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KUWAIT: A teenager beat his family’s maid to death because she earlier left their house in Saad Al-Abdullah, according to police inves- tigations. Police had apprehended the housemaid’s female employer after the Ethiopian woman arrived dead at Jahra Hospital on Friday. The woman was questioned after head injuries and beat marks were noticed on the victim’s body. Investigations revealed yesterday that the perpetrator was the woman’s 15-year-old son. According to investigators, the boy brutal- ly attacked the maid under the pretext that she left the family’s house without permission. The circumstances behind the maid’s escape and return to her employer’s house are still unknown. The teen’s mother is also expected to face charges for covering up the crime. Meanwhile, a security source said vice detectives raided a jakhour (animal pen) where homosexual parties for both genders were being organized. The source said that 32 men and women were arrested in the pen in Kabd. Liquor and women’s clothing were also confiscated. Separately, two more suspects - a Syrian and a Kuwaiti - were arrested in connection with an armed robbery in which two Indian security guards were killed at the vegetable market in Sulaibiya last month. The arrests were made after the first suspect, a Syrian man, gave police the identity and location of his accomplices. The prime suspect, a bedoon man, remains at large. Investigations with the two Syrians revealed that they were born stateless but later obtained Syrian nationality. The Kuwaiti man said during questioning that his involvement in the case was limited to keeping the money stolen during the crime after one of the Syrian men handed the cash over to him. The Syrians confirmed that they were present at the crime scene. They said that the bedoon man fired all the 36 rounds in the maga- zine of an AK-47 at the victims. Both victims were Indian nationals - Sharangdharan was killed on the spot while his colleague Muhammad Rashid Thangal died shortly after arriving at Farwaniya Hospital. Detectives reportedly escorted the three suspects to the KUWAIT: Pigeons gather around a roadside sprinkler to cool off yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat scene to reenact the crime. OIC slams ‘barbaric’ Nigeria kidnappings

JEDDAH: The secretary-general of the world’s largest bloc of Islamic countries said yesterday that the kidnapping of S Sudan ceasefire more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls is a “barbaric” and “inhumane” act. Iyad to begin after deal Madani, who leads the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, spoke to AP in his JUBA: A ceasefire between South Sudan’s first interview with the media since offi- government and rebels was due to come cially taking office in January. The kidnap- into effect yesterday following a deal to ping by the extremist group Boko Haram end a brutal five-month war that has in Nigeria has prompted worldwide con- pushed the country to the brink of geno- demnation, and Muslim scholars around cide and famine. President Salva Kiir and the world have called for the girls’ imme- rebel leader Riek Machar, a former vice diate release and safe return. The OIC and president, met in the Ethiopian capital on other Islamic bodies have said the acts of Friday, shook hands and prayed together, Boko Haram do not represent Islam. “This and agreed to order a halt to fighting with- is inhumane and barbaric,” Madani said. Iyad Madani in 24 hours. Army and aid sources said “They are simply criminal outlaws.” Despite such divisions, Madani says frontlines appeared to be quiet. Speaking from the OIC’s headquarters ordinary Muslims feel a shared sense of The deal came as the United Nations in the coastal city of Jeddah, Saudi DUBAI: A severely damaged bus is seen follow- ADDIS ABABA: Salva Kiir (left), Islamic identity with one another that food agency said there was only a “small President of South Sudan, and Riek Arabia, he said such extremist groups supersedes doctrinal orientation. He ing an accident on a motorway that killed 15 window of opportunity” to avert famine, Machar, SPLM opposition leader, “not only disavow their Islam, but their described Islam as a religion that Asian workers yesterday. — AFP and appealed for relief agencies - who have hand over the cessation of hostilities humanity”. “When an organization kid- embraces a diversity of ideas, cultures been subjected to armed attacks and loot- naps young schoolgirls and claims that and people. “This is the nature of Islam... ing - to be allowed unfettered access. In treaty on Friday. — AFP this is Islam and that Allah has ordered which guides the OIC from within,” he Dubai bus their deal, the rivals “agreed that a transition information that was echoed by several this, and when they say they are acting in government offers the best chance to the independent aid sources. “As far as the said. “The roots of the problems are not people of South Sudan” with the promise of information I have there are not any skir- accordance with Islam in offering these in how we interpret or understand our crash kills fresh elections for the world’s youngest mishes today. The rebels are under Riek kidnapped girls for sale, how could that Islamic identity,” he added, but have to do nation, said Seyoum Mesfin, head mediator Machar and it was Riek Machar who relate to Islam, its holy book or any with politics, economics and governance with the East African regional bloc IGAD. declared war against the government,” he Islamic doctrine?” he said. within nations. 15 workers Both sides also “agreed to open human- said, adding however that he feared “other The OIC is comprised of 57 Muslim- He said sectarian killings and extremist itarian corridors... and to cooperate with forces not under the control of Riek majority member-states that span across groups like Boko Haram are a threat to DUBAI: A bus overturned and hit a lorry parked on the the UN” to ensure aid is delivered, he Machar”. Africa and Asia. It was established in the essence of Islam and to co-existence hard shoulder of a motorway outside Dubai yesterday, added. Military officials from both sides The peace deal, which followed intense 1969, and Madani is the 10th secretary- with non-Muslims who are a part of the killing 15 Asian workers on board, state media said. The said frontlines appeared to be quiet ahead lobbying from world leaders and general to head the institution. He is also culture and civilization of countries crash happened on Emirates Road, a busy route that of the deadline to implement the truce. A Washington slapping sanctions on senior the first Saudi at its helm. The organiza- where Muslims are the majority. “The OIC connects the capital Abu Dhabi to the north of the ceasefire had been agreed to in January military commanders, came amid new tion faces challenges in presenting a uni- is striving to have a strong and active role United Arab Emirates, bypassing Dubai itself. Police did but quickly fell apart. South Sudanese army reports of war crimes committed by both fied Muslim voice, particularly as parts of in facing these extremist movements... so not immediately specify the nationalities of the dead in spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP that the sides and fears that a wave of ethnic the Arab world are gripped in a seeming- that they are not associated with Islam or the accident in the Dubai suburb of Ruwayyah.. — AFP truce appeared to already be in place, killings could result in genocide. — AFP ly endless cycle of sectarian violence. any Muslim country.” — AP Syrians stream back into Homs

HOMS: Syrians streamed back into the ruins of thanks to the sacrifices of the Syrian army,” state 37-year-old Rima Battah, in the Hamidiyeh district the Old City of Homs yesterday, picking through news agency SANA said. of the Old City. “My husband went to our house the remains of their homes and trying to come to Residents quickly returned to see what yesterday and found it destroyed. We came back terms with the destruction. Thousands of people remained of their homes, and retrieve whatever together today to get our things,” she added, ges- walked through the devastated streets of their was left behind. Many were visibly distressed by turing to the five large bags of possessions. former neighbourhoods, some appearing shell- the scale of destruction, with rubble strewn Dozens of families were doing the same, gath- shocked by the scale of the damage. The influx across streets and every building bearing scars ering whatever clothes and keepsakes could be came a day after the last rebel holdouts left the from the conflict that wracked the central city salvaged. Barazi told SANA he was forming com- area under an evacuation deal that handed the once home to 1.6 million people. Rebel forces in mittees of residents to assess the damage. Some Old City back to the government, granting it a the Old City were under government siege for of those returning were already looking ahead to symbolic victory. nearly two years before the deal to evacuate, and reconstruction. “Like in Vietnam, or Japan, or The pullout leaves the rebels confined to a sin- regime troops shelled the area almost daily Europe, we will rebuild after the war,” said Abu gle district on the outskirts of Homs, Syria’s third throughout. Rami Abaebu, a trader. “It’s as if there had been an city once dubbed “the capital of the revolution” “I promised my wife that I would bring her earthquake, but now it’s over.” State media inter- against President Bashar Al-Assad. Yesterday, sewing machine, and that’s what I’m doing,” said viewed returning residents who expressed their Homs provincial governor Talal Al-Barazi declared Jamil Habib, a retired teacher aged 77. He wept as gratitude to the army and Assad. They filmed the evacuated areas safe, after troops swept for he surveyed his house - rebels had punched large inside an Armenian church compound, part of HOMS: Syrians return to the Juret Al-Shayah district of this central city yesterday explosives. “Barazi announced that the Old City of holes in the walls to allow them passage through which the rebels has used as a headquarters and after the last Syrian rebels left the neighbourhood under an evacuation deal. — AFP Homs is safe and free of weapons and insurgents buildings. “The destruction is just horrible,” said field hospital. — AFP SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 LOCAL

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Pigeons position themselves in thin slivers of shade during a hot summer day. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Dashti warns minister, threatens grilling Two other ministers on grilling list

By A Saleh submitted by Riyadh Al-Adasani, Abdulkareem Al-Kandari and Hussein Al-Quwaiaan. KUWAIT: MP Abdulhameed Dashti has Lawmakers are expected to accept the resigna- Justice minister’s resignation to be accepted announced plans to file a grilling motion against tions, and do the same when they discuss the a minister who he says has failed to perform his resignations of MPs Safa Al-Hashem and Ali Al- KUWAIT: Minister of Justice and Sabah, who reportedly asked him to duties. The lawmaker revealed these plans to Rashed next week so that by-elections can be Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Dr remain in office. A report last week had Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- held before the end of June. Nayef Al-Ajmi submitted his resignation suggested that Ajmi’s resignation was Sabah and informed him that another MP is The parliament is also set to discuss a request from the Cabinet on Thursday, the sec- not denied, but was rather postponed expected to join him in filing the grilling. He did to launch a probe in agricultural property distri- ond time this year, Cabinet insiders until a final decision could be made not mention the minister’s name or the grilling’s bution, the clean fuel project and weapon thefts revealed. Ajmi asked to be relieved of within a couple of weeks. timing in his statement yesterday. Dashti from the Interior Ministry’s warehouses. his duties for health reasons in a letter Earlier this year, Ajmi’s name explained that the minister was warned repeat- Furthermore, MPs are scheduled to discuss the to Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al- appeared in a report released by the US edly over errors he committed, but never acted Gulf security pact, in addition to seven key draft Mubarak Al-Sabah. His resignation is Treasury undersecretary for terrorism to rectify the mistakes. He demanded that the laws, including the public transportation author- expected to be officially accepted as and financial intelligence David Cohen, minister resign or face an interpellation. Dashti ity and bedoon naturalization. The general belief early as today, said the sources who who accused him of having a history of also indicated that two other ministers are on his is that the government will ask MPs to postpone spoke to Al-Rai daily on the condition of “promoting jihad in Syria”. Ajmi grilling list “should they fail to act regarding vio- a draft law that calls for naturalizing 4,000 anonymity. acknowledged he had taken part in lations we pointed out to him”. bedoons this year, in order to allow the Central The Cabinet had rejected Ajmi’s res- fundraising campaigns for Syria, but Apparatus for Illegal Residents to resolve the ignation last month which he had sub- insisted they had been for humanitarian Parliament’s agenda issue. mitted for health reasons as well. He purposes and not for Syria’s Al-Qaeda Five parliamentary committees meet today to The parliament could also allocate two hours resumed his duties after meeting HH affiliate Al-Nusra Front as alleged by discuss a variety of topics. The budgets commit- to study foreign investments based on a govern- Dr Nayef Al-Ajmi the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Cohen. tee meets to discuss the 2014/2015 budgets for ment request submitted recently. The discus- the Kuwait Ports Association and Public sion, which is expected to take place behind Authority for Industry. Representatives from the closed doors, is meant to clarify MPs’ concerns Finance Ministry, Audit Bureau, as well as KPA over potential losses suffered in Kuwait and PAI are set to attend the meeting. The finan- Investment Authority’s investments. MP slams Interior Ministry cial committee meets meanwhile to discuss pro- posed amendments on the public tenders law, Maid shelter as Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh, Cabinet Al-Rai daily published yesterday a draft law over woman’s assault Affairs Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah presented by MP Kamel Al-Awadhi that propos- Al-Sabah and Central Tenders Committee repre- es establishing at least one shareholding compa- KUWAIT: A lawmaker criticized officials at the outside a mall on Salem Al-Mubarak Street. case despite the fact that the complainant sentatives are set to attend. ny for domestic labor recruitment. The proposal Salmiya police station for allegedly refusing to The woman, a Lebanese national, said that was subjected to brutal assault at the hands Meanwhile, the investigations committee in stipulates setting up a company whose job is to cooperate with a woman’s request to press detectives at the Salmiya kept her waiting for of four ‘boyat’ (tomboys) in front of witness- the North Zour power plant project resumes its recruit domestic workers and provide them to battery assault charges, and announced plans more than four hours after she obtained a es,” he said. meetings today with presence of director of the sponsors, while at the same supervising shelters to send questions to Deputy Prime Minister medical report of wounds she sustained dur- The lawmaker added that the detectives’ Partnership and Technical Bureau, the Assistant where maids can stay until their recruitment or and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- ing the attack. The woman eventually decided actions of ignoring the medical report that the Undersecretary for Companies and Licenses deportation procedures are finalized. Khaled Al-Sabah over the issue. Meanwhile, not to press charges when she noticed that victim provided was ‘unacceptable’, suggest- Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce and In other news, Deputy Prime Minister and the Interior Ministry responded with a state- policemen were not interested in looking into ing that they might have acted to ‘cover up’ Industry, as well as director of the shareholding Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid ment in which they indicated that an investi- her complaint, according to her statements. the case after receiving calls from people with companies’ department in the same ministry. Al-Sabah said that forgery cases discovered in gation was opened in the case that involves a MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji suggested that influence. “We demand equal law enforcement Preparations are ongoing in the meantime for vehicle-related transactions have been referred female shopper who says that she was brutally ‘wasta’ or connections played a role in stalling because people are born free and therefore Tuesday’s session in which MPs are set to discuss to the Public Prosecution, Al-Qabas daily report- assaulted by four women, whom she the case. “The investigation department at should not be subjected to enslavement,” a number of hot topics, including resignations ed yesterday. described as tomboys, over a traffic dispute the Salmiya police station refused to file a Turaiji added.

Kuwait hosts energy conference

KUWAIT: An energy and environment conference is set to start here today under sponsorship of Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Ali Al-Omair. The conference will be co-organized by Kuwait Society of Engineers and Indian engineers working in Kuwait, Eng. Iyad Al-Humoud, the chairman of the society, said in a press release here yesterday. During the conference, the participants will discuss a host of issues bearing on the future of energy in Kuwait, orienta- tions of energy and environment and relevant administrative and engineering challenges, he said. The event will feature a specialized exhibition to be organized by a number of local and international oil companies, Al-Humoud added. He added that mega projects launched by oil companies in the country mark a genuine jumping-off for development and revamp of oil infrastructure utilities, leading up to a devel- oped economic base needed by the country for the coming stage. Topics and working papers to be discussed during the event are hoped to give a real push to research activities for gigantic projects, he pointed out. —KUNA KU signs MoU with Iranian university

TEHRAN: President of Kuwait University (KU) Dr Abdullatif Al-Bader signed here yesterday a memorandum of under- standing with President of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) Dr Ali Jaafarian promoting the exchange of teachers and students between the two universities. Commenting on the visit to Iran by himself and a dele- gation from the KU accompanying him, Dr. Al-Bader told KUNA that the visit was within KU’s plans to pursue friend- ship links with institutions of higher learning in the region, with an eye to exchange with them students and teachers and educational expertise. He said the delegation with him was impressed with TUMS’s school of nursing which he said KU lacked at the present time, and was also impressed with the college of agriculture at the University of Ferdousi when the delegation visited it in the Iranian city of Mashad. He said that it was imperative that KU should have a similar college of agriculture. —KUNA p3.e$S_Layout 1 5/10/14 9:00 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 LOCAL Ministry takes precautions against coronavirus Experts panel to prepare guidelines

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health is taking all developed severe respiratory illness. They had in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Additional cases were precautions necessary to ward off the onset of fever, cough, and shortness of breath. More noted, with deaths associated, and rapid Coronavirus in the country by, among other than 30 percent of these people died. research and monitoring of this novel coron- measures, forming a highly-specialized panel of avirus began. health experts to prepare well-researched Flu symptoms It is not certain whether the infections are guidelines that can help the ministry in its plan MERS-CoV cases have been reported in sev- the result of a single zoonotic event with subse- to fight this disease if it ever appears in Kuwait. eral countries, including Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, quent human-to-human transmission, or if the The ministry has also put together a team of Jordan, Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, multiple geographic sites of infection represent experts whose task is to respond instantly with Tunisia, the Philippines, and the United States. multiple zoonotic events from a common diagnostic and treatment advice to any clinic, The first confirmed cases were reported in an unknown source. hospital, whether in the public or private sec- Amman hospital among health care workers A study by Ziad Memish of Riyadh University tors that might face potential cases of this dis- and nursing staff in April 2012, where the cases and colleagues suggests that the virus arose ease. were determined to be H2H transmission. Later sometime between July 2007 and June 2012, Only three cases have really been diagnosed a 60-year-old male patient with acute pneumo- with perhaps as many as 7 separate zoonotic with the coronavirus in Kuwait and have been nia and acute renal failure, who passed away in transmissions. Among animal reservoirs, CoV promptly dealt with. Jeddah, June 24, 2012. Egyptian virologist Dr. Ali has a large genetic diversity yet the samples The WHO, in its statistics about the perva- Mohamed Zaki isolated and identified a previ- from patients suggest a similar genome, and siveness of this disease worldwide, published ously unknown coronavirus from the man’s therefore common source, though the data are last April, noted that there have been 254 docu- lungs. Dr Zaki then posted his findings on limited. It has been determined through molec- mented cases of the disease, 93 of them ended ProMED-mail. The isolated cells showed cyto- ular clock analysis, that viruses from the in the death of the patients. The statistics also pathic effects (CPE), in the form of rounding and EMC/2012 and England/Qatar/2012 date to ear- indicated that the country with the most cases syncetia formation. ly 2011 suggesting that these cases are is Saudi Arabia. A second case was found in September 2012. descended from a single zoonotic event. It Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is A 49-year-old male living in Qatar presented would appear the MERS-CoV has been circulat- a viral respiratory illness caused by a coron- similar flu symptoms, and a sequence of the ing in the human population for greater than avirus called MERS-CoV. Most people who have virus was nearly identical to that of the first one year without detection and suggests inde- been confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection case. In November 2012, similar cases appeared pendent transmission from an unknown source. Book documents sports media

KUWAIT: A new book by a Kuwaiti sports journal- nalists along over 70 years filled with dedication ism has been released recently documenting the and achievements. constitution march of sports media in Kuwait and shedding Sheikh Salman also expressed gratitude and light on some of the most distinctive and influen- appreciation of all loyal Kuwaiti efforts that con- awareness Contest tial media personalities and figures in Kuwaiti tribute to raising Kuwait’s flag high at international for students sports since its early beginnings in the 1930s until events of in different domains, including sports current year. media. He also pointed out that His Highness the KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly The 320-page book is entitled “Sports Media in Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is Marzouq Al-Ghanem will attend the finals of Kuwait: History and Accomplishments” and written one of the major figures that supported Kuwaiti the contest on knowledge of the Kuwaiti by Zaid Zeyad Al-Serbel. It documents in details the media march and success through his keenness in constitution aimed at high schoolers, said different stages of Kuwait’s sports media develop- placing Kuwait above any regard, and keeping Secretary General of the Assembly Allam Al- ment on local, regional, and international levels pace with latest international and technological Kanderi in a press statement yesterday. since 1928 and until early 2014. developments of media in all its areas and forms. He noted that the contest was being held In his introduction to the book, Minister of His Highness the Amir urged spreading of under the dual sponsorship of the National Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs sports culture, inculcating educational, social, and Assembly General Secretariat and the Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah lauded health values, combating sports intolerance, hooli- Ministry of Education, adding that the ven- the author’s valuable initiative in writing “this spe- ganism, illegal financial gain, and drugs, promoting ue for the contest will be at the reception cial book” which preserves the identity and history spirit of fair play, and keeping up with latest tech- hall in the National Assembly building. of sports media in Kuwait, adding it also motivates nology, Sheikh Salman said. The contest is open to all high schoolers the new generation to continue this successful For his part, Al-Serbel, who also worked as from the public and private sectors and will march. Editor-in-Chief for the local affairs desk at KUNA, take place tomorrow. Sheikh Salman also said that Kuwaiti sports stated yesterday that the book contains a complete Al-Kanderi said the contest aimed at dis- media will remain a pioneering and up to the patri- record, word and image, of different stages of seminating awareness among students as to otic responsibility, describing it as a window Kuwaiti sports media and its various outlets, as well the constitution and its value to society, through which sports movement overlooks on oth- as achievements throughout the years. He dedicat- emphasizing that the General Secretariat ers, an eye of criticism to correct flaws and errors, a ed the book to His Highness the Amir, His Highness was keen on spreading this awareness mirror that reflects national accomplishments, and the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber a carrier of the bright image of all its surroundings. Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh among not just high school students but KUWAIT: 61 volunteers who are children of Gulf expats married to Kuwaiti women He also said that Kuwait has achieved succes- Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and to all of also employees of the government min- were accepted at the police school. They will go through classroom and practical sive leaps through efforts exerted by national jour- those who contributed in development of Kuwait istries and agencies.—KUNA courses for four months, on law and police topics, in addition to military and sports nalists and media figures, particularly sports jour- and Kuwaiti media. —KUNA training. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 LOCAL Homicide probe in man’s beach death Maid stranded after baby delivery

KUWAIT: A homicide investigation was opened and took the maid along with her newborn to national was working on the third floor of an in the death of a man whose body was found on Farwaniya Hospital. They were discharged later, apartment building, when he lost balance and Blajat beach Friday. Police and paramedics head- and the employer took the maid to the police fell to the ground, according to his coworkers’ ed to the scene in response to an emergency call station immediately afterwards. The woman statements. Police arrived at the scene with reporting an unconscious man. People in a near- said during questioning that she is married paramedics after case was reported, but discov- by café called police after approaching a strange back home, but was not aware of her pregnan- ered that the man had already succumbed to object on the beach, and discovering it was a cy when she came to Kuwait. Her employer his injuries. Crime scene investigators took the Warba Bank campaign man lying motionless. The 39-year-old Saudi argued she never said that she was married body to the forensic department after examin- national was pronounced dead shortly after when she was hired, and she could not provide ing the scene. No immediate evidence of foul arriving at the Mubarak Hospital. Examinations documents to prove her legal marriage. She play was found through preliminary investiga- to visit the Avenues revealed beat marks on the man’s body, suggest- remained in police custody along with her child tions. Investigations are ongoing in the case. ing that foul play was involved in his death. for a few days, until both were taken to the hos- KUWAIT: Warba Bank announced that a to introduce them to the mechanism of Investigations are ongoing. pital again when they needed medical atten- Suicide attempt special space has been designated at The enrollment in the draw, and respond to tion. The woman was eventually transferred to A maid was hospitalized in a critical condi- Avenues to host and promote Warba Bank’s their relevant enquiries,” concluded Al- Maid stranded the Psychological Medicine Hospital after suf- tion after a botched suicide attempt at her latest campaign, “E’tamid Warba & Transfer Salem. A domestic worker faces a dilemma after her fering a nervous breakdown, while the baby employer’s house, according to investigations. your Salary”, which will last until June 26. At For more information on “E’tamid Warba employer refused to let her into his house, was admitted in the intensive care unit in An ambulance rushed to a house in Qurain in the end of the campaign, customers will & Transfer your Salary” campaign, please when she delivered a baby there. The Ethiopian Farwaniya Hospital. Police are coordinating response to an emergency call made late obtain the opportunity to win a Mercedes visit Warba Bank’s stand at The Avenues maid failed to provide documents to prove her with officials at the Ethiopian embassy in order Thursday night. They found the 30-year-old G63 AMG with state-of-the-art design and Mall; contact the Customer Service Center marriage against charges of adultery that her to communicate with Ethiopian authorities to Indian woman unconscious and took her to performance. at 1825555; or visit your nearest Warba employer pressed against her at Farwaniya obtain evidence that the woman is legitimately Adan Hospital. She was diagnosed with blood Speaking about Warba’s stand at The Bank branch. police station. The case began around three married. poisoning and admitted in the intensive care Avenues, Adnan Al-Salem, Chief Retail Warba Bank, an Islamic Bank established weeks ago when the man made an emergency unit. Preliminary investigations indicate that Banking Group, said: “Warba Bank has by virtue of an Amiri Decree, was officially call saying that his maid delivered a baby inside Work mishap the woman consumed cleaning solution in an selected a special space at The Avenues; registered in the Central Bank of Kuwait’s the bathroom in his house. An ambulance A worker died after falling from a high place apparent suicide attempt. Investigations are one of the most popular shopping places register of Islamic Banks on April 5, 2010. rushed to the man’s house located in Rabiya, at a construction site in Mahboula. The Indian ongoing. in Kuwait, to apprise customers of the new The State of Kuwait, represented by Kuwait marketing campaign of salary transfer to Investment Authority (KIA), owns 24% of Warba, and allow them the opportunity to the bank’s total shares, while the remaining Gulf ambassadors’ see the valuable Mercedes G63 AMG they 76% of shares, fully subscribed by the gov- Kuwaiti envoy talks food may win.” ernment, has been equally allocated to all return pending “By transferring their salaries to Warba Kuwaiti nationals. Warba Bank offers a during the period of the new campaign, range of customized Sharia compliant serv- industry cooperation customers will have a chance; while Safwa ices and solutions which are available panel discussions distinguished salary customers whose through the banks three divisions of Retail with Parma Mayor salaries are not below KD 1,500 will have a Banking Group, Corporate Banking Group, KUWAIT: Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the double chance, to win the Mercedes.” and Investment and Treasury Group. ROME: Kuwaiti Ambassador Sheikh Parma, which is known for its high United Arab Emirates to Qatar are set to return to Doha “Warba’s team will be present at the Branching out in 7 strategic locations, Ali Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dis- quality internationally listed foods, after technical committees in the Gulf Cooperation stand to communicate with the customers, Warba Bank has over 250 employees. cussed means to pick up on Italy’s namely meats and cheeses, and its Council finish their meetings within two to three weeks. expertise in the food industry during rich cultural and historic significance, There is general agreement on the need for Qatar to a visit to the northern city of Parma was also a topic of discussion. change its political and media approach, especially when and ties between the two sides on Mayor Pizzarotti, in the presence of dealing with certain issues such as Egypt and Syria, said the cultural and tourism spectrums. Parma’s Minister of Productive sources with knowledge of the discussions. This occurred as the Mayor of Activities, welcomed increased indus- “The committees are investigating the reasons behind Parma Federico Pizzarotti took the trial and investment cooperation the GCC conflicts frankly and transparently,” the sources ambassador on a tour of the between businesses from both sides, added. European Food Safety Authority and expressed keenness at the Doha mentioned notes on the behavior of Saudi (EFSA) in the city which lies in the prospect of hosting Kuwaiti delega- Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE towards it, but at the same Emilia-Romagna region of northern tions who could pick up on both the time promised to ‘control’ its media approach through Al Italy. city’s and the continent’s expertise on Jazeera TV, and keeping Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi’s agi- The visit comes as both sides are the matter. tating positions away from the Gulf scene, said the sources preparing to celebrate their Golden The Kuwaiti ambassador was also who spoke to Al-Qabas on the condition of anonymity. Jubilee anniversary since the start of taken on a cultural day-trip around Asked about the reason why the GCC ministerial meet- diplomatic relations. the ancient city’s castles, walkways ing in Riyadh today was canceled, the sources said that it How Kuwait could cooperate with and squares. —KUNA happened due to scheduling conflicts, and added that the meeting will be rescheduled at a later time. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 LOCAL Gulf efforts to boost Arab cooperation Conference on social priorities AMMAN: Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and contribute to the prevention of perils and risks Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh said here yesterday the threatening people. Afghan envoy GCC member states have never spared any effort On her part, Egyptian Minister of Social to promote and bolster inter-Arab cooperation. Security Ghada Wali said Arab countries have ful- hails Kuwaiti Addressing an Arab conference on social priori- filled only a few goals of sustainable develop- ties, Al-Sabeeh who also doubles as minister of ment. state for planning and development, said the They have failed to face poverty and unem- relief efforts Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) believes in the ployment, to find jobs for young people, to KUWAIT: Kuwait’s humanitarian assistance and KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait announced presenting financial significance of Arab integration and cooperation ensure gender equality or to promote women’s support to the Rumathiya Cooperative Society, to help support the society’s quick response to relief efforts for a devastating as they are key for progress and prosperity. status, she lamented. landslide in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province social activities. Picture shows Lina Darweesh, Regional Director of the Social responsibility is given increasing atten- The government will continue offering sup- Individuals Banking Department (left) presenting the cheque to Khalid was commended by its Ambassador to Kuwait tion in the GCC member states out of firm con- port for youth projects and initiatives in all fields, Assadullah Hanif Balkhy yesterday. Mandani, Rumathiya Co-op Society Treasurer. viction about the importance of promoting vowed Minister of Information and Minister of The landslide, which struck just under a week social partnership in the fulfillment of sustain- State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah ago, destroyed most of a village in the remote able social development responsibility tasks and Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. northeastern Badakhshan province, leaving thou- responsibilities, she said. Meanwhile, Kuwait Ministry of State for Youth sands displaced as a result. It is the responsibility of everyone, rather Affairs supports initiatives that help youth It occurred as week-long heavy rains resulted than the government alone, to promote devel- achieve their aspirations and raise Kuwait’s flag in a flood, containing mud and rocks, which opment and ensure societal security and stabili- high in international events, the Minister said swept onto the village located in a low valley, said ty, given that civil society and the private sector yesterday during his reception of the officials of the ambassador. After meeting Chairman of the act as catalysts for genuine development, the the integrated program for career qualification Kuwait Red Crescent Society Barjas Al-Barjas, minister added. and guidance program, or Jahzeen project. Ambassador Balkhy commended the humanitari- She pointed to belief in the possibility of He added that the ministry is putting all its an organisation’s efforts and its quick response to notching development goals and purposes, capabilities in service of youth to encourage providing relief for nations affected by hazards believing that there are now positive indications them to harness their talents and increase their and natural disasters. for this belief. creativity, as they are the backbone of the state He said he was grateful for the continuous She underlined the necessity of exerting con- development process. “brotherly assistance” offered by Kuwait to certed social work and committing to relevant For his part, Chief Manager of Jahzeen Project Afghanistan, through the KRCS, noting that this resolutions and undertakings to achieve Arab Abdullah Al-Hajri noted that the Jahzeen project illustrates the strength of bilateral relations. Al- development and welfare. aims to qualify new graduates and job-seekers Barjas had been briefed on the best means possi- In this regard, the minister called for review- to meet the requirements of the labor market as ble through which this relief could be distributed ing programs, policies and plans purposed to well as to guide them to choose the most suit- to the people on ground affected by the disaster. KUWAIT: Myrtis Mixon (right) and Randall Imel during the interview at the cope with the latest changes and variables and able job to be able to excel and be creative in US Embassy. He expressed Kuwait’s solidarity with the to improve the level of development and its their future work. Afghan people during their ordeal, adding that mechanisms and requirements. Moreover, the program aims also at creating a the organization he heads will continue assuming US specialist in town to get She also called for setting out a roadmap for new generation of highly-qualified, skilled and its humanitarian responsibilities and cooperating Arab priorities of sustainable development in hard workers who will steer the national econo- with the international community to ease the bur- order to create an integrated single entity that my and state development in the future. — den. —KUNA stories from teenagers can fend off all possible negative effects and KUNA By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: US English Language as a Second Language Specialist Dr Myrtis Mixon is visiting Kuwait as part of her three-week trip and program that aims to get stories from teenagers to be collected in a book. She spent five days in Kuwait participating in a number of workshops on English and storytelling for students and teachers at various edu- cational facilities here, including Amideast, the College of Basic Education and AUK among others. On this occasion, the US embassy held a roundtable media interview at its premises on Thursday, during which Mixon spoke about her program. “I’m looking for stories of teenagers who can send them to the embassy and they will get them to me. These stories will be collected in a book that will then be published and distributed here. In a previ- ous book, students wrote stories of something that hap- pened to them or they know about. For instance, one girl in Russia wrote the story of her grandmother and her experi- ences in the 1940s and 1950s during the World War II, where they were sent into exile and a Siberian woman wel- comed them. I have done similar programs in four countries - Nepal, Russia, Salvador and Kazakhstan,” she stated. “We use these stories as content for a textbook. It was an inspiration of someone in Russia, but since then I have done it in Nepal. One was about someone’s name, and another one about a friend that did not last but then made up much later, about friendship or loss of friendship, about a girl being good to a poor child and helping him to go to school,” she added. Telling stories makes students listen and speak a lot. “Hearing or listening may be the hardest thing. Hearing becomes easy after years of study but writing is hard too. So I get them to interact over stories and writing, so I can get them do vocabulary and grammar in some exercises and then comprehension and also discussions, as there is a lot to discuss in stories. There’s also role-play. Stories are always a good resource as they are fun,” explained Mixon.

Two-year program This program is an inspiration for finding material that will appeal to a teenage reader. “We are finding what they are interested in and then getting them to write. It’s amaz- ing that they can write, even though their English may not be good. They send it to me and I reply asking them to tell me more about the homeless man that you helped for instance. Some seem very simple but they are written from the heart. I asked the teacher here not to correct them, because the teacher sometimes gets overzealous and may correct it and it will sound like teacher’s story and not a student’s story. So we want stories written by teenagers up to 19 years old, so it may be a more sophisticated voice, someone who has an experience, more like a 17 year old,” she pointed out. The project is very interesting and she hopes to finish it by September or October. “We will be able to get 50 stories. We are also asking for folktales and we are hopeful adults like teachers do the translation. We are also looking for his- torical stories will be good for the history of Kuwait. During this visit we are also working with teachers,” stressed Mixon. Todd Bullock, Cultural Attache at the American Embassy, provided some information about the Access Program. “Our Access Program that Dr Mixon mentioned is a two-year program for Kuwaiti public schools students aged between 13 to 15, implemented by our partner Amideast. Students go to Amideast for after-school English classes. In addition to the classes, the embassy has activities for them. Sometimes we bring them here to the embassy or we arrange the visit of individuals such as Dr Mixon to work with them and give them practical skill to use their English - not just grammar and sentences, but also storytelling as it’s very interactive,” he noted. The book is funded by the US embassies and the US Department of State. “The Regional English Language Office is based in Bahrain, and we support English lan- guage learning throughout the GCC. This is how the pro- gram was specifically funded to come to Kuwait, out of our cooperation with this office to come to Kuwait to work not just with Kuwaiti students but also Kuwaiti teachers,” he added. Mixon has a BA in history from Trinity College, an MA in English from Wichita State University, a TESL Certificate from New York State University, and an EdD in international and multicultural education from University of San Francisco. She has worked on teacher training and curricu- lum development in more than 20 countries, including in the United States and abroad in Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America. She has taught English at US high schools and colleges and ESL at universities on the east and west coasts. She is the author of eight ESL textbooks and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences. She is also a professional story- teller. She has taught ESL at the University of San Francisco since 1992. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 LOCAL

Local spotlight In my view Taxes in Foreign Kuwait interventions

By Muna Al-Fuazai By Labeed Abdal

Precautions Al-Anbaa [email protected] MERS [email protected] ast week the minister of finance said that the gov- audi Arabia’s Al-Watan daily argued in a recent ernment will not enforce income tax on individu- editorial that the policies of the Syrian regime Lals. As for subsidies, he stated that the government S— backed by foreign militias and Russian pro- has been reviewing this system, adding that some serv- tection — of random bombardment and besiege- ices such as diesel do not necessarily require to be sub- ment of cities and suburbs have started to ‘pay off’, sidized because of the low number of beneficiaries and at least for now. The paper blames the United that electricity is also included in the review. He indicat- Nations and the international community as a whole ed that a report on those who benefit from subsidies for failure to stop the crimes in Syria, and doing will be forwarded to the government for a final decision nothing more than a ceasefire in Homs where civil- as soon as it is completed. He made a point about the ians have been starving under more than two years government’s wish to ensure the rights of middle class of blockade. people! The paper then speculates that the Syrian crisis Now, no personal income tax is levied either on was prolonged as part of a plot to extend the situa- salaries or on income from commercial activities. tion until the presidential elections. The plot Taxation in Kuwait is governed by Amiri decree number kuwait digest includes Russia that handles all issues on the inter- 3/1955 and this could be the main reason expatriates are encouraged to work here, and it has helped many local companies to grow and make huge wealth. Not A big mistake by Al-Ghanem that I agree completely with this, but this is happening The paper then speculates since a long time. What really attracts my attention are two things. First, By Walid A Al-Ghanim that the Syrian crisis was the government clearly fears to even suggest a change prolonged as part of a plot to commercial codes, even the one made in 1955 to watched the interview of the National Assembly the speaker, who is supposed to be neutral, centrist and develop its vision over the subsidy system and who are speaker, and one should admit that it’s an event that tolerant with his adversaries before his supporters, to extend the situation until the ones who should or should not be involved. Ithose interested in the political situation cannot because no matter how far his struggles go, he repre- Secondly, the government is assuring to protect the avoid. It is very rare, over the past 20 years, for the sents the entire people, and not just a group. the presidential elections. rights of middle class people. But who are the middle Kuwait National Assembly speaker to appear, while in The most dangerous part of the interview was the class here? How can the Kuwaiti government identify office, in a live interview to express his political views on speaker’s claim that there is a conspiracy to compromise those in the middle class and what criteria they are the country’s events no matter what is his relation with the country’s establishments, and he knows the parties national scene while the Syrian regime and its allies, using if no taxation is applied. I know that there is no it. of the conspiracy and knows including Iran and sectarian militias, handle the poverty line here and I surely have never heard about The interview was proceed- who the “godfather” of it is. I internal scene, according to the daily. In times of an official criteria being used to measure Kuwaitis who ed with a media campaign, do not know how any citizen, infightings in countries such as Syria, Iraq, and even fall under that line or those who are categorized as The most dangerous part Ukraine, I believe that it is important for people to middle class. that reminds you of election apart from the parliament become aware and alert regarding direct and indi- We all seem to know who are the richest families atmosphere, so besides the TV of the interview was the speaker, has such dangerous rect foreign interventions. from appearances. But we don’t know about the size of channel’s ads we received speaker’s claim that there is information, and announces it There are countries that look to improve their their wealth except when Forbes magazine makes its repeated messages to remind on TV instead of taking it, as global position with hope of becoming superpow- yearly survey of the richest people on earth. I personally us with the time, it was also on a conspiracy to compromise an urgent matter, to the con- ers, taking advantage of struggles that their tradi- believe that there is a need to set new lines in Kuwait to Twitter, and I do not know why cerned judicial authorities to tional opponents are going through. Such countries define social classes. When a government official speaks the interview was promoted, the country’s establishments. foil this alleged conspiracy. make unjustifiable excuses to validate their inter- about them, we would all know who are they and then which did not have the issues In summary, the speaker’s ventions, including ideological differences and ‘self we can trust his word or not. Some reports have men- being waited for according to interview, and some of his defense’ claims based on principles of their own cre- tioned that a family of five persons with a monthly the priorities’ survey that was prepared by the speaker parliamentary information, was not what we hoped for, ation. income that is less than KD 1,000 is labeled as poor here. himself a few weeks ago. and consider it a big mistake by Marzouq Al-Ghanem in The situation that the world is going through But that seems so general. What about bedoon families, The speaker’s ways, dialogue and sharp vocabulary his political career, as he is known for being smart and requires wise decision makers to stand against inter- who are labeled as non-Kuwaitis! Do you measure them national conflicts, and work for enforcing interna- was strange, as he directed them to his political adver- rational. Mr Speaker, your friend is one who is honest as locals or not? More serious efforts are needed to be tional safety and security that have gone through put in this field based on international guidelines. saries. May be the high voice he used was clear in his with you, so be careful not to lose your balance. alarming threats. talk, and this is a case the viewer does not like to see in —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas

kuwait digest Fed up with democracy

By Abdallah Ghazi Al-Mudhaf ribe receivers, Irada Square, homeland dignity, legal, Ahmad returns, the opposition returns, Jassem goes Assembly storming, ousting Nasser Al-Mohammad, to the prosecution, Nasser looks on, prosecution does not BAssembly dissolution, new elections, strong opposi- like to get involved, the session is closed, Al-Watan and tion, appointing Jaber Al-Mubarak prime minister, Ahmad Alam Al-Youm closure, Musallam becomes expert in econ- Al-Saadoun speaker, Obaid grabs the limelight from omy and banks, Al-Wushaihi becomes modern, Ahmad Musallam, the opposition dissociates, suspension of the does not want the leak, Nasser still watching, Riyadh constitution for one month, the first Assembly nullification, resigns, Abdulkareem Al-Kandari catches up and resigns, return of the 2009 Assembly, dissolving the Assembly, ‘we then Safa, Ali Al-Rashed retires, Marzouq revives the oppo- will not allow you speech’, escape of Musallam, opposition sition, Al-Saadoun acts young, opposition lurks, opposition dies, passing of the one vote, new elections, Al-Rashed says the Assembly will be dissolved, congratulations! speakership, scrapping the second Assembly, new elec- Because people are fed up with democracy and the talk tions, legendary Mohammad Al-Abdullah sends a paper, about it. People are demanding their share to get away Ali Al-Omair walks out, Marzouq becomes speaker, from your misery: Give us our share, and die with your Marzouq and Talal reconcile, the association becomes struggles. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan

kuwait digest Arab Spring revolutions

By Abdul Mohsen Mohammed Al-Meshari n his book ‘The Devil’s Game’, Robert Dreyfuss quotes for- tral government to provoke it to suppress those groups, mer US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Charles Freeman thus creating a conflict between them with both having Isaying that the Israeli security agency Shin Bet was academic support from the studies without noticing the behind a project to found the Hamas organization to use it ambush they both fell into with the eventual result of in disciplining the PLO, and maybe eventually destroying it. chaos. Right under the eyes of the Shin Bet, Sheikh Ahmed This method was used with the Amazigh in Algeria Yaseen founded his Islamic Center in 1973 and started con- where special agendas were introduced provocatively such trolling over a hundred mosques in Gaza. According to the as linking women’s liberty to pornography or secularism New York Times reporter in Jerusalem David Sheller, the with infidelity, which all resulted in more instability. This Israeli military governor of Gaza Brig Isaac Serjeif usually was used in Jordan, for example. It also involved staged boasted that his army financed Islamist mosques in the violence against religious minorities committed by agents Gaza Strip and that Israel had succeeded in turning who had been recruited from amongst a Muslim majority Palestinian groups against each other to weaken and divide to act against Christians such as the case in Lebanon; Shiite them and eventually started getting rid of them one by one against Sunnis as in Iraq or Sunnis against Shiites such as in in a bid to ‘freeze’ their cause and pave the way to launching the case of Bahrain. The ultimate result is shifting from a the NATO after the communal wars, which were the natural state of instability to chaos. Utilizing its dominance over development of the old British policy of ‘divide and rule’. international media, Israel is capable of portraying a limited These wars aim at turning various ethnic, doctrinal, geo- local crisis as an internationally severe one, such as the case graphic and cultural groups against their respective states of South Sudan which ended in secession. and having them demand independence and secession, Unfortunately, the Arab Spring revolutions that amazed forgetting that they had lived together in peace and harmo- the world failed to produce a single leader capable of steer- ny for hundreds of years without any tension. ing the massive public uprisings or understanding their With the help of NATO and finance from an Arab state, possible consequences. Though amazing, these revolu- Israel shifted these wars from a local inter-Palestinian level tions provided a golden opportunity to Israel who utilized to an Arab regional one because both levels have the same them by directing local factions to destroy their own coun- goal - weakening the whole region, fragmenting and con- tries through communal conflicts. It was very clear that the trolling it. Thus, Israel succeeded in convincing the US of lay- Muslim Brotherhood’s eagerness for power made them ing waste the Iraqi army. Iraq was consequently divided into accept US conditions that eventually served Israel’s inter- three smaller states and a fourth is developing. Iraq, busy ests. Under more pressure, they also accepted dismantling with its civil wars, gave up the idea of fighting Israel. The sovereign apparatuses and laying off the army to change same happened successfully in Libya, Sudan, Syria, its focus from conventional wars to communal conflicts. Lebanon, Yemen and was about to decisively succeed in In addition, they accepted relocating Palestinians to the Egypt. north of Arish as an alternative homeland in addition to Communal conflicts use diverse creative methods that allowing terrorists go back to Sinai where they could estab- are well-financed and unnoticeable until they already lish a Muslim emirate that adopts armed violence. All of a cause enough damage and achieve their goals. They sudden, Egypt found itself suffering from the communal include scientific studies that are presented to a certain conflicts of which Israel is the first and prime winner. This a group to provoke it to mutiny and rebellion, and at the summary of the words written by the Egyptian writer Adel same time, another scientific study is presented to the cen- Hammouda. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

