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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 RAMADAN 12, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net US requests Halal Brazil more security tourism traumatised measures at takes off after German Emsak: 03:12 Kuwait airport in Japan humiliation Fajer: 03:22 Dohr: 11:53 Asr: 15:28 Maghreb: 18:51 5 40 20 Eshaa: 20:21 UAE holding 3 Qatari Max 47º Min 35º ‘spies’ for questioning High Tide 08:57 & 23:16 Low Tide Bahrain grills oppn leader after expelling US diplomat 03:03 & 16:44 40 PAGES NO: 16222 150 FILS DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates is holding suspected Ramadan Kareem Qatari intelligence agents for questioning on their activ- Speaker, MPs meet Amir ities in the UAE, an Emirati newspaper said yesterday, in a case that could further damage ties between the two Victories in Gulf Arab allies. Relations between the UAE and Qatar have deteriorated sharply in recent months over Doha’s support for Islamists, who are seen by the rest of the US- Ramadan allied Gulf Arab oil exporters as a threat to their stability. A Qatari newspaper reported earlier this week that UAE authorities had detained and subjected to torture By Hassan T Bwambale three Qatari citizens who were on holiday in the Gulf amadan is not a month of laziness, irresponsibili- state. On its front page the Arabic-language Al-Khaleej ty and non-accountability, as many people per- newspaper dismissed the assertion that those arrested Rceive it to be. Those who fast should understand were tourists, quoting unnamed sources as saying that that by depriving the body they are actually enriching authorities were holding “Qatari intelligence elements the soul. Therefore, fasting in the month of Ramadan operating on UAE soil”. “They are currently undergoing should be viewed as a blessing and not a punishment. questioning,” the privately owned newspaper, one of Reading about the victories that took place during the oldest in the UAE, said, without giving further Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) golden era, the succeed- details. Qatari officials declined to comment on the ing era of his rightly-guided companions, and our report. UAE officials made no immediate comment. rightly-guided ancestors, will give us an overview of In March, in the biggest public display to date of the the way the month of Ramadan has to be treated and rift between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours, the UAE, the wide range of benefits that accrue to those who Saudi Arabia and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors fast in it according to the way Prophet Muhammad from the country, accusing Doha of failing to abide by (PBUH) prescribed for Muslims. The following are some an accord not to interfere in each others’ internal affairs. of the victories of Muslims during the time of Prophet Analysts said the dispute was over Qatar’s support for Muhammad (PBUH), as well as the era of his rightly- the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement whose guided companions and their followers. They were ideology challenges the principle of conservative able to achieve the following: dynastic rule long dominant in the Gulf. 1- On the seventh of Ramadan of the second year of Qatar made no direct comment on the earlier report Hijra (Emigration of Prophet Muhammad PBUH to that its citizens had been detained, but in an apparent Madinah), the Quraishi polytheists of Makkah KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and other MPs meet HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (right) yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 5) allusion to the case, the Foreign Ministry said Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 15 THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 LOCAL

Zain shares Ramadan blessings with children in hospitals

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- aims to share the joys and blessings of during special occasions is part of the munications company in Kuwait, con- Ramadan with different segments of company’s commitment to celebrat- tinues its extensive Corporate Social the society. Zain’s volunteers visited ing the Holy Month of Ramadan Responsibility program during the the children’s units of a number of through ongoing social activities that Holy Month of Ramadan by organiz- Kuwait’s biggest and most prominent generate a sense of generosity and ing interactive visits to hospitals to hospitals, including Zain hospital, Ibn caring. As a responsible telecommuni- share the blessings of Ramadan with Sina, Al Amiri, NBK, Al Farwaniyah, Al cations company, Zain looks to children and patients. The company’s Razi, and Al Jahrahospitals. improve the lives of the people within volunteers visited the hospitals during The company further expressed its the communities it serves. this blessed time of year to distribute heartfelt appreciation and gratitude This year, Zain’s CSR program is gifts and Girgeaan to children and to all the parties involved in organiz- providing an extensive array of pro- their families and celebrate the occa- ing the visits including hospital staff, grams during the Holy Month, sion in a family atmosphere full of joy officials, children’s families, and the including the distribution of daily and happiness. volunteers themselves, who all helped Iftar meals; the distribution of essen- Zain mentioned that the annual draw a smile on the faces of the chil- tial food supplies “Machla” to needy hospital visits initiative is part of the dren. families; and the latest celebration company’s solid CSR campaign during Zain highlighted that the aim of with the Ministy of Social Affairs’ care the Holy Month, where the company undertaking the annual hospital visits centers.

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) organized its annual ghabqa which was attended by Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, the State Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Justice. General Director Maj Gen Yousuf Al-Kandari led a team of KFSD officials who welcomed the guests. During the event, the sea fire station team was honored for winning the first annual KFSD Ramadan Football Tournament. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 LOCAL

Food of Ramadan Quaker Oats Baked Chicken Ingredients • 3 tbsps. olive oil • 1 cup minced onions • 1 tbsp. finely minced garlic • 1/2 cup of each: celery, eggplant, peas, carrots, tomatoes and zucchini

To Cover • 1 cup Quaker Oats • 2 eggs • 2/3 cup milk • 1/2 cup cream cheese • 1/4 cup chopped parsley • 1/2 kilo chicken, boiled and diced

To Decorate • 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese • 1/2 tbsp. nigella (black sesame) Preparation • Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grand Mosque provides iftar meals • Heat oil in a pan over medium/high heat. • Add onion and garlic, stir for 2 minutes. By Ben Garcia ond year taking the iftar meal at the • Add vegetables and cook for a few minutes. Grand Mosque. I live behind the • Beat eggs and milk in a bowl with a whisk. KUWAIT: Abdul from Bangladesh and Kuwait Stock Exchange, which is quite • Add oats, parsley and cheese, season with salt and pepper. • Whisk until well combined. Sikendra from Nepal are regular iftar near the Grand Mosque, so I eat here,” • Spread a layer of vegetable in a ceramic oven dish (ramekin). visitors in the Grand Mosque tent dur- said Abdul. His friend Sikendra is his • Top with a layer of chicken pieces. ing Ramadan. The two are among flat-mate and a Buddhist from Nepal, • Cover with a layer of egg mixture. approximately 1,000 people converg- but he goes along with Abdul to the • Spread a layer of cheese and sprinkle nigella seeds on top. ing at the Grand Mosque every sunset Grand Mosque to partake the iftar • Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. to break the fast during Ramadan. The meal. “We work together in an office • Serve warm. meals are provided free of charge by nearby, so we decide to eat the first the Grand Mosque to people who meal here. Otherwise I cook at home,” want to break the fast at the com- he told Kuwait Times. Abdul and pound. Sikendra return home from their office The meal usually comprises of rice, at 1 pm. They take a short nap, watch meat, laban, dates and a banana or TV, then before sunset, they walk to sweet for dessert. They are handed out the Grand Mosque for iftar. in Styrofoam boxes with soup and But just like the usual scene after gravy on the side. Besides the Grand every iftar throughout Kuwait, food Mosque, free iftar is also available in wastage is widespread. “I feel helpless the tents of some big banks opposite seeing the food being wasted almost the mosque. These are also full of peo- every day here. I think about people ple, mostly laborers, breaking the fast. who are not eating because they can’t Abdul and Sikendra come 30 min- afford to buy food,” another person in utes before iftar. “This is now my sec- the tent noted. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 LOCAL

in my view In my view ‘He was skinny Moderation, but loved to eat’ tolerance

By Linda Gradstein

ne by one, the women bend down and kiss Suha Abu Kheidr on both cheeks. They murmer condolences, and she clasps Otheir hands silently. One woman named Naileh, who Suha has By Labeed Abdal never met, says her daughter had a vision that Mohammed is on the highest level of heaven. Suha listens politely, dark circles under her Middle East eyes. She’s barely slept since her son Mohammed was kidnapped from the main street in front of his house here last Wednesday. Hours later, Wars his burned body was found in the Jerusalem forest. Six Jewish extrem- ists have been arrested for the murder - three of them have confessed and reenacted the crime. [email protected] In the men’s mourning tent next door, dozens of plastic chairs are set out for the stream of mourners. There the talk is more of politics. he interior Ministry announced recently that three Here with Mohammed’s mother, there are no politics, just sadness. She Al-Watan arms dealers were arrested with possession of a speaks slowly, with obvious effort, describing a teenager who liked Tlarge number of unlicensed weapons. The ministry computer games and Facebook - and who was not involved in politics confirmed that the weapons are not remnants from the at all. “He was always the first one at the table for iftar (the breaking of 1990/91 Iraqi Invasion, and that it had intensified efforts the Ramadan fast at dusk),” Suha said with a smile. “He was skinny and to identify their source. This is a very important effort didn’t eat much, but he really loved to eat.” His favorite foods, she said, especially amid information indicating that more were pizza, spaghetti, and anything that you could squeeze lemon on. weapons could appear soon. Mohammed was in 11th grade at the Amal School, a technological The importance of the ministry’s investigations also high school where he studied electronics. He had just finished a series stems from the fact that we cannot ignore attempts to of matriculation exams and was gearing up for his senior year. He ‘export’ terrorism or move radicalism and killing to our planned to study electrical engineering in college. A few days ago, he country. Instability in Arab countries caused by extrem- filled out an application to take the written test to get his learner’s per- ists who falsely associate their actions with Islam mit to drive. requires boosting moderation, tolerance and accepting others regardless of religion. Humanity is the thing that Suha Abu Kheidr said she had a special relationship with kuwait digest Mohammad, her 5th child of nine, who was known as a joker. A slight boy, he looked younger than his 16 years. “If I was angry or sad, he would always try to make me feel better,” Suha told The Media Line. Act fast to save our country “We had a game - he used to punch me - sometimes hard - and I The importance of the would punch him back.” He used to call from school to ask what she By Jassem Al-Saadoun was cooking for lunch, and so it would be ready for him when he ministry’s investigations came home. general overview to the history of our contemporary world, Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, was sentenced to 6 also stems from the fact As the stream of mourners continues, Suha describes a boy who we find out that there are nations that have become great, years in prison for collecting a total of 205,000 US Dollars, or around spent hours every day on Facebook and playing computer games. Aand others that vanished. The difference between the two is 60,000 Kuwait Dinars, in briberies. that we cannot ignore He was an avid football player, and a fan of Real Madrid in the World that some states achieved greatness by honoring positive values Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of Cup. Everyone in the neighborhood knew him. Suha says proudly and the sovereignty of the law, while others vanished after they tax-fraud, and sentenced to do community work, including clean- attempts to ‘export’ terror- that Mohammed began fasting for the holy month of Ramadan at failed to honor values or laws. I will not discuss the Soviet Union, ing senior citizens’ homes, because his age exceeds 70 years. age 5. He went every morning to the mosque across the street from Yugoslavia, East European countries or the Arab Spring countries. Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, who helped his ism or move radicalism his house to pray. That was his plan last Wednesday as well. Instead, I will mention examples for countries that became great by club gain European football supremacy while maintain a stable According to Suha and other relatives, last Wednesday respecting its value and laws, and compare them with Kuwait. financial status, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison and killing to our country. Mohammed had breakfast as usual for the month of Ramadan, at In the United Kingdom, former Defense Secretary Liam Fox for tax evasion, after he confessed of failure to provide information about 3:30 am and went around the corner to the main street of this resigned not because of an error or violation of the law he commit- about a secret bank account in Switzerland to German authorities. large neighborhood in east Jerusalem to wait for the call to prayer. ted. He chose to bear responsibility for selecting friends who do not These example set an example for how countries respect values we have in common, aside with the need to live in He sat on a low stone wall in front of a block of three storefronts that meet the system values of the UK Cabinet. He was given the choice and laws. Those who assume public offices should set a good mutual peace and security, without rigorism, animosity belong to his family. In the middle is his father’s electronics store, of resigning or be removed from office after a friend presented example, otherwise they should be punished to set an example for and hostility towards others. where Mohammed often worked after school. himself as his consultant behind his back in order to take advan- others. In Kuwait, it was revealed and proven that the bank The Islamic Sharia preaches peace, tolerance and As he sat on the wall, his water bottle beside him for a few last tage of a deal. He chose to resign and stay away from public life. accounts of 26 percent of parliament members inflated by around simplification. There are many verses in the Holy Quran sips before the fast began, a car drove by. The car passed A similar thing happened with former German defense minister KD 43 million. It is a blatant accusation of bribery and treason that calls Muslims to adopt moderation, whether in their Mohammed, stopped and backed up, according to footage from a Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who chose to resign after his doctoral because it pertains with ‘buying’ political positions, as well as an dealing with each other, or with people who believe in security camera across the street. Two men got out of the car and thesis was revoked over plagiarism accusations, despite being a accusation of an influential person paying the bribes. Despite that, other religions. Also, the Prophet Mohammad (peace be spoke to Mohammed. A moment later, they forced him into the car, popular politician and possible replacement for Chancellor Angela the Public Persecution shelved the case for legislative deficiency. upon him) gave several Hadiths (sayings) that talk about and sped away, driving through red lights. Merkel. Former French president Jacques Chirac was accused of Not only did that set the accused individuals free, but also allowed the importance of moderation, tolerance, and good Several youth in the neighborhood ran to the family’s home, and creating 21 fake jobs during his tenure as Paris mayor from 1983 to some of them to run again for public office following a decision by treatment of others. The actions committed by extrem- said a youth had been forced into a car. Suha said she asked them, 1995, and that he funded them with public funds. He was recently a single judge, who overruled a decision made by a committee of ists come in clear contradiction with those Quran verses “Where’s Mohammed? He was sitting right there.” She immediately sentenced to two years in prison despite being 79 years of age, and nine judges who had disqualified them. Some of them were elect- and Prophet’s sayings. The basics of Islam contain the tried to call his mobile phone which had been turned off. “As soon as despite the fact that it was never confirmed that he knew about the ed, becoming legislators, observers and even members in the pub- best examples for social justice, religious tolerance, that happened, I knew it was Mohammed,” she said. “He never issue. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy was also trialed for lic funds protection committee. equality and openness. turned that phone off.” —Media Line attempting to bribe judges. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Aan

kuwait digest Courageous, ambitious plan

By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa ocial Affairs and Labor Minister and Planning administration in government entities and coopera- Minister Hind Al-Subaih said the new develop- tives. Sment plan is ambitious and courageous, and What we are afraid of is for the government to back most of its projects rely on the private sector and down from the plan when some MPs scream in its attraction of foreign investors. Subaih said the plan face, because the reform demands for the economy in includes the privatization of some health ministry all countries of the world are popularly not liked, services, as well as privatization of some cooperatives, because it ends the state’s control of the economy for schools and universities, adding that the plan includes good and frees the human being from state slavery. many major projects such as metro, railways and a We, even when we encourage the minister and wish media city. her success in her plan, we tell her that the example is We commend the courageous move by the plan- not in preparing the plan and development projects - ning minister because, it will fulfill the Amiri wish to the real test for success or failure of the plan is by transform Kuwait into an open international financial preparing a mechanism to execute the plan. And who and commercial center, but the long experience with will actually execute it? the government and its plans and projects have We have been reading and following the govern- accustomed us not to be highly optimistic. No one ment plans and ideas that did not see the day of light disagrees with the importance of privatizing some since the days of the late Ahmad Al-Duaij in the ‘60s, government departments and cooperatives, as this is and we hope from Subaih to tell us who will execute the international direction of the economy today, and the plan. And who will be responsible, if reliance will the reason behind all countries, including the commu- be on the failed and corrupted government system. nist ones and all civilized countries going for privatiza- Then nothing will be achieved, but if reliance for exe- tion and diversifying economy is the fact that corrup- cution will be on private companies and seeking the tion, influence, bribes, squan- help of international compa- dering of public funds and nies, then we will be on the bad management are all in right track. the government establish- What we are afraid of is The second question is ments or companies adminis- who will follow the plan? tered by the government, not for the government to And make sure that its steps only in Kuwait but in all coun- are being executed accord- tries of the world including back down from the plan ing to the project’s the United States. when some MPs scream in timetable? Enough talk and The government in the plans that are not executed, United States gave up inter- its face, because the reform governments of Arabian Gulf ference in private education, countries succeeded in health and the only govern- demands for the economy establishing major projects ment hospital administered such as universities and by the government is the vet- in all countries of the world international airports that erans’ hospital. This presti- receive millions of people gious government hospital is are popularly not liked. such as Dubai airport, Jebel plagued by corruption, influ- Ali, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh ence and high cost, because and others. Brotherly coun- the government is managing it and they are tries including the kingdom were able to establish Americans, so what do you think about a Third World major universities in a period that did not exceed country such as Kuwait. three years, and we have been talking about the We find it strange for some National Assembly Shaddadiya university for 20 years and only Allah members to reject the government’s plan to privatize knows when it will be finished. some sectors, as MPs have become economic experts What about sports stadiums? King Abdullah who attack businessmen day and night, accusing Stadium was completed in less than three years, and them of stealing, greed, corruption and appointments work is underway to finish eight stadiums or a stadi- based on political, tribal and family consideration. um with a capacity of more than 50,000 people in a 12- Who was the first to be assigned with control MPs do not want to privatize cooperatives, because short period, while we are still complaining because over the Muslim stateís treasury? co-ops are the way MPs follow to reach the Assembly. of the inability to finish Jaber Al-Ahmad Stadium. We It is through cooperatives that wealth is collected, rel- do not want to talk about the heritage village that atives are appointed and receive payments from com- was completed in Qatar in a short period while we are - Abu Obaida bin Al-Jarrah panies. As for political Islam groups, they collect mon- still talking. ey through co-ops, training is made by shareholders’ Finally, we say it frankly or with audacity that the Yes No money, financing youth trips to umrah and hajj and government is unable to collect electricity and water other services for sports or mosques. Here employ- bills, and the semi-free services that do not deserve ments are made and shareholders money is taken in our attention when we speak about major projects. the name of social services. MPs are the major benefi- Please, execute then talk, enough polemics and chat- ciary from the spread of corruption, influence and bad ter.—Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 LOCAL Stage set for‘World Population Day’

KUWAIT: ‘World Population Day’ which will tion or sexual coercion.” be observed on July 11 seeks to raise aware- The website adds that it aims to raise ness on the need to offer adequate health, awareness “in the hopes of delivering a world education and other essential services for the where every pregnancy is wanted, every swiftly-rising global population numbers. childbirth is safe, and every young person’s ‘World Population Day’ was created by the potential is fulfilled.” UN Development Programme’s governing As for the Arab world, the 2005-2009 total council in 1989, and is currently administered average population rose from 316.5 million to by the United Nations Population Fund 339.5 million in 2014, with the bulk of these (UNPF). people found across seven nations - Algeria, An alarm bell was struck after the world- Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and wide population hit the five-billion mark and Yemen. this number is expected to dramatically Residents of the Arab world constitute increase to 8 billion by 2025. around 7pct of the total global population, This year, the event discusses adolescent estimated at about 7 billion at the end of pregnancy, where for “too many adolescent 2013. girls pregnancy has little to do with an In Kuwait, the population was recorded informed choice,” says the UNPF website. by the Ministry of Health’s statistics depart- These pregnancies are often “a conse- ment as being around 3.72 million - including quence of discrimination, rights violations 1.18 million Kuwaitis and 2.5 million non- (including child marriage), inadequate educa- Kuwaitis.—KUNA Scholarships registration period extended US requests more security measures at Kuwait airport KUWAIT:The General Secretariat of the statement yesterday that the registration Council of Private Universities yesterday period for those wishing to enrol in the diplo- KUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said Saleh Al-Fadhaghi, the Operations Manager the US visited Kuwait International Airport a cou- announced an extension till July 15 of the ma programs and students wishing to trans- received a request from the United States to take at the DGCA. Meanwhile, Fadhaghi said that the ple of weeks ago and praised the security meas- registration period for applying for internal fer to these programs has been extended till new precautionary measures and additional precautionary measures taken currently at the air- ures taken here,” Fadhaghi said. scholarships (Diploma Programs). July 15. Boresly confirmed that the extension inspections at Kuwait International Airport. The port already meet American demands, adding He added that the DGCA signed a two-year Assistant Secretary General for Academic is intended to provide an opportunity for request came amid American concerns regarding that they are of high level and certified by inter- contract with the International Civil Aviation and Students Affairs in the General those who refused or were not able to apply the possibility of terrorist operations in light of national monitoring bodies. “A team from the Organization (ICAO) to boost security measures at Secretariat of the Council of Private for undergraduate scholarship programs to the troubled security conditions in the region, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the airport. Universities, Dr Nebal Boresly said in a press apply for Diploma scholarships. —KUNA Jogging in malls ‘a popular sports’ during this Ramadan

By Nawara Fattahova holding a walkathon for the fifth year during the participant can choose the category that suits This big number indicates the interest of people waiting area and others. So we provide full spon- first 20 days of Ramadan. To participate in this him/her. There are directions of the way to walk to practice sports and be in good health,” she sorship for the event,” stressed Berjawi. KUWAIT: Exercising during the holy month of activity, people should register at the mall free of for each category,” Farah Berjawi, Assisting added. 360 Mall is also holding weekly entertainment Ramadan is very popular in Kuwait, especially charge. The walkathon takes place between 5:00 Marketing Manager at 360 Mall, told Kuwait According to her, the majority of participants events during the holy month. “Every Wednesday, jogging just before iftar. Usually people like to pm to 6:00 pm from Sunday to Thursday. It’s open Times. are Kuwaitis, and the number of men is larger. “It’s we hold a special program for kids including a dif- walk on the paths in residential areas, by the sea- to all ages, and ends on July 17. At the end, an “This activity started five years ago with 40 held between 5 and 6 pm, as this is the best time ferent activity every week. This week it’s tennis. side and elsewhere. But since Ramadan has been award ceremony will be held for the participants. people from the Rijeemy Health Center of Dr for the body to burn fat and it’s called the golden Also, every Tuesday we hold a treasure hunt, and falling in the summer during the past few years, The participants walk on all floors divided into Abdullah Al-Mutawa, who asked us to let them hour. We are holding this activity in cooperation this week we gave away 22 gifts. People can reg- it’s difficult to walk outdoor in the heat, so jog- different categories. The third floor is for ladies, jog at the mall after shops close. And since then, with the Red Crescent Society, who attend daily. ister for free at the mall - they should be 14 years ging in malls has become very popular. second floor is for interval sports, first floor is for we have been holding this activity, and today the We support them and help by providing facilities old and above, only for the first 100 participants,” 360 Mall mixes fun with healthy sports by free walkers and the ground floor is for men. “The number of participants has reached about 1,400. and equipment such as chairs for children in the she concluded. Lawmakers meet Amir, warn of organized plot against Kuwait

By B Izzak an emergency term. To hold the emer- gency term, at least 33 MPs must sign. KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Hammad said that what happened in Marzouq Al-Ghanem and 16 MPs yester- Kuwait recently indicates the presence day met with HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah of a conspiracy against Kuwait and MPs Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and a number of must shoulder their responsibility them spoke about moves to call the because the conspiracy is organized. Assembly from recess to discuss what Hammad explained that certain quar- they described as an “organized” conspir- ters exploited groups of youth and acy against the country. Speaking after stateless people (bedoons) to take part the meeting, Ghanem said that “MPs will in unlicensed demonstrations in the not remain silent toward the conspiracy country. The lawmaker was referring to being hatched against Kuwait and its opposition-led protests that took place constitutional institutions and the in the past few days to protest the arrest attempted plot against the constitution”. of opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak Ghanem said the lawmakers listened who was detained for six days for to the directives of the Amir about the allegedly insulting the judiciary. latest political developments and MP Youssef Al-Zalzalah said that the assured him that MPs will be in the front- Amir told them that legal measures will line to defend the country and its institu- be taken against unlawful actions that tions. The speaker said that more law- could scare people. Zalzalah said that makers will meet the Amir in the coming the Amir told the lawmakers that few days. Ghanem did not specify the authorities will not remain silent against nature of the conspiracy he was referring any plot against the country and will to but other MPs gave an explanation. prevent all forms of violence. Zalzalah MP Saadoun Hammad said he will said MPs told the Amir that the use of soon start coordinating with other MPs youth in demonstrations is a proof that to collect their signatures to call the “there are hands trying to disrupt securi- Assembly from summer recess to hold ty in the country”.

Study to resume Kuwaitization

KUWAIT: The Civil Service Council gave orders to the Civil Service Commission to conduct a detailed study on resuming the policy of replacing expatriate workers in the public sector with Kuwaiti manpower. The council also called the commission to carry out the study in cooperation with the State Audit Bureau, in order to come up with reg- ulations and measures to car- ry out the replacement plan commonly known as ‘Kuwaitization.’ The bureau would pro- vide information related to employment in the public sector, and violations to reg- ulations pertaining with the legal maximum age for expa- triate workers, according to a source with knowledge of the issue. The council previ- ously set the rate of Kuwaiti manpower that state depart- ments should commit to at least 90 percent. The study would identify the positions where expatriates workers have a majority in, and pro- pose measures to replace them with Kuwaiti workers, said the source who spoke to Al-Qabas on the condition of anonymity. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 LOCAL Four-member gang held for visa forgery 19 arrested in Jahra KUWAIT: Immigration detectives busted visa Road accident Jewellery stolen forging network that used citizens sponsorships A 20-year-old motorist was rushed to A citizen told Fahd Al-Ahmad police that his Sri without their knowledge in exchange of money Farwaniya Hospital in critical condition after col- Lankan maid stole gold jewellery worth KD 2,000 reaching KD 700 per transaction, as 25 transac- liding with a concrete barrier on Sixth Ring Road besides KD 500 in cash before disappearing. A tions were processed for expats the majority of near Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh. The young man was driv- security source said that criminal evidence offi- whom are Egyptian. Security sources said the net- ing when he lost control and hit the barrier. cers lifted fingerprints and detectives are working work is made of an ex-convict citizen, an Egyptian on the case. mandoub and two immigration employees, as Right of way Meals stolen investigations are still on to determine their Capital police arrested two men in their twen- A thief stole two meals and KD 90 from a deliv- responsibility. ties who exchanged blows and used knives over eryman on a motorcycle in Fintas. The man was the right of way on Gulf Road. Police took the two delivering a meal before suhoor and was stopped Jahra arrests to Amiri Hospital, then they were taken to Sharq by a driver who forced him to hand over the mon- A surprise campaign by Jahra police on Artal police station for questioning. ey and meals before escaping. The victim filed a Road resulted in the arrest of 19 men and women case at Fintas police station. Ahmadi detectives including an American and a Dutch girl, who were Hysterical fit are investigating. eating publicly during the day, while behaving Fahd Al-Ahmad police sent a young man to recklessly on the road. the psychiatric hospital to make sure about his Policemen insulted condition after he beat his family members inside Two policemen in Rawdha accused a citizen of Asian robbed the house and destroyed their cars during a hys- insulting them and making obscene gestures by A man claiming to be a detective robbed an terical fit. A security source said the family called hand. The two said that they pulled over a driver Asian and took KD 950 and his ID. The Asian who police seeking help after the suspect became hys- for a traffic violation, then when he was asked to was in Fahaheel was stopped by the man who terical following a dispute, and beat the family show his ID, he refused and did not lower the win- told him he was a detective and showed him a members badly, before damaging their cars. dow and began gesturing with insults, so his car military ID, and while the Asian was getting his ID Policemen arrested him, and following question- was blocked, so he got out and began screaming out of the wallet, he snatched it and ran away. ing, they decided to send him to the psychologi- at them. The victim filed a complaint, and police are inves- cal hospital for evaluation. tigating. Violation of fasting Domestic violence A Lebanese expat, who was in Meidan Hawally Phone abuse Fahd Al-Ahmad police are looking for an police station holding cell smoked during the day. A citizen filed a case of phone abuse and Egyptian in his mid-40s for beating his wife badly A security source said that the man was scream- threat to harm him against a person who sent a before escaping. A security source said the wife, ing inside the cell so they went to see what was message to his phone. A security source said that an Egyptian in her 30s, told police her husband going on. The Lebanese told them he wants to a citizen in his 30s went to Daiya police station beat her after becoming angry while they were know why he was held, but policemen smelled and told them that while in his house, he received arguing about a domestic issue. The woman cigarette smoke, then when they asked about it threatening messages from an unknown phone brought a medical report stating that she sus- the Lebanese said that he is not fasting and takes number and gave the number to police, who are tained various bruises and cuts. She said the hus- medicine. He was charged with public violation of investigating. band fled to an unknown place. fasting.

Growing economic, commercial KUWAIT: A child received treatment for smoke inhalation he suffered in a fire that gutted a first-floor apartment in Ishbiliya. Firefighters arrived at the scene in response to an emergency call, and discovered that thick smoke relations between India, Kuwait had reached the third floor where the child and his family lived. Firefighters evacuated the house and freed the family. Paramedics treated the child KUWAIT: India and Kuwait enjoy histori- companies. Shapoorji Pallonji, Mumbai awarded to Dodsal. L&T, Mumbai is also Institute (TERI), New Delhi is already doing onsite. —By Hanan Al-Saadoun cally close, warm and friendly ties. The visit has signed a contract in April 2014 with L1 for a feed pipeline project worth $ 1 bil- a pilot project worth US$ 39 million in the of HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad the Ministry of Public Works for the Al- lion of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Punj field of soil remediation with Kuwait Oil Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of Kuwait to India Sabah Hospital Project worth $ 640 million Lloyd, New Delhi has bagged $ 236 mil- Company (KOC). Search for bus arsonist in November 2013 has imparted a new and its execution would start soon. This lion KNPC’s project of revamping the As regards foreign direct investment KUWAIT: A fire that gutted 70 public trans- police investigations revealed that a teenager thrust to the growing India-Kuwait rela- company is also L1 as per the Central Ahamadi Fuel Depot which includes (FDI) from Kuwait to India, Kuwait invest- portation buses in Ardiya was deliberately loaded a jerry can with fuel from a nearby gas tionship, an Indian Embassy press release Tenders Committee (CTC) for one of the design, detailed EPC and commissioning ment Authority (KIA), which manages the started, according to preliminary investiga- station, then entered the bus garage after said yesterday. The bilateral trade turnover Kuwait University Projects which is worth of 11 new floating roof product tanks with sovereign wealth funds of Kuwait, has tions, a senior official said. The lack of safety cutting the wires of the fence. The youth then has crossed $18 billion mark during the $ 525 million. a capacity of about 228,000 cubic meters. already made an investment of about $ 2.7 and security procedures at the location used poured petrol on the busses, set them on fire last financial year (April 2013 - March 14). Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) has Simplex Project Ltd, Kolkata has secured a billion in India. KIA has further invested $ by the Kuwait Public Transportation Company for unknown reasons and escaped, said the Kuwait is India’s leading supplier of crude confirmed that one of the Gas Gathering subcontract worth $ 84 million with 5.37 million in the Power Grid Corporation were contributing factors in the event, said sources who spoke to Al-Qabas on the condi- oil and LPG. Both countries have long- Centres EPC project worth $840 million is Combined Group of Companies of Kuwait of India in December 2013. Some Indian Maj Gen Yousuf Al-Ansari, General Director of tion of anonymity. The sources added that standing ties in the arena of energy securi- being awarded to Larsen & Toubro, under which the Indian company would private companies such as GMR and Kotak the Kuwait Fire Services Directorate. the suspect is expected to be identified and ty. The current year is witnessing award of Mumbai while another Gas Gathering construct some service centres in Sabah Mahindra are in touch with KIA for attract- Meanwhile, sources with knowledge of arrested ‘very soon’. several big contracts in Kuwait to Indian Centre worth $810 million would be Al-Ahmad City. The Energy Resource ing investments into India. Entertainment City celebrates girgian KUWAIT: The Entertainment City hosts gir- Relations and Media Manager at the gian parties this weekend featuring various Touristic Enterprises Company. activities including cultural shows and vari- Visitors, especially children, will be ous competitions. handed girgian at the main entrance, Badr The parties will take place today, the added. The Entertainment City welcomes 12th of Ramadan and tomorrow, the 13th visitors during Ramadan everyday from of Ramadan, said Saqr Al-Badr, the Public 8:30 pm to 1:30 am. Saqr Al-Badr Kuwait helps diabetic children in Sudan

KHARTOUM: Kuwaiti ambassador to Each parcel, weighing 30 kgs, The Kuwaiti charity has also secured Khartoum Talal Al-Hajri has participated includes 12 basic kinds of food, suffi- aid to thousands of Syrians who have in a celebration for children with dia- cient for a family for a week. taken up refuge in the country. —KUNA betes where he took part in distributing 1,000 blood sugar testing device. This celebration was funded by Kuwaiti Zakat House with participation of Patients Helping fund Society in Sudan and Sudanese Diabetes Association. This support is important for the chil- dren who need care and attention, and distribution of the devices would contin- ue from the Kuwait Zakat House and people of Kuwait, ambassador Al-Hajri said in a speech. The ambassador praised the role of Sudan’s Patients Helping fund Society for overseeing the hospitals established by the State of Kuwait in Khartoum, Kassala and Al-Abyad, in addition to the facilities rendered by the state of Sudan. For his part, Chairman of the Board of Director of the Fund Dr Mohammad Al- Hassan Abdulrahman expressed grati- tude to the state of Kuwait for the chari- ties provided by the Kuwaiti people to their Sudanese counterparts. Commissioner-General of the Sudanese humanitarian aid Mohammed Al-Sennari praised the support of the State of Kuwait and the Fund in Sudan, especially aid they provided after the floods that swept through a number of areas in Khartoum last year. The device which is distributed to children with diabetes will cut down their hospital visits by 90 present, Chairman of Sudanese Diabetes Association Mohammad Ahmad Abdullah said. Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti International Islamic Charitable Organization is launching a campaign to aid some 1,600 families in Jordan as part of the associa- tion annual Ramadan philanthropic activities. Dr. Khalil Al-Hamad, the associ- ation supervisor in Jordan, said that the agency would distribute food parcels to KUWAIT: Firefighters tackled a blaze at a Hawally restaurant the families in various Jordanian cities and regions. moments before iftar Tuesday. No injuries were reported. —By Hanan Al-Saadoun THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

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BAGHDAD: Shiite Muslim volunteers from the Iraqi Ketaeb (brigade) Hezbollah, march as they join the Iraqi army to fight against jihadist militants of the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) yesterday. — AFP Over 50 bodies found south of Baghdad ‘Terrorists’ seize ex-chemical weapons site BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials discovered over 50 bodies, many of abled it, he said. result of the takeover of Muthanna, Iraq is unable “to fulfil its notorious “Sunni Triangle.” The last major report by UN inspec- them blindfolded and with their hands bound, in an agricul- The Islamic State group, which controls parts of Syria, sent obligations to destroy chemical weapons” because of the tors on the status of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction pro- tural area outside a city south of Baghdad yesterday, raising its fighters into neighboring Iraq last month and quickly cap- deteriorating security situation. He said it would resume its gram was released about a year after the experts left in March concerns over a possible sectarian killing amid the battle tured a vast stretch of territory straddling the border obligations “as soon as the security situation has improved 2003. It states that Bunker 13 contained 2,500 sarin-filled 122- against a Sunni insurgency. Military spokesman Brig Gen between the two countries. Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr Al- and control of the facility has been regained.” mm chemical rockets produced and filled before 1991, and Saad Maan Ibrahim said the bodies had gunshot wounds Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or Alhakim singled out the capture of bunkers 13 and 41 in about 180 tons of sodium cyanide, “a very toxic chemical and and were found south of the city of Hillah, a predominantly caliphate, in the land the extremists control. Alhakim said as a the sprawling complex 35 miles northwest of Baghdad in the a precursor for the warfare agent tabun.” — Agencies Shiite city about 95 kilometers south of Baghdad. He said an investigation was underway to determine the identities of the dead as well as the circumstances of the killings. The dead were all men between the ages of 25 and 40, and it appeared they had been killed a few days earlier and then dumped in the remote area, said a local police offi- cer and a medical official. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. The area south of Hillah is predominantly Shiite, but there is a belt of Sunni-majority towns north of the city. While the motives remain unclear, such grisly killings harken back to the worst days of Iraq’s sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007. At that time, with a Sunni insurgency rag- ing, Shiite militias and Sunni militant groups were notorious for slayings of members of the other sect, and bodies were frequently dumped along roadsides, in empty lots, ditches and canals. As the levels of violence dropped over time, such discoveries became rare. But sectarian tensions have soared once more, and authorities have once again begun to find unidentified bodies since the Sunni militant offensive that swept across much of northern and western Iraq over the past month. The conflict the past month has taken a sharply sectarian tone. The militant surge is led by the Islamic State extremist group, but other Sunni insurgents have joined, feeding of anger in their minority community against the Shiite-led government. On the other side, Shiite militias have rallied around the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to fight back against the militant advance. Also, Shiite-dominat- ed Iran, a close ally of Al-Maliki, has also been helping Iraq’s military - help that is believed to include military advisers. This week, an Iranian military adviser who was helping coor- dinate among Shiite militias was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, two Shiite militia commanders said yester- day. The officer was killed Sunday in Salahuddin province while helping organize Shiite militias in the defense of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra, 95 kilometers north of Baghdad. The militia commanders spoke on condi- tion of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media. Previously, only one Iranian has been confirmed killed in Iraq’s recent crisis - a pilot who Iran’s state news agency said died defending holy sites in Samarra. It was not clear how he was killed, or in what capacity in was fighting in Iraq.

