are) not yet known, automotive marketing in ME that violence in Cairo could affect the Suez Canal, a deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi market participants will be reading the FOMC min- major oil conduit. against the army-backed government. utes closely for implications regarding policy,” said DUBAI: Nissan continues to be recognized as Drive’ have led the impressive tally. US oil for September was down 20 cents to Goldman Sachs said yesterday it expected Jason Schenker, president and chief economist at a leading automotive brand and advertiser Samir Cherfan, Managing Director, Nissan $107.26. “Bloodshed and unrest in Egypt and the tighter oil markets to propel Brent to $115 “in the Texas-based Prestige Economics. for marketing effectiveness across the Middle Middle East, said: “At Nissan we build innova- disruption of oil supplies from Libya have put a very near term”. Some fears of supply disruption eased in the East and North Africa region according to the tion and excitement into everything we do - floor under oil prices,” said Carsten Fritsch, senior “The disruptions in Libyan oil supplies have last- United States with BP Plc saying on Sunday it could world marketing authority, Effies Worldwide. our brand, our products and our marketing. oil analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. ed far longer than we initially thought with no start returning offshore workers to its deep water Retaining its top ranking for the second year We believe in delivering innovative products Egypt is not a major oil producer, but investors near-term resolution in sight,” Goldman analysts Gulf of Mexico oil and gas facilities after a tropical running, Nissan has a clear lead at the top of and excitement for everyone but not at the are wary that unrest there could spread through led by Jeffrey Currie said in a note. storm had dissipated. Gulf of Mexico oil production the table on the Effies Effectiveness Index. expense of practicality - when we innovate the Middle East, which pumps more than a third of Easing some supply fears, crude flows resumed accounts for 23 percent of total US crude output, Each ranked company in the Effie Index we do so in a way that is useful to people in the world’s oil. through a pipeline from Iraq’s Kirkuk oil fields to according to US government data. — Reuters undergoes rigorous evaluations of their case the real world. This commitment to intelli- studies and work by industry-expert judges gent, customer-focused innovation shapes to prove that their marketing achieved com- our entire business.” pelling results. The Index criteria measures all “The automotive and Marketing industries Dow slips to worst week of 2013 the marketing campaigns which scored in the Middle East are becoming increasing points on the Effie index based on the Effie competitive, so we are proud to have been NEW YORK: Stocks fell Friday, closing ing for everyone - from home owners nificantly less risk. the back-to-school shopping season, global criteria, including effectiveness, results, recognized in all the recent major awards and out what was the worst week of the trying to refinance their mortgages “You try to focus on stocks that typically the second-biggest shop- creativity and good executions among others. to maintain this over a prolonged period is an year for the Dow Jones industrial to companies trying to sell debt - usually benefit from higher interest ping period for US retailers. The jury gives points for each brand based outstanding achievement. We will continue average. making them a potential long-term rates-banks are a good example,” said “It’s left us scratching our heads,” on meeting the above, and Nissan has been to build on success as we continue to The market was dragged lower by drag on the economy. The Federal John Fox, who oversees $873 million Fox said. “It really forces you to ask the top scorer for the past two years in the strengthen Nissan’s brand power in the a weak performance from retailers Reserve bond-buying programs were in assets as co-manager of the FAM the question: ‘is the consumer slow- automotive category. region.” and companies sensitive to higher designed to keep the cost of borrow- Value Fund. ing down?’” This continues Nissan’s dominance of In the past year, Nissan has claimed multi- interest rates. Homebuilders and ing as low as possible. The Dow has fallen 3.7 percent Investors have also been con- automotive marketing awards, having ple honours at the following awards: banking stocks were among the best On Friday, the S&P 500 lost 5.49 from its all-time high of 15,658.36 cerned about what will happen to claimed the highest number of honours 2012 GEMAS Effie MENA Awards (three) performers. points, or 0.33 percent, to 1,655.83. two weeks ago. Even so, the blue- the stock market-and the US econo- among automotive brands in the past 12 MENA Cristal Festival (six) Stocks had a decent start to the The Dow fell 30.72 points, or 0.2 per- chip index is up 15 percent this year my-if the Fed begins winding down months. Campaigns such as ‘Desert Nemesis’; Dubai Lynx Festival of Creativity 2013 week, but investors were hit hard the cent, to 15,081.47 and the Nasdaq while the S&P 500 has climbed 16 its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying ‘Speed Personified’; and ‘House Hunter Test- (five). last three days. The Dow retreated 2.2 composite lost 3.34 points, or 0.1 per- percent. “Keep it in perspective - program in September. Some percent for the week, its worst in cent, to 3,602.78. Shares of utilities we’re down modestly from what was investors think that the Fed’s pro- 2013. The broader Standard & Poor’s and telecommunications companies, an all-time high,” Fox said. gram has been a large contributor to 500 index lost 2.1 percent for the which typically perform poorly in a Retailers continued their multi- the stock market’s record run. week, its second-worst performance higher interest-rate environment, day selloff. Nordstrom Inc. gave a “The big question is, will the Fed of the year. closed broadly lower. New York- bleak sales outlook late Thursday that eliminate the bond-buying program The possibility of a cutback in the based utility Consolidated Edison Inc. echoed similar forecasts from Wal- in September, and, if so, how they will Federal Reserve’s massive bond-buy- fell 75 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $56.64 Mart Stores Inc. and Macy’s Inc. earli- they remove the bond buying,” said ing program in September has roiled while California’s PG&E was down 71 er this week. Frank Davis, director of sales and the bond market, which has spilled cents, or 1.6 percent, to $42.64. The outlooks have raised worries trading for LEK Securities. over into stocks. The yield on the Verizon Communications Inc. and that US shoppers might be pulling With the bond market declining benchmark US 10-year Treasury note AT&T Inc. fell 1.7 percent and 0.5 per- back on spending. Nordstrom’s stock and stocks selling off, investors shift- rose to 2.83 percent, its highest level cent, respectively. fell $2.90, or 4.9 percent, to $56.43, ed into a safer asset - gold. Its price since July 2011. A week ago, the yield Stocks such as utilities, pharma- making it the biggest decliner in the rose $10.1, or 0.7 percent, to $1,371. was 2.58 percent. ceuticals and telecommunications S&P 500. Gold had its third-best week this year, “When yields are going up like are often purchased because they The retail industry is a closely- rising 3.7 percent. this, that’s scary for most equity provide a higher-than-normal divi- watched part of the US economy as Also in focus were homebuilders. investors,” said Brian Reynolds, chief dend. As Treasury yields rise, it makes consumer spending makes up rough- The government reported that new market strategist at Rosenblatt all dividend-paying stocks less attrac- ly 70 percent of economic activity. home construction was up 6 percent Securities. Rising bond yields have a tive to investors because Treasuries The disappointing outlooks are worri- in July to a seasonally-adjusted rate direct impact on the cost of borrow- can provide a similar return with sig- some because they take into account of 896,000.—AP Campaign seeks to push Seattle minimum wage to $15 SEATTLE: Washington already has the Some businesses advocates say a higher those small businesses themselves,” he said. who sleeps on her father’s couch. City nation’s highest state minimum wage at minimum wage will make it harder for com- But in the entire economy, when you Council member Nick Licata doesn’t $9.19 an hour. Now, there’s a push in Seattle, panies in Seattle to survive. They cite Wal- increase income to low-wage workers, it expect the issue to get any official traction at least, to make it $15. Mart, which has all but refused to accept a creates jobs because those workers are like- soon. One of the council’s most liberal That would mean fast food workers, Washington, D.C., decision to raise the mini- ly to spend their additional income and that members, he said there are other issues retail clerks, baristas and other minimum mum wage to $12.50 an hour in big box increases demand for goods and services. the council should tackle to help low- wage workers would get what protesters stores. Benner also doubts a higher minimum wage workers, including wage theft and demanded when they shut down a handful A higher minimum wage eliminates low wage would affect prices enough to scare affordable housing. Pushing it forward of city restaurants in May and others called wage jobs because that’s how small busi- away consumers. His research has shown before it can actually pass would kill he for when they demonstrated nationwide in nesses cut costs and that ends up hurting that even a large increase in wages, like the idea, he said. One Seattle City council can- July. the people it was supposed to benefit, proposal in Seattle, has only a 4 to 5 percent didate has made the topic the centerpiece So far, the City Council and mayoral can- according to the U.S. Chamber of effect on prices. of her campaign. Economist Kshama didates have said they’d consider it in the Commerce. More than 15 million workers One of those affected by a potential Sawant is basing her campaign on similar famously liberal city. One said, however, that earn the national minimum wage, making wage increase is Caroline Durocher, 21, efforts in New York City and Washington, it may not be soon. Venture capitalist Nick about $15,080 a year - $50 below the federal who has been working low-wage jobs DC. While saying her chances of getting Hanauer said there’s no time to waste. What poverty line for a family of two. San since high school. She has been working elected are not great, she is pushing the the nation needs is money in the hands of Francisco currently has the highest mini- at a Seattle Subway restaurant for about a rise in the minimum wage and said she is JAMMU: An Indian laborer smokes as he sits near sacks of regular consumers. “A higher minimum mum wage for all workers at $10.50 an hour. month, since she was fired by another hearing about it on the campaign trail. An wage is a very simple and elegant solution Economist Chris Benner of the University of chain shortly after participating in the alternative, yet politically mighty, weekly onions at a wholesale market in Jammu, India, yesterday. The to the death spiral of falling demand that is California at Davis does not agree that a minimum wage strike. “I have co-workers newspaper, the Stranger, has endorsed her prices of onion, a staple food of the Indian middle class, have the signature feature of our economy,” he higher minimum wage would lead to job who are single moms. I honestly don’t idea. “We’re getting a huge echo for the been soaring in the past weeks leading to protests by people in said. losses. “There may be some job impact in know how they make it,” said Durocher, idea,” she said. — AP the streets. —AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 GCC: FDI stabilised in 2012 on positive sentiment to the region NBK’S Economic update

KUWAIT: Foreign direct investment (FDI) in experienced by investors in accessing capi- the GCC in 2012 increased slightly over the tal from retrenching international banks previous year to reach $26.4 billion, accord- and witnessed a 25% decline in FDI to ing to data published by UNCTAD in their $12.2 billion. (Chart 2.) The Kingdom annual World Investment Report 2013. remainsthe most attractive destination for (Chart 1.) This brings to an end three con- foreign investment in the Arab world, how- secutive years of declining FDI flows to the ever. region since the pre-financial crisis peak of • In the UAE and Kuwait, FDI inflows $61.7 billion in 2008. increasedin 2012 to $9.6 billion and $1.9 • The GCC’s positive performance is fur- billion, respectively.The 25% increase in FDI ther accentuated when placed in the con- to the UAEover the previous year was fur- text of developing economy and world FDI ther evidence of the recovery in investors’ flows, both of which declined in 2012, by appetites after the Dubai World debt crisis. 4.4% and 18.2%, respectively. The GCC In Kuwait, the doubling of FDI was primari- increased its share of developing economy ly the result of Qatar Telecom’s acquisition FDI to 3.8% from 3.6%. of additional shares in the mobile operator • While global FDI flows-especially those Wataniya. originating from developed economies- • GCC FDI flows have also been facilitat- remain inhibited by the deleveraging of ed by the significant improvements made international banks and investors’ height- by individual countries in the ease of doing ened sensitivity to risk, the GCC, as a desti- business. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, for nation for foreign investment, has benefit- instance, ranked 22 and 26 in the world, ed from a combination of relatively high respectively, have made positive strides in hydrocarbon prices, buoyant economic reformingthe procedures, costs and time growth and an ambitious program of gov- taken to start a business, trade across bor- ernment-sponsored investment ders and deal with construction permits, projects.The region also regularly accounts for example. (Chart 3.) for more than 50% of all FDI to the Arab • Meanwhile, FDI flows from the GCC to Middle East and North Africa. other countries declined last year, by 17.7% • Within the GCC, in 2012 FDI flows to all to $18.6 billion.(Chart 4.)Kuwait was once the countrieswith the notable exception of again the largest investor overseas, Saudi Arabia increased over the previous accounting for 41% of GCC outflows with year.The latter, by virtue of its size,was $7.6 billion, followed by Saudi Arabia with rather more susceptible to the difficulties $4.4 billion and the UAE with $2.5 billion. Honda Alghanim launches Best Summer Offer on all 2013 Honda Cars Instant Cash back up to KD 1000 KUWAIT: Staying true to its tradition in Honda’s customers will also enjoy excellent offering exceptional promotions for its cus- customer service, quality maintenance tomers, Alghanim Motors, the exclusive dis- options and competitive prices on genuine tributor of Honda in Kuwait, announced spare parts, all of which are provided t by a the launch of a new and special promotion team of professional and highly skilled that will enable car enthusiasts to own a technicians. brand new 2013 Honda vehicle and receive instant cashback up to KD 1000. This new and exclusive offer is available on all 2013 Honda vehicles, the Honda Accord, Accord Coupe, Civic, City and the Honda family cars, the Pilot, Odyssey, CR-V and Cross tour where customers can pur- chase any of these vehicles and get instant cash back from Honda Alghanim. Customers can take advantage of this offer by visiting the Honda showroom in Safat Alghanim which operates from 8:30 am until 10:00 pm from Saturday to Thursday and from 9:30 am until 10:00 pm on Fridays. Alghanim Motors, the sole distributor of Honda automobiles, power products and motorcycles in Kuwait is committed to pro- viding customers with flexible payment solutions, as well as offering comfortable amenities in its new service center located in Shuwaikh. The Alghanim Motors Service Center provides efficient and cost-effective services at all times. The waiting lounge offers customers a wide array of amenities such as an electronic gaming area, digital satellite channels, free wireless Internet access as well as relaxing massage chairs.

Poles ready to shrug off shortest of Euro downturns

WARSAW: Only months after a stagnant win- slowed after 2008, rose 6 percent in the first ter marked the end of one of Europe’s few six months of 2013 compared to a year earlier, recent economic success stories, financial including a rise of 2 percent to other EU coun- experts are increasingly convinced Poland is tries and some 22 percent to other emerging mounting a robust recovery. economies. The question when the European Union’s Poland’s government shied away from cut- biggest eastern member stalled at the end of ting as aggressively as some economists 2012 was whether a decade of growth after demanded in the early days after the 2008 its entry to the bloc in 2004 had been a one- financial crisis, and has now opted to allow off honeymoon, or could be repeated. this year’s budget deficit to widen to help the No doubt Poles are feeling the effect of recovery. the slowdown after a rise in joblessness and State bank BGK has issued 2.7 billion zlo- insecurity. Living standards still trail a long tys ($863 million) of loan guarantees since way behind those of their western neigh- mid-March, translating into 4.5 billion zlotys bours, or even the Czech Republic. of new loans for companies. But all signs in Warsaw this week are that With private sector debt among the low- the conditions are in place for a gradual and est in Europe at 78 percent of GDP, there is sustainable revival. plenty of room left to grow. “The economy is still weak overall but “Poland maintains an advantage over the there are green shoots now which we can say region as the balance sheets of households are firmly in place,” said Peter Attard Montalto, and firms are improving,” says Goldman Sachs emerging markets economist with Nomura in economist Magdalena Polan. London. Profits and productivity gains had “The problem of foreign exchange mort- proven easy in the years after EU entry as a gages is much less pronounced and we think population used to low wages, cramped that a recovery can be sustained with less risk housing and the search for a cheap solution than in more indebted or export-oriented to every problem discovered new ideas like countries of the region, like Hungary.” easily available consumer credit. Second quarter figures last week showed Millions of Poles headed west to work - far annual growth accelerated to 0.8 percent and more proportionally than any of their eastern economists and the central bank agree it will European neighbours - and sent cash pouring improve further in the second half of the year. back that has bought cars, built houses and But the slow down did not come without bolstered small businesses. costs. Corporate bankruptcies are up by a But many wondered how long the credit third this year to their highest since the finan- boom could run as cash-strapped Western cial crisis of 2008 and unemployment is only banks cut back on funding for subsidiaries; just showing signs of stabilising at around 13 whether Polish firms were capable of invest- percent. ing to compete with bigger companies in Ordinary Poles, used to a steady rise in liv- Germany and elsewhere; and how long ing standards since the 1990s, are not happy labour costs would remain competitive as and may well vote out Prime Minister Donald wage expectations rose. Tusk in a 2015 election. Opinion polls show The answers on all those fronts are looking his party has slipped behind the opposition. positive. Investment in longer-term and big- “All anyone seems to want to talk about is ger scale projects both public and private has crisis. How much longer?” says 63-year old been strong throughout the boom and the Pawel Sikorski, who runs maintenance on a results are beginning to show. housing cooperative on Warsaw’s poorer Warsaw is finally well connected by road eastern half. to Germany, the Czech Republic and the “Somehow there always seems to be mon- country’s other major cities and - importantly ey for them (bosses), there are bonuses, there for a population of 37 million in this year’s are contracts for their friends. Just nothing for heat wave - lake, mountain and coastal holi- the ordinary man from whom they only want day resorts. Exports, whose long-term growth more every day.”—Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 BUSINESS

