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SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SHAABAN 10, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Sheikh Nasser Poroshenko Pak MQM Sharapova stresses UN sworn in with leader bailed, supreme once role in peace, Ukraine facing supporters more at welfare2 civil war end protest French Open Saudi10 king offers11 full20 Max 48º Min 30º support to Egypt’s Sisi High Tide 07:37 & 19:46 Amir to attend inauguration Qatar not invited Low Tide • 00:46 & 14:01 40 PAGES NO: 16190 150 FILS DUBAI: As new Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi pre- pares for his inauguration today, his most powerful Arab Egypt bans ally is deploying both threats and promises to ensure the Arab Spring cannot upset a new anti-Islamist front in the Middle East. Senior Saudi and Gulf officials, including HH unlicensed the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah, are expected to turn out in force at Sisi’s elaborate inauguration to show the Egyptian army field marshal has preachers the backing of a new regional order that applauded his bloody removal of a Brotherhood-led government in 2013. CAIRO: Egypt has banned unauthorised preachers Qatar, which poured billions into Egypt during President from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques Mohamed Morsi’s one year in power, was not invited. and other public places, according to a decree yes- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged Egyptians last terday marking a further step in official efforts to week to embrace Sisi, the military man who drove Islamists curb Islamist influence. The decree issued by interim from power in Cairo a year ago, and said they should to dis- President Adly Mansour’s office also threatened fines own the “strange chaos” of the Arab uprisings. It was and jail for freelance imams, especially if they wore Riyadh’s starkest message of support yet for Sisi, who won an election last month thanks to support from Egyptians clerical garments associated with the respected Al- hoping that a strong, military-backed government will Azhar centre of Sunni learning in Cairo. Selected bring an end to three years of political instability in the employees of the religious endowments ministry will most populous Arab country. Sisi’s win was undoubtedly a be empowered by the justice ministry to arrest any- boost for Saudi Arabia, which had watched with horror as one caught violating the decree, it added. the Arab revolts toppled authoritarian leaders and brought “No preacher will mount a minbar next Friday Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. without a permit,” the ministry said on its Facebook For Saudi Arabia, Sisi’s win sealed the end, for now, of page, referring to the traditional raised pulpit in a the rise of the Brotherhood, the international standard- mosque. The decision was taken to “preserve nation- bearer of mainstream Sunni political Islam since it was al security,” it said. The military-backed government founded in Egypt in 1928. Since the movement has a fol- sees mosques as recruiting grounds for Islamist par- lowing in every Arab and Muslim society, the example set ties and has moved to bring them under tighter con- by the Egyptian Brotherhood’s embrace of the ballot box trol since the army toppled President Mohamed poses a threat to the hereditary dynasties that hold sway in Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July. CAIRO: Egyptians watch the news on TV under posters supporting president-elect Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi at a wealthy Gulf Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and the Continued on Page 15 coffee shop yesterday. Sisi, who oversaw Islamist President Mohamed Morsi’s removal and who won presi- United Arab Emirates. dential elections in a landslide, will be sworn in today at the supreme constitutional court. — AP Continued on Page 15 Iran, US announce surprise talks TEHRAN: Iran and the United States will Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva last hold their first bilateral talks in decades, it year. UAE introduces was announced yesterday, in a major step The apparent thaw in relations is aimed toward securing a comprehensive nuclear at ending decades of enmity between the military service deal with the West. The head to head dis- countries, with an accord on Iran’s nuclear cussions will take place in Geneva tomor- activities the apparent prize sought by the ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates yesterday row and Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry US and other world powers. In return, Iran introduced military service, compulsory for men said in a surprise statement carried by the wants an end to wide-ranging economic aged between 18 and 30, state news agency WAM official IRNA news agency. A State sanctions imposed as punishment for pur- announced. A law on military service was brought in Department official confirmed the meet- suing its atomic program. The sanctions under the UAE constitution, which stipulates “the ing, noting the US delegation would be have devastated its economy in recent defence of the federation is a sacred duty for every led by Deputy Secretary of State William years. In yesterday’s announcement the citizen,” WAM said. Emirati nationals account for only Burns and Undersecretary Wendy foreign ministry also said two days of around 20 percent of the population of oil-rich UAE, Sherman, who is responsible for Iran direct talks with Russia in Rome would ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ground- a seven-member federation. negotiations. immediately follow the talks with the US. breaking ceremony for the city’s third international airport yesterday. — AP WAM said President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al- The two-day meeting is the most senior The two meetings, which immediately Nahyan had issued the federal law, which was pub- direct bilateral contact on the nuclear precede the next round of discussions Erdogan launches work lished in the official gazette. “The issuing of the law issue so far, with Iran to be represented at between Iran and the P5+1, will be widely comes with the goals of affirming the instilling of vice foreign minister level. The discussions interpreted as an all-out diplomatic push the values of loyalty, affiliation and sacrifice in the in Geneva are also the first between Iran to close glaring gaps between Tehran and on new Istanbul airport souls of the sons of homeland,” WAM said. The UAE and the US to fall outside the P5+1 group the West over the Islamic republic’s disput- announced plans to introduce military service in ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Recep said. The facility will be constructed 50 km of leading nations (Britain, China, France, ed nuclear program. January. Russia, the United States plus Germany) The P5+1 and Iran meet in Vienna, Tayyip Erdogan yesterday laid the first north of Istanbul on an area of 7,700 Emirati men who have finished secondary school stone for Istanbul’s third airport, a multi-bil- hectares and will accommodate 500 air- will serve for nine months, while others will have to which is pursuing talks in the quest for a between June 16-20. Iran was also “work- lion-dollar project expected to create one craft. enrol in the armed forces for two years. Service is landmark nuclear agreement. Iran and the ing to arrange” other bilateral discussions of the world’s busiest air hubs. “Istanbul is The third airport in Turkey’s largest city optional for women and depends on their US, at odds since the 1979 Islamic revolu- with members of the P5+1 before the marking a historic day. Turkey is marking a aims to rival Dubai’s Al Maktoum guardian’s consent. Military service will include tion and the hostage crisis that followed, Vienna meeting, the foreign ministry said. historic day. The biggest airport of the International airport, which opened in training periods, military exercises and lectures on have in the past year taken tentative steps The negotiations are aimed at securing a world and six continents is going to rise October last year and is expected eventual- patriotism and security, WAM said, citing the law. on the path to rapprochement. comprehensive agreement on the Islamic here,” Erdogan told a cheering crowd at the ly to accommodate 160 million passengers The London-based International Institute for President Hassan Rouhani, a self- republic’s disputed nuclear programme groundbreaking ceremony for the $30 bil- a year. A Turkish joint venture won a tender Strategic Studies estimates the size of the UAE declared moderate elected last June, ahead of a July 20 deadline imposed lion project. for the project last May obtaining a 25-year armed forces at 51,000, with an army of 44,000, navy spoke by telephone with his US counter- under an interim deal agreed last Erdogan said the first stage of the con- lease to build and operate the planned air- of 2,500 and air force of 4,500. part Barack Obama shortly after taking November. Several rounds of talks have struction is set for completion on Oct 29, port. Plans to build a third airport have In November, Qatar’s government approved a office. Such a step had not occurred since already been held in Vienna but the latest 2017 - the 94th anniversary of the founding raised concerns among environmentalists draft law on military service. Qatari men between 18 the revolution and would have been con- in mid-May ended with no apparent of modern Turkey - and the facility is pro- who say they are protesting the construc- and 35 will have to serve for three months if they are sidered unthinkable under Rouhani’s pred- progress on a conclusive deal. Iran has jected to handle 150 million passengers a tion of the facility in a heavily forested area university graduates, and four if they are not. Kuwait ecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under consistently denied it is seeking nuclear year when fully operational in 2018. “We are near Terkos Lake as it is one of metropolitan is debating the return of compulsory military serv- whom relations with the West plummeted. weapons but wants an independent building not just an airport, but actually a Istanbul’s six main drinking water reservoirs. ice, scrapped after Iraq invaded the state in 1990 US Secretary of State John Kerry also atomic energy program. monument of victory today,” the premier Continued on Page 15 and occupied it for seven months. — Agencies briefly met Iran’s Foreign Minister Continued on Page 15 in the news

Saudis prepare to US actor Morgan launch first SWF critically injured RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is preparing to launch its first WASHINGTON: US actor and comedian Tracy Morgan sovereign wealth fund to manage budget surpluses was in critical condition yesterday after a fatal six-vehi- from a rise in crude prices estimated at hundreds of cle accident early in the morning in New Jersey. billions of dollars, state media reported yesterday. The Comedian James McNair, also known as Jimmy Mack, central bank has managed investment of the king- was killed in the crash. “Tracy dom’s foreign currency reserves until now, much of it remains in critical condition in US Treasury bonds. The consultative Shura Council at Robert Wood Johnson is due to discuss a draft law for the National Reserve Hospital. He sustained these Fund in meetings tomorrow and Tuesday in Riyadh, injuries in an accident that state news agency SPA reported. The fund will be occurred early this morning tasked with investing state reserves to “assure the as one of several passengers kingdom’s financial stability,” Shura Council financial in a chauffeured SUV return- affairs committee Saad Mareq told Saudi daily Asharq ing from a tour date in Al-Awsat. The newspaper said the fund will start with Delaware,” said the actor’s capital representing 30 percent of budgetary surplus- spokesman Lewis Kay. The former “Saturday Night es accumulated over the years in the kingdom, the Live” and “30 Rock” star was flown to the hospital world’s largest exporter of crude oil. Riyadh has built overnight after the limo bus he was traveling in over- up significant foreign currency reserves because of ris- KUWAIT: Members of the opposition hold a meeting at the diwaniya of former speaker Ahmad Al-Saadoun turned. es in the price of crude oil on the international market. late yesterday. The opposition is planning a major rally on Tuesday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat SUN DAY, JUNE 8, 2014 LOCAL

BEIJING: His Highness the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah concluded his official visit to China yesterday where he took part in several key meetings with top Chinese officials. During his visit, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak met with Chinese President Li Jinping, handing him a letter from His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Prime Minister’s visit saw the signing of 10 accords and Memoranda of Understanding within the fields’ of oil, economy and investment. Cabinet reshuffle not expected in near future Two new ministers by next month

By A Saleh stitutional court, when the bill that was major projects currently put on hold pending approved by the legislative committee is debat- issues with partners, which are the Dorra field KUWAIT: A Cabinet reshuffle is not expected ed during the upcoming session. development, building a refinery and petro- anytime soon, while discussions are ongoing to The government is not in favor of the law, nor chemical compound in China and an excavation ICM to attend appoint successors to Ahmad Al-Mulaifi and is the Supreme Judicial Council out of the belief project in South Sudan. Other projects that were Nayef Al-Ajmi who resigned as Minister of that it will open the door for a large number of on hold until the ministry recently received opposition rally Education and Minister of Justice and Awqaf cases challenging existing laws, according to approval to go ahead with them include the respectively. The two ministers’ resignation trig- sources with knowledge of the Cabinet’s think- Clean Fuel Project, the new refinery and building By A Saleh and agencies Saadoun, followed by a press confer- gered speculations and rumors in the past cou- ing. The Cabinet plans to reject the law if the a new pipeline between Khafji and the Mina ence to clarify the nature of the rally ple of weeks about a potential Cabinet reshuffle parliament approves it, said the sources who Ahmadi refinery, reported Al-Qabas. to meet some lawmakers’ demands to change a spoke on the condition of anonymity. KUWAIT: The Islamic Constitutional that is set to take place Tuesday. number of ministers. But aside from selecting Syria fighters Movement plans to attend the opposi- The meeting was said to be impor- two new ministers by July, no other ministers are Tuesday’s session Separately, Deputy Prime Minister and tion’s rally on Tuesday at Irada Square, tant in the sense that members from expected to be replaced from the Cabinet that The parliament’s session on Tuesday is set to Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid but will not have an active role during the opposition were to view docu- already saw a major reshuffle in January, accord- feature discussion of notable draft laws that has Al-Sabah indicated that local fundraisers to sup- the event. The group, considered the ments that former MP Musallam Al- ing to sources with knowledge of the news. been given priority to be finalized before the port jihadists in Syria do not pose a serious Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm in Barrak said exposes corruption of sen- Many of the speculations questioned the fate end of the current term. These include a bill to threat to Kuwait. The minister’s statements came Kuwait, does not want to be seen as an ior officials, and plans to reveal to the of Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim, the Minister of amend the build-operate-transfer (BOT) law and in response to an inquiry from MP Saleh Ashour, instigator against the government in public Tuesday, Al-Rai reported quot- Electricity and Water and Minister of Public a law to set a unified end of service indemnity who asked about the potential risk that Kuwait light of the Gulf state’s current position ing sources familiar with the opposi- Works. But the sources indicated that both Prime for public sector employees, Al-Watan daily could face from two campaigns announced against the pan-Arab organization and tion. The sources, who are not named Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak and a reported. In other news, Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair locally to gather donations for rebel fighters in the possibility that the parliament in the report, said that the opposition number of MPs are content with his perform- denied reports that the oil sector lost nearly KD Syria. Sheikh Mohammad pointed out a lack in might pass the Gulf security pact, said is not ruling out a scenario where ance, hinting at the possibility that his position is 2 billion in the past two years. He added in regulations to criminalize such campaigns, and sources with knowledge of its thinking. police disperses the rally, but still safe. The Cabinet is in the meantime expected to response to an inquiry that 5,544 oil tenders added they are considered ‘indirect incitement’ The ICM will instead monitor the sit- believes that his step is unlikely since request delaying discussion of a draft law that were presented between 2005 and 2013. that does not pose an actual threat to Kuwait, Al- uation and assess reactions to the gatherings at the Irada Square are allows citizens to file cases directly with the con- Omair further indicated that there are three Jarida reported. gathering before setting its positions allowed, while the opposition does not in accordance, the sources said. Top plan to organize a demonstration opposition members were scheduled afterwards. to hold a ‘critical and decisive’ meeting Former MP Dr Obaid Al-Wasmi con- last night at the dewaniya of former firmed on his Twitter account Friday parliament speaker Ahmad Al- that he will attend the gathering.

Municipality lost KD 14 million in suspected corruption case

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality lost more Kandari also wondered about the failure than KD 14 million after a cleaning compa- to hold the company accountable, and to ny took over 10,000 square meters illegally apply the terms of the contract to remove in Abdullah Port. The company continued its properties from the land. “Bearing in to use the land to store machines and mind that the encroachment is clearly visi- equipment, even after its contract with the ble specifically to municipality officials,” he Kuwait Municipality ended on Nov 24, told Al-Rai. 2012, raising suspicions that a municipality According to Kandari, the Control and official could be profiteering from the com- Inspection Sector contacted the Ahmadi pany’s violation. Municipality branch to find out the reasons Abdullah Al-Kandari, Head of behind allowing the company to exploit Environment Committee in the Municipal the site, but officials there are yet to make a Council, criticized the municipality for not response. taking legal action against the company. In other news, Director General of the GENEVA: HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah pictured at the UN Office in Geneva yesterday. “According to the terms of the contract, Social Development Office issued a deci- the rent price of 1 meter is KD 2, which sion to appoint himself to work in night equals KD 20,000 daily for the whole area,” shifts for five days a week, starting from said Kandari, adding that the amount of May 22, 2014. The official in question Kuwait stresses UN losses incurred by municipality was at least rewarded himself with a KD 1250 overtime KD 14,400,000. monthly allowance, Al-Qabas reported. role in peace, welfare No increase in KU GENEVA: His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- gation delivered him a historical document on relations with the UN Office in Geneva were Mohammad Al-Sabah underlined here yesterday appointing him as Kuwait’s first permanent rep- forged half a century ago. enrollment capacity the significant role of the UN Office in Geneva in resentative to the UN in Geneva. His Highness Sheikh Nasser had played a key political, humanitarian, economic, health and His Highness Sheikh Nasser also received a role in establishing the rules of the relations By A Saleh capacity levels of its colleges. scientific issues that eventually serve peace and rare memorial photo showing him while submit- between Kuwait and UN organizations in But according to sources familiar with human welfare. ting credentials as the chief of the UN office in Geneva thanks to his study of economics and KUWAIT: Kuwait University is not expect- discussions inside KU, studies on the Since it became an independent state, Kuwait Geneva as a first step towards the forging of politics in an august university in Switzerland, he ed to increase the capacity of new stu- expected number of high school graduates has been eager to promote and reinforce its rela- relations between the State of Kuwait and the said. dents to be enrolled next year, unlike pre- so far indicate that there would be no need tions with the international family in order to international society through diverse UN mecha- His study has favorably reflected Kuwaiti vious years when it was forced to take a to increase the enrollment capacity for the contribute to pushing forward Arab and interna- nisms. ambassadors’ activity in a continuing effort to number of freshmen that exceeded its academic year 2014/2015. This recommen- tional development through UN mechanisms, he Kuwait’s permanent UN delegate serve Kuwaiti, Arab and Islamic issues, the maximum capacity. Former Minister of dation will be discussed during the KU said in remarks as Kuwait’s permanent UN dele- Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghuneim said Kuwait’s ambassador added. —KUNA Education Ahmad Al-Mulaifi had informed supreme council meeting mid June, which KU officials before he resigned last month will be chaired by Acting Minister of to prepare a plan that includes accepting Education Dr Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej, said more students than what they initially the sources who spoke on the condition of announced based on the maximum anonymity.

Victim Killer Accomplice Indian man’s killer nabbed

By Hanan Al-Saadoun pected killer is also an Indian, and the motive of the murder was related to financial disputes. KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Security The suspected killer admitted that he commit- Information Department said criminal detec- ted the crime with a knife he got from another KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team warned that three reinforced concrete columns were placed south of the Kuwait Bay at the construction site of tives were able to arrest the killer of an Indian Indian friend. The victim’s phone, his car key the Jaber Causeway. The 10-meter-long columns, which have a diameter of 1.5 meters, could become a source of danger for unsuspecting boats expat whose body was found near Sulaibkhat and money were found when the suspect’s and ships sailing at the site located at the following coordinates: N 29 23 857 — E 47 56 152. sports club within hours of the crime. The sus- house was searched.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 LOCAL A week in Harvard In my view

By Bader Meshari Al-Hammad

ast week, social media sites discussed an extract from a sub-libraries. Each building on campus has its story. I will men- and practical fields which helped convey to us the aims and accord between the two countries which put a long term end speech by Harvard graduate Sarah Fahd Abu Shaar. It tion just two. The first is that one library was established by content of this workshop in a professional way befitting the to the border disputes and in which Ecuador relinquished its Lwas an improvised speech that reflected her confidence donation from the mother of a certain student: Harry Elkins tradition of Harvard. There was Prof Kessely Hong, lecturer in claims of sovereignty on the disputed territories, according to and strong presence. She was the same student who deliv- Widener who drowned with the Titanic on his way back from General Policy at the Kennedy School who teaches negotia- the Rio de Janeiro Protocol. ered a speech on her graduation from Bayan Bilingual School London with a collection of his favorite books. Before making tion, decision-making and partial economy, and who was With those lectures, the week came to an end. The experi- and was honored by former foreign minister Sheikh Dr her donation, the mother learned that the university had awarded the Dean’s Prize for distinguished teaching. She was ence consolidated many impressions. The lecturers received Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem. Who has not heard of the great demolished a library donated by someone. She made her able to hone the principles and concepts of negotiations skills the appreciation of the participants. I can still recall the enthu- Harvard University which was established in 1636 and named donation on condition that the building would never be mod- of the participants. She did not confine herself to the academ- siastic applause at the end of each lecture in a testament to after its first donor John Harvard? It has a teaching staff of ified. The building remains in its original state, but when the ic aspects but also tackled the practical aspects. Some of the the profound impact of the experience. The success of the lec- nearly 2,400 and almost 21,000 students including post-grad- university had to make some extensions, it built a two-storied major applications we practiced as participants were the case turers in their efforts was the result of the good preparation uate and vocational students. More than 300,000 students basement without changing the building. I was told that of Congo River Basin Project and Deeport is a six-party, Multi- for the program by a distinguished university team. It would graduated from the university of whom more than 50,000 Harry’s library contains books inscribed on human skin! The issue Negotiation. be fair to highlight the efforts of Hamad Al-Maliki from the from all over the world. Many graduates were honored with second story involves the Monument Hall which commemo- Another lecturer was Gary Orren, professor of politics and Kingdom of Bahrain who helped professor Kessely through- the Nobel Prize and some went on to become US presidents rates the sacrifices of the Harvard students in the American leadership who lectures and writes on public opinion, politics out the workshop. I was impressed with the professor’s humili- such as Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Barack Obama. Civil War. Their names are inscribed on the walls of the hall and persuasion. He had worked with the candidates’strategic ty when introducing Al-Maliki saying that she had the honor Several graduates went on to occupy high positions in the and the building contains a theatre for celebrations, a dining opinion polls and helped prepare a rules draft for the presi- of teaching him and, after his graduation, had the honor of Arab countries such as former foreign minister of Kuwait hall and a mural with the names of fallen students. dential candidacy in the US. Owen succeeded in capturing our working with him as a colleague after obtaining his MA from Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, former Going back to the valuable participation in the workshop interest with his unique and exciting presentations of the Harvard. prime minister of Egypt Aziz Sidqi and former Lebanese and the distinguished Kuwaitis who took part and who I had strategies, principles and basics of persuasion. His ideas were Finally, we should not forget the vital role of the Kuwait deputy prime minister Ghassan Tweini. The university shield the pleasure of meeting and working with including academ- carefully ordered and organized and were put forward in a Institute for the Advancement of Science which was estab- carries the Latin word “VERITAS “which means “TRUTH “. The ics such as Dr Nada Al-Mutawwa, head of the Department of narrative style which was part of the framework of the princi- lished by an Emiri Decree on Dec 12,r 1976 as a private insti- name Harvard has become linked to the elite, the inventive Research and Strategic Studies at Kuwait University and Dr ples of persuasion. tute for the public benefit specializing in supporting scientific and the thinkers. The Harvard Faculty of Law has on its main Fatma Al-Kandari Deputy Director General of the Public The proper use of negotiation and persuasion skills and technological development. The Institute is administered entrance wall, as one of the greatest expressions of justice, Authority for Applied Education and Training. From the enables you to make the proper decisions in the worst of cir- by a board of directors headed by His Highness the Amir. Verse 135 of Sura An-Nisa ( The Holy Quran). The verse is Sultanate of Oman there was Dr Said Al-Maharrami, Dean of cumstances. Appreciation is due to those in charge of this program repre- inscribed on a wall for the most important proclamations of the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences. From the pri- An example of decision-making was provided by the for- sented by Dr Amani Al-Baddah and the esteemed sister justice in history. vate sector there were Dr Ibrahim Al-Ghosein, former profes- mer President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad, who is of Arab Wiaam Al-Othman, this lady who works very nicely and care I, too, have a special experience of Harvard University. Last sor at Kuwait University and currently Director of Al-Kharafi descent. He is a lecturer at the John Kennedy School for for every detail and for the requirements of the participants, May, I had the honor of participating in a workshop at the uni- National Co., Dakheel Al-Dakheel, Chairman of the United Governmental Sciences with an MA in General Administration guaranteeing the success of the program from the first prepa- versity Kennedy School entitled “Strategies for Effective Company for Paper Industries, Nayef Al-Hazzal, Chairman of from Harvard. He is also a lecturer in ethics and politics at sev- rations to the return of the participants to Kuwait. All appreci- Negotiation, Decision-Making and Persuasion “. The participa- Yiaco Medical Co., Emad Al-Mnayei, CEO of the Finance House eral universities and a fellow at the General Leadership Center ation and respect to Um Deij and I hope she forgive us our tion felt exciting and unique. Investment Co., Abdullah Al-Mullah, Board Member of Al- in the Kennedy School for Governmental Administration. shortcomings during that time. The honorable brother Khaled I arrived to Boston, and precisely in the Cambridge area in Mullah Group, as well as other promising executive officers in Jamil was an epitome of practical expertise on how to take Al-Mheilan who won our respect and was the best of travel which Harvard is situated. It is a very beautiful city very similar the private sector who are the pride of Kuwait and who can- crucial decisions at the national level. The ex-President offered companions. He was present all the time, working silently. We to London in the style of its architecture. The university not be named them all here because of the constraint of his experience in his book which explained how he dealt with express our pride in this personality whose deeds were more administration organized a tour of the University campus with space and who numbered more than 40 participants. the dispute between his country, Ecuador, and Peru which led eloquent than his words. I was truly saddened by the news its several beautiful building spread over an area of over 5,000 The academic body which organized and supervised the to several wars and the occupation of most Ecuadorian terri- that he was leaving the Institute. This would, if true, mean that acres. It has the largest academic library in the world with 70 workshop has a comprehensive experience in the academic tories by Peru, ending in the signing of the historic peace the Institute would miss one of its best members of staff.

In my view Local Spotlight Innovative Water crisis youth at doorsteps

By Muna Al-Fuzai Al-Watan

By Labeed Abdal

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[email protected] ummer is upon us . This means no one is safe from the heat so it is natural that people will use Smore water for their domestic daily needs and he Kuwaiti Robot Center at the Ministry of outdoor plants as the weather warms up. Education announced recently that 12 mid- When people complain about the shortage of water , Tdle and high school students won local this should not be taken for granted because we are in qualifiers to participate in the World Robot the middle of a desert. The shortage of water is a global Olympiad. This event is very important in the issue. That is why the World Health Organization has ini- local scene, since it encourages innovative young tiated several programs to discuss this universal prob- people who are looking for opportunities to lem, finding solutions in an attempt to create aware- develop and showcase their skills. ness over the impact of this shortage and / or misuse of The qualifiers for the competition, which takes water over public health , the spread of diseases and place next November in Sochi, Russia, happened death of people especially among children in devel- in cooperation with the International Movement oped countries. For Leisure Activities In Science And Technology WHO has raised the logo flag of ‘Safer Water for (MILSET). This adds to the encouragement of Better Health’. According to WHO reports water and san- ambitious young men and women to compete at itation crisis claims more lives through disease than any the international stage, where they can hone war claims through guns. I was also terrified to learn that their skills and reach out to a wider and more about 3.4 million people die each year from water, sani- diverse range of spectators. tation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 And who knows; their participation could percent, occur in the developing world. The truth that open the door for opportunities, such as having the lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills chil- their projects adopted by major companies. dren at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours!!!! Knowing all this information makes water It goes without saying that the Ministry of precious as oil especially in our developed countries. Education needs to give constant attention to Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) had ini- competitions between public school students tiated a program to develop solutions to this challenge who are members of robot clubs around Kuwait. kuwait digest and to ensure the provision of sufficient freshwater to Furthermore, those efforts should come as part of meet the demands of public, while maintaining an eco- a bigger, long term plan that ensures that stu- logical balance to preserve and manage the country’s dents receive adequate attention throughout water resources. This great effort needs all support from their school and college years. The start of a new era Kuwait government, lawmakers and media bearing in A well-studied plan that gives attention to the mind Kuwait has the world’s highest water consumption technological advancements and future require- and a tour of the streets in early morning will show the ments will help put young people’s efforts in the lack of awareness among maids on how to use water. right place, and also create leaders for the future. By Dr Turky Al-Azmi Large quantities of freshwater is being wasted on the Recognizing the distinguished contributions of ground while people die out of the lack of access to Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti young men and women, same water. and adopting their innovations by the public and feel that Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud is an impres- they like, and we cannot control people’s attitudes, The cost of providing freshwater in Kuwait, through private sectors, helps them become contributing sive man — you speak to him and you find ration- and even if one sits at his home by himself, isolated desalination plants, exceeds $1.2 billion annually. In fact, members of the society. Iale in his ideas. I, here, do not have any interest in from the entire world, he will still be hit by those the government has estimated that by the year 2050, if praising him, even as I presented to him some views with bad attitudes. the current consumption patterns kept unchanged, the earlier! I say this after a talk with some colleagues Personally, I find that the individual’s freedom, country’s revenue made by oil will be required to fund about an incident that took place where Sheikh whenever it remains based on clear principles and the increased production of desalinated water. Salman selected competence, and this confirmed to intellect, will remain within the ethical framework Although officials at the Ministry of Electricity and Water have repeatedly stated that we are not con- me that he is a decision maker who leans towards and away from the attack behavior and unjustified fronting water crises, situation on the ground reveals competent people! praise! otherwise after various areas experienced serious water For this reason, we wish the government to I remind you with a column in which I mentioned shortages. The ministry said the water shortage was due understand the limitations in the leadership struc- the way leaders are selected in a neighboring coun- to internal problems in specific buildings, and that the ture and establish a special agency to review the try. Resumes used to be sent with numbers, without quantity of water used by residents in cleaning the leaders’ levels in various state establishments, both names, then a neutral team conducts the interviews residue of the sandstorm may have affected the water public and private, and to have this agency under to determine personal skills such as behavior, self reservoir in those buildings. That is why I believe local Youth Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud, and to restraint, decision making and interaction with those media in all GCC countries should act clearly bearing in mind that this is global and not local issue to have have a group of experienced and clean persons who conducting the interview with the candidate, and awareness media campaigns. The fact that everything in are not affiliated with any faction or group! this is called soft skills in the West. our life today is about water, that is why every drop we This agency, if adopted, will becomes the corner- We are in dire need to reconsider the way leaders misuse, waste or spend counts. We don’t seem to treat stone of the start of a new era that enables compe- are selected, after state establishments, both public water as sustainable energy. tent people to be nominated for leadership posts, and private, reached a very bad level as most of A wonderful step was taken in US when California and consequently, can be studied and evaluated them were appointed for reasons not related to Water Awareness Campaign was made to help professionally. When you change leaders, he govern- competence, that means by “wasta”! Californians to re-discover the most precious resource ment becomes able to draw a roadmap that can lay We are looking for those with intellect and vision - on Earth to spread public awareness about the conser- vation, and distribution of water. the views of developing performance and make a leaders who have views, are clean and able to make WHO calls for saving water is based on the fact that quality move known as “transformation leadership”, carefully considered decision, and for this reason we one tenth of the global disease burden is preventable by because any establishment that is led by a profes- ask for creating this agency to belong to Sheikh achievable improvements in the way we manage water. sional leader will remain as it is without a change! Salman Al-Humoud! It is important to be aware not only how much diseases There may some people who may say that my talk are caused by factors related to water but also how has some “buttering” in it. People may interpret it as — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Rai effectively changes in the management can improve health and save lives. SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 LOCAL Curriculum specialist calls for constructivist approach Inquiry-based educational framework

By Sunil Cherian math. Why? Because then children are able to the knowledge in a conceptual way, so you are transfer their skills to all subject areas. We have able to apply the knowledge to the outside KUWAIT: For Darren Arbour, a Canadian educa- fused it all together so the students can make world. The IB curriculum is academically rigorous tion specialist, students are constructivists. They connections.” where higher-level thinking and more critical are constructing their own meaning and devel- level thinking are expected in the learners. oping their own understanding. Teachers don’t Major differences stand in front of the classroom giving informa- The conceptual based IB is a curriculum In the Middle East tion. Teachers are facilitators, giving the tools framework. It doesn’t tell you what to teach. But Arbour was happy to acknowledge the and resources where students can connect what it helps the teachers organize the curriculum openness shown in the educational sector in is learnt with the outside world. the Middle East. “We have many IB schools in Arbour is in Kuwait as part of his routine visit the Middle East. As you know the ME is a place as a curriculum whiz to schools that have adopt- where conservative values are given higher pri- ed the International Baccalaureate (IB) system of orities. But ME has been open and welcoming education. “In developing a curriculum that is internationally-minded curriculum in educa- conceptual, we develop our program of inquiry tion. And schools combine the national system aligned with the standards and practices of the and the IB.” Arbour, also the IB regional manag- IB,” Arbour said. The Geneva based International er for Africa, Europe and the ME, said IB Baccalaureate, an inquiry-based educational respects the uniqueness of every school. “The framework, was founded 47 years ago and has schools can remain individual just like their stu- spread its wings across the world. dents are. IB gives guiding principles and we For its curriculum, Arbour explained, “we evaluate how they are doing. From the US to develop the rationale, objectives of each subject Japan, it has been a rewarding experience to area and key learning outcomes that we would see how the citizens of the 21st century have expect students to be able to obtain at each been faring.” grade level. The IB-designed units of inquiries The 3- to 19-year-old students develop the are heavily embedded in the school schedule. Parents may not see the traditional science class understanding of what it means to be respect- or the traditional history class. Those are embed- Darren Arbour ful; what is open minded to others; what it is to ded in the units of inquiry. Some of IB units are communicate positively, Darren said. The social heavily science focused, others social studies and gives pedagogy to teach in an inquiry based aspect of the community of learners is another focused or art focused. IB is very much trans-dis- way. positive factor. Grouping and regrouping stu- ciplinary. We bring all traditional disciplines into Other curriculums are topic based. There, dents is important. Teachers plan collaborative- the units of inquiry. We are getting aspects of children are learning facts without being able to ly. Everyone works in teams. Everyone includes science, aspects of social studies or aspects of apply the knowledge. With IB, you are learning learners, teachers, administrators and parents.

KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry campaign against iqama violators in progress. Duo throws Molotov cocktails at police station

By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: A security source said two juve- niles threw two Molotov cocktails at Taima police station from a distance yesterday. The KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait organized a training course for diplomats at the foerign ministry’s Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah diplomatic insti- source said the bottles fell on the pavement tution on skills of effective communications. This cooperation, the first of its kind, aims at developing the skills of workers in this field, and pro- without causing any damage. Detectives vide them with the necessary experience to carry out their duties. and state security are investigating.

Qadisiya fire Firemen put out a fire that broke out in a restaurant in Qadisiya cooperative society. Preparations underway Shuhada and Hawally fire centers fought the fire, which was in a store located above for 2015 HORECA Kuwait the restaurant. No injuries were reported. Iqama violators KUWAIT: Following the huge suc- next year. Leaders Group hopes ceremony of this year’s event, The public authority department at the cess of the 2014 HORECA Kuwait last through its cooperation with General Manager Nabila Al-Anjari Interior Ministry launched a campaign January, Leaders Group for Hospitality Services to continue the said. The company has already against iqama violators and those without Consultation and Development growing success that the exhibi- began preparations to select and IDs in several areas in Farwaniya announced beginning preparations tion saw in the past three years, invite top chefs to serve as judges Governorate. The campaign which was led by assistant undersecretary for public secu- to host the exhibition for the fourth and which was crowned by the for the cooking competition to be rity affairs Maj Gen Abdelfattah Al-Ali consecutive year, at the Jumeira participation of more than 15 held in next year’s exhibition, KUWAIT: The Qadisiya restaurant in resulted in the arrest of 520 persons who which fire broke out yesterday. Beach Hotel between Jan 19 and 21 ambassadors in the inauguration Anjari indicated. Nabila Al-Anjari were sent to concerned authorities.

Support for Palestinian conciliation RABAT: The 14th session of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (AIPU) Executive Committee yesterday affirmed robust support for the inter-Palestinian concilia- tion and the Palestinian peo- ple’s legitimate rights namely establishment of an inde- pendent state. The committee praised the Palestinians’ recent for- mation of a national unity government and expressed hope it would take steps to further bolster the people’s unity and promote their just causes, said Faisal Fahad Al- Shaya, the undersecretary of the parliamentary caucas of Kuwait’s National Assembly and the AIPU Committee Chairman, in a statement released on Saturday. It called on Arab govern- ments and parliaments to support the new Palestinian government and secure funds for aiding the Palestinian people “to stead- fast in face of pressures.” It also called for following up on issue of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel without charges. The AIPU committee urged the international com- munity aid Lebanon and Jordan in securing basic needs for incoming Syrian refugees. The commission tackled some international adminis- trative affairs, adopting the organization structure for the union secretariat general, examined terms for pardon- ing some caucases of over- due debts for the union, endorsed methods for elec- tion of the union general sec- retary and blessed rules per- taining to the parliamentary excellence award.—KUNA SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 LOCAL Prime suspect in Hawally muggings in police net Drug offender resists arrest

KUWAIT: Hawally detectives arrested a fugitive the man during routine check, police locked him cally involved with could be involved in her dis- following investigations regarding his potential up inside the police station, and began prepara- appearance. The girl’s mother told Jabriya police connection to muggings reported in the gover- tions to refer him to the proper authorities for station officers Friday that her daughter had norate. Cases filed by expatriates, who said that further action. been missing for 24 hours and her phone is they were robbed through violence, were given switched off. She added that the girl, who is in extensive attention recently after investigators Drug offender her twenties, could have run away in protest noticed that the plaintiffs gave similar descrip- A man faces multiple charges after he was because her parents rejected a man who came tions of the perpetrators and the crimes’ circum- caught with possession of drugs and resisted to their house and asked to marry her. stances. Detectives were able to identify a arrest. The man was pulled over in Nugra, then Detectives are looking to summon the man for Kuwaiti man and arrested him under suspicions the patrol officers decided to search him after questioning after the girl’s mother said that she that he is the prime suspect in the cases. The noticing that he was in an inebriated state. And suspects that he is involved in the case. man was remanded in custody pending further as they prepared to put him under arrest after action which include being put in a police lineup. finding four plastic bags containing shabu (meth) Wedding fight with his possession, the suspect showed resist- Farwaniya police arrested two men who Fugitive in custody ance and attempted to physically assault the offi- engaged in a fight in front of a wedding hall in A man entered the Jahra police station to cers. The policemen were able to put him under the area recently. According to investigations, Kuwait Pavilion 2014 Venice Biennale report being scammed, only to be put in jail control however, and took him to the Drug the two engaged in an argument over old dis- after police discovered that he is wanted for Control Genera Department for further action. putes, and soon began exchanging punches in nonpayment of a KD17,000 debt. The Kuwaiti front of guests; who called police when they URC ‘Real Estate Partner’of man came to the police station to press charges Runaway girl failed to put the men under control. The two against a citizen, accusing him of stealing KD70 A girl was reported missing by her family, were taken to the Farwaniya police station for Kuwait Pavilion in Venice through scam. After discovering the case against who also told police that a man she is romanti- further action. KUWAIT: United Real Estate Company (URC), the MENA region’s leading real estate develop- er, announced its role as Real Estate Partner for the Kuwait Pavilion at the 14th International Ambassador takes part in Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia in Italy, which will run from this month to November. Commissioned by the National opening of Kuwaiti pavilion Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), the Kuwait Pavilion will address architect, Rem Koolhaas’ overarching theme of 100 years of modernity (1914-2014). VENICE: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Italy Sheikh yesterday to Nov 23. Biennale’s historic pavilions of the Giardini and Under the supervision of Deputy- Ali Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has personally Some 65 national participants are exhibit- the Arsenale, and throughout the city of Commissioner Zahra Ali Baba and the creative taken part in inauguration of the Kuwaiti pavil- ing their own unique stalls at the Venice Venice. — KUNA direction of artist-curator Alia Farid, Acquiring ion at the 14th International Architecture Modernity will address the Exhibitions’ theme Exhibition, held here. by investigating the arrival of modernity in “The spirit of high professionalism manifest- Kuwait and its impact on local culture through ed by the team in charge of the Kuwaiti stand buildings and projects commissioned by the is credited for the special attention devoted by state as ‘modern status symbols’. Renimah Ali Al-Mattar His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad URC’s Executive Vice President, Renimah Al- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the young generation,” Mattar, said “URC is pleased to be the Real creating design-led developments.” said the ambassador in a statement. Estate Partner of the Kuwait Pavilion at the la New artistic trends Ambassador Sheikh Ali Khaled boasted of Biennale di Venezia’s 14th International The la Biennale di Venezia is one of the personally taking part in opening the Kuwaiti Architecture Exhibition. It is imperative that countries like Kuwait with a deep root and his- world’s leading cultural institutions. It aims at pavilion, on Friday, along with a group of tory in urban architecture take part in inspiring promoting new artistic trends and organizes Kuwaiti artists, designers and architects. He platforms, namely the Biennale. These oppor- international events annually in contemporary particularly heaped praise upon the participat- tunities encourage a new generation of local arts, such as the International Architecture ing Kuwaiti girls. innovators, architects and designers to explore Exhibition and the International Art Exhibition. The Kuwait team has successfully drawn their creative realm. URC’s involvement in this The private preview reception of this year’s many visitors to the stall, he said, affirming the initiative is in-line with the company’s Biennale was held on June 5 and 6, where Kuwaiti diplomatic mission’s keenness on sup- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy invited guests were able to tour the exhibition porting such activities by the young citizens. which supports programs that are driven by and visit each of the pavilions. The Kuwait Kuwait’s stall for the 14th International youth in areas of the arts, culture, education Pavilion is located in The Arsenale - Campo Architecture Exhibition, organised by a group and design.” Della Tana, now open for public viewing until of young nationals, was inaugurated by the “URC’s CSR Strategy is based on the Nov 23. Kuwaiti Ambassador at the Venice Biennale on Created Shared Value approach which is United Real Estate Company (URC) is one of Friday. The activity is funded by the National centered on the idea that corporate success the MENA region’s leading real estate devel- opers, with total assets of KD 491.8 million as Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. and social welfare are interdependent through long-term sustainable programs. of March 31, 2014. Headquartered in Kuwait, The 14th International Architecture The company’s involvement further ties into URC was founded in 1973 and was listed on Exhibition, entitled Fundamentals, is held from URC’s core vision and values which focus on the Kuwait Stock Exchange in 1984.