Yemen braces for India poll campaign ends with conflicting visions Qaeda reprisals

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SLAVYANSK: An armed pro-Russian fighter poses at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukranian city of Slavyansk yesterday. — AFP Ukraine president decries sovereignty Militants hold Red Cross workers for 7 hours

MARIUPOL: As two of the most tense regions in eastern Ukraine prepare to vote on declaring sovereignty, the country’s acting president is warning them against self-destruction. Today’s bal- lots seek approval for declaring so-called sovereign people’s republics in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where pro-Russia insurgents have seized government buildings and clashed with police and Ukrainian troops. At least seven people died Friday in clashes in the city of Mariupol. The city remained on edge yesterday, with barricades of tires blocking some streets in the city center. The referendums are being conducted by the insurgent movements and are not regarded as legitimate by Kiev or the West. The elections chief of the insurgents in Donetsk, Roman Lyagin, was quoted by news agencies as saying early voting in Mariupol and one other district had begun early because of rising tensions there. Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov, in comments post- ed on the presidential website yesterday, said supporters of inde- pendence for the east “don’t understand that this would be a complete destruction of the economy, social programs and gen- eral life for the majority of the population.” “This is a step into the abyss for the regions,” he said. The hastily arranged referendums are similar to the March referendum in Crimea that approved secession from Ukraine. Crimea was formally annexed by Russia days later. But organizers of the eastern vote have said that only later will a decision be made on whether they would use their nominal sovereignty to seek full independence, absorption by Russia or to stay part of Ukraine but with expanded power for the regions. Turchynov and Ukraine’s interim government came to power in February following the ouster of Russia-friendly president Viktor Yanukovych after months of protests in Kiev. Moscow and many in Ukraine’s east denounce the government as a nationalist junta and allege that it intends to trample on the rights of eastern Ukraine’s Russian-speakers. More than 30 people have been reported killed as Ukrainian forces mount offensives to retake some eastern cities now under the effective control of insurgents. In the remarks issued yesterday, Turchynov said the govern- ment was willing to negotiate with representatives of the east, but not with anyone he called “terrorists whose task is the destruction of the country, a task put forth by their masters.” Kiev claims Russia is fomenting or directing the unrest in the east, with the goal either of destabilizing Ukraine or finding a pretext for invasion. Meanwhile, pro-Russian militants held eight Ukrainian and one Swiss Red Cross workers hostage for seven hours in the rebel eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, beating one before freeing them early yesterday, a Red Cross official said. A spokesman for the self-styled “Donetsk People’s Republic”, which is holding a ref- erendum today on breaking with Kiev, said the workers had been detained on Friday evening by rebel activists on suspicion of espionage. He could not clarify the nature of the accusations lev- eled against them or say where they had been held. Jacques Barberis, deputy head of the International Red Cross mission in Ukraine and a Swiss national, said that he was in the group of nine volunteers from Donetsk and Kiev arrested in the Red Cross building in Donetsk. Barberis said one person was beaten by militants. “I can confirm one (person) was beaten, he is now at home... others are well,” he told Reuters by phone. The treatment of the others from the group was “not bad,” Barberis said, adding he and volunteers from Kiev should return to the Ukrainian capital by mid-day today. Red Cross headquar- ters in Geneva said simply that there had been “some kind of inci- dent last night”. Another Ukrainian Red Cross official in Kiev who asked not to be named, said that the institution had sent a report about the event to the Interior Ministry. He did not elaborate. The Donetsk- based Novosti Donbassa website said the hostage takers had also seized large stores of medicine from the Donetsk office. The Red Cross website said medication had been delivered on May 7 to Donetsk head office for distribution in the region, where there has been heavy fighting in recent days between pro-Russian mili- tants and Ukrainian security forces. — Agencies INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

Turkey’s Erdogan heckles lawyer’s speech, storms out

ISTANBUL: An angry Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan also expressed frustration that Feyzioglu, Erdogan heckled the head of the country’s bar who has also been an outspoken critic of the crimi- association yesterday, accusing him of rudeness for nal prosecution of the government’s foes, had bro- speaking critically of the government at a judicial ken protocol by speaking for an hour. ceremony before storming out of the hall. Tensions It was an unusual outburst even for Erdogan, between Erdogan and his political foes remain high Turkey’s most popular leader in a half-century, after bitterly contested local elections in March that whose tough talk are part of his appeal for many Erdogan’s ruling AK Party won and amid expecta- Turks. Last month, the head of the Constitutional tions he will seek the presidency in another elec- Court denounced “excessive” political criticism of tion in August. his tribunal in a speech attended by Erdogan, who Erdogan has had a difficult year that included remained stonily silent but said later he was “sad- the biggest anti-government protests in decades dened” by Chief Justice Hasim Kilic’s words. over his perceived authoritarianism and a corrup- At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, tion scandal that implicated family members and Switzerland, Erdogan left the stage after clashing cabinet ministers. His response, a sweeping shake- with Israeli President Shimon Peres in what would up of the police, prosecutors and judges, prompted augur a split between the two allied nations that accusations of political meddling. persists today. The three-time premier has yet to Erdogan interrupted a speech in Ankara by announce a run for the presidency, but his interest Metin Feyzioglu, chairman of the Union of Turkish in the top job is widely accepted. At a meeting of Bar Associations, saying his remarks were political the ruling AK Party later yesterday, Erdogan said and full of untruths. Feyzioglu had called for a more the party would present a candidate by the middle independent judiciary and questioned the govern- of June or before, later than he had initially said. ment’s handling of the aftermath of a 2011 earth- Though largely ceremonial, the presidency is quake that killed more than 600 people in the still the nation’s most prestigious post and was southeastern province of Van. held by modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal “You are speaking falsehoods ... How could there Ataturk. “If you love politics so much, then take be such rudeness?” Erdogan shouted, and stood up off your (judicial) robe, enter the political arena to gesticulate in anger at Feyzioglu, who was and prove yourself,” Erdogan said of Feyzioglu at onstage at a podium and refused to stop speaking. the AK Party meeting in comments aired live by ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Chief of Staff Necdet Ozel (right) The scene was broadcast by CNN Turk television. CNN Turk. — Reuters leave a meeting yesterday. — AP

Violence kills Yemen braces for Qaeda reprisals 20 in Iraq New checkpoints in place to ‘block terrorist acts’

BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq, including the shelling of a SANAA: Yemeni security forces were on high alert yester- the army said troops had entered Azzan, a jihadist bastion saders” wherever they are. Al-Qaeda uses the term cru- militant-held city, a suicide bombing and shootings, day for more Al-Qaeda reprisals over an offensive against in southern Shabwa province, prompting the United States saders to refer to Western powers, especially those which killed 20 people yesterday as officials tallied votes from them, after militants killed five presidential guards and to close its Sanaa embassy on Thursday. That night security have intervened militarily in Muslim countries, such as last month’s parliamentary election. The bloodshed is ambushed the defense minister’s convoy. The interior min- forces killed Al-Qaeda commander Shayef Mohammed Said Britain, France and the United States. part of the worst protracted surge in unrest since a brutal istry said security forces in Sanaa had been reinforced, par- Al-Shabwani, one of the network’s most wanted leaders The jihadists took advantage of an Arab Spring-inspired Sunni-Shiite sectarian war killed tens of thousands in ticularly around government installations and embassies. It suspected of masterminding the abduction of Western uprising that forced autocratic president Ali Abdullah Saleh 2006 and 2007, sparking fears Iraq may be slipping back added that new checkpoints had been set up around the diplomats, in a gunfight near the presidential palace. from power to seize large swathes of southern and eastern into all-out conflict. city to “block all terrorist acts” and that security forces were On Friday, Defense Minister Mohamed Nasser Ahmad Yemen. The army recaptured several major towns in 2012 Shelling in Fallujah, which has been held by anti-gov- working “around the clock... to preserve security in the capi- and two senior security officers escaped unharmed when but has struggled to reassert control in rural areas, despite ernment fighters for more than four months, killed 11 tal.” gunmen ambushed their convoy as they returned from a the backing of militiamen recruited from tribes. — Reuters people and wounded 20, according to Dr Ahmed Shami There were also fears that reprisals might be carried out tour of the south. Ahmad has vowed to crush Al-Qaeda of the city’s main hospital. The source of the fire was not in the central province of Baida, one of three where the fighters in Yemen and on Friday told troops in Shabwa and immediately clear. The casualties come a day after Iraqi army has been pursuing a campaign against jihadists since Abyan that the offensive will continue until “the last crimi- forces launched an operation to retake areas near April 29. On Friday, suspected Al-Qaeda militants attacked nal and evil” militant is killed. Fallujah, which lies just a short drive west of Baghdad, in the presidential palace in Sanaa, killing five guards and trig- The army launched its offensive on April 29 against preparation for an eventual assault. gering a fierce gunfight as they hit back at the offensive AQAP strongholds in the contiguous provinces of Shabwa, Security forces claimed to have killed 50 militants in a aimed at crushing them. Abyan and Baida, and claims it has inflicted heavy losses on series of operations around Fallujah yesterday, according President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi was not at the palace the jihadists. AQAP is regarded by Washington as Al- to interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Qaeda’s most dangerous franchise and has been linked to Maan, who added that they had also destroyed several when gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by guards insurgent hideouts. For months, the authorities have outside the compound, a security source told AFP. Hadi, failed terror plots in the United States. trumpeted wide-ranging anti-militant operations, insist- whose government has stepped up a war on Al-Qaeda in ing they are making an impact, and have been quick to the Arabian Peninsula-a merger between the network’s ‘Sleeper cells’ blame external factors such as the civil war in neighbor- Saudi and Yemeni branches-uses the palace only for meet- On Monday, the interior ministry warned that “huge ing Syria for the rise in bloodshed.—AFP ings. losses” in jihadist ranks “will push Al-Qaeda to commit hys- Sanaa has been on alert for days, and tensions rose after terical and desperate acts.” Officials said yetserday morning that the situation was relatively calm in Shabwa and Abyan, but state news agency Saba reported without giving details that “seven terrorists” had been killed in the two provinces. Meanwhile, a tribal source said that, as government forces close in on their strongholds in Shabwa and Abyan, Al- Qaeda fighters had taken refuge in Al-Kur, a mountainous area linking them and Baida. On Friday night, Baida Governor Ahmed Al-Shaddadi issued a statement in which he did not rule out that those elements, as well as “sleeper cells in Baida might commit acts of vengeance.” He urged residents to cooperate with security forces and “denounce all suspect movements by... those who had fled fighting in Abyan and Shabwa.” SANAA: A Yemeni woman has her fingerprint scanned at AQAP leader Nasser Al-Wuhayshi vowed, in a rare video an election registration center yesterday. — AFP appearance posted online in April, to attack Western “cru- Somali prez wants aid airlift for towns retaken from rebels

MOGADISHU: Somalia needs help airlifting basic sup- Grumbles about progress plies to towns recently retaken by African Union-led “The second phase of the operation of course will forces because Islamist insurgents who were driven focus on sifting out Al-Shabaab even from the rural out from those areas are blocking aid convoys, the areas,” Mohamud said. The slow pace of change in the president told Reuters in an interview. President nation and ongoing hardship for many has fuelled criti- Hassan Sheikh Mohamud accused the Al-Shabaab mili- cism of the president, prompting a group of more than tants of trying to create food shortages in newly “liber- 100 lawmakers to submit a petition this week demand- ated areas” to turn locals against the state - and said ing he quit. Security failings were a big complaint. the aid would show people the benefit of returning to The president rebuffed parliamentary critics, saying government control. new joint operations between Somali security agencies “This is the Al-Shabaab propaganda ... and why they and African forces was breaking down rebel networks in are stopping the movement of goods,” he said in Mogadishu, where a spike in attacks particularly around Mogadishu after talks with major donors on Friday on February included an assault on the presidential palace speeding up the pace of the rebuilding effort. “(An) air- in the heart of the city. “Security should not be politi- lift is very, very important.” African troops working cized,” he said, adding it was tough to stop all suicide with Somalia’s army have completed the first phase of attacks in a city of 2 million people. Mohamud has also a campaign to retake territory still in Al-Shabaab’s been buffeted by criticism of his government’s financial hands after it was routed from Mogadishu in 2011. management, after two central bank governors quit last But officials said the towns cleared of Al-Shabaab year with questions raised about graft in government militants are in a dire state. Any food stocks have been and the award of some contracts. emptied, driving people away. Some centers look The government has dismissed reports of corruption. more like ghost towns, said one Western diplomat, But the president said a new Financial Governance which “is not a very positive picture”. It highlights the Committee comprising three Somali members and challenge Somalia faces in countering an Islamist three picked by donors, was restoring confidence. insurgency that increasingly involves guerrilla tactics, Diplomats said reviewing contracts and offering recom- while trying to build loyalty to central government in a mendations on such issues were part of its mission. state fractured by clan rivalries and two decades of “International partners showed that they are now war. more confident in the system than before, and further The president said another obstacle to reaching reforms will be coming in the financial sector,” retaken areas was the onset of rains, making poor Mohamud said after Friday’s talks, adding he hoped for quality roads impassable even in places Al-Shabaab more direct budget support. Qatar and Turkey already were not operating. He said donors had promised to provide direct aid to state coffers, but Western donors respond, adding that helicopters were not needed to are more wary. Norway supports budget spending via a make a “huge food delivery” but were required for facility set up with World Bank help that, one donor basic nutrition for children and the weak. source said, could be expanded in coming months. The World Food Program was considering contract- Despite a wobble in international support for ing a helicopter dedicated to humanitarian needs, as Mohamud over financial management concerns in past UN helicopters in Somalia now have multiple tasks, months, donors at Friday’s showed support for the pres- including logistical support for troops, such as evacu- ident in his battle with lawmakers, saying Somalia need- ating injured, the diplomat said. Although the first ed continuity at the top. “The idea of delaying every- stage of the new campaign launched this year had not thing or stopping everything and changing institutions met all targets, Mohamud said 3 million people and and people at this stage is not something that any of nine towns had been brought under government con- the international partners were thinking is a very good trol. He said Al-Shabaab still controlled “a large propor- idea,” said one senior Western diplomat at the talks. tion of rural areas”. Extending control beyond urban Attendees at Friday’s talks promised to speed up deliv- centers and into the countryside where rebels easily ery of projects in several key areas, such as security, melt away has been a persistent challenge for African humanitarian work and financial management issues, Union peacekeepers, who are still the main bulwark by June in part to help ease public dissatisfaction about against rebels although Somali troops fight with them. the pace of progress. — Reuters SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Unrest in S Africa after polls Police use rubber bullets, stun grenades on protesters JOHANNESBURG: South African police said yes- ANC provincial spokesman Nkenke Kekana complained to the Independent Electoral terday they arrested around 60 rioters after vio- blamed the Inkatha Freedom Party for the Commission (IEC) after it spotted boxes carrying lent protests in a Johannesburg township amid protests after it lost key constituencies in ballots transported in a car with ANC-branding, allegations of voter fraud in elections that Alexandra in the vote. “For the first time since he said. “Unfortunately they didn’t give us any returned Nelson Mandela’s ANC to power. 1994 the ANC managed to win those voting dis- clarity so that’s why people are angry.” He also Rivalry reminiscent of the twilight of apartheid tricts from the IFP. That is the source of the vio- denied that election officials were blocked from had flared up between the African National lence,” he told AFP. He also accused the IFP of leaving the area on Thursday. Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) short- preventing election officials and ANC represen- “Our (party) members were inside the gate ly after the polls on Wednesday. tatives from leaving a government building in trying to get clarity from the IEC,” he said. The IFP and EFF parties have made claims of the area on Thursday. “Unfortunately the police arrested our leaders in vote-rigging in Johannesburg’s Alexandra town- “They blocked them from coming out of the the area yesterday (Friday) and now the situation ship, where angry residents on Friday burned offices,” Kekana said. “The IFP must just accept is very tense.” Meanwhile, EFF leader Julius tires and barricaded roads, and the army was that people in that area chose the ANC instead Malema called on township residents to accept deployed to help quell the unrest, police said. of them.” “It’s anarchy and it’s completely unac- the outcome, while accusing the ANC of unspec- “Since yesterday (Friday) 59 people have been ceptable,” he added, also accusing new left-lean- ified “mafia tactics” to win the vote in the This photo shows what authorities say is a hot-air balloon that was believed to have arrested for public violence,” police spokesman ing party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Gauteng province. caught fire and crashed in Virginia. —AP Neville Malila told AFP. of supporting the IFP. “There is a history of vio- Gauteng, which houses key cities Police used stun grenades and rubber bullets lence in that part of Alex in the past and we Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria and has Hot air balloon catches fire to disperse a crowd of up to 400 people, said don’t want to go back to that,” said Kekana. the largest number of voters, was the slowest to Malila. “Last night there was army deployment,” report results. “They’ve had to use mafia tactics DOSWELL: The body of one occupant of a Oh my God, I’m going to die,’” Hager- he said, adding that police remained in the ‘Mafia tactics’ to win Gauteng,” Malema said at a news confer- hot air balloon that caught fire after strik- Bradley said she heard one person scream- restive former blacks-only area. No casualties Thousands died in clashes between ANC and ence of the ruling party, whose youth wing he ing a power line and crashed has been ing. were reported and national police spokesman IFP supporters in the early 1990s during negotia- headed until the ANC expelled him two years recovered and police searched yesterday The crash occurred near the Meadow Solomon Makgale said the rest of the country tions to end white-minority rule. Alexandra was ago. “People in Alexandra, we call on you to for two others feared dead, Virginia State Event Park in rural Caroline County, where was calm. one of the hotspots in the fighting between the accept defeat,” he said. “Don’t put South Africa Police said. The three were in a balloon the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival was being The military left the township yesterday liberation movement and its white-government- into ashes because of election outcomes.” Friday night that witnesses said crashed held. The area is about 25 miles (40 kilome- morning, defense ministry spokesman Siphiwe funded rival. But a senior IFP election organizer Completed vote counting results showed the amid screams for help from those in the ters) north of Richmond. The festival was Dlamini confirmed. An AFP photographer saw denied the protests stemmed from old rivalries. ANC won 62.15 percent of the national ballots, balloon. The body was found in a heavily scheduled to begin officially yesterday, but armored police vehicles patrolling streets lit- “In Alexandra it’s not about the IFP and the while main opposition Democratic Alliance wooded area shortly before midnight, state was holding a special kickoff event Friday tered with debris and charred remains of elec- ANC,” said Muzi Ntuli. “There were irregularities came in second with 22.23 percent, the EFF third police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said for about 740 people. Organizers canceled tion posters. during the voting process,” he told AFP. The IFP and the IFP a distant fourth. —AFP yesterday. The balloon and gondola carry- the rest of the festival. ing the pilot and two passengers have not Twenty balloonists from the Mid- been found, she said. Atlantic region were to participate in the Because of the time elapsed since the weekend festival, said Greg Hicks, a crash about 8 pm Friday, the search for the spokesman for Meadow Event Park. “It’s just two other occupants has shifted from a res- a shocking situation for everyone,” Hicks cue operation to a mission to recover the said. Some hot air balloons landed safely in remains, Geller said. More searchers were Debra Ferguson’s yard, The Free Lance-Star called in yesterday. Police received eyewit- of Fredericksburg reported. She said one of ness reports that two occupants either fell the men in the balloons pointed up at or jumped from the burning balloon after it another still in the air and said he thought struck the power line. it might be in trouble. “As soon as we Carrie Hager-Bradley said she saw the looked up, the thing blew up right there,” balloon in flames on her way home from Ferguson told the newspaper. “All I heard the grocery store and heard people yelling, was, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God,’ and all you according to WWBT TV. “They were just saw was the top of the balloon still flying, screaming for anybody to help them,” the but all of the basket was gone. All of the station quoted her as saying. “‘Help me, flames just disappeared. ... It was like a help me, sweet Jesus, help. I’m going to die. match - poof - and then it was gone.” —AP Late Pope Paul VI closer to sainthood

VATICAN CITY: Pope Paul VI, who did Italian media have reported that the much to modernize the Roman Catholic miracle was that of a boy born healthy in Church but pronounced a ban on artificial California despite the diagnoses in 2001 contraception which was widely defied by of the rupture of the fetal bladder and the faithful, has moved a step closer to absence of amniotic liquid. The mother reportedly refused an abortion and prayed for Paul VI’s intercession at the urg- ing of a nun. The baby was born a month prematurely and is now a healthy adoles- cent, the news reports said. NEW YORK: Relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks stage a protest, as unidentified remains of some of the victims in the attacks Like John Paul II, Paul VI was hard to are escorted to a repository at Ground Zero yesterday. —AFP peg as progressive or conservative. Both were conservative on sexual issues, but enthusiastically embraced the thrust 9/11 remains returned to toward ecumenism set in motion by the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II opened the way for Mass to be said in local lan- guages instead of in Latin. Its reforms also World Trade Center site inspired many nuns, especially in the United States, shed their long robes in favor of knee-length skirts and aban- NEW YORK: The unidentified remains am outraged,” said Sally Regenhard, their loved ones. Vukaj, who got eventually lead to the identification doned the head-coverings that were their of those killed on Sept 11 returned to whose firefighter son was killed at emotional as the flag-draped caskets of the 7,930 fragmentary remains. orders’ dress code for centuries. the World Trade Center site in a the trade center. were taken inside the center, said she The death toll stemming from the Paul, who like John Paul took up travel- solemn procession on a foggy yester- didn’t like that some victims’ relatives attacks at the World Trade Center ing to distant lands, ended nearly a mil- day morning. The remains left the ‘Treat them with respect’ turned what should have been a stands at 2,753. Of those, 1,115, or 41 lennium of estrangement between Office of the Chief Medical Examiner “The human remains of my son solemn event into “a political thing.” percent, have not been identified. Catholics and Orthodox Christians when on Manhattan’s East Side shortly and all of the 3,000 victims should be “Just come in, pay your respects, Monica Iken-Murphy, whose husband he journeyed to Jerusalem in 1964 and before 7 am in three city vehicles. in a beautiful and respectful memori- be here, have your emotions and was a bond broker in the North embraced Patriarch Athengoras, then the They were accompanied by police al, not in the basement of a museum,” don’t make it political,” she said. Tower, said she hopes his remains will Orthodox leader. Paying tribute to that and fire department vehicles with she said. Rosemary Cain, who also Uniformed officers from the New York eventually be identified. “Every year bold gesture, Francis later this month will lights flashing but no sirens. lost her firefighter son at the trade Police Department and Fire they identify someone,” she said. “Last go to Jerusalem and pray together with Construction workers paused as the center, was also upset about the Department of New York and the Port year they identified a male and the current Ecumenical Patriarch, motorcade passed, and about 10 fire- transfer. “I don’t know how much of Authority police carried the three female in their 40s. I could be next, Bartholomew I. fighters stood in the cool breeze him is down here; if it’s one little inch, caskets into the repository. The facili- and I’m optimistic that he could be Paul VI disposed of many of the privi- saluting the vehicles as they arrived. I want it treated respectfully,” she said. ty will be available for family visits one of those. Even if he isn’t, I feel he This file photo taken on June 21, 1963, leged trappings of the papacy, anticipat- The remains will be transferred to a “I want it above ground. I don’t want but will be overseen by the medical is home. This is where he took his last shows Pope Paul VI portrayed after his ing Francis’ disdain for stuffiness and repository 70 feet underground in it to be part of a museum. I don’t examiner. Officials hope that breath, his last step. This is where he election, with white Pontifical robe and fanciness at the Vatican. Paul got rid of the same building as the National want it to be part of a freak show.” improvements in technology will lost his life.” — AP pectoral cross. — AP scores of Italian nobles from the papal September 11 Memorial Museum. Other family mem- Like many decisions involving the bers support the sainthood with Pope Francis’ official con- “court” who had privileges dating back site of the nation’s worst terrorist plans, which have firmation of a miracle. The date for the centuries. He still allowed use of the papal attack, the disposition of the uniden- been in the works for beatification was set for Oct 19, the throne, and looked frail and uncomfort- tified remains has been contentious. years. Lisa Vukaj, who Vatican said yesterday, a day after Francis able as he arrived for the funeral of assas- A group of victims’ family members lost her 26-year-old formally certified the miracle said to sinated Italian politician Aldo Moro in who say the remains should be brother, said the new involve a risky birth in California. Rome in 1978 in the chair perched on the stored in an above-ground monu- home for the Beatification is the last formal step before shoulders of 12 men. He was under fire ment separate from the museum remains is “a fitting possible sainthood. from the Moro family who thought he protested the procession. About a place until technolo- During his pontificate from 1963 to didn’t do enough to save the leader dozen wore black bands over their gy advances” and 1978, Paul made landmark progress in despite having made a public plea “on my mouths at the site yesterday. “It’s hor- new techniques are improving Catholics’ relationship with knees” for Moro’s release by Red Brigades rible. I am so angry. I am so angry. I available to identify other Christians. But he disappointed kidnappers.— AP many Catholics who were hoping for liberalization of church teaching on sexual- ity. After much consulta- tion and, reportedly, per- sonal anguish, Paul VI enshrined the church’s teaching against artificial contraception in the 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (“of human life”). The issue is among many expected to get scrutiny in a special meet- ing of bishops called at the Vatican in October to dis- cuss family life. The beatifi- cation ceremony would come at the end of the gathering. One miracle is required for beatification, and traditionally a second for canonization. The Vatican, as is its custom, didn’t give details about the miracle which must be certified by doctors as hav- ing no medical explana- tion. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

Michelle Obama slams kidnapping of Nigerian girls

LAGOS: US First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday weeks later 223 girls are still missing. The Islamist team while China promised to supply “any useful international community to do everything to denounced as an “unconscionable act” the kidnap- militant group Boko Haram claimed responsibility, information acquired by its satellites and intelli- ensure the return of the pupils. “We urge all local, ping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by and threatened to “sell” the girls into slavery. The gence services” to Nigeria. Nigerian President national and regional governments, with the full Islamic militants as a mobilized international com- abductions have sparked offers of help from the Goodluck Jonathan, whose long silence after the support of the international community, to dedi- munity helped Nigeria search for them. For the first United States, Britain, France and China. abductions was sharply criticized, said Friday that a cate their expertise and resources...to time standing in for President Barack Obama on his Seven military officials from the US Africa region- search team was already at work in Sambisa forest, #BringBackOurGirls,” it read. weekly yesterday morning address, Michelle al command AFRICOM along with a State near Chibok, with remote sensors trying to locate Other signatories of the letter were the former Obama said she and her husband were “outraged Department expert arrived in Nigeria on Friday, and the kidnappers and their victims. The United States presidents of Brazil, Mexico, Mozambique, and heartbroken” over the mass abduction of the three FBI personnel and four others from State and and officials in Chibok voiced concern that the girls Mauritius, Tanzania, Botswana, Liberia, Cape Verde, girls from their school dormitory in a remote corner the USAID aid agency were due in the country yes- might have been moved to neighboring Chad and and Ireland along with CNN founder Ted Turner, of north Nigeria last month. terday. “They’ll be providing technical and investi- Cameroon to be sold. But Jonathan said Friday that Virgin founder Richard Brandson, Unilever CEO Paul Their sentiments were shared by “millions of gatory assistance, helping with hostage negotia- he believes the girls were still in Nigeria, possibly in Polman and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu. people across the globe,” she said. This violence tions, advising on military planning and operations the Sambisa forest. Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala also “was not an isolated incident ... it’s a story we see and assisting with intelligence and information,” signed the letter, as have numerous United Nations every day as girls around the world risk their lives to State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. Global media campaign officials. The UN Security Council said Friday the pursue their ambitions,” Michelle Obama said. “This Among the help on offer would be intelligence- The abductions have also led to a growing social mass kidnappings “may amount to crimes against unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist sharing as the teams work to track down the girls, media campaign with the hashtag humanity” under international law, but made no group determined to keep these girls from getting who range in age from 16 to 18. Britain said #BringBackOurGirls joined by public figures and explicit reference to charges in the International an education - grown men attempting to snuff out Wednesday it would send a small team to Nigeria to celebrities. The Financial Times yesterday published Criminal Court. The 15 members of the council said the aspirations of young girls.” concentrate on planning, coordination and advice an open letter signed by 50 leading personalities, they would follow the situation and consider On April 14, 276 schoolgirls were abducted in to local authorities rather than operations on the including former world leaders as well as the singer “appropriate measures” to take against Boko Haram. the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibook, with ground to look for the girls. Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates and Nobel Peace Prize The statement urged their immediate release, with- eight more seized from Warabe on May 5. Three France also has offered to send a specialized laureate Muhammad Yunus who have called on the out conditions. — AFP

Mexican vigilantes face deadline to join police

MORELIA: Vigilantes who have battled Divided movement a drug cartel in western Mexico faced a The transition comes amid deep deadline yesterday to store their guns divisions within the vigilante move- or join a police force amid divisions and ment, accusations that it is infiltrated by recriminations within the movement. cartels and the recent arrest of one of its The authorities are handing out uni- founders. Authorities have also found forms to vigilantes who have agreed to several cases of criminals posing as vigi- sign up to a new rural police force in lantes. Late Friday, 135 “pseudo-vigi- the lush agricultural state of lantes” were arrested in La Mira, near Michoacan. The units will make their the port of Lazaro Cardenas, after clash- debut in the towns of Buenavista and ing with troops, a state security official Tepalcatepec, two of the first munici- told AFP. On Thursday, the council of palities that revolted last year against self-defense forces in more than 30 the cult-like Knights Templar gang towns announced the dismissal of its because local police failed to protect chief spokesman, Jose Manuel Mireles. them. The council accused him of making The federal government, which has public statements without clearance tolerated the vigilantes, has warned that undermined the movement. It also that anybody found carrying weapons said “recent actions” by Mireles had cost illegally after the deadline would be the lives of five civilians, but it did not arrested. The rise of the vigilante elaborate. Authorities said Friday they movement, which spread to some 30 are investigating whether Mireles had a towns, brought fears that it could turn role in the deaths. into a dangerous paramilitary force. Mireles could not be reached for TAMARA: Members of the Mara 18 youth gang remain at the national penitentiary in Tamara, 25 km north of President Enrique Pena Nieto, who comment. Another founder of the Tegucigalpa, Honduras in this photo. — AFP deployed thousands of troops to movement, Hipolito Mora, was arrested Michoacan last year to restore order, in March on charges that he was said he expected the vigilantes to dis- behind the murders of two fellow vigi- Kids murdered in Honduras CHUQUIAPAN: An armed female member of band or join the police. “It’s an agree- lantes. He rejects the charges. Mireles, a the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan (CAM) ment, and I expect it to be respected,” tall, mustachioed doctor, told a radio for refusing to join gangs patrols a checkpoint set up by the self- said Pena Nieto, who is facing one of station this week that the vigilante defense group in western Mexico. — AFP his biggest security challenges in movement was divided and infiltrated Michoacan. by criminals. —AFP 86 youngsters killed per month since January

TEGUCIGALPA: The cry of the grandmother was gut-wrench- he is “making an effort” and people are giving him the benefit ing as she watched the burial of her grandson, the second of the doubt so far. But, he warned: “The death of children is killed in just days in a horrific wave of violence against chil- causing great impact in society. dren in Honduras. Kids, even very young kids, are often killed “The facts make it necessary to review that military strate- if they refuse to join powerful street gangs, a scourge plagu- gy, mainly because children and youths are involved,” said ing the poor Central American nation reputed to be the Mirna Flores, head of the sociology department at the world’s most violent place. National University. Even for a country like Honduras that is so The wave of murders is one of the most pressing problems accustomed to bloodshed, she said, “what is happening is facing the new government of President Juan Orlando very serious.” — AFP Hernandez. “Don’t leave me, my children!” the woman cried. This second grandson was only seven years old. He was shot and tortured, his body found wrapped in a sheet and dumped Chelsea Clinton in a vacant lot in San Pedro Sula, north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. The grandmother and the mother of the child were already receives doctorate in shock after the death three days earlier of another of their children, aged 13, in similarly grisly circumstances. In the from Oxford space of a month, six more school-age children were mur- dered in San Pedro Sula, and authorities say the reason was the same-they had refused to join a street gang. WASHINGTON: Former President Bill Clinton and In an interview with the newspaper El Heraldo, Hernandez former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the killings could be a backlash against his government’s are in Oxford, England, this weekend to attend the security policy. “I pray to God that it is not true that this issue graduation ceremonies of their daughter, Chelsea. of the children is a response to what we have been doing,” he Chelsea Clinton received her doctorate degree in was quoted as saying. international relations yesterday from the presti- Last week in San Pedro Sula, members of gang called the gious British university. Her father was a Rhodes Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) burst into a youth detention center, scholar at Oxford from 1968 to 1970. The gradua- overpowered guards and detonated a grenade, killing five tion ceremony comes as her mother is considering members of the rival Mara 18 (M-18). That same day, farther a potential 2016 presidential campaign. north in the town of Limon, a man stabbed a 13-year-old girl The 34-year-old Clinton is reaching a number of to death, and also killed her siblings aged 10, seven and two. milestones this year. In addition to her doctorate, The heart-breaking scene of the grieving grandmother Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are consumed with pain was broadcast on television. Honduras has the world’s highest homicide rate, 79 per 100,000 inhabi- expecting their first child in the fall. And she has tants, according to the Violence Observatory at the National taken a more public role at her family’s Bill, Hillary University, but the latest news has shocked the country. and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where she serves as vice chairwoman. Trapped by violence If her mother runs for president, the younger The deaths have unleashed criticisms of the government’s Clinton could be an asset in connecting with military-led security policy. Hernandez launched this iron-fist- younger voters and members of her generation. A ed approach to crime after taking power on January 27. The longtime advocate for public health, Clinton has president has said the country is already starting to see a played an active role in developing policies at the change, with fewer murders. But human rights groups dispute foundation to address childhood obesity, HIV and this. An average of 86 children and youths under the age of 23 AIDS, and childhood diarrhea around the globe. have been killed per month since January 27. During an appearance at the annual South by That is 6.2 percent more than under the previous govern- ment, says Casa Alianza, an NGO that works to protect chil- Southwest festival in March, Clinton noted that dren. Guadalupe Ruelas, director of Casa Alianza, told AFP more than 750,000 children die around the world there is “suspicion that there is a pattern of social cleansing” in every year because of severe dehydration due to which government authorities might be involved. diarrhea, an issue her family’s foundation hopes to Furthermore, many minors are forced by gangs to collect address. extortion payments and killed if they refuse. Bertha Oliva, “We have to do whatever we can to ensure that coordinator of Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees, no child dies of diarrhea,” she said. Clinton’s disser- said the new leader’s first 100 days had been “shaped by the tation examines international global governance killing of children.” But Hernandez rejects the criticism. structures with a focus on global health. At the “Criminals now know they are surrounded, they know there is foundation, she has worked closely with the little they can do, they know that many of their bosses are Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Clinton being captured,” he said. “If there are consequences, we will Health Matters Initiative. face them.” The younger Clinton, a special correspondent Controversial military strategy for NBC News, is a graduate of Stanford University As soon as he took power Hernandez sent thousands of and holds master’s degrees from Oxford and police and soldiers to areas controlled by gangs and drug traf- Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public fickers. He blocked cell phone coverage from jails from which Health. During an appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy criminals operate. Then he created “Guardians of the Kimmel Live!” in April, the former president noted Homeland”, a program in which children receive training in that once his daughter receives her doctorate, she values to keep them away from the street gangs. will have four degrees. It aims to educate 100,000 youths in a year but it has been “She’ll have as many as her parents do - com- criticized for having an overly militaristic approach. Several bined,” Bill Clinton said. “When she was younger, days ago in Tegucigalpa, the UN’s special rapporteur for the way all kids are, she thought she knew more crimes against children, Najat Maalla M’jid, urged the govern- than I did about everything. But alas, in my ment to adopt urgent measures. dotage, it turned out to be true!” — AP Sociologist Eugenio Sosa says Hernandez wants to show SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Taleban chief asserts authority

PESHAWAR: The head of the Pakistani Taleban is ment to end the insurgency through peace talks it ting the militants’ ability to mount attacks against the two rivals) to stop their clashes,” he said. The making a last-ditch bid to stamp his authority on proposed in February. Some commanders are in security forces. Taleban sources said Fazlullah turned to an influential the increasingly divided insurgency by ordering a favor of talks but others vowed to continue their hardline commander, Khalid Omar Khorasani, to top commander sacked, Taleban sources said yes- insurgency. Challenged authority appoint a new commander in place of Said, who terday. Taleban head Maulana Fazlullah moved “It’s a test case for Maulana Fazlullah and his shu- Notorious for ordering the attempted killing of wants to join the peace talks. against Khan “Sajna” Said on Friday after weeks of ra,” a Taleban commander said, referring to the schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, Fazlullah is the Khorasani, who opposes the talks, ordered the bloody infighting in the powerful Mehsud tribe that movement’s leadership council. “It will determine first non-Mehsud leader of the Pakistani Taleban and decapitation of 23 hostages from a government para- supplies the bulk of the Pakistani Taleban fighters, their future.” “If Sajna is convinced and he stops has struggled to impose his authority on the power- military force shortly after Islamabad announced its they said. Scores of men have been killed. fighting, it conveys a good message to rest of the ful tribe. He faced many challengers to become chief peace initiative. Taleban commanders said Khorasani The risk for Fazlullah is that Said might ignore Taleban factions,” he said. “Otherwise it will be a of the Pakistani Taleban last year after the death of had been chosen to appoint a successor not just him and battle on. Said is trying to wrest control of setback for Fazlullah if Sajna refuses to obey his the previous head in a drone strike. He has been hid- because of his hardline reputation, but because of his the Mehsud tribe - with its many weapons and command.” Fazlullah has repeatedly appealed in ing in Afghanistan since then. ability to unite various factions. “All militant leaders lucrative smuggling routes and extortion business - vain to the two Mehsud rivals to stop fighting. An But the time has come to exert his authority, a sen- respect him for his sacrifices in organizing all the mili- from rival Shehryar Mehsud. The factional fighting earlier peace deal brokered by the powerful ior member of the Taleban said. “Senior members of tant factions and that’s why Fazlullah gave him this has complicated attempts by the Pakistani govern- Haqqani network of fighters fell through, undercut- Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan had tired of appealing (to difficult task,” a Taleban commander said. — Reuters One dead, 30 injured in southern Pakistan quakes