S Korea targets growing Asian defence market with fighter jets

SACHEON: South Korea, renowned for Eastern Europe and the Americas. against US, European, Chinese and pleted this month. Officials at the advanced jet trainer, which is already in making hi-tech consumer devices, cars “Countries in Southeast Asia and Russian companies in an increasingly Sacheon headquarters of KAI declined service in South Korea and was devel- and ships, now has its sights on export- South America are finding FA-50s enor- crowded - yet still lucrative - market. to comment due to the sensitivity of the oped together with U.S. defence con- ing fighter jets amid a projected sharp mously attractive,” Park Jeong-soo, a South Korea is also planning to develop matter. KAI CEO Ha Sung-yong said tractor Lockheed Martin. increase in demand for military weapons senior official from KAI’s external affairs a much larger KF-X fighter with the help while South Korea’s conventional export The T-50 can also be fitted with in Asia over the next decade. department told reporters. of U.S. defence contractors, although markets such as cars and shipbuilding weapons under its wings and used as a South Korea’s first home-built light Global defence budgets are forecast that has been delayed by budgetary faced tough competition, its aerospace light attack aircraft. Indonesia was the fighter, the FA-50, will roll out today to increase by 9.3 percent to $1.65 tril- constraints. The first FA-50 is part of an industry should grow strongly. first export customer with a 2011 order from the Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd lion by 2021, according to analysts IHS order for 20 fighters by South Korea’s air “Now that has KAI established the for 16 T-50s, and Iraq is in negotiations (KAI) assembly plant in the southern city Janes. Defence budgets in the Asia force, which will use them to replace its groundwork with its own technology, it to buy 24. KAI and Lockheed are gearing of Sacheon. Pacific are forecast to outstrip North ageing Northrop F-5 fighters. is necessary to grow the industry ... by up for a lucrative US Air Force competi- KAI officials say that they aim to sell America by 2021, up 35 percent from Negotiations are ongoing with the contributing to the national military’s tion for at least 300 aircraft and maybe about 1,000 FA-50s and T-50s overseas 2013 levels to $501 billion, it added in its Philippines, with a local online news out- force integration and creating jobs and hundreds more worth several billion over the next three decades, and are Balance of Trade report in June. let reporting that a $460 million deal exports,” Ha said. dollars, a deal that one South Korean eyeing markets in Southeast Asia, That will pit South Korea’s fighters with Manila for 12 FA-50s could be com- The FA-50 is based on the T-50 officer called the “jackpot”. —Reuters Asian markets mixed after Wall Street losses US retailers report poor earnings

HONG KONG: Asian markets were mixed yester- to the eurozone were up 9.5 percent. miner Timah lost 6.72 percent to 1,250 rupiah. day following a weak lead from Wall Street as On oil markets New York’s main contract, Kuala Lumpur fell 0.55 percent, or 9.88 traders erred on the side of caution on expecta- West Texas Intermediate for delivery in points, to close at 1,778.36. CIMB Group tions the US Federal Reserve will soon begin September, was down 22 cents at $107.14 a bar- Holdings lost 1.7 percent to 7.90 ringgit, while reeling in its stimulus programme. rel and Brent North Sea crude for October deliv- UEM Sunrise Bhd eased 1.1 percent to 2.69. Tokyo rose 0.79 percent, or 108.02 points, to ery was up 18 cents at $110.58. DiGi.com gained 0.7 percent to 4.68 ringgit. 13,758.13, Sydney was flat, edging down 1.4 Gold fetched $1,375.20 at 1030 GMT from Bangkok fell 3.27 percent or 47.28 points to points to 5,112.5 and Seoul eased 0.13 percent, $1,362.40 late Friday. 1,398.48. Siam Cement dropped 4.37 percent to or 2.47 points, to 1,917.64. Hong Kong fell 0.24 In other markets: 438.00 baht, while telecoms company Advanced percent, or 54.11 points, to 22,463.70 while Mumbai closed down 1.56 percent, or 290.66 Info Service lost 3.65 percent to 264.00 baht. Shanghai ended 0.83 percent, or 17.15 points, points, at 18,307.52 points. India’s telecom serv- Taipei slipped 0.31 percent, or 24.79 points, higher at 2,085.60. US shares ended lower Friday, ices firm Bharti Airtel fell 5.51 percent to 317.35 to 7,900.21. Taiwan bringing a close to one of Wall Street’s worst rupees while private bank ICICI Bank fell 5.07 Semiconductor Manufacturing Co dropped weeks of 2013, as a consumer confidence report percent to 815.10 rupees. 1.04 percent to Tw$95.5 and Hon Hai Precision showed weaker sentiment in August than July Singapore closed down 0.76 percent, or was 0.38 percent higher at Tw$79.4. while retailers also reported poor earnings. 24.20 points, at 3173.33. Singapore Telecom rose Wellington fell 0.24 percent, or 10.66 points, The Dow fell 0.20 percent, the S&P 500 0.81 percent to Sg$3.75 while Oversea-Chinese to 4,503.22. Fletcher Building was down 1.44 declined 0.32 percent and the Nasdaq was 0.09 Banking Corporation shed 0.66 percent to percent at NZ$8.20 and Trade Me fell 2.29 per- TOKYO: US Trade Representative Michael Froman delivers his opening percent off. However, while the latest economic Sg$10.48. cent to NZ$4.70 while Telecom rose 0.44 percent speech at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo yesterday. Japan and US data out of Washington were soft investors feel Jakarta ended down 5.58 percent, or 255.14 to NZ$2.26. had agreed on copyrights issues over globally popular characters Mickey the US central bank will begin to wind down the points, at 4,313.52. State miner Aneka Tambang Manila’s bourse was closed owing to severe Mouse and Hello Kitty in a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade $85 billion a month bond-buying scheme that fell 4.51 percent to 1,270 rupiah, while while tin floods in the capital. —AFP pact, a Japanese minister said earlier in the day. — AFP has supported global markets for almost a year. Many market-watchers predict the bank will begin its tapering next month. However, BNP Traders await next Fed step Paribas economist Julia Coronado said: “While clearly a September move is on the table, we BANGKOK: Global stock markets opening, with Dow Jones industrial think it is less of a done deal than most market sagged yesterday as traders weighed the futures nearly unchanged at 15,036. S&P participants are currently thinking.” consequences of an anticipated phasing 500 futures were marginally lower at She told Dow Jones Newswires that minutes out of the US central bank’s unprece- 1,650.70. from July’s Fed policy meeting that are due out dented stimulus. One of the day’s few gainers was this week will likely show a variety of views with- The Federal Reserve has been aggres- Japan’s Nikkei 225 index, which closed in the bank over the programme’s future. On sively buying government bonds to push 0.8 percent higher at 13,758.13. South forex markets the dollar bought 97.60 yen in down interest rates and return employ- Korea’s Kospi fell 0.1 percent to 1,917.64. afternoon trade, against 97.53 yen in New York ment to normal levels after millions lost Hong Kong’s Hang Seng declined 0.2 Friday. jobs in the recession that followed the percent to 22,463.70. Australia’s S&P/ASX The euro fetched $1.3325 and 130.03 yen 2008 financial crisis. 200 fell less than 0.1 percent to 5,112.50. compared to $1.3326 and 130.01 yen, with the The Fed says the program has helped Trading was suspended in the single currency getting support from last week’s stimulate the economy by making it easi- Philippines due to severe flooding. figures showing some economic life returning to er to buy homes and invest in business- Mainland Chinese shares rose. Taiwan the eurozone. es. The Fed has also said the program is and Indonesia fell. India’s rupee, Asia’s worst-performing major not indefinite and will be phased out Among individual stocks, Australian currency this year, fell to a record low 62.35 when the economy improves. steel maker BlueScope Steel plunged 14 against the dollar as concerns about Fed taper- ing as well as the domestic economy cause jit- Recent economic data and public percent after reporting a net loss of $84 ters among investors. million Australian dollars for the 2012-13 statements by Fed policymakers have led In Tokyo, shares rose despite figures showing investors to conclude that the Fed will financial year. Internet-related compa- Japan’s trade deficit had almost doubled as the begin winding down its $85 billion a nies in Hong Kong posted gains. weaker yen led to a surge in the cost of energy SHANGHAI: An investor gestures at a private securities company yesterday in month in bond purchases starting as ear- NetDragon rose 1.7 percent, while imports. Shanghai, China. Asian stock markets were little changed yesterday as traders ly as September. Falling bond yields in Tencent Holdings advanced 1 percent. However, the data also showed exports to the weighed the consequences of an anticipated phasing out of the US central bank’s the US is one sign that traders believe On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial United States jumped 18.4 percent while those unprecedented stimulus program. — AP the Fed’s move is imminent. average closed out its worst week of the But analysts said a sharp increase in year. The Dow was dragged lower by a the cost of credit could stifle growth, weak performance from retailers and which will make the transition tricky and companies sensitive to higher interest Thai economy shrinks 0.3% could make stock markets shaky. “If it rates. The Dow fell 0.2 percent to looks like the removal of funding is hav- 15,081.47. The Standard & Poor’s 500 BANGKOK: Thailand’s economy domestic product (GDP) expanded DB cuts its forecasts for 2013 GDP combined with recent weakness in ing too much of an adverse effect on the dropped 0.3 percent to 1,655.83. The shrank 0.3 percent in the three 2.8 percent in the second quarter of growth to 3.8-4.3 percent, from 4.2- the Thai baht, which makes the local economy it (the Fed) will have to Nasdaq composite fell 0.1 percent to months to June, the second quar- 2013, weaker than 5.4 percent in 5.2 percent projected in May, which country’s exporters a more compet- step back in; or the more likely scenario, 3,602.78. terly contraction this year, as lack- January-March, the National was itself a downgrade from 4.5-5.5 itive. it will extend the timeframe for the com- Benchmark oil for September delivery lustre demand hit manufacturing Economic and Social Development percent previously estimated. In July Thailand’s central bank plete removal of monetary stimulus,” said was down 44 cents to $107.02 per barrel and exports, data showed yester- Board (NESDB) said. Analysts at Capital Economics kept its benchmark interest rate Evan Lucas of IG in Melbourne, Australia. in electronic trading on the New York day. Manufacturing output eased 1.0 warned the weak growth in the sec- unchanged at 2.50 percent to bol- In early European trading, Britain’s Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose However, the slide from the pre- percent, with manufacturers hit by ond quarter was likely to continue, ster the economy. FSTE 100 fell 0.3 percent to 6,481.56. 13 cents to $107.46 on the Nymex on vious quarter was better than the slowing domestic demand and adding: “We think a strong rebound The bank said a slowdown in Germany’s DAX fell 0.6 percent to Friday. revised 1.7 percent contraction in ongoing global weakness, the NES- in growth is unlikely. For a start, China was hurting the international 8,340.48 and France’s CAC-40 fell 0.7 per- In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3329 the three months to March as the DB said in a statement, as the US falling consumer confidence sug- outlook, while domestic private cent to 4,094.38. from $1.3319 late Friday. The dollar rose country recovers from devastating and China struggle to get up to gests the household sector is strug- consumption had weakened in the floods in late 2011 that swamped speed. Exports shrank 1.5 percent gling.” However, it saw export face of rising debt worries and the Wall Street appeared headed for a flat to 97.63 yen from 97.53 yen. —AP major factories. in the quarter from a year earlier. In growth improving, boosted by a waning effect of measures to stim- On a year-on-year basis, gross light of the latest figures that NES- gradual recovery in global demand ulate consumer spending.— AFP JPMorgan investigated for hiring Chinese children Noticeable growth in Chevrolet NEW YORK: US regulators are looking when it went public in 2007. sales in Kuwait and Middle East into whether JPMorgan Chase hired Information sought by the SEC the children of Chinese officials to help included “documents sufficient to iden- it boost its business in China, The New tify all persons involved in the decision Tahoe and Malibu top the list York Times reported. to hire” her, the Times reported. SEC KUWAIT: Chevrolet dealers in the Sales of the Tahoe, the full-size generation Malibu midsize sedan, month for Chevrolet across the The Times said Sunday details of the spokesman Myron Marlin declined to Middle East recorded best ever SUV long revered in the region for launched in May last year, Middle East with best ever sales for civil investigation were in a confiden- comment. JPMorgan referred to the sales for the Tahoe and Malibu its capability and dependability, increased by 7 percent year-on- both the Tahoe and Malibu,” said tial US government document that it investigation in a securities filing earli- which helped drive the brand’s increased 24 percent in the Middle year. Figures nearly trebled in the John Stadwick, President and saw. According to the document, the er this month. It said the SEC’s enforce- sales in the region 6 percent higher East. UAE, Chevrolet’s second largest Managing Director of General anti-bribery unit of the Securities and ment division is seeking information year-on-year in July. Dealers sold a Sales of SUVs, crossovers and market in the Middle East, while in Motors Middle East. Exchange Commission asked about the bank’s employment of some total of 6,670 Chevrolet vehicles, as pick-ups rose 17 percent year-on- Kuwait, sales edged 9 percent “The Tahoe has performed JPMorgan for records about some of people in Hong Kong and its business they registered their best July sales year in the Middle East in July. higher. impressively this year while the the bank’s hires in China. According to relationships with some clients, but month since 2008. Meanwhile, sales of the eighth “July was an excellent sales Malibu has been outstanding since the Times, the document shows that didn’t give any other details. its launch in 2012. The Chevrolet the bank hired the son of a former On Sunday, JPMorgan issued a brand continues to go from Chinese banking regulator who is now statement saying “We publicly dis- strength to strength and offers a chairman of the China Everbright closed this matter in our 10-Q filing on comprehensive product line up Group, a state-controlled financial con- Aug. 7, and are fully cooperating with that meets the needs of customers glomerate. The paper reported that regulators.” A spokeswoman for the here in the Middle East.” after the chairman’s son joined the New York bank declined to comment The 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe bank, JPMorgan won several assign- further. ensures optimal customer satisfac- ments from Everbright. The Times report said it’s common tion, according to the 2013 J.D. JPMorgan’s Hong Kong office also for global companies to hire the chil- Power and Associates Initial hired the daughter of a Chinese railway dren of Chinese politicians, but that it’s Quality Survey. The Tahoe received official. The official was later detained unusual for a company to hire the chil- the highest possible five-star over- all quality score in the survey - gar- on accusations of taking cash bribes in dren of officials of state-controlled nering the coveted 2013 J.D. Power exchange for handing out government companies. The government docu- Initial Quality Award in the Large contracts, the Times reported, citing ment did not definitively link CUV (Crossover Utility Vehicle) the U.S. document and public records. JPMorgan hiring to its ability to win Segment. The woman came to JPMorgan at business, or suggest that the employ- Other sales highlights for the time that The China Railway Group ees were unqualified, the Times report- Chevrolet included best July fig- was in the process of picking ed. It also noted that there’s nothing ures for both the Spark mini car JPMorgan to advise it on its plans to go illegal about hiring well-connected and the Camaro sports car across public. JPMorgan helped China people, as long as they’re qualified for the Middle East. Sales of the Spark Railway raise more than $5 billion the job. — AP more than doubled year-on-year as sales in the UAE jumped sharply. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 BUSINESS

US expats flee taxman’s reach by giving up citizenship

WASHINGTON: The decision was not easy for the only major country that requires its citizens ing rules. “Fatca is an aggravator to the renuncia- And that solution could still prove problemat- the Gulf War veteran. After 20 years living in resident abroad to report their income to their tion figures. It’s making it very difficult for ic. An IRS spokesperson told AFP that even Switzerland, Scott Schmith renounced his country’s tax authority, the Internal Revenue Americans to live overseas,” said Marylouise someone who renounced their US citizenship American citizenship, to escape the obligation to Service. Serrato, executive director of American Citizens could still be required to file an annual income report his income and assets to the US govern- For years, Americans abroad have mostly Abroad, which lobbies the government on expa- report, depending on when they gave up their ment despite living overseas. been able to ignore that requirement. But Fatca, triate issues. passport and how they earned the money. To be “I have nothing to hide. But I don’t want to be by requiring their banks to report the accounts, Some banks around the world have already in the clear, someone renouncing their citizen- punished because I chose to live outside the US,” is now serving as a painful reminder of the obli- stopped taking new accounts from US citizens, ship would have to establish that they had com- said the new Swiss passport holder, a photogra- gation. US expats “are now learning that not to avoid having to report them or falling into the pletely satisfied their tax obligations for the pre- pher who lives near Zurich. only are they going to be reported by their local sights of US regulators, as happened to the Swiss ceding five years. Schmith is just one of a rising number of banks, but also that the IRS could treat them as bank UBS in 2009. Christians said the real problem was the US Americans giving up their citizenship to avoid criminals,” said Allison Christians, a tax law pro- Schmith said his bank closed his two accounts authorities’ unique approach to taxing their the increasing efforts of US authorities to collect fessor at Canada’s McGill University. in the summer of 2012 due to Fatca. nationals who live and work abroad. taxes on its citizens who keep money offshore, Increasingly, US expats are choosing another “More and more US expats are finding them- “It’s not Fatca, it’s citizenship-based taxation even those who live and work outside the coun- way out: renouncing US citizenship entirely. In selves abandoned in a financial black hole,” Nigel that is the problem. “If you had residence-based try. the second quarter of this year, the number of Green, chief executive of deVere Group, a finan- taxation like every other country in the world, Starting next January, the US Foreign Account Americans that gave up their marine-blue US cial consultancy, said in a statement. you can have a Fatca regime and go after the Tax Compliance Act-now known worldwide as passport hit a record of 1,131. That was 66.5 per- Peter Spiro, professor of law at Temple taxpayer that tries to hide money abroad,” leav- Fatca-has required banks in a rising number of cent higher than the previous quarter and up University in Philadelphia, said Fatca is “creating ing those who live abroad alone. countries, including Switzerland, to report to US nearly six-fold from a year earlier, according to a terrible dilemma” for US expats. Schmitt himself says he is not too worried authorities all accounts held by Americans. official data tabulated by AFP. “If you make a rational calculation, you won- about it, saying he has “nothing to hide” in his Americans discovered to be not reporting While still a small part of the seven million US der if it’s worth it to keep your US citizenship in finances. But still he is paying a price: from now their offshore accounts, and not paying taxes on citizens living overseas, experts are certain the the face of the higher administrative burden and on he can only travel to the country of his birth them where due, face stiff penalties. The US is rise is driven by the new tax and account report- the risk of higher penalties,” he told AFP. as a tourist. — AFP