Ex-chemical weapons site Meanwhile, the Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a letter circulated Tuesday at the United Nations. The US government played down the threat from the takeover, saying there are no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to use the material for military purposes. Iraq’s UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter that “armed terror- ist groups” entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the “terrorists” dis- p8_Layout 1 7/9/14 8:42 PM Page 1

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For thousands still in Assad jails, amnesty a ‘fraud’

BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad decreed under the anti-terror legislation the regime has an amnesty last month but for tens of thousands of used to lock up its opponents, armed or not, should prisoners, among them high-profile dissidents, the have been set free. But lawyers say less than 1,500 promise of freedom is a fraud. Yara Bader, 29, has people have been released, very few of them politi- been desperately waiting for word on her husband cal activists or other civilians caught up in raids. Mazen Darwish, a journalist and activist detained since February 2012. Her hopes that Assad’s Horrific conditions amnesty might lead to Darwish’s release are fading, Lama Fakih, researcher at Human Rights Watch, as she continues to wage an uphill struggle against said: “The Syrian government’s failure to release despair. “I wouldn’t want anyone to go through people, and their continuing to hold them in horrif- what we have suffered,” Bader said. “The amnesty ic conditions is something that should be con- gave me real hope they would be freed within demned.” She told AFP: “It appears the amnesty was hours, but they are still in jail a month on, and it is issued in a bid to gain legitimacy. Praise is not due.” impossible to know what will happen next.” Fakih added: “With some exceptions, it appears Her husband was arrested with two other promi- mainly those who were released had been held for nent political prisoners-blogger Hussein Ghreir and non-political reasons. The important thing to activist Hani Zeitani. They have been held since a remember is that these people should not have February 2012 raid on the Syrian Centre for Media been detained to begin with.” Syrian human rights and Freedom of Expression in Damascus. Bader activist Sema Nassar said Assad’s amnesty promise says she fears new charges may be brought against was a “fraud”. “It’s absurd that the decree got so the three to prolong their detention despite the much attention, considering how small the num- much publicized amnesty pledge by the president. bers have been in comparison to those still held,” “The wait just gets harder every day,” she said. “It’s a she said. “Take the instance of (opposition bastion) reality we have to face that, in spite of all our hopes, Daraya, near Damascus. Some 3,000 people from they may not be freed any time soon after all.” that town alone are currently in jail, all over accusa- Human rights groups say some 100,000 people tions connected to the uprising. Only 20 of them, have been detained since the uprising against including one woman, have been released in the ALEPPO: A man cries as he tends to a victim of a reportedly bomb barrel attack by the Syrian air- Assad’s rule erupted in March 2011, which escalat- past month.” Many of those released were rebel force, in the eastern Shaar neighborhood of the city of Aleppo yesterday. — AFP ed into an armed rebellion after the regime commanders or soldiers who were suspected of “Meanwhile, the raids and arbitrary arrest cam- reached via the Internet. “Many people loved him. unleashed a brutal crackdown. Another 50,000 are wanting to defect from the army. “This is not an paigns have by no means stopped, nor have torture He used to help people escape when the security believed to be held by the regime’s myriad of mili- amnesty, it’s a military operation. The amnesty was and other violations,” Nassar said. Yesterday, forces stormed protests,” said Ahmed. Earlier this tary intelligence branches. On June 9, after securing an incentive for fighters to hand over their weapons activists reported the death under torture in a year, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay condemned a new term in a controversial election held in gov- and to stop battling the government,” Nassar said. Damascus jail of Mohammad Zreik, who was in his the “routine” use of torture in Syrian prisons. Torture ernment-controlled areas only, Assad issued an Of the better known dissidents in jail, only a hand- early 20s. Zreik was picked up some 18 months ago in times of conflict constitutes a “war crime”, and its amnesty that should have freed tens of thousands ful, including veteran regime critic Jalal Nawfal and for his non-violent political and humanitarian systematic use may amount to a “crime against of prisoners. Crucially, many of those detained young activist Hazem Waked, have been freed. activism, according to his friend Fares Ahmed, humanity”, Pillay said.—AFP Syrian opposition elects El-Bahra as new leader ISTANBUL: The main exiled Syrian to elect a vice president and a secretary between the opposition and the regime opposition group yesterday elected general while el-Bahra is also expected in Switzerland earlier this year. In an Saudi-based businessman Hadi El-Bahra to give a press conference. El-Bahra will interview with AFP at those talks, El- as its new president in a bid to end have the task of keeping alive the cam- Bahra reaffirmed he was determined to internal divisions and breathe fresh life paign to unseat Assad amid territorial reach a political solution, saying that the into its flagging struggle to oust gains by the regime and the rise of the opposition was “not looking to seek President Bashar Al-Assad. The Syrian radical jihadist group Islamic State, power or impose an opinion”. National Coalition, the main exiled which the coalition vehemently oppos- El-Bahra is softly-spoken yet he has opposition group seeking the over- es. Jarba headed the coalition from July frequently publicly denounced human throw of Assad, will be hoping El-Bahra 2013 but failed in efforts to unite the rights violations by the Assad regime, as enjoys greater success than his prede- opposition and obtain significant well as the international community’s cessor Ahmad Jarba in keeping up the Western military support. failure to step up assistance to the pressure on the regime. “Hadi El-Bahra El-Bahra was born in Damascus in Syrian people. The Syrian opposition has was elected president of the coalition 1959 and studied industrial engineering been riven by internal conflicts linked to with 62 votes,” the coalition said in a in the United States, according to the disputes between its main foreign spon- statement after the early morning vote coalition’s website. He speaks English sors, notably Saudi Arabia and its influ- at the meeting in the Black Sea resort of fluently. But he has spent most of his ential Gulf Arab neighbor Qatar. But its Sile outside Istanbul in Turkey. adult life in Saudi Arabia, where he has members are now trying to reach a con- His nearest rival, Mowafaq managed several hospitals and busi- sensus and end the feuding which has Nayrabiyeh, won 41 votes, while Walid nesses and still lives. He headed the exasperated the West and anti-Assad El-Omari won just three votes, it added. opposition negotiating team in its dele- Syrians tired of being manipulated by Delegates are expected to return later gation to the failed Geneva 2 talks outside powers. —AFP

GAZA: Palestinian youths ride a donkey cart past a model of a Gaza Strip made M75 rocket displayed on a main street in Gaza City yesterday. — AFP Israel pounds Gaza; Hamas targets Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Gaza toll hits 32 as Israel keeps up air strikes

JERUSALEM: Israel significantly attacked a total of about 430 targets. was also an ongoing incident in broadened its campaign against Gaza We are at the start of the second day Kerem Shalom, location of the main yesterday after militants fired at of an operation which is widening,” he goods crossing between Israel and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in their biggest said. Israel’s security cabinet has southern Gaza, the army’s official confrontation since 2012, raising fears ordered the military to “significant spokesman said, but refused to give of a major Israeli ground offensive. It broaden” its assault on Hamas, a min- further details. was the most serious flare-up in and ister said yesterday. “We didn’t limit The current round of violence around the Gaza Strip since the campaign in terms of time, in fact began on June 12 when militants in November 2012 and came as Israel we ordered the IDF (army) to signifi- the West Bank kidnapped and mur- struggled to contain a wave of nation- cantly broaden the attacks on Hamas,” dered three Israeli teenagers, prompt- wide unrest over the grisly murder of Interior Minister Gideon Saar told ing a major crackdown on Hamas, a Palestinian teenager by Jewish army radio. whom Israel blamed for the killings. In extremists. Washington, Brussels and “We’re ready for every possibility, response, militants in Gaza, where a growing number of Arab states have including a ground operation if neces- Hamas has its stronghold, fired a demanded an immediate halt to the sary, although it’s not going to be the growing number of rockets over the violence which is threatening to first step. But there is a readiness for border, prompting Israel to launch expand into a wider conflict in a that and that’s why we ordered the Operation Protective Edge in the early region already bristling with tension. call-up of 40,000 reserve soldiers,” he hours of July 8. What started as an Since Operation Protective Edge said. Early yesterday, another five escalation along the Gaza frontier rap- began in the early hours of Tuesday, rockets struck southern Israel, and idly expanded as night fell on Tuesday Israel warplanes have bombed 430 two more were shot down by the Iron with a barrage of rockets on central targets in Gaza, and Hamas militants Dome anti-missile system over the Tel Israel, where sirens sent thousands have hit back with 117 rockets, some Aviv area, the army said, correcting bolting for the bomb shelters in and of which struck Jerusalem and Tel Aviv earlier media reports of five. There around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. —AFP and as far away as Hadera, 116 kilo- meters to the north. So far, 32 Palestinians have been killed, among Kidnapped Israelis shot 10 them militants but also women and children. More than 230 have been times with a silenced gun wounded. As dawn broke, residents of the northern Beit Hanun picked JERUSALEM: Three Israeli teenagers who were abducted by Palestinians in the through the bloodstained rubble of a occupied West Bank last month were shot at least 10 times with a silenced gun in house struck by a missile, killing an what appeared to be premeditated killings, a US official involved in the investi- Islamic Jihad commander and his fam- gation said. The disclosure clashed with speculation by some Israeli and ily. Palestinian commentators that the captors intended to take hostages for a pris- “We didn’t see the rocket that oner exchange but panicked and shot them. came down on us,” said Yunis Hamd The killing of the three Jewish seminary students followed the collapse of US- who lost six family members in the brokered peace talks in April. One of them, 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, also strike, which left a vast crater. “It killed held American citizenship. Israeli police believe the killings led far-right Jews to all of them,” he said. “This is pure kidnap and burn to death a Palestinian youth in revenge, and the incident also destruction by F-16 aircraft against contributed to an eruption of three weeks of clashes between Hamas fighters in children and civilians, and the whole the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military. world just sits watching,” said his Missing since hitch-hiking home on June 12, their bodies were discovered on neighbor Yasser Abu Awda, whose June 30. Israel blamed Hamas for their deaths but the Palestinian Islamist group house was also destroyed. “No one has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation. One of the three Israelis, Gil-Ad says anything, not even Arabs and Shaer, 16, telephoned police and said “They’ve kidnapped me!” after he, Fraenkel Muslims. We are under siege and no and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrah got into a car which investigators suspect was driven one cares.” So far, neither side has by a Hamas militant posing as a religious Jew. A second disguised gunman sat in shown any sign of backing down, as the front passenger seat. A US official involved in the probe said the FBI, whose Israel stepped up its preparations for a mandate includes Americans abducted abroad, received a recording of the dis- possible ground assault, approving tress call from Israel within days and sent it for audio analysis in the United the call up of 40,000 reservists. States. Distorted, tinny reports heard on the tape after an Arabic-accented male voice shouts “Head down!” in response to Shaer’s attempt to raise the alarm were ‘Broaden the assault’ found to be consistent with shots from a silenced firearm, the US official said. Overnight, Israeli warplanes “There were 10 gunshots,” added the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition bombed 160 targets across Gaza, hit- of anonymity. The use of a silencer led US investigators to believe the captors ting concealed rocket launchers, planned to kill the three teenagers from the outset, the US official said. Israeli Hamas command and control centers officials declined to respond to the American account of the investigation, saying and many tunnels, military it was still ongoing. “We haven’t even caught the kidnappers yet, so we’re not spokesman General Moti Almoz told going public with anything more now,” said an official with the Shin Bet security army radio. “Over the last two days we service, which is in charge of the case.— Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL FBI and NSA ‘snooped’ on Muslim-American leaders Surveillance authorized by secret intelligence court

WASHINGTON: The FBI and National Security University; Agha Saeed, a civil liberties activist veillance of political, religious or activist fig- Agency monitored the emails of prominent and former professor at California State ures solely because they disagree with public Muslim-American activists, academics and a University; and Nihad Awad, the executive policies or criticize the government, or for political candidate, according to a report co- director of the Council on American-Islamic exercising constitutional rights,” said a joint authored by journalist Glenn Greenwald. The Relations. According to the report by statement from the Justice Department and report appearing in the online news site The Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain, the spread- office of the Director of National Intelligence. Intercept said the surveillance was authorized sheet shows 7,485 email addresses listed as “Unlike some other nations, the United by a secret intelligence court under proce- monitored between 2002 and 2008. Many of States does not monitor anyone’s communi- dures intended to locate spies and terrorist the emails appeared to belong to foreigners cations in order to suppress criticism or to put suspects. The report, citing documents in an suspected of being linked to Al-Qaeda, people at a disadvantage based on their eth- NSA spreadsheet leaked by former contractor including Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Yemeni- nicity, race, gender, sexual orientation or reli- Edward Snowden, showed the emails of the American cleric killed in a 2011 drone strike. gion.” The statement added that a court order COLORADO: US President Barack Obama hugs Kalynne May Arrick from Tyler, Texas, individuals, but not their names. The Intercept But the journalists’ investigation also found for any surveillance of this kind requires after learning that her older brother Marine Sgt Kenneth May had been killed in said it identified at least five persons, all a number of US citizens monitored in this “probable cause, based on specific facts,” Afghanistan, at a pub in Denver, Colorado. — AFP American citizens, based on their email manner, which requires an order from the which indicate that the person “is an agent of addresses. secret intelligence court based on evidence a foreign power, a terrorist, a spy, or someone Afghan poll feud threatens They were Faisal Gill, a longtime linking them to espionage or terrorist activi- who takes orders from a foreign power.” “No Republican Party operative and one-time can- ties. US officials, responding to the report, US person can be the subject of surveillance Obama’s smooth exit hopes didate for public office; Asim Ghafoor, an said communications are only monitored with based solely on First Amendment activities, attorney who has represented clients in ter- a “legitimate foreign intelligence or counterin- such as staging public rallies, organizing cam- WASHINGTON: Afghanistan’s capricious poli- Rasmussen emerged from talks with Obama at rorism-related cases; Hooshang Amirahmadi, telligence purpose.”“It is entirely false that US paigns, writing critical essays, or expressing tics and fresh claims of poll fraud Tuesday the White House with a clear warning that an Iranian-American professor at Rutgers intelligence agencies conduct electronic sur- personal beliefs,” the statement added.—AFP clouded President Barack Obama’s search for a Afghanistan must not allow political turmoil to “responsible” exit from Afghanistan by year’s delay the already tardy closing of the deals. If end. The United States, which pointedly they are not signed before the NATO summit stayed mute during two rounds of voting for set for September in Wales, “we would be faced Afghanistan’s next president, swung into with severe problems as regards planning for a US F-35’s debut at British air show in doubt action as claims of mass electoral irregularities training mission after 2014,” he said. The White WASHINGTON: threatened the country’s first democratic House has repeatedly warned that if there is no US military officers are still designed for the US Marine Corps, were under control and staying on schedule. transfer of power-in which Washington has a BSA there will be no US troops but is content to unsure if the F-35 fighter will be cleared to supposed to feature in the air show, includ- Kirby said military leaders had full confi- huge stake. At a perilous moment for wait ... for a while. make its debut at a British air show next ing one aircraft belonging to Britain that is dence in the aircraft and that Defense Afghanistan, Obama made an unusual call to Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven week, a potentially damaging setback for undergoing tests in the United States. Secretary Chuck Hagel was due to pay a Abdullah Abdullah Monday, the candidate Warren told AFP there had never been a set the costly program. The Joint Strike Fighter Both the US Air Force and Navy last week visit on Thursday to the Eglin base where alleging he was cheated out of power by mass time line for Afghanistan to close the deal, has been touted as a technical marvel but ordered a halt to all F-35 flights following the engine fire took place. “The secretary’s stuffing of ballot boxes. Then Obama followed which outgoing President Hamid Karzai the fleet remains grounded as authorities the June 23 engine fire to allow for inspec- visit particularly at this time sends a strong up with a call Tuesday to Abdullah’s rival refused to sign despite intense US pressure. “Of investigate what caused an engine fire last tions of all the aircraft. The blaze broke out message to our international partners that Ashraf Ghani. course, we’re concerned ... but we still have month for one of the aircraft, the Pentagon at the rear of the plane on the runway dur- the United States remains fully committed Secretary of State John Kerry is meanwhile time,” Warren said. Most likely the political dra- said on Tuesday. ing takeoff at Eglin Air Force Base in to the F-35 program,” he said. expected in Kabul soon, as Washington pushes ma will play itself out and allow NATO time to Officials had viewed the July 14-20 Florida, according to the Air Force. The Defense officials told AFP it was possible for an expeditious audit of the election. For prepare a proper transfer of mission. “Even Farnborough International Air Show as a pilot managed to exit the jet safely and the that three of the four planes could take now, the administration’s priority is making assuming the process is delayed until the sure that a fair and transparent result emerges beginning of September in terms of the signa- promising opportunity to show off the new fire was put out, but officials have yet to part at Farnborough toward the end of the from the messy electoral process, to avoid the ture, I suspect that the US and the International plane before a global audience in Britain-a say what exactly triggered the problem. show, if aviation authorities conclude there political and tribal meltdown that would spell Security Assistance Force will manage to take country that has invested heavily in the is no serious risk to safety. “There’s still disaster for hopes of a smooth end to America’s the remaining actions within the remaining project. But the coming-out party may be ‘Fully committed’ some time to make a decision,” said an offi- longest war. Already beset with critiques that months of the year,” said Mark Schneider, vice called off over safety concerns, officials said. The incident raised fresh questions cial who spoke on condition of anonymity. his withdrawal from Iraq left a vacuum exploit- president of the International Crisis Group. “There has not been a decision made on about the F-35 program and whether it can Officials had originally planned for the F- ed by jihadists, Obama’s legacy could not bear that yet,” Pentagon spokesman Rear deliver as a game-changing stealth fighter. 35B aircraft to participate this weekend in a a compromised departure from Afghanistan, Risk of ‘dangerous times’ Admiral John Kirby told reporters when The most expensive weapons project in US military aviation display, the Royal where more than 2,300 American lives were On the political front, White House officials asked whether the plane would fly at the history has been plagued by repeated International Air Tattoo, but it was unclear lost. privately said Afghanistan’s Independent event as planned. “I think certainly we’d be delays and cost overruns. The program’s if authorities would be ready to take a deci- Election Commission had the capacity to probe Troop agreements key disappointed if we weren’t able to take it to costs have swelled to nearly $400 billion sion in time. British military aviation rules irregularities and certify the election in time for Farnborough. “That said, safety’s got to be for more than 2,000 aircraft, with each are stricter than US regulations and it is The United States aims to replace US com- the planned August 2 inauguration. One offi- priority number one, and it is. And nobody bat troops with a training mission and complet- cial reiterated that both Abdullah and Ghani, plane costing $160 million. The engine fire looking increasingly unlikely that the ing its Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) and who won preliminary results of the second wants to rush these aircraft back into the air came just as the program appeared to be British-owned F-35B-now at Eglin in Afghanistan’s companion deal with NATO gov- round of voting, have committed to signing the before we know exactly what happened.” gaining a more solid footing, with officials Florida-would make the trip across the erning the scope of the post-2014 mission is BSA-which will govern an initial force of nearly Four F-35Bs, the vertical take-off version pointing to progress in keeping costs Atlantic Ocean, officials said.—AFP key. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh 10,000 foreign troops.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Outside forces fuel anti-Roma tension Roma live in fear as vigilantes patrol Polish streets ANDRYCHOW: The Roma have never got on ders, in this case to Poland, by far the biggest they cannot get away with everything like it particularly well with their neighbors in this and most influential ex-Soviet bloc state in the was before,” he said. He did not want to be Polish town, but they cannot remember things European Union. identified for fear he might be penalized for his being as bad as they are now. What has changed part in the patrols. is that radical nationalists showed up in Soccer fans Andrychow last month in what may be the start Jobbik, now Hungary’s second strongest par- Night-time vigil REICHLING: A woman in a red raincoat is pictured through a window covered with of efforts to emulate allies in the Jobbik party ty, has been using its domestic success to build Party officials from Jobbik and Ruch raindrops as she rides her bike near Reichling, southern Germany yesterday. —AP from Hungary, which has exploited anti-Roma contacts and share tactics around eastern Narodowy said that the events in Andrychow sentiment there to widen its electoral appeal Europe, alarming rights campaigners. Yet until were a spontaneous, grassroots upsurge of and become the most powerful far-right move- now there has been little hard evidence of the anger. The politicians were only there to help, ment in eastern Europe. implementation elsewhere of tactics that includ- they said. But they acknowledge that the EU immigration The Polish gameplan involved Robert ing seize on incidents of violence in poor towns example of how Jobbik grew on the back of Winnicki, a far-right leader from Warsaw with between Roma and others. Jobbik’s usual tactic anti-Roma sentiment may have been an influ- into Switzerland personal ties to Jobbik, attending a protest in has been to hold rallies blaming Roma for crime ence: “I think that the organizers may have Andrychow where he said all the 100 or so eth- and other social grievances. And they recruit viewed certain successes in Hungary as an nic Roma living in the southern town of 20,000 local youths into vigilante patrols with the stated inspiration,” said Winnicki. hit record high should be driven out. At the rally, 30 km from aim of protecting citizens from the Roma. Andrychow holds an election for mayor later where the Nazis killed over a million Jews, Roma In Andrychow, the Jobbik playbook from this year and Roma community leaders fear the BERNE: More immigrants from the European SECO said. When immigration from non-EU and others at Auschwitz, supporters of a local Hungary seems to be being implemented far-right may use the tensions to get their can- Union entered Switzerland than ever before in countries is included the net figure stood at soccer club chanted “Cyganie raus!” - an echo of almost move for move. Early in June, locals say, a didate elected - as Jobbik did in Hungary. 2013, the year before Swiss voters put their 88,000 people, it said. Since the financial crisis country at odds with Brussels by backing a cap in 2008 the number of workers coming from the German “Juden raus”, or Jews out, using the pregnant Roma woman was attacked as she Winnicki said he could not rule out that the on immigration from the bloc. A net 66,200 EU southern and eastern European member Polish for Gypsy. walked in the street. Soon after, two young eth- party might bid for the office. Tamas Fodor, a citizens emigrated to Switzerland last year, the states has increased, the report also found. In Jobbik and Winnicki’s Ruch Narodowy, or nic Poles were beaten up in what many residents Jobbik activist who was in Warsaw this month highest number since a free movement of the early years of the free-movement pact, the National Movement, deny inciting racial hatred assumed was a Roma revenge attack. Anger for meetings with like-minded Poles, said his people pact came into force in 2002, the State immigration balance was characterized by in Andrychow. And they dismiss suggestions erupted. Supporters of the local soccer club, movement was not giving recommendations Secretariat for Economics (SECO) said in its Germans coming into the country. that Jobbik, which took 21 percent of the vote in Beskid Andrychow, set up a page on Facebook. to anyone in Poland. “But if they see something annual report which examines the effect of The immigration initiative, which passed by April’s parliamentary election, is pushing its It published accounts of what it said were violent that worked in Hungary, they can use it,” he the agreement on the Swiss economy. fewer than 20,000 votes, has deeply unsettled The SECO figures pre-date February’s sur- the Swiss business establishment and the agenda in Poland. But they do call it an inspira- attacks by Roma, and photographs of ethnic said. Who inspired the far-right surge in prise vote in favor of imposing tighter immi- SECO report found net immigration is closely tion to its small Polish ally. Roman Kwiatkowski, Poles it said had been beaten up. The page has Andrychow does not matter much to the Roma gration controls following a campaign which linked to Switzerland’s economic growth. head of the Association of Roma in Poland, says now been “liked” by 14,182 people. One post families gathered in the backyard of their apart- tapped into fears that Swiss culture is being Georg Lutz, political science professor at the Andrychow is the first case he has seen in read: “We’re not going to sit quietly and pretend ment building on Stefan Batory Street, on the eroded by foreigners, who account for nearly a University of Lausanne, said Switzerland’s need Poland of far-right parties stoking anti-Roma that everything is OK. We are shouting long and outskirts of the town. They are just scared. quarter of the population. Switzerland said last for workers from abroad was nothing new and feeling in this way: “It is very dangerous,” he told loud: enough of Gypsy impunity!” They said the patrols by soccer fans were still month it would introduce immigration quotas would continue for the foreseeable future. Reuters. “It does not allow us to look to the going on at weekends. They only went out at for EU citizens from 2017, sparking a sharp “Switzerland has been an immigration country Gypsies out! reaction from the European Union which dis- for the last 50 years roughly,” Lutz said. “If you future with confidence.” Roma residents said night to get essentials from the shops and then missed the plans as incompatible with the look at the demographics, Switzerland will they had kept their children from school in On June 13, about 200 people, many of never alone. One man, Rafal Strauss, said the pact that guarantees the free movement of need immigrants to keep the economy going.” recent weeks and stayed home after dark for fear them young soccer fans, held a rally in a tree- community had started keeping their children workers. The EU intake in 2013 represented around of attack. lined square in the centre of Andrychow. It was home from school. Two Roma woman said they The SECO report said limits on immigration, 0.8 percent of Switzerland’s roughly 8.1 million Few see Ruch Narodowy, which took 1.4 per- there that some chanted “Cyganie raus!” had heard that ethnic Poles in at least local two given Switzerland’s current economic and population. According to figure from the cent in May’s EU election, gaining the kind of Winnicki of Ruch Narodowy said at the protest: apartment blocks had submitted petitions to demographic conditions, could have negative Federal Department for Statistics, the number repercussions on the country’s growth poten- of foreign residents has risen by just over 30 clout Jobbik has in Budapest. It tapped in to “We have been dealing here for several years the city authorities asking that Roma neighbors tial and labor market, while the department’s percent since 2002. The increase in Swiss resi- resentment of Hungary’s 6.5 percent Roma with a terror by the Gypsy minority for which be moved out - an assertion that could not be director praised the impact of the free-move- dents over the same period is a little more minority - part of an ethnic community of some the town authorities and the police have no verified. Another Roma man, Mieczyslaw ment pact. “Whatever its fate may be, the cur- than 6 percent. Lutz said he was convinced the 10 million scattered across Europe and long dis- answer. “The town should expel the whole Pankowski, said he was now too scared to take rent free movement of people agreement has government would find a solution to the criminated against. Poland’s Roma number only Gypsy group.” In the days that followed, groups his 7-year-old disabled daughter for treatment strengthened the competitiveness of busi- immigration question that would not do too about 50,000, or 0.13 percent of its population. of men in white shirts began “civil protection in a nearby town and the family lived in fear of nesses in Switzerland and has enabled the much harm to the Swiss economy and that Nonetheless, events in Andrychow indicate that patrols”, roaming the streets each evening. One attacks at night: “We take it in turns to keep Swiss economy to post above-average growth women could be a solution to any resulting in recent years,” SECO Director Marie-Gabrielle skills shortage. He said: “There is still a huge Jobbik - snubbed even by many west European student and soccer fan who took part said they watch,” he said. “We’re frightened to go to sleep Ineichen-Fleisch told journalists in Berne. drop-out rate, compared to other countries, far-right parties as anti-Semitic and racist - is had been discontinued after succeeding in in case someone throws a bottle through the More than 60 percent of the European for women from the work force when they spreading its ideology beyond Hungary’s bor- ending violence by Roma. “They have seen that window.” —Reuters immigrants came to Switzerland to work, the have children.” —Reuters Ukraine tightens grip on pro-Russian rebels

DONETSK: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was to face renewed European pressure yesterday to talk to pro-Russian rebels on a truce as Kiev tightened its grip around jittery rebel stronghold Donetsk. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were expected to push the Western-backed leader on a ceasefire in three-way telephone talks but Kiev has until now shrugged off calls to halt an offensive that has reclaimed a string of key rebel towns. Dressed in military fatigues Poroshenko on Tuesday made a triumphant visit to the vanquished rebel bastion of Slavyansk where government troops raised the national flag last week after pro-Moscow insurgents fled in the face of a fierce onslaught. Poroshenko told reporters he would only speak “to the real masters of (the eastern region of) Donbass-the steel workers and miners, peo- SLAVYANSK: The fins of a mortar shell lay on a piece of cloth in ple who hold the most power” in the conflict front of a destroyed house in the village of Semyonovka yesterday, zone. during fierce battles between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian The resurgent leader promised to win militants. —AFP back “very soon” the regional capitals of Donetsk and Lugansk but the rebels are dig- idency. The Kremlin has been unusually torial integrity as vital to European security ging in and have pledged to battle on. silent since the string of military advances and important to halting Putin’s seeming Ukraine’s military says it controls all routes in by Kiev with analysts saying that Putin ambition to resurrect a tsarist or post- and out of the cities and a spokesman for could be distancing himself from the rebels Soviet empire. Poroshenko on Tuesday dis- Kiev’s National Security and Defense Council despite calls from hawks to send troops missed the man who had headed Kiev’s warned a plan was in place that would give across the border. Washington meanwhile self-proclaimed “anti-terrorist operation” the rebels an “unpleasant surprise.” In has consistently backed the stepped-up since its launch on April 13 and replaced Donetsk-an industrial city of some 1 million campaign being waged by Ukrainian him with Vasyl Grytsak-a career security people-fears are mounting among the popu- troops and irregular forces since service officer. The reshuffle was one of sev- lation that the mining hub will face clashes Poroshenko’s promise after his election in eral in the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) similar to the ones that gutted the city’s air- May to quickly quash an uprising that has and appeared to represent an attempt by port in May. cost nearly 500 lives and inflamed East- Poroshenko to place trusted associates in Eyewitnesses told AFP that aircraft carried West ties. top positions rather than any change in tac- out strikes on an abandoned mine where The United States views Ukraine’s terri- tic in the campaign. —AFP rebels are based in the western outskirts of the city. Rebel military chief Igor Strelkov- whom Kiev accuses of being a Moscow intel- Somalia’s president ligence operative-said fighters were working to reinforce the weak defenses around Donetsk and bolster their numbers. “We are sacks security chiefs taking urgent measures to prepare Donetsk MOGADISHU: Somalia’s president sacked his police and intelligence chiefs yesterday after for battle,” Stelkov was reported as telling the Islamist Shebab fighters launched a major assault against his palace for the second time this insurgent’s TV station yesterday by Russia’s year. “Both the police and intelligence chiefs were replaced, and the minister for the national state ITAR-TASS news agency. Poroshenko- security was named,” Information Minister Mustafa Duhulow said. Recent Shebab attacks who signed a historic political and trade deal have targeted key areas of Somalia’s government or the security forces, apparently to dis- with the EU last month-tore up a 10-day credit claims the authorities are winning the war against the Islamists. ceasefire on July 1 because of uninterrupted A Shebab spokesman confirmed that the group was behind the attack late on Tuesday, rebel attacks that claimed the lives of more and claimed their commandos had managed to seize President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s than 20 Ukrainian troops. office inside the compound known as Villa Somalia. However, government dismissed their claims, saying the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen had been killed near the entrance of the com- Diplomatic tug-of-war pound. “Of the four attackers, three were killed in the car park and one was captured,” Uneasy EU leaders are hoping that a Duhulow said. A security official had told AFP earlier that at least nine attackers were new truce and a Kremlin promise not to involved, and had all been killed. They had been dressed in government army uniforms. meddle can take pressure off the bloc to Bomb disposal experts detonated several explosive devices, “including a suicide vest adopt sweeping sanctions that could dam- that one attacker was wearing that had failed to detonate,” Duhulow added. Mohamud, age their own strong energy and financial who was not in the complex at the time of the attack, later delivered a defiant message bonds with Russia. Russian President close to the charred wreckage of the car bomb that gunmen used in their attempt to storm Vladimir Putin was to discuss the Ukraine the compound. “I am here to stay, with Allah’s will... I say to them, you will not kill us, and nor crisis yesterday with Italian Foreign Minister will you demolish our spirit,” Mohamud said, also thanking the 22,000-strong African Union Federica Mogherini who is visiting Moscow force who helped battle the attackers and guard the president. —AFP after Rome took over the EU’s rotating pres- THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Yemen accuses Shiite rebels of ‘atrocities’

SANAA: Yemeni authorities yesterday as tribes on both sides, as the rebels Huthi Shiite rebels, known as had violated an agreement for the army to safety of the armored brigade’s command- accused Shiite rebels of “atrocities” in the advanced from their mountain strong- Ansarullah, “stormed the headquarters of withdraw from the city. Under the deal, er, General Hamid al-Qushaibi, and “all sol- northern city of Amran, which they holds towards the capital. Home to an the 310th Armoured Brigade, looted the military police was to replace soldiers diers and officers” they have captured. seized in a major advance towards the estimated 120,000 people, the city fell weapons and equipment there, and killed of the 310th Armored Brigade as rebels Residents told AFP that rebels had also capital. In the thick of a bumpy political into rebel hands on Tuesday after a three- a number of soldiers and officers,” said withdrew from government headquarters arrested supporters of the Sunni Islamist transition, Yemen is also grappling with day battle which has uprooted some Yemen’s Supreme Security Committee, they had seized. party Al-Islah, whose gunmen fought an Al-Qaeda threat as well as a separatist 10,000 families, according to the Red quoted by state news agency Saba. It said But the rebels “did not comply with the alongside the army. movement in the south. Amran, 50 kilo- Crescent. By seizing Amran, the rebels they had also taken over government agreement and attacked the brigade’s But the city was quiet yesterday, resi- meters north of Sanaa, has since have made a major advance towards the headquarters in the town. A presidential headquarters and committed terrifying dents said, and authorities have so far not February been the scene of fighting capital, posing a threat to President committee which has negotiated several atrocities,” it charged. The security commit- announced any offensive to drive out the between troops and Huthi rebels, as well Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi’s government. ceasefires with the rebels said Ansarullah tee held the rebels responsible for the rebels. —AFP

War, hunger darken South Sudan’s third anniversary India’s Modi tightens JUBA: Thousands of South Sudanese waved flags although aid workers say the real figure is likely at military parades to mark three years of inde- far higher. Almost 100,000 civilians are sheltering pendence yesterday, despite having little to cele- in squalid camps inside UN bases fearing grip on ruling party brate in a war-torn young nation ravaged by eth- revenge attacks if they leave. Aid group Oxfam nic atrocities and threatened with famine. The said South Sudan was “currently Africa’s worst streets of the capital were lined with banners pro- crisis with nearly four million-a third of the coun- Most trusted aide Shah named BJP president claiming “One People, One Nation”, as the govern- try’s population-at risk of severe hunger and an ment of President Salva Kiir put on a show of aid effort that has only so far reached half of NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra ing India’s Hindu culture. removed the normally influential RSS from the force with a military parade and speeches intend- those in need”. Modi tightened his grip on the reins of power Shah, who was appointed by the party’s cen- decision-making process for party president. ed to celebrate the breakaway from the repres- “The world’s attention is elsewhere as Africa’s yesterday after the appointment of his most tral parliamentary board, has denied criminal “This is the first time that the RSS was not in the sive government in Khartoum. worst humanitarian catastrophe descends into trusted aide, Amit Shah, as president of the rul- charges against him, including allegedly order- picture, something never seen before. Modi has Security was heavy at the events, underscor- more misery. We will be staring into the abyss ing Hindu nationalist party. Shah, who has ing the bitter divisions in the world’s youngest and fail to avert a famine if funds do not start known Modi since the 1980s in their home state nation where a nearly seven-month-old civil war arriving soon to help the people of South Sudan of Gujarat, is seen as a shrewd political organizer rages on. “It’s a sad anniversary,” admitted Juba at risk of starvation, disease and violence,” said and tactician credited with delivering Modi’s resident Gideon, 23, saying he had hoped for bet- Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam International chief.”If huge election victory in May. He is also contro- ter three years on from the fanfare and optimism the aid effort does not increase 50,000 children versial, having been censured during the elec- that swept the country in July 2011. At govern- could die from malnutrition. Since the current tion for inflammatory comments after anti- ment-organized celebrations in the heart of capi- crisis began in December last year fighting has Muslim riots and he faces murder and extortion tal, dance troupes draped in the national flag forced 1.5 million people from their homes and charges dating back to his time as home minis- sang and danced, as drummers banged out beats numbers continue to rise.” ter in Gujarat. to shrug off the mood of gloom. Ugandan On the eve of the anniversary, the departing “From today and with immediate effect, Amit President Yoweri Museveni, who has sent in UN representative in South Sudan issued a Shah will take over as the BJP (Bharatiya Janata troops to prop up Kiir’s government, was one of scathing attack on the country’s leaders, calling Party) president,” outgoing president Rajnath the few senior regional leaders to attend, with them a “self-serving elite” responsible for a loom- Singh, who has been named India’s home minis- old enemies Sudan sending their second vice- ing “man-made famine”.”Thousands and thou- ter, told reporters. Modi and Singh congratulat- president. sands have been killed,” said Hilde Johnson of ed Shah after the announcement at BJP head- “Let’s focus on peace, reconciliation and com- the UN mission in South Sudan, lashing out at quarters in New Delhi, giving him a giant ing back together... I call on all of you to exert both the government and rebels, warning that marigold garland and feeding him sweets in maximum effort to stop the bleeding in our one of world’s least developed nations has “been front of media in a traditional gesture of celebra- nation,” Kiir told the crowds. South Sudan has set back decades”. Leaders were sick with “the tion. “Amit Bhai started his journey as an ordi- been wracked by war since mid-December, when cancer of corruption” with the country’s billions nary Karyakarta (worker) & has repeatedly presidential guards loyal to Kiir clashed with of dollars worth of oil “a curse rather than a proven himself through tireless hard work & troops supporting ousted vice-president Riek blessing”, she said. determination,” Modi tweeted, adding that Machar, who fled to the bush and rallied a huge Campaign group Global Witness said the under Shah’s leadership the party would rebel army. The fighting has been marked by government had borrowed the “monumental become stronger. widespread atrocities against both members of sum” of $1 billion this year from oil companies, Modi, who campaigned on a platform of the Nuer people, to which Machar belongs, and much to “pay off last year’s debts”, and about the clean government and economic development, NEW DELHI: Indian Home Minister and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, Kiir’s Dinka group, the single largest tribe. same amount the United Nations is appealing won the biggest mandate in 30 years in the Rajnath Singh (left) looks on as new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit for donors to fund in terms of aid. Peace talks in April-May national elections. Shah, 50, is credit- Shah (center) is garlanded by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the ‘Sick’ leaders luxury hotels in the Ethiopian capital Addis ed with clinching victory for the BJP in the elec- appointment of the party’s president yesterday. —AFP Civilians have been massacred and dumped Ababa have made little progress and last month torally critical state of Uttar Pradesh where he in mass graves, patients murdered in hospitals they halted indefinitely, with both sides refusing was chief strategist. Like Modi and Singh, the ing extra-judicial killings carried out by police established full control,” Delhi-based Ganguli and churches, and entire towns flattened as to attend the discussions. “If there are further portly and bearded Shah rose through the ranks and running an extortion racket with police in said. The appointment comes as the BJP gears urban centers including key oil-producing hubs delays... we can draw only one conclusion; that of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Gujarat. Political analyst Amulya Ganguli said up for elections in four states, including western changed hands several times. The most conser- this is only about a scramble for power,” Johnson grassroots organization seen as the ideological Modi now had “virtual control over the party and Maharashtra and tense Jammu and Kashmir, the vative estimates put the toll at 10,000 dead, added. —AFP fountainhead of the BJP, committed to defend- government”, adding that he had successfully country’s only Muslim-majority state. —AFP

KANDAHAR: Afghan security forces stand near the bodies of insurgents after a suicide attack in Kandahar yesterday. 22 militants were shot dead after launching an attack on police headquarters and the provin- cial governor’s office in the southern city of Kandahar. Five policemen and four civilians also died. —AFP Election crisis, rising death toll add to Afghan woes