KUWAIT: One of the speakers lecturing during the program. Gulf Bank, KFAS organize ‘future think’ workshop for employees Kuwait: Gulf Bank and Kuwait Salma Al-Hajjaj, General Manager - Foundation for the Advancement of Human Resources at Gulf Bank addressed Sciences (KFAS), recently organized a spe- delegates about the importance of train- cial Innovation Training Workshop for ing and innovative thinking. She said: Gulf Bank middle-ranking employees to “Gulf Bank is known as an organization encourage innovative thinking and prob- that is committed to nurturing Kuwaiti lem solving. talent, as well as a financial institution The workshop that was held at Four that provides the best banking products Points - Sheraton last week, was designed and services in Kuwait. We believe that and delivered for the Bank by the New our human capital is our most valuable York based ‘Future Think LLC’, a leading asset and therefore we must invest in this learning company that provides innova- asset in ways to maximize opportunities tive solutions to organizations worldwide. for individuals to grow and develop with The three day training workshop was our organization. We value teamwork designed to encourage the development and empowerment and we will continue Salma Al-Hajjaj, General Manager, of innovative skills and capabilities in cre- to focus on these aspects as we work with Human Resources at Gulf Bank dur- ative problem-solving, idea generation, you in developing your knowledge and ing the training program. risk tolerance, and collaborative engage- abilities.” On the other hand, Director of training programs which provide tools ment. The program comprised a mixture Innovation and Enterprise Directorate at and skills aimed at enriching innovative of seminars and practical workshops to Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement thinking within the private sector encourage innovation, including focus on of Science Dr. Mohammed Salman stated, employees, resulting in the improvement personal innovation, how business units “This workshop comes in line with KFAS’s of business productivity and competitive- can embrace innovation in working envi- new strategy to promote and aid the ness.” Gulf Bank places great emphasis on ronments through effective communica- development of the capabilities of the training and development of its employ- tion, and proven techniques and how-to private sector’s scientific and technologi- ees through its Learning and tools to create immediate and lasting cal capabilities and to participate in build- Development department, which pro- impact. ing a knowledge based economy.” duces tailor-made packages and training At the start of the workshop, Mrs. Adding “that the Directorate supports programs for developing employee expertise. In 2013, Gulf Bank conducted 125 training courses, training 1,377 newly recruited employees, as well as numerous courses at middle and senior manage- ment level focusing on technical and leadership competencies, with strong emphasis on corporate governance and compliance. As one of Kuwait’s leading employers and recruiters, Gulf Bank has always placed its human capital at the forefront, focusing on opening up opportunities to young Kuwaitis, creating meaningful roles and challenges for employees to help them develop their careers, and in doing so, to contribute to the country’s A group of Gulf Bank employees during the innovation training program. economic progress. SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

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JALALABAD: Afghan youths swim in a canal in Jalalabad yesterday. Summer temperatures in Afghanistan are approaching 34 degrees Celsius. —AFP Flash floods kill 60 in Afghanistan Twin disasters highlight challenges facing the next leader

KUNDUZ: Flash floods have killed around 60 people in the disaster was “massive” and the toll was expected to rise northern Afghanistan, washing away hundreds of homes sharply. “The floods destroyed four villages, and washed and forcing thousands to flee, officials said yesterday warn- away 2,000 residential houses, agricultural fields and also ing that the death toll was expected to rise. The floods in killed thousands of cattle,” the governor of Guzargah-e-Nur, the remote mountainous district of Baghlan province come Noor Mohammad Guzar said. Officials were further assess- a month after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a ing the extent of the damage on life and property in the village and killed 300 people in a nearby region. affected area, the deputy head of the National Disaster The twin disasters highlight the challenges facing Management Authority said.”Our teams have also provided underdeveloped Afghanistan’s next leader as the country some edibles (food items) and medication to the affected heads into the second round of the presidential election people. More aid will get there soon,” said Mohammad on June 14. “People have lost everything they had-houses, Aslam Sayas. But Basharat, the Baghlan police spokesman, property, villages, agricultural fields, cattle,” Baghlan police claimed that the affected families had received no assis- spokesman Jawed Basharat said about the floods. “There’s tance so far from the central government or relief agencies. nothing left for them to survive. People don’t even having Last month a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a drinking water,” he added. “They urgently need water, food village in a remote area of northeast Badakhshan province items, blankets and tents.” killing at least 300 people.The May 2 disaster left hundreds Afghan disaster management officials said they were of families homeless in Argu district of the mountainous scrambling to get food and medical aid to the area after province which borders Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. The torrential rains unleashed the floods, which forced thou- floods and landslides follow recent severe flooding that sands of people to flee their houses. Officials recovered 58 have affected a vast swathe of Afghanistan, particularly bodies from the inundated areas, including women and northern provinces with 175 people dead and tens of children, with several people said to be missing, according thousands displaced. to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Flooding and landslides often occur during the spring “There is a lot of stagnant water, and there are more bodies rainy season in northern Afghanistan, with flimsy mud under the rubble and mud,” Mohammad Nasim Kohzad, houses offering little protection against rising water levels head of NDMA in Baghlan said. “We are still looking for oth- and torrents of mud. Afghanistan is currently voting to er victims of this flood.” choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who has been in power since the fall of the 1996-2001 Taleban ‘Massive’ damage regime. Afghan presidential front-runner Abdullah The governor of the province, Sultan Mohammad Ebadi, Abdullah faces former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani said the death toll stood at 59, warning that the extent of in next week’s vote run-off. — AFP Jihadists seize hostages at the Anbar university RAMADI: Jihadists took students and staff hostage at a major assault that was only repelled after house-to- Anbar University in the Iraqi city of Ramadi yesterday, with house fighting and helicopter strikes. Violence is running at one of the prisoners saying they had been threatened. That its highest levels since 2006-2007, when tens of thousands prompted an assault by security forces to free them. were killed in sectarian conflict between Iraq’s Shiite major- Gunmen from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant infil- ity and Sunni Arab minority. More than 900 people were trated the university from the nearby Al-Tasha area, killed killed last month, according to figures separately compiled its guards and then blew up a bridge leading to its main by the United Nations and the government. So far this year, gate, police said. An AFP journalist said Special Forces more than 4,300 people have been killed, according to AFP spearheaded an assault to retake the campus, and report- figures. Officials blame external factors for the rise in ed hearing heavy gunfire. Around 1,000 students managed bloodshed, particularly the civil war in neighboring Syria. to escape earlier, while more fled during the military opera- But analysts say widespread Sunni Arab anger with the tion, which also included soldiers and police, the journalist Shiite-led government has also been a major factor. —AFP said. It was not immediately clear how many students are registered at the university, or how many of them are still being held. Before the military assault began, a student telephoned from inside the university to say she and other women were ordered to gather in one place, after which the leader of the militants addressed them. “We will teach you a lesson you will never forget,” she told AFP he had said to them. In December, a crisis broke out in the desert province of Anbar, west of Baghdad, when security forces dismantled a longstanding Sunni Arab protest camp near provincial capital Ramadi. Anti-government fighters subsequently seized control of parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, to its east, and securi- ty forces have so far failed to drive them out. The United Nations said on Friday that the conflict in Anbar is believed to have forced nearly 480,000 people from their homes. They join some 1.1 million others displaced by past years of violence in Iraq. On Friday, heavy fighting between mili- tants and security forces and twin suicide bombings tar- geting a minority group, killed at least 36 people in the BAGHDAD: Iraqi civilians inspect the damages in the northern province of Nineveh. aftermath of a bomb in a commercial street in A day earlier, militants seized several parts of Samarra in Baghdad, Iraq. — AP SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Bitten by sanctions, Iranians support nuclear compromise Hardlines accept softer stance - for now ANKARA: After years of tough sanctions over Iran’s nuclear pro- Zaferaniyeh in northern Tehran. gram, many in the country now say they want the government Years of official rhetoric denying that sanctions were hurting to make compromises that could satisfy world powers and and glorifying the country’s supposed self-reliance resonated allow a semblance of prosperity to return. Although many with some Iranians, who said they were happy to suffer to Iranians still fervently believe in their country’s right to all defend a program that came to symbolize national pride. aspects of a civilian nuclear program, including those regarded However, Iran’s traditionally cautious clerical rulers, loath to with suspicion in the West, they are increasingly tired of the incite any Arab Spring-style domestic unrest or provoke harsher high economic price. international action, have adopted more emollient language in That weariness will form the backdrop on June 16 when recent months, diplomats said. “Iran’s clerical rulers need this Iran’s political leaders send negotiators to Geneva for talks with deal to guarantee their power. That is why they have changed six world powers aimed at hammering out an agreement that their tone,” said a Tehran-based western diplomat, speaking on swaps concessions on uranium enrichment for sanctions relief. condition of anonymity. But because a failure of talks would “I love my country but I love my family more, and for years I rebound even harder on pragmatist Rouhani and his allies, they have worked hard to cope with the rising prices,” said Ali Mirzai, can still afford to take a harder position than the president, the a father of three in the northern city of Rasht. “I am tired. My diplomat added. “No deal or a bad deal will strengthen hardlin- only hope now is (President Hassan) Rouhani. He is trying to ers in Iran.” improve the economy by resolving the nuclear issue. I believe in him and his policies.” Supreme leader ALEPPO: Syrian citizens inspect an unexploded barrel bomb filled with explosives, which was dropped from a Mirzai, like millions of Iranians who bore the brunt of the Rouhani’s position is made more complicated because Syrian forces helicopter on a street in Aleppo, Syria. _— AP sanctions, voted last year for pragmatist Rouhani after he prom- although his status as president gives him a big say, it is lower in ised to improve the flagging economy in part by striking a deal Iran’s political hierarchy than that of Supreme Leader Ayatollah with the outside world. Although there are no reliable opinion Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on the nuclear file. Backing Barrel bombs risk becoming polls in Iran, Rouhani’s large margin of victory on a platform of away from atomic defiance could be politically tricky for compromise, and anecdotal evidence gleaned from recent tele- Khamanei, who has supported hardline positions on the answer to insurgency phone interviews across the country suggest strong public nuclear file in the past. But, for now, he appears to fear the eco- appetite for a deal. nomic problems caused by sanctions could weaken his position WASHINGTON: In desperate efforts to gain ground on battle- and insurgents, killing thousands in his effort to prevail in the “Rouhani and his team will solve this issue. I am sure his and he has cautiously backed the talks, calling for “heroic flexi- fields, frustrated governments in the Mideast and Africa are using three-year civil war that has left more than 160,000 people dead. moderate and compromising policy will work. We don’t need bility” but still expressing pessimism about the outcome. barrel bombs against their enemies, launching the cheap, quickly As recently as Wednesday, the State Department reported evi- hostility,” said Arvin Sadri, 31, who runs his father’s furniture fac- “The members of the team work under direct guidance of manufactured weapons as a crude counter to roadside blasts and dence of barrel bomb strikes on three neighborhoods in the divid- tory in the northern holy city of Mashhad. After several rounds the leader (Khamenei). Everything is being reported to him and suicide explosions that insurgents have deployed with deadly suc- ed northern city of Aleppo. of talks last year, a preliminary deal was penned in Geneva in he sets the tone for the Iranian negotiators,” said a senior Iranian cess for years. Last month, new evidence that Iraq’s army dropped between November, including a limited easing of sanctions in exchange official, who asked to be unnamed. One sign of Khamanei’s cur- four and 10 barrel bombs on insurgent strongholds in the coun- for Iran halting some nuclear activities. The agreement took rent support for some form of compromise can be deciphered Flying IEDs try’s Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which borders Syria, effect on Jan 20, and was designed to buy time for a final deal in the hardline media, which has started publishing articles that New evidence that they are being used in Iraq after being spurred U.S. officials to warn Baghdad to immediately desist or within six months. As the deadline fast approaches, the lifting justify a more conciliatory approach, often citing economic dropped on civilian populations in Syria and Sudan has raised risk American support and aid. Four government officials in of some sanctions has given Iranians a taste of how things hardship. Oil exports account for around 60 percent of Iran’s concerns that governments in a number of unstable nations will Washington and Baghdad said the attacks stopped within days of might improve. economy, much of its food and animal feed come from abroad, embrace them. Described as “flying IEDs” - improvised explosive the U.S. demand. The government officials, all of whom are famil- Maryam Simai, 41, a schoolteacher in the central city of Yazd and many of its factories assemble goods from imported parts. devices - barrel bombs have the power to wipe out a row of build- iar with the mid-May conversations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri said she supports the atomic program and believes sanctions “I am tired of this nuclear dispute. For years we feared fur- ings in a single blast and can kill large numbers of people, includ- Al-Maliki, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not are unfair. But she still favors compromise. “I want to live in ther economic pressure and possible military action. A nuclear ing unintended victims. “It’s fair to say that a lot of governments authorized to discuss the talks. peace. I don’t want to fear for the future of my children. The ten- deal is our only chance to live in peace,” said interior designer are losing control of the counterinsurgency,” said Michael Knights, But several Iraqis interviewed this week in Fallujah told The sion with the international community and sanctions have Mastaneh Alavi in the northwestern city of Tabriz. But many an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “They’re Associated Press the bombings have continued. They said the ruined our economy and has isolated us,” she said. Iranians contacted by Reuters still argued for a “balanced” also watching what they see in Syria, and they feel like their air attacks usually come at night, so they aren’t caught on video. nuclear deal, saying it would be unfair to deny their country a power is what is making the difference.” Militants in Fallujah have boasted they have discovered about 20 Lame duck technology possessed by Pakistan, India and Israel. “As our “Barrel bomb” is a catchall term for a large container packed barrel bombs that did not explode on impact and are using them If a lifting of sanctions is important to many Iranians, it is leader said, we will not accept closure of our nuclear facilities,” with fuel, chemicals or explosives and often scraps of metal, most to make their own weapons. Fallujah resident Ahmed Abdul-Salam vital for the political hopes of Rouhani, a self-proclaimed mod- said Asghar Seydani, 38, who is a member of the hardline Basij often dropped from helicopters or planes. However, they also said a barrel bomb destroyed his small dairy factory last week. erate who has pledged to boost the economy. “A deal with the militia in the western city of Kermanshah. “No sir, I will not have been found on Israeli beaches, where authorities believe Another resident, who would only identify himself as Abu Yassin, world powers will bring political and economic stability to Iran. accept it. If necessary, I am ready to sacrifice my blood for con- they washed up after being released by militants on the Gaza said four barrel bombs landed on a residential neighborhood in Rouhani’s political future depends on this deal. He will become tinuation of our nuclear activities.” Strip. Barrel bombs are attractive to governments that have air- Fallujah on a single day in early April. a lame duck president if he fails to reach a deal,” said political From businessmen in Tehran to housewives in Shiraz, many craft but limited munitions or money to launch enough conven- US officials are careful to note they have no independent evi- analyst Hasan Feghhi. Analysts and economists say he has only Iranians dread possible consequences of failure of the talks tional weapons, like missiles, to rival their enemies. dence of the Iraqi army strikes. But Vice President Joe Biden urged partially succeeded in repairing economic damage that Iran suf- including further sanctions and even military attack. The United Al-Maliki during a May 16 phone call to make sure Iraqi counterter- fered during years of confrontation with the West, particularly States and Iran’s arch foe Israel have not ruled out military under his hardline predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. action if diplomacy fails to resolve Iran’s nuclear dispute. Gravely concerned ror operations protect civilians and follow laws. Similarly, the UN The official inflation rate has halved to around 20 percent However, analysts say such an attack could well consolidate the Sudan’s army began dropping barrel bombs into rebel areas Security Council on Thursday issued a statement after a briefing on since Rouhani’s election, but unemployement remains around clerical establishment’s power. Khamenei, for his part, said on starting in late 2011, according to human rights watchdogs, as the Iraq that pointedly reminded Baghdad to comply with internation- 30 percent and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Wednesday he did not consider a military strike was an option nation’s south split off and created a new country. In December al human rights and humanitarian laws. The top Iraqi diplomat to Meanwhile, Iran’s rial has dropped against the US dollar. “I sup- for the United states. “America has now understood that a mili- 2012, Susan Rice, then US ambassador to the United Nations, said the US, Ambassador Lukman Faily, said in an interview that port my country’s nuclear achievements but at the same time I tary attack is not a priority. They know that such attacks are she was “gravely concerned” about the reported attacks. In Syria, Baghdad has investigated the reports of barrel bombs that activists don’t think it is logical to pay a heavy price for it,” said Jinus even more dangerous for the attacker than for the country forces controlled by President Bashar Assad began a continuing and officials say allegedly were dropped over a two-week period Dadgostar, 18, who lives in the affluent neighborhood of attacked.” — Reuters barrel bomb campaign in 2012 against areas controlled by rebels last month in the cities of Fallujah, Garma, and Saqlawiyah. — AP The ‘Iron Lady’ destroying Syria’s chemical weapons

UNITED NATIONS: The diplomat rid- ding the world of Syria’s chemical weapons is Sigrid Kaag, a statuesque and impeccably dressed mother of four who speaks six languages and is fearless in a war zone. For nine months she has led the international mission to destroy Damascus’s declared chemical agents, braving mortar fire, jetting between the Middle East, Europe and New York, and liaising with Moscow, Washington and maritime fleets. Syria may have missed deadlines but with 93 percent of its declared chemical arsenal out of the country, Kaag is responsible for the only glimmer of good news to emerge from the horror of a war that has killed more than 160,000. Her star is in the ascendancy at UN headquarters, abuzz with praise for the woman who at UNICEF worked with Jordan’s Queen Rania and once dreamed of becoming a singer.

‘Never stops working’ The 52-year-old Kaag speaks fluent Arabic and diplomats say she has done an excellent job. She is respect- NEW YORK: Sigrid Kaag, the head of the international mission overseeing ed too in Damascus, where some the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons seen at the United Nations have dubbed her the “Iron Lady.” “She Headquarters in New York. — AFP never stops working and practically the task,” she added. Agency which looks after the plight never sleeps,” one of her local employ- of Palestinian refugees. In the last 20 ees confided to AFP. What seems cer- ‘Keep your calm’ years, she has lived in Jerusalem, tain is another big job after her mis- As head of the joint UN- Jordan, New York, Sudan and sion concludes in the coming months. Organization for the Prohibition of Switzerland, adopting one child and The media has touted her a possible Chemical Weapons mission, she giving birth to three more, juggling successor to Lakhdar Brahimi as medi- manages a staff of 110. In Damascus marriage with a career. She was pre- ator on the stalled Syrian peace she said mortars have fallen around viously number three in the UN process although others tip her for a the hotel where they live and work, Development Programme and different post in the region. She and that she sent away some staff UNICEF director in the Middle East quashes any suggestion that a who were unable to cope. “You’ve and North Africa, during which she Western woman should find it diffi- got to keep your composure, you’ve met Syria’s first lady Asma Assad. cult in the Arab world, saying she has got to keep your calm and you’ve In her current job she has hardly always been treated with respect and got to be in the moment,” she said. taken a break. Her mother died since never in a derogatory way. “The fact that you don’t get hit, you she moved to Damascus and she “I think in many negotiations feel blessed but you know that admits it is “very difficult” to see her women have great assets,” she told you’re in an active war zone.” It has children, aged 11 to 19. Home is cur- AFP in an interview, dressed in a black been a stratospheric rise for the rently in east Jerusalem, where the trouser suit, red top and high heels. daughter of a music professor who family moved last year. Do they wor- “You can bring different component moved to Egypt to study at the ry about her living in a war zone? parts-be as strong and on message American University in Cairo as an “They’ve been very impressed by my and negotiate, but I think we have a undergraduate. close protection, that gave them an wider skill set available.” Her husband She has a masters degree from immediate sense of safety,” she is a Palestinian former diplomat and Oxford and worked in the private smiled. “They cope but they know it’s having children who are half Arab can sector for oil giant Shell in London finite and I’ve underlined that.” She also be an asset, she said. “You’re one for two years before joining the describes herself as “results oriented” foot in, one foot out. But I think ulti- Dutch foreign ministry. Kaag decided and with nerves of steel. “I don’t pan- mately people judge you on the basis to quit the job after meeting her hus- ic easily,” she said. The rare exception of what you bring, if you’re sincere, if band in Jerusalem, signing up being during a near crash on a tiny you’re committed and if you’re up to instead to the UN Relief and Works charter plane years ago. — AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Colombian peace talks turn toward the victims HAVANA: Colombia’s government and leftist FARC guerrillas have killed some 200,000 people since 1964 with many more both agreed to take responsibility for war victims yesterday, displaced and wounded. The delegates laid out 10 points for moving forward on peace talks with a week to go before presi- the debate including reparations for victims and guarantees dential elections. Peace negotiators meeting in Havana set they would not suffer again. guidelines for the next round of peace talks, which is about how Both sides pledged to take responsibility for victims, a to honor and compensate the victims of Latin America’s longest departure from the wartime rhetoric of blaming each other. running war. They pressed forward with eight days to go before They also agreed to clarify the truth of what happened in the the run-off between center-right President Juan Manuel Santos war, and to seek reconciliation. Peace negotiators reached a and right-wing challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who has threat- landmark agreement on how to battle the illegal narcotics ened to shut the peace process down. trade shortly before the first round of balloting on May 25. Since “Each day we feel closer to the mountaintop, to the Mount the talks began in November 2012 they have also reached par- Everest of rights, which is peace. Without that no other rights tial deals on land use and the legal political status of the FARC are possible,” rebel leader Ivan Marquez said. For the upcoming after the war. A final topic would be disarmament and the end round, some war victims will travel to Cuba to explain to both to the conflict, after which the two sides would review all five sides how they have suffered. Fighting between the Marxist- partial agreements. Any final peace deal would then be put inspired Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the state before Colombian voters for approval. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: US Sen John McCain (R-AZ) talks to reporters after a closed door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Officials from the Obama Administration were on the Hill to brief Senate members on the release of Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl. — AFP Americans split on US-Taleban swap Deal set a ‘dangerous precedent’ WASHINGTON: Americans are deeply divided over tary who’s in captivity,” he told NBC Nightly News. “We’re whether the Obama administration did the right thing by going to try to get ‘em out.” swapping five Taleban leaders to win the freedom of Obama decided to personally announce the exchange Afghanistan prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl, according to in the White House Rose Garden, accompanied by Reuters/Ipsos survey released on Friday. Americans strong- Bergdahl’s parents, in order to explain to the public the rea- ly agree the United States should make every effort to free sons behind the decision, Podesta told a breakfast meet- prisoners of war like Bergdahl, an Army Sergeant who was ing. The uproar over the prisoner swap has left Americans captured in eastern Afghanistan in 2009. But they also with conflicted views of the events, the Reuters/Ipsos poll think the prisoner swap deal set a ‘dangerous precedent’. showed. Asked whether they thought Bergdahl was a The Reuters/Ipsos poll of 958 Americans interviewed patriot or a traitor/deserter, 65 percent said they did not online found that 44 percent disagreed with the statement know. Only 13 percent said they viewed Bergdahl as a that trading Taleban prisoners for Bergdahl was “the right patriot and 22 percent saw him as a traitor/deserter. thing to do,” with 26 percent of them strongly disagreeing. The respondents overwhelmingly agreed the United Twenty-nine percent of those polled said they thought States should make every effort to recover prisoners of war, the prisoner swap was the right thing to do and 27 percent with 78 percent agreeing with that statement, including 48 said they were not sure, the poll found. Bergdahl was percent strongly agreeing. At the same time, they also handed over to US special operations forces in Afghanistan thought trading five Taleban leaders for Bergdahl set a last Saturday after the Obama administration agreed to “dangerous precedent for future kidnapping or hostage- send five Taleban leaders held at Guantanamo prison to taking,” with 66 percent agreeing with the statement, Qatar, where they must remain for a year. After an initial including 43 percent strongly agreeing. The poll has a cred- wave of euphoria over the release, the deal triggered a ibility interval of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. backlash among US lawmakers angry because they were White House officials have said they were concerned about not given 30 days notice before the transfer of the Bergdahl’s health and felt they had to move secretly and Guantanamo prisoners, as required by law. Some of quickly to secure his release once the exchange was decid- Bergdahl’s former Army comrades said they believe he ed. deserted his post. Bergdahl was taken to a US military hospital in White House counselor John Podesta on Friday told a Germany, where he was in stable condition and continuing Christian Science Monitor breakfast that President Barack to improve daily, according to an update by his doctors on Obama knew the prisoner swap would be a “controversial Friday. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, decision.” said Bergdahl still had not called his parents “because he The president said he acted quickly because he was hasn’t chosen to yet.” The official said Bergdahl had no faced with a “delicate situation that required no publicity” physical issues preventing him from traveling but that and that he had no regrets about the action. “This is some- there was no imminent plan to move the Idaho native back thing that I would do again and I will continue to do wher- to the United States. Officials have declined to discuss his ever I have an opportunity, if I have a member of our mili- health issues, citing privacy concerns. — Reuters From prayers to fury: The journey of Bowe Bergdahl WASHINGTON: Bowe Bergdahl stands, hands at his sides, his parents what would be his final email from the field, condemn- loose-fitting Pashtun smock and pants bright white against ing the military system and the mission in Afghanistan. “The the rocky landscape. The hillsides are dotted with armed US army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at. It is the Afghans, rifles ready. A Black Hawk appears in the clouds. After army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies,” he told his par- almost five years in captivity, the American soldier, head ents, who later shared emails with Rolling Stone magazine. shaved, eyes blinking, is about to finally see freedom. “We’ve His father responded: “Dear Bowe, In matters of life and been looking for you for a long time,” a member of a special death, and especially at war, it is never safe to ignore ones’ con- forces team shouts over the roar of the copter. Bergdahl breaks science.” Three days later, at 5:30 am, a soldier went to wake down. It was supposed to be a moment for celebration, Bergdahl for guard duty. Their platoon was living at an isolated America’s only military captive in the 13-year Afghan conflict post, a two-acre stretch of a riverbed, surrounded by wire. free at last. And in his hometown in Idaho, where trees are Bergdahl slept in a one-man pup tent. On this morning, his bedecked with yellow ribbons and prayers never stopped, body armor and weapon were there. But Bergdahl was gone. indeed it is. “Hey, is Bergdahl up there?” someone called. He wasn’t. — AP But for the rest of the country, Bergdahl’s capture and release have thrust him into a furious debate. From members of Congress to his own former platoon mates, a storm of critics are livid because Bergdahl was captured after walking away from his post and then released in a swap for five Taleban pris- oners. Some question whether soldiers died as part of efforts to save him. “He’s a deserter, in every sense of the word,” said Evan Buetow, Bergdahl’s former Army team leader, angered to see him heralded as a hero. “That’s exactly the opposite of what he is.” Now, as Bergdahl prepares to head home, everyday Americans are left asking: Is he a victim? A traitor? Are we meant to empathize or admon- ish? Bergdahl grew up with parents and older sister Sky amid the breathtaking peaks of the Sawtooth Mountains. The kids were homeschooled, and he received a GED from a local col- lege. His father drove a UPS truck. The blond, lanky kid grew up, by all accounts, an explorer near Hailey, Idaho, a town of 7,000 that offers a funky alternative to the nearby Sun Valley ski resort. He sparred with the Sun Valley Swords fencing club, danced with the Sun Valley Ballet School, loved his bicycle and sought adventures. He bounced from job to job, on an Alaskan fishing boat, cleaning guns and stocking targets at the shooting club, crew- ing on a sailboat trip from South Carolina to California. From the librarian to the sheriff, everyone seemed to know and admire Bergdahl as he came of age. “He was good every which way you looked at it,” said the gun club manager, Dick Mandeville. Bergdahl enlisted at 22 and, with just seven months of military training, was deployed to Afghanistan in February 2009 with the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. Their mission was to stop the Taleban. Beyond fighting, that meant patrolling villages, gathering intelligence, winning the confidence of locals, training the Afghan National Police. Bergdahl preferred the humanitarian aspect of the job, passing out food and medical supplies. “He enjoyed helping the locals way more than he enjoyed doing all the ... actual combat side of a deployment,” said platoon medic Josh Cornelison, 25, of Sacramento, California. “He wasn’t so fond of that at all.” As months passed, Bergdahl began grousing to Buetow, his boss, about their mission. “‘You don’t have to believe in it, but I need your mind clear if something happens,’” Buetow, 28, of Seattle recalled telling him. Days before he disappeared, Bergdahl asked Buetow how to get the maximum amount of cash from his paycheck. He also wanted to mail home his computer and books. “There were things he said that I didn’t think too much of at the time, but when he walked away the lights started going off in all of our heads,” said Buetow. On June 27, 2009, Bergdahl sent his SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Nigeria’s military targets newspapers

ABUJA: Four Nigerian newspapers said soldiers stifle free speech, calling the media “an indispensa- stopped and seized copies of its editions on Friday ble partner in the ongoing counter-insurgency over security concerns, with one likening the raids operation and the overall advancement of our to censorship during the country’s military rule. The country’s democratic credentials”. military confirmed the searches, but officers denied “As such, the military will not deliberately and that the moves were designed to muzzle critics, without cause, infringe on the freedom of the even though at least two of the newspapers had press,” he added, calling the search a “routine securi- published damning articles about the army in ty action”. Sue Valentine, Africa program coordina- recent days. Four dailies-The Nation, the Daily Trust, tor for the New York-based Committee to Protect the Leadership and Punch-all said they were affect- Journalists (CPJ) warned that “denying Nigerians ed, while The Nation said soldiers stormed one of its access to news and information sows the seeds of circulation offices. rumors and distrust.” “While we recognize that “One of the military men told us that they were Nigeria faces security threats, these can never effec- acting on (an) order from above as there were alle- tively be addressed by media blackouts or persecu- gations that newspaper circulation vehicles were tion of journalists,” she added. being used to smuggle arms and ammunition,” one of The Nation’s distribution managers said. The early ‘Reminiscent of dictatorship’ morning raids did not appear to target specific edi- Nigeria’s response to the mass abduction of the tions and the copies seized were destined for all teenage girls has been criticized as slow and lack- CHIBOK: Security officials walk past a burnt out government secondary school in Chibok, where gun- parts of the country, the newspapers said online. lustre, while a social media campaign has prompted men abducted more than 200 students, Chibok, Nigeria. — AP Defense spokesman Chris Olukolade said the search greater international media scrutiny of the counter- “followed intelligence report(s) indicating move- insurgency. On Tuesday, the Leadership daily story claiming army generals and their wives were Reporters Without Borders ranked Nigeria 112th ment of materials with grave security implications claimed that 10 army generals and five senior offi- using an Abuja barracks for their personal use. out of 180 countries worldwide in its 2014 Press across the country using the channel of newsprint- cers had been court martialled and found guilty of Punch said on punchng.com that copies of its edi- Freedom Index. Censorship and crackdowns have in related consignments”. assisting Boko Haram. The military described the tion were seized at Lagos international airport and recent years typically targeted reporters working in Nigeria’s military has been under sustained pres- report as “very unfortunate and meant to do maxi- distribution vans stopped and searched across the older media, like newspapers or television. But the sure, including in the media, over its response to mum damage to the image of (the) Nigerian Army country. The operation was “reminiscent of military government has increasingly responded to sensi- the Boko Haram insurgency, which has claimed and its personnel”. “Those concocting it appear hell- dictatorship in the country”, it said. Nigeria’s media tive reports published exclusively online. Last thousands of lives since it began five years ago. bent on misleading Nigerians and the international came under heavy censorship during the military month, the military attacked a May 23 New York Attacks by the Islamist militant group have community to give credence to the negative rule of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha in the Times report that suggested a lack of training and increased, with the military apparently powerless to impression they are so keen to propagate about the 1980s and 1990s. endemic corruption in the Nigerian military was prevent the bloodshed, exacerbated by the kidnap- Nigerian military,” they said. A number of publications were either shut down hampering the search for the girls. It accused the ping of more than 200 schoolgirls in April. But The Daily Trust said no reason was given for the or forced underground and editors fled abroad article’s author of “abysmal mediocrity, arrogance Olukolade rejected reports the army was trying to search but said that on Wednesday it published a after printing articles critical of the government. and racist sentiments”. — AFP Wary US ‘unlikely’ to restore full Egypt aid

WASHINGTON: As Egypt prepares to swear in its subcommittee. fourth leader since 2011, a huge slice of $1.5 billion in Leahy said he was “extremely disturbed” by Egypt’s US aid remains in deep-freeze amid fears the nation is “flouting of human rights” and would not sign off on sliding back into authoritarianism. Former general delivering the aid “until we have a better understand- Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will be crowned as the next presi- ing of how the aid would be used.” But there are also dent on Sunday after three years of political turmoil no current plans to unblock the rest of the suspended since the ousting of long-time iron-fisted leader Hosni 2014 funding, which includes some military hardware Mubarak. But far from welcoming Sisi as a step toward such as Harpoon missiles and parts for Abram tanks. stability, some analysts are urging Washington to re- Under legislation penned by Leahy, Kerry has to certify think its decades-old, military-based aid program amid Egypt is on the path to democracy before all the aid concerns over human rights abuses and a crackdown can be released. on civil liberties. “There’s no timeline for when we have to make addi- In a sign of Washington’s unease, no senior US cabi- tional decisions about the assistance we haven’t yet net members will be attending the inauguration, with certified for Egypt,” State Department deputy spokes- State Department Counselor Thomas Shannon asked woman Marie Harf said, stressing there was “more work to lead the delegation. US officials announced in April to do” and the administration was not “satisfied” about they planned to resume some military aid to Cairo, the pace of democratic progress. While the US was suspended late last year, including 10 Apache helicop- ready to work with Egypt on badly-needed economic ters for counterterrorism efforts in the Sinai peninsula. reforms, Harf was also non-committal on whether But the aircraft remain in storage in the US, and a Washington would join a donors’ conference proposed request to release some $650 million of the frozen aid this week by Saudi Arabia.The Gulf kingdom, together has been put on hold in Congress by Democratic with the United Arab Emirates, has vowed to pump KIEV: Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko holds the Presidential stamp during a ceremony of his oath in the Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of an appropriations some $10 billion into the Egyptian economy. — AFP Parliament in Kiev. — AFP Poroshenko sworn in; Ukraine faces civil war New leader offers corridor for fighters to leave KIEV: Ukraine’s new president Petro tumultuous period in their post-Soviet message from the eastern rebels, who Poroshenko said his country would never history. More than 100 people were shot have declared their own “people’s give up Crimea and would not compro- dead by police in Kiev by police in the republics”, spelled out the scale of the mise on its course towards closer ties with street protests that eventually brought separatist challenge facing him. “What Europe, spelling out a combative and Yanukovich down and in the east, scores they (Kiev’s leaders) really want is one- defiant message to Russia in his inaugural of people, including separatist fighters sided disarmament and for us to surren- speech yesterday. The 48-year-old billion- and government forces have been killed der. That will never happen in the aire took the oath of office before parlia- in fighting since April. Donetsk People’s Republic,” a top sepa- ment, buoyed by Western support but The uprising in the east is not the only ratist official, Fyodor Berezin, said by tele- facing an immediate crisis in relations challenge facing Poroshenko, who inher- phone from Donetsk, an industrial hub with Russia as a separatist uprising its a country on the verge of bankruptcy, where rebels have occupied strategic seethes in the east of his country. still dependent on Russia for natural gas points. Russia annexed the Crimean peninsu- and rated by watchdogs as one of the “As long as Ukrainian troops are on our la in March, weeks after street protests most corrupt and ill-governed states in soil, I can see that all Poroshenko wants is ousted Poroshenko’s pro-Moscow prede- Europe. The forceful speech by subjugation. The fight will continue,” he cessor, Viktor Yanukovich, in a move that Poroshenko, who served as foreign minis- said. Government forces shelled rebel has provoked the deepest crisis in rela- ter and minister for economic develop- positions in Slaviansk yesterday and tions with the West since the Cold War. ment in previous administrations, drew manned checkpoints on roads into the “Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the an ovation from guests and VIPs who city. Inna, 38, who was leaving the city by beauty of peace unless we settle our rela- included Lithuanian President Dalia foot with her mother and grandmother, tions with Russia. Russia occupied Grybauskaite, US Vice-President Joe said: “All you hear is shelling and bombing. Crimea, which was, is, and will be Biden and senior EU officials. Cheering Yesterday entire houses burnt down.” Ukrainian soil,” Poroshenko said in a crowds later greeted him on a walk in “We’ve been hiding in the cellar for three speech that drew a standing ovation. He blazing sunshine on the square in front of days and we finally decided to leave. had told this to Russia’s Vladimir Putin Kiev’s St Sophia’s Cathedral, which was There is no water or electricity” she said as when the two met on Friday at a World decked out with the blue and yellow she made her way out, carrying bags of War Two anniversary ceremony in France, national flags. food and clothes and flasks of water. he said. Poroshenko, who earned his fortune Eastern war zone West’s Endorsement as a confectionery entrepreneur and is Since Poroshenko’s election, govern- In the days leading up to his inaugura- known locally as the “Chocolate King”, ment forces have stepped up their opera- tion, Poroshenko met both US President said he intended very soon to sign the tions against the separatist rebels in east- Barack Obama, who warmly endorsed his economic part of an association agree- ern Ukraine who want to split with Kiev leadership, as well as Russia’s Putin. At a ment with the European Union, as a first and become part of Russia. The rebels brief meeting in France, where they were step towards full membership. This idea is have fought back, turning parts of the attending World War Two commemora- anathema to Moscow, which wants to Russian-speaking east into a war zone. On tions, French officials said Poroshenko and keep Ukraine in its own post-Soviet Friday they shot down a Ukrainian army Putin shook hands and agreed that sphere of influence. His voice swelling plane and killed a member of the interior detailed talks on a ceasefire between Kiev with emotion, Poroshenko stressed the ministry’s Special Forces in the separatist government forces and the pro-Russian need for a united Ukraine and the impor- stronghold of Slaviansk. separatists would begin within a few days. tance of ending the conflict that threat- Poroshenko vowed to have no truck Russia denounced the overthrow of pro- ens to further split the country of 45 mil- with “bandits” but urged pro-Moscow Moscow President Viktor Yanukovich and lion people. He said it would not become separatists to lay down their arms, offer- has accused the Ukrainian authorities of a looser federalized state, as advocated ing a guarantee to provide a safe corridor worsening the crisis in the east by resort- by Russia. for Russian fighters to go home. “Please, ing to military force instead of dialogue. “There can be no trade-off about lay down the guns and I guarantee It denies accusations by Kiev and Crimea and about the European choice immunity to all those who don’t have Western governments that it is support- and about the governmental system. All bloodshed on their hands.” He spelled ing the rebels and allowing fighters from other things can be negotiated and dis- out, too, a conciliatory message to the Russia to cross into Ukraine to fight with cussed at the negotiation table. Any people of the east. Switching to Russian the rebels. Putin told reporters he wel- attempts at internal or external enslave- from Ukrainian to address them, he said comed proposals set out by Poroshenko ment of Ukraine will meet with resolute they had been duped by myths about for ending the conflict. However he resistance,” Poroshenko said. Poroshenko, Kiev leaders, stoked by Russian propa- declined to say what they were and said Ukraine’s fifth president since independ- ganda and the Yanukovich “clan”. He sepa- Ukraine must halt what he called “puni- ence, won a landslide election on May 25 rately accused Yanukovich of “financing tive” military operations against pro- after promising to bridge the east-west terrorists”. Russian separatists. The two countries are divide that has split the country and He promised to visit the east with also at odds over the pricing of Russian thrust it into a battle for its survival. guarantees of Russian-language rights natural gas, with Moscow threatening to Ukrainians hope the election of and proposals for de-centralization that cut supplies as early as next week unless Poroshenko, who is married with four would give their regions a bigger say in Ukraine settles its debt, the amount of children, will bring an end to the most running their own affairs. But a jarring which is disputed. — Reuters SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Pakistan’s MQM party leader Hussain bailed Supporters end four-day protest KARACHI: Thousands of supporters of the exiled leader of Pakistan’s MQM party ended a four-day protest yesterday after he was bailed by London ALLAHABAD: An Indian commuter splashes water from a pipe onto his face to get police following his arrest on suspicion of mon- respite from the heat at the railway station in Allahabad, India yesterday. — AP ey laundering. Altaf Hussain was arrested at his suburban home in the British capital on Tuesday, prompting street demonstrations in Karachi- Enraged Indians riot; heat Pakistan’s biggest city and his party’s power base. “The 60-year-old man arrested on Tuesday wave prompts power cuts 3 June on suspicion of money laundering has LUCKNOW: Thousands of people enraged by for firefighters to put out the flames on Friday. been released on police bail to a date in July power cuts during an extreme heat wave Another substation was also set on fire in pending further enquiries,” a police statement have been rioting across northern India, set- Gorakhpur, 320 kilometers southeast of said. ting electricity substations on fire and taking Lucknow. Chief Minister Akilesh Yadav said A police source indicated the man was power company officials hostage, officials officials were trying to purchase power from Hussain. More than 2,000 party workers and sup- said yesterday. The impoverished state of other states, though they were also facing porters danced, embraced one another and dis- Uttar Pradesh has never had enough power shortages amid the extreme heat. Residents tributed sweets in Karachi after hearing the for its 200 million people - about the popula- are particularly angry about the power cuts news, a AFP reporter witnessed. Hussain’s arrest tion of Brazil - and many receive only a few after receiving reliable supplies through the had sparked major protesters which included hours a day under normal conditions, while Indian elections that ended May 16. Since the torching of at least a dozen vehicles while 63 percent of homes have no electricity then, only some regions have been guaran- the Karachi Stock Exchange plunged three per- access at all. teed unbroken power supplies, while others cent on the back of the news. “I salute those who But recent temperatures that soared to have received little to none. participated in the sit-in protest against my 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 Celsius) have The High Court in the city of Allahabad is arrest,” Hussain told supporters by telephone from London. Hussain left Pakistan for Britain in caused power demand to spike at 11,000 now hearing a petition alleging discrimina- KARACHI: Pakistani supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party offer 1992 after a military operation to end ethnic megawatts - far higher than the state’s 8,000 tion in power distribution, and has asked the each other sweets as they celebrate the news that MQM leader Altaf Hussain has been unrest in Karachi, going on to gain British citi- MW capacity - triggering blackouts that shut government to explain why some regions released on bail following his arrest, during a protest in Karachi yesterday. — AFP down fans, city water pumps and air condi- allegedly were receiving preferential treat- zenship in 2002. tioners. Thousands of people stormed an ment. Those regions include the city of He said yesterday that he had complete trust mainly concentrated in the cities of the southern while his critics accuse him of running his party electricity substation Friday near the state Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of in the British judicial system and vowed to “keep Sindh province, especially Karachi where they as a violent, mafia-like organization. Following capital of Lucknow, ransacking offices and new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as well as speaking the truth till my last breath”. Hussain form a majority of the city’s population of 20 mil- his arrest, he was allowed to attend a pre- taking several workers hostage for 18 hours constituencies held by Yadav and other top also thanked Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz lion. arranged medical appointment on Tuesday and until police intervened yesterday morning, officials in the state’s ruling party. Sharif after his office issued a brief statement fol- But he remains a highly influential figure in was kept in hospital until Thursday. British police state utility official Narendra Nath Mullick said. Meteorological officials said temperatures lowing the arrest offering him “all kinds of legal Karachi, Pakistan’s economic centre and main raided his London residence in 2012 and 2013 Elsewhere, an angry crowd set fire to an were likely remain high through at least and moral support”. Hussain founded the MQM port, wielding effective control over the city over money-laundering claims. Two other men electricity substation in Gonda, 180 kilome- Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and in 1984 in response to the marginalization of from his London home and addressing support- were arrested over the allegations in December ters southeast of Lucknow. It took three hours other north Indian areas. — AP Mohajirs-migrants who fled India amid the vio- ers using a loudspeaker linked to his telephone. last year and have been bailed until September lence of the sub-continent’s partition. They are Hussain is revered by his fiercely loyal supporters pending further investigations. — AFP Pakistani teen shot, thrown into the canal over marriage ISLAMABAD: An 18-year-old Pakistani woman “miracu- lously survived” after being shot and thrown into a canal by her father for marrying against the family’s wishes, police said yesterday, describing the latest in a series of such attacks on women in the Muslim-majority country. The assault on Wednesday came days after a 25-year-old woman was beaten and stoned to death by her family for marrying a man they did not approve of, one of hundreds of so-called “honor killings” carried out every year in Pakistan against women accused of bringing shame to their conservative families through sexual transgressions. Local police officer Ali Akbar said the teenager’s father, with help from some of his close relatives, attacked her in Hafizabad, a conservative city 200 kilometers (120 miles) southeast of the capital Islamabad. Akbar said Saba Maqsood was in love with a man from a nearby city and married him last week, but her father Ahmed brought her back to his home, promising she would not be harmed. Akbar said her family members beat her, and the following day Ahmed took her to a deserted area and tried to kill her. The woman told police her two uncles looked on as her father shot her in the face, put her in a burlap sack and threw her into a canal, Akbar said. “Saba Maqsood told us that her father and other relatives had assumed that she was dead, but she regained consciousness, opened the sack and came out of the canal,” he said. He said she made her way to a gas station, where she alerted a security guard. “We are raiding different places in an effort to cap- ture her father and all those who participated in the assault,” he said. The fatal stoning last month cast a harsh light on violence against women in Pakistan, where human rights activists say perpetrators are often acquitted or giv- en light sentences. Under Pakistani law, those charged with killing women can see their criminal case dropped if family members of the deceased forgive them or accept so-called “blood money.” — AP Philippines to arrest 3 powerful senators MANILA: The Philippines yesterday said it was preparing to arrest three powerful senators after an anti-graft court indicted them in a massive corruption scandal that has riv- eted the nation. The three, who include a son of former president Joseph Estrada and a 90-year political survivor who enforced martial law under dictator Ferdinand Marcos, are accused of channeling millions of dollars of public funds into bogus organizations in return for huge kick- backs. President Benigno Aquino took office in 2010 vowing to fight the massive corruption that has long weighed down the Southeast Asian archipelago. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, whose investigators prepared the case against the opposition senators, said she was confident they had enough evidence. “We are confident that there is enough evidence to support conviction and we continue to strengthen the evidence,” she said. The evidence included testimony from whistleblowers involved in the alleged corruption and documents from government agencies showing that funds were syphoned off, she added. A special anti-graft court, the Sandiganbayan, on Friday indicted senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Ramon “Bong” Revilla and Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada on the non-bailable charge of plunder, or massive graft. If con- victed, the three could face life in prison. Enrile, 90, has out- lasted four previous presidents and was chief enforcer of martial law under Marcos in the 1970s. Estrada, 51, is the son of former president and movie star Joseph Estrada while Revilla, 47, is a showbiz star as well as the son of another movie star-turned-senator.