BMW Concept M4 Coupe - the true essence of BMW M

PEBBLE BEACH/MUNICH: On 15 August, surrounded by The CFRP roof reduces weight and ensures a lower centre both current and historic BMW models, BMW M offered a of gravity, thus facilitating an even sportier driving experi- first outlook on a highperformance sports car of tomorrow ence. Here, form and functionality are optimally combined in - the BMW Concept M4 Coupe. The car was unveiled at the typical BMW M fashion. BMW opening media reception for the iconic annual The coupelike roofline flows into the muscularly designed Pebble Beach/Monterey automobile weekend. rear end, which then adopts the contour of the roof. A rear “The BMW Concept M4 Coupe reflects the BMW M phi- spoiler lip is integrated into the trunk lid for optimum down- losophy in ideal form: It combines motor racing genes and force. Thanks to this feature, the BMW Concept M4 Coupe not unrestricted everyday suitability in a highly emotional only has better downforce values, but when viewed from the overall concept. For four generations, the BMW M3 has put side, also gains in volume and length, in athletic presence. motor racing on the road and the BMW Concept M4 Coupe Below it, the boldly shaped, muscular sill emphasizes the car’s consistently continues to pursue this fundamental idea. sportive stance on the road. The new model designation “M4” refers - like all other BMW Aconspicuous detail on the car’s side panels is the M automobiles - to the series on which this concept car is redesigned M gill. This characteristic M design element consti- based,” explains Dr. Friedrich Nitschke, President BMW M tutes a both sporty and functional statement. On the Concept Division. M4 Coupe, the M gills incorporate the Air Breather, which together with the Air Curtain within the front apron serves to Design of the new BMW concept M4 coupe ventilate the wheel arches and facilitate better airflow values. The BMW Concept M4 Coupe, finished in the colour Exclusively designed, bicoloured 20” M light alloys boasting “Aurum Dust” exclusively developed for this model, contin- the typical M double spoke design complete the sportive ues with BMW M’s design language - strong in character, design of the car’s sides. The five filigree doublespokes rims emotional and extremely dynamic. From every perspective with polished outer surfaces reveal M Carbon ceramic brakes. it is the embodiment of agility, dynamism and superior performance. Large air inlets in the dynamic front, a swift THE REAR design language in the side and a sporty, low rear give double kidney and a modern interpretation of the twin the socalled Air Curtain is a design statement of its own. The muscular rear end of the BMW Concept M4 Coupe clear visual indication of the car’s tremendous dynamic round headlamps featuring LED technology provides the Together with the Air Breather, this feature ensures the gives visual indication of the car’s supreme power. The entire potential. CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastics) elements car with a distinctive identity, making it recognizable as a aerodynamic closure of the wheel arches and consequent- tail section boasts a sculptural and broad appearance. The such as the front splitter, the roof, or the rear diffuser BMW M automobile at very first glance. The bonnet with its ly, improved air flow and fuel consumption. large shaded areas beneath the spoiler give the rear end an underline the optimized lightweight concept down to the characteristic power dome symbolises the immense power even flatter and athletic appearance. At the same time, the flat smallest detail. of the engine that lies beneath it. This dynamic element is THE SIDE taillights located far to the outside, the wide track and the “At BMW M, design is above all an expression of func- further emphasized by a distinctive contour. A further strik- Viewed from the side, the dynamic impression conveyed powerfully flared wheel arches underscore the car’s stable tion. Each design element is based on the underlying tech- ing feature on the front of the new BMW Concept M4 by the front end continues. Astreamlined, flat silhouette and stance on the road. Horizontal lines accentuate the car’s nical demands of the BMW M high performance concept. Coupe is the BMW M double bar kidney grille: The black an athletic body design characterize the BMW Concept M4 width, lowering the visual centre of gravity even further. Thanks to this authenticity, the design provides a taste of kidney grille bars imitate the characteristic M double spoke Coupe. Typical BMW proportions - a long bonnet, long wheel- Within the tail section of the BMW Concept M4 Coupe, the what can be experienced with each model: Power, precise design of the BMW M wheels, the M4 emblem on the kid- base, setback greenhouse and a short front overhang - create design feature of the front apron comprising faceted surfaces control and superior handling - an unforgettable driving ney grille adding an exclusive accent to the front end. an exceptionally dynamic appearance even when the car is at is formally replicated and continued further. The interplay of experience on the racetrack as well as on the road” says The powerfully shaped front apron sporting the carbon a standstill. Muscular wheel arches and the powerfully expres- surfaces and precise contours around the optical air vents fur- Adrian van Hooydonk, head of BMW Group Design. fibre front splitter immediately catches the eye. The three sive surface language reveal the BMW Concept M4 Coupe’s ther accentuates the rear end’s dynamic design. Twin tailpipes large air intakes supply the high performance power unit supreme performance capabilities at very first glance. The are a characteristic M feature on the rear end. The two pairs of THE FRONT END with sufficient cooling air. At the same time, the interplay flowing roofline enhances the BMW Concept M4 Coupe’s carbon fibre tailpipes are encompassed by the sculptural rear Faceted surfaces, precise contours and distinctive visual of surfaces, contours and volume authentically express the sporty design with elegant finesse. As a visible hightech light- apron. A carbon fibre rear diffuser completes the overall aero- depth shape the powerfully expressive front end of the car’s supreme potential. The sharply outlined vertical air weight element, the contoured CFRP roof characterizes the dynamics package. BMW Concept M4 Coupe. The classic “BMW face” with its vents located in the outer section of the side air intakes, BMW Concept M4 Coupe’s technically innovative design. AAW reinforces leadership position, Burgan Bank announces winner brings quality furniture to Kuwait of VISA card

KUWAIT: Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa furniture.” Sales director at Nolte Middle East, KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the Commercial Co. (AAW) yesterday extended Marc Philipp Hoffmann said: “We supply name of the winner of its weekly VISA Card draw its current agreement with Europe’s leading AAW with various products on a yearly basis to win KD 2000. The lucky winner of this week is furniture producer, Nolte Group, by adding with our core brands for kitchens and bed- Hanadi Anwar Al Saleh. two more high quality brands, CS Schmal room furniture. With the two additional The winners’ announcement comes as part of and Express Furniture, to its multi-brand fur- brands added to AAW’s portfolio, we aim for niture portfolio. a much bigger market share offering the Burgan Bank’s cards promotion that was AAW now represents five of Nolte Kuwaiti customer furniture solutions by launched earlier, each 20 KD spent in Kuwait or Group’s subsidiary brands, almost 75% of Nolte in all price segments, whilst underlin- abroad using Burgan Bank’s VISA Credit Cards the group’s offering following the launch of ing the strong partnership between Nolte will grant the card holder 1 chance to enter the numerous furniture and kitchen lines, Group and AAW.” including the recent launch of CS Schmal Headquartered in Dubai, Nolte Middle weekly draws; and each transaction done abroad and Express Furniture brands in the Kuwait East FZE is a 100 percent daughter company on any Burgan VISA ATM Card will earn 1 chance. market. to Nolte Group. The draw will be carried out on a weekly basis, The newly introduced CS Schmal and For now, the two brands will be repre- commencing on the 14th of July and will end on Express Furniture brands serve a new mar- sented in its flagship store located in the 30th of September, 2013. ket segment and carry with it the same mot- Farwaniya. With this new expansion, AAW’s to as the other subsidiary brands. Being one furniture division currently represents a vari- Burgan Bank’s latest promotion is in-line with of the world’s most reputable furniture man- AAW adds CS Schmal and Express Furniture to its multi-brand furniture portfolio. ety of brands from Europe and North its overall commitment to provide its customers ufacturers established in the 1920s, all of the wardrobes arenow available at AAW product lines. We have been able to provide America. with exclusive benefits that go beyond their manufacturing process occurs in Germany Furniture at medium to low-end price posi- customers in Kuwait with a wide-range of AAW Furniture currently represents banking needs. To find out more about Burgan to ensure integrity, reliability and above all, tion. quality cupboard systems and bedroom reputed brands in two branches across quality. General Manager at AAW Furniture, solutions since day one, that are either Kuwait. This original concept is fully-owned Bank’s services as well as its latest promotions, CS Schmal and Express Furniture’s soft Mubarak Abdulmohsen Al-Ali said: “AAW has affordable or luxurious. We are ready to and operated by AAW and currently displays customers are required to visit their nearest opening took place in May 2013 andthe liv- a 20-year relationship with Nolte Group, sell- work even closer together to tap into a new furniture brands like Kingsdown, Bassett, Burgan Bank branch. ing room furniture and stand-alone ing an extensive variety of units from its market segment with lower-end, functional Lazyboy, Legacy, Craftmaster, and Lifestyle. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 technology BlackBerry CEO may get almost $55.6m

TORONTO: BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins could market share to Apple and Android-based receive a package valued at $22 million, includ- January, the company unveiled new phones run- receive almost $55.6 million if the company is phones. The long-awaited debut of its new ing $5.8 million in compensation for his salary ning a revamped operating system called sold and he is ousted from the top job. Heins phones this year has failed to turn around the and bonus, $72,000 in benefits and retirement BlackBerry 10 designed to better compete. But its would receive $48 million in equity awards, based struggling smartphone maker. savings and $16.1 million in equity awards. The market share continues to lag. IDC said last week on the company’s share price at the end of its lat- The company’s strategic review is being head- BlackBerry, pioneered in 1999, had been the BlackBerry has fallen to fourth place in global est fiscal year, according to a regulatory filing ear- ed by Timothy Dattels, a BlackBerry director and a dominant smartphone for on-the-go business smartphone sales, now trailing Microsoft. lier this year. He would also get $7.5 million in senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world’s people and other consumers before Apple BlackBerry also warned in June of future losses. compensation for his salary and bonus under the largest private equity firms. Fairfax Financial and debuted the iPhone in 2007. In the years since, CIBC analyst Todd Coupland suggested change of control provisions in his contract. its chief executive, Prem Watsa, which hold BlackBerry Ltd. has been hammered by competi- BlackBerry could be worth as much as $20 per The company would pay $72,000 in benefits approximately 11 percent of BlackBerry, are con- tion from the iPhone as well as Android-based share in a takeover, and that big technology com- and retirement savings. The plan was approved sidered among possible buyers. Watsa resigned rivals. panies as well as private equity firms could be by shareholders at its annual meeting on July 9. from the BlackBerry board on Monday due to Heins was named CEO in January 2012, replac- interested. Mike Walkley, an analyst with BlackBerry announced that a sale of the company potential conflicts of interest. ing co-founders and co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Canaccord Genuity, said Tuesday the stock is up was one option that would be considered under If Heins were to be removed from his job at Jim Balsillie, who stepped down after sharehold- on takeover speculation. He believes the compa- a strategic review of the company, which has lost BlackBerry without a change of control, he would ers demanded a management shakeup. This past ny is worth $8 per share. — AP Silicon Valley awaits latest Lego robot kit

designed for kids but has adult fan following

SAN JOSE: Few are more excited about Lego’s new Mindstorms sets rolling out next month than Silicon Valley engineers. Many of them were drawn to the tech sector by the flagship kits that came on the market in 1998, introduc- ing computerized movement to the traditional snap-together toy blocks and allowing the young innovators to build their first robots. Now, 15 years later, those robot geeks are entre- preneurs and designers, and the colorful plastic John and Kathleen Kocher look over pictures of their son, Matthew, who drowned in bricks have an outsized influence in their lives. Lake Michigan recently in a rip tide. — MCT Techies tinker at Lego play stations in work- places. Engineers mentor competitive Lego League teams. Designers use them to mock up Cruel online posts larger projects ideas. And executives stand Lego creations on their desks alongside family pho- tos. “Everyone I work with played with them as add to family’s grief children. We sit around talking Lego. It’s a shared common experience,” said Travis Schuh, CHICAGO: As they prepared to bury their way some people choose to target it, who reaches into his bin of plastic blocks when 15-year-old son, John and Kathleen Kocher experts said. he needs a quick prototype at the Silicon Valley received a call from a nephew warning A lot of the hurtful posts are designed to medical robotic firm where he works. them not to go on the Internet. A Facebook wound, Marwick said. “The trolling we wit- The new Mindstorms sets, on sale Sept 1, are memorial page dedicated to Matthew nessed was very cruel. It was very mean- simpler for the younger crowd and more versa- Kocher, who drowned July 27 in Lake spirited, and it was designed specifically to tile for sophisticated users than two earlier ver- ST LOUIS: In this photo, Christina Stephens sits on a couch wearing her prosthetic leg and next Michigan, had attracted a group of Internet upset the friends and family of the loved sions. The sets are designed for kids over 10 and to a prosthetic leg she made out of Legos at her home in St Louis. — AP vandals that mocked the Tinley Park, Ill., ones,” Marwick said. “People would post make it easy to build basic, remote-controlled couple’s only child, posting photos of peo- horrible comments about the deceased, robots, including a cobra-like snake that snaps ple drowning with taunting comments calling them names, saying... things like Lego brick fangs. Some shoot balls, others drive superimposed over the images. they deserved to die.” along color-coded lines. But for $349, far more One photo showed a submerged per- Troll comments often spark a war of expensive than typical building toys, customers son’s hand breaking through the water words, as the comments violate many tradi- get a much more complex and powerful system. with text reading “LOL u drowned you fail tional social norms. “Trolls are really violat- “There’s actually a lot of engineering that at being a fish,” according to a screen grab ing every taboo we have around the way goes into Lego bricks and the systems you can of the page shared with the Chicago that we think of our loved ones when we prototype out of them are pretty sophisticated,” Tribune after the post was removed. “I was pass,” Marwick said. “The taboos around says Stanford University engineering professor very angry right away, and then I said, ‘Well, speaking ill of the dead.” One case of RIP Christian Gerdes, who uses them in his class- these are some dirtbags,’ “ John Kocher trolling involved Chelsea King, a 17-year- room. Professional hackers will also find plenty recalled. “How could they possibly want to old from Southern California who was to do with the new Mindstorms, as the open do that? How could somebody want to be raped and murdered in 2010 after she went source software uses Linux for the first time, so evil, so vile?” for an afternoon run. It was spotlighted in and controller apps are integrated for tablets What the Kocher family experienced is an academic research paper titled “LOLing and mobile phones. known as RIP trolling, in which people, at Tragedy” by former New York University San Francisco-based software engineer Will known as trolls, post offensive comments lecturer Whitney Phillips. Gorman is one of those adult users. He has torn and images on Facebook pages or other At first, a number of Facebook pages apart Mindstorms kits to create a Lego toilet social media outlets that are intended to were created to call on users to “Help Find flusher, a Wii-playing robot that bowled a per- memorialize the deceased. Posting an Chelsea King,” who was missing, according fect game and a Lego Mars Curiosity Rover. “I extreme viewpoint or rude comment sim- to the study. But then some people began don’t consider myself an adult really,” said the ply to get a reaction is known online as making light of the tragedy online and 36-year-old father of two last week, setting up trolling. Experts who have studied the phe- posting rude comments, which escalated. yet another creation on a table in a sunny nomenon point out three types of RIP Eventually, the family’s volunteer Redwood City library overlooking San trolling: people simply being mean, seek- spokeswoman, Sara Muller Fraunces, Francisco’s bay wetlands. ing attention in an outrageous manner or helped organize a support group with “vir- ProtoTank co-founder Adam Ellsworth, REDWOOD CITY: In this photo, Will Gorman demonstrates a Track3r Lego Mindstorms robotic offering social media criticism in an offen- tually around the clock shifts of helpers” to whose headquarters are on the third floor of unit in Redwood City, Calif. — AP sive way. monitor the family’s Facebook page and TechShop San Francisco, says, “there is a culture market while at the same time engaging kids,” superheroes in the worlds of entertainment The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic delete insensitive comments, Fraunces said. of design in the Silicon Valley, and Lego bricks said Michael McNally, a brand director at LEGO and sports. We need to create superheroes in Media published a study last fall of online Given that the page grew to more than are how so many of us started.” “This place is Systems, Inc. Kellen Asercion, a Stanford the world of innovation,” said Dean Kamen, memorial page postings. The researchers 100,000 followers, it was a “huge job,” just one big Lego station,” he added, raising his University engineering graduate student, first who founded FIRST (For Inspiration and incorporated RIP trolling into their analysis Fraunces said. voice above the buzz of laser cutters and 3-D snapped Lego bricks together around the time Recognition of Science and Technology), which “because it appeared so frequently” on “We were very aggressive about keep- printers. “Taking an idea, a concept, and finding he started kindergarten, and he was still build- includes the First Lego League. memorial pages, said Alice Marwick, the ing the page dignified and protecting the right way to turn it into something real, ing when he graduated high school. Nagy Hakim first played with Mindstorms at study’s co-author and an assistant profes- Chelsea’s family,” Fraunces said. Brent King, that’s fundamentally what you’re doing with “Lego sets are almost single-handedly a robotics summer camp when he was in 6th sor of communication and media studies at Chelsea’s father, who has since moved with Lego bricks.” responsible for my interest in engineering,” he grade. Since then, the college-bound 18-year- Fordham University. his family to Naperville, Ill., to escape the Denmark-based Lego first sold their plastic said. Many Bay Area engineers also grew up old from Santa Clara, California, has joined - Many trolls claim to post on memorial painful memories in San Diego, had a simi- bricks 55 years ago, and watched them grow competing in the First Lego League, which also and even mentored - Lego leagues. Is this pages as a response to what they call “grief lar reaction to the RIP trolling as the into one of the world’s most popular toys. But launched in 1998 with 200 teams. Since then something he’s going to grow out of? “Time will tourism,” in which strangers extend their Kochers. “I can’t for the life of me under- company officials say Mindstorms, designed for the league has expanded - last year more than tell,” laughs Hakim. This fall he heads to Olin sympathy after a tragedy to people they stand why somebody would want to hurt children but quickly snapped up by adults, 280,000 children around the world, ages 6-18, College of Engineering in Boston, where profes- don’t know, Marwick said. Such condo- somebody that’s so broken and so griev- changed their market. participated. Organizers expect 600 teams par- sors posit theoretical Lego problems, students lences can be viewed as hollow and self- ing,” King said. “I don’t understand why any “In the last 15 years, we have worked hard to ticipating in Northern California this autumn. are encouraged to mentor Lego teams and the serving, and RIP trolling is one unfortunate human would want to do that.” — MCT balance the needs and wants of this shadow “We have a culture that only celebrates library stocks Mindstorms kits. — AP Skepticism over N Korea’s home-grown smartphone