KARACHI: A series of small earth- offices, with schools and colleges son had died and 30 others were quakes hit southern Pakistan on closed down, he said. Around 100 injured, including women and chil- Friday, killing at least one person and houses in Nawabshah were damaged. dren. injuring 30 others, officials said. Three Work was under way to assess the “We received 30 injured in our hos- shallow quakes struck near the city of extent of the damage caused by the pital, of whom one 71-year-old man Nawabshah in Sindh province in the quakes, which were also felt in several died of his injuries,” Mohammad space of an hour starting at 3:51 am nearby small towns including Hashim, a senior doctor at (2251 GMT Thursday), sending fright- Sakrand, Daur, Daulat Pur and Bandhi. Nawabshah’s civil hospital, told AFP. He ened residents running into the Asif Arain, a Nawabshah resident, said: said the condition of five of the injured streets praying for their lives. “The shaking woke us and we ran out was critical. Taj Colony neighborhood The most powerful tremor was of home reciting verses from the in Nawabshah was the worst affected, measured at 5.0 magnitude, an official Quran. “Then we felt another jolt, that resident Ghulam Mustafa told AFP. in the meteorological department was even more terrifying. I felt sick.” A The roofs of many of the houses told AFP. An emergency was declared local administration official, Irfan there had crumbled, he said, with at the city’s hospitals and district Kathio, told AFP that at least one per- electricity supplies to the area disrupt- ed. The quake was followed by two aftershocks measuring 4.7 and 4.9 VARANASI: India’s ruling Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, (center) displays the victory symbol as the magnitude with epicentres northeast party’s candidate Ajay Rai, (right) waves to supporters during an election campaign rally yesterday. — AP and northwest of Nawabshah, the meteorology official said. The US Geological Survey measured the three India poll campaign ends quakes at magnitudes 4.5, 4.3 and 4.6. The quakes all struck at a relatively shallow depth of around 15 kilome- with conflicting visions ters (9.5 miles). Pakistan straddles part of the boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, making BJP only wants to divide people: Gandhi the country susceptible to earth- quakes. NEW DELHI: Ruling Congress party leader voters in an Indian election campaign. gion”, seeking to dispel notions that A devastating 7.6-magnitude Rahul Gandhi warned yesterday of an Modi, projecting himself as a political out- Modi’s muscular Hindu nationalism was a earthquake hit Pakistan-administered India divided by caste and creed if the sider who will overhaul India’s political sta- stumbling block for voters. Kashmir in October 2005, killing more Hindu nationalist opposition wins power, tus quo, launched a blistering attack yes- In the last days of the campaign, Modi than 73,000 people and leaving as campaigning ended in the nation’s terday on the Gandhi dynasty-a dominant has tried to cast off the BJP’s religion- around 3.5 million homeless. Last multi-stage election. Gandhi sought to governing force for most of India’s history based image, pushing an agenda of good September a 7.7-magnitude hit muster a final show of Congress strength since independence from Britain. governance and economic growth in con- Awaran district in southwestern in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi with the trast to the left-leaning Congress’s pop- Baluchistan province, killing at least party struggling to snatch victory from ‘Mother-son government’ ulist pitch. “I believe in one India, the best NAWABSHAH: A Pakistani mother tends to her injured daughter as she is 376 people and leaving 100,000 oth- the jaws of a widely forecast election Modi, 63, derisively referred to India,” said Modi, chief minister of thriving treated at a hospital following an earthquake. — AFP ers homeless. — AFP defeat by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Congress campaign leader Gandhi and Gujarat state, who is popular among busi- The BJP “only wants to divide people, his party president mother, Sonia, as the ness and middle-class voters frustrated by make people fight each other,” Gandhi “mother-son government” and appealed a sharp economic slowdown, high infla- told a rally in temple-studded Varanasi, for a “good, strong mandate in Delhi to tion and corruption scandals. Pak court asks police one of the last constituencies due to vote work for the people.” “People, till the time Still, 12 years ago, few would have in tomorrow’s final day of balloting. The you end these dynastic politics, things guessed Modi would be in line to be pre- results of the marathon election will be won’t improve,” Modi said to cheers in mier after riots swept Gujarat during his known Friday. Varanasi is being contested Robertsganj, another part of politically early time as chief minister, killing at least to charge FBI agent by Narendra Modi, a charismatic but divi- pivotal Uttar Pradesh state going to the 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. The sive politician who is tipped to lead the polls tomorrow. BJP leader was never charged with BJP to power after a decade in opposition The BJP was already scenting victory, wrongdoing but many critics allege he did KARACHI: A judge in southern mit the charges against Cox on May CIA contractor Raymond Davis shoot- and be India’s next prime minister. predicting “a clear majority” nationally. too little to stop the bloodshed. Pakistan asked police yesterday to 19. The FBI agent is expected to be ing and killing two Pakistani men in Modi, an indefatigable campaigner Top party organizer Amit Shah forecast The Gandhi family has been making a file formal charges against an FBI back to the court that day. Cox Lahore in January 2011. The US uni- who has travelled 300,000 kilometers the BJP and allies would get 300 seats in last-ditch campaign push with Rahul, his agent arrested there after allegedly arrived in Karachi on May 1 and was laterally killed Osama bin Laden in (180,000 miles) in the last eight months the 543-seat parliament. Indian opinion mother and sister, Priyanka, all on the hus- carrying ammunition and three detained Monday after officials the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in speaking to 437 rallies-in addition to polls, while sometimes spectacularly tings. Yesterday, Rahul reaffirmed knives onto an airplane, an investiga- found him with the ammunition, May 2011 and American forces acci- addressing 1,350 rallies as a hologram- wrong in the past, also suggest the Hindu Congress’s commitment to “empower- tor said. FBI agent Joel Cox, free on 1 knives and electronic devices as he dentally killed 24 Pakistani troops according to the BJP. Modi’s high-tech nationalists are set to score a strong victo- ment of the poor”, charging that a BJP million rupees ($9,800) bail, was preparing to board a flight to along the Afghan border the same campaign is believed to mark the first ry. Shah said the electorate had supported government would not “benefit anyone appeared along with his lawyer Islamabad. year. US drones strikes in the country time holograms have been used to reach the BJP “irrespective of caste (and) reli- but business”. — AFP before Judge Mohammed Ali The arrest is a new strain on rela- also have angered Pakistanis. Memon in Karachi, the capital of tions between Pakistan and the US. Mahmood said the FBI agent’s pass- southern Sindh province, Khalid The US needs Islamabad to help con- port was with police, although no Mahmood told The Associated Press. tain militancy on the border with court has issued an order to stop him Mahmood said police told the Afghanistan, but the two countries from traveling abroad. Pakistani offi- judge during a brief hearing they have been uneasy allies since the cials have said they found that Cox JOINT OPERATIONS needed more time to file formal Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks. Their ties had no criminal intention in carrying charges. 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Protesters in China clash with police over pollution

BEIJING: Protesters in eastern China clashed descending onto the streets of Yuhang, close to paper defended the construction of the incinera- children and grandchildren to get cancer. Give us with police at a rally against plans to build a the tourist city of Hangzhou. “There have certainly tor, saying the technology it would use was safe back our beautiful home,” read one letter of huge waste incinerator that residents fear will be been injuries,” one of the protesters, Wu Yunfeng, and up to standard. protest carried on Weibo. harmful to their health and add to pollution. said by telephone. “The police have closed down Hangzhou, capital of prosperous Zhejiang Reuters was not able to independently verify Choking smog blankets many Chinese cities and the roads into Yuhang and locked the site down.” province and best known in China as the site of a the pictures’ authenticity. About 90,000 “mass inci- the environmental degradation resulting from Another protester, who declined to give her famous lake, has seen its luster dimmed in recent dents” - a euphemism for protests - occur each the country’s breakneck economic growth is name, said several police cars had been over- years by a recurrent smog problem. Pictures on year in China, triggered by corruption, pollution, angering its increasingly well-educated and turned. A police officer, reached by telephone, China’s Twitter-like Weibo site showed police fight- illegal land grabs and other grievances. Late in affluent population. said the demonstration had already ended. He ing with protesters and at least two protesters March, hundreds of residents of the southern Two of the protesters told Reuters that the declined to provide further details. Reuters was with blood streaming down their faces. Another town of Maoming staged protests against plans to demonstrations, which have lasted for more than unable to reach the local government for com- picture showed several hundred people surround- build a petrochemical plant there, for fear it would two weeks, turned violent with hundreds of police ment. On Friday, the official Hangzhou Daily news- ing a large group of police. “We don’t want our contribute to pollution. — Reuters Thai government supporters rally to ‘defend democracy’ Caretaker govt illegal: Protest leader

BANGKOK: Supporters of Thailand’s belea- judiciary and Election Commission to appoint a guered government gathered yesterday on the neutral prime minister. Suthep’s supporters held outskirts of Bangkok, saying they were deter- rallies and blocked some roads yesterday but mined to safeguard democracy as rival anti-gov- there were no reports of violence. Both the pro- ernment protesters pressed their campaign in and anti-government camps have armed the city. Thailand’s politicians have been unable activists within their ranks and the rival protests to forge a compromise over a nearly decade- this weekend, even though they are far apart, long split between the royalist establishment have raised fears of trouble. and a populist former telecommunications tycoon, whose sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was ‘Will not stand for it’ ousted as prime minister on Wednesday. Jatuporn Prompan, leader of the “red shirt” HO CHI MINH CITY: A Vietnamese protester holds up a placard and shouts slogans during Her sacking by the Constitutional Court for supporters of Thaksin and Yingluck, told a protest rally against China outside the Chinese Consulate yesterday. — AP nepotism followed six months of sometimes vio- reporters at the pro-government rally Suthep’s lent anti-government protests that have unnerved proposal was “impossible”. “It is clear that Suthep investors, frightened away tourists and dented thinks there is no government ... that he is look- street protests growth in Southeast Asia’s second-biggest econo- ing to the Senate to install a neutral prime minis- my. Yingluck’s supporters have derided her ter. This is illegal,” Jatuporn said. removal as a “judicial coup”. Her brother, former “If they install an interim prime minister we test for Vietnam prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was ousted in will escalate our fight for sure. We will not stand a military coup in 2006. for it,” he told Reuters. Thaksin lives in self-exile HANOI: Vietnamese anger toward China is run- mistrust toward China among ordinary “This is a dictatorship that masquerades as a to avoid a jail term handed down in 2008 for cor- ning at its highest level in years after Beijing Vietnamese. Yet the two countries share a democracy,” Sombat Thammasuk, 44, a “red ruption but has been a major influence over his deployed an oil rig in disputed waters. That’s Communist ideology and close economic ties, shirt” supporter of Thaksin and Yingluck, said at sister’s government. He won huge support in posing a tricky question for Vietnam’s leaders: To making the China-Vietnam relationship highly the rally. A government security official said the north and northeast with pro-poor policies, what extent should they allow public protests sensitive topic. The latest round of tension - the about 50,000 people had joined the rally and rallied provincial power brokers to his party and that could morph into those against their own worst since 1988, when 64 Vietnamese sailors more were expected. They gathered under a was increasingly seen as a challenge to the authoritarian rule? At one level, the ruling were killed in a clash with the Chinese navy - had sweltering sun and many said they were pre- Bangkok-based establishment. Communist Party would like to harness the led to fresh and awkward questions over that pared to stay for days to press for an election. He or his loyalists have won every election anger on the street to amplify its own indigna- relationship, a normally taboo topic in the state- “Although it is hot out here our anger is hot- since 2001. But his enemies say he is corrupt and tion against China and garner international sym- controlled media. ter, we are boiling with anger. I am ready to give buys votes and they want to change electoral this fight everything I’ve got,” said Sombat A day BANGKOK: A Thai pro-government “Red Shirts’ rules before new polls. The army, which has pathy as naval ships from both countries engage “It’s time for the Communist Party of Vietnam protester attends a rally yesterday. — AFP in a tense standoff near the rig off the Paracel to reconsider all its policy toward Beijing ... after Yingluck was thrown out of office she was staged numerous coups since the end of indicted by an anti-corruption agency for negli- absolute monarchy in 1932, has stayed out of Islands in the South China Sea. Vietnam should immediately abandon Beijing as deputy premier in a government run by the pro- But Vietnam’s government instinctively dis- an economic and a political model,” Huy Duc, gence over a rice subsidy scheme that ran up the turmoil but substantial violence would raise huge losses. The upper house Senate is expect- establishment Democrat Party, called his sup- the possibility of military intervention. trusts public gatherings of any sort, much less one of Vietnam’s best known bloggers, wrote in porters out onto Bangkok’s streets on Friday for ones that risk posing a threat to public order. a recent post. “Hopefully, the drilling rig 981 inci- ed to impeach her for that, which would result in King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, the world’s a five-year ban from politics. what he says will be a final push to get the gov- longest-reigning monarch, has stepped in to And they also know that members of the coun- dent will awaken the Communist Party of ernment out. He then wants to install a “people’s try’s dissident movement are firmly embedded Vietnam to be on the side of the people and But Yingluck’s Puea Thai party still runs a defuse previous crises but has not commented caretaker government and is hoping to organize council” to oversee reforms aimed at excluding on this one since it blew up late last year. One inside the anti-China one, and have used the drive out the Beijing expansionists.” Thaksin from politics. “The caretaker govern- issue to mobilize support in the past. Yesterday, A statement widely circulated on Facebook a July 20 election that it would probably win. undercurrent of the crisis is deep anxiety over Anti-government protesters want the govern- ment is unlawful, which means at this stage, the issue of royal succession. The king spent the around 100 people protested outside the and dissident blogs called for protests today Thailand has no real government,” Suthep told Chinese Consulate in the country’s commercial morning in Hanoi outside the Chinese Embassy ment out, the election postponed and reforms years from 2009 to 2013 in hospital. Crown to end Thaksin’s influence. reporters at a rally. Prince Vajiralongkorn does not command the capital, Ho Chi Minh City, watched on by a large and a Chinese cultural center in Ho Chi Minh He called on the upper house Senate, the contingent of security officers. Dissident groups City. In past years, authorities have only Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former same devotion as his father. — Reuters have called for larger demonstrations today in allowed anti-China demonstrators to walk Ho Chi Minh City and in Hanoi, the capital. around a lake in downtown Hanoi. “Facing the The two Asian nations have a history of con- danger of Chinese aggression appropriating flict going back 1,000 years, and the streets of the sacred East Sea, the source of livelihood of Vietnam’s cities are named after heroes in those the Vietnamese over generations, we are deter- fights. In the more recent past, the navies have mined not to compromise,” according to a twice had deadly engagements in the South statement posted alongside the protest call China Sea. There was a brief but bloody border that used the Vietnamese term for the South war in 1979. All have a created a deep well of China Sea.—AP Divers find more bodies in S Korea ferry disaster SEOUL: Divers have retrieved two more bodies were children from a high school in Ansan City from the wreck of the South Korean ferry that in the southern suburbs of Seoul who were on sank last month, as conditions on the ship fur- an organized trip to the southern resort island of ther deteriorated, officials said yesterday. The Jeju. bodies were found late Friday in the inverted, Initial investigations suggest the ferry was submerged ship, bringing the confirmed death carrying up to three times its safe cargo capacity. toll from the April 16 disaster to 275, Coastguard The ferry had been habitually overloaded, inves- Spokesman Ko Myung-Suk told journalists. tigators said. The Sewol’s regular captain, who Twenty nine are still unaccounted for. was off duty on the day of the accident, has told Divers have now swept through most of the prosecutors that the ferry operator-Chonghaejin ship, which is resting on its side at a depth of Marine Co-”brushed aside” repeated warnings more than 40 meters (132 feet) off the country’s that the 20-year-old ship had stability issues fol- southern coast. But as days go by, they are lowing a renovation in 2012. retrieving fewer and fewer bodies. The divers A court warrant was issued late Friday to have also reported that partition walls on the arrest the head of Chonghaejin, Kim Han-Sik, ship have started warping and are at risk of col- Prosecutor Yang Jong-Jin told AFP yesterday. He lapsing, which would further complicate their faces charges of manslaughter through negli- work, a government task force said in a state- gence and breaches of vessel safety laws, ment. Yonhap news agency said. The divers have been under immense pres- The latest move brought to five the number sure from the authorities and the victims’ fami- of Chonghaejin officials arrested over the disas- NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar President Thein Sein (left) and his wife wait onstage for the arrival of ASEAN leaders at a welcome dinner as part of the 24th lies to retrieve all the trapped bodies as quickly ter. Meanwhile, there has been no let-up in ASEAN summit at the Myanmar International Convention Center yesterday. — AFP as possible. They face enormous hazards and nationwide mourning over the catastrophe. The challenges, including near-zero visibility, strong government said more than 1.65 million people Myanmar diplomatic debut tested by China sea spats currents and often treacherous weather condi- had paid their respects at memorial places NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar parades its once-isolated cap- police said they had seized a Chinese fishing boat Myanmar has won praise for its democratizing tions. across the country since the mourning period ital to international leaders this weekend, hosting a elsewhere in the sea, which is crisscrossed by strategi- efforts from the international community and has wel- A storm warning was likely to be raised later, began. At a public park in Ansan, a focal point of landmark summit of Southeast Asia’s regional bloc as cally important shipping lanes and vast potential ener- comed a series of global leaders, including US Ko said. “But the government will push through national mourning, some 2,000 students from reforms see the country strut onto the world stage. gy reserves. China claims sovereign rights to almost all President Barack Obama. “Both the country and the with the search operations”, he said. The Sewol various high schools in the city held a candlelit The long-cloistered country’s debut as chair of the of the disputed waters. Beijing has long been the people are now enjoying a high level of political digni- was carrying 476 people when it sank after list- vigil on Friday night for the victims, with yellow Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) pres- largest investor in Myanmar and was a rare ally during ty,” government spokesman Ye Htut told AFP. The ing sharply to one side. Of those on board, 325 ribbons tied to their arms. — AFP ents the diplomatic newcomer with a delicate chal- the country’s years in the diplomatic wilderness under removal of international embargoes has also raised lenge amid soaring maritime tensions between mem- the junta. The country should strive not to let its close hopes of an economic boom in the country, left bers Vietnam and the Philippines and an increasingly relationship with China “mar its neutral and even- impoverished after decades of mismanagement by assertive China. Leaders began arriving on the eve of handed leadership”, said Simon Tay, chairman of the the junta. Foreign firms, drawn by huge natural the summit as foreign ministers worked on drafting a Singapore Institute of International Affairs, adding that resources and an estimated 60 million potential con- unified statement on recent incidents in the South this would “not be easy”. sumers, are already dipping their toes into the market. China Sea that have stoked international concern. In 2012, China’s ally Cambodia caused consterna- According to state newspaper New Light of Myanmar Observers said Myanmar-at the helm of ASEAN for the tion when it was ASEAN head by refusing to take this week, foreign investment created 90,000 jobs in first time in its 17-year membership-was steering a Beijing to task over its assertive maritime stance. the 2013/14 financial year. moderate course among the different views. Singapore Foreign Minister K Shanmugam said yester- Rajiv Biswas, an economist at IHS Global Insight, “There are some disagreements but I think day that it was imperative that ASEAN present a uni- said the country was “one of the last great frontier Myanmar is handling it very well as a neutral chair,” fied front, even if it did not take sides in the rows. market opportunities for many Western firms”, but one diplomat said. A new quasi-civilian regime that “Neutrality doesn’t mean staying silent. We can’t stay problems including weak governance and poor infra- took power in 2011 has thrust the country into the silent,” he told reporters, adding that the bloc’s “credi- structure meant it was still a “challenging” business international limelight, with reforms including freeing bility” had suffered in recent years over the issue. environment. Naypyidaw bears the signs of the coun- political prisoners and welcoming opposition leader try’s evolving aspirations. The “Abode of Kings” rose Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament. ‘Political dignity’ out of remote scrubland after a sudden, costly, deci- Myanmar’s year-long chairmanship is a challenge Myanmar was forced to renounce the rotating sion by the military to shift the capital from Yangon to for ASEAN, which has seen its ability to present a cohe- ASEAN presidency in 2006 because of the military Myanmar’s parched central region in 2005. sive stance in the past tested by some members’ loyal- regime’s failure to shift to democracy. But it has Unconstrained by conventional notions of scale or ties to regional heavyweight China. Hanoi on skipped ahead of Laos to take the rudder this year, design, the city sprawled across the tropical hinterland Wednesday accused Chinese ships of attacking indicating an enthusiasm to showcase its revamped in an architectural smorgasbord of vast government SEOUL: A mother and her daughter hold candles during a rally to pay tribute to the Vietnamese patrol vessels near a controversial oil rig in international image in the run up to crucial 2015 elec- buildings and hotels, linked by lonely multi-lane high- victims and missing passengers of the sunken ferry Sewol yesterday. — AP the South China Sea. On the same day, Philippine tions that are seen as a key litmus test of reforms. ways.—AFP

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Apple and Beats both declined to comment on the reports of a $3.2 billion takeover deal but rapper and busi- ness mogul Dre boasted in the clip of becoming “the first billionaire from hip-hop.” Apple likely sees mobile audio as a growing Washington Watch opportunity and wants to not only Beats’ music streaming service also to cash-in on delivering pre- mium listening experiences from earphones or wire- The choice we face, the debate we must have less speakers to in-car sound systems, according to By Dr James J Zogby Even when we did acknowledge these abuses of human moderate Palestinian leader feel exposed and vulnerable, analysts. The premium headphone market in the rights, we failed to demonstrate the resolve needed to chal- while hard-liners are emboldened to act out their anger and United States grew 20 percent last year while sales was deeply disturbed last week when US Secretary of lenge Israeli behavior. frustration, oftentimes in outrageous and deplorable ways. of wireless speakers more than doubled, according State John Kerry, in response to criticism from former It is not merely a problem of our weakness and inability to US military leaders, from Generals Schwartzkopf and Zinni to industry tracker NPD. Beats was reported to have ISenate colleagues, felt compelled to walk back his warn- publicly criticize Israel. It is as if we cannot bring ourselves to to Patreaus, not caught up in the mind-numbing game of our claimed 60 percent of the billion-dollars spent on ing that Israel risked becoming an “apartheid state” if it failed see Palestinians as full and equal human beings and to stand politics have been warning us for decades that our failure to top-end earphones in the US last year. to make peace with the Palestinians. What troubled me most up and defend them when their rights are so flagrantly vio- press for a just peace continues to cause grave damage to “The association with Beats allows Apple to was that Kerry, after acknowledging that many Israelis have lated. We decry settlements when they are announced, then our standing and our ability to work with Arab allies to pro- extend their ecosystem,” NPD analyst Ben Arnold offered the same warning, apologized for using the word call them “realities” when they are built. In other conflicts tect our interests. With the “peace process” at an impasse, told AFP. Bringing Beats into the Apple fold would “apartheid” saying that “it is a word best left out of the debate around the world: we defend innocent civilians who are vic- America has a choice to make. Instead merely of pushing for provide opportunities to weave iTunes Radio service here at home.” In other words, Israelis can have this debate, timized by collective punishment; we defend those who are an extension of open-ended negotiations, it is time to decide into more devices, and even spread the App Store but we can’t. imprisoned without charge or expelled from their homes whether we can muster the resolve to put our foot down and for mini-programs to other products, according to This affair brought to mind a comment I heard from for- without any due process; we decry “ethnic cleansing” and speak the truth to Israelis about their behavior and its conse- Arnold. “I could see a connection with Apple TV,” mer Senator Joseph Lieberman back in 2000 in which he other violations of international human rights law; and we quences. Congress may scream and political operatives may Arnold said of Beats technology. “You pair the Apple acknowledged that it was easier to debate issues like settle- maintain that it is the right of refugees to return to their squirm, but if we are serious about peace then we must show TV with a wireless speaker or sound bar and that ments and Jerusalem in the Israeli Knesset than to have the homes and to reclaim lost property. But we do not accept the the way with decisive leadership. same debates in the US Senate. The question is, how can the same rights for Palestinians. We have put Israel above the law, Coddling the Israeli right, only emboldens them - they further builds their presence in the living room.” US lead Israeli-Palestinian peace-making when we can’t criti- an exception to the rules; and we have acted as if Palestinians know how to take advantage of an opening and play for Rumors have swirled for years that an innovative- cize Israel or have an honest debate about their policies? have no rights at all. Nations who aren’t furious with our dou- time. Firm pressure from America, will empower progressive ly overhauled Apple TV was being created at the For more than two decades now America has assumed for ble-standard toward Israel just dismiss our policies with a Israelis who understand the deep hole being dug by their Cupertino, California-based maker of iPhones, iPads, itself a unilateral role in Israeli-Palestinian peace-making. rueful “well that’s the way the US is.” irredentist leaders. They should be supported in their efforts iPods, and Macintosh computers. Much speculation During all that time our leadership has repeatedly been test- The result of this gross imbalance in our approach to the to make change. A firm challenge from America will help of late has focused on Apple getting into the wear- ed. And all too often, we have come up short. Our inability to Israeli-Palestinian conflict is everywhere in evidence. Both spur needed debate and change in Israel. able computing market, perhaps with an Internet- pursue peace, independent of domestic political considera- societies have become driven by pathologies that we have A decisive stand by America will also empower progres- linked watch. To that end, headphones are arguably tions, has had dramatic consequences. Not only have we either enabled or encouraged by our policies. Israelis behave sive Palestinians who are, at this point, under siege from among the first wearable technology gadgets. failed to help resolve the conflict, we have also contributed like spoiled children, while Palestinians behave like abused Israel, on the one side, and Palestinian extremists and cynics, to a deterioration in the political environment in both Israeli children. on the other. Moderates have little to show for their efforts ‘Head-scratcher’ and Palestinian societies and to harming the image of our Listening to the debate inside Israel is as instructive as it is and desperately need support. With America showing seri- Still, some analysts considered the idea of Apple country in much of the world. Even when presidents have depressing. To be sure, there are Israelis who continue to ousness and resolve, we will strengthen the hand of paying billions of dollars for Beats a “head-scratch- tried to make a difference, as many have, going back to champion human rights for Palestinians, but they do not Palestinians who have chosen the path of peace, non-violent er”. Apple could license audio technology, or even President Ford, they have been slapped down by a Congress have the upper hand. Within the ruling government coali- resistance, and negotiations. turn to its own engineers to create their own for far more focused on short term political expediency than pro- tion, the dominant trend is to reject any recognition of Will all this come to pass? While I’m not counting on it, I less money, analysts contended. If the target was tecting the long-term interests of the United States. In the Palestinian rights and any acceptance of even the most mini- know that without such leadership, we will surely fail. If we Beats streaming music service, said to have a rela- process they have repeatedly compromised our nation’s stat- mal withdrawal from the occupied territories. Not unlike cannot muster up the strength to challenge Israel and play a ed commitment to universal human rights and democracy. spoiled children, they have internalized the fact that there are constructive role in peace-making, then we ought to get out tively small number of users, a broader audience In the eyes of much of the world, we have become like the no sanctions for bad behavior. Congress will always have of the way and let the Palestinians take their case to the could be gotten with a buy of Spotify or Rhapsody. crowd in Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Emperor’s New their back, giving them what they want. International Criminal Court and let the world community A possible explanation is that Apple wants to buy its Clothes”. We see only what we want to see, and deny what Meanwhile, Palestinians have internalized the idea that decide how to resolve this conflict that has lasted too long way into fashion with young Beats fans, given that we find uncomfortable to acknowledge. For decades, we nothing they ever do will be good enough to earn the sup- and taken too many Israeli and Palestinian lives. Apple devotees tend to be older adults, according turned a blind eye to the daily realities confronting port of the United States. For them, there is no reward for NOTE: Dr James J Zogby is the President of the Arab to independent Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle. Palestinians living under a brutal and humiliating occupation. good behavior. Since Congress will never have their back, American Institute Such a take-over could also be a sign that Apple is pushing back release of its keenly-anticipated next big thing to “make it perfect” and buying Beats is a shot at giving the company new rhythm, the analyst said. Apple shares were down slightly more How Assad seized momentum in war that one percent to $581.91 on the rumor, evidently because “people are having a hard time wrapping By Zeina Karam Uneven Fight Since the beginning of the year, the two sides their heads around” why the company would write a The Syrian government has enjoyed have turned their guns on each other in fight- big check for Beats, according to Enderle. wo years ago, it seemed almost inevitable unchecked use of its aircraft to pound ing that has killed thousands of people. The “This is puzzling,” Forrester analyst Frank Gillett that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad opposition-held areas with missiles group’s moderate leadership lost the confi- said of an Apple buy of Beats. “Maybe there is Twould be toppled. Despite a fierce military and crude explosives. The opposition dence of the US and its allies, particularly after something we can’t see; some technology not yet crackdown, people were still taking to the streets has pleaded with the international Islamic extremists seized a weapons shipment on the market,” he continued. “The whole idea that in exuberant anti-government protests and community for more than two years last year, leading to the temporary suspension this is about headphones makes absolutely no rebels were pressing their fight deeper into the to provide weapons with which to of U.S. aid shipments. Foreign fighters from sense to me.” capital, even placing a bomb inside a high-level shoot down government warplanes. every corner of the earth have flocked to Syria Apple would buy not only the Dr Dre brand of security meeting that killed top regime officials But the West has deep con- - a result of ever-increasing radicalization on headphones and other sound equipment but also including Assad’s brother-in-law. cerns that any lethal assis- all sides - dampening the West’s support for the music streaming service that Beats Electronics Western leaders predicted Assad would fall in tance could end up in the the rebellion. launched recently, known as Beats Music. The deal few months. Almost no one thinks that now. As hands of extremists, and valued at $3.2 billion would mark the biggest acqui- he prepares for elections through which he is set President Barack Obama has Siege and Reconciliation sition ever carried out by Apple and prompted to claim another seven-year mandate for himself, desperately sought to avoid The exit of hundreds of rebels from the city questions by analysts regarding the evolution of the the 48-year-old leader appears to be on a contin- embroiling the U.S. in another of Homs last week gives Assad a geographic uously upward path in the three-year-old con- war after more than a decade linchpin in central Syria from which to launch company without its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs, flict. A look at how Assad has managed to seize of fighting in Afghanistan and offensives on rebel-held territory in the north. who died in 2011. the momentum in the civil war: Iraq. But the cease-fire agreement also highlights a Jobs was known for his drive to exquisitely fuse new Syrian government tactic. Such deals technology and design, and for masterfully market- Hezbollah Joins the Fight Chemical Weapons Deal have seen weary rebels turn over their ing Apple creations. “They never backfilled Steve, The Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group In August 2013, Syria’s key ally weapons to authorities in exchange for an and buying companies that are trendy is not going joined the fight in Syria publicly and earnestly in Russia stepped in to avert US military easing of suffocating blockades that have pre- to fix this,” Enderle said of Apple. —AFP mid-2013. With thousands of experienced guer- strikes against regime targets by clinch- vented food, medicine and other staples from rillas and experts, the group has been instru- ing a deal that would rid Syria of its chemi- reaching rebel-held areas. That has enabled mental in helping Assad’s overstretched forces cal weapons stockpile following a toxic gas Assad’s troops to be shifted to fighting fronts gain ground around the capital, Damascus, and attack near Damascus that killed hundreds. elsewhere in the country and allowed the All articles appearing on these in strategic Syrian towns and villages in rugged Obama had said the use of chemical weapons government to present itself abroad as a pages are the personal opinion of mountains near the border with Lebanon. was a “red line” that would trigger a harsh responsible actor actively trying to broker response. His waffling and change of course peace at home. the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Army United on the threatened airstrikes enraged responsibility for views expressed Despite major defections early in the con- Syrian opposition members and Rebel Sponsors therein. Kuwait Times invites read- flict, the Syrian military remains a potent force. emboldened Assad. Arab sponsors have increasingly clashed There is no sign of significant fractures among over the level and type of assistance they ers to voice their opinions. Please Assad’s lieutenants, and his inner circle has Jihadis versus Moderates should offer the Syrian rebels. The cracks in send submissions via email to: opin- remained largely cohesive and united. Assad The already divided umbrel- what was once solid Arab support for the [email protected] or via snail has also bolstered his military over the past year la group of rebel factions backed rebels are mostly rooted in long-simmering with the creation of paramilitary troops includ- by the West, the Free Syrian tensions between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. ing the National Defense Force, a pro-govern- Army, has seen its fortunes sink Saudi Arabia and its allies accuse Qatar of The editor reserves the right to edit ment militia that draws heavily from Syria’s even further over the past year sending weapons to Islamic militant fighters any submission as necessary. minority communities and reportedly receives with the rise of militant groups and that clash with more moderate rebel fac- training from Iran. al-Qaida-inspired extremist factions. tions. —AP p15_Layout 1 5/10/14 9:32 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, MAY 11 2014 SPORTS

Smith leaves Caterham F1 Aussies to splash cash Ramdin to captain Windies BARCELONA: Caterham have parted company with technical director Mark KINGSTON: West Indies all-rounder Darren Sammy announced his retire- Smith and replaced him with a committee, the Formula One team said yes- on medal prospects ment from test cricket on Friday after he was replaced as captain by wicket- terday. The Malaysian-owned team, who have struggled to make any MELBOURNE: Australia will throw more money at top medal prospects keeper Denesh Ramdin. impression this season and are last in the standings after four races, said in to prepare for the 2016 Rio Olympics after the sports-mad nation The 30-year-old Sammy, who played in 38 tests and all but eight of them a statement that Smith had left with immediate effect. slumped to its worst medal tally in 20 years at the London Games. Sports as skipper, remains the captain of the West Indies Twenty20 team and also “A new Technical Committee has been formed to oversee all technical minister Peter Dutton said 650 of Australia’s best athletes would benefit intends to continue playing ODI cricket. and operational aspects of the team’s activities on and off track,” it added. from a newly designed program that reallocates A$1.6 million ($1.5 mil- “Darren Sammy has formally notified the West Indies Cricket Board “John Iley, Jody Egginton and Gerry Hughes will now each take responsibili- lion) directly to the brightest medal hopes and emerging talents. (WICB) of his decision to retire from test cricket,” the WICB said in a state- ty for specific areas of the team’s operational activities.” That would come from a re-designed Direct Athlete Support (DAS) ment. “Sammy has also informed the board of his decision to continue to Smith joined Caterham, a team that has yet to score a point in Formula program of A$48 million over four years, Dutton said in a statement. make himself available for selection for the other formats of the game. One, in 2011 and took over the technical department from Mike Gascoyne The means-tested scheme would mean the top medal prospects “Sammy, in his communication to the board thanked the directors, the in 2012. could be in line for up to a 30 percent hike in funding, he said. “More selectors and team management for the confidence shown in him as a play- Formula One underwent huge technical changes over the direct funding through the Australian Institute of Sport for potential er and captain which he served as from October 2010 to May 2014.” European winter, with a new V6 turbo hybrid power unit replac- Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games medallists is an impor- While he is well-liked and a respected figure, Sammy often bat- ing the old V8s and revised aerodynamic regulations. tant part of Australia’s plan to remain on the podium of world sport,” ted low down the order in test cricket and his medium-pace Smith and his design department were under added pres- Dutton said. bowling was much less effective than in shorter forms of the sure to deliver results with team owner Tony Fernandes say- Australia has traditionally punched above its weight at the Olympics, game. ing before the season started that he could walk away from finishing sixth in the medals table at the 2008 Beijing Games and fourth at That raised some critics to question whether the St Lucian the sport unless Caterham showed significant improve- Athens and Sydney, but the 10th-placed haul at London prompted local merited a place in the team despite generally positive views of his ment.—Reuters media to slam sports authorities for wasting taxpayers’ money.—Reuters influence as captain. —Reuters Reds edge Rockies

CINCINNATI: Joey Votto hit a game-ending solo homer, and the Cincinnati Reds shut down Nolan Arenado in a 4-3 win over Colorado Rockies on Friday night. Votto drove a 3-0 pitch from Boone Logan (1- 1) over the wall in center for his fifth homer. Votto’s fourth career game-ending shot traveled an estimated 437 feet. Arenado went 0 for 3, snapping his hitting streak at a club-record 28 games, the longest in the majors this season. But Arenado walked and scored on Justin Morneau’s tying double in the ninth, handing Jonathan Broxton (1-0) his first blown save in six opportunities. Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto went eight innings, giving him five consecutive starts of eight or more innings. He gave up five hits and two runs with one walk and eight strikeouts.

YANKEES 5, BREWERS 3 ARLINGTON: Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts (left) is knocked backwards Masahiro Tanaka pitched into the seventh after tagging out Texas Rangers’ Leonys Martin as Martin was trying to steal second inning, Yangervis Solarte hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning of a baseball game. —AP and New York beat Milwaukee in the interleague matchup. Rangers pound Red Sox A fan jumped out of the left-field stands and ARLINGTON: Home plate umpire Mark Ripperger watches as Texas Rangers’ Robinson Chirinos walked briskly toward Derek Jeter’s spot at tags out Colorado Rockies’ Michael McKenry (8) who was trying to score from third on a shortstop while the Brewers were batting in the ARLINGTON: Yu Darvish came oh, so Verlander allowed two runs and seven Charlie Blackmon fly out in the seventh inning of a baseball game.—AP sixth inning. Jeter didn’t appear to notice until hits in seven innings. He struck out five close again. The Japanese ace fell one the fan was within an arm’s length or so. Jeter inning, and drove in four runs to power game with his single. Heyward slid home with out shy of a no-hitter for the second time and walked two. The start of the game calmly took a few steps away as several security Pittsburgh past St. Louis. the winning run as Ryan Kalish’s throw from cen- Friday night, giving up only a ninth- was delayed 27 minutes by rain. guards rushed in to tackle the person. Walker’s seventh homer came off Carlos ter field was off target. Luis Valbuena led off the inning single to David Ortiz in the Texas The injury-plagued Twins snapped a Jeter has said he will retire after this season. Martinez (0-2) and rallied the Pirates from a 4-3 10th with a single to right field off Alex Wood (3- Rangers’ 8-0 victory over the Boston Red three-game losing streak. Star first base- Tanaka (5-0) allowed two runs and seven hits in deficit for their third straight victory. 5), who then recorded three straight outs in his Sox. man Joe Mauer sat out a fifth straight his first interleague game. The Japanese right- Pittsburgh beat St. Louis for the 10th time in first relief appearance of the season. Rookie second baseman Rougned game. He’s been dealing with back hander struck out seven and walked one. Tanaka 13 games at home. St. Louis had gone ahead in Odor, positioned in shallow right field, spasms. also struck out in each of his first three major the top of the seventh on Jhonny Peralta’s solo PHILLIES 3, METS 2 made a diving attempt but the ball was league at-bats. home run, his eighth. Allen Craig’s three-run Marlon Byrd sliced an RBI double just inside out of his reach. If the Rangers had not INDIANS 6, RAYS 3 home run, his fourth, accounted for the the right field line in the 11th inning, and shifted their infield - a standard practice Mike Aviles hit a three-run homer dur- GIANTS 3, DODGERS 1 Cardinals’ other runs. Philadelphia beat New York in a game of many against Ortiz - it probably would have ing a five-run seventh inning, Corey Madison Bumgarner pitched eight superb Justin Wilson (1-0) struck out the only batter squandered opportunities. been a routine grounder to second. Kluber went 6 2-3 effective innings, and innings and Brandon Crawford hit a two-run he faced, Matt Adams, to end the top of the sev- Chase Utley had three hits and scored all the Darvish lost a perfect-game bid with the Indians stopped a seven-game road homer, leading San Francisco past Los Angeles. enth. Mark Melancon pitched a scoreless ninth Phillies’ runs, two on singles by Domonic Brown, for his third save. to help Philadelphia end a four-game skid and two outs in the ninth inning last season losing streak. The Giants’ 12th victory in 15 games came at beat the Mets for the first time in six meetings. Cleveland also got solo homers from a cost. Brandon Belt broke his left thumb when against Houston. This time, he bent his BRAVES 3, CUBS 2 Carlos Torres (2-2), the Mets’ seventh pitcher, knees and put his glove on his hips after Asdrubal Cabrera and Michael Brantley. he was hit by Paul Maholm’s first pitch of the second inning. The first baseman, who leads the Freddie Freeman’s single up the middle gave up a one-out double to Utley and inten- the base hit. Texas manager Ron Kluber (3-3) allowed two runs and nine drove in Jason Heyward from second base in the tionally walked Ryan Howard. Byrd, who played Washington then made a slow walk to hits with nine strikeouts. club with nine homers, ran the bases until the inning was over but was replaced on defense by 10th inning and Atlanta recovered from Craig for the Mets last season, reached low and away the mound, with the 45,392 in atten- Jake Odorizzi struck out a career-high Joaquin Arias. Kimbrel’s blown save to beat Chicago. to send an opposite-field liner inside the foul 11 and gave up five hits in five shutout dance cheering and chanting “Yuuuuuu!” The Giants were leading 3-0 when Yasiel Puig Kimbrel couldn’t hold a 2-1 lead in the ninth line to score Utley. The Phillies left the bases Darvish (3-1) struck out 12 and walked innings for the Rays, who have lost six homered to center with one out in the sixth, after Julio Teheran allowed only one hit - Mike loaded, only fitting as the teams combined to two while throwing 126 pitches. Boston straight at home. Brantley homered off after taking a called third strike his previous time Olt’s homer - in eight innings. Wesley Wright (0- strand 32 runners in a game that took 4 hours, starter Clay Buchholz (2-3) allowed six Joel Peralta (1-3) before Yan Gomes hit up and leaving Justin Turner stranded at third 1) walked Heyward to lead off the 10th. Heyward 39 minutes. Jonathan Papelbon earned his 10th runs and 10 hits over 4 1-3 innings. an RBI single and Aviles had his three-run base. As soon as Puig made contact, he flipped stole second base. Wright issued an intentional save. Mario Hollands (1-1) got the win.—AP shot against Brandon Gomes as the the bat away, walked a few feet toward first base walk to Justin Upton before Freeman ended the ANGELS 4, BLUE JAYS 3 Indians went ahead 6-2 in the seventh. and began a slow trot around the bases. Raul Ibanez hit a tiebreaking sacrifice Cody Allen got one out for his first save. fly in the ninth inning, Mike Trout con- PADRES 10, MARLINS 1 MLB results/standings nected for a solo homer and the Angels ROYALS 6, MARINERS 1 Jedd Gyorko hit two home runs off Jose Baltimore 4, Houston 3; Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 4; LA Angels 4, Toronto 3; Minnesota 2, Detroit 1; Cincinnati 4, Colorado won their fifth straight game in Toronto. Jason Vargas pitched seven scoreless Fernandez and San Diego snapped a three- 3; Philadelphia 3, NY Mets 2 (11 Innings); Cleveland 6, Tampa Bay 3; Atlanta 3, Chicago Cubs 2 (10 Innings); Texas 8, Erick Aybar had three hits and scored innings and Kansas City had 16 singles in game losing streak. Gyorko came into the game Boston 0; Chicago White Sox 9, Arizona 3; NY Yankees 5, Milwaukee 3; Oakland 8, Washington 0; Kansas City 6, Seattle twice, including the decisive run in the the victory. Vargas (3-1), who pitched for hitting just .146, but connected for a two-run 1; San Francisco 3, LA Dodgers 1; San Diego 10, Miami 1. ninth, as the Angels won for the eighth the Mariners for four seasons from 2009 shot in the second and a grand slam in the sixth. American League National League time in nine meetings with the Blue Jays to 2012, allowed three hits and walked The six RBIs set a career high. Eastern Division Eastern Division and halted Toronto’s season-long win- none. He is 3-1 with a 1.59 ERA in four The Padres, who came in averaging a major W L PCT GB Atlanta 19 15 .559 - ning streak at five games. career starts against his former team. league-low 2.6 runs per game, had their highest- Baltimore 19 14 .576 - Miami 20 16 .556 - Aybar tripled off Brett Cecil (0-3) to Salvador Perez, Eric Gordon and Eric scoring game since a 12-2 victory over Arizona NY Yankees 19 15 .559 0.5 Washington 19 16 .543 0.5 on Sept. 25. Toronto 18 18 .500 2.5 NY Mets 16 18 .471 3 begin the ninth and Trout reached safely Hosmer had three hits apiece for the Boston 17 18 .486 3 when first baseman Edwin Encarnacion Royals. The Mariners have two runs and Fernandez (4-2) was charged with six runs Philadelphia 16 18 .471 3 and six hits in five-plus innings. The right-han- Tampa Bay 15 21 .417 5.5 Central Division couldn’t find the bag after taking the 10 hits over the past three games. Central Division der, who won the NL Rookie of the Year award Milwaukee 22 14 .611 - Detroit 20 11 .645 - throw on Trout’s infield grounder. Albert Brandon Maurer (1-1) pitched 7 1-3 St. Louis 18 18 .500 4 last season, was 2-0 with a 0.60 ERA in his previ- Chicago White Sox 19 18 .514 4 Pujols was intentionally walked to load innings for Seattle, but was charged with ous four starts. Cincinnati 16 18 .471 5 the bases for Ibanez. six runs, four earned, and 14 hits. Kansas City 17 18 .486 5 Tyson Ross (4-3) was working on a shutout Cleveland 17 19 .472 5.5 Pittsburgh 15 20 .429 6.5 Joe Smith (2-0) got the win despite before Marcell Ozuna homered in the seventh Minnesota 16 18 .471 5.5 Chicago Cubs 12 22 .353 9 giving up a tying home run to Jose Reyes INTERLEAGUE inning. The righty allowed four hits and struck Western Division Western Division in the eighth and Ernesto Frieri finished WHITE SOX 9, DIAMONDBACKS 3 out eight in seven innings. Oakland 21 15 .583 - San Francisco 23 13 .639 - for his fourth save in six chances. Alexei Ramirez hit a grand slam in Texas 19 17 .528 2 Colorado 22 16 .579 2 Chicago’s seven-run fourth inning, and PIRATES 6, CARDINALS 4 Seattle 18 17 .514 2.5 LA Dodgers 19 18 .514 4.5 San Diego 16 21 .432 7.5 ORIOLES 4, ASTROS 3 Jose Abreu hit his major league-leading Neil Walker had three hits, including a go- LA Angels 17 17 .500 3 Houston 11 25 .306 10 Arizona 13 25 .342 11 Steve Pearce and Manny Machado 13th homer to lead the White Sox to the ahead three-run home run in the seventh homered, and the Orioles won a season- win. high fourth consecutive game. Baltimore Abreu was the designated hitter (19-14) is five games over .500 for the because of a nagging left ankle injury. Kaymer maintains lead at Players Championship first time this season. He went 3 for 4 and leads the AL with 37 Meanwhile, the Astros have lost six of RBIs. Tyler Flowers also homered for the PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Ice-cool the course record with a sizzling the most exciting prospects in the from his improving form over the seven. Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen (4-2) White Sox, who pounded out 15 hits. Martin Kaymer produced a controlled nine-under-par 63 on Thursday, fol- game, fired a superb bogey-free 66 to past month. allowed two runs and five hits in seven Chicago right-hander Andre Rienzo display to stay in front of the chasing lowed up with a second-round 69 to occupy second place with compatriot “I have had a lot of good finishes,” innings. Tommy Hunter allowed a run in (3-0) allowed three runs and four hits in 5 pack at the Players Championship on post a 12-under total of 132 in the Russell Henley (71) a further three said the former world number one. the ninth before finishing for his 11th 2-3 innings. Arizona’s Brandon McCarthy Friday, but American Jordan Spieth PGA Tour’s flagship event widely strokes back at eight under. Breezy “The way I have played golf, I am very save in 12 chances. Pearce went deep for (1-6) allowed nine hits and seven runs - was in hot pursuit just one shot regarded as the unofficial fifth major. weather on another hot day at the happy over the last four or five weeks his third homer in four games. all in the fourth inning. Gerardo Parra hit behind. Germany’s Kaymer, who tied Young gun Spieth, at 20 one of TPC Sawgrass made the par-72 especially. The next step is just put- Machado hit his first home run since a two-run homer in the third for the Stadium Course a more difficult ting yourself in contention, and returning from offseason knee surgery Diamondbacks. prospect for the players, and Kaymer hopefully win.” on May 1. Orioles outfielder Nick was delighted to remain at the top Markakis went 3 for 4 and extended his ATHLETICS 8, NATIONALS 0 after mixing five birdies with two LEAD TRIMMED hitting streak to 16 games. Chris Carter Oakland’s Tommy Milone tossed eight bogeys. Kaymer, whose only PGA Tour vic- hit his fifth home run of the season for innings of two-hit ball for his first win of “I didn’t hit as many fairways as tory came at the highest level with the Astros. Jerome Williams (1-2) got the the season. Brandon Moss homered and yesterday but I managed my way his playoff win at the 2010 PGA loss. finished with three RBIs, and Yoenis quite nicely around the golf course,” Championship, birdied two of the last Cespedes and John Jaso each hit a solo the 29-year-old from Dusseldorf told four holes to seize an early five-stroke reporters after covering the back lead before that was trimmed by TWINS 2, TIGERS 1 shot to back Milone’s gem. The left-han- nine in two-under 34. Spieth in the afternoon. Phil Hughes pitched seven scoreless der struck out seven and walked three. “I had a couple of nice up-and- “Solid round from tee to green,” innings, and the Twins beat Justin Milone (1-3) left after 108 pitches, downs and two longer putts went in, said Spieth, the 2013 PGA Tour rookie Verlander for the first time in over four and Fernando Rodriguez tossed a score- so I kept it really well together. of the year who tied for second at last years. Kurt Suzuki hit a two-run single off less ninth in his first appearance in the Overall, 12 under par. I’m very month’s Masters where he was bid- Verlander (4-2) in the seventh. Hughes majors since October 2012 after rehab- pleased. “It was a little difficult today. ding to eclipse Tiger Woods by (4-1) allowed eight hits in his fourth con- bing from elbow ligament replacement I thought it was already gusty in the becoming the event’s youngest secutive win. surgery. Moss and Cespedes connected morning, and the pin positions were champion. Hughes threw 86 pitches, and then on consecutive pitches in the fifth as a little bit tougher than yesterday.” “I felt like today was one of my gave way to the bullpen. Casey Fien the AL West-leading A’s foiled Doug Kaymer has not won a tourna- best ball-striking days I’ve had in a pitched the eighth, and Glen Perkins Fister’s season debut. Fister (0-1) PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Martin Kaymer of Germany, hits from a sand ment since the Nedbank Golf long time. Very stress-free, and I’d like allowed a run in the ninth but held on for allowed nine hits and seven runs in 4 1- trap on the 14th fairway during the second round of The Players Challenge in South Africa at the end to have a round like that the next two his ninth save in 10 chances. 3 innings. —AP championship golf tournament.—AP of 2012, but has gained confidence days.” —Reuters p16_Layout 1 5/10/14 9:48 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 SPORTS Thunder storm to victory