‘Pork barrel’ funds De Lima said the executive branch was awaiting word from the court on when to arrest the three, adding that this could come within two weeks. She denied there were polit- ical overtones in the case, saying the evidence simply pointed to the trio. Five of their staffers and a business- woman, Janet Lim-Napoles, who allegedly masterminded the scam were also indicted. The three senators with the help of their aides and Napoles are alleged to have allocat- ed millions of dollars from their official “pork barrel” funds to bogus non-government organizations which then gave them huge kickbacks. Aquino’s spokeswoman Abigail Valte said the indictments were just the start and that more peo- ple would eventually be named in the massive corruption scandal that has riveted the nation for months. — AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Seven things to know about Guantanamo

WASHINGTON: The notorious military Convictions prison at Guantanamo Bay has once again Eight detainees have been tried and been at the center of a furor this week after convicted since the creation of special mili- five Taleban prisoners were exchanged for tary commissions in 2006. Six pleaded a US soldier held in Afghanistan. The five guilty. Federal authorities reversed the con- senior Taleban figures exchanged for victions of two of them, while appeals have Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl were not among been filed in two other cases. The four men the group of prisoners at the base in south- were transferred back to their home coun- ern Cuba who had already been approved tries. Only one, Tanzanian national Ahmed for release. US lawmakers were also al-Ghailani-who is serving a life sentence angered that they were not given the for his role in the 1998 attacks on US mandatory 30-days notification of the embassies in Africa-appeared before a fed- releases, as the administration said it had to eral court. act quickly because Bergdahl’s health was failing. A senior administration official on Where they have gone Thursday said: “There are a significant num- The remaining prisoners hail from 19 ber of transfers in the pipeline at various countries, and include one person described stages and I think you’re going to be seeing as stateless. In total there are 87 Yemenis, 12 substantial progress this year.” Here is a fact Afghans, 11 Saudis and then a few from file about the Guantanamo Bay detention such other countries as Egypt, Pakistan and center: Russia. US efforts to free those who have not been charged have stumbled as the admin- History istration has sought third countries to take some of them. Many have been sent back to It was opened in January 2002 on a US their home nations, but other countries military base on a coastal spit of land in housing Gitmo detainees include Albania, southern Cuba leased from Havana under a Algeria, Bermuda and Palau. treaty dating back to 1903. It was set up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks under the Costs administration of then president George W US officials say that it costs between Bush to deal with prisoners who became $2.7 million to $2.8 million a year to house termed “enemy combatants.” But it quickly each prisoner in Guantanamo. That com- became a hated symbol of the so-called pares to the $78,000 price tag annually for “war on terror” with orange jumpsuit-clad each inmate in a supermax prison within BANGKOK: Thai soldiers sing as they stand on an army truck to entertain people at Victory monument in Bangkok. With free meals, music con- prisoners photographed shackled and the United States. certs and dancing soldiers, Thailand’s junta is waging a propaganda offensive to encourage ‘national happiness’ following a military coup that handcuffed in open cages. The cages were has severely restricted civil liberties. — AFP later closed. US President Barack Obama Recidivism has repeatedly vowed to close the jail, but The US keeps a “very close eye” on those his attempts have been partly hampered who have been released. Some figures by Congress which refuses to allow any of have estimated that up to 30 percent Cheer up, Thailand! Junta the inmates to transferred from the prison, return to militant groups with the aim of dubbed Gitmo, to US soil. carrying out attacks on Western targets. But a US official said that figure includes both aims to return happiness Prisoners confirmed and suspected cases. He said 16 There are currently 149 prisoners in the percent of freed inmates were confirmed to jail, out of a total of 779 who have been have returned to the battlefield, while held there over the years. Of the 149, some about 12 percent are suspected of having ‘Bringing Back Happiness to the Nation’ 78 have been approved for release without done so. charge because they are not considered “a BANGKOK: Cheer up, Thailand. That’s an order. political reforms before elections, and going after entertained the crowd. “Not everyone can be sat- significant security threat to the United Best known detainees The military junta that seized power here last politicians from the grassroots “Red Shirt” move- isfied,” she said. “But the soldiers have restored States.” These include among others 58 Among those still held in Guantanamo month has no plans to restore civilian rule any ment that had vowed to take action if there was a order ... and it’s time to move on.” Similar events Yemenis, five Tunisians, four Afghans and are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-pro- time soon. But it has launched an official cam- coup. have been held in Bangkok and elsewhere, with four Syrians. A second group of 71 remain- claimed 9/11 mastermind and four others paign to bring back something else it says this Although the junta has censored partisan music and free haircuts, and there are plans for ing prisoners includes 10 who have already suspected of involvement in the 2001 ter- divided nation desperately needs - happiness. The media on both sides, it has begun prosecuting more. been charged and face trial by a special US ror attacks on US soil. Another is Saudi project has involved free concerts, free food, allur- opponents and summoned hundreds of politi- Weerachon said the events would preface the military commission. A further 23 have detainee Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, who is ing female dancers in suggestive camouflage cians - mostly those who supported the former establishment, in every province, of official “rec- been referred for prosecution, while 38 are charged with ordering the MV Limburg miniskirts, even the chance to pet horses trucked government or were perceived as critical. The onciliation centers” in coming weeks. Precise eligible to have their cases reviewed. The attack and the 2000 attack against the USS into downtown Bangkok with makeshift stables moves have forced some of the nation’s most plans are still being drawn up, but he said the five Taleban who were released last week Cole in Yemen. All six face the death penal- and bales of hay. The fair-like events are supposed prominent activists and scholars to flee or go into centers would enable people to come together came from among this group. ty if convicted.—AFP to pave the way for reconciliation after a decade of hiding. Deputy army spokesman Col Weerachon voluntarily in a calm environment to discuss the political upheaval and coups. Sukondhapatipak said the clampdown was neces- nation’s problems. “We are not forcing happiness. But critics point out the feel-good project is sary because “if you let people talk at the moment, We are asking for cooperation,” Weerachon said. being carried out alongside an entirely different they will talk with emotion, they will be very criti- “We believe this is a time for healing and we must junta-led campaign - an effort to stifle all opposi- cal.” The aim of the project, dubbed “Return listen to one another and understand. We realize tion to the army’s May 22 putsch, which deposed Happiness to the People” by the military, is to get our society has been divided for quite some time.” a government elected by a majority of Thai voters people “to relax,” he said. “We’re trying to create an A satirical cartoon this week in The Nation, an three years ago. “The very first question you have atmosphere to gain trust and build confidence. English-language newspaper in Thailand, por- to ask is, who’s happiness are they talking about?” That is the plan.” trayed the junta campaign this way: A lone anti- said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai professor of coup protester stands in front of a line of smiling Southeast Asian studies at Kyoto University who Bringing Back Happiness tanks reminiscent of the iconic photo from has refused to respond to a junta summons order- And the junta is serious about it. The weekly Tiananmen Square in 1989. As two undercover ing him to return home and report to the army. radio address of military ruler Gen. Prayuth Chan- policemen drag an anti-coup demonstrator into a ocha is now titled, “Bringing Back Happiness to the taxi - a reference to a recent, real-life incident in Restoring order Nation.” It is also now prefaced with a new song Bangkok - a smiling tank commander shouts “I’m sure this is not happiness for Thais who Prayuth commissioned called “Return Happiness through a megaphone: “Unhappiness will not be want a civilian government, whose rights were to Thailand.” At a junta-sponsored event on tolerated!” taken away by the coup,” he said. “It’s surreal. And Wednesday in Bangkok - part concert, part street Thailand has been deeply split for nearly a it’s ridiculous to believe this will create an environ- fair - an army truck operating as a mobile kitchen decade. On one side is an elite, royalist establish- ment conducive to reconciliation. That can’t hap- dished out thousands of free “Happy Omelets and ment based in Bangkok and the south that can no pen when the military is harassing, hunting and Rice.” Doctors from a military hospital gave out longer win elections and says the democratic detaining its enemies.” Last month’s coup, the 12th free medicine and checked blood pressure. A line process had been subverted by “the tyranny of in Thailand since the end of absolute monarchy in of soldiers with shields and face paint stood ready the majority.” On the other side is a poorer majori- LUGANSK: Pro-Russian activists shout slogans and applaud during a rally in the east- 1932, ousted a civilian government accused of for crowds to snap selfies. The event drew mostly ty centered in the north and northeast that has ern Ukrainian city of Lugansk yesterday. — AFP abuse of power and corruption that had increas- residents who supported the takeover, and it took watched the governments it has voted into office ingly been cornered by protesters, the courts, and place at a roundabout where just a few days earli- ousted again and again - by coups and controver- In Russian protege Abkhazia, finally the army. er soldiers in riot gear had faced off against hun- sial court verdicts. Prayuth, the military ruler, said The junta says it had to restore order after half a dreds of anti-junta protesters. the divide forced him to take power last month. a cautionary tale for Crimea year of political turmoil left dozens dead and the “Some people may not be happy with the “We were unhappy, so I had to ask myself, ‘Can we government paralyzed. And it insists it will be a coup, but they have to accept what has hap- let this continue?’” “We tried everything to resolve CHUBURKHINJI: Trudging over a bridge hun- bridge over the broad, green valley of the neutral arbiter. But since taking power, the army pened and live in the moment,” said Kanyapak the problems through peaceful means. Nothing dreds of metres long, English teacher Natia Inguri river. “Everything is cheaper over there,” appears to be carrying on the fight of the anti- Deedar, a 32-year-old airline employee who stood was successful,” he said. “What we are doing today Ablotia struggles home in the blazing heat, she added, pointing back at the Georgian government protesters by mapping out a similar swaying on a blue plastic as a Royal Thai Army is to try and bring everything back to normal. We laden with goods that are cheaper to buy side of the de facto border, which is still agenda to redraft the constitution and institute rock band with drums, guitars and saxophones intend to return happiness to everyone.”—AP across the river in Georgia than in Abkhazia, closed to cars by military posts. “The road is where she lives. After nearly six years as effec- hard. You have to walk 800 metres, over the tively a protectorate of Russia, life is still bridge.” Turning its back on Georgia, as tough for many in the breakaway Georgian Crimea has to Kiev, disrupted Abkhazia’s trade Politics left behind; Middle region. and transport and hitched its economy to the Last week, in a spasm of frustration over oil-fueled rouble, importing heavily from corruption and poor living conditions, pro- Russia, where wages and prices are much testers stormed the president’s headquarters, higher than in Georgia - or Ukraine. Abkhazia East rivals head to Vatican forcing him to flee and then resign. first threw off Georgia’s control in a bloody conflict in the early 1990s, when ethnic JERUSALEM: Israel’s government is boycotting ‘Committed to pope’s request’ negotiator Saeb Erakat said. That perception was Abkhaz were unwilling to be ruled by inde- its Palestinian counterpart with relations to a The Palestinians too are keen that the joint shared in Israel to the anger of the nationalist pendent Georgians in post-Soviet Tbilisi new low, and when their two presidents join prayers go ahead, despite Netanyahu’s decision right. Jerusalem Post commentator Caroline rather than from Moscow. The scars of war Pope Francis in a Vatican prayer for peace today to boycott a new unity government sworn in by Glick wrote of an “unfriendly” visit and accused and ethnic cleansing are still evident in the politics are likely to be absent. Israeli President Abbas on Monday with the support of Israel’s Francis of “leading the Catholic Church in a dis- ruins of pock-marked buildings. Shimon Peres and his Palestinian counterpart Islamist foe Hamas. “We are committed to the tressingly anti-Jewish direction.” But the break became definitive only in Mahmud Abbas have been acquaintances for pope’s request. Nothing new has happened that “Alas, the Golden Age of Catholic-Jewish rela- 2008. When Russia defeated Georgia in a brief years and held peace talks together, and have would change the commitment,” said foreign tions seem to have come to an end during war over another rebel region, South Ossetia, their separate reasons for honoring the pope’s minister Riyad Al-Malki.While some Palestinians Francis’s visit to the Promised Land”, she wrote. Moscow recognized both separatist govern- desire to keep the weekend event as free of con- expressed dissatisfaction that Francis did not Peres has been at pains to assuage Jewish reli- ments as independent in a move followed by troversy as possible. explicitly condemn Israeli settlement construc- gious sensibilities about the joint prayers he will scarcely any other state. While Russia’s critics “This prayer meeting will not be for media- tion in the occupied West Bank during last hold at the Vatican. “The event will take place in saw a strategy by Vladimir Putin to secure mil- tion or to find solutions. We are just meeting up month’s pilgrimage, Abbas welcomed the pope’s a location in the garden without religious sym- itary and territorial advantage and to under- to pray. Then everyone goes home,” Francis said “historic” visit. bols and which is not a place of prayer to ensure mine former Soviet republics set on breaking after issuing the invitations during a pilgrimage And a silent prayer that Francis held at Israel’s that it would be in accordance with Jewish tradi- SUKHUMI: The leader of Georgia’s break- with Moscow and drawing closer to the West, to the Middle East last month. Under Israel’s West Bank separation barrier in Bethlehem was tion,” his office said. Ahead of the visit, Peres away region of Abkhazia, Alexander the Kremlin has framed its help for Abkhazia, political system, Peres’s role as president is large- widely seen as a publicity coup for the spoke with Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Ankvab, attends a meeting in Sukhumi. South Ossetia and Crimea in humanitarian ly ceremonial. Real power lies with the much Palestinians. “The pope saw the occupation with who blessed him for his work towards peace and Ankvab said he is resigning following terms. But Abkhazia’s struggles with poverty more hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin his eyes, he saw the wall in Palestine,” Palestinian wished him luck, it added.— AFP days of political upheaval on Russia’s may give some Crimeans pause to worry Netanyahu. Netanyahu did allow Peres to open a southern flank. —AFP about Moscow’s commitment to their pros- secret back channel of peace negotiations with perity. Abbas in 2011. The two men held four rounds of Abkhazia’s story - how a once popular and talks in which Peres has said they finalized a affluent resort area broke away from a former Russian investment draft agreement that the rightwing premier then Soviet republic, sought protection under Abkhazia, with just 240,000 people from a rejected. Moscow’s wing but has struggled to make cocktail of ethnic groups, is no Crimea: the A new, US-led, peace push launched last July ends meet - has resonance for another Black latter has three times the territory and a pop- collapsed amid acrimony earlier this year to the Sea region, Crimea, which split from Ukraine ulation of more than 2 million, a majority of dismay of Peres, who won the Nobel Peace Prize to be annexed by much wealthier Russia in them ethnic Russians. Russia has said it could in 1994 for his part in launching the process March. spend up to $7 billion this year alone to inte- decades ago. But all the president, now 90 and Ablotia, 39, is one of hundreds who cross grate Crimea’s economy into its own - no sim- due to step down at the end of July, has been the bridge from Chuburkhinji in Abkhazia ple matter when they share no land border. In able to do is voice hope that talks may one day each day to buy cheaper food and goods, Abkhazia, by contrast, Russia invested just a resume. In the Vatican Gardens today, he, Abbas enabling them to stretch their modest tenth of that in five years, from 2009 to 2013. and Francis will “issue a joint call for peace to monthly wages further. “It’s hard over here,” Just over half went on construction projects, people across the world,” his office said. WEST BANK: A Palestinian stone thrower wearing a mask stands behind a wall during clashes she said, resting her purchases - three bags of including kindergartens, two theatres and a “President Peres will place particular emphasis with Israeli security forces in the West Bank village of Silwad yesterday, following a demonstra- shopping and a green plastic watering can - stadium, and the rest on pensions and state on the importance of inter-religious dialogue,” it tion against the expansion of the nearby Israeli settlement of Ofra and in support of at the Abkhazia end of the two-lane road workers’ wages. —Reuters added. Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. —AFP

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n June 3, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) released the results of polling in six Arab countries (Morocco, OEgypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE). Conducted during the month of May, the ZRS polls measured Arab attitudes toward the United States and President Barack Obama five years after his historic June 4, 2009 Cairo University speech. The polls received wide coverage in traditional and social media, but it was interesting to note the extent to which writers appeared to cherry-pick the findings they liked. Some noted, for example, that Obama’s ratings and overall US ratings have improved, while others pointed to the fact that these ratings remain quite low. Some commentaries noted that most Arabs supported US-led negotiations with Iran, while others emphasized results showing most Arabs Big risks in Putin’s idea to beef up Gazprom lacked confidence that these negotiations would succeed. Still, others pointed to the surprising finding that most By Katya Golubkova, Lidia Kelly and Denis Pinchuk percent down since the start of the year against the dollar. Even declined to comment on the recapitalisation plan when Arabs expressed opposition to US military intervention in after rebounding from a steep fall when Russia annexed Ukraine’s approached at a conference in London on Thursday. Gazprom and Syria and demonstrated mixed attitudes toward US policy in resident Vladimir Putin’s idea of a massive boost to Crimean peninsula in March, it is still underperforming other cur- the Energy Ministry also declined to comment, while the Finance Egypt. And finally, some writers observed the apparent con- Gazprom’s share capital has taken bankers and the energy rencies in the BRICS group of developing nations. Ministry would not return calls. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry tradiction in the fact that while Arabs overwhelmingly agree industry by surprise, with some fearing it could further strain The leaders of Russia and Ukraine met on Friday for the first Peskov, asked to explain Putin’s remarks, told Reuters the issue that it is important for their countries to have good relations P Russia’s sanctions-hit economy and undermine the rouble. Putin time since Moscow annexed Crimea, even as fighting continued needed to be discussed further. Rosneft boss Igor Sechin, viewed with the US and identify the Palestinian issue as the most floated the unexpected suggestion on Wednesday, hinting that a in eastern Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian as the most powerful Russian energy executive, told reporters on important one facing the Arab World, they also believe that Thursday that Gazprom’s recapitalisation is “a rational and very “US interference” is a major source of instability in their recapitalisation of the state gas giant could be funded from separatists. “This crisis is much worse than in 2008. At that time, region and have no confidence in the ability of the US to be Russia’s gold and foreign currency reserves. Since then, sources everyone was in the same boat. Now it’s only Russia, and every- right idea”, and that Rosneft might take part in the process. “There “even-handed” in dealing with the Palestinian question. have suggested the money could come from a ‘rainy day’ fund one wants to sink it in addition to dealing with their own prob- was a talk of possible pension money, reserves,” he said. “We will As confusing and even contradictory as these individual meant to cover the state pension deficit. lems,” said a senior banker from a Russian state-owned bank. “It look into it if we are asked to. But I think it is better to use those findings might appear to be, they make sense when taken On Friday he elaborated on the idea, saying the state could will be a very hard year.” Ukraine-related volatility has brought a sources.” The idea also won support from Evgeny Gavrilenkov, as a whole and seen in the context of the larger story buy into a possible Gazprom share issue with the reserves, but spike in borrowing costs for Russian companies, leaving the economist at state-run Sberbank, who said the Gazprom money revealed by the poll. To pick one result, while ignoring this adding that it was just one of several options. The Kremlin has domestic market or the government to serve all the needs of was a political price Russia needed to pay. “Looking at geopolitics, “big picture” is to “miss the forest for the trees.” Pointing out a declined to give details of the plan, and analysts are questioning Russia’s $2 trillion economy unless Moscow can raise funds in Asia. sanctions, the supportive message is needed that there is this result is as easy as finding a number on a chart. But under- not only how it would be implemented, but whether Gazprom Analysts, business and government sources asked by Reuters money, and in reality, it is there,” he said. standing the meaning of that result is the key to making actually needs the extra funds at all. “The Gazprom story is rouble- about the Gazprom idea said a recapitalisation could be carried sense of this or any poll. negative. The use of forex reserves to recapitalise Gazprom will out via loans from state entities or by government purchases of Financial Strength The larger reality that defines this poll’s setting is, I decrease the safety cushion held by the central bank,” said Tatiana new shares. Putin mentioned a possible share issue on Friday. “If Other analysts, however, pointed to the relative low debt of believe, made up of three factors that shape the current US- Orlova, strategist at RBS in London. the construction costs roughly $55 billion, maybe more, this is a Gazprom, a company often referred to as Russia’s “national her- Arab relationship. First and foremost is the fact that we, both Russia’s gold and forex reserves, the world’s fourth largest, fail-safe option for investing money,” he told journalists when itage”, and the lack of apparent obstacles to raise new debt. Putin the United States and the Arab World, are still living in “the have shrunk by $42 billion since last year to $466.9 billion, mostly asked about the possible recapitalisation during a visit to France suggested this was an option. “There’s no doubt that with such a house that George built.” After two long, costly, and largely due to central bank intervention to curb the rouble’s fall since the for D-Day commemorations. But he added: “This is just one of the long-term ... contract, Gazprom can easily raise money on the mar- failed wars, the American public is, as President Obama crisis over Ukraine erupted. “Reserves are needed to support the possible options. There are others.” ket,” he said on Friday. Furthermore, Russia and China have agreed recently noted, war-weary and wary of any new foreign mili- rouble. We should not forget about 2008 when oil prices more Under current law, the central bank cannot invest its reserves in principle that Beijing will make a $25 billion pre-payment under tary engagements. Both Iraq and Afghanistan left enormous than halved... I think this is a very tricky path,” said Sergei in equity. Several sources told Reuters the cash could come from their gas deal, according to Alexander Medvedev, chief executive destruction and uncertainty in their wake. As a result of the Zhavoronkov of the Moscow-based Gaidar Institute for Economic one of Russia’s ‘rainy day funds’ that have amassed windfall oil rev- of Gazprom Export, which could be used for new infrastructure. Iraq war, for example, Iran was emboldened, sectarian strife Policy. During the 2008 global financial crisis, Russia haemor- enue. “There is an understanding that either the Reserve Fund or Putin mentioned this as well, saying that it would “in essence make was fueled, extremism spread, and the prestige of the rhaged about $200 billion, or a third of its reserves, to prop up the the National Wealth Fund” will be used, said a government source. the project substantially less costly.” “Gazprom could manage with- United States was gravely damaged- not only by the war currency. Following a landmark $400 billion agreement last Both are managed by the Finance Ministry and their foreign cur- out recapitalisation,” said Ivan Mazalov, a director at Prosperity itself, but by the behavior of the US in the war. Add to that month to sell natural gas to China, Russian officials estimate rency holdings are part of the central bank’s reserves. Capital Management, a Gazprom shareholder. “There are no the consequences of the Bush Administration’s callous neg- Gazprom now needs some $55 billion to build up pipelines and But by law, the Reserve Fund can only be used to cover budget grounds for share issue. They have good cash flow and debt is at lect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and you get the shape bring two giant fields - Kovykta and Chayanda - on stream. It was deficit or repay national debt - so unless there is a change in legis- adequate level.” A banking source told Reuters that Gazprom may of the world Barack Obama inherited in 2009. against that background that Putin told an energy industry con- lature, the Wealth Fund seems the more likely option. As of June 1, do a “small” borrowing operation in Chinese yuan this autumn to The second reality is defined by the high expectations created by Obama’s election - expectations that were fueled ference that a recapitalisation could help Gazprom pay for the the fund stood at $87 billion, or 4 percent of Russia’s gross domes- test Asian appetite for possible bigger deals. “It has $20 billion of by the President’s own Cairo University speech. Even five required infrastructure. “It came as a total surprise to us,” said an tic product. The fund, which would have little left if Gazprom cash and cash equivalents on its balance sheet, generates $55 bil- years later, as the recent ZRS poll makes clear, majorities in aide to one of the participants at the meeting. received all $55 billion, is essential to finance the Pension Fund lion in operating cash flow and has a 0.9 debt/EBITDA ratio. So the almost every country claimed that they had high hopes that deficit, which came to $27 billion last year. The need for state sup- company has enough cash to finance its Eastern programme, we the new President would make dramatic changes in US poli- ‘Very Hard Year’ port is expected only to grow as Russia’s 143-million population is believe,” VTB Capital said in a note.Amid the doubts, confusion and cy. By 2011, however, it had become clear that for many rea- Hit by Ukraine-related sanctions that have triggered nearly $70 ageing, and 40 million are pensioners already. lack of further detail from the government, Merrill Lynch analysts sons the much hoped for change was not to be forthcom- billion in capital outflows so far this year, the Russian economy is suggested the whole idea may be quietly buried. In a note, they ing. Most damaging was how in the face of the rebuff the expected to grow only by around 0.5 percent in 2014, compared Lack of Detail said: “We spoke to Gazprom, who said they are confident this initia- President received from both Netanyahu and the US to an initial government forecast of 2.5 percent. The rouble is 5 Ksenia Yudayeva, first deputy governor at the central bank, tive gets forgotten about quickly.” — Reuters Congress, his Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking effort col- lapsed. Our polling after the second anniversary of the Cairo speech showed a steep decline in Arab support for the US and President Obama. Thai coup dims allure of ‘Land of Smiles’ The final reality that defines the setting for this recent poll is, of course, the US response to the uncertainty created By Delphine Thouvenot lifted in most major beach resorts including Pattaya, Koh Samui, tions for flights to Thailand, compared with roughly 28,000 by the Arab Spring and the profound distress caused by the Phuket and Krabi. Ravers will also be able to dance until dawn at inbound bookings on May 19, according to figures from travel blood-letting in Syria. The Administration has clearly been hailand’s once-booming tourism industry is scrambling to the notorious full moon party on Koh Phangan after the junta data firm ForwardKeys. Daily bookings have since begun to confounded by these events and has, at times, meandered, arrest a slump in foreign visitor numbers after a military granted a curfew exemption for June 9-13. Since deposing an rebound but remained about 50 percent lower at the end of May appearing to lack consistency in policy and principles. Arabs coup and a night-time curfew tarnished its reputation as the elected government, the ruling generals have curtailed civil liber- year-on-year. European tourists are often less quick to cancel than were troubled to see the US caught off guard and shifting T “Land of Smiles”. While most tourists in the Southeast Asian nation ties by banning public protests, censoring media and temporarily their Asian counterparts, with French and German tour operators to-and-fro in reaction to the rapidly changing developments barely noticed when the generals suddenly seized power on May detaining hundreds of critics for questioning. reporting only a small impact on demand. Thailand’s popularity in Egypt. But the final blow for many in the Arab World came with the mixed signals the US has sent in response to the 22 in a bloodless coup, the impact is starting to be felt with many But international flights are still in operation, with those travel- has endured several episodes of civil strife in the past, including in brazen brutality and use of chemical weapons by the Assad hotel rooms in the capital unoccupied. “Hotels were dramatically ling to and from airports among the few exempt from the curfew. late 2008 when hordes of frustrated travellers were stranded after regime. Against this backdrop, it becomes clear why Arab hit,” said a manager at a luxury hotel in Bangkok whose occupancy “We feel that it is safer than in France. Even if there were some protesters staged a nine-day blockade of Bangkok’s two airports. public opinion has conflicted attitudes toward the US and rates have fallen below 30 percent, compared with above 70 per- riots, they were covered a lot on TV, we feel really safe and we “Thai people actually are such a great nationality and great President Obama. Obama is not Bush, and that’s a good cent a year ago. Foreign visitor numbers nationwide slumped 10.6 haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary,” said Yoann Vella from ambassadors that people always come back,” said Deepak Ohri, thing, but that President Obama hasn’t been able to deliver percent in May compared with a year earlier, to roughly 1.74 mil- France. One issue is travel insurance which may not cover holiday- chief executive of Lebua Hotels and Resorts. In the days after the on the promises of Cairo remains a source of disappoint- lion people, the tourism and sports ministry reported on Friday. makers during periods of unrest, particularly if their government coup, the five-star Lebua hotel saw hundreds of cancellations and ment. At the same time, our polls consistently show that Bookings had already suffered because of months of political has warned against non-essential travel. bookings dropped nearly 70 percent. But since the curfew was Arabs retain positive attitudes towards American people, unrest, and the government has lowered its forecast for tourist relaxed the hotel says business is returning to normal. “Whether culture, values, and products and know that America arrivals this year to 25.9 million, down from an initial target of 28 Bookings Slump there is a tsunami, whether there are floods or whether it is a polit- remains the world’s major superpower. They, therefore, want million. Asian tourists have been particularly spooked, with visi- On the day after the coup, airlines saw roughly 5,000 cancella- ical issue, guests always come back,” said Ohri. — AFP to maintain good relations with the US. At the same time, tors from Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan quick to cancel. they have been bewildered by decades of American igno- “Hong Kong people treat safety very importantly because trav- rance, blunders, hubris, and its double-standard. In a sense, elling is part of their daily life,” said Steve Huen, executive director America is not unlike a rich, but bungling, uncle who comes of EGL Tours, which has stopped promoting package trips to to visit while you are in the midst of making repairs on your Thailand due to an industry advisory. The Hong Kong government home. While you don’t want to alienate him, you are con- has issued a “red” travel alert, urging citizens to avoid non-essen- stantly afraid of what he’ll do next. tial travel. Drawn by its sun-soaked beaches and hedonistic nightlife, the kingdom welcomed a record 26.5 million foreign visi- NOTE: Dr James J Zogby is the President of the Arab tors in 2013. But months of street protests and political bloodshed American Institute. have taken their toll on the key sector, particularly in the capital Bangkok. On Khao San road, renowned as one of the busiest hubs for backpackers in Southeast Asia, local businesses are suffering. “After the coup, I have only earned a little. Things are harder than All articles appearing on these pages before,” said stallholder Phongsathorn Wongchuen. are the personal opinion of the writ- ers. Kuwait Times takes no responsibil- Curfew Relaxed ity for views expressed therein. Kuwait The junta and tourist officials have now launched a campaign to try to reassure tourists that it is safe to visit. Army commander- Times invites readers to voice their in-chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha said in a weekly address to the nation opinions. Please send submissions via Friday that foreigners were welcome - but only if they behave. email to: [email protected] or “They shouldn’t come to Thailand to do anything illegal,” he said, criticising foreign films for portraying the kingdom in a sleazy via snail mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, light. “They came for drugs and for bad things,” he said. “I feel Kuwait. The editor reserves the right embarrassed. Aren’t you embarrassed when they put it in their to edit any submission as necessary. foreign films?” This picture taken on May 29, 2014 shows a tourism operator waiting for customers at her streetside shop in the In an attempt to lure back tourists, the curfew has now been famous tourist district of Khao San Road in Bangkok. — AP NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

Saudi king offers full support to Egypt’s Sisi Continued from Page 1 king said: “I warn you all against the ugliness of evil, for it has a very dark face and only works for its personal The movement enjoys substantial support from interests.” Islamist-friendly countries like Qatar and Turkey and its Saudi Arabia regards the Brotherhood, the oldest influence appears to have grown in countries such as Islamist movement in Egypt, as an existential threat Morocco, Tunisia and Libya since 2011. The blunt, emo- since their embrace of elections challenges the Gulf tra- tional language in the king’s message - which described dition of dynastic rule. The king, who has long been troublemakers in the region as “the helpers of Satan and infuriated by the support shown to the Brotherhood by its troops on the ground” - laid bare an underlying pow- Qatar, demanded non-interference in Egypt’s affairs. “It er struggle in the region pitting conservative, anti- is a non-bargainable and non-negotiatable position Islamist governments, represented by Saudi Arabia, the under any circumstances,” the royal statement read. UAE and Egypt against countries such as Qatar and In an unusually public spat, Riyadh punished Qatar Turkey who appear to believe that Brotherhood repre- for its pro-Brotherhood stance by taking the unprece- sents the future of Arab politics. dented step of recalling its ambassador from Doha earli- Sisi, like Saudi Arabia, is no admirer of the Shiite cleri- er this year. The message also signalled that Riyadh, cal rulers of Iran, whose administration is seen by long seen as the ‘big brother’ in the Gulf, expects Egypt’s Riyadh as an expansionist power bent on exporting its allies to step in and provide Sisi with the resources he Islamic revolution to the Arab world and interferings in needs to rescue an economy damaged by three years of the affairs if neighbouring Gulf Arab states. Iran denies tumultuous politics. Cairo’s European allies, however, any such interference. But in a sign that Western allies appear to be less amenable to the message. The EU said are not entirely comfortable with the state of Egyptian on Thursday it was concerned with the detention of democracy since then, they only plan to send low-level political opponents, activists and journalists. A Western representatives to the event. Saudi Arabia, the world’s diplomatic source said there had therefore been a “col- top oil exporter, was livid when autocratic Egyptian lective decision” to send only ambassadors to the inau- ruler Hosni Mubarak was toppled following popular guration. demonstrations in 2011 which eventually led to the The king said that anyone who did not use their Muslim Brotherhood, long mistrusted by Riyadh, com- resources to help Sisi “would have no place among us ing to office. tomorrow, if ever they were to suffer from ordeals and A New York City fireboat sprays colored water into the New York Harbor on Friday in New York. Thousands gath- Riyadh and the UAE have joined Sisi in clamping crises”. Saudi Arabia could barely contain its glee when ered on Liberty Island to participate in ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day. — AFP down hard on the Brotherhood, seen by them as ‘terror- Sisi toppled Morsi, a veteran Brotherhood Islamist, after ists’, in an effort to quell regional instability wrought by Egyptians demonstrated against his rule. It has since Egypt bans unlicensed preachers the Arab Spring. Their overriding goal is to prevent the pumped billions of dollars, along with the United Arab Islamist movement leading the Arab world’s most popu- Emirates and Kuwait, to shore up the economy. The Continued from Page 1 - and robes that designate an Al-Azhar cleric, it said. lous country once more. The message seemed meticu- United States, however, which has considered Egypt a Unauthorised preachers face fines jail terms up to a year and lously orchestrated. Less than 15 minutes after Sisi was close Middle East ally for decades, suspended some aid It said in April it had licensed more than 17,000 state- fines up to 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($7,000). Wearing or deni- officially declared Egypt’s president on Tuesday, Saudi after the overthrow. approved clerics to give Friday sermons to stop mosques from grating Al-Azhar garments in any way will carry similar penal- King Abdullah issued his ringing statement of support. While Doha was snubbed for the inauguration, the falling “into the hands of extremists.” It also disclosed it had ties, it added. He also called for a donor conference to help the new president of Iran, Saudi’s regional archrival, received an removed 12,000 unapproved preachers. Many Egyptians pray Galal Mora, secretary-general of the Nour Party, an Islamist president fend off economic collapse. invite. “I think the Saudis said that was fine because they at small neighbourhood mosques beyond the control of the group that backed the army’s removal of Morsi, told Reuters The statement went beyond the usual, terse mes- trust Sisi. They didn’t trust the Brotherhood...Sisi will The Muslim Brotherhood, until last year Egypt’s best-organ- the group approved of the law and urged respect for it. The sages of congratulation. From his holiday home in clearly tell (Iranian President Hassan) Rouhani that the ised movement, has been driven underground, with most of religious endowments ministry has been keeping a close eye Morocco, the king went a step further: He said the security of the Gulf is our (Egypt’s) security,” said Sultan its leaders in jail or in hiding. It denies any involvement in lethal on authorised imams as well. The state news agency MENA “infringement” in Egypt’s affairs would be considered an Al-Qassemi, an Emirati commentator on political affairs. attacks on security forces since Morsi’s overthrow. According to reported yesterday that it had removed three government infringement of Saudi’s affairs. In a thinly-veiled refer- “So the Saudis will be very reassured by the meeting, the decree, “only designated specialists at the Ministry of appointed imams from their positions in Minya province. ence to the Brotherhood, and perhaps also to Qatar, the rather than be more alarmed by it.” — Agencies Religious Endowments and authorised preachers from Al- Accused of mixing religion and politics, the men will be Azhar shall be permitted to practice public preaching and reli- switched to administrative jobs and be banned from giving gious lessons in mosques or similar public places.” Friday sermons, it said. The Muslim Brotherhood’s worldwide Only Al-Azhar officials and graduates as well preachers website, which still operates despite the clampdown on the Erdogan launches work on new Istanbul... from the ministry or the grand mufti’s office will be allowed to movement in Egypt, protested against the removal of the Continued from Page 1 stop this project.” wear the trademark “turban” - a red hat with a white cloth band three imams. — Reuters Erdogan’s government is frequently criticised for its ambi- The project was announced in May 2013 amid mass tious construction plans for the bustling city of 16 million, Iran, US announce surprise talks protests that started as a local environmental campaign to which also include a third bridge across the Bosphorus and a save an Istanbul park from redevelopment and evolved into a canal parallel to the international waterway to ease traffic Continued from Page 1 ment of uranium, which if further purified could be used to trig- nationwide anti-government movement. Erdogan suggested congestion. The building industry has boomed under ger a nuclear explosion, and its unfinished Arak research reactor, that the protesters were used as “pawns” by some groups try- Erdogan but his government was hit by a now-stalled corrup- Following the last round in Vienna, Iran urged western powers whose by-product waste could provide an alternative route to an ing to hamper Turkey’s growth and the government’s efforts tion probe in December investigating allegations of high-level to resist pressure from third parties not directly involved in nego- atomic bomb. Negotiators aim to nail down an exceedingly com- to build the airport. “Unfortunately, they couldn’t put up with bribery linked to some construction projects. Despite the tiations over its nuclear activities, in a clear reference to Israel. plex and lasting deal limiting Iran’s atomic activities in exchange such an airport,” Erdogan said. “Those who hit the streets last street protests and the corruption scandal implicating key Israel and lawmakers in the US Congress have repeatedly warned for the lifting of sanctions. Failure could have calamitous conse- year were unaware that they have been used as pawns while government allies, the premier’s Islamic-rooted Justice and against lowering the pressure - in the form of economic sanc- quences, potentially sparking conflict - neither Israel nor the Turkey was celebrating historical achievements. “Just like our Development Party (AKP) scored a crushing victory in the tions - on Iran. Major issues between Iran and the P5+1 remain United States rules out military action-and creating a nuclear friends are watching us with pride, our enemies are also local elections in March, boosting Erdogan’s ambitions to outstanding. These reportedly include the scope of Iran’s enrich- arms race in the Middle East. — AFP watching this ceremony with frustration of not being able to stand for president in August. — AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SPORTS

Costa to play Spain friendly Al-Thani denies he Prasanna ready for backlash WASHINGTON: Fit-again Diego Costa will play in Spain’s final World Cup plans to leave Malaga NORTHAMPTON: Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene said he warmup against El Salvador in Washington late yesterday. expected England to “come hard” during this month’s two-Test series. The Atletico Madrid hitman, who struck 36 goals in all competitions for his BARCELONA: Qatari owner Abdullah Al-Thani says he is not plan- The tourists took a five-match one-day series 3-2 with a six-wicket win at club this season, spent the final two months of the campaign struggling with ning to leave Malaga despite having suggested earlier on Friday that Edgbaston on Tuesday-a result overshadowed by the controversy surrounding muscle problems and it has been a race against time to be ready for the tour- he would walk away because of a lack of support over his project to the run out backing up or ‘Mankading’ of England’s Jos Buttler. redevelop the club. The Sheikh’s frustration at local bureaucracy nament. “After the one-day series loss, they will be coming hard, we know about delays over his plans for the club and the surrounding area has seen “Diego Costa will play. If we thought it was a risk to include him then we that, we expect that and we are ready for that,” said Jayawardene, a Test spe- him blow hot and cold recently over whether he will stay at the wouldn’t,” coach Vicente Del Bosque told reporters in the United States on cialist gloveman, after the third day of Sri Lanka’s four-day tour match against Friday. helm of the top-flight team. On Friday morning Al-Thani said via his Northamptonshire at Northampton on Saturday was washed out without a ball “He will play tomorrow because he has been training well, is in good form Twitter account that he would “go from here because I did not find and we want to try him out.” Costa, who chose to play for the respect and appreciation and equality”. However, following a bowled. This tour sees Sri Lanka facing England in two Tests, with Spain ahead of his native Brazil, will be an extra weapon in media storm over his comments, he later denied he meant he would the first at Lord’s next week before the teams meet again at the armoury of the world champions. leave the club. “I said I will go from here. (I) did not mention from Yorkshire’s Headingley headquarters in Leeds. Spain face Netherlands, Chile and Australia in Group B in Malaga,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Sri Lanka have won Tests in England, in 1998 and 2006, but Brazil this month. Costa, who could join Chelsea in the close Al-Thani took over the struggling club in 2010 and through heavy never a series involving more than one match. During their season, was a talisman for Atletico this term as they won spending helped the Andalusian side become a major force in Spain last Test series in England three years ago, they lost a three- La Liga and reached the Champions League final where before they slipped down to a mid-table finish last season as the match campaign 1-0 with two draws after a dramatic collapse they were beaten by Real Madrid.—Reuters Sheikh looked to cash in on his investments.—Reuters in Cardiff saw Sri Lanka skittled out for 82.—Reuters Rays end losing streak

ST. PETERSBURG: Erik Bedard struck out eight in six innings and the Tampa Bay Rays stopped a 10- game losing streak by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-0 Friday night. The skid tied Boston for the longest in the majors this season. The Red Sox dropped 10 straight from May 15-25, with Tampa Bay handing them the last three losses in the streak. This was the Rays’ first victory since then. Bedard (3-4) scattered four hits and walked one in ending a three-start losing streak. Jake McGee, Joel Peralta and Grant Balfour, who gave up a ninth-inning single, all went one inning to com- plete a five-hitter. Chris Young (5-3) gave up three runs, seven hits and five walks over five innings for the Mariners, who had their five-game winning streak snapped.