SEOUL: North Korea’s announcement that it is to order by a Chinese manufacturer,” said Williams, impossible because they are wondering how mass producing a home-grown smartphone has who writes for PC World and other publications. North Korea supplied components, then that been met with skepticism in the tech industry in South Korean computer experts say North makes sense.” South Korea and abroad. The North’s state media Korea is strong enough in software technology to North Korea said the Arirang phone features last week showed leader Kim Jong Un inspecting have launched cyberattacks that disrupted bank- “Korean style” apps and can be used for “commu- “Arirang” phones at a Pyongyang factory. The ing and government websites in the South but it nications and learning.” It sports a high-resolution Korean Central News Agency’s Aug. 10 report said lags in hardware capabilities behind South Korea. camera and a touch screen. Kim Mun-gu, a man- the factory began manufacturing smartphones “a The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce and the ager at a South Korean mobile phone company, few days ago” and they were already in high Korean Peninsula remains technically at war. Since said the Arirang smartphone appears to be using demand. then, the South has prospered and produced the Android operating system. He said the photos North Korea has promoted the development of giant corporations such as Samsung Electronics aren’t convincing as proof the North is manufac- science and technology as a means of improving Co., which is the world’s biggest maker of smart- turing the phones. its moribund economy. It says it developed a phones, computer memory chips and displays. “It looks too clean for a factory. If it’s a factory, tablet computer last year and has its own Red Star The North’s economy has languished under social- there should be components. There seemed to be operating system. But access to the global ist central planning though the capital Pyongyang machines but I can’t tell whether they are operat- Internet is severely restricted and mobile phones is an oasis of relative affluence. ing or not,” he said. The “May 11 Factory” where used on the state-authorized network cannot North Korea has shown a persistent interest in North Korea says it is producing smartphones has make overseas calls. The North’s Intranet gives computer technology since the early 1980s so it is been promoted as the country’s hub for research, access to government sanctioned sites and works conceivable that a country, which has launched development and production of high-tech elec- with its own browsers, search engine and email long-range missiles and tested nuclear weapons tronics. Kim’s previous visit to the factory was in programs, according to South Korea’s Unification has also developed a smartphone, said Kang Ho July 2011 to see what state media called an auto- Ministry. Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of mated production system for LCD televisions - an Factory workers in photos released by the state Unification Studies. announcement also doubted abroad. Kim, who news agency are inspecting and testing finished But it might face difficulties in securing the became leader after his father Kim Jong Il’s death phones but no manufacturing is shown, said tech necessary components for mass production. “If in late 2011, said making phones based on home- expert Martyn Williams on the northkoreatech.org people believe it is impossible for North Korea to grown technology “can instill national pride and blog. “Despite KCNA’s reporting that the handsets make smartphones because it lags intechnology, self-respect into the Korean people,” according to are made at the factory, they are probably made that’s not right,” he said “If people believe it is KCNA. — AP This undated photo shows North Korean Arirang smartphone. -— AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Feral cats should be altered rather than neutered, study says

LOS ANGELES: Sterilizing feral cats with- issues that include foul odors, loud fight- But veterinarians from Tufts population over 6,000 days, under differ- than 19 percent of the feral population out removing their sexual organs would ing and flea infestations. In the US, the University’s Cummings School of ent population-control regimes and with was altered per year, the study conclud- do more to control their population than population of wild-born cats exceeds Veterinary Medicine propose that per- many nuances that allow for such factors ed. spaying and neutering, according to a that of cats living with humans, accord- forming vasectomies and hysterec- as age, reproductive cycle and ovulation “The next step is to gather evidence new study. Colonies of feral cats can ing to the American Veterinary Medical tomies instead would preserve hor- probabilities. The academic farm game on how it actually works in the field,” grow at a rapid pace, leaving them to Association, which published the study mone-driven behavior that can help showed that the less destructive surgical Tufts University veterinarian Robert J compete in miserable conditions and Thursday in its monthly journal. Truly fer- reduce a colony’s reproduction rates. Sex technique was 10-90 percent more McCarthy, lead author of the study, said causing the death of millions of birds, al cats are difficult to tame and adopt. drive and social status would remain effective, depending on variables. in a written statement. The Humane small mammals, reptiles, amphibians Estimates vary, but animal advocates intact, allowing males to protect turf For spay-neutering methods to have Society of the United States advocates and fish. In Australia, New Zealand and report 1 million to 3 million feral or stray from other feral males, ward off new any long-term effect on feral cat spaying and neutering, a position that Hawaii, such cats have been blamed for cats in Los Angeles, including those that strays, and compete for females, which colonies, they would have to be applied generally gets more public support. But the extinction or severe reduction of are fed by residents but don’t reside in a go into a prolonged state of “nonrecep- to at least 57 percent of the population the society remains open to other meth- populations of imperiled species. The US home. Traditional methods to control tive” pseudo-pregnancy after sexual each year, the study found. For the ods. “We would agree that it needs to be Navy and other agencies spent $3 mil- feral cat populations involve trapping activity. Females likewise continue to vasectomy-hysterectomy method, the tried somewhere,” said John Hadidi, sen- lion over several years to rid San them and removing the ovaries, uterus compete with sexually functional threshold was lower: 35 percent. And if ior scientist for wildlife at the society. Nicholas Island of wild cats that preyed and fallopian tubes of females, and females. The result: fewer successful the less destructive method had a cap- The study, he said, “exemplifies what we on native animals there. removing the testes of the males. The matings, the researchers conclude. ture rate of more than 57 percent, it would hope to see in this very contro- In urban areas, wild-born cat colonies method also tamps down hormone pro- Using data on cat populations and would eliminate the population entirely versial area: new approaches, new can create health hazards to humans duction, reducing behaviors such as ter- behavior, the Tufts researchers created a in roughly a decade, according to the strategies and bringing new science and other species, and quality of life ritorial fighting and spraying. program that tracked a virtual feral cat study. Neither method would work if less aboard, and better science.”—MCT Ukraine weddings can bring sickness before health RUZHYN: It was meant to be the the bride, a primary school teacher, meat patties, pate, stuffed cabbage thing else was to blame. Yulia was happiest day of her life. Instead, and her groom, Oleksandr, 29, a rolls, meat rolls, sausage, salads, rushed to the Rozhyn Central Yulia Yukhimets’ wedding ended mobile phones salesman. In line chicken wings, 12 round loaves of District hospital in her pajamas, with her being rushed to the hospi- with tradition, the tent was covered bread, fried steaks, smoked fish, having just changed out of her tal, weak, pale and hooked to an IV - with birch branches and a maroon pancakes, and much more. The food wedding dress. She and others were together with nearly 60 guests. “I carpet was hung behind the newly- was delicious and the party was fun, given antibiotics and intravenous have always wanted all of this, but weds’ table, decorated with an complete with a lemon-eating con- drips. Some were in such bad shape look how it ended,” Yukhimets, 20, a Orthodox Christian icon and a test, traditional Ukrainian songs and that they were carried on stretchers slim and shy blonde, said from her hand-embroidered towel. Yulia’s a wedding dance. The next day, and rushed into emergency care, hospital in the town of Ruzhyn, mother, Valentyna Hrabchak, was in Yulia and Oleksxandr were wed in a among them a 2-year-old boy. where she was taken in an ambu- charge of whipping up the once-in- church and the celebration moved Fourteen of those who fell ill were lance from a nearby village this children. month. Every year, hundreds of There were so many wedding Ukrainian newlyweds and their patients that the hospital quickly guests need medical treatment ran out of beds and drugs. Some after suffering food poisoning at patients were put on trolleys in the wedding banquets. They are victims corridors of the hospital’s infections of Ukraine’s cult of traditional big unit; a rich villager donated money UKRAINE: In this photo hospital nurses treat a patient after food poisoning in the wedding hospitality, which calls for and medications to help fellow town of Ruzhyn. treating guests to more food than townsfolk. A week after being they can eat and the hosts can safe- admitted, most patients were feel- ly prepare. Most often, the poison- ing better and some were being dis- ings take place because the home- charged. Mykola Zozulya, the hospi- Australian doctors bring made food at village weddings is tal’s head doctor, said that lab tests not properly refrigerated while it is showed that the infection was woman back from the dead prepared in huge batches over sev- caused by salmonella. He frowns eral days. upon lavish weddings, saying SYDNEY: An Australian woman has lived to “Indeed this is a miracle. I did not expect Many cultures favor big wed- preparing and eating so much food tell the tale after being brought back to life her to be so well.” Tanasio said she had no dings, but a traditional Ukrainian is a health hazard: “It’s our Ukrainian from being clinically dead for 42 minutes, history of heart conditions and was grateful village wedding is nothing short of mentality: We want for the table to doctors said yesterday. Mother-of-two to be alive. “I remember being on my collapse under the weight of the a sacred ritual, bringing together UKRAINE: In this photo patients take medical treatment in a hospital Vanessa Tanasio, 41, was rushed to Monash couch, then the floor, then arriving at hos- food.” the entire community at food-laden after food poisoning in the town of Ruzhyn.—AP photos Medical Centre in Melbourne last week pital, and then two days go missing,” tables for song, dance and celebra- The Health Ministry said it does after a major heart attack, with one of her Tanasio said. “I was dead for nearly an hour tions that last several days. not keep statistics of wedding poi- main arteries fully blocked. She went into and only a week later I feel great. It’s surre- Ethnographer Olena Shcherban sonings. But such incidents are fre- cardiac arrest and was declared clinically al.” The Lucas device physically compresses says that in folk culture, a wedding quent, especially during hot sum- dead soon after arrival. Doctors refused to the chest, like during cardiopulmonary is considered to be one of the three mer months that are the preferred give up and used a compression device resuscitation (CPR), allowing doctors to key events in a person’s life, along season for weddings. Hrabchak, called a Lucas 2 the only one of its kind in work non-stop to put a stent into a blocked with birth and death, and is an who did not get sick, blamed the Australia-to keep blood flowing to her artery. It is the first a time a patient has occasion for the community to give eggs she bought at a local store and brain while cardiologist Wally Ahmar successfully used the device, which was its official blessing to the new fami- used in most of the dishes. She said opened an artery to unblock it. Once donated to the medical centre, for such a ly. “A wedding is not just anything, the food was all home-made and unblocked, Tanasio’s heart was shocked length of time in Australia, the hospital it’s a culmination of a relationship of properly stored in refrigerators and back into a normal rhythm. “(I used) multi- said. Clinical death is a medical term for members of a community,” a cold cellar. And most wedding ple shocks, multiple medications just to when someone stops breathing and their Shcherban said. “This culmination participants being treated at the resuscitate her,” Ahmar said. blood stops circulating. must take place publically in front hospital defended the big “vesillya” of the eyes of the entire village, of as a wonderful tradition - saying the entire small community that they simply got unlucky. knows these people and that will “These traditions were invented legalize this relationship”. not by us, but by our ancestors,” said The very Ukrainian word for Svitlana Yukhimets, the wedding’s wedding - “vesillya” - is derived from toast maker, “so we try to maintain the words “joy” and “rejoice.” And in them.” Hrabchak was nearly in popular belief, the bigger the party, UKRAINE: In this photo three-year old Yaroslav and his mother tears at what happened. She said the happier the marriage. So it was Lyudmila, front bed, as well as other patients lie down on their hospi- she regrets that the wedding she supposed to be at Yukhimets’ wed- tal beds after food poisoning in the town of Ruzhyn. organized caused her loved ones ding. After registering their mar- a-lifetime event - one that local cus- to the groom’s house. But already so much suffering, but still riage in a civil ceremony, the wed- tom dictated should last at least by the afternoon, many started feel- believes that the sacred tradition ding party headed for the first day three days with a minimum of 35 ing unwell. First, suspicion fell on of big and hearty weddings should of celebrations at the bride’s home dishes, not counting desserts. She men drinking too much “horilka,” or live on. “You should have, and have in Nemyryntsi, a small village in cen- slaughtered a home-grown pig two Ukrainian drink. and have weddings and not be tral Ukraine, surrounded by corn days before the wedding and sum- But after the bride, the guests afraid that something would hap- and sunflower fields. A large tent moned 20 girlfriends to help with and even the musicians suffered pen,” Hrabchak said. “If you are went up in Yukhimets’ garden and preparations. Together they served fever, stomach aches, vomiting and afraid of wolves, don’t go into the about 150 guests sat down to toast up a colossal feast, all home-made: diarrhea, it became clear that some- woods.”—AP For ‘Biggest Loser’ trainer, diet trumps exercise in weight loss MELBOURNE: This handout picture taken yesterday and released by Philip Blackman shows Australian woman Vanessa Tanasio along with son Max, daughter Ella and Sergeant Mark Robertson (behind) from the Victoria Police smiling from NEW YORK: Celebrity trainer Bob Harper, of the condition program called Crossfit, which is a what he loves to do.“When you find your pas- her hospital bed.—AP weight-loss TV show “The Biggest Loser,” has series of timed, ever-changing physical chal- sion, it makes for a good life.”—Reuters built a career putting very obese people through lenges that he says are suitable for everyone. some grueling fitness paces but if he’s learned “I’m working with people who are 500 pounds New contamination scare hits anything from the experience, it’s that diet (227 kg) and doing Crossfit on a regular basis,” trumps exercise every time. The Los Angeles- said Harper, who described the approximately N Zealand dairy industry based trainer, who was born on a cattle farm in 20-minute workout as well-balanced. “To me Tennessee and arrived in California some 20 Crossfit just completely makes sense (as long as) WELLINGTON: A new contamination and quarantine all of the product and it years ago, said gone are the days when he you work at your level doing the things you can scare hit New Zealand’s multi-billion has been put on hold,” he said. believed it was possible to just exercise the do with proper coaching,” he explained. dollar dairy industry yesterday after it The government said that by the pounds away. “It is all about your diet,” Harper, But Dr Mark Kelly, an exercise physiologist at the American Council on Exercise, said that even was revealed a milk product with exces- time the product had been through the 48, said during a break from filming Season 15 of the long-running US show. “I used to think a with supervision, Crossfit can be risky if the fit- sive nitrate levels had been exported to manufacturing process, nitrate levels long time ago that you can beat everything you ness groundwork isn’t in place. “Crossfit has very China. Both New Zealand’s Ministry of would have been so diluted as to be eat out of you and it’s just absolutely not the ballistic training. You’re asking people to move Primary Industries (MPI) and the compa- harmless. “MPI’s technical experts have case.” fast through a large range of motion. Even with ny at the centre of the latest scare, looked closely at this issue and believe Harper has spun his TV fame improving the coaching, the foundation of stability, mobility Westland Milk, insisted the product any food safety risk to Chinese con- fitness of people who are 100 pounds (45 kg) or and psychomotor skill has to be laid (first),” he called lactoferrin did not pose a safety sumers is negligible because the quanti- more overweight into an empire with DVD work- said. Kelly agrees that diet is the main factor that risk. But the timing could not be worse ties of lactoferrin used in consumer outs and the best-selling book “The Skinny can lower weight, but it’s exercise, he adds, that for the country’s dairy industry-which products was very small,” MPI acting Rules,” which offers tips to drop excess weight. allows that lower weight to stick. generates a quarter of New Zealand’s director-general Scott Gallacher said. He said if the ‘Skinny’ of his book titles and fit- He cited the National Weight Control Registry, exports-as it struggles to recover from a “The nitrate levels in those products ness DVDs is meant tongue-in-cheek, it is also a research study that includes people 18 years or botulism contamination crisis earlier would easily be within acceptable lev- the word that his morbidly obese clients attach older who have lost at least 13.6 kg (30 lb) of this month. els.” New Zealand’s reputation for pro- to most. “People say, ‘Shouldn’t I be fit? weight and kept it off for at least one year. Westland said two batches of lacto- ducing top-quality dairy products was Shouldn’t I be healthy?’, and I say ‘Yes, absolutely. Ninety percent of those in the study exercise ferrin totaling 390kg (860 pounds) were damaged when Fonterra revealed earli- But what I always hear from my contestants on regularly. “They’re the biggest losers across the exported to China despite showing er this month that some whey product the show is, ‘I just want to get skinny.’” nation,” Kelly said. “And the No. 1 thing they did nitrate levels of 610 and 2,198 parts per used in baby formula was contaminated In addition to promoting a healthy diet, a big was exercise on a regular basis.Many simply million-well above the New Zealand with a potentially deadly bug that can part of his exercise routine includes lunges and through walking.” Harper said he values working standard of 150 parts per million. Chief cause botulism. The scare, blamed on a other core-strengthening moves to burn with people who have gotten far off the diet and executive Rod Quin said it appeared the dirty pipe at a North Island processing enough fat to let the inner six-pack shine fitness track more than the celebrity status con- contamination was an isolated incident plant, caused product recalls from Saudi through. Harper said the workout is aimed at ferred upon him by reality TV. “Of course with caused when cleaning products were Arabia to China. New Zealand’s dairy getting the heart rate up because that’s when everyone being on a television show, from peo- not properly flushed from a South exports are worth more than NZ$12 bil- people are going to be able to burn fat and ple working on fishing boats to people being Island processing plant before a new lion ($9.7 billion) a year, according to when fat is burned off, the abdominal muscles interior designers, you get this platform,” he said. run of product was sent through. “We government data, with China its largest are exposed. “But I think for me, celebrity trainer is not who I immediately initiated a process to find market.—AFP He also adheres to the no-frills strength and am.” He is, he said, someone who has found Trainer Bob Harper TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE OxyContin maker closely guards its list of suspect doctors