LOS ANGELES: Forward Kevin Durant scored 36 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out six assists as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Clippers 118-112 in Game Three of their Western Conference semi-finals series on Friday. The victory moved the Thunder into a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and after being blown out by 17 points in the opener, Oklahoma City have rallied well to take the initiative going into Sunday’s Game Four in Los Angeles. “We knew that this team is a really great pass- ing team and in the first game they picked us apart,” Durant told reporters. “I think we did a good job of weathering the storm throughout the game (tonight) and sticking together and we’re going to have to do that even more next game if we want to win. It’s going to be proba- bly the toughest game of the series.” Point guard Russell Westbrook scored 23 points and dished out 13 assists for the Thunder. He also had eight rebounds, just missing his fourth triple-double of the playoffs. Clippers forward Blake Griffin scored 34 points, pulled down eight rebounds and had three blocks for Los Angeles, who lost for the first time in 36 games when carrying a lead into the fourth quarter at home. They led 90-86 at the final break. Point guard Chris Paul had 21 points and 16 LOS ANGELES: Clippers forward Jared Dudley (left) forward Glen Davis (center) and Oklahoma assists for Los Angeles, while guard Jamal City Thunder center Steven Adams, battle for a rebound in the second half of Game 3 of the Crawford came off the bench to score 20 points. Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series. —AP Oklahoma City held a 106-101 lead with four the second half, pulling away to win 85-63 on Wizards briefly pulled ahead at 37-36, Indiana MINNESOTA: Wild left wing Matt Cooke (left) celebrates after Wild right wing Justin minutes remaining in the game after a put-back Friday and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven ripped off 12 straight points starting with guard Fontaine scored on Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (right) during the dunk by forward Serge Ibaka, who finished with Eastern Conference semi-finals. George Hill’s three-pointer. The run ballooned to first period of Game 4 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series. —AP 20 points and six rebounds. “This was probably the ugliest game of the 23-7 as the Pacers’ staunch defense stymied Griffin had cut the Thunder’s lead to 108-107 post-season thus far,” George, who scored 23 Washington from all angles. “I didn’t feel com- with 2:23 remaining but a Westbrook three- points, said after Indiana held Washington to its fortable playing in that because they were slow- pointer and a Durant jumper gave Oklahoma fewest points in franchise history. ing the ball down a little bit,” said guard Bradley Wild overcome City a 113-107 advantage with 1:23 left, a margin “This is our style of basketball. Every now and Beal. too great for Los Angeles to overcome. then this team is fortunate to get hot offensively, The 20-year-old led the Wizards with 16 Both teams shot well from the free throw line, but what we do is play defense.” points, but finished 6-for-19 from the field. Blackhawks with the Thunder converting 24-of-28 attempts Center Roy Hibbert added 14 points for the Power forward Nene missed 11 of 14 attempts as (85.7 percent) compared to 21-of-24 (84 percent) top-seeded Pacers, who began taking control Washington shot 32.9 percent from the field. for the Clippers. with a second-quarter run and outscored the “We had the worst offensive night,” Nene said. “It CHICAGO: Diminutive defenseman Jared tough to get momentum in here.” Meanwhile, the Indiana Pacers acknowledged Wizards 26-12 in the third quarter. looked like we tried to miss shots.” Spurgeon enjoyed a big night as the home- Wild coach Mike Yeo added: “There were the unsightly nature of their latest win against The NBA’s biggest curiosity because of their Washington’s two lowest scoring games of loving Minnesota Wild remained unbeaten a lot of responses tonight. For me a great the Washington Wizards, but All-Star forward inexplicable laboring in recent weeks, the Pacers the regular season came against Indiana. in the playoffs at the Xcel Energy Center response was by (Bryzgalov) too. He makes Paul George will be happy if the remainder of have won two straight in the best-of-seven Inability to push the pace certainly played a with a 4-2 victory over the Chicago a huge save on the breakaway and another the series continues in a similar slogging man- series. factor. Both teams scored eight fast-break Blackhawks on Friday. huge save in the third period.” Spurgeon, ner. Indiana led 34-33 at halftime thanks to a 13-1 points, a statistic that favored the grinding The 5ft-9in (1.75m) blueliner had a goal who had five goals in 67 regular season The Pacers held the Wizards to 30 points in spurt late in the second quarter. After the Pacers. —Reuters and an assist as the Wild tied up their best- games, got his third goal in 11 playoff of-seven Western Conference semi-final games early in the third on a man advan- series at 2-2 against the defending Stanley tage after Blackhawks defenseman Michal Cup champions. Rozsival was called for closing his hand on Kittel takes second Spurgeon helped break a 2-2 tie in the the puck. second period, setting up right winger “Any guy can be that guy on any given Nino Niederreiter’s go-ahead goal, and night, and if you get a chance to make that then scored on a power-play in the third play and are able to capitalise it’s great for stage of Giro d’Italia period for Minnesota, who improved to 5-0 the team,” Spurgeon said. at home in the post-season. Meanwhile, the New York Rangers Right wingers Justin Fontaine and Jason staved off elimination from the Stanley Cup BELFAST: German Marcel Kittel made a well- Belfast and swept through County Antrim before ceeded him as Tour champion and firmly estab- Pominville also scored for the Wild, who playoffs with an emphatic 5-1 road win timed attack in the closing sprint to take a rain- finishing back in the Northern Ireland capital. lished himself as the Team Sky leader. got 18 saves from goaltender Ilya over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday. soaked second stage of the Giro d’Italia yester- Australian Matthews finished eighth in the After finishing ninth at Paris-Roubaix last Bryzgalov. Chicago, which was shut out in Derick Brassard scored two goals as New day, as Orica-GreenEdge rider Michael Matthews final bunch sprint but leads the general classifi- month, Wiggins vowed to earn his place on the Game Three, showed more offensive spark, York built a big early lead in Game Five and claimed the pink jersey from team mate Svein cation after his Orica team won Friday’s team Sky team to support reigning champion Froome twice rallying to tie the game on goals by the Rangers padded their margin with a Tuft. Team Giant-Shimano sprinter Kittel made time trial around the streets of Belfast. in the Tour de France in July. left winger Patrick Sharp and center Michal late empty netter. However, the Penguins his move after the final hard bend to hit the A small group consisting of Sander Armee, First, however, comes California. “Riding in Handzus. Goalie Corey Crawford made 27 are still in the box seat with a 3-2 lead in front 150 metres from the line, taking his first Andrea Fedi, Jeffrey Romero Corredor and California is definitely something different and a saves. “They get the crowd into it, and they the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semi- Giro stage after a 219km-long ride that left Maarten Tjallingii broke away early but as the nice alternative to the traditional racing pro- get energised,” Blackhawks coach Joel final series. Game Six will be played in New race made its way back towards Belfast the pelo- gramme in Europe,” Wiggins said in comments Quenneville told reporters. “But they play York today. The winner of the series will ton caught up, overtaking Tjallingii with 3.5km posted on the Team Sky website. “There are a lot hard in their building and they’re good in play either Boston or Montreal in the left after the Dutchman had made a short-lived of passionate cycling fans in the States and this their building, and they check well so it’s Eastern Conference final series.—Reuters break. is one of the only chances we get to ride in front Meanwhile, former Tour de France champion of them. We’re all looking forward to it.” Bradley Wiggins says he’s looking forward to BMC’s Tejay van Garderen won the 2013 Tour tackling the Tour of California that starts today, of California, but the American won’t be back to Stiverne, Arreola meet in rare claiming it’s an opportunity to fly the Sky flag defend his title. After retiring from the Tour de Stateside. Romandie, where he had crashed hard in the US heavyweight showdown “It’s an important event for the team and we prologue, he said he would take a break hoping want to put in a good performance in front of to return to racing at the Criterium du Dauphine. LOS ANGELES: Bermane Stiverne and Chris In September 2009 in Los Angeles, Vitali the American fans and our co-owners 21st Peter Stetina, who lives in Santa Rosa, Arreola will square off in a rematch for the clobbered Arreola in the last heavyweight Century Fox,” said the Briton, who was among California, will lead BMC, returning to the race vacant World Boxing Council belt when title fight in the US. Las Vegas hasn’t hosted the field of 128 cyclists announced for the eight- for the first time since 2010. “I have never actual- they meet Saturday in the first heavy- a heavyweight title fight since 2006. day, 710-mile (1,144 km) race that will start on ly been in a protected role like this, so it will be a weight championship bout on US soil since The 35-year-old Stiverne, who was born Sunday in the California capital of Sacramento new opportunity that I have been chomping at 2009. “I believe that I am going to bring in Haiti but grew up in Montreal, is seeking and conclude on May 18 in Thousand Oaks, west the bit for and one that I am excited for,” Stetina the excitement back (to the heavyweight his second straight win over Arreola. of Los Angeles. said. This year’s ninth edition of the Tour of division),” Stiverne said. The heavyweight Stiverne won their first fight in April 2013, Other elite riders in the field include Omega California features a 20.1 kilometer time trial in class is traditionally boxing’s glamour divi- breaking Arreola’s nose en route to an easy Pharma-QuickStep’s Mark Cavendish of Britain Folsom as Monday’s stage two, and a pair of sion. But title fights in North America have victory. He also knocked Arreola down in and Cannondale’s Peter Sagan, the Slovakian mountain-top finishes at Mount Diablo State been rare in recent times because of a lack the third round. who holds the record for the most California Park in stage three and Mountain High in stage of serious challengers to the Klitschko Arreola vowed to get his revenge at stage victories at 10. Wiggins’s star has dimmed six. It concludes with a circuit race in Thousand brothers, Vitali and Wladimir. Thursday’s news conference. “I am going to somewhat since his outstanding year in 2012, Oaks, in rolling country west of Los Angeles. When Canada’s Stiverne and Arreola mess you up. You are going to remember when he became the first Briton to win the Tour Stetina predicted the time trial will be step into the ring at the Galen Center arena me. This Mexican is going to do it,” who was de France and followed it up with a time-trial crucial.”Mount Diablo is not very steep until the on the University of Southern California born in the Los Angeles but considers him- gold at his home Olympics in London. very final, so I think there are going to be bigger campus they will be fighting for the WBC self Mexican. The winner could eventually He suffered a disastrous 2013 when he pulled time gaps for the time trial than on Diablo,” he belt vacated by Vitali in December. Vitali get a shot at Wladimir Klitschko. He holds BELFAST: Giant-Shimano rider Marcel Kittel out of the Giro d’Italia due to illness and then said. “And then Mountain High is a hard climb. surrendered the title so he could concen- the IBF/WBA/WBO belts and the WBC is the from Germany, celebrates as he crosses the missed defending his Tour title with an injury. You definitely have to have a good time trial to trate on his presidential campaign in his only one missing and keeping him from finish line to win Stage two of the 2014 Giro He also had to watch as Chris Froome suc- contend for the overall.”—AFP native Ukraine. unifying all the titles. —AFP DíItalia, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. —AP

Embassies reprtesentatives during the draw. Embassies football tournament draw. Embassies soccer tourney kicks off today

By Abdellatif Sharaa all department Dawood Al-Dawood will also The draw resulted in placing PAYS, said the authority is keen on holding the brotherly relationships between Kuwait be present. Twenty teams will participate and Russia, USA, Tunis, Jordan and Eretria in such tournaments to increase ties between and Jordan. He said PAYS supervision of the KUWAIT: The second Embassies and the tournament will continue until May 18th. the first group. Kuwait society with the diplomatic missions in tournament gives it strong administrative and Diplomatic Missions Soccer Tournament will Today’s matches will see Russia take on Iraq, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Kuwait on one hand, and between the mis- technical importance. Al-Debei said Jordan kick off this evening at Bayan Youth Center, Tunis at 8:00 pm, then America against United Nations in the second. sions themselves. He said PAYS Chairman embassy seeks to top the tournament. under the patronage of Sheikh Ahmad Al- Jordan at 8:30 pm. Sudan and Eretria will face Chad, Senegal, Turkey, and Indonesia in Ahmad Al-Mansour and Director of Sports Meanwhile Iran Embassy representative Mansour, Chairman of the Board and off at 7:30 pm. All three matches are within the third. Affairs Ahmad Al-Khazal are keen on ensuring Jaafar Ghulam Hussein said the goal behind Managing Director of the Public Authority for the first group. Meanwhile in the second While Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, Arab the success of this tournament. Representative participating is to strengthen ties with repre- Youth and Sports. group Nigeria will face Bangladesh and Establishment for Investment Guarantee and of the Jordan Embassy Anas Al-Debei said the sentatives of accredited diplomatic missions Deputy Director General for Sports Affairs Azerbaijan will play against the United Burkina Faso in the fourth group. embassy is keen on participating in Kuwait and form friendships between those with Ahmad Al-Khazal, and Director of Sports for Nations. Director of the sports for all department at Foreign Ministry activities in appreciation of same profession. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 SPORTS

Karakontie seeks to repel Photo of the day raiders in 2000 Guineas PARIS: Karakontie is favorite to land Guineas, Kingman. today’s French 2,000 Guineas at In contrast to Kingman, Muwaary is Longchamp for French-based English train- something of an unknown quantity, gradu- er Jonathan Pease. Running in the Niarchos ating to Group 1 company for the first time. colours, Karakontie emerged as one of last “He looks a very promising horse, but season’s top two-year-olds, winning the stepping up from a handicap to a Group end-of-term Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc One is clearly a very big step,” said Angus Lagardere at Longchamp. Gold, racing manager to owner Hamdan Al Narrowly beaten on his prep for the Maktoum. Poule d’Essai des Poulains he is reported to The only Irish contender is Aidan be in good shape for this stiff classic test. O’Brien’s classy Giovanni Boldini, edged out “He’s been in very good form since his trial, in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf that did exactly what we wanted it to do in and fourth in the UAE Derby at Meydan in terms of fitness,” reported Alan Cooper, the Dubai in March. owner’s racing manager. Irrespective of how they fare in the Cooper added: “We’ll just have to see Poulains, British hopes are high of winning what happens this weekend but he has the French 1000 Guineas on the same card. been doing everything right at home and The cross-channel raiding party is spear- we’re really looking forward to it.” headed by trainer Brian Meehan’s J Wonder, Master French trainer Andre Fabre, suc- who has been kept back especially for this cessful in last weekend’s English 1000 trip to the outskirts of Paris. Guineas, has a strong-looking team in She advertised her claims when making Godolphin’s Decathlete and Galiway, who a winning start to her three-year-old career has ground to make up on Karakontie after at Newbury and Meehan reported: “I think finishing behind him in last month’s warm- she’s a tremendous filly. She’s got so much up. French hopes of keeping the prize at talent. home are boosted by the presence of “She’s had all of the autumn and winter Kiram, an eye-catching close second in his off and she couldn’t do much more than prep in Maisons-Laffitte last month. what she did at Newbury. “She’s a really English hopes rest with End of Line, Lat smart filly and she’s going to run a huge Hawill, and Muwaary. The last named is race today.” J Wonder will have the assis- trained by John Gosden, who saddled the tance of top French jockey Christophe beaten favorite in last week’s English 2000 Lemaire on board.—AFP A competitor performs during the Red Bull Dirt Conquers in Guadalajara, Mexico .—www.redbull.com Brumbies win over Sharks

CANBERRA: Jake White had a losing return when they got the momentum they took to Canberra as the ACT Brumbies ground charge of it. “I’m sure we’ll play the Hamilton on pole for out a 16-9 win over Super 15 leaders Brumbies again this year so you’d rather Coastal Sharks yesterday. win the next one.” While Steyn was having The Brumbies scored the only try of a problems, finishing with three penalties dour match in wet conditions with an over- from six attempts, Christian Lealiifano land- Spanish Grand Prix emphasis on field kicking from both sides. ed three penalties and a conversion from Lock Sam Carter scored the sole try surging seven shots to keep the home side ahead through a hole in the Sharks defence off a in the second half. BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton put short pass from scrum-half Nic White in the Two of Lealiifano’s penalty attempts hit Mercedes on pole position for the 63rd minute. the upright, but in the end it didn’t prove Spanish Grand Prix yesterday with The Durban team’s chances were not costly for the Brumbies. The Sharks took a a fourth successive win and the helped by an off-night from their losing bonus point out of the defeat to lead overall championship lead beck- Springbok goalkicker Frans Steyn, who the competition by one point on 36 points oning today. missed three penalty attempts and was from defending champions Waikato Chiefs Team mate Nico Rosberg, who astray with his general kicking. (35) and the Brumbies (34). is four points clear of Hamilton but White’s return to Canberra added spice “It was a hugely rewarding result, any has finished runner-up in the last to the top-of-the-table showdown, after time you get a win over the Sharks is good, three races, qualified second with the former World Cup-winning Springbok especially in the context that they have Australian Daniel Ricciardo start- coach quit the Brumbies halfway through a been leading the competition this year,” ing third for champions Red Bull. four-year contract after steering the Brumbies skipper Ben Mowen said. Hamilton, celebrating his fourth Canberra-based side to last year’s Super 15 “The boys had to dig deep in tough con- pole of the season and 35th of his final. ditions but I thought we managed it well.” career with a time 0.168 seconds It was a triumph for former Wallaby fly- It was the Brumbies’ fifth straight win at quicker than the German, will half and now coach Stephen Larkham, home this season, while the Sharks now wrest the overall lead from whose Brumbies side shaded the Sharks in head to New Zealand for two tough match- Rosberg if he wins for the first time a physical forwards-dominated contest es against the Canterbury Crusaders and at the Circuit de Catalunya. with both teams obsessed with kicking for Auckland Blues. “I didn’t know whether I’d be field position. The Brumbies are likely to be without able to get it but right at the end I There was a total of 98 kicks in the stop- winger Joe Tomane for some weeks with a just had to eke out absolutely start match with very little ball in hand suspected fractured eye socket after a colli- everything and more from the car,” attacking movements. sion with a teammate in a tackle in the first said Hamilton, who had been “We had our chances in the beginning half. slower than Rosberg in final prac- to get the scoreboard rolling and maybe The Brumbies, who lead the Australian MONTMELO: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain thumbs up after setting the pole position, flanked tice. by second fastest time Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany (left) and third fastest time Red Bull driv- create a bit of distance, but we missed conference by five points, now head off for “To have the kind of perform- those,” White said. a two-match tour to South Africa, begin- er Daniel Ricciardo of Australia after the qualifying session ahead of the Spain Formula One Grand Prix at ance we have, I have never really the Barcelona Catalunya racetrack. —AP “The game goes in momentum. When ning with the Central Cheetahs in known that before. I’m over- we had the momentum we lost it and Bloemfontein next weekend.—AFP whelmed, I’m so happy,” added the up in 10th place on the grid after and lost second gear,” said the 26- 15th. Team mate Jenson Button 2008 champion, whose dominant stopping on track in the final year-old, who has been overshad- will start eighth. team have taken every pole and phase of the session. owed by new team mate Ricciardo. Qualifying was twice red won all four races so far this year. Vettel has switched to a differ- “It was clear there was a prob- flagged, the second stoppage trig- Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, win- ent chassis for the start of the lem but I still had third gear and gered by Vettel’s failure and the ner in front of his home fans last European season after a difficult above so I thought I’d try without first coming right at the start when year, qualified seventh and behind opening four races in Asia and the second gear. But by Turn One, I’d Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado team mate Kimi Raikkonen in Middle East but his luck has, if any- lost all the other gears.” speared his Lotus into the wall. sixth. Finland’s Valtteri Bottas thing, taken a turn for the worse. McLaren, without a point from Maldonado will be at the back starts fourth for Williams, with He managed only four laps in the last two races, also had prob- of the grid, along with Toro Frenchman Romain Grosjean fifth Friday practice before being side- lems with Danish rookie Kevin Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne who has for Lotus. lined by an electrical problem and Magnussen unable to set a lap a 10 place penalty after an Red Bull’s quadruple world yesterday the gremlins returned at time in the second phase due to a unsafe release from the pits on champion Sebastian Vettel will line the crucial point. “I left the garage power unit problem and qualifying Friday. —Reuters Force see off Cheetahs Highlanders BLOEMFONTEIN: Western Force tunism. These qualities were evi- fly-half Sias Ebersohn kicked 13 dent in Bloemfontein although tame Lions points against former team Central Hodgson spent 10 minutes in the Cheetahs yesterday in a 23-16 vic- ‘sin bin’ after slapping the ball DUNEDIN: A fast-flagging Otago Highlanders escaped with the nar- tory that lifted them to fourth on from the grasp of Cheetahs’ scrum- rowest of victories to put their season back on track with a 23-22 vic- the Super 15 standings. half Sarel Pretorius. tory over the Golden Lions in their Super 15 clash in Dunedin yester- The playmaker, who moved to During his time on the sideline, day. The Highlanders led 23-0 at half-time but failed to score a point Australia after failing to hold a reg- Cheetahs scored a converted try to in the second half as the Lions stormed back with the outcome hing- ular starting place at the South leave just three points between ing on a conversion attempt by replacement fly-half Elton Jantjies African franchise, potted two con- the teams on a chilly evening. after the final whistle. The ball hit the posts and bounced back onto versions and three penalties from But Cummins also dotted down the field, and an appeal by Lions captain Warren Whiteley for the kick five shots at goal. while Force were numerically dis- to be taken again because the Highlanders had charged too soon Full-back Jayden Hayward and advantaged and Ebersohn con- was turned down by Australian referee Angus Gardiner. left-wing Nick Cummins scored a verted with a superb angled kick. The victory put the Highlanders, who lost last week in South Africa CANBERRA: Sibusiso Sithole of the Sharks makes a pass during the Super 15 Rugby try each for the Perth outfit, who A 23-13 lead for the west to the lowly Stormers, just five points behind the New Zealand con- Union match between the Sharks and Brumbies. —AFP led 16-6 at half-time. No. 8 Boom Australian side was trimmed to ference leaders Waikato Chiefs but with a game in hand. Prinsloo was credited with seven points when Goosen kicked However, for the Lions the wafer-thin loss meant further misery. Cheetahs’ push-over try, which a penalty and the Cheetahs After starting the season strongly, they have now lost five in a row Johan Goosen converted and the thought they scored a second try although they still remain third in the South African conference ICC declares DPL fly-half also goaled three penalties through prop Coenie Oosthuizen. behind the Coastal Sharks and Northern Bulls. from four attempts. But New Zealand referee Chris In the high-paced game, the Highlanders were immediately on unsanctioned cricket event The result completed a dismal Pollock, who ruled out a first-half the board when Richard Buckman scored the first of his two tries by weekend for South African sides try by Force centre Kyle Godwin wrong-footing the defence down the right wing. KUWAIT: Kuwait Cricket is alerting its reg- nary sanctions on the said individual, club against Australasian opponents for accidental offside, said the The Lions had enough possession to be threatening and pro- istered players, clubs and officials of an or organization under its jurisdiction. This with Golden Lions losing at Otago huge forward rolled the ball over duced every variation in their playbook only to be constantly stalled unsanctioned cricket event in the UAE will include being deemed ineligible to Highlanders and Coastal Sharks at the line. by the well-drilled Highlanders who gradually edged away with a under the name of The Desert Premier participate in cricket matches and events ACT Brumbies. Furious South African coach penalty and drop goal by Hayden Parker. League which is scheduled to be played in played under its jurisdiction for a specified Victory at Free State Stadium Naka Drotske shook his head in The Highlanders broadened the buffer in the last four minutes of Dubai and Abu Dhabi this month . period. continued a fairy-tale season for disbelief when the decision was the half when they punished the Lions with two quick tries. Kuwait Cricket informs that the organ- Kuwait Cricket further informs every traditional southern hemisphere made, but his team wasted several The first, from turnover ball, produced Buckman’s second try when izers of this event have not obtained ardent cricketer, club and organizer about he outsprinted the Lions defence after Phil Burleigh had booted the approval from the ICC member host coun- ICC regulation 32A which states that rep- championship strugglers Force. It try-scoring chances. was the seventh win in 10 outings Cheetahs camped inside the ball 50 metres downfield. try Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) to stage resentation in the National Team for par- Then on the stroke of half-time, replacement Gareth Evans scored this tournament. Consequently, the ECB ticipation in any form of an ICC recognized for the Michael Foley-coached side Force ‘22’ for lengthy spells during in the corner after Ben Smith had shredded the Lions’ defensive line. has not approved and sanctioned this International Cricket event shall always and they are just five points the closing stages, but could not But the short turn around after the journey back from South Africa event. Therefore it has been deemed take priority over participation in any oth- behind combined table paceset- breach the defensive web spun by during the week began to take its toll on the Highlanders from the Disapproved Cricket according to ICC er form of domestic or overseas cricket. ters Sharks. the visitors. moment play resumed. Two minutes after the restart Francois de Regulation 32. Therefore the release of players for repre- Force are even closer to the top The only consolation for the Kuwait Cricket, which is also a recog- senting the National Team to play in of the Australian conference home team was a losing bonus Klerk drove over to cap a series of pick-and-goes by a Lions pack able nized ICC member country, is bound by International Cricket shall be mandatory standings, lying three points adrift point, which lifted them off the to find holes where the Highlanders tight five should have been. this regulation and issues notice to every on domestic clubs and organizers. of former champions Brumbies. bottom, one point above compa- Marnitz Boshoff landed the conversion but then crucially, the nor- player, person and club under its jurisdic- Copy of full details of ICC regulation 32 Success has been achieved triots Western Stormers. However, mally reliable kicker, missed his next two shots at goal when Lionel tion from participating in this and 32A can be obtained from Kuwait largely through the inspirational Stormers have a chance to reverse Mapoe and Armand van der Merwe scored to leave the Lions six Disapproved Cricket tournament. If there Cricket Director General Asad Baig person- captaincy of flanker Matt the placings later Saturday when points down at 23-17. On the stroke of full-time, Courtnall Skosan is any breach then Kuwait Cricket will be ally or via email @ director.general@kuw- Hodgson, teamwork, outstanding they face fellow South Africans scored in the corner but Boshoff’s replacement Jantjies was unable to compelled to impose appropriate discipli- aitcricket.org defence and attacking oppor- Northern Bulls in Pretoria.—AFP seal the game.—AFP SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 SPORTS ‘Calm’ Man City ready to seize title destiny

MANCHESTER: Manchester City that nerves will not be a problem midfielder Fernandinho has no for his side. The Chilean says that doubts his side have the compo- his team, who clocked up 100 sure to capture a second Premier league goals for the season League title in three years when against Villa, are only concerned they host West Ham United with three points and are not today. interested in simply trying to get Four straight wins, including a draw. Wednesday’s 4-0 victory over “Every team must play every Aston Villa, mean that City effec- game to win,” said the City man- tively need only a draw against ager. “It doesn’t matter in which Sam Allardyce’s team on the sea- conditions they are playing. son’s final day to secure the Every team must want to win. championship. “I think it is very important for While City are two points the manager to be calm, to try to clear of Liverpool, who host repeat what we did the whole Jose Mourinho Newcastle United, their goal dif- year. Preparing the game here is ference is superior by 13 goals. one game more. We must pre- Mourinho plans overhaul Manuel Pellegrini’s side have pare the same way.” recovered well after their title West Ham manager Sam after troublesome season hopes were hit by a 3-2 defeat at Allardyce will take charge of the Liverpool and a 2-2 draw at final game of the season against home to then-bottom club CARDIFF: Jose Mourinho’s thoughts are react and wait to see what is happening a backdrop of growing uncer- Sunderland. already turning to next season after with their own players. tainty surrounding his future. Their recent run has put them Chelsea’s interest in the Premier League “It’s very difficult to finalise deals early, The London club secured in control of their own fate and their top-flight status with victo- title race was ended before their final-day especially with the World Cup. Now the Fernandinho has no worries trip to Cardiff City. players disappear and go to the World ry over Tottenham Hotspur last about the team’s attitude going weekend, but reports have since Mourinho’s team will face Ole Gunnar Cup so it’s more of a time to find a direc- into the West Ham match. Solskjaer’s relegated side at the Cardiff tion and analyse details. emerged that the club’s owners “A lot has been changing at are planning changes in City Stadium today knowing they are “To decide the project for next season, the top of the table over the last response to fan discontent about almost certain to finish the season in third the project for the transfer window and few weeks,” said the Brazil mid- the team’s playing style. position. But while qualification for the make the deals happen.” Out-of-contract fielder, who has been named in “I heard rumors,” Allardyce Champions League has been assured, pair Frank Lampard and John Terry are his country’s World Cup squad. said. “The only thing I can say is I Blues boss Mourinho is clearly frustrated unlikely to make the trip to south Wales “A lot of results have been spoke to (co-owner) David there will be no silverware at Stamford because of injury, while Samuel Eto’o is good for us, but bad for the oth- Sullivan yesterday (Thursday) Bridge this season. also a doubt. er two. This was our first chance Chelsea’s challenge has fallen short Cardiff’s fate has already been con- to go to the top of the table. The about arranging our usual end- because of their failures in front of goal, firmed and the club will drop back into whole squad is calm. Every train- of-the-season meeting to go particularly in costly defeats to the Championship after a solitary season ing session is about doing what through the pre-season and Sunderland, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace. in the Premier League. we do and keeping calm. “Maybe budgets and what’s going to Mourinho’s priority is now to remedy The campaign has been marked by a there was a few nerves in the happen, and had no indication that weakness in the transfer market and number of bitter twists and turns, princi- first half against Aston Villa, but of my position being under the Portuguese coach has confirmed a pally surrounding the relationship in the second half we changed threat. “Speculation is part of the leading goalscorer is his main target. between club owner Vincent Tan and slightly the way we play, and game. Whether it becomes a Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa is Malky Mackay, the manager who guided scored four goals. reality, only time will tell.” believed to be a priority, along with Paris the club to promotion before being “That’s great for us. In the The manager intends to see Saint-Germain pair Edinson Cavani and sacked in December. next couple of days we’ll be just out the season in style and has Ezequiel Lavezzi. And Mourinho said: “A The relationship between the pair had the same: we’ll keep calm and made it clear he would like to striker is something we have been speak- grown acrimonious and Mackay was pur- hope that we play a very good spoil City’s celebrations. “At this ing about for a long time. suing legal action against Tan before game today.” A minor leg prob- moment in time, from a neutral’s “In December and January, when peo- unexpectedly dropping the action this lem has obliged Fernandinho to point of view, I think everybody ple were asking and trying to understand week and offering an unreserved apology start City’s last two matches from would like to see Liverpool win why we weren’t bringing one in, I said it’s to his former employer. the bench, but striker Sergio it,” he said. “From a personal something we were working on and In a statement Mackay said: “My thanks Aguero has recovered from a point of view, I’d like to see preparing for the long-term future, not to those at the club and the fans who groin injury that forced him to Steven Gerrard win it. It’s the last just an immediate solution to try to help have supported me during my time in miss the victory against Villa. thing he hasn’t quite achieved us for the rest of the season. Wales. “If I have caused any offence to for Liverpool and he’s a one-club “It’s normal that we are going to bring anyone during this time, especially to SPOIL CITY’S CELEBRATIONS man. But obviously they’ve let it LONDON: Manchester City’s Samir Nasri races for a ball in this file a striker, it’s normal we want to improve. Vincent Tan, then I apologise without Pellegrini is also confident slip out of their hands.”—AFP photo. —AP “We have good strikers, we have good reservation.” players and we are not in a desperate situ- Solskjaer’s priority is now to look for- ation, but every team wants the summer ward to next season and skipper Steven Decision day for Giggs window to improve. Caulker admits performances this season Matches on TV “And one area where we want to have not been good enough. “We can’t (Local Timings) SOUTHAMPTON: Ryan Giggs will take remains uncertain if he will play on or go improve, which we’ve made clear since point fingers, we’re a team in there and charge of Manchester United for the final into management elsewhere if there is no January, is the striker’s position. We have we’re all united,” he said. “We know that we time against Southampton today and is still room for him in Van Gaal’s plans at Old English Premier League have to go again against Chelsea, be strong three at the moment, normally one is undecided about whether to continue his Trafford. “I don’t know, my stance hasn’t Man City v West Ham 17:00 coming and one is leaving.” and put a performance on for the fans. “We playing career next season. Netherlands changed,” Giggs said when asked if he beIN SPORTS 9 HD Mourinho expects the World Cup to were not good enough on the pitch. We’ve coach Louis van Gaal is reportedly set to be would retire. delay Chelsea’s efforts to strengthen and got to hold our hands up and take respon- named as David Moyes’s permanent suc- “I am going to take a holiday as soon as Cardiff v Chelsea 17:00 he added: “More and more, if the window sibility for the way we’ve performed in too cessor as United manager next week fol- the season finishes and discuss with family beIN SPORTS 12 HD is open until 31 August people delay, they many games this season.”—AFP lowing Giggs’s spell in temporary charge. and friends what to do next. “My priorities Liverpool v Newcastle 17:00 During that time, United have won two are Southampton and getting ready for and lost one of their three matches under that. It is not something I am thinking too beIN SPORTS 10 HD the veteran Welsh midfielder, with victories much about. Norwich v Arsenal 17:00 against Norwich City and Hull City coming “It is a tough game and it is their last beIN SPORTS 5 either side of a home defeat to Sunderland. home game and just like we tried to do, we Rodgers: Liverpool beIN SPORTS 5 HD The trip to St Mary’s for United’s last game tried to end it on a high. It is going to be a of a traumatic campaign also marks the tough game but one I am looking forward title bid ‘not over’ final appearance of Nemanja Vidic, the club to.” Italian Calcio League captain who will join Inter Milan in the Atalanta v AC Milan 13:30 LIVERPOOL: Liverpool manager Brendan season and come Sunday we will fight to close-season, while fellow veteran defend- GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE Rodgers says that his side will not give the very end. If we win the game and ers Patrice Evra and Rio Ferdinand are also While Giggs could be saying farewell to beIN SPORTS 3 up on the Premier League title despite end up not winning the title, to finish coming to the end of their contracts and United today, the match may also offer a beIN SPORTS 3 HD the odds being stacked against them on second to the richest team in the history Giggs may be on the way out too. glimpse into the future. Asked about Torino v Parma 16:00 The 40-year-old has only started six Southampton’s England internationals today’s final day. of sport really shows the measure and beIN SPORTS 4 Rodgers needs leaders Manchester progress we have made here. Premier League games this season and he Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw, who have City to lose at home to West Ham United “For us it’s really only the beginning. I been linked with moves to United, Giggs beIN SPORTS 4 HD and for his side to beat Newcastle United have had two years here and we have added: “They are exciting players. Livorno v Fiorentina 16:00 “Lallana has been about for a bit, been at Anfield to become the first Liverpool been progressing. This year we’ve made beIN SPORTS 1 manager to oversee a top-flight champi- a step. I see and hear that other teams at the club right through the different leagues. Luke Shaw has come to the fore beIN SPORTS 1 HD onship success since 1990. will improve, but I think we will improve this year and done really well.” Sampdoria v Napoli 16:00 Rodgers is clinging to the hope that dramatically as well next season. Wayne Rooney and Phil Jones are set to beIN SPORTS 3 West Ham-and former Liverpool striker “The young players have gone miss the match with respective groin and Andy Carroll-can pull off a dramatic through an experience that can only shoulder injuries, but Giggs maintains they beIN SPORTS 3 HD upset to bring the title to Anfield. bode well for them for the future. Players will be fit to feature in the World Cup for Roma v Juventus 21:45 “It’s certainly not over,” said Rodgers, like Steven Gerrard, 33 years of age and England. beIN SPORTS 3 who will welcome back midfielder it’s his first sample of this type of run-in, Giggs is refusing to give up on a place in beIN SPORTS 3 HD Jordan Henderson from suspension. “The and he will be better next year also.” the Europa League despite United needing expectancy is on Manchester City to win, Newcastle will be without Senegalese Tottenham Hotspur to lose at home to but it won’t be easy for them. We know striker Papiss Cisse, who is expected to Aston Villa to give them a chance of finish- Spanish League ing sixth. that’s a tough game. “West Ham have be sidelined for several months after Bilbao v Sociedad 18:00 some really talented players. If you can undergoing surgery on a fractured United trail Spurs by three points but go to Tottenham and win 3-0, you can kneecap on Thursday. their goal difference is far superior. Giggs beIN SPORTS 1 certainly go to Manchester City and win, Newcastle have not won at Anfield added: “That was the disappointing thing beIN SPORTS 1 HD especially with guys like big Andy up since 1994, but despite that record, about losing to Sunderland. Granada v Almeria 20:00 We had seen Tottenham get beat so it front and the quality he has. under-pressure manager Alan Pardew beIN SPORTS 6 “They also have a really good defen- says that his side will not make life easy would have been in our hands. I maintain my stance, we want to be in Europe.” Like sive record, which shows they are a diffi- for Liverpool. beIN SPORTS 6 HD Lallana and Shaw, the future of Atletico v Malaga 20:00 cult team to play against.” Liverpool’s late “We have to make sure we uphold the Southampton manager Mauricio collapse to draw 3-3 with Crystal Palace integrity of the league and give them as Pochettino has been questioned with the beIN SPORTS 2 on Monday night allied to City’s mid- hard a game as we can. We desperately Argentine linked with a move to beIN SPORTS 2 HD week 4-0 win over Aston Villa has shifted want to win,” said Pardew. Tottenham. Betis v Valladolid 20:00 the balance of power even further in the “It’s going to be a great atmosphere Pochettino’s success in keeping his side beIN SPORTS 1 direction of the Etihad Stadium. But because Brendan Rodgers has done an in the top half of the table for almost all the whether results go Liverpool’s way or unbelievable job. For me, he’s got a great campaign has won admirers, but the man- beIN SPORTS 1 HD not, Rodgers believes that his team will chance to be manager of the year, and ager insists there will be no distraction Elche v Barcelona 20:00 build on their progress from seventh rightly so.” when Saints wrap up their campaign. “I beIN SPORTS 5 place last season to a guaranteed top- Pardew is not in such a healthy posi- don’t think it would be wise for us to get two finish and a place in the Champions tion, but he hopes that forthcoming talks ahead of ourselves right now,” he said. beIN SPORTS 5 HD League. “I want to congratulate my play- with club owner Mike Ashley will safe- “I think we just need to focus on the Getafe v Sevilla 20:00 ers on this season,” he said. guard his position and lead to improve- amazing season that we’ve had. “There beIN SPORTS 10 HD really is nothing to decide. I still have one “We have had a remarkable season ments next season. Espanyol v Osasuna 20:00 and the players have put Liverpool on “It’s very important to talk about the more year on my contract and I really beIN SPORTS 4 the world map again in terms of what we season. In the first half we were one of haven’t spoken about it. “I don’t really get it are looking to achieve here as a club. the best in the Premier League, there’s no because it hasn’t come from me, these beIN SPORTS 4 HD rumors have come from outside. “We’ve doubt about that,” he said. “In the second Celta v Real Madrid 20:00 achieved the best season in the Premier ‘ONLY THE BEGINNING’ half, we weren’t, and it wasn’t good Manchester United’s interim manager League in the history of this football club beIN SPORTS 8 enough for this club. We need to face “The performance level has been Ryan Giggs takes a free kick in this file so I think that translates as not being dis- beIN SPORTS HD 8 exceptional throughout the course of the that and find a solution.”—AFP photo. —AP tracted at all by these rumors.” —AFP SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 SPORTS Badu dents Verona’s Europa League hopes