TIGERS 6, RED SOX 2 Ian Kinsler and Torii Hunter hit back-to-back homers in the fifth inning and Victor Martinez cleared the fences in the eighth, helping the Tigers beat the Red Sox to end a season-high five-game skid. Drew Smyly (3-4) allowed two runs on five hits over six innings. He struck out four and walked only one. Ian Krol and Joba Chamberlain each threw an inning of scoreless relief and Joe Nathan pitched the ninth in a non-save situation. Rubby De La Rosa (1-1) gave up four runs, nine hits and two walks. He had five strikeouts over 5 2- 3 innings. Boston has lost four straight after win- ning seven in a row.

YANKEES 4, ROYALS 2 Chase Whitley pitched seven innings for his first career win, Brian McCann drove in three runs with a timely double and the Yankees beat the Royals. Brian Roberts drove in a run for the Yankees, who finally gave their young right-hander some support. Whitley (1-0) had allowed five earned runs in his first four starts, and left two of them with the lead, only for his team to saddle him with a series of no-decisions. McCann helped take care of that with one swing of the bat. His bases-loaded MEMPHIS: Ben Crane hits from the 6th fairway during the St. Jude Classic golf tour- double off Jeremy Guthrie (2-6) in the third inning nament. —AP broke a 1-all tie and gave New York the lead for good. Salvador Perez and Lorenzo Cain drove in runs for the Royals. Crane takes Memphis lead ST. PETERSBURG: Seattle Mariners shortstop Brad Miller (top) avoids Tampa Bay Rays’ ATHLETICS 4, ORIOLES 3 Desmond Jennings after forcing him at second base on a fielder’s choice by Rays’ Matt Joyce Pinch-hitter Stephen Vogt singled in the during the fifth inning of a baseball game. —AP MEMPHIS: American Ben Crane took a ing in calm weather late Thursday and tiebreaking run in the 11th inning, and the huge second round lead on Friday at the again early Friday, but that did not detract Athletics got home runs from Josh Donaldson and Cincinnati dropped its third straight. a leadoff single. San Diego has just 15 hits in five weather-plagued FedEx St. Jude Classic, from the quality of his performance. “It was Derek Norris in a victory over Orioles. Hamels (2-3) improved to 10-0 in 13 career games. Tyson Ross (6-5) allowed six runs, five which may not be completed until Monday, a dream round of golf,” he told Golf Chris Davis and Manny Machado homered for appearances against the Reds, holding them to earned, and five hits in 5 1-3 innings. potentially delaying the arrival of several Channel after following an opening 63 with the Orioles. John Jaso led off the 11th with a three runs or less each time. The Phillies have dozen players for the US Open. a 65. He posted a 12-under 128 halfway pinch-hit double off Evan Meek (0-2). With one won all 13 of his starts against Cincinnati, includ- GIANTS 4, METS 2 Only 32 players completed Friday’s total, while compatriots Davis Love III (70) out, Gold Glove shortstop J.J. Hardy botched a ing his five-hit shutout during the 2010 playoffs. Buster Posey hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer round before storms early in the afternoon and Billy Horschel (68) at five-under were grounder, his fourth error in two games. The left-hander allowed five hits and struck out in the eighth inning and San Francisco won for dumped more than one inch of rain and best of the others who finished. Meek went to third on the play and scored seven in 7 2-3 innings, throwing 125 pitches. the eighth time in 10 games by beating New flooded parts of the course, while strong Swede Carl Pettersson (17 holes) and when Vogt hit a liner to left. Fernando Abad (1-2) Rollins hit his seventh homer off Johnny Cueto York. The big shot off Carlos Torres (2-3) capped a winds knocked down some temporary American Jason Bohn (16 holes) were six- worked the 10th and Sean Doolittle got three outs (5-5), who lasted only five innings for his shortest three-hit day for Posey, who entered with only fencing. Officials scheduled the second under, but were unable to finish the round. for his eighth save. start of the season. The solo homer left Rollins six four hits in his past 42 at-bats at home. round to resume at 7 a.m. local time on Crane, a four-time PGA Tour winner, was hits shy of Mike Schmidt’s club record of 2,234. Angel Pagan started the rally with a leadoff Saturday with Phil Mickelson among forced to pull out of a tournament last RANGERS 6, INDIANS 4 walk. The Giants (40-21) became the first team in dozens of players who did not even start August due to back pain. Michael Choice hit a tiebreaking homer in the DODGERS 7, ROCKIES 2 the majors to reach 40 wins. the round. “I just really didn’t see any hope,” he said. seventh inning after ace Yu Darvish blew a four- Dee Gordon tripled twice among his three hits Daniel Murphy hit a two-run homer for the With a 50 percent chance of more “I didn’t understand why my back was hurt- run lead and the Rangers snapped the Cleveland’s and drove in three runs as Los Angeles handed Mets, who lost their fourth straight. The bullpen storms on Saturday, there is a good chance ing so bad. Found out it was my golf six-game winning streak. Colorado its eighth straight defeat. has taken all four of the losses and has a major the event will not finish on time on Sunday. swing.” Crane rehabilitated his body quicker Choice, who had an RBI single in a four-run sec- Hanley Ramirez had two hits and stole two league-worst 15 on the season. Forty-one players at the Memphis tourna- than his game, leaving him languishing ond, went the opposite way just over the right bases, and Justin Turner also had two of Los Jeremy Affeldt (1-1) pitched a scoreless eighth ment are in the field for next week’s major 150th on the tour’s points list. But it has all field wall against Marc Rzepczynski (0-2) with two Angeles’ 12 hits. The Dodgers had lost six of eight on his 35th birthday. Sergio Romo got three outs championship at Pinehurst No. 2 in North come together and despite a bogey at the outs for a solo homer. The shot made a winner of but got healthy against the struggling Rockies. for his 19th save in 21 chances. Matt Cain allowed Carolina. final hole, his first blemish all week, Crane Darvish (6-2) after the Japanese ace gave up a sea- Hyun-Jin Ryu cruised through the first five two runs and three hits in seven innings in his It would not be the first time a late was delighted with his performance. son-high nine hits in seven innings. Lonnie innings before Drew Stubbs hit a solo homer with first start back from a stint on the disabled list for Memphis finish spilled over into a US Open “I’m just so thrilled to be playing well,” he Chisenhall and Asdrubal Cabrera homered off one out in the sixth. Ryu (7-2) allowed two runs a strained right hamstring. week at Pinehurst. In 1999, 54 players, not said. “I just kept making putts and giving Darvish to wipe out a 4-0 deficit. and eight hits over six innings. Eddie Butler (0-1) all of whom were in the Open, had to com- myself opportunities, and then you don’t allowed six runs and 10 hits over 5 1-3 innings in CUBS 5, MARLINS 3 plete the final round on Monday. feel like you have to hit it so close. “It’s cer- ASTROS 5, TWINS 4 his major league debut. Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run homer in the 13th Crane did not make the US Open field, tainly the way you want to play golf. The Dallas Keuchel shut out Minnesota for six inning to give Chicago a victory over Miami. but he is delighted to be playing, and play- greens are so pure and the hole just opened innings, George Springer hit his 11th home run NATIONALS 6, PADRES 0 Rizzo also had a two-run double in the eighth as ing well, after overcoming a worrying back up. “We had ideal scoring conditions. The and the Astros held on to beat the Twins. Tanner Roark pitched three-hit ball for eight the Cubs earned their season-high fourth consec- injury last year. wind laid down for us after the storm yes- Marwin Gonzalez and Matt Dominguez also innings and struck out a career-high 11, and utive victory. Jason Hammel pitched seven score- He was the first to admit he was on the terday and the greens softened up a bit. homered off Phil Hughes (6-2), who lost for the Anthony Rendon hit a two-run homer to lead less innings and Chris Coghlan had an RBI double favourable end of the draw this week, play- Today it was calm this morning.”—Reuters first time in nine starts. The Astros have won six Washington over floundering San Diego. in his first game against his former team. straight road games and 10 of their last 13 overall. The Nationals won their fourth straight and for Junior Lake hit a leadoff single against Kevin Danny Santana hit his first career home run, a the sixth time in seven games. Roark (4-4) beat Slowey (1-1) before Rizzo connected for his 12th Contador to take Froome’s two-run shot in the seventh inning off reliever the Padres 4-0 at Washington on April 26th, homer. Carlos Villanueva (2-5) pitched two per- Tony Sipp as the Twins tried to rally late. After the throwing a three-hitter for his first career fect innings as Chicago got its first four-game focus off Wiggins at Dauphine first pitch was delayed 1 hour, 21 minutes, by a shutout. He struck out eight in that game, his winning streak since last July 6-9. Garrett Jones storm that never arrived, Keuchel (7-3) struck out previous career high. The right-hander took a had three hits for Miami, which had won four in a LYON: Britain’s Chris Froome will have to for- Tour, who has been in the best form of all six and won for the fifth time in his last six starts. one-hitter into the eighth before Rene Rivera hit row.—AP get about team-mate Bradley Wiggins and contenders this season, winning the Tirreno- focus on Spaniard Alberto Contador when Adriatico and Tour of the Basque Country, ANGELS 8, WHITE SOX 4 the Criterium du Dauphine begins in Lyon while finishing second in both the Tour of the Kole Calhoun homered and drove in three runs, MLB results/standings today. Algarve and Tour of Catalunya. Albert Pujols also went deep and Los Angeles beat Chicago behind Jered Weaver. Chicago Cubs 5, Miami 3 (13 Innings); Oakland 4, Baltimore 3 (11 Innings); Pittsburgh 15, Milwaukee 5; Toronto 3, St. In recent interviews and the serialisation However, Froome himself has also been in Louis 1; Detroit 6, Boston 2; Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati 0; Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 0; Texas 6, Cleveland 4; NY Yankees 4, of his autobiography by a British newspaper, fine form, despite a season disrupted by Weaver (7-4) won for the sixth time in eight Kansas City 2; Houston 5, Minnesota 4; LA Dodgers 7, Colorado 2; Atlanta 5, Arizona 2; LA Angels 8, Chicago White Sox Froome has been somewhat disparaging injury and illness, winning the Tour of Oman starts, allowing two runs, five hits and four walks in 4; Washington 6, San Diego 0; San Francisco 4, NY Mets 2. six innings. His teammates staked him to a 7-1 towards Wiggins, the man who preceded him and last month’s Tour of Romandie. American League National League lead through four. The right-hander struck out as Tour de France winner in 2012. Froome has The Alpine eight-stage Criterium du Eastern Division Eastern Division nine and improved to 8-2 with a 1.70 ERA in 11 questioned Wiggins’s mental strength during Dauphine, the final major Tour warm-up W L PCT GB Atlanta 32 27 .542 - starts against the White Sox. Pujols hit his 15th that 2012 tour as well as criticising him for his event for the likes of Froome, Contador and Toronto 38 24 .613 - Washington 31 28 .525 1 homer of the season and the 507th of his career. mood swings while he was working as a Italian Vincenzo Nibali, will provide the per- NY Yankees 31 29 .517 6 Miami 32 29 .525 1 Adam Dunn capped his three-hit night for the Baltimore 30 29 .508 6.5 NY Mets 28 33 .459 5 ‘super-domestique’ for his Team Sky leader fect gauge to the form of the potential Grand White Sox with a two-run homer, the 450th of his Boston 27 33 .450 10 that year. Boucle winners. Philadelphia 25 34 .424 7 career. Andre Rienzo (4-3) lost his third straight Tampa Bay 24 38 .387 14 Central Division Central Division The upshot of the in-fighting at Sky seems A mountainous race, the title should be start, throwing 72 pitches over 3 2-3 innings and Milwaukee 36 26 .581 - Detroit 32 25 .561 - to have cost Wiggins the chance of riding decided in the Alpine stages of the final giving up seven runs on nine hits. Over the previ- St. Louis 31 31 .500 5 Chicago White Sox 31 31 .500 3.5 alongside Froome at this year’s Tour-an weekend, with the seventh and penultimate ous 15 games, White Sox starters had a combined Pittsburgh 29 31 .483 6 admission the Olympic time-trial champion stage culminating in the 10.2km climb to the Cleveland 30 31 .492 4 ERA of 2.03. Kansas City 29 32 .475 5 Cincinnati 27 32 .458 7.5 made in an interview with the BBC earlier this Emosson reservoir on the border between Minnesota 28 31 .475 5 Chicago Cubs 24 34 .414 10 week. France and Switzerland. PHILLIES 8, REDS 0 Western Division Western Division So with Wiggins no longer dominating his Froome has not raced since his Tour de Cole Hamels pitched into the eighth inning as Oakland 38 23 .623 - San Francisco 40 21 .656 - thoughts, Froome can now concentrate on Romandie victory early May, and Contador he stayed unbeaten against Cincinnati, and LA Angels 32 28 .533 5.5 LA Dodgers 32 30 .516 8.5 his primary rival for Tour glory in July: has been absent from the peloton since his Jimmy Rollins moved closer to the Phillies’ hit Seattle 31 29 .517 6.5 Colorado 28 32 .467 11.5 San Diego 27 34 .443 13 Contador. win in the Tour of the Basque County mid- record with a solo homer. Philadelphia ended its Texas 31 30 .508 7 Houston 27 35 .435 11.5 Arizona 26 37 .413 15 It is the Spaniard, two time winner of the April.—AFP longest losing streak of the season at six games. SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SPORTS

Rangers again look for Photo of the day emotional Cup inspiration

LOS ANGELES: The New York Rangers, TIGHTER BONDS who can claim to be this season’s team of During their march to the final, they destiny, will seek further emotional inspi- have developed increasingly tight bonds, ration from Dominic Moore and Martin much of it following the personal St. Louis as they vie with the Los Angeles tragedies experienced by Moore and St. Kings for the Stanley Cup. Louis. Moore is in his first season back Back in the Stanley Cup Finals for the with the Rangers after a year-long leave first time in two decades after Moore and following the death of his wife, Katie, St. Louis rebounded from personal grief who succumbed to liver cancer in Jan. to join their team mates on a champi- 2013. St. Louis’ mother, France, died sud- onship crusade, the Rangers trail the denly during the Eastern Conference Kings 0-1 in the best-of-seven series. semi-finals against the favored Los Angeles rallied from two goals Pittsburgh Pirates but the Rangers, trail- down to win Wednesday’s opener 3-2 in ing 1-3 at that point, rallied around their overtime and, with Game Two set for mourning team mate before going on to Saturday, center Moore is well aware of win the series. the remarkable ‘comeback’ threat posed “You definitely think about that,” by New York’s opponents. Moore said of New York’s ability to gain “They are incredibly resilient,” Moore, emotional inspiration from personal 33, told reporters about the 2012 Stanley grief. “Marty and I obviously were close Cup champions who this season became before and we played with each other in the first team ever to reach the finals by Tampa. “We have always got along really winning three best-of-seven series that well and we have obviously come closer went the distance. with the stuff that has happened to both “Some of their comebacks in series of us. “He was there for me a year or two this year are self-evident of that. They are ago and I think we have a pretty strong just a team that knows how to find ways bond because of that and because of the to win and we’ve got a lot of respect for stuff that has happened the last two that. We always expected our toughest months here.” Rangers head coach Alain challenge yet. Vigneault has been delighted to see “They are seasoned and they have Moore and dynamic right wing St. Louis, won the Stanley Cup with a lot of players who was acquired from Tampa Bay at the on this (2014 Kings) team,” added Moore, trade deadline three months ago, find who has played for nine different teams sanctuary on the ice and become team during his NHL career, including the leaders in the process. “They’ve found Tampa Bay Lightning where he got to refuge,” said Vigneault. “They’ve found a Viki Gomez performs at the Red Bull BMX Flatland Africa Tour 2014 in Mauritius.— www.redbull.com know St. Louis. way to find a place where they can be The Kings had been on the brink of happy, and that is at the rink with their exiting the playoffs when trailing San team mates and on the ice. They’ve both Jose 0-3 but stunningly fought their way been very inspirational leaders through- through to the finals by beating the out the whole thing.” As for Saturday’s Hamilton clocks fastest time Sharks, the Anaheim Ducks and the Game Two, Vigneault promised that his defending champion Chicago team would bring their “best game to MONTREAL: Lewis Hamilton sig- Blackhawks. the table” in a bid to level the series 1-1. nalled his intentions to reclaim the However, the Rangers have also dis- “We’re going to be ready tomorrow,” Formula One drivers’ championship played a great deal of grit and resilience he told reporters at Staples Center in lead from Mercedes team mate en route to series wins against the downtown Los Angeles on Friday. “Our Nico Rosberg after setting the pace Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh guys need to manage the puck better, in practice for the Canadian Grand Penguins, both in seven games, and the we can play a faster game and that’s Prix on Friday. The Briton, a three- Montreal Canadiens, in six. been one of our strengths.” —Reuters time winner on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, lapped the island track in one minute 16.118 seconds on an overcast afternoon on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Ferrari’s former world champion Fernando Alonso upstaged the mighty Mercedes team by toping the time sheets in the morning ses- sion but Hamilton and Rosberg quickly restored order going one- two later in the day. “Nico is very, very quick, the Ferraris are quick as well so you just don’t know. Wait and see,” said Hamilton about his chances of grabbing pole position. “Both me and Nico just working on the set-up and it’s great to see we have great pace, it’s been an incredible job from the guys in the factory. “I think there is quite a bit to come because we don’t have the set-up as well as we would like yet but that’s the thing here - you are MONTREAL: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain during practice session at the Canadian always chasing the set-up and try- Grand Prix.—AP ing to go faster.” Mercedes have started every Mercedes have a hefty 240 points “There were quite a few things,” Hamilton and Rosberg arrived in race from pole, claiming five suc- in the constructors’ standings, with said Ferrari technical director Pat Canada downplaying a spat cessive one-two finishes. “I think Red Bull second on 99. Fry, when asked about improve- between the two that had domi- qualifying could be quite crucial,” Red Bull continued to show ments to the car. “It’s far too early nated talk up and down the pad- said Rosberg, who started from improvement as quadruple world to say if it is all working or not. dock but on the track their rivalry pole in Bahrain and Monaco. “If it is champion Sebastian Vettel, a win- Some things look promising, some remained firmly in place. against Lewis I am driving then ner in Montreal last year, posted things we need more detail. “I think The German, who snapped qualifying could be very crucial. the day’s third best time. it is going to be a very tough chal- AUCKLAND: Referee Nigel Owens (left) jumps as New Zealand All Blacks player Hamilton’s four-race win streak in “We have good pace here, look- Ferrari, who had also been lenge (catching Mercedes). There is Malakai Fekitoa (top right) tackles England’s Mike Brown during their rugby union Monaco to replace his team mate ing very promising. We expected to struggling to match the pace of quite the gap let’s face it, we just match at Eden Park. —AFP atop the standings, was 0.175 sec- be strong at this track and it seems Mercedes, saw Kimi Raikkonen have to do our best and keep onds behind the Briton, setting the to look like that at the moment.” clock the fourth best effort fol- developing.” The Williams of Filipe stage for another hotly-contested Rosberg leads overall with 122 lowed by Alonso, the 2006 Canada Massa and Valtteri Bottas were sixth NZ win over England battle for the pole on Saturday. points to Hamilton’s 118 while champion and runnerup last year. and seventh.—Reuters

AUCKLAND: A rusty New Zealand need- were prepared to spread the ball wide ed a late try from Conrad Smith for a 20- with Manu Tuilagi, who tore the All 15 win in the first test against an under- Blacks to shreds two years ago at strength England in Auckland yesterday Twickenham, again the focal point of Australia rout France as they struggled to snuff out the chal- their attack, constantly threatening the lenge of a visiting side reduced to 14 line and making ground. BRISBANE: Australia scythed through a porous continued to attack in the second with tries to we did not perform in defence and it was too men for most of the final 10 minutes. The visitors also controlled the tempo French defence to score seven tries and a 50-23 Cummins, Beale and McCabe. easy for Aussie” Michalak said. “I hope next Winger Marland Yarde’s yellow card in of the game in the first half and did not victory over the visitors in their first test of a Parra and the French pack gave the scoreline week we will be better and stronger in the 68th minute for a professional foul allow the All Blacks to develop any three-game series in Brisbane yesterday, though some respectability with tries in the final 10 min- defence. “I think next week we (need to be) turned the match in New Zealand’s rhythm. “I think we were probably half a may have lost captain Stephen Moore with a utes as the game lost shape. more patient and create phases and when we favour with Aaron Cruden slotting his yard off the pace in the first half,” All serious knee injury. “It was very tough to play a game like this, see the line finish (off).” —Reuters fifth penalty to give the All Blacks their Blacks captain Richie McCaw said. Australia put the game beyond doubt in the first lead of the game. Smith then scored “It took us about 40 minutes to build first half with tries to Israel Folau, Adam Ashley- a 78th minute try to give the All Blacks into it and it was a lot better in the sec- Cooper, Michael Hooper and Matt Toomua to the victory that extended their winning ond half even though the scoreboard give them a 29-9 lead at the break before Nick streak at Eden Park to 32 games, and was pretty close.” Cummins, Kurtley Beale and Pat McCabe all their current run of test victories to 15, The scoring in the first half was crossed in the second. though few New Zealand fans would restricted to three penalties each to Bernard Foley contributed 15 points from six have been left satisfied after such a England flyhalf Freddie Burns and conversions and a penalty for the hosts, who lost scratchy opening performance in the Cruden despite several attempts by both Moore to a knee injury inside the first 60 sec- three-test series. “We expected England sides to breach smothering defensive onds. “It’s sore, but that’s what happens and I’ll go get a scan,” Moore said in a televised inter- to be a very good side and that’s what lines. view. “Great start for us, unfortunately I wasn’t The All Blacks upped their tempo in we got,” All Blacks coach Steve Hansen out there for much of it but the boys did some said in a televised interview. “We had to the second half and dominated territory great work and scored some great tries.” work for it but when you come off limit- but were again guilty of stupid errors, Australia held a 50-9 lead before France ed preparations you are going to be either in execution or discipline that replacement Morgan Parra scored a late consola- rusty and we were. released any pressure they had built up. tion try, while their scrum earned a penalty try, “Our handling at times was very poor, The match then ultimately turned on both of which flyhalf Frederic Michalak convert- from our strike plays we let ourselves Yarde’s yellow card after he failed to roll ed to go with an early drop goal and two penal- down a bit, but we showed really good away following a tackle on Brodie ties for the visitors. mental fortitude to stay in the game. Retallick. The Wallabies, who have not lost to France at “I think we controlled the game in the While replacement Danny Cipriani lev- home in 24 years, were simply too clinical for the second half but didn’t put them away elled the scores at 15-15 with little over tourists, who had a disjointed buildup with sev- because of our errors. “Happy to take the five minutes remaining, Smith’s late try eral players arriving late following the French win but clearly work to be done before gave the hosts the breathing room they club final while inspirational captain Thierry next week.” required. Dusautoir was ruled out due to a biceps injury. The visitors, however, now head to Australia’s forwards laid the platform for their WRITTEN OFF next week’s second test in Dunedin with side and helped create numerical superiority by The tourists, who were written off dur- supreme confidence with a full squad to breaching the advantage line and providing ing the week because several first team pick from. “I’m very pleased with the quick ball to their backs who quickly spread the players only arrived in the country on guys, we’ve got two games remaining in ball wide to further stretch the French defence. The home side’s defence was also strong Wednesday following the England club the series and that’s what it’s all about,” while the kicking game of scrumhalf Nic White England captain Chris Robshaw said. final, showed they would be a force at allowed them to pressure the French inside their next year’s World Cup with their develop- “We’re disappointed but it’s a three game own territory and keep them pinned there. ing depth and all-round game. series and... we’re going to get better While the Wallabies put the game beyond BRISBANE: Australia’s Tevita Kuridrani (right) tackles France’s Hugo Bonneval during the first Unlike England sides of the past, they over the next few weeks.” —Reuters doubt in the first half with their four tries, they rugby union test match at Suncorp Stadium. —AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SPORTS

Kuwait beat Oman 6-0 in opening game of GCC Ice Hockey Ch’ship

Opening ceremony Kuwaiti hockey team

Kuwaiti Winter Sport Club President Public Authority for Youth Affairs A Group with Housing Minister Fehaid Al-Ajmi Ahmad Al-Khazaal KUWAIT: Kuwait dominated proceedings in These efforts include providing budgets the opening fixture of the Third GCC Ice required for training camps and taking part Hockey Championship, demolishing Oman, in and hosting events on the regional and 6-0, on Friday. international scales. The home side, who were runners-up in He welcomed attending delegations and the last two editions, did not find any diffi- commenced to deliver the greetings of the culties in earning their first two points of the sponsor, Sheikh Salman, and the President four-nation tournament, while in a later fix- of the Public Authority for Youth and Sports ture two-time champions, the United Arab Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al- Emirates defeated Qatar, 7-1. Sabah. The competition, which ends on June 12, For his part, Kuwait Winter Sports Club is being organised by the Kuwait Club for president Fehaid Al-Ajmi said in a speech at Winter Sports under the auspices of Minister the launch of the event that its hosting of Information and State Minister for Youth demonstrates the ability of the nation to Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud host events of this magnitude, in spite of Al-Sabah. their fairly new introduction to the country. The Ministry of Youth Affairs’ sports divi- The competition pits member nations of sion deputy chief Ahmad Al-Khazaal said in the International Ice hockey Federation a statement after the opening ceremony (IIHF), and this will give it a cutting edge to that Kuwait is committed to breathing life deliver high-grade competition, he into winter sports in the country. added.—KUNA Kuwait and Oman team

Days before World Cup, much Fans jeer lacklustre Brazil of Brazil just not in the mood

RIO DE JANEIRO: The upcoming soccer then, organizers hoped the prevailing in friendly win over Serbia World Cup in Brazil was supposed to be narrative would be that of a resurgent the party to end all parties. What more country with a national team poised to SAO PAULO: Brazil survived a poor first half to could a fan want? exorcise Brazil’s historic loss to Uruguay beat Serbia 1-0 in a warm-up friendly on Friday, The home of Carnival and “the beauti- in the final stages of the 1950 tourna- but their lacklustre display was not what the ful game,” as PelÈ once famously called it, ment at Rio’s Maracan„ stadium, also the home fans expected just six days before the finally had the economic, political and venue for this Cup’s final. World Cup. social stability to host the tournament for The crowd were booing the home side when the first time since 1950 and any of GO BY DONKEY Fred got the only goal of the game in the 57th Brazil’s subsequent five World Cup titles, Former President Luiz In·cio Lula da minute, with the Fluminense forward chesting more than for any other nation. Silva, whose folksy charisma helped down a cross from the right and poking the ball After a half-century in which its soccer Brazil get awarded the tournament, home. prowess outdribbled its development, recently betrayed the surprise he and It was a cruel blow to the Serbs, who had Latin America’s biggest country could at other leaders feel amid so many com- out-fought their more illustrious opponents and last flout its success both on and off the plaints. created the best chances, particularly in the first pitch. Dismissing questions about the lack half. But less than a week before kickoff on of metro service to stadiums and prob- Brazil looked shaky in the air with Aleksandar June 12, Brazil feels anything but festive. lems with other infrastructure that has Mitrovic putting a free header wide after 30 An economic boom that catapulted 40 fallen far short of early promises, he told minutes and Milos Jujic hitting the post with a million people out of poverty in the last Brazilians to make do. “We never had header midway through the second half. decade, and motivated Brazil to host the problems walking,” Lula said, suggesting Hulk had the ball in the net for Brazil after 73 world’s most popular sports event, has spectators go to games “on foot, bare- minutes but the goal was ruled out for offside, waned. foot, by bike, by donkey.” President Dilma although TV replays showed the decision was With rising inflation, urban gridlock Rousseff, Lula’s successor and protegee, harsh. Jo later brought out a fine finger-tipped and soaring crime as a backdrop, protest- has urged Brazilians to put their frustra- save in the closing seconds. ers over the past year have rallied against tions aside and peacefully welcome the The friendly was Brazil’s last before they $11 billion in World Cup spending and more than 800,000 foreign visitors open the World Cup against Croatia at the alleged corruption that drove up the cost expected. Corinthians arena next week. Brazil are hosting of building stadiums and other infra- Roiled by mass demonstrations that the World Cup for the first time since 1950 and structure projects, some of which were disrupted a warmup tournament last are in Group A with Cameroon, Mexico and never delivered. June, and a wave of ongoing strikes in Croatia. Sportscasts on team strategy, preva- several host cities, Rousseff authorized “It was a difficult game today, Serbia defend- lent before previous World Cups, are 57,000 troops to complement state ed very well,” said Brazil playmaker Oscar. “The splitting air time with news reports fea- police forces with tasks ranging from team is going to train, we are getting better lit- turing soldiers and police deployed in 12 security perimeters around stadiums to tle by little and we hope to be better against host cities to ensure that labor strikes, armed escorts for team buses. Croatia. demonstrations and crime don’t disrupt “We are a people that will welcome “In the first half some players were mishitting the tournament. the tourist not with violence, but with passes they don’t usually mishit but I am sure it At its most telling, the lack of enthusi- affection,” she said last week in a speech will all work out fine against Croatia.” asm is evident on sidewalks, squares and at Rio’s international airport, where Brazil were back at full strength after missing corner cafes. Absent the riot of yellow repairs continue despite her presence Paulinho and Thiago Silva against Panama on BRAZIL: Brazil’s Oscar vies for the ball with Serbia’s Dusan Basta, during a friendly match in and green that normally erupts every there to inaugurate the renovation. Tuesday. Oscar was also included, a day after preparation for FIFA World Cup. —AFP four years, many public areas remain Rousseff is still favored to get re-elect- the birth of his daughter Julia. opponents in persistent rain that made the sur- from getting on the end of a low cross from remarkably staid even as Brazil prepares ed in October. But recent polls show Luiz Felipe Scolari’s lineup was the same as face slippery. The Serbs were at times too strong Aleksandar Kolarov on the half-hour mark and to host an event that it always celebrated increasing traction for rival candidates, the one that demolished Spain 3-0 in the final of and too clever for Brazil, particularly on the Mitrovic should have done better with his head- from afar. unease about the economy, which barely last year’s Confederations Cup and the one that flanks where they caused no end of trouble, cre- er. Fred’s goal settled Brazil and although “People are disgusted,” says Mariana grew in the first quarter, and growing dis- is expected to start against Croatia in the World ating several gilt-edged chances. both sides pushed forward neither could add Faria, the owner of a party supply store in taste towards the World Cup. Cup’s opening match next Thursday. Only a timely intervention from Brazil goal- to the scoring. The win was Brazil’s ninth in a central Rio de Janeiro, where sales are 40 The Washington-based Pew Research Yet they looked uneasy against their stronger keeper Julio Cesar prevented a Serbian boot row and their 15th in the last 16.—Reuters percent lower than when the last World Center this week reported that 72 per- Cup took place in South Africa four years cent of Brazilians in a recent survey ago. “Nobody wants to spend money on expressed a general sense of dissatisfac- something now associated with waste tion, compared with 55 percent a year and corruption.” ago. Sixty-one percent of those polled Hong seeks to relive glory days The pall over Brazil counters what disapprove of hosting the World Cup. global soccer fans expect to be a month So where did Brazil go wrong? To SEOUL: South Korean fans love to relive the glo- resigned. Hong’s first few games in charge were Russia among others in the last two years and of sheer sporting extravaganza. And it many, the Cup symbolizes the gulf ry days of 2002 when Guus Hiddink led them to difficult and the national team struggled to against those teams they have shown glimpses could be that Brazilians will perk up if between what Brazil’s leaders’ promises the semi-finals on home soil. In Hong Myung-bo, adapt to the new man’s style and tactics. of their best under Hong. their team starts to dazzle. and what they deliver, be it good schools they not only have a manager who played under But, like Hiddink, Hong has never been afraid In contrast, they have sometimes struggled The tournament, the first in which all and hospitals or an offshore oil bonanza, the Dutch master, but one who cut his coaching to put the Koreans up against some of the against opponents they were expected to beat. previous Cup winners have qualified, will discovered just as Brazil won the rights to teeth by his side. world’s top sides to gain a clear picture of where Searching for Korea’s best formula, Hong got his feature almost every major star in the the tournament, that has failed to blos- Hong, South Korea’s most capped player, took they stand. tactics and personnel right in a 2-1 win over game - from Neymar, Brazil’s young hope, som because of high costs and bureau- over from Choi Kang-hee after the much- In an interview with World Soccer magazine Switzerland late last year and his team showed to Lionel Messi, the Argentine considered cracy. maligned manager stepped down following an in April he said: “There should be no fear. In the they are becoming more confident under him by many to be the era’s best player, to So slow were the World Cup prepara- uninspiring 2014 qualifying campaign in which remaining time we have left, we have to use the with an impressive 2-0 victory over Greece in Cristiano Ronaldo, the cocksure tions, including seats still being installed the Koreans made it through by the skin of their time wisely, and we have to help our young play- March. While that win in Athens gave Korea a Portuguese who would argue otherwise. at the opening stadium, that the secre- teeth. ers believe in themselves. much-needed confidence boost, after friendly The dour mood is also a far cry from tary general of FIFA, soccer’s governing Hong impressed as coach of Korea’s Olympic “Koran football has shown over the years that defeats to Mexico and the United States when what most envisioned when Brazil body, as early as 2012 said Brazil needed team, winning the bronze medal at the London it can achieve great things and that there is fringe players were given their chance, it is clear secured hosting rights in 2007. Back “a kick up the backside.”—Reuters Games, and assisted Hiddink at Russian club nothing to be scared of.” South Korea have Hong still has to address the team’s defensive Anzhi Makhachkala before the Dutchman played against Brazil, Croatia, Switzerland and failings.—Reuters SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SPORTS Germany crush Armenia

MAINZ: Germany produced a dazzling display of attacking football to thrash Armenia 6-1 in their last World Cup warmup on Friday but Marco Reus could be in doubt for the finals after twisting his ankle. The Germans, looking to end an 18-year wait for an international title, scored all their goals in the second half after midfielder Reus was taken to hospital for checks after being injured in the 43rd minute. Mario Goetze struck twice and Lukas Podolski, Andre Schuerrle, Benedikt Hoewedes and Miroslav Klose, who became his country’s all-time top scorer with 69 goals, were also on target as the hosts hit five goals in 18 minutes. “It was obvious we were much fresher today,” coach Joachim Loew told reporters, referring to Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Cameroon. “In the sec- ond half we upped the tempo as well. “When we switch on that turbo my team can FOXBOROUGH: Portugal’s Varela dribbles the ball during a friendly soccer match do a lot of things. I am looking forward to the between Mexico and Portugal at Gillette Stadium. —AFP tournament.” Germany, who take on Portugal, Ghana and United States in World Cup Group G later this month, were without first-choice keep- Portugal win over Mexico er Manuel Neuer who is recovering from a shoul- der injury. Neuer, expected to be fit for the FOXBOROUGH: A stunning last-gasp Portugal almost broke the deadlock group opener against Portugal, was replaced by header by Portugal’s Bruno Alves earned five minutes after the break through Borussia Dortmund’s Roman Weidenfeller for the his side a fortunate 1-0 win over fellow Contrao but his close-range strike was second consecutive international. blocked by Ochoa, who is battling with The deputy keeper was rarely called into World Cup qualifiers Mexico in a warmup MAINZ: Germany’s midfielder Marco Reus (left) and Armenia’s midfielder Artur Yedigaryan vie Corona for the starting spot. Eduardo was action as Germany took the initiative from the match in Foxborough, Massachusetts on for the ball during the friendly football match Germany vs Armenia in preparation for the FIFA then called on to make the first of three start. They missed early chances through Reus Friday. The game looked set for a goalless World Cup 2014. —AFP draw when Bruno Alves soared to send fantastic saves with a fine block just past and Thomas Mueller, starting as the only forward an unstoppable header past goalkeeper the hour mark to deny Herrera, who was with Klose on the bench. Reus missed several with a low drive before Armenia levelled when first game,” said Podolski after claiming his first Guillermo Ochoa in the 93rd minute from set up by substitute Javier Hernandez. good chances before he was hurt, an injury that Henrikh Mkhitaryan beat Dortmund team mate international goal for more than a year. “That is The keeper was called on again seven a cross by Joao Moutinho. instantly silenced the 27,000 crowd. Weidenfeller with a 69th-minute penalty. where it counts because if you win that first minutes later to stop another Herrera Germany then put their foot on the gas to fire game then you can benefit from a big tailwind.” But Portugal, missing captain Cristiano Schuerrle, who also scored on Sunday, gave strike and in the last minute of regular five goals in an explosive finish. Podolski, hitting Klose, who came on as a substitute, broke Gerd Ronaldo who is suffering from tendinosis the fans something to cheer when he drilled the time he pulled off a fine save to turn top form at just the right time, picked up a Mueller’s 40-year Germany record by notching a and a thigh injury, also had to thank their ball in after 52 minutes following good work away Pulido’s left-foot shot. from Podolski. clever pass from Ozil to score in the 71st minute 69th goal on his 132nd appearance with a div- stopper Eduardo who gave an inspired Portugal, who drew 0-0 with Greece in Mesut Ozil, a second-half substitute after before Hoewedes added another goal two min- ing header. Goetze completed the rout with a performance. their previous friendly last Saturday, play recent below-par performances, rattled the post utes later. “We have to be ready from the very late double. —Reuters Mexico dominated the second half but a final warmup against Ireland on Eduardo kept them out with fine saves Tuesday ahead of their Group G opener from Hector Herrera, twice, and Alan with Germany on June 16 before Paulo Pulido leaving the door open for Bruno Bento’s side face the United States and Alves to grab the late winner. Ghana. Portugal looked dangerous in the first The result was a disappointment for half and Mexico keeper Jose Corona, Miguel Herrera, Mexico’s fourth coach replaced by Ochoa at halftime, had to since September, as he suffered his sec- deny Vierinha and then Eder after Fabio ond straight defeat in charge of ‘El Tri’ Coentrao put him through. after an unbeaten eight-match run. Mexico came close to scoring before The Portugal match was Mexico’s final halftime though with a long-range effort warmup before their World Cup opener from Andres Guardado that flew just against Cameroon on June 13 in Natal. wide of the far post with Eduardo scram- They also face hosts Brazil before a tricky bling across his goal. clash with Croatia in Group A.—Reuters Scolari shows softer side before ‘30 days hard work’ SAO PAULO: “Go home and kiss your fami- played very well,” said Scolari. “They are lies” was Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari’s very big, they made it hard for us to control parting message to his players as he gave the ball. When I saw their tactics I knew it them a day off ahead of the World Cup. would be very hard to win but we did. The experienced former Chelsea and “Physically we have nothing to add. Portugal coach gave his squad yesterday Tactically we can do more and we can off to return home after they beat Serbia 1- improve a whole lot in dead-ball situations. 0 in their final warm-up match on Friday. I think there were a few chances that we “My last words in the dressing room wasted,” added Scolari. were, ‘Go see your family, hug them, kiss “We have good players in the air but we them, enjoy them’,” he told reporters. “Take never did enough with the ball. So we will advantage because you might suffer over put more focus on that in the week to the next 30-odd days. But the reward is come.” that if you win you are world champions for Scolari singled out Fred for praise fol- 1,430 days. So it’s 30 days hard work for lowing his goal - a typical poacher’s effort - 1,430 days. It’s a good deal if you ask me.” and said the Fluminense forward would Scolari said he was concerned with his benefit from the confidence boost. team’s weakness in the air and promised to “Fred said to me before the game, ‘I live work on tactics and dead-ball situations from goals, I am a centre forward, I need to before this month’s World Cup on home score’, and he quenched that thirst today,” soil following Friday’s lacklustre win. the coach added. “He is only one guy that Serbia created the better chances but can score but it is good for him to see that could not score and striker Fred grabbed he is getting back to top form. BUENOS AIRES: Jordan’s Ahmed Hayel (right) vies for the ball with Colombia’s Juan Cuadrado during their international friendly soccer Brazil’s winner in the 57th minute. It was “You give him one or two chances and match. —AP Brazil’s ninth consecutive victory in their he will score. That’s why we chose him. It last game before they launch their World was good for him. I hope he keeps pro- Cup campaign against Croatia in Sao Paulo gressing, he did more than just score, he on Thursday. was useful in other areas, in creating Colombia defeat Jordan “It was a tough game, both teams chances, too.” —Reuters