LOS ANGELES: Over the last decade, drug dealing conviction. Bamdad was scription drug overdoses an epidemic. tion and overdose. But as Purdue and Abrams said that if she and two other more vague reports. Steve Opferman, the maker of the potent painkiller linked by prosecutors to six patient Last year, a Times analysis showed other drug companies pushed for attorneys determine doctors to be too who heads a prescription fraud task OxyContin has compiled a database deaths. that drugs prescribed by doctors their broad use, doctors began widely risky, Purdue bars sales representa- force for the Los Angeles County of hundreds of doctors suspected of Another doctor, Eleanor Santiago, played a role in nearly half the pre- prescribing them for bad backs, bum tives from marketing to them and Sheriff’s Department, said Purdue recklessly prescribing its pills to is awaiting sentencing on federal scription overdose deaths in Southern knees and other common ailments. stops paying commissions on the could be sitting on valuable leads. addicts and drug dealers, but has charges that she helped flood Los California from 2006 through 2011. OxyContin twice as potent as mor- doctors’ OxyContin prescriptions. “That’s definitely data that law done little to alert law enforcement or Angeles’ black market with more than Seventy-one doctors prescribed drugs phine became one of the nation’s Suspicious doctors are removed from enforcement and prosecutors could medical authorities. Despite its suspi- 1 million illicit doses of OxyContin. to three or more patients who fatally most widely prescribed painkillers by the company’s numbered sales terri- use,” he said. cions, Purdue Pharma continued to Physician Kevin Gohar was linked to a overdosed. Oxycodone, the active marketing its patented time-release tories and assigned to the database Purdue used its database this year profit from prescriptions written by suspected prescription mill in Reseda ingredient in OxyContin, was one of formula as safer than other drugs. But known as “Region Zero,” she said. By to bolster an extraordinary argument these physicians, many of whom were that authorities say sold OxyContin the most often cited drugs in the it didn’t take long for addicts to dis- Purdue’s account, the company has to the U.S. Food and Drug prolific prescribers of OxyContin. The prescriptions to addicts across deaths. cover that “Oxy,” as it is known on the fielded 3,200 reports on suspicious Administration: The OxyContin it had company has sold more than $27 bil- Southern California. Gohar died of a Concerned by the mounting death streets, produced a heroinlike rush doctors and other prescribers. About sold for 14 years was so prone to lion worth of the drug since its intro- drug overdose in 2011 while a crimi- toll, a congressional oversight com- when crushed and snorted, releasing 70 doctors in the database did not abuse that generic drug companies duction in 1996. nal investigation was pending. mittee in June called three top federal the pill’s full potency at once. prescribe OxyContin, according to should not be allowed to copy it. For years, Purdue has promoted Mitchell Katz, director of the Los officials to testify about the govern- By 2001, OxyContin sales hit $1 bil- Purdue. Abrams said putting a doctor Purdue said in a letter to the FDA the idea that the country’s epidemic Angeles County Department of ment’s response to the prescription lion a year. The privately held into the database is “essentially a that the argument was based in part of prescription drug deaths was Health Services, said Purdue has a drug crisis. Louisiana Republican Rep Stamford, Conn., company was also judgment call.” on an analysis of prescriptions writ- fueled largely by pharmacy robberies, duty to report all the doctors on the Bill Cassidy asked why the govern- under fierce attack. Local authorities “A lot of these are circumstances ten by 364 “active prescribers” of doctor-shopping patients and teens OxyContin in Region Zero. raiding home medicine cabinets. The According to Purdue, when the database suggests that Purdue has company introduced a tamper-resis- long known that physicians also play tant formulation in August 2010, the a significant role in the crisis. Purdue’s doctors’ prescriptions for maximum- database, which contains the names strength OxyContin _ the one of more than 1,800 doctors, could favored by addicts plummeted by 80 provide leads for investigators at a percent. Prescriptions for Opana, a time when they are increasingly look- narcotic painkiller made by a rival ing at how reckless prescribing of that could still be crushed and snort- painkillers contributes to addiction ed, shot up about 400 percent, the and death. internal study found. When crush- Purdue has said little about the list resistant Opana came out two years since it began identifying doctors in later, the same doctors’ prescriptions 2002. A company scientist offered a for that drug also plunged. glimpse into the database at a June Purdue concluded that a small drug dependency conference in San number of doctors might account for Diego, noting it was the first time the a “substantial portion” of the nation’s program had been discussed in pub- black-market supply of prescription lic. In a series of interviews with the painkillers, according to a summary Los Angeles Times, Purdue attorney of the unpublished study. The find- Robin Abrams said the company cre- NEWYORK: Purdue Pharma has sold more than $27 billion worth of the CALIFORNIA: Investigators raid an alleged “prescription mill” in Los ings held “important implications,” ated the database to steer its sales powerful painkiller OxyContin since its introduction in 1996.—MCT photos Angeles. Purdue said, for policies aimed at representatives away from risky doc- curbing prescription abuse. The com- tors. Policing physicians, she said, was list, not just a select few. “There is an ment wasn’t mining prescribing data up and down the East Coast, where that if you were to walk into a doctor’s pany provided the study to the FDA not Purdue’s responsibility. “We don’t ethical obligation,” said Katz, a critic of to target rogue doctors. “I’m expect- problems with OxyContin first office would give you pause and in a confidential filing; it did not have the ability to take the prescrip- what he says is the overuse of ing it’s going to be a small percent emerged, complained that the drug would make you turn around and include doctors’ names. On the day tion pad out of their hand,” she said. painkillers. “Any drug company that writing a lot of the inappropriate pre- inflicted addiction and crime on their walk out,” said Abrams, a former feder- Purdue’s patent was set to expire, the Abrams said the company had has information about physicians scriptions,” said Cassidy, himself a communities. Lawmakers pressed al prosecutor who specialized in crimi- FDA agreed that the original alerted law enforcement or medical potentially engaged in illegal pre- physician. “What’s the challenge in fig- Purdue to do something. At a hearing nal health care fraud cases. Abrams OxyContin was too dangerous to regulators to 154 of the prescribers scribing or prescribing that is endan- uring out which doctors are the bad on OxyContin abuse that year, declined to say precisely how the allow generic drugmakers to copy. At about 8 percent of those in its data- gering people’s lives has a responsibil- actors?” Pennsylvania Republican Rep James C company decides which cases to the San Diego conference in June, base. The company’s tally could not ity to report it.” Abrams said that some President Barack Obama’s drug Greenwood, then the chairman of a refer to authorities. “I don’t really Purdue epidemiologist Howard be independently verified. Asked to of the doctors in the database may no czar, R Gil Kerlikowske, testified that House oversight committee, told want to open up an opportunity for Chilcoat made a brief presentation provide cases reported to law longer be active prescribers, but she the federal government didn’t have Purdue’s top executives to use sales folks come in here and start looking about the study. He said doctors in enforcement, she identified three could not provide a specific number. access to such information. data to “weed out” bad doctors pre- and second-guessing,” she said. the database were prescribing Southern California physicians impli- OxyContin and other prescription Unbeknownst to Cassidy and scribing their drug. Among the situations that would painkillers “for what appears to be cated in major schemes to funnel painkillers have fueled a surge in drug Kerlikowske, Purdue Pharma had a The next year, Abrams said, lead to referrals, she said, are cases in the wrong reasons.” When he opened OxyContin to addicts and dealers. One overdoses, which in 2009 claimed database similar to what the con- Purdue’s legal department began which sales representatives witness the floor to questions, Jane of them, Masoud Bamdad of San 39,147 lives, surpassing for the first gressman was looking for. For training sales representatives to apparent drug deals in physicians’ Liebschutz, a medical professor from Fernando, took in $1.5 million a year time traffic accidents as a leading decades, physicians avoided prescrib- report “red flags” at doctors’ offices, parking lots or observe doctors who Boston, made her way to a micro- prescribing OxyContin and other cause of preventable deaths. Two ing narcotic painkillers for anything including young patients, long lines, appear to be under the influence of phone. “Shouldn’t those 364 pre- painkillers to young addicts. He is years later, the US Centers for Disease but cancer and end-of-life pain people nodding off in waiting rooms drugs or alcohol. Law enforcement, scribers be investigated?” she serving a 25-year prison sentence on a Control and Prevention declared pre- because they feared the risk of addic- and frequent cash transactions. she said, “wouldn’t be interested” in asked.—MCT WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013

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IDF bids farewell to Mohan he Indian Doctors Forum, led by Dr Jaganath R C (General Secretary IDF) President Dr Amir Ahmed, bid shared a few nostalgic moments, wherein Tfarewell to H K Mohan, First H K Mohan won the hearts of IDF and the Secretary: Community Affairs & Education, Indian Community by his mere cool, calm Indian Embassy of Kuwait, on Wednesday, and friendly attitude. August 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm, at the Indian H K Mohan responded modestly and Embassy premise, in a prestigious and humbly to all our kind words of praise. He emotive manner in the presence of Shri even highlighted that the Indian Doctors Satish C Mehta, Ambassador of India to Forum, is one of the most well appreciated Kuwait. associations in Kuwait and affirmed that Dr Amir Ahmed initiated the ceremony the Bharati Pravasi Samman Award was by praising all efforts and actions taken by well deserved by IDF and this definitely H K Mohan, towards strengthening the reflected the respect and love that IDF has bonds of friendship between the Indian created in the Indian Community in Kuwait YMCA Kuwait Embassy and Indian Doctors Forum. He and India. He also added that IDF is a role even recalled the time when he represent- model, from which other like-minded asso- celebrates 169th ed the Indian Embassy for one of the ciations in the Gulf need to learn and fol- Health Screening Camps, wherein he was low suit. He requested IDF to continue its Founders Day overwhelmed by his welcoming smile and community activities particularly and pleasant gestures. H K Mohan has been a attain greater heights by this sincere perse- MCA Kuwait conducted 169th Founders Day cele- common face and witness to most of the verance and dedication. He informed IDF brations and 67th Independence Day celebra- Enjoy the taste of true Espresso at activities of IDF, be it community oriented that though he will be taking up his next Ytions at Hi-dine Auditorium, Abassiya presided Vergnano Cafe at Olympia Complex or cultural. Dr Vinod Grover (Vice President) posting in Jamaica, he wishes to keep in over by Babu Johnson. Meeting began with the open- wished him all success in his future under- touch with us on a regular basis. This was ing prayer of Mathews Mammen. Parimanam Manoj he superior quality of the blends espresso to everyday life at home. takings and underscored the fact, that he then followed by the presentation of a (General Secretary) welcomed the guest and members. comes from the meticulous selec- Espresso is now available in Kuwait, will be missed by the Indian Community at prestigious memento depicting the land- Rev K A Varghese (Vicar - Ahmadhi MarThoma Church, Ttion of the best raw materials avail- through Al-Sanabel Al-Thahabiya Est. Tel: Kuwait at large. To this Shri Satish C Mehta mark of Kuwait, the Kuwait towers in crys- Kuwait) inaugurated the function. Rev Achen Kunju able, and from an extraordinary produc- 22413795/98. Espresso Vergnano can be responded saying that the loss of one tal, which was handed over by Dr Amir George (Vicar - St Thomas Evangelical Church) delivered tion process. Cafe Vergnano is the first to ordered through www.taw9eel.com good employee becomes the gain of Ahmed , as a token of appreciation. This the Independence Day Message. Deacon Santhosh introduce an innovation that brings all the Espresso Vergnano capsules are compati- another and that this is the a trend that was in remembrance of his distinguished Mathew, Dr A T Varghese and Br Sunny Andrews felici- goes on regularly in the Foreign Services. contribution to IDF. tated on this occasion. Solos were sung by Sangeetha passion and pleasure of the perfect ble with other espresso machines. Remy and Anna Elsa Raju. Different games were also arranged. Mathews Eapen (Vice President) gave vote of thanks. Closing prayer was led by M C Mathew Tharakan. Announcements

Indian Embassy sets up helpline he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set up helpline in order to assist Indian expa- Ttriates in registering any complaint regarding the government’s ongoing cam- paign to stamp out illegal residents from the country. The embassy said in press release yesterday that it amended its previous state- ment and stated if there is any complaint, the same could be conveyed at the following (as amended): Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy has been in regular contact with local authorities regarding the ongoing checking of expatri- ates. The embassy has also conveyed to them GPCC celebrates India’s 67th Independence Day the concerns, fears and apprehensions of the community in this regard. The authorities in ulf Pravasi Cultural Congress Independence Day celebrations. Control in the Poonch Sector of Mathew Chennithala who delivered Kuwait have conveyed that strict instructions (GPCC) Kuwait celebrated During the event, GPCC Chief Jammu and Kashmir. the vote of thanks. The ceremony was have been issued to ensure that there is no GIndia’s 67th Independence Day Coordinator Jils Kudakassery inaugu- GPCC leaders Bacon Joseph, Simon attended by a cross-section of Indian harassment or improper treatment of expatri- with zeal and zest in United Indian rated the function and delivered a Baby, Sunil Varghese, A I Kurein, Philip community as part of the ates by those undertaking checking. “The School, Abbasiya with colorful events. speech on the eve of Independence C V Thomas, Binoy Chandran, Francis Independence Day celebrations, GPCC embassy would like to request Indian expatri- Patriotic fervor and gaiety marked the Day. In his speech, Independence Day Cherukol, Arun Jacob, Sabu Paul, Members distributed sweets at the ates to ensure that they abide by all local celebrations. The proceedings got marks the end of British colonial rule in James and Sabu Parumala also shared end of the program. laws, rules and regulations regarding residen- under way with GPCC President Rajeev the Indian subcontinent in 1947 and messages during the auspicious occa- cy, traffic and other matters,” the release read. Naduvilemuri, followed by Patriotc paid tribute to the five soldiers who sion. The welcome speech was ren- It would be prudent to always carry the Civil Song Vandematharam”. Prominent were killed on Tuesday morning by dered by GPCC General Secretary ID and other relevant documents such as leaders of GPCC lead the Pakistani troops along the Line of Jomon Thomas Koikkara and Treasurer driving license, etc. In case an Indian expatri- ate encounters any improper treatment dur- ing checking, it may be conveyed immediate- ly with full details and contact particulars to the embassy at the following phone number 67623639. These contact details are exclu- sively for the above-mentioned purpose only.

Issue of online visa by Indian embassy oreigners requiring visas for India need to apply it online from 16th June 2013. FApplicants may log on to the Public por- tal at ww.indianvisaonline.gov.in. After suc- cessful online submission, the hard copy, so generated, has to be signed by the applicant and submitted with supporting documents in accordance with the type of visa along with the applicable fee in cash at any of the two outsource centres at Sharq or Fahaheel. It is essential that applicants fill in their personal details as exactly available in their passports. Mismatch of any of the personal details would lead to non-acceptance of the application. Fees once paid are non-refundable. All chil- dren would have to obtain separate visa on their respective passports. AIS participates in NESA Write to us Send to What’s On Virtual Science Fair

upcoming events, birthdays or his was the second year that AIS Kuwait hard for a long time on this project and have Behbehani) . Two of our other teams also ranked celebrations by email: Middle School has participated in this excit- made AIS very proud. 3rd place overall: AIS highly (14th and 18th). This is out of approxi- [email protected] Ting global initiative, NESA Virtual Science Kuwait Team #2 (Ghena Lababidi, Olivia Wright, mately 400 teams from Asia and Europe. Fair (NVSF). Congratulations for this amazing Stacey Mathews). 2nd place overall: AIS Kuwait Fax: 24835619 / 20 achievement by 7th graders at AIS. They worked Team #4 (Bassil Zeineddine, Ralph Snabian, Ali MANSOORI

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EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Embassy of Australia has announced that Kuwait citizens can apply for and receive visit visas in 10 working days through www.immi.gov.au. All other processing of visas and Immigration matters are handled by the Australian Visa Application Centre located in Al Banwan Building, 4B, 1st Floor, Al Qibla Area, Ali Al Salem Street, Kuwait City. Visit. www.vfs-au- gcc.com for more info. The Embassy of Australia does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters is conducted by the Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VIS), immigra- [email protected] (Visa Office), Tel: +971 4 205 5900 (VFS), Fax: + 971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). Notary and passport services are available by appointment. Appointments can be made by calling the Embassy on 22322422. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ EMBASSY OF CANADA The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration depart- ment. All processing of visa and immi- gration matters including enquiries is conducted by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.goingtocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im- [email protected]. The Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, Aquapark hosts family event Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through The Aquapark hosted a family event recently featuring singer Mustafa Al-Najjar, and competitions organized for visitors of all ages. Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to —Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ EMBASSY OF UK As of July 22, the British Embassy’s Visa Application Center (VAC) will be extend- ing opening hours to be from 08:00 to 15:00 (previously from 09:30 to 14:30). This will generate more appointments in addition to the ones created from the Iftar opening time from 20:00 - 22:00. This step comes in response to the increasing number of applicants during summer. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ EMBASSY OF GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the pleasure to announce that visa applica- tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Application Centre (VFS office) locat- ed at 12th floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al-Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collection from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the fol- lowing website www.mfa.gr/kuwait.