KABUL: Fighting in Afghanistan is spread- chief of the UN mission chief in Afghanistan the Afghan army and police counter-attack ing into populated areas and taking a record known as UNAMA. “The impact on civilians, after an offensive by 800 Taleban fighters in toll on civilians, the UN warned yesterday, as including the most vulnerable Afghans, is an area from which US troops withdrew presidential candidates urged supporters proving to be devastating.” In the first six only in May. Yesterday eleven militants were not to raise tensions after the disputed elec- months of this year, UNAMA documented shot dead after launching an attack on tion result. Political deadlock and soaring 4,853 civilian casualties-up 24 percent on police headquarters in the southern city of civilian casualties have caused deep disquiet the same period in 2013. The toll included Kandahar. Three policemen and a civilian among Afghanistan’s international backers, 1,564 deaths and 3,289 injuries, with ground woman also died. “The fight is increasingly who sent tens of thousands of NATO-led sol- engagements causing two out of every five taking place in communities, public places diers and billions of dollars of aid to the civilian casualties in 2014. and near the homes of ordinary Afghans, country after 2001. Fears that Afghanistan could see a return with death and injury to women and chil- Claims that a functioning state has to the ethnic bloodshed of the 1992-1996 dren in a continued disturbing upward spi- replaced the harsh Taleban regime look to be civil war have grown during the deepening ral,” said Georgette Gagnon, director of in jeopardy after presidential candidate election crisis. Abdullah Abdullah, a former human rights for UNAMA. Abdullah Abdullah rejected the result of the anti-Taleban resistance fighter, came second As anger among Abdullah’s supporters June 14 run-off election, saying he was the vic- in preliminary results to Ashraf Ghani, but has increased over alleged fraud, his cam- tim of systematic fraud. Security gains also Abdullah said the election was fraudulent paign yesterday appealed for calm and said appear fragile as the final 50,000 NATO troops and he expected to become the next presi- no street demonstrations should be held. end their combat mission by December, after dent. Abdullah’s vote base is among the “We are calling for people not to protest and 13 years of fighting that have failed decisively Tajiks and other northern Afghan groups, to wait for a few days to see what decisions to defeat the Taleban insurgents. Underlining while Ghani attracts much of his support are made,” a press official from Abdullah’s the extent of the violence plaguing from the Pashtun tribes of the south and team said. Abdullah’s poll rival Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan, a UN report revealed that civilian east-a disturbing echo of the ethnic divi- who says he won the election fairly, called casualties of the conflict soared by 24 percent sions of the civil war. for the election timetable to be respected. in the first half of 2014. The final result is due out around July 24 Ground combat is now causing more ‘Disturbing spiral’ after adjudication of complaints and an anti- deaths and injuries than improvised explo- Afghan government forces face a fraud audit. US President Barack Obama sive devices in a worrying sign of spreading demanding test in the coming years with warned the two rivals against “resorting to conflict. “The nature of the conflict in declining assistance from the US-led military violent or extra-constitutional means”-a Afghanistan is changing in 2014 with an coalition that has trained and equipped response to reports that Abdullah planned escalation of ground engagements in civil- them. Recent weeks have seen fierce fight- to announce a parallel government to rule ian-populated areas,” warned Jan Kubis, ing in the southern province of Helmand, as the country. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

All at sea: Is Australia’s fast-tracked asylum policy fair? ‘Enhanced screening’ means asylum seekers asked 4 or 5 questions SYDNEY: At the heart of an unprece- thinks the person may have a valid claim. dented legal challenge to the return by The four or five questions are believed to Australia of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka involve basics on name, age, birthplace is Australia’s controversial testing of their and the reason for the asylum seeker’s claims in a brief interview on the high attempt to travel to Australia, lawyers seas. Lawyers said the “enhanced screen- said. ing” process involves asylum seekers Some of the people on the boat of 37 being asked just four or five questions Sinhalese and four Tamil asylum seekers via Skype or teleconference on a boat handed over by Australia to Sri Lanka at with no access to independent legal rep- the weekend said they told Customs offi- resentation. cials via satellite phone that they were If the detainee does not raise a red attempting to reach New Zealand, not flag by saying they want to seek asylum Australia. “I don’t think they gave a prop- because they fear persecution, or if the er opportunity to express ourselves,” one interviewing officer does not believe man travelling with his wife and three their story, they are immediately sons said, on condition of anonymity. screened “out”. Human rights lawyers The man said he told Customs he was have denounced the fast-tracked trying to get to New Zealand for person- process at sea as illegal under interna- al reasons and had no problems with the tional law. The conservative Australian Sri Lankan government, an answer that government has repeatedly declined to experts said would have screened him AT SEA: This picture shows an Australian-gifted naval patrol boat in Colombo during a ceremony commissioning two comment on the process in detail, leav- out immediately. A second man, who Australian-gifted naval patrol boats that will be deployed for preventing people smuggling operations. Morrison arrived ing lawyers to piece it together based on identified himself as N A Nilantha, said in Colombo yesterday as a group of Sri Lankan migrants controversially turned back by Canberra at sea said they were reports from those who have been sub- he told them he “intended to get a good treated worse than dogs. — AFP jected to the process and returned. job and enhance our family’s economic detention centre but she elected to Lanka, the council said. The fast-tracked Migration Act authorizes the govern- “These people, potentially in fear of situation” in New Zealand. return to Sri Lanka with her travel com- method of gauging whether a person ment to undertake offshore processing,” their lives, are being picked up by armed panions, rather than proceed alone. “If has a valid claim to asylum was intro- said Ben Saul, an international law pro- naval personnel on the high seas and Torture, rape, violence the only option is ‘we’ll send you to duced by former Labor Prime Minister fessor at Sydney University. “The argu- being submitted to a quick interview, The responses potentially bear out Manus or Nauru by yourself’ then that is Julia Gillard in 2012 for use on Sri Lankan ment is whether this move is circum- with little privacy, over Skype or telecon- claims by the Australian and Sri Lankan surely coercion,” said the University of asylum seekers. Morrison noted that venting that by creating some alterna- ference,” said Mary Crock, a professor of government that many asylum seekers Sydney’s Crock, referring to offshore “advanced screening” was simply a con- tive process outside what’s allowed by public law at the University of Sydney. are economic migrants, although rights detention centers set up in Papua New tinuation of the previous government’s the Act.” The criticism is supported by “It’s gobsmackingly bad international groups say Tamils seek asylum to pre- Guinea and the remote Pacific island of policies. “This is how you stop the boats,” Australian Human Rights Commissioner legal practice,” she said. “You can’t possi- vent torture, rape and other violence at Nauru. Australia’s Tamil Refugee Council Morrison said. “This is how it has to be Gillian Triggs. “It sounds as though three bly be satisfied that everybody on the the hands of the military. Only one per- said of the 153 people on board a sec- done because this is what works.” or four or five questions are being asked boat wasn’t a refugee.” Controversially, son aboard the boat, a Sinhalese ond boat, whose fate is currently before Lawyers, however, say the Sri Lankan by video conference, snap judgments rather than a lengthy, detailed interview woman, was deemed to require further the High Court, some 48 are from India’s cases highlight a key difference: the are being , and they’re simply being to assess a person’s claim for asylum, it is assessment of her claim. Immigration 60,000-odd strong, unregistered Sri screening is now taking place on a boat returned,” Triggs said. “There is an obliga- effectively a triaging method to gauge Minister Scott Morrison said she was Lankan Tamil refugee community. At on the high seas, rather than at one of tion with international law to have a whether the immigration department offered transportation to an offshore least 11 of those had been tortured in Sri the offshore detention centers. “The proper process.”— Reuters Both sides claim victory in tight Indonesian election Unofficial tallies show Jakarta governor leading

JAKARTA: Both sides claimed victory yesterday in Indonesia’s tightest and most divisive presidential election since the end of authoritarian rule, as unofficial tallies showed Jakarta gov- ernor Joko Widodo leading over ex- general Prabowo Subianto. The standoff in the hotly contested race to lead the world’s third-biggest democracy prompted President JEJU: High wave hits a lighthouse as typhoon Neoguri approaches the Korean Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to call Peninsula in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, South Korea yesterday. — AP for restraint from both sides until offi- cial results are announced in two weeks’ time. The popularity of Widodo-known Neoguri bears down as “Jokowi” and the first serious presi- dential contender without roots in on Japan’s mainland the era of dictator Suharto-was clear earlier in the day, when hundreds of TOKYO: Typhoon Neoguri bore down on tion of more than one million-were being supporters mobbed him as he voted the Japanese mainland yesterday after slam- urged to seek shelter before nightfall. On in central Jakarta. As a series of unof- ming into the southern Okinawa island Monday officials issued their highest ficial tallies, which are considered reli- chain, killing two people in the country and typhoon alert for Okinawa, warning that able, started to show him with a lead leaving a trail of damage in its wake. Packing Neoguri-which means raccoon in Korean- of four to five percentage points, a gusts of up to 162 kilometers (100 miles) per could turn deadly. Two days later, the smiling Widodo declared victory hour, the typhoon could hit the southern weather agency’s chief forecaster Satoshi flanked by members of his party, main island of Kyushu today before moving Ebihara said the situation in Okinawa extending his thanks to “all the east along the Japanese archipelago, the remained serious even as the typhoon Indonesian people”. JAKARTA: Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, popularly known as ‘Jokowi’ gestures after national weather agency said. Officials said moved out to sea, with the agency issuing a But shortly afterwards Prabowo, delivering his victory speech yesterday. — AP Neoguri would bring torrential rain and fresh rainfall alert. He also called on resi- who has admitted ordering the warned of the risk of flooding and land- dents across the country of 128 million to abduction of democracy activists humble background, Widodo is seen slides, after the storm-which has weakened regularly monitor the latest weather warn- before the Suharto’s downfall in 1998 as likely to usher in a new style of News from a super typhoon-forced half a million ings and advisories. “Typhoon Neoguri and was formerly married to one of leadership and consolidate democra- people to seek shelter in Okinawa on could make a landfall in Kyushu tomorrow the strongman’s daughters, also cy should he win the election. in brief Tuesday. and approach eastern Japan on the follow- claimed victory. The 62-year-old, who Prabowo in contrast has faced criti- By yesterday afternoon, the typhoon was ing day,” Ebihara said. “Western and eastern has pushed a strongman image on cism that he may shift Indonesia back churning in the East China Sea headed Japan will likely see heavy, powerful rain, the campaign trail to win votes, said towards authoritarian rule. In one Birds blamed for toward southern Japan, as round-the-clock particularly along the Pacific coastline. We survey institutes used by his cam- recent talk, he reportedly said that a US copter crash television footage pinpointed its latest loca- urge people in the affected areas to exercise paign team showed that he and run- Western-style political system, includ- LONDON: Geese penetrated the windscreen of an HH-60G Pave tion and helmet-clad reporters surveying the utmost caution,” he added. ning mate Hatta Rajasa “have ing direct elections, “doesn’t suit” Hawk helicopter during evening training mission in January, dis- the damage left by the powerful storm. In received the support and mandate Indonesia. Some 190 million voters abling the pilot and co-pilot and leading to the crash that killed four the Okinawan capital Naha, traffic lights Torrential downpours from the people of Indonesia”. were eligible to cast ballots in the US Air Force crewmembers, a military investigation revealed yester- went out and television footage showed Just over 52,000 households had no pow- Speaking earlier in the day, he had election. day. The helicopter crashed on the eastern coast of England while split trees, signboards flying about and a er as of noon yesterday in Okinawa, while pledged to “respect the people’s deci- Polling went smoothly across the practicing nighttime rescue mission scenario for a downed F1-6 destroyed restaurant, with the shattered schools were closed with air and sea traffic sion”. However he added: “It must be country, from eastern Papua to the pilot. The Pave Hawk was flying over grass-covered marshland near building blocking a street. halted. In just 12 hours, Okinawa’s main island really their decision and not an engi- main island of Java and jungle-clad Cley next the Sea when geese, likely startled by the noise rose in The weather agency warned that as was hammered by twice the amount of rain neered one. If it’s engineered, we Sumatra in the west, and no major flight and hit the helicopter flying at about 110 feet above ground much as 300 millimeters (12 inches) of rain that usually falls in the entire month of July. must take clear action.” disruptions were reported. Widodo, level. Investigators concluded that at least three geese hit the wind- could fall on Kyushu in just 24 hours Some in the village of Yomitan were shocked 53, was ahead by a long way in the screen, disabling the pilot, co-pilot and the aerial gunner. All three through noon today. Kyushu, situated next to see muddy water sloshing into their Behave like statesmen polls for months leading up to the were rendered unconscious. One goose also hit the nose of the air- to the biggest island of Honshu where major homes as heavy wind and rain pummeled A spokesman for Widodo’s cam- craft, disabling the trim and flight path stabilization systems. With cities including Tokyo and Osaka are located, the area. “I’m 89 years old and this is the first paign, Anies Baswedan, called on election, but his lead shrank during both pilots unconscious, and stabilization systems disabled, the hel- was already experiencing heavy rain and time I’ve experienced something like this- Prabowo and his running mate to the campaign as he was attacked by icopter banked left to the point it had no vertical lift. It crashed strong winds. Residents in remote villages nature can be overwhelming,” an elderly behave like “statesmen”, adding that a string of smears. The most damag- about three seconds after being struck by the geese. and larger communities across the island- woman in the village told public broadcaster “all credible survey institutes ing was a claim that he is an ethnic where the largest city Fukuoka has a popula- NHK. —AFP declared our victory”. The close race Chinese Christian and not a Muslim, a has sparked fears of unrest, and serious charge in the world’s most Japan jets scrambled Yudhoyono urged both sides to populous Muslim-majority country. a record 340 times “restrain themselves and not organ- He vehemently denied the claim. TOKYO: Japan said yesterday that its military scrambled fighter jets China, US vow to ise street rallies to celebrate until the Whoever eventually takes over from a record 340 times in the three months to June in response to announcement by the (election com- Yudhoyono, who steps down in feared intrusions on its airspace, as tensions grow with China. The Joint Staff of Japan Self-Defense Forces said, however, that around mission)”. The commission is not October after a decade of stable but 70 percent of the jet launches were in response to Russian planes end old rivalries expected to announce the official often indecisive rule, faces a delicate approaching Japanese airspace. The rest were scrambled in results until July 22, due to the com- transition. BEIJING: China and the United States met for countries and for the world,” he said, adding the response to approaching Chinese planes, it said, adding that plexity of holding elections across Growth is slowing in Southeast high-level talks yesterday, with Chinese Pacific powers needed to “break the old pattern Japanese airspace was not violated on any of these occasions. The the archipelago of more than 17,000 Asia’s top economy, corruption is President Xi Jinping urging the world’s two of inevitable confrontation”. In a statement sent latest figure marked a sharp increase on the same quarter last year, islands that spans three time zones. rampant, millions remain mired in biggest economies to break old patterns of to the opening of the meetings, US President when Japanese jets were scrambled 110 times. But the unofficial tallies that poverty, and fears are mounting that confrontation. Given their different histories Barack Obama agreed, saying: “The United Widodo’s party relied on, known as and cultures “it is natural that China and the US States and China will not always see eye-to-eye Islamic radicals returning from N Korea fires 2 more “quick counts”, are considered reliable Middle East conflicts could revive mil- may have different views and even frictions on on every issue.” and have accurately predicted the missiles into the sea itant networks. Widodo shot to certain issues”, Xi told the opening of the two- That was “why we need to build our rela- winner of Indonesia’s two previous SEOUL: North Korea yesterday fired what appeared to be two national prominence when he was day annual talks in Beijing. “This is what makes tionship around common challenges, mutual presidential elections since Suharto’s short-range missiles into the sea in the latest in a series of launch- communication and cooperation even more responsibilities, and shared interests, even downfall. Tobias Basuki, an analyst elected Jakarta governor in 2012, and es interspersed with spurned peace overtures to South Korea. A necessary,” he urged, speaking in the same while we candidly address our differences”, from the Jakarta-based Centre for quickly won legions of fans with his spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said the two mis- imposing compound where then-US president Obama said. Obama, who has made the so- Strategic and International Studies, common touch and efforts to solve siles were fired from the western province of Hwanghae into the Richard Nixon met Mao Zedong on his ground- called pivot to Asia a focus of his administra- described the situation as “unprece- the capital’s myriad problems. He Sea of Japan (East Sea). “We suspect they were short-range ballis- breaking visit to China in 1972. tion, will return to Beijing in November when it dented”, adding: “We’ve never seen would make regular tours of the tic missiles,” spokesman Um Hoy-Sik said, adding that the range The sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue hosts a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders. Topping such polarization in Indonesia.” CSIS metropolis’s sprawling slums in casu- was around 500 kilometers. It was the fourth missile test in less comes as tensions have risen in recent months- the agenda yesterday were discussions on how carried out an official tally, which was al clothes and was often spotted at than two weeks. The previous launches had preceded a state trip racked by maritime disputes between China to tackle climate change, as the two largest considered reliable. It showed heavy metal concerts. Prabowo, now to South Korea by Chinese President Xi Jinping and had been read and its neighbors as well as US fears over cyber- emitters of the greenhouse gases blamed for Widodo with a lead of 51.9 percent to a wealthy businessman, has played by some analysts as a show of pique at his decision to visit Seoul security and Chinese hacking. “Our interests are global warming agreed to launch eight pilot Prabowo’s 48.1 percent, largely in line up his military background on the before Pyongyang. China is North Korea’s sole major ally, but while more than ever interconnected,” Xi insisted, say- projects aimed at reducing their carbon foot- with other credible polls. campaign trail, at a time when nostal- Xi has met four times with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye- ing the two “stand to gain from cooperation prints. “People around the world are demand- gia is growing in some quarters for a including two summits-he has yet to sit down with North Korean and lose from confrontation”. “If we are in con- ing action,” US Secretary of State John Kerry New style of leadership return to the strong rule of the leader Kim Jong-Un. frontation it will surely spell disaster for both told a working group on the issue.—AFP A former furniture exporter from a Suharto years.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 ANALYSIS Rockets and naval commandos boost Hamas arsenal

By Danny Kemp of rockets that it has, but the frequency of its rocket fire,” he told AFP. ockets capable of hitting deeper into Israel than ever Most of the rockets are believed to have been smuggled before and naval commandos launching a beach- through tunnels into Gaza but others came in by sea while Rhead assault show that Hamas has increased its still more were being made in the strip itself. Meanwhile capabilities with help from Iran and Syria, analysts said yes- the seaborne Hamas commando attack was a further sur- terday. The last Israeli offensive against Gaza was meant to prise. “This is unprecedented,” said Ali. “This suggests have degraded the Palestinian militant group’s capabilities sophisticated training, sophisticated planning, good intelli- but less than two years later, Hamas is firing new longer- gence on the Israelis and the ability to maintain tactical range projectiles, they said. An “unprecedented” attack by surprise.” Iranian equipment or training was likely involved, four Hamas militants who emerged from the sea to attack added Kemp. an Israeli military base shows the group is also trying to Figures for Hamas’s military strength are also unclear, break the naval blockade of the coastal enclave. but the International Institute of Strategic Studies think- “Hamas were very badly damaged by the Israeli defence tank’s Military Balance 2014 assessment said the Al- forces back in 2012, but since that time they have been re- Qassam brigades had around 10,000 members while equipped significantly by Iran and also by weapons from Hamas internal security groupings number around 12,000. Syria,” Colonel Richard Kemp, of the Royal United Services Analysts said Hamas and its backers had a clear aim for Institute think-tank in London, told AFP. The main weapon their military build-up: to drag Israel into a ground war. employed by Hamas and their armed wing, the Ezzedine “The escalation that Hamas has engaged in seems to be Al-Qassam Brigades, is an arsenal of unguided rockets. intended to draw Israel into a ground offensive in Gaza, in Hamas was believed to have had 10,000 rockets before the which Hamas hopes that it can inflict a heavy number of 2012 confrontation, and it is unclear how many are left, but casualties,” Ali said. Firas Abi Ali of analysts Country Risk IHS said they still likely Israeli forces entering Gaza would face likely attack by had “thousands”. Hamas anti-tank weapons, including Kornet missiles used As in 2012, they include Iranian-made Fajr-5 missiles by Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon war, and improvised with a range of 75 km and Gaza-built M75 rockets with a explosive devices, analysts said. There would also be a pos- range of 80 km - both of which can reach Jerusalem and Tel sibility of capturing Israeli soldiers for prisoner swaps. Aviv. But Hamas has since acquired Syrian M-302 rockets Meanwhile the wider Middle East situation had a bearing which have a range of up to 160 km. On Tuesday, one of on the Gaza build-up, analysts said. Iran and Hamas fell out these hit the town of Hadera, 116 km north of Gaza, while over Tehran’s support for President Bashar al-Assad’s on Wednesday Israeli media reported that two had crashed regime in Syria but there had been a recent “rapproche- into the sea near the port of Haifa, 165 km north of Gaza, ment”, especially after Hamas’s allies the Muslim which if confirmed would be the furthest a rocket from Brotherhood were driven out of power in Egypt last year, Gaza has ever travelled. Crude Qassam rockets have a said Kemp. range of four to 15 km. Syria meanwhile remains a source for the weaponry even if some of the advice is from Iran. Israel would also be Hamas Aiming for Ground War closely watching for any potential future links between The rockets are all unguided but the sheer intensity of Hamas and the Islamic State jihadist group, which has con- the barrages is aimed at “overwhelming” Israel’s Iron Dome quered a swathe of Iraq and Syria. “There are certainly missile defence system, said Ali. “Hamas has been able to, groups linked to the Islamic State present in Gaza,” said over the last couple of years, increase not just the number Kemp. — AFP A Palestinian Hamas-made M75 missile flies over Gaza City after it was launched towards Israel yesterday. — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Maria Antonova, Olga Rotenberg

s a Ukrainian government offensive sends separatists Aretreating from their strongholds in the country’s restive east, there are signs that Moscow is seeking to distance itself from the pro-Russian rebels. Facing the threat of biting Western sanctions that could further shake Russia’s teetering economy, President Vladimir Putin has watched a string of rebel defeats without taking any action - drawing accusations from separatist sympathisers at home that he is betraying their cause. Having initially vilified the government in Kiev as a “facist” junta pursuing ethnic cleansing in eastern Ukraine, Russian state television has dampened its rhetoric in recent weeks. And analysts say overt Russian involvement in the conflict threatening to tear apart the former Soviet state would simply West in push to stop flow of jihadists be too costly for the Kremlin. “There are rumours of a group of ‘war hawks’ who are pressuring Putin,” said independent politi- By Michel Moutot, Fiachra Gibbons violent extremism. But the world cannot simply sit back wildest dreams”. “It is surely better to ignore them,” he cal analyst Maria Lipman. “But military intervention may lead to and let it become a training ground from which our nation- added. The French government, however, is deeply con- serious, dramatic costs,” such as deeper economic sanctions urope and the United States are drawing up a new als can return and launch attacks. And we will not.” cerned about the radicalisation of its nationals who have imposed by the West and the risk of becoming embroiled in an wave of anti-terror measures to try to stop the grow- gone to fight in Syria. unpredictable war, she added. Russia “is not seeking to help E ‘Problem for All’ ing number of would-be jihadists from going to fight Those fears were heightened by the arrest of people who fight there, instead opting to leave them to their in Syria and Iraq. France unveiled a new bill yesterday to US intelligence official estimate that of the 7,000 foreign Frenchman Medhi Nemmouche, who spent a year in Syria, own devices,” Lipman said. ban foreign travel for those suspected of being radicalised, fighters in Syria only around a dozen are Americans. But as after the shooting at the Brussels Jewish Museum in May The Russian parliament last month revoked a resolution after US Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that return- many as 2,000 Europeans are thought to be engaged in the that left four people dead. A Tunisian accused of recruiting allowing Putin to send troops into Ukraine - a move Moscow ing fighters pose a “grave threat”. Nine EU interior ministers fighting, 800 alone from France, including several women. young jihadists to fight in Syria has since been deported, said was designed to help the faltering peace process - depriv- met in Milan on Tuesday to put together a plan of action to Holder said the ability of European and American citizens while 26-year-old Ibrahim Ouattara was jailed for four years ing him of the legal means to intervene, added Volodymyr identify young people who have signed up to fight with to travel visa-free between their two continents meant that by a Paris court on Wednesday for trying to join Islamist Gorbach, an analyst with the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Islamist groups against the Syrian regime of President “the problem of fighters in Syria returning to any of our rebels in northern Mali. The new French bill gives the Cooperation in Kiev. And as Kiev’s anti-insurgency campaign Bashar Al-Assad. “Recent developments in Iraq increase the countries is a problem for all of our countries”. authorities the power to slap a ban on foreign travel on gathers pace in Donetsk and Lugansk - the two industrial need to act immediately,” EU counter-terrorism coordinator But Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of Britain foreign anyone suspected of being radicalised, and temporarily regions where separatists proclaimed independence in May - Gilles de Kerchove said. intelligence during the war in Iraq, claimed that govern- confiscate and invalidate their passports. the risk of Russian intervention is diminished, Gorbach said. He said the declaration of a “caliphate” by the feared ments and the media have blown the Islamist threat out of Airlines will be banned from carrying targeted passen- “That threat existed before, it was in the initial phase of the cur- Sunni militants of the Islamic State in areas they control in proportion, which could prove counter-productive. In an gers and will have to notify French authorities the moment rent crisis,” he said. “Nothing indicates that he will change his Iraq and Syria was likely to prove a potent attraction for address to a defence think-tank in London on Monday, he one of them makes a reservation. A Passenger Name Record tactic” from implicit support of the insurgency to an open inva- would-be European jihadists. But as calls grow for tougher said the West was not the main target of radical fundamen- - containing the itinerary for a certain passenger or group in sion, he added. action, Britain’s former intelligence chief has warned that talism groups such as ISIL, which now calls itself the Islamic computer reservation systems - will be given to European Putin Betrayal? the clamour could backfire on the West. The United States State since overrunning much of northern Iraq from its authorities to help identify such people. If the people tar- and its European allies have been working on greater strongholds in Syria. The ex-MI6 chief claimed that the con- geted under the ban do manage to go abroad, they will be And there is a sense among pro-Russian separatists that cooperation, with Holder using a visit to Norway on flict in Syria was “essentially one of Muslim on Muslim”. the subject of an international arrest warrant. Dearlove they have been abandoned by Putin - who had pledged he Tuesday - which has one of the highest rates of nationals He warned that giving the “oxygen of publicity” to jihad urged caution, however, saying governments should move would do all he could to protect Russian speakers everywhere. per capita fighting in Syria - to call for a coordinated clamp- tourism was counter-productive. He said the media were away from the “distortion” of the post-9/11 mindset to make During a popular talk show hosted by outspoken pro-Kremlin down. “We cannot afford to be passive,” he told journalists. making monsters of “misguided young men, rather pathet- “realistic risk assessments”, and to think rationally about the personality Vladimir Solovyov on Sunday, separatist Ukrainian “The Syrian conflict has turned that region into a cradle of ic figures” who were getting coverage “more than their causes of the crisis in the Middle East. —AFP politicians Denis Pushilin and Oleg Tsarev faced Russian foreign ministry official Konstantin Dolgov, demanding to know why Russia would not send in troops to support them. Solovyov accused Ukrainian forces of attacking Russian border posts, and World Cup entangled with Mideast conflicts asked incredulously: “I understand that we are the angels of peace, but... can’t we at least do something?” “The red lines are By Barbara Surk fans, and offered a subsidized deal to the it to him. “I just want to watch the game,” he nament broadcasting rights that were being drafted as we speak, they are being drafted on an inter- Cairo government that would air the World said on condition of anonymity for fear of obtained in Syria by two private companies. national level,” Dolgov said defensively, to murmurs of discon- ith the World Cup in faraway Brazil Cup to its citizens for free. harassment. “You don’t need subtitles to There has been no World Cup viewing in tent from other speakers. coming at a time of unprecedent- Israel “is our biggest enemy,” Shabana watch football.” Israel welcomed viewers in public in Raqqa, a city in eastern Syria under The idea of international mediation has not been welcomed W ed sectarian violence and soaring said. “If the only way (to avoid Israel’s chan- neighboring countries, saying it was part of control of a Sunni extremist group that con- by the more strident Russian supporters of the insurgency, who tension in the Middle East, some Arab foot- nel) is to give money to Qatar, then we the Jewish state’s diplomatic outreach to siders most TV stations to be heretic, an have been given ample airtime on state media in recent ball fans have been reduced to watching should do it.” For Raaouf Sobhy, a cafe own- the Arab World. opposition activist, who goes by the name months. “I am bewildered,” said Alexander Prokhanov, the editor matches in secret or even - and this is where er in Cairo’s upscale Heliopolis district, Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for the Abu Ali, said in an interview over Skype. At of far-right newspaper Zavtra. “How can you torture Russians it gets complicated - on a TV channel choosing which channel to watch was a Arabic Media in the Israeli Prime Minister’s home, the activist said, some have watched for three months with horrific images of Russians being killed in owned by Israel. Since the World Cup kicked simple decision. “I hate Qatar more than office, posted on his official Facebook page World Cup matches on a Turkish channel. In the southeast, and at the same time assure the whole world off three weeks ago, Sunni Muslim extrem- Israel,” Sobhy said. “I don’t think Israel is a dictionary of Hebrew football terms trans- the Iraqi capital Baghdad, fans have that Russians will be protected across the globe by any means ists have seized territory in Iraq and Syria harming us as much as Qatar.” lated into Arabic. “Reactions were mixed, shunned cafes as a World Cup viewing necessary?” he said Saturday on Echo of Moscow radio. and declared an Islamic state. Lebanon has In south Lebanon near the frontier with but a lot of people appreciated the gesture,” option. Cafes have become favorite targets been hit by a spate of suicide bombings. Israel, some turn on the Israeli broadcast, Gendelman said. “I do find it fascinating that for Sunni extremists of the armed group ‘Containing Aggressive Groups’ Israelis and Palestinians were pushed to full even though Israeli TV channels have been millions of Arab viewers are now watching that has declared an Islamic state in north- Dmitry Orlov, a political consultant with the Kremlin and conflict after the murders of four teenagers. banned since 2000 when Israel withdrew its the World Cup on Israeli TV while learning ern Iraq and in eastern Syria as it advances majority party United Russia, said the separatist insurgency Egypt’s political divide grew wider as hun- troops following 18 years of occupation. soccer terminology in Hebrew.” to Baghdad, the seat of the Shiite-dominat- could backfire on Russia’s national interests. “Russia is inter- dreds of people charged with supporting Israel’s arch enemy, the Shiite militant group Few would dare tune into an Israeli ed government. ested in containing the aggressive groups that can threaten the ousted Muslim Brotherhood group Hezbollah, dominates south Lebanon and channel in Syria, where Israel remains the Back in the West Bank, Palestinians Russia’s security,” he told AFP. “The aggressive militaristic spirit were convicted of terrorism-related crimes - its fighters have fought on the Syrian gov- primary enemy despite a raging civil war flipped onto Hebrew-language channels to of the so-called Lugansk national republic and Donetsk including three journalists for Qatar-owned ernment side. Qatar is not popular there, which pits predominantly Sunni Muslim watch the World Cup, despite escalating national republic must not form a permanent trend in Al-Jazeera network. though, because of its support for Sunni rebels against the forces of President Bashar violence in Gaza. Hudaifa Srour, who lives in domestic policy.” In Ukraine itself, the rebel fighters who were Many accuse the Doha-based network of rebels in Syria. Assad, who belongs to a sect in Shiite Islam. the West Bank village of Naalin, said most once sure of Russia’s support say they feel they have been left editorial bias in favor of the now banned In the village of Ein Ibil, a man watching As residents of the capital enjoyed a tempo- people don’t care what language the com- out in the cold. Islamic group in Egypt and of Sunni insur- the Israeli channel with Hebrew - a lan- rary lull in mortar attacks during the World mentators are speaking. “Our people are Separatist commander Igor Strelkov, who perhaps embod- gents fighting Shiite-dominated govern- guage he does not understand - commen- Cup, fans seem to ignore the fact that Qatar eager to escape the political problems, so ies the militaristic spirit criticised by Orlov, and who has ments in Syria and Iraq. Qatar’s media con- tary blasting away said he neither cares - a country on top of Assad’s black list for even those who are not interested in sports, achieved a status of a maverick hero among nationalist circles glomerate owns broadcasting rights to the about the ban nor the country broadcasting supporting the opposition - owns the tour- watch the World Cup,” Srour said. —AP in Russia, said last week his men could not hold their positions World Cup in the Middle East, charging for long without Russia’s help. At the weekend, Strelkov retreat- viewers from $110 to $320 for a three- ed with his men from the rebel stronghold of Slavyansk, a month subscription that includes the 64 flashpoint throughout the conflict, in what was hailed as a World Cup matches - a tournament that major victory for Kiev’s forces. But in an interview with the Life should have been a welcome escape for News website Saturday, sitting in what looked like a rented flat millions of football fans. with drab furnishings out of the 1980s, he vowed to fight on Most fans can’t afford to pay for the despite his “utter lack of ammunition”. satellite broadcasts of the World Cup, which “Strelkov became a hero for some Russians,” said Stanislav was previously shown around the region on Belkovsky, a political analyst who heads the Moscow-based state free-to-air channels. Some Egyptians National Strategy Institute. But he said “Russia would like to get refuse to subscribe to Qatar’s channel for rid of him because he is uncontrollable”. “If he falls as a hero, so political reasons. Watching a recent match much the better for the Kremlin,” he added. —AFP in a cafe in downtown Cairo, 21-year-old student Mohammed Mostafa said his family is boycotting Al-Jazeera and instead tunes in to an Israeli channel that has been broad- All articles appearing on these casting the World Cup for free, with com- mentary in Hebrew - a foreign language to pages are the personal opinion of most Arabs. “My parents refuse to give mon- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no ey to the Brotherhood,” Mostafa explained. responsibility for views expressed That kind of attitude has outraged offi- cials in Egypt, where state media has lashed therein. Kuwait Times invites read- out at Israel by saying it has opportunistical- ers to voice their opinions. Please ly barged into the Arab broadcasting mar- send submissions via email to: opin- ket. “Israeli media penetration into the Arab [email protected] or via snail community is more devastating than its missiles,” said Mohammed Shabana, the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. director of Egypt’s Sports Writers The editor reserves the right to edit Association. But he also criticized Qatar, say- any submission as necessary. ing the oil-rich Gulf state should have dis- mantled Israel’s plot to win over Egyptian In this June 30, 2014 photo, fans watch the World Cup match between Germany and Algeria at a cafe in Cairo. —AP NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 Victories in Ramadan Continued from Page 1

assembled with the aim of attacking Muslims in Madinah with the malicious aim of uprooting Islam. They numbered approximately one thousand warriors (infantry and caval- rymen). Moreover, they were armed to the teeth. They possessed all the means of victory and were confident that they would easily vanquish the Muslim army. As for Muslims, they numbered only three hundred and thirteen. Moreover, a few of them had never been engaged in fighting before. The two sworn enemy armies confronted each other in the battle of Bader (the first decisive battle between Muslims and pagans/polytheists). God Almighty bestowed victory upon Muslims as explained in the following verse: “God surely succored you (Muslims) at [the battle of] Badr when you were a contemptible little force; then fear Allah; thus you may show your gratitude.” (3: 123) 2- On the twentieth day of Ramadan of the eighth year of Hijra, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) completed the conquest of Makkah after a prolonged struggle in Madinah. He entered Makkah with his companions as a liberator after its inhabitants had driven him away. The sacred Kaaba was thereof cleansed of idols. 3- In the month of Ramadan on the ninth year of Hijra, the tribe of Thaqeef (who was an enemy of Prophet Muhammad PBUH at that time) inhabited the city of Taif, which is locat- ed about 90 kilometers north of Makkah, embraced Islam in multitudes after previously being obstinate and strong opponents of Islam. 4- In the month of Ramadan, the fifteenth year of Hijra, Muslims vanquished the great army of Persia (modern-day Iran), which was then one of the two main superpowers in the world - the other being the Roman Empire. The Muslims’ victory was epitomized in the bat- tle of Qadisiya, under the command of Saad bin Abi Waqqas, who was one of the greatest companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Eventually, the flag of Islam was proudly and confidently hoisted over the palace of Chosroe (Kisra). An Egyptian bread seller rides his bicycle as worshipers break the day-long fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Cairo’s Khan El- 5- On the twenty fifth day of Ramadan in the year six hundred and fifty eight after Hijra, Khalili district yesterday. — AFP the Mongol and Tartar barbarians engaged in a fierce battle with a Muslim army under the leadership of Saifud-Deen Qutuz. Muslims walked away with a well-deserved victory in the UAE holding 3 Qatari ‘spies’ for questioning battle of Ein Jaalout. The Tartars and Mongols were finally defeated in humiliation. 6- Also in Ramadan, a Muslim army fought a decisive defensive battle under the com- Continued from Page 1 Middle East fleet. US Assistant Secretary of State for they (Americans) heard our point of view of the polit- mandership of Sultan Al-Naser bin Mohammed Qalawoun against the barbaric Tartars and Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom ical and human rights situation in Bahrain, based on defeated them beyond any doubt. on its Twitter account earlier this week that the Malinowski left Bahrain late on Tuesday, the US the request of the US Assistant Secretary.” state “did not abandon its sons and was taking all embassy said, after the foreign ministry ordered him He said he was asked whether Wefaq had made Fasting, a catalyst of victories measures through legal and diplomatic channels”. out because he had “intervened flagrantly” in the specific requests of the Americans and replied that It is very clear that God, the Omniscient, conditioned Muslims, since the time when fast- “What happened is just a reflection of the very country’s internal affairs by “holding meetings with they had not. Malinowski’s expulsion was “a message ing was prescribed, by showing them that if they behaved sincerely He would grant them tense relationship between Qatar and the UAE, and one party”. Washington said it was “deeply con- that shows that there is no real intention for dialogue decisive victories beyond imagination. If a Muslim fights against his desires and strives to (one should) expect more things like this to hap- cerned” about Malinowski’s expulsion and was con- in Bahrain. There is no real intention for reform in curb them then he would have the personal willpower to vanquish his enemies by the will pen in the near future,” an Arab diplomat in Doha sidering a response. Bahrain”, Salman added. The Interior Ministry said told Reuters. “But what Qatar is trying to do now is The dispute exposes the sensitivity of Salman and the aide had been summoned for inter- of God. This is because fighting against our desires and whims is more difficult than engag- contain the situation and resolve these problems Washington’s relationship with one of its main rogation because they violated a law about “the rules ing in a battle against an inveterate enemy; thus the importance of fasting during quietly because it can’t afford the fuss and more regional allies. Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the of communication between political societies with Ramadan. negative repercussions.” US Fifth Fleet responsible for all US sea power in the foreign political organisations or parties”. It appears It should be noted that Islam does not neglect man’s desires and instincts. God To the dismay of its Gulf Arab neighbours, Qatar region, but has bristled at American criticism over its to have been the first time that the law, a new meas- Almighty has prescribed licit ways of satisfying one’s desires and instincts. One has to fight supported Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-led govern- human rights record since suppressing a popular ure barring diplomatic meetings with politicians, had against himself in order to avoid satisfying his instincts in a way that is contrary to the ment elected after the ousting of long-time autocrat uprising in 2011. The Gulf island kingdom is ruled by been applied. Islamic teachings. Thus Muslims are trained to be patient in all its aspects in Ramadan. God Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Doha provided financial and a Sunni Muslim royal family, but the majority of its State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said says: “... if there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two political assistance until the Islamist President population are Shiites, whose political leaders have Malinowski’s visit had been coordinated with the hundred. If they are a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the unbelievers: for these Mohamed Mursi was ousted in an army coup last demanded democratic reforms. The authorities, authorities in advance, and the Bahrain govern- are a people without understanding.” (8:65) July. Saudi Arabia and the UAE also particularly backed by troops sent from Saudi Arabia, put down ment was “well aware” visiting US officials typically God created humans for a purpose. He loves them and all the laws He has prescribed for resent Doha’s sheltering of prominent Islamist demonstrations during the “Arab Spring” revolts that meet different political groups. She said Bahrain them are for their benefit, if they only knew. It’s sad that many of them are ignorant of this preacher Youssef al-Qaradawi, a critic of the two swept the region three years ago, and low level vio- had asked to have an official present at all fact. Fasting should not be viewed as punishment but rather as a blessing from God. After states’ rulers, and his regular air time on Qatar’s pan- lence is still common. Malinowski’s meetings, which she described as a reading some of the victories that Muslims achieved in Ramadan, it becomes clear that Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera and on Qatari state Malinowski attended a Ramadan evening meet- violation of traditional protocol. fasting should not be an excuse for people to be lazy, tardy, shabby, irresponsible, unpunc- television. ing of opposition group Al-Wefaq on Sunday and The tough response to Wefaq’s meeting with the tual, etc, otherwise, their fasting will be like an empty shell without a kernel. God says: “...but In March, the UAE sentenced a Qatari physician to met with its leader Ali Salman and an aide again at Americans suggests some jostling by hardliners with- seven years in jail after he was convicted of support- the US embassy on Monday. Salman was summoned in the ruling Al-Khalifa family versus reformers, said to fast is best for you, if you only knew.” (2: 184) ing Islah, an Islamist group banned by authorities. by the Interior Ministry and interrogated at the Simon Henderson, director of the Gulf and Energy It is worth mentioning that all the battles Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) engaged in with Since their public spat in March, the four Gulf Arab Criminal Investigations Department yesterday morn- Policy Program at the Washington Institute for Near his companions were defensive and not offensive. God says in what can be translated as: states have agreed on steps to try to heal the rift, but ing. He told Reuters he was questioned for about half East Policy. “Inside the royal family, Crown Prince “Fight in the way of God those who fight against you but do not transgress. Indeed, God so far neither Saudi Arabia, Bahrain nor the UAE have an hour. His lawyers were not allowed to be present Salman and Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin does not like transgressors.” (2: 190) returned their ambassadors to Doha. but were permitted to observe from another room. Ahmed al-Khalifa are perceived as supporting reform, Separately, Bahrain interrogated its top opposi- “The subject of the interrogation was ... about the though Salman is countered by influential relatives in Courtesy of the TIES Center, the social and educational hub for English Speaking tion leader yesterday after expelling a senior US content of the (embassy) meeting and what was dis- the military and security services who have pressed Muslims in Kuwait. For more information, please call 25231015/6 or e-mail info@ties- diplomat for meeting him, a remarkable slap at cussed at it,” he told Reuters from Manama. “The the king not to make any concessions to Shiites,” he center.net or visit www.tiescenter.net. Washington from the ally that hosts the US Navy’s answer was that it was a normal meeting and that wrote in online commentary. — Agencies THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 SPORTS