BUENOS AIRES: Colombia converted two withdrawals of striker Radamel Falcao, midfield- from the spot close to halftime after handball by penalties in a 3-0 win over Jordan in a World Cup er Edwin Valencia and defender Luis Amaranto Rajaei Ayed Fadel. Costa Rica hold Ireland warmup on Friday but are sweating on a fitness Perea. Right back Camilo Zuniga hit the bar in the report for injured midfielder Aldo Leao Ramirez. “We’re hours from having to make a decision. 54th minute before substitute Juan Cuadrado PHILADELPHIA: Ten-man Costa Rica bat- keeper Patrick Pemberton to thank for The seasoned 33-year-old, who played a sig- We’re going to see what the diagnosis is, what converted the second penalty seven minutes tled to a 1-1 draw with Ireland in their final keeping the scores level when he saved a nificant role in Colombia’s successful qualifying chances we have but we hope he doesn’t (miss from time after being brought down by defend- World Cup warmup after Giancarlo penalty from Robbie Keane which was giv- campaign for the Brazil finals, injured his knee the tournament),” coach Jose Pekerman said. er Anas Bani Yaseen, who was sent off. Winger Gonzalez was sent off in a lively match at en for a foul by Heiner Mora. during training at the team camp outside “I don’t want to jump the gun, we’ve got to Fredy Guarin completed the win with a fine the PPL stadium in Philadelphia. Their tricky Arsenal striker Campbell, Buenos Aires and is a doubt for the tournament wait a bit to see what’s happening,” he told strike from outside the box one minute from Celso Borges equalised for Costa Rica in who looked increasingly dangerous as the starting June 12. Argentine state television. In the friendly at the time. Colombia, going to the finals for the first the 64th minute with a penalty after Irish game went on, drew a fine save from Forde Ramirez would become the fourth Colombian Nuevo Gasometro stadium in Buenos Aires, mid- time in 16 years, face Greece, Ivory Coast and keeper David Forde brought down Marco after 69 minutes but they could not find a to miss the tournament though injury after the fielder James Rodriguez put Colombia ahead Japan in Group C.—Reuters Urena, who was put through by Joel winner. Campbell. Costa Rica, who lost their previous The ‘Ticos’ were reduced to 10 men four World Cup warmup 3-1 to fellow finalists minutes before halftime when Gonzalez Japan, open their campaign against Gerrard excited by young England talent elbowed forward Kevin Doyle. However, Uruguay in Fortaleza before facing Italy they continued to apply the pressure on and England in Group D. MIAMI: England captain Steven Gerrard warm-up game against fellow World Cup final- substitutions, although two of his quickest play- Ireland and were rewarded when Borges’s Ireland, who will play World Cup final- believes the talented youngsters who have bro- ists Honduras. ers, Sterling and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, are spot kick cancelled out Doyle’s clinical 18th ists Portugal at New Jersey’s MetLife sta- ken into the World Cup squad have helped cre- Newcomers such as Southampton’s Adam sidelined with injury and suspension respective- minute header from a cross by Marc Wilson. dium on Tuesday, did not reach the ate a more confident atmosphere for Brazil than Lallana and Luke Shaw, Ross Barkley of Everton ly. “We’ve got impact players. Oxlade- Costa Rica then had substitute goal- finals. —Reuters was apparent in South Africa four years ago. and Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling have broken Chamberlain is an obvious example, and we’ve “It certainly feels different. The lads are smil- into the squad and are putting pressure on the talked a lot about Sterling and how it’s a pity he ing and enjoying training and we’re enjoying established players to raise their game. can’t play and, of course, Ross Barkley is another being together,” Gerrard told reporters on Friday “I think they have brought their form from player that you could put in that category of after a training session in sweltering conditions the individual clubs into the setup. That’s what player who could come on and make a big at a university on the outskirts of Miami. I’ve noticed in training so far and hopefully they impact,” said Hodgson. “Four years ago maybe going into the tourna- continue that into the tournament,” said Gerrard. Gerrard led England in their dismal 2010 ment we weren’t in this mood, we weren’t as “But these players, you talk about how young World Cup campaign when they lost 4-1 to confident. It’s certainly different this time round. they are and how inexperienced they are, but all Germany in the last 16 under Fabio Capello but But it’s easy saying that. We know we’re going to I can say is they are ready to play. That’s the the Liverpool midfielder said he was never the be judged on results. Fingers crossed we can go biggest compliment I can give them and that’s Italian’s preferred choice as captain. and perform.” because of what I’ve seen in training.” Capello’s first-choice skipper Rio Ferdinand Asked if anything in particular made him was injured in England’s first training session in more optimistic this time, he said: “The standard ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES South Africa and John Terry was not a contender in the squad because there are two players Hodgson was also encouraged by the rapid having already been stripped of the captaincy, pushing in every position to get into the 11 and I development of the youngsters and said it gave leaving Gerrard as the only viable option. don’t think there’s much between those two him the headache of who to select from a group “Capello didn’t believe in me as his number players in every position. who could all stake a claim to start. one captain. He believed in me as a player, and “The manager (Roy Hodgson) is probably “I think it’s going to give us enormous oppor- our relationship was totally fine. I enjoyed work- capable of picking four or five teams for the Italy tunities on the bench to change things around. ing under him but at the time when he had to game and you wouldn’t see much difference in It’s going to be hot. Most teams are going to be pick a captain we had Rio Ferdinand and John the standard,” he added, referring to England’s thinking we’re not going to get through three Terry as well,” he explained. opening match in the heat and humidity of times 95 minutes with the same 11 players,” said “Maybe he thought they were going to offer Manaus on June 14. Hodgson. “We’re going to have to make something different from me or maybe they “That’s what gives me hope and also knowing changes, certainly, during the game and maybe were his preferred choice which was totally up that whichever 11 he picks we’ve got some fan- we’ll want to make changes from game to game. to him. But for me now I know I’m Roy’s number CHESTER: Costa Rica’s Marco Urena (21) takes a shot on goal as Ireland’s Richard tastic talent on the bench to come in when I believe with this squad I’ve got that opportuni- one captain which is a big confidence boost for Keogh defends during the second half of an international friendly soccer match. —AP needed,” said Gerrard ahead of Saturday’s final ty.” Hodgson said he could affect games with his me.” —Reuters Australia rout Colombia France defeat Jordan

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PARIS: Russia’s Maria Sharapova kisses the trophy after winning the final of the French Open tennis tournament against Romania’s Simona Halep at the Roland Garros stadium. — AP Sharapova wins French Open

PARIS: Maria Sharapova won her second French Open title in three The consolation for Halep, whose meteoric rise to the top brack- way on a sun-splashed and sultry centre court. back to level at 2-2. years at Roland Garros yesterday, defeating Romania’s Simona et in women’s tennis over the last 18 months has projected her as a She dropped serve in the first game and was soon 2-0 down, Two double faults to start the next game had Sharapova looking Halep 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4 in a gripping final, the first to go the full dis- potential champion, was that she will climb to a career-high third in but the Russian promptly found her range and she was back level anxious, but she compensated with some hefty hitting off both tance in Paris in 13 years and the second longest on record. the world rankings. after a thrilling fourth game that saw several deuces and some big flanks to regain the lead. It was the 27-year-old Russian’s fifth Grand Slam title, bringing “I wish to have many more (Grand Slam finals), but this will be hitting from both ends. In what was developing into a final of the Three games later the Russian squandered two break points to her level with Martina Hingis on the all-time list and it came 10 years special for me all my life. I had two incredible weeks here and I highest quality, the first five games all went to deuce, but it was serve for the match and she played a sloppy service game to follow after she won her first major at Wimbledon 2004. played my best tennis,” she said Sharapova who gradually gained the ascendancy. allowing Halep to break from 15-40 down. Sharapova, who completed a career sweep of all four Grand The two finalists reached the championship match in starkly She broke Halep’s serve again, this time to 15, to lead 4-2, but Halep was twice unable to serve out for the set, but she stunned Slam titles in Paris in 2012 before losing to Serena Williams last year, contrasting styles. Fourth-seeded Halep did not drop a single set in three games later her suspect serve once more let her down and Sharapova in the ensuing tie-break, winning four points in a row also moved to number two on the all-time prize money earnings, her six matches, while seventh-seed Sharapova needed to battle the Romanian broke back. from 5-3 down to level the set scores. with only the American ahead of her. back from first set losses in her three previous outings. Halep though was unable to level the score as she dropped The final was into the third set for the first time since 2001 when But it took all her legendary grit and resolve to recover from the But experience was massively on the Russian’s side. This was her serve for the third time, handing Sharapova the set in 57 minutes. Jennifer Capriati defeated Kim Clijsters 12-10 in the decider and it agonising loss of the second set on a tie-break after she had stood ninth Grand Slam final dating back 10 years, while Halep was play- Sharapova opened the second set with a confident love game was Sharapova who found a new gear just when she needed it. The just two points away from the title at 5/3. ing in her first at the age of 22. on serve and then came out on top in another lengthy deuce tussle Russian broke clear to lead 4-2, before Halep once again reeled her “It’s the toughest Grand Slam final I have ever played,” said Sharapova also towered over her opponent at 1.88 metres (6 to move 2-0 ahead. in to level at 4-4. But the 16th break of serve in the next game finally Sharapova. “I can’t believe that at 27 I have won the French Open feet 2 inches) compared to Halep’s 1.68 metres (5 feet six inches). It The biggest earner in women’s sport and global superstar was in saw Sharapova on the way to stagger past the winning post after more times than any other Grand Slam.” was yet another shaky start from Sharapova as the final got under- the driving seat, but her level unaccountably dipped as Halep broke three hours and two minutes of enthralling tennis. — AFP

Australia delivers Preview historic Derby win Nadal, Djokovic EPSOM: Aidan O’Brien became the first trainer to win three successive Epsom Derby’s yesterday as favorite Australia prevailed in a thrilling race. Australia, ridden by O’Brien’s 21-year-old son Joseph, repelled a late to battle in Paris challenge by Kingston Hill (15/2) to take the honours at 11/8 while Romsdal was third at 20/1. PARIS: This is their 42nd clash, so there will be few On paper, Djokovic, 27, may appear to have Australia, O’Brien’s fifth winner in the race considered the ‘blue riband surprises for the world’s top two players Rafa the upper hand, having won their last four tussles, of the turf’, follows Camelot and Ruler of the World in giving the Irish Nadal and Novak Djokovic when they face each including on the red dirt in Rome last month, trainer his hat-trick. other over the net in the French Open final today. when he dismantled Nadal 4-6 6-3 6-3 to hand O’Brien as ever refused to take the accolades as his alone not even the Both are looking to cement their positions the number one his third claycourt loss this year. record making him change his habit of sharing it with the team from the among the greats. Nadal is gunning to be the first But they are not playing on paper. They are play- stables in County Tipperary. man to win five straight Paris titles to take his total ing on the Roland Garros clay, Nadal’s spiritual “We’re in a privileged position to have such horses,” said O’Brien, who to nine. Djokovic wants to complete his career home, where he has an eye-watering 65-1 win- had said in May that Australia was the best horse he had ever prepared grand slam by bagging the only major to elude him. loss record. for the Derby including his sire Galileo who won in 2001. SURREY: Joseph O’Brien rides Australia to victory on Derby Day during They each have the strokes and the stamina. It Only four of Djokovic’s 19 wins over Nadal “We said what we thought was always the case that he was very spe- the Epsom Derby Festival, in Surrey, southern England. — AFP will come down to who can control their on-court have come on claycourts, and he lost to him in the cial. He showed it today. aggression and handle the pressure better in front Paris final in 2012. “I think there is no doubt that “Joseph gave him a great ride.” O’Brien junior was in no doubt how “It was a great performance,” added Smith, whose star will next race in of the 15,000 crowd on Philippe Chatrier. he is the favourite to win,” Djokovic said of Nadal, good a horse Australia was. “Horses don’t come better than this one. He the Irish Derby, according to trainer Roger Varian. “He has the pressure to win for the first time. I who he will swap places with in the world rank- is the best I have ridden,” said Joseph O’Brien, who rode Camelot to victo- O’Brien’s Kingfisher and wide outsider Our Channel had set the pace have the pressure that I want to win and the moti- ings on Monday if the 28-year-old Spaniard loses. ry in 2012. from the off with the fancied True Story up close under 49-year-old vation that I want to win the ninth,” Spaniard “But, okay, I have been playing some good Two of the winners four owners Michael Tabor and Sue Magnier also Kieren Fallon and Kingston Hill keeping a close eye on proeedings. Nadal told reporters after demolishing tennis. The win in Rome a few weeks ago against became the most successful owners in the race’s history with six wins. However, Fallon’s mount faded coming down Tattenham Corner and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray in the semi- him in the final definitely gives me confidence “When I was a young lad this achievement in becoming the most suc- swinging into the straight to meet the judge. O’Brien was, however, finals. and hopefully self-belief.” cessful owner in Derby history would not even have been a distant going ominously well on Australia and although Andrea Altzeni, enjoy- “I’m going to go on court with the same moti- Nadal seems to have plenty of self-belief too, dream,” said Tabor. ing a marvellous first ride in the Derby, produced Kingston Hill to take vation than him. I don’t know if the same pressure declaring himself very happy with his “very fast, “You don’t think that far ahead,” added the former bookmaker. For the command off the two pacemakers it was only a matter of time before the than him. Probably we are in different situations.” very powerful” forehand and acknowledging an winner’s breeder Lord Derby, the race being named in honor of his fami- Irish champion came to challenge. The Serbian second seed said he was trying improved backhand, ever seeking perfection. ly, it was a moment of pure joy as he became the first member of his fam- He duly did with two furlongs to run and the duo battled it out until not to get carried away by the stress of the occa- “Is true that I lost a few matches, but playing ily to breed the winner since the 1933 champion Hyperion. Australia put some space between himself and Kingston Hill. sion, after a wobble in the semis allowed Latvia’s the way that I played (against Murray) probably I “It has been so long since we bred the winner that I can’t believe this Altzeni, though, found more in his horse and he came back at Ernests Gulbis to take a set off him before he will not,” he said. While Djokovic has former world has happened,” said Lord Derby, whose extraordinary race mare and win- Australia, but O’Brien also found reserves and he safely negotiated the regained his near metronomic consistency. number one Boris Becker in his corner, Nadal will ner of the 2004 Oaks Ouija Board is the dam of Australia. final few hundred yards to take the prize. “Of course pressure is there. Expectations are have the history of Roland Garros, named after a In a bizarre twist another of the winning horse’s owners Derrick Romsdal under champion jockey Richard Hughes stayed on well for there. They are always present when you are play- French aviator, on his side when they vie for the Smith’s son Paul was owner of the runner-up but delighted with his run- third to give Friday’s Oaks winning trainer John Gosden another reason ing on this level,” he said. “It is the finals of a grand Musketeers’ Cup and the 1,650,000 euro ($2.25 ner’s performance. to flash one of his broad grins. slam that I never won, of course I’m going to give million) cheque. “For me the only motivation is “My father might have got the bragging rights but I am more than “He ran a great race and we will aim him at the St Leger in September,” my best to lift the trophy.” Roland Garros,” he said. — Reuters happy with the way my horse performed,” he said. said Gosden, who won the Derby with Benny the Dip in 1997. — AFP Kuwait CA surplus eased to KD 20.3bn in 2013

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FRANKFURT: President of European Central Bank, Mario Draghi ( second left) is on the way to a news conference in Frankfurt. The European Central Bank has cut two key interest rates, one of them into negative territory - a highly unusual step that underlines the urgency of its efforts to keep the euro-zone economy from sliding into crippling deflation. — AP ECB getting closer to Fed-style stimulus FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank has whose bonds to buy and how many. Beyond increase the amount of money circulating in cent from 0.25 percent and imposed an bond purchases, which typically drive down deployed a raft of aggressive measures to that, creating new money has long faced the economy. unusual negative interest rate of 0.1 percent the interest yields on bonds, won’t provide as boost Europe’s economy, but stopped short of resistance in Germany, the biggest economy Analysts Joerg Kraemer and Christoph Weil on deposits from banks - an incentive for them much interest relief for companies in Europe the one many economists insist would do the in Europe where central bank stimulus meas- at Commerzbank see a 40 percent chance the to loan those excess funds. as they would in the United States. That’s most to help: large-scale purchases of bonds. ures are looked upon with suspicion and have ECB will engage in quantitative easing and say because European companies borrow more That could change sooner rather than later, a prominent place in public discussion. speculation will be “constant” in the wake of Stimulus question from banks than from bond investors. analysts say, if inflation remains low. But after Thursday’s meeting, things could Thursday. On balance, they expect that the Significantly, Draghi said that rates have Another is attitudes in Germany. The head Purchases of bonds using newly created be shifting. At a press conference on Thursday, measures the ECB announced will be just gone about as low as they can. Typically, cen- of the German Savings Banks Association, money - called quantitative easing - have been ECB President Mario Draghi held the door enough for the ECB not to have to resort to tral banks must first use up their conventional Georg ahrenschon, criticized the ECB’s low used with some success so far by the US open to such bond purchases, suggesting quantitative easing. If inflation keeps falling forms of stimulus before engaging in some- rates, saying they were costing savers 15 bil- Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Germany has at least softened its outright short of expectations, however, they say the thing as drastic as large-scale bond purchases. lion euros ($20.5 billion) a year in lost income. Bank of Japan. They can reduce market inter- resistance. If inflation falls further, analysts ECB is more likely than not to start bond pur- That opens the door wider for large-scale Chancellor Angela Merkel would not be drawn est rates, making it cheaper for consumers and think the ECB could start quantitative easing. chases. bond purchases. on the topic, saying only she would “take note” businesses to borrow, helping growth. “Are we finished?” he said after the deci- Among the list of measures the ECB did “The council has exhausted the list of alter- of the decision. And Jens Weidmann, the head sion. “The answer is no.” The ECB is keen to take on Thursday was an offer of long-term, natives to QE,” Royal Bank of Scotland analyst of Germany’s national central bank who also So why not in Europe? bring up the inflation rate, which at 0.5 per- cheap loans to banks on condition they lend Richard Barwell wrote, using the shorthand for sits on the ECB’s governing council, was quot- To begin with, the ECB faces technical and cent is so low it raises fears the euro-zone will to companies. That condition aims at making quantitative easing. He doesn’t expect, howev- ed by the Bild newspaper as saying it would practical challenges that other major central fall into outright deflation, a crippling down- sure the money gets to the economy and er, the ECB to start bond purchases unless be “misguided” to start talking about more banks don’t have. It has 18 different govern- ward price spiral. The antidote is to take steps helps create growth and jobs. The ECB also cut inflation continues to fall. steps. “First we must wait to see the effect of ment bond markets, raising the question of to encourage borrowing and lending and the rate at which it loans to banks to 0.15 per- Among the obstacles that remain is that what we have decided,” he said. — AP Iran airline eyes expansion post-sanctions Egypt, UAE choose DOHA: Iran Air will need at least 100 passen- said would fit the airline’s networks, including Diplomatic sources say US companies will ger jets once sanctions against the country are the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800 narrow- be the first to benefit if a broader softening of army-linked company lifted and will find it easier to do business with body jets, and wide-body long-haul jets such sanctions is agreed, but European firms are companies that co-operated during the cur- as the A330 and A350, 777 and 787 and likely to be reluctant to watch U.S. rivals take to build wheat silos rent window for sanctions relief, the head of “maybe” the 747-8. the lion’s share of future business as they did in the airline said. However, in the absence of a He also cited Canada’s Bombardier Inc and Iraq. Besides Brazil and Canada, Russia and CAIRO: Egypt and the United Arab announced the signing of the coopera- long-term deal easing the country’s economic Brazil’s Embraer SA, two companies challeng- China are working on new narrowbody jetlin- Emirates said yesterday that they had tion agreement with Cairo alongside isolation, Iran’s flag carrier will turn instead to ing for a slice of the $100 billion annual market ers scheduled to enter service from 2017. contracted a state-run company headed Egypt’s Supplies Minister Khaled Hanafi Russia and China as alternative suppliers, for jetliners. Moscow and Beijing have also agreed to co- by a retired Egyptian army officer to build and Planning Minister Ashraf El-Araby. Farhad Parvaresh, chairman and managing “We can work with all of them,” he said. develop a bolder widebody jet, marking a sig- wheat silos that are a key part of the Seated beside the ministers was retired director of Iran Air, said. “Even if the aircraft are not available immedi- nificant step in an emerging alliance between UAE’s $4.9 billion aid package to Cairo. Egyptian Lieutenant General Abd El Aziz The comments, in a rare interview with for- ately, we can easily lease.” He confirmed esti- the two powers, but expected to take at least a The UAE is taking a hands-on role in Seif-Eldeen, head of the Arab eign media on the sidelines of an airline con- mates that Iran would ultimately need as many decade. supporting Egypt and is funding a range Organization for Industrialization, the ference this week, come as Iran and six nations as 400 aircraft and said its strategy would be to Asked what would happen if talks on easing of development projects including the state-owned company chosen to build prepare to resume negotiations on a final deal compete with the fast-growing hubs of Gulf sanctions broke down, Parvaresh said: wheat silo-building effort that could help the silos. Eldeen was a member of the aimed at ending a decade-old dispute over carriers. “Because there is a need in Iran, the Iranian avi- the world’s biggest importer of the com- Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Tehran’s nuclear program. A preliminary deal Asked if Iran Air was already talking to ation industry will definitely go to Russia or modity lower its huge food import bill. until 2012, which ruled the country for was signed in Geneva in November, under planemakers about its needs in case sanctions China.” Reuters reported in March that the UAE the 18 turbulent months after Hosni which Iran accepted to halt some sensitive are lifted, Parvaresh said: “We are in contact He added: “If negotiations do not go well, was working directly with the Egyptian Mubarak was toppled in a 2011 uprising. nuclear activities in exchange for partial easing with many aircraft manufacturers. Before it was we will not lose much, but on the other hand army to ensure the silo-building was con- Eldeen, at the time the commander of of sanctions. The accord, which took effect on not easy, but now it is not forbidden for either moving forward and growing is good for all of ducted efficiently. the Air Defence Forces, was removed Jan. 20, was designed to buy time for a final side.” us business-wise. We will continue our previ- The UAE pledged last October to build from the military council in a reshuffle by deal within six months and allows for the sale Asked whether those discussions included ous methods and ways. We are very experi- a total of 25 wheat silos with a storage elected President Mohammad Morsi in of aircraft parts. Airbus or Boeing, he said: “Both are looking at enced now.” Iranian authorities for years said capacity of 1.5 million tons to help pre- August 2012, shortly after he took office. Asked if it would be easier to do business in the Iran market but there are also other manu- sanctions had no negative impact on the coun- vent the loss of billions of dollars worth of Morsi then appointed Eldeen chairman of future with companies that had co-operated facturers”. try, arguing they made Iran self-sufficient. But wheat per year. the Arab Organization for under the temporary Geneva deal, Parvaresh An Airbus spokesman said: “We are not in since the landslide election win of pragmatist The project targets addressing prob- Industrialization. told Reuters: “Yes, that is for sure”. commercial negotiations with Iran”. A President Hassan Rouhani last year, authorities lems in the strategic wheat sector. An army source told Reuters that the He added: “To my understanding, if sanc- spokesman for Boeing reiterated it had been have blamed sanctions for the country’s eco- Millions of poor Egyptians rely on govern- company does contracting work with the tions are lifted in aviation, we would need at granted a temporary license to sell Iran spare nomic hardships. ment subsidized bread, but the wasteful Ministry of Military Production, but does least 100 aircraft right away, both widebody parts. “Any discussions we’ve had with Iranian “Experience shows that what they did to us and corrupt system for providing it strains not fall under the jurisdiction of the min- and narrowbody.” airline officials have been in strict accordance wasn’t successful. Both experimentally and government finances. Egypt wants to istry. The company builds airplanes and US companies Boeing Co and General with that license and US government policy.” theoretically, it didn’t work,” Parvaresh said. The boost its storage capacity to reduce cars, according to its website. The General Electric Co have said they are seeking to export Formalities needed to get the parts under the United States and other Western powers say reliance on imports. Company for Silos and Storage, another parts to Iran under the agreement for sanc- Geneva deal are meanwhile taking time, com- sanctions have forced Iran to compromise on Though UAE and Egyptian govern- state-run company affiliated with the tions relief which expires on July 20. Parvaresh plementing diplomatic pressure to extend the nuclear activities that the West believes ment ministers appeared together at a Supplies Ministry, will be the implement- said Europe’s Airbus Group NV was also work- July 20 deadline. include plans for a bomb, something Tehran news conference in Cairo to announce ing agency for the Egyptian government ing with Iran under the temporary agreement. denies. The United States last week fined a the details of the construction of the first for the project, state news agency MENA A spokesman for Airbus, which has previously Russia, China Dutch firm for breaking sanctions, but Iran says two silos, their choice of a Egyptian army- reported. only said it was considering this, confirmed it “We in Iran Air hope the negotiations will it can find what it needs, at a cost. affiliated company to do the construction Jaber said that work had begun on the had asked Washington for a spares export conclude positively or be extended,” Parvaresh “It always has to be done through dealers work confirmed the military’s connection silos project. “Within a week or two we license. said. The potential of a country of 76 million and they of course take advantage,” Parvaresh to the project. will visit the sites.” He said the timeline for people and some of the world’s biggest oil and said. “It is not easy, but there are always ways UAE Minister of State Sultan Ahmed the completion of the two silos was 18 In contact gas reserves makes it a magnet for foreign ... For some parts we pay up to 200 percent Al-Jaber, who handles the aid projects, months. — Reuters Parvaresh listed Western models which he firms seeking long-term opportunities. higher.” — Reuters BUSINESS SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

Bayt.com report Kuwait CA surplus eased 6 mistakes to KD 20.3bn in 2013 managers make in performance NBK ECONOMIC REPORT reviews KUWAIT: Latest data from the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) the net change in ownership of foreign assets - be they show a slight softening in Kuwait’s robust external position debt or equity, currencies and deposits, or other items. mployee performance reviews should be an in 2013. Lower oil revenues trimmed the surplus in the cur- For the most part, these changes broadly mirror changes important part of managing your business. rent account, while financial flows to investments abroad in the current account - but in the opposite direction: a Unfortunately, some managers don’t look for- eased back. rise in the current account surplus generates a rise in the E deficit on the capital and financial account, as large sur- ward to these evaluations, as they might see them as a waste of time. According to the Bayt.com Current account plus funds need to be invested and are too large for the ‘Employee Engagement in the MENA’ poll, March The current account - a measure of net international local economy. The combined capital and financial 2014, only 52 percent say they ‘always’ receive feed- trade in goods, services, factor income and transfers - saw accounts saw a deficit of KD 20.4 billion in 2013 - almost back to help improve their performance. When you its surplus slip slightly to KD 20.3 billion in 2013, down KD 2.0 billion lower than the record outflows seen in the feel that performance reviews are not important it’s from a record level of KD 22.1 billion in the previous year. A previous year. easy to make mistakes and hence ruin an employee’s decline in the goods trade surplus was compounded by The narrowing deficit was attributed entirely to the enthusiasm, motivation and productivity. record deficits in services outflows. As a percentage of GDP, ‘other investments’ component of the financial account, Here, the HR experts at Bayt.com, the Middle the surplus stood at 40 percent, down from 43 percent in which saw outflows decline by some KD 3.5 billion to KD East’s #1 job site, present six mistakes that can ruin 2012, but still very strong. 11.2 billion. This volatile account is mostly made up of an employee performance review that you should The decline in the current account surplus was primarily investments in shorter-term deposit accounts and net avoid: attributed to a KD 1.3 billion drop in the balance of goods overseas loans, and has constituted the single largest to KD 25.4 billion. Goods exports were down 2 percent y/y source of outflows since 2009. Lower outflows in this Mistake #1: Talking not listening to KD 32.8 billion, as oil exports fell as a result of lower oil component stemmed mainly from a KD 4.2 billion reduc- One of the biggest mistakes managers make in prices which were down 3 percent y/y in 2013. Meanwhile, tion in government investments in foreign currencies and performance reviews is doing too much talking and goods imports continued to grow at a solid pace of 9 per- deposits, following three consecutive years of increases. not enough listening. These meetings are supposed cent y/y to KD 7.4 billion - in line with the average growth Meanwhile, the ‘portfolio investments’ account saw its to be interactive, where the manager doesn’t simply seen in the past three years. deficit widen further by some KD 1.3 billion to KD 8.7 bil- rely on his or her own opinion of the employee’s per- The services account deficit continued to widen, by lion in 2013. This came from increased Kuwaiti invest- formance during the year, but also strive to learn the some KD 0.9 billion to KD 3.5 billion. This was led by KD 2.9 ments in foreign securities of some KD 5.1 billion to KD employee’s viewpoint. Moreover, a key objective of billion imports of travel services. Year-on-year, imports of 7.9 billion - their highest post-financial crisis level. This the performance appraisal is to agree on goals for transportation and travel services rose by a combined KD more than offset a KD 3.8 billion reduction in investments the following year. How can there be true agreement 1.0 billion - more than offsetting a KD 0.2 billion contrac- in foreign debt instruments. and commitment to such goals if you don’t listen to tion in imports of construction services. This growth in The ‘direct investments’ component - or long-term the employee? travel spending is consistent with a growing and healthy equity stakes - also saw higher outflows, whereby net economy. investments abroad rose by some KD 0.3 billion to KD 1.8 Mistake #2: Being critical Meanwhile, net investment income rose to KD 3.2 bil- billion. Higher net outflows were due to a KD 0.3 billion without being constructive lion - up KD 0.4 billion from the previous year. These increase in investments by Kuwaitis abroad to KD 2.3, Some managers can be too critical and neglect to inflows comprise receipts from income-generating assets while foreign direct investments (FDI) in Kuwait remained provide any constructive advice on how an employ- primarily held by the government. Income from direct broadly unchanged at around KD 0.5 billion. ee can improve. This doesn’t help the employee or investments and ‘other investments’ were down slightly, Meanwhile, the smaller capital account saw inflows the manager. Even if your criticism has merit, if you but these were more than offset by a large KD 0.6 billion edge up to KD 1.3 billion in 2013 - an all-time high. This don’t explain how the employee can improve, they rise in inflows from portfolio investments. account is largely driven by UN compensation payments are likely to miss the validity of what’s being said and Outflows from current transfers were generally to Kuwait. simply think they are being victimized. unchanged from the previous year at KD 4.8 billion, with workers’ remittances amounting to KD 4.4 billion. The latter BoP surplus and foreign reserves Mistake #3: Comparing to other employees was down slightly by 0.3 percent, unexpectedly given the Combining all of the above, the surplus in the balance Even if it’s true, never say something like, “Your 3.5 percent increase in the number of expatriates in the of payments reached KD 1.0 billion in 2013, compared to sales numbers are the worst in the group.” And defi- workforce during the year. KD 0.9 billion in the previous year. This is also equivalent nitely don’t compare one employee to another. Looking forward, for 2014 we expect the surplus in the to the change in reserve assets held by the CBK. Reserves Comparisons are unfair and often create hard feel- current account to be trimmed further to around 30 - 35 accumulated for the tenth consecutive year. ings and unhealthy competition. Only compare percent of GDP as a result of softer exports and stronger The overall position of the balance of payments employee performance to standards; if the employ- imports. Lower oil prices and cutbacks in production levels showed a surplus of KD 16.3 billion in 2013, down from an ee does have the lowest sales numbers but is still are likely to limit oil exports. Meanwhile, steady and firm all-time high of KD 20.7 billion in 2012. This broader bal- meeting expectations, focus on ways to exceed growth in the non-oil sector of around 4-5 percent is likely ance takes into account not only changes in reserve expectations. to lead to a solid rise in imports this year. assets held by the CBK, but also those holdings of exter- nal assets by key government bodies - notably the Kuwait Mistake #4: Being too vague Capital and financial account Investment Authority, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, and Always make sure to be specific about what you The combined capital and financial accounts record Kuwait Airways Corporation. liked and didn’t like in an employee’s performance. According to the Bayt.com ‘Employer Branding in the MENA’ poll, February 2014, 60 percent of profession- als in the MENA say the thing they appreciate the most is when they know what’s expected of them at work.

Mistake #5: Coming unprepared Some managers like to do these meetings in a hurry. The worst part of this kind of approach is that it typically means the manager hasn’t given any thought to how the report has done in the last year and what they need to do to improve. Even worse are the bosses who simply cut and paste what was on last year’s performance review form to this year’s with minimal, if any, changes. To the employee, an annual performance review is a big deal (especially if a pay raise is involved), so make sure your review is as truthful and inclusive as possible.