■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an inter- view or a trip inside the Embassy. The children must be under 14 years of age, and additional requirements do apply, but the serv- ice means parents will no longer have to sched- ule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for themselves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti pass- ports. To take advantage, parents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous pass- port, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS- 160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS- 160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stat- ing no objection to the child’s travel. - For chil- dren of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. Children born in the US (with very few exceptions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is avail- able on the U.S. Embassy website: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

EMBASSY OF UKRAINE The Embassy of Ukraine in the State of Kuwait would like to inform that submis- sion of the documents for tourist visa is temporary closed (from August 26 till September 26). Within the above-mentioned period, the visa will be issued only in the case of emergency. In the case of planning travel to Ukraine, please apply for visa before August 20. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

EMBASSY OF VATICAN The Apostolic Nunciature Embassy of the Holy See, Vatican in Kuwait has moved to a new location in Kuwait City. Please find below the new address: Yarmouk, Block 1, Street 2, Villa No: 1. P.O.Box 29724, Safat 13158, Kuwait. Tel: 965 25337767, Fax: 965 25342066. Email: [email protected] TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO SITUATION VACANT For a family of two adults, a live-in house boy and home WEDNESDAY (15/08/2013 TO 21/08/2013) care. Good English and Arabic is preferred, transfer- SHARQIA-1 CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 3:00 PM able visa. Contact: 99060969. KILLING SEASON (DIG) 12:30 PM CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 9:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 5:30 PM 20-8-2013 KILLING SEASON (DIG) 2:30 PM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 12:30 AM NO SAT HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 4:30 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 6:30 PM FANAR-4 360º- 1 ACCOMMODATION HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 8:45 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG-3D) 2:00 PM RED 2 (DIG) 2:30 PM KILLING SEASON (DIG) 10:45 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 4:45 PM RED 2 (DIG) 5:00 PM For ladies or bachelor KILLING SEASON (DIG) 12:45 AM THE WOLVERINE (DIG-3D) 7:15 PM RED 2 (DIG) 7:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 9:45 PM RED 2 (DIG) 10:00 PM Filipino only near big SHARQIA-2 THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:15 AM RED 2 (DIG) 12:30 AM Jamiya Farwaniya. Available THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 1:00 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED August 25, 2013. Contact DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM 360º- 2 66158188 or 66826412. THE SMURFS 2 (DIG-3D) 5:30 PM FANAR-5 THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 1:00 PM 20-8-2013 EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 7:45 PM THE SMURFS 2 1:30 PM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 4:00 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 9:45 PM PACIFIC RIM 3:45 PM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 7:00 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:15 AM THE SMURFS 2 6:15 PM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 10:00 PM CHANGE OF NAME EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET 8:30 PM RED 2 (DIG) 1:00 AM SHARQIA-3 EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET 10:30 PM RED 2 (DIG) 12:30 PM PACIFIC RIM 12:30 AM 360º- 3 I, Thamer Medhat Moh. THE SMURFS 2 (DIG) 2:45 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM Khattab holder of Filipino RED 2 (DIG) 5:00 PM MARINA-1 DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 3:45 PM Passport No. TT0990386 THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 7:15 PM KILLING SEASON (DIG) 1:15 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 6:00 PM hereby change my name to RED 2 (DIG) 10:15 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 3:30 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 8:15 PM Tamer Medhat Moh. THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 12:30 AM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 5:30 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 10:30 PM Khattab, hereafter all deal- KILLING SEASON (DIG) 8:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:45 AM ings in my new name. MUHALAB-1 HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 10:30 PM CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 12:30 PM KILLING SEASON (DIG) 12:30 AM AL-KOUT.1 20-8-2013 (28/160/fair), BB Kuwait, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI DOBARA 3:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:30 PM Masters UK, well employed Prayer timings CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM MARINA-2 THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 3:00 PM I, Juzar Ali, holder of Indian in Kuwait, from well quali- HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 9:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 1:00 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 5:30 PM Passport No. E 6573312, fied and employed Fajr: 03:54 PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 11:45 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 4:00 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 7:30 PM have changed my name to Marthoma/CSI/Orthodox/Ja Shorook 05:19 EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 6:15 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 10:00 PM Juzar Ali Bohra as per affi- cobite boys preferably in Duhr: 11:51 MUHALAB-2 EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 8:15 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:30 AM davit. (C 4484) Kuwait/Dubai/USA/Australi Asr: 15:27 KILLING SEASON (DIG) 1:00 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 10:15 PM 18-8-2013 RED 2 (DIG) 3:00 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:45 AM AL-KOUT.2 a/Canada with good family Maghrib: 18:24 background and clean KILLING SEASON (DIG) 5:15 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 12:30 PM Isha: 19:45 THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 7:15 PM MARINA-3 THE SMURFS 2 (DIG) 2:30 PM I, Bhaskar Hungarkatha of habits. Email: RED 2 (DIG) 10:15 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 4:45 PM Indian Passport No. G [email protected] KILLING SEASON (DIG) 12:30 AM THE SMURFS 2 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM THE SMURFS 2 (DIG) 6:45 PM 0638528 hereby wish to (C 4485) DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 5:45 PM KILLING SEASON (DIG) 9:00 PM change my name to JOHN 20-8-2013 MUHALAB-3 RED 2 (DIG) 7:45 PM KILLING SEASON (DIG) 11:00 PM B. ALMEIDA. (C 4482) THE SMURFS 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM RED 2 (DIG) 10:00 PM KILLING SEASON (DIG) 1:00 AM 15-8-2013 DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 4:00 PM RED 2 (DIG) 12:15 AM THE SMURFS 2 (DIG-3D) 6:00 PM AL-KOUT.3 SITUATION WANTED THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 8:15 PM AVENUES-1 RED 2 (DIG) 1:30 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 10:45 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 2:30 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 3:45 PM LOST Indian lady Accountant, THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:45 AM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 4:45 PM RED 2 (DIG) 6:00 PM B.Com with 3 years experi- HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 7:00 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 8:15 PM ence in Kuwait. Looking for a FANAR-1 HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 9:15 PM RED 2 (DIG) 10:30 PM Original document Policy No. DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 1:00 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 11:30 PM RED 2 (DIG) 12:45 AM 633002728-1 of Mohammad suitable accounts job. (Can THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY RED 2 (DIG) 3:00 PM Naeem by the State Life join immediately). Contact: FOR CIVIL INFORMATION 65173606/67668929. DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 5:30 PM AVENUES-2 AL-KOUT.4 Insurance Corporation of Automated enquiry about ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI DOBARA 7:30 PM CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 12:30 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 12:45 PM Pakistan, Gulf Zone is report- (C4486) RED 2 (DIG) 10:30 PM CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 3:30 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 2:45 PM 20-8-2013 the Civil ID card is RED 2 (DIG) 12:45 AM CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 4:45 PM ed to have been lost. Anyone CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 9:30 PM PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 7:45 PM finding the same or claiming FANAR-2 CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 12:30 AM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 10:15 PM any interest in it should com- FOR SALE 1889988 KILLING SEASON (DIG) 12:30 PM THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 12:15 AM municate with State Life KILLING SEASON (DIG) 2:30 PM AVENUES-3 Office Kuwait Tel: 22452208. Mitsubishi Jeep Nativa HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 4:30 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 2:15 PM BAIRAQ-1 (C 4483) model 2011 white color, 6 STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 6:45 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 4:15 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 12:30 PM 18-8-2013 HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 9:00 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 6:15 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 2:30 PM cylinder engine, alloy rim KILLING SEASON (DIG) 11:00 PM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 8:15 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 4:30 PM excellent condition, 4 KILLING SEASON (DIG) 1:00 AM EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 10:15 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 7:00 PM MATRIMONIAL wheel drive (installment EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 12:15 AM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 9:15 PM possible), cash price KD FANAR-3 THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 11:45 PM Marthomite parents in 3,400 negotiable. Tel: CHENNAI EXPRESS (DIG) (HINDI) 12:30 PM AVENUES-4 NO SUN+TUE+WED Kuwait, invites proposals THE LONE RANGER (DIG) 3:30 PM THE WOLVERINE (DIG) 12:30 PM 99194874. (C 4487) for their daughter 20-8-2013 112

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CROSSWORD 285 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Secrets, taboos and mysteries appeal to you. Learning about people is You shine when it comes to practical matters or those involving work an exciting adventure for you. You wear your heart on your sleeve and your emotional life and career. You have an easy way with superiors or those in authority and can always man- is an open book for all to read. Others sense an interest in their welfare when they meet age to get the most out of any skill or ability you have. You like work and career. There are you. Your instinctive need at this time is to get down to basics and find the perfect path in family income and family security issues on your mind this afternoon. This is a great time to which to make your dreams come true. If you put as much energy into your personal rela- reflect and understand your own situation, just how you feel about yourself and the ways in tionships as you do your business relationships and adventures, all sorts of communica- which you are achieving your goals. The feelings of your loved one may be very clear. tion, education and growth are possible. You may enjoy getting away from routine this Budget issues can receive progress through the help of your loved one this evening. evening and doing something completely different. Poetry, art, music or a movie could Positive results are bound to happen! You endear those you love to you with your soothing prove most enjoyable. words of encouragement.

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

Someone that serves you, such as a dentist, accountant, housekeeper, etc., You can be a real moving force in the lives of others now. You are may be due for a change. Some change in location, physical wellbeing or some other change a natural group leader or trainer. Your vitality and drive are communicated to all has occurred to make you rethink your relationship with those that serve you. Be observant that are around you. You may find yourself taking charge, organizing and man- and take your time, the attention you give to this matter will be most useful to you in the aging important business transactions. This puts you in a boss type of position future. You make your home situation more pleasant with plans to revise and update. Perhaps and you love being the boss today. Careful—your enthusiasm is so strong that it a new maintenance person or the purchase of new and better tools is in order. A sale or pur- can sometimes be a little too much, making others uncomfortable. You put a lot chase of real estate could bring you much gain. Perhaps this evening is a good time to take of effort into those around you and also into your surroundings and home envi- notes of the pros and cons regarding a concern of yours and ask opinion from those who will ronment. You may feel like being different this evening. benefit from your decision.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

You will find this a productive workday. You have a lot of ideas that are Positive self-esteem is a necessity this month. You seem more interested in important for group discussions. Be careful in how you choose your words— the emotional communication between business friends and love partners you may be selected to make a presentation of your ideas in front of a board meeting. This now. It is very important for you to know how you come across to others. Taking a great option becomes enticing as you put together an outline for a film presentation. Your manage- amount of work home all the time will damage your home life. Pace yourself and say no when ACROSS 3. God of death. ment and directional abilities are in high focus and others sense your carry-through abilities. you feel you are reaching your limits. This is a rewarding day and you may come to some under- You could come up with new solutions or inventions. There are penetrating insights into your standing with a co-worker about something that was confusing to you in the past. This is a 1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the 4. Submit or yield to another's wish or opin- good time to get things done, at work and at home—just do not forget to pace yourself. This resistance between two points on a conduc- ion. own inner workings—what is hidden or going on behind the scenes. This insight is also good for planning and setting goals. Creativity, when it comes to inspiring and encouraging others, is evening is a good time to relax and enjoy your loved ones. There is a determination to be open tor when a potential difference of one volt 5. Large silvery fish found worldwide in warm positive and productive. and positive in a difficult relationship. between them produces a current of one seas but nowhere common. ampere. 6. Wish harm upon. 4. A republic in southeastern Europe on the 7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula. purchases securities in one market for imme- Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 11. A city in northern India. diate resale in another in the hope of profiting CAPRICORN 15. Seed of a pea plant. from the price differential). People value you for your ability to make practical decisions. You could be called Creating a work manual may be in order for those that follow you. When you 16. Type genus of the Coerebidae. 8. Necessary for relief or supply. on often to help with the art of solving problems. You would be wise to think about are on vacation or gone for other reasons, your responsible act to provide infor- mation to others is important. An orientation guideline or study guide will also come under the 17. The act of grasping. 9. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria. how you solve problems and create some outline that you really like. This way you could create some guideline for others to follow that will help them to solve their own problems. It is fun to see the growth same sort of energies that are present at this time. You quickly eliminate the nonessentials and 18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibri- 10. A river in north central Switzerland that in others and you will learn something in the process. A high-caliber friend will meet you for dinner gain the attention of higher-ups in most positive ways. It is always good to be a self-starter; as um. runs northeast into the Rhine. tonight. You may learn something new this evening and decide to join your friend in some activity that long as you do not take too many things upon yourself. This afternoon is a good time for sur- 19. A purplish dye obtained from orchil 11. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name you never thought would be of interest to you. This could include yacht racing, rock climbing or some rounding yourself with friends and young people and for having a good time. Big heart, big lichens. Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging other activity that is adventuresome. If you don’t participate, you may want to be the cook. love, you are seldom petty. Given to grand gestures and dramatic scenes, you love independ- 20. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or flour. ence and greatness in all forms—smile. effort. 12. The father of your father or mother. 21. Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs. 13. A growth in strength or number or impor- 23. A doctor's degree in religion. tance. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 25. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 14. Someone who copies the words or behav- You or your company may be involved in lectures or conventions, etc. You may be surprised by your feelings or your ability to act and get things 26. Unable to meet financial obligations. ior of another. Connections with people on a grand scale play a big part in your life at this time and for done today. This is a time for new accomplishments, during which insights and breakthroughs 28. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially 22. Type genus of the Tetraonidae. some time to come. Entertaining, catering, education, law, advertising, travel, philosophy in organization and determination are in order. There is a need for change in some areas of and religion may be a part in this process. Understanding a co-worker or someone around lymph or cerebrospinal fluid. 24. The United Nations agency concerned your life or work. New ideas and methods become clear. You will find yourself ready, willing and you today may occupy too much of your free time—careful. Learning what makes people 31. Beyond what is natural. with the interests of labor. able to implement changes. Outer circumstances and the flow of events make it easy for you to tick is educational and insightful; you find the experience of understanding people very sat- 32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 27. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to make clear decisions, see the road ahead and move forward. Things seem to fall in place and isfying. This afternoon you may find yourself with your friends, perhaps a dinner out or a progress is easy. With your love of life and travel, you would make a great travel guide for oth- from aba cloth. flow in the veins of the Gods. class in some form of art. You may find different approaches to the arts, theater or sports. ers. You treat the entire world as your home and if you wanted, people would pay for your ideas 35. South American armadillo with three 29. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting Luck is in your corner this evening. on travel. bands of bony plates. (especially in cases of drug overdose or poi- 38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a soning). skewer usually with vegetables. 30. A region of Malaysia in northeastern 42. An intensely radioactive metallic element Borneo. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) that occurs in minute amounts in uranium 33. Being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry. ores. 34. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Emotional considerations may block or oppose how you proceed with a Your energy at this time is toward getting down to work and really getting a lot accomplished. This could mean progress in the workplace as well as progress in accomplish- 43. The United Nations agency concerned Gulf of Antalya. project or plan. Listen carefully to what higher-ups are saying. You could have trouble with authorities, due to a tendency to assert your own ambitions against the realities of the situa- ing your personal goals. All of this should go rather smoothly. Your drive in life is expressing with civil aviation. 36. Cause annoyance in. tion. Your career is central to everything you do so this would be a good time to weigh all the your responsibility—your trustworthiness. You are able to find yourself in others, in relation- 46. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth 37. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829). options before making a quick decision. You may discover new ways of working with tradition- ships, rather than alone—a mirror or clear pool. You can be peaceful, calm and undisturbed. of a liter. 39. Having help. al materials. You could be most persuasive with others. Your ideas will receive quite a lot of You are a genius at bringing out others and getting them to perform—you are a born strate- 47. The syllable naming the sixth (submedi- 40. Muscular and heavily built. attention and you may need to back up your words. This evening you may decide to help a gist. You may be able to enjoy your own life situation today or feel especially kind toward a friend or loved one. Someone visiting you in your home this evening may compliment you on ant) note of a major or minor scale in solmiza- 41. The act of mixing. friend reach beyond that comfort zone of compliance and try something new. You encourage positive outcomes. your tastes or belongings. tion. 44. An island of central Hawaii. 48. The clay from which adobe bricks are 45. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to made. 0.7958 ampere-turns. 49. Being three more than forty. 50. Completely lacking nobility in character or Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 51. An international organization of European quality or purpose. countries formed after World War II to reduce 52. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit. trade barriers and increase cooperation 53. An officer who acts as military assistant to among its members. a more senior officer. 54. The law enforcement agency in the Justice 55. African tree having an exceedingly thick Department. trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and 56. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which has an edible pulp called monkey bread. the pilot is talked down by ground control 57. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities using precision approach radar. that allow air to flow through the cavities to 58. A language group of the Hokan family. the pharynx. 60. Malevolent aspect of Devi. 59. A public promotion of some product or 64. The cardinal number that is the sum of service. seven and one. 61. (sport) Used of your own ground. 67. Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped 62. A river in north central Switzerland that domesticated since prehistoric times. runs northeast into the Rhine. 70. An undergarment worn by women to sup- 63. German tennis player who won seven port their breasts. women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 71. Type genus of the Amiidae. 1969). 74. A persistently annoying person. 65. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 75. Manufactured in standard sizes to be Arabia or North Africa. shipped and assembled elsewhere. 66. An informal term for a father. 76. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates. 68. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. 69. South American wood sorrel cultivated for DOWN its edible tubers. 1. An organization of countries formed in 72. A member of the military police who 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale polices soldiers and guards prisoners. of petroleum. 73. A physician who is not a specialist but 2. Perceive sound. treats all illnesses. Yesterday’s Solution