MILAN: Ghanaian substitute Emmanuel Badu hit an injury-time equaliser for Udinese in a 2-2 draw at Verona yesterday to potentially scupper the home side’s chances of Europa League quali- fication. Verona, one of six teams chasing two of Serie A’s three places in the competition, had provisionally sneaked into the Europa zone after goals by Luca Toni, from the spot, and Emil Hallfredsson had given them a 2-1 lead by the 54th minute. Veteran striker Antonio Di Natale reduced arrears for the northeners on 56 minutes amid what was a pulsating and balanced game at the Bentegodi stadium. But barely five minutes after replacing defen- sive midfielder Allan in the 87th minute, Badu brought the Andrea Mandolini’s men back down to earth by firing a daisycutter past Verona ‘keeper Rafael in the first minute of injury time. Instead of moving up to sixth, Verona remain ninth on 54 points, the same as Milan, who are eighth, and seventh-placed Parma, ahead of their respective matches away to Atalanta and Torino. Emmanuel Badu Juventus secured their third consecutive scudetto last weekend and are away to Roma, Italian Serie A results/standings second and 11 points adrift, today. A win would see Antonio Conte’s visitors amass 99 points and Verona 2 (Toni 14-pen, Hallfredsson 54) Udinese 2 (Di Natale 56, Badu 90+1). thus beat Inter’s Serie A record of 97 for their title-winning 2007 season, with one game in the Playing later season remaining. Inter v Lazio Roma are assured of the second automatic Champions League qualifying spot while Napoli, Playing today away to Sampdoria on Sunday, will play in next Atalanta v Milan, Bologna v Catania, Cagliari v Chievo, Livorno v Fiorentina, Sampdoria v Napoli, Sassuolo v Genoa, season’s competition if they successfully negoti- Torino v Parma, Roma v Juventus. ate the qualifying stages. Fiorentina, in fourth, have secured the first Europa League spot but Italian Serie A table after yesterday’s early match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): are away to a Livorno side today fighting for its top-flight survival. Juventus 36 31 3 2 76 23 96 Sampdoria 36 12 8 16 43 54 44 Inter, in fifth, host Lazio in their final home - champions Udinese 37 12 7 18 43 54 43 game of the season later Saturday knowing Roma 36 26 7 3 72 23 85 Genoa 36 10 11 15 38 46 41 defeat would deal a huge blow to their chances Napoli 36 21 9 6 67 36 72 Cagliari 36 9 12 15 34 49 39 of qualifying for the Europa League. Fiorentina 36 18 7 11 62 42 61 Sassuolo 36 8 7 21 38 68 31 Chievo 36 8 6 22 31 53 30 Inter, Italy’s last Champions League winners, Inter Milan 36 14 15 7 57 36 57 Bologna 36 5 14 17 27 55 29 Torino 36 15 10 11 55 45 55 in 2010, missed out on Europe altogether this Catania 36 6 8 22 30 64 26 season after a dismal showing in the previous Parma 36 14 12 10 55 45 54 Livorno 36 6 7 23 39 74 25 Lionel Messi campaign. AC Milan 36 15 9 12 54 46 54 Top three qualify for Champions League. Fourth and This season, the sixth-placed finisher in Serie Verona 37 16 6 15 61 63 54 fifth for Europa League. Sixth also for Europa League A will also qualify for the Europa League via the Lazio 36 14 11 11 52 50 53 after Italian Cup was won by Napoli over Fiorentina. Messi urges Barca to Italian Cup, won by Napoli over Fiorentina last Atalanta 36 14 5 17 40 48 47 Bottom three are relegated. foil Atletico title party week.—AFP MADRID: Four-time World Player of the with Barcelona and in the Champions Year Lionel Messi has urged his Barcelona League final against Real Madrid on May Juve sight records as Europa, teammates not to miss out on the second 24. Diego Godin is also suspended for Los chance they have been gifted to retain Rojiblancos, but right-back Juanfran their La Liga title. returns from suspension having missed the relegation dominate League Barca seemed all but out of the title race defeat at Levante. after conceding a last-minute equaliser to However, forward Adrian Lopez still three fans. Napoli have since been handed a draw 2-2 at home to relegation-threatened believes home advantage should be MILAN: Champions Juventus could break more match will also serve as a yardstick for next sea- two-game stadium ban which means they will Getafe last weekend. enough to edge his side closer to the title. Serie A records with a win at Roma today as a son, to show that we still give 100% even when play their final match of the season, at home to However, leaders Atletico Madrid subse- “We know that we are very strong at home six-team battle for Europa League places, and there’s nothing to play for. “Only by playing well Verona, and the first home game of next season, quently lost 2-0 away at Levante, whilst in front of our own fans,” he said on Friday. the relegation fight, continues in Italy. can you beat the top teams in the league.” behind closed doors. Real Madrid have drawn twice against “It is a key game. With all that we are play- Juventus claimed their third consecutive Although Juventus and Roma have qualified Napoli and Fiorentina, the latter fourth and Valencia and Valladolid in the past week to ing for to get three points on Sunday scudetto without kicking a ball last weekend for the Champions League group stages, uncer- already qualified for the Europa League, will leave them in third place, four points adrift would be a huge step forward. “We know when closest challengers Roma crashed 4-1 at tainty reigns at both clubs. Garcia, barely 10 have nothing but pride to play for when they of Atletico with just two games to play. the atmosphere will be incredible. The fans Catania. months after arriving at the Olympic Stadium, is visit Sampdoria and Livorno respectively today. Barcelona remain three points adrift of are going to be very excited having Antonio Conte’s men then celebrated their reportedly mulling his future as he awaits con- But for six teams sitting below them the sea- Diego Simeone’s men themselves, but will watched what has been a great season for 30th official title with a 1-0 win at home to firmation that the club will invest in players for son is far from over. Because Napoli and win the league if they win their two us and it could end in a great and happy Atalanta which handed the Turin giants a record next season. Fiorentina are already qualified for Europe, the remaining games away to Elche on Sunday way for everyone.” David Villa is likely to 31st win of the season and broke Inter’s previ- Conte, whose side crash out of the Europa League spot usually offered to the Cup and then when Atletico visit the Camp Nou replace Costa with Raul Garcia moving for- ous record of 30 (2007). Champions League at the group stages, is set to winners (Napoli) will go to the team that finish- on the final weekend of the season. ward from the midfield role he has Inter’s 97-point tally for their title-winning hold talks with clubs chiefs in the coming days. es sixth. “We are in a better position today than deployed in recent weeks to make space season in 2007 is also there for the taking. Juve “Next week, after the Roma game, we’ll be With two games remaining, six teams can we were a few weeks ago,” said Messi. “We for the return of Arda Turan. have amassed 96 and with two games remain- sitting down with Conte to talk about his future still mathematically finish in fifth or sixth with can see that we have an opportunity to win Real Madrid need to win away to Celta ing could become the first champions to finish at the club,” said Juventus CEO Beppe Marotta. Parma and Milan (54) and Verona and Lazio (53) the league. We need to take advantage of Vigo to maintain any hope of catching on 100 points or more. Juventus prevailed 3-0 at Napoli secured third place and a place in the only three and two points adrift of fifth-placed this moment and not let it escape.” Gerardo Atletico, but are likely to be without a host home against Roma earlier in the campaign but qualifying stages of the Champions League Inter (57) respectively, with Torino sixth on 55. Martino’s men are sure to face a tough task of first-team regulars, including Cristiano the Bianconeri have twice suffered defeat on when closest challengers Fiorentina were Sassuolo’s midweek win pushed them two this weekend, though, as Elche are in need Ronaldo. their travels to top four sides, away to Fiorentina stunned on Tuesday as visitors Sassuolo claimed points clear of the drop zone and a home win of points themselves as they sit just three The current World Player of the Year (4-2) and then Napoli (2-0), this season. And a precious 4-3 away win that could help stave against Genoa would prove another huge points above the relegation zone and have limped off with a minor muscular problem after the ignominy of last week’s 4-1 reverse in off relegation. boost. yet to be beaten at home in nine league less than 10 minutes into Real’s 1-1 draw Sicily, coach Rudi Garcia expects Roma to make However Rafael Benitez’s men, 3-0 winners But with only six points separating them games so far in 2014. with Valladolid on Wednesday and is amends in what is the Giallorossi’s final home over Cagliari the same night, are in danger of from basement side Livorno, relegation for the Barca will again be without the injured unlikely to be risked with the Champions game of the season. finishing their season, and beginning next, on a bottom three sides could ultimately be decided Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba and Neymar, League final against Atletico just two “Today we’ll thank the fans for the support low note. Napoli’s Cup victory over Fiorentina on the final day of the season. —AFP although all three are hopeful of being fit weeks away. they’ve given us this season,” said Garcia. “The last Saturday was marred by the shooting of for the potential title decider against Pepe and Angel di Maria also picked up Atletico next weekend. injuries against Valladolid, but Gareth Bale However, should Barca fail to win this should return after missing the trip to the weekend, Atletico can mathematically seal Jose Zorilla with a knock. Wenger eyes Arsenal improvement their first title in 18 years with victory over At the bottom, Osasuna could join Real Malaga at the Vicente Calderon. Betis in being mathematically relegated NORWICH: Arsene Wenger admits and injuries began to take their toll. club’s nine-year trophy drought, ing for the official confirmation that Atletico have injury worries themselves should they lose away to Espanyol and any he still has more work to do in the In the end, Arsenal were relieved to the campaign will be regarded as a their three-year stay in the Premier as top scorer Diego Costa looks set to miss two of Getafe, Valladolid and Almeria win close-season before Arsenal will be seal a top-four finish and qualified success. League is at an end. out due to a hamstring injury, which could when they face Sevilla, Betis and Granada at the level required to win the Champions League qualification for But Wenger, whose side face The Carrow Road club’s relega- yet endanger his participation in the clash respectively.—AFP Premier League again. the 17th successive year. Hull City at Wembley on May 17, tion was effectively sealed this Wenger’s side led the table for Should Arsenal, who end the concedes more improvements are week when Sunderland beat West long periods of the season, but fad- season at Norwich City on Sunday, needed if Arsenal are to sustain a Bromwich Albion, leaving third- ed badly as the pressure mounted add FA Cup success and end the title challenge next season. bottom Norwich three points Hibs face fight for survival The Gunners go into the final behind Albion with a vastly inferior round of matches seven points goal difference. It would take a GLASGOW: Hibernian face a battle to stay because of where we’ve finished and we adrift of leaders Manchester City mathematical miracle for Norwich in the Scottish Premiership after a 1-0 just haven’t put enough goals in the back and seven points clear of Everton in to beat the drop and the focus now defeat at home to Kilmarnock in their final of the net. fifth, and Wenger said: “We have to switches towards who will be hand- game condemned them to 11th position “We’ve got 10 days now until the first continue to develop as a team. We ed the job of leading the Canaries and a relegation play-off. play-off match and we’ll work on it, we’ll have bridged a big gap from last in the Championship next term. Terry Butcher’s side needed to win at work very hard. “It’s hard to look forward to season and we want to be better Neil Adams was put in charge Easter Road on the final day to leapfrog these games because it feels like you’ve next season. for the final five games of the sea- Killie and secure their top-flight status after been slapped in the face, and I can only say “How can we do that? We have son when the club dispensed with a terrible run of results. sorry to the Hibs fans because we’ve put hard work in the summer to the services of Chris Hughton. However, former Rangers striker Kris them through the wringer, and we’re put achieve that. “My team has shown a But the news that Malky Mackay, Boyd fired past Ben Williams in the 44th through the wringer on the sidelines as remarkable mental stamina and a former Norwich player, is now minute for his 22nd goal of the season to well because it just would not go in.” consistency in their attitude and I available after ending his legal seal safety for Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock manager Allan Johnston am very proud of the way they action against Cardiff following his Hibs have won just once in their past 18 thought his side deserved to win. “It was responded. “We are looking at dismissal earlier in the season has matches and are in real danger of joining nervy but you could see how much it some aspects where we can immediately seen the Scotsman Edinburgh rivals Hearts in relegation to the meant to them. They are always a threat improve internally and we will work linked with the job. Championship. from set pieces but we defended well,” very hard during the summer to do However, Adams, the former The Easter Road side will now face a Johnston said. “Kris Boyd is a massive player that.” youth team coach, is keen to two-legged play-off final against either and his experience is invaluable. Now I Jack Wilshere will return to the remain involved with the first team. Hamilton Academical, Falkirk or Queen of hope to start planning for next season.” Arsenal squad for the first time in “I have got my fingers crossed and I the South on May 21 and 25. City rivals Hearts, who would have fin- over two months after the England am hopeful that I am able to carry Hibernian boss Butcher apologised to ished three points above Hibs if it hadn’t midfielder broke his foot on inter- on in some capacity, hopefully as the Hibs support, who vented their anger been for their 15 points deduction for national duty, but Alex Oxlade- the manager, if that was not to be outside Easter Road after the defeat. “We entering administration, finished the sea- Chamberlain remains sidelined then obviously I would have to look have to keep going, we’re not relegated, son with a 1-1 away to St Mirren. with a groin injury. French midfield- at it as and when,” he said. we’ve got two games left that can ensure In yesterday’s other match Ross County er Abou Diaby could make his first “I don’t know what is going to we stay in the Premiership,” Butcher said. claimed seventh spot with a 3-2 win away start for the north London club in happen, but it is something I am “The last four games the players have to Partick Thistle, who finished tenth. over 15 months after recovering comfortable doing, I feel I am been totally committed, and they’ve played The final games will be played on from a serious knee injury. suited to it, and have the skill set very well. They played well again today but Sunday, with champions Celtic entertaining to do it. “I made the step up to once again it’s Hibernian nil. Scottish Cup finalists Dundee United and NORWICH NEED A MIRACLE first-team football and it is some- “It’s soul-destroying, it’s disappointing, Aberdeen hosting Motherwell in a decisive While Wenger focuses on a thing you don’t want to step back it’s heartbreaking, we’re all devastated game for second place.—AFP Arsene Wenger bright future, Norwich are prepar- from.”—AFP Hamilton on Badu dents pole for Spanish Verona’s Europa Grand Prix League hopes

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GERMANY: Munich’s players celebrate with the trophy after winning the German Soccer Championships defeating VfB Stuttgart in the season’s last match in the Allianz Arena in Munich. —AP Bayern celebrate title with win

BERLIN: Bayern Munich celebrated their 24th the Bundesliga’s 51-year history will play the In stark contrast, the Hamburg of 2013/2014 Bundesliga title, which they secured on March team which finishes third in the second division are already on their third coach after Mirko German League results/standings 25, with a closing win yesterday while in a two-legged play-off. Slomka took over in February. Bayern Munich 1 (Pizarro 90+2) VfB Stuttgart 0; Schalke 04 4 (Matip 6, Neustadter 45, Draxler 75, Hamburg’s hopes of remaining in the Bundesliga Hamburg, crowned European champions 31 In a reflection of the instability, Thorsten Fink Chinedu Obasi Ogbuke 90+2) Nuremberg 1 (Drmic 90+1); Bayer Leverkusen 2 (Toprak 33, Son 53) now hinge on the play-offs. Bayern rounded off years ago, assured their place in the play-offs had only lasted until September while Bert van Werder Bremen 1 (Gebre Selassie 21); Hanover 96 3 (Huszti 45, Rudnevs 65, Prib 80) Freiburg 2 (Schmid their Bundesliga campaign with a 1-0 win over despite a 3-2 loss at Mainz 05. They finished the Marwijk, the former Dutch national team coach, 50, Zulechner 78); VfL Wolfsburg 3 (De Bruyne 30, Perisic 68, Knoche 81) Borussia Moenchengladbach 1 Stuttgart, their 29th victory of the season com- regular season on 27 points and had Schalke 04 was axed after the winter break. (Kramer 64); Hoffenheim 3 (Rudy 15, Firmino 64, Volland 70) Eintracht Braunschweig 1 (Hochscheidt 88); Mainz 05 3 (Soto 7, Malli 65, Okazaki 82) Hamburg 2 (Lasogga 12, Ilicevic 84); FC Augsburg 2 ing courtesy of an injury time goal from Claudio and Hoffenheim to thank for keeping their At the top of the table meanwhile Bayern (Klavan 29, Hahn 79) Eintr. Frankfurt 1 (Joselu 15); Hertha Berlin 0 Dortmund 4 (Lewandowski 41, 80, Pizarro. Bundesliga future alive. were joined as automatic qualifiers for next sea- Jojic 44, Mkhitaryan 82). Pep Guardiola’s titleholders, knocked out of Schalke dished out a 4-1 beating to son’s Champions League by runners-up Borussia the Champions League semi-finals by Real Nuremberg and Hoffenheim saw off basement Dortmund (4-0 winners over Hertha Berlin) and German league table after yesterday’s final round of matches ahead of the play-offs (played, won, Madrid, will now focus on next Saturday’s club Eintracht Braunschweig 3-1, to ensure it was Schalke 04. And Bayer Leverkusen beat Werder drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): German Cup final against Borussia Dortmund. Nuremberg and Eintracht that were relegated. Bremen 2-1 to ensure a fourth place finish and a Bayern Munich 34 29 3 2 94 23 90 Freiburg 34 9 9 16 43 61 36 - champions Stuttgart 34 8 8 18 49 62 32 “For the Catalan that I am, the first time is They finished with 26 and 25 points respec- Champions League play-off spot. Dortmund 34 22 5 7 80 38 71 Hamburg 34 7 6 21 51 75 27 special,” said Guardiola. “After such a successful tively. Hamburg’s plight is all a far cry from their Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski con- Schalke 34 19 7 8 63 43 64 Nuremberg 34 5 1118 37 70 26 last season (when Bayern won the league, glory days when Felix Magath, now the manager tributed a brace in the defeat of Hertha to take Bayer 34 19 4 11 60 41 61 - relegated Champions League and German Cup) it’s very of relegated English Premier League side his tally for the season to 20 goals and earn him Wolfsburg 34 18 6 10 63 50 60 Braunschweig 34 6 7 21 29 60 25 good,” he added. Fulham, grabbed the only goal in the German the Bundesliga’s top-scorer of the season hon- Moenchengladbach 34 16 7 11 59 43 55 - relegated Mainz 34 16 5 13 52 54 53 Note: Top three qualify directly for the “If we play with the same passion as we side’s 1-0 final win over Juventus to lift the ours. Augsburg 34 15 7 12 47 47 52 Champions League, fourth goes into the play- showed in the second half we can get past European Cup in 1983. That was a side coached “I’m thrilled to win this trophy, especially on Hoffenheim 34 11 1112 72 70 44 offs, fifth, sixth and seventh into Europa League. Dortmund.” While Bayern focus on the Cup final by legendary Austrian Ernst Happel, the man the last day with a 4-0 win,” he said. Bayern’s Hanover 34 12 6 16 46 59 42 The bottom two sides are relegated and the Hamburg face a nervy play-off before their who led the Dutch to the 1978 World Cup final in Croatian international Mario Mandzukic came in Hertha Berlin 34 11 8 15 40 48 41 team finishing 16th has a two-legged play-off record-breaking Bundesliga status is assured. Argentina and who won league titles in four dif- second with 18 goals with Nuremberg’s Josip Werder Bremen 34 10 9 15 42 66 39 against the side which finishes third in the sec- The only side never to have been relegated in ferent countries. Drmic one goal back in third. — AFP Eintracht 34 9 9 16 40 57 36 ond division. Sharapova ousts Nadal cruises into final MADRID: Rafa Nadal continued his serene Majorcan, who was also champion in Radwanska progress in pursuit of consecutive Madrid Madrid in 2010 and in 2005 when it was an Open crowns when he swept past Spanish indoor hard court event. “This is great MADRID: Maria Sharapova recovered from a second-set wobble to compatriot Roberto Bautista 6-4 6-3 yester- news in order to go out and play tomor- dispatch third seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1 6-4 yesterday and set day to reach the final. row’s match but also for what may come in up a Madrid Open final clash against rising talent Simona Halep. The world number one, chasing a 63rd the future.” Sharapova, a former world number one now ranked ninth who has career title and a 44th on clay, has not been had a poor year by her high standards, has shown glimpses of her on top form on his favoured surface this OPENING BREAK dominant best on the clay in the Spanish capital this week with the year, losing in the quarter-finals in Monte Nadal broke Bautista’s serve in the open- French Open starting in Paris later this month. Carlo and Barcelona. ing game at the Magic Box arena but his Pole Radwanska, the world number three, struggled to cope with However, he has shown glimpses of his gutsy compatriot fought back to level at 3-3 the Russian’s powerful ground strokes as Sharapova, runner-up to dominant best in front of adoring fans in before immediately losing his serve again. Serena Williams in Madrid last year, took a step closer to a 31st career the Spanish capital, where he is yet to drop Bautista looked to have crumbled in the title. After comfortably winning the opening set and racing into a 3-0 a set, as he warms up for a tilt at a record- face of a barrage of fierce Nadal drives in lead in the second, Sharapova had to deal with a spirited Radwanska extending ninth French Open title starting the second set but raised his game to break fightback when she won four games in a row before prevailing to at Roland Garros in Paris at the end of the for 4-2. secure a meeting with Halep, the fourth seed. month. Nadal, who will be contesting his 90th The 22-year-old Romanian fought back from a set down to oust Nadal’s semi-final victory against the career final on Sunday, broke serve for a fifth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova 6-7(4) 6-3 6-2. Sharapova’s chances unheralded Bautista ended the world num- fifth time in the ninth game and sealed vic- of going one better than 2013 were boosted when Williams, the ber 45’s best run at a Masters event and set tory on his first match point with a rasping Madrid champion the past two years, withdrew on Friday with a up a clash today with either another forehand down the line. thigh injury. Spaniard, fifth seed David Ferrer, who beat Bautista will break into the top 30 for the “I’ve done a really good job of transitioning from the hard to the him in the Monte Carlo quarter-finals, or first time thanks to his performance in clay and really improving physically and recovering well from match Japanese 10th seed Kei Nishikori. Madrid. He upset Argentine Juan Martin del to match,” Sharapova told a news conference. Nadal said his performance was further Potro at this year’s Australian Open and “I really challenge myself to improve on clay courts because that confirmation of his improving form after claimed a second top-10 scalp of the sea- was never my favorite surface in the beginning of my career,” added Friday’s fine win against sixth-ranked Czech son when he beat Berdych in the second the 27-year-old, French Open champion in 2012. Tomas Berdych in the last eight. round at the Indian Wells Masters event. “I feel really good physically. I put in a lot of matches in the last “After I think a great match yesterday, to “It’s been a beautiful week for me,” SPAIN: Maria Sharapova from Russia serves the ball during a Madrid have the confirmation today that the Bautista said. “I have the feeling that I could few weeks but that’s what I want. “I missed four or five months of the Open tennis tournament match against Agnieszka Radwanska. — AP season last year (with a shoulder injury) and I wanted to come in to improvement is real is very good news for have played today’s match a little bit bet- this year and play as many matches as I can.” excited that I can play my biggest final tomorrow, I hope that my me,” he told a news conference. ter,” added the 26-year-old, who was facing By reaching the final, Halep has already achieved her best result at emotions will be down and I can play,” Halep told a news conference. “And being in a final here in a difficult Nadal for the first time. “I’m happy with a WTA premier event as she chases an eighth career title. “It was a very tough match today, I couldn’t believe that I came tournament at home after losing two what I’ve been doing recently so I hope A girls singles champion at the French Open in 2008, she also back again. “Tomorrow I expect another very tough match. Maria is a weeks in a row in the quarter-finals means that the rest will keep on going in the same looks to be hitting form on clay ahead of claycourt major. “I’m very champion and she knows how to manage the finals.” — Reuters a lot to me,” added the 27-year-old way.” — Reuters Kuwait’s consumer sector grows the fastest

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NAYPYITAW: A worker decorates the main entrance to Myanmar International Convention Center, the venue for the 24th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit, in Naypyitaw. Myanmar hosts the 24th ASEAN Summit for the first time in Naypyitaw on May 10-11. — AP (See Page 12) CBK posts KD 5.4m net profit for Q1 2014

Total assets at end of March 2014 reach KD 3.9bn

KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait any problems pertaining to loan and the important measurement indica- which stood at 3.2 percent as at the dinated bonds of KD 120 million in announced an operating profit investment portfolios. Total provi- tor of loan portfolio quality in banks, end of 2013. the near future which will solidify before provisions for the first quarter sions held with the bank against this ratio fell from 2.9 percent in Commenting on the bank’s finan- the Bank’s capital base on the one of KD 24.6 million (1Q2013: KD 24.7 problem loans as at the end of the 1Q2013 to 1.5 percent in 1Q2014 cial results, Yaqoub Al-Ebrahim the hand and boost its business activi- million). The bank allocated about KD 1st quarter amounted to KD 130.4 (December 2011: 6.69 percent, bank’s official spokesman said that ties and operations on the other 19 million of these profits as specific million with the provision coverage December 2012: 2.76 percent and total assets at the end of March hand. and judgmental provisions against ratio of 335 percent (December 2011: December 2013: 1.35 percent), the 2014 reached KD 3.9 billion with The bank continues to demon- the loan and investment portfolios 92 percent, December 2012: 169 per- bank explained that it endeavors to shareholders equity of KD 562.3 mil- strate its cost leadership with opera- resulting in a net profit of KD 5.4 mil- cent and December 2013: 367 per- maintain this ratio at its minimum lion (December 2013: KD 553.0 mil- tional efficiency, a competitive lion for three months to 31st March cent). This loan provision coverage level during the current year, and lion). The capital adequacy ratio at advantage for the bank, where the 2014, an increase of KD 4.6 million percentage is among the best per- emphasizing that this ratio which is the end of March 2014 is 18.78 per- bank continues to maintain one of compared to the net profit of KD 0.8 centages in the Kuwaiti banking sys- the best in the Kuwaiti banking sec- cent which exceeds the minimum the lowest cost/income ratios among million during 1 Q2013. tem and exceeds the prevailing per- tor is a true reflection of the bank’s 12 percent required by the Central Kuwaiti banks at 26.8 percent for the The bank endeavors to underpin centage in the banking sector. ongoing efforts to reduce its NPL Bank of Kuwait, and is more than 1Q 2014. Despite the fact that this its provisions in view of its prudent As regarding the Non-performing ratio. It is worth noting that this ratio twice the minimum ratio mandated ratio is higher than that reported 1Q policy of building a strong provision loans - NPL to total loan portfolio is evidently lower than the ratio pre- by Basel Committee. Additionally, last year, yet it remains among the base and its proactive recognition of ratio which is considered as one of vailed in Kuwait banking sector the bank is preparing to issue subor- lowest in the banking sector. Yaqoub Al-Ebrahim IMF: Lebanon economy to Swisspartners pays $4.4m to grow 4% in medium term avoid US tax fraud charges GENEVA: Swisspartners said yesterday it would pay a by email. US Deputy Attorney General James Cole $4.4-million fine to avoid prosecution over its past hailed the company, which had voluntarily handed Economy under pressure from Syria war, refugees assistance to US tax dodgers, with Washington hailing over around 110 files on clients who were not com- the asset manager for its “extraordinary cooperation.” pliant with US tax laws. BEIRUT: The International Monetary Fund forecasts country was losing competitiveness and should focus “The US tax issue is resolved,” the Zurich-based asset “The extraordinary cooperation of Swisspartners Lebanon’s economy will grow by 2 percent in 2014 and on reducing electricity subsidies. “Plans to strengthen manager’s parent company the Lichtensteinische has enabled us to identify US tax cheats who have a “modest 4 percent over the medium term,” despite generation capacity, switch to natural gas and increase Landesbank (LLB Vaduz) said in a statement. hidden behind phony offshore trusts and founda- two years of violence, political paralysis and a huge electricity tariffs should be implemented without fur- Swisspartners and the US Justice Department had tions,” he said in a Justice Department document. refugee influx. But with heavy pressures weighing on ther delay.” signed a “non-prosecution agreement” on Friday, LLB Vaduz meanwhile said that now that the US the economy, the IMF also said in a report published on Lebanon, still struggling to recover from its own Liechtenstein’s oldest bank said, stressing that provi- tax issue had been resolved it would move ahead Friday that Lebanon should “urgently strengthen poli- 1975-1990 civil war, has found its internal rifts aggravat- sions had already been made to cover the multi-mil- with its previously announced plans to sell off its cies” and its fiscal priority should be to “put public debt ed by the conflict in Syria, whose sectarian divisions lion-dollar fine and it would not impact the asset subsidiary. on a sustainable downward path”. mirror its own. Lebanon’s economic growth dropped to manager’s earnings. The agreement is part of a US Yesterday’s announcement came as Credit Suisse is Political jockeying and sectarian tensions have about 1.5 percent in 2013 from an average of eight per- push to find tax dodgers and punish the banks that expected soon to be slapped with fines of at least slowed or stalled action needed to tackle Lebanon’s cent a year from 2007 to 2010. A million Syrian refugees help them. Fourteen Swiss banks, including Credit $1.0 billion, as well as possible criminal charges. A financial problems. Public sector wage strikes and have entered Lebanon, whose own population is four Suisse, the country’s second-biggest, are officially damning US Senate report found that Credit Suisse at widespread power cuts continue in Lebanon, causing million, and rebels have moved into border regions to under US criminal investigation, while many others its peak in 2006 had more than 22,000 US customers further strain on government spending. take refuge from forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar are opting to acknowledge past wrongs and accept with Swiss accounts whose assets stood as high as Lebanon’s primary budget turned negative in 2012 Al-Assad. In February, divided politicians in Lebanon fines to avoid prosecution. $12 billion-mainly undeclared to US tax authorities. and deteriorated further in 2013 to 141 percent of GDP ended a year-long government vacuum by forming a According to US authorities, Swisspartners had Chief executive Brady Dougan apologized in as the government came under pressure to spend and cabinet. But another political vacuum looms this month between 2001 and 2011 assisted US clients “in open- February to US senators for the bank’s actions, con- economic activity dropped, the IMF report said. It as Lebanese lawmakers have failed in three attempts to ing and maintaining undeclared foreign bank ceding it had undertaken elaborate efforts to gain added that policy decisions, such as a VAT exemption of choose a president. accounts,” leading to an approximate loss to the US new, secret American clients, but blamed the wrong- gasoline and a cost of living adjustment for public sec- “Given the political impasse, the lack of reforms has taxman of $900,000. Under the agreement signed doing on a small band of rogue employees. tor employees, had also contributed to the rising deficit. amplified the macroeconomic imbalances. The fiscal Friday, the company will compensate that amount, In 2009, Switzerland’s largest bank UBS was forced The IMF called for salary scale adjustments to be con- position, in particular, has worsened, with adverse con- as well as $3.5 million more representing the fees it to acknowledge it had used Swiss banking secrecy tained with no retroactive payments, something public sequences for public debt,” the report said. “It is there- earned in helping US clients skirt the law. laws to help its US clients avoid paying taxes at sector workers have been calling for in regular protests. fore important to urgently strengthen policies and “Swisspartners doesn’t have to pay any other fines home, and had to dish out a $780-million fine to US The Fund further said the small Mediterranean coastal make progress on key structural reforms.” — Reuters or financial penalties,” spokesman Cyrill Sele told AFP tax authorities. — AFP BUSINESS SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

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NBK has historically acted as lead-financer for like to know you better probably rely per the Bayt.com ‘Modern Job Search the majority of public contracts awarded to foreign companies, and the on Google and other search engines in the MENA’ poll, November 2013. bank’s size places it in a preferential position to exploit larger credit opportu- for more information about you. In nities compared to its domestic peers. NBK has consistently been awarded Employers are indeed armed with fact, the Bayt.com ‘Personal Branding the highest credit ratings in the region by the major international rating extremely powerful tools to sift and agencies: Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings. NBK is the only Arab in the Middle East and North Africa search through CVs on a leading job bank to be listed among the world’s 50 safest banks eight times in a row. 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Bayt.com People, so that you can con- CVs that are rich in relevant key- UK’s open economy has benefited from foreign investment trol how others perceive you. words and professionally put togeth- er are always at an advantage. LONDON: Britain is ready for “hard negotiation” to Retaliation fears Directors, wrote in an opinion piece in the Times Myth #2: It’s enough to just have an online ensure Pfizer sticks to specific promises on jobs While most scientists, trade unions and the newspaper yesterday. “It would invite retaliation Myth #6: Employers never contact me; and science under the US drugmaker’s proposed opposition Labour Party have lined up against the from other countries where British businesses have public profile; no need to apply to jobs. takeover of AstraZeneca, its finance minister said. Pfizer bid, business leaders are worried that any taken over major companies.” Truth: Yes many jobs do get filled the job site must be withholding my CV. “I think it would be extraordinary not to political moves to stop it going ahead could dam- The British government has not ruled out the through the Search mechanism on Truth: Leading job sites like engage with AstraZeneca or Pfizer,” George age British interests. “If the British government idea of subjecting the Pfizer takeover plan to a leading job sites for sure, especially at Bayt.com have done us all a favor by Osborne told BBC radio yesterday. 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The companies, such as Tata Motors and Nissan in the Walker, director general of the Institute of vention. —Reuters sionals who show a real interest in instant a public CV or Public Profile is car industry, and AstraZeneca itself had grown by their company. 54 percent of profes- posted on Bayt.com it becomes imme- taking over foreign firms. sionals classify themselves as active diately accessible to employers who Although the country’s second-biggest drug- job seekers who actively apply to jobs, maker AstraZeneca has rejected a $106 billion Pfizer under growing can contact the professional directly compared to 46 percent who have and immediately should they choose approach from Pfizer in what would be the largest their CV online and wait for employers foreign takeover of a British company, the US to. Similarly, applications to job post- to contact them. Moreover, candidates group is expected to continue its pursuit. Osborne pressure in US, Britain ings are received directly by employ- said there was there was “a lot of speculation need to differentiate themselves by ers without any involvement or inter- NEW YORK: Pfizer faces growing political Delaware cited a pledge from Pfizer to British every means possible to potential about another bid coming”. Pfizer is currently mediation by the job site itself. pressure at home and in Britain as speculation officials to keep 20 percent of the combined employers including by getting weighing its next move, which could be a higher Remember, employers receive many mounts on whether the US pharmaceutical company’s research and development staff in referred, endorsed and ranked on key offer next week. hundreds of applications for any job giant will sweeten its buyout offer for British Britain. professional platforms like Bayt.com “We are an open economy, we benefit from so it is not always possible for them to that. But our national economic interest when it company AstraZeneca. “We are concerned because, despite our Specialties. comes to a very big takeover like this is who’s Late this week, two US governors pressed requests, we have received no corresponding respond to each and every one, but on going to be providing the science and the jobs Pfizer about the impact on jobs in their states, assurances about retaining jobs and research Myth #3: Applying to all jobs advertised Bayt.com you can get real-time while a US senator called for an overhaul of and development in our states,” said Maryland and the manufacturing,” Osborne said. Pfizer’s past out there is the surest way to get a job. insights in your personal Workspace record of cutting jobs after swallowing smaller the tax code to discourage deals like Pfizer is Governor Martin O’Malley and Delaware on how often your CV is being pursuing, which would move the new compa- Governor Jack Markell. Truth: Relying on a splatter-gun rivals such as Wyeth, Warner-Lambert and effect when applying to jobs is the searched for and viewed. Pharmacia has stirred up a political storm and ny’s headquarters to Britain, avoiding paying “Our concern is exacerbated by Pfizer’s his- billion of dollars in US taxes. tory of closing US research facilities, including surest way to bring down your job fuelled concerns among scientists about the application relevancy score (check Myth #7: After the interview, the impact of any deal on British science. Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical sites in Michigan and Illinois, after closing on company, also faces tough questions in previous corporate transactions.” your Bayt.com account Workspace for ball is in the employer’s court. Pfizer has already given a five-year commit- Truth: Employers are busy people. ment to complete AstraZeneca’s new research Britain, where officials fear the deal could Pfizer has about 3,100 employees in this helpful feature), which is ultimate- centre in Cambridge, retain a factory in the north- erode the country’s research base. Pfizer chief Maryland and 2,600 in Delaware. “Pfizer has ly not great for your job search or your You may have truly impressed in the western English town of Macclesfield and put a executive Ian Read next week will testify spoken with the governors and we under- confidence. interview but you still need to follow fifth of its research staff in Britain if the deal goes before a parliamentary panel in his second trip stand and appreciate their concerns,” a Pfizer Employers want relevance above all up with a thank you letter and a con- ahead. to London since launching the AstraZeneca spokesman told AFP, without providing fur- else. Job sites like Bayt.com have a firmation of your interest in the com- But the US firm has also said it could adjust its campaign on April 28. Analysts said the criti- ther details. Before Pfizer’s acquisition of sophisticated set of search, sorting pany if you wish to remain top of cism from politicians, while unwelcome, is Wyeth in 2009, the two companies employed promises if circumstances change “significantly”, and filtering tools that ensure that mind. prompting demands for more water-tight probably less important to the outcome than a total of 129,226 people, but at the end of only the relevant CVs are viewed and whether Pfizer increases its bid for a second 2013, the combined company listed just Many great interviewees fail to sell pledges. contacted. their interest in the company enough Osborne’s comments follow a call by Deputy time. So far, AstraZeneca has said the propos- 77,000 workers. als, the latest for $106 billion a week ago, “sub- Some of the jobs eliminated went with To get notified when a job relevant and employers usually lean towards Minister Nick Clegg on Friday for binding commit- to your skills and experience is pub- ments from Pfizer. “Pfizer have given assurances stantially” undervalues the company and do divestitures. Since the Wyeth deal, Pfizer sold enthusiastic professionals who are not merit entering merger talks. British regula- off major divisions on child nutrition (5,400 lished, simply set up a weekly job alert passionate about the company and about the jobs they’d create in Britain and the sci- for your account on the website. ence they’d do in Britain. We have to make sure tors have set May 26 as the deadline for Pfizer jobs) and pill casings (2,900 jobs), and spun off their potential role in it. By all means those are real promises that we can hold them to,” to either raise its bid, launch a hostile takeover its animal-health unit Zoetis (9,800 jobs). follow up politely and professionally Myth #4: The best way to prepare for Osborne said. or abandon the effort. Senator Ron Wyden, in an op-ed in Friday’s after the interview and keep an open “They clearly need to increase the bid to Wall Street Journal, said the proposed deal an interview is a good night’s rest. “That’s precisely what I’m doing and the dialogue with companies that interest win over the shareholders,” said Jeff Loo, an underscores the need for the United States to Truth: Employers are interested in Cabinet Secretary (Jeremy Heywood) is doing in you so your application remains analyst at S&P Capital IQ, who thinks the revise its tax code to eliminate incentives for candidates who have researched their engaging with both these companies ... I’m pre- warm. pared, on the specifics, to get in the room and have chances of the deal are about 50-50. In a joint companies to relocate overseas to lower their company and industry and are familiar a hard negotiation.” letter to Read, the governors of Maryland and tax bill. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.900 Singapore Dollar 0.221606 0.227606 Nepalese Rupees 3.880 South African Rand 0.021029 0.029529 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 87.040 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001842 0.002422 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.395 Taiwan 0.009185 0.009365 Japanese Yen 2.763 Australian Dollar 265.70 262.70 Indian Rupees 4.700 Thai Bhat 9.680 Thai Baht 0.008369 0.008919 Canadian Dollar 261.11 262.11 Turkish Lira 134.045 Pakistani Rupees 2.855 Swiss Franc 325.65 323.65 Srilankan Rupees 2.155 Euro 394.20 395.20 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.936 US Dollar 281.05 284.05 Bahraini Dinar 0.740892 0.748892 Singapore Dollar 227.340 Sterling Pound 478.87 481.87 Bahrain Exchange Company Egyptian Pound 0.036365 0.039465 Hongkong Dollar 36.309 Japanese Yen 2.82 2.84 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000079 Bangladesh Taka 3.620 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.348 Bangladesh Taka 3.622 3.892 Iraqi Dinar 0.000180 0.000240 Thai Baht 8.651 Indian Rupee 4.682 4.982 Belgian Franc 0.007321 0.008321 Jordanian Dinar 0.393164 0.400664 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.153 2.588 British Pound 0.468834 0.477834 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.928 3.463 Czech Korune 0.006155 0.018155 Lebanese Pound 0.000137 0.000237 Pakistani Rupee 2.854 2.790 Danish Krone 0.048290 0.053290 Moroccan Dirhams 0.025225 0.049225 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 76.59 77.05 Euro 0.385519 0.393519 Nigerian Naira 0.001189 0.001824 Bahraini Dinar 748.04 750.11 Norwegian Krone 0.043395 0.048595 Saudi Riyal 75.083 Omani Riyal 0.725785 0.731465 Egyptian Pound 39.54 40.14 Romanian Leu 0.081297 0.81297 Qatari Riyal 77.364 Qatar Riyal 0.076680 0.077893 Omani Riyal 731.420 Jordanian Dinar 400.01 405.66 Slovakia 0.008048 0.018048 Saudi Riyal 0.074497 0.075197 Bahraini Dinar 747.840 Omani Riyal 730.91 738.21 Swedish Krona 0.039238 0.044238 UAE Dirham 76.679 Qatari Riyal 77.61 78.16 Swiss Franc 0.314833 0.325033 Syrian Pound 0.001747 0.001967 Saudi Riyal 75.08 75.48 Turkish Lira 0.133273 0.140273 Tunisian Dinar 0.172319 0.180319 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.133273 0.140273 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.155 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia UAE Dirhams 0.075728 0.076877 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.484 Australian Dollar 0.252955 0.264455 Yemeni Riyal 0.001279 0.001359 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.314 New Zealand Dollar 0.237951 0.247451 Tunisian Dinar 176.130 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Jordanian Dinar 397.610 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 281.500 Canadian Dollar 0.251432 0.259932 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.889 Canadian Dollar 259.510 US Dollars 0.277650 0.282000 Syrian Lira 2.007 US Dollars Mint 0.278150 0.282000 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 35.627 Sterling Pound 475.750 Euro 391.810 US Dollar 281.150 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 320.975 Asia Euro 392.250 US Dollar Transfer 281.450 Bahrain Dinar 749.235 Bangladesh Taka 0.003280 0.003880 Pound Sterlng 476.000 Euro 391.500 UAE Dirhams 76.620 Chinese Yuan 0.043977 0.047477 Canadian Dollar 258.000 Sterling Pound 478.470 Qatari Riyals 78.200 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034241 0.036991 Indian Rupee 4.680 Canadian dollar 260.840 Saudi Riyals 75.340 Indian Rupee 0.004323 0.004724 Egyptian Pound 39.510 Turkish lira 135.610 Jordanian Dinar 396.715 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.152 Swiss Franc 321.110 Egyptian Pound 40.115 Japanese Yen 0.002672 0.002852 Bangladesh Taka 3.618 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.154 Kenyan Shilling 0.003321 0.003321 Australian Dollar 266.250 Philippines Peso 6.335 US Dollar Buying 280.250 Indian Rupees 4.679 Korean Won 0.000264 0.000279 Pakistan Rupee 2.848 Pakistani Rupees 2.852 Malaysian Ringgit 0.082477 0.088477 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.622 Nepalese Rupee 0.002996 0.003166 Bahraini Dinar 748.800 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.322 Pakistan Rupee 0.002651 0.002931 UAE Dirham 76.550 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 691.420 Philippine Peso 0.006320 0.006600 Saudi Riyal 75.100 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.750 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 *Rates are subject to change SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 BUSINESS Kuwait’s consumer sector grows the fastest