Mistake #6: Making promises you can’t keep A good performance evaluation assesses the past and looks to the future. So certainly share improve- ment or development plans, but keep in mind that when you say, “We can possibly train you in cus- tomer service,” the employee hears, “We will definite- ly train you in customer service.” If you aren’t sure you can come through, either say nothing or be sure to emphasize that a potential opportunity is only a possibility. And if that opportunity won’t come through, let the employee know and explain why it didn’t work out. Jay Hungerford, pharmacy intern, speaks with a customer at Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Arkansas. Wal-Mart’s supercenters still account for 80 percent of its 4,000-plus US stores, but the retailer is opening smaller outlets that cater to shoppers looking for more convenience. — AP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Syrian Pound 2.900 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Nepalese Rupees 3.880 Singapore Dollar 0.221771 0.227771 Malaysian Ringgit 87.040 South African Rand 0.020285 0.028785 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.395 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001871 0.002451 Japanese Yen 2.761 Australian Dollar 267.50 264.50 Thai Bhat 9.680 Taiwan 0.009275 0.009455 Indian Rupees 4.764 Canadian Dollar 262.65 265.65 Turkish Lira 134.045 Thai Baht 0.008320 0.008870 Pakistani Rupees 2.868 Swiss Franc 320.80 318.80 Srilankan Rupees 2.167 Euro 388.78 389.78 Arab Nepali Rupees 3.009 US Dollar 282.10 285.10 Singapore Dollar 225.420 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.743942 0.751942 Sterling Pound 476.98 479.98 Egyptian Pound 0.036594 0.039694 Hongkong Dollar 36.489 Japanese Yen 2.83 2.85 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000080 Bangladesh Taka 3.638 Bangladesh Taka 3.631 3.901 CURRENCY BUY SELL Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Philippine Peso 6.466 Indian Rupee 4.787 5.087 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.394793 0.402293 Thai Baht 8.661 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.163 2.598 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Belgian Franc 0.007353 0.008353 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Nepali Rupee 2.996 3.531 British Pound 0.466036 0.475036 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Pakistani Rupee 2.863 2.790 Lebanese Pound 0.000138 0.000238 Czech Korune 0.006213 0.018213 Moroccan Dirhams 0.024413 0.048413 UAE Dirhams 76.87 77.34 Danish Krone 0.047541 0.052541 GCC COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 750.84 752.91 Nigerian Naira 0.001196 0.001831 Euro 0.379159 0.387159 Saudi Riyal 75.470 Egyptian Pound 39.44 40.04 Omani Riyal 0.728773 0.734453 Norwegian Krone 0.043192 0.048292 Qatari Riyal 77.763 Jordanian Dinar 401.50 407.15 Qatar Riyal 0.076996 0.078209 Romanian Leu 0.081630 0.81630 Omani Riyal 735.190 Omani Riyal 733.64 740.94 Saudi Riyal 0.074803 0.075503 Bahraini Dinar 751.690 Qatari Riyal 77.90 78.45 Slovakia 0.008101 0.018101 Syrian Pound 0.001754 0.001974 UAE Dirham 77.074 Saudi Riyal 75.36 75.76 Swedish Krona 0.038280 0.043280 Tunisian Dinar 0.169198 0.177198 Swiss Franc 0.308324 0.318524 Turkish Lira 0.138248 0.145248 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.138248 0.145248 UAE Dirhams 0.076041 0.077190 Egyptian Pound - Cash 38.601 Yemeni Riyal 0.001276 0.001356 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.550 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.321 Australian Dollar 0.253599 0.265099 Tunisian Dinar 173.930 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.231556 0.241056 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 399.660 US Dollar 281.500 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.899 Canadian Dollar 259.510 Canadian Dollar 0.253852 0.262352 Syrian Lira 2.017 Sterling Pound 475.750 US Dollars 0.278800 0.283150 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 35.187 Euro 391.810 US Dollars Mint 0.279300 0.283150 US Dollar 282.400 Swiss Frank 320.975 Euro 386.000 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 749.235 Asia US Dollar Transfer 282.900 UAE Dirhams 76.620 Bangladesh Taka 0.003338 0.003938 Pound Sterlng 474.000 Euro 386.440 Qatari Riyals 78.200 Chinese Yuan 0.044090 0.047590 Canadian Dollar 260.450 Sterling Pound 474.280 Saudi Riyals 75.340 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034401 0.037151 Indian Rupee 4.765 Canadian dollar 259.540 Jordanian Dinar 396.715 Indian Rupee 0.004441 0.004842 Turkish lira 133.730 Egyptian Pound 39.475 Egyptian Pound 40.115 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Swiss Franc 316.270 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.164 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.154 Japanese Yen 0.002674 0.002854 Australian Dollar 263.100 Indian Rupees 4.679 Bangladesh Taka 3.637 US Dollar Buying 281.700 Kenyan Shilling 0.003298 0.003298 Pakistani Rupees 2.852 Korean Won 0.000266 0.000281 Philippines Peso 6.450 Bangladesh Taka 3.622 Malaysian Ringgit 0.083640 0.089640 Pakistan Rupee 2.867 GOLD Philippines Pesso 6.322 20 Gram 245.000 Nepalese Rupee 0.003009 0.003179 Bahraini Dinar 751.800 Cyprus pound 691.420 Pakistan Rupee 0.002663 0.002943 UAE Dirham 76.900 10 Gram 124.000 Japanese Yen 3.750 5 Gram 64.000 Philippine Peso 0.006347 0.006627 Saudi Riyal 75.400 SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 BUSINESS

Top officials attend celebrations during the brand launch of Ooredoo Kuwait. Ooredoo in Kuwait concludes brand launch celebrations with VIP event Fakhroo: We upgraded our network to introduce 4G/LTE Advanced

KUWAIT: Ooredoo in Kuwait (previously Kuwait customers enjoyed immediate known as Wataniya Telecom), Kuwait’s first benefits including celebrations that host- privately owned telecommunications ed the popular young rock group, “The company, ended its seven brand launch Wanted” and was attended by thousands celebrations last night with a VIP event of fans. A concert by famous singer Mika that hosted key businesspeople and influ- Singh was also hosted by Ooredoo last ential figures in Kuwait. weekend and enjoyed by thousands of On this occasion, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Indian fans in Kuwait. Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani, said: “We All Ooredoo employees in Kuwait are very proud that Kuwait is the fifth enjoyed moving to a state-of-the-art operator to adopt the Ooredoo brand. This building, which is considered one of the is a testament of the strength of our vision most high tech buildings in Kuwait. and the commitment of our operation Ooredoo in Kuwait’s commitment to companies to live by it. Kuwait is a core the society is being demonstrated through market to our Group and we increasingly sponsoring a sports arena which includes see it as a hub for technology and innova- three indoor soccer fields, donating the tion. Therefore, Ooredoo is the right brand first privately-owned Braille printing for for this market as it brings our Kuwaiti the Kuwait Blind Association, and support- team closer to the rest of our international ing Bayt Abdullah Hospital by fulfilling the Abdulaziz Fakhroo, General Manager and Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Head of Communication, Brand and teams and allows them to access shared wants of children with terminal condi- CEO of Ooredoo in Kuwait Al-Thani Customer Experience Riham Al-Ayyar global resources and assets. Ooredoo’s tions. focus on mobile technology and data driv- As part of Ooredoo, customers are en services encourages us to innovate enjoying a new website that includes mobile apps in the healthcare, education account management facilities, social and financial segments; making a differ- media interactive engagement and the ence in the lives of our customers today introduction of a revamped range of serv- and in the future.” ices including Kuwait’s first e-commerce Abdulaziz Fakhroo, General Manager platform allowing them to buy online and CEO of Ooredoo in Kuwait, said: “This electronics. Other services include ‘My is a very exciting phase in the history of Offer’ for prepaid customers which recom- our company. We have big plans in Kuwait, mends specific products based on cus- and our customers are already beginning tomers usage patterns. Reward based data to see the results. Data is transforming packages; pre-paid and other smartphone every aspect of our daily lives, and plans will also be rolled-out to enhance Ooredoo is well positioned to be the data the customer experience. All data services will be supported by the $400 million modernized network enabling 3G and 4G LTE broadband connection across Kuwait. Chairman Abdullah The final VIP celebration was attended Al-Thani: Kuwait is by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani, Chairman of Ooredoo a core market for Group, who gave an opening keynote speech in the presence of senior officials our operations and from both Ooredoo Group and Ooredoo in Kuwait, and key officials in the country. Ooredoo is the right Invitees included Kuwaiti ministers, under- secretaries, ambassadors, ISPS’s, top B2C brand for this and B2B customers, Nojoom senior part- ners and senior banking officials. Abdulla vibrant and high Buftain, the renowned Kuwaiti TV presen- ter who became Ooredoo brand ambassa- potential country Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammad Bin Saud Al-Thani (center) with other officials. dor in Kuwait in September 2013 attended the VIP event and introduced the program. Customers in Kuwait are already enjoy- leader for the country in the months and ing Ooredoo’s first-ever global commercial years ahead. Our main focus will be the with its brand ambassador Leo Messi. The unique customer experience and the campaign, “Simply Do Wonders”, encour- delivery of tangible results that are felt by all the communities we serve. Therefore, ages young people to upload videos of we upgraded our network to introduce their football skills to the Internet, and 4G/LTE Advanced.” offers the chance to win an all-expenses Head of Communication, Brand and trip to Barcelona to meet the football star Customer Experience Riham Al-Ayyar said: in person. “It gives us great pleasure to be part of a Ooredoo’s operation in Kuwait is the brand that cares about enriching people’s latest to adopt the new brand, joining lives and helping them grow. We pledge to those in Qatar, Algeria, the Maldives, continue on that mission of helping peo- Myanmar, and Tunisia. Following the glob- ple reach their goals and aspirations.” al launch at the GSMA Mobile World Ooredoo in Kuwait will continue com- Congress in February 2013, Ooredoo has mitting itself to supporting life-changing successfully rolled-out the new brand initiatives including the current ‘I Want’ across the Middle East, North Africa, and campaign which will continue to fulfill its Southeast Asia. customer’s wants. Lucky participants from Ooredoo Group officially announced its the women, entrepreneurs and youth new brand name in February 2013 at the communities who submitted their wants GSMA Mobile World Congress in on the new Ooredoo website, were con- Barcelona, Spain. Since then, the new tacted last week and informed that their brand has been adopted by Ooredoo com- wants will be fulfilled by Ooredoo. panies across its footprint, and has Customer’s wants ranged from setting up received international recognition with a a bakery for a lady who runs an Instagram series of awards at major global events. based bakery to a full home makeover for The company won several awards since an Egyptian family, undergoing a career the rebrand and was named “Best Mobile transition. Operator” at the World Communication By adopting the new brand, Ooredoo in Top Ooredoo officials during the VIP event Awards in 2013. SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 BUSINESS

KSE indices witness mixed performance

BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week week recording 2.81 percent annual loss compared to its with mixed performance. The Price Index closed at 7,337.37 closing in 2013, while the weighted index increased by points, up by 0.63 percent from the week before closing, 8.69 percent, and the KSX-15 recorded 12.68 percent the Weighted Index decreased by 0.18 percent after clos- growth. ing at 492.21 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 1,203.86 points down by 0.40 percent. Furthermore, last Sectors’ indices week’s average daily turnover increased by 13.40 percent, Seven of KSE’s sectors ended last week in the green compared to the preceding week, reaching KD 23.97 mil- zone, while the other Five recorded declines. Last week’s lion, whereas trading volume average was 143.06 million highest gainer was the Technology sector, achieving 3.49 shares, recording a decrease of 4.15 percent. percent growth rate as its index closed at 986.84 points. The stock market indicators started the week with Whereas, in the second place, the Insurance sector’s index mixed performance, as the Price Index realized good gains closed at 1,199.91 points recording 2.44 percent increase. due to the purchasing and collection operations that were The Oil & Gas sector came in third as its index achieved performed on a number of small-cap stocks, whilst the 1.59 percent growth, ending the week at 1,222.24 points. Weighted Index and KSX-15 Index declined as a result to On the other hand, the Telecommunications sector the profit collection operations executed on some large- headed the losers list as its index declined by 0.89 percent cap stocks, especially stocks of previous price increases. In to end the week’s activity at 798.45 points. The Health Care addition, all the stock indicators were able to increase in sector was second on the losers’ list, which index declined the next session; the Price Index in particular, which bene- by 0.83 percent, closing at 1,096.10 points, followed by the fited from the continued small-cap stocks’ activity, in and Consumer Services sector, as its index closed at 1,163.76 the random trades witnessed by some blue-chip stocks, points at a loss of 0.80 percent. among an noticeable increase in the activity level, whereas the traded stocks volume grew by 38.87 percent by the Sectors’ activity end of the same session. The Financial services sector dominated total trade vol- Moreover, during the mid week session, the stock mar- ume during last week with 303.19 million shares changing ket performance returned to vary once again, in light of hands, representing 42.39 percent of the total market trad- the steep decline in liquidity levels which dropped by ing volume. The Real Estate sector was second in terms of 41.97 percent, whereas the Price Index recorded limited trading volume as the sector’s traded shares were 26.57 decrease affected by the profit collection operations exe- percent of last week’s total trading volume, with a total of cuted on many stocks of previous gains, while the 190.02 million shares. Weighted and KSX-15 indices were able to realize slight On the other hand, the Banking sector’s stocks were the increases due to the continued purchasing and collection highest traded in terms of value; with a turnover of KD operations on some operational stocks. Furthermore, none 50.71 million or 42.31 percent of last week’s total market of the market indicators succeeded in recording gains by trading value. The Financial services sector took the second the end of the week, as all declined affected by the selling place as the sector’s last week turnover was KD 22.41 mil- pressures that included most of the traded stocks, to end lion represented 18.69 percent of the total market trading the market weekly trading with mixed performance. value. — Prepared by the Studies & Research Department, For the annual performance, the price index ended last Bayan Investment Co.

S&P 500 nearing US stocks soar after ECB stimulus, US jobs data NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks finished at new in which the US economy gained more than Pilgrim’s Pride sharply raised it bid for Hillshire records after a jam-packed week of economic news 200,000 jobs. The jobs data reinforced the sense that Brands to about $7.7 billion, more than the $6.8 bil- the 2K summit that culminated with a solid US jobs report Friday. the US economy continues to make solid, if unspec- lion offered by US rival Tyson Foods for Hillshire. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 207.11 tacular, progress. Hillshire said it would consider both the Pilgrim’s (1.24 percent) to 16,924.28, while the broad-based Scott Wren, senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Pride and Tyson offers, even as it kept alive its own WALL STREET WEEKLY OUTLOOK S&P 500 jumped 25.87 (1.34 percent) to 1,949.44. Advisors, forecasts the US economy will grow by 2.4 acquisition plan, a $6.6 billion buyout of Pinnacle The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tacked on percent in 2014. “That modest growth is pretty Foods. In non-merger news, General Motors NEW YORK: Investors have spent several regain jobs lost in a recession. “The jobs report 78.78 (1.86 percent) to 4,321.40. The Dow and S&P dependable,” he said. “I don’t see a fundamental released an internal investigation into its delayed months deciphering the mixed signals from the was not only strong, but also not too good, so 500 stand at all-time records, while the Nasdaq is at stumble as far as earnings and the broader econo- decision to recall cars following an ignition problem US economy, and yet the S&P 500 has kept the overheating fear is not there yet,” said Jim its highest level since mid-March. my.” linked to at least 13 deaths. GM chief executive Mary moving higher, slowly but surely, putting it just Paulsen, chief investment officer at Wells Capital Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO In corporate news, Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance Barra said the probe concluded there had been no shy of the 2,000 mark. With its Friday close, the Management in Minneapolis. Private Bank, described investor sentiment as “calm, announced it was buying US insurer Protective Life concerted effort to hide the problem for more than S&P would need just a 2.5 percent gain to vault “It suggests we’re headed up to 2,000 (on confident and collected.” Worries about Ukraine that for $5.7 billion, as it seeks to broaden its overseas a decade, instead showing a “deeply troubling” his- the 2K level - something most did not expect the S&P 500) in the next weeks.” As the market preoccupied investors earlier in the spring have giv- business beyond Asia by entering the world’s tory of “incompetence and neglect.” Next week’s cal- during the depths of the Great Recession. has rallied, some, including several members of en way to conviction in stocks following aggressive biggest market for insurance sold to consumers. A endar features a lighter load of data compared with The move has been anything but frantic. The the Federal Reserve, have expressed concern stimulus by the European Central Bank. major acquisition battle in the food industry contin- this week. Major reports include retail sales data for S&P 500 has not made a 1 percent move in a that investors are ignoring risks. The cost to pro- “It seems like geopolitics has taken a back seat to ued to heat up. Brazil-owned US chicken processor May and producer prices for May. — AFP single session in almost two months, and the tect against market declines, measured in the finance and economics,” Ablin said. Highlights in the CBOE Volatility Index, the market’s favored options market, has been steadily falling. Some week included May auto sales that exceeded expec- gauge of anxiety, fell below 11 on Friday, for its would call that complacency, but the lack of tations and a confident appraisal of economic con- lowest close since 2007. “That the market is actual volatility is keeping option prices sub- ditions in the US Federal Reserve’s “Beige Book.” On going up in low volatility is good for investor dued. Realized volatility for the S&P in the last Thursday, stocks barrelled higher following a series sentiment,” said Doug Coté, chief market strate- 10 days has been a bit more than 4 percent, of new measures from the ECB, which lowered all gist at Voya Investment Management in New which theoretically makes the VIX expensive, three of its key interest rates, including putting the York. What’s unclear is whether the market is not cheap. deposit rate into negative territory for the first time, starting to become overvalued. The forward P/E “A lot of people who hedged their bets by meaning banks will be charged for depositing their ratio of the index is now 15.8 and would rise buying volatility, many did it in the 13 and 13.5 excess cash with the central bank. above 16 if the index hits 2,000 and earnings area (on the VIX), so they don’t feel a need to The move signaled that “global liquidity will estimates remain the same. However, Coté said readjust their hedges,” said J J Kinahan, chief remain high” even as the US Federal Reserve scales given current low interest rates, that level would derivatives officer at TD Ameritrade in Chicago. back stimulus, said David Levy, portfolio manager still be low. The round 2,000 print will scare some, while for Kenjol Capital Management. Still, the economy notably contracted in the others will have no option but to buy in as they On Friday, markets again enjoyed strong gains first quarter of this year. As always, hope of a chase performance. Paulsen is expecting a slide after the Labor Department reported that the US takeoff in growth persists among equity man- in stocks in the second half of the year. added a net 217,000 positions in May, about on a agers, boosted on Friday by employment data “But right now people are more con- par with expectations. NEW YORK: A sign for Wall Street on the side of a building near the New York Stock showing the economy finally recouped all the cerned about getting in before it goes up Economists called the report solid and noted Exchange. Stock futures rose yesterday after the government said US employers hired jobs lost during the Great Recession. It took 77 more, rather than waiting for a correction,” he that the May report marks the fourth straight month at a good clip for the fourth month in a row. —AP months to do so, the longest time needed to said. — Reuters SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 BUSINESS Infiniti partners with Arab Luxury World conference

DUBAI: Premium automotive brand Infiniti will be the sole automotive partner for the 2014 Arab Luxury World conference. The two-day con- ference which is organized by Mediaquest Corp brings together high profile individuals from across the lux- ury industry, including manufacturers, retailers, distributors, financial sector players, and fashion designers, in addi- tion to decision makers and con- sumers from the region. As a leading luxury brand in the was Middle East, Infiniti has partnered with Arab Luxury World to provide insights into the region’s luxury sector and provide industry insiders a plat- form to openly discuss and explore business opportunities. Julien Jawari, Co-CEO Mediaquest, said: “The two-day conference by in the luxury sector from the Middle learnings. Infiniti is a great brand to and functions of the luxury automotive annual spend per capita which is larger Mediaquest Corp in Dubai will witness East region and the rest of the world have in partnership with us and we industry. “The Middle East is a very than anywhere else in the world. With an assembly of intellectuals, business- will come together to discuss the look forward to discussing the oppor- important market for Infiniti and as a many of the region’s leading industry people, retailers, designers, manufac- challenges, opportunities, and the tunities and challenges that lie ahead premium brand we are delighted to be players gathered together, this confer- turers, entrepreneurs, industry experts potential of premium and ultra-pre- in the industry.” the sole automotive partner of the ence represents an opportunity for us and high-net-worth individuals - basi- mium goods markets. We forward an Juergen Schmitz, General Manager, Arab Luxury World conference. The to share our vision and how we, as a cally anybody who is somebody of the invitation to luxury brands and ask Infiniti in the Middle East, has been region is a key market for all luxury leading premium brand have grown in business of luxury. Household names them to provide an insight into their asked to lead a session on the practices brands with an exceptionally high the region,” said Schmitz. Growth or value? Fund investors’ choice is clear NEW YORK: The tortoise is running laps slowing. The shift in performance can be around the hare when it comes to investing seen in mutual-fund returns: The average in mutual funds. Investors are embracing large-cap value stock fund has returned 5 stocks, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 percent this year, including dividends. further into record territory. But investors That’s more than double the 2.4 percent are focusing on mutual funds that buy return of large-cap growth stock funds. The cheap or underappreciated stocks, ones disparity is even sharper for smaller stocks: called value funds. Funds that specialize in Mid-cap value stock funds have returned more glamorous, high-growth stocks, 5.1 percent versus 0.5 percent for mid-cap meanwhile, are still getting the snub. A net growth funds. $7.9 billion flowed into domestic value Some of the factors that managers say stock funds through April of this year. Over are driving interest in value stocks include: the same time, investors withdrew $8.2 bil- lion from their growth counterparts, Corners are higher according to Morningstar. The bias toward Last year’s market surge means nearly value stock funds began last year. As all stocks are more expensive relative to recently as 2012, investors were pulling out their earnings than before. The Standard & of both growth and value funds, still Poor’s 500 index trades at 17 times its earn- scarred from the financial crisis. ings per share over the last 12 months, for To be sure, value and growth stock example. That’s up from 13 at the end of funds aren’t the only options available. 2012 and from 8 in early 2009. Broad index funds are even more popular, Many managers say the market doesn’t with many investors choosing to own the yet look frighteningly expensive, but entire market. But when investors have investors are more aware of price-earnings opted for actively managed funds, they’ve ratios. Value stocks in the Russell 3000 clearly gone for value over growth. Stocks index traded at 17 times their earnings at don’t declare themselves in one camp or the end of April. Growth stocks were at 21. the other, instead they’re categorized based on broad guidelines. Value stocks Value stocks are home tend to have slower revenue growth than Value stocks typically steer more of their companies like Amazon.com or Netflix, but profits to paying dividends. In contrast, they also tend to pay dividends and have growth stocks often find it best to plow Lexus GS350 named as best lower stock prices relative to their earnings. their cash back into the business: Spending Many also have strong balance sheets. money to develop new products or expand Think of companies that cater to basic their warehouses helps to generate even premium sporty sedan car needs, like toothbrushes, insurance or elec- more growth. Value stocks in the Russell tricity. “Our style of investing tends to do 3000 had an average dividend yield of 2.3 better in an environment when the stock percent at the end of April, versus 1.6 per- KUWAIT: During the past few years, Lexus to competitors in its segment and price class, vative technology, and an interior with pre- market is going slightly up, sideways or cent for growth stocks. has succeeded in introducing significant the 2014 GS350 received the highest rating mium details. Adore the variety of modern down,” says Tom Kolefas, manager of the Demand for dividend stocks has improvements to its range of luxury models, from Edmunds.comteam.The GS conveys an features in the new GS such as turning head- TIAA-CREF Mid-Cap Value fund (TCMVX). It increased as investors look for alternatives which enabled it to reap the many awards enhanced sense of confidence to the driver, lights, nicer leather and fine stitching, fur- tends to lag growth stocks when there’s “a to bonds, which offer relatively low yields. and accolades. In this context the 2014 Lexus with a redesigned chassis and a wide, strong ther-adjustable front seats, 17-speaker stereo jack-rabbit market that’s very powerful, like This should be a long-lasting trend, says GS350 was named among Edmunds.com’s stance that rewards driver participation with with a front display 12.3-inch screen. last year.” John Manley, chief equity strategist at Wells “Top Rated Vehicles for 2014”. crisp and precise handling. Standard safety features include 10 air bags, Last year, growth stocks in the Russell Fargo Funds Management. With the Baby A team at Edmund’s instrumented testing The stylish premium sporty Lexus GS350 is front, side, curtain and knee airbags, as well 3000 index surged 34.2 percent, including Boom generation reaching retirement age, of every car in the mid-sized premium sedan powerfully packed with V6 3.5l engine to as stability control, ABS with EBD and brake- dividends. That topped the 32.7 percent a bigger percentage of the population will segment through specially made standard- generate 312 horsepower and 38.3 kg-m assist, whereas the advanced safety features return of value stocks in the index, and it be looking for investment income. ized road-test loop in controlled conditions torque. Relish the overwhelming driving consists of radar cruise control, adaptive vari- was the fourth time in five years that One challenge for value investors is that to assess the car’s ability to deal with differ- experience from the 6 speed tiptronic trans- able suspension, heads-up display, pre-crash growth stocks beat value. Part of the allure the stock market’s surge has made cheap ent driving conditions. The results were used mission with 4 drive modes - eco, normal, safety system, and lane-change assist. The was the short supply of companies deliver- stocks tougher to find. But managers say to assess the potential of each car in compar- sport, sport+. The Lexus GS350 combines GS350 is even more athletic when equipped ing strong growth in a tepid global recov- it’s not impossible. When the market looks ison with the direct competition. Compared bold, dynamic styling, precise handling, inno- with an optional F Sport package. ery. The world’s economy grew 3 percent too risky, John Osterweis says he sells last year, its weakest performance since the stocks and bides his time in cash. That’s recession, according to the International what he did with his $1.2 billion Osterweis Monetary Fund. That made it tough for fund (OSTFX) in 2008, when half the fund at Coeure: Rates to most companies to boost their sales signifi- one point was in cash. cantly. Amazon.com’s revenue rose 22 per- But today, cash makes up just 6 percent diverge from UK, cent last year, and its stock surged 59 per- of the fund. Osterweis looks for cheap val- cent. But in March, the Internet retailer’s ue stocks that he believes will morph into US for years stock fell with other growth stocks as wor- growth stocks, and he says he’s still finding ries mounted that their momentum was opportunities. —AP PARIS: Euro-zone interest rates will diverge from those in the United States and Britain for a number of years, European Central Bank (ECB) Executive US job market recovers Board member Benoit Coeure told France Inter radio yesterday. losses yet appears weaker Speaking after the ECB this week cut rates to record lows, Coeure said they would remain around WASHINGTON: The US economy has final- said. “It is unlikely in the manufacturing that level for a long time, whereas central banks in ly regained the jobs lost to the Great sector that we recover much of the losses.” the United States and UK would at some point raise Recession. But go easy on the hallelujahs. Government payrolls have shrunk, tak- rates. “Clearly what we wanted to indicate on The comeback is far from complete. Friday’s ing middle class pay with them. Local Thursday is the fact that monetary conditions will report from the government revealed an school districts have 255,400 fewer diverge between the euro zone on one hand and economy healing yet marked by deep and employees. The US Postal Service has shed the United States and the United Kingdom on the lasting scars. The downturn that began 194,700 employees. other for a long period, which will be several years,” 61/2 years ago accelerated wrenching And during the economic recovery, he said. changes that have left many Americans more people have left the job market than “We are going to keep rates close to zero for an feeling worse off than they did the last time entered it. Just 58.9 percent of working-age Gap to be 1st US retailer extremely long period, whereas the United States the economy had roughly the same num- Americans have jobs, down from 62.7 per- and the United Kingdom will at some point return ber of jobs it does now. cent at the start of the recession. Some of to enter Myanmar market to a cycle of rate rises.” Employers added 217,000 workers in that decline comes from an aging country Coeure said this should help to weaken the May, more than enough to surpass the in which more people are retiring. But the YANGON: Gap Inc has announced plans to Wilma Wallace, a Gap vice president, said at strong euro, which is threatening economic recov- 138.4 million jobs that existed when the share of working adults among the overall ery and importing disinflation. French President recession began in December 2007. But population is “still bouncing around at the produce clothing in Myanmar, the first a ceremony attended by the US ambassa- American retailer to enter the market since dor. “By entering Myanmar, we hope to Francois Hollande has been calling for months for even as the unemployment rate has bottom where it was during the worst of ECB action to weaken the currency. The ECB on slipped to 6.3 percent from 10 percent at the recession” - evidence that meaningful the Southeast Asian country began its tran- help accelerate economic and social sition to democracy three years ago. growth in the country, and build on our Thursday lowered its main refinancing rate to 0.15 the depth of the recession, the economy wage gains across the economy are unlike- percent and launched a series of measures to still lacks its former firepower. ly, O’Keefe said. Two factories in the commercial capital, track record of improving working condi- Yangon, are reportedly producing vests tions and building local capacity in gar- pump money into the sluggish economy, pledging To many economists, the job figures are The recovery hasn’t kept up with the to do more if needed to fight off the risk of Japan- both proof of the sustained recovery and expanding U.S. population. Researchers at and jackets for the company’s Old Navy ment factories around the world.” and Banana Republic brands. They will be Gap - which will produce its garments at like deflation. evidence of a painful transformation in the liberal Economic Policy Institute esti- The Bank of England this week left its bench- how Americans earn a living. “The labor mate that 7 million more jobs would have ready for sale in the US by this summer, factories owned by a South Korean compa- mark interest rate at 0.5 percent - where it has sat market recovery has been disappointing,” been needed to keep up with population according to a statement released Saturday ny - told The Myanmar Times that the plant since the worst of the financial crisis more than five said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at growth. The pain has been concentrated by the US Embassy. would produce vests and jackets for Old years ago - despite a strong recovery and fast-rising PNC Financial Services. “Even with the new largely among lower- and middle-income While Asian nations have long had a Navy and Banana Republic. house prices. Forecasts from the Bank published in peak, there is still a great deal of slack.” workers, according to an analysis by the strong presence in Myanmar, it’s only in the The size of the investment was not There are still 1.49 million construction jobs institute. last few years that companies from North announced, but the English-language May showed gradual interest rate rises starting in missing. Factories have 1.65 million fewer For the bottom 30 percent of earners, America and Europe have started return- newspaper said it had agreed to hire an about a year’s time would be consistent with its 2 workers. Many of these jobs have been per- wages, when adjusted for inflation, have ing, thanks to the easing of sanctions additional 700 employees at one of the fac- percent inflation target. Martin Weale, the manently replaced by new technologies: fallen over the past 14 years. For the next imposed on the country during its half-cen- tories, bringing the total number of work- Monetary Policy Committee member most likely to robots, software and advanced equipment 40 percent of earners, pay basically flat- tury of military rule. There are plenty of ers to around 2,000 at each site. cast a first vote for a rate hike, said recently that that speeds productivity and requires less lined. Most US workers are “running up the obstacles in Myanmar, including electricity Gap said in a statement that it was borrowing costs should go up sooner rather than manpower, said Patrick O’Keefe, director of down escalator,” said Larry Mishel, the insti- shortages and poor roads. But a cheap and working with US Agency for International later. The US Federal Reserve, meanwhile, is not economic research for the advisory and tute’s president. Median household income abundant - though poorly trained - labor Development, CARE International and its expected to raise rates until July 2015, based on consulting firm CohnReznick. is $52,959, which, after inflation, is $3,303 force makes the country especially attrac- PACE program to launch activities focused CME FedWatch, which tracks rate hike expectations “When heavy things need to be moved, below its pre-recession level, according to tive to retailers. on technical and skills training for female using its Fed funds futures contracts. —Reuters we now have machines to do it,” O’Keefe Sentier Research.—AP “This is a historic moment for Myanmar,” workers. —AP BUSINESS SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

Porsche Centre Kuwait announces arrival of the iconic 911 Targa

KUWAIT: The latest generation of the elegant 911 Targa has able roof section above the front seats and a wraparound rear axle which have each been widened by an additional arrived at Porsche Centre Kuwait, Behbehani Motors rear window with no C-pillar. But unlike the classic models, 22 mm, with rear tyres that are each 10 mm wider. Company, with the legendary model boasting the classic the roof segment on the new models can be opened and The drivetrain concept reflects the core traits of the new Targa concept with highly advanced roof technology. The closed at the push of a button in just 19 seconds, as the fully 911 Targa 4 models: sportiness, safety and comfort. The introduction of the modern classic in Kuwait marks the con- automatic roof system stows the convertible top behind the power from the flat-six engines is transmitted by a standard tinued progression of the Porsche 911 family, as the new 911 rear seats, providing a real spectacle. seven-speed manual transmission. An automatic seven- Targa 4 and 4S models join the brand’s iconic product line-up. The rear-weighted design of the Porsche Traction speed dual-clutch transmission (PDK) is available as an The new 911 Targa sees the timeless design of the origi- Management all-wheel drive fitted as standard is a typical option. nal model from 1965 and the contemporary sportiness of Porsche feature and can be identified by the arches of the As with its predecessors, the new Targa generation the seventh 911 generation fused together in perfect syner- comes in two versions available exclusively with all-wheel gy. The return to the original concept, with its characteristic drive. The 911 Targa 4 is powered by a 3.4-litre, 350 hp flat fixed Targa bar, breathes new life into the legend with its engine. When equipped with the Porsche Doppelkupplung state-of-the-art roof technology. (PDK) and Sport Chrono package, this model accelerates Mike Ellenthorpe, Group General Manager of Porsche from zero to 100 km/h in just 4.8 seconds and boasts a top Centre Kuwait, said: “The 911 is a sports car which has won speed of 282 km/h. more races than any other and, in this latest evolution, I The top model is the 911 Targa 4S, which delivers 400 hp believe it has never looked more spectacular. In the 911 from a displacement of 3.8 litres. This model reaches a top Targa, we see the ultimate in driving dynamics come togeth- speed of 296 km/h and, when equipped with the PDK and er with stunning design and the very latest in ground-break- Sport Chrono package, accelerates in just 4.4 seconds. ing roof technology. The car’s arrival here in Kuwait signifies Equipped with direct fuel injection, both engines are a new chapter in the legendary model’s evolution and I am sporty high revving units and excel with exemplary fuel incredibly proud and excited to welcome it.” economy. To increase efficiency, they feature electrical sys- Just like the original model, the new 911 Targa features tem recuperation, map-controlled thermal management of the characteristic wide bar in place of the B-pillars, a mov- the engine coolant and an auto stop/start function.

Moody’s upgrades Gulf Bank’s Burgan Bank celebrates rating to Baa1 from Baa2 Philippines National Day KUWAIT: Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s leading The ratings were based on Gulf Bank’s 2013 positive financial international credit rating agencies, has reported that Gulf Bank’s results, which were announced during the Bank’s annual general successful turnaround sets the stage for more balanced growth meeting held in March 2014. KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday rental and a free night in over 230 participant and is well positioned to take advantage of lending opportuni- Throughout the report, Moody’s also acknowledged the that it is offering the prepaid Peso X-change hotels around the world through Starwood Hotel ties in Kuwait. heavy investment Gulf Bank has made in upgrading its risk man- card for free, In celebration of the Philippines & Resorts, and there is no need to be a Burgan This came after their rating assessment in May 2014, where agement systems and practices, sharpening the Bank’s loan National Day. Bank customer to apply for the card. Moody’s affirmed the Positive Outlook for Gulf Bank and upgrad- selection and origination methods. Moody’s affirmation of the This offer is valid until 12 June 2014 for To find out more about Burgan Bank’s new ed overall rating to Baa1 from Baa2. Moody’s also highlighted in Bank’s Overall Rating and Positive Outlook indicates the agen- Burgan Bank customers and non-customers. offers for the X-Change cards or any of its products its comments that the rating reflects the bank’s “Solid revenue cies confidence in the Bank’s overall strategy and execution abili- The card offers a number of exclusive benefits and services, customers can visit any of the bank’s generating capacity, Risk Management systems and practices ty and the competency of its management team. Gulf Bank will as it retains the exchange rate value in which it branches or contact the call center on 1804080. that are better than those of peers, and comfortable liquidity”. continue to follow this successful strategy. was purchased, it also offers interesting discounts For more information, customers can also log onto at various outlets such as; MyUs.com, Hertz car the bank’s website on www.burgan.com. Markaz wins Euromoney’s ‘Best Gulf Bank announces winners Investment Bank in of Al-Danah daily draws Kuwait’ Award KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al-Danah daily draws on June would reduce chances of winning. KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre ‘Markaz’ was awarded the June 1st, 2014, announcing the names of its winners Al-Danah allows customers to win cash prizes and Euromoney’s “Best Investment Bank in Kuwait” prize for the sec- for the week of May 25th to May 28th. The Al-Danah simultaneously encourages them to save. Each ond consecutive year. Euromoney’s 2014 Award for Excellence daily draws include draws each working day for two KD100 gives the customer 1 chance daily which recognizes Markaz based on demonstrated breadth of capabilities prizes of KD1000 per winner. accumulates day by day. The more money saved and and excellence in execution of client mandates across debt mar- the longer it is in the account, the more chances indi- ket transactions, equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, The winners are: viduals stand to win. Every Al-Danah prize draws will and advisory work. The final decision is based on a rigorous (Sunday 25/05): Janetkool Alamkool, Abdullah automatically be deposited into the winner’s account process culminating in review by Euromoney team of editors, Ahmad Eissa Al-Oun within two working days. journalists and researchers. Commenting on this occasion, Rasha (Monday 26/05): Mohammed Yousef Abdullah Al-Danah also offers a number of unique services Othman, Vice President - Fixed Income and Capital Markets at Al-Abdulhadi, Narjas Abdulkarim Abdulrahim including the Al-Danah Deposit Only ATM card which Markaz, said: “It is an honor to receive Euromoney’s prestigious (Tuesday 27/05): Salem Dhedan Sameer Al- helps account holders deposit their money at their award for the second year in a row. Such an achievement reaf- Shammari, Shatha Sabeeh Mansour convenience; as well as the Al-Danah calculator to firms our leadership in Kuwait’s capital markets and our commit- (Wednesday 28/05):Fatema Mohammad Saleh help customers calculate their chances of becoming ment to create sustainable value for our clients.” Hassam, Nazarul Islam Noor Al-Alam an Al-Danah winner. Othman explained: “The award is the result of the industry’s Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah 2014 draw lineup includes Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah account is open to Kuwaitis recognition of 12 highly successful transactions completed over daily draws (2 winners per working day each receive and all residents of Kuwait. Customers who open an the past year across a wide number of activities, including capital KD1000). Al-Danah’s 2nd Quarterly draw for 2014 will account and/ or deposit more will enter the draw raising, equity listing, debt restructuring, offset advisory, valuation be held in June (KD250,000, KD125,000, and within two days. To be part of the Al-Danah draws, and strategy. We are very excited about opportunities going for- ward and we have entered 2014 with a very strong transaction KD25,000). Gulf Bank advises all its Al-Danah cus- customers can visit one of Gulf Bank’s 58 branches, pipeline.” Kuwait Financial Centre KPSC “Markaz”, established in tomers to keep their money saved in their accounts transfer on line, or call the Customer Contact Center 1974, is one of the leading asset management and investment to enhance their chances of winning one of the on 1805805 for assistance and guidance. Customers banking institutions in the Arabian Gulf Region with total assets major cash prizes of KD25,000, KD125,000 and can also log on to www.e-gulfbank.com/aldanahwin- under management of over KD 1 billion as of March 31st, 2014 Rasha Othman, Markaz Vice President — Fixed Income & KD250,000 in the second Al-Danah quarterly prize ners, to find out more about Al-Danah and who the ($3.6 million). Markaz was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange Capital Markets and Sohail Ladha, Markaz Vice President ñ draw for 2014. Any withdrawal before the draw in winners are. (KSE) in 1997. Advisory. technology SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 Spy agency uncovers sense of humor in debut tweet

WASHINGTON: For a spy agency that likes to years, some caution was in order. CIA World Factbook.” to the US “Now tweeple (sic) have a chance to fol- blend into the background, the CIA’s debut on The agency quickly confirmed in a news release It also said it would release “updates on CIA low @CIA.” Twitter has revealed a covert sense of humor. In a that it had, in fact, established a presence on both career postings and get the latest glimpse into Some were not sure it was a good day for social medium heralded for its snide remarks, the Twitter and Facebook.The CIA got its @CIA handle CIA’s Museum,” which is at the agency’s headquar- media. “People say Facebook got lame once your Twittersphere gave high praise Friday for the intelli- after filing a complaint with Twitter to wrest control ters in suburban Washington and not regularly grandmother joined. don’t know what to think gence agency’s first tweet, under the handle @CIA. from someone who was using it to impersonate open to the public. about @CIA joining Twitter,” tweeted electronic pri- “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is the agency, said CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz. The By Friday afternoon, @CIA was following only 25 vacy activist Parker Higgins (@xor). A torrent of our first tweet,” posted @CIA. Within an hour it had agency’s tagline: “We are the nation’s first line of Twitter accounts, prompting jokes about how the political commentary followed, such as a mock CIA gained more than 67,000 followers. defense. We accomplish what others cannot spy agency actually follows far more people tweet from journalist Hayes Brown At first, that raised a question: Was this really the accomplish and go where others cannot go.”On around the world. (?@HayesBrown): “Remember that time Teddy Central Intelligence Agency? Since any number of both accounts, the CIA promised “photos, reflec- “The CIA has followed people for years,” tweeted Roosevelt’s grandson helped us launch a coup in fake CIA twitter accounts have sprung up over the tions on intelligence history, and fun facts from the Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador Iran?” Better get used to it, @CIA. — AP

EMC shares redefined vision at CIO Connect Summit 2014

DUBAI: EMC announced the opening of the Intelligence Unit in December 2013 and com- EMC CIO Connect Summit 2014 for Turkey, missioned by EMC that assessed the emer- Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. gence of CIOs as strategic leaders as both the Taking place at the Grand Tarabya Hotel in business environment and technology con- Istanbul, Turkey on the 4th and the 5th of tinue to change. The survey titled “A blended June, the event brings together senior execu- future: The changing mix of IT service delivery tives from EMC together with IT leaders from and consumption” found that both CIOs and the finance, telecommunications and public business executives agree that they need to sector industries to discuss how IT can be collaborate more closely to ensure they deliv- redefined to better support business needs er greater business value from technology and create greater enterprise value. deployments. The event comes as EMC continues to The survey highlighted keys trends that emphasize the need to re-envision IT models are driving enterprises towards a blended and practices to focus on delivering greater future that combines a mix of internal IT with returns to the business and enhancing busi- external brokered IT services and reported a ness performance with the powerful combi- significant transformation in the role of the nation of IT Transformation, Big Data and IT CIO from one focused on maintenance and Trust. support to one of strategic direction and Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President, innovation: Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle • More than 50% of participants believe East at EMC Corporation opened the event that CIO responsibilities for security, risk with a presentation highlighting the impact and compliance management will of the converging trends of social, mobile, big increase substantially over the next three data and cloud on enterprises today, that cre- years. ates a greater need for IT organizations to • 25% of respondents expect significant rethink their approach to engaging with the expansion of CIOs’ roles for information business and service delivery. management and analytics The presentation shed light on EMC’s • 23% of respondents say that CIOs would vision for the Software Defined Enterprise to continue to be of strategic importance create “agile” business environments apt for a within IT services management rapidly changing business and technology The EMC CIO Connect Summit 2014 fea- environment. The keynote also focused on tured a series of insightful panel discussions the strategic change in the role of IT from and collaborative breakout sessions aimed at being a mere service and support center to a CIOs to leverage technologies like cloud, value driven role as enterprises continue to software defined data centers and big data to LONDON: People walk past a Vodafone shop in London, on June 6. Vodafone, one of the world’s largest cellphone companies, revealed the look for means to ‘do more with less’. redefine business processes, drive competi- scope of government snooping into phone networks Friday, saying authorities in some countries are able to directly access an operator’s net- At the summit, EMC released the findings tive differentiation and performance work without seeking permission. The company outlined the details in a report that is described as the first of its kind, covering 29 countries in of a survey conducted by The Economist enhancements. which it directly operates. — AP Cellphone operator wades into surveillance debate

NEW YORK: Wireless carrier Vodafone Group PLC is Wire tapping “For governments to access phone calls at the performing a tricky balancing maneuver by pub- But in developing countries like Congo, Ghana flick of a switch is unprecedented and terrifying,” lishing a report on government surveillance of its and Lesotho, Vodafone doesn’t have the capability said Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human subscribers in 29 countries - a release that reveals to support wiretapping, since governments rights group Liberty, adding that the Snowden more than first meets the eye. haven’t requested it. revelations showed the Internet was already being In the report published Friday, Vodafone, which By making its report public, together with a dis- treated as “fair game.” has unparalleled global reach for a cellphone com- closure of requests for information, Vodafone is “Bluster that all is well is wearing pretty thin - pany, said six countries have demanded direct entering the international debate about balancing our analog laws need a digital overhaul,” she said. access to its network. That cuts Vodafone’s employ- the rights of privacy against security. Rather than Civil liberties advocates weren’t the only ones ees out of the surveillance process, removing one being stuck with responsibility and backlash when applauding Vodafone’s actions. Norway’s Telenor of the hurdles that can curb government over- citizens realize their data has been scooped up Group, which also has operations across Eastern reach. without their knowledge, Vodafone decided it was Europe and Asia, offered support, noting govern- Vodafone would not say which countries have time to push for a debate. ments have the ultimate responsibility to act. established these direct links. But in an exhaustive- Vodafone’s report comes one year after former In the US, Snowden’s revelations focused par- ly researched appendix to the report, the UK-based NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden revealed ticular attention on the role of Western technology company sheds light on the legal frameworks that that US and other countries’ intelligence agencies and telecommunications firms, which stand surround government interception in the 29 coun- indiscriminately gather and store huge amounts of accused of facilitating the mass surveillance by tries. The appendix reveals that six countries - data from phone calls and Internet communica- giving spies unrestricted access to their networks. Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President at EMC Corporation. Albania, Egypt, Hungary, Ireland, Qatar and Turkey - tions. Several Silicon Valley companies have since have provisions that allow authorities to request “Companies are recognizing they have a attempted to restore consumers’ trust by publish- unfettered access. responsibility to disclose government access,” ing data on government surveillance. In two other countries, India and the UK, legal Daniel Castro, senior analyst for the Information The study comes at a time when other busi- provisions are unclear as to whether government Technology and Innovation Foundation in nesses are calling for a revamp of laws too outdat- Sony back at top of console officials are allowed to have direct access, accord- Washington. “This is new.” ed to stand up to the quickly changing telecom- ing to the report. The report is remarkable not so munications universe. sales after eight years much for what it reveals about the extent of law Applauded Executives in Silicon Valley, for example, have enforcement and intelligence agency surveillance, Vodafone’s report is also seen by some as an stepped up pressure on President Barack Obama TOKYO: Sony have topped worldwide including the portable PlayStation Vita, still but for the comparisons it enables across countries. effort to turn the page on the company’s embar- to curb the US government surveillance programs sales of video game consoles for the first fell some 20 percent for the fiscal year, the The report also highlights six countries for which rassing role in the protests that toppled Egyptian that collect information off the Internet. Twitter time in eight years, a newspaper reported report said. Nintendo’s console sales slid 31 Vodafone was unable to disclose any statistics on strongman Hosni Mubarak in 2011. As the protests Inc., LinkedIn Corp., AOL Inc., Google Inc., Apple Saturday, pipping struggling rival Nintendo percent as the portable Nintendo 3DS sys- warrants from the government or other requests: raged, the government forced Vodafone to bom- Inc., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. and signalling the Playstation manufactur- tem failed to entice gamers while the new Romania, Qatar, Egypt, India, South Africa and bard its Egyptian subscribers with propaganda are pushing for tighter controls over electronic er’s comeback. Wii U also fared poorly, it added. Turkey. text messages. The company said it had no choice espionage - fearing that eavesdropping threatens Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) Sony last topped the console sales list in By contrast, Vodafone’s report is almost super- but to comply, but was severely criticized for its the technology industry’s financial livelihood. sold 18.7 million PlayStation 4 (PS4) sys- March 2006 but sales of the PS3 came in fluous for some Western European countries, like actions. “They want their customers to be able to trust tems and other game consoles for the fis- below expectations and struggled against Germany, where the government already publishes “They took a hard lesson there,” said Cynthia them to store their data in a private and secure cal year to March, the Nikkei business daily Nintendo’s Wii and DS series. statistics on how many requests it sends phone Wong, a senior internet researcher at Human manner,” Castro said. The countries included in the said, to Nintendo’s 16.31 million units. Nikkei said Sony was expected to stay at companies. Rights Watch. “Even if the government is the ulti- report are: Albania, Australia, Belgium, the Czech The release of the PS4 in the United number one for the rest of the year as Wiretapping of phones and accessing of call mate problem, they realized they needed to take Republic, Congo, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, States and other markets in November pro- Nintendo has few noteworthy releases records for law-enforcement purposes is a steps to mitigate harm to their users.” Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, pelled Sony’s fortunes after a disappoint- planned. Microsoft’s sales rose 16 percent decades-old and accepted practice even in the Civil liberties advocates applauded Vodafone Kenya, Lesotho, Malta, Mozambique, the ing response to the console’s predecessor, to 11.6 million thanks to the rollout of the most open democracies. With backing from courts, for releasing the report and cracking open the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Qatar, the PS3. Almost seven million PS4’s were popular Xbox One towards the end of police can request cooperation from phone com- debate, even as they expressed alarm at the Romania, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Turkey and sold, but Sony’s overall sales of hardware, 2013, the report added. — AFP panies to access communications. infringements into civil liberties. the UK. — AP Wood-themed tech gifts for dads