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Robert De Niro celebrates 70th with famous friends

obert De Niro celebrated his 70th birthday with a host of famous friends, including Christopher Walken, Keith RRichards and Harvey Keitel. The Hollywood icon reached the landmark age on Saturday and to mark the occasion he threw a huge party at his New Paltz estate in New York. The ‘Goodfellas’ star treated his guests to a menu created by the He’s little rascal, says restaurant Nobu - which he co-owns - while entertainment was provided by Lenny Kravitz who performed live. De Niro shared a table with Walken and Keitel and fellow guest Samuel L. Jackson couldn’t resist taking a photo of the three legends together. The ‘Pulp Fiction’ star posted the image on Twitter, along with the Prince Williams on his son caption: “Lunched on da photo! Sorry! (sic)” He wrote in another tweet: “Kietel, Walken & De Niro! TRIPLEBADMUPFUCCAHHZ!! Happy Bday Bob!! (sic)” Other guests included Bradley Cooper, ritain’s Prince William says Prince George is a “little bit of a rascal”. ly known as Kate Middleton - were on “a high” when they introduced Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Harvey Weinstein, ‘The Butler’ The Duke of Cambridge admits the tiny tot - who was welcomed their newborn to the world for the first time outside the Lindo Wing of St director Lee Daniels and Martin Scorcese - who has directed De Binto the world four weeks ago - reminds him of himself and his Mary’s Hospital in London, and were pleased that George - third-in-line Niro in several acclaimed movies, including ‘Taxi Driver’. ‘Raging cheeky sibling Prince Harry when they were youngsters because he is to the throne - didn’t cry the whole way through. He explained: “I think Bull’ and ‘Casino’. De Niro’s six children and grandchildren were quite a character and has a habit of playing up when it’s time to go to more shock was the feeling I felt, but I was on such a high anyway, and so also present as was his actress wife Grace Hightower. Michael sleep. Speaking in an interview with CNN, he said: “He’s a little bit of a was Catherine, about George that really we were happy to show him off Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas couldn’t attend but sent rascal, I’ll put it that way. He either reminds me of my brother or me to whoever wanted to see him. “As any new parent knows, you’re only happy birthday messages via video, while Robin Williams and when I was younger, I’m not sure, but he’s doing very well at the too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is Billy Crystal recorded a comedy skit lampooning their pal. moment. “He’s growing quite quickly actually. But he’s a little fighter - he the best looking or the best everything. It’s nice that people want to see wriggles around quite a lot and he doesn’t want to go to sleep that George - I’m just glad he wasn’t screaming his head off the whole way much.” The prince admits him and his wife Duchess Catherine - previous- through!” Michelle Heaton is pregnant

he Liberty X singer took to her Twitter account today to announce she is expecting Ther second kid with husband Hugh Hanley, and she can’t wait for their 20-month-old daughter Faith to have a new brother or sister. She revealed: “Myself and @hughhanley are thrilled we are expecting a mini Michelle or Hugh. “this is a very exciting time for us after everything that’s hap- pened.Thank you as always for your love & sup- port! Whoop whoop! Xxxx “Awww thank u for your well wishes. Yes, faith is gonna be an amazing big sister. She’s already kissing my stomach. Have a great day all! X (sic)” The 33-year-old star’s joy comes after she had a double mastectomy last year after she was found to be carrying the BRCA2 cancer gene, meaning she had an 85 per cent Malik was almost kicked chance of developing breast cancer and 40 per cent chance of developing ovarian cancer. Michelle previously said she wanted to have more out of ‘One Direction’ children, but if she wasn’t able to have more kids because of her medical problems then she was content with her “healthy, beautiful baby” Faith. he 20-year-old hunk came close to being oust- maker confessed: “It was quite strange filming She said: “There’s a lot to consider about ovary ed by his fellow bandmates - who were put because it was the first time I’d actually spoken to my removal. It starts the menopause, which would together by Simon Cowell on ‘The X Factor’ in mum about it and she’d gone round the house. It was T obviously mean I couldn’t have any more children. 2010 - at the start of their career, when they realized quite strange but it was good and it’s amazing thing “I have one healthy, beautiful baby, and if I never the lazy singer was always late for rehearsals. At the to do. “I can look back on that in a few years time and have another I know I’m lucky to have her - but I press conference for their new 3D film, ‘One I’ve got amazing footage of my mum seeing the would love more if possible, so that will be a big Direction: This Is Us’, in London Liam Payne talked house for the first time.” While the band - also made decision.” about Zayn’s precarious position, saying: “The first up of Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan - week we got together it was all a bit strange trying to enjoyed their time being followed around by cameras get people together for rehearsals. Still to this day it’s for the fly-on-the-wall tour movie, they have no plans a struggle to get Zayn out of bed.” Jogging the other to ditch music for acting in the future. Harry mused: band members’ memories, filmmaker Morgan “It was weird in a way, it was really strange having the Spurlock - who shot the movie - said: “Remember he cameras around but at the same time it doesn’t make didn’t show up and you were going to fire him.” Now that much of a difference, there was no big set ups Fraser’s ex-wife definitely a permanent member of 1D, Zayn opened and stuff so it was kind of just getting on with your up about buying his mother Tricia Brannan her dream day.” Zayn added: “It wasn’t really an acting thing, it home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, with some of his was just like following us around ... so we won’t be issues 50K pop earnings, and said the emotional scene from the going into acting any time soon!” ‘One Direction: This film will stay with him forever. The ‘Little Things’ hit- Is Us’ is released in cinemas on August 29, 2013. demands

rendan Fraser’s ex-wife claims he is lying about not being able to afford spousal sup- Hilton has no Bport fees. ‘The Mummy’ actor filed docu- ments in Connecticut in February, asking the court to lower his $50,000 monthly alimony payments because he wasn’t getting enough acting jobs to time to party come up with the cash. According to TMZ, his for- mer spouse, Afton Smith, has now hit back with her own legal papers, claiming he is earning enough aris Hilton doesn’t have time to party anymore. The heiress is said to have thanks to new film roles in ‘Extraordinary Measure’ amassed a fortune of around £20 million from her business interests - which and ‘Furry Vengeance’. She insists Brendan’s net Pinclude fashion and property companies - and they keep her too busy to be worth of $25 million also justifies the financial sup- part of the bustling Los Angeles social scene. She said: “Yes, as a teenager, I used to port payments, especially since his earnings love to go to parties. Every single night almost. “But now I’m so busy with work I haven’t yet fallen below $3 million a year, the figure don’t have time. When I’m at a party it’s either I’m paid to be there, it’s a promotion agreed in their divorce settlement for the reduc- for one of my products, or it’s for a special occasion. So I don’t really enjoy going out tion of alimony. Brendan, 44 - who has three sons as much as I used to. I’m more of a homebody now. “I like to be with my boyfriend, with Afton; Griffin, 10, Holden, nine, and Leland, stay home and cook, just chill.” Paris, 32, is dating Spanish model River Viiperi, 21, seven - divorced the blonde in 2009. He strongly who she loves because he is “not like one of those Hollywood guys” and, most denies hiding his riches from his ex-wife, alleging a importantly, he loves animals. Paris - whose personal menagerie includes several number of “medical issues” have affected his earn- dogs of different breeds, ferrets, a miniature pig and a miniature pony - told the ings. The actor has also been involved in an expen- Sunday People newspaper: “He’s so good with pets. I wouldn’t date someone unless sive and bitter legal dispute with film producer they did love animals because animals are such a big part of my life. “You can tell if Todd Moyer, who sued Brendan last year for someone has a good heart by the way they treat animals. I really notice that with allegedly physically attacking him on two occa- people. “I just love that he’s so loyal and so sweet. He has a big heart. In relation- sions in 2011 and 2012. ships, I’ve never really trusted a guy before but with him, I don’t worry at all.” LIFESTYLE37 TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 Gossip Woodley cuts hair for movie and a good cause

ctress Shailene Woodley is sporting a new, much shorter blonde “do” these days. It’s for a new film role - and a good cause. The 21-year-old AWoodley cut her hair in preparation for her portrayal of cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster in the upcoming movie “The Fault in Our Stars,’ accord- ing to US Weekly. And the star of the indie film “The Spectacular Now” is donating her hair to Children With Hair Loss, and organization that makes wigs for children who have lost their hair due to cancer therapy or other dis- eases. Woodley on Friday tweeted a photo of her trimmed locks with the message “hair nubbins” with the hashtags #itgrowsback and #hairforhazel. She followed that up with a Twitter shot of herself shorn, and the message “work in progress... but luckily, #itgrowsback!!!” It isn’t her first hair color switcheroo. The natural brunette dyed her hair red for “The Amazing Spider- Man 2” earlier this year, and has been sporting blonde tresses for the last month.

No charge for West in LAX paparazzi scuffle anye West won’t face felony charges after being accused of attacking a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport. But he’s not completely off the hook. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Friday it is declining to prosecute the rapper, but his case will go to the city Kattorney for possible misdemeanor charges. In the July 19 incident, West scuffled with a member of the paparazzi who staked out the airport to snap celebrity photos. Videos showed West lunging at a photographer’s camera and trying to wrestle it away. West has had similar run-ins with paparazzi at LAX in the past. Prosecutors say the photographer did not have a significant injury and it’s unknown if his camera was damaged. They also say no weapon was used and West doesn’t have a felony record. Alba has a ‘muffin top’ essica Alba has a “muffin top” because she is “useless” in the gym. The ‘Machete’ actress has a reputation for keeping her Jlean figure despite having children Honor Warren, five, and Lady Gaga slams former Haven Warren, two, but insists she still has a number of imperfec- tions, including her tummy bulging over her waist of her trousers, friend known as a “muffin top”. Jessica told Women’s Health UK: “I have cel- Perez Hilton lulite and stretch marks -and I have a muffin top! I have a brutally short attention span. It means I’m useless at work out. I get so ady Gaga has blasted her former friend Perez Hilton - accusing him of “stalking” her. The bored.” The 32-year-old’s lack of workouts are outweighed by the 27-year-old singer took to Twitter to post an angry rant about the “sick” blogger after fact she has restricted herself to a healthy diet from a young age. Lone of her fans informed her he was being shown around an apartment inside her New She continued: “I started cooking for myself at 12 because a lot of York building, and she also claimed he has been “harassing” her. She wrote: “STAY AWAY food my family ate was processed. I wanted fresh. I eliminated FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO microwave foods, things with too much salt, and tried to eat more STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!! “DO I NEED TO BE SHOT IT IN THE HEAD FOR PEOPLE TO natural food, things that were cooked in a kitchen as opposed to a UNDERSTAND THAT HIM AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT HARASSES ME HAS GONE TOO FAR? I’M A factory.” Jessica - who is married to film producer Cash Warren - has HUMAN BEING. (sic)” However, Perez - who has a six-month-old son Mario Armando collected all her healthy recipes in a new book, ‘The Honest Life: Lavandeira III - hit back at the ‘Born This Way’ hitmaker by posting a 352-word blog post enti- Living Naturally and True To You’. The star previously claimed her tled ‘A Statement On LadyGaGa’s Lies (sic)’, in which he denied stalking her and insisted he book was “more grounded” than vegetarian actress Gwyneth wasn’t aware she lived in the same apartment block. He wrote: “I learned only after the fact Paltrow’s latest cookbook, ‘It’s All Good’. She told The New York Daily that Lady GaGa lives in one of the buildings we looked at, and she was across the country in News newspaper: “Gwyneth Paltrow probably lives a very similar Los Angeles when I viewed that building. “After a day of lifestyle, but I didn’t grow up with a bunch of money, so my tips are innocent house-hunting, I am devastated and my much more grounded: re-purposing things and making things at heart hurts that my former very good friend, a home.” person I used to call my “wifey” and trav- eled the world with, is making very pub- lic and very untrue allegations about me on Twitter. “While it is still too painful for me to go into detail about why I chose to no longer make her a part of my life, I will say that I am a critic and not a “stalker”. “Any alle- he 22-year-old singer - who is in a relationship with Calvin Harris - thinks the One gation that I am stalking her, based Direction heartthrob is “cute”, and she believes many other famous women are on a day of house hunting with my Tattracted to the 19-year old star but just won’t admit it. When asked if she had a baby boy and my mother, is utterly crush on Harry, Rita said: “Yeah! But it’s not like I’m ever going to do anything - no! “But false, defamatory and now appears everyone has a crush. I mean, me and the whole music industry probably have a crush on to be putting me and my family in Harry Styles! Everyone’s acting like it’s a shock, but I’m sorry, I think I’m just the only one danger. (sic)” Shortly before the admitting it! I like his hair! I just think he’s funny and cute!” Although she has a soft spot for feud erupted, Gaga took to Twitter her pal Harry, ‘Radioactive’ hitmaker Rita insists she is besotted with her DJ beau Calvin and to reveal Perez had poked fun at her finds it tough when she sees paparazzi pictures showing the pair enjoying romantic times when she was left wheelchair-bound together. Rita - who performed at the Virgin Media V Festival at the weekend - said: “It’s after suffering a labral tear on her always a bit difficult when you have somebody that you really like and people take pic- right hip earlier this year. She wrote: tures of you liking that person. It’s a weird scenario, so I just ignore them. “Also, it’s about “Still have the text Perez sent me of me where you choose to go and what you choose to do, and how private you are as a couple.” in a wheelchair w the words KARMA writ- ten across + Madonna pointing a gun at me. Day of my accident (sic)” gmen’ssuits earin esw t lov chet Blan

he Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ actress likes the feel of male fash- ion, and has always liked to mix both masculine and feminine looks ‘Ttogether. She told The Sunday Times newspaper: “It’s hard to describe my own style. I think it’s probably quite eclectic. Even in high school, I wore men’s suits. I was always in men’s jackets, men’s pants, which I’d get my mum to adjust. Ultimately, it’s about great tailoring, but I love the mix of masculine and feminine, playing with traditional men’s silhouettes.” The Australian star also likes to add to her mystique with fragrance, because she loves how evocative it can be. She added: “Fragrance is such a mood changer, because it is so full of memo- ry and desire and aspiration. That’s why people purchase fragrance, they think, ‘I’d love to walk through that door’. it transports me backwards, but it can also change the way I feel. “My mother wore a lot of fragrance. She chopped and changed. I’m just realizing that people inherently have a natural smell. I notice it when my children come out of the shower.” LIFESTYLE38 TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 Fashion Paul Frank teams up with Native American artists

t was Fashion’s Night Out in Los Angeles. right, said Elie Dekel, president of Saban but said it was important to remember Dekel said. Dekel said it wasn’t until he line of Navajo-branded clothing and Celebrities and models packed parties Brands, the parent company of Paul Frank. what sparked the collaboration. started talking to Keene and Metcalfe that accessories that included underwear and a Iand shopping extravaganzas thrown by The beaded sunglasses, brightly colored “Remembering the beginning is how we he learned the problem was much bigger liquor flask. designers and retailers. The people at Paul handmade accessories, tote bags and continue to move forward together,” she than a Warholesque flier featuring Julius The collection created by Paul Frank Frank Industries - famous for putting Julius graphic T shirts were set to be unveiled wrote. “History is written by those in pow- in a headdress. and the Native designers incorporates the monkey on everything from T-shirts to Friday evening at the Museum of er, so we need to continue to push to have “It illuminated a larger issue of wow, beading techniques and designs that are bicycles - were hoping to have some fun Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe as our version shared and not forgotten.” Native American imagery and cultural ref- influenced by tribal cultures that stretch with the latest trend of Native American part of the annual Santa Fe Indian Market People who worked on the project erences have been appropriated by from the Navajo and Taos Pueblo in the inspired designs. Their offerings included festivities. numerous companies and busi- Southwest to the Great Plains and Canada. feather headbands, toy tomahawks and Bloggers Adrienne Keene, nesses and industries over genera- The designers include Autumn Dawn glow-in-the-dark war paint. The backlash a member of the Cherokee tions now,” he said. “This is an Gomez, who is Comanche and Taos; Louie

Photo shows a series of T-shirts designed by Dustin Martin, a member of the Navajo Nation. Photo shows handmade jewelry and accessories made by Autumn Dawn Gomez of the Comanche and Taos tribes. —AP Photo shows merchandise created through a collaboration with four Native was in full swing within 24 hours. Bloggers tribe who writes Native American artists and designers. ongoing issue.” Last fall, Victoria’s Gong of the Nooksack Tribe; Candace and other critics blasted last year’s neon-lit Appropriations, and Jessica Secret apologized for putting a Halcro, who is Plains Cree and Metis powwow as racist and the latest fashion Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa were hoping the collaboration will serve Native American-style headdress on a Aboriginal; and Dustin Quinn Martin of the faux pas to anger Native Americans. from North Dakota who runs Beyond as a template for other manufacturers to model for its annual fashion show. The Navajo Nation. After apologizing, Paul Frank Industries Buckskin, were among those involved in be more thoughtful when dealing with outfit was criticized as a display of igno- Since some of the items are handmade, spent nearly a year working with its most the monthly conference calls and hun- cultural imagery. “We were sincerely rance toward tribal culture and history. The Paul Frank officials say they will only be vocal critics and a diverse team of Native dreds of emails that were shared over aghast at how we had found ourselves in band No Doubt also apologized after run- available in limited quantities. Items such American artists and designers to create a many months as the project developed. that situation about a year ago, and today ning into criticism for its cowboys-and- as the T-shirts, pillows and blankets will be new collection of merchandise with a dis- Keene, in a recent blog post, called the col- it’s truly humbling to all involved that it Indians-themed video. In 2011, Urban available to a wider audience. The prices tinct Native flavor. This time, it was done laboration “a big win for Indian Country” has emerged into something so positive,” Outfitters Inc. set off a firestorm with its range from under $20 to $200. —AP Look beyond the laces: Emotions around sneaker culture continue to run high aurice Holoway had been obsessing for Jordans that get double-takes. six days. On that Monday he had read Sneakers are riding high on the surge of ‘80s Mthat the classic Air Jordan IIIs were being and retro fashion that has been swelling over the rereleased. These were the original red, white, last several years, said Natalie Nixon, director of and black kicks first made available to the public Philadelphia University’s Strategic Design MBA in 1988. Holoway, 28, knew he had to get to the program and a retail expert. They’re more than store early if he wanted a crack at the $160 shoes. shoes, they’re the center of a subculture of style. He didn’t want to be disappointed. By 7:30 on Each silhouette and color carries a symbol of sta- that Saturday morning, when the UBIQ store tus, the flashier the better. “When you see some- opened in the downtown Philadelphia Gallery one walking down the street with a flash of color, mall, Holoway was standing pretty first in line. For even if it’s just a neon orange shoelace against a the occasion he wore his Nike Barkley Posite Max gray canvas sneaker, it’s a nice surprising pop of Phoenix Suns in rich purple faux crocodile skin color,” Nixon said. “You’re definitely not trying to with zigzags of bright powder blue and a Nike blend in with the crowd.” swoosh in shocking orange that cost him about Limited numbers of each shoe are released, $250. spurring a frenzy to be one of the trendsetters to The importance of getting to the store early snag a pair, said David Reibstein, professor of could not be overstated, said Holoway, a mental marketing at University of Pennsylvania’s health counselor from West Philadelphia. Nike Wharton School. It’s also a justification to hike the releases only so many of the shoes in each size to prices higher and higher. Demand is so high for each retailer the company won’t specify the exact sneakers, it has bred an underworld of shoe number. “You don’t really know” if there will be resales in specialty stores and on eBay. It’s even enough to go around at any given store, Holoway led to killings. In 2010, a group of teenagers shot said. “You just go with your gut.” A half-hour later, 15-year-old Willy Tineo and stole his shoes as he he had been joined by more than a dozen other lay dying in the street in Reading, Pa. When the men when the doors opened. A UBIQ sales clerk LeBron X Denim shoe was released in June, a started reading off names. And Holoway realized patron shot a man pick pocketing cash-rich tar- he wasn’t really first. gets outside a store in Atlanta. After fatally shoot- Sneaker fans had come a week earlier to ing him, he went back to his spot in line. reserve their spot for the new Air Jordans. He bid- Jemayne King, a self-styled sneakerhead and new ed his time as a half-dozen or so men got their author of “Sole Food: Digestible Sneaker Culture,” Giorgio Armani’s shot, two by two, at the shoes before him. Then it once sold a pair of LeBron South Beaches for was his turn. He and another customer were let in $500 at a convention to help pay for an engage- to the store to claim their prizes. A metal gate ment ring. That was a relative bargain, he said, for clanged behind them. Mall security lingered the teal blue kicks paired with either black or hot- nearby. Demand for sneakers is so high, fans have pink laces. King, speaking by phone from collection: been driven to violence and rioting while waiting Charlotte, NC, where he teaches English at The men’s project in line. Johnson C Smith University, has so many kicks, he What makes a man get up early on a Saturday can go more than a year without wearing the to wait in line for sneakers? Style, status, nostal- same pair twice. He intends to be married in his gia, and, in many cases, the entrepreneurial spirit. most-coveted pair, Ewing Athletics 33 Hi, which In a city where people are passionate about what he picked up as an adult he had pined for them they wear on their feet, sneakerheads like since age 12. Holoway can be found weekly, following the King said the greatest moment of his life was release dates on the Internet, sizing up which opening the box and touching the cushiony royal shops have the shortest lines. Experts and there blue fabric, accented with macaroni orange eye- are experts on this subject trace the obsession lets and a sewn white signature of the 11-time with sneakers to 1985 with Michael Jordan’s first all-star, Patrick Ewing. “There’s not a corner of this release, with its signature pair of wings gracing country not affected by sneaker culture,” King the upper ankle. The Air Jordan I sold for $65, the said. “Philly is ... like New York, it’s going to leave most expensive shoe on the market at the time. its mark on any subculture. So it goes in Philly, it Today you can grab a pair on eBay for up to goes everywhere else. It happens in Philly first.” $1,500. Jordan’s influence still colors the shoes Maurice Holoway wound up getting his Air today. Red, white, and black colors of the Chicago Jordan IIIs that day. He planned to play basketball Bulls, led by Jordan to six NBA championships are in the afternoon, but was worried about the fore- the most coveted. A flashy pair of Adidas or cast for rain. He decided to wear them after the Reebok will earn the long stare, but it’s the game. —MCT