Hafeez axed from Test squad Merkel to attend WCup final Woods could win Open KARACHI: Pakistan have dropped top order batsman Mohammad Hafeez BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to travel to Brazil to watch the ABERDEEN: Rory McIlroy insists it would be foolish to write off the chances of Tiger from their test squad and recalled former captain Younus Khan in the national team’s bid to win the World Cup for a fourth time, officials said yes- Woods capturing a 15th Major Championship at next week’s British Open at Royal one-day team for next month’s tour of Sri Lanka. Hafeez’s struggle in tests terday, following its crushing 7-1 defeat of the host country’s squad in the Liverpool. McIlroy was responding to recent comments, including those of double semi-final. prompted his axing from the squad for the series against South Africa last US Open winner Curtis Strange, who suggested Woods ‘would be lying to himself’ if year in the United Arab Emirates before the 36-test player was recalled for President Joachim Gauck confirmed he would also join Merkel in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the tournament’s final match. Merkel, a keen soccer he went into next week’s championship saying he could win. Woods has contested the series against Sri Lanka, also in the UAE. fan, watched every goal in Tuesday’s match against Brazil, her spokesperson just one event since undergoing back surgery and that saw him miss the halfway The 33-year-old has managed just one half-century in his last 14 test said. German media have hailed the result as a sensation and a miracle. cut in the recent Quicken Loans National at Congressional. innings and he quit the Twenty20 captaincy in April after the team’s exit Germany will face either Argentina or the Netherlands, who play each Woods is returning to Royal Liverpool at Hoylake for a first time since capturing from the group stage of the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh. Middle order other in the second semi-final yesterday. “I agree with world opinion that it an emotional third British Open Championship and just weeks after the death of his batsman Umar Akmal was recalled to the 15-member test was a very good game ... I think it almost deserves to be called historic,” said father and mentor, Earl. squad named on Wednesday, the 24-year-old returning Merkel at a news conference in Berlin, adding that she wished the team “a But while Woods has contested only five events all season after three years out of the side, having played the last lot of strength and concentration on the task at hand”. McIlroy, who is contesting this week’s Scottish Open at Royal of his 16 tests against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 2011. The game, which saw Germany score five of its goals within just 18 siz- Aberdeen, would not agree with Strange. However, pace duo Umar Gul and Mohammad Irfan zling minutes, broke a number of records. According to broadcaster ZDF, “We have all witnessed what Tiger has been able to do missed out on the tour due to ongoing fitness concerns, the game topped TV ratings with 32.57 million viewers - about 40 percent over his career, whether that’s come back from injury and chief selector Moin Khan said. of the population, not taking into account large public viewings. On Twitter, win, come back from any sort of off?course stuff and win,” said “They are not 100 percent fit and have been given 35.6 million tweets were posted during the match, making it the most McIlroy. more time to hit peak fitness,” Khan told reporters. tweeted sports game in the social media site’s history. “I mean, he won the (2008) US Open on one leg, really on Gul had a knee surgery in May and the 30-year- Merkel attended Germany’s first match in the Cup against Portugal and one leg. “So it is foolish for people to write him off? I would say old right-arm bowler hurt it again while play- cheered the team on to a 4-0 win. Images of Merkel at the game went viral ing in the MCC v Rest of the World celebra- online, including one of her posing with shirtless German players in the so. If he’s playing and he’s competing, he’s got as good a tion match at the Lord’s last week. —Reuters team’s dressing room. —Reuters chance as any. —AFP Giants fall to Athletics

OAKLAND: Sonny Gray struck out eight to win his first inning and Detroit rallied in emphatic fashion connecting off Ernesto Frieri with two outs for a third straight decision, and the Oakland Athletics beat for a victory over the Dodgers. victory over Pittsburgh. the San Francisco Giants 6-1 on Tuesday night for their Verlander (8-7) allowed five runs in the first, but Frieri (1-1) got two routine outs before Wong, sixth consecutive victory. Coco Crisp hit an RBI single the Dodgers managed only one more hit off the batting eighth, hit his third homer on a full count. and stole his 16th base and Nick Punto doubled in a Detroit right-hander, who has had his share of The drive over the right-field wall, which was esti- run during a four-run third against Madison struggles this season. The Tigers tied it with five mated at 420 feet, was the first game-winning Bumgarner (9-7), handed his second three-start skid of runs in the second, then added two in the third homer of Wong’s career and it came a night after the year. The lefty didn’t allow a hit until Jed Lowrie’s and four in the fourth to pull away. Matt Adams hit his first winner off Justin Wilson in blooper leading off the third that landed in front of a Miguel Cabrera was one of five Detroit players a 2-0 victory. The Cardinals last had consecutive charging right fielder Hunter Pence, who avoided a with three hits. Verlander allowed five runs and five game-winning homers when Albert Pujols twice collision with second baseman Joe Panik. Oakland did hits in six innings. He struck out four and walked beat the Cubs on June 4 and 5, 2011. all its damage that inning on the way to matching its two. Hyun-Jin Ryu (9-5) allowed seven runs and 10 Wong also gave the Cardinals the early lead season-high winning streak. The A’s (57-33) concluded hits in 2 1-3 innings. Juan Uribe hit a two-run with a two-run double in the second.Trevor their homestand 6-0, just the 11th undefeated homes- homer for the Dodgers in the first, but Verlander Rosenthal (1-4) struck out Starling Marte on three tand of six or more games in Oakland history. The low- retired 13 in a row after that. The Tigers’ 14 runs set pitches with two on to end the ninth. budget club with baseball’s best record has won 11 of a season high, as did their 20 hits. its past 12 games at the Coliseum. INDIANS 5, YANKEES 3 CARDINALS 5, PIRATES 4 Michael Brantley homered and had three RBIs, TIGERS 14, DODGERS 5 Rookie Kolten Wong gave St. Louis its second Nick Swisher hit a go-ahead two-run shot and Justin Verlander settled down after a terrible straight game-winning ninth-inning home run, Cleveland stopped rookie sensation Masahiro Tanaka’s bid to become the major league’s first 13- game winner. Brantley hit a leadoff homer in the seventh. The first-time All-Star also had RBI doubles in the first and fifth, raising his average to .328. Tanaka (12-4) allowed season worsts of five runs and 10 hits in 6 2-3 innings. The right-hander, who lost for the third time in four starts, took a 3-2 lead into the sixth before Swisher, a former Yankee, OAKLAND: Craig Gentry No. 3 of the Oakland Athletics gets caught in a rundown and hit a two-run homer that put Cleveland on top. tagged out by Brandon Crawford No. 35 of the San Francisco Giants in the bottom of the Trevor Bauer (3-4) allowed three runs in seven fifth inning. — AFP innings and retired 13 of the last 14 hitters he faced. New York’s only baserunner in that stretch TWINS 2, MARINERS 0 PHILLIES 9, BREWERS 7 came on Swisher’s fifth-inning error. Bauer struck Minnesota’s Phil Hughes pitched into the eighth Domonic Brown homered and had a two-run out six and walked two in winning for the first time inning, Sam Fuld barely cleared the wall with his single and Philadelphia rallied from a big early since June 16. Cody Allen pitched the ninth for his second home run of the season and the Twins beat deficit to outlast struggling Milwaukee. 10th save. Seattle. After allowing five runs in the first inning, the Hughes rebounded from being knocked around Phillies scored five in the second off Brewers starter WHITE SOX 8, RED SOX 3 in his previous two starts to shut down the Wily Peralta (9-6). Ben Revere drove in two runs Conor Gillaspie hit a tie-breaking, two-run Mariners. Hughes (9-5) gave up eight hits in 7 1-3 with a ground-rule double and Chase Utley had a homer in the sixth inning for his third hit of the innings, struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter in two-run single as Philadelphia sent 10 men to the game and Chicago beat struggling Boston. Boston silencing Seattle’s stagnant offense. plate. Koyie Hill contributed a run-scoring single. lost for the seventh time in eight games as the A night after Fuld could not pull back Michael The first-place Brewers have dropped seven of defending World Series champions remained in Saunders’ home run, the roles were reversed. Fuld eight games. Kyle Kendrick (4-8) picked up the vic- last place in the AL East. The White Sox are 5-1 in hit a 3-2 pitch from Seattle starter Chris Young (8-5) tory for Philadelphia despite giving up 11 hits and their past six games. John Danks (8-6) started with beyond the wall in right and just out of the reach of seven earned runs over 5 2-3 innings. He walked four shutout innings on Tuesday night after Hector Saunders for the solo shot in the fifth inning. It was two and struck out two. Four Phillies relievers com- Noesi beat Seattle 1-0 on Sunday and Scott Carroll the first homer for Fuld since April 10. He finished bined to hold the Brewers scoreless over the final 3 Standing tall in the won 4-0 on Monday night when Boston had just with three hits and two stolen bases. Glen Perkins 1-3 innings. Jonathan Papelbon pitched a scoreless two hits. pitched the ninth for his 21st save. ninth inning for his 21st save in 23 attempts. The White Sox squandered a 3-0 lead when the Adidas Adizero f50 Red Sox tied it with three runs in the fifth. But ASTROS 8, RANGERS 3 MARLINS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 1 Chicago went ahead to stay with two in the sixth Chris Carter led off two innings with home runs, Marcell Ozuna hit a two-out, two-run home run George Springer had one inning-starting long ball off Addison Reed in the ninth inning to spoil a bril- DUBAI: With the second spot for Sunday’s — 17 to Messi’s seven, Messi is on top and then added three runs in the ninth. Jose Abreu liant Arizona debut by Vidal Nuno and give Miami a Final still to be decided, it’s a case of now when it comes to deliveries into the area, led off the sixth with a single against Brandon and Houston beat Texas. or never for two of the top performing with 22 compared to Robben’s 17. Workman (1-3) and stayed at first when the next Jose Altuve had two hits, two stolen bases and a victory over the Diamondbacks. players of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. The Adizero f50 is the boot of choice for two batters were retired. Then Gillaspie hit a 3 and- sacrifice fly. The All-Star second baseman matched Ozuna hit Reed’s 2-2 pitch off the batter’s eye far Today, both Leo Messi of Argentina and an incredible six of the tournament’s top 2 pitch just inside the pole in right field for his sec- Houston’s franchise record with 28 consecutive above the 407-foot sign in straightaway center. It Arjen Robben of Holland will take to the nine goalscorers. ond homer of the season. stolen bases without being caught while pushing was the fifth blown save in 25 tries for Reed (1-5) pitch having both had tournaments to This includes 2014 FIFA World Cup his AL-leading total to 41. He leads the American and the ninth home run the closer has allowed in remember, powered by the Adidas Adizero Brazil sensation and current Adidas RAYS 4, ROYALS 3 League with 126 hits and a .341 batting average. 38 appearances. Nuno, acquired in the deal that f50. Between them they have collected an Golden Boot leader, James Rodriguez of Evan Longoria drove in two runs, Jeremy Houston went ahead to stay with two runs in the sent Brandon McCarthy to the New York Yankees, incredible six man of the match awards. Colombia with six goals, while both Leo Hellickson went 4 1-3 innings in his season debut, first inning off Phil Irwin (0-1) who was making his gave up three hits, struck out a career-high seven They have also scored a combined total Messi (four) and Arjen Robben (three) are and Tampa Bay beat Kansas City. Rangers debut. Brad Peacock (3-5) struck out five and walked one in seven innings. He scored of seven goals from a total of 25 shots on also competing to be top goalscorer. Also The Rays opened the sixth with three consecu- while allowing two runs and six hits over 5 2-3 Arizona’s only run. Mike Dunn (7-4) pitched one- target, while both players have had one in contention are Thomas M¸ller, Germany tive hits, including a two run single by Longoria off innings. third of an inning to get the victory. Steve Cishek assist each. While Robben has the edge (four) and Robin van Persie, Netherlands Jason Vargas (8-4), to take a 2-1 lead. Vargas, who pitched a perfect ninth for his 20th save in 22 when it comes to solo runs into the area (three). allowed two runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings, was BLUE JAYS 4, ANGELS 0 opportunities. coming off seven innings in the Royals’ 4-0 win RA Dickey allowed four hits over seven innings Wednesday against Minnesota. Hellickson, coming for his first victory in more than a month, Jose ROCKIES 2, PADRES 1 back after arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow Reyes homered and drove in three runs and Charlie Blackmon hit a two-run homer and in January, gave up one run and six hits. Toronto ended a season-worst five-game skid with Franklin Morales pitched effectively into the sixth a win. inning, helping Colorado beat San Diego. METS 8, BRAVES 3 The Blue Jays also snapped a seven-game road Morales (5-4) turned in another solid outing Rookie Jacob deGrom struck out 11 in seven losing streak and ended the Angels’ 11-game home since being reinserted into the starting rotation on shutout innings and also delivered a table-setting winning streak, which fell one shy of the franchise July 3. The lefty allowed four hits and one run hit from the No. 8 spot in the batting order and record set in 1967. before being removed for a reliever with two outs New York tagged All-Star Julio Teheran and Atlanta. Dickey (7-8) struck out five and walked one after in the sixth. Curtis Granderson kept up his resurgence with losing his previous four starts. The 2012 NL Cy Tyson Ross (7-9) was just as sharp, his only mis- a leadoff home run and Lucas Duda doubled twice, young Award winner got back in the win column take a slider up in the zone to Blackmon in the singled and drew two walks. Daniel Murphy also for the first time since beating the Tigers on June 4. third. Ross went six innings and allowed six hits. doubled twice and third baseman David Wright The Blue Jays climbed within 21/2 games of the AL Ross made the All-Star team, but won’t pitch since added two of New York’s 18 hits and made a nifty East-leading Baltimore Orioles, who were rained he’s scheduled to start Sunday against the Los catch. out at Washington. Angeles Dodgers. — AP The shaggy-haired deGrom (2-5) pitched the Mets to their third win in a row, and the franchise’s 4,000th victory since starting out as an expansion team in 1962. Atlanta has lost three straight. MLB results/standings DeGrom allowed seven hits, walked none and matched a career best for strikeouts. 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PALLEKELE: Tillakaratne Dilshan starred with but lost their last five wickets for 11 runs, with both the bat and the ball as Sri Lanka crushed paceman Ryan McLaren (4-48) accounting for South Africa by 87 runs in their second one- four of these dismissals. dayer yesterday to draw the three-match “I was a bit concerned after we collapsed, I series level at 1-1. thought we were perhaps 30-40 runs short,” Dilshan smashed 86 off 90 balls and also said Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews. “But took three wickets for 40 runs to set the stage Dilshan played a great knock. All the spinners for a Sri Lankan victory in the day-night contributed as well.” match at the Pallekele International Stadium. The Proteas suffered an early setback Fast bowler Lasith Malinga chipped in with a when pace spearhead Dale Steyn had to leave valuable 4-24 as South Africa were bowled the field after sustaining a bruise on his right out for 180 off 38.1 overs while chasing Sri thumb while attempting a return catch in his Lanka’s 267 all out. third over. In-form opener Hashim Amla fought back But with tests ruling out any fracture, brilliantly, making a 102-ball 101, but failed Steyn came on to bat later, making 23. Sri to find support from the other batsmen, only Lanka were off to a flying start with Dilshan two of whom could manage scores in double going after the attack, but the visitors struck figures. Malinga gave Sri Lanka crucial break- at regular intervals to peg back the scoring. throughs when he sent back opener Quinton Opener Kusal Perera (seven) was the first de Kock (four) and star batsman Jacques to go, lobbing the ball tamely to Amla at short Kallis (one) in his consecutive overs. Kallis, mid-wicket off fast bowler Vernon Philander who was out for a second ball duck in the (2-49). Sangakkara, who scored a fine 89 in first game, fell to a sharp bouncer from the Sunday’s match, was out for seven when he bowler, edging it straight to Kumar tried to pull a short delivery from Morne Sangakkara behind the stumps. At the other Morkel but ended up gloving it to the wicket- end, Amla held the innings together, string- keeper. Leg-spinner Imran Tahir (2-41) got rid ing a 75-run stand with skipper AB de Villiers of Lahiru Thirimanne (36) and then off-spin- (29) and reaching his 14th ODI century in the ner Jean-Paul Duminy deceived Dilshan with process. a ball that deflected off the batsman’s glove But de Villers’ dismissal in the 20th over by onto the stumps. NOTTINGHAM: India’s Murali Vijay (left) plays a shot past England’s Matt Prior during play on day One of the first cricket Test match between Dilshan triggered a collapse that derailed the Jayawardene was given out lbw when he England and India at Trent Bridge. — AFP South African innings and put the hosts in was on six, but the decision was overturned the driver’s seat.“Hashim (Amla) played an on review. He went on to score a patient 48 amazing innings but there were not enough off 70 balls and shared a 71-run stand with Vijay keeps England at bay partnerships around him. I got out to a soft Mathews (34) to steady the innings. Ashan dismissal as well,” said de Villiers. Earlier, Priyanjan provided some late impetus, hitting Dilshan, 37, struck nine fours in his quickfire Morkel for a six and a boundary off consecu- NOTTINGHAM: Murali Vijay’s maiden overseas Rising star Virat Kohli, on one, then carelessly the toe of the bat, the ball deflecting to Cook, who innings after Sri Lanka won the toss and tive deliveries in a cameo 25-run knock. The Test hundred took India to 259 for four at stumps opened the face against Broad and guided the ball grabbed the catch at silly point - not an obvious chose to bat. third and final game will be played in on a grinding first day of a five-match series with low to Bell, now at second slip. England, gaining a position for a fast bowler such as Plunkett. The hosts looked in line for a bigger total Hambantota on Sunday. — AFP England at Trent Bridge yesterday. measure of reverse swing, restricted India to a Vijay spent 13 balls on 99 before a scampered Vijay was 122 not out after batting through the mere 18 runs in the first 14 overs after lunch. single off Anderson saw the 30-year-old to his whole day, with India captain Mahendra Singh But with Cook unwilling to deploy part-time fourth hundred in 23 Tests and first outside India Dhoni unbeaten on 50 exactly. Together the pair off-spinner Moeen Ali, Vijay made the most of any in more than four-and-a-half hours at the crease. had put on an unbroken 81 for the fifth wicket. opportunities he was given by England’s seam His first fifty had taken just 68 balls, his second India, after Dhoni won the toss on a sunny day, quartet and late cut recalled all-rounder Ben 146. Vijay, however, raised a stand of fifty by overcame the early loss of Shikhar Dhawan to be Stokes for two fours. At tea, India were 177 for advancing down the pitch to drive Ali for six over 106 for one at lunch on a placid pitch. But England three, with Vijay 92 not out and Ajinkya Rahane 32 long-off, while Dhoni upped the tempo with a 64- then took two wickets for one run to reduce India not out. ball fifty of his own. Vijay had made 110 when to 107 for three and the run-rate slowed signifi- But Rahane, as happened to Pujara, failed to Plunkett appealed for lbw. cantly with Stuart Broad (one for 26 in 19 overs) add to his interval score when he was dismissed in But England, with the Decision Review System particularly miserly on his Nottinghamshire home the first over after tea thanks to another smart not in use this series because of Indian objections, ground. Vijay was into his stride right from the first ploy from Cook. had to accept Australian umpire Bruce Oxenford’s over, which saw him strike England spearhead Rahane, unsettled by an earlier short ball, tried not out decision, which replays suggested would James Anderson for three fours in as many balls. to pull Liam Plunkett but only made contact with still have stood even under DRS. — AFP But Anderson, who has taken more Test wickets at Trent Bridge than any other bowler, did claim his 50th scalp on the ground when he found SCOREBOARD Dhawan’s outside edge and wicketkeeper Matt Prior, passed fit after a minor thigh injury, took an NOTTINGHAM: Scoreboard at stumps on the first day of the first Test between England and India excellent diving left-handed catch in front of at Trent Bridge on Wednesday: England captain Alastair Cook at first slip. Such was Vijay’s touch, his first fifty featured 44 India 1st Innings Mohammed Shami runs in boundaries. But Anderson and new-ball M. Vijay not out 122 Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Dhawan), 2-106 (Pujara), partner Broad eventually checked India’s progress. S. Dhawan c Prior b Anderson 12 3-107 (Kohli), 4-178 (Rahane) SRI LANKA: South African Dale Steyn ducks to avoid a ball during the second One Cheteshwar Pujara fell for his lunch score of 38 C. Pujara c Bell b Anderson 38 Bowling: Anderson 21-6-70-2; Broad 19-8-26- Day International cricket match against Sri Lanka at the Pallekele International to a well-set trap when he chipped an Anderson V. Kohli c Bell b Broad 1 1; Stokes 19-4-47-0; Plunkett 21-4-56-1; Ali 9-0- Cricket Stadium. — AFP delivery that ‘stopped’ to the rarely deployed posi- A. Rahane c Cook b Plunkett 32 50-0; Root 1-0-6-0 tion of silly mid-on, where Ian Bell took a superb M.S. Dhoni not out 50 England: Alastair Cook (capt), Sam Robson, SCOREBOARD one-handed catch diving full-stretch to his right. Extras (lb4) 4 Gary Ballance, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Moeen Ali, Pujara’s dismissal was also a tactical triumph for Total (4 wkts, 90 overs, 373 mins) 259 Matt Prior (wkt), Ben Stokes, Stuart Broad, Cook, much criticised for his tactics during To bat: R Jadeja, S Binny, B Kumar, I Sharma, Liam Plunkett, James Anderson PALLEKELE: Full scoreboard from the second one-day international between Sri England’s recent run of eight Tests without a win. Lanka and South Africa at the Pallekele International Stadium yesterday: Sri Lanka: South Africa: K. Perera c Amla b Philander 7 H. Amla c Senanayake b Malinga 101 T. Dilshan b Duminy 86 Q. de Kock b Malinga 4 Froome crashes out K. Sangakkara c de Kock b Morkel 7 J. Kallis c Sangakkara b Malinga 1 L. Thirimanne c Amla b Tahir 36 AB de Villiers c sub (T. Perera) b Dilshan 29 M. Jayawardene b Tahir 48 J. Duminy c Sangakkara b Mendis 1 A. Mathews c de Kock b McLaren 34 D. Miller c Senanayake b Dilshan 4 of Tour de France A. Priyanjan c Duminy b McLaren 25 R. McLaren c Kulasekara b Senanayake3 N. Kulasekara c de Villiers b McLaren 0 V. Philander c Sangakkara b Dilshan 1 S. Senanayake not out 9 D. Steyn lbw b Mendis 23 FRANCE: Defending champion Chris Froome said A. Mendis c de Kock b McLaren 2 M. Morkel b Malinga 0 L. Malinga c Morkel b Philander 0 I. Tahir not out 0 he was “devastated” after crashing out of the Tour Extras: (b1, lb1, w9, nb2) 13 Extras: (lb4, w9) 13 de France yesterday following two falls twice on a Total (49.2 overs) 267 Total: (all out; 38.1 overs) 180 wet and treacherous stage five. Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Perera), 2-63 Fall of wickets: 1-9 (de Kock), 2-26 (Kallis), 3- “Devastated to have to withdraw from this years (Sangakkara), 3-125 (Thirimanne), 4-154 101 (de Villiers), 4-104 (Duminy), 5-109 TDF. Injured wrist and tough conditions made con- (Dilshan), 5-225 (Jayawardene), 6-256 (Miller), 6-124 (McLaren), 7-127 (Philander), trolling my bike near to impossible,” he said on his (Mathews), 7-256 (Kulasekara), 8-256 8-180 (Amla), 9-180 (Morkel), 10-180 (Steyn) Twitter feed. “Thanks to the team & support staff for (Priyanjan), 9-266 (Mendis), 10-267 Bowling: Malinga 6-1-24-4 (w2), Kulasekara trying to get me through today. Wishing (Malinga) 5-0-39-0, Senanayake 7-1-36-1 (w4), @richie_porte & @TeamSky the best for the rest of Bowling: Steyn 2.2-0-19-0, Philander 7.2-1- Mathews 3-1-11-0, Mendis 6.1-2-18-2, Tour!” 49-2 (nb2, w1), Duminy 9.4-0-50-1 (w2), Dilshan 10-0-40-3 (w2), Priyanjan After the second crash, the 29-year-old was visi- Morkel 10-0-58-1 (w1), McLaren 10-0-48-4 1-0-8-0 (w1) bly injured and was seen shaking his head and (w4), Tahir 10-1-41-2 (w1) Sri Lanka win by 87 runs holding his right arm before climbing into a Sky team car. That signalled the end of his attempt to VIVA to announce Lucky Winner of retain the yellow jersey he won in Paris last year. Team manager Dave Brailsford said he had no Vespa scooters draw at Marina Mall updates on Froome’s exact injuries but said it was all part of racing. And he said attention will now turn to Richie Porte, who sits eighth overall at 1min 54sec from race leader Vincenzo Nibali following yesterday’s cobbled 152.5km stage from Ypres in Belgium to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut. “I haven’t heard from the doctor yet, Chris has gone back to the hotel and will fly home tonight,” said Brailsford. “Obviously it’s devastating news for Chris and the team but we really knew it was going to be a tough FRANCE: Netherland’s Lars Boom celebrates after the 152.5 km fifth stage of the 101st edition race. We really believed in Chris and really thought of the Tour de France cycling race. — AFP he was going to win this race. “It’s not to be this year but in Richie Porte we’ve Froome’s withdrawal topped off a nightmare down his right hand side, trying to fix a mechanical got a very capable guy who will now lead the team. two days for the Kenyan-born rider, who also came problem by the side of the road. Blood and grazing “I think like anything else, on a day like today when off his bike on Tuesday’s fourth stage. could also be seen on his hip through a rip in his you have a setback, you’ve got to roll with it. Television pictures missed his two falls on a day shorts. His Sky teammates quickly dropped back to “It’s part of sport, you’ve got to recalibrate your in which numerous riders crashed even before the pace him back up to the peloton. Already he had goals and go again. You might take a punch but feared cobbled sections began. After his first fall, begun the day with a splint to protect his left wrist you get up and go again. “In Richie Porte, he’s Froome was seen with ripped jersey and shorts that was injured in Tuesday’s crash. —AFP come into this team, we’ve selected him to be the num- ber two, he had great ability today and great courage with Geraint (Thomas) to ride the cobbles the way he did and given the way it’s timed at the minute, we’ve got an exciting couple of KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing more points accumulated by a customer, weeks to come.” and most developed telecom operator, the more chances they will have of win- The last time a reigning announced that it will hold the upcoming ning. The upcoming final draw will take champion was forced to draw for both its postpaid and prepaid cus- place on 14 July 2014. abandon the Tour was in tomers to win Vespa scooters with World VIVA invites its customers to participate 1980 when Frenchman Cup designs at Marina Mall on Thursday 10 in this exciting draw campaign which is Bernard Hinault quit due to July 2014 at 9pm. applicable for existing and new postpaid a knee injury, although that The draw campaign started on 22 May (Voice and data) and prepaid (voice only) wasn’t from a crash. In 1983, and will last until 14 July 2014, where post- customers who pay their bills through yellow jersey wearer Pascal paid and prepaid customers will earn one VIVA’s website, VIVA’s application or by call- Simon was forced out sever- point for every KD5 spent on their bill pay- ing the Call Center at 102 giving customers al days after a crash and he ment or recharge usage. Each point will a chance to win a brand new World Cup would never win the Grand count as one entry into the draw, so the Vespa scooter. Boucle. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

FAN FERVOR Germany has the world at their feet

BELO HORIZONTE: Some 14 years after their humili- ating Euro 2000 exit, Germany now stand with the world at their feet amidst the fall-out from their remarkable thrashing of Brazil. Joachim Loew’s Germany capitalised on an emo- tionally fragile Selecao side, shorn of injured star Neymar and suspended captain Thiago Silva, to inflict a 7-1 mauling on the hosts in Tuesday’s World Cup semi-final. The battering Brazil sustained in Belo Horizonte even had the usually reserved German Chancellor Angela Merkel describing the victory as ‘historic’. Loew’s Germany are now on the verge of their first World Cup title for 24 years with their global rep- utation for eye-catching football enhanced after handing Brazil their heaviest international defeat. “The final is sure to be a different game, but there is one thing they have done-the respect for this team has now become even greater,” enthused Franz Beckenbauer who captained West Germany to the 1974 title and coached the 1990 World Cup winners. It’s all a far-cry from Euro 2000, when Germany bowed out after failing to win any of their three matches. That humiliation prompted the German FA (DFB) and the German Football League (DFL) to put politics aside and focus on a player development strategy which is now bearing fruit. The DFB ploughed millions of euros into building youth academies across the Bundesliga’s top tiers. A tactical blueprint was laid out for the DFB’s junior teams, so a player rising through the age groups had continuity while DFB coaches scouted playgrounds and sports fields for talent. The various clubs con- trolled their own academy systems, but followed DFB guidelines. Despite reaching the 2002 World Cup final, Germany again exited in the first round of Euro 2004 with two draws and a defeat as coach Rudi Voeller resigned. With increasing desperation, the DFB took a gamble by naming inexperienced former striker Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach and he appointed Loew as his assistant. With the academy system starting to yield talent like Bastian Schweinsteiger, Philipp Lahm and Lukas Podolski, Klinsmann and Loew promoted youth and attacking football. Only an extra-time defeat to Italy in the semi- finals halted the Germans’ march when they hosted BELO HORIZONTE: Brazil’s defender Thiago Silva (right) comforts Brazil’s defender David Luiz after the the 2006 World Cup and when Klinsmann stepped semi-final football match against Germany. — AFP down, Loew took over. The 54-year-old steered the Germans to the Euro 2008 final where they lost the Vienna final 1-0 to a Blow-by-blow account Spanish side at the start of a golden era. The South Africa World Cup was when Loew’s BELO HORIZONTE: Brazil’s World Cup dream crum- shot, the ball came to Kroos. Germany announced their return as a powerhouse bled in spectacular fashion on Tuesday in a record 7-1 The Bayern Munich man’s connection, first-time on on the global stage. With an average age of 24, the semi-final defeat. Here is is a blow-by-blow account of the half-volley with his left foot from the edge of the multi-national squad saw the likes of Mesut Ozil, a Germany’s night of triumph: area, was marvellous and Julio Cesar could do nothing. Sami Khedira, Thomas Mueller and Manuel Neuer break into the side with performances which sug- * ONE (Thomas Mueller 11) * FOUR (Toni Kroos 26) gested they were there to stay. Brazilians wondered how their team would cope Fernandinho was hopelessly caught in possession Ozil, the Gelsenkirchen-born son of Turkish immi- without the injured Neymar, but the absence of cap- just outside his own area, and Kroos and Sami Khedira grants, is a good example of a current player who tain Thiago Silva, such a reassuring presence at the took advantage to break into the area. Khedira rose through the system having been spotted by a back, was just as big a blow. returned the ball to Kroos, who this time simply could DFB coach before he joined Schalke. The Brazilian defence was hopelessly exposed at not miss. Both England and Argentina conceded four goals the opening goal, as Toni Kroos floated in a corner to the Germans, who won scores of neutral fans at from the right and Thomas Mueller found himself com- * FIVE (Sami Khedira 29) South Africa 2010 with fleet-footed, eye-catching pletely unmarked at the back post to slot home his The culmination of an extraordinary first-half burst football, in the knock-out stages. Again, Germany’s fifth goal of the tournament. that will go down in history came as Mats Hummels run was halted by Spain, this time in the semi-finals. However, the movement by Mueller and the sliced right through the heart of the Brazilian team, rid- Four years on in Brazil, Germany can grind out German players was intelligent as David Luiz, who ing unchallenged deep into the opposition half. results after a 2-2 draw with Ghana and 1-0 win over should have been marking the goalscorer, found him- Germany simply walked the ball into the net this self blocked off and unable to make a challenge. time, with Mesut Ozil providing the assist and Khedira the USA in the group stages, but also turn on the applying the finish. style in their 4-0 rout of Portugal before Tuesday’s * TWO (Miroslav Klose 23) thrashing of Brazil. “The team is a step further,” The crumble really began as Fernandinho failed to * SIX (Andre Schuerrle 69) Schweinsteiger said when comparing the 2010 cut out a pass from the German right, and Kroos and Brazil attacked after the break in a doomed attempt team. “Every single player has developed further at Mueller combined to cut through the middle of the to rescue some pride, but they still had six defenders in their clubs and the amount of good players has also Brazil defence. their own area when Germany went on to add a sixth increased.” Klose collected the ball inside the area and saw his goal midway through the second half. Schuerrle, who Domestically, German football is in rude health shot from close range blocked by Julio Cesar, but he had replaced Klose 11 minutes earlier, still found him- with Bayern Munich and Dortmund both major still reacted the quickest to convert the rebound. self in space in the box to convert Lahm’s cutback, as forces in the Champions League last season having The veteran striker confirmed himself as the great- Brazil were yet again found wanting on the left-hand contested the 2013 final. est poacher in the history of the competition, scoring a side. Six Bayern players started the Belo Horizonte record-breaking 16th World Cup goal to move one semi-final while Dortmund’s Mats Hummels has clear of the Brazilian Ronaldo, compounding the hosts’ * SEVEN (Andre Schuerrle 79) established himself as a world-class centre-back. misery. Mueller turned provider this time to set up And who knows how much stronger the Germans Schuerrle to score again, and his delightful control was would have been had dynamic Dortmund winger * THREE (Toni Kroos 24) followed by an arrowing left-foot shot on the half-vol- Marco Reus not torn ankle ligaments before the Almost immediately after the restart, Germany ley that beat Julio Cesar and went into the net off the World Cup? scored again through a combination of poor defend- underside of the crossbar. In sunday’s final, Germany face the winner of late ing and marvellous finishing. Oscar’s late reply for the hosts was irrelevant, with Nobody cut out Philipp Lahm’s low centre in from Brazil already having succumbed to their greatest ever yesterday’s second semi-final between Argentina the German right, and even after Mueller mis-hit his humiliation. — AFP and the Netherlands. — AFP

World Cup shocks Brazil fans shake off the blues and put on orange BELO HORIZONTE: A selection of the biggest opened up a whole new world. “I learnt that play- World Cup shocks in history after Germany’s 7-1 ing football can improve diplomatic relations and SAO PAULO: Out of the World Cup and dreading the idea rout of hosts Brazil in Tuesday’s semi-final in Belo promote peace,” he said when he made an emo- of their South American archrival lifting the trophy, many Horizonte: tional return to Middlesbrough in 2002. North Brazilian did the only thing they could do - put on the Korea went on to lose 5-3 to Portugal in the quar- Dutch orange shirts for yesterday’s semi-final’s match United States 1 England 0 (1950) ter-finals. against Argentina. England arrived at their first World Cup finals Orange clad Brazilians joined Dutch fans who were out- appearance hailed as potential winners having East Germany 1 West Germany 0 (1974) numbered by a massive blue-and-white Argentine pres- lost just four times in 30 matches. Faced with a One of the most politically charged matches in ence around Sao team of part-timers, England selectors rested star World Cup history, with the Cold War raging and Paulo’s arena player Stanley Matthews. It proved to be a fatal intense rivalry between the two states reaching a Corinthians. error as with substitutes not yet permitted peak as West Germany hosted the tournament. Matthews sat helplessly on the sidelines and a The two-divided since World War II-fought con- Tiago Pinhiero, an goal by Haiti-born Joe Gaetjens, who earned his stantly for supremacy in the sporting arena but advertisement exec- keep as a dishwasher upper in a restaurant, this was the most high profile meeting. West utive from Rio de secured the Americans a 1-0 win. Germany were packed with household names but Janeiro, bought his the East Germans arrived boosted by Magdeburg’s orange shirt at a Uruguay 2 Brazil 1 (1950) Cup Winners Cup victory. Striker Jurgen shopping mall near The game that came to be known as the Sparwasser scored the only goal of the game and the stadium. “No ‘Maracanazo’ but may be seen as less of a traumat- provoked wild celebrations back in the communist Brazilian likes to see ic defeat now after Tuesday’s hammering. Hosts state. West Germany, though, were to have the last Argentina win,” he Brazil were drawing 1-1 and under the old format laugh as they went on to win the trophy while East said as he walked were just 10 minutes from winning their first Germany bowed out in the next round. towards the arena. World Cup in the Maracana. However, their hopes “We were going to support the Netherlands from the and that of a nation were dashed as Alcides Algeria 2 West Germany 1 (1982) beginning but after yesterday’s defeat even more.” Ghiggia lashed in a shot to make it 2-1. Despite The North Africans were appearing in their first Brazil was taken out of the World Cup on Tuesday by there being 200,000 fans packed into the stadium World Cup finals and were given little chance Germany with a humiliating 7-1 defeat that sunk this soc- Ghiggia, who is now 87 and the only member of against the reigning European champions in the cer-loving nation into depression. the two teams still alive, told AFP the crowd were clash in Spain. The German players thought it was And the idea of Argentina beating Netherlands to reach reduced to a ‘great stunning silence’. done and dusted. “One player even said that he Sunday’s final at the Maracana stadium of Rio de Janeiro is would play against us with a cigar in his mouth,” simply unbearable for many Brazilians. North Korea 1 Italy 0 (1966) Algeria’s full-back Chaabane Merzekane told The “Our rivalry with Argentina is historic,” explains Pak Do-Ik entered World Cup folklore by strik- Guardian later. The over confidence of the Guilherme Samora, a 25-year old businessman riding the ing the only goal of the game to secure the hermit Germans came back to haunt them as the subway to the stadium with his old Ruud van Nistelrooy Stalinist state a remarkable 1-0 victory over Italy in Algerians prevailed 2-1 with Rabah Madjer open- shirt. “If Afghanistan were playing Argentina we will be a group match in the unglamorous setting of ing the scoring nine minutes into the second-half. wearing Afghan shirts today.” Middlesbrough in north-eastern England. It did The Germans pulled level through Karl-Heinz And that is good news for Ben Oude Kamdhuis, a tall 53 not presage a golden era in football for North Rummenigge only for a stunning move by the year-old Dutchman clad in orange from head to toes, Korea as they had to wait till 2010 for their next Algerians to culminate in the decisive goal by including his dyed beard. “I think it is going help us that all appearance at the finals. However, for Pak it Lakhdar Belloumi. of Brazil are behind Holland winning today.” — Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

FAN FERVOR Kroos missile silence critics

SANTO ANDRE: Germany midfielder Toni Kroos not only silenced Brazil’s fans with his scintillating performance in Tuesday’s astonishing 7-1 World Cup semi-final victory but also countless critics back home as well. Annoyed by linger- ing accusations that he might have been largely to blame for Germany’s lacklustre semi-final defeat by Italy two years ago at Euro 2012, Kroos played arguably the best of his 50 matches for Germany on Tuesday. “I’m in a great mood and I’m feeling fit - that’s why I was able to come up with a performance like this,” he told reporters after helping Germany reach Sunday’s final. “For me personally that was one of my better matches for Germany but I’ve had a lot of other good matches too,” Kroos said when asked if it was his best game for the national side. “I’d agree that it was the team’s best perform- ance, especially in such a match like the semi-final against Brazil. It was extraordinary.” Kroos’s improvement epitomised Germany’s progression as they surged into overdrive against Brazil after uninspir- ing victories over the United States, Algeria and France by a one-goal margin as well as a 2-2 draw against Ghana before that. Man of the match after scoring twice against Brazil - his first at the World Cup - Kroos was directly involved in Germany’s first four goals. His corner set up Thomas Mueller’s opener before he created the second with a sharp pass to Mueller who found Miroslav Klose to score his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal. Kroos then scored the next two himself, one with his left foot and the other with his right. “He’s in great form BELO HORIZONTE: Germany’s midfielder Toni Kroos celebrates after scoring during the semi-final foot- right now,” said Germany coach Joachim Loew. “The things ball match against Brazil. — AFP he does on the pitch always lead to something. He’s been helping the team enormously in the last two years, helping draw four months later, Kroos was again singled out for dis- total for Germany to seven. Kroos was spotted as a teenager to create a lot of chances.” The 24-year-old Kroos, the team’s appearing during the chaotic final 20 minutes. and at 16 moved from Hansa Rostock to Bayern, where he only starter born in East Germany, has been billed as the The normally down-to-earth Kroos was still touchy marked his Bundesliga debut at 17 with two assists. He most promising talent of his generation for years and has about that criticism even after playing well in Germany’s spent 18 months on loan at Bayer Leverkusen and has been been one of the driving forces behind Bayern Munich’s suc- opening 4-0 World Cup win against Portugal. He snapped at a regular for Bayern since Pep Guardiola arrived last year. cess since 2012. a journalist who asked about why he sometimes disap- Top European clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester United But there were some blemishes on his record for peared in key matches for Germany. “Then you haven’t seen and Real Madrid are reportedly eager to sign Kroos, whose Germany. When their entertaining, high-scoring team side many of my matches,” he said before listing several perform- contract with Bayern runs until next July. Madrid are the 2-1 to Italy at Euro 2012, Kroos became a scapegoat for ances in Champions League games for Bayern without favourites to get him. going missing while being outfoxed by master Italian mid- mentioning any highlights for Germany. However, right now Kroos is just focusing on Sunday’s fielder Andrea Pirlo. No one would doubt Kroos’s importance to Germany at final against either the Netherlands or Argentina when The criticism may have been unfairly focused on Kroos the World Cup and the upturn in his fortunes could hardly Germany will try to win a fourth World Cup and their first but the tag stuck that he could not deliver in the big match- have come at a better time. He has been top of Germany’s since 1990. “Despite the great performance against Brazil es. When Germany squandered a 4-0 lead against Sweden possession and successful passing statistics all through the we’re here to win the World Cup and we’re not there yet,” he in a World Cup qualifier in Berlin and had to settle for a 4-4 tournament. His two goals on Tuesday brought his career said. “We’ve still got one more step to go.”— Reuters Exit: Worse than 1950 trauma?