ATLANTA: Dads try to stay handsome, and their Grovemade iPhone case from Fender offers dad everything he’ll need to rock technology should, too. Items that have a blend One way to class up your dad’s mobile gear is to out those acoustic MC5 proto-punk covers he’s been of technology and wood can look more exquisite encase it in something slim, not bulky. Dads like to covertly working on. Kramer was the lead guitarist than plastic or metal when included in the con- ruggedize everything in huge, obtuse rubbery cases. for the 1960s band MC5, and his stamp of approval struction correctly. I found three noteworthy A better-looking alternative are some iPhone cases on this guitar is a nod to discerning rocker dads. The products sure to complete dad’s stylish ensemble handcrafted from Oregon black walnut. guitar has a spruce top with a vintage sunburst tone of personal technology: If dad is rocking an iPhone 5 or 5s, he may like the and mahogany on the back and sides. full case for $99. The sides and the back of the two- There’s some very polished technology involved Grain Audio Packable Wireless System piece slide-on case are made of hand-finished wal- with this guitar as well. Built into the guitar is a Bluetooth speakers are readily available these nut.If he wants something light for an iPhone 5c, he Fishman Isys III System preamp, as well as an days in various shapes and colors. But many of can opt for the less-expensive walnut bumper, at onboard tuner. It’s really nice to be able to quickly them are shaped oddly and made of plastic. This $39. It offers protection around the edges of the tune all six strings with the onboard electronics, speaker from Grain Audio bucks the trend and phone. Both cases allow access to all the buttons, instead of having to tote along separate tuning opts for a walnut wood finish on the majority of ports and camera lenses on the phones. Consider gear in a gig bag. The unplugged sound is bright its exterior. The grain pattern of the wood is this a needed upgrade from dad’s current Day-Glo and lively. The guitar comes off as an easy player for attractive and blends nicely with the grey rubber “Go ‘Niners!” cellphone case. Sorry, but the company intermediate pickers like me. Plug it in to an amp, edging that surrounds the speaker’s metal grill. doesn’t make these cases for Android phones, which and it just flat out jams, blending crisp high notes My tablets and phones synced easily after hold- come in an assortment of shapes and sizes. and chunky power chord strums nicely. Dad will ing down the “G” button on the top for five sec- have himself a true performance-ready instrument onds. The sound is among the best you’ll find in a Fender Wayne Kramer “Royal Tone” CE guitar should he choose to hit a local open-mic night. This Bluetooth speaker at this size and price. It easily Nothing displays the beauty of wood as exquis- guitar is a good deal, at $549, given the advanced handled some of my bass-heavy electronic dance itely as a well-built dreadnought guitar. electronics, top-shelf woods and attention to DECATUR: This June 1, 2014 photo shows walnut wood iPhone cases from Portland, playlists. This Wayne Kramer “Royal Tone” Dreadnought CE design detail. — AP Oregon-based Grovemade, in Decatur, Georgia. — AP HEALTH & SCIENCE SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 Patient Safety: The delivery of health care as a science

KUWAIT: Dr Nancy Varghese Thomas is a 4. Can you describe a scenario and how risk their jobs by reporting on errors. dentist and a healthcare management pro- was it dealt with? Therefore, the first step towards patient safe- fessional. She did her masters with two A simple scenario could be: the health ty culture is to have the support of leaders or majors in public administration and health- care provider prescribes a drug, while the management, while having an ideal situa- care management from US. She also has pharmacist dispenses the drug to the bed- tion to develop a culture of learning from CPHQ certification offered by NAHQ and vari- side caregiver to administer the drug. Clearly mistakes, encourage being transparent to ous certifications from other healthcare this is a complex system for a single medica- speak up, be non-punitive and empower the organizations. She has a passion for patient tion dose, as errors can occur at any given employees. safety and quality, one of the founder mem- time. To make it more specific an error could For instance, if the system follows a puni- bers of the ASPPS (The American Society of be due to illegible handwriting while the tive culture, then the employee would be Professional in Patient Safety) and also asso- pharmacist dispenses the wrong drug or the reluctant to open up with their mistakes. An SAO PAULO: Undated handout picture showing a paraplegic patient (R) wearing ciate member to many other healthcare pro- verbal communication misinterpreted, the example would be needle pricks (to prick an interface helmet being prepared for a test at Brazilian scientist Miguel fessional organizations. She has worked with drug itself could create an allergic reaction oneself by accident) among nurses is quite Nicolelis’ lab in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A group of almost 40 people led by neuroscien- the pioneers in the field of patient safety and in the worse come scenario the patient common during loading or discarding a tist and professor at Duke University Miguel Nicolelis are working in Sao Paulo while being at Harvard. She has been dies. This is just to make an understanding of syringe. In this case these repeated mistakes in the final phase of the “Walk Again” project which will allow patients affected involved with various organizations in Kuwait the ways to complicate it by one mistake go unaccounted for but instead if they were by paraplegia to walk with the assistance of a high-technology exoskeleton and is currently a patient safety and quality which can lead to a major disaster. This is one encouraged to report an error without any named BRA-Santos Dumond. — AFP improvement consultant and a speaker. She of the probable medical error. While most fear then the likeliness to evaluate, educate has to her credit implemented customized commonly occurring adverse event in the and eradicate a common error would be safety surgical protocols that has been health care are medication errors and the possible. approved and have been listed by WHO, needle stick injury. MERS virus spread from which are now followed in certain hospital. As we probe deeper into the medical 8. Has technology helped in minimiz- She has a keen interest in teaching as well errors, we find that most of the time the rea- ing errors for patient safety? camel to person: Study as doing further research in this field. She son would be very simple and preventable. If Technology is indeed a blessing to health- conducts workshops in order to educate the we have to ensure reliable practices in health care industry in many ways. The relation NEW YORK: A new report offers the strongest flu-like fever and cough but can lead to short- healthcare providers and implementation of care we need to simplify the number and between the patient safety and technology evidence yet that a mysterious Middle East virus ness of breath, pneumonia and death. Since it strategic plans. complexity of the steps in the care we deliv- is through the role of electronic health spreads from camels to people. Researchers first appeared two years ago, roughly 800 ill- Healthcare is A....System made up of thou- er. A stable process in health care typically is records and other devices used for deliver- studied the illness of a 44-year-old camel owner nesses have been reported to international sands of inter-linked processes.... things can 40% to 70% reliable. Other high risk, complex ing the care. in Saudi Arabia, who died in November of health agencies, including about 300 deaths. go wrong!! industries strive for 99% and higher. Health In health care, this would refer to the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS. Most cases have been in Saudi Arabia and “To Err is human and is inevitable but care needs a range of strategies to improve practical and applied methods that facilitate Through repeated tests, they were able to neighboring nations. Those outside the region - most errors are preventable”. the delivery of care for patients, families, and show: the man and one camel were infected including two in the United States - have been We humans like to showcase our achieve- providers. with the same virus; the camel got it first; and mostly people who had traveled from the ments but would we be courageous to proj- An electronic health record (EHR) is a real- the man got sick after putting medicine on the Middle East. ect our errors in public? Would our con- time, point-of-care, patient-centric informa- animal’s runny nose. Still unknown is how often camel-to-human science help us to think that by sharing our tion resource for clinicians1 that represents a The virus had previously been detected in spread occurs and whether other animals or mistakes we are helping others not to com- major domain of health information technol- camels, and officials believe it had spread from environmental sources could be transmitting mit the same? If we all shared our errors, ogy (HIT). More recently, an EHR has been camels to people in some MERS cases, though the virus. Health care workers and family mem- would we be in safe hands today? Have we defined as “a longitudinal electronic record clear proof of that was lacking. “Earlier work had bers have gotten it after close contact with overlooked our errors and accepted the mis- of patient health information, produced by different pieces of the puzzle that made this MERS patients. takes to be a part of our daily lives? How encounters in one or more care settings.” It story likely. But in this small episode, all the The new report details the case of a man pieces came together” to offer definitive evi- who owned nine camels and kept them in a many times in our lives have we been close includes patient information such as a prob- dence, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious barn in southwest Saudi Arabia. In October, lem list, orders, medication, vital signs, past to a near miss due to an erroneous system? disease expert at Vanderbilt University in four of his animals got sick. A week later, he Even if one discloses his errors, would he be medical history, notes, laboratory results, Nashville. The new study was published online developed flu-like symptoms. He was hospital- judged as incompetent or would his experi- and radiology reports, among other things. Wednesday by the New England Journal of ized in the city of Jeddah in early November, ence be taken as a learning curve for The EHR generates a complete record of a Medicine. and died there two weeks later. The camels improvement? clinical patient encounter or episode of care MERS is a respiratory illness that begins with recovered. — AP and underpins care-related activities such as 1. What is patient safety? decision making, quality management, and There is a science of health care delivery clinical reporting. Some distinguish between which engulfs these kinds of thought the terms EHR and electronic medical record processes and it is called the Patient Safety (EMR), with EMR focusing on ambulatory and Quality Improvement. care systems. However, in practice, the terms In the early days it was called Quality are interchangeable. Assurance. With time it came to be known as Technology in the acute and critical care patient safety and quality improvement, settings are bedside monitors, computerized where patient safety is the scientific provider order entry (CPOE), Bar code med- approach to keep the patient safer and quali- ication administration system (BCMA), wrist- ty improvement is the ways or means to bands, mechanical ventilators, dialysis attain the goals. machines, point-of-care testing, infusion Initially, the two parts, safety and quality, pumps, ventricular assist devices, and com- used to be clubbed together. However, since puterized information systems. Most of them two years, Patient Safety has had its own cer- are clinically oriented but a few are worth tificate examinations. Dr Nancy Thomas mentioning. A Simple definition of Patient safety is CPOE helps medication and provider freedom from accidental injury due to med- reliability. There is a quality improvement order safety by using software to make ical care or medical errors by Institute of process called Root Cause Analysis (RCA) provider orders legible and the use of stan- medicine (IOM), 2000 which is generally carried out on the adverse dardized treatment plan. events occurred to further improve the Wristbands must be used for all patients 2. Why did patient safety evolve? process. and in maternity wards for both the mother In 1999, an IOM report “To Err is Human: and the baby so that switching or abduc- HULU LANGAT: This picture taken on June 5 shows a visitor dipping his face inside a Building a Safer Health System” caused an 5. What are the measures taken by the tions of babies can be prevented. Whether in pail with hot spring water in Hulu Langat, near Kuala Lumpur. A hot spring is a pool awakening in the health field which states healthcare organization to ensure that an NICU or in a nursery, it is next to impossi- of hot water produced from the reaction of sulfur in the soil and provides benefits that a staggering estimation of 98,000 errors are negligible? ble without the wristband matching. This is for some individuals suffering from skin diseases to physical disability. — AFP patients died annually from medical mis- Every hospital can follow their own well why these days it is highly unlikely to hear of takes; this shook the U.S. healthcare system defined policy and procedures, protocols or such stories where the mother was handed even though it was based on studies done up systems but to ensure that standards are the wrong baby on discharge from the hos- LA jails lacking mental to a decade earlier. This in turn was the key met, it is better to go through a volunteer pital. eye opener in pushing experts to take this process of accreditation. That is where the aspect of medicine more seriously and has accreditation comes into play, which is noth- 8. What are the improvements made in health care: Report become one of the thrusts behind the cur- ing but maintaining high standards or the field of communication especially rent patient safety and quality movement improving quality which in turn makes the between the patient and the provider? LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles County jails have suicidal. The report noted that county jails, which stands out to be a discipline of its own. institution to maintain standard protocols Though there is still a huge room for “deplorable” conditions that have contributed which have about 19,000 inmates, are strug- This report pointed out a lot of medical thereby making it less prone to errors. This improvement. We have a program called the to a dramatic increase in suicides and the sys- gling to deal with a population surge that has tem isn’t doing enough to help mentally ill increased the number of mentally ill inmates. It common unseen errors using statistics which accreditation body for hospitals in the US is “Ask Me Three.” It is a program for patients; inmates, according to a federal report released says nearly 1,000 men with serious mental ill- the providers wear a badge saying “Ask Me raised a lot of questions on ones profession- TJC (The Joint Commission). Today their Friday. ness or who need psychotropic medication alism. One of the key remarks made was that standards are well recognized and more Three.” Through this we are creating aware- Fifteen inmates have killed themselves in aren’t in housing set aside for the mentally ill. in the US 48,000 to 90,000 people died in than 60 countries have TJC accredited hospi- ness among the patients to ask 3 important less than 2 1/2 years, with the number increas- The Justice Department said it will seek hospitals as a result due to medical errors!!! tals in the world. To maintain their accredita- questions to the providers. ing from four in 2012 to 10 the next year, and another court-enforced agreement to address To remind you that it was only in hospitals. If tion the volunteering organization has to “Ask Me 3” - by NPSF “dimly lit, vermin-infested, noisy, unsanitary, remaining problems. It also recommended it was taken into account of those dis- have approved minimum standards met. Ask these 3 questions to the provider. cramped and crowded” conditions contributed that Los Angeles County authorities consider charged, the statistics would have been even To name a few commonly known accredi- (Encourage the patients to ask) to the suicides, according to the U.S. Justice alternatives to incarcerating some of the men- more staggering. These figures are compara- tation bodies to this part of the region are: 1. What is my main problem? Department’s assessment of jail mental health tally ill, such as placing them in community- ble to a jumbo jet crashing every day in a Joint Commission International (JCI) and 2. What do I need to do? care. The report applauded the Sheriff’s based diversion programs. year. In other words the number of people Accreditation Canada (AC). 3. Why is it important for me to do this? Department - which oversees the nation’s “We are disappointed that today’s report dying of preventable harm due to medical Speak up initiative: If you are caring for a largest jail system - for making some of the fails to fully recognize the additional errors were much greater than people dying 6. How does this accreditation process- family member or loved one, it’s important reforms in the mental health system that were progress made over the last year-and-a-half of let’s say breast cancer, AIDS or any of those es help patient safety? for one to think of as his or her advocate. required in a 2002 agreement allowing the to improve mental health services,” the terminal illnesses. TJC established the National Patient Being engaged and asking questions are Justice Department to monitor conditions. Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. Safety Goals (NPSGs) program in 2002. probably the most important things you can However, the latest assessment found that “The report also mischaracterizes and signifi- 3. What do you mean by medical errors Purpose was to improve patient safety and do to keep your loved one and yourself safe “serious systemic deficiencies” remain that vio- cantly understates the incredible efforts to put things in perspective? the goals was to help accredited organiza- from medical errors. Encourage health care late the rights of mentally ill inmates. made to improve our suicide prevention The fundamental principle though out the tions address patient safety concerns. workers never to assume the concept of “IT It concluded that there is inadequate men- practices.” The department said it remains health care is “First, do no harm”. JCI’s 2014 NPSG are to identify patients MUST BE RIGHT” about what another health tal health care and supervision to identify sui- committed to working with the Justice cidal inmates or prevent them from becoming Department on the issues. — AP “To Err is human and is inevitable but correctly, improve staff communication, use worker is doing. If you have a hunch that most errors are preventable”. medicines safely, use alarms safely, prevent something is wrong, interfere and ask rele- A simple definition of error is “Doing the infection, identify patient safety risks, and vant questions to make sure that it is right. wrong thing when meaning to do the right prevent mistakes in surgery. When the goals Be alert to the potential for harm. ‘Looking’ thing”. Errors depend on two kinds of failure, are implemented throughout the system, it does not always mean ‘Seeing’ - ask yourself first is actions do not go as intended and sec- then becomes a standard. In 2014, patient what you might be missing. Question and ond is intended action is not the correct one. falls and pressures ulcers were made part of report unsafe practices. Discuss these openly One of the main reasons for possible the standards. so they can be addressed promptly - you errors are due to human fatigue in any field JCI requires accredited health care organi- may save someone’s life or prevent them of work. Higher the position leads to more zations implement NPSG’s as appropriate to from being harmed in our care. Identify pressure which in turn is a domino affect the services provided by the organization. opportunities to improve - sometimes the from stress to fatigue. In the medical field These different accreditation bodies have small things can make a big difference to the doctors are generally over worked due to their own patient safety goals which have to quality and safety of care. Share your long working hours which lasts a straight be met by the volunteering institutions. JCI improvement ideas with your team - every more or less to 24 hours. Long hours such as calls their goals “National Patient Safety idea counts. these would not allow one to function to the Goals (NPSG)” & AC calls it “Required Read back initiative: This is another best of our ability. With these kinds of work- Organizational Practices (ROP)”. In Kuwait, aspect of patient safety communication. We ing conditions the possible errors could be Ministry of Health follows a set of goals insist that the patient has to voice out the that the doctor misses out on various queries which is known as the “Nine Patient Safety answer. like asking the patient if any other doctor has Solutions”. Thank you very much Dr. Nancy V. been consulted or any other treatment Thomas, it was a pleasure having you here WAGNER: In this March 28, 2014 photo South Dakota rancher Tom Soukup looks at a modalities have been prescribed. In such a 7. How does one report an error? with us on Kuwait Times. The information video monitor at a hospital in Wagner, S.D., that connects its clinic with Avera Health situation either a double dosage or a drug Generally at work, there is a lack of trans- that you shared with us has been a real eye physicians in Sioux Falls, SD. The 72-year-old was badly injured four years ago after reaction could occur which could be some- parency and has a punitive culture. People opener compared to the limits what we being pinned against a wall by a cow on his Wagner ranch. When Soukup arrived at the times fatal. would not want to upset their superiors and should know as a common man. clinic in Wagner the doctor on duty used Avera’s telemedicine network to connect with Sioux Falls doctors who talked him through treating the rancher’s injuries. — AP HEALTH & SCIENCE SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 American School in Kuwait holds graduation ceremony

American School in Kuwait held the graduation ceremony for its students under the patronage of former Education and Higher Education Minister Yousuf Al-Ibrhaim and school owner Wael Al-Abdelghafour. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Jairek Robbins speaks LIVE in Kuwait within Vigor Events’ Knowledge Club 2014

eing one of the lead companies and strategy to achieve the results to be that successful person. in the training field in Kuwait, they desire and deserve in their life The seminar is designed for organi- BVigor Events is hosting Jairek and business. zations as well as individuals who Robbins to speak live and in person His program focuses on empower- wish to develop the confidence and for the first in Kuwait in a one-day ing and educating through engaging certainty it takes to achieve their enlightening seminar titled “Achieving and entertaining. Specifically in this goals, design a strategic road map to Rapid Results in your Life and exceptional seminar, he will be high- the results that they desire, create a Business” that will be held in Hilton lighting the methodology for design- clear and compelling vision, find Hotel and Resort - Mangaf, from 9 am ing a Road Map to effective results absolute fulfillment and freedom in to 5pm on Monday June 16th. through his unique and Ideal Day and what they do, breakthrough the barri- Jairek Robbins is a man on a mis- Life Design Process; a compelling ers that have been holding them sion focused on developing creative process intended to create a crystal back. solutions for accelerating results. At a clear vision for the next 5-20 years Finally, it is worth noting that Vigor young age, Jairek was awarded the with a fair balance between success in Events has always focused its strategy Congressional Award Gold Medal both life and business. on addressing essential business from the United States Congress. He Jairek Robbins will also draw the problems and challenges facing socie- became an international phenom by light on the fact that understanding ty, the business community and the developing a revolutionary approach the internal compass which guides individuals in the region and has thus to accelerating results for businesses the decision we make and the beliefs managed to be exceptionally atten- in different industries. Today, he is we have is crucial to create this bal- tive to different needs and require- unlocking secrets for maximizing anced happy life. He shares his experi- ments through their distinctive ACK sports teams crowned employee performance and organiza- ence that anyone who aspires to this approach of the Knowledge Club. tional success from Fortune 500 results from his life and business has The Knowledge Club 2014 is co- organizations to mid-market firms; to break-free of what he is told he is organized by Al Gas Events Company back-to-back champions Jairek merges the latest techniques in ‘supposed to be doing’ with his life and Global Innovation Company and motivation with strategic foresight to and start living life on his own terms. is sponsored by Zain he Australian College of Kuwait’s Kuwait (AUK) and the Arab Open efforts saying: “I would like to congrat- help your business achieve remark- On a different subject, Robbins will Telecommunication Company as the (ACK) male and female sports University (AOU). ulate all participating students for able results in a competitive market- discuss the reality and secrets behind lead sponsor this year. Event sponsors Tteams have been crowned the The UCC competition comprises winning and bringing home the place. why some people have an abundant also included Warba Insurance, 2014 University Championship Cup seven different sports: football, volley- Championship again. These achieve- During this seminar, Jairek will fuel and productive Life, while others get Qulaitynet, KAICO, Gold’s Gym and (UCC) winners for the second year in a ball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, ments reflect the relentless efforts of organizations with unstoppable caught up in things which make them with the media support of the row, outperforming teams from par- swimming and squash. our athletes and coaches. I truly thank momentum, through powerful shifts feel frustrated and not good enough, International Advertising Association ticipating universities including Gulf Manager of the Student them for ranking us the best private in their values and beliefs which help yielding unproductive results present- Kuwait Chapter. University for Science and Technology Recreational Activities Center, Basel University in sports in Kuwait.” individuals define a crystal clear vision ing the right strategy to be followed (GUST), the American University of Dana, commended the students’ WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

LU&LU Hypermarket inaugurates Festival of Philippines and Far East 2014

ut to promote and popularise products guests; Labor Attache Cezar Chavez, Labor ence followed by a fashion show. Similar cul- Vietnam, China, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand delicious meals. and food from Asian countries, LU&LU Attache Florencia “Ching” Ardivilla and Welfare tural shows that displayed the best aspects of to name a few. With more than 37 sourcing offices world- OHypermarket inaugurated the Festival Officer Norlita P. Lugtu. The management the customs of the Philippines and other Far This promotion is happening in all LU&LU wide, including the United Kingdom, Africa of Philippines and Far East 2014’ at its Dajeej team of LU&LU Hypermarket were also in East countries were staged over three days for hypermarket outlets and is from June 4 to 14. and the Far East and all LU&LU outlets in the branch on 5 June at 7 pm. attendance along with loyal customers and shoppers and guests. Aside from celebrating the culinary her- region, the brand was fully equipped to serve The inauguration ceremony was presided well-wishers. The festival showcases some of the best itage of these counties, the festival encour- any community in this diverse country. over by Philippines’ Ambassador Lamberto V. Specially organized for the ceremony was a quality and specially imported products from ages local and ethnic communities to shop at Monsanto accompanied by other special beautiful cultural dance that thrilled the audi- the Philippines and Far East Countries such as LU&LU Hypermarket for the products to cook

Pakistan Academy School awards outstanding teachers

akistan Academy School, Ahmadi held it third presti- Pgious teacher’s appreciation award winning ceremony at Al-Safir Hotel (Fintas) on Saturday 24th May. This prestigious festival was host- ed to acknowledge the educational skills of the faculty members who discharge performance in different categories of scholastic session 2013- 2014. Dr Saad Munir Al Mohana the owner, Aliya Saad Munir Al Mohana, the General Manager, were the guests at the ceremony while Prof Syed Zakir Ali the Principal was the chief organizer. Mrs Sobia Shahid was the hostess and briefed the aims and pro- nounced the commencement with holy verses, recited by Hani Mansoor. The chief guests, accompanied by Prof. Syed Zakir Ali stepped on the stage and gave away credentials to out-standing teachers. TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

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News 16:30 Animal Battlegrounds 08:45 Mythbusters 09:15 The Drama Queen 17:00 Animal Battlegrounds 09:40 Mythbusters 10:15 The Drama Queen The Tony Awards 17:25 Animal Battlegrounds 10:30 Mythbusters 11:10 Eric And Jessie: Game On 17:55 Animal Battlegrounds 11:20 Mythbusters 11:35 Eric And Jessie: Game On will be a knockout 18:20 Treehouse Masters 12:10 Mythbusters 12:05 E! News 19:15 Gangland Killers 13:00 How Tech Works 13:05 Beyond Candid With Giuliana - literally 14:05 Keeping Up With The 20:10 Shamwari: A Wild Life 13:30 Through The Wormhole With Kardashians 20:35 Shamwari: A Wild Life Morgan Freeman he competition at the Tony Awards is fierce 15:00 Keeping Up With The 21:05 Sharks Of Palau 14:20 Through The Wormhole With every year but this time promises to be posi- Kardashians 22:00 Gangland Killers Morgan Freeman tively brutal: A fight will actually break out 16:00 Giuliana & Bill T 15:10 Da Vinci’s Machines 22:55 Shamwari: A Wild Life 17:00 Giuliana & Bill onstage. Today’s telecast will feature the usual black 23:20 Shamwari: A Wild Life 16:00 Nyc: Inside Out ties, soaring songs and gentle jokes - and an eye- 16:50 USA Memory Championships 18:00 E! News 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 19:00 Fashion Police popping boxing match between Rocky Balboa and 17:40 Sci-Fi Science Apollo Creed in a regulation-size ring on the Radio 18:05 Sci-Fi Science 19:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 20:00 Keeping Up With The City Music Hall stage. It’s part of an attempt to high- 18:30 Prophets Of Science Fiction light as many Broadway musicals as possible and 19:20 How Tech Works Kardashians 21:00 Keeping Up With The promises to be a boon to the backers of the show 19:45 How Tech Works “Rocky,” which failed to secure a best musical nomi- 20:10 The Future Of... Kardashians 02:25 Being Erica nation despite its stunning sets and choreography. 21:00 How Techies Changed The 22:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 03:10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man “The adrenaline will be high, but I want it to look World 22:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 03:55 Doctor Who Confidential really good. I’m not so much nervous as much as I 21:50 Sci-Fi Saved My Life 23:00 Hello Ross 04:15 Doctor Who 22:40 You Have Been Warned 23:30 Chelsea Lately can’t wait to get in there and do this for people,” said 05:00 Nina And The Neurons 23:30 Weird Connections Andy Karl, the Tony-nominated actor who plays 05:15 Little Human Planet BERNIE ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 23:55 Weird Connections Rocky. Karl will be the focus of the show’s brief 05:20 Mr Bloom’s Nursery moment in front of millions. He will initially be part 19:05 Extra Virgin 05:40 Jollywobbles 14:30 Last Man Standing PG15 of a workout montage as he dances with eight other 19:30 Siba’s Table 05:50 The Green Balloon Club 15:00 Melissa & Joey 12:00 Bernie-PG15 Rockys to Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Then Creed, 19:55 Cooking For Real 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 14:00 Surf’s Up-PG 06:15 Nina And The Neurons 03:25 Andy Bates American Street played by Terence Archie, will swagger in from the Feasts 20:20 Chopped Stewart 16:00 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot- right aisle with an entourage, and the two boxers 06:30 Little Human Planet 21:10 Food Network Challenge 03:50 Iron Chef America 16:00 The Colbert Report PG15 will perform the 15th and last round of the climactic, 06:35 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 03:10 The Hive 04:40 Chopped 16:30 Better Off Ted 18:00 Father Of The Bride-PG15 bloody bout. Altogether, they have just 21/2 min- 06:55 Jollywobbles 22:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 03:20 Art Attack 05:30 Unwrapped 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 20:00 Office Space-PG15 utes to shine. 07:05 Gigglebiz 03:45 Art Attack 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 18:00 Dads 22:00 For A Good Time, Call-18 “It’s going to feel like a train leaving the station,” 07:20 The Old Guys 04:10 Jungle Junction 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 18:30 The Neighbors 06:10 Food Network Challenge warns Kelly Devine, who choreographed “Rocky” 07:50 The Job Lot 04:25 Jungle Junction 07:00 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:00 Last Man Standing with Steven Hoggett and who earned a Tony nomi- 08:15 The Mimic 04:35 Jungle Junction 07:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:30 Melissa & Joey nation. “To get to do it on the Tonys is really very 08:40 Doctor Who 04:45 Jungle Junction 07:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:00 The Goodwin Games thrilling. And I think what we’ve put together is also 09:25 The Weakest Link 05:00 Art Attack 08:15 Food Network Challenge 20:30 Parks And Recreation going to make for very exciting television.” 10:10 32 Brinkburn Street 05:25 Art Attack 09:05 Siba’s Table 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 03:00 Jobs-PG15 Producers of the telecast will hope to build on last 10:55 32 Brinkburn Street 05:50 Mouk 09:30 Have Cake, Will Travel Stewart 05:15 The Key Man-PG15 06:00 Austin & Ally 09:55 Have Cake, Will Travel 21:30 The Colbert Report 07:00 Now You See Me-PG15 year’s 7.24 million viewers - the show’s largest audi- 11:35 32 Brinkburn Street 05:00 56 Up ence in four years - with Hugh Jackman as host. Fans 12:20 Last Woman Standing 06:25 A.N.T. Farm 10:20 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 05:55 The Hungry Sailors 22:00 Saturday Night Live 09:00 Cheerful Weather For The 06:45 Mako Mermaids 23:00 South Park Wedding-PG15 of former emcee Neil Patrick Harris, take heart: He’ll 13:10 Doctor Who Basics 06:45 Ant And Dec’s Saturday 07:10 Suite Life On Deck 10:45 Extra Virgin 23:30 The Goodwin Games 10:45 Jobs-PG15 be performing from his hit show “Hedwig and the 13:55 Doctors Night Takeaway 07:35 Good Luck Charlie 11:10 Siba’s Table 13:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Angry Inch.” 14:25 Doctors 07:50 Shetland 07:55 Jessie 11:35 Cooking For Real Dawn Pt. 2-PG15 Stars slated to help present awards include 14:55 Doctors 08:50 Dirk Gently 08:20 Mako Mermaids 12:00 Andy Bates Street Feasts 15:00 Buried-PG15 Bradley Cooper, Kevin Bacon, Clint Eastwood, 15:25 Doctors 09:45 Seven Dwarves 08:45 Liv And Maddie 12:25 Unique Eats 10:40 The Chase 03:00 Nip/Tuck 17:00 Old Stock-PG15 Maggie Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell and Liev Schreiber. 15:55 Doctors 09:05 Good Luck Charlie 12:50 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 11:35 David Suchet: The Mystery Of 04:00 Bones 19:00 Faces In The Crowd-PG15 Some Hollywood royalty who showed up onstage 16:25 Rock & Chips: Special: Easter 09:30 Dog With A Blog Basics Agatha Christie 05:00 Criminal Minds 21:00 Hick-PG15 this season like Denzel Washington, Daniel Radcliffe, 2011 09:55 Austin & Ally 13:15 Hungry Girl 12:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 06:00 The Glades 23:00 Maniac-R James Franco and Rachel Weisz didn’t win nomina- 17:15 Doctor Who 10:15 Jessie 13:40 Hungry Girl 14:05 56 Up 07:00 The Mob Doctor tions and may skip the show. 18:00 The Job Lot 10:40 Cheetah 14:05 Food Network Challenge 15:00 Big Star’s Little Star 08:00 Made In Jersey A music-heavy lineup has been promised that 09:00 Criminal Minds 18:25 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood 12:15 Gravity Falls 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 15:55 Vera includes all the best new musical nominees - 12:35 Dog With A Blog 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 10:00 Castle 19:20 Hunderby 17:35 Blandings 03:15 The Raven “Aladdin,” “After Midnight,” “Beautiful: The Carole 13:00 A.N.T. Farm 15:45 Chopped 11:00 Bones 19:45 Mistresses 18:05 Shetland 05:15 Darling Companion King Musical” and “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and 13:25 Jessie 16:35 Siba’s Table 12:00 Emmerdale 20:35 Waking The Dead 19:00 Big Star’s Little Star 12:30 Coronation Street 07:15 Playdate Murder” - and some overlooked ones, including 13:45 Austin & Ally 17:00 Siba’s Table 21:25 The Mimic 19:55 The Hungry Sailors 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 09:00 True Love “Rocky,” “Bullets Over Broadway,” and Idina Menzel’s 14:10 Good Luck Charlie 17:25 Guy’s Big Bite 21:50 The Cafe 20:50 Vera 14:00 Made In Jersey 11:00 The First Grader show “If/Then.” Three revivals - “Les Miserables,” 14:35 Mako Mermaids 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:15 Being Erica 22:35 Ant And Dec’s Saturday 15:00 The Glades 13:00 An Inconvenient Truth “Violet” and “Cabaret” - will also be featured. Sting 15:00 Flubber 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 23:00 Doctor Who Night Takeaway 16:00 Emmerdale 15:00 Broken Bridges will perform a song from his Broadway-bound musi- 16:30 Cars Toons 18:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 23:35 David Suchet: The Mystery Of 16:30 Coronation Street 17:00 The First Grader cal, “The Last Ship.” 23:45 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood 16:35 A.N.T. Farm Basics Agatha Christie 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 19:00 Smashed “I think all musicals have a really hard time when 18:00 Made In Jersey 20:30 American Gangster they say you get 2 minutes and 35 seconds to show 19:00 Burn Notice 23:15 Best Laid Plans people what your show is about and have it be 20:00 Top Gear (US) entertaining. It’s so hard to pick that moment that 21:00 Witches Of East End encapsulates what your show is about,” Devine said. 22:00 Supernatural 23:00 Nip/Tuck “Sometimes musical numbers can fall a little flat 03:00 Hard Time 05:00 Monsters University-PG when they’re out of context. Sometimes they get 04:00 Family Guns 06:45 Star Trek Into Darkness-PG15 swallowed up by that big stage. I think if we do it 05:00 The Border 09:00 The Sapphires-PG15 right, ours will feel really alive and epic.” “Rocky” will 06:00 Sea Patrol 10:45 Iron Man 3-PG15 get its shot in the first hour of the telecast and be 07:00 The Pack 13:00 Fastest-PG15 introduced by Samuel L. Jackson. Karl will arrive for 08:00 Wild Kalahari 03:00 Boardwalk Empire 15:00 Class-PG15 the red carpet in a tux and then change into his box- 04:00 Mistresses 09:00 Rescue Ink 17:00 The Sapphires-PG15 ing costume to be part of Jackman’s comedic open- 05:00 Last Resort 10:00 Banged Up Abroad 19:00 Silver Linings Playbook-PG15 06:00 Good Morning America ing number. He will hang around until his explosive 11:00 Hard Time 21:00 Jack Reacher-PG15 07:00 Emmerdale few minutes onstage, then wipe off the fake blood 12:00 Family Guns 23:15 The Campaign-18 and real sweat and change back into a tux. 13:00 The Border 09:00 24 10:00 Emmerdale “The sum of the parts of this show are so incredi- 14:00 Somewhere In China ble,” Karl said. “It needs to be seen in order to be 15:00 Hunter Hunted 13:00 24 14:00 Last Resort believed.” A boxing ring identical to the one used on 16:00 Wild Untamed Brazil 15:00 Live Good Morning America Broadway was built in just two weeks and it will be 17:00 Rescue Ink 16:00 24 04:00 Gnomeo & Juliet-PG turned counterclockwise by four stagehands to give 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 18:00 C.S.I. 06:00 Charlie And The Chocolate the audience and cameras a 360-degree view. Doing 19:00 Wild Kalahari 19:00 24 Factory-PG 20:00 World’s Toughest Fixes what happens at the Winter Garden theater - mov- 21:00 C.S.I. 08:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 21:00 The Known Universe ing the actual ring over the first few rows of seats - 22:00 Mistresses 10:00 Love Will Keep Us Together- 22:00 Alaska Wing Men wasn’t feasible, but a riser onstage at Radio City will 23:00 Boardwalk Empire PG15 23:00 Rescue Ink offer about 100 people the chance to see the action 12:00 Hope Springs-PG15 up close, as happens on Broadway. 14:00 Standing Ovation-PG15 At a rehearsal Friday at Radio City, the “Rocky” 16:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG cast and crew practiced matching their choreogra- 18:00 The Expatriate-PG15 phy and music to the cameras for 11/2 hours. It was 20:00 The Colony-PG15 00:00 The Raid: Redemption-18 start-and-stop stuff, since the lighting, projection 22:00 The Haunting In Connecticut 02:00 Nothing Left To Fear-18 screens and sound cues are so intricate. The boxing 03:00 Dads 2: Ghosts Of Georgia-18 04:00 Dick Tracy-PG15 ring slid flawlessly from the back, and the final prod- 03:30 The Neighbors 06:00 Rewind-PG15 uct promised to be a spectacle to intrigue even non- 04:00 Seinfeld 08:00 Hudson Hawk-PG15 theater fans. 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 10:00 Batman: The Dark Knight Between lulls, Karl twirled a jumping rope so fast Jimmy Fallon 04:00 Super Rugby Returns Part One-PG15 it whined, and some of the dancers breakdanced. 05:30 Two And A Half Men 06:00 This is PGA Tour HD 12:00 Armageddon-PG15 06:00 Better Off Ted 06:30 Inside The PGA Tour Devine and director Alex Timbers calmly and collab- 14:30 Hudson Hawk-PG15 06:30 Friends 07:00 live NRL Premiership oratively fine-tuned the sequences to better accom- 16:15 Batman: The Dark Knight 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 modate the stage and Tony needs. When time Returns Part Two-PG15 08:00 Seinfeld 09:30 Top 14 expired, the team got loud brotherly applause from 18:00 Armageddon-PG15 08:30 Two And A Half Men 12:00 Live Champions Tour the cast of “After Midnight,” the next group of per- 20:30 Diggstown-PG15 09:00 Dads 14:00 Live PGA European Tour formers who had arrived to practice. 22:15 Commando-18 09:30 Last Man Standing 18:30 Inside The PGA Tour Tonight, Devine will be in the seats for the real 10:00 Melissa & Joey 19:00 Live PGA Tour event when her show gets its big shot on national 10:30 Friends television, and she suspects she might be sweating a 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring little, too. “It is very hard in those moments - much 00:00 For A Good Time, Call-18 Jimmy Fallon like an opening night - to completely relax,” she said. 02:00 Mash-18 06:00 Trans World Sport 12:00 Better Off Ted “You’re counting in your head, you’re watching the 04:00 Bernie-PG15 07:00 This is PGA Tour 12:30 Seinfeld feed happen, you’re watching the transition. There’s 06:00 Beethoven’s Second-PG Latinoamerica 13:00 Two And A Half Men so much going on so I’m usually a bit of a nervous 08:00 Think Like A Man-PG15 07:30 Total Rugby 13:30 Friends wreck.” — AP 10:00 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot- 08:00 Live NRL Premiership HUDSON KAWK ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 14:00 The Neighbors Classifieds

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

You are good at relations regarding politics, diplomacy and sales-not to It is easy for you to express yourself to others-you always manage to make a mention considerate and helpful. This is a good day for you to deal in sales or presenta- good appearance. You have an easy manner and find it easy to communicate with just tions. You have an inner urge to be all things to all people and would rather bend than about anyone. You like beautiful surroundings, everything that is calm, tasteful and harmo- argue. You will be helping a friend today because you are willing to listen and not criti- nious. You may be planning a water garden for those hot summer days-maybe a few gold- cize. You are a natural diplomat, always concerned with the comfort and welfare of oth- fish. This afternoon you will find yourself involved in several fun conversations with those ers. You stay in the background, but are able to manipulate and bring out cooperation in you love. You are very giving, conciliatory and even flattering in relationships, able to adjust others every time. A real estate profession is something you might seriously consider. to any situation. Budget restraints are definitely needed so that some item you want in the This is a day you should enjoy-relax. With your strong drive to do and accomplish, every future will become more attainable. bit of relaxation you get will be beneficial.