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KUWAIT: The consumer sector contin- ued to grow more rapidly than the rest of Kuwait’s economy, though growth is expected to slow going forward. While household debt growth remained in the double-digits, it has moderated over the last twelve months. Point-of-sale spend- ing growth also maintained a robust pace despite some moderation, as the benefits of the 2011 and 2012 salary hikes faded. Meanwhile, employment growth appeared stronger in 4Q13 fol- lowing a bout of weaker figures earlier in 2013. At the same time, accelerating eco- nomic growth appears to be boosting skilled expat employment. Household’s debt growth slowed to 15.1 percent through February, down from a 18.7 per- cent peak in June last year. Personal facil- ities excluding credit for the purchase of securities rose to KD8.7 billion. Much of the weakness in February’s debt increase was due to the settlement and write-off moderate as well. Point-of-sale transac- First-time civilian hires (first-time PIFSS Skilled expat job growth has also continue to moderate in 2014 from a of Family Fund loans which began that tions (POS) in 4Q13 were up by 14 per- registrations) amounted to 12,300 in been accelerating, seeing its strongest faster pace in previous years, though month. We estimate that the family fund cent from a year ago, the slowest pace in 2013, down from just over 13,000 the pace since 2009 on the back of brisker growth will remain healthy. Household shaved KD 50 million off household debt over a year. If consumers’ cash with- prior year. Still, net civilian employment economic growth. Employed non- debt growth is expected to moderate in February; we expect March to see a drawals (ATM) are also included, spend- growth was steady at 4.4 percent y/y Kuwaitis with at least a secondary educa- further while measures by the govern- still larger impact. ing softened to 9.1 percent in the final (304,500 total employed). Though the tion rose by 10,300 during 2013, more ment to boost household income are quarter of 2013. number of first-time hires by private than double the figure the year before. likely to be limited. Still, employment Spending robust Employment among Kuwaiti nation- employers was stable, net employment Both the private and public sectors are growth should pick up pace, supported Consumer spending remained rela- als remained relatively steady, though growth in the sector picked up to 8.1 behind this trend. by the improving economic outlook this tively robust, though it has begun to the latter part of 2013 saw some pickup. percent from 5.9 percent a year ago. The consumer sector is expected to year and next. US likely to urge China to play fair economically Lew to discuss China’s reform agenda in Beijing WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will urge China to play by the rules eco- nomically when he meets top officials in Beijing next week, officials said. Lew will spend Tuesday in talks with Chinese counterparts, with China’s reform agenda, the coming annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and “efforts to level the playing field for US workers and firms” on the stated agenda. “As China continues to grow, our top priority will continue to be to encourage China to do so in a way that is fair, balanced and consistent with the international rules,” a senior Treasury KABRIWALA: A Pakistani farmer looks on as he waits in a line of trucks carrying official told reporters in a briefing about the wheat before selling the produce to the government in Kabirwala yesterday. trip. The official said Washington wants Beijing Pakistan has contributed 26,000 metric tons of wheat worth $10 million to subsidies to strengthen the protection and enforcement from the World Food Program to bolster emergency food assistance to almost 1 mil- of intellectual property rights, including stop- lion people displaced in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on the country’s ping trade secret thefts. The US also wants noth-western border with Afghanistan. — AFP China to improve opportunities for American businesses to enter its markets, including open- ing up to investment in the services sector. “There are a host of issues that the secretary UK’s Co-op Bank completes will want to raise, all of which are important to making the relationship more balanced and 400m pound fundraising fair.” It will be Lew’s third trip to China since tak- ing up the Treasury position in February 2013. US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew LONDON: Britain’s Co-operative Bank said ing US hedge funds last year as a result of On April 30, the Office of the US Trade serious concerns” if it represents a reversal in reforms, even as the country is going through a yesterday it had completed a 400 million a recapitalization to plug a 1.5 billion Representative singled out China’s efforts to Beijing’s commitment to a more free-floating rough patch currently. pound ($674 million) fundraising to bol- pound funding gap. Two of those - hedge steal US trade secrets as “significant concern” in yuan. “What they can’t do is treat the long-term ster its capital position. The capital raise, funds Silver Point and Perry Capital - have an annual report that again branded the coun- “Obviously China’s exchange rate policy is reforms as something that they can just put off,” which was launched on Friday, is subject been granted the right to nominate a try as a top violator of intellectual property important to us. It’s important that they contin- he told Bloomberg TV. “They know that their to shareholder approval at a general director to the board of the bank for as rights. ue to move towards a market-determined economy, if it doesn’t move more toward mar- meeting that will be held in due course, long as they hold a stake of at least 5 per- Also last month, the Treasury warned China exchange rate,” the official said. ket-determined prices... is not going to give the bank said in a statement. cent. over the recent fall in the value of the yuan cur- Lew said he would encourage China to con- them the medium- and long-term growth they “This capital will strengthen the Bank Booker said the Co-op Group’s dimin- rency, saying the slide could “raise particularly tinue implementing long-term economic need.” —AFP for our customers and enable us to contin- ished shareholding would not affect the ue with our business plan, which aims to bank’s ethical focus, which includes com- return the bank to its roots as a bank mitments such as not lending to weapons focused on our retail and SME customers makers. “Values and ethics remain at the with values and ethics at the heart of what heart of the bank’s business, as evidenced Geithner memoir: He made we do,” said Chief Executive Niall Booker. by the fact they are embedded in the The Co-operative Group’s stake in the bank’s articles of association, and this is bank will fall to just above 20 percent as a supported by our shareholders who rec- result of the capital raise, down from 30 ognize the importance of this to the repeated offers to resign percent previously. Co-op Group ceded future of the bank and its customers,” he control of the bank to bondholders includ- said. — Reuters WASHINGTON: Timothy Geithner says immense challenges of the job. By his own acknowledgement, takeover of mortgage giants Fannie in a new memoir that he repeatedly Ultimately, Geithner concludes that the Geithner seemed an awkward fit as Mae and Freddie Mac offered to resign as Treasury secretary economy stabilized under his watch. Treasury secretary, neither an econo- Geithner’s supporters said he in the aftermath of the financial crisis In several sections of his memoir, mist nor a banker nor a natural public deserved credit for helping steady the Double ratings boost for and at one point suggested that Hillary Geithner writes of internal conversa- speaker. banking system, restore investor confi- Rodham Clinton be among those con- tions about who might replace him in a He found himself unable to quell dence and avert a complete meltdown. Portuguese economy sidered to replace him. President post he had been initially reluctant to what he calls the public’s “Old His critics countered that his policies Barack Obama rebuffed Geithner’s sug- accept. When his nomination ran into Testament” outrage at bankers who consistently favored big banks and LISBON: The Portuguese economy received a regained access to the public debt markets gestion, and he remained at Treasury challenges over his tax filing problems, received federal aid and cashed out- neglected ordinary Americans, includ- double boost as ratings agency Moody’s and in addition the government has built up until 2013. Geithner offered to pull his name from sized bonus checks after the financial ing many struggling to save their raised its debt rating one notch to Ba2, hours sizeable cash buffers.” Geithner’s memoir will be pub- consideration. He writes that he later meltdown that erupted in 2008. At homes after a wave of foreclosures fol- after fellow agency Standard & Poor’s upgrad- Its economic recovery “is gaining momen- lished next week. On Thursday, The AP volunteered several times to step least one of those bankers, JPMorgan lowed the housing bust. ed the country’s credit outlook. tum, with signs of broadening beyond bought an early copy. down from the Cabinet post if adminis- Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, offered to In his memoir, Geithner pushes The announcements provided a timely exports, which continue to perform strongly”. Geithner recalls his offers of resigna- tration officials felt that doing so would help the administration rewrite the reg- back against such criticism. He writes Moody’s said it has the country now under vote of confidence after Lisbon announced tion in “Stress Test,” which explores his boost Obama’s standing at a perilous ulations overseeing the big banks, that it would have been impossible to on Sunday it will make a clean exit from its review for another upgrade, adding that the turbulent four years at Treasury. During moment for the economy. Geithner writes. The administration fix the economy without first shoring multi-billion-euro EU-IMF bailout package, government’s creditworthiness “can improve” his tenure, the Obama administration In proposing that the White House declined Dimon’s offer. up the banking system and restoring following in the footsteps of Ireland by fore- in the short term. confronted the worst recession and consider Clinton as a successor in 2010, Clinton’s husband, former President confidence. This, he writes, was the going a credit line. Portugal’s Prime Minister Earlier Friday Moody’s rival Standard & most severe financial crisis since the Geithner cited her star power as secre- Bill Clinton, advised Geithner that pub- most urgent task. A banking panic Pedro Passos Coelho on Thursday said Lisbon Poor’s upgraded the outlook for Portugal’s Great Depression. He portrays his offers tary of state. Among the other names licly criticizing prominent bankers, such would have defeated the administra- would present its plans for the country’s creditworthiness, citing the bailed-out to resign as reflecting his uncertainty Geithner suggested was Jack Lew, who as Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein, tion’s efforts to help the economy financial future on May 17, the day it exits its nation’s unexpectedly strong economic and about whether he was up to the succeeded him last year. wouldn’t appease ordinary Americans. recover. three-year 78-billion-euro ($108 billion) deficit-cutting performance. Standard & “You could take Lloyd Blankfein into He acknowledges that the govern- bailout program. Poor’s said it had raised the outlook to “stable” a dark alley, and slit his throat, and it ment’s efforts to help troubled home- Unlike Ireland, however, Portugal has from “negative” for Portugal’s long-term sov- would satisfy them for about two days,” owners keep their homes were inade- already managed to return to debt markets ereign debt, which is rated at a junk-bond quate. But he argues that no “game- before the end of its aid program. Moody’s, in equivalent BB, and its short-term sovereign Geithner recalled Clinton telling him. raising Portugal’s debt rating said a further debt, which is rated at B. “Then the blood lust would rise again.” changing housing plan” that would upgrade was possible as the country begins Geithner notes that easy money have offered Americans substantial to pull away from its financial crisis. Faster recovery than projected and risky behavior fueled the housing relief existed for Geithner’s team to “Portugal’s fiscal situation has improved “The economy and the labor market are bubble and led to the financial crisis. embrace. more rapidly than initially targeted and the recovering faster than we projected, with bet- Deceit and fraud by some financial Geithner rejected the idea of fixing public debt ratio will start declining this year,” ter-than-expected budgetary performance,” institutions, he writes, were a compo- banks by nationalizing them or letting Moody’s said. A Ba2 rating leaves Portugal in the New York-based rating agency said in a nent of the mania. But they weren’t its the weakest firms fail. Instead, he junk bond territory, two notches below statement. Portugal’s recession in 2013 had primary cause. writes, while vacationing on a beach in investment grade. been shallower than expected, helping No Treasury secretary since the Mexico, he fleshed out a plan for using Moody’s noted that the country’s fiscal Lisbon to curb the general government Depression confronted so many finan- “stress tests” to see how much addi- deficit had been reduced by one percentage deficit to the equivalent of 4.9 percent of eco- cial threats at once. When Geithner tional capital banks would need to sur- point more than expected last year, “indicat- nomic output in 2013, unexpectedly beating became Treasury secretary in January vive a financial catastrophe. ing the government’s strong commitment to its 5.5-percent target, Standard & Poor’s said. 2009, the economy had sunk into a If banks struggled to pass these fiscal consolidation”. Lisbon snatched an economic lifeline deep recession. Unemployment was tests, they would have to raise capital from the European Union and International surging, and the financial system was privately or be forced to accept sup- ‘Sizeable cash buffers’ Monetary Fund in 2011 in return for enact- teetering. Having previously led the port from the government. Geithner Federal Reserve Bank of New York, writes that this strategic choice was key Portugal has already managed to return to ing budget-slimming austerity measures, Then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The memoirs from former debt markets before the end of its aid pro- which sparked mass popular protests. “The Geithner had worked to craft the gov- to salvaging the financial system. In the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Geithner will be the ernment’s early response to the finan- book, Geithner addresses his biggest gram. Moody’s said Portugal will not likely government has fully implemented the latest installments in an often awkward Washington ritual: one-time need to lean on the European Stability terms of the EU-International Monetary cial crisis. The crisis erupted in the fall of public relations disaster - his first confidants signing big book contracts to examine a presidency that is 2008 with the fall of investment bank speech as Treasury secretary on Feb. Mechanism for more protective support after Fund economic adjustment program,” ongoing and policy decisions that still are being implemented. —AP it exits its bailout program. “Portugal has Standard & Poor’s said. —AFP Lehman Brothers and the government 10, 2009.—AP BUSINESS SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

Kuwait stocks bearish amid selling pressure

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week in the red zone. The Price Index closed at 7,406.40 points, down by BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT 0.33 percent from the week before closing, the Weighted Index decreased by 0.16 percent after closing at 492.03 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 1,200.47 points down by 0.20 percent. Furthermore, last week’s average daily turnover increased by 11.05 percent, compared to the preceding week, reaching KD 22.58 million, whereas trading volume average was 150.97 million shares, recording a decrease of 10.63 per- cent. The stock market indicators closed in the red zone for the third consecutive week, in light of the return of the political conflicts to negatively influence the traders’ psychological behavior, in addition to the absence of the positive motivators and the drop in the purchasing desire of many investors, wait- ing for some improvements or appearance of positive indica- tors to push them towards purchase. Moreover, the stock market witnessed, during most of the week’s sessions, selling pressures that included many stocks, both large-cap and small-cap, in addition to the presence of the speculative operations to affect the trading activity as well, which caused the general index to decline to its lowest level in many months in one daily session, in particular since 9th September 2013. Also, the decline in the purchasing pow- er that the stock market witnessed last week by few traders and the investment portfolios, lowered the liquidity to very low levels, as it recorded its second lowest level during this year in one session last week. On the contrary, the purchasing and collection operations were not absent during last week’s trading activity, as the mar- third as its index achieved 0.50 percent growth, ending the representing 37.14 percent of the total market trading vol- were the highest traded in terms of value; with a turnover of ket was able to realize gains in few sessions, supported by the week at 1,156.34 points. ume. The Real Estate sector was second in terms of trading KD 29.41 million or 26.05 percent of last week’s total market random purchasing operations performed on some stocks, volume as the sector’s traded shares were 30.80 percent of last trading value. The Banking sector took the second place as the especially the ones that disclosed positive first quarter finan- Sectors’ activity week’s total trading volume, with a total of 232.50 million sector’s last week turnover was KD 25.21 million represented cial results, mainly in the Banking sector. The Financial Services sector dominated total trade volume shares. 22.34 percent of the total market trading value. — Prepared On the other hand, the stock market is still witnessing a during last week with 280.35 million shares changing hands, On the other hand, the Financial Services sector’s stocks by the Studies & Research Department, Bayan Investment Co. watch state in general, waiting for the listed companies first quarter financial results, among fears by investors of some companies to fall behind the disclosure period given, which legally ends by the end of the current week. For the annual performance, the price index ended last week recording 1.57 percent annual loss compared to its clos- ing in 2013, while the weighted index increased by 8.82 per- cent, and the KSX-15 recorded 12.58 percent growth.

Sectors’ indices Eight of KSE’s sectors ended last week in the red zone, three recorded increases, whereas the Health Care sector’s index closed with no change from the week before. The Basic Materials sector headed the losers list as its index declined by 1.43 percent to end the week’s activity at 1,175.47 points. The Financial Services sector was second on the losers’ list, which index declined by 1.03 percent, closing at 1,036.14 points, fol- lowed by the Insurance sector, as its index closed at 1,132.07 points at a loss of 0.75 percent. The Consumer Goods sector was the least declining as its index closed at 1,300.88 points with a 0.35 percent decrease. On the other hand, last week’s highest gainer was the Technology sector, achieving 2.02 percent growth rate as its index closed at 983.36 points. Whereas, in the second place, the Consumer Services sector’s index closed at 1,117.97 points recording 0.91 percent increase. The Industrial sector came in Mixed week for US stocks as tech equities slump

NEW YORK: US stocks finished the week with solid gains yes- Alan Skrainka, chief investment officer at Cornerstone facturer gave a disappointing outlook on second-quarter Chrysler unveiled an ambitious $7 billion plan to relaunch the terday, but it was not enough to lift the tech-rich Nasdaq Wealth Management, said the week’s most striking develop- deliveries and profits. Tesla finished the week 13.6 percent high-end and sporty Alfa Romeo line. In deal news, French Composite Index into the black for the week. The Nasdaq, ment was the decline in the Nasdaq, which indicates lower. Other technology names to suffer big declines follow- group Publicis and Omnicom of the United States announced which has underperformed compared to the other two lead- investors are still worried that high-flying tech stocks are ing disappointing earnings reports included AOL (-13.4 per- they had abandoned merger talks on what would have ing indices since early March, fell 52.03 (1.26 percent) for the overvalued. “We continue to see a rotation out of the Internet cent for the week) and FireEye (-33.8 percent). Peter formed the world’s largest advertising company. week to 4,071.87. The S&P 500 slipped 2.66 (0.14 percent) to stocks into some of the more traditional stocks that may ben- Wahlstrom, senior analyst for technology at Morningstar, said The two sides fought over who would be the combined 1,878,48, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 70.45 efit from the improvement in the economy,” Skrainka said. the earnings season, now nearly finished, was “lackluster” for firm’s chief financial officer and which company would legally (0.43 percent) to 16,583.34. The week was relatively light in Investors fear “they own the wrong stocks,” he added. the tech sector and filled with “inconsistent” results. be deemed the acquirer for a transaction that had been heavi- terms of economic indicators. US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Some of the stocks most closely identified with the tech sec- “You’re looking for broad-based strength. You’re not see- ly billed as a “merger of equals,” according to a report in the Yellen made a pair of appearances before congressional pan- tor’s surge endured some ugly moments. ing that,” Wahlstrom said. “There are areas that are perform- Wall Street Journal. Less resolved at week’s end was the status els, reiterating a fairly upbeat outlook for the economy, while Twitter sank nearly 18 percent to an historic low Tuesday ing well. There are areas that are not performing well and, on of a potential acquisition by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer of highlighting the need to keep benchmark interest rates low. after the expiration of a so-called lockup period, which average, investors would have wanted more.” British company AstraZeneca, which has so far rejected three Investors also kept an eye on continuing violence in banned sales by company insiders after its public offering. In other corporate news, US retailer Target announced requests to enter talks. Pfizer chief executive Ian Read will try Ukraine, where separatists in the east of the country plan to Twitter finished the week down 17.9 percent. Shares Tesla that chief executive Gregg Steinhafel was stepping down in to quell opposition to the deal in Britain at an appearance go ahead with an independence vote today. Motors, another high-flyer, sank after the electric-car manu- the wake of a huge data breach, while Italian auto giant Fiat Tuesday before a British parliamentary panel.—AFP Keep an eye on companies where US revenue rules WALL STREET WEEKLY OUTLOOK NEW YORK: US stock investors are finding the value of staying percent in 2014; in its latest quarter, Exelon posted revenue close to home. Even as the US economy barely grew in early 2014, growth of 17 percent, good for an upside surprise of 28 percent companies with a domestic orientation have on balance delivered relative to analysts’ forecasts. better first-quarter sales and profit growth than their globally ori- Power sector-focused funds have attracted inflows of almost ented peers. RBC Capital Markets found that sales growth among $2 billion in 2014, according to Thomson Reuters’ Lipper, though companies with a high percentage of their revenue coming from the sector is also favored as a defensive or dividend play, offering the United States was three times stronger than those with a big- an average yield of 3.7 percent. Conversely, technology compa- ger international sales mix. Earnings growth was six times as nies have the highest percentage of foreign revenue exposure, robust. US-focused names had bigger upside surprises on both according to Standard & Poor’s. The group, which has sold off the top and the bottom lines. “With the US economy vaulting recently on concerns that valuations are stretched, has had out- energetically out of its winter cold spell but China looking even flows of $1.25 billion this quarter, according to Lipper. more beset by gravitational forces ... the two-speed developed Qualcomm Inc and Broadcom Corp have more than 94 per- market-vs-emerging market global recovery ... is growing more cent of sales coming from abroad and both disappointed in their clear and present,” analysts at Nomura wrote in a note to clients. most recent results, with Chinese growth a major factor. The week Companies with US-oriented revenue rank among the year’s ahead will feature earnings from several companies representing leading advancers in the S&P 100 Index. Anadarko Petroleum both the domestic-leaning and international camps. Applied Corp, which gets more than three-fourths of its revenue from the Materials, which gets about 80 percent of its revenue from abroad, US market, is up nearly 27 percent in 2014. In its latest quarter, the will report results next week. Analysts expect the company to post company’s revenue grew 50.1 percent, representing an upside revenue growth of 19 percent. Deere & Co, which gets 63 percent surprise of almost 50 percent compared with expectations. of its sales domestically, is set to report earnings on Wednesday, Utilities are 2014’s runaway outperformers, with the S&P utili- while Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the largest of a slew of retailers report- NEW YORK: Trader Michael Zicchinolfi, foreground left, and specialist Anthony Rinaldi (right) work on the floor of the ties index up nearly 11 percent. Utilities also have some of the ing next week, is due to post results on Thursday. Wal-Mart gets New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are drifting lower in early trading on Friday as US corporate earnings wind down. —AP highest US revenue exposure. The stock of Exelon Corp is up 32.2 71 percent of its revenue from the United States. — Reuters SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 BUSINESS

Kuwait non-oil growth firms up on improved project implementation

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KUWAIT: Real non-oil growth is expected to of the previous projects are likely to be rolled business optimism and purchases of commer- rise is a further sign that fiscal policy has Money and credit remain broadly steady at 4-5 percent per year over, with ground work already done or in cial property by government support funds. entered into a less expansive phase than in Bank credit growth has edged higher over over the next two years. Activity in the con- progress. Strong demand and supply constraints - the past, partly reflecting sustainability issues. the past few months and is finally showing sumer sector - which has been the backbone of Large projects at the most advance stages partly linked to a shortage of developed land - In the near-term, the fiscal surplus, at 19 per- signs of recovering from its post-financial crisis the non-oil economy in recent years - will mod- include the $13 billion Clean Fuels Project, should keep price pressures in the residential cent of GDP this year, will remain extremely softness. Overall credit growth stood at 7.3 per- erate, though receive support from the govern- which aims to upgrade and expand production sector in particular very firm over coming large, and the budget breakeven oil price for cent y/y in February, up from 4.8 percent y/y a ment’s estimated KD 0.4 billion debt write-off at two of Kuwait’s aging oil refineries. After the months. Indeed, concerns over prices and FY14/15 is one of the lowest in the GCC, at year earlier and an average of 6.2 percent in for Kuwaiti nationals. Meanwhile, we look for a main contracts were signed in April, work is affordability levels may escalate. A recent cabi- $70 pb. However government officials 2013.(Chart 10.)Consumer lending continues to notable improvement in the pace of infrastruc- expected to begin in earnest later in the year. In net decision to consider the purchase of proper- acknowledge that reform of the expensive lead the way at 15 percent y/y (excluding loans ture project activity, a gradual pick-up in bank addition, a similar-sized contract to build a new ty by expatriates has some way to go before subsidy system and rising public sector wage for securities purchases), although this has in lending and a more determined effort by the refinery is targeted to be signed later in 2014. being potentially implemented, but in any case, bill is needed in order to reduce fiscal vulnera- fact slowed from a peak of 19 percent y/y last authorities to pursue much-needed economic Away from oil, work should soon begin on the would be unlikely to have a meaningful impact bilities - and economic inefficiencies - going year and may slow further as the impact of the reforms. If these things can be achieved, the country’s first large Public Private Partnership on the market in the near-to-medium term. forward. debt write-off appears in the data. More economy could start to gather considerable encouragingly, lending to businesses has accel- momentum sometime in 2015, paving the way erated, and should continue to strengthen as for faster growth thereafter. broader investment levels rise. Credit growth Private sector output began to grow again outpaced private deposit growth in February - a in 2012 after a steep fall between 2007 and rare occurrence in recent years. 2011. It may be due a good run as the legacy of The Central Bank of Kuwait has maintained the financial crisis continues to fade. Oil sector its main policy lending rate - the discount rate - output, meanwhile, is projected to decline by 2 at 2 percent since October 2012. Further cuts percent in 2014 for the second year in a row. have been mooted, but it is broadly considered This is a smaller decline than the 4 percent we that additional cuts would do relatively little to had previously expected. Oil prices held up well stimulate demand in the economy. Conditions during 1Q 2014, not least due to cuts in output in the banking sector remain solid, helped by by key OPEC members themselves (including strong liquidity levels and healthy growth in Kuwait). With the period of traditional seasonal operating income. weakness in oil markets now fading, and cuts in production having already taken place, Kuwait’s Financial markets oil output could yet surprise on the upside Following a lackluster 2013, the Kuwait going forward. Oil sector officials recently stat- project - the $2 billion North Al-Zour power sta- Public finance Inflation Stock Exchange got off to a strong start in ed that Kuwait’s production capacity has been tion. The concurrent execution of these and oth- Although official figures are not yet avail- Despite robust growth in consumer activi- 2014, with the value-weighted index gaining 7 increased to 3.3 million barrels per day (mbpd) er projects in the transport, health, education able, government spending is estimated to ty, consumer price inflation has remained percent in 1Q14. The rally was primarily driven from 3.2 mbpd. With output currently below 2.9 and housing sectors should go some way to have risen by around 3 percent in FY2013/14, modest in the 2.5 - 3.0 percent y/y range for by large caps and in particular bank stocks. In mbpd (chart 3), this has provided additional reversing Kuwait’s poor record on domestic much lower than in most previous years. The much of the past year.(Chart 8.) The two key addition to the more upbeat economic outlook breathing room for previously tight spare investment in earlier years, and closing the infra- slowdown was partly affected by a boost to components, food and housing rents, are and improved corporate profitability, the mar- capacity. structure gap with some of its Gulf neighbors. salaries & wages in FY12/13, which was not running at higher rates of 3-4 percent y/y ket was supported by the imminent increase in repeated last year. The draft budget for and have therefore provided upward pres- Kuwait’s weight in a number of frontier index- Project implementation Real estate FY2014/15 projects a further modest 3 percent sures. Excluding these items, inflation is low- es. The larger capitalizations and banks in par- The period covering the government’s 4-year Activity in the real estate sector gathered rise in spending, including a sharp 20 percent er, at 2.1 percent y/y in February 2014. We do ticular are expected to benefit most from this development plan - FY2010/11 to 2013/14 - has considerable steam in 2013, and momentum fall in capital expenditures. But given the expect inflation to edge up into the 3-4 per- pickup in activity. now passed, and progress on implementing the has continued into this year. Sales reached a broader improved context for government cent range over the next 2 years, partly on The exchange rate has strengthened consid- KD 31 billion in infrastructure and other spend- record KD 3.7 billion in 2013, up 18 percent y/y. and infrastructure projects, we think that the firming pressures from the food and housing erably over the past four years, rising some 8 ing was disappointing. A new development The strength came from average transaction outlook for capex is better than this number segments. ‘Underlying’ inflation could also percent on a trade-weighted basis (NBK calcula- plan is expected to be unveiled over coming sizes, which rose 37 percent y/y (unadjusted for suggests. Note that capex in the oil sector, for edge higher, but is expected to be kept in tions). The Kuwaiti dinar is pegged to a basket months, and we are hopeful that execution property type, size, or location. See chart 5). example, does not appear on the govern- check by a slight softening of consumer of currencies, of which the US dollar is the sin- rates will be much improved. This is partly Strong sales levels are being driven by a combi- ment’s budget. activity and the continued strength of the gle most important component. The strength because political conditions now seem more nation of housing shortages, the sector’s attrac- That said - and although the spending dinar on a trade-weighted basis. So far, there of the trade-weighted dinar has been driven by conducive, but also because the new plan is tiveness as an asset class (amidst the soft per- numbers may well be revised significantly are few signs of rising pipeline inflationary the rising US dollar. By contrast, the dinar has likely to be a less ambitious affair. Plans for many formance of the local stock market), improved before they are finalized- the small projected pressures from the wholesale price index. mostly softened against the dollar. ‘Markaz’ Report: MENA markets surge back in April 2014

KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” rise of 36 per cent in April, driving the mar- 27.5mn shares at SAR 10 each, representing shares at AED 1.03, representing a 55 per tions of 50.5. Export orders were also down, 3.5 per cent from March. recently released its Monthly Market ket fortunes. The S&P GCC index moved up a 50 per cent stake in the company. KIMA cent stake. indicating a slowdown in economic activity, IPE Brent registered a marginal increase Research report. In this report, Markaz exam- 2.8 per cent in the month of April to close at has offered just over 90mn shares at an leading to a 0.35 per cent drop in the in the month of April, posting a rise of 0.3 ines and analyzes the performance of equity 134 points. The S&P Pan Arabian Composite issue price of EGP 5 each, representing a Global equities Shanghai Index on account of investor pes- per cent, as the market continued to moni- markets in the MENA region as well as the LargeMid Cap Index rose by 5.3 per cent to 31.25 per cent stake. Egypt Kuwait Holding Global equities rose level in April, as the simism. The MSCI EM index ended the tor the global economic situation. Oil prices global equity markets. close at 191 points. While market liquidity Company has planned to raise $109mn by MSCI world index rose by 0.8 per cent to month flat at 995, staying level from March continued to remain above $100/bbl at The Dubai Index closed above the 5,000 improved in the GCC, value traded declined issuing 136mn shares, a stake of 16.25 per close at 1688. At 50.4, China’s manufactur- end. Anxious anticipation of corporate month’s close, closing at $108.07/bbl. Gold level this month, the first time since Aug in Egypt, Morocco and Jordan. cent. Subscriptions closed for Markaz (UAE) ing PMI increased marginally from 50.3 in results pulled down the Nikkei Index, which prices witnessed a marginal 0.6 per cent rise 2008, as the market, along with its peers in P/E of Dubai and Qatar witnessed a rise on April 24. The company offered 275mn March, but was lower than market expecta- closed the month at 14,304 points, falling in April, closing at $1291 up from $1284 in Abu Dhabi and Doha, is set to be elevated of over 7 per cent in the month of April. March. from frontier to emerging status by MSCI in Dubai has the highest P/E in the region at Fears of escalating conflict with Russia, May. Investors scooped up banking, real 19.6x, followed by Kuwait at 19x. Bahrain, countered the positive quarterly earnings of estate and construction shares in anticipa- Jordan, Morocco, and Oman have dividend technology, healthcare and construction tion of increased dividend payouts. yields over 4 per cent. With relatively low P/E companies in the US, leading to a tepid rise In the first four months of 2014, the values and high dividend yields, Bahrain, of 0.6 per cent in the S&P 500 index. Dubai Financial Market has registered a YTD Oman and Abu Dhabi markets might be Consumer confidence reached its highest increase of over 50 per cent, after it more offering value. Saudi Arabia, Morocco and level in nine months, due to renewed opti- than doubled in 2013. Despite the high P/E Qatar have high price-to-book ratios mism of the economy as a whole, despite ratio, which has led to skepticism among (around 2x), while Jordan and Bahrain have rising unemployment and marginal institutional investors, the Dubai market is low P/B ratios. decrease in manufacturing PMI. Escalating being driven mainly by thousands of indi- Overall market turnover improved from tensions between Russia and Ukraine, not vidual local and regional retail investors, $63bn in March to $92bn in April. More than withstanding, European markets performed who believe that the good times will carry 94 per cent of value traded is accounted for well during the month of April. FTSE, CAC on. The right to host the World Expo 2020 by Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. Abu Dhabi, and DAX rose by 2.8 per cent, 2.2 per cent also fuelled expectations of increase in gov- Qatar and Bahrain witnessed the biggest and 0.5 per cent respectively, due to ernment spending. month-on-month increase in value traded at expanding business and manufacturing April 2014 was a positive month for the over 80 per cent each respectively. activity. equity markets in the MENA region, as most Kuwait Financial Centre KPSC “Markaz”, indices ended the month on a positive note. IPO established in 1974, has become one of the Bahrain’s benchmark hit the highest level in Umm Al-Qura Cement Company (Saudi leading asset management and investment three years, closing at 1,427 points in April, Arabia), Egyptian Chemical Industries - banking institutions in the Arabian Gulf as both local and regional investors took KIMA (Egypt) and Egypt Kuwait Holding Region with total assets under management advantage of relatively cheap valuations of Company (Egypt) are new IPOs that are cur- of over KD 975 million as of December 31, Bahraini companies. In particular, the Arab rently undergoing subscription. The Umm 2013 ($3.5 million). Markaz was listed on the Banking Corporation witnessed a monthly Al-Qura Cement Company has offered Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) in 1997. BUSINESS SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 Moody’s upgrades GIC’s ratings by multiple notches to A2 Al-Qadhi: Achievement reflects sound strategy

KUWAIT: The Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) tive impact on the overall performance of the cor- announced yesterday that Moody’s Credit Rating poration by reduced funding costs. This action by a Agency upgraded its Long Term ratings by 3 notch- leading international rating agency is an indication es to A2, from the previous Baa2 rating. Moody’s of their trust in the robust financial condition of GIC. also upgraded GIC’s Short Term ratings to P1, the I am hopeful that the corporation will continue on highest in that category. All ratings carry a Stable its path of good performance and growth.” GIC outlook. posted a profit of $165 million for the financial year The positive action by Moody’s is based on the ending 31st December 2013, up 25 percent com- re-categorization of GIC as a Multilateral pared to the $131 million earned in the 2012. From Development Bank (MDB) and the resulting change a financial strength perspective, the Tier 1 capital in rating methodology. The action from Moody’s adequacy ratio reached 36 percent, comfortably reflect the agency’s recognition of GIC’s strong exceeding the international and regional require- ownership structure and public policy mandate. It ments while its leverage, in terms of debt to equity, also indicates the corporation’s strong financial con- stood at a conservative 1.1 times. Furthermore, dition, prudent strategic initiatives and favorable GIC’s liquidity and liability profiles are quite robust. future prospects. Commenting on the recent action Established in 1983, GIC is a regional financial by Moody’s, Ibrahim Al-Qadhi, CEO, said “The efforts institution owned entirely and equally by the six made by the Shareholders, the Board, and the GCC states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Executive Management have borne fruit.” Arabia and the UAE. It is headquartered in the State GIC CEO Ibrahim Al-Qadhi He added “this upgrade is likely to have a posi- of Kuwait. Al-Mazaya Holding launches Turkish Property vehicle Mazaya Turkey A subsidiary company will focus on residential developments

KUWAIT: Al-Mazaya Holding Company has with the efforts of Turkey’s government to Turkey will soon occupy a similar position of launched a wholly-owned joint stock compa- create the conditions necessary for direct for- reputational leadership in Turkey, consistently ny to capitalize on the abundant opportuni- eign investment (FDI). He said: “Few other delivering excellence and offering expertise in ties presented by the buoyant Turkish real countries in the region enjoy the demograph- all areas of operation”. estate sector. ic opportunities currently experienced by “We are excited about this new chapter in Al-Muzaini Exchange Co Mazaya Turkey was established after exten- Turkey, combined with both economic the Al-Mazaya story and look forward to con- sive research over a period of nine months growth and political stability. Turkey is under- tributing vigorously to the Turkish economy announces second batch of into the long-term viability of the Turkish going a remarkable transformation and we by creating jobs and bringing investment property market and will initially target resi- look forward to building long-lasting relation- from all over the world. Together, we can winners of ‘Cash Promo’ draw dential sector investments before moving into ships with the people of this great country.” achieve great things.” related fields such as property management Jim Yolcu was appointed CEO of Mazaya In recent years, Turkish real estate has KUWAIT: Al-Muzaini Exchange Co, Kuwait’s on 15 May, while the fourth draw will be con- services, engineering, exhibitions and confer- Turkey. He brings more than fifteen years’ enjoyed one of the fastest rates of apprecia- leading Exchange and Remittance Company, ducted on 22 May, followed by the fifth draw ences. The company was created in accor- industry experience to the position. Yolcu tion in the world, often achieving double digit announced yesterday the daily winners of the on 1 June, and the final draw on 9 June 2014. dance with all relevant Turkish laws and regu- said: “Al-Mazaya is one of the leading names growth, fuelled by strong GDP performance Cash Promo draws. The second draw was con- Al-Muzaini advises everyone to take advan- lations. in the development and management of real and government initiatives to open the mar- ducted on 8 May 2014 at the Consumer tage of this promotion by using any of its Al-Mazaya Holding Group CEO Eng. estate in the Middle East. We believe Mazaya ket. Protection Andallus Department under the services for a chance to become a winner. Ibrahim Al Saq’abi said the launch of Mazaya supervision of Ahmad Al-Hamad representa- Al-Muzaini Exchange Company, a pioneer Turkey signalled his company’s enthusiasm tive from the Ministry of Commerce. and leader in the foreign exchange business for both establishing operations in Turkey and The lucky winners of KD 100 cash prize for in Kuwait for over 70 years now with network diversifying revenue streams. the period of 1 May - 7 May 2014 are: branches that spans over 60 branches located He said: “Mazaya Turkey will help us to across Kuwait. To ensure customer satisfac- achieve ambitious Group growth targets over Jennifar Mata - Qurain co-op tion, arrival and departure sections of the the coming years, while enabling us to geo- Mostafa Mahrous - Maidan hawalli Kuwait International airport and the Sheikh graphically diversify our portfolio of opera- Abdulla Salem - Reqee Saad airport guarantee 24 hours 7 days a tions and assets, in line with our longstanding Abeer Mossa- Reqa co-op week full service. strategy”. “The Turkish property story is an Eid Al-Harbi - Jahra Al-Muzaini Exchange Company provides exciting one. We believe the fundamentals are Ali Taleb - Heteen co-op customers a broad range of services that there to sustain growth for the long-term Ali Habeeb- Airport includes issuing checks and collection of while the market is sufficiently transparent checks drawn on foreign banks and the sale and regulated to provide security to investors Upon using any of Al Muzaini’s services and purchase of foreign currencies and remit- which consist of Western Union, Drafts, tances (to all parts of the world), DHL related and buyers alike”. Money transfers, Travelers Cheques, Couriers services while also benefitting from Western “Al-Mazaya has a strong track record of real (DHL), or Bank Notes, customers will automat- Union’s varied services that are on offer. estate investment and development excel- ically be included in the draw. Al-Muzaini has For further information on any of Al- lence, and we look forward to working with all launched this promotion with an aim to offer Muzaini Exchange Company’s services cus- relevant stakeholders in Turkey over the com- its customers, extended opportunities to ful- tomers are urged to visit their nearest branch, ing weeks and years. Together, we believe we fill their dreams in an easy and simple man- call the company’s call center on 1888818, or can achieve outstanding results.” ner. log on to the company’s website www.muzai- Eng Al-Saq’abi added he was impressed The third draw is scheduled to take place ni.com.

Burgan Bank offers ‘The Entertainer’ Gulf Bank announces winners promotional booklet to its premier banking customers of Al-Danah daily draws

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the intro- urged to visit any of the bank’s branches, or contact the KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al Danah daily draws on May 4, June (KD250,000, KD125,000, and KD25,000) and cus- 2014, announcing the names of its winners for the week of tomers are encouraged to maintain their balances in Al- duction of an exciting discount program through ‘The call center on 1804080. April 27 to May 1. The Al-Danah daily draws include draws Danah to ensure they increase their chances of winning. Entertainer’ promotional booklet for all of its Premier Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the youngest each working day for two prizes of KD1000 per winner. Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah allows customers to win cash Banking customers. The booklet is designed to suit the commercial Bank and third largest by assets in Kuwait, prizes and simultaneously encourages them to save mon- lifestyle needs of its distinguished customers by with a significant focus on the corporate and financial The winners were: ey. Chances increase the more money is deposited and the acquainting them with instant access to a wide range of institutions sectors, as well as having a growing retail (Sunday 27/04): Yousef Zohair Ibrahim Al-Mutawa, Farah longer it is kept in the account. privileges around the world. and private bank customer base. Burgan Bank has five Khaled Hassan Abbas Atta Allah Al-Danah also offers a number of unique services Now, Premier Banking customers are entitled to majority owned subsidiaries, which include Gulf Bank (Monday 28/04): Samar Mohammed Ghloum Abdullah, including the Al-Danah Deposit Only ATM card which enjoy the value added benefits through 60 exclusive Algeria - AGB (Algeria), Bank of Baghdad - BOB (Iraq & Mustafa Mahmoud Al-Masri helps account holders deposit their money at their con- discount coupons reaching up to 50 percent discounts, Lebanon), Jordan Kuwait Bank - JKB (Jordan) Tunis (Tuesday 29/04): Bader Nasser Ali Al-Houti, Muhsan Ali venience; as well as the Al-Danah calculator to help cus- that fall under the ‘buy one get one free’ program at International Bank - TIB (Tunisia), and fully owned Hussain Al-Qattan tomers calculate their chances of becoming an Al-Danah local and international restaurants, hotel and spa’s, retail Burgan Bank - Turkey, (collectively known as the (Wednesday 30/04): Maleeha Jassem Mohammed Al- winner. shops and kids entertainment centers. “Burgan Bank Group”). The Bank has continuously Shammali, Faisal Nasser Bahatei To be part of the Al-Danah draws, customers can visit ‘The Entertainer’ promotional booklet has been improved its performance over the years through an (Thursday 1/05): Mohammed Abdullah Abdulaziz Al- one of Gulf Bank’s 58 branches, transfer on line, or call the introduced as part of the bank’s wide range of valuable expanded revenue structure, diversified funding Habeeb, Faisal Fahed Abdullah Al-Asousi Customer Contact Center on 1805805 for assistance and privileges and benefits that is especially designated for sources, and a strong capital base. The adoption of Gulf Bank’s Al- Danah 2014 draw lineup includes daily guidance. Customers can also log on to www.e- Premier customers. state-of-the-art services and technology has positioned draws (2 winners per working day each receive KD1000). gulfbank.com/aldanahwinners, to find out more about Al- To find out more about Burgan Bank’s latest promo- it as a trendsetter in the domestic market and within Al- Danah’s 2nd Quarterly draw for 2014 will be held in Danah and who the winners are. tions or any of its products and services, customers are the MENA region.

Fiat Chrysler’s lofty target for Alfa Romeo unrealistic: Experts

DETROIT: Actor Dustin Hoffman made Alfa Romeo cerns about distribution, the challenge of bringing best-performing Fiat dealers, as well as high-end gling with only two models to sell. Fiat sales in the trendy for Americans by driving a red Spider 1600 eight new models to market in such a short time Maserati dealers. Fiat dealers number 344 in North United States and Canada were about 51,000 last in the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” but Alfa sales frame and the intense competition of the market. America, while Maserati locations total 91. year. In acknowledging that the company’s overall never took off in the North American market and This is not the first time Marchionne said Alfa Harold Wester, CEO for Alfa and Maserati, raised plan for the 2014 to 2018 period is aggressive, the company ultimately pulled out. Fiat Chrysler was coming to the United States. In January 2013, eyebrows when he said eight new Alfa models Marchionne said he understood Wednesday’s near- Automobiles, Alfa’s current owner, this week he said “for sure” it would return that year with the would be introduced from late 2015 through 2018. ly 12 percent drop in the stock price. “We’ve had a revealed a strategy for the sporty Italian brand to 4C sports coupe. The car is now expected to make “They’ve got to develop in the space of four years phenomenal run in 2014 ... and I am not surprised race from zero to 150,000 sales in just four years. it to the U.S. market later this year, followed by a an entire portfolio of vehicles,” AutoTrends analyst that people took some money off the table,” he But industry experts, some citing the more than higher-volume model in late 2015. Industry Joseph Phillippi said. “That’s a huge engineering said. two decades it took Volkswagen’s Audi brand to observers say Marchionne had better have his challenge.” Marchionne also said he can “pull the plug” on achieve that market level, say the plan is overly back-up plan ready. “One hundred fifty thousand While the US luxury market is growing, the com- the plan to invest 5 billion euros ($7 billion) to ambitious. sales; what’s Lincoln doing this year? And they’re petition is fierce. Mirko Mikelic, senior portfolio remake Alfa. That did not make investors feel any “It is mathematically possible for Alfa to sell trying,” said a banker who asked not to be named, manager for Clear Arc Capital, said it is hard to better about an overall plan that includes the goal 150,000 in North America by 2018, but so is win- referring to Ford’s luxury brand, which sold about believe Alfa Romeo “will come in and start of boosting annual global sales by about 60 per- ning the lottery,” LMC Automotive analyst Jeff 82,000 vehicles last year. muscling out” rivals. Among them are well-estab- cent from 2013 to 7 million vehicles. Schuster said. Fiat’s plan depends on several elements that lished brands such as Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and Fiat Chrysler also intends to boost its US market Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne and his team leave observers cold, starting with selling Alfa vehi- BMW, which are only making it tougher for com- share to 15.8 percent from 11.4 percent last year. revealed their strategy for Alfa Romeo on Tuesday cles through Fiat show-rooms. “Alfa will only work if petitors as they push down market to vehicles That would position it for second place, and ana- as part of a five-year plan to establish Fiat Chrysler it’s got a dedicated facility or it is paired with starting as low as $30,000, analysts and bankers lysts and bankers say Ford Motor Co and Toyota as a strong global automaker. But Fiat SpA’s shares another luxury brand,” said Jim Ziegler, a US auto say. Motor Corp will not let anyone pass them without fell so quickly on Wednesday that trading in them dealer consultant. “You can’t have the same sales Alfa’s planned North American return after leav- a fight. Even believers know they are taking a was suspended briefly. team selling $17,000 cars from one brand and ing in 1996 was preceded by the re-introduction of chance. “Whoever bets on Fiat today, bets on a pos- Critics of the Alfa rejuvenation plan, including $60,000 cars from another. It just doesn’t work that Fiat in 2011. However, sales of the subcompact Fiat sibility, on a potential,” said Roberto Lottici, fund investors, industry analysts and bankers, cite con- way.” Fiat Chrysler is expected to sell Alfas at its 500 have disappointed and Fiat dealers are strug- manager at Ifigest. — Reuters SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 technology EMC to acquire DSSD, extends flash storage leadership MC Corporation yesterday Networks, and formerly a co-founder of shared storage.” GemFire, etc.) over 70 percent over the first quarter of announced it has entered into a Sun Microsystems, will serve as DSSD’s David Goulden, CEO of EMC • Real-time analytics (e.g. risk manage- 2013. After less than two months of gen- Edefinitive agreement to acquire pri- strategic advisor. Information Infrastructure, said, “EMC ment, fraud detection, high-frequency eral availability in the fourth quarter of vately-held DSSD, Inc Menlo Park-based established a relationship with DSSD applications, Pivotal HD, etc.) 2013, EMCXtremIO catapulted to a mar- DSSD is the developer of an innovative Cracking the code more than a year ago. EMC led the Series • High-performance applications used ket-leading position, comfortably surpass- new rack-scale flash storage architecture As customers take advantage of the A investment in DSSD and has remained by research and government agencies ing every other all-flash array. More than for I/O-intensive in-memory databases mega trends of social, mobile, cloud and an active development partner. We’re now (e.g. genomics, facial recognition, climate 70 percent of all EMCVMAX and EMCVNX2 and Big Data workloads like SAP HANA Big Data, it will become critical to store thrilled to be joining forces with Andy, Bill analysis, etc.) systems now ship with flash capacity. With and Hadoop. The transaction is expected and analyze the vast amounts of data that and the entire DSSD team. While flash Customers desiring a platform capable this portfolio of offerings to accommo- to close in the second quarter of 2014, do not fit into main memory. Having stands among IT’s most disruptive tech- of delivering unprecedented performance date the variety of applications for flash, subject to customary closing conditions. assembled one of the most accomplished nologies, its impact and opportunity will for I/O- intensive Big Data and in-memory including EMC’s fully-automated flash tier- Financial terms were not disclosed. The systems and storage engineering teams in become even more pronounced as cus- applications like SAP HANA and Hadoop ing software, EMC stands as the industry transaction is not expected to have a Silicon Valley, DSSD has cracked the code tomers enter the 3rd Platform of IT. will choose DSSD rack-scale flash storage leader in enterprise flash storage. material impact to EMC GAAP or non- on this dilemma. Complementary to our market-leading as the fastest tier in their multi-tier storage EMC Corporation is a global leader in GAAP EPS for the full 2014 fiscal year. Andy Bechtolsheim said, “The all-flash and hybrid storage portfolio, architecture. enabling businesses and service providers Menlo Park-based DSSD will operate as prospects of what EMC and DSSD can DSSD will unlock an abundance of new to transform their operations and deliver a standalone unit within EMC’s Emerging achieve together are truly remarkable. We possibilities for customers as they build EMC flash leadership IT as a service. Fundamental to this trans- Technology Products Division reporting to ventured out to create a new storage tier out their infrastructures to support the DSSD will complement EMC’s flash- formation is cloud computing. Through Chirantan “CJ” Desai. DSSD President and for transactional and Big Data applications emerging tier of next-generation in-mem- based systems and software portfolio CEO Bill Moore, formerly Sun that have the highest performance I/O ory and Big Data workloads.” which began with EMC’s early entry into innovative products and services, EMC Microsystems’ Chief Storage Engineer, ZFS requirements. Working together with Products based on the new DSSD rack- flash storage in 2008 when it became the accelerates the journey to cloud comput- co-lead and 3Par’s first employee, will lead EMC, DSSD will deliver a new type of stor- scale flash storage architecture are first to integrate Flash drives into enter- ing, helping IT departments to store, man- the DSSD business within EMC. Andy age system with game-changing latency, expected to be available in 2015 and will prise storage arrays. In the first quarter of age, protect and analyze their most valu- Bechtolsheim, who is also Chairman and IOPS and bandwidth characteristics while be optimized for: 2014 alone, EMC sold more than 17 able asset - information - in a more agile, Chief Development Officer of Arista offering the operational efficiency of • In-memory databases (eg SAP HANA, petabytes of flash capacity, which was up trusted and cost-efficient way. Appeals court breathes new life into Oracle-Google battle ‘Software commands can be copyrighted’ SAN FRANCISCO: An appeals court on Friday Judge William Alsup California business software Fair use breathed new life into Oracle’s big-money law- titan Oracle accused Google of infringing on Appeals judges indicated in their ruling that suit against Google by ruling that software com- Java computer programming language patents Google might prevail on the legal grounds that mands can be copyrighted just like classic and copyrights Oracle obtained when it bought “fair use” made it acceptable. “Google can focus books. The case stems from 2012 trial, in which Java inventor Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion on asserting its fair use defense, and hope that Oracle claimed Google owed them billions in deal in 2009. Oracle argued that it held copy- fair use can once again bear the increasing bur- damages for using parts of the Java program- rights to how the APIs worked even if different den of ensuring that copyright spurs, rather than ming language in its Android smartphone oper- strings of code were used to orchestrate the impedes, innovation,” the EFF said. ating system. tasks. “We’re confident that it can, but it shouldn’t The case is being closely watched in Silicon In the fast-paced land of Internet innovation, have to.” Oracle depicted the appeals court deci- Valley, where some champions of Internet free- it has been common for software writers to put sion as “a win for Oracle and the entire software dom worry that extending copyright protection their own spins on APIs that mini-programs use industry that relies on copyright protection to BOSTON: Beats Audio equipment is arranged for a photo next to an Apple laptop at to these bits of code, called application pro- to “talk” to one another. Google denied the fuel innovation and ensure that developers are Best Buy in Boston on Friday. Apple is orchestrating a $3.2 billion acquisition of gramming interfaces, or APIs, would threaten claims and said it believes mobile phone makers rewarded for their breakthroughs,” its general Beats Electronics.—AP innovation. A panel of three judges in the US and other users of its open-source Android oper- counsel, Dorian Daley, said in an email response Federal Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that ating system are entitled to use the Java tech- to an AFP inquiry. the trial court in 2012 erred and that it is bound nology in dispute. “We are extremely pleased that the Federal to afford APIs protection under copyright laws Apple on verge of buying “When there is only one way to express an Circuit denied Google’s attempt to drastically “until either the Supreme Court or Congress tells idea or function, then everyone is free to do so limit copyright protection for computer code,” Beats for $3.2bn: Report us otherwise.” and no one can monopolize that expression,” “We’re disappointed-and worried,” the he added. But Google said it was “disappointed” Alsup said in his ruling last year. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said in a by the ruling, “which sets a damaging precedent SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is orchestrating a money to buying back the company’s “So long as the specific code used to imple- for computer science and software develop- $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, shares. Apple’s pursuit of Beats Electronics blog post about the appeals court decision. “The implications of this decision are signifi- ment a method is different, anyone is free under ment, and are considering our options.” Google the headphone maker and music stream- is the latest indication that the company is the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to unveiled the free Android operating system two ing distributor founded by hip-hop star Dr having trouble generating growth on its cant, and dangerous.” The EFF and other groups worry the decision could herald an explosion in carry out exactly the same function or specifica- years before Oracle bought Sun. Dre and music industry impresario Jimmy own. Apple already sells Beats Electronics tion of any methods used in the Java API.” The outcome of the original trial left Oracle Iovine, according to a published report. gear in its stores, giving the company legal battles over software spreading to copy- rights in how code is written. But the appellate judges disagreed and sent eligible for a relative pittance in damages based Citing people familiar with the negotia- insights into how much the trendy head- the case back to Alsup. Google could appeal to jurors finding that it misused nine lines of Java tions, The Financial Times says Apple could phones and other audio equipment appeal the full appeals court panel and even pursue it code in Android in an inconsequential win for announce the deal as early as next week. In to its customers. Could go to Supreme Court to the US Supreme Court. Oracle. —AFP its report posted online late Thursday, the The negotiations also are taking place as In the 2012 trial before US District Court newspaper warned the talks could still col- the music market increasingly tilts toward lapse if the two sides cannot agree on streaming and away from the downloads some final details. Both Apple Inc and Beats that once drove the success of Apple’s digi- Electronics declined to comment to The tal music store, iTunes. Associated Press. US revenue from downloads - which The potential acquisition would add iTunes dominates - dropped 1 percent to Beats Electronics’ popular line of head- $2.8 billion in 2013, while streaming music phones and music streaming service to an revenue from the likes of Pandora and Apple line-up that already includes digital Spotify soared 39 percent to $1.4 billion, music players and the iTunes store, the according to the Recording Industry world’s top music retailer. If the deal is com- Association of America. pleted, it would be by far the largest pur- While downloads still command 40 per- chase in Apple Inc.’s 38-year history. The cent of the market, streaming revenue now Cupertino company has traditionally seen accounts for 20 percent of total revenue, up little need to buy technology from other from just 3 percent in 2007. companies, reflecting Apple’s confidence in Beats Electronics LLC was founded in its ability to turn its own ideas into revolu- Santa Monica, California in 2008 by Dr. Dre tionary products such as the Mac comput- and Jimmy Iovine. Its headphones were er, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. manufactured by Monster Cable until the But Apple hasn’t released a break- two companies parted ways in 2012. The through product since its former CEO and headphones have become a bit of status chief visionary, Steve Jobs, died in October symbol worn by celebrities as well as 2011. The innovative void has increased the audiophiles. pressure on Jobs’ hand-picked successor, In 2012, Beats bought streaming music Tim Cook, to prove he is capable of sustain- service MOG, which it transformed and ing the success and growth that turned relaunched as Beats Music earlier this year. Apple into the world’s most valuable com- The launch was fueled by a landmark part- pany and a beloved brand. nership with AT&T that allowed up to five Cook has shown a willingness to spend family members to pay $15 a month for the more of Apple’s money than Job ever did. service as long as they were AT&T wireless Among other things, Cook began paying customers. The deal broke the industry Apple stockholders a quarterly dividend mold of charging each person $10 per and has progressively committed more month. —AP Beats co-founder Iovine could

be key Apple deal ingredient QAZVIN: Qazvin Azad University students assemble the rectangular Havin-2, or Brilliant Sun, in Qazvin, Iran. The flat, rectangular Havin-2, drove for tests alongside slightly larger gas-powered motor vehicles outside the capital, Tehran, ahead of the eight-day, 1,700-mile (2,700-kilo- NEW YORK: When music producer Jimmy time, given the music’s explicit lyrics. The polit- meter) race that will take it from Austin, Texas to Minneapolis. — AP Iovine pitched his friend Steve Jobs on a ical uproar eventually prompted Time Warner streaming music service in 2003, the Apple having to sell the label. It was bought by founder was unconvinced. Universal Music Group, in 1995. Now, 11 years later, Jobs’ successor looks “He’s one of these guys that bring intangi- Iran students gear up solar poised to pay generously for a more evolved bles,” said Bill Werde, entrepreneur at version of that service, and to bring on board Guggenheim Digital and former editorial Iovine into the bargain, betting that he can director at Billboard magazine. “Sometimes bring Apple some of the same creative flair you need a jolt of energy and Jimmy is certain- car for US challenge that has made him a legend in the music busi- ly a guy who can provide that.” ness. Iovine, CEO and co-founder of the Beats In a Jan 2013 interview with AllThingsD, TEHRAN: Clouds may still linger over relations to optimize the car’s absorption of solar energy growth, particularly in the field of clean energies headphones and music streaming service Iovine said he pitched a subscription service to between Washington and Tehran, but that’s not based on the route it plans to take. “We first do a that can help us reduce dependency on oil. Apple is close to buying for $3.2 billion, is best Apple’s Jobs around 2003, but the Silicon stopping a group of Iranian students and their simulation of the actual race course and study the Especially now that our country is in dire need of known as the co-founder of Interscope Valley icon was not keen on it right away. Still, teachers from gearing up for a summer road trip weather conditions there. Then we try to calculate cutting off reliance on energies derived from oil by records, a rap music pioneer which has since Iovine is said to be have been close to Jobs through the American heartland. Fueled by the sun what the sun’s angles would be during the eight- all means.” branched out to include acts like Lady Gaga and helped him broker deals to co-market and their hopes to shine in a first for the Islamic days,” she said. The 220-kilogram (485-pound) vehi- Last month, Tehran cut a portion of its energy and U2. products such as a U2-branded iPod and music Republic, the 19-strong team is preparing to bring cle is 4.5 meters (15 feet) long, 1.8 meters (6 feet) and fuel subsidies in order to bring prices closer to If he does join Apple, the 61-year-old pro- videos by the rapper 50 Cent holding an iPod. an Iranian solar car to compete in the United States wide and 1.1 meters (4 feet) tall, with a cockpit-like international levels, nearly doubling some prices at ducer could lend a hand to CEO Tim Cook and Iovine founded Beats in 2006 with rapper for the first time, in the American Solar Challenge canopy for the driver. With photovoltaic cells cover- the pump and testing public support for such try to bolster its subscription music services - Dr Dre and its big, distinctive headphones in July. The flat, rectangular Havin-2, or Brilliant ing some 6 square meters (65 square feet) of its measures in a country battered by inflation and which have yet to catch fire - as well as at found wide distribution, including in Apple Sun, drove for tests alongside slightly larger gas- surface, the car’s lithium-Ion batteries can drive it economic sanctions imposed over its contested iTunes, which has seen growth in downloads stores. The brand launched a music streaming powered motor vehicles last week on a stretch of up to four hours between 90 to 150 kph (56 to 93 nuclear program. Subsidies have kept the cost of virtually evaporate. service earlier this year. It remains a fledgling highway in Iran’s mountainous north, ahead of the mph). The car’s predecessor, the Havin-1, ranked gasoline artificially low, and were blamed for mak- A source familiar with the deal said Iovine venture although it has gotten attention for eight-day, 1,700-mile (2,700-kilometer) race that 17th in the 2011 World Solar Challenge in Australia. ing petrol cheaper than bottled mineral water. The would likely leave his record label and join what some say is a unique ability to personal- will take it from Austin, Texas to Minneapolis, The team is sponsored by an Iranian bank and a car cuts aim to release government money for produc- Apple to run Beats, but it hasn’t been deter- ize music. Iovine met with Apple CEO Tim Cook Minnesota. battery producer, which paid some $150,000 to tion and infrastructural projects in order to mined if he would take on a greater role. It also in March 2013 to discuss the music service. While the engine and photovoltaic panels are build the car. Attendance in the event, including improve efficiency and bolster the economy. isn’t yet clear whether Beats would operate as Iovine’s music industry relationships will be imported, the team designed and developed a travel, is expected to cost the same amount. Transportation expert Masoud Mohajer said an independent unit or to whom its executives valuable to Apple because they could make Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) system for Professor Beitollah Akbari, who manages the solar energy could potentially be a good invest- would report. licensing for a future streaming service easier. the car, which interconnects inverters, battery Havin-2 team, said he believes the project could ment for the government, given that the country After working as a sound engineer for The company’s iTunes’ revenue, which includes chargers and other devices to optimize its photo- help advance the cause of clean energy in a coun- has more than 300 sunny days a year to power artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Iovine in apps and books in addition to music, has voltaic cells. try where generous state subsidies have encour- the cells. “As Iran cuts energy and fuel subsidies, 1989 co-founded Interscope, which became decelerated, with growth dropping below 10 Farkhondeh Naziri, 20, in charge of electronics aged massive use of motor vehicles. solar energy, which is available almost all across one of the largest US music labels. It took a bet percent in the most recent quarter, according on the project and the only female member of the “Our young scholars and university students the country, will be able a good alternative,” he on rap music that was controversial at the to BTIG Research.—Reuters team from Qazvin Azad University, said they plan can significantly contribute to Iran’s economic said. —AP HEALTH & SCIENCE SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

American MERS patient released from hospital

MUNSTER: The first American diagnosed with a and Indiana health officials. Multiple tests the patient.” mysterious virus from the Middle East was “The patient has tested negative for MERS, is The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention That statement said no additional cases of released Friday from a northwestern Indiana hos- no longer symptomatic and poses no threat to the said the patient is an American man. He flew from MERS have been identified. pital after health officials determined the patient community,” Kumar said in the statement. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to the United States on April Though the virus is not highly contagious, the “poses no threat to the community.” MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that 24, with a stop in London. He landed at Chicago’s hospital has isolated at home 50 employees iden- The patient is considered fully recovered and also includes the common cold and SARS, or O’Hare International Airport and took a bus to tified as having come in contact with the man has been cleared by health officials to travel, if severe acute respiratory syndrome. Indiana, health officials said. before he was diagnosed. Friday’s statement said necessary, after testing negative for Middle East The virus appears to be unusually lethal - by He went to the Munster hospital’s emergency those staffers remain off duty and in temporary Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, the Indiana State some estimates, it has killed nearly a third of the room April 28 with a fever, cough and shortness of home isolation “and are being closely monitored Department of Health said in a statement. people it sickened. That’s a far higher percentage breath. for symptoms.” Community Hospital chief medical information than seasonal flu or other routine infections. But it Health officials said in Friday’s statement that Those workers will not be allowed to return to officer Dr. Alan Kumar said hospital officials com- is not as contagious as flu, measles or other dis- multiple tests done at different times by the work at the hospital until after the MERS “incuba- pleted their discharge plans for the patient with eases. There is no vaccine or cure, and there’s no Indiana State Laboratory and the CDC “were nega- tion period and confirmed negative laboratory the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specific treatment except to relieve symptoms. tive for the presence of ongoing MERS infection in results,” the statement said. — AP Obesity crisis at breaking point Two out of three Americans overweight

LOS ANGELES: The US food industry’s responsibility in fueling rising obesity levels is put under the microscope in a documentary released in the United States this weekend. “Fed Up” examines why, while there is a boom in gym membership and a surge in shoppers seeking low-fat alternatives on supermarket shelves, two out of three Americans are over- weight. PERIJEDOR: A Norwegian Red calf waits for food inside a farm in the village of “Obesity has been a problem for the last 30 Kozarac, near Bosnian town of Perijedor. — AP years and I think we are reaching the breaking point,” director Stephanie Soechtig said in an interview ahead of the film’s US release. Norwegian cows get full “At the end of the day, I think it comes down to money, I thinks there’s a lot of money pampering in Bosnia in the food industry and it influences politics, unfortunately.” The film, which opened on limited release KOZARAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina: There during six months of Norway’s harsh in US cinemas Friday, shows how the food is reason to envy Jusuf Arifagic’s cows. winter and would help reduce Bosnia’s industry has managed to persuade US author- In a country where half of the popula- almost 40 percent unemployment rate. ities to recommend that 25 percent of calories tion is living in poverty, his animals sleep Arifagic and his 25 employees moni- come from sugar. on mattresses in a barn with a computer- tor every corner of the rubber-floored The World Health Organization says the fig- ized air conditioning and lighting sys- barn on computer screens. The huge hall ure should be 2.5 times less. tem. They are bathed regularly, get a looks almost empty, as most of the ani- Director Stephanie Soechtig “I think we can say that the government is massage whenever they feel like it and mals prefer to hang out by the six auto- right now more interested in making money receive the occasional pedicure. matic car wash-style brushes, enjoying First Lady Michelle Obama has weighed in changes.” The data is striking: in 1980, there than taking care of its society,” Soechtig said. Relaxing music - sometimes classic, massages. A computer regulates the on the issue with her “Let’s Move!” campaign, were no cases of type 2 diabetes in children sometimes local serenades - makes sure temperature, the quality of air and the and politicians have put pressure on food and teens aged eight to 19 in the United Resist the temptation milking is not stressful. lighting, keeping the cows healthy. companies to reduce sugar levels. States. The problem is not unique to the United “Nobody should envy my cows. Arifagic’s calculation: Pampered cows But brands like Coca Cola, Pizza Hut and Two decades later, there were 57,638 cases States. The WHO has also sounded the alarm Everybody should just realize that the give five liters more of milk a day. Pepsi have not disappeared from school refec- recorded. “Fed Up,” which Soechtig first pre- in Jordan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa visa for the future is science,” said Jusuf Multiply that by hundreds of cows and tories and corridors. sented at the Sundance Film Festival in and Venezuela, among other countries where Arifagic, the 52-year-old farmer every- “although initially expensive, advanced January, insists that parents can help reverse more than 30 percent of the population is body around Kozarac in northwestern technology really pays off in just a few ‘We can change’ the trend. obese or overweight. Bosnia is talking about. years,” he said. Nutritionists have been warning about the “We can change the food industry, to In the movie, three children recount their Arifagic brought the concept of pam- Veterinarian inspector Velibor Kesic problem of obesity for decades. The issues are change its way by not buying its products and efforts to combine diet and exercise to fight pering cows from Norway where he lived says Arifagic’s concept is also making his well known by experts: sedentary lifestyles, we can pressure our politicians by voting for the flab. Despite their best efforts, they con- as a refugee after fleeing from Bosnia’s job easier by showing other farmers how high-calorie diets and poor policy choices politicians that support the same needs and tinue to gain weight as processed, sugar-rich 1992-95 war. to reduce infectious diseases. among them. desires that will make us a better society,” foods are all around them. The luxury cow treatment has certain- “There are a lot of good people in the gov- Soechtig said. “Parents are incredibly power- At school, the lunchtime cafeteria offers a More milk ly stunned the neighbors in Kozarac. ernment trying to do really good things,” said ful. They also need to create a safer environ- menu of pizzas, nachos and hot dogs. After years of negotiations with both “My barn can’t compare to his,” said the filmmaker. “But there are a lot of people mental at home and make sure the food is The documentary criticized the fact that in countries, Arifagic invested 8 million farmer Dervis Menhovic, whose family that have financial interests. So I think once available for their kids.” And she said: “This is 2006, 80 percent of high schools had con- euros ($11 million) into the luxury farm keeps seven cows squeezed into a tradi- people hear what’s been going on, it will gal- the kind of fight parents and kids need to do. tracts with soft drink companies and in 2012, that started four months ago with the tional barn next to his house. “His is a vanize people to get involved and make Kids are future voters. I think anyone needs to half of all schools served fast food. importation of 115 Norwegian Red Cows hotel.” changes in their own lives and make bigger get involved.” — AFP - a tough and hornless animal bred over The new facility holds another, maybe the past 75 years to produce more and even more important benefit for Bosnia. better milk. His plan is to expand to 5,000 Both Serbs and Bosniaks work at cows, creating the biggest facility in Arifagic’s farm - the entrepreneur has no Europe for this type of animal. time for the animosities of the past. He wants other farmers in Bosnia to “We live, work and create here,” he follow suit so Norway can one day move said. “For the first time since the war, some of its diary production to Bosnia. young and educated people are return- That would avoid the high heating costs ing to Kozarac.” — AP Court upholds stronger soot standard

WASHINGTON: A federal appeals court yes- failed to request comment on whether to terday rejected an industry challenge to revise the standards and that it afforded too stronger health standards for soot. much weight to studies finding statistically The US Court of Appeals for the District of significant associations between particulate Columbia Circuit says the Clean Air Act gives matter and adverse health effects. the Environmental Protection Agency sub- The challengers “simply have not identi- stantial discretion in setting air quality stan- fied any way in which EPA jumped the rails of dards. reasonableness in examining the science,” The revisions followed a determination by Judge Brett Kavanaugh ruled. the EPA that existing standards for fine partic- The ruling is the second recent victory for MEXICO CITY: A man wearing a Mexican wrestling mask with the design of a marijuana leaf smokes a joint during a rally calling for the legaliza- ulate matter did not sufficiently protect pub- the EPA. tion of marijuana in Mexico City. —- AP lic health. Fine particles can lodge deeply into Last month, the Supreme Court backed lungs and cause serious health problems. federally imposed limits on smokestack emis- The appeals court ruled 3-0 that the sions that cross state lines and burden down- industry simply had not identified any way in wind areas with bad air from power plants Symphony urged to cancel which the EPA acted unreasonably. The court they can’t control. said the EPA offered reasoned explanations Environmental groups praised Friday’s rul- for how it approached and weighed the evi- ing. Nick Morales, lead counsel on the case cannabis concerts dence for Earthjustice, said the court ruling will save The National Association of Manufacturers tens of thousands of lives and more than a argued that the EPA’s revision to the standard billion dollars in health related costs every DENVER: The city of Denver is urging the Colorado small fundraising performances at a Denver art could violate state laws against public consump- was unreasonable. year. Earthjustice intervened in support of Symphony to call off a series of pot-themed gallery, which will feature a separate smoking area tion of marijuana. The city says the private art The EPA eliminated a provision that could the EPA. fundraising concerts, saying that even though mar- for attendees. It culminates with a fourth concert at gallery may be considered a public space under result in a standard that was not sufficiently “The national air quality standards for par- ijuana is now legal in the state, the drug cannot be the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater, where mari- state law. The city warned that it may not be able to protective of sensitive individuals. It also ticulate pollution that were affirmed by the smoked at events. The newly announced series is juana consumption is technically illegal, though issue event permits that would allow the concerts required the installation of additional moni- court today provide a bedrock scientific foun- strictly BYOC, or “bring your own cannabis,” and is often indulged in. Attendance is limited to ages 21 to occur, The Denver Post reported. tors near heavily trafficked roads in urban dation to ensure healthier, longer lives for our being sponsored by some of the state’s burgeoning and over. The series is part of efforts by Colorado’s lone areas where more than 1 million people live. families,” said Environmental Defense Fund marijuana businesses. But the Denver city attorney’s office issued let- professional orchestra to reach out to a younger, The industrial challengers said the EPA attorney Peter Zalzal. —-AP It’s set to begin May 23, with the first of three ters Thursday warning the orchestra that the series more diverse audience. — AP Can Washington tax marijuana?

SEATTLE: A federal lawsuit is challenging Washington ing taxes on recreational marijuana, too. Department of Revenue for not collecting and remitting bank account. Hiatt said it’s important to get an answer state’s authority to tax marijuana as long as marijuana The author of Washington’s recreational pot law, taxes on the pot he was allegedly distributing. Nickerson from a federal court about whether the state took that remains illegal under federal law. Alison Holcomb, disagreed. She doesn’t expect the law- can’t pay the tax without incriminating himself in the money legally. The case arises from the state’s attempt to collect sales suit to get very far. criminal case, in violation of his constitutional rights, Hiatt opposed Washington’s recreational marijuana taxes from a medical marijuana dispensary in Bellingham. Hiatt is representing the dispensary’s operator, Martin Hiatt argued. law and argues any meaningful drug law reform must But lawyer Douglas Hiatt, who filed it late Thursday, said Nickerson, who is simultaneously being prosecuted crim- Furthermore, the state, which says Nickerson owes come at the federal level. Nevertheless, he said he doesn’t it could throw a wrench in Washington’s plans for collect- inally for marijuana distribution and targeted by the state more than $62,000, has seized more than $800 from his want to “look like the guy spoiling the party.”—AP HEALTH & SCIENCE SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

ICSK Amman branch celebrates World Earth Day

Artist Johnarts Kalabhavan is presenting a caricature to award winning south Indian singer Forum of Cad Users elected, under the leadership of Salim Raj co-coordinator S Ratheesh Kumar, web Vijayalakshmi in a recent function in Kuwait. Johnarts is awaiting his world record of presenting carica- master Shaheer RU, welfare convener D’silva John, Jt Convener Shaji Kutty, Bindu Santhosh Kumar, tures to VIPs on stage approved. Sheeba C. Wilson as executive members. KEF to hold ‘KINETIC 2014’ today uwait Engineers’ Forum (KEF) for National Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Scientific Advisory Committee to Govt will conduct a Technical Saleh Al-Omair will inaugurate the of India Ministry of Petroleum & KConference & Exhibition (KINET- Technical Conference. Sunil Jain, Natural Gas & former Chairman of IC 2014) today from 8 am to 3.15 pm Ambassador of India, Kuwait will Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, on the theme ‘Trends in Energy & deliver the opening address. Ahmad Ayad Al-Humoud, Chairman, Kuwait Environment: Engineering & Al-Jemaz, Deputy Chief Executive Society of Engineers and Mohammad Management Challenges’ at Radisson Officer - KNPC will give the keynote Al-Basry, Team Leader Information, Blu Hotel, Arabian Gulf Road, Kuwait. address at the opening session. KOC will felicitate the function. Yousef Minister of Oil and Minister of State Arun Balakrishnan, Chairman Al-Bucker, Manager, Export Operations - KOC will release the KINETIC 2014 technical journal in the inaugural function. KEF General Convener Suresh Krishnan will preside over the function. Addressing a press conference in Abbassiya on May 7, the organizers said that the conference would include speakers of eminence from Oil & Gas, petrochemicals, environment regulatory bodies, governmental bod- ies and other industries. Presentations and special sessions on focus areas will be given by experts, professionals and manufacturers. The event will highlight the trends and emerging challenges in the areas of energy, Elementary students at Fawzia Sultan International School (FSIS) performed their latest musical environment and management, play, titled Peter Pan, an adaptation of the original piece, that showcased students talents in danc- which has special relevance to Kuwait. ing, singing and acting before an audience of parents and staff members. WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 LuLu Exchange expands outreach with new branch

uwait’s leading remittance and foreign exchange com- strategy of providing quality services to its clients. His open new branch in Fahaheel to meet all of our customers’ changing market dynamics. Our expansion is based on extensive pany, LuLu Exchange Company yesterday opened its Excellency Sunil Jain, Ambassador of India to Kuwait inaugu- remittance needs and to provide them with efficient money market research and our confidence in long- and short-term eco- Kbrand new outlet in Fahaheel region. The exchange rated the new branch located behind NBK (National Bank of exchange services. The opening of the new branch will meet nomic indicators in the State of Kuwait. We at LuLu Exchange house which is keen to expand its network and to enhance its Kuwait) on Dabbous Street in Fahaheel, in the presence of the the strong demand we are witnessing from existing and facilitate financial transaction services that are secure, instant and customer outreach now has a total branch count of twelve in senior management of LuLu Exchange and other dignitaries. potential customers in this area.” compliant through state-of-the-art systems that deliver flexibility, the country. This is also the Exchange’s second outlet in Commenting on the opening, Adeeb Ahamed, Director - “This branch is dedicated to the service of our valued cus- speed, reliability, and transparency,” Ahamed added. At present Fahaheel region. The new branch will increase convenience LuLu Exchange Company, Kuwait said, “In line with our plans to tomers. LuLu Exchange is keen on building a strategic network the exchange house has branches in Al Rai, Abbasiya, Fahaheel, for customers reinforcing the company’s customer-centric increase our branch network coverage, we are very proud to across Kuwait, considering the needs of customers as well as the Farwaniya, Mahaboula, Mangaf, Mirgab, Dajeej and Mubarikiya.

Radisson Blu honored at Business Traveler Middle East Awards 2014

he Middle East’s leading travel and agers present, the event was hosted by hospitality operators were honored at Motivate and Panacea Publishing. Ian Tthe annual Business Traveler Middle Fairservice, Managing partner and Group East Awards 2014 this week. The Radisson Editor-in-Chief of Motivate said this year’s Blu Hotel, Kuwait shone in the Kuwait cate- winners were a pleasant mix of established gory winning as the magazine’s premium- and new operators. “Our readers have sided travelling readers voted Radisson Blu as the with many of the well-known operators, ‘Best Business Hotel in Kuwait’. Heinz Beck, which once again have delivered consistently the award-winning Michelin-starred chef, high service levels amid increasing competi- who recently launched Social by Heinz Beck tion, while warming to the new properties at the Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah, that are embracing innovative and contem- presented the awards at the new, luxurious porary concepts,” he said. Full coverage of this he Omaiya Bint Qais Middle School for Girls in Dhahar celebrated the opening of the science laboratories and workshops five-star resort. year’s awards will appear in the May/June recently. Samah Showqi presented a workshop about Students Motivation Methods. With more than 300 travel industry man- issue of Business Traveller Middle East. T TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

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Of course, reticent filmmakers are not a 00:30 The Spin Crowd 04:15 The Weakest Link rare breed, but his humble whispers qualify as a sur- 00:55 The Spin Crowd R 05:00 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll prise given the strength of his comedic voice. He was presi- 01:25 Secret Societies Of 05:20 The Green Balloon Club Hollywood dent of the famed Footlights comedy group at Cambridge 05:45 Poetry Pie 03:15 THS in the late ‘90s, where he worked alongside the likes of John 05:50 Nina And The Neurons: In 04:10 Beyond Candid With Giuliana Oliver (his vice president) and David Mitchell (of “Peep The Lab 00:20 Planet Carnivore 05:05 Extreme Close-Up Show” fame). With classmate Matthew Holness, he created 06:05 Bobinogs 01:10 Search For The Giant 05:30 Extreme Close-Up the character Garth Marenghi, an insufferable and remark- 06:15 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll Octopus 06:00 15 Remarkable Celebrity ably untalented horror writer who nonetheless was a best- 06:35 The Green Balloon Club 02:00 Monster Fish Body Bouncebacks selling author. 07:00 Poetry Pie 02:50 Megafish 07:50 Style Star The character ultimately got its own TV series, “Garth 07:05 Nina And The Neurons: In 03:45 Touching the Dragon TED ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 08:20 E! News Marenghi’s Darkplace,” a purposely awkward and hilariously The Lab 04:40 Predator CSI 09:15 Scouted painful send-up of 1980s medical dramas with action 07:15 Last Of The Summer Wine 05:35 Animals Gone Wild 08:00 Seinfeld PG15 10:15 The Drama Queen 22:00 The Baytown Outlaws movie cliches. It only lasted one season (and a subsequent 07:50 King Edward VII: King Of 06:30 The incredible Dr. pol 08:30 My Boys 08:00 Tin Cup-PG15 11:10 Eric And Jessie: Game On 23:45 Girl In Progress spinoff), but has become a cult classic. The series also Pleasure 07:25 Tiger Man 09:00 Dads 10:15 A Heartbeat Away-PG15 11:35 Eric And Jessie: Game On helped Ayoade, who played a hospital administrator/TV 08:40 Doctor Who 08:20 Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy 09:30 Cougar Town 12:00 Dating Coach-PG15 12:05 E! News 09:25 The Weakest Link 09:15 World’s Weirdest Pets 10:00 Melissa & Joey 14:00 A Thousand Words-PG15 producer in the show, score the role for which he is most 13:05 Beyond Candid With Giuliana 10:10 Absolutely Fabulous 10:10 Kangaroo Kaos 10:30 Friends 16:00 A Heartbeat Away-PG15 famous: Moss, the geeky tech wiz opposite Chris O’Dowd in 14:05 Keeping Up With The 01:00 Trans World Sport 10:40 Me & Mrs Jones 11:05 Monster Jellyfish 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 18:00 10 Things I Hate About You- Graham Linehan’s comedy “The IT Crowd.” Kardashians 02:00 Live NHL 11:10 Last Of The Summer Wine 12:00 Monster Fish Jimmy Fallon PG15 While working on that show, Ayoade began collaborat- 15:00 Keeping Up With The 05:00 NRL Premiership 11:40 The Weakest Link 12:55 Monster Fish 12:30 Seinfeld 20:00 Detention-18 ing with Avi Korine (brother of “Spring Breakers” director Kardashians 07:00 Live NRL Premiership 12:25 King Edward VII: King Of 13:50 Hooked 13:00 My Boys 22:00 The Hot Potato-PG15 Harmony Korine) on a semi-modernized screenplay adap- 16:00 Giuliana & Bill 09:00 Live Super Rugby Pleasure 14:45 Man-Eater of The Congo 13:30 Friends tation of Dostoyevsky’s novella “The Double.” They put it on 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 11:00 ICC Cricket 360 13:15 Doctor Who 15:40 Wild Florida 14:00 The Neighbors the back burner while Ayoade made his directorial debut 18:00 E! News 11:30 PGA Tour 14:00 Doctors 16:35 Wild Florida 14:30 Cougar Town on the critically acclaimed coming-of-age film “Submarine,” 19:00 Fashion Police 18:00 NHL 14:30 Doctors 17:30 I, Predator 15:00 Melissa & Joey which helped “The Double” pick up steam, cast members 19:30 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 20:00 Live PGA Tour 15:00 Doctors 18:25 World’s Weirdest 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon and financing. Ayoade’s version of “The Double” is set in a 20:00 Keeping Up With The 15:30 Doctors 19:20 Monster Fish Stewart 01:00 Dark Tide Kardashians punishing bureaucratic nightmare world, where the gears 16:00 Doctors 20:10 Monster Fish 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 03:00 Dream House 21:00 Keeping Up With The of capitalism grind the sad occupants of Soviet-like utilitari- 16:30 Doctor Who 21:00 Hooked 18:00 Dads 05:00 The Woman In The Fifth Kardashians 02:30 NRL Premiership an buildings. It was in fact shot in an old, crumbling busi- 17:15 King Edward VII: King Of 21:50 Man-Eater of The Congo 18:30 The Neighbors 07:00 The Speed Of Thought 22:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 04:30 ICC Cricket 360 ness estate outside of London, the sort of place that went Pleasure 22:40 Wild Florida 19:00 2 Broke Girls 09:00 Anna Karenina 22:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 05:00 Super Rugby up after World War II and serviced many people, few of 18:05 Upstairs Downstairs 23:30 Wild Florida 19:30 Melissa & Joey 11:15 The Host 23:00 Hello Ross 07:00 Trans World Sport them happy. 19:00 Me & Mrs Jones 20:00 Men At Work 13:30 The Wild Girl 23:30 Chelsea Lately 08:00 Live NRL Premiership But the movie, which stars Jesse Eisenberg, has a per- 19:30 Absolutely Fabulous 20:30 Parks And Recreation 15:00 Reviving Ophelia 10:00 Futbol Mundial verse comedy to it. Eisenberg plays a sad and timid man 20:00 Silk 21:00 The Daily Show Global 17:00 The Forger 10:30 Total Rugby named Simon who one day meets a man who looks exactly 20:50 Waking The Dead Edition 19:00 Stuck In Love 11:00 Live HSBC Sevens World like him - only he’s the only one that realizes that this guy, 21:45 Rev. 21:30 The Colbert Report Global 21:00 The Impossible Series who is far more outgoing and charming, is his 22:15 Alan Carr: Chatty Man Edition 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 23:00 Buried 20:00 Futbol Mundial doppelg‰nger. This version of Simon - also played by 23:00 Being Erica 23:00 Weeds Stewart 20:30 ICC Cricket 360 Eisenberg - rises quickly in their company and romances 23:45 Me & Mrs Jones 23:30 Men At Work 01:20 Ant And Dec’s Saturday 01:30 Saturday Night Live 21:00 Trans World Sport Simon’s crush, played by Mia Wasikowska (old Ayoade Night Takeaway 02:30 Weeds 22:00 IndyCar Series friend O’Dowd also has a role here). As you might imagine, 02:25 Come Dine With Me Ireland 03:00 Dads this causes madness on many different levels. Ayoade sat 03:30 The Neighbors 02:55 Emmerdale down with TheWrap last week to discuss his film and career. 04:00 Seinfeld 01:45 Wish You Were Here-PG15 05:00 The Hungry Sailors 00:00 Graceland TheWrap: The movie is much funnier than it should be, by 05:55 Four Weddings UK 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 03:15 American Gangster-18 01:00 Castle 06:00 Timer-PG15 the look of it or subject matter. How do you sneak in 06:45 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Jimmy Fallon 02:00 Sons Of Anarchy 00:05 The Great War Diaries 07:45 Hoosiers-PG humor? Night Takeaway 05:30 My Boys 03:00 Nip/Tuck 01:00 IPL 00:55 The Great War Diaries 09:45 The Flowers Of War-PG15 Richard Ayoade: I think the idea of it is funny, just saying, 07:50 Tom Daley Goes Global 06:00 The Goodwin Games 04:00 Bones 04:30 ICC Cricket 360 01:45 Finding Bigfoot 12:15 The Lucky One-PG15 “Do you notice any similarities between us in that way?” “No 08:45 Blandings 06:30 Friends 05:00 Criminal Minds 05:00 IPL Highlights 02:35 How Stuff’s Made 14:00 Cool It-PG15 ...” That always struck me as funny, and I think Dostoyevsky 09:20 Dirk Gently 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 06:00 IPL Highlights 06:00 Graceland 15:30 Will-PG always meant it as funny, and it’s funny that (Eisenberg) 07:00 IPL Highlights 07:00 Devious Maids 17:15 The Lucky One-PG15 gets it into that kind of rage, the kind of impotent person 08:00 IPL Highlights 08:00 Zero Hour 19:00 Switchback-PG15 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 battling against the world, which I think Larry David and 09:00 Criminal Minds 21:00 50/50-PG15 09:30 IPL Highlights Louis C.K. do. “Notes From Underground” could be a “Curb 10:00 Castle 23:00 Between Us-PG15 11:00 Bones 10:30 IPL Highlights Your Enthusiasm” episode in a way. This awful dinner date, 12:00 Emmerdale 11:30 IPL Highlights this awful dinner with his friends where he gets humiliated, 12:30 Coronation Street 12:30 IPL Highlights and this other thing where he becomes obsessed with 14:00 Zero Hour 13:30 Live IPL someone who bumps into him and he wants to bump back 15:00 Graceland 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 into him, this is like a “Seinfeld” episode. So I think it’s inher- 16:00 Emmerdale 01:00 Age Of Heroes-PG15 17:30 Live IPL ent in there, and black situations are often funny to me. 16:30 Coronation Street 02:45 Oblivion-PG15 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 How did you do the actual double work with Eisenberg? 17:00 American Idol 05:00 The Cold Light Of Day-PG15 21:30 IPL We didn’t do face replacement. It was either old-fashioned 18:00 Zero Hour 07:00 Hitchcock-PG15 split screen or motion control, which I guess has been 19:00 Burn Notice 09:00 Midnight In Paris-PG15 around since the ‘80s or maybe even late ‘70s. He does one 20:00 Top Gear (US) 10:45 Oblivion-PG15 character and then you pick a take and then he performs 21:00 Witches Of East End 12:45 Lovestruck: The Musical- the other character with an earpiece, so you never see the PG15 22:00 Supernatural 01:25 Telefon-PG scene until afterwards. It’s hard to do technically, because 23:00 Nip/Tuck 14:30 The Dark Knight Rises-PG15 it’s almost like recording the second track of music, you 17:15 Midnight In Paris-PG15 03:05 Westworld have to lock in precisely the timing - both verbally because 19:00 Now You See Me-PG15 04:30 The Yellow Rolls-Royce-PG 21:00 Fast & Furious 6-PG15 07:00 It Happened At The World’s we wanted the characters to overlap, which is hard to do, 23:30 Broken City-18 Fair-FAM and then also them looking at one another the right way. 00:00 Starship Troopers 08:45 Ben-Hur-PG It sounds like an impossible way to act. It’s everything 02:15 Sutures 12:15 The Yellow Rolls-Royce-PG you wouldn’t want. He managed to be technically precise 04:00 Cherry Falls 14:15 A Patch Of Blue-PG but still have the spontaneity you need. But Jesse is great. 05:45 The Bourne Legacy 16:00 Return Of The Gunfighter-PG He’s very funny, and I think in some ways, it’s unusual for an 08:00 Grosse Pointe Blank 01:15 Moomins And The Comet 17:40 Cheyenne Autumn-FAM actor to be as intelligent for Jesse, so that can come across 10:00 Excess Baggage Chase 20:15 The Prisoner Of Zenda-FAM as, I don’t know  in a way, part of what you come to expect 12:00 Romancing The Stone 02:45 Camp Nowhere 22:00 Shaft In Africa from actors is utter transparency, that you can just witness 14:00 Sins Expiation 04:30 The Adventures Of Don 23:45 Straight Time-18 them and somehow you’re in a funny way above them, you 16:00 Excess Baggage Quixote can see through them but they don’t know what your’e 18:00 40 Days And Nights 06:00 A Cat In Paris 20:00 Sins Expiation thinking. Whereas Jesse isn’t transparent in an interview 07:30 Arthur’s Missing Pal that way, he’s not a complete open book, but you know, I 22:00 Starship Troopers: Invasion 09:00 Wreck-It Ralph think that’s good, it means that he isn’t at the mercy of oth- 11:00 A Cat In Paris 12:30 Shrek 2 00:00 Counting Cars ers. So how do you direct or know you have the take if you 14:15 Back To The Sea 00:30 Counting Cars don’t know what the scene will look like until after? 16:00 Snowflake , The White Gorilla 01:00 Shipping Wars You don’t exactly see it, but you have a pretty good idea 18:00 Wreck-It Ralph 01:30 Shipping Wars of it. You rehearse with an acting double. What you don’t 00:15 Sutures-18 20:00 Jelly T 02:00 American Restoration have is that sense of seeing the scene and making adjust- 02:00 Cherry Falls-18 21:45 Back To The Sea 02:30 American Restoration ments, in that way you often do, where you say let’s do a 03:45 The Bourne Legacy-PG15 23:30 Snowflake , The White Gorilla 03:00 Storage Wars run through and see how it is. So in post, were there a lot of 06:00 Grosse Pointe Blank-PG15 03:30 Storage Wars times where you didn’t have what you needed? It was fine. 08:00 Excess Baggage-PG15 04:00 Storage Wars There was this one scene in the film where the two of them 10:00 Romancing The Stone-PG15 04:30 Storage Wars were walking down this very long corridor and it looked 12:00 Sins Expiation-PG15 05:00 Storage Wars like it was all out of sync. That would have been bad, 14:00 Excess Baggage-PG15 05:30 Storage Wars because there’s no options, there’s no coverage. But it was 16:00 40 Days And Nights-PG15 00:00 Moonrise Kingdom 06:00 Storage Wars just an error in the way it loaded in. This movie feels time- 18:00 Sins Expiation-PG15 02:00 The Last Stand 06:30 Storage Wars less, in that it’s hard to tell when it’s set - aside from the fact 20:00 Starship Troopers: Invasion-18 04:00 One Life 07:00 American Restoration that it doesn’t feel like today’s world. I guess inherent to this 22:00 Silent House-PG15 06:00 Ice Age: Continental Drift 07:30 American Restoration novella, it feels predigital to me. It needed to exist in a 08:00 Girl In Progress 08:00 American Restoration world where work was important and inescapable and 09:45 The Arrangement 08:30 American Restoration where people didn’t have options. I guess the idea of mod- 11:15 The Last Stand 09:00 American Restoration ern life is these infinite possibilities that are open to you - 00:00 The Hot Potato-PG15 13:00 Neverland 09:30 American Restoration maybe they aren’t really, but there’s the appearance of flu- 02:00 Ted-18 16:00 Girl In Progress 10:00 American Restoration 04:00 Dating Coach-PG15 17:45 White House Down 10:30 American Restoration idity. —Reuters EXCESS BAGGAGE ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 06:00 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot- 20:00 Our Idiot Brother 11:00 Counting Cars Classifieds