BELO HORIZONTE: Brazil’s humiliating exit from the In 1950, Brazil had yet to win the World Cup and get- Selecao’s horrific defeat, experts say Brazilians now know World Cup is as close as it gets to a national trauma in a ting the title would have put the developing country on how to cope with both triumphs and disappointments. football-mad nation whose identity is closely associated the map. Since then, the Selecao has won a record five “There have been many cups since 1950. There were with its team. World Cup titles, gave the world the “jogo bonito” (beauti- victories and defeats. Everybody is used to this,” said The country of 200 million people had hoped to win ful game) and produced football giants as Pele, Garrincha, Lamartine da Costa, a sports management expert at Rio the title at home and erase memories of its 1950 World Zico and Ronaldo, winning over fans among the rich and de Janeiro State University. Cup defeat to Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro, the notorious the poor, white or black. “The Maracanazo was something that was never “Maracanazo” at the Maracana Stadium. Today’s superstar Neymar was unable to play the semi- repeated. It was unprecedented,” he said. Costa said the But instead Brazil suffered the worst defeat in its 100- final after suffering a broken vertebrae in the previous continent-sized country was much more isolated in 1950. year footballing history, falling 7-1 to Germany at the game. The power of football put a lid on protests that had “This isolation created an inward-looking culture. Mineirao Stadium in the southeastern city of Belo marked the run-up to the tournament. Hundreds of thou- Brazilians don’t understand others very well. The same Horizonte-now the infamous “Mineirazo.” sands of people had held protests last year during the thing happens with other large countries like the United “It looked like a game between adults and children,” Confederations Cup, denouncing the record $11 billion States, Russia or China. wrote the prominent sports analyst Juca Kfouri on his spent on the World Cup and demanding the money be “There is an unrealistic feeling of power and surprises blog. “Brazilian football has never experienced such humil- spent on better hospitals and schools instead. come when things you expect don’t happen. One of the iation.” The country’s newspapers called it the biggest dis- There were a few protests that attracted small crowds theories is that’s what happened in 1950,” he said. grace in the team’s history, with globoesporte.com dub- during the World Cup, though after Tuesday’s defeat some Today, Brazil is the world’s seventh biggest economy bing it the “Shame of Shames.” But other analysts said the fans wondered whether hosting the tournament had and 40 million of its people were lifted out of poverty in Mineirazo could not compare to the Maracanazo. been worth the cost. the past decade. They demand more prosperity and better “In 1950 we felt we had an unbeatable team and losing Although the Selecao lost, the tournament itself can quality of life, but football is no longer their only passion. at the Maracana was unthinkable,” Michel Castellar, an be considered a success, with fears of chaos never materi- And Brazilians relate less with their millionaire stars, who analyst at the sports daily Lance, told AFP. alizing despite delays in the construction of stadiums, play mostly across the world in Europe. “This time, we knew that we had a team with a lot of experts said. And the games were full of surprises, upsets “Before, the players represented a football closer to flaws and that maybe they would not reach the final. Was and goals. “This World Cup has been a real gift for Brazil,” amateurism,” Costa said. “Their behavior was exemplary, it a national humiliation? Yes, because of the number of said Pedro Trengrouse, a United Nations consultant for the representing the values of the homeland and the love of goals. But it wasn’t a new Maracanazo,” he said. tournament. While the low point for fans was seeing the football.” — AFP Brazilians cry and curse at World Cup humiliation RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilians cried, “The only good thing is I think it cursed their president and covered will affect President Dilma in the their faces in shame after their election. But all our politicians are beloved football team’s humiliating even worse than the team,” she said. 7-1 thrashing by Germany in the Rousseff said she was “very sad” and World Cup semi-finals Tuesday. After “sorry” about the result. the fifth goal, well before half-time, Brazil had hoped to exorcise the hundreds of people left their expen- ghost of its defeat to Uruguay in the sive seats at the stadium in the 1950 World Cup final in Rio de southeastern city of Belo Horizonte. Janeiro, a national trauma dubbed A section of the crowd chanted the “Maracanazo” because it was obscenities against the players and played in the Maracana Stadium. President Dilma Rousseff, who dur- This time, TV commentators were ing the cup had mostly enjoyed a talking of the “Mineirazo,” after the reprieve from protests over the Mineirao Stadium, with the sports record $11 billion spent to host the website globoesporte.com calling tournament. the defeat the “Shame of Shames.” The tears began well before the But Jessica Santos, a 23-year-old final whistle, with the third German photo student, was taking the mas- goal in the first half causing children sacre in stride. “The cup is back in COSTA RICA: Costa Rican fans wait for the arrival of their national football team in San Jose and adults to start bawling in the sta- Brazil for the first time in 64 years so on July 8, 2014, following their participation in the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup. — AFP dium and in public screenings across of course we’ll cheer until the end,” the continent-sized nation. As peo- she said. “If Brazil wins, we party, if ple streamed out, police reinforced Brazil loses, we still party. It would Costa Rica boss hails security inside and around the stadi- have been worse to lose to Argentina um, but no incidents were reported in the final.” there. Others around the country Others turned to social media ‘beautiful’ campaign shouted at their televisions and jokes to ease the pain, posting pic- abandoned public screenings as the tures of Rio’s iconic Christ the SALVADOR: Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto other giant-killers like North Korea (1966), Selecao suffered the biggest defeat Redeemer statue covering its face in said his team had proved the doubters wrong Cameroon (1990) and South Korea (2002). of its 100-year history. shame-or even replaced by German and achieved “very beautiful things” with their Organisation and solid defending were the hall- “Neymar must be vomiting at Chancellor Angela Merkel. historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals. marks of a team which also featured the attack- home watching this disaster. The The insults against Rousseff, who “Los Ticos” lost to the Netherlands on penal- ing talents of Arsenal’s Joel Campbell and their ties but they were never beaten in open play horror,” said Marina Genova, 54, is seeking re-election in October, captain, Fulham’s Bryan Ruiz. “I told my players despite facing three World Cup-winners and for- that I’m very proud of them and the whole coun- watching at a popular bar district in showed that tensions remain follow- mer European champions Greece. try is proud of them and we’re proud because Sao Paulo, referring to Brazil’s injured ing massive demonstrations that “During this World Cup we’ve done very they’ve given everything on the field,” Pinto said. star. Amid the deluge of goals, a rocked the country last year when beautiful things. Many people didn’t believe in “It’s not only football, it’s attitude and the way downpour only added to the already Brazilians demanded better health us but we have seen we can achieve wonderful they’ve behaved in all these matches.” He added gloomy mood of thousands of fans care and education. things,” Pinto said. “We’ve played great power- that he rated outstanding goalkeeper Keylor in Brazil’s canary-yellow jersey at the Some Brazilians have voiced con- houses of football and we haven’t been beaten, Navas as the best in the World Cup, despite a official “Fan Fest” on Rio de Janeiro’s cerns that Brazil’s failure to win the even if we have to leave the tournament now. match-winning double save from Dutch substi- Copacabana beach. Two dozen fans World Cup could spark more protests That’s very important for us.” The tiny Central tute stopper Tim Krul in the shoot-out. “I think scuffled, forcing police to intervene. and clashes. American nation were written off after being Navas has been the best goalkeeper during this In Sao Paulo, several buses were “It’s a disaster. It will be chaos. drawn in arguably the tournament’s toughest World Cup,” he said. “Maybe this guy (Krul) torched in a parking lot but police People will break everything. They’re group, but they shocked both Uruguay and Italy wouldn’t have stopped two penalties. could not confirm whether the attack going to be furious,” said Karina and drew against England. In the round of 16, “I think it’s a question related to luck. When was linked to the defeat. Brazilians Marques, a 17-year-old footballer they played for an hour with 10 men before beat- stopping a penalty you must have luck and were already concerned about the who watched the game at a street ing Greece on penalties, and they held off the sometimes there are many things that can have team’s chances after Neymar broke a screening in Rio attended by 30,000 Netherlands before being shaded on spot-kicks an influence.” Navas faced down 15 shots on vertebra in the quarter-final victory people. At a squatter camp of homes late Saturday. “Netherlands are a very strong target in an onslaught by the Netherlands as over Colombia. made of wooden planks outside team but we were still at an even level with Costa Rica survived 120 minutes at 0-0 to force But they never thought it would Brasilia, people turned off their tele- them,” Pinto said. “We’ve shown we’re able to penalties. Other goalkeeping heroics have be this bad. “This is a terrible match visions in disgust before the end. organise ourselves, we’ve got good tactics and come from USA’s Tim Howard, who made a and Brazil without Neymar are terri- In tears, Maria Jose Costa we were never afraid to play big powerhouses,” record 16 saves against Belgium, Germany’s ble. I hate this match. It’s embarrass- Almeida, 35, asked: “Why spend so added the 61-year-old Colombian. “I think we’ve brilliant Manuel Neuer and Mexican Guillermo ing to lose like this,” said Beth Araujo, much on stadiums, bring the cup to shown a very positive image of Costa Rican foot- Ochoa also received rave reviews for some 24, a biology student. Brazil, to win nothing?” — AFP ball, so we’re happy.” Costa Rica’s run to their first incredible saves against Brazil and the Dutch in World Cup quarter-final bears comparison with their last 16 game. — AFP Giants fall to Vijay keeps Athletics England at bay

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Klose claims record BELO HORIZONTE: As Brazil learned to their cost on Tuesday, it is best not to give Miroslav Klose a second chance. The Germany striker became the World Cup’s all-time leading scor- er in his side’s stunning 7-1 record thrashing of the hosts in the semi-final in Belo Horizonte. The 36-year-old tapped home after seeing his first effort saved by Julio Cesar to record his 16th World Cup goal in his fourth consecutive semi-final appearance and pass Brazilian legend Ronaldo in the process. The first of that run came in 2002 when a Ronaldo-inspired Brazil beat Germany in the final, but Joachim Loew’s men more than set the record straight by inflicting Brazil’s heaviest ever international defeat after storming into a 5-0 lead after just half an hour at the Estadio Mineirao. — AFP Bra71L ‘Historic disgrace’ as Germany tear Brazil to shreds

BELO HORIZONTE: A fan of Germany celebrates after their team won the semi-final football match between Brazil BELO HORIZONTE: Brazil’s coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gestures during the semi-final football match between Brazil and Germany at The Mineirao Stadium. — AFP and Germany at The Mineirao Stadium, during the 2014 FIFA World Cup . — AFP

BELO HORIZONTE: Brazil’s World Cup dream was very, very sad about this defeat. I am immensely utes-which made him the World Cup’s all-time half, the torture continued on 69 minutes when vent mood. And when the goals started flying in smashed into oblivion Tuesday as majestic sorry for all of us. Fans and our players,” she wrote top-scorer with 16 goals-was the cue for the Andre Schuerrle swept in Germany’s sixth. after Klose made it 2-0 there was no way back for Germany ran riot to win an extraordinary semi- on Twitter, where many Brazilians vented their floodgates to open. This time boos rang out around the Mineirao Brazil. The result was greeted with disbelief by final 7-1, sending the hosts crashing to the worst anger via the hashtag #vergonhabrasil (humilia- Toni Kroos struck twice in the 24th and 26th as the Germans celebrated. Schuerrle then fans across Brazil. Brazil’s national media defeat in their 100-year footballing history. tion Brazil). Germany star Thomas Mueller, who minutes to make it 4-0 and then Sami Khedira grabbed his second on 79 minutes to make it 7- described the result as the “Shame of Shames.” Sixty-four years after Brazil was plunged into plundered his fifth goal of the tournament in the rounded off another clinical move to make it 5-0 0, and confirm the worst defeat in Brazil’s history. The sport’s daily Lance called Tuesday’s crushing national mourning after their loss in the 1950 thrashing, admitted he was stunned by the scale on 29 minutes. The previous record loss had been a 6-0 loss “The Biggest Shame in History.” final, the hosts were torn apart in a defeat likely of the victory. “I don’t know what to say to be Dead and buried inside half an hour, the reverse to Uruguay in 1920. Schuerrle’s second Alexa Rosatti, 19, a university student watch- to be every bit as traumatic as the fabled honest,” Mueller said. crowd at the Mineirao Stadium was stunned into goal was greeted by a burst of applause as ing the game at a popular Sao Paulo bar district “Maracanazo.” Tearful Brazil captain David Luiz “I can’t believe it. It’s something totally crazy. silence. Many fans burst into tears as they strug- Brazilian fans saluted Germany’s wonderful exhi- said she had feared Brazil would lose. immediately apologised to the South American It just went well today,” added Mueller, whose gled to comprehend the enormity of what had bition of attacking football. A late goal from “But I never thought it would be a massacre,” nation after a rout that was swiftly christened team will now face either Argentina or the befallen their beloved ‘Selecao.’ After the fifth Oscar was barely applauded by Brazil’s fans. she said. “I stopped watching for a second and “The Shame of Shames” by the football-mad Netherlands in Sunday’s final at the Maracana. goal hundreds of people left their expensive Brazil had gone into the match riding a fer- they already had scored a sixth goal.” In Rio, at a nation’s media. Germany’s passage to Rio was booked after a seats. A section of the crowd chanted sexually- vent wave of national emotion, determined to street screening that had attracted 30,000 peo- “Apologies to everybody, apologies to all the first-half blitz which included a burst of four expletive obscenities against the team and clinch a place in the final to honour injured strik- ple, Karina Marques, a 17-year-old footballer, pre- Brazilian people,” sobbed Luiz. Brazil coach Luiz goals in six devastating minutes. Mueller opened Brazil’s leader Rousseff, who up to now had er Neymar. The crowd roared chants of “Neymar, dicted a violent reaction from angry fans. “It’s a Felipe Scolari echoed the mood of despair. “We the scoring on 11 minutes, punishing poor enjoyed a reprieve from protests over the record Neymar” just before kick-off, following a spine- disaster. It will be chaos,” she said. ask for forgiveness,” Scolari said. Brazilian marking at a corner to make it 1-0. $11 billion spent to host the tournament. tingling rendition of the national anthem that “People will break everything. “They’re going “To the people, please excuse us for this neg- Brazil, badly missing suspended captain Across the nation, other fans shouted at their saw captain David Luiz proudly holding up the to be furious. The government spent a lot of ative mistake.” Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff Thiago Silva, tried to regroup but there was no televisions and abandoned public screenings. injured striker’s No.10 shirt. money for this World Cup instead of investing in added to the gloom. “Like every Brazilian, I am respite. Miroslav Klose’s cool finish on 23 min- Though Brazil rallied at the start of the second But Mueller’s early strike punctured the fer- health and education.” — AFP

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BELO HORIZONTE: The following are reactions to Germany taught us how to play football, we have to ing on their shoulders. In these pictures you keep see- defending, it is about four levels below rock bottom. It is Brazil’s 7-1 loss to Germany in the World Cup semi- learn from that. ing them crying, before the match or after the match. so bad it is embarrassing. David Luiz is meant to be the final on Tuesday: “The Germans played the way we liked to play so This team didn’t have enough experience to come to leader and he has abandoned ship.” Alan Hansen, former n n n terms with the pressure of a big tournament like this we need to sit back, see what is wrong with Brazilian Liverpool and Scotland defender and BBC television in their own country. They fell apart emotionally today “It is the biggest embarrassment in 84 years of the football. Especially in the academies, the way we teach pundit. Cup. It was 10 minutes of compete blackout. You can’t them to play. A lot of change will need to come.” completely.” Oliver Kahn, former Germany goalkeeper. do that in the semi-final of the World Cup.” Galvao Juninho, former Brazil midfielder. n n n Bueno, Brazilian television commentator and presen- n n n “It’s difficult to find an explanation for this. It’s a dis- ter. n n n “Honestly, it’s hard to explain, you can’t explain the “In nigh on half a century of watching football, inexplicable.” Julio Cesar, Brazil goalkeeper. appointment for all Brazilians. It’s a difficult thing to n n n that’s the most extraordinary, staggering, bewildering accept.” “Tragic? Don’t. It was even more pathetic. 1950 was game I’ve ever witnessed,” former England striker and n n n Brazilian 2002 World Cup winner and former World BBC presenter Gary Lineker. Player of the Year Rivaldo, speaking on German televi- a tragedy, today was more like a comedy.” Brazilian “You could see Brazil didn’t have a plan to play soccer writer Mauricio Savarese referring to the 2-1 sion at half-time. n n n against Germany. We played a perfect 45 minutes,” defeat to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup final. “What was that? Hard to believe” former West Thomas Strunz, former Germany international. n n n n n n Germany World Cup winning captain and coach Franz “Germany writing World Cup history today! Huge, Beckenbauer on twitter. n n n “It will be difficult to recover. Some players I don’t huge compliments. So proud of them,” Juergen think will be back to wear the Brazilian shirt. It is n n n “There has never been a game like this. It is utter Klinsmann, former Germany striker and coach, current wrong now to criticise the players. On the field “I don’t know what the lads from Brazil were carry- humiliation for Brazil, When you talk about every facet of United States coach, on twitter. — Reuters Vatican restructures scandal-dogged bank

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MUMBAI: Employees of India’s largest online classifieds company Quikr work at the Quikr company headquarters in Mumbai. -— AFP Want to sell your cow? Try Quikr India’s Craigslist aspirant is leading online classifieds portal

MUMBAI: An Indian answer to Craigslist is drawing millions Chulet and co-founder Jiby Thomas. goods at their “MSP”-or maximum selling price-which they model is more of an exception.” of monthly visitors to its website, exchanging everything “We want to do things quickly. That is partly where the can calculate for free on Quikr’s website. Quikr has also cap- from used iPads to cows, in a country where second-hand word Quikr comes from,” said Chulet. He said that leaving italized on India’s cricket craze by turning sponsor of a team Practical shopping goods have traditionally been sniffed at. Quikr, a start-up customers to seal their deals offline keeps costs low and in the popular Indian Premier League. While Indians have typically looked down on second- launched in 2008, has become the leading online classifieds avoids regulatory hurdles-”I don’t have warehouses or peo- The firm is yet to turn a profit, and remains reluctant to hand goods, Chulet believes attitudes are shifting as their portal in India, where the e-retail market is exploding ple running around making deliveries”. Instead the charge customers, but Chulet is confident of the “long run” purchases become more practical rather than status sym- thanks to a vast young population with growing Internet Mumbai-based firm, present across 900 cities, gets its cash value of the firm in a country whose online retail market is bols. “I have had friends who have bought used treadmills access. by tapping small businesses to advertise on the site. So far, exploding. Craigslist, which started in the United States in when they could have easily brought expensive new ones. Like Craigslist, Quikr allows users to post ads for free and half a million have paid to be on Quikr, according to Chulet. 1996 before going global, has shown that such a business But they bought used ones saying the aim was staying fit,” browse for furniture, apartments, pets and even potential can make money, after maintaining profit margins at Chulet explained. spouses, before closing the deal offline-a system that chief Missed call strategy around 80 percent of its $166.5 million revenue this year. Pragya Singh, retail specialist at consultancy executive and founder Pranay Chulet believes is well suited People who want to sell their goods on Quikr but lack E-merchandise retailing sales in India stood at $1.6 bil- Technopak Advisors, says firms such as Quikr are capitalis- to India. “We Indians are very price conscious. And there are Internet access can ring up the firm’s call centre-or, rather, lion in 2013, according to analysts, who believe they will ing on a gap in the “consumer to consumer” market and peculiarities, like we love to haggle. So I thought a platform its “missed call centre”-where employees return calls to save reach $14 billion by 2018. The market leader is Flipkart, the “failure of organized retail to take-off in India”, as well like Craigslist for India would make sense,” said Chulet. the customer costs. “India loves missed calls. Especially the whose sales touched $1 billion this year, while Amazon as increased digital penetration. Chulet adds that his Today, Chulet says, more than half of Quikr’s 3.5 to four low income groups like the drivers because the call from entered India last June and is ramping up its presence firm’s popularity also lies in its personalized listings. million goods listed at any one time find buyers within 90 our side does not cost them anything,” said Chulet. “And we among the 1.2 billion-strong population. “Quikr is about quirkiness. Like the guy who wanted to days-a feat that has helped the firm to attract investments are happy because we can handle more customers’ calls Despite this, not all investors are convinced by India’s e- sell Radha, his cow. All he wanted was to find a good from top private equity firms such as Warburg Pincus. The with less staff.” commerce story, which is “about large volumes with expec- home for her,” he said. “He posted beautiful pictures and a firm began life as Kijiji India, a subsidiary of US giant eBay. It Quikr’s marketing strategy has included a television and tations of profits in the long run,” said Paras Adenwala, head description of Radha, and waited till he found the person was turned into the re-branded separate entity Quikr by billboard advertising blitz, asking people to sell their used of Mumbai-based Capital Portfolio Advisors. “Success in this who satisfied his criteria.” — AFP China’s own dreamliner ready for takeoff SHANGHAI: The cavernous building that will But the Y-10’s heavy weight made it impracti- the tail. Banners on the wall speak of “storm- house the final assembly line of China’s own cal and only three were ever built. ing the gate” and “eating bitterness”, echoing passenger plane is virtually empty, except for Now China is the world’s second largest political slogans from China’s past. an enormous Chinese flag and slogans to rally economy. It has built an auto industry by the workers who will one day produce the leveraging joint ventures with foreign compa- Iron bird C919. It is a huge engineering challenge but, nies for technology, developed the world’s At a development centre for the project, if the project proceeds on schedule, a proto- largest high-speed rail network, and sent the C919 exists only as a model of the cockpit type of the single-aisle plane will take to the humans into orbit. A patriotic song specially and the “iron bird”, a flightless testing platform skies by the end of next year. commissioned for COMAC compares the C919 for control, landing gear and other systems. Its mission is to compete with US aircraft to a “Great Wall in the sky”. The project received a boost in May when maker Boeing’s 737 and the A320 of European Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the com- consortium Airbus. The vast 300-metre (330- ‘We may fall down’ pany and sat in the model’s pilot seat.”We yard) long hangar where it will be put togeth- The roar of jet engines from Boeing and must, and will, make our own large jetliner,” he er, next to Shanghai’s Pudong airport, can Airbus planes flying over the sprawling facto- said, according to state-run media. hold six planes at a time. But, despite the ry serve as a reminder of the technological COMAC already claims 400 orders for the ambitious goal, the first major parts have yet complexities involved.”We are like a child, C919, most from domestic leasing companies to arrive, AFP journalists saw on an exclusive Boeing and Airbus are adults,” said another and only one from a foreign customer, GE tour of the new production facility-the first for COMAC official, who declined to be named. Capital Aviation Services-a subsidiary of foreign media. “We may fall down, or walk unsteadily.” General Electric, the US firm that co-owns The plane’s builders, the Commercial Although China claims the C919 is self-devel- engine provider CFM. A smaller regional jet Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), said they rec- oped and manufactured, foreign companies also under development, the ARJ21, has 253 ognize the issues, but they have the full finan- are playing key roles in the project by supply- orders but first deliveries have been delayed cial and political backing of the Communist ing systems as well as newly developed by years. state and believe they will ultimately be suc- engines made by French-American venture Airlines remain reluctant to order the C919 cessful. “We will try (for the first flight) at the CFM International. The narrow body plane, while it has not been certified by the US end of next year,” said Zhang Zhengguo, of with a range of up to 5,555 kilometers (3,444 Federal Aviation Administration, a crucial step COMAC’s publicity team. miles), can seat a maximum of 174 passen- which would enable it to fly in US skies and Total spending on the project is unknown. gers, according to COMAC. The first major assure passengers about its safety. But Chinese airlines will need nearly 6,000 new C919 part to be completed, a single forward Marwan Lahoud, director of strategy for planes valued at $780 billion over the next 20 fuselage piece, came off the assembly line at a Airbus, warned: “The Chinese threat should years, according to Boeing, and the govern- factory in the central province of Jiangxi in not be taken lightly.” “The Chinese will make ment wants some of the huge market to go to May, state media reported. good aircraft and will sell them,” he told its own passenger plane. China has dreamed At a separate sub-assembly line in France’s Tribune newspaper this week. “We of building its own civil aircraft since the Shanghai, there are signs of life as workers put will not be able to compete with the financial 1970s when Jiang Qing, leader Mao Zedong’s together the Spanish machinery which will packages they will be able to offer airlines. wife and a member of the notorious “Gang of make the central wing box which secures the Only our technological lead will preserve our SHANGHAI: This photo shows a logo of the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Four”, personally backed an attempt to do so. wing in the body-and the horizontal part of advantage.” — AFP (COMAC) in a model of the C919 at the research center of Comac. — AFP BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 UK questions Airbus staff in Saudi corruption probe

British fraud investigators have questioned defense The investigation hinges on allegations of A spokesman for the SFO confirmed there had allegations of bribery and corruption at Rolls- officials and former and current employees of an bribery in connection with a $3.3 billion GPT con- been arrests over the weekend but declined to Royce Holdings in Asia. The aerospace and defense Airbus subsidiary in connection with allegations of tract to provide communications and intranet serv- comment on the number of people held for ques- company has said it is cooperating with the corruption in Saudi Arabia, the aerospace and ices for the Saudi National Guard, which protects tioning or whether they were part of the investiga- inquiries. While all serious fraud investigations are defense company said yesterday. The Serious Fraud the kingdom’s royal family. “Airbus Group under- tion into the Airbus unit. The Ministry of Defense complex, they can also be highly political. Under Office (SFO), which confirmed that unnamed indi- stands that four former and current employees were declined to comment. Allegations of corruption are former SFO head Richard Wardle, the agency viduals had been arrested over the weekend, recently interviewed - along with MOD (Britain’s not new to the defense industry, where companies dropped an investigation into alleged corruption launched a criminal investigation into allegations Ministry of Defense) officials - as part of a wide- tend to use individuals or third-parties to help to in a BAE Systems arms deal with Saudi Arabia in surrounding Airbus unit GPT Special Project ranging SFO investigation into subsidiary GPT,” a broker deals to win lucrative contracts. 2006 after an intervention by former British Prime Management in Saudi Arabia in August 2012. spokesman said. British and US prosecutors are investigating Minister Tony Blair. —Reuters Vatican restructures scandal-dogged bank French financier is new head

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican yesterday named a French the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) — the the founder and chairman of mergers and acquisitions businessman to head up its scandal-plagued bank as department in charge of real estate and sovereign firm Incipit. The father of four is a board member of part of a radical overhaul of the Holy See’s economic bonds investments-as well as the Vatican’s pension various charities in the United States and Europe framework ordered by Pope Francis. Jean-Baptiste de fund and the media department, a statement said. including the World Youth Alliance, and has caught the Franssu, former chief executive of Investco Europe, will eye of allies of the pope by working for free for the lead a newly streamlined bank following a year of inter- Reforms ‘stage two’ commission advising on the bank. nal investigations which resulted in the closure or sus- “We are working so that international financial pension of thousands of suspicious, ineligible or inac- standards will be followed in all the dicasteries and sec- Troubled history tive accounts. tions of the Holy See,” Pell said, though he admitted The IOR has a reputation for secrecy and intrigue “Our ambition is to become something of a model that “at the moment we are not quite at that stage”. and a history of troubled relationships between man- IDB approves more than for financial management rather than cause for occa- Changes at the Institute for Religious Works (IOR) — as agement and the Vatican’s top clerics. In 2012, its then sional scandal,” Vatican finance minister Cardinal the bank is known will include shifting assets to a new head Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was sacked after a major George Pell told journalists. Franssu himself said he was central Vatican Asset Management (VAM), while APSA falling out with Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio $447m for financing new Bertone-the pope’s number two. And according to Italy’s investigative weekly development projects L’Espresso, von Freyberg is being replaced after clash- ing with the pope’s personal intermediary to the bank, KUWAIT: The 298th meeting of the Board of sibility was transferred to UAE’s Ministry of reportedly over access to information. In a bid to tight- Executive Directors of the bank that convened on Environment and Water. en control over its activities, Francis announced a Sunday at the IDB headquarters in concurrence The board took note of two grants previously sweeping study of the bank last June, insisting that the with the 39th Annual Meeting of the Board of approved by the IDB President, $100,000 grant for special commission’s findings would be reported Governors of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Cote d’Ivoire to contribute to organizing the 56th directly to him. approved $447.6 million towards financing several Conference of African Ministers of Education and The IOR said it had paid a colossal price for tidying new development projects in a number of member $300,000 for Guinea to support the fight against up its accounts, with last year’s profit plunging to 2.9 countries as well as three grants under the IDB Waqf Ebola, respectively. million euros ($3.9 million) from 86.6 million euros in fund for educational projects for Muslim communi- The board members reviewed the latest 2012. But scandal has continued to plague the institu- ties in Kenya, Lesotho, and Trinidad and Tobago. arrangements underway for the bank’s 40th tion, with the Vatican admitting earlier this year that it The major part of the financing, $304 million, anniversary celebration as well as the 39th Annual was investigating Italian media reports accusing went to the energy sector - $220 million for a Power Meeting of the IDB Board of Governors in Jeddah, Bertone of embezzling 15 million euros from the bank. Grid Extension Project in Bangladesh, and $83.75 which is to take place in the presence and under the The IOR’s 2013 financial statement listed an million for 132 KV Mirama-Kable Transmission Line patronage of The Custodian of the Two Holy unspecified loss of 15.1 million euros, though it was and Distribution Project in Uganda. Mosques at the level of Ministers of Finance, not clear whether this was a reference to the Bertone Other approvals of the board included: $87.5 Economy and Planning of the 56 member coun- affair. Allegations of money laundering have dogged million for Improvement of Wastewater tries. The board commended the extensive facilities the bank for decades. It was the main shareholder of Management and Sanitary Services in Al-Ghadir being provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in 1982 amid Drainage Basin, Lebanon; an additional $25 million the success of the meeting of the IDB Board of VATICAN: New president of the Institute of Religious Works, or IOR, Jean-Baptiste de Franssu accusations of laundering money for the Sicilian Mafia. for the second phase of Queen Alia Airport Governors. The chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi- Expansion Project, Jordan raising the IDB financing (left) smiles as he arrives for a press conference in the Vatican’s press room yesterday. —AP dubbed “God’s Banker”-was found hanging from for the Queen Alia airport expansion to $125 mil- Blackfriars Bridge in London that year in a suspected lion; $15 million for Primary Healthcare Services Lufthansa “looking forward to continuing the efforts of trans- will be absorbed into the finance ministry. A new murder by mobsters. More recently the bank has been Expansion Project - Chad; and $15 million for parency.” The appointment comes just a day after the media committee-headed by British politician and investigated for money laundering by Italian authori- Support to the Development of Technical and confirms bank said profits last year had been all but wiped out in chancellor of Oxford University Chris Patten-will look ties, with its director general and his deputy placed Vocational Schools Project in Guinea. its efforts to clean up its accounts. into adapting the Vatican to new trends, prioritising under investigation and forced to resign last year. And Also, a $450,000 technical assistant grant was targets A team of financial experts-including Franssu and Twitter and digital channels over radio. a former top Vatican accountant, Monsignor Nunzio provided under the IDB Waqf fund towards capacity an American consultancy firm-have been preparing Outgoing bank head Ernst von Freyberg had spo- Scarano-who worked for the department in charge of development of Laboratory Technicians (micro biol- FRANKFURT: German airline Lufthansa the ground for the reforms since last summer, when ken Tuesday of the “painful but very necessary process” real estate and sovereign bonds investments-was ogy) in seven West African countries - Burkina Faso, said yesterday it is sticking to recently Francis vowed to make the Vatican’s public finances ful- of cleaning up the murky IOR, but the bank was now charged by Italian prosecutors in January with launder- Benin, Guinea, Malli, Niger, Senegal and Togo. It is revised full-year profit targets and plan- ly transparent following decades of scandal and ready for “stage two” of the reforms. Franssu, 51, is the ing fake donations from offshore accounts through the expected that such capacity building measures ning to boost its operations in the low- intrigue. The reforms also affect the Administration of director of Carmignac Gestion asset management and IOR. —AFP would help fight TB, AIDS, Malaria, etc and support cost sector. Lufthansa said in a state- educational and vocational programs aimed at ment that despite the investment need- tackling poverty and unemployment. ed for a raft of new strategic measures, The members of the board further approved of it “remains confident of its revised busi- Dubai real estate giant Nakheel posts profits IDB’s continued contribution to the International ness projections for 2014 and 2015. DUBAI: Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, UAE, “The executive board expects to report Dubai’s Nakheel real estate giant, hit growth witnessed in the real estate sector in was facing difficulties paying off debts total- as the center represents a successful example of an operating profit of around 1.0 billion badly during the global debt crisis, said yes- Dubai,” said Nakheel’s chairman Ali Rashid ing around $24.9 billion. mutual cooperation between the bank and the euros ($1.3 billion) for the current year.” terday its profits surged 54 percent in the first Lootah. The company that was fully acquired The government intervened to buoy the UAE. ICBA has developed into a world class research Just last month, Lufthansa cut its half of 2014 to reach $502.7 million. The gov- by the government over its debt woes said group, bolstered by $20 billion in aid from center with an international team of scientists and earnings targets for this year and next ernment-owned entity, which built Dubai’s last month it will repay all remaining bank neighboring oil-rich Abu Dhabi. As part of the researchers working on innovative solutions to year in the face of disappointing devel- palm-shaped island and a cluster of isles in debts of $2.15 billion in August, ahead of restructuring of Nakheel, the government improve the status of poor farmers and to imple- opments in passenger and freight busi- the form of a world map, said its net profits hit schedule. injected $9.5 billion converted into equity, sep- ment development programs aimed at upgrading ness, and financial fallout from strikes. 1.85 billion dirham ($502.7 million), compared Nakheel had piled up a mountain of debt arating the company from Dubai World and productivity in agricultural regions. ICBA was But to meet the targets, the airline to 1.2 billion dirham in the first six months of during five years of rapid growth in Dubai’s becoming fully owned by the government. launched at the initiative of the IDB, in recognition would scale back the planned expan- 2013. It said strong revenues from property property sector, before the global financial Economic growth in Dubai has been steady of the important role by the Gulf states in line with sion of its passenger traffic capacity, development as well as improving perform- crisis hit the Gulf emirate in 2009. The compa- thanks to the trade, transport and tourism sec- supporting the bank. IDB and UAE’s Ministry of withdraw a number of aircraft and cut ance in retail, leasing and leisure businesses ny was part of the government-linked Dubai tors after contracting 2.9 percent in 2009. The Agriculture and Fisheries in June 1996. The bank its freight capacity, the statement contributed to the results. World group, which sent jitters in global mar- property sector is also recovering after taking a cooperated with the UAE in management and explained. —AFP “These robust financial results reflect the kets when it signaled in autumn 2009 that it nosedive during the crisis. —AFP operating of ICBA until April 2010 when the respon- EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.885 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 Nepalese Rupees 3.935 Singapore Dollar 0.224342 0.230342 Malaysian Ringgit 90.060 South African Rand 0.020438 0.028938 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.030 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001871 0.002451 Japanese Yen 2.779 Australian Dollar 269.69 266.69 Indian Rupees 4.735 Thai Bhat 9.740 Taiwan 0.009338 0.009518 Canadian Dollar 263.32 264.32 Turkish Lira 133.415 Thai Baht 0.008405 0.008955 Pakistani Rupees 2.861 Swiss Franc 320.22 318.22 Srilankan Rupees 2.168 Euro 386.63 387.63 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.955 US Dollar 282.15 285.15 Singapore Dollar 227.870 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.743942 0.751942 Hongkong Dollar 36.503 Sterling Pound 483.92 486.92 Egyptian Pound 0.036594 0.039694 Japanese Yen 2.91 2.93 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000080 Bangladesh Taka 3.638 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.515 Bangladesh Taka 3.632 3.902 Iraqi Dinar 0.000179 0.000239 Europe Thai Baht 8.746 Indian Rupee 4.693 4.993 Jordanian Dinar 0.394793 0.402293 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.166 2.601 Belgian Franc 0.007353 0.008353 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.935 3.470 British Pound 0.477860 0.486860 Lebanese Pound 0.000137 0.000237 Pakistani Rupee 2.871 2.790 Czech Korune 0.006012 0.018012 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022206 0.046206 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 76.89 77.35 Danish Krone 0.047578 0.052578 Nigerian Naira 0.001137 0.001772 Saudi Riyal 75.470 Bahraini Dinar 750.97 753.04 Euro 0.379610 0.387610 Omani Riyal 0.728773 0.734453 Qatari Riyal 77.763 Egyptian Pound 39.45 40.05 Norwegian Krone 0.041658 0.046858 Qatar Riyal 0.076996 0.078209 Omani Riyal 735.190 Jordanian Dinar 401.57 407.22 Romanian Leu 0.087637 0.087637 Saudi Riyal 0.074803 0.075503 Bahraini Dinar 751.690 Omani Riyal 733.77 741.07 Slovakia 0.008101 0.018101 Syrian Pound 0.001754 0.001974 UAE Dirham 77.074 Qatari Riyal 77.91 78.46 Swedish Krona 0.037397 0.042397 Tunisian Dinar 0.163478 0.171476 Saudi Riyal 75.37 75.77 Swiss Franc 0.310332 0.320532 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.133829 0.140829 Turkish Lira 0.133829 0.140829 UAE Dirhams 0.076041 0.077190 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.600 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001276 0.001356 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.481 Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.320 Australian Dollar 0.256837 0.268937 Tunisian Dinar 169.660 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.242703 0.252203 Jordanian Dinar 399.660 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 282.650 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.899 Canadian Dollar 267.935 Canadian Dollar 0.258480 0.267980 Syrian Lira 2.017 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.627 Sterling Pound 485.030 US Dollars 0.278800 0.283150 Euro 386.635 US Dollars Mint 0.279300 0.283150 US Dollar 282.250 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 317.255 Euro 386.850 Asia US Dollar Transfer 282.900 Bahrain Dinar 752.300 Pound Sterlng 487.750 Euro 386.020 UAE Dirhams 76.930 Bangladesh Taka 0.003296 0.003896 Canadian Dollar 267.550 Sterling Pound 486.020 Qatari Riyals 78.515 Chinese Yuan 0.044163 0.047663 Indian Rupee 4.729 Canadian dollar 265.760 Saudi Riyals 75.645 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034412 0.037162 Egyptian Pound 39.470 Turkish lira 132.910 Jordanian Dinar 398.340 Indian Rupee 0.004469 0.004870 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.165 Swiss Franc 317.870 Egyptian Pound 39.477 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Bangladesh Taka 3.633 Australian Dollar 266.630 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.171 Japanese Yen 0.002698 0.002878 Philippines Peso 6.480 US Dollar Buying 281.700 Indian Rupees 4.731 Kenyan Shilling 0.003212 0.003212 Pakistan Rupee 2.860 Pakistani Rupees 2.862 Korean Won 0.000269 0.000284 Bahraini Dinar 751.550 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.639 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085092 0.091092 UAE Dirham 76.950 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.514 Nepalese Rupee 0.002967 0.003137 Saudi Riyal 75.425 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 694.245 Pakistan Rupee 0.002663 0.002943 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.775 Philippine Peso 0.006389 0.006669 *Rates are subject to change THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 BUSINESS Qatar, Egypt lead gains; UAE consolidates