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

Progressive people and idealistic groups or concepts play a more impor- You would like your conversations and thinking to stay somewhere near the tant role in your life now-a new cycle begins. There is a concern for something bigger surface today. This is a day of rest, and deep problem-solving conversations are certainly than any one person-perhaps an interest in civic affairs or even some new recycling tech- not on your to-do list. You can create new subjects easily with all the interests you have. nique. You are very communicative, flexible, mental and other-oriented today. You will You will enjoy your friends today-you love to interact with them. There may be an occasion find many, particularly young people, listen to your ideas and advice. Your laser-like mind to teach someone how to write music or to put one of your poems to music. You appreci- makes conversations fast-paced and illuminating. A ready wit and a great sense of humor ate change, variety and making local connections-there may be an open house or opening create a rewarding day. You may join a self-help group or find yourself talking about a day for some new business. You have many avenues to explore this weekend and many self-help book to a close friend this evening. Whatever the case, you have insight into positive things to accomplish. You are more attractive than usual. Intimacy with a person your own emotions and drive. You can be a good mentor. you love will go beyond the usual.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Circumstances may press you and tend to bring out the rebel in you. A little It is time to consider writing your book. Yep, you’ve got a book or two bicycle ride or just a change of scenery for a short while will help to bring your inside you, so the saying goes. All kidding aside, you have a varied life-style emotions back in balance. Self-control is the accepted and admired behavior, and you are with many friends. With your ability to learn and open yourself up to new experiences, ACROSS ancient Egyptians. able to respond in positive ways. Circumstances work together to bring out your ideals-mak- there are adventures in whatever direction you choose to travel. Those adventures, public 1. Wild and domestic cattle. 6. Situated at the top or highest position. ing it easier to make your dreams real. You are very original when it comes to home and sur- awareness attention, travel experiences, episodes of fear, joy, struggles or survival hints all 4. A republic in northeastern Europe on the 7. A city of east central Mexico (west of roundings-the environment you build around you. This could also manifest in new ideas for go into the possibilities as you begin to consider what type of book you might write. If Baltic Sea. Veracruz). unusual ways of supporting yourself in the future. Get outside and be with friends this after- you do not like to move your hand on paper and perhaps you are not a good typist, there 11. Weapons considered collectively. 8. The seventh month of the civil year. noon-enjoy a breath of fresh air! This evening, literature is on your mind. That book you are people waiting to transcribe your recorded tapes. A healing takes place and a renewal 15. Electrical conduction through a gas in an 9. (prefix) Within. want to write or read may hold your attention. applied electric field. 10. A soft white precious univalent metallic of energy is accessible today. Happy birthday! 16. Evaluation of performance by assigning a element having the highest electrical and grade or score. thermal conductivity of any metal. 17. Radioactive iodine test that measures the 11. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the or their culture or their language. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) thyroid gland. 12. Measuring instrument in which the echo 18. An agency of the United Nations affiliated of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to Having and appreciating things of beauty and value plays a big role in your There are changes around your household that may not be the most pleasant with the World Bank. detect and locate distant objects. life at this time. Making the most of what you have, striving for security and for you. Change would be easier if you could have more control. However, if stability: that’s the impulse that stirs in you now. You find yourself talking about investing you are paying for these changes, you have the power! This doesn’t mean you could be 19. Of or relating to or supporting Romanism. 13. A member of the extinct Algonquian peo- bossy, but it does mean you could become more involved with the price, color, style, etc. If 20. A woman of refinement. ple formerly living in northern Indiana and and may even have a personal plan. Provided you do not spend all the budget on the fancy things that catch your eye, a shopping expedition can be a financially favorable one for you you do not care about any of these, the changes will probably stay. Progressive people and 21. A slight wind (usually refreshing). southern Michigan. idealistic groups or concepts play an important role in your life. This may be a special day 23. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup- 14. Wood of a sumac. now. Circumstances may expand your appreciation and enjoyment of your life situation. Your system of values may deepen, providing you with a better sense of discrimination and when you have been looking forward to a trip to a museum, art show or the opening night of shaped holder for a hot coffee cup. 22. Australian shrubs and small trees with a play where a family member is performing. 24. Informal terms for a mother. evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense good taste. A desire to purchase items or select colors is at a high now. 25. A particular geographical region of indefi- clusters of showy flowers. nite boundary (usually serving some special 27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake purpose or distinguished by its people or cul- Chad. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) ture or geography). 28. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan during respiration and by the decomposition You are not bound by relationships and are thus not much of a domestic. You Everything points to your taking the lead in today’s activities. You could feel River. of organic substances. great support from those around you. You feel healthy and natural. You will find that today is 29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on 30. A person who acts as host at formal occa- find it easy to work with other people and tend to pour a lot of energy into those around you. Foreign affairs may catch your attention at this time. Perhaps an investment you are packed full of communication with friends, especially those you may not have seen in some a skewer usually with vegetables. sions (makes an introductory speech and time. Perhaps it is time for a reunion. Practical and effective ideas are the ones that make the 31. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur. introduces other speakers). thinking about is beginning to show quite an upswing in potential. You will find support from others when you turn your attention to health, food, nutrition and areas where service most sense-putting them to good use is a focus for you. Material things are foremost on your 32. Capital of the state of Oregon in the 33. American professional baseball player mind in many respects; an emphasis on the real rather than the ideal. This is the time you may northwestern part of the state on the who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth or attention to detail is in high focus. You may enjoy working with a group of people that have similar thinking or politics. With your powerful spirit, you enjoy your strong emotions decide to install a porch instead of a deck. Now when company comes, there will be a place to Willamette River. (born in 1934). and have an active social life. put them. If it is a porch with wide windows, you will enjoy sitting out there for meditations. 35. A small cake leavened with yeast. 34. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless 38. A recurring sleep state during which rapid plain (especially in Latin America). eye movements do not occur and dreaming 36. The cry made by sheep. does not occur. 37. A river in north central Switzerland that 42. Stem of the rattan palm used for making runs northeast into the Rhine. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) canes and umbrella handles. 39. Brightest star in Centaurus. 44. A river in north central Switzerland that 40. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and You are very much the creature of habit. The encircling network of friends You may find yourself awake at an early hour this morning. You could be runs northeast into the Rhine. mules and asses. and relationships are crucial to your success or lack thereof from time to time. You are nour- helping someone move or driving someone to the airport. Whatever the case, you are avail- 46. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to 41. Walk leisurely. ished in great measure by the atmosphere and conditions you are able to set up. You may, able to help. Sympathy and understanding are emotional qualities that take on a greater the public. 43. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper however, tend to fluctuate between uninspired routine and crazy binges. For the next few importance now. Even though it is the top of the morning when you help this person, you 47. A constellation in the southern hemi- marked in various ways and used for playing days you may want to spend some time in organizing your thoughts and goals-making lists. are reflective and may be a mirror for this person’s focus. You are equality-minded and easy sphere near Telescopium and Norma. games or for telling fortunes. Do not forget to walk around your home and make any necessary notes about updates. This to talk with-a good mediator as well. As a sociable and slightly frivolous orientation sets in 48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 45. English essayist (1775-1834). is a good time to change the air filters, set out a soaker hose, clean vents, etc. Enjoy a bit of this afternoon, you may find yourself planning a neighborhood get-together. There is time to 50. Chief port and economic center of 49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali time away from work and responsibilities, perhaps by short trips to fun places this weekend. relax-perhaps a massage or some leisure time in a pool. You are driven to excel in any form of Nigeria. earth group. Consider creating a butterfly garden. physical or creative expression today. 52. Any of various algae of the genus 51. A loss of will power. Tribonema. 53. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 56. A tight cluster of people or things. feet) for water depth. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 54. Immunogen consisting of a suspension of 60. A hemoprotein composed of globin and weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected heme that gives red blood cells their charac- in order to stimulate the production of anti- teristic color. bodies. 62. Tropical American trees with palmately 55. The act of scanning. compound leaves and showy bell-shaped 58. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from flowers. obstruction of the blood supply to the heart 63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of muscle. the Old World. 59. Someone who abuses. 66. In need of oil treatment. 61. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single 71. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation ovary having one or many seeds within a equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated fleshy wall or pericarp. material. 64. An amino acid that is found in the central 72. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves nervous system. used for seasoning. 65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 76. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh 67. An organization of countries formed in and India and Nepal and Pakistan. 1961 to agree on a common policy for the 77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made sale of petroleum. from aba cloth. 68. A German art song of the 19th century for 78. A member of a Kannada-speaking group voice and piano. of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern 69. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac India. who would have inherited the Covenant that 80. The sense organ for hearing and equilibri- God made with Abraham and that Abraham um. passed on to Isaac. 81. Having undesirable or negative qualities. 70. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken 82. Of or relating to anestrus. in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and 83. Failing to detonate. northern Pakistan. 73. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of DOWN the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded 1. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani. its boundaries and developed its bureaucra- 2. (often plural) A command given by a supe- cy. rior (e.g., a military or law enforcement offi- 74. A tube in which a body fluid circulates. cer) that must be obeyed. 75. The universal time coordinated when an 3. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly event is received on Earth. from the ground as in a tulip. 79. A complete metric system of units of 4. Catch sight of. measurement for scientists. 5. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by Yesterday’s Solution

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Rita Oraand Calvin Harris call it quits

he Scottish DJ took to his Twitter account to ing in May 2013, had gone their separate ways said previously: “Long-distance relationships aren’t announce that he and the ‘RIP’ hitmaker called began to swirl recently when Rita was spotted par- ideal. They’re really hard and there are times when Ttime on their relationship “some time ago”. He tying with Justin Bieber, 20, and Calvin, 30, was seen you feel as if you’re on your own. I think if you really tweeted: “To address speculation - myself and Rita leaving a club with a mystery woman. The former want to make it work, you will. It will just require a ended our relationship some time ago. She is a pair are yet to reveal the reason behind their break lot of patience and a lot of trust. It kind of sucks but beautiful, talented woman & I wish her all the best. up, but the ‘Shine Your Light’ singer recently admit- sometimes you just have to take the situation for (sic).” Rita, 23, is yet to comment on her relationship ted that her long distance relationship with Calvin - what it is.” status. Speculation that the couple, who began dat- who has a Las Vegas residency - was a struggle. She

The Vamps insist it is hard to date ‘normal girls’

he young pop stars - Connor Ball, 18, Bradley Simpson, 19, James McVey, 20, and TTristan Evans, 19 - ended their relationships because of the band and believe it’s difficult to be with someone who doesn’t understand the pressures of fame. Singer Bradley said: “I think you see a lot of celebs dating other celebs, Simon Cowell because both sides can deal with the nature of the job. If you’re in a band and you’re trying to date a normal girl at university, it will be harder wants a daughter because of the difference in lifestyle.” And the ‘Can We Dance’ star thinks it would be difficult he 54-year-old music mogul and girl- zine: “Since that man settled down and for potential girlfriends because of the backlash friend Lauren Silverman welcomed became a dad, I don’t know what to expect they would face from fans. He added: “Plus Tson Eric into the world in February, next! “He hasn’t told me any of his proposal they’d get too much hate.” Bradley has a crush on but his friend and former girlfriend Sinitta plans, but I know he’s very happy with ‘New Girl’ actress Zooey Deschanel, 34, and was claims the ‘X Factor’ boss is already thinking Lauren and loving family life.” And the ‘Toy thrilled to find she’s following him on Twitter. of having more children. She said: “Simon is Boy’ singer claims her friend has become a Asked about his dream women, Bradley replied: such a doting father and is loving being a different person since Eric was born. She “It’s got to be Zooey Deschanel. She’s amazing.” parent. He wants more children - I know he added: “He’s a changed man and he’s really Tristan added: “She followed him on Twitter the does. He’d love a daughter next.” Despite transformed. “Everyone assumed he’d be other day. You should have seen him.” Bradley claiming Simon is ready for another baby, the harsh disciplinarian parent, but he’s so added to heat magazine: “She just follows me Sinitta, 45, admits he hasn’t confided in her soft with Eric and so happy and content randomly.” about any plans he has to propose to when he’s around him.” Lauren - who was married to Simon’s friend Andrew Silverman when it was revealed she was pregnant. She told Closer maga-

he 58-year-old reality TV star believes her 18-year-old daugh- Tter, with whom she has with her estranged husband Bruce Jenner, has the best body for the modeling indus- 50 Cent thinks try. Speaking to HuffPost Live, she said: “She has like, the perfect body, espe- cially one that wants to be in the mod- Justin Bieber is still a baby eling business. I don’t know, I got a lot of curves and I couldn’t pull that off. But she always looks remarkable.” Not only he ‘Candy Shop’ rapper has defended the con- “I’ve been so many things I’m not because of things is Kris - who also has children Kourtney, troversial pop star - who was forced to apolo- that people said I am. But I think he will be all right.” Kendall 35, Kim, 33, Khloe, 29, and Rob, 25, from Tgize this week when two videos emerged of her relationship with Robert him telling racist jokes - and insists Justin, 20, isn’t Kardashian, as well as Kylie, 16, with racist. 50, real name Curtis Jackson, said: “I don’t think Bruce - proud of Kendall’s good looks, he’s racist. I don’t think even he knows who he is at but she’s glad the teenager has a good this point-he’s so young. “When you see people heart and feels confident in her own become huge stars real early, it’s tough for them. You body. She explained: “She’s got such a have to grow up with all these expectations. I think good heart, and she’s such a good kid. Justin’s still a baby and he’s lost.” In one of the shock- And she’s really so happy in her own ing videos which emerged this week, the singer -

thinks skin. She’s not shy-it doesn’t bother her.” aged 14 at the time - appears to alter the lyrics to his Meanwhile, Kendall recently admitted song ‘One Less Lonely Girl’ and then jokes about join- that she gains more confidence with ing race hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. However, 50 every modeling job she does. She said worries that people labeling Justin ‘racist’ may have a previously: “I get more and more com- detrimental effect on the singer. The 38-year-old rap- fortable with everything. It’s fun per told The Sun newspaper: “That people are saying thought, it’s the world I wanna be living he is may actually affect him and turn him into one. in, so it’s awesome.” has a ‘perfect body’

nt gna pre Kris Jenner e is Jenner Rosamund Pik

he 35-year-old actress is expecting her second child with her partner Robie Uniacke, whom she has been dating since 2009, her represen- Ttative has confirmed to E! News. It is not yet known when their new bundle of joy is due. The couple already have two-year-old son Solo together, but kept the pregnancy under wraps until the star was seven months along and could no longer hide her bump. Rosamund - whose engagement to director Joe wright was called off a month before their wedding in 2008 - has always said she would like to become a mother and had planned to have more than one child. She said before the birth of Solo: “As an only child, you’ve never known anything else. But I definitely know that I would like my child to have brothers or sisters. But I haven’t got a child yet, not yet obviously.” Meanwhile, Rosamund and Robie, who also has four other children - currently have no plans to tie the knot and are only interested in being loving partners for the time being. However, the pair did decide to move in together following the birth of Solo to care for the youngster together. lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

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wants to do more Lily Allen humanitarian work

he ‘Hard Out Here’ hitmaker is a keen supporter of a performed at The Other Ball charity gala at One Mayfair in number of charities including the Elton John AIDS London last night in aid of Arms Around the Child, which TFoundation, Coram and War Child and she’s confessed provides homes, education, stability and all around care for that if she could spare enough time away from her family vulnerable children in India and Africa. The event was organ- and music career, she would love to do more to help those ized by music producer Mark Ronson, who Lily claims she who are less fortunate. Quizzed on whether she’d consider would love to collaborate with again following their 2007 hit visiting a third world country in order to do charity work, she ‘Oh My God’. When asked if she would feature on his next said: “I have been to the third world. But no, of course. I album, she said: “I’d love to, he just hasn’t asked me.” would be more than happy to when I have some time in my schedule.” The 29-year-old star - who has daughters Ethel, two, and 17-month-old Marnie with husband Sam Cooper -

George Clooney is eyeing a love La Toya Jackson’s nest in France wedding will be he Hollywood star, who is engaged to British lawyer Amal Alamuddin, has put feelers out to estate agents Ton the French Riviera as he is looking for a spacious ‘bigger than anything’ new pad for the couple on the Mediterranean Sea. A source told the New York Post newspaper: “Clooney has sent a request to real estate agents in the south of France. he 58-year-old star is planning her nup- He is specifically shopping for a ‘house on the beach’. “One tials to her fiance and business manager agent has found a possible nest for Clooney just outside St- TJeffre Phillips and insists it’s going to be Tropez.” ‘The Monuments Men’ star’s French home will be in bigger than Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s addition to a new house in London, where Amal lives and big day which saw the reality star and rapper plans to stay after her marriage to George, 53. The pad will wed in a lavish ceremony in Italy last be the perfect getaway from the British capital, which is month. She told the New York Daily known for its tempestuous weather. The source added: “I News newspaper: “It’s going to be guess he hopes the London gloom will be relieved by bigger than Kim’s. “It’ll be bigger escapes to the Cote d’Azur.” George also owns homes in than anything, huge. Lots of Los Angeles and Los Cabos, Mexico, as well as his famous people, all of it.” The pair got villa in Lake Como, Italy. The star had been expected to engaged while they were on wed Amal in Lake Como, but the pair have reportedly vacation in Hawaii last August. deemed it too public and are looking for a more private Jeffre had La Toya follow a path location. of white rose petals and gar- denias to their hotel balcony, where he had arranged a romantic dinner of her favorite foods, before sur- prising her with a 17.5 carat dia- mond ring, which had been hid- den under a dessert tray. La Toya is the sister of late pop leg- Adam Richman end Michael Jackson - who died of acute Propofol intoxication in 2009 - and she loses 70 pounds still finds it difficult to talk her sibling. A source said: “La Toya just gets very emotion- he 40-year-old star - who was catapulted to fame on eating chal- al, and that’s the topic that can make her cry. lenge TV program ‘Man v Food’ - loves his sexy new look and is It’s a hard topic and it hasn’t gotten any bet- Tglad he is no longer viewed as the “plucky best friend” by ladies ter. She is a sensitive soul and just wants to when he’s out with his pals. Speaking to the latest issue of America’s focus on herself and her career.” Cosmopolitan magazine, he explained: “To go from hating the way I looked to being a Cosmo centerfold is a profound honor. “If you’re a guy who’s always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sud- den people are viewing you as sexy, it’s nice. “It’s great not having to be the plucky best friend, or the comic relief any more - I love that. Who wouldn’t rather hear, ‘Wow, you look great,’ than ‘Ewww...?’ “ Adam previ- ously confessed his size was “depressing” and he was determined to shift the excess pounds he gained from his mammoth food challenges for the show with the help of a doctor and nutritionist. He said: “My soc- cer training includes squats, push-ups, resistance-band work and sprints. “Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.”

Channing Tatum wears ‘fairy wings’ Jennifer Lopez hanning Tatum threw his daughter a fairy party for her first birthday. The 34-year- splits from Cold hunk celebrated tiny tot Everly’s special milestone on May 31 and admits all the guests wore “fairy wings”, including him- Casper Smart self. Talking on US chat show ‘Live with he ‘I Luh Ya Papi’ singer has reportedly called time Kelly and Michael’, he explained: “We had a on her two-and-a-half year relationship with the fairy party, pretty much everyone was Tdancer-and-choreographer with the amount of wearing fairy wings.” Asked whether that time the pair were spending apart being the main rea- included himself, he joked: “I wear fairy son for the break-up. A source told Us Weekly magazine: wings every day. I think they’re fun.” “It has actually been an amicable process that started a Channing - who has his baby daughter few months ago. It wasn’t an easy decision, but they with his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum, who he decided to stay friends ... Their relationship couldn’t work met on the set of 2006 movie ‘Step Up’ - with the distance. He started trying to establish his own recently revealed he bonds with Everly by life and career, and she is so focused on hers, and they taking her hiking and enjoys spending just couldn’t be all about each other anymore.” J.Lo, 44, time in the fresh air to explore nature has been coping fine since ending the romance with and seeing her interact with other chil- Casper, 27, and is completely focused on promoting her dren. The ‘Magic Mike’ actor said: upcoming album ‘A.K.A.’ and her live shows, which “Watching her experience the world kicked-off with a free concert at Orchard Beach in The and seeing other kids and people is Bronx, New York, this week as part of a national music my favorite thing to do with her. series. The source added: “She’s so focused on promot- She saw a kite for the first time ing the album. They are both in a good place now.” In and she was like, ‘What is that?’ recent weeks, Casper has been accused of cheating on It’s fun to see her experience J.Lo with transsexual bikini model Sofie Vissa, whom he new things.” met and exchanged sexual messages with online first. However, Casper has denied the allegations - and subse- — Bangshowbiz quent claims involving a second transgender model - and J.Lo reportedly believes him. The insider said: “The scandal had nothing to do with it. He insists none of that is true and she believes him.” The former couple were first linked together in November 2011 just a few months after the singer-and-actress split from her ex-husband Marc Anthony - with whom raises six-year-old twins Max and Emme. lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 Indian astrologer trots the globe on a peace mission By Sajeev K Peter top politicians and celebrities for his sharp predictions of ‘8’ which is not a good number astrologically,” he on them. said. He predicted that in many parts of the world ell-known Indian astrologer T R Jayaprakash After the death of Prof Kutty, his elder son there could be natural disasters such as earthquakes Kutty, who is on a globe-trotting mission Jayaprakash Kutty has followed in his father’s foot- or tsunamis in 2018. Wcurrently, says astrology gives a message of steps. Despite his fame and demand, the astrologer Demonstrating how he makes astrological calcula- peace and can bring peoples and faiths closer. does not charge any fee for his consultations since tions with the help of ‘kavadi’ (shells), he claimed that “My mission is to visit 26 countries, the names of Kutty believes that it is his mission ‘to correct the lives astrology and palmistry are scientific disciplines. “In which start with each of the 26 English alphabets. In of humanity and put people in their correct position reading a palm or telling fortune, we rely on the 12 the last two years, I have covered 15 countries starting in the cosmic order of existence’. The effects of plane- ‘houses of rasis’ of a person and his/her planetary with the US. I visited Bahrain and Qatar in the Gulf so tary energies on human behavior are scientifically position at the time of his/her birth,” he explained. far and now I’m here in Kuwait,” Kutty said. As an measurable characteristics and can change the for- Kutty said palmistry, astrology, and numerology have established astro-palmist in India, Kutty believes that tunes of individuals, he claimed. several features in common and each of them influ- his message of peace can be effectively conveyed ences the course of a person’s life significantly. Also an through astrology as it can provide a positive energy Of Modi govt expert in face reading or physiognomy, Kutty said to people. When asked if he would risk a prediction on the there are seven types of faces and seven types of “Today, the world is in the throes of tensions and future of the new Narendra Modi government in hands. conflicts. Peace has become very elusive. But, I strong- India, Kutty said that the Modi government would “Astrology is a scientific discipline as any other ly believe that astrology can help people analyze and complete the five-year tenure. “But the government branch of science and it takes several years to master understand their problems better,” Kutty said. The will face a critical crisis after a year and nine months,” the science and its myriad intricacies,” Kutty said. “I elder son of the word renowned astrologer/palmist Kutty said. However, he added that the government have worked as my father’s assistant for about 25 Indian astrologer Jayaprakash Kutty late Prof T M R Kutty, Jayaprakash Kutty hails from the would overcome the crisis and the country would years and gained experience and training in this field Palakkad district of Kerala. Prof Kutty, who passed economically advance during his tenure. from my father,” Kutty added. away in 2009 at the age 80, had predicted the past, He also predicted that the Gulf region would con- present, and future of more than 100,000 people from tinue to flourish, primarily on oil resources. “However, all over the world. He was well-respected even among 2018 would be a dreadful year for the world because

Poet Maya Angelou remembered ‘Game of Thrones’ at memorial service promises ‘grisly amily, friends and famous admirers includ- nation for her acting in the 1970s TV miniseries ing first lady Michelle Obama, former “Roots” and danced with Alvin Ailey. death’ to top donors FPresident Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey Tall and majestic, Angelou added heft to her gathered Saturday and paid tribute to poet, ora- spoken words with a deep and sonorous voice, eorge RR Martin, author of the books that were tor and sage Maya Angelou. Angelou was hon- describing herself as a poet in love with “the made into the cult TV saga “Game of Thrones,” ored as a renaissance figure and one of the 20th music of language.” She recited the most popu- Ghas promised a “grisly death” to two donors century’s most famous black writers at the pri- lar presidential inaugural poem in history, “On who give $20,000 to a wolf sanctuary. In a video and vate memorial service at Wake Forest University. the Pulse of Morning,” when Clinton opened his statement on the crowdfunding site Prizeo.com, the Angelou died May 28 at age 86 after a remark- first term in 1993. She inspired many and author calls for donations to the Wild Spirit Wolf able life with important roles in civil rights and became a mentor to Winfrey before she Sanctuary, a refuge near the southwestern US city of the arts. became a talk show host. Angelou once Santa Fe. “I’ve always been fond of wolves,” he said, The funeral program includes tributes from worked as a coordinator for the Southern noting that “US wolf populations hit critical lows dur- Clinton and Winfrey and a eulogy to be given by Christian Leadership Conference and lived for ing the twentieth century.” the first lady. Former United Nations years in Egypt and Ghana, where she met The money raised-the overall goal is set at Ambassador Andrew Young is speaking, along Mandela. In 1968, she was helping the Rev $500,000 — will also support The Food Depot charity, with several family members and the poet’s Martin Luther King Jr. organize the Poor which provided more than 500,000 meals to people in friends. Angelou’s grandson Elliott Jones wel- People’s March in Memphis, Tennessee, where need last year. The US novelist calls for donations comed the audience by telling them they were the civil rights leader was slain on Angelou’s starting at just $10. But at the highest level, $20,000, a celebrating “an amazing life - a life well-lived.” 40th birthday. — AP man and a woman will each be given the chance of Jones then read a passage from his grandmoth- having a character-”lordling, knight, peasant, whore, er’s poem, “Still I Rise.” lady, maester, septon, anything”-named after them in “Just like moons and like suns. With the cer- Martin’s upcoming “Song of Ice and Fire” novel, tainty of tides. Just like hopes springing high. according to Prizeo. Still I’ll rise.” Born into poverty and segregation, “You will certainly meet a grisly death,” the site Angelou rose to become an accomplished warned. As of Friday evening at 9:00 pm (0100 GMT actress, singer, dancer and writer. Although she Saturday) more than $280,000 had been raised-includ- never graduated from college, she taught for ing two donations of $20,000 each claiming the char- more than 30 years at the private North Carolina acter-naming prizes. Other rewards offered for small- university, where she was regularly addressed as er-scale donations included t-shirts, books and a Dr. Angelou out of respect for all the honorary drawing to visit the writer and the wolves. degrees she received. Since its debut in 2011, the HBO drama based on Her magnetism also drew her into friend- Martin’s best-selling novels about a struggle for power ships with famous figures from Malcolm X and between feuding clans in seven mythical kingdoms Nelson Mandela to Clinton and Winfrey Angelou has won a devoted global fan base-President Barack was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and Obama reportedly among them-to establish itself as raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and San Francisco. the star of the US cable channel’s stable. The series has Her life included writing poetry by age 9, giving wowed critics with its densely-layered plot, lavish pro- birth as a single mother by 17, and becoming duction values and a readiness to kill off, invariably in San Francisco’s first black streetcar conductor. gruesome fashion, protagonists who had hitherto She also once danced at a strip joint, shared the seemed integral to the show. — AP stage with comic Phyllis Diller and garnered This file photo shows poet Maya Mourners are seen outside Wait Chapel before a memorial service for poet and author career advice from singer Billie Holiday. She Angelou smiling in Washington. — AP Maya Angelou at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC yesterday. — AP wrote music and plays, received an Emmy nomi- Victorian Picnic

Participants of the Wave Gothic Festival pose at the ‘Victorian Picnic’ in a park in Leipzig, central Germany, Friday, June 6, 2014. About 20,000 members of the Gothic scene from all over the world are expected to attend the Wave Gothic Festival that runs from June 6 till tomorrow. — AP photos lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014

Streep, Bullock, Tomlin, Diaz celebrate Jane Fonda

he American Film Institute’s celebra- Fonda’s “The Newsroom” co-star Jeff tion of Jane Fonda was like a who’s Daniels feted her with his guitar, singing a Twho of Hollywood women. Meryl song with the refrain, “abs, buns and Streep, Sally Field, Sandra Bullock, Lily thighs.” Peter Fonda, who wore sunglasses Tomlin and Cameron Diaz were among the perhaps to hide his emotions, choked up as actresses saluting the 76-year-old Oscar he said, “Nobody has dreamed bigger and winner, who accepted AFI’s 42nd Life nobody has worked harder than my sister, Achievement Award Thursday at Jane.” Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. The honoree herself got misty eyed Guests at the private ceremony - which when her son, Troy Garity, spoke from the is set to air as a special on TNT June 14 - stage. “In film, in fitness, in politics, in fami- Cameron Diaz speaks at the 42nd AFI Lifetime included Chelsea Handler, Melanie Griffith, ly, Mom, you have succeeded,” he said. The Achievement Award Tribute Gala. Felicity Huffman, Marcia Gay Harden, evening also included clips from Jane Rosario Dawson, activist Eve Ensler and Fonda’s films and interviews with the Disney president Anne Sweeney. Tomlin actress. Michael Douglas presented Fonda described Fonda as “an evolutionary agent with her award, and she said she was “so for our species.” happy to add another woman’s name to the “She is a role model for the American list.” Previous recipients of AFI’s highest modern woman,” immediately correcting honor include Barbra Streisand, Morgan herself to broaden the scope to all women. Freeman, Mel Brooks, Bette Davis and Celebrants lauded Fonda for her political Fonda’s father, Henry Fonda. activism and dedication to gender equality, A resplendent Jane Fonda, who thanked which she translated to the screen in such Vera Wang for her custom-made black and films as 1978’s “Coming Home,” 1979’s “The white gown, said that as she reflects on her China Syndrome,” and 1980’s “9 to 5.” career and the many creative geniuses she Wanda Sykes, who wore a “Barbarella” worked with, she wishes she would have costume and was carried onstage by a man asked more questions. “Stay curious,” she dressed as a winged angel, called Fonda said. “Stay interested. It’s much more impor- “my hero.” Diaz cited her as “a beautiful tant to be interested than interesting.” example of navigating a career in Fonda, it seems, achieved both. — AP Hollywood.” Field admitted she’s been “try- ing like crazy” to follow in Fonda’s foot- steps. Bullock told Fonda, “you live the life so many of us dream of.” Streep, who said Michael Douglas (left) presents the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award to Jane Fonda she still does Fonda’s workout videos, at the 42nd AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Tribute Gala at the Dolby Theatre in Los described her as “a big sister (who) walked Angeles. —AP photos me into movie-making.” Sandra Bullock speaks onstage. Brazil Cup visitors: Exotic Amazon animals abound etween the parents, the four kids, the dog, the two ly fridge and perhaps also leave a cash donation. and the “boto,” a pink fresh water dolphin that’s trained to superstition and insist there’s little risk to visitors. sloths, the python and the baby caiman, it’s a tight With Manaus’ environmental police out to shut down swim with tourists and chopped up by locals into bait for “Follow a few basic precautions, like using a mosquito Bfit in the Silva family’s two-room floating home in operations like his, Silva insists the animals aren’t pets but the “piracatinga,” or “vulture catfish.” Much has been made net and avoiding the riverbanks at dusk, and you can real- the Amazon rainforest. The exotic houseguests help 35- just temporary guests: He said he returns the sloths to the by the British tabloid press about the dangers posed by ly reduce the chances of contracting mosquito-borne dis- year-old fisherman Evandro Correia da Silva and his family forest after about two weeks, swapping them out for fresh the local fauna in and around Manaus - the most exotic of eases like dengue, malaria or yellow fever,” said Marcio de eke out a living on their native Solimoes River, on the ones; the snake, known as a “jiboia,” in Portuguese, stays Brazil’s 12 World Cup host cities, where some 52,000 for- Oliviera, a researcher specializing in rainforest bees at opposite bank from Manaus, a World Cup host city where 10 days, while the caiman spends just 24 hours in its eigners are expected to attend four matches after the Brazil’s INPA Amazon research institution. (Yellow fever the US, English and Italian teams will be among those water-filled basin inside the house. To keep sentimental month-long tournament kicks off on June 12. vaccinations are encouraged for foreigners visiting the battling it out. attachments in check, the family doesn’t name the ani- Giant tarantulas, poisonous snakes and malarial mos- Amazon or other rural regions of Brazil, and people Tourist boats dock on what effectively is the Silva fami- mals. quitoes have featured prominently in the tabloids’ cover- should get shots at least 10 days before the visit.) “I’ve ly’s front doorstep, and the family snaps into action, peel- While it might bring in decent money, this sort of busi- age, but there are actually plenty of other creepy crawlies been here for many years and never got anything, except ing the reluctant sloths from the legs of the plastic patio ness is not for the faint of heart, Silva warned as he in the Amazon for the World Cup visitor to worry about: for this,” Oliveira said, rubbing a mottled scar the size of a table, rousing the retiring snake from its hiding spot in showed off multiple snakebite scars on his hands and The region is home to the world’s largest variety of insect quarter on his skin - leishmaniasis, the result of a sandfly the corner and offering up the snapping, 2-foot-long forearms. “You just have to wait till they open their life. There’s the “Titaneus giganteus,” a long-horn beetle bite, which causes unsightly sores on the skin. “It’s fine if caiman to the cameras. Everyone hugs the adorable mouths and remove the fangs on their own,” he said, not- with jaws powerful enough to snip off the tip of a human you treat it early.” — AP three-toed sloths, whose sleepy eyes belie an unexpect- ing the pythons he captures aren’t poisonous. “If you freak finger; the “spider’s hawk wasp,” which paralyzes its spider edly potent grip, while only the boldest guests - and out and try to pull them off, you’ll just tear up your own prey to feed off at its leisure; and the “flying cobra cicada,” Silva’s 3-year-old daughter - dare wear the snake draped flesh.” which local superstition says can cause people’s hands to around their shoulders or hold the alligator-like caiman. Other star animal attractions in the area include a rot upon contact. In return, the visitors purchase soft drinks out of the fami- heart-melting array of monkeys, flesh-eating piranhas, Experts agree there’s no scientific basis behind the

A sloth holds itself on the deck of the Silva family’s Residents use refrigerator doors as floating tables outside their floating house on the Rio Negro in Cacau Pirera, near Evandro Correia da Silva (left) holds a snake as his 3- floating house on the Lago do Janauari, or Solimoes Manaus, Brazil. year-old daughter Kelly Silva places it around her neck River, near Manaus, Brazil. — AP photos on their family’s floating house. Revamped Detroit riverfront park, pavilion opening Tintin at the museum? The

revamped park opening along Detroit’s east riverfront and watch the men, women and children in our community Governor Brian Calley. A number of other projects are taking boy hero’s difficult legacy is part of continued redevelopment in the area that’s and visitors gathering together to enjoy this spectacular place along the riverfront, including improvements to Gabriel fter sending Tintin to Hollywood and building a private Acritical to the city’s future, officials said Friday. The asset,” US Sen Carl Levin, D-Mich., said in a statement. A rib- Richard Park and the planed fall opening of the state museum to the glory of his creator Herge, the couple Mount Elliott Park and Pavilion features jets that send torrents bon-cutting and celebration took place Friday to mark the Department of Natural Resources’ Outdoor Adventure Center. Aoverseeing the boy hero’s legacy are plotting their next of water from a replica of a shipwrecked schooner. The park is park’s debut. The RiverFront Conservancy raises funds for con- The Conservancy’s first phase of development along the west move. “Our work is to educate people, inform people,” said the third plaza and pavilion developed by the nonprofit struction, operation, maintenance, security and programming riverfront opens this year, with a 20-acre green space on the Nick Rodwell, who married Herge’s widow Fanny Vlamynck Detroit RiverFront Conservancy along the riverfront east of of public spaces along the Detroit River. site of a former printing facility. — AP around a decade ago. “We’re creating a Tintin brand that lies downtown. The park is part of three miles of pathways, parks “The public-private partnership behind the Conservancy somewhere between graphic novel and contemporary art,” and green space connected by the popular RiverWalk. has proven to be a key in successfully building a premier des- Rodwell added in a rare interview inside the Louvain-la-Neuve “I see the future of Detroit every time I walk our riverfront tination for residents, businesses and visitors,” said Lt museum that he and Fanny built five years ago. “If I die tomorrow I’ll know the work has found its right place.” Designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in the leafy new university town of Louvain-la-Neuve, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside Brussels, the museum sees some 80,000 visitors a year. “Schools, foreigners from across the world, Tintinophiles and Tintinologists,” Rodwell said. “It was a huge investment but it’s given us credibility,” he said of the 15-million-euro ($20 million) project. “Museums don’t make money but we break even.” The museum is largely dedicated to Herge’s artistic skill, with a restaurant and quality memento shop-more art-house for adults than comic-strip fantasy for kids, a vision that seems to be paying off. As Tintin’s fame spreads, Herge’s original drawings are sell- ing like hotcakes at auction, a double-page ink by the Belgian artist from 1937 going for 2.1 million euros in Paris late last month. But with the museum housing a mere 10 percent of their legacy, the couple are hoping to organize temporary shows elsewhere, notably at the Cheverny castle in France’s Loire valley that inspired the Moulinsart castle in the original work. The fame of the intrepid boy reporter with the quiff, a children’s bedside classic in much of Europe, spread when Steven Spielberg rolled a Hollywood blockbuster in 2011 co- produced with “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson. It was “gigantic, the best promotion possible” for Tintin, Rodwell said, though only a tepid success in Hollywood terms, ringing up 374 million dollars in contrast with a target Mt Elliott Park water feature is sure to be a major attraction for parents and kids. — AP photos of 600 million.—AFP Poet Maya Angelou remembered at memorial service

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Christina Rodriguez (rear) aka “Shadow,” adjusts Jaylen Hyde’s (foreground) aka ‘Striker Boy,’ cape as they arrive Jaylen Hyde’s (foreground right) aka ‘Striker Boy,’ brings in villain ‘Sneaky Pete,’ (left) with the help of Christina in a Ferrari at the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — AP photos Rodriguez (center foreground) aka ìShadow,î at the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Striker Boy takes on Sneaky Pete!

hen Jaylen Hyde woke up on Friday - his 9th the regional chapter, said the average wish costs $5,000, birthday - and turned on the TV, his jaw dropped. but the Friday wish was well in excess of that. He said he WA phony breaking news segment - recorded just wasn’t able to provide a figure because many donations for him by the local NBC station - called on Jaylen to had been in kind. become superhero “Striker Boy” and save South Florida “It’s not about the money. It’s about granting them one from the villain Sneaky Pete. It was all part of a surprise heartfelt wish that they ask for. Whether it’s a superhero staged event to fulfill a superhero dream for Jalen, who is wish or going to Disney World, we are going to give them undergoing chemotherapy to fight leukemia. all the effort that we have,” Wedderburn said. The Make-A- “He was very excited. Totally geeked,” said his mother, Wish chapter in South Florida has been granting wishes to Dalia Rodriguez, who had managed to keep all the prepa- more than 9,500 local children with life-threatening illness- rations secret. Dressed in a gray costume and blue mask es since 1983. A visit to Disney World is the most popular based on a superhero he had created, Jaylen was cheered request, followed by travel, shopping sprees and meeting a by dozens of volunteers as he arrived at Nova celebrity. Southeastern University’s soccer practice field in a yellow After answering questions at the mock news confer- Ferrari Italia. ence, Jaylen celebrated his birthday with a party at the He defused a fake bomb, got a helicopter ride, fought a Broward Sheriff’s Office. Fighting back tears, his mother fire, and arrested the green-faced Sneaky Pete for stealing thanked organizers and participants for helping her son. a puppy. Jaylen then took the villain to jail and held a news “Just like he beat the bad guy today, he’s going to beat the conference. The event was similar to one held in San bad guy of cancer,” she said. “He’s going to get through this Francisco last year for a 5-year-old cancer patient who and we’re going to be OK.” — AP wanted to be “Batkid” for the day, drawing worldwide attention. Jaylen, who was diagnosed in January 2013 and is now in remission, was guided through the scenarios by a pro- Supporters cheer for Jaylen Hyde (foreground) aka ‘Striker Boy,’ as fessional actress in the role of policewoman “Shadow” and he makes his way to an awaiting helicopter. accompanied by his 13-year-old brother, Daishawn, as sidekick “Falcon Boy.” Smiling with tight lips, Jaylen seemed a bit overwhelmed by the news cameras and all the out- pouring. “Striker Boy, Striker Boy,” volunteers chanted. When asked by reporters about his day, Striker Boy proved to be the strong and silent type, saying only “I can see through the future and I can fly.” The Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants the wishes of seriously ill chil- dren, started preparing the event more than a year ago at its South Florida chapter. Jared Fink, who works with the foundation, interviewed Jaylen and noticed from the start that he was a huge superhero fan. “Whatever superhero movie is out there, he sees them all,” Fink said. Organizers decided to let Jaylen’s imagination run, let- ting him create his own superhero instead of adapting an existing one. Norman Wedderburn, president and CEO of

Dalia Rodriguez, mother of Jaylen Hyde, aka ‘Striker Boy,’ poses for him from the crowd. Jaylen Hyde (right) aka ‘Striker Boy,’ disarms an explosive device with the help of Christina Rodriguez, aka ’Shadow’.

Broward County Sheriff Scott (right) helps up onto a stool so he can reach the podium, Jaylen Hyde, aka ‘Striker Boy,’ before giv- ing a joint news conference at the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.