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

This can be a very superficial day. It may not be possible for you to pene- This could be one of your more romantic days. Correct choices and the best trate anything remotely meaningful or moving just now. Errands seem to go nowhere path for you may be available without realizing it; take time to ponder your plans. You and projects are in need of tools or parts in order to see their completion. Stores may not may think that by saying very little, you leave people thinking you are mysterious and have what you need and a general lack of cooperation from others can be exasperating. important to get to know, but that only lasts a short while. A few important words how- You may even find that your ideas do not get the support you feel you need. ever, can leave a much more positive impression for a very long time. Practice makes per- Abandoning your own plans, you may decide to help someone else this afternoon and fect and a social function this evening would be the perfect time to show others your you find that much can be accomplished. If you want, a trade-out could be arranged. You appreciation of them in your life. The cycle now dawning in your life emphasizes stability, must be cautious during this time when there are concerns or an interest in charities. substance, practicality, and the concept of value–value in the material as well as psychos- Before giving to a charity, make sure it is an authentic charity with good references. piritual sense. You may find a little music relaxing this evening.

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

Today focuses more on relationships and possessions. Others may find you Religion, philosophy and higher knowledge will be the base of most conver- frugal when it comes to possessions, always limiting your purchases to what is essential sations today. You are mentally and physically willing to meet the demands and has value–or worth. This same theme carries through in your response to people. You of this day. You are helpful to all who need your assistance but by the afternoon you may do not tend to lavish affection or sentiment; you tend to keep your comments short and be looking forward to home. The youth in your family need attention as much as the simple. An important relationship, perhaps with an older person or someone in authority, adults so be sure to ask these young people questions that involve a little thinking. This may come into focus today. There could be some tension or sense of opposition requiring will result in some fun conversations between an adult and young persons. This may mean compromise or negotiation on your part. Although this could be an opportunity for you need to ask who they saw this day and what they have planned or want to plan for the understanding and even growth, it could be important to show your appreciation of summer. Games and movies and sports make for fun contributions as well as some new another person’s time and efforts toward your progress. discovery or talent. Smile, you have a beautiful family.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You are able to enjoy and value your own life situation today. You could A promise is a promise and the earlier you get started the more fun you can find that you are appreciated or valued for your way of thinking. You may pack into the day. This may mean a young person or mate wants to go to some event or be surprised at the support you receive from others. A friend may want to get your feed- ACROSS 5. English theoretical physicist who applied that an exercise group meets this morning. Whatever the case, you gain from the events back today on some very personal and emotional issues. You will be able to be under- 1. An arithmetic operation performed on relativity theory to quantum mechanics and that unfold as the day moves along. Social contact later today will call for a little rest and a standing and helpful. You are able to cut through the red tape and help your friend to see floating-point numbers. predicted the existence of antimatter and the change of clothes. Plans ahead of time have been fun and helpful and finally a special a truth. Now through the twentieth of this month, there are good times to set aside for a time is either now or very close. You still have a little time to gather whatever you need for vacation or a short trip. Start to plan now where and what you might want to do. If you 5. The application of plaster. positron (1902-1984). this event, which may mean a gift or some special favor for the host or hostess. This may 12. The compass point midway between 6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially have family members, be sure to include them in the decision making. If those dates are mean food, music or flowers, etc. You are at your most elegant. Music, laughter and good not acceptable for others, you may want to make that time for yourself. south and southwest. in Turkey). times with friends complete this busy day. 15. A collection of things (goods or works of 7. Become or cause to become soft or liquid. art etc.) for public display. 8. A man who is the lover of a girl or young 16. Produced under conditions involving woman. intense heat. 9. French dramatist (born in Romania) who Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike was a leading exponent of the theater of the You may find yourself being put to good use by your friends early this morn- Friends and neighbors fill up most of your hours this day. You appreciate part of an organism. absurd (1912-1994). ing but it should go smoothly. You could be helping with young people your friends and enjoy the interactions that occur now. Happy when in control, you will today as your fruitful imagination can create many distractions that are helpful when car- 18. The granite-like rocks that form the outer- 10. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. enjoy managing anything practical. You are fearless in action and not afraid to use pow- most layer of the earth's crust. 11. A change in the electrical properties of the ing for children. This can be an expansive, creative and even romantic phase for you. This er. You will have your way today through your magnetic and perhaps controversial per- is certainly a good time to relax and be with loved ones and friends. Family, home, rela- 19. A switch made from the stems of the rat- skin in response to stress or anxiety. sonality. You can be very charming and enchant others to come under your spell. This is tives and real estate play a bigger part in your life. You may be moved to appreciate and tan palms. 12. The capital and largest city of Yemen. also a period of intense creativity for you. This creative intensity is good for music, poet- discover the beauty in your life and in those around you. Planning a garden and including 20. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web- 13. Having a long narrow cut. ry, art and politics. There is a great passion of emotions and purpose. You enjoy home others in the process can become a grand way to gain closeness in your relationships. You footed amphibian with smooth moist skin 14. English tennis player who won may and family and rely on them for support and encouragement. may decide to complete some studies this evening. and long hind legs. women's singles titles (born in 1945). 22. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble sol- 21. The dilated portion of a canal or duct id (SiO2). especially of the semicircular canals of the Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 24. Used in combination. ear. 26. The officer below the master on a com- 23. Any of several plants of the genus You are brilliant when it comes to insights into the mind, psychology and You are in a position to show just how much you trust and respect a loved mercial ship. Camassia. motivation–whether it is yours or others’. Your intensity is obvious and some may prefer one today. You will employ any manner of means to change a negative to a positive. 27. Genus of tropical plants with creeping 25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of to keep their distance rather than subject themselves to your laser eye. Nothing is passed Giving your complete attention to a personal situation, you are able to promote a healing rootstocks and small umbellate flowers. intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and over without being turned inside out. Your analytical powers are superb–you enjoy find- where emotional concerns are involved. You may find yourself analyzing your life situation. ing new avenues of inner growth. You have a great mental drive and lavish great energy Conversations of an inspiring kind may be in order with a young person or others around 28. Minute floating marine tunicate having a yielding a yellow dye. on mental pursuits of all kinds. Ideas, words, books, etc., can be pursued with great gusto. you. This is a time when you can put your practical insights into words and convey them to transparent body with an opening at each 30. Of or relating the leg from the knee to the Since you are such a social animal, opportunities will be available to communicate in others. Your intuition is strong and you may enjoy the company of young people through end. foot. groups today. some intellectual games or trivial pursuit. Music, art and all forms of sports can be enjoyed 29. A firm open-weave fabric used for a cur- 31. Provide with choice or abundant food or this evening. tain in the theater. drink. 32. Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by 33. A state in the Rocky Mountains. capillary action. 34. A family of North American Indian lan- Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 36. Any of several tall tropical palms native to guage spoken in southwestern United States. southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts. 35. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian You may find yourself more than a little greedy today. Your current appre- This is a good time to make renovations or do a bit of spring-cleaning. Your 38. An uproarious party. palm trees. ciation for just about everything may lead you to overspend or indulge too much. You will enthusiasm is catching and others will want to help when they see you hard 39. British composer (1857-1934). 37. When dried yields a hard substance used make better choices today if you maintain your ability to sense quality and choose accord- at work. There is a need to gain appreciation for your good deeds when this project is ingly. Today you may talk with a friend that has found depression hard to overcome. Many completed. This can be a productive time emotionally–penetrating conversations will 41. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia. e.g. in golf balls. bring insights. There is time this evening for romance. You may be able to look back on 45. A narrow way or road. 40. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried times this sort of situation calls for the request of a medical review because a body can change medical needs. Psychologically, you will learn and be encouraged that it is the today as a time of deepening relationships and positive feelings. Your emotions and the 46. A constellation in the southern hemi- leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucino- individual that determines his or her self-worth and how he or she feels; you are positive feelings of those around you are clear. You are creative and there is much pride in what sphere near Telescopium and Norma. genic drugs are prepared. and upbeat. Teach truth and watch for the culprit of overgeneralization. You are very lov- you involve yourself with today. You may be able to enjoy and value your own life situa- 47. Possible to sell. 42. A white soft metallic element that tarnish- ing and understanding of others. Change is inevitable. tion or feel especially kind toward a friend or loved one. 50. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly es readily. rind and shiny black seeds. 43. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus 51. A landlocked republic in northwestern nerve. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution Africa. 44. Not only so, but. 52. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of 48. A room or establishment where alcoholic the Old World. drinks are served over a counter. 53. A sharp projection on an edge or surface. 49. A unit of luminous flux equal to the 54. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to amount of light given out through a solid but heavier than beer. angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 57. Capital and largest city of Cuba. candela intensity radiating uniformly in all 62. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed directions. during respiration and by the decomposition 55. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs. of organic substances. 56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 63. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradi- from aba cloth. tionally secret. 58. (informal) Of the highest quality. 71. Of or relating to Oman or its people. 59. A small constellation in the polar region of 74. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. the southern hemisphere near Dorado and 75. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. Carina. 76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). 60. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1. 78. Acute ulceration of the mucous mem- 61. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on branes of the mouth or genitals. the Persian Gulf. 79. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the 64. A woman hired to suckle a child of some- resistance between two points on a conduc- one else. tor when a potential difference of one volt 65. A commercial leavening agent containing between them produces a current of one yeast cells. ampere. 66. Consideration in dealing with others and 80. Extreme mental retardation. avoiding giving offence. 81. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in 67. A small cake leavened with yeast. bridge. 68. A material effigy that is worshipped as a DOWN god. 1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad 69. God of love and erotic desire. horizontal band across a shield. 70. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 2. Being two more than sixty. 72. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit 3. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrat- juice. ed silica of variable color. 73. Related by blood. 4. A person active in party politics. 77. The square of a body of any size of type.

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he reality TV star’s mother Kris Jenner admitted she has taken a step back from her daughter’s life to let her get on with it - and she hasn’t even seen the wedding dress. Speaking to E! News, she said: “Kim and Kanye have done this all on their own Tand they’ve had the best time planning it and I know nothing ... I have not seen her wedding dress, I don’t know how she looks in it. “I’ll see it for the first time when she puts it on at her wedding.” It is a change of pace for Kris, who is a self-confessed “control freak” and admitted she has had to learn to “sit back and relax” while her daughter takes care of the wedding plans. She admitted: “I’m really excited. I’ve never been able to just go some place and relax and enjoy the ride and let everybody else worry about everything because I’m such a control freak. “So this has been a little bit of a lesson. It’s a bit hard for me to let go and it’s an exercise of patience and I’m sorta a control freak so to sit back and relax...this isn’t easy for me either! “I’m going into this with a great deal of excitement. I was a little bit curious at first and now I’m just like OK, just let it go, breathe and enjoy.”

Katie Price oblivious of Hayler, Pountney affair he former glamour model - who recently discovered her husband was having a “full blown sexual affair” with her married best friend - didn’t Tpick up on the spark between the pair, according to a house guest. Jemma Henley - who spent four months at their home - told The Sun newspa- per: “To get attention she would laugh at Kieran’s jokes and stroke his arm - you could cut the sexual tension with a knife. “There were looks that went unseen by Katie - but I didn’t miss them. How she didn’t see this coming is beyond me. Jane was always giggly around Kieran and she didn’t try to hide it. “But if there is one person Katie trusted is Jane - she could do no wrong in her eyes. Maybe she left them alone one too many times. Jane was once me she liked his muscles.” Jemma explained how Katie and Jane were “like sisters”, but thinks the star’s bridesmaid was influenced by “jealousy”. She said: “There were like sisters. If there is one person Katie would die for it is Jane. I really feel for Katie in all this. “These are the two people closest to her. This is the ultimate betrayal ... Jane has lived in Katie’s shadow for 12 years - that’s a long time to Chris Martin on a play second fiddle. “She was jealous and that has led to her bedding Kieran.” date with Chung he Coldplay singer - who split from his wife Gwyneth Mila Kunis struggling Paltrow last month after 10 years of marriage - is said to Thave gone out for a meal with the model in New York. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Alexa and Chris did see each oth- er in NYC, briefly. “Friends think it’s definitely developing into a with morning sickness relationship. But Alexa’s a cool girl. She’s not going to make herself look stupid. “They like each other and have a lot in common but he 30-year-old actress is said to be pregnant with her first life’s a bit tricky for Chris at the moment.” It was recently reported child with her boyfriend, and rumored fiancé, Ashton the ‘Viva la Vida’ hitmaker has been “angry” at how his breakup Kutcher, and although she’s struggling with nausea, he’s unfolded so publicly, and has reconsidered whether to ever get T said to be helping her through. A source said: “Mila’s been suffer- married again. An insider previously said: “It’s a tough time for ing from morning sickness and is feeling exhausted, but she says Chris and he absolutely hates having his dirty linen washed in Ashton has been her rock. He’s been cooking her breakfast in public. “He’s a very private person. Chris isn’t comfortable talking bed. He’s even hired a masseuse to give her daily massages and, about it, feels like he’s let himself down and is also angry with the at night, he rests his head beside her bump and talks to the way the split unfolded.” baby.” Reports have suggested that the ‘Friends with Benefits’ star is expecting a baby girl with Ashton - who she first met on the set of ‘That 70s Show’ in 1998 -and although she’s struggling with the side effects of pregnancy she’s said to be happier than ever. The source told Britain’s Closer magazine: “Mila’s so excited to be a mum, she’s telling friends her and Ashton are more in love than ever.” The Hollywood couple are also reportedly looking forward to expanding their brood once their first baby is born. The source added: “Ashton can’t wait to be a dad; he’s always wanted chil- dren. Mila wants at least four and he’s keen too.” Diane Keaton was addicted‘ to food’

he 68-year-old actress, who suffered with an eating disor- der in her twenties, admits she would snack on calorific Ttreats and the make herself vomit and, although she no longer makes herself regurgitate food, she believes she will always be an “addict in recovery”. Speaking on ‘The Dr Oz Show’, she said: “It was, of course, the lowest point of my life ... I was a fat person, I was an obese person, who had somehow tricked myself and managed to hide it. So when you’re living with a lie for four years ... all I did was feed my hunger, so I am an addict. It’s true. I’m an addict in recovery, I’ll always be an addict. I have an addictive nature to me.” However, the blonde beauty insists she’s no longer addicted to food and has switched her attention to her adopted children Duke, 13, and Dexter, 18. She added: “Now it’s [my addiction is] work orientated or trying to raise my children as best I can, even though they’re teenagers and not really children anymore. “But really, I identify with those people [bulimics] and I feel for them.”

Rita Ora was ‘so scared’ when she met Bayonne he 23-year-old singer - who signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation in 2009, the same year she made a cameo on the rapper’s ‘Young Forever’ video - was thrilled to finally meet her label boss’ Twife and insists she was more amazing than she’d anticipated. She told Heat magazine: “Oh my gosh, I was so scared. She’s like the idol I’ve always wanted to meet. I always thought she wasn’t human and that she just plugged herself into a socket at night and sleeps standing up, or something. But she was incredible - so kind, so honest, so caring and so approachable.” Rita has landed her big Hollywood break with a role in the most-anticipated film of the moment, the adap- tation of kinky bestseller ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, in which she plays S&M-loving billionaire Christian Grey’s little sister Mia. However, the platinum blonde bombshell recently insisted things weren’t hot and heavy on set because leading actor Jamie Dornan is such a down-to-earth family man. She said: “No, it was incredible, cause his wife was there and he just had a kid so it was a very fami- ly orientated kind of thing, obviously when it’s on set the kid stays at home.” lifestyle SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 GOSSIP

Kate Hudsondoesn’t dress for Matt Bellamy approval he 35-year-old actress admits she likes to look nice for herself and her girlfriends, rather than for the Muse front- man, whom she has been dating for four years. Speaking to E! News, she explained: “Matt’s not fussy. Matt likes Tfeminine. Sometimes I’ll come out in something low cut and tight, but if I come out in like a flowy dress, Matt likes that. But I don’t dress for Matt! I dress for my girlfriends! I dress for me and my girlfriends. “Girls dress for each other, don’t we? Guys don’t really care what we wear and they don’t get it.” Meanwhile, the blonde beauty, who has been engaged to Matt for three years, recently admitted she would like to get married “sooner rather than later”. She said: “We still don’t have any plans to get married, but eventually we will... probably sooner rather than later.” However, Kate - who has 10-year-old son Ryder from her marriage to Chris Robinson and two-year-old son Bingham with Matt - has already ruled out this summer for kick-starting her wedding plans because both she and her beau are too busy with their globe-trotting careers at the moment.

Chrissy Teigen wants to have ‘a lot’ of children

he 28-year-old model thought she would have already started a family with her husband John Legend by now, Tbut she insists when they do take their relationship to the next level, she wants a brood like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Speaking on HuffPost Live, she explained: “I swear to you, I thought I would’ve had one [a family] by now. So, hopefully we’ll just have this Angelina-Brad-type brood. I would love that ... I definitely want a lot of kids, though, and he [John] does as well.” Angelina and Brad have adopted children Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, and Zahara, nine, as well as biological children Shiloh, seven, and five-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox, and Chrissy insists she too will adopt in the future as well. When asked if she and John would adopt children, she replied: “Oh definitely, of course, very open to that.” The brunette beauty, who married the ‘All of Me’ hitmaker last year after six years of dating, would like to have at least four children and has already started imag- ining her life with the youngsters running around. Jaime King spent years trying to have a baby he ‘Hart of Dixie’ star welcomed her first child James into the world in October with her husband Kyle Newman, but she admits conceiving the tot Ttook almost half a decade. Speaking to ABC News, she explained: “This baby was a long time in the making and I feel like the universe put a little extra magic dust in him. He’s, like, the happiest, most joyful, social and loving [baby].” The 35- year-old actress believes her pregnancy was a “blessing” and she was determined to enjoy it, but also make sure her baby was happy and healthy. She explained: “Everything takes on a new meaning. It took a long time to get pregnant-for me the baby was such a blessing that the most important thing for me was that I was active. I was never obsessive about dieting or exercise. I didn’t care how much I gained. I just wanted to make sure he was healthy.” The blonde beauty has been taking James - whose Godmother is Jessica Alba - to work with her because she wants him to know that his mother is looking after him.

Nick Lachey finds his wife sexier than ever

he 40-year-old singer loves watch- ing spouse Vanessa caring for their T19-month-old son Camden and says the little boy has brought out a new side to her personality. He said: “My wife’s Harry Styles shows off his new tattoo maternal side is a new dynamic to her personality - and it’s definitely made her he One Direction hunk unbuckled his belt and pushed down his skinny jeans during a performance at Parque Olimpico in even sexier.” The couple - who married in Rio de Janeiro to give fans a look at the ‘Brasil!’ inking on his left groin, showing his adoration for the country. A fan caught July 2011 after five years of dating - dote Tthe moment on camera and thousands of girls can be heard screaming in a video posted on YouTube as the cheeky pop star on their little boy but also treasure their twists around to flash the audience. The 20-year-old singer has a number of designs, including a roulette wheel, a butterfly on his alone time when Camden goes to bed. chest and a new feather inking, and it seems he’s not ready to end his mission to cover himself in tattoos. Harry and his One Vanessa explained to Parents magazine: Direction bandmates - Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan - kicked off their ‘Where We Are Tour’ last month “We put on some music or a favorite TV and appear to be enjoying their time in South America. They recently ran into trouble after hosting a roof top party at the Fasano show, pour a glass of wine, have dinner - Hotel in Ipanema when residents complained about the noise and even phoned the police. that’s our ‘alone time’ “When you’ve got the little one between you, it’s not as romantic as when the two of you are alone.” And it doesn’t matter where in the Whoopi Goldberg to make a reality show world they are, the pair always stick to a schedule to get their son to sleep by he 58-year-old actress will produce the series through her One Ho 7.30pm. Vanessa said: “Whether we’re in Productions along with 44 Blue Productions, and will focus the program on New York or Cincinnati or on vacation, as Ther daughter Alex Martin, 40, who has three children in their teens and 20s, long as he gets his story, sound machine, and her best friend Leisa. According to Deadline, the show will follow Alex as she and song, he’s good.” Both Vanessa, 33, tries to reinvent herself both personally and professionally with the help of her hus- and Nick are keen to have more children, band Bernard and Leisa, whose father is actor Lee Weaver. Whoopi said: “I wanted but will wait a while so their offspring to tell the story of two best friends who experience all of the major phases of a don’t have to “share” friends - though they woman’s life together. “Alex and Leisa have been friends since they were 17 and are won’t leave it too late. both children of famous people, and are now approaching 40. “My daughter just became a grandmother and her daughter just turned 24 and they are just trying to figure their lives out. “This is really the story of an all-American family for a new generation; it looks a little different than the storybooks, but it’s filled with love and laughter.” The show will begin when Alex’s 24-year-old daughter moves back in with her parents, along with her fiance and their baby daughter Charli Rose. lifestyle SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

Jane Campion: ‘Indefatigable pioneer’ of film

ead of the Cannes jury Jane Campion made her name por- Instead, she studied for a degree in anthropology in New had “as its centre a protagonist who fights for her... autonomy”. traying complex, strong-willed female protagonists and Zealand before concentrating on art in both London and Sydney. Movies exploring familiar Campion themes include “The Portrait of Hknows from first-hand experience that the festival is a place Only later did Campion find her calling at the Australian Film a Lady” (1996), an adaptation of the Henry James novel starring where careers are made. The New Zealand director, the only woman Television and Radio School between 1981 and 1984. Campion first Nicole Kidman, and “Holy Smoke” (1999) in which Kate Winslet plays ever to win the top Palme d’Or Prize with “The Piano”, was a little came to Cannes in 1986 when she won best short film with “Peel”. In a woman who experiences a spiritual awakening on a trip to India. known arthouse film-maker when she brought her movie to the 1989, her first feature film “Sweetie”-the story of a young woman’s Campion also cast Meg Ryan in “In The Cut” (2003) as a New York French Riviera in 1993. The New Zealand-set movie about a mute difficult relationship with her unstable sister-was selected to com- writing professor who has an affair with a detective investigating a pianist and her daughter starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam pete for the Palme d’Or and she returned with “An Angel at my local murder. As well as features, Campion has branched out into Neill and Anna Paquin, went on to pick up three Oscars and was a Table” (1990), based on the autobiographies of New Zealand author documentaries such as “Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story” huge critical and commercial hit. Jane Frame. (2006) about a Japanese student kidnapped by a North Korean After being named as head of the jury earlier this year, Campion, agent in 1977. Most recently, she followed the many others in film 60, described the festival as a “mythical and exciting” place where ‘Indefatigable pioneer’ now looking to the small screen as a place for more creative free- “amazing things can happen”. At Cannes, she said, “actors are dis- Many of Campion’s films revolve around themes of gender bal- dom. Her television mini-series “Top of the Lake” about a detective, covered, films are financed, careers are made”. “I know this because ance and throughout her career critics have singled her out for played by Elizabeth Moss, who returns to her home town and finds that is what happened to me,” she added. Born in Wellington in New bringing qualities of innovation, imagination and intelligence to her herself investigating a child abuse case, was a hit with audiences Zealand, the second of three children, Campion grew up in a the- work. Announcing her as the head of the 2014 jury, Cannes festival and also won a string of awards. — AFP atrical family. But despite this early exposure-her mother was a organizers called Campion a “major film-maker and indefatigable writer and actress, her father a theatre director and producer- pioneer”. In the just published French book “Jane Campion by Jane Campion did not set out to become a film-maker. Campion”, film historian Michel Ciment said each of Campion’s films Dr Dre - from LA gangsta rapper to Forbes top dog?

t is a long way from the rough streets of south Los Angeles to becom- lent language and triggered a warning from the FBI. In 1990 he left the ing the world’s richest hip hop star. But that is the path likely set to be group to form Death Row Records, releasing his solo debut “The Chronic” Itaken by Andre Young-better known as Dr Dre-helped by some very in 1992 to huge commercial success. In 1996 he again left to form cool headphones. The 49-year-old rapper turned producer and entre- Aftermath Entertainment. Shortly after that, rappers Tupak Shakur and preneur would top Forbes’ hip hop rich list after striking a $3.2 billion Notorious B I G were murdered, triggering Dre to lay low for a few years. deal to sell Apple the company he co-founded eight years ago, Beats His comeback came after releasing his second studio album in 1999, Electronics. when he was credited with discovering white rapper Eminem. His 2001 The agreement, which has not yet been finalized, would boost his net Grammy success propelled him up the financial rankings, as he increas- worth to some $800 million, according to Forbes. Some reports suggest ingly moved towards producing and business-co-founding Beats Dre could soon become the world’s first hip-hop billionaire. He would Electronics in 2008 with partner Jimmy Iovine. The firm makes audio pip Sean “Diddy” Combs who was the previous top dog with $700 mil- equipment, including the ubiquitous headphones taken up by celebri- lion, as well as Jay Z, now in third place with $520 million, followed by ties and sports stars. In 2012 many were seen at the London Olympic Bryan “Birdman” Williams on $160 million. “Hip hop is now central to Games. On Friday, news reports emerged that Apple is preparing a $3.2 American popular culture,” Robert Thompson, professor of popular cul- billion buyout of Beats Electronics, in what would be the iconic computer ture at Syracuse University in New York state, told AFP after the deal was giant’s biggest acquisition yet. reported Friday. The Financial Times said Apple would buy not only the headphone “If you get a hip hop artist who can establish a name and a basis of brand and other sound equipment but also the firm’s recently launched fame and wealth and then they’re smart enough to .. make sorties into music streaming service, known as Beats Music. “If this goes through and other parts of the culture .. that seems a typical American story”. Along Dr Dre moves up the ( Forbes) list .. it’s not going to be so much for his the way Dre has discovered and worked with some of the biggest acts in hip hop artistry,” said pop professor Thompson. “It’s going to be for music, including Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Combs and others and pio- branching out into ... the whole Beats thing, because he thought Apples neered gangsta rap as well as west coast G-Funk. He has also won six headphones were inferior,” he said. Dre himself appears confident the Grammy awards, including becoming the first hip-hop producer to for deal will go through. In a video posted on YouTube he brags about the Producer of The Year in 2001. But it all started in the tough south LA deal with actor Tyrese Gibson, who says Forbes needs to update its hip neighborhood of Compton, where he was born Andre Romell Young in hop rich list, released only a few weeks ago. “The first billionaire in hip- February 1965, to parents who divorced while he was barely out of short hop, right here from the ... West Coast,” he tells the camera. — AFP trousers. Compton was well known for gang violence but also for producing hip hop groups and rappers, including gangsta rap group N W A formed by Young and Ice Cube, making their name with its debut album in 1988 Dr Dre “Straight Outta Compton.” The record by the band was criticized for vio-

Bossini SS’14 Kids collection

ith winter behind us, herald the season With something for everybody the kids collec- classy shades of pink, orange and yellow the with Bossini’s SS’14 collection for kids. In tion will bring out the naughty streak in your little Bossini collection is a must-have in your new sea- Wthis collection there are no compromises one. Bright graphic tees with happy doodles make son wardrobe. So head to your nearest Bossini on comfort; the very stylish collection for kids is a them trendsetters on the playground and at school. store.at Hawally (Al Othman Centre), Fahaheel (Ajial haven of trends that range from florals, pastels to Polka dotted pants, stripe denim skirts, cute printed Mall), Farwaniya (Mugathir Complex), Khaldiya Co- happy light denims and color chinos. With a hint of dresses and smart denims are some of the key op , Qortuba Co-op and all Centrepoint Stores and nautical and a dash of neons the collection is suited looks of the season. With must have season colors shop the Kids collection. for a wide audience. like blue, brown and ruby reds along with subdued lifestyle SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014

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Pakistan Bridal Couture Fashion show

Models present creations by designer Sana Abbas during a Bridal Couture Fashion show in Karachi, (Top & above) Models present creations by designer Pakistan yesterday. Zainb Chottani during a Bridal Couture Fashion show in Karachi yesterday.

A model displays creation for Fall/Winter 2014 collection by Salle de Mode during Fashion Week in Tbilisi. — AFP Photos

A model displays a creation for Fall/Winter 2014 collection by designer MACH & MACH during the Fashion Week in Tbilisi. Tbilisi Fashion Week

Models display creations for Fall/Winter 2014 collection by Salle de Mode during Fashion Week in Tbilisi. — AFP Photos Dr Dre - from LA gangsta rapper to Forbes top dog?

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Singer Mariya Yaremchuk representing Ukraine performs the song ‘Tick-Tock’ during a rehearsal of the Eurovision Song Contest Final in the B&W Halls in Copenhagen, Denmark. — AP Ukraine crisis, bearded drag Autistic Australian an artistic hero

queen vie for Eurovision limelight rtist Tim Sharp cannot explain why his colorful work be his creation-Laser Beak Man-when he grew up. It was has such appeal, or how the cheeky superhero he around this time Tim and his younger brother were going olitics look set to take centre stage at this year’s Steinmetz, the half-Ukrainian singer of German Afirst drew when he was a child, Laser Beak Man, has to a birthday party and set about making a card. “We didn’t Eurovision contest in Copenhagen, with the hopefuls Elaiza, in an interview with AFP. “Of course won fans around the world and become a television series. have any money for the card. So we made the card. I said, PRussian contestants facing boos in a final I’m afraid of threats to Ukraine. But I think in “Drawing makes me really happy, doesn’t it mum,” is all he ‘We’ll put Laser Beak Man on the front. And I said to Tim, bookies say could see a bearded Austrian drag Eurovision, people must vote with the heart, not says, as his mother Judy sits beside him in Sydney’s Hyde ‘What would Laser Beak Man say?’ What does he say? “Have queen triumph. Since the contest was launched in with the head. “This is about the best artist, regard- Park. “Colors can make me happy. Am I doing well mum?” a filthy, disgusting birthday”. “And we put that inside and 1956, some results have given off more than a whiff less of nationality,” she said. Conchita Wurst, the hir- Sharp, who turns 26 this month, was first diagnosed as we gave it to our friend who happened to have a friend of politics and the 2014 event in the Danish capital is sute alter ego of Austrian performer Tom Neuwirth, autistic when he was three years old. At the time, his moth- who worked in the disability arts scene who said, ‘This is likely to be no exception, with the Ukraine crisis will represent his homeland with the Bond theme- er was told he would never talk, go to school or feel real just brilliant’. You have to make cards of this.’” spilling over into the competition. Russia’s like ballad “Rise Like a Phoenix.” affection for her. One doctor encouraged her to put him For Tim, Laser Beak Man was an extension of his love for Tolmachevy Sisters were jeered on Tuesday when it In Russia, Belarus and Ukraine petitioners have into an institution and move on. superheroes such as Batman, Spiderman, Superman and was announced that they had made it to the final demanded that the 25-year-old drag queen be Judy knew her son was intelligent and loving, but it the X-Men. “He’s always in my paintings,” he explains of the and connoisseurs of the pageant’s inner workings dropped from the competition, while the leader of wasn’t until she began drawing pictures to communicate creations which often involve a pun-such as one called predict Ukraine’s entry could benefit from sympathy Austria’s right-wing FPOe party has called the act with him that he seemed to “switch on”. The first time she “Everyone is Beautiful’ in which the superhero is surround- drew, Tim grabbed her hand and pushed it towards the ed by the number 1, or “Shut the Duck Up” which has a votes. “ridiculous”. “I have very thick skin. It never ceases to pencil for her to pick it up and keep drawing. “And that in duck with its mouth tied shut and Laser Beak Man holding Things didn’t get any easier this week for the amaze me just how much fuss is made over a little itself was a major interaction, he hadn’t done that before.” a cooked bird on a platter. In another entitled ‘How to Russia act after Eurovision buffs claimed to have facial hair,” Wurst said. But the singer won over view- The discovery was a breakthrough, meaning day-to-day Make Mona Lisa Smile’, Laser Beak Man is pictured moon- unveiled a Ukrainian subtext in one of the verses of ers with her performance in Thursday’s semi-final activities such as going to another child’s birthday party, ing the famous subject as he paints her portrait. their song “Shine”. “Living on the edge, closer to the and shot up the bookies’ table. Armenia’s Aram MP3, which had once made Tim deeply anxious, became man- Tim’s work had instant appeal, and at 16 he was crime, cross the line a step at a time,” the song goes. another frontrunner, stirred controversy earlier this ageable once shown to him in pictures. selected for the Very Special Arts Festival in Washington The lyrics went viral among Eurovision fanatics when week when he reportedly said Wurst’s lifestyle was “Now I was able to show him the sequence of what you for people with disabilities. Judy mortgaged their house “not natural”-a comment the stand-up comedian lat- do-we go, we take the present, we blow out the candles, to make sure he could get there. Since then, Tim, who er claimed was a joke. “I have to say that if it’s a joke we sing ‘Happy Birthday’, and then we leave. “And as soon uses pencils and crayons to create his bright designs on it’s not funny ... but he apologised and that’s fine for as the candles were blown out we had to leave,” she says, the family’s kitchen table, has won fans such as me,” Wurst said. laughing. “But he didn’t scream for the hour or so before Hollywood star Cate Blanchett and had a music festival that so it made a difference that way.” Once Tim starting staged in his honor in Nashville, Tennessee. Laser Beak Cultural divide drawing, it was quickly clear he had his own quirky style. “I Man has also inspired an animated television series Highlighting a cultural divide between eastern don’t know that it was Picasso or anything like that, there screened by the Cartoon Network and the Australian and western Europe, the city of Copenhagen said was just something about it for a four-year-old,” Judy says. Broadcasting Corporation. For Judy, one of the great three gay couples from Russia tied the knot there as “What he tended to draw tended to have a lot of personali- things about Tim’s art is that it has showed that accept- part of a Eurovision-related event celebrating 25 ty to it. And then he liked to watch me draw, which was a ance of people with disabilities has improved. “Lots of years of same-sex unions in Denmark. Other artists big thing because I couldn’t maintain his attention on any- things have happened that we never thought would tipped to vie for the top spots are Swedish balladeer thing else.” happen,” she said. “Every day is exciting.”— AFP Sanna Nielsen and Dutch country duo The Common ‘Filthy, disgusting birthday’ Linnets. Audiences in Britain and France routinely When he was 11, Tim told his mum that he wanted to complain that their countries suffer from a lack of European voting allies and tend to take the competi- tion less seriously than the countries of the former eastern bloc that joined in the 1990s. “Everything could be political but we don’t really Singer Conchita Wurst, representing Austria, performs the song care, because we are artists and what we are doing is “Rise Like a Phoenix” during a rehearsal for the second semifinal music,” said Lorent Idir from France’s Twin Twin. If of the Eurovision Song Contest in the B&W Halls in Copenhagen, France wanted to win-a feat it hasn’t accomplished Denmark. Born Thomas Neuwirth, the performer challenges con- since 1977 — its artists needed to add a bit more ceptions of masculine and feminine beauty. — AP “fun and color,” he suggested. The mainstream appeal of the Eurovision Song Contest has grown over the past two decades after strict rules on it was suggested they were a reference to Russia’s singing in the national language and performing annexation of Crimea in March, after a referendum with an orchestra were scrapped. It has also benefit- called for the Ukrainian territory to come under ted from the popularity of TV talent shows, and sev- Moscow’s rule. The crisis, which has since shifted to eral of this year’s artists have previously competed in other parts of eastern Ukraine, is widely tipped to programs like The X Factor. boost support for Ukrainian singer Mariya The growing size of the event, and a desire by Yaremchuk. some countries to use it to showcase themselves to the rest of the world, has led to soaring costs. Message to Russia According to some estimates, the price for regenerat- Ukrainian boxing champion turned opposition ing Azerbaijan’s host city Baku in 2012 was around leader Vitali Klitschko called on Eurovision nations to one billion dollars (720 million euros). Danish broad- vote for Ukraine in a show of support. “Just like sport, caster DR has pledged to spend around 190 million music has the power to unite people... it would be an kroner (25.5 million euros, $35.4 million) on amazing message if European viewers gave special Eurovision, which last year drew an audience of 170 support to the Ukrainian contestant,” he told German million viewers. Elsewhere in Europe, broadcasters newspaper Bild. Despite a long history of incidents continue to struggle with budget cuts and Bulgaria, that suggest otherwise-last year Azerbaijan’s failure Cyprus and Serbia have all said they will not be com- to vote for ally Russia prompted a president-ordered peting this year. — AFP recount-the performers themselves insist Eurovision Australian artist Tim Sharp sits with his mother Judy in Sydney’s Hyde Park. Artist Tim Smart cannot explain why is all about the music. his colorful work has such appeal, or how the cheeky superhero he first drew when he was a child, Laser Beak Man, “I have lots of friends, relatives in Ukraine,” said Ela has won fans around the world and become a television series. — AFP