DUBAI: Qatar’s bourse outperformed tions of analysts, who had forecast a 2.7 cent, after soaring 62 percent in the pre- ment bank Gulf Finance House jumped from Shuaa Capital. Most UAE compa- the region yesterday after the country’s percent decrease. vious six sessions on what traders said 3.5 percent after announcing the pur- nies are expected to report their earn- top bank reported strong second-quar- However, shares in QNB, which had was a flurry of short-covering that has chase of 1.2 million square feet of land in ings in late July or early August. ter results, while United Arab Emirates risen 1.7 percent ahead of Tuesday’s now ended. The main Dubai index the Dubailand district of Dubai. Gulf markets continued to consolidate on earnings report, slipped 0.1 percent yes- closed flat, however, as lenders Emirates Finance House did not say how much it Egypt declining volumes after a sharp terday. Investors’ expectations for other NBD and Dubai Islamic Bank added 2.4 had paid for the land plot, where it plans The Cairo bourse edged up 0.8 per- rebound. The Doha index rose 1.3 per- stocks are also positive, even though and 1.9 percent respectively. to establish a new mixed use residential cent, continuing a leg-up initiated by cent as most stocks gained. Industries Qatar’s profit growth is expected to lag Shares in port operator DP World fell development. Shares in Gulf Navigation property stocks in the last session. Qatar was the main support, adding 2.3 that of the UAE. Some of the reasons for as much as 3.2 percent in early trade slumped 7.9 percent after the UAE ship- Investors are betting that Egyptians will percent. Shares in mobile phone opera- that are traditionally higher dividend after Djibouti said it had started legal per said it had cut its capital by two- buy real estate as a hedge against infla- tor Ooredoo, which dropped 23 percent payouts and lower leverage, said Amer action against the company, seeking to thirds and written off accumulated loss- tion, which is set to accelerate after the last month on profit-taking and concern Khan, senior executive at Shuaa Asset rescind its concession in Africa’s largest es worth 1.1 billion dirhams ($300 mil- government decided to cut fuel subsi- about the conflict in Iraq, where the Management in Dubai. “There is a level container terminal. The company owns lion), key parts of a turnaround plan dies. Shares in Palm Hills Developments company earns a fifth of its revenue, of certainty in cash flows in Qatar that one-third of the Doraleh Container designed to solve its debt problems. rose 0.5 percent while Medinet Nasr for continued to rebound and jumped 3.9 you don’t necessarily find in the UAE Terminal, its annual report says. Abu Dhabi’s bourse slipped 0.2 per- Housing and Development was up 3.0 percent. Qatar National Bank (QNB), the because of Qatari companies’ lower However, the stock then recovered and cent on the low volumes commonly percent. Eastern Tobacco jumped 3.5 largest lender in the Gulf state, pub- leverage,” he said. “The story in Qatar is closed flat in thin trade. The Djibouti seen during the holy month of percent to 162.00 pounds after local lished its second-quarter results on long-term government spending.” issue by itself is not expected to have Ramadan, when many retail investors brokerage CI Capital raised its target Tuesday, becoming the first local compa- much impact on DP World, which has a stay away from the market. “I think the price for the stock by 16 percent to ny to do so. Net profit rose 1.5 percent, UAE portfolio of about 65 terminals across six next key market driver (in the UAE) will 255.00 pounds with an “overweight” coming slightly ahead of the expecta- Shares in builder Arabtec fell 2.1 per- continents. Bahrain-based Islamic invest- be second-quarter earnings,” said Khan rating. —Reuters

UK launches ‘broad’ review into institutional banking

LONDON: Britain’s financial watchdog is mote effective competition meant being launching a broad “exploratory” review of proactive in rooting out competition issues competition in wholesale financial markets rather than waiting for problems to occur. to check if they operate effectively to aid One area it will look at is cross-selling and the economy and give their institutional, bundling of products and services, she said. corporate and government customers a “The review describes various areas where good deal. The Financial Conduct Authority this market feature might exist; from invest- (FCA) was set up just over a year ago as ment banking, to asset management, to part of Britain’s post-financial crisis shake trading venues and clearing houses that up of supervision to protect consumers are vertically integrated,” Starks said. better and increase competition in markets. Some big investors have complained Mary Starks, director of competition at the about not having choice of clearing house FCA, said yesterday the watchdog had for their derivatives transactions when they launched a review of competition in the trade on a particular exchange, especially market for banking services that are pro- as new rules mean that more trades will vided between banks and other types of have to be cleared. The review will also look financial institutions, known as wholesale at potential conflicts of interest in provid- banking. ing investors with the best share price in Starks said it was an exploratory exercise the market, and the underwriting of equity to determine where competition may be and debt. weak. “And why is it important? Because Barriers to entering or expanding a mar- wholesale financial markets play a crucial ket will also feature in the review, which role in the economy, and the UK plays a key could include the availability of co-location, role in the international markets,” Starks told a meeting of the Chartered Institute of or a broker being able to place its servers Securities yesterday. next to an exchange in order to benefit The review will cover markets, their from the fastest trading speeds. Incentives infrastructure, asset management, and cor- for asset managers to pay the correct price porate and investment banking, but not for the correct level of service, such as in credit rating agencies, payment systems relation to dealing commissions, will be and insurance, she said. While wholesale looked at. The FCA is first asking for com- market players are typically more sophisti- ment on potential competition issues from AMRISTAR: Indian laborers plant rice paddy cuttings in a field on the outskirts of Amritsar. — AFP cated that those in the retail sector, fines industry and the public until Oct 9 and for banks that rigged the Libor interest rate begin work on any detailed market study in benchmark showed that the impact of early 2015. poor conduct in wholesale markets can be Any studies would coincide with the India govt report urges strong significant, she said. The review will be sep- even stronger competition powers the arate and wider that the study of trading FCA will get next April to enforce domes- steps to contain fiscal deficit practices and conduct being conducted tic and European competition law and jointly by the Bank of England, FCA and the impose fines. It will also be able to refer finance ministry following allegations that any competition issue to UK’s main com- Report calls for broadening tax base currency markets have been rigged. petition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, which has sweeping NEW DELHI: India’s fiscal situation is worse than the report forecast GDP growth of between 5.4 food and fertilizer subsidies to lower spending Proactive not reactive powers to make extensive changes to it appears, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gov- and 5.9 percent in 2014/15. It warned that weak while broadening the tax base. India’s tax collec- Starks said that the FCA’s remit to pro- markets. —Reuters ernment said in an economic report yesterday monsoon rains, which are essential for farming, tion is less than 9 percent of GDP, a quarter of that called for tough measures to shore up pub- could keep growth closer to 5.4 percent. the average in the OECD group of developed lic finances and reduce inflation. The report’s In June, India’s central bank forecast growth nations. “It is better to achieve fiscal consolida- tone will increase speculation that Finance of 5.5 percent in the financial year that ends in tion partly through a higher tax-GDP ratio than Greek state workers Minister Arun Jaitley, in presenting his first March 2015. Jaitley’s predecessor set the 4.1 per- merely through reduction in the expenditure-to- budget to parliament today, will give a higher, cent fiscal deficit target in an interim budget GDP ratio, in view of the large unmet develop- strike against job cuts more realistic fiscal deficit target for this fiscal before the new government took office. That ment needs,” the report said. year than the 4.1 percent of gross domestic may already be unrealistic, because the previous To balance the books, Jaitley is expected to ATHENS: Greek doctors, prison staff and ployment and homelessness and eroded product the previous government set. government left a stack of unpaid bills to state set a high target in the budget for the sale of other state workers went on strike yester- living standards. India risks losing its investment-grade sover- oil companies that have eaten into this year’s government-held assets in state-run and private day to protest against public sector firings eign rating if it fails to get its finances into shape. finances. A Reuters poll of economists this week companies. Indian markets seemed reassured by imposed as part of the country’s 240 billion Privatization worries Many economists believe the last government’s predicted the government would set a new the stern tone on fiscal consolidation. Stocks euro international bailout. The 24-hour Last week, Greece suffered brief power accounting understated the size of the deficit, deficit target of 4.4 percent. D K Joshi, the princi- reversed earlier losses, while the 10-year bond strike, which is expected to culminate with outages due to a strike by electricity work- and Jaitley will need to present a credible recov- pal economist at the Indian arm of Standard & yield eased to around 8.69 percent from 8.73 a midday rally before parliament, coincided ers protesting against plans to sell off part ery plan to keep the ratings agencies onside. The Poor’s, CRISIL Ratings, said he would welcome a percent before the report. with the start of a visit to Athens by inspec- of its biggest power producer, Public Power newly-released Economic Survey “shows the higher deficit goal, as the number set by the last Asia’s third-largest economy has been stuck tors from the International Monetary Fund, Corp (PPC) , to a private competitor in gravity of the economic situation that needs cor- government was always under a cloud of doubt. in its longest rut in a quarter of a century - with the European Union and European Central 2015. The government took legal action rection,” Jaitley told reporters after ceremonially “If 4.5 percent is credible and arrived in a cor- growth below 5 percent - while Modi’s govern- Bank - the so-called ‘troika’ of lenders and forced the strikers back to work on placing the report on a table in parliament. rect manner, then it shouldn’t be a problem. It ment has been dogged by a food-price spike in demanding austerity. Saturday. It is eager to avoid major disrup- “Inflation needs to be moderated further. The should be a feasible target,” he said. “But if the its early weeks. Modi, 63, won a landslide gener- “At a time when the government steps tion during the summer holiday season as fiscal deficit needs downward correction over fiscal deficit target is aggressive, it would again al election victory in May with a pledge to boost up its attack against workers, our response tourism is central to Greece’s hopes for eco- the next two years,” the former corporate lawyer be a question mark.” In May, S&P affirmed a neg- growth and create jobs for the 1 million people will be strong,” said public sector union nomic recovery. and career politician said. An annual exercise, ative outlook for India’s credit rating. Last year, it who enter India’s workforce every month. The ADEDY in a statement on the strike, which PPC’s biggest trade union GENOP-DEH, the Economic Survey is drawn up by finance warned there was a one-third chance of a down- budget for the current fiscal year was delayed by has led to hospitals having to draft in emer- Greece’s private sector union GSEE and the ministry advisers and delivered the day before grade to “junk” without a big improvement in the election, which handed Modi’s Bharatiya gency staff. Greek labor unions have fierce- Communist-affiliated trade union PAME the federal budget. Seen as a blueprint for the the fiscal deficit and in implementing reforms. Janata Party (BJP) the strongest electoral man- ly resisted government plans to shrink the will stage a demonstration outside parlia- government’s medium-term economic planning, Yesterday’s report recommended tackling date in India in three decades. — Reuters 600,000-strong civil service through layoffs ment later yesterday as lawmakers inside or transfers of workers. They fear the meas- debate a draft bill on the PPC privatization. ures will further worsen the plight of “Electricity is a public good, not a com- Greeks struggling through a six-year reces- modity to be sold off cheap, and those China inflation slows down to 2.3% in June sion. who do so must be held accountable to The finance and administrative reform society,” GSEE said in a statement yester- BEIJING: Chinese inflation slowed to China announces second-quarter China will “not adopt strong stim- cent recorded in May. ministries filed a lawsuit against the strike day. “The fight against the privatization of 2.3 percent in June from a four- GDP results on July 16. Authorities ulus” but rather “will increase the The producer price index (PPI) — and a court ruling was expected later yes- PPC is a long one and it will not end even month high of 2.5 percent in May, have since April introduced measures strength of targeted measures”, Li a measure of costs for goods at the terday. While Greece is beginning to after the bill in question is passed.” The official data showed yesterday, giving to boost growth, including tax breaks said. “We will further push forward factory gate and a leading indicator emerge from its protracted recession, anti- ‘troika’ inspectors, who are in Athens to authorities further room to stimulate for small enterprises, targeted infra- reforms and opening-up and make of the trend for CPI-improved to a austerity sentiment remains high in the check on Greece’s progress under the growth in the world’s second-largest structure outlays and incentives to more efforts to reform (the) govern- decline of 1.1 percent in June, the country, where repeated rounds of spend- bailout program, are due to meet newly- economy. The country’s consumer encourage lending in rural areas and ment approval system and lower NBS said in a separate statement, its ing cuts and tax hikes since its rescue from appointed Finance Minister Gikas price index-a main gauge of inflation- to small companies. Economists have market access thresholds.” Food was highest showing in more than two bankruptcy in 2010 have driven up unem- Hardouvelis today. —Reuters also rose 2.3 percent in the first six dubbed the steps a “mini-stimulus”, in the main driver of inflation in June, years. The result compared with a months of the year from the same contrast to the massive pump-prim- rising 3.7 percent year-on-year, decrease of 1.4 percent in May and period in 2013, the National Bureau ing that took place in the aftermath according to the NBS data, with fruit was the highest since a 0.7 percent of Statistics said in a statement. of the 2008-2009 global financial cri- prices up 19.8 percent. Still, food cost decline in April 2012, according to The result compared with the sis, something leaders say is not on increases slowed from the 4.1 per- official data. — AFP median forecast of a 2.4 percent gain the cards now. in a survey of 21 economists by The Wall Street Journal, but is well below Room for more the 3.5 percent annual target set by But analysts said the tame price Beijing in March. It comes as con- situation meant further steps could cerns earlier this year over economic be taken. “The subdued inflation out- prospects for China-a key driver of look provides room for the authori- world growth-have eased owing to a ties to launch more targeted stimulus pick-up in key indicators in the sec- policies in the second half of this ond quarter and some limited steps year,” ANZ Bank economists Liu Li- by authorities to boost the economy. Gang and Zhou Hao wrote in an China’s gross domestic product (GDP) analysis of the June data. They sug- grew 7.4 percent in January-March, gested that “further monetary policy weaker than the 7.7 percent recorded easing across the board will still be in the final three months of last year needed to help lift the confidence in and the worst result since a 7.4 per- China’s economy”. Chinese Premier Li cent expansion in the third quarter of Keqiang, in remarks on Monday at a 2012. But growth in industrial output joint news conference with visiting and retail sales accelerated in May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with consumption increasing at its said China’s growth improved in the CHANGSHA: People inspect a vehicle made by four students to imitate fastest pace since December, official second quarter but that more will be a red Ferrari yesterday. The car made on the chassis of a Volkswagen ATHENS: Public sector workers chant slogans while participating in a protest march data showed last month, in signs of done to underpin it in the face of Santana in a schoolyard over two months cost some ten thousand in Athens marking the 24-hour civil servants strike yesterday. — AFP renewed strength. “downward pressure”. yuan ($1,600) to make, local media reported. — AFP BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 Be a certified FRM (Financial Risk Manager)

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Ford, Woodford, Austin Chalk, Spraberry, Forecasts for US shale oil production Niobrara, Avalon/Bone Springs and vary from an increase of 7.5 million barrels Monterey. per day by 2020 - almost doubling current “There are other forecasts that are domestic output of 8.5 bpd-to a gain of much more optimistic than this one,” said 1.5 million bpd, or less than half of what agency administrator Adam Sieminski, Iraq now produces. The disparities are a speaking at a conference in New York. function of the novelty of the shale boom, “We’re still a little concerned about what which has consistently confounded fore- the geology looks like for crude oil pro- casts. In 2012, the US Energy Information duction. As technology moves, these Administration (EIA) estimated that pro- numbers could grow.” The agency has duction from eight selected shale oil already made some big adjustments to fields would range from 700,000 bpd of previous estimates. It recently slashed its so-called tight oil to 2.8 million bpd by forecast recoverable reserves for 2035. A year later, those predictions had California’s Monterey shale to just 600 mil- been surpassed. lion barrels, 96 percent less than the total “The key issue is not whether produc- amount of oil in place, citing the difficulty tion grows, it’s by how much,” said Ed in pumping it out economically. Morse, global head of commodities IHS Energy’s projections are higher, research at Citigroup in New York. “We’re with an estimated 6 million bpd from the only at the beginning of the first inning Bakken, Eagle Ford and sections of the and this is a nine-inning game.” The stakes Permian and Niobrara by the end of 2020. couldn’t be bigger, ranging from the At the low end, Energy Aspects Ltd sees multibillion-dollar investments needed to production of 3.5 million barrels a day explore and drill to oil supply issues that from shale by 2017, a 1.5-million bpd go to the heart of US foreign policy. increase from its current output estimate Relations with countries ranging from Iraq of 2 million bpd. and Iran to Russia, Ukraine, Libya and “In order to keep production going, Venezuela are colored to one degree or you have to maintain your drilling and another by the question of energy. therefore, capex investments need to be The US, a nation transformed by the in a continuous cycle,” said Virendra 1973 Arab oil embargo, could become Chauhan, an oil analyst at Energy Aspects energy independent by 2035, according in London. McKinsey & Co’s forecasts illus- to bullish forecasts from BP Plc and the trate the uncertainty. While the consulting International Energy Agency. Coupled firm uses a reference case that puts tight with growing output from oil-rich neigh- oil production at the equivalent of 7.1 mil- bors, the continent has a growing shield lion bpd by 2020, it said the number from supply shocks. “Looking at North could range from 5 million to 9 million America, including Canada and Mexico, bpd. In its annual outlook released last we’re much more politically stable,” said month, BP estimated that US tight oil pro- Lisa Viscidi, program director of the Inter- duction will increase to 4.5 million bpd in American Dialogue in Washington. Still, 2035. Exxon Mobil Corp says global tight many drillers have found that healthy oil production, driven by North America, forecasts of oil in the ground don’t guar- will rise 11-fold from 2010 to 2040, when antee it can be economically extracted. it will account for 5 percent of global liq- For example, based on the promise of uids output. Exxon added that in 2015, free-flowing oil, Chesapeake Energy’s North American tight oil supply in 2015 then-top executive Aubrey McClendon will likely surpass any other OPEC nation’s bought up land in Ohio’s Utica shale oil current oil production, with the exception field and touted it in 2011 as a $500-bil- of Saudi Arabia. Iran is the second largest lion opportunity. State geologists estimat- OPEC producer, with about 4.2 million ed the shale play could hold as much as bpd. 5.5 billion barrels of reserves. But last year, after months of drilling, Chesapeake’s Tricky forecasts average output per well per day was just Production forecasts are inherently 80 barrels. Competitor BP wrote off $521 problematic, especially years in the future, million and exited the Utica just two years as they fail to anticipate major new dis- after leasing 85,000 acres. coveries or abrupt depletion rates. Even so, the industry’s reliance on multi-year Six estimates mega-projects such as those off the coast Shale production from the oldest shale of Angola or in Brazil’s sub-salt region- patch, the Bakken of Montana and North which progress along generally pre- Dakota, alone may rise to as much as 1.74 dictable time frames and produce stable million barrels per day in the second half volumes of oil for years afterward-made it of this decade, according to the highest of relatively simpler to anticipate new oil six estimates compiled by Reuters. The coming onto the market. — Reuters

TOKYO: A man looks at an electronic stock board of a securities firm yesterday. Asian stock markets fell for a third day yesterday as caution spread ahead of corporate earnings and after record highs on Wall Street. — AP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 BUSINESS

Growth fears hit stocks, investors eye Fed and Draghi LONDON: World stocks fell yesterday as leading European shares was down 0.3 almost exactly two years ago pledging to eral yields down another notch as percent to $108.73 per barrel. It has a decline in Chinese inflation and weaker percent at 1,359 points. Germany’s DAX do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. investors view these assets as being lost 3.5 percent so far this month. Gold European industrial data combined to was down 0.1 percent at at 9,766 points The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield backstopped by the central bank,” was up 0.4 percent at $1,324.00 an suggest global growth may be slowing, and France’s CAC 40 was down 0.2 per- was unchanged at 2.565 percent. The Rabobank said in a note to clients. In ounce as markets waited for the Fed eclipsing a positive start to the US earn- cent at 4,333 points. Britain’s FTSE 100 yield on Germany’s Bund slipped to a commodities trading, Brent oil fell 0.2 minutes. —Reuters ings season. The mining company Alcoa was down 0.5 percent at 6,703 points, hit fresh one-year low of 1.21 percent. In Inc reported results after Wall Street hard by the insurance sector. Admiral currency markets, the euro was closed that beat analysts’ expectations, Group fell 6 percent after issuing a trad- unchanged at $1.3607, while the dollar but that was not enough to help ing statement update, and Aviva was inched up against the yen to 101.66 yen. European equities recover after they fell down 3.7 percent Portuguese stocks The dollar has fallen back below a key the most in three months on Tuesday. lagged their European peers, falling 2.2 long-term technical indicator against the Major currencies and bond markets percent on concerns about the financial yen this week. That’s the 200-day moving were steady before a speech by health of one of the country’s largest average, which yesterday was 101.83 European Central Bank President Mario financial groups, Espirito Santo Financial yen, suggesting it may not strengthen Draghi and the release of the US Federal Group. ESFG is the main shareholder of much - if at all - in the coming days and Reserve’s minutes of its latest meeting. Portugal’s largest listed bank, Banco weeks. “Growth continues to be a concern in the Espirito Santo. The Group’s shares were Upbeat June US employment data developed world,” said Mark Burgess, down 11 percent. last week prompted some Wall Street chief investment officer at Threadneedle economists to predict the Fed would Investments in London. “I don’t think the Draghi returns to London raise interest rates earlier than previously developed world can handle short, Portuguese bonds also underper- thought. But yields have fallen since aggressive interest rate rises. The last formed, with the 10-year yield spiking to then, with investors cautious about the thing anyone wants to do is stifle a six-week high just shy of 3.9 percent, strength of the recovery. Disappointing growth.” while Greek yields ticked up to a one- German economic data on Tuesday kept Overnight, China’s consumer price month high of 6.17 percent as the coun- the benchmark Bund yield anchored, index rose 2.3 percent in June from a try prepared to issue a new three-year and later investors will look to Draghi for year earlier, shy of the consensus fore- bond. Major bond markets were signs the ECB could ease policy further cast of 2.4 percent, and a sign economic stronger, however, before the Fed min- to support the euro-zone economy. activity may be cooling. At midday in utes and Draghi’s appearance in London, “If the ECB embarks on a round of NEW YORK: Trader Kevin Lodewick works on the floor of the New York London, the FTSEuroFirst 300 index of where he delivered his famous speech assets purchases, it could push periph- Stock Exchange. —AP Putin to counter Russia’s growing economic isolation Ambitious Latin America tour starts today

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will lined in global politics. It was only logical, he From Cuba, Putin will travel tomorrow to begin an ambitious Latin America tour today added, that now “we are turning to our natural Buenos Aires for trade and energy talks with that will take him to Cuba, Argentina and Brazil partners, who are not biased against Russia, with Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, before as he seeks to shore up support for his policies even more attention and deference.” moving on to Brazil for a four-day visit. He will amid a showdown with the West. During a six- Putin will begin his tour by visiting Cuba meet local businessmen as he seeks investment day tour Putin will meet with the father of the where he will discuss cooperation in energy, for his country’s embattled economy and take Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, take part in a transport, aviation and space with President part in a meeting of leaders of Brazil, India, summit of the BRICS group of emerging Raul Castro, the Kremlin said. Over the past years China and South Africa on Tuesday and economies and attend the World Cup final in Rio Moscow has sought to revive ties with the Wednesday. de Janeiro. Communist-run island, whose economy has “The leaders of BRICS countries will discuss The Kremlin strongman’s trip will take place been saddled with a US economic embargo political coordination and issues of global man- against the backdrop of an unrelenting crisis in since 1962. agement,” the Kremlin said, noting that the ties with the West over Ukraine where clashes Ahead of the visit, Russia wrote off 90 percent summit will establish a development bank. LISBON: A demonstrator holds a balloon reading “SNS” (national health between government forces and separatists of Cuba’s Soviet-era debt of more than $35 bil- Davydov of the Latin America Institute said the care) in Lisbon on July 8, 2014, as hundreds of doctors in white smocks have claimed nearly 500 lives. Analysts say Putin lion (26 billion euros) and said the rest would be meeting will be instrumental in facilitating sta- protest in front of the Portuguese Ministry of Health on the first day of a will use his talks in Latin America to thumb his earmarked for investment projects in Cuba. bility in international relations. two-day nationwide strike to demand better conditions on the national nose at Brussels and Washington which have Vladimir Davydov, director of the Latin America “The BRICS are five key civilizations that health care. —AFP slapped sanctions on some of his closest allies Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, account for 43 percent of the population,” he over Moscow’s takeover of Crimea and support said the two countries may sign energy deals said. The highlight of the trip’s final leg will be a for Ukrainian separatists. involving state oil firm Rosneft. handover ceremony at the end of the World Cup Portugal grapples with brain But it will also be in line with the Kremlin final, when Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff drive to promote a multi-polar world order after Castro’s sympathetic ear will pass on responsibility for the tournament to drain despite economic hopes Putin dismantled a “reset” in ties with Putin is also set to meet Fidel Castro, an Putin. Russia will host the football extravaganza Washington after returning to the Kremlin for a encounter that will be rich in symbolism. Havana in 2018 and has pledged to spend billions of LISBON: Joana Miranda is barely able to after it emerged in mid-2013 from two-and- third term in 2012. He has tasked his diplomats has sided with its old ally Russia in the Ukraine dollars on stadiums and infrastructure for the scrape a living working as a nurse in Lisbon, a-half years of recession sparked by the with ramping up ties with developing nations conflict, and the Russian strongman, whose tournament. Over the past years, both Putin and where she earns five euros ($7) an hour pick- global financial crisis. and sought to play Europe against the United country faces the threat of new Western sanc- his Kremlin predecessor Dmitry Medvedev ing up odd jobs in retirement homes. Now But unemployment remains stubbornly States. tions, is expected to get a sympathetic ear from repeatedly visited Latin America in a bid to she is joining the growing queue of educat- high, particularly among the young. Some “The tour is aimed at strengthening a pivot the 87-year-old comandante. “Fidel is the last of expand Moscow’s influence there. The late ed young Portuguese-equivalent to one 37.5 percent of under 25s are unable to find from North America to Latin America,” said the Mohicans with whom Putin can discuss the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who was Vladimir Orlov, head of the PIR centre, a Moscow global order of the present and the future,” said known for his virulent anti-US tirades, was a every five minutes-who are leaving in search a job-more than double the national rate. think-tank, stressing that Russia was being side- Orlov. welcome guest in Russia. —AFP of a brighter future in another country. Already around six percent of the country’s Like many of Portugal’s nurses, Miranda is workforce has left in search of jobs, of which moving to Germany, where she has found a a fifth are estimated to be the skilled work- job at a specialist clinic in Munich that will ers Portugal so desperately needs. Government made $100bn pay four times her current salary and even “Compared to the 60s, Portugal is facing cover the cost of language lessons. “Here I something of a brain drain,” said Joao earn five euros a hour, with no fixed con- Thixotrope, a sociology professor at the tract, and just about make 500 euros ($680) University of Lisbon. “It is worrying, we are in improper payments a month. In Germany I will have a steady job, losing the very people we need to help kick- and make 2,000 euros ($2,700),” said the 27- start the economy,” he said, adding that WASHINGTON: By its own estimate, the year-old. Portugal needs to work on encouraging government made about $100 billion in Emigration from Portugal is accelerating graduates to “come home as soon as possi- payments last year to people who may not despite hopes for a turnaround in its econo- ble”. have been entitled to receive them - tax my, which emerged from years of painful Portugal’s health system has come under credits to families that didn’t qualify, unem- recession in 2013. Lisbon formally exited a particular strain from the effect of funding ployment benefits to people who had jobs three-year international bailout program in cuts implemented as part of its 78-billion- and medical payments for treatments that May, but is still struggling with the impact of euro ($106 billion) international aid pro- might not have been necessary. stringent austerity measures brought in to gram. Of the 3,500 nurses who qualify in the Congressional investigators say the figure cut its huge debt pile. country each year, about a third will emi- could be even higher. The Obama adminis- tration has reduced the amount of improp- Last year some 128,000 people left the grate, according to their professional body. er payments since they peaked in 2010. country of 10 million to escape the econom- Many go to Germany, but a large number Still, estimates from federal agencies show ic crisis, adding to the 300,000 that had emi- also go to Britain. “They are always asking for that some are wasting big money at a time grated between 2011 and 2013. The last more, the pressure has become too much,” when Congress is squeezing agency budg- time Portugal saw an exodus on this scale said Dina Lopes, a 31-year-old nurse who ets and looking to save more. “Nobody was in the 1960s, when the country’s youth works 55 hours a week juggling two jobs knows exactly how much taxpayer money fled in droves from poverty and the dictator- and is among those hoping to leave. is wasted through improper payments, but ship of Antonio De Oliveira Salazar. But this Although the language can be a barrier, the federal government’s own astounding time the queues at the airports are filled Germany has welcomed 12,000 migrants estimate is more than half a trillion dollars with skilled workers such as nurses, doctors, from Portugal since 2011. Miranda is among over the past five years,” said Rep. John teachers and engineers. a dozen people taking an intensive lan- Mica, R-Fla. “The fact is, improper payments guage course at the Goethe Institute in are staggeringly high in programs ‘Worrying exodus’ Lisbon, where student numbers have shot designed to help those most in need - chil- dren, seniors and low-income families.” “This exodus is worrying because it up since the start of the crisis. All of those in Mica chairs the House Oversight subcom- shows there is a complete lack of confidence the class already have a work contract with a mittee on government operations. The sub- in the future of the country,” Maria Manuela specialist cardiology clinic in Munich, where committee is holding a hearing on improp- Aguiar, a former minister for emigration, told they will start work on July 15. “I am going er payments Wednesday afternoon. Each AFP. “I do not see any improvement. In fact, I there to stay,” said Maria Chaves, 29, whose year, federal agencies are required to esti- suspect this hemorrhage of people will con- husband has already left his job in the mili- mate the amount of improper payments tinue in 2014 and 2015.” Portugal’s economy tary to follow her. “Germany is a great coun- they issue. They include overpayments, DENVER: President Barack Obama plays pool at Wynkoop Brewing Co with Colorado Gov John is slowly starting to pick up momentum try.” —AFP underpayments, payments to the wrong Hickenlooper (rear) on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Denver. —AP recipient and payments that were made of federal programs,” Cobert said in a state- Families. The program is administered by Wednesday’s hearing. Among other pro- without proper documentation. ment ahead of Wednesday’s hearing. “We the states. The largest sources of improper grams with large amounts of improper Some improper payments are the are pleased with this progress, but know payments are government health care pro- payments: The earned income tax credit, Amicable settlement concluded result of fraud, while others are uninten- that we have more work to do in this area.” grams, according to agency estimates. which provides payments to the working tional, caused by clerical errors or mistakes However, a new report by the Medicare’s various health insurance pro- poor in the form of tax refunds. Last year, between Al-Rifai and Al-Homaizi in awarding benefits without proper verifi- Government Accountability Office ques- grams for older Americans accounted for improper payments totaled $14.5 billion. KUWAIT: As part of an amicable settle- plant that has been recently constructed in cation. In 2013, federal agencies made $97 tions the accuracy of agency estimates, $50 billion in improper payments in the That’s 24 percent of all payments under the ment reached between the parties, Al- Fidar area in Lebanon and which will have billion in overpayments, according to suggesting that the real tally could be 2013 budget year, far exceeding any other program. The EITC is one of the largest Homaizi and Al-Rifai have settled their dif- a capacity of around 30,000 tons. agency estimates. Underpayments totaled higher. The GAO is the investigative arm of program. Most of the payments were anti-poverty programs in the US, providing ferences and all litigations have been with- “I am excited about the future of the $9 billion. The amount of improper pay- Congress. “The federal government is deemed improper because they were $60.3 billion in payments last year. drawn. Al-Rifai Nuts and Confectionery Rifai brand and I am confident that we ments has steadily dropped since 2010, unable to determine the full extent to issued without proper documentation, Eligibility depends on income and family Limited (ARNC), a wholly owned Al- have geared the business for the future”, when it peaked at $121 billion. which improper payments occur and rea- said Shantanu Agrawal, a deputy adminis- size, making it complicated to apply for the sonably assure that appropriate actions are trator for the Centers for Medicare & credit - and difficult to enforce, said IRS Homaizi company, is involved in and owns says Mohamed Rifai, CEO of ARIH. Al- Accountability and transparency all rights to manufacture, produce and sell Homaizi, co-vice chairman of Al-Homaizi, a taken to reduce them,” Beryl H. Davis, direc- Medicaid Services. In some cases, the Commissioner John Koskinen. various products (including, nuts, dried large conglomerate in the region based in The Obama administration has stepped tor of financial management at the GAO, paperwork didn’t verify that services were “EITC eligibility depends on items that fruit, confectioneries, deserts and coffee) Kuwait which owns ARNC said: “This is a up efforts to measure improper payments, said in prepared testimony for medically necessary. the IRS cannot readily verify through third- in 14 different countries across the MENA culmination of almost 20 years of coopera- identify the cause and develop plans to Wednesday’s hearing. Davis said some party information reporting, including region, including Egypt and all the GCC tion between the parties and we look for- reduce them, said Beth Cobert, deputy agencies don’t develop estimates for pro- Improper payments marital status and the relationship and resi- member states, using a proprietary Al-Rifai ward to further developing the Al-Rifai director of the White House budget office. grams that could be susceptible to “Payments deemed ‘improper’ under dency of children,” Koskinen told a House system owned by ARNC. Other countries nuts and confectionary business of ARNC Agencies recovered more than $22 billion improper payments. For example, the these circumstances tend to be the result committee in May. “In addition, the eligible will be serviced and managed separately and to successfully continue to serve the in overpayments last year. “We have Health and Human Services Department of documentation and coding errors made population for the EITC shifts by approxi- including Syria and Algeria by Al-Rifai needs of our customers for high quality strengthened accountability and trans- says it cannot force states to help it devel- by the provider as opposed to payments mately one-third each year, making it diffi- International Holding (ARIH) from the new products in the region.” parency, saving the American people mon- op estimates for the cash welfare program made for inappropriate claims,” Agrawal cult for the IRS to use prior-year data to ey while improving the fiscal responsibility known as Temporary Assistance for Needy said in prepared testimony for assist in validating compliance.” —AP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 BUSINESS

Mercedes-Benz Kuwait announces special savings during Ramadan

KUWAIT: AR Albisher and Z Alkazemi Co tomers who want to own their dream as saloon cars like the E-Class and its vari- ance on and off the tarmac. The GL-Class and through our annual promotions, we - the exclusive general distributor for Mercedes-Benz car,” said Michael Ruehle, ants and the 2014 C-Class. Mercedes- is particularly a favorite because of its lux- show appreciation and reward our cus- Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait - is offering cus- CEO of Abdul Rahman Albisher & Zaid Benz Dream cars, which include the SL- ury, power, interior space for families and tomers with the very best that we can tomers unique savings on Mercedes- Alkazemi Company. “There are plenty of Class, SLK-Class, CLS-Class and C- Coupe, remarkable off-road specifications.” offer. Our offers are not only limited to Benz 2014 models during the holy month captivating cars in our showroom that all are also included in the exclusive Another vehicle that stands out from sales, we also have special after sales of Ramadan. The Ramadan promotion feature the very latest technologies and Ramadan promotion. the other models is the latest E-Class and offers running, and this year we’re focus- offers buyers up to KD 3,000 in savings cutting edge designs from the leading “We always try to give our customers its variants. Mercedes-Benz has compre- ing on brake safety which is very signifi- depending on the model of Mercedes- German car manufacturer. Our customers access to special promotions during hensively modernized the E-Class to cant for the overall maintenance of a Benz car selected. The promotion which now have the chance to drive away with Ramadan, and this year’s offers are too extend its leading position in the luxury Mercedes-Benz vehicle,” concluded started from June 22 till July 31 is valid one of these magnificent vehicles with good to pass up, especially within the segment even further by introducing Ruehle. The Ramadan sales offers are across all vehicles, including saloons, our special Ramadan savings.” SUV and Dream Car range,” added more efficient engines, new assistance available at Albisher & Alkazemi Co show- coupes, Roadsters and SUV’s from model During the promotion, customers can Ruehle. “Kuwait is a leading market for systems and a new design idiom, all of room in Shuwaikh. Ramadan timings in year 2014. select the latest Mercedes-Benz models SUV sales and most drivers opt to pur- which make it very attractive to Kuwaiti the showroom are from 10 am to 1 pm “Our Ramadan promotion this year including the M-Class, GL-500, and GLK- chase these incredible vehicles for their customers. and from 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm Saturday once again brings great value to our cus- Class from the popular SUV range, as well durability, safety and amazing perform- “Ramadan is a time of giving back, to Thursday. Ooredoo companies win string of Etihad Airways appoints new general manager for Nigeria awards for customer experience tihad Airways, the national airline of Ethe United Arab Emirates, has oredoo’s focus on customer experience has step-change in our approach has delivered, with lion page views. The website makes it possible for appointed Wuraola Oduntan as its enjoyed strong industry recognition this year, awards across our major markets.” people to crowd-source solutions to everyday com- new General Manager for Nigeria. The O appointment takes effect from July 1, 2014. winning a string of awards for its operations in Over the past year, every Ooredoo operation has munication issues on a real-time basis, which has the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. With carried out qualitative and quantitative research to helped Indosat become more customer-centric. Based in Lagos, Wuraola Oduntan will have the global launch of the Ooredoo brand in February understand what customers are looking for and what In Qatar, Ooredoo’s focus on customer experience overall responsibility for Etihad Airways’ 2013, Ooredoo made differentiation through the cus- their expectations of Ooredoo services are. And each was recognized with three awards at the Annual operations in Nigeria, taking over from tomer experience a central pillar of its strategy - to operation has carried out a series of focus groups and Middle East Call Centre Awards 2014in June 2014. Maurice Phohleli who was recently appoint- ensure that each of its operating companies was the customer surveys to help shape their respective Ooredoo received awards for “Best Customer ed Vice President, Africa Sub-Sahara and leader in delivering best in class experience across all “Customer Promise” - the commitments that cus- Experience Management Implementation,” following Indian Ocean for Etihad Airways. customer touch-points. tomers can expect from Ooredoo. the development of a full customer care initiative that Oduntan brings a wealth of industry Since then, Ooredoo companies have worked hard The Customer Promise has been used as the basis to has delivered faster response times and offered more experience to the airline, having previously to enhance the ways they communicate with and sup- enhance existing services, as well as launch new innova- accurate information for customers, and for “Best worked at Virgin Atlantic Nigeria, where she Voice of the Customer” and “Best Customer Care and held a number of positions, including Head Big Data Initiative”. of Sales and Marketing. In line with this award-winning trend, Ooredoo Commenting on the appointment, Tunisia and Indosat won awards in the Consumer Maurice Phohleli, said: “We welcome Service Innovation category of the Global Telecoms Wuraola to our global commercial team. Wuraola Oduntan Business Innovation Awards 2014. The honors includ- Her experience in the Nigerian market is ed one for Ooredoo Tunisia’s Customer Self-Care por- invaluable and I am confident she will make and Abu Dhabi on July 1, 2012 with six tal, which enables customers to buy credit, bundles a significant contribution in continuing to flights a week enhancing the links between and upgrades, as well as access new services and build our presence in Nigeria and across the Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and the port customers - an effort that has resulted in positive tions and tools aimed at improving the overall experi- monitor their spending. Customers can activate and West Africa region.” United Arab Emirates. feedback and awards from a host of major industry ence in particular for customers when using data. buy credit packages in a couple of clicks through a Oduntan has a BSc in Accounting from The airline recognises the importance of bodies. Dr. Nasser Marafih, Group CEO, Ooredoo, said: Demonstrating the impact of this exercise, Indosat in web browser, gadget, widget or app. Since the portal the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, the West African region and in March 2013 “When we launched Ooredoo, we made a promise to Indonesia won the “Most advanced approach to was launched the uptake of 3G data packages and also holds an MBA from the University expanded its flights to Lagos to a daily serv- our customers that we would strive to enrich their Customer Experience Management” award at the through the self-care portal has grown to more than of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Etihad ice to meet growing demand from passen- lives as a global communications company. Teams Telecom Asia awards in Jakarta in May this year. 50 percent, as customers find it easier to select a pack- Airways launched its service between Lagos gers travelling to and from Nigeria. across our footprint are working hard to examine the The award was received for Indosat’s iCITY forum, age that best suits their needs. Across all its markets, customer experience and come up with new ideas to an online community that supports existing cus- Ooredoo is continuing to push forward with new enhance every touch-point in our interaction with tomers while enabling prospective customers to ask innovations designed to enhance the customer expe- Gulf Bank launches them and deliver on our brand value of caring. I am questions about products and services. 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This new card allows us to present a our visitors, first-hand the warm and welcoming culture The Bahrain Airport Company is currently in the variety of real benefits which are specifically of our people while experience the efficient and friendly design phase of a significant modernization program for designed for customers’ convenience, both airport which makes this country proud. Securing this Bahrain International Airport with construction due to when using the card locally and when they travel prestigious inaugural event is the result of the collective commence during Q2 of 2015. The Kingdom of Bahrain abroad. 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To event management, research, brand market- its kind PR unit in the region to offer a diverse are seen. date, it has a network of offices, branches and ing, community relations, Corporate Social range of communication-based services in affiliates in most Middle Eastern countries. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 technology Advocates for blind, deaf want more from Apple Number of people needing help multiplying SAN FRANCISCO: Advocates for the blind are guidelines on how to make features accessible, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook in a 2013 debating whether to use a carrot or a stick to such as labeling buttons that can be read by speech at Auburn University described people persuade one of their oldest allies, Apple Inc, to Apple’s VoiceOver software. with disabilities “in a struggle to have their close an emerging digital divide in mobile tech- But they don’t require accessibility, in con- human dignity acknowledged.” He said, “They’re nology. As digital life increasingly moves to the trast to other strictly enforced rules, such as a frequently left in the shadows of technological world of smartphones and tablets, some dis- ban on apps that present crude or objectionable advancements that are a source of empower- abled people with visual, hearing and other content. Nor do they offer an accessibility rating ment and attainment for others.” impairments are feeling more left out than ever. system, which some disabled advocates say The company declined to comment on its As baby boomers retire and age, the number would be a big help. accessibility strategy or whether developers of people needing help is multiplying. Many dis- That is where the new debate starts: should should be required to make apps accessible. abled advocates believe federal law requires that the blind return to court for protection they apps be accessible, but courts have not ruled on believe is guaranteed by law, or nudge their old Unlabeled buttons the issue. Few disabled want to risk alienating ally to work harder? Should they pursue app Problems on apps begin with unlabeled but- KANSAS: Kansas State Board of Education Chairwoman Jana Shaver, left, an Apple, considered a friend, by fighting it. makers, as some lawyers have, or Apple and tons, which can’t be read by the machine. New Independence Republican, and interim Education Commissioner Brad Mobile apps that work well can transform a Google? features and graphics can be particularly chal- Neuenswander, follow a discussion about problems with standardized reading and blind person’s life, reading email on the go or Attorney Daniel Goldstein, who brought the lenging, and many companies upgrade an app, math tests in public schools yesterday. —AP speaking directions to a new restaurant. Some suit against Apple in 2008 as counsel for the before bringing their accessibility features up to young blind people no longer feel the need to National Federation of the Blind, said the 2008 date in a follow-up release. The result is unex- Kansas won’t release data learn Braille to read with their fingers, when Siri action could provide a model for a suit focused pected, dramatic changes in usability. and other computer voices can do the reading on apps, but the Federation says no lawsuit is Several members of the National Association instead. Captions on videos and special hearing being considered. of the Blind told Reuters they struggle with apps from reading, math tests aids bring hearing impaired into the digital fold. At last week’s National Federation of the Blind from Bank of America, TuneIn, Southwest, Mint But when apps don’t work, life can grind to a convention, members approved a resolution to and Netflix, among others. Bank of America TOPEKA, Kansas: Kansas won’t be issuing approved by the board in 2010. The tests stop. Jonathan Lyens, a San Francisco city press Apple to create and enforce accessibility declined to comment. Netflix said it had made any report cards this year on how well its moved away from multiple-choice ques- employee, who is legally blind, has a hard time standards. In the halls there was some debate big strides on captioning and the others said public school students performed on stan- tions and toward open-ended problems. browsing jobs on professional networking site about whether or when to play hard ball over they were working to improve accessibility. dardized reading and math tests after The National Association of State Boards LinkedIn. requirements that apps be accessible. By contrast, ride service Uber and Twitter, fre- cyberattacks and other problems this of Education said it doesn’t know of any “The app is insane. Buttons aren’t labeled. It’s “It’s time for Apple to step up or we will take quently win kudos for their apps. spring, the state Board of Education decid- similar cyberattacks on other states’ testing difficult to navigate,” said Lyens. When it comes the next step,” said Michael Hingson, board Google Accessibility Engineering Manager ed yesterday. systems but added that most don’t have to social media apps, new problems arise with member for the National Association of the Eve Andersson told Reuters that product teams The board’s decision means there won’t laws requiring vendors to disclose when every release, he said. “I get nervous every time I Blind’s California chapter, describing litigation as are increasingly encouraged to consider users be a report on how students scored overall attacks or breaches occur. hit the update button.” “the only resort” if Apple did not bring accessi- with special needs at the outset. statewide or how students in each school Several Kansas board members said this LinkedIn has hired an accessibility chief, bility requirements to the app store. “We can’t stick on accessibility band aids,” she district or individual schools scored. The year’s tests were pilots, so their value in Jennison Asuncion, who himself is blind, and To be sure, Apple, Google, Twitter and other said. The company now offers training on acces- state typically releases such reports each assessing schools and helping teachers says it is working to improve the app. technology companies have increasingly accom- sibility implementation and design in Zurich, fall to help the public judge how well would be limited anyway. Still, advocates of the disabled want the prob- modated users with impairments in recent years. Mountain View and New York, she added. She Kansas’ schools are performing. “You’ve done a really good job of turn- lem solved by the company at the center of the Many developers are ready to help when they declined to comment on whether Google would The University of Kansas center that ing this disaster into a great learning app world-Apple. Rival Google Inc, whose learn there is a problem, said Chris Maury, whose require apps be accessible. designed the tests told the board last opportunity,” board member Jim McNiece, Android operating system drives more phones Conversant Labs builds apps for the visually Apple also is encouraging developers to month that it should not release data for a Wichita Republican, told KU center than Apple, is also under pressure, but as the impaired. include accessibility, bringing executives from individual schools and districts because of Director Marianne Perie. creator of the modern smartphone and a long- “I try to lead with the carrot and not the stick. Fleksy, which designed an oversize virtual key- problems administering the tests from The center doesn’t know the exact time champion for the blind, Apple is feeling the It’s better to inform developers that accessibility board, to describe their experience at the June March 10 to April 10. About two-thirds of source of the cyberattacks. Perie said the most heat. is the right thing to do and an opportunity to developers conference, for instance. the reading tests and one-third of the math incidents involved attempts to push huge reach a whole new base of users. It shouldn’t just Apple’s next version of its phone operating tests were completed during the period, amounts of data into the testing system to Developer guidelines be about compliance or avoiding legal risks,” he system, iOS 8, will have a “speak screen” features and state Department of Education officials crash it. Some appear to have originated Apple hasn’t been a steady champion: the said. There is a worldwide market of 1.1 billion that reads whatever is on the screen, improved concluded data wouldn’t be consistent outside the U.S, she said. Schools also saw National Federation of the Blind sued it in 2008 people with disabilities, according to research zoom, and support for hearing aids for hearing across the state. technical problems such as students not over accessibility of iTunes. Apple settled, agree- firm Fifth Quadrant Analytics. Nearly 21 million impaired made by companies including The U.S. Department of Education must seeing complete questions or being unable ing to pay $250,000 and adding captions and U.S. adults experience vision loss, according to ReSound. Apple helped develop the hearing aid. sign off on Kansas’ decision because federal to finish tests. other accessibility improvements to iTunes. the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, and Howard Rosenblum, chief executive officer of law requires states to administer annual “We chose to use a test that used the Since then it has added more such features to its approximately 28 million have a hearing impair- the National Association of the Deaf, wants tests and improve students’ results. But Internet, that’s susceptible to attack. iPhone, iPod, iPad and Apple TV products. ment, according to the American Speech- more. “Any app should be accessible to every- interim state Education Commissioner Brad Everybody knows that,” Bacon said. “Next Now, Apple and Google both have developer Language-Hearing Association. one,” he said. — Reuters Neuenswander said he’s confident federal year, if we get attacked again, then what?” officials will accept Kansas’ reasons for not The state still plans to release general reporting scores. information other than scores. For example, The board’s vote was 9-0. However, it may make general assessments about board member John Bacon, an Olathe areas in which students appear to be per- Republican, expressed frustration with the forming well and topics where they strug- problems and suggested the board review gle. Perie said she understands the board’s its contract with the Center for Educational frustrations over the problems with the Testing and Evaluation, which received $4.6 computerized testing system and told million during the 2013-14 school year. reporters they’re being addressed. But she “We need accountability, and we need a also noted that earlier this year, two boxes way to measure students’ progress,” he said. of papers from an English proficiency test “I think it’s one of our keys that we use to administered to Kansas City, Kansas, stu- measure how well we’re doing.” dents fell from a delivery truck and most The center designed this year’s Internet- were destroyed. based tests to follow multistate, Common “There is no error-free or risk-free testing Core academic standards that were these days,” she said. — AP A look at the Minuteman missile, mission, future

NEW YORK: The Air Force’s nuclear missiles answers to a three-star general at Air Force have stood ready for war on short notice Global Strike Command at Barksdale Air for more than 50 years. Americans tend to Force Base in Louisiana who is responsible assume the missiles are safe, if they even not only for the ICBMs but also for the B-2 remember they exist. But safety cannot be and B-52 bombers that have a nuclear mis- taken for granted. President John F. sion as well. Kennedy said the missiles represent “the THE HISTORY: The current fleet of most awesome destructive power that any Minuteman 3 missiles was first deployed in nation or any man has ever conceived.” 1970, making them older than any of the A look, in brief, at the missiles and their officers entrusted with the keys to launch mission: them. They are the third generation of THE MISSILES: The Air Force operates Minuteman missiles. The first generation just one type of land-based nuclear missile, went into service in October 1962 during the Minuteman 3. It’s a class of weapon the Cuban missile crisis. The Minuteman 2 OAKLAND: Bay Area city officials look at new electric vehicles during a press conference at the AlcoPark Garage Plaza in Oakland. A group of known as an intercontinental ballistic mis- became operational in 1966, and the cur- San Francisco Bay Area cities, counties and water agencies has joined forces for what is being billed as one of the largest single government sile, or ICBM. The term refers to the fact that rent version was declared operational at purchases of all-electric vehicles in the country. —AP it has global reach. It is ballistic because its Minot in December 1970, according to an trajectory consists of three parts: powered official Air Force history of the ICBM. flight from the ground through the Earth’s No ICBM has ever been launched other atmosphere; free-flight through space; and than for testing. The only time a nuclear Bay Area govts make re-entry until it hits its target. weapon has been used in war was in The U.S. has 450 of the missiles, each August 1945 when the U.S. dropped one with a single nuclear warhead attached. bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and another on The missiles are guided to a target by a self- Nagasaki, compelling Japan’s surrender. big electric-vehicle buy contained navigation system that uses THE FUTURE: The Obama administration motion and rotation sensors to track and has decided to take 50 of the 450 SAN FRANCISCO: A group of San Francisco Bay dioxide emissions over five years, Bay Area funds set aside by the governments and agen- update the missile’s position and orienta- Minuteman missiles off active duty by Area cities, counties and water agencies has Climate Collaborative Executive Director Rafael cies to buy new vehicles. tion. Each Minuteman 3 missile is based in February 2018, but it is committed to pre- joined forces for what is being billed as one of Reyes said. The 10 governments and agencies are: San its own underground silo “hardened” with serving their role as part of the “triad” of the largest single government purchases of all- The collaborative - a public-private initiative Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Santa Rosa, concrete to withstand an enemy nuclear strategic nuclear forces, along with electric vehicles in the country. of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group that was Fremont, Concord, the Sonoma County Water strike. The silo is linked via communications bombers and nuclear-armed sub- The six cities, two counties and two water started by three Bay Area mayors - developed Agency, the Marin Municipal Water District, and cables to a launch control center, also marines.—AP agencies have united to buy 90 electric vehicles the proposal for funding that was submitted to Alameda and Sonoma counties. San Jose and underground. with the help of a $2.8 million grant from the the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. three other Bay Area cities bought 50 all-electric THE MISSILEERS: At the heart of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a “The Bay Area is clearly in a leadership role vehicles last year, Reyes said. The electric vehi- ICBM force are the men and women who regional transportation agency, officials with the here,” Reyes said. cles are a small part of the cities, counties and command the missiles. They are called Bay Area Climate Collaborative said yesterday. The vehicles include Ford Motor Co.’s Focus water agencies’ overall fleets, but Reyes said the Missileers and are junior officers - lieu- The vehicles will save more than $500,000 in and Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf. The total cost was $5 purchases shows what can be done. “We’re just tenants and captains, typically ages 22 to fuel costs and about 2 million pounds of carbon million, with the rest of the money coming from scratching the surface,” he said. —AP 27. Two Missileers operate an underground launch control center, which is responsible for 10 missiles. The Missileers do 24-hour “alert” shifts, then hand off to a replace- Court rules against Apple in patent case ment crew. Because the missiles are meant to be ready for combat on short notice, the BEIJING: US technology giant Apple has lost a “The court did not support the cause of action based spokeswoman for the US firm saidP: “Apple launch capsules are manned without inter- lawsuit against a Chinese state regulator over stated by Apple,” the court said in a statement on believes deeply in protecting innovation and we ruption, 365 days a year. patent rights to voice recognition software such Tuesday, referring to the case in which Apple take intellectual property rights very seriously. THE BASES: The ICBM force is divided as the iPhone’s “Siri”, a Beijing court said. The legal “brought a lawsuit” against the government “Unfortunately, we were not aware of Zhizhen’s between three Air Force bases - Malmstrom battle begun in 2012 when Shanghai-based agency. patent before we introduced Siri and we do not in Montana, F.E. Warren in Wyoming and Zhizhen Network Technology pursued Apple for “The patent for the invention of the ‘type of believe we are using this patent.” Another court Minot in North Dakota. Each base operates allegedly infringing its Chinese patent with Siri, its chatbot system’ involved remains effective,” the would consider the issue, she said, but held open 150 missiles, divided into three squadrons “intelligent personal assistant”. court said, referring to Zhizhen’s patent. the door to a settlement, adding: “We remain of 50 missiles each. Apple asked China’s patent review board, Apple had decided to appeal to the Beijing open to reasonable discussions with Zhizhen.” The launch silos are located no less than which operates under the State Intellectual Higher People’s Court, it added. The dispute is not the first time that Apple has 3 miles from each other and from their Property Office, to declare Zhizhen’s original Apple’s Siri, which responds to a user’s com- been embroiled in intellectual property rights patent ineffective but the request was rejected. mands through voice recognition software, made infringement and controversy in China, where its launch control center to make the force NEW YORK: The warhead-containing Late last year Apple appealed to Beijing’s its formal debut with the release of the iPhone 4S products are popular. Apple in 2012 paid $60 mil- more survivable in a nuclear attack. nose cone of an inert Minuteman 3 mis- Number One Intermediate People’s Court to over- in 2011, while Zhizhen claims its earlier “Xiao i lion to settle a dispute with another Chinese firm The force is commanded by a two-star sile is seen in a training launch tube at turn that decision. Robot” product works in a similar way. A Beijing- over the iPad trademark.— AFP general who heads the 20th Air Force. He Minot Air Force Base. —AP THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Child TB problem far greater than thought PARIS: Twenty-five percent more children are are infected with the germ yet have yet to devel- falls into the category of a “high burden” for pointed to the urgent need to focus help on chil- falling ill with TB than the UN had thought, with op any symptoms. Last year the World Health health. It factored in the national prevalence of TB dren, using the drug ionized. “Children are an more than 650,000 hit by the disease each year in Organisation (WHO) estimated there were in adults, the likely risk of household exposure often ignored but important part of TB control the 22 worst affected countries, specialists said 530,000 cases of active TB among children from infected relatives and the effectiveness of efforts,” Dodd said. yesterday. Reporting in The Lancet, they said that younger than 15 years in 2012. But this estimate vaccination against the disease. The findings sug- “Quantifying the burden of TB in children is about 53 million children under 15 are living with was based on reporting by paediatric doctors-a gested that about 7.6 million children younger important because without good numbers, there latent TB infection, a condition that can develop technique faulted by many experts as its meth- than 15 in these 22 countries became infected in can be no targets for improvement, no monitor- into active TB at any time. ods and reliability vary hugely from country to 2010. Of these nearly 651,000 developed the dis- ing of trends and there is a lack of evidence to A contagious disease of the lungs, TB is caused country. ease, more than a quarter of them in India alone. encourage industry to invest in developing medi- by a microbe called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The new estimate is based on a mathematical Lead author Peter Dodd of the University of cines or diagnostics that are more appropriate for Millions of people are latent cases, meaning they model based on each of 22 countries where TB Sheffield in northern England said the figures children than those available today.” — AFP

AIDS research team in Iowa loses $1.38M grant IOWA: An AIDS research team at Iowa He said Cho continues to be a State University will not get the final respected researcher and people seem $1.38 million payment of a National to understand he was not aware of Institutes of Health five-year grant faked lab work. “This has received after a team member admitted last national and international attention year to faking research results, the NIH and I know he has been somewhat said Tuesday. One of the members of embarrassed by that and he doesn’t the research team, Dong-Pyou Han, want to go through that again,” has pleaded not guilty in federal court McCarroll said. Cho did not immediate- to four counts of making false state- ly respond to messages for comment. ments in research reports. He is free on According to the indictment filed bond awaiting trial scheduled for Sept last month in US District Court in Des 2. Moines, Han’s misconduct dates to The research team, led by biomed- when he worked at Case Western ical sciences professor Michael Cho, Reserve University in Cleveland under was awarded $6.8 million to be paid Cho, who was leading a team testing over five years by the NIH, but it won’t an experimental HIV vaccine on rab- see the last payment. The team previ- bits. Starting in 2008, Cho’s team ously received grants totaling $7.6 mil- received initial NIH funding. Cho lion. The university has agreed to repay reported soon that his vaccine was the government $496,000 for Han’s causing rabbits to develop antibodies salary and other costs tied to his to HIV, which was considered a major employment at ISU during the breakthrough in HIV/AIDS vaccine research. Han may not apply for or research by NIH officials and the receive grants from the US govern- research community. ment for three years, the NIH said, but Iowa State recruited Cho in 2009, Cho’s team and other researchers at and his team - including Han - soon ISU can. received a five-year grant to continue “NIH makes funding decisions the research. The team reported based on scientific merit of the pro- progress until a group of researchers at posed research to eligible organiza- Harvard University found in January tions/institutions. The researchers are 2013 the promising results had been eligible to apply for future NIH grant achieved with rabbit blood spiked with funding through their institutions just human antibodies. An ISU investiga- as other researchers may apply,” the tion pinpointed Han leading him to agency said in an emailed statement write in a Sept 30, 2013, confession let- University spokesman John McCarroll ter that he started the fraud in 2009 said the team, which consists of 10 “because he wanted (results) to look researchers, has sufficient funding to better” and that he acted alone. “I was continue its work. McCarroll said foolish, coward, and not frank,” he experts at federal agencies have told wrote. Han, 57, a native of South Korea, him it can take two to five years to has been allowed by the court to live recover from the negative perceptions in Ohio near his family and travel to created by a misconduct incident. Iowa for court appearances. — AP

THE HAGUE: Handout computer generated images released by the Dutch Organization “The Ocean Cleanup” on July 2, 2014 show an ocean Smallpox vials from 1950s cleanup project developed by a 19 year-old Dutch student. — AFP photos found in US lab storage room CHICAGO/ATLANTA: Stray vials of the deadly smallpox virus from the 1950s have Dutch teen targets Pacific been discovered at a federal lab near Washington, US health officials said on Tuesday, the second lapse discovered in a Ocean ‘plastic soup’ menace month involving a deadly pathogen at a government facility. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that THE HAGUE: Dutch student Boyan Slat is only 19 largest chunks of plastic to and from a shredder there are still issues that need to be addressed,” workers discovered the vials in a cardboard years old, but he already has 100 people working so that it will fit in the cylinder. The blue-eyed, Kim Martini, an oceanographer at Washington box on July 1 while clearing out an old lab on his revolutionary plan to scoop thousands of shaggy-haired Slat, who still lives at home with State University in Seattle, told AFP by email. on the National Institutes of Health campus tons of damaging plastics from the oceans. The his parents, says he got his idea while scuba-div- Some say the feasibility study underestimates in Bethesda, Maryland. world’s “plastic soup”, much of it swirling around ing in Greece. “I saw more plastics than fish under the proportion of micro-plastics, which are just The six glass vials contained freeze-dried in five main gyres or rotating oceanic currents, the water,” he recalled. He publicly presented it millimeters in size and extremely difficult to trap smallpox virus and were sealed with melted costs billions of euros (dollars) to the fishing and for the first time at the end of 2012, hardly daring and remove. glass. The vials appeared intact and there is tourism sectors every year. Estimates differ as to to dream it would become reality. Today, he has Others say the project itself will become a no evidence that lab workers or the general how much of the waste is in our oceans, ranging put his studies on hold and 100 people around dangerous obstacle for marine life and sea traffic. public are at risk, said CDC spokesman Tom from half a million to millions of tons. The the world are working for him, several of them “Boyan is a terrific engineer, and we appreciate a Skinner. The mishandling of smallpox follows scourge kills marine life, entering the food chain full time. lot what he does for the plastic soup issue,” said the CDC’s recent mishap in which the agency when sea creatures ingest it, as well as ensnaring Anna Cummins of the 5 Gyres environmental believed it may have transferred live anthrax dolphins and whales. ‘Faster, cheaper’ charity and lobby group in a telephone inter- WASHINGTON: This 1975 file electronmi- samples to a CDC lab that was not equipped While most ideas for attacking the plastic Following a year of feasibility studies and a view. “But what we do not understand, is why he crograph from the Centers for Disease to handle them, potentially exposing dozens plague involve boats criss-crossing the oceans to certain amount of criticism from a skeptical sci- wants to use his device so far from the coast- Control shows the smallpox virus. — AP of employees to the pathogen. scoop up the waste, Slat came up with a remark- entific community, Slat wants to set up a pilot lines,” she told AFP. The CDC is testing the vials to see if the mine how and when the samples were pre- ably practical way to help solve the problem: har- project to run for the next three or four years “Collecting waste from the middle of the smallpox is viable and could make someone pared and how they came to be stored and nessing the power of sea currents to trap the before installing the first operational “Ocean ocean is like collecting water from a tap that is sick, said Skinner. After those tests, which forgotten in the FDA lab. “soup”. “Why go after the plastic if the plastic can Cleanup Array” in the north Pacific Ocean. He has always on,” said Daniel Poolen of the Plastic Soup could take up to two weeks, the samples will Infectious disease expert Dr Michael come to you?” the aeronautical engineering stu- set up a crowd funding website to collect $2.0 Foundation. “You have to go to river mouths, to be destroyed, Skinner said. Smallpox was Osterholm said the discovery of abandoned dent told AFP. million (1.5 million euros) in 100 days, reaching the source” of the pollution, he said. Slat insists eradicated worldwide in 1977, but samples vials of smallpox is a reminder to labs global- the first million after 32 days. that the feasibility study, which concluded that of the pathogen are kept in two repositories ly to take stock of what is in their freezers. ‘Soup trap’ Over a 10-year period, he hopes his invention the project was “likely feasible”, dealt with all the for research purposes: the CDC’s facility in Although there have been concerns His design calls for two vast floating arms, 50 will collect nearly half of the plastic swirling technical problems. Nevertheless, he is aware of Atlanta and the State Research Centre of smallpox could be used in bioterrorism, the kilometers (35 miles) long each, in the form of a around in the north Pacific Ocean. Slat claims his the limitations. Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk, CDC says the chances of that occurring are “V”, anchored to the ocean floor. Curtains, ironi- method would be thousands of times faster than “Thankfully, I’m surrounded by people who Russia. The two repositories are monitored very low. Currently, the government has a cally made from super-strong plastic, hang from sending ships to fish the plastic out of the water. have more knowledge than me, they bring their by the World Health Organization. stockpile containing enough vaccine for the arms, dangling around three meters (10 feet) “It’s not only faster, it’s also cheaper,” he said. experience on board,” Slat said, adding: “I’m only The CDC said it has notified WHO about every US citizen. The bigger threat, below the surface. Ocean currents will force the Around 70 people, including oceanographers, 19!” “Even if I think that my project is more effi- the discovery. If the specimens turn out to be Osterholm said, is that these vials could have waste into the “V” and to a cylindrical platform 11 engineers and legal advisers, took part in the fea- cient and cheaper, I know it won’t remove all viable, the CDC said it will invite the WHO to fallen into the hands of someone who would meters in diameter floating at the end which can sibility study, looking at legal and material ques- plastic waste,” he admits. “And most importantly, I witness the destruction of the smallpox sam- convert them into an aerosolized form and store up to 3,000 cubic meters of plastic (106,000 tions, as well as the project’s weather-resistance know full well that the source of plastic in the ples. Skinner said the CDC is working with use them as a bioterror weapon. “That could cubic feet - or more than an Olympic swimming and cost. oceans won’t disappear tomorrow, people will the Federal Bureau of Investigation to deter- be a disaster,” he said. — Reuters pool ) for eventual collection by a ship. “The ocean cleanup team has addressed con- unfortunately continue to put plastic waste into A solar-powered conveyor belt will take the cerns that the ocean community has voiced, but the environment.”- — AFP Sunshine vitamin D boosts Fifty new Ebola cases, survival chances in bowel cancer 25 deaths in West Africa LONDON: Bowel cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D ing but it is important to note that this is an observational in their blood are more likely to survive the disease, according study (and) we need carefully designed randomized clinical GENEVA: Fifty new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths have to research published yesterday. Scientists who studied trials before we can confirm whether taking vitamin D supple- means that the two main modes of transmission are almost 1,600 patients after surgery for bowel cancer found ments offers any survival benefit,” he said. been reported in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea home care, people who care for their relative at home, those with the highest levels of vitamin D have half the risk of Bowel cancer, also known as colon or colorectal cancer, is since July 3, as the deadly virus spreads in families, and during funerals, are still ongoing.” dying of the disease compared with those with the lowest lev- the second most common cancer in Europe with around the World Health Organization (WHO) said on “If we don’t stop the transmission in the several els. The study is the first to correlate the long-term survival 447,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012, said the charity Cancer Tuesday. In a statement, the United Nations agency hotspots in the three countries we will not be able to prospects of bowel cancer patients after diagnosis with total Research UK which funded this study. Dunlop’s team tested said that the latest figures from health ministries in say that we control the outbreak,” she said. A US citi- blood levels of vitamin D. blood samples from almost 1,600 patients after surgery for the three countries showed a total of 844 cases zen who was suspected of having Ebola because he Vitamin D, sometimes known as the “sunshine vitamin”, is bowel cancer. They found the greatest benefit of vitamin D in including 518 deaths in the epidemic that began in fell ill after travelling to the region affected by Ebola made in the body when the skin is exposed to sunlight and is patients with stage 2 cancers, when the tumour may be quite February. Guinea’s ministry reported two deaths since died on Monday in Ghana. The man, who has not found in foods such as fish liver oil, eggs and fatty fish such as large but the disease has not yet spread. July 3, but no new cases in the past week, the WHO been identified, was in quarantine at a clinic in the salmon, herring and mackerel. It is known to boost the uptake Three quarters of the patients with the highest vitamin said, calling the situation in the affected region of capital Accra. of calcium and bone formation. Some observational studies D levels were still alive after five years, compared with few- West Africa a “mixed picture”. Four tests on the man have all proved negative for have also suggested a link between low levels of vitamin D er than two thirds of those with the lowest levels, they Sierra Leone accounted for 34 of the new cases and Ebola, Ghana’s health ministry said in a statement late on and greater risks of many acute and chronic diseases. found. The team, whose work was published in the Journal 14 deaths, while Liberia reported 16 new cases and 9 Tuesday. West African countries and international health Malcolm Dunlop of the Medical Research Council Human of Clinical Oncology, said they now plan to set up a clinical deaths. “These numbers indicate that active viral organisations adopted a fresh strategy last Thursday to Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh who led this trial to test whether taking vitamin D tablets in combina- transmission continues in the community,” it said. fight the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic to date. study, said it suggested vitamin D supplements may be worth tion with chemotherapy can improve bowel cancer sur- WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib, speaking to a Measures include better surveillance to detect the virus exploring for bowel cancer patients. “Our findings are promis- vival rates. — Reuters Geneva news briefing earlier on Tuesday, said: “This and enhancing cross-border cooperation. — Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE How marijuana goes from garden to store

BELLINGHAM: Top Shelf Cannabis was opening Tuesday, when Washington Associated Press photographer Ted able to open its doors to sell marijuana became the second state in the US to allow Warren visited the facility over the past few when Washington state’s recreational pot recreational sales after Colorado, the weeks to document how the crew bar-cod- industry finally opened for business employees at Sea of Green Farms have ed each plant, enlisted ladybugs to keep because of growers like Sea of Green methodically nurtured the plants in a grow pests away and harvested the plant’s high- Farms. For months leading up to the grand house in Seattle. quality flowers. —AP

BELLINGHAM: Marijuana plants at Sea of Green Farms, a recreational pot grower in Seattle, grow in the foliage room, where ‘clone’ plants that have developed roots are grown under special lights. —AP photos

Bob Leeds, owner of Sea of Green Farms, a recreational pot grower and processor in Seattle, smiles as he examines lab test results for one of his strains of marijuana in a Bob Leeds, owner of Sea of Green Farms, a recreational pot grower and processor in Seattle, inspects small “clone” plants growing under lights room illuminated by yellow grow lights. in Seattle. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

MP Jamal Al-Omar hosted a reception recently on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. The event attracted lot of dignitaries. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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arah Baker Al-Nazer celebrated with Fajer SAl-Sabah School who graduated with 98.85 GPA. Sarah owed her success to God and her family’s support, as well as her sched- ule that includes studying for an average of 9 hours a day. Sarah plans to study dentistry at University of Jordan in Amman.

The Scientific Center to organize gergian party he Scientific Center announced hosting its annual Tgergian party on Saturday, the 14th of Ramadan (July 12th). The event will take place between 9:00 pm and 11:30 pm, and includes various cultural activities such as henna and gergian bags’ embroidery. The Scientific Center will also offer its visitors the traditional Kuwaiti coffee, as well as traditional Kuwaiti sweets and foods. A cultural competition for opportunities to win valuable prizes will also be held. Gergian will be distributed to children at the end of the party. Mejbel Al-Mutawa’a, CEO and Managing Director, announced meanwhile that the Scientific Center antici- pates its eight millionth visitor during the holy month, adding that gifts are prepared to be presented to the lucky visitor. Mejbel also announced that the Discovery Hall will be closed starting from Friday, July 11th, and will be opened on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr with an exhibition titled ‘mathematics is our life.’ The Scientific Center wel- comes visitors everyday from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am, with a special morning period on Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Tickets will be available for a reduced prices, at KD 1,750 for the Aquarium and IMAX theater, starting from Sunday, July 13th. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

he Ministry of Youth Affairs organized a ghabqa on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. Senior government officials including Sheikh Salman Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, the Minister of TInformation and Minister of Youth Affairs, and Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, attended the event, as well as youth ministry officials and oth- er dignitaries. —Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

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CROSSWORD 604 STAR TRACK

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

Circumstances today can throw you into positions where you must use There is a yearning to broaden horizons and reach for the ultimate, a your mind and deal with communications, service or enclosed hidden kind of spiritual wanderlust-that’s the sort of thing that takes center interests. You may begin to think about work that deals with education, psychology stage in your life. Law, politics, education, travel and religion are some of the areas or teaching principles and techniques. The fact is that you like attention and have a where emotionally charged drama could be played. You will have many opportuni- real need to be at the center of any group. Your more sensitive style hides a strong, ties to show off some of your talents today. You are a good worker, always thinking aggressive and quite confident nature. Your needs will be met today. You are at and caring for things. You are naturally service-oriented, very discriminating and home in a crowd and enjoy the attention of others. Your mild-mannered smoke- can sort out the good apples from the bad. You love to communicate and discuss ideas with other people. Your ideas are always fair and impartial, especially when it screen hides a real tiger. Refinement and relationships are the keys to emotional sat- comes to other people-the social scene. You are at your mental best when called isfaction. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying-marriage and other partner- upon to solve problems this day. ships could be a key arena for this.

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

You are very skilled at working with psychology and the hidden recess- Communication, particularly with superiors or influential people, es of the mind. This is a time for imagination and creativity when it comes to ideas could prove troublesome. You may not think as they do or may find and thinking. This, coupled with the ability to put your thoughts into words, allows that your thoughts run opposite to theirs. Your thoughts may be more on home and family just now. Keep notes-write down instructions or things you see that you to enthrall and entrance others. You would make an excellent psychologist or might benefit those in a higher position from you. This way you will not forget and perhaps a teacher of this subject. These same skills make it possible for you to work then, when you have time, those little extra touches will benefit you at job-review with the public, in politics or wherever handling sensitive or hot issues are routine. time. At home you may be especially witty. Real-estate investments and family You value change and transformation and have an almost reckless faith in the life planning take on greater importance for you. This is a time of nostalgia, of thinking process. You love to be touched at the most personal and vulnerable levels. Your about security and permanence. Refinement and relationships are the keys to love of job and practical skills makes you a fine businessperson. You bring a great emotional satisfaction this day. deal of love to your work.

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

You may find yourself making a speech today. You may want to save Your communication skills are fine-tuned today. You are the eter- time after your speech for questions. You will discover which areas are nal patron of just about all who will let you look after them-the easy to understand and which areas need better explanation. This keeps you from original mother hen. You need to feel useful and wanted and are never happier ACROSS DOWN getting too technical. The circumstances lend itself to your particular way of think- than when you are active and involved. Always the host, you find yourself caring 1. Any broad thin and limber covering ing. Working with groups in a spirit of cooperation and communion is a natural. This for and taking care of others. In fact, you may tend to worry about others too 1. A republic in central Europe. much. You may not be content to let others judge you on appearance alone-you 4. A great raja. attached at one edge. afternoon you may feel like being different, trying something new and unusual. Enough stress-on with the fun is the general idea. Being appreciated is important, would rather be judged by your actions-by what you have done or can do. A 12. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft 2. Port city that is the capital and largest city volunteer service should be considered now. Look into some activity where you of Latvia. but after today’s work, there is a need for a break. You enjoy being in a career that bread. accents your own personal dreams and ideals. A new project is worthy of your atten- could serve others. You can become a success at anything you attempt. 3. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set tion this evening. Talented people are attracted to you. 15. A statement that deviates from or per- of rotating gears by which force is transmit- verts the truth. ted or motion or torque is changed. 16. A corticosteroid drug (trade names 4. Informal terms for a mother. Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or 5. Small space in a tissue or part such as the Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to area between veins on a leaf or an insect's treat allergies or inflammation. wing. A new way to multiply or secure your money has come to your atten- This is a good day for practical ideas and planning about your work or 17. A federal agency established to coordi- 6. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday tion today. You are already looking forward to the day you can surprise vocation. You may receive some recognition or special attention regarding others with your cleverness. Teaching, sharing information, guiding those that are nate programs aimed at reducing pollution commemorating the rededication of the your particular skills and abilities. Your inner resources and emotions are accented. Temple of Jerusalem. afraid to ask for help seem to dominate your day. Enveloping yourself in life and life Expect a sense of support and goodwill from those around you. Perhaps you feel this is and protecting the environment. activities, you progress in your work and you move forward with your personal really you-how you feel and are. You have a quick temper when it comes to questions of 7. Love intensely. goals. Loosing touch with friends or some family members, you may decide to set 18. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- 8. A recurring sleep state during which independence and autonomy. You may decide it is easier to become involved in politics cially in Turkey). aside some time this evening for phone calls and research to find new communica- and work toward changing the laws, instead of bucking them. You will be concerned dreaming occurs. tion. Antique shopping at a new shop may be in order later this afternoon. Dinner 19. A member of the extinct Algonquian with issues of freedom and independence far beyond the average person. A passion for 9. The upper angle between an axis and an away from home with friends and an enjoyable celebration of your birth is in order. inventions, electronics and the like can also be expected. people formerly living between Lake offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk. Happy birthday! Michigan and Lake Superior. 10. (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to 20. A river in north central Switzerland that become a prophet so God caused a great runs northeast into the Rhine. storm to throw him overboard from a ship. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 11. Of the appetites and passions of the 21. A woman's lover. You can see new ways to make use of a difficult situation today. An 23. French naturalist who proposed that body. Hectic emotional energy means that things around you may be a little 12. The hair growing on the lower part of a unconventional approach to working for or with others may require spe- evolution resulted from the inheritance of unorganized. Outwardly, you are intense and passionate and this quality cial work requirements. You are unconventional, independent and drawn to whatever man's face. is so essential to your character that all else revolves around it. Your ability to cut acquired characteristics (1744-1829). is different and original in life. You hate being tied down with the drudgery of routine, 13. With rapid movements. through the external and get to the heart of things comes through loud and clear. There preferring instead to keep your options open. You may find yourself involved in causes 25. (biology) Having or growing on or from a 14. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a are no secrets with you-you get right down to the basics. Friends, group projects and that go against tradition, revolutions of one kind or another-social or political. Your peduncle or stalk. British term). community concerns could play a key role that molds your career direction. You may go friends are probably also eccentric, in particular those in authority, older persons and through a lot of changes now because of your life style. Friends, loved ones and the individuals who are nonconformist. Communication, computers, electronics and 26. Ground snakes. 22. (physics and chemistry) The smallest home base may be due for some attention this afternoon. Goodwill and humanitarian everything new wave are the subjects in which you excel. Now is a good time to make 27. A public promotion of some product or component of an element having the chem- efforts can affect your life in very good ways at this time. Create a romantic atmosphere yourself known. service. ical properties of the element. this evening. 29. A state in northwestern North America. 24. The mission in San Antonio where in 31. A white soft metallic element that tar- 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) nishes readily. who were fighting to make Texas independ- 32. Molten rock in the earth's crust. ent of Mexico. 35. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfec- You may have to sit in judgment over some situation today, but you will You have a lot of energy to pour into practical and career decisions 28. Russian country house. come across as stable and even gentle-your response to most situations is evenhanded now. You may appear unnecessarily commanding and assertive to tions of the skin. 30. (prefix) Half or partial. and supportive. You will probably take your time with decision making in order to react some, but to others this may be what is needed in order to make yourself under- 39. Occurring widely (as to many people). 33. Antelope with white markings like a har- to a situation fully. You are enthusiastic and have a definite sense of mission. Above all, stood. You have a basic self-esteem that is plain to all who meet you. Your sense of 43. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to ness and twisted horns. you are a progressive and enjoy putting into practice that which is good for all. Your discrimination and innate good taste means that you know good items from bad provide intensive care. 34. A woman hired to suckle a child of some- professional life moves along at full speed ahead. Opportunities are available for and are a connoisseur of all that is fine and beautiful. You are learning not to settle change. Expressing yourself and your relation with others may not always be smooth for a lesser quality of merchandise, even if it means you need time to save. A love of 44. Leafless East Indian vine. one else. 36. West Indian tree having racemes of fra- and may tend to get explosive-careful. You could be preoccupied with job and family well-organized, intelligent people, plus an appreciation for your elders in general, 45. Predatory black-and-white toothed for now. Your attention this evening is mostly on an animal-new perhaps. make you welcome at any social scene. You excel as a social being and should make grant white flowers and yielding a durable a career out of helping people. whale with large dorsal fin. timber and resinous juice. 46. (Judaism) A period of seven days of 37. An artificial language. mourning after the death of close relative. 38. The lower house of the parliament of the 48. Being seven more than fifty. Republic of Ireland. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 49. The ball-shaped capsule containing the 40. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family vertebrate eye. Araceae. 50. A region of Malaysia in northeastern 41. Lean end of the neck. Borneo. 42. Dark somewhat brownish black n 1. 51. The branch of computer science that 47. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force. deal with writing computer programs that 53. Surveying instrument consisting of the can solve problems creatively. upper movable part of a theodolite includ- 52. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth. ing the telescope and its attachments. 57. A projecting ridge on a mountain or sub- 54. A game in which numbered balls are merged under water. drawn and random and players cover the 58. Of or relating to or characteristic of corresponding numbers on their cards. Thailand of its people. 55. A member of the Ku Klux Klan. 61. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true. 56. In an unnatural eery manner. 63. Grass of the eastern United States and 59. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and tropical America having spikelets enclosed was hanged for plotting to massacre them. in prickly burs. 60. A positively charged electrode by which 69. The United Nations agency concerned electrons leave an electrical device. with international maritime activities. 62. A white metallic element that burns with 70. Small depression under the shoulder a brilliant light. joint where the arm joins the shoulder. 64. An aggressive remark directed at a per- 73. The large trunk artery that carries blood son like a missile and intended to have a from the left ventricle of the heart to branch telling effect. arteries. 65. Serving as or forming a base. 66. A member of an Iroquoian people for- 74. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin merly living on the south shore of Lake Erie nicotinic acid. in northern Ohio and northwest 75. Set free as from prison or duty. Pennsylvania and western New York. 77. An electrically charged particle. 67. Fill by packing tightly. 78. The compass point midway between 68. Mentally healthy. northeast and east. 71. A unit of length of thread or yarn. 79. A family of acrocarpous mosses. 72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain 80. A member of a people living in southern lac insects. Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana. 76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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Rowling’s new Dshort story. The 24-year-old star - who played the boy wizard in all eight blockbuster Festival in Sept films - says the author’s 1,500-word story, which features a 34 year old Harry attending the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, is unlikely to be adapted for the big screen. Speaking to reporters yester- day, he’s quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying: “My inclination is to say ‘no’ because I don’t think it’s even a hypothetical at the moment. What she’s written-and I haven’t read ay Z will headline the Global Citizen Festival on Sept 27 in New York’s yet but I will-I understand it’s a very short piece. Central Park. Organizers announced yesterday that fun, Carrie And he’s 12 years older than I am now.” Rowling’s JUnderwood, The Roots, No Doubt and Tiesto also will perform. Tickets are story offers an update into the lives of Harry and free for the event, but must be earned through acts meant to help end his magical pals Ron Weasley and Hermione extreme poverty around the world. VIP tickets are being sold through Granger, seven years after the final book was Ticketmaster. The festival is designed to coincide with the United Nations released. Harry is described as showing “threads General Assembly meeting and put pressure on world leaders to address the of silver” in his famous black hair and he has also needs of the world’s poor. This year’s concert will air live on NBC and MSNBC. developed a “nasty cut over his right cheekbone” Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and John Mayer headlined the festival last year. to go along with the famous lightning bolt scar Neil Young, Foo Fighters and the Black Keys performed in 2012, when the fes- on his forehead. The piece is written as a dis- tival debuted. patch from journalist Rita Skeeter - who features in the books as a writer for the Daily Prophet - and even alludes to marital troubles between Harry and his wife Ginny Potter, nee Weasley. Weaver, ‘Alien’ Insane Clown Posse seek cast reprising roles in new game to lift gang label for fans

igourney Weaver and the cast of “Alien” are returning to the starship Nostromo. The actress Swho portrayed unflappable officer Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” film franchise is reprising her role in an upcoming video game set after the events of the origi- nal 1979 film. Weaver and several cast members from filmmaker Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film recorded new dialogue and will have their likeness appear in bonus levels of “Alien: Isolation.” Other cast members return- ing to their roles as Nostromo crew members include Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto and Veronica Cartwright. The central story of “Isolation” centers on Ripley’s daughter Amanda. She was briefly mentioned in a scene from the 1986 sequel “Aliens.” The game marks the first time Weaver has reprised the role since the 1997 sequel “Alien Resurrection.” Apollo Nida sentenced to

eight years in fraud case ip hop duo Insane Clown Posse and the The Justice Department was not immediately ACLU filed legal papers on Tuesday seeking available for comment. The Michigan-based pollo Nida, husband of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” per- Hto stop federal law enforcement authorities Insane Clown Posse paint their faces to look like sonality Phaedra Parks, was sentenced to eight years in from categorizing their face-painted fan base clowns and are known for rebellious and provoca- Aprison Tuesday in US District Court, Northern District of known as the “Juggalos” as a criminal gang. The tive music that includes songs such “My Axe” and Georgia, on charges of conspiring to commit mail, wire and duo and the American Civil Liberties Union intend “Night of the Chainsaw” that often use harsh bank fraud, a representative from the US Attorney’s office told to ask the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals to over- themes and language. The Juggalos, who the TheWrap. The 35-year-old Nida, who was arrested in January, turn the decision of a lower court in late June that group says are about a million strong, paint their had faced up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million. blocked them from challenging the FBI’s designa- faces to look like clowns and display a logo of a His eight-year prison sentence will be followed by five years of tion of the Juggalos as a gang with criminal intent. hatchet man on their clothes and jewelry. A feder- supervised release. The reality TV personality pleaded guilty in “The only way to remedy this injustice for all inno- al National Gang Threat Assessment in 2011 said a May. According to United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, cent Juggalos is to start with the root of the prob- small number of Juggalos were forming more beginning in August 2009, Nida and others obtained stolen lem - the FBI’s arbitrary and erroneous branding of organized subsets and engaging in gang-like checks by stealing them or buying them from other criminal hundreds of thousands of music fans as gang criminal activity, such as felony assaults, thefts, associates. The stolen checks involved in the scheme included members,” said Michael Steinberg, an ACLU lawyer. robberies and drug sales. United States Treasury checks, as well as checks stolen from the pension fund of Delta Airlines. They also obtained funds by fil- ing fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service and making fraudulent claims against the US Department of of the United States Secret Service, Atlanta Field Office. “Nida’s Housing and Urban Development, and at least eleven states, all sentence should be an eye opener for other like-minded crimi- in the names of victims whose identities had been stolen. Nida’s nals who scheme to steal victims’ identities, defraud them and fraud scheme harmed more than 50 victims, the US Attorney’s ignore the consequences of their actions.” US District Court office said in a statement. “Today’s sentencing exemplifies Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. also ordered Nida to pay restitution impartial justice regardless of economic class or perceived to the victims of his offenses. A separate hearing to calculate celebrity status,” said Reginald G Moore, special agent in charge the restitution amount is scheduled for July 17. Douglas disappointed by Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man exit ichael Douglas is dis- appointed that Edgar MWright has quit ‘Ant- Man’. The actor, who is to star in the superhero movie as mentor figure Dr Hank Pym, was stunned to discover that the filmmaker had pulled out of directing the long-awaited Marvel comic book adaptation Grande slams Cyrus after championing the project for so many years and investing comparisons so much effort into bringing the story to the big screen. Douglas riana Grande says she is nothing like Miley Cyrus. told Collider.com: “Yeah, he’s a AThe two girls followed a similar path - the wonderful talent. It was very ‘Problem’ singer starting on Nickelodeon show disappointing, yeah. It was a big ‘Victorious’ while the ‘Wrecking Ball’ hitmaker starred disappointment, and more so in ‘Hannah Montana’ before turning to music - but the for him because he had a lot of former has insisted the “comparisons” should end years invested. “He was really there. She told the Daily Star newspaper: “There are so the one initially who got them many comparisons for girls in this industry it’s annoy- Kim Kardashian to even consider it, you know, ing.”I’m not thinking: ‘Miley Cyrus is doing this so I the screenplay that he wrote. [But] I’m not the producer on it and I’m an ought to do this too.’ “We are all trying to do our own actor for hire.” Following his abrupt exit, ‘Shaun of the Dead’ maker Wright things and be successful in our own right.” However has been replaced by ‘Bring It On’ helmer Peyton Reed, who will direct Paul Ariana, 21, is still keen to shed her baby image and visits Jersey shore Rudd in the titular superhero role. Douglas also addressed rumors of a rift “showcase” her maturity and growth in a live environ- between Marvel bosses and Wright after the studio issued a statement say- ment, while she also admitted fame meant she was im Kardashian is playing Jersey shore tourist. Heights community improvements director Michael ing they had parted ways “due to differences in their visions of the film”. The more restricted than she was in the past. She added: Kardashian and her friend, Jonathan Cheban, Graichen tells the newspaper he got a call from the 69-year-old actor added: “Marvel certainly has a pretty amazing track record, “I’m always excited by people evolving, changing and Kwent on rides on the Casino Pier in Seaside producer and they want to tape Kardashian’s sisters rightly or wrongly, so I think it just was that kind of combination where growing up.”I just get to showcase it on stage ... In the Heights and stopped for frozen custard on Tuesday. in August. Police were called as more than 2,000 although they like the idea of somebody with Edgar’s individual spirit, past month things have changed drastically in my life. Her rep told the Asbury Park Press they were taping people gathered on the Seaside Heights boardwalk maybe it just collided with an operation. I think they’re all on relatively I can’t go out with a little bun on my head and no segments for the series “Kourtney & Khloe Take the to catch a glimpse of Kardashian after she had din- decent terms.” ‘Ant-Man’, which will also feature ‘LOST’ actress Evangeline make-up anymore.” Hamptons.” Her sisters have been spending the sum- ner on Monday. Seaside Heights was the setting for Lilly, is set for release on July 17, 2015. mer in the exclusive Long Island enclave. Seaside MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” — Agencies lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

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This February 11, 2014 file photo shows US actor George Clooney on the red carpet as he arrives for the UK premiere of the film ‘The Monuments Men’ in central (From left) American actor Stanley Tucci, Chinese actress Li Bingbing, American actors Kelsey Grammer, Mark Wahlberg, director Michael Bay, actress Nicola Peltz, producer London.—AFP Lorenzo di Bonaventura and actor Jack Reynor pose for the photographers before their news conference for their movie ìTransformers 4: Age of Extinctionî in Hong Kong Friday, June 20, 2014.—AP Clooney slams Chinese scenic spot plans ‘fabricated’ Daily Mail story on to sue over Transformers fiancee’s mom company that operates a scenic landscape area in Company, one of the movie’s Chinese partners. Wulong kets. The movie is expected to become China’s highest- southwest China which features in the latest said it wanted measures taken to mitigate the damage and grossing movie early this week. Currently, the 2010 movie ollywood actor George Clooney yesterday blasted A“Transformers” movie says it will sue its producers compensation for direct and indirect economic losses. “Avatar” holds that accolade, having made $218 million in what he called a “completely fabricated” report in for breach of contract. It is the second Chinese company to Paramount didn’t immediately respond to a request for China. “Transformers” has been helped by a favorable HBritain’s Daily Mail that his fiancee’s mother opposes make public a dispute with Paramount Pictures over comment. 1905 said in a statement on its website that screening in China, with over half of all screens showing their upcoming marriage. The Oscar-winning movie star, in an “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which heavily courts the Wulong had not paid them on time. the film at the beginning of its release. opinion piece written for the USA Today newspaper, upbraid- Chinese audience with Chinese locations, actors and prod- Last month, a Beijing property developer said it had While the first three “Transformers” movies were already ed the tabloid for its “irresponsibility” in reporting that his ucts and is on track to become China’s biggest-ever gross- filed a lawsuit alleging that Paramount and two of its good earners in China, director Michael Bay heavily court- soon-to-be mother-in-law opposes the marriage because of ing movie. Chinese associates had failed to deliver on pledges to hold ed the Chinese audience in his latest by employing her supposed Druze faith. The Chongqing Wulong Karst Tourism Co Ltd said in a the movie premiere at its hotel and feature images of its Chinese stars and basing part of the action in Chinese The actor said the daily got many key facts wrong in its statement sent to The Associated Press yesterday that the property in trailers and movie posters. Soon after the cities. While this interested many local movie goers, some reporting about the mother of his Lebanon-born bride-to be, producers had failed to show its logo prominently in the developer and Paramount said they had smoothed out the criticized its numerous product placements, including Amal Alamuddin. “The Daily Mail has printed a completely movie as promised. As a result, it is not clear to viewers dispute. Chinese milk. A commentary in the Beijing Times on fabricated story about my fiancee’s mother opposing our mar- that the shots of the scenic spot in the movie are of Monday said Hollywood movies do not have to “flatter” riage for religious reasons. It says Amal’s mother has been Wulong, because they are interspersed with scenes from Interesting story Chinese viewers and audiences would rather watch an telling ‘half of Beirut’ that she’s against the wedding,” Clooney Hong Kong, and other tourist spots are claiming the karst The latest dispute comes as China overtook the US in “interesting story than various sorts of product place- wrote. “Amal’s mother is not Druze. She has not been to Beirut peaks are theirs, it added. “Transformers” box office earnings. According to the box ments.”—AP since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way It said it would file a suit at a court in Chongqing city office tracking website Box Office Mojo, the movie had against the marriage,” the actor said. demanding unspecified damages against Paramount earned $213 million in China and $175 million in the US as “The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit reli- Pictures and Beijing-based 1905 Internet Technology of Sunday. It was released on the same day in both mar- gious differences where none exist, is at the very least negli- gent and more appropriately dangerous,” Clooney continued about the July 7 online article. “We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any A Minute With: Mark Ruffalo on mixing it up in acting and film part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal.” ctor Mark Ruffalo has played charac- probably every aspect of what it is to be a is much more intimate. In a bigger movie Amal Alamuddin, 36, fled Lebanon for Britain with her fam- ters ranging from a gay AIDS activist human being at some point in your life. you have the luxury of more time, a bit bet- ily during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, when she was a very and a sperm donor to a recovering As an actor you are turning up the vol- ter toys, more preparation, more comfort A young child. She now holds British citizenship and is an attor- sex-addict and an FBI agent and will reprise ume on different aspects and qualities. A but you lose a little bit of the intimacy and ney specializing in international law and human rights. The his role as the Incredible Hulk in next year’s lot of Dan I understand but I am not as the immediacy. I find myself trying to find a news that Alamuddin had conquered the heart of Clooney, “The Avengers: Age of Ultron.” An Academy extreme as him and it hasn’t happened to way to do both. one of Hollywood’s most celebrated bachelors, caused an Award nominee for 2010’s “The Kids Are All me as extremely as him. But I ... understand Q: Several years ago you moved your international media frenzy when their engagement was Right,” Ruffalo, 46, is appearing in US the- what it is to have shifting priorities and feel family from Los Angeles to New York. Why announced last April.—AFP aters in the musical film “Begin Again” and your fallibilities and your sense of mortality. do prefer New York? will be seen later this year as an Olympic Q: The film is very musical. Have you A: Part of it is I grew up in a place that wrestling champion in “Foxcatcher.” The ever played an instrument? had water and seasons and trees and a lot versatile actor has also worked behind the A: I was a bass player in a punk rock of greenery. Part of it is the open nature of camera on the award-winning film band in the 80s, like a garage band, so I the culture here. It is a much more diverse Mark Ruffalo “Sympathy for Delicious” and is the founder knew how to play the bass in a rudimenta- culture. It is not so film centric. It is not a you want to go back to the theater and of the non-profit group Water Defense, ry way. I’m not saying I am talented in any one-industry town like Los Angeles can be. Broadway? which works to keep water clean. way. Q: You have played vulnerable, sensitive A: I’m dying to go back to the stage and Ruffalo, whose brother was murdered in Q: You’ve done a lot of indie as well as characters. Are there other types of roles have an idea to take this (“Begin Again”) to his California home in 2008, spoke to big studio films.Which do you prefer? you would like to do? the stage ... I think it is a character that Reuters about his aversion to violent roles, A: They each have their drawbacks and A: I just want to keep going further and would be great fun to play on the stage. his washed up record producer in “Begin they each have their strong qualities. But further beyond myself ... The gun-play stuff There’s a lot I want to do. I want to get Again” and a desire to return to Broadway. essentially you are still doing the same just doesn’t interest me. It is a fantasy in a back into directing. I love that. I’m moving Q: In “Begin Again” you play Dan, who thing in each one. You are listening and really destructive way that is very sexist more into producing and I’m doing a lot of reassesses his life. Did you identify with responding in a place as a character. and macho and so I never really found work with the environment and renewable your character at all? The power of a small movie is the con- myself being interested in that. I have been energy with Water Defense solutions proj- A: Only in the most minute way. A lot of centration of energy over a specified peri- a witness to what guns do to people in real ect.—Reuters times I think as people, as actors, we have od of time and the relationship that you life. Kevin Smith pretty much a universal understanding of have with the people you are working with Q: Your career started on the stage. Do Smith gushes over ‘Star Wars: Episode Pop-rocker scores song VII’ set visit: ‘What I saw blew me away’ to soothe anxious canines evin Smith has been to the set of “Star Wars: Episode VII” at Pinewood Studios in England, and what he saw has blown him away. The “Clerks” director, whose next film core one for the dogs. DogTV, the 2-year-old televi- K is a horror called “Tusk,” opened up about a set visit - that sion network for dogs, asked Grammy-winning musi- resulted in a teary-eyed Instagram picture last week - while cian Andrew Dost of the pop-rock band fun. to write S speaking at the Neuchatel International Film Festival in some psychoacoustic music for the network. The unnamed Switzerland. Smith described the visit as a “Simply magical” result, nearly four minutes of harp, piano and repetitive experience that delighted his inner child because the produc- electronic undertones, debuted Monday during a relax- tion wasn’t reliant on CGI and had plenty of familiar faces ation segment. “I approached this composition project dif- ferently than I would for human ears. I made sure the range roaming around. of frequencies and instrumentation were tailored to a dog’s “What I saw, I absolutely loved. It was tactile - it was real. It unique sense of hearing and kept things musically more wasn’t a series of green screens and blue screens in which lat- level and linear,” Dost said in a statement. er a bunch of digital characters would be added. IT was there, The music accompanies video recorded in Yosemite and it was happening,” Smith said. “I saw old friends who I haven’t together are designed to reduce the stress and anxiety seen since my childhood, who aren’t really friends, but I love dogs experience when they are home alone. Dost is donate them more than some of my relatives. I saw uniforms, I saw his pay to A Rejoyceful Animal Rescue, a shelter in his artillery I haven’t seen since I was a kid. I saw them shooting hometown of Detroit. Members of fun. are singer Nate an actual sequence in a set that was real. I walked across the Ruess, guitarist Jack Antonoff and the multi-instrumentalist set, there were explosions. And it looked like a shot right out Dost. The group had a breakthrough year in 2012, topping of a ‘Star Wars’ movie.” charts with “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.” Last year, The real magic - that Smith says was “missing” from George they won Grammys for song of the year and best new Lucas’ prequels - flowed through Smith’s body when he artist. stepped foot on the Millennium Falcon. “As I walked up that DogTV debuted in April of 2012 with three kinds of pro- ramp I realized that the something that was missing from gramming: relaxation, stimulation and exposure. those other movies, and it’s now in these movies,” Smith con- Relaxation segments, like the Yosemite video with Dost’s tinued. “He’s building a tactile world, a world you can touch. music, are for canines that might be home alone and a lit- And he’s replicating with all the love of someone who has the tle too zealous and overactive. At times dogs might lack world’s greatest collection of ‘Star Wars’ figures. stimulation, so they will need segments showing action “It’s like the field of dreams, the Kevin Costner movie,” and animation to add pep. And through the exposure seg- Smith added. “And if J.J. builds it, we’re all going to come hard, ments, dogs will be taught to feel more comfortable in because it’s amazing. It looks fantastic. So anyone out there their environment when they are exposed to everyday wondering if he’s going to pull it off, he’s pulling it off. He sights and sounds they might find on the street. DogTV is a showed me cut scenes, he showed me sequences, images, pay channel. Prices vary depending on the provider. pictures. I cried and I hugged that guy. And I’m sure as I was DirecTV charges $4.99 a month and online streaming serv- In this April 7, 2012 file photo, Bleu, a French bulldog owned by Maria Catania, watches DogTV in her apartment in crying and hugging on him that he was thinking, ‘time is mon- ice is $9.99.—AP San Diego, Calif.—AP ey’ because they’re making a movie. lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 Pink, Hudson,FASHION Leto make Armani a celebrity circus

ashion is the playground for the rich Ushers even had to link arms in a human pockmarked with red dots - creating the Theron’s “J’Adore” Dior perfume advert. and famous. But Tuesday saw Giorgio wall when the show ended to protect the illusion of a galactic constellation of vary- Several fashion film festivals have FArmani outdo even this old maxim in myriad stars from the masses and deliver ing density. The body became blurred as sprouted up in recent years, including his celebrity-circus of a couture show. On them to the safety of backstage. It’s not the dress took over. American fashion blogger Diane Pernet’s the front row, a shimmying Kate Hudson often that Karl Lagerfeld is outdone in the Giorgio Armani is proving quite the Paris ASVOFF festival and the Berlin Fashion Film mingled with Jared Leto, Sophia Loren couture hot-ticket. One Japanese fashion- Festival that takes place this month. pouted sultrily, Pink tapped her foot and ista who had badly sprained her ankle Juliette Binoche caught up with fellow made the show thanks only to her Bouchra Jarrar’s ready-to-couture actress Chloe Grace Moretz. resourcefulness: She was seen with her foot Lauded Moroccan-born designer bandaged with an astronomically-priced Bouchra Jarrar’s show was unlike other cou- Hermes silk scarf. ture show seen so far: The asymmetrical creations were ready to wear on the street. Chanel’s baroque mirror on the wall Sporty loose striped gray-green pants and “Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the jackets helped make couture features such fairest of them all?” seemed to be the mes- as atelier Lesage embroidery, billowing sage at Chanel’s icy-cold fall-winter show. feathers and luxuriant satin silks wearable. Models with glacial, spiky fringes walked It’s a style you could call ready-to-cou- slowly up to a gilded, baroque mirror ture. The first zippered tweed jackets beneath a burning fire showcasing 70 pale, played interestingly with form - a sleeveless often white, creations. Glimmering asymmetrical one in bespoke Aurora baroque embroideries in silver and gold gave a wintry sparkle to the models, who seemed consumed by frosted vanity in an imaginary palace. The palace in question, said Karl Lagerfeld, was Versailles. And though the mirror on the wall con- jured up images of Snow White, the design- er said it was in fact based on reality: a design by famed French architect Le Corbusier, who mixed Baroque styles with

Hollywood stakes - but his front-row shows that he’s focusing his attention on couture- hungry Asia. Here are the highlights from Day 3 of the haute couture fall-winter 2014- 15 collections, with show reports for Giorgio Armani Prive, Chanel, Stephane Rolland and Bouchra Jarrar.

Armani prive plays with dots Overlays through a palette of red, white and black defined Armani’s fall-winter aes- thetic. And the result was a rare intellectual show from the Italian master of safe classi- cism. Quilted-effect ruffled capes mixed with (rather unseasonal) shorts alongside curved-shouldered pant suits with exag- gerated tubular sleeves. This began a play in proportion. Armani segmented the clothes, producing jacket sleeves that went high and appeared separate from the torso. This silhouette then fluffed out into some voluminous net clouds dresses fit for Lady Gaga. But the crescendo came at the end, in overlays of polka dots, chenille embroidery and billowing tulle veils that played clever- ly with differing depths. Models with black tulle dresses sported meters of netted veil,

Modernism. “The show’s called ‘Le Corbusier goes to Versailles.’ I liked the idea of baroque elements and modern touches,” said Lagerfeld. Embroideries that mirrored the square geometry of Modernism and the density of Le Corbusier’s concrete architecture mixed with ornate baroque patterns, strong shoulders, cycling shorts and flat sandals. Unsurprisingly, the collection was hard to pin down and perhaps overly eclectic. But there were some great sections, like the final series of clean white cone dresses in Celebrate Eid with NEW LOOK neoprene mixed the expansive volumes of 18th century crinoline with futuristic fabric. t’s time to get your Eid wardrobe dresses, pencil skirts and waterfall front ready - and New Look has the perfect blazers. Lagerfeld knows which side his bread is Icollection to complete your closet. If you’re looking for an evening style, buttered: Asia Eye-catching prints lead the way. Bring New Look’s black lace jumpsuit or full- There’s been a growth of haute couture out the animal in you with leopard print length fuchsia evening dress are ideal, clients from Asia in recent years - credited jumpsuits, maxi dresses, pencil skirts and and embellished necklines are sprinkled with the craft’s recent renaissance. For peplum dresses. Or if stars are your style throughout the collection to add some proof, look no further than the Chanel lust, you will love New Look’s range of extra sparkle. The bejeweled cropped show’s front row. It celebrated the world’s dresses, shirts, maxi skirts and leggings. blazer, in black or pale pink, adds a glam- largest continent, lined left to right with Ladylike colors and patterns are orous finishing touch. The collection myriad Asian celebrities and clients. designed to fit and flatter, with coral and includes pieces from Inspire, available up From Korea, singer CL and actress Ryeo- Borealis tweed had rounded long front lace mixes on shift dresses, pastel pink to size 28. Whether you’re celebrating Won Jung. From Taiwan actress Gwei Lun- panels of contrasting lengths, and was cut textured skater dresses, delicate pink Eid at home or holidaying abroad, New Mei. And from China, actress Zhou Xun. short at the back. and white floral printed blazers and lace Look is the only place you need to shop. Bewildered ushers held tightly onto cheat- And there was a beautiful simplicity in a detailing on key pieces. For those who Head soon to the New Look stores locat- sheets complete with the VIPs’ photos, out slim, bustier top that that was made entire- like bold colors, the Eid collection ed at The Avenues and Al Bairaq Mall, of fear they wouldn’t recognize a major ly of ivory and black feathers. Some may includes cobalt and fuchsia on skater Fintas. Asian star. And who says fashion doesn’t however lament the loss of her fluidly mirror global politics? architectural, and more ostensibly couture, gowns. — AP Fashion as film Fashion and cinema often go hand in hand. “Great Gatsby” director Baz Luhrmann - whose films are famed for their burlesque use of costume - attended the Chanel show. Tuesday also saw designer Stephane Rolland forgo a catwalk display in favor of a 10-minute “fashion film,” project- ed in a cinema to showcase his latest designs. Rolland’s movie, in which a hand- some suited man chases after an elusive fashion victim in myriad satin dresses and an occasionally exposed bust, was well put- together. But some critics complained that they could neither get a sense of the collection as a whole nor properly see the clothes. Fashion film is a new genre of movie mak- ing that follows from design houses mak- ing longer-length adverts for their prod- ucts - like Nicole Kidman’s three-minute film for Chanel No. 5 perfume, or Charlize lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 FASHION

Egypt challenges sale of valuable ancient statue

gypt is challenging a British museum’s planned sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue that is Eexpected to fetch up to 6 million pounds ($10 million) at a London auction. Former antiquities minis- ter Zahi Hawass told the BBC yesterday that the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 106 kilometers (66 miles) north of London, has no right to sell the stat- ue. “We are not asking for the statue to come back to Egypt but we are asking to stop the sale of the statue,” he said. The position is endorsed by Mamdouh El- Damaty, the current antiquities minister. The Northampton Borough Council owns the stat- ue and says it wants to sell the work to fund an expan- sion of the museum, which claims to hold the world’s Models present largest historic shoe collection. The plan is drawing creations for Chanel some criticism at home as well. Alice Stevenson, cura- during the 2014/2015 tor at London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Haute Couture Archaeology, said selling such a rare and unique statue Fall-Winter collection undermines the purpose of a museum. fashion show on July “It should not be used to plug a hole in a local 8, 2014 at the Grand council budget,” she said. Auction house Christie’s, Palais in Paris. which is putting the statue up for sale Thursday, said in a statement that there are no grounds to postpone the sale. Northampton Council said it will share 45 percent of proceeds with Lord Northampton, whose family acquired the item in Egypt in 1849 or 1850, and donat- ed it to the Northampton museum in 1880. The Egyptian collection is small and is not central to the museum’s purpose, a council spokeswoman said. The 75 centimeter (30 inches) high limestone statue depicts an official named Sekhema with his wife, and is believed to come from the Royal Cemeteries at Bouchra Jarrar Saqqara, south of Giza. — AP Clooney slams ‘fabricated’ Daily Mail story on fiancee’s37 mom THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

Egyptians sit at the Khan el-Khalili Bazar as Muslims break the day-long fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Cairo. During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims are supposed to go without food, drink, smoking and sex and to refrain from impure thoughts from sunrise to sunset.—AFP

rayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat are appearing in Japan as Ptourism bosses wake up to the demand from Muslim travelers. For a largely homogeneous country with only around 100,000 practicing Muslims, that means groping its way through unfamiliar customs as it looks to tap a grow- ing market to help it double the number of overseas visi- tors by 2020. “Muslim travelers still do not feel comfortable here,” Datuk Ibrahim Haji Ahmad Badawi, head of Malaysian food company Brahim’s told AFP at a recent seminar on halal tourism in Tokyo. “The government seems to have understood this.” Last year, seminars like this one were held in 20 different regions in Japan, where hoteliers and restaurateurs were invited to learn how to cater to Muslims. The Osaka Chamber of Commerce handed out 5,000 leaflets as a guide to what can and cannot be eaten-the idea of forbid- ding consumption of things like alcohol or pork is anathe- ma to omnivorous and foodie Japan. With the Islamic world currently observing the holy month of Ramadan, tourism to Japan is being heavily promoted in mainly- Muslim Southeast Asia, where visa requirements were relaxed in 2013 for Malaysia and Thailand. This picture taken on June 24, 2014 shows Thai Muslim tourists enjoying Halal cer- Thai Muslim tourists enjoying Halal certified foods at a barbecue restaurant in Indonesia-the largest Muslim-majority country in the tified foods at a barbecue restaurant in Tokyo.—AFP photos Tokyo. world-is slated to follow shortly. According to the Japanese pelago in 2013 was up 37 percent on the previous year, Slowly, various regions across Japan are catching on. catered for after Japan’s whaling mothership, which Tourist Office, the number of Indonesians visiting the archi- while 21 percent more Malaysians came. Chinese tourist Major airports have dedicated prayer rooms, and tourists slaughters the animals on their controversial hunt, was cer- numbers have recovered from their plunge following the looking for the perfect present can pick up hijabs made tified halal-compliant last year. The Japan Halal Association, 2012 eruption of the spat between Beijing and Tokyo over from Japanese silk as they pass through Kansai which was founded in 2010, is one of only two bodies that islands in the East China Sea. But broadening the appeal of International Airport, near Osaka, a recent television report can grant this status in the country. Japan as a destination is key if the industry is to meet the showed. Its chairwoman Hind Hitomi Remon told AFP that busi- Longer term visitors are also being catered for, with 19 ness is brisk. “We are an associate member of the World universities offering halal menus in their cafeterias in a bid Halal Council,” she said. “Since 2012, we have issued certifi- to boost the number of Muslim students. Customers look- cates to 40 companies, and that number is set to rise a lot ing for an authentic-but halal-Japanese dish already have a this year,” a fact she says is directly attributable to Tokyo choice in Tokyo, including a yakiniku barbecue restaurant being awarded the Olympic Games for 2020. And even if run by Roger Bernard Diaz, a Sri Lankan Catholic who con- the tourists don’t want to eat in Japan, producers are verted his business, but not his religion. readying to send produce to them, with exports such as He has no qualms about making the change to offering halal-certified soy sauce and even rice, grown in northern a range of halal meats and says it has helped him garner Akita prefecture. reservations from customers from Southeast Asia, and But until the numbers swell a little bit more, businesses even the Gulf. But sourcing produce can be difficult. “It’s catering to Muslims still have to keep an eye on what their hard to find all the ingredients,” he admits while pulling a other customers want. Yakiniku restaurant owner Diaz says Brazilian-raised halal chicken from a dedicated freezer. around half of his customers now are Muslims yet he still has to cater for his other patrons. “It’s hard to do business Whale meat here without selling alcohol,” he said.—AFP Muslims who want to sample whale meat are also

A chicken dish of Halal certified food. 20 million visitors target set for 2020 when the Olympic Games come to Tokyo.

Catering for the world The influx of athletes and spectators from all over the world that the sporting jamboree will bring is also playing into the drive to make the country more Muslim-friendly. “Can you imagine the number of Muslim athletes who will then come to Tokyo? We’ll have to feed them,” said Badawi. Brahim as a company has already signed a deal with All Nippon Airways (ANA), one of Japan’s biggest carriers, to supply inflight halal meals, Badawi said. A number of large hotels have also approached him looking for advice on how they can cater for Muslim guests. For Badawi, despite Japan’s slow start, the direction of travel is clear: Muslims looking for holiday destinations will come, and in bigger Thai Muslim tourists checking a menu of Halal certified numbers, giving Tokyo an ever-larger slice of a $600 billion A barbecue restaurant which serves Halal certified foods in Tokyo, while restaurant owner Roger Bernard Diaz foods. global pie. smiles.