strong and precise image. ics of sport swear and classic Leather is treated using traditional shades of brown (including cocoa Clean and essential styling menswear. methods practiced at great Italian and colors referencing precious Athat portrays a virile man, Thus, neoprene envelops pre- tannerie s where hand dyeing is woods), which fuse with intense defined by outerwear with a broad cious material s such as velvet and done with sponges and brushes. tones such as wenge, before pass- silhouette and trousers with a clean suede - a contemporary combina- The refined knitwear is lightweight. ing to absolute black. Ruby red is a cut. Surfaces are opaque and warm, tion that makes one re-think defini- There are complex pieces created key color for this season. and underline the preciousness of tions of techno and sartorial. by the interweaving of cashmere Aristocratic and precious, it runs the collection. Research into crafts- Sportswear enters a new phase and mohair in a sensual geometri- through the collection following an manship is key, and is evident in without renouncing to high-perfor- cal game of colors. elegant narrative path, standing the fabric treatments and tailoring mance technical fabrics and treat- The color palette is drawn from out in the male wardrobe and of the pieces. It is this quality of ments; luxury is expressed through the established Armani code, and is reaching the pinnacle of an origi- People wait in line for a shoe store to open to purchase the latest in fashion- craftsmanship that brings together the focus on precious fabrics and composed of tried and trusted nal, rich and magical chromatic the apparently contrasting aesthet- the practicality of the clothing. hues, such as warm greys and pyramid. able sneakers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. —MCT TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 LIFESTYLE FEATURES39

eeks after finishing ment at the Betty Ford Cen- fodder, adding “I love my family.” her sixth trip to re- ter, then finished treatment “I don’t think anything was inten- W hab, actress Lindsay at another facility. Lohan told tionally done ... they’re just pa- Lohan said in an interview broad- Winfrey she had often felt sha- rents,” Lohan said when Winfrey cast on Sunday that she was an me, and “tons of guilt” over her asked about the possibility of her addict and realizes she needs “to frequent relapses with substance parents having exploited her. saysLohan she’s an addict, aims shut up and listen” because her abuse, public quarrels with her “I don’t blame anyone for my approach to dealing with perso- parents and scrapes with the law. mistakes,” she added. “I did that, nal problems had not worked. When Winfrey asked what was di- and I’m not proud of it.” But Lo- ’to shut up and listen‘ “I’m my own worst enemy, and I fferent about this latest time in han said she felt many of her de- know that and I admit it,” Lohan, rehab, Lohan said that she no mons have endured due to “all 27, told Oprah Winfrey in an in- longer takes adderal, which she the chaos around me, that I was terview on the Oprah Winfrey Ne- took for ADD (attention deficit so comfortable with.” Since com- twork (OWN). She said she only disorder), saying being on the pleting a court-ordered 90-day realized she had a problem “over drug was “all I know” but that she stint in rehab on July 31, the ac- a period of time” rather than at was now calmer without it. Lo- tress has enlisted a “sober coach” any one moment. han said she now only takes vi- to help her stay clean and gu- Asked whether she was an tamins. And she said her attitu- est-hosted comedienne Chelsea addict, Lohan replied “Yeah,” de had evolved. Handler’s talk show “Chelsea La- adding that her drug of choice I just need to shut up and tely” on US cable network E!. Her was alcohol, which she said had listen. In this case (in rehab) I latest film, “The Canyons,” was been a “gateway to other things.” wasn’t fighting at all,” she said, excoriated by critics, but many Lohan, who shot to fame as a adding that it was clear that her praised her performance. Lohan, child star in “The Parent Trap” be- idea of what works hasn’t in the who will also be the subject of a fore huge success in hit films su- past. Lohan spoke of a life stee- reality series on OWN next year, ch as “Mean Girls,” has seen her ped in chaos, starting with her is required to attend weekly the- image tarnished by a string of ar- home life, although she diffe- rapy sessions over the next 15 rests, court appearances, bouts red with a common percepti- months to comply with a court in rehab and a stint in prison, not on that her parents had explo- order for a reckless driving char- to mention nearly continuous ited her talents for financial ga- ge.—Reuters media coverage of the scandals. in. “Nobody’s perfect,” she said of She recently sought treat- her parents, themselves tabloid

1D goes 3-D in boy band’s debut feature film Robert Downey Jr fronts new HTC campaign

TC, a global leader in mobile innovati- tamaran which he sets to sail, and a Hipster Troll on and design, has unveiled acclaimed Carwash complete with lovable green-haired trolls Hactor and director, Robert Downey Jr, who are busy washing cars to music under his di- as the star of its ‘Here’s to Change’ brand-building rection. The creative ad also features many other advertising campaign. The ad creative marries Ro- interpretations of HTC that consumer fans are in- bert Downey Jr’s wit and charisma with HTC’s play- vited to spot, guess and share including Hot Tem- ful nature to instill the HTC brand name into con- pered Cheerleaders, Hawaiian Tickling Ceremony, sumers’ minds. Celebrating HTC’s disruptive im- Happy Taco Cart, and Hands That Clap. In additi- pact on the mobile industry over its 17-year his- on to starring in the ad, Robert Downey Jr. has in- tory, Here’s To Changeequates change with the jected his own maverick style by working closely innovation that’s essential to move the industry with HTC’s brand team to shape its creative direc- forward. tion, putting change at the core of HTC’s brand. Recognized as one of the most popular faces Ben Ho, CMO of HTC comments, “As a lea- on the bigscreen, Robert Downey Jr has signed ding change-maker in the movie industry, Ro- a two-year deal with HTC to bring HTC’s Change bert Downey Jr was the natural fit to star in our n the tradition of great music movies, Spurlock - who made his name with soci- platform to life. In the creative, Robert Downey Jr new ‘Here’s to Change’ advertising campaign and One Direction’s feature-film debut has ally engaged documentaries such as “Super is the instigator of change – he inspires it, creates we are incredibly excited to have him on board Isex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll - just witho- Size Me” - is on a mission to convert unbelie- it and curates it. He takes consumers on a journey as a result. Just as he champions change in his ut the sex or the drugs. The Morgan Spurlock- vers into One Direction fans. “These boys are to show how HTC can be “whatever you want it approach to movie roles and characters, here at directed documentary “One Direction: This so charming and so fantastic, I challenge you to be”, using scenarios that bring to life imagina- HTC our innovation, authenticity and boldness Is Us” hangs out with Harry, Louis, Liam, Niall to go to the movie and not like them after the tive word associations based on the letters of the have made us the change-makers in the mobile and Zayn at home and on the road and comes film is done,” Spurlock said Monday. The movie brand name, HTC. industry.”The campaign heroes the HTC One, HTC’s to the conclusion that the five lads who ha- premieres Tuesday in London.—AP The quirky and offbeat creative sees Robert award-winning handset that has won global prai- ve conquered the world are, well, pretty nice. Downey Jr as an advertising executive who ani- se including ‘the best phone in the world’ as nomi- mates HTC’s brand with playful iterations of the nated by Tech Radar. HTC acronym. His imaginative direction includes a life size incarnation of a Humungous Tinfoil Ca-

Australian singer and musici- an Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform on stage on the last day of the Lowlands music festival in Biddinghuizen.—AFP

‘Elysium’ edges ‘Percy Jackson’ for top spot at overseas box office ony got some good box office news was in 42 territories all told, and upped its forei- “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” disappointed in tal to $435 million. With its $346 million domestic ner Bros’ Jennifer Aniston-Jason Sudeikis comedy from abroad this weekend, with “Ely- gn total to $37.7 million and its worldwide haul its US box office debut, but international audien- haul, the minions’ worldwide figure is now $781 “We’re the Millers” brought in $10.6 million from Ssium” taking the top spot at the foreign to $93.6 million. ces sparked to Fox’s teen action fantasy. million. That puts it No. 3 for the year both over- just 14 markets and Sony’s Adam Sandler comedy box office with $23.4 million and “The Smurfs 2” In Western Europe, it brought in just over “Percy Jackson” finished No. 1 in 10 Internati- seas and worldwide, behind Disney’s “Iron Man 3” “Grown Ups 2’ added $10 million from 33 coun- adding another $20 million for third. Fox’s “Percy $13 million from eight markets, all of which sur- onal territories. Its biggest hauls came from Bra- and Universal’s own “Fast & Furious 6.” tries. The magic-themed heist thriller “Now You See Jackson: Sea of Monsters” was second with $21.8 passed the openings of “District 9,” director Neill zil with nearly $4 million, France ($3.6 million) The $12.2 million opening in Russia for “Des- Me” brought in $9.6 million from 65 markets. That million from 37 markets. The little blue guys from Blomkamp’s previous movie, according to Sony. and Germany ($2.1 million). Its international to- picable Me 2” was Universal’s second-best ever upped its international total to $158 million and “Smurfs 2” upped their overseas total to $145 milli- It debuted at No. 1 in France ($4.1 million), Spa- tal is now $36.5 million and its worldwide is $75.4 there - behind “Fast & Furious 6” - and tops for an its global haul to nearly $275 million.—Reuters on and their worldwide gross to $202 million after in ($3.3 million) and Germany ($3.2 million as well million. Universal’s ‘Despicable Me 2” wasn’t be- animated film this year in that market. Elsewhere, three weeks. Matt Damon’s sci-fi adventure “Ely- as Holland, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. It al- hind the leaders by much, adding $19.5 million Fox’s Hugh Jackman superhero sequel “The Wol- sium” opened in 20 markets this weekend and so opened on top in Australia with $3.2 million. from 26 territories to raise its overall overseas to- verine” took in $10.8 million from 73 markets, War- Lohan says she’s an addict, aims ‘to shut up and listen’

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Ethnic Chinese devotees throw “hell money” before setting fire to a 20 foot (6.10 m) high paper-made statue of Chinese deity “Da Shi Ye” or Guardian God of Ghosts during the festive event of Hungry Ghost in Kajang, on the out- skirts of Kuala Lumpur. In the Chinese tradition the seventh month of the lunar year is regarded as the Ghost Month in which spirits and ghosts come down to earth. During this festival the devotees burn paper-made models to appease the wandering spirits and offers prayers. —AFP

Myanmar’s ‘tallest man’ seeks medical aid abroad

ig Zaw” has known he was different out in village construction because he does since a teenage growth spurt sent not need a ladder. “Bhim soaring above his neighbors in Shy but friendly, Win Zaw Oo attracts stares a remote Myanmar village. Now at seven foot when he travels, but at home people are eight inches he is believed to be the country’s accustomed to him. “We see him every day in tallest man, and a recent rise to fame means our village... so we do not really think of him as he can finally seek treatment abroad for the being extraordinarily big,” said his cousin Than health condition behind his towering height. Htoo. Myanmar doctors said Win Zaw Oo “My friends call me Big Zaw,” said Win Zaw Oo, appeared to have stopped growing, but that who at 233cm is significantly taller than the his condition carried future health risks. “He 168cm (five foot six) average Myanmar man. “I needs to be cured,” said Myatthu Mynn, part of do not fit in an ordinary car. When the doctor the medical team travelling with him to brought me here, he had to hire a truck,” said Singapore on a trip funded by private dona- the 36-year-old, who was given access to tions from Myanmar and Singapore. healthcare after a story about him in state He explained that the procedure-which media this year sparked a flurry of interest usually involves accessing the pituitary gland This handout picture taken on June 30, 2013 from reporters and medical experts. at the base of the brain through the nose or an and released in Hong Kong by Sotheby’s auc- He is now set to undergo surgery in incision in the mouth-is too specialised for tion house yesterday shows “The Premier Singapore for a pituitary gland tumor which Myanmar’s hospitals. Decades of military dic- Blue” diamond. —AFP photos causes the body to produce excessive growth tatorship in the Southeast Asian country left hormones-because the procedure is too the vast majority of citizens without access to advanced to be carried out in Myanmar, where even basic healthcare, as the junta state the health system was left chronically under- focused on its military spending. A new quasi- Rare blue diamond funded by the former junta. Win Zaw Oo, who Win Zaw Oo walks inside the international airport in Yangon as he gets set civilian regime took power in 2011, but med- left Myanmar on Thursday, said he was anxious to depart for Singapore for treatment.“ —AFP photos ical care remains woefully inadequate. Official about the trip. “I have only seen a toy plane figures show the state only allocated around to be auctioned before, so I feel a bit worried about having to Win Zaw Oo has gone barefoot for most of his longyis-the sarong-like skirt worn by both men one percent of its expenditure to healthcare in fly. But if it is for my health, I must do it,” he life in his rural village in Magway region, cen- and women in Myanmar-for him, custom- its 2011 to 2012 budget, rising to three per- told AFP ahead of his departure, adding that tral Myanmar, where his parents and three sis- made footwear was far beyond the family’s cent in 2012 to 2013. in Hong Kong he was concerned about the future costs of ters scratch a living from growing peanuts and modest means. His condition also means he Win Zaw Oo’s condition-acromegaly-which treatment. sesame seeds on a couple of acres of land. tires easily and is unable to hold down regular can lead to gigantism when it develops in rare round blue diamond will go under the hammer in Hong Kong His height brings day-to-day challenges. While his family was able to make extra-large employment, although he says he can help puberty, is extremely rare. Accurate data for in October, with auctioneers hoping the sale will fetch a record- Myanmar is unavailable, but Britain’s Pituitary Abreaking $19 million despite fears over the slowing Chinese econ- Foundation said only around four to six new omy. Auction house Sotheby’s expect the 7.59-carat fancy vivid blue dia- cases per million of the population are diag- mond, which is about the size of a shirt button, to set a new record for nosed each year. It said health risks include price-per-carat. Quek Chin Yeow, Sotheby Asia’s deputy chairman, said “diabetes, high blood pressure and heart prob- Hong Kong was the natural venue to sell the gem, known as “The Premier lems with a reduced life expectancy compared Blue”, with collectors expected to fly in from all over the world. to the normal population”. Doctors said only “While there is a slowdown (in Chinese economy), the number of one other extremely tall person has been top-level collectors are still there,” he told AFP. “We have been selling recorded in recent memory in Myanmar. very well in Hong Kong.” Hong Kong has become a centre for jewellery Zee Kwet Sein, who is believed to have auctions thanks to growing wealth in China and other parts of the died in the 1970s, was left blind by her condi- region, as well as the region’s increasing taste for art. But there are fears tion and her exceptional height saw her for the future of the Chinese economy, the world’s second largest, exhibited at fairs in the country’s central where growth fell to 7.8 percent in 2012 — its slowest pace in 13 years. region. Win Zaw Oo’s recent fame had led him Blue diamonds seldom hit the market and have been coveted by royals to consider the possibility of a film career to and celebrities for centuries, while a round cut is rarely used in colored help support his family, although he would stones because of the high wastage. The most famous example of a rather start a business with his sisters. But the blue diamond is the “Hope Diamond”, which was bought by King Louis condition takes its toll. “I cannot move quickly XIV of France in the 17th Century. The term “fancy” is used to describe a like the others do. I feel depressed about that diamond of intense color, while a gem’s saturation grading ranges from sometimes,” he told AFP, adding that he does light to vivid for colored diamonds. The Premier Blue will go up for auc- not expect to have a family of his own but tion on October 7. Quek said the owner wanted to remain anonymous. hopes medical care will secure his future. In April, a rare 5.3-carat fancy deep-blue diamond was sold for £6.2 mil- Win Zaw Oo posing wearing his large sandals next to Win Zaw Oo getting a check up at hospital. “After the treatment is finished it will be lion ($9.5 million) at a London auction, then setting a record for price- regular sized ones, while at hospital in Yangon. enough to live my life, even if it does not per-carat at $1.8 million. —AFP change my appearance,” he said. —